As the three of them continues to discuss the details of the upcoming training regimen, Akemi decides that none of them is going to bring this up, and buts in.
"Sooooo... How are you gonna explain this quirk manifesting?"
As the two freezes, Akemi shakes her head.
Why is she always the one to come up with cover stories? She sighs with exasperation. Thank God she's had that covered.
"Ever heard of quirk hibernation?" She said, and at the twin confused looks— gosh are they father and son those looks are identical— she drags a hand down her face and begins to explain.
"Quirk Hibernation the state of which if a quirk is too dangerous for its host it will fall into a state of hibernation to protect them." Akemi flips through her notes again, hoping to find her file on that section, but oh well. She've never been one for organising her stuff. Whatever. So she swipes the files away and continues her speech.
"It's rather uncommon, but it's real." She said towards their disbelieving looks, and gulps slightly before continuing, "I was one of the cases."
Izu-kun perks up a little in surprise.
"Due to my quirk not manifesting when I was four, I was viewed as quirkless for two years." She explained- Dark staircases basements broken ribs father yelling mother screaming help me help me it hurts stop it- her breath quickens but she forced it to slow.
"Sorcery is very hard to control. It didn't manifest until I was six and could properly keep it under control and not kill every single plant in Japan then blow myself up." She sighs and swallows down the bile, downing the rest of the CC lemon to calm herself.
"Are you alright? You look a little pale." It was Izu-kun. She glanced at him and nodded.
Akemi isn't really one for lying. She've told a lot of lies towards her father. But most of the time she just twists her words and craft answers in a way to stop people from asking any further — half-truths, omitting essential details, dodging questions and the subtle use of eye contact, it helps hiding scars and making up excuses for her burises, it also throws off truth quirks since it's not completely a lie. And there's only one outright lie she've been repeating for years, and that has to be—
"I'm fine." She grins.
Izu seemed satisfied with that answer, and smiles in return.
"So let's put it like this." She begins. "You have a hibernating quirk, " she points at Izu, "we bumped into each other in Starbucks, and got along talking about quirks— wait, what's your parents' quirks again?" She turns towards Izuku, who blinks and answers.
"My mum can pull small objects towards herself... And well, my dad breaths fire." He says and Akemi nods.
"Ok. So let's say your quirk is heat energy stockpiling." She decides, "Your quirk attracts heat energy and stores it in as bio-electricity, but the usage part was in hibernation due to the power it's accumulated is too dangerous for you to handle."
Toshinori-san hums, "that's a good idea." He says, "One for All is a stockpile quirk, so not exactly false but half true."
"Yep. I'm good at this." She smirks and continues, "Well, let's continue. We bumped into each other in Starbucks, and began talking about quirks and got along. You asked me about my quirk, I used it as a demonstration, and discovered your hibernating quirk. Vola." She grins. "Then I kick you to the gym so you can strengthen your body to get the quirk out of hibernation. Good enough?"
Toshinori chuckles and agrees to the girl's story, it's a good one, he admits, she really is good at this.
But deep inside his mind, he briefly wonders.
If you need to be good at something, you need to practice.
Where did she get all this practice?
Please RnR for All Might to save Akemi.
