13-year-old Mienai Kurushimi sat under a bridge, weeping silently.

A few hours ago she had run away from home. She couldn't take it anymore. Being around her classmates, her parents, anyone. She hated being around people. Not because she hated people.

But because even when she was surrounded by people, she was still alone.

Her quirk was called Mute. It made her and everything she did completely silent. She could bang a bunch of pots and pans together or scrape her nails against a chalkboard and no one would hear. She couldn't even speak, she had to use sign language to communicate.

So as you can imagine, it was very difficult to get people to notice her without literally jumping in front of them.

Her parents might have noticed her if they weren't so busy arguing with each other. They argued about every little thing and of course because of this they never noticed their daughter suffering in silence.

So she decided to run away. At least now she was just alone instead of being ignored.

But sometimes life can be rather ironic. And today, someone did notice her.

"Hey. What's wrong?"

Mienai froze for a second before looking up at where the voice came from. Only to see nothing.

Tears flowed freely from her eyes. Was she so desperate to feel noticed that she started hallucinating?

"Boop." Said the voice as Mienai felt something touch her nose.

Suddenly a white leotard and a pair of shoes appeared in front of her.

"Hi." Said the feminine voice coming from the clothes.

Mienai freaked out. She had no idea who this was and she didn't know if she could understand sign language.

Still, she signed anyway. "Who are you."

"Sign language?" The woman asked. "Wait your not deaf are you? Cause I left my gloves at home."

"No." Mienai signed. "My quirk won't let me make sounds."

"Oh," Toru said. "Well, that sucks."

Mienai looked at her in surprise. Most people said that her quirk was either weird or neat, showing that they had no idea what having her quirk felt like.

"Yeah, most people don't know the struggles people like us go through to get noticed," Toru said.

Is she a mind reader?! Mienai thought.

"Nope, I'm just really good at reading people," Toru said. "Kinda have to be being a stealth hero and all. My name is Toru Hakakure aka Invisible Girl!"

"You're a hero?" Mienai signed.

"Yup," Toru said. "Don't worry if you don't know about me. Most people don't. Hard to get noticed when people can't see you."

With that one sentence, Mienai felt a connection to her.

"I imagine it's kinda the same when people can't hear you huh?" Toru asked.

Mienai nodded and signed. "It feels just like being invisible. No one ever sees you."

"And you try to do whatever you can to stick out," Toru said. "But sometimes you just want to stay invisible because you're worried that when people see you, they'll hate you."

Mienai started to tear up.

"Do you have any friends?" Toru asked.

Mienai shook her head and started sobbing.

"What about family?" Toru asked.

Shakely she signed. "They don't care about me. They just like to argue."

"Oh," Toru said.

As Mianai cried, Toru sat down beside her.

Toru sighed. "I understand. How hard it is having a quirk like yours. It feels like your a ghost, something that goes unseen and unheard. It feels lonely. You just wish someone would notice you."

Toru brought her hand to the girl's head. "But you probably have it worse than me. You can't shout to get anyone's attention and you have to communicate with sign language which not everyone knows."

Toru enveloped Mienai her into a hug, making her give a silent gasp.

"Back when I was your age I didn't have any friends either," Toru said. "Even though people could see my clothes it was still like they couldn't see me at all. I tried to be as loud as possible to compensate but all that did was make people avoid me even more! But one day. I met people. People who cared about me. And we became friends. After that, I never felt lonely. Because if they didn't see me, they would look for me. What you need is someone like that."

Toru took her arms off of her and stood up. "So. Want to be friends?"

Mienai looked up at her, hope gleaming in her eyes and with sign language so shaky Toru almost couldn't read it, she said. "Yes."

"Great!" Toru said. "Just so you know I'm holding out my hand so I can help you get up."

Slowly Mienai reached out and tried to take Toru's hand. Only to miss.

Toru giggled. "Little bit to the left."

Mienai grabbed her hand and Toru pulled her up causing her to go flying into Toru's chest.

Mienai wrapped her arms around Toru and cried silent tears of joy into her chest.

So I'm going to say that in the future Toru can make her whole outfit invisible. She can manipulate light so it's not impossible.