Shigaraki breaks his gaze first. He glances away from Kimura's amber irises, and lets out a rather childish 'tsk'. Akemi pulls away, eyes still glazed with wariness despite her lack of struggling and uncooperativeness.

"As I said," Shigaraki started, "I've heard a lot about you, Kimura Akemi. Specifically from a certain greenette."

Kimura stared at him for several seconds, before she spoke with a level voice.

"You ever heard of chap sticks?" She wrinkles her nose, "That looks kinda painful."

Toga sniggers.

"Also," she started, then huffed. "dammit Izu." She cured under her breath, looking amusingly annoyed.

More sniggers fill the bar, even Kurogiri looks vaguely amused. But at that Kimura shot him a strange look, before glancing away, looking vaguely disturbed.

"Anyway." Shigaraki gritted out, ignoring her comments, "I heard that you're rather fond of villains, Kimura." This startles a look of shocked anger from the Bakugou boy. "I heard that you like to, what, write about them? And that you sympathize with them. That you can understand their motives. And he also said that... They're your favourite." Kimura's face darkened, and her eyes seemed to shine with something vindictive and rebellious, a dark look of cold anger directed towards the floor. "From what I've heard, it sounded almost like... You'd like to be a villain."

"... Just because I enjoy writing about them, doesn't mean I'd like to be one." Kimura retorted after a short moment of silence. "Don't you dare use what I love to threaten me."

"Well, big words." Shigaraki snorted, completely dismissing the girl's defence. " Sensei seemed very interested when I mentioned it to him though, I'm very interested too." He grins, "You'll make a good asset to our team, Kimura, it seems."

What the girl said next came out as a mumble, her head was lowered and her gaze is adverted, and her hair shields her eyes from view.

"Hah?" Shigaraki narrowed his eyes at the girl, whose head snapped up and met his gaze head on.

"Don't you dare use my passion for writing against me." She growls. "You have no idea how it feels like to craft a character from the ground up, to create someone vivid, someone who seems real and to write their story. So don't you even dare use it against me, don't you dare use it to compare me to you."

"When I write, I am creating. I am creating something out of nothing but my mind, but my creativity. I am doing something constructive, I am baring a piece of my mind and soul, I am at the very least, trying to inspire. So don't you even dare compare me to you when you know next to nothing about me." Her voice rattles in her vocal chords, low and threatening, it would seems that Shigaraki had hit a trigger. "You do not use my works against me."

She retracts and leans back in her chair, amber orbs narrowed and gleaming, like a riot. "It's true though, that I can understand some of you to some extend." Her voice softens just a little, "I did my research. I'm not stupid. I know that a lot of villains are victims of circumstances." She glanced at them briefly, "heck, if I made a wrong choice earlier in my life we might've switched place, who knows? The Butterfly Effect is pretty unpredictable." Her body slacks backwards and her gaze, while still defiant, turns lazy. "But seriously, you know nothing about me, and I know nothing about you. So," she scowls, and bares her teeth into a snarl as she spat. "Hell No."

The silence that followed was deafening. It hangs in the air, thick and tense until Shigaraki's voice shatters it like glass.

"I thought you said it yourself," Shigaraki narrowed his eyes, "that it will work in your advantage of you cooperate?"

"I said that I won't be incorporative, but I didn't say anything about cooperating." She snorted, "what are you, deaf?"

Her gaze locks with Shigaraki's again, and this time, golden irises blaze and burn.


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

Akemi's paring:

Todoroki Shouto: 23

Midoriya Izuku: 7

Ueno Hibiki: 7

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!)


My birthday was mostly great! Thank you so much guys! I even got a new phone— my previous one was second-handed and the image quality really sucked. TwT But apparently dad doesn't do anything without being totally awful to make up for it and I ended up carrying logs around the garden with my injured hand the entire after noon for the next day, it's like he doesn't want me to be happy. Ugh.

Now that the rant is over, I apologize for posting a little later than usual! I'm barely a chapter ahead for now so it's a little tough keeping the schedule up, but no worries I'll still post on time! Recently I've been, well, to quote my sis, a little weird cos I suddenly began washing my hands at an abnormal amount. Like one every fifteen minutes. Idk why my hands just feels gross to me. TwT (I just love using this emoticon don't I?)

P.S. ALSO, take this as an suggestion, check out the Script, their songs are awesome. I love their songs, especially If You Could See Me Now, seriously, 'take that rage, put it on a page, take that page to the stage blow the roof off the place' this song is poetry.

Onto the comment(s)!

To darkpaladin89: Ehhh Marmy's adorable! Kōki's gonna love her. (You just gave me an idea to feature cats in the next chapter) And yea, rip Tenko's kids. Also, ummmm I seldom rest when I'm doing things I like, I just... start working and doesn't stop I guess.

To Ree.Human: Yea I think I might do another one. Like that time about me sneaking around UA in the vents and nearly getting caught by Aizawa.

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