Hibiki is going to make a full recovery.

Tenya nearly cried when Reiki-san told him that. With Hibiki's evolved healing and the doctor's efforts, about a week after her hospitalisation she is up and running and ready to head back to school.

He looks out the window, towards Akemi's seat, where once again the girl is chuckling and chatting with Midoriya, the teen laughing at something she said and the girl turning her sketchbook around to show him a sketch of something— probably one of her characters, and smiled.

He watched on with a fond look, but deep in his mind was a lurking feeling of hate. Hate that the Hero Killer hurted his brother, hate that the hero killer had indirectly hurted Hibiki. As his hands turned into fists beneath the table the door slid open and in step Aizawa-sensei.

"Settle down, settle down."

He relaxed.

Sitting upright Tenya perked up at the mention of Hero names. His classmates began to chat amongst themselves and Akemi was partially vibrating.

Hero names, huh? Originally Nii-san had old him to inherit his, but now that he've gone back to hero work he is at a loss at what name to choose. Akemi had always been the one to come up with names and aliases, after all with how many characters she had to keep track of there are a ton of names in her mental dictionary. He wouldn't be surprised if she already has several in mind.

After Midnight's entrance, Aizawa-sensei slipped back into his sleeping bag and curled up at the corner. And the class began their rapid and excited discussions.


Hero names, huh? Akemi thought.

Hero names...

If it's Tenya, she would suggest Temperi. Since Tensei-san's hero name is Ingenium, which means temper in Latin, Temperi has the same meaning, but also in time or at the right time, which suits his quirk. But what Tenya wants to all himself is his choice and she doesn't want to affect it.

As for herself... She thought back to her speech and hums. Perhaps Outmatch or Outplay? Or maybe a name after her own list of Over-something moves, and call herself... Overpower? Overachieve? Or...

Akemi frowns, no. That sounds weird. But... Then her eyes widened.

Akemi hung from Ueno's hand, staring up with wide eyes.

"Hold... On!" Ueno forced out, both hands gripping hers tightly, "there, the ridge— ah!"

Her hands slipped a little, and Akemi's lips trembled.

She...

She doesn't wanna die.

Looking down at the ground almost thirty meters away, Akemi felt her eyes swell with tears and they spill, a spike of fear fills her and she reaches up to grab Ueno's hand.

"The ridge!"

Right. The ridge. She sniffles and tiptoes to reach the ridge a little beneath her, and Ueno lets go.

She stands on the ridge, against the wall and breaths a sigh of relief. Looking up she saw Ueno curl in on herself, and sobbed.

"Why?" She sniffles, "why did you jump? You told me not to! You saved me and then you jump?" She lifts her head and gazes at her, the look in her eyes shifting between a glare and tearful relief, "you hypocrite!"

"Ueno..." She starts, but couldn't continue.

"How could you!" Ueno's voice cracks like glass and Akemi felt her heart twist, "you- You-!" Then her face twists and she breaks down with a heart-wrenching wail.

Several minutes saw them sitting at the edge silent but for Ueno's sniffles. Akemi stared down towards the streets before the school, hair fluttering in the wind.

As people went on with their lives and the duo sat in silence, her golden eyes pass them calmly, as each talked or chattered, as some bantered and laughed. Some argued, some spoke, and that's when it hits her.

Her sonder.

It was such a trivial thing, she'd always known, but it'd never hit her until this moment and it was like a rush— an epiphany. Akemi just sat and gaped as she watched over the ground, as she watched the people she see and meets every day for the past few years she knows.

Last week of her elementary school life, Akemi knows.

"Akemi? Oi Akemi!"

Akemi snaps out of her stupor. Izuku looks at her with a tilted head and asks, in concern.

"Are you alright?"

Akemi blinks.

"Yeah." She answers, "yeah, just... Just having a moment of epiphany."


Katsuki growled when his hero name got rejected for a second time, he sucks at making up names, and that's not his fault. He slumped into his chair with curses and crossed arms, and that's when Golden-eyes got called up.

"Kimura! Are you ready?" Midnight called out and the girl nodded with enthusiasm.

"Yeah!" She stands up and picks up her board, walking up the stage, she showed her name.

"Sonder?" Deku blinked, "isn't that the word..."

"Yeah. From my speech." Golden eyes grinned, then her smile fell a little. "I had my sonder back when I was twelve, after my attempt at suicide and Hibiki saved me."

The room fell silent. Midnight is starting at Golden-eyes like she is about to jump out the window, Round face looked as if she just killed a puppy and half-and-half is gaping like a fish.

"Akemi, you sure—" Deku speaks up again, but the girl hold up a hand and shakes her head.

"The society shouldn't avoid this kind of topic." She says, "I mean, I don't bring it up all the time but I don't avoid it either."

She scans them, "I've always known then, but it was that moment that it hits me, that his vivid and real everyone around me really is, and it's... Mind-blowing." She smiles, "It's part of why I want to help others."

She didn't say that she wanted to be a hero. Of course she didn't. She doesn't even want to be one.

Thinking about it made him uncomfortable. When Golden-eyes' head hits the ground that crack was so unnerving, it made him sick with disgust. That was her own old man, for fuck's sake, and he was throwing her around like she's some kind of puppet—

Not that he cared.

On the podium, Golden-eyes continued to rant about how 'eye-opening' and 'amazing' that 'sonder' of hers was, and Katsuki wasn't listening, because as she spoke old memories rose in his mind and he scowled at the strange feeling in his chest.

He thought of burnt notebooks and tearful eyes, he remembered holding Deku up against the wall by his neck and roaring in his face— threatening him.

It all seemed so long ago. Had he really acted like this? Was he really like that? Like Golden-eyes' old man?

Dammit. He covers his mouth, this is bad. He gulped as he glanced back towards Deku, the sinking feeling in his chest unnerving him and making him sick.

This is really, really bad.


Since Hibiki will soon gain a significantly bigger role in the plotline and story, I'll be adding Hibiki's pairing to the poll!

Here are the choices for her:

Todoroki Shouto

Midoriya Izuku

Iida Tenya

Seiba Hiroi

Kimura Akemi

Shinsou Hitoshi


Current Poll Results~

Akemi's paring:

Todoroki Shouto: 3

Midoriya Izuku: 1

Iida Tenya: 2

Seiba Hiroi: 0

Ueno Hibiki: 1

Kaminari Denki: 0

Bakugou Katsuki: 0

Tokoyami Fumikage: 0

Iida Tensei: 1

Others (Please state in review!)

Hibiki's pairing:

Todoroki Shouto: 0

Midoriya Izuku: 0

Iida Tenya: 0

Seiba Hiroi: 0

Kimura Akemi: 0

Shinsou Hitoshi: 0

Others (Please state in review!)


I'll start replying to reviews from now on!

To Kyross: Todoroki and Tenya, got it! And Hibiki... Well, we'll see.

To nagle123: Tenya and... Tensei? Okay, interesting choice!

To Angelfusion15: Eh. I posted a poll on the website but something went wrong... So Todoroki, gotcha!

To Sylvsol: First vote for Hibiki! Alright!! Thank you for your support!

To darkpaladin89: Good reasoning! A vote for Izu-chan it is! They do have an interesting dynamic... *humms* Let's see!

The polls will end after the Kamino incident! Chapters before the end of the polls will not be affected by the results. But the top two candidates of the polls will be the final pairing! Choose wisely!