The intro to the news plays in the background as he washes his hands, paying no attention to the news lady as she begins the midnight report, breezing through villain takedowns and foreign politician speeches. He pays them no attention, and instead wipes his hands off on a towel and turns to prepare for bed. He's about to turn his television when he hears some news come up.
"—Earlier tonight, the League of Villains, who were responsible for the USJ incident earlier this year, have been reported to have tracked down and attacked the Wild Wild Pussy Cats' territory. There, UA's first year Hero course summer camp was held."
He pauses, looks up towards the screen and lowers the remote.
"Out of forty students, fifteen are currently in critical condition due to a gas quirk," the woman continues, "Eleven others have obtained injuries of varying degrees, while a mere thirteen are unscathed."
His grip on the remote tightens. Don't tell me—
"In the same attack, two students, Bakugou Katsuki, the winner of UA Sports Festival, Kimura Akemi, heir of the Hayashi Financial Group, and Pro Hero Ragdoll, were all kidnapped."
The remote explodes in his hands. He pushes himself off the bed and stands up, snatching his phone from the counter.
This can't be real. His hands shake slightly as he punches in a number. Please, pick up.
Someone picks up the phone, and he sags with relief and opens his mouth to speakー
"...Hello?"
ーhe falters. This... isn't Akemi's voice. This is the voice of a boy (around his teens), not Akemi.
"Who is this?" he demands cooly, "This is Akemi's phone, who are you and how did you get it?"
"...You must be Kai-san," the person finally replies, "...She talks about you a lot."
"And?"
"I am Iida Tenya," the boy, Iida, says, "It's probably already on the news, but I should tell you." His voice is hoarse as he speaks. "Akemi's been kidnapped."
The phone hangs up, but his hand doesn't drop. His ears rings as he holds the phone tightly against his ear, hoping that, just maybe, he could hear Akemi suddenly shout, 'just joking!' And then they'd laugh. He thought maybe if he tried, he could hear her cheerful voice, just like when they were kids, running up and down Ringoki, climbing trees, picking apples, bantering.
And he sits and he presses the phone harder to his ear, and tries to calm his breathing and trembling because he can't hear her voice. There's nothing. No laughs, no taunting jokes, nothing.
Just the dial tone.
Current Poll Results~ (from both the poll and the reviews)
Akemi's paring:
Todoroki Shouto: 21
Ueno Hibiki: 7
Midoriya Izuku: 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: 7
Iida Tenya: 4
Midoriya Izuku: 0
Seiba Hiroi: 0
Todoroki Shouto: 0
Others (Please state in review!)
I really love writing Kai-Chan, I love exploring Akemi's past. Also please don't interrogate me about his identity anymore, I'm not gonna talk.
AHH EXAMS ARE COMING BY JULY!!! I HAVE F-ING EXAMS ON MY BIRTHDAY, I HATE MY LIFE.
Title partially inspired by Talk by Why Don't We. Lovely song, looped it for hours.
Onto the comment(s)!
To TKLF42: Lovely reasoning! And yes, Akemi is a bi girl and very proud of it, and yep she did have a crush on Tenya once, pretty much back in elementary school because he's one of her first male friends around her age after Kai-Chan, plus Tenya is pretty cute just look at him. For Todoroki, I personally think her dynamic with Akemi is also very cute, like Akemi is forward and cheerful and Todoroki is just dense and awkward. It's why I have such a hard time deciding so I just ended up leaving it up to y'all!
To Dr. Borger: This will be a little long, and I want everyone to read this— skip the first paragraph, but start reading from the second one.
Okay, I understand your reasoning, but while I do think that every character exists for a reason, and that they all have their reasoning behind their actions (Well this fic is called Sonder for a reason ya know), Mineta's actions in canon so far isn't as influential as most other characters, and can be quite easily replaced. BnHA isn't over just yet and so far Mineta had the least chances of getting developed into a center stage character, I want to follow through the entire series, not just ending it after the eight percepts, so I have to choose one person to replace, and that ended up being Mineta. I don't really hold anything against him, I don't really get him and all, if I have a fanfic where the circumstances allows it I would've gladly wrote him, but not in Sonder because of the plot and background.
Also, please, people, don't say a fic is bad without even reading the it, judge a fic, a piece of work, for their writing skills. See each fanfiction as their own individual stories, while still keep the canon info in your head, keep an open mind. Don't go saying a fic is bad just because you don't like their format or idea, it's very insulting to authors AND you miss out a lot of good stuff. I mean I've read stories which feature pairings generally shunned by the their fandom (Nezuko x Sanemi, BakuOcha, IiOcha, ext.), and they're GOOD. The writing's good, the plot is good, and prejudice just makes them severely underrated. Take this as a suggestion from me to every reader out there, the concept and method doesn't matter, writing is writing, it's a form of art and expressing oneself, if you read it, respect it and the author's hard work. Appreciate the writing and the work put into the plot, be critical and point out places where you think the flow or the writing or the plot doesn't sound right to you, but do it nicely, respect the author.
Now let me give an example. Let's say you don't like fantasy, but will you just see any book of the fantasy genre and say it must be shit? No! So do the same for fanfiction too, and respect every author's work. So you don't like BakuOcha, or BakuDeku, or any pairing, don't drop by just to insult the fic. It's just plain mean. Read it for the writing, reading for your own interest, read it for whatever you want, if you don't like it for personal reasons, fine. But never, ever insult a fic plainly because of the idea it's based off on. Because any background, and any idea is good. It's just how you express it. I'm speaking as both an active writer and author of fanfiction and original work right now, so take this as my opinion.
Well that was long.
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