Plot time
It was supposed to be a normal day. A normal day out, maybe going to the archery range, hanging out with each other, enjoying themselves, and most importantly, venting.
Hibiki is fighting with her dad again because he just won't stop stalking her and kept checking her web history and monitoring her like a prisoner and just kept ranting about his plans for her future as a rescue hero to make him rich with her quirk when all she ever wanted was to work at mum's hospital to save lives in the way her mum does but her dad's being plain awful and kept tracking her with GPS chips.
And Akemi is giving her dad the cold shoulder because they fought over her love for writing and he said it is a useless hobby when it's her dream and what saved her from depression and crumbling entirely into offing herself before she met Hibiki, it's her life goal, everything she ever wished for. So Akemi said she would not tolerate him calling her dream useless and just a hobby and her dad, that bastard, pushed her down the stairs.
Yep. Their dads are bastards. I'll give you that.
Their relationships with their parents are complicated. Hibiki's father uses her and stalks and monitors her, plays her like a puppet, while Akemi's ridicules her and takes joy in seeing her suffer, and with the threat of their cousin and sister being harmed or withdrawn from university they could do nothing.
So today, the two headed into the city centre, and went shopping around the Tokyo Sky Egg. But they never, never expected things to turn out like this. Never.
As the tower crumbled and creaked under multiple explosions Hibiki screamed, as the rain of debris showered upon them Akemi cowered, As the remainants of the tower sprayed down they tried to shield each other, to protect one another.
It's all they could do.
Hibiki is scared.
She is scared, so scared and more scared than she've ever been. The fear seeps through her veins rattling the marrows of her bones and plunging deep deep deep into her mind, a visceral feeling that she can no longer suppress nor ignore.
She've never been this scared. Not when she saw the spider on her pillow, not when she was locked in the closet, and not even when her dad threatened to pull her cousin out of university if she didn't listen to him; as she watched the hail of stones and metal rain upon them she've never been this scared. Not just for herself but for Akemi, Akemi who is currently curling over her arms so tight with all her might with tears streaming down her face, looking so so scared and just as scared as she is but still protecting her and shielding her and helping her and reassuring her and Hibiki felt so helpless and so tiny as her best friend's tears drip onto her shoulder yet Akemi's susurrant mantra of "it's alright everything's alright don't be scared it's alright" echos in her ears sounding so so calm and so warm and so kind. Contrasting so much with the pure fear in her eyes.
Explosions sounded and the tower rumbled once more, Hibiki cried, Akemi cried and this time as the debris began raining from the sky once more they weren't as lucky. The stones and metals crashed to the ground not only around them but on them and Akemi's mantra of reassurance fell silent as she slumped in her arms.
Hibiki screams.
Please RnR for Akemi's survival.
