"Tenya, I'm mad because you betrayed our trust." Akemi forced the words out, barely a whisper. She couldn't bring herself to look up to him, her throat constricting and closing with tears. It hurts.

They promised.

It was a silly promise, made years ago when they where still in the aftermath of her near suicide in the girl's bathroom. Hibiki's insisted it to be a pinky promise and it took so long to make Hiroi and Tenya agree to this silly gesture. It was stupid, but it also meant so much to her, to them.

At least, she thought it meant so much to them.

A hand closed onto hers, and Akemi didn't even need to look to know it was HIbiki. She closed her eyes and let the tears slip, and Hibiki's voice reach her.

"It is important." She says softly, as if reading her mind, "No keeping things bottled up, right? Either handle it properly then tell the others, or tell us and we'll face it together. No secrets."

"No secrets." Akemi whispered, suddenly feeling like a hypocrite. "Yeah... no secrets."

She can feel Hibiki glance towards her worriedly, but Akemi shook it off and gripped Tenya's hand tighter.

"Akemi... Hibiki..." Tenya's voice reached her ear, cracking, "I..."

Akemi shook her head.

"I don't need you to apologize." She said softly, "Just... just don't do it again, okay?" Finally looking up she met Tenya's blue eyes, "Okay?"

"Okay."

She pulled her long time friend into a quick hug, next to her Hibiki smiled and hugged Tenya as well, and Akemi turned away.

"Com'on, let's go help those guys."


Shouto glanced up as a hand joined him in removing the knives in the inside of the Hero Killer's vest, carefully picking out the throwing knives and dagger. It was Ueno, who kneeled down and examined one of them with a little surprise.

"A Botero knife." She mumbled, and Akemi, who had somehow gotten across him, looked up, "Your favourite, Akemi."

The girl snorted, "Just because I have several characters using it doesn't mean that I like it, it's just the only kind I know how to use, so," She replied, picking out a set of what looks like ninja stars, "woah, this is quite a lot of weapons, even I don't know what they are... And I did research on those for an entire year for 'New Moon'."

Shouto had to wonder what the heck is 'New Moon' for a second, before he remembered that Akemi wrote stories.

"Hey look, a wharncliffe, didn't that, what, was his name Issac? Got that as a gift in the third chapter? When was it, second book?"

"His name was Ian. And don't joke about it, he died in the end and that was a major plot line... I will shamelessly admit that I cried while writing that."

Shouto is starting to feel lost as the two chattered, he turned towards Midoriya for some sort of help, only to look over just in time to see him to pull out one of Stain's daggers, and the greenette blinked.

"Akemi, is this that hawkbill you told me about?"

"Yeah they are, you're learning- wait, ohhh, butterfly knives! Now these are my favourite!"

He is so lost.


Throwing the push dagger into the pile, they finally, finally got all (At least, all that they they could find) weapons off Stain.

They'd wrapped it all up with the villain's scarf, and Akemi moved to help Todoroki drag him out the alley. It was silent, and Akemi was beginning to feel twitchy, but before she said anything, Hibiki decided to start the conversation.

"At least you'd know exactly where to hide your character's weapons now, Akemi." She hummed, not quite a joke but her tone was light.

Akemi chuckled.

"I usually just make it winter and put jackets or thick hoodies on them, I did some research, but yay for first hand information." She shrugged a little, "Oh, by the way, Izu, Gran Torino is heading here. He said he gets to put his boot on your face first."

Todoroki raised an eyebrow at this, and Izuku gulped.

He is so dead.

As the three of them exited the alley, Izuku, just as Akemi said, was greeted by Gran Torino and a solid kick to the face... not that he isn't used to it by now.

"Seriously, And even after I told you to stay on the train! And YOU!" To his surprise, Gran Torino's attention shifted over to Akemi, "what is up with you? Do you know how long it took me to get over here? I'm not the one with the map! Don't just go running off without any warning, really!" The man huffs, " Teenagers!"

Izuku glanced over to the girl, but surprisingly, Akemi's face was passive, eyes slightly narrowed before she turned away, as if she hadn't even heard the man yelling at her at all. She mumbled something under her breath which Izuku couldn't catch, but the look she had on her face wasn't that nice, so he assumed it was an insult.

"Here!"

He blinked, and looked towards the direction of the voice which called out. A bunch of heroes are heading over with hurried steps, and upon reaching them, they stopped.

"Kids?"

"What? But why would he tell us to come over here then?"

" Wait, did Endeavor-san tell you all to head over?" Akemi interupped, frowning slightly, " If yes, then the issue here is already resolved." She jabbed her thumb behind her, pointing towards Stain, who is all tied up behind her.

" Wait, is that—?" One of the heroes, who Izuku recognized as Manual, the hero Iida was interning with. " Is that the Hero Killer?"

" Yes." Akemi nodded, "... someone call an ambulance? They probably looked fine right now but Hibiki's wound transferal might have missed something. And Hibiki probably needs a check up herself." She instructed.

" Wound transfer-- wait, it's you again." A heroine who Izuku remembered seeing from the city center signed and dragged a hand down her face, Izuku blinked, they've met? " The intern from Ueno private, right?"

Hibiki-san chuckled sheepishly and scratched the back of her head. The woman sighs, and nodded towards one of her colleagues.

The heroes moved to take the Hero Killer from them, Izuku relaxed and an ambulance was called. Iida-kun called out to them, bowed and tearfully apologize only to be slapped upside by the head by Akemi. The tension in the air was begining to loosen.

And just as he thought everything was over, the screaming began.


Current Poll Results~ (from both the poll and the reviews)

Akemi's paring:

Todoroki Shouto: 16

Midoriya Izuku: 1

Iida Tenya: 3

Seiba Hiroi: 0

Ueno Hibiki: 3

Bakugou Katsuki: 3

Iida Tensei: 1

Others (Please state in review!)


Hibiki's pairing:

Todoroki Shouto: 0

Midoriya Izuku: 0

Iida Tenya: 4

Seiba Hiroi: 0

Kimura Akemi: 3

Shinsou Hitoshi: 6

Others (Please state in review!)


I'm not... Particularly proud of this chapter. But since this part was mostly the same as the cannon scene, I really can't write anything much. And plus, since most of the injuries have been felt with, there wasn't much to do.

And as promised, the tone of these coming chapters will become a lot lighter. I really don't plan on going into details with the exams, and will probably go over them within one or two chapters, so the coming ones will focus less on what's going on in the present with Akemi, but more into her past, and those around her like Hiroi and Kōki, or some. So expect some much bigger surprises.

Sonder's on Twitter~ the first tweet is a question: should I start updating daily? you can answer here or on twitter (where you get to see the sketches of Akemi n co and ask them questions!).

Comment replies!

To darkpaladin89: No worries my phone is fine, I can still type and update! And Akemi is not curel enough to do that, nah she'll just spam him.