Objectively, sicing Midnight on her is a good decision. Akemi decided. At least, on her teacher's part.
Personally?
Personally, Akemi absolutely hates sleeping gas and would love to avoide it at all cost for two reasons: first, they make her drowsy and her quirk get out of control; and second, unlike getting knocked out, Akemi still get dreams if she sleeps under the effect of sleeping gas.
Who's she kidding? She don't dream, she only ever get nightmares. And Akemi would like to avoid waking up in the middle of a panic attack in front of her teachers or classmates.
Five minutes in the exam and Sero's out sleeping by the gate, Midnight's gas had knocked him out completely and Akemi's currently huddled with her back against one of the larger rocks in the area, air filtering in through her bandana but it's still making her head throb. She'd barely slept last night, dammit, she don't need this.
Cursing under her breath Akemi drew in a large amount of the light around her, clearing her head briefly but long enough to pull up a dome-shaped shield. She really have to thank Hatsume, she thought as she activated the air filter located on the side of her waist, clearing the air beneath the dome before she moved, the dome moving with her.
Alright, now what. She thought as she peeked over the stone, Sero's asleep, crumbled at Midnight's feet snoring away. If she win this on her own Sero will probably feel pretty left-out, and Akemi would hate to be the cause of that. Humming slightly Akemi sat back down, and she plans.
A invisible tendril of energy slithers across the ground, and pours itself into Sero's mind under Akemi's control. She feels it as he wakes, and hisses through the comm.
"Don't move, don't make any sound, don't you even dare nod. Okay? Keep your eyes closed. If you hear me, turn over naturally Ike you are asleep."
Across the distance, Sero turns and lets out a slightly fake snore, and Akemi smiles.
"Good. Now turn a few more times, slowly, then just get up and walk over." She whispers as she carefully manipulated the light around the teen, this is gonna be tough. "Slowly, slowly..." She hissed as the teen was beginning to move too suspiciously, "Now wait..." Her head strains from the amount ofconcentration in this particular skill required. She'd only just mastered it a few weeks ago, and they still aren't convincing enough, the colors are also hard to manage, but luckily her classmate's costume isn't too colorful.
The light bend to her will, the spectrum reflecting off nothing and forming into the color and shape of her classmate, while light slipped past the real Sero as if he wasn't even there, who is currently sneaking away and towards her.
"Wait, stop." Her eyes locked onto his feet. He's leaving footprints. And Akemi waves her hand, dust covering his path before she hissed into the comm again, "Good, now move."
About a minute later the boy slumped against the rock with a breath of relief, patting his own chest as he calmed down.
"That was way too close, man..." He hissed under his breath, "Thanks for the save, Kimura."
"Nah, I needed a little help over here." Akemi grins, "I can't get close to Midnight without fainting and my quirk potentially destroying 50 kilometers rarious of blastpoint, aka me," She added, scratching the back of her head, "But with that illusion in place I can make a pretty convincing distraction."
Current Poll Results~ (from both the poll and the reviews)
Akemi's paring:
Todoroki Shouto: 17
Midoriya Izuku: 2
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: 7
Others (Please state in review!)
I just posted a new art of Akemi on Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram! I highly recommend you to take a look because the little details I put in... well you're going to like it. It's a magazine cover! my social media accounts are on my profole, go go go!!!
I rewrote the next chapter several times, and I'm going to post the alternate outcome tomorrow over at 'Another Story', that was too dark and I read through it and was like 'nope' then opened a new file and began all over again. Another writing tip to you don't knowme, don't stick to the draft, always read through what you've written and don't be afraid to start all over again! But don't delete the privious version though, keep a copy! (I deleted several versions of some privious chapters and ended up regreting it. T-T 7000 words... I almost cried.)
Onto the comments~
To you don't knowme: Doing well! The virus' is finally dying here and online classes just started again, so Il less bored now. As for my timezone, well, I currently live in HK, so that's GTM 8, I think. Yep. Just googled it. So right now it's around 10 something in the morning, meh.
To darkpaladin89 (Ch 165): Nezu: *Waves cheerfully with creepy smile* Hi~
To darkpaladin89 (Ch 166): *sigh* sleeping gas, Akemi's biggest enemy. And the reasons I paired the two are one, so I don't have to redo all the pairs, and two, Sero has a low power level and practical skills and average control, while Akemi has an overkill of power, too much shinanigans and a lot of control. By putting Akemi against Midnight, this will force her into the background as support while Sero will jave to do the actual job.
To Thundqh: Long Chapters! The next is going to be a little longer too!
