Chapter 19: After the Storm
A/N:
Hey guys back for another weekly upload, this week's chapter is a chill kick back chapter for the characters as I feel they deserve it.
Enjoy!
After the internships was abruptly ended, my work email, managed my own personal AI thanks to Tony, has been blowing up with so many TV stations, Magazines, and reporters looking to get the scoop on what happened.
"Tempest, sort through all the offers, and only allow the most reputable ones" I end up telling the AI, I am currently filing my report to the police as well as to Nezu and Aizawa about the entire situation.
The entire thing has been a bit of a mess, as soon as the news officially broke, the entire class was blowing up my phone, along with Tony and my old team. I had to obviously tell them the false story we had created to protect the others. However, there is one person who really is looking into my health.
"Yo Sen, how are the bandages feeling?" Jirou comes around from my bathroom to sit in my study room in a chair across from me. "Yea, you did them great, you know you really didn't have to come over tonight."
It is the night I got discharged from the hospital and Jirou was sent home the day prior from her internship, school has been postponed until the next week since that is when it would be started again after internships.
"Yea, but I wanted to make sure you were actually okay, I know you were probably trying to act tough to not worry anyone." She says kicking back in her chair looking at me as she hears my notifications going off like crazy.
"Tempest turn that off" She says annoyed at the chimes as my AI responds, "Sorry Ms. Kyoka you do not have authorization for that action" Tempest sounds like a younger Jarvis. "Ugh Seeeeeen!" She whines softly as the chimes of my email is starting to annoy us both.
"Tempest, Jirou Kyoka has clearance level 2 from this point on" "Affirmative sir" as Tempest mutes the chimes. "Ahhh that is so much better" She sighs out happily, as she looks at my tired face.
"Okay, I'm calling it youre done mister." She says getting out of her chair and moving me away from my computer. "Hey woah, Jirou! This is important this is apart of my work" I whine softly but don't really try and fight her moving me away.
"Work can suck it, you fought and caught the Hero killer, have you even had a chance to celebrate that fact?" She says turning me to face her. "No, I was just discharged from the hospital, and well jumped right back into work..."
I am honestly timid for a moment, as Jirou is basically right in my face at this point. "Exactly dude! You accomplished something hardly anyone ever could dream of! Sure, the number 2 helped but based on reports, you did most of the work!"
Jirou's eyes are practically sparkling, before she fake coughs. "We don't have to do anything grand if you don't want to, but come on you deserve it" she says in her more normal, calm and cool tone.
I chuckle a bit at the tone shift, "How long can you stay over?" I ask her thinking about maybe actually being a teen for once. "Well, it's like 6:30 now, so maybe until 9?" She thinks about it, as she did tell her parents that she was going to go check on me.
Her dad was not exactly happy, until she mentioned I was the hero who helped take down the hero killer. "Hmm, how about a pizza and movie night?" I ask her as she blushes and, in her mind, says 'This is like a date huh?'
"If you want, we can even maybe... you know..." I say losing my nerve slowly, "You know?" she asks and right before I can answer Tempest sounds out. "Sir, you are receiving a call from the principal."
'Fuck man, timing Nezu timing!' I yell internally before signaling Tempest to patch him through as Nezu appears as a hologram. "Good evening Sen, glad to see you are okay and ahh Ms. Jirou, good to see you as well'
Nezu motions as Jirou blushes a bit and waves, "H-hi principal Nezu" "I do apologize for interrupting your evening, but the report you needed to file to us has not yet come in, I was just checking in on that."
'Geez, he is really on him about it' Jirou says softly to herself before speaking up. "That is my fault sir, Sen was actually mid report when I pulled him away to celebrate his accomplishment, as well to get some rest..."
Jirou is tapping her jacks together as she blushes under the eyes of our principal. "When I saw you were over, I did think as much. I wanted to let you know Sen, you can turn in your report tomorrow. Rest you deserve it." Nezu smiles brightly at me and Jirou.
"T-thank you sir, I will turn it in tomorrow" I say nodding as Nezu disconnects the call and Jirou breathe a sigh of relief. "Man, even in hologram form he is intense!" She whistles and wipes her forehead.
"You're telling me, and I'm the one who has to report to him" I say chuckling and getting up with a stretch. "Soooo pizza and a movie?" Jirou says as I nod, "Yea that's the idea, here order whatever you like. I actually need to shower." I say tossing Jirou my wallet and heading to my room.
'He is going to shower... now?! While I'm here?!' She is a bit embarrassed but figures I could not shower while I was at the hospital. "Are you sure?" She calls out as she starts to go through some pizza places on her phone.
"Yea, go for it, when it comes to pizza I'm not picky!" I call out as she hears the shower start, and decides to order the food. However, on my end, I am currently freaking out mentally. 'This is a date, this is a date, this is a date!'
My mind is currently going a million miles an hour, 'We did say we would act a bit more than just friends, but still...' I am currently washing myself in the shower, and wincing. A lot of my cuts were not fully healed.
Recovery girl was busy at the time, so most of the doctors could just close up my wounds minorly, as I even have a new scar right on my cheek where Stains throwing knife had pierced my cheek.
'Man, I still have a long way to go...' I say as I mentally beat myself up at the entire event. 'My entire body is still screaming at me' the fear I felt that day, is honestly different to anything I could even remember from America.
'The time where... he died... it brings me back to that...' I slowly start to spiral down into a pit of self-despair and self-deprecation, my body shivering from the fear of almost losing another friend to a villain. Stain staring all of us down and still standing true to his resolve didn't help with that.
'He is taking a while...' Jirou talks to herself as she has already ordered a Pizza and is currently trying to pick out a movie to watch. Soon she comes to knock on the door when she hears the shower stop.
"Hey man, you okay?" She calls out and only receives a, "Yea..." 'Something is up...' She waits by the door, as inside the bathroom I am currently drying off and inspecting my body. So many new and old scars intermingling on my body.
'My body, is so torn up... so many times I have failed to save someone, so many scars...' as Jirou knocking on the door shakes me from my own mind. "Yo dude! You, okay?" She sounds a bit serious as I sigh.
"Yea... give me a second and come in when I ask, I am going to need some help with some bandages and help to put on a shirt..." I call out to her and put on some underwear and shorts before calling out to her. "Okay... come in."
Mentally I brace for Jirou to look so disgusted at me, as on the other end of the door, 'Am I really about to walk into his bathroom... where he just shower...calm down girl you're overthinking it' Jirou talks to herself as she opens the door.
"Coming in" she says as when she comes in, she can see me shirtless and looking a little down still. "Hurts still?" she motions to my torso as I nod. "Yea my entire body is still screaming at me because of how reckless I had to be."
"So, you admit you can be reckless?" she teases me softly as it earns a weak chuckle out of me, "yea yea yea bite me" I say softly back as a retort. "Maybe another time there sparky, let's get you bandaged up.
As she gets closer to me, she can start to see a large number of scars and scar tissue and she bites her lip. 'He is always pushing himself...' as she can know see the new scars on my body from Stains attack.
"I must be pretty ugly huh, you're just staring" I say teasing her softly. "Sorry about all the scars.. I tend to use my body as a shield a lot." I tell her as she gets closer and starts to inspect all of them.
"So, you're telling me you got all these on the job?" She says as she realizes how much muscle I actually have on my body; I am ripped to say the least. All my muscles are lean muscle not big for the show muscle.
Her face flushes red, and she can't help but stare at this point. She stops her hands from trying to feel the muscle and scar tissue. "Yea, I got all of these from either fighting to save someone, or defending someone with my body... Can even name each and every event I got them."
I say getting a bit embarrassed myself as I start to look into putting on my shirt without bandages as I'm nervous. "Wait wait, we still need to put on your bandages, plus... the fact you got them all while being a hero, it doesn't make you ugly..."
She says barely above a whisper but I can hear her as she taps her fingers and jacks together at the same time so shy, as this causes me to freeze. "Wait, how cou-" "I know the look Sen, just trust me you are not ugly and the scars... they help make you more... you" She tries to explain herself.
"So, you said you can remember each and everyone right?" She says as she moves a bit closer to me, my face turning even more red, "can, can we move to the couch? The bathroom really isn't the best place to talk." I say as Jirou nods and grabs the new roll of bandages and I grab my shirt.
"Yea, I can remember. Why?" I say sitting down and turn my back to Jirou as she gets ready to start putting on my new bandages on my still slightly open wounds. Running her hands over the scars she asks, "Can... can you tell me about them?"
The moment I feel her fingers rub over my scars my hair frizzes up and stands on their ends, and I feel a strong buzzing feeling in my stomach. It isn't a bad feeling per say but it definitely is a new feeling.
"Are you sure?" I stutter that portion out and Jirou can even feel a soft static build up on my skin, but she keeps running her fingers over all the scars and slowly start to cover my wounds. "I wanna hear about my hero being a hero to others."
Her voice, when calling me her hero, sounds so good to my ears. It makes the buzzing in my stomach feel so much stronger as my heart beats a bit faster and Jirou can hear it. "Well..." as I start going into detail over every scar as Jirou covers my wounds with bandages.
After each story, Jirou gives each one a soft rub and gentle tapping, as slowly we get to the front of my body, as Jirou is applying a bandage to my arm. "This one looks more like burn tissue than scar tissue." She pokes a spot on my wrist that is clearly a burn scar.
"This one actually if I'm remembering right, I got the same night I got this one..." I point to the most noticeable scar on my cheek from the knife being impaled into my cheek. "This burn one, I got when I rescued a little girl from a building that caught on fire."
"However, in turn, it made me get all of these slash wounds all over my body" I chuckle softly remembering giving the little one my jacket. "What do you mean?" Jirou asks rubbing my burn scar softly.
"Well, the little girl, to protect her from the flames and debree, I gave her my jacket during the rescue, which is where the burn came from." I explain gently rubbing her hand that is rubbing my burn.
"Then afterwards, I can tell she was still shaken and scared with everything going on all around everywhere, so I let her keep my jacket since it helped her feel safe." Jirou's eyes widen hearing this, 'He is such... a caring guy.' She tells herself.
'He made sure she was safe first and foremost, gosh Kyoka... you're falling for him hard, aren't you?' She asks herself feeling her heartbeat speed up as since I am making contact with her hand, I can feel her nervous system pick up in electrical current.
"The jacket was actually my ace in the hole against Stain, it was resistant and even immune to most types of slashes and stabbing weapons, had it tested and prepared based on how many flashy quirks are out there."
She looks a bit confused, "Why shouldn't it have been made to withstand those flashy quirks more?" "Well, it is resistant to most types of burns and electricity, but its best to not forget the simple ways of taking someone down, which is simply a knife or sharp object."
To many times I have seen a hero get taken down by a stab wound or a simple slash of a poisoned blade. "That makes sense..." Jirou nods before looking to my check and gently holding the scar.
"You are such a good guy, you know you put yourself at a disadvantage against Stain, just to make sure a little girl could feel a bit better." She gently traces all the bandages on my body putting a point on the fact I really put myself in danger.
"You really are a hero, not just a hero, not just the little girl's hero, but my hero as well..." She smiles and gently taps her jacks against my temple so I can hear how fast her heart is beating as she leans in and kisses the scar on my cheek.
Feeling her heart beat really gets mine going, I can tell she is really going out on a limb to let herself feel vulnerable around me. As she kisses my scar once more, she is slowly moving towards my lips.
Right as our lips are about to meet, we are interrupted by, "Sir, your pizza is here, as well as you have an email you should probably see two actually" Tempest says as the doorbell I have rings signaling the pizza is here.
This causes both me and Jirou to jump back and look at each other, with such red faces that we are both somehow physically steaming. "Ah... Right right.." I say quietly getting up quickly before Jirou stops me.
"Woah dude your shirt!" She says tossing it at me with her face red and even her jacks turning pinkish with how shy and embarrassed she is. 'We almost kissed... we almost kissed, and he was shirtless the entire time... Mina must never know.'
Her inner self is currently cheering and also acting so shy with what just happened. Shortly after me leaving I come back in with the two pizza boxes, "Alright Tempest, and what were the emails I should look into?"
As tempest turns on my TV and shows the first email. "First is the news show 'Good Morning Japan' they have extended an interview offer to learn more about you and your experiences" I am actually surprised one of the most popular morning shows extended a new hero an invite.
"I'll need to get Nezu and Aizawa to approve first but let them know I will be in touch as soon as possible. The second one?" Jirou is currently in my kitchen getting plates and drinks for us as she listens in smiling to herself humming gently.
'He deserves the recognition; he is such a sweet guy and an even greater hero!' Jirou tells herself humming her favorite song. "The second one is from the mother of the young girl you saved, she I wanting to just send you a thank you as well as show you something."
Tempest pulls up a video file on the email as Jirou comes back into the living room area, "I don't know if you will see this Impulse, but thank you so much for saving my daughter and for saving me." Jirou's eyes widen, I never told her I also saved the mother's life as well.
"First you saved my life, letting me come home to my daughter, then well you saved my life again seemingly by saving my daughter. When she was trapped inside the burning building..." The mother pauses taking a shakey breath remembering the past few days events.
"When I saw you bust out of the building with her in your arms, I nearly lost all feeling in my legs. You quite literally saved both of us with me twice over. So, thank you, as well my daughter wants to show you something." The mother smiles as she flips over the camera.
"Impulse is my number 1 hero!" The little girl is smiling wearing my oversized jacket with a bright smile with a homemade sign saying 'Impulse is my hero!' This causes both me and Jirou to nearly cry happy tears. Our hearts being pulled by the sweet actions.
"Thank you, Impulse!" The little girl says as we can hear the mother smiling, "She never takes that jacket off, even wears it to sleep past couple nights since the incident" The mother says as the little girl nods and cuddles into the jacket.
"So again, thank you for saving our lives." The little girl jumps up and waves as the video ends as Jirou can hear me crying even if I'm holding it back. "Like I said, you're more than just a hero now, you're my hero Sen, and you're her hero now too."
Jirou kisses my temple as she rubs my back as I rub my eyes, as I chuckle weakly. "I am not used to this, but thank you." I say as I also call out, "Tempest, access my funds, and create a care package for the mother and daughter"
Jirou's eyes widen at this, "Make sure there is enough in there for them to get back on their feet, and have a small gift made for the little one." "Yes sir" Tempests voice says over the house as Jirou looks to me.
"Sen, you are such a sweet guy, you know that." She smiles as her heart slows but not in a bad way, in a calming way as I smile. "Well, they are the first people other than you to call me their Hero, so I want to make sure they know they will be special to me."
As Jirou fake pouts, "Hey what about me, I was the first one!" She says puffing her cheeks and dangerously pointing her jacks on me. "Well, do you wanna know the difference between you and them?" I ask with a cheeky smile as I start to play the movie Jirou picked.
She still has her jacks pointed at me, "And what is that?" I smile and think 'fuck it, I almost died' quickly I lean in and give her a soft but sweet kiss on her lips. "You get to have me in person" As Jirou freezes after the kiss her jacks floating in the air.
You can almost see question marks over her jacks as she is now redder than Izuku's shoes. "I wah huh?!" I chuckle softly, "Jirou, are you gonna eat or what?" I say with a cheeky smile. "Kyo-ka" I call her name out in a soft sing song teasing voice as this just makes her turn more red.
"Y-yes..." she calls out softly as she gently reaches for her plate and food. "Thank you, Kyoka" I say with a smile as we start to watch over movie and eat, enjoying ourselves as during the mid-point of the movie after we have finished eating.
"Hey Sen...?" Kyoka tries to get my attention, "Yes Kyoka?" I say turning to her, my smile soft but heartfelt. "Ca-can I have another kiss..." she asks so shyly so different than her normal tomboy self.
"Yea, yea of course" I say leaning in to give her another kiss, and even pull her in for some cuddles afterwards.
A/N:
That is this chapter guys, so just a fluffy chapter for Sen and Jirou, or rather Kyoka. Then the kiss, finally in my opinion, and to everyone who may think it is moving fast, well Sen said it himself. He almost died, so he would rather put his feelings out there when he has the chance, rather than play the long game.
Please review and tell me where I can improve!
