Paralyzed Finale Part 2/2


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Slow and steady heartbeats, the sound of the major vital organ doing its primary task commonly rings in the ears of those who with higher than usual blood pressure, either due to a condition or because of a short burst of high bodily tension. This medical fact of the day was brought to you by Kyoka Jiro, the shy rocker stood only a couple of inches in front of the elevator to the building, almost frozen in place but this descriptive word wouldn't exactly accurately represent her current stature.

Her knees refused to still themselves to keep a natural composure, shaking as if the ground had fell victim to a seismic quake from below. Jiro's shy insecurities reared their ugly heads, standing over her shoulder like the reaper on a dead man or a boss that catches you slacking off on a deadline. She just couldn't help it, dating Izuku had been one of the happiest recent events in her teenage life, he was just as shy as her which led to his sweet understanding and consideration for her when she was in certain spots, he never demanded any kind of big public declaration, although she would admittedly still appreciate such a thing, he was simply content just taking one step at a time as comfortable as they wanted.

Which was why they took so long to actually kiss for the first time, that and not exactly finding the perfect moment away from the rest of the school and their class, not wanting to expose their newfound love just yet as to save themselves from the constant bombardment of 'oohs' and 'ahhs' and the various creative teasing's alike. The two plotting to reveal their status sometime around Christmas, hoping for the festivities and Kaminari trying to keep himself safe from Bakugo's wrath after trying to put a sweater on him (a plan he had held for months), would distract their friends enough so that they wouldn't be the center of attention.

Needless to say, that was plot was now torn up, spit on, crumbled, uncrumbled, taped back together, put in a shredder, said shredder was covered in gasoline, and set ablaze exploding into a million tiny fireworks. Yes, it was a longwinded metaphor, but the sheer hopeless of the possibility coming into fruition accurately reflected Kyoka's mind state at this current interval, she knew that Izuku needed her help and she was the only one who could provide his aid…but the social anxiety was really getting to her at this point, she would have to kiss him square on the lips…right there…w-with e-e-everyone watching her…oh boy, her heartbeat grew louder, a brilliant shade of red went from just her cheeks to the entirety of her face, her quirk started fidgeting in all sorts of directions, and finally her teeth started chattering nonstop.

'Relax Kyoka, just reeeeeelax, you're training to be a hero, you've faced worse than a little humiliation before,' Flashes of the summer camp incident and the traumatizing class wide sparring with Togata sped through her mind, 'It's simple, just a quick smooch and he'll be up and adam then you can run back to your room as fast as you can, and pretend that none of this ever happened play out your birthday like nothings the matter,' Jiro began walking down the hallway that led to the common area on the ground floor of the dorms, but still couldn't get ahold of herself, so she just looked like a malfunctioning robot each time she took a step, weirding out her homeroom teacher a bit as he kept pace; well tried to keep pace with her walking pattern being so off, 'Yep, totally fine, a-okay, no problems no worries…as long as Mina doesn't see…or Hagakure…or Kaminari …or Bakugo, please god anyone but them-'

"You think if we pinched his nose and closed his mouth he'd wake up," Kaminari asked.

"Nah, we tried that already, just made him turn purple," Mina replied.

"We could always dangle him upside down again," Hagakure suggested.

"Or shock him again," Kaminari brought up, "What do you think Bakugo?"

"Heh, ya know we could-"

"NO," Jiro shouted causing a few of the attendants to jump in surprise as she reached the end of the hall to the elevator, catching the sight of her boyfriend on the kitchen table, surrounded by the classmates she had overheard, and some others being: Tsu, Ochako, Iida, Momo, and Kirishima, plus All Might who stood directly by Midoriya's side and Recovery Girl who stood on the table still overlooking the green haired boy. Most of them were surprised to see Jiro's face emanating such intense anger, her state of mind changing as each suggestion she overheard horrified to her core, "NONE OF YOU TOUCH HIM GOT THAT," she shouted again, causing Mina, Hagakure, and Kaminari to dash away from the table and stand against the opposite wall.

"Y-yes Jiro," the three nervously replied, shaking like branches in the wind.

"GOOD AND," Jiro stopped short, realizing she was getting a few weird looks from everyone in attendance; save Bakugo who was just more annoyed that somebody had out screamed him today. The shy rocker immediately reverting back to her nervous state, having to grip her ear lobes to prevent them from flailing around again, Momo taking special note of this, having seen her like this only a couple times before, but still kept quiet on the matter as to not out her friend even more than what she already was. Jiro then cleared her throat, and relaxed once again, the man in black exiting the hallway at last and walking up to All Might and Recovery Girl, asking them to speak in private, "S-sorry, j-j-just none of that sounded like a good idea," Jiro stuttered, but gave a glare to the four against the wall.

"You got any better ideas ear lobes," Bakugo asked in his usual manner, overlooking his rival instead of meeting Jiro's gaze, "Because we are fresh out of ideas that don't involve pain."

"You touch him and I jab your eyes," Jiro gritted through her teeth as she stepped up to the table, standing between Momo and Iida, who along with Bakugo and Kirishima were to Midoriya's right, whilst Tsu and Ochako were on the end where Midoriya's legs were at, and Mina, Hagakure, and Kaminari were to his left; Recovery Girl and All Might had previously been on the end opposite to that of Ochako and Tsu near his head.

"JUST TRY IT PUNK ROCK," Bakugo shouted, glaring at her.

"BITE ME SWEAT SOAKER," Jiro fired back, the two trying to get in each other's faces but were prevented by Tenya holding up his hands to stop them.

"Both of you calm down," Iida sternly, "Classmates shouldn't fight each other when one of their own is in distress!"

Despite the growing tensions, the two giving a couple more 'grrs' at each other, they simmered down giving one last look of anger before returning themselves to the topic at hand, Jiro knew it wouldn't help her boyfriend's case and Bakugo…well he didn't exactly calm down but stopped fighting as a way of saying happy birthday to his classmate, a usual Bakugo way of handling things. That, and Kirishima nudged him in the arm to indicate that was being a bit much.

With some peace restored, everyone went back to worrying over their friend, as the adults stepped aside to have a conversation about the unorthodox solution that Aizawa came up with, the whispers of the such being overheard by most at the table.

"Ummmm what," All Might questioned wide eyed, a bit of blood spurting out of his mouth.

"You can't be serious," Recovery Girl sighed as she rubbed her temple with her fingers.

"Unfortunately it seems like the only real solution we have left that doesn't involve further irrational treatment," Aizawa explained further, "I don't like as much as either of you don't, in fact I should write up a PDA complaint."

"PDA complaint," Tsuyu said, confused by the topic they were discussing as she held her finger to her chin in her usual manner; Ochako fell deafly silent at the insinuation, a little jealous that Midoriya may have hooked up with someone else.

"I never pegged Midoriya for the type to have public displays of affection," Iida responded, looking back at his catatonic friend perplexed by matter.

"Of course," Kaminari cried, "He's always the one that gets lucky with the ladies."

"Nah, no way," Bakugo scoffed, "Deku wouldn't do any of that crap if it meant people could've been watching."

"…H-how do you know," Jiro asked, a little offended by the comment, not realizing what she let slip.

"I've known the nerd since preschool, and how would YOU know," Bakugo glared at the purple haired rocker, causing her to blush again once her words caught up with her.

"I-I wouldn't, j-just asking," Jiro gripped her left arm to control her nerves, Momo taking note of this as well, a few dots clicking in her head, now deciding to pull out her phone to get some answers from her friend privately, as the adults continued their back and forth on the matter.

"Don't go that far Aizawa," All Might replied in a more hushed whisper seeing that students were in fact listening in, as he took out a white handkerchief from the breast pocket of his yellow teacher suit, to wipe the blood from his chin, "Young Midoriya and young Jiro will already be the subject of minor ridicule because of this, and it's not like either of them really want to do this right now."

"You have a point, and under normal circumstances I would've wrote them up, but since it's her birthday I'll cut them some slack," Aizawa rubbed the back of his head, swayed a little by the former #1's words.

"Aw someone's going soft," Recovery Girl giggled at the man in black's expense.

"I get that enough from Midnight and Mic, I really don't need it from you," the man in black grumbled, not wanting to lose his stoic uncaring reputation.

"Oh please you care and you know it," the elderly woman smiled at the teacher, making him drop his defense against her, mostly due to his memories of how hard she can hit with that cane of hers from his days of being a student at UA.

A buzz from her phone snapped Jiro out of her concentration on the trio, pulling it out of her pocket and seeing it was a text from Yaomomo, reading as such:

-You know what happened to him don't you?

Jiro grimaced, looking at her best friend whose eyes did not leave the phone she was holding, a wave of relief washing over the rocker, thankful that she didn't try and have a more open dialogue with her about it for everyone to hear, with that being said she replied to the text.

Jiro: …Yeah, I do.

Momo: I'm guess that PDA comment was involving you two?

Kyoka didn't respond, merely nodding to confirm her suspicions.

Momo: Well firstly congratulations to the both of you.

Jiro smiled, appreciative of the co-class representatives support, and also how her eyes lit up a little at the confirmation; Momo was always a softie for romance, and really rooted for her shy classmates ever since she saw hints of a blossoming relationship a month ago.

They soon continued their chat.

Jiro: Thank you Momo.

Momo: You're welcome, secondly you made his brain short circuited didn't you?

Jiro:…Yep.

Momo: Oh my.

Jiro:…Mhm.

Momo: Are you okay, you are probably more concerned than all of us combined.

Jiro: To be honest, no, I'm really scared that he won't snap out of it.

Jiro: Even after what we try next.

Momo: What do you mean?

Jiro: Well I told Aizawa about what happened earlier today, Izuku had given me Deep Dope tickets for my birthday.

Momo: Aw that was really sweet.

Jiro: Yeah, it was.

Kyoka smiled warmly, the memory still fresh in her mind.

Jiro: And, I freaked out a little bit.

Momo: Of course since anything Deep Dope makes you excited.

Jiro: Fair enough.

Jiro: Anyway, I was so excited that I may have overwhelmed him a bit.

Momo: As in?

Jiro: I think you know what I mean.

Momo: Did you kiss?

Jiro:...

Momo: YOU DID DIDN'T YOU!?

Jiro:..Don't freak out.

The request fell on deaf ears, Momo giving a small and excited squeal, catching the attention of everyone at the table.

"What is it Yaomomo," Mina asked.

"Uh, uhhhhh," Momo tried to think of something quick, racking her brain for a way to throw them off, "Uh, I was…watching a cute cat video."

"I wanna see," Mina excitedly shouted, almost wanting to vault over the table to see the 'cat video.'

"Uh, just watch it on your own later," Momo nervously lied, trying to sway her pink classmate off the scent, "I'll just link it to you later, and even then it's got over a million views you should be able to find it on your own."

"But my phones dead and I'm booooored, just let me see the video," Mina whined.

"Uh uhhhhh, c-can't it just got taken down," Momo replied, causing Jiro to face palm.

"A cat video….got taken down," Mina asked, confused by the comment.

"Y-yes, it um," Momo racked her brain once more but came up with nothing, forcing Jiro to pick up the slack.

"It used copyrighted music."

"Awwww that suuuuuucks," Mina whined further as she slumped her chin on the table, finally feeling like they were safe to continue, the girl's texted each other once more.

Jiro: Nice going.

Momo: Sorry Jiro, I'll try to control myself better next time.

Jiro: Don't beat yourself up over it.

Jiro: She's about to find out anyway.

Momo: Huh?

Momo: What do you mean?

Jiro: After I told Aizawa about what happened, he came up with the only solution they hadn't tried yet…

Momo:?

Jiro: To put it simply, if kissing him got him in this situation…

Momo: Oh.

Jiro: Uh huh…

Momo: Oh, oh my.

Jiro: Uh huh.

Momo: That's, um.

Jiro: Embarrassing, mortifying, utterly humiliating.

Momo: I was going to say dramatic and romantic.

Jiro: Well at least someone sees the bright side in all of this.

Momo: I'm sorry Jiro.

Jiro: No, it's fine, it's kind of comforting.

Momo: I'm glad to be of service in any way I can.

Jiro: I just…I really wanna hep Izuku, he's done so much for me and it's pathetic that I'm really fighting this.

Jiro: *Help not hep, god I'm such a mess right now.

Momo: Jiro it's okay, everyone would have trouble with this kind of thing.

Momo: I don't think Midoriya would be in any better shape if you were the one on that table.

Jiro: You're right.

Jiro: I'm just really nervous about the whole thing.

Momo: It's alright, I'll be right here to support you and shut down any teasings from Kaminari or Ashido.

Jiro: Thank you Yaomomo, I really-

"Okay everyone," All Might spoke up.

Jiro now didn't have any time to send the message, the teachers distracting her from the chat as they stepped up behind the group on her side of the table (minus recovery girl who got back up on it due to her height), the inevitable had arrived, and she was just as prepared for it as she was before; which was not at all.

"Now, I know you all are concerned for young Midoriya's wellbeing as much as we are," the former #1 continued, wearing a serious albeit a little awkward expression since he knew what needed to transpire to wake his protegee, "But, for his sake we'll need you to clear out so we can perform further examinations."

Half the room erupted in a rather loud protest of All Might's request, namely Mina, Uraraka, Tsu, Kirishima, and surprisingly Iida. Jiro and the rest only became confused, deciding to hear out the pro's reply.

"Yes, yes I know that all of you are concerned and don't wanna leave his side," All Might raised his hands to calm them down, "But we need to take things over from here on out, we aren't sure if his condition could be dangerous around others just yet."

"But," Kaminari spoke up, "We've been around him for hours and nothing's happened to us."

"Yeah, so why do we have to leave now," Uraraka chimed in as well, "Deku's our friend and we can't just leave him when he could be seriously sick."

"At least fill us in on what could've happened," Mina joined in.

"I'm sorry," Aizawa activated his quirk in frustration, "You all may have been under the impression that we were asking you."

The room fell silent, shivers going down the spines of all those who decided to open their mouths, "All Might wanted to put it nicely, or would you prefer if I took over."

"N-no thank you," Kaminari, Mina, and Uraraka replied to the scary man, now believing the point came across, he deactivated his quirk, allowing a more calm atmosphere to fall upon the room, "Now, we will call you all down when we have finished or when Midoriya wakes up, now return to your rooms or leave the building, I don't care as long as you're out of the way.

Most sighed in defeat as they left one by one, Bakugo excluded since despite his underlying concern he didn't want another detention with the man in the black, Kirishima followed behind him along with Kaminari, Mina and Toru went toward the elevator to go back to their rooms, Uraraka was pulled away by Tsu wanting to take a short walk around the campus to take their minds off the situation, Iida going with them as well.

Jiro and Momo were the only one's left, the raven haired girl deciding to follow orders and retire to her room, almost going to the elevator but was stopped by Jiro's hand gripping her shoulder, confusing the adults, forging the prior lie to give the couple some privacy for the upcoming kiss.

"C-could you stay," Jiro nervously asked.

"I wouldn't mind, but why, I thought you didn't want anybody seeing this."

"It's okay, you helped me out, and I know you'll keep it to yourself," Jiro smiled, "Plus somebodies gonna need to help calm me down after this," she laughed, causing Momo to reciprocate with her own smile.

"As long as you're sure."

"I am," Jiro replied as they faced the table once more, the adults apologized for making the teen do this, but she didn't mind now that everyone was gone, as far as she could see anyway. She thanked Aizawa for helping clear the place, to which the man in black replied with a 'You're welcome, and get on with it,' and with that Jiro looked down at her boyfriend, her face becoming more and more flushed.

But she took in a deep breathe, and after a comforting pat on the back from Momo, the shy rocker leaned down to Izuku's face, closing her eyes, and whispered-


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Midoriya had heard his own heartbeat the whole time he was out after his kiss with Kyoka by the tree, the rhythmic melody of his vital organ soothed him in an odd way, proving that he was at least alive and in perfect condition minus his statue like state, his mind drifting off as it carried to his various pleasant memories with the girl he loved. The last one he viewed was his favorite: the morning he woke up after their study session.

He stirred, a little disoriented as most are when they awake from a much-needed slumber after a day full of stress and overworking; an unhealthy habit the teen had formed when he moved over toward the UA dorms, something he was reprimanded for on many an occasion. His vision started to adapt to the darkness around him, the droplets of light didn't fully clue him into the current time, it slightly bothered him that he wasn't sure how much sleep he had left before the school day began, looking over to the alarm clock on the desk across from where he was, it hard to see so he lifted his hand from the strange blanket that covered him to rub his eyes to see.

6:15 am.

"*Sigh*..I should really stop pushing myself so much," he grumbled in a sleepy tone, his awareness slowly coming back to him, the sunlight of the new morning shining through the curtain of the glass door finally illuminated the room more and more, confusing him as to when his room became covered in instruments…

And when did he get a curtain for his sliding door…

It hit him, a blush turned his face to a brilliant shade of red, as he whispered the obvious to himself, "I fell asleep in Jiro's room," he started to panic little by little by little trying to run through the events of last night in his mind, remembering his drowsiness, and the embarrassing half confession he made to his study buddy, adding further to blush which made him feel like steam was about to shoot out his ears, "Okay, okay calm down, it's really early so hardly anyone's up just yet, if I'm quick I can make it back to my room without being caught, I'll just have to be sneaky for mine and Jiro's sake, just gotta grab my back pack and get back quick. Well that and get this weight off my head, I wonder what it is," Midoriya looked down, it finally coming to him what position he was in.

He was…still in the floor, it made sense he probably just fell over, but the odd part to him was how soft what he was laying on was. The floors were hard wood, which wasn't always uncomfortable at least if you had a carpet on it, but this was no carpet, and he was sitting up just leaned over resting on something. His eyes shifted down, seeing a purple fabric, a shirt fabric, his eyes wandered further and saw an earphone jack dangling in front of his forehead.

Light breathing reached his ears, finally revealing to him that he had slept on Jiro's shoulder the entire night. He didn't exactly know what to say, or what to think, was he happy? Scared? Nervous? All three? Probably all three, either way he stopped stirring as to not be rude and wake her up roughly, wanting to return the hospitality despite his embarrassment and worry over being caught over this could land them both in deep trouble.

His worries melted, when she nuzzled her head against his, a blissful sigh escaping her lips and despite not being able to see her face, he knew she was smiling. The nuzzle having shifting the blanket they shared slightly down, and being the guy that he is, Midoriya slowly reached over, being as careful as he possibly could, and lifted the blanket back up to her again.

A smile formed on his lips, despite his blush still being a bit more prominent, here he was in his crush's room, the same crush who had wrapped him in a blanket and let him rest on her shoulder instead of just throwing him out. She really was incredible to him, thankful for her hospitality and care.

'Ya know…maybe I can just lay here a little bit longer,' he thought peacefully as he closed his eyes, "Her shoulder is really soft," he muttered to himself.

Little did he know, she did in fact hear that, his earlier stirring nodding her awake albeit only a tiny bit a minor blush creeping up on her face, but eventually, they fell back asleep once more.

An hour and thirty minutes passed when Midoriya heard Kyoka's tender, soft voice wake him from his slumber.

By whispering-

"Rise and shine freckles."


The only difference between now and his memory, was that he felt her lips connect with his, and his eyes opened, seeing her face right over his, her eyes being closed so she couldn't tell that he was awake. He blushed as he always did, but this didn't stop him from lifting up his head, to return the one sided kiss in full, not used to such passion but he cared about her, so even if he screwed it up a little, he wanted her to know that…

Although it didn't occur to him if anyone was watching, but it did to Jiro, as her eyes had shot wide open having felt his head raise from the table, shock overtaking her face as she broke the kiss quickly, causing Midoriya to open his eyes again taking in the sight of her expression.

"W-what's wrong Kyoka," he asked earnestly, before hearing a couple sighs from all around him, causing him to sit upright on the table, taking in the sight of All Might holding his chest in relief, Aizawa with his usual dead on the inside expression, Recovery Girl's smile at his improvement in health, Momo holding her hands up to her mouth looking at him and Kyoka with starry eyes, trying her best not to cry tears of joy…and failing. Then finally, back to Kyoka, whose gaze had become transfixed on the floor, her hair drooping over and shadowing her eyes.

"Kyoka?"

"…"

"Are you-"

He was cut off quickly by his girlfriend who wrapped her arms around his neck in a tight hug, surprising everyone there. Light sobs escaped her, as Midoriya raised his arms to hug her back, resting his head against hers.

"Don't you ever scare me like that again," Kyoka chocked out, letting a small giggle of relief.

"I-I won't," Izuku replied, smiling at her, despite the adults feeling a little awkward watching this transpire, they kept quiet to let the couple have their moment for a little while longer…

Mina and Toru (whom had actually just hid to watch the event transpire) however…

"WE KNEW IT!"

THE END.


Author's Note: Whew boy...that was a longer break than I expected, hey everyone, sorry to leave ya hanging in the last chapter for this little bit, it was mostly due to my recent move, for the last couple years i've been trying to find an apartment for myself and my fiance and we recently had a breakthrough, and we moved in a few weeks ago and the move really took a lot out of me emotionally and physically.

I didn't want to really do anything and mostly wanted to settle in and get myself together, and fortunately I have now, and hopefully that means i'll get back to writing more and more for not only this story but creating others as well, and I can only hope that both this chapter and future tales will turn out good to you guys, aside from personal narrative satisfaction and enjoyment for myself, thats all I ever wanted for you guys.

But I can't satisfy everyone, and with that I have read the reviews on the script format that I wrote the previous chapters in, despite the negative criticism, I am greatful for each and everyone of you taking the time to tell me your thoughts, and i probably won't be doing script format again unless it works best for me as a writer, that being said though, no I'm not going back to change the previous chapters, that's what I wanted to do for them and i'm sorry that it doesnt work those of you who didn't enjoy it or thought it meshed well in this. At the end of the day it is my story and it also needs to be what I want to be, and i'm sorry if i lose people because of that.

Now off that topic, I'd like to know if you all want to see an epilogue to this story, I wrote as much as I could into this but theres still a couple places I could go with it, if you're interested leave a review or PM me.

Anyway, hope you all have been staying safe and healthy these past couple months and had a good thanksgiving if you even celebrate it, that being said I hope you enjoyed and have a nice day!

-T.L.C