Author's Notes:
Thank you for all your reviews! I read them all, and it really encouraged me to write more of this series. Yuuki's troubles are just starting to show itself now, and you'll be learning more about her preparations for the future to come. She'll be meeting the Key Characters in this chapter. I would like to apologise in advance if any of these characters may seem too out of character. I'm still not too used to this yet.
To answer some of your questions in the reviews, You'll be learning about her quirk, this chapter, and... again, I would like to apologise in advance for any OOC characters... Please don't hate me for this. (*ﾉﾉ)
Disclaimer: I don't own My Hero Academia, I just own my OCs and Ideas!
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Chapter 3 : When there's smoke, there's fire
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The days comes and goes into a routine.
A week she would spend on studying various subjects such as basic to a variety of martial arts -taught not by Ruthless Teacher number 2, surprise, surprise- Some advanced programming -she completed the basics already as Kelcie- and some hacking -just to help her get some of the more private messages across to the Family more easily, taught by yours truly, Ruthless Teacher number 3- and then some more school-related stuff. Like sciences, mathematics, languages and more sciences. She never ever studied this hard before as Kelcie, and despite of the fact that she still can't see why she should ever study this hard again, she didn't question Sayuri -her Ruthless Teacher number 1- on her lessons.
Only the Administrator and God himself could ever know why she should ever learn trigonometry and algebra again. Hadn't she had enough of that from high school?
At least history, psychology and sociology are fun. She's not too fond of laws for the public and heroes either… but concerning what she has planned for the future, it would be better for her to cover on these topics now than later.
And did she forget to mention that Sayuri is Ruthless Teacher number 1? That woman does not cut corners when it comes to education. It does not help at all that she's good at studying either – it just helps to further fuel Sayuri's desire to even swamp her brain with more lessons and information that she wasn't even sure that she would need to know.
For one, why does she have to learn about the engineering or architecture? She would much rather learn about their histories and their possible relevance to this new world she's living in. She certainly does not need to know how many support pillars she needs to take out to destroy the building without compromising any potential victims who could still be stuck in the building as she's trying to destroy it.
And not to mention, who even let's a kid learn anything like that?
…...Takahashi Sayuri, her Ruthless Teacher number 1, that's who.
But she digresses. Because right now, she could finally get some time off from her Ruthless Teachers, because she's finally entering elementary school!
Which… to be completely honest, is not part of her plans at all. She has 3 Ruthless Teachers down her neck, so why should she even bother with school?
The answer… comes in the form of meeting a certain Pro Hero who simply insists that she gets the proper education she needs at a proper primary school, instead of being home schooled by people who he simply insists that are not proper or adequate for her age.
...To be fair, the man's smile is too charming and he's getting far too good at convincing her to be more like a human child. It certainly doesn't help that her spars with Ruthless Teacher number 2 always leaves her with more bruises and scars that somehow draws on his heartstrings, he says.
Yuuki sighs as she puts on her purple sneakers. She's finally going to primary school, and considering the fact that the said man breathing down her neck, she could probably guess that at her front door…
"Good morning, Young Arima!" All Might greets, in his less buffed-up heroic form -and not skeletal at all, surprise,surprise- and in casual clothes, as if it's a completely normal thing to have a Pro Hero to greet her in the morning, in front of her doorstep. "Wonderful morning today, isn't it?"
"All Might-san…" Yuuki trails off, hesitating as to how should she greet him. Her hands goes to her bag's straps, as if somehow pulling and gripping at it would calm her nervousness down slightly. "Good morning… but you really don't have to drop me off for school."
"Nonsense!" All Might grins, his white teeth glowing with what Yuuki can only think to be with pride. "I promised that I would drop you off for your first day. And I was also the one who insists that you go to school. The least I can do is to help you settle into your new school."
"I'm fine with Home schooling though…" Yuuki sighs, as she walks out, heading towards school with The Symbol of Peace accompanying her. "Sayuri-san maybe ruthless, but she's a really good teacher. Minamoto-sensei and Kurosaki-sensei too. They're just doing their jobs as teachers, that's all…"
"Those bruises on you would imply otherwise, Young Arima." All Might rebukes, throwing a sharp look at her bandaged leg and shoulder hidden expertly underneath her clothes. "A child like you should be having fun with children of your age in the park, not sparring with children older than you just so you can get stronger."
"Minamoto-sensei didn't meant anything bad by it, All Might-san." Yuuki answers, trying to placate the anger she could see in the Pro Hero's eyes. And while the hero might not know it, her injuries are her own fault – she had been the one who used the wrong technique against her opponent. "I was just using the wrong technique – I shouldn't have used the more advanced one when I know that I'm not that great at it yet-"
A pat on her head stopped her. They stopped for a moment, as All Might sighs, looking at her as if she has completely missed his point.
…..Which to be fair, is true. She did miss her point, and tried to direct his attention elsewhere. On one hand, she's somewhat flattered and confused at the Hero's desire to try to make her live a more normal life… While on the other hand, she fears for the future that she has to face as a Hero… should she choose to be one. Even until now, even after she knows just how beneficial her quirk is to the Hero Society, she still can't bring herself to think that she will be a Hero. There's just too many things at stake, and even with Sayuri's input on what she has planned for the future, she's still not sure that with her being a Hero in the future along with Midoriya and Bakugou would worth the cost.
Would her decision to be a hero make or break the Canon, is the first and foremost, the number one thing in the things she's extremely worried with for the future.
"Young Arima," All Might began, his blue eyes staring straight into her grey ones. "You're only 8-years old. You shouldn't be getting bruises and thrown around that much when your focus should lies on spending your time with your friends."
You shouldn't try to do something unbefitting of your age. You're still young, you don't need to fight so hard and try to do things that adults do. Is what All Might is trying to imply… isn't it?
If only you knew the truth. If only you knew who I am and what I exists for. Yuuki gave him a small smile instead of speaking out her thoughts.
"Thank you, All Might-san… but I can handle these bruises just fine." She gives him a huge smile, despite of the fact that she knows it will only bring more guilt to the pro hero. But she didn't know what else could she do to comfort the worried hero. She knows, he cares– he genuinely cares about her for reasons that she doesn't even know why and that made it all the more harder to lie to him. The next only thing she could tell him without having to lie to him is to tell him the truth – which is true. She can handle it. It stings and hurts a little, but in the long run, it would be more beneficial to her. "You don't have to worry too much. Minamoto-sensei already told me he would stop the matches if you're still worried about these bruises. I would be back just to improving my forms and more strength training."
"It would've been better if you decrease your training and spend more time socialising though." All Might suggests. "You shouldn't spend so much time with your studies. There is more to life than just your books and studying, Young Arima."
"I know, All Might-san, but…" Yuuki trails off. She thinks of the cover story, and then back to her quirk. Would All Might get it at all? Would he still try to push her despite of the nature of her quirk? "But I… I don't have a complete control over it yet. I just think… if I hurt them… I…"
She doesn't want to accidentally harm any of her friend with her quirk. At this point, it wasn't really a cover story concerning the fact that yes, her quirk is far too strong for a child her age. She's not like Todoroki Shouto who's capable of wielding two elements like it's nothing – No, her quirk comes from the fact that she's able to generate, redirect, and control electricity as she please.
Her Quirk – one whose concept is stolen and taken to be melded in her hands from a certain girl from another world who she knows once, a long time ago, Mallory has fallen in love with. Her quirk – one which she knows of all the ways she could use to her advantage and to the limits thanks to the character Mallory loves so much and thanks to her immense knowledge of the nature of electricity, magnetism and -
"I like her so much because she's sooo much like us!"
Yuuki took small breaths. She needs to stop remembering her. Her best friend in another life. She needs to stop dissociating or else He would get worried, or else He will not be able to perform his heroes duties properly just like in the Canon and-
Mallory spoke of it as a fact, her eyes shining with admiration and so much love for a fictional character that Kelcie can't help but shoot her an exasperated look. Out of all the things that would catch her attention, it just had to be something fictional, doesn't it?
"Out of all the things. Really, Mellie. Why do you love this tsundere character so much anyway?"
"Young Arima? Are you alright? Can you hear me?"
"She's trying so hard to be so mature and tries to solve everything on her own. She's concerned about her image, and yet despite of this, she's really friendly and ohhh – we definitely can't forget about Gekota and Kill Bear! Kelcie, can't you see how her character just reminds me of us?"
"…How? All I can see is that you're implying that you like her because of how childish she is."
"Geh! Kelcie, did you only listen to the last part of what I just said?!"
"I listened, but I choose ignore it because I just don't see your point."
"Ehhhhhh? How mean! Kelcie~!"
"….ma….Young Arima?" Someone's calling her, and to her surprise, she finds herself being carried by the Pro Hero himself. His blue eyes filled with so much dread and worry snaps her straight out of her memories. "Young Arima? Can you hear me? Please answer. You're dissociating again, do you want me to take you to Shirai-sensei?"
"…..Huh? Um, what?" Yuuki blinks, gaining control over herself. Shoot. How deep did she think of her this time? Shoot, shoot. Gah. Judging from the worried look the hero is throwing at her. She could only assume that it's bad enough.
"…Young Arima." All Might frowns, and Yuuki could only brace herself for the lecture to come – only to be surprised when she finds him looking at her with only those eyes that seems so sad and worried. That immediately made Yuuki recoil back into panic. Shoot, shoot, shoot. What did she do? What should she do?!
His next words throws her into a further deeper panic.
"Has it gotten worse…?"
This is not part of the plan, she tries to convinces herself. The reason why I'm panicking is only because it's not part of the plan. Nothing more, nothing less. Don't think of Her – don't think of Kelcie. You're Arima Yuuki now, you're the one who has to ensure that the flames of heroism burns bright.
"No." She shakes her head. "Please don't worry too much about me. I'm fine, All Might-san. It hasn't grown any worse. It's just… well… the thought of hurting my friends… accidentally or not... it just… triggered an attack, that's all."
An attack from her repressed memories, not from the accident in the cover story. She thinks to herself, trying to reframe her mind to focus on the task on hand. She needs to stop worrying about the pro hero like this. She knows that he's a key character that he has to interact with, but Sayuri's lessons rang clear in her head. She needs to reframe her mind, these people in the world that she's living in – they are more than just characters. They're humans, living people like her and the rest of the Family.
She's only different because of her memories, she's only slightly more special because of her knowledge of the Canon. Other than that, she's the same as all of them – just a human, trying to make and find their place in this huge, wide world.
"Please don't worry about it too much, All Might-san," She gives him her reassuring smile. "I'll be fine for the day. You don't need to call Shirai-sensei for this either. I'm okay!"
"If you say so, Young Arima." All Might calmly replies, despite of the evident worry in his eyes, lets the topic go in favour of trying to get her ready for school. "Now then, we better make our way now. You would be late for school otherwise! Just for this time, I shall lend you a hand. Hang on tight!"
"Huh?" For a moment, she's completely confused as to what he's doing, but then she could see the wind pressure on his legs and then it clicked just exactly what the pro hero is trying to do. "Wha? All Might-san–"
"Ready or not, Here we go!"
And off they did, going ahead on full speed, heading towards her new Elementary school, at lightning fast speeds. She held onto the older man for her dear life, despite knowing full well that the Hero won't just run off this fast without holding onto her closely.
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Upon dropping her off near the school's entrance, All Might wishes her good luck on her first day at school, before zooming off the horizon, presumably to escape from the prying eyes of the public. He is the Symbol of Peace, and if the public ever caught an eye of him, there would immediately be a swarm of people gathering around him just to take a look at him or ask for his autograph and such.
…So much for avoiding the key characters in this world until she's ready. Well, there goes all her plans down the drain of nothingness!
Yuuki sighs, before looking at the grand school building in front of her. The elementary school in front of her is nothing in comparison to the elite academies like UA, but it's still an elementary school where Bakugou and Midoriya attends. She has originally planned to meet them when they're at least in middle school… but due to All Might's interference, it seems that she would have to change her plans accordingly. She didn't meant to befriend or get acquainted with him this early either. There are some good points that could come out from this, but on one hand… she's still concerned about the butterfly effect.
Would her decision to agree with All Might's proposal of her attending primary school will make or break the Canon?
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Entering Third grade again made her reminisce all the good and stupid memories she has with Mallory.
Mallory wasn't always the most attentive student in class, and would more often than not chooses to doodle and sketch her beloved anime characters instead of focusing on the lessons. They were only brats back then, but even so, she has always been the one who's really good with her hands. Her drawings, the shades of colours she uses, the contrast of her drawings always convinced the people around her that she's a genius at art.
But art has always been subjective, and not all people would come to accept her anime drawings as art.
She would remember those times when her art teacher would praise her for her choice of colours, but lecture her on the fact that she would need to draw something more realistic instead of something so childish. They were only elementary kids, back then, so they didn't think too much of it – but the lectures and the opinions of those teachers kept on pushing themselves on Mallory until one day she just snaps.
"If you don't like my drawing then just don't look at it!" She shouts. "Stop thinking that what you think matters to me! You don't even try to know why I draw them! So you can just shut up and leave me alone!"
Let it be said… that it was the first time that Kelcie ever got in trouble with the school teachers, as Mallory would continue to curse and shout at those teachers with her not moving at all to stop her. Everyone knows that she's the only one Mallory listens to – and the fact that Kelcie does not move to stop her means that she's agreeing with her and disrespecting the teachers as well.
She only added fuel to the fire when she refuses to apologise for her actions. And since Kelcie didn't apologise, neither would Mallory. The teachers stopped pestering her on their opinions after that, but she was no longer the teacher's pet, and she was no longer the brightest student in art class anymore.
But even so–
"Thank you," Mallory says, her eyes shining with unshed tears. "for standing up with me."
Kelcie shoots her a knowing smile. She doesn't say anything in return, but the smile that she gives her friend is more than any words she throws out to her.
–looking at her friend's face, she finds herself never regretting doing any of it for her.
Childhood friends are meant to be close, aren't they? They're pretty much together since they're 6 years old. Bakugou and Midoriya had it even better -or, in Sayuri's opinion, more worst for them- since they've been together since they were 4 years old. They practically knew each other since they were just old enough to start walking on their own under careful watch of their parents.
And yet, despite so…
How could they be so close and yet so estranged with one another?
Right now, they're in their break time, and her homeroom teacher, a teacher called Akagami-sensei let them out to play in the open playground with the rest of the third grade students. Her introduction into her new classmates went fairly well – and she could only thank Sayuri for purposefully putting her in a different class from Bakugou and Midoriya. The lessons in third grade are all a complete breeze to her, and she did make some new friends in her short time at school so far.
From a distance, she could see the two of the key characters she's supposed to be interacting with. They're much smaller… and dare she say it? Cuter than the pictures that Mallory would often draw them as. Perhaps they're still much younger than the ones she sees in the Manga, hence why they look so much more naïve and cuter than the ones she remembers her as?
There are some notable differences from how she expected them to be though – Bakugou, for all of his superior complex, will be miffed if Midoriya's attention is not on him. From what she could guess from the Canon, she guessed that everyone avoided Midoriya due to his nature as a quirkless child. But from what she sees now, it doesn't seem to be the case. Everyone treated Midoriya quite fairly, though more often than not they decided to avoid him, but from what she could judge, it is only due to Bakugou's influence and temper that made everyone wary of him. Midoriya's closeness to him does not help his ego either. His charisma is one of those natural leaders, but she knew better. He's still a child – just a child showered with blessings and constant praise from the people around him that made him think that he's better than everyone else.
She remembers Mallory told her that Bakugou hates Midoriya for being quirkless and would often bully him because of that… but what is this? The scene in front of her seem to imply that yes, to a certain extent, Bakugou does hate Midoriya. But at this age… he doesn't seem to be outright bullying him at all, much to her surprise.
She wonders why does this younger Bakugou doesn't bully Midoriya as much as she guessed that he would. Perhaps because this is a public space? Teachers and students alike are watching them after all. Perhaps they wouldn't try to bully Midoriya unless they're on their own with no adult supervision?
"Whatcha looking at, Arima-chan?" A classmate of her's, a student with an excellent hearing quirk called Suzuki Keita asks her.
"Just the skies." She answers, looking away from the two boys who are… somehow playing together, she guess? Midoriya is on one end and Bakugou is on the other end of the field, but they surely look like they're playing tag. "The skies today are clear. I can watch the clouds freely."
"Ehhh, but the skies are boring." Suzuki whines. "Come on, Arima-chan, let's play. What do you want to play? Ice and water? Cops and robbers? Or Tag maybe?"
"I don't mind. Let's play." She's not too fond of any of those games, but if playing it could get him off her, then she supposes she can indulge him a little. "Who else do you want to invite?"
"We can play with Imaizuki-kun and Teruhashi-chan!" He grins. "I think they're playing tag right now. Let's go join them!"
Sighing, she follows him towards the after mentioned children. As long as she doesn't have to play together with Bakugou and Midoriya, it shouldn't create any unwanted effect on the story, right?
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She takes it back. She takes all her words about Bakugou and Midoriya back. Her observation has been too short to conclude that the said bully and his lackeys are not bullying Midoriya at all.
"Oi, hurry up, Deku!"
"Aaa, Kacchan! Wait up!"
"Bakugou, why are we letting Deku follow us? He's so slow!"
"Yeah, Bakugou, we should just leave him alone. He's just Deku."
…Yeah. She takes all her words back.
Seeing as to how the evident change in his attitude to Midoriya as soon as he stepped outside of school, made her wonder for all the times Bakugou treated him this badly, why the heck does Midoriya even bother being friends with Bakugou if all he does is bully him. Does it has something to do with the carrot and stick method? Or maybe it's just because he's far too kind to let him go? She remembers Midoriya admiring Bakugou for his talents and quirk as well… perhaps it's just his otaku mindset that somehow prevents him from leaving him?
She scoffs at that thought. Right. As if.
If anything, the fault should be lying on his admiration on Bakugou and just his nature as the kindest soul she could ever hope to find in this world.
She knows Midoriya admires Bakugou for his quirk and talent, but really, Yuuki can't just really see anything that made him a worthy Hero. She's not Mellie who loves and worships every part of him – no, if anything, she's probably the rare part of the people who see Bakugou as nothing more than a bully and a brat. She knows he'll grow out of it later, but for now, she'll just stick to the avoiding the key characters plan.
She sighed again for the umpteen time of the day. She better not think too much about it now.
She's avoiding any contact with them, and for now, that's all that matters.
Her first day at elementary school just ended, and thank fully, not only she avoided those two for the entire school hour, she also made some new friends. Her new friends should be a good reason for the Pro Hero to stop slacking off in his work as the Symbol of Peace. Not that he's slacking off, considering the fact that he would purposefully change his patrol routes just so he could walk with her…
"Arima-chan! Let's walk back together!" Teruhashi Kuriko, a cute blue-haired girl with the darkest shade of blue eyes calls out to her. Her quirk is vaguely too similar to Shinsou's quirk, only instead of being activated by a voice and a response, her quirk relies on the fact that she needs to have eye contact with her target.
In order words, she has a quirk that eerily reminds her of Lelouch from Code Geass. Mallory sometimes would bash about his character being the cool, bastard genius – but seeing as she's not even aware of what his story is even about, Kelcie just took her words as it is.
"Sure." She nods, smiling at her. "Let's go, Teruhashi-chan."
Just another day, to a new routine.
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Primary school education is a complete breeze when compared to Ruthless Teacher 1's teachings, Programming is getting harder and harder for Yuuki to grasp which makes her wonder why in the world should she even learn something extremely advanced as this from Ruthless Teacher 3, and Ruthless Teacher 2 does not bother to hide his disdain for All Might anymore as once again, on the padded floor, she's thrown over his shoulder again for practice.
"You're getting weaker, Arima!" Minamoto Reo, AKA. Ruthless Teacher 2, shouts at her as he glares at her young form which is no longer able to handle the stress from the intense practice. "being coddled by the symbol of Peace has made you weak!"
"Shut up…" Yuuki manages to groan out. Her hands are shivering from exhaustion and stress. She closes her eyes in hopes of shooing away the bright spots in her vision. "Your shouts are ringing, and don't blame it all on me. You're the one who keeps on giving me bruises that even Hayami-san is no longer able to hide. Just be glad that he agreed to the compromise… or else he would've sent his lawyers on you."
"He should've known better than to tell me what to teach." Ruthless Teacher 2 snaps. "The earlier you start training, the stronger and more prepared you shall be when you're 14! You still have a weak body and you're already 8 years old now!"
"Why are you even blaming me for my weak constitution when I don't even came from a spartan world like yours?" Yuuki moans. Oh her poor, poor body. She hopes she won't get a fever from all this exhaustion tomorrow. Hiding her exhaustion and bruises from All Might is getting harder and harder nowadays. "Don't you know I'm still in a growing stage? Children's bodies are not meant to be abused like this!"
"Excuses." Ruthless Teacher 2 retorts. "Back in my world, you would've been lowest of the low. Even girls with weak form as yours at least knows the skills of assassination and espionage. It's only your blessing that you come from a peaceful world, and not to mention a world where Faith and Religion still stands strong."
He spat out the word Faith and Religion as if it's a curse. Huh, just what sort of dystopian world did he even came from is definitely something that she'll never want to know.
"Yes, and isn't it a blessing?" Yuuki wryly answers.
"As if." Ruthless Teacher 2 scoffs. "They just make you weak. Now then. Can you still stand up, or do you want to continue this next meeting?"
"I prefer is we stick to something more like Gunhead martial arts or Aikido instead of something as intense as this Russian or Israeli or whatever this martial arts it's called is next week." Yuuki takes a deep breath. Nothing is broken, good. That means that she doesn't have to go to the hospital. She's not throwing accusations or anything, but she's pretty sure that All Might is not supposed to know all that Medical Knowledge the last time he met her as he tended to some of the bruises and wounds that she failed to hid from All Might's prying eyes.
"Krav Maga." Ruthless Teacher 2 answers. "Alright then, we shall continue this another time. I made sure that nothing is broken or pulled or torn or anything else except for exhaustion. Your skills and technique have improved, but your power is extremely lacking. We shall deal with that issue of yours concerning stamina as well next time."
"Yes, yes," Yuuki stands up, ignoring the shaky and weightless feeling rushing through her as she stands up. Her ears are ringing again. Gah. At least this deathly training is over. "Thank you for today, Minamoto-sensei, I'll see you again next week."
"Don't forget to practice your forms and do your daily exercises while you're at it!" He reminds her, before she makes her way out of the private room of the Gym that he owns.
Just another day, to another routine of being a rag doll in the name of practice.
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"Aaah, it hurts… he should've learnt how to pull a punch, really…"
Her entire body is throbbing with exhaustion, and she's not even sure that she hidden all of those bruises from when Ruthless Teacher 2 has been throwing her, or poking her, or just punching her slowly. She refuses to believe that he has been holding back for her at all. Just who in the world thinks that martial arts and the arts of killing are necessary for a living anyways? Ruthless Teacher 2 may come from a world where war and fights to the death are glorified, but he should've been more adaptable to this world where it's just plain illegal to use his powers like that for no good reason.
She slowly walks back home, trying to ignore and pretending that none of her body is dead tired at all. She's already close to her neighbourhood, thank goodness. The train ride back home has been a short blessing to her body, and now she just had to walk a bit more and then her sweet bed is finally there to welcome her and then –
"Ano, Arima-san?"
Geh. She knows that voice. Out of all the times and places to meet that person – !
"You're… Midoriya-san, is it?" She turns and lo behold, in all of its glory, the young, 8 year old Midoriya Izuku is staring at her with confusion and intention at the same time. He's also shooting her worried looks, but he can't possibly see that she's that exhausted, right?
"Yes, I'm Midoriya Izuku, pleased to meet you, Arima Yuuki-san." He greets, bowing slightly. "It's just, eh… um…" His voice grows quieter as his famous mumbles begins. And is this supposed to be the part where she's supposed to be amazed at the tenacity and speed of his mumbling?
"Speak up, Midoriya-san, or else I wouldn't understand what you're saying."
"Oh, it's, just, well–!" He takes a deep breath, slightly embarrassed as he has famously mumbled, before continuing on, "I want to thank you for helping me out today at school!"
At school? Today? Ahhhh.
"It's not a problem, Midoriya-san." She answers. "You lost your textbook, so I just shared mine with you, that's all."
"Yes, I know, and I wanted to thank you for it." He answers. He blushes slightly embarrassment, he's doing that weird gesture that he always does when he's embarrassed. "Nobody ever wanted to helped me before, and you're the only one who's ever brave enough to do that… So…."
She only blinked in response at that. Because what's that supposed to mean? That implies a lot of things, and changes a lot of things that she thought she knew. Didn't everyone behaved properly like good children the last time she saw him? She knew that Bakugou still trash talks and verbally bullies him, but as long as it's nothing physical, she saw no need to intervene considering his strong mindset to begin with…
"It's no problem, Midoriya-san." She smiles. "You make it sounds like it's something that happens all the time to you."
At that, he flinched, before he starts to laugh nervously.
Her eyes instantly turned sharp at that, her exhaustion and whines for sleep now completely forgotten in favour of this bullied child in front of her.
"Midoriya-san?" Her voice turned cold.
"Ye–Yes?!" He stutters in surprise at her sudden change in tone.
Their eyes met each other, and his shivered again at her grey eyes searching into his deep pools of green.
For a moment, Midoriya thought that he's looking up into the eye of the storm. Her grey eyes seems to be glowing slightly underneath the afternoon sun. How strange, and yet, he can't help but find it really alluring somehow.
"Do you have a moment? I'd like to talk with you, if you don't mind." She asks, her grey eyes breaking away from his green ones, as if she's satisfied with what she found.
"O-oh? Sure." He blinks at that, as if it's something completely unexpected of her to do. "Where do you want to talk?"
"There's a park nearby, I think. Let's seat by the swings."
That flinch and nervous laughter is not what she's expecting. She's expecting admiration or sadness or anything that would connect him to the bright and cheerful Izuku that she remembers him as. Hell, even if he did lie or try to deny the truth, that would've been better because she remembers him as someone who's always trying to see the positive to everything.
She does not expect the boy filled with fear and exhaustion in his eyes. She expects stress, but she does not expect so much despair in the eyes where it should be filled with hope for the future. He's the boy who's going to be a Hero who will surpass All Might, for goodness's sake!
How in the world did someone as young as him, despite of his quirklessness, could be pushed to this point where she feels as if she doesn't do something, he will actually break and do something wrong?
Just what has her decision to accept All Might's proposal of enrolling to Elementary School done to the Canon now?
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Author's notes:
When there's smoke, there's fire. Oh, Yuuki-chan, your troubles are just starting, and Canon has not even started yet.
On that note, I would again, would like to apologise in advance for any OOC character. This Izuku is still so young, and yet problems has started to pile on him which will be explained further in the coming chapters. You can expect more explanation to any of your questions in the future!
Please leave reviews on your way out! More reviews meant more encouragement for me and that means I can update more! I'm still new at this, so please do go easy one me... (*ﾉﾉ)