"It was nice of Aizawa to allow you to come back home with us," said Izuku. I, who was still holding on to Izuku's hand as we walked up to our apartment, said nothing back. "You're unusually quiet. Normally you would bounce back from an event like this and say everything is fine."
Mrs. Midoryia opens the door to let us in, "It's been a while but I've prepared your favorite curry rice. It's gotten cold by now. So I'll go heat it up." We entered the house as the lights turned on. It looked the same as the last time I saw it. It's not like I would expect any major changes. It has only been just a few weeks since I last came here.
I let go of Izuku's hand, "Can I go take a bath?"
Izuku smiles awkwardly, "You don't have to ask us that, Akumi. This is your home as well."
"Oh. Right. I just… Never mind," I left for my room. Like before, my room was left exactly how I remembered it. I took clothes from the drawers and headed to the bath. I turned on the water then undressed. I washed myself off while contemplating, "Am I really just an experiment? That would explain a few things but the biggest curveball is my memories. If All For One knew about the future then… Wait, who is All For One? Izuku mentioned that phrase but…"
I snapped back to reality as the overflowing water from the tub touched my feet. I quickly turned off the water. Then trying to relax I closed my eyes and lay in the tub submerging my head in the water. "It doesn't matter as long as I'm with Izuku I'm fine." It was bad for me to breathe in water but since I could breathe underwater I stayed submerged for a minute or two without realizing it.
I came back up not feeling any pain as I coughed out water. I don't know if it's my tears or the water but my eyes were blurry. I stayed in the bath for a while longer before getting out. Wiping myself off with a towel I put on clean clothes and headed to the kitchen where I saw Izuku and Mrs. Midoriya. "Akumi come sit. We hadn't had a meal together in a while," said Mrs. Midoriya. I go to sit on my side of the table without a word.
"You know this is like the first time I came here." I take a spoon full of curry rice into my mouth. For some reason, it felt like my last meal with them as there was no mistaking my tears for water this time.
"What's wrong Akumi? Are you hurt anywhere?"
"No, no." I wipe my tears, "It's just… I think I've taken my new life for granted. I really, really missed you mom."
"If UA is treating you harshly, I can take you out of it if I have to."
"I think it's too late to back out now mom… Hey Izuku, how much does mom know about my situation."
"I haven't told her anything."
"What are you two talking about?"
"Mom, I—" I dropped my spoon on the ground and clutched my head as it felt like my head was going to burst open.
Izuku got up and rushed over to me, "Akumi!"
"Hey, we're alone and the only future threat to his reign is right here defenseless. No one can stop me right now, so." I heard the voice of the woman in my head.
Suddenly my vision zooms out as I feel my body shrink. I hear echoes of Izuku's and Mrs. Midoriya's voices in this dark space. It's like I'm looking out of a window from inside my head. "What's going on," I shout. No response. I looked around but nothing but the void and the screen from what I could see and the echo of voices.
"You must be the woman named Yuu. It's nice to finally have a conversation." I see a tall man, with mist covering the top half of his face. "But first." He raised a hand towards me. I felt a pulling force at the center of my chest. It felt like something was peeling my skin and muscles off my bones as I screamed. Falling to my knees and out of breath I looked at my hand and saw that I'm in my original body. "Nice of you to finally show up, Akumi. And what a lovely face you're making. Did you miss me?"
I tried to get up but in my disoriented mind, I slipped and fell back down. "What are you… Talking about?" I looked up and saw Akumi in front of me.
"Stay Away From Us!" Akumi yelled. "I'm Warning You!"
"Come now Akumi. You've locked me out of this place for seven years. Can't I at least get a welcome?" The man begins to walk towards us, arms open. "Look how much you've grown. My perfect creation, second only to Shigaraki."
The man braced himself and came to a standstill as wind pressure blew the man back., "I see. Now that you're not in control of the body you seem to have more control of this mental cognition. It seems like we can't hold a conversation if this continues. I need to end you before you can get any more grasp of the power."
Akumi turned and ran towards me, "Yuu, you need to get out of here!"
A grin forms across Akumi's face, "I don't feel any resistance at all."
"What are you talking about Akumi," Izuku asked, with a concerned face.
Akumi picks up the spoon that fell on the ground then flattens and folds the handle forming a sharp point at the end, "It sucks that I can't seem to use my quirks but strength alone, for now, is enough to take you down."
Izuku's face darkens as he backs away slowly, "Who are you?"
"Did you forget about me already? I'm your adopted sister Akumi Midoriya," Akumi then throws the sharpened point of the spoon with great force towards Mrs. Midoriya's head.
Izuku activates One For All Full Cowl, barely managing to catch the spoon before it hits Mrs. Midoriya's head. The table and chairs were now in disarray. Food splattered on the floor. Mrs. Midoriya's focal point was at the sharp end of the spoon which was at the center of her eyes.
Before Izuku could utter another word Akumi slams Mrs. Midoriya, sending her to the wall, then lunges onto Izuku grabbing him by the throat, pinning him to the ground. "You seem to be the only thing keeping her sane. If you're gone then she won't have anything left to cling onto."
Recovering from the sudden attack, Mrs. Midoriya cried out, "Akumi, what are you doing?!"
"Mom, stay back!" Izuku shouts as he tries to free himself from Akumi's grasp. Izuku looks into Akumi's eyes which were now red.
Akumi begins to talk to herself, "Huh? Why…? But… Fine." She looks at Izuku as she tightens her grip, "It's only a matter of time before I have full control over myself, big brother."
Time suddenly paused for Akumi and the man. My senses came back to me as I got back up. This wasn't the time to be questioning things. I grabbed Akumi's arm then suddenly my vision goes black then zooms back in as I feel my body on the ground.
I was outside a burning crater. Police sirens can be heard. Footsteps coming closer to me. The smell of smoke and blood. Then I hear Izuku's voice, "Akumi. Snap out of it. This isn't who you are."
I blinked and I was back at home… On the kitchen floor… On top of Izuku… Holding him down tightly… By the throat… I backed away immediately, eyes widened with disbelief at what my body was doing to Izuku as he took a breath. "What did I…" Fear and panic washed over me as I began to repeat myself with my hands on my head, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry—"
"Akumi." Izuku looks me in the eye, grabbing hold of my shaking hands. "Calm down. It's not your fault. It's ok… I'm ok."
I shake my head violently, "I lost control. How did I lose control? I was fine. There was nothing wrong. I—"
Izuku held me tightly in his arms, "It's obvious that you're not fine. But it's ok. I'm here for you. Everything will be fine."
"Wh-what's going on," Mrs. Midoriya stutters as I see a little bit of blood on her face. "Is this some kind of joke… Because this isn't funny."
"It's Akumi's quirk. It's making her more violent and do things she doesn't want to do," Izuku answered. "That's why she's staying at the UA dorm so that if this happens they could restrain her before she does anything like this."
Mrs. Midoriya comes down and hugs me, "Why didn't you two tell me about this sooner. If this was why you went away for so long."
The embrace of Izuku and Mrs. Midoriya was just like when All Might patted my head, warm and pleasant as my mind began to drift away. Smoke and fire reappear, screams can be heard. Then rain put out the fire and all that was left was cinders where a house used to be. There she was, Akumi in her child stage. The scenery changes to inside a room with tanks of glowing fluids. Akumi was in a patient outfit being injected with a fluid. No sound could be heard but she was in excruciating pain. Then one last scenery change, Akumi is lowered into the glass tank of glowing green liquid. Moments later she vanished.
I woke back up and it was late at night. I was in my room and I didn't want to sleep alone for tonight so I built up enough courage and went to Izuku's room. I quietly entered and noticed he was sleeping. A thought crossed my mind, "He's so defenseless right now." Though the thought disturbed me I slipped in bed with him.
In doing so, Izuku woke up in a daze, "Huh, who's? Oh Akumi, what are you doing here?"
"I was scared. So can I sleep with you tonight?"
"Oh ok. Good night then…" Izuku's face begins to blush, "Wait! What!"
I grabbed Izuku's hand before he could get up. I closed my eyes and whispered, "Just this once, please? It feels nice… being around you." And as I said that my consciousness fades away.
Akumi brings Izuku's hand towards her face and places it on her head, "Headpats are nice."
Izuku chuckles as he pats her head. "At times like this, it feels like I'm the older brother."
"Maybe you are."
"Was that the other you? From before?"
"Yeah. It was… Did she say something to you?"
"She said… It's only a matter of time… Before they take complete control."
Akumi hugged Izuku burying her face into his chest, "Onii-chan… I'm scared."
Izuku notices a change in Akumi's behavior, "I'm scared too."
"I don't want to go back."
"Go back to where?" Izuku asks but Akumi doesn't respond. He then hugs her back nuzzling her head, "You won't be going back to anywhere you don't want to go. Not with me around."
"Then onii-chan…" Akumi pulls away with a frown on her face and tears in her eyes staring into Izuku's eyes, "When I lose control… Can you… Will you be able to… To stop me?"
Izuku sees that Akumi's eye color has changed to yellow. "I'll stop you and bring you back as many times as you want."
"Can you stop me now?"
"So there were three… This has become a lot more complicated than it already was," Izuku thought to himself.
Akumi breaks eye contact, "What am I saying…? I'm sorry."
"Don't worry whether you're my hero or not. I'm still your hero. I'll come to save you whenever and wherever you need me to."
Akumi buries her face to Izuku's chest again, "I wish Onii-chan was stronger. But it doesn't matter. As long as I'm with you. I won't be going anywhere." Akumi then drifts off into sleep.
A moment of silence goes by, then Izuku said one last thing before he goes to sleep, "Even when you lose control your rule of three stays the same. I wish I was stronger also."
In the morning Mrs. Midoriya burst the door open shouting, "Izuku! Akumi is mis—" Noticing that Akumi and Izuku were sleeping peacefully together she sighs and clenches her chest. "Oh thank goodness." She goes and tucks them neatly in bed and kisses them on their forehead, "Don't wake up too soon."
"So she lost control…" said Azawai, arms crossed, tapping his index finger on his elbow. "This is what I get for playing nice for once. What do you have to say for yourself, All Might."
"Gah. Um well." All Might coughs, "No one was physically hurt so it turned out fine in the end."
"Do you understand that if she went out of control and I'm not around she would have full use of her quirks? We were lucky that for some reason her being around Izuku seemed to snap her back before anything could happen."
"Ok, I think you've lectured Toshinori enough. No long-term harm was done so let's just sweep this incident under the rug," said Principal Nezu. "Of course, with this incident, we might have to cancel Akumi's summer training camp. We just don't know how or why she loses control now. We've already changed her room in UA to make it a little more accommodating."
"No, her schedule does not change. She's missed so much already. It's going to be hard enough trying to get her caught up. I was going to use the time at the camp to catch her, along with those who failed, up to standard." Eraserhead said.
"This is quite irrational for you Aizawa. Wouldn't it be safer for her here away? If the information that was given is to be taken seriously Akumi is a target of the League of Villains. That would put your class along with mine in danger just by her being there." Vlad King argues.
"But you're forgetting that Akumi sees a future without her in it, meaning she isn't their goal in the summer training camp. Sure it would be safer to keep her here but as of now, it seems like she's going to lose control of herself whether she wants it or not, advent, with the case here. And I wasn't finished from before. If their goal is to retrieve Akumi then splitting our forces to guard one person here and a group somewhere else is not the best use of our resources."
"So given what happened. We're on the lookout for these Villains. And we've had to cancel our usual accommodations at the last minute. We won't reveal our actual destination until the day we depart." Aizawa said, ripping a piece of paper.
"But I've already told my parents," said Sero.
"So basically, the school can't control how and where this information will spread," Yaoyorozu said.
"As long as we're not canceling the whole trip altogether!"
"You two should have killed them… Even if it meant breaking a bone or two," Katsuki comments.
"Come on Bakugo didn't you know how scared Akumi was. You know that the situation was dangerous since she wouldn't even let go of Izuku's hand. And you of all people should already know that using quirks in a public place is totally illegal," Hagakure defended us.
"Oh, are you going to blame it on her quirk again?" Katsuki mocked me. "It's ever since that sludge incident. You've grown weak."
"Kacchan."
"What? Are you two reversing rolls or something? What else can it be other than she's gotten weaker?" I didn't say anything and looked down at my desk as Katsuki continued to berate me, "If this was her from before UA she would have had him on the ground restrained in a matter of seconds for even touching you. Let alone let them get close enough to be able to kill you."
"Can I tell them, Aizawa Sensei," I asked.
"No."
"Tell us what? Just what are you hiding from the rest of us? Because from what I heard last time she's been privy to a lot of information that the school and Izuku are not willing to share with the rest of us. Or maybe it's not just Izuku that knows and refuses to share," Katsuki glares at Ida and Todoroki.
"Those are for the ones in the know to know and those who are not to not. If you have any complaints then I'll expel you for bad behavior."
Katsuki clicks his tongue, "I'll back off for now."
"Now to make it clear. Akumi you are not to, and by no jurisdiction, tell them anything. If we hear that you have told them more than what you already have, you should already know what awaits you and it's not expulsion… I'll take your silence as a yes."
Lunch period Katsuki asked me for a private meeting. Even with the disapproval of Izuku and Youta I decided to go with Katsuki. Even though I didn't want to go with him I still went. We walked to an empty hallway and he stopped and said, "I'll ask you once. Are you losing control because of Izuku's quirk?"
"Huh?"
"Izuku's quirk manifests and gains better control over his quirk while you lose control of yours. I find those two things quite closely connected."
"I don't know what you're talking about?"
"When I see you now, I just see a helpless girl. Where did the girl who could beat me go?"
"I'm still here though–"
Katsuki backs me into a wall slam, "If it was her she wouldn't even allow me to get this close."
I close my eyes as I clutch my head as I feel it pulsed violently, "No… Not again. Get… away…" My vision zoomed out and I was back in the dark void. I look around and no one is around. I waited but still, no one showed up. How was I going to get out of here? What's going to happen to Katsuki?
"What? Trying to play the injured card on me again?" Katsuki said.
"This is why I like you more than my brother."
"Huh?"
Akumi opens her eyes which are now red, "When you want something. You go out and just get it yourself instead of waiting for it to come to you. If only she saw you in the same light as she does our brother."
"So are you the other person she was talking about?"
With a seductive smile wrapping her arms over Katsuki's shoulder, "What if I am? What are you going to do to me? Mr. Hero."
"Who are you? And what are you doing to Akumi?"
With a smug smile, Akumi answers, "You think the woman you call Akumi is the original owner of this body, don't you? I'm just taking back what's mine. I'm Akumi."
Annoyance on Katsuki's face, "I can tell you're not the original. Because I've known the original."
Akumi proceeds to laugh, "Ah, that's right, back at grade school. Sadly she doesn't remember any of it. But It was nice getting to speak with you in person for the first time. My time's run out for now."
"She doesn't remember all thanks to you I presume. And leaving so soon. I thought you'd be more violent from what she said."
Akumi's face saddens as she leans in for a kiss, "I wonder if this could convince you to join my side." Her left hand suddenly punches herself in the face.
I'm so confused. The last time I was here, that man was here, Akumi was here. "Wait," I looked at my hand but I was still in Akumi's body. This is different. But it did last very long as my vision zoomed back in. I felt a pain on the left side of my cheek and I saw Katsuki so close to my face. We were still standing at the same spot as if nothing had happened. But why was one of my arms around his shoulder?
His face was perplexed as he asked, "Why'd you…?"
I just now noticed my left hand was in a fist on my face. "W-what was I doing just now…?"
Katsuki backed away, "Oh you're back… Sorry I pushed you. But I got the gist of what I need to know. Just don't go hitting yourself to get out of your stupor."
I felt my cheek blushing as I stared blankly as Katsuki walked away. For some reason, my heart was racing. I was feeling really hot and bothered as my legs gives out on me. "Just what were we doing?"
–
School for the day was over. I walked to the entrance gate with Izuku and Youta knowing that I wasn't allowed to leave anymore. Before Youta asks for a private meeting of his own. Going to the side a ways away from all the other students who were exiting. Youta has his back turned towards me, "I hate it…"
"Hate what?" I asked.
I see him grips his hands, "I hate how useless I am to help the people I care for… You, Izuku, Akari, my parents, my friends… I've been waiting and reacting but always too late in the end to do anything useful. Thinking and regretting that maybe if I took the initiative all their problems would just disappear."
"Ummm… So why are you telling me all this?" I rubbed my arm and looked at his feet, "I'm in no position to help anymore…"
"You're exactly the one I need right now." He says as he turned to face me. "You and Akari are the only ones who had ever made my heart beat when my quirk stops it. So I don't want to see either of you stop either."
"Huh?" I look up to see his face with a smile as bright as the sun almost blinding to the eyes.
"A lot of things been going through your mind but don't forget that Izuku isn't the only one you can rely on. I won't be taking the back seat anymore. So I want to ask, Akumi… Won't you rely on me too?"
"I don't know… I don't know anything anymore… One moment I'm myself the next I'm not."
"Then tell me, Who are you right now?"
"I'm… Not Akumi…"
I could tell Youta got flustered for a moment. He was then calm and calculated, "Then who are you?"
I smile at Youta as I scratched my cheek, "I haven't even told Izuku this but my name is Yuu."
"Yuu, huh… Well then Yuu, it's nice to meet you again."
"You remind me of someone I used to know."
"And whose that?"
"I don't know… I just have a feeling, unlike when I'm with Izuku where I feel safe. When I'm with you, I feel like I can be myself. Like you're the missing piece of my puzzle."
Youta chuckles as I see him blush, "Way to make a man's heart skip a beat. We have a lot more in common than we thought. I'm happy that you can be yourself around me because I feel the same way."
I chuckle along, "Sorry. It's just ever since I came to this world. I have just been playing around. Not taking anything seriously because I think everything will turn out fine in the end. Thank you for staying with me even when I only bring you trouble."
"Really, it's no trouble at all. And if it was we'll get through it together like we always have."
I wipe the tear that was forming in my eye, "Thanks for all your hard word. I just hope it doesn't go to waste on someone like me."
