The world is small, cramped and dark. She's frozen, can't see-

She has to break out, that much she knows. As Akemi struggles, her memories flash back to when, as a child, her father caught her with his telekinesis. She remembered being unable to move, almost like being suffocated. Panic and anger begins to set in. She hates this. She hates not being able to move, not being able to control herself.

She hates it. She hates it and it hurts and it makes her feel so vulnerable and weak and USELESS—

And then her quirk activates on its own again, like it always does when she's emotional. It flickers weakly, like a fire on a candle about to burn out, but that's okay. Most quirks function on energy, and this one is a fine example.

She breaths, closes her eyes and focuses.

She can feel them. Strands and pulses, waves and lights; flowing all around her. The energy emmits in waves and radiation and pulses and beams, and as long as Akemi can feel them, she can control them. Reaching out to the energy keeping her inside the blackness, twisting and altering space like gravitational energy, she latches on to it, and burns.

The world explodes with light and sound, and Akemi breaks free with a loud gasp. She doesn't bother observing her surroundings, seeing as her quirk is gone and she certainly doesn't have the strength to turn it back on. Akemi lands with a grunt and rolls back onto her feet, her ears rings and her eyes hurts but nevertheless she stumbled and prepared to run as fast as her feet can carry her.

"AKEMI!"

Todoroki's hoarse voice reaches her ears, and Akemi whirls around to face its owner. She sees him, torn and battered, heading in her direction with desperation. Her legs push off from their position and she runs. As she's just about to take a flying leap, a hand latches onto her collar and she's being reeled back by somebody's unknown, scarred hand. More hands grab onto her and begin to yank her backwards. Through the corner of her eyes, she catches a glimpse of black mist from behind and her heart jolts with fear.

"NO!" she screams, lashing and kicking. With a well aimed elbow, she strikes someone in the eye through some sort of mask. Nononononononono! She promised Kōki she'd come home. She promised. She can't leave her alone in that place! "LET ME GO!"

Todoroki leaps forwards with an extended hand, and Akemi kicks back, shifting forwards slightly and grabbing his hand.

His gaze is desperate, eyes wide and panicked. His grip tight and so is hers. But their hands are clammy and slippery and weak and the force that's dragging her backwards is too strong. As Akemi glances back into the portal, she knows.

And so, as the tears burn, she closes her eyes. When she opens them to drink in the features of a friend she very possibly could see for the last time, they fall.

"I'm sorry."

She lets go.


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

Akemi's paring:

Todoroki Shouto: 21

Midoriya Izuku: 6

Ueno Hibiki: 6

Bakugou Katsuki: 4

Iida Tenya: 3

Iida Tensei: 1

Kaminari Denki: 1

Seiba Hiroi: 0

Others (Please state in review!)


Hibiki's pairing:

Shinsou Hitoshi: 8

Kimura Akemi: 6

Iida Tenya: 4

Midoriya Izuku: 0

Seiba Hiroi: 0

Todoroki Shouto: 0

Others (Please state in review!)


A million thanks to my new Beta reader, Thundqh! Thanks for correcting all the grammatical stuff and checking my writing, you're AMAZING!

And yeah. I'm cruel. TwT

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To darkpaladin89: Yeah. No Nomu Akemi. that's bad. but I'm kinda curious about how she would look like so I designed one nevertheless. probably won't sport thou.

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