4th of April 20XX (today) 12:23 am
'Izuku' Has added you to group '1-A students'
Add members to contacts? (Yes) No
Added: Mina Ashido, Toru Hagakure, Ochaco Uraraka, Denki Kaminari, Ejiro Kirishima to contacts.
Ashido
KATSUMIII
'Izuku' Added 'Tenya Iida'
Kaminari
Katsumi can u add Yayorozu and Jiro pleeasee
Katsumi
i only have momos
Kaminari
Ohh ok
Katsumi
she might have jiros tho
'Katsumi' Added 'Momo Yayorozu'
'Kirishima' added 'Katsuki Bakugou'
Momo
Hello
Kaminari
Yoo Yayorozu do you have Jiros number?
Momo
Yes I do, why?
Kaminari
Can you add her?
Hagakure
Can everyone just add everyone in the class whos numbers you have please!
Ashido
We're still missing most of the guys
'Yayorozu' added 'Kyoka Jiro'
Jiro
?
'Katsuki Bakugou' left
Kirishima
BAKUGOU
'Kirishima' added 'Katsuki Bakugou'
'Katsuki Bakugou' left
'Kirishima' added 'Katsuki Bakugou'
Katsumi
Bro leave it who even wants him in here anyways
Bakugou
Go to hell
Katsumi
wait i dont want to
Iida
What is this?
Is this for school work?
Bakugou please do not insult your classmates!
Hagakure
Its a class group chat prez!
Bakugou
No one asked you four eyes
Kirishima
Ashido dw I'll go around tmw getting the guys numbers
Ashido
Thank uuuu
Kirishima
Np!
Uraraka
Yay we'll be able to organise stuff easy now!
Ashido
Omg guys you seen this? https/uahighusjattack
Izuku
Yeah you all were on the news!
Kirishima
So awesome
Kaminari
Yeah but the camera was so far you could barely see us
Uraraka
My parents were so worried
Kaminari
Katsumi did u see they were talking about all might having a kid
Hagakure
Oooooo is that okay for them to know?
Katsumi
Cant do much about it now
Kaminari
You're famous already
Ughhh im jealous
Ashido
People online are going crazy trying to find out who your mum is lolol
Iida
Don't forget school is only cancelled today! Please arrive at the normal time tomorrow.
Kaminari
Thanks Iida
Iida
You are welcome!
Bakugou
Can you all shut up now
My fucking phone wont stop buzzing
Izuku
Kacchan you can mute the group chat!
I'll tell you how if you dont know!
Bakugou
Go to hell
Izuku
Right…
Katsumi
Wow
Iida
Bakugou! Do not say that to your classmates!
Kirishima
I cant believe those two villains got away though!
Kaminari
Oh yeah hand dude and the smoky dude? Idk i don't remember much
Jiro
Thats because you fried your brain
Kaminari
Without me you two would have been dead meat!
Momo
That is true, Kaminari was very integral to our success
Kaminari
Seeee jiro
Iida
From the information I have found the two who escaped were the leader Tomura Shigaraki and Kurogiri who was the one responsible for the portals. Annoyingly, there is no information online about them outside the attack.
Thankfully they apprehended the one who was fighting All Might
Kirishima
Ugh that guy was stupidly op
Hagakure
Katsumi hows your dad?
Katsumi
Hes fine
Hes having to go to a meeting w the teachers about what happened today
theyre taking it really seriously
Iida
I would hope so.
Uraraka
Im so lucky i wasnt warped away
Ashido
Me too! Thanks to Katsumi though
Kirishima
The hand dude gave me the heebie-jeebies
Kaminari
Hella creepy right!?
Kirishima
It's creepy he knew about Katsumi
Uraraka
He did?
Kirishima
Yeah he was saying something about her to all might
Katsumi
Oh yeah i was meaning to talk to u about what he said about me when he was talking to my dad
Ashido
oooo
Kirishima
Oh yeah what was that about?
Katsumi
Honestly nothing really dw
Kaminari
Wait I feel like I missed something important
Katsumi
the shigaraki dude was just messing with my dad using smth i did last year
its not that big of a deal but id rather not talk about it
idk how they found out about it
seems they know a hell of a lot about me
Iida
Their goal was to kill All Might, it makes sense they would find out information about you.
Momo
But it's only now become public knowledge that All Might even had a child and still no one knows who it is.
The fact they could find that out is worrisome.
Izuku
You should be careful
Like when you go out hide your face
Ashido
Yeah Katsumi
Momo
From my understanding, they want to kill All Might, you are an obvious target to get to him. They're villains, who knows where their limits lie.
I wasn't there to see your interaction, and I hope I'm not overstepping, but you do really need to be careful.
Especially as a girl.
Katsumi
yeah
Kaminari
Damn thats deep
Jiro
Did the leader really give off those vibes?
Kaminari
wdym
Kirishima
I mean he did give off a gross aura
Hagakure
Ojiro was saying he kept looking back at them but it was like, specifically Katsumi
Kaminari
Okay so?
Uraraka
Uh idk if im reading into this right but if i am i dont think thats an idea to just throw around
Momo
Hold on.
I think this has been taken in the wrong way.
I didn't mean to imply that, that's a bit of a stretch to come to that conclusion.
Kaminari
What conclusion?
Yayorozu
All I was saying was that if they want to hurt All Might or draw him out into a trap his daughter is an easy target.
I'm sorry this has become awkward.
Katsumi
no you're good momo
as for the turning round he was definitely just checking if i was going to attack him lmao
Momo
Yes that's what I think too.
Just that to provoke your father they may try to hurt you
Jiro
shoot that's my fault
Sorry i misunderstood what yaoyorozu was tryna say
Katsumi
its fine
Momo
I understand why you thought of that
It's not uncommon to hear those stories of that sort so it's not that peculiar for that to be where your mind went
Iida
Katsumi, if you ever feel uneasy please do not stay quiet about it, that goes for everyone too. Their target may have been All Might but they are obviously prepared to use students as bait.
As a class, we need to stand together.
Ashido
Absolutely!
Hagakure
Yeah!
Bakugou
Just beat them to a pulp
If you're strong you don't got a reason to be scared
Especially not of that skinny hand freak
Kirishima
Thats actually kinda nice of you Bakugou
Bakugou
Screw off
Hagakure
Bakugous right though, Katsumi's hella strong so i think she'll be okay
Izuku
For real, her quirk is awesome, im disappointed i missed seeing it in action during battle training
Bakugou
Suck up
Katsumi
bahahaha
I mean kys
Bakugou
Oh fuck off already
Katsumi
whatever
anyways yeah guys dw about me ill beat the shit out of anyone who tries to mess w me
Jiro
I don't think the League will be coming back anytime soon, luckily. They were pretty defeated by the end
The main dude was shot a bunch too right? And the guy that fought All Might was apprehended so they don't have their muscle.
Kaminari
All Might obliterated that villain!
Ashido
None of us really need to worry! After all the teachers won't let it happen again!
Katsumi
we can hope
The next few days were going to be difficult for her to act naturally, she could tell that already. She hadn't expected that conclusion to be drawn from Tomura's behaviour to be that he was stalking her for reasons other than her relation to All Might. It was funny because now she was very aware that her old friend quite clearly wanted nothing to do with her.
Despite her exhaustion, she had pushed herself to go through the portal last night. She needed to make sure he knew she was sticking to the deal. She had expected to step into another dark grimy room like the one she had been taken into when he first talked to her or when that quirk had been forced onto her, but she hadn't. It seemed the hideout of the League of Villain's was some semi-rundown bar, Kurogiri serving as the bartender. It was a little strange, to say the least.
Kurogiri had invited her to sit down and offered her a non-alcoholic drink which she politely declined. He finally introduced himself properly as Tomura's guard, though from how he described it, it sounded more like he was his babysitter. Fitting, if how he acted in the USJ facility was how he always behaved. Even though he was a couple of years older than her, he acted much younger, like a bratty kid. She had half-hoped that would make things easier, maybe he would be easier to manipula- convince. But with her luck, it was more likely to be detrimental to her goal of rehabilitating him.
By the time Kurogiri had finished introducing himself, Katsumi had built up the courage to ask where Tomura was. She felt a little stupid when the misty bartender told her he was recovering from his multiple bullet wounds.
"Do you think I should, uh…" she fiddled with her fingers on her lap, "go see him or..?"
"I'd advise against it," he responded in his automatically calm and controlled tone, "though the master has given you the role to assist Shigaraki, at the moment I don't see him responding well to your presence."
"Oh," Katsumi licked her bottom lip, her mouth felt awfully dry, "because he's injured or… because I got in the way?"
Kurogiri was silent for a moment as he stared down at the teenage girl sat at his bar.
"I have spoken to the master about that-"
"Hey I didn't really pose a threat!" Katsumi's eyes widened as she looked up at the man, "C'mon, if I didn't do anything I would have seemed suspicious right? Besides he told me my dad wouldn't die! And he would have beat you anyway-"
"Relax, Katsumi Yagi." He stopped her, voice as monotone as ever, "We were aware that it would be unlikely that we'd manage to kill the symbol of peace today, even if you had not interfered we would have failed due to the arrival of the UA pro-heroes. Master also acknowledges that he did assure you your father would not die, he understands your reaction. There is no plan to punish you for this transgression."
Katsumi would have liked to relax, but she knew better than that. At best this was a tactic to make her more at ease with them, to let her guard down.
"Tomura Shigaraki however, he thinks more emotionally than logically. I believe he feels perhaps betrayed by your actions."
"Oh, well I-" Katsumi blinked, pausing for a moment before her face scrunched into an expression of offended confusion. "What did he expect? Why would I be okay with you guys trying to kill my father?"
Kurogiri did not respond.
Sliding off the stool and pulling her hood over her head Katsumi sighed, she ould tell talking to this guy wasn't going to be productive,"Could you tell him I came and that I hope he heals up soon."
"I will, would you like to be warped back to the same location?"
"Yes, thank you, Kurogiri. I might come back tomorrow…" Katsumi turned to the hallway leading off out the other side of the room. He was probably just down there… "if he's well enough to talk."
"Possibly, I have tended to his wounds."
"Alright," she nodded, turning back to Kurogiri, "I'll come back tomorrow."
That brought her to the next day. Her father had left for an emergency meeting about the previous day, and he said it would last till the evening. He promised to pick up some good food on the way back. All she needed to do was stay home and play some video games. She waved him goodbye with a wide smile as he left her sitting on the sofa loading up the TV.
She waited fifteen minutes till she got up, turned the TV off, left her phone in her room, and got her keys and the flip phone. She thought about just requesting the warp gate right there in her room, but that felt wrong. The two worlds shouldn't mix, her father's house should stay unmarred by the touch of the League, though with that train of thought… Was she herself corrupting the space by simply being there?
No, she was keeping it separate, she needed to, just to make it even slightly easier on her. She didn't need to think about it more than that, she had more than enough on her mind. Leaving through the front Katsumi locked the door, going to the same hidden corner down the street as last night. This time she glanced around a little longer before sending the message, doing this in broad daylight was slightly stupid, to be frank. But it was midday on a weekday, everyone was either at work or school and the area was quite hidden. She probably would not be doing it in the day anytime soon though.
When the portal did appear she already felt calmer about it than she had last time. Without all the ominous darkness the portal really was just someone's quirk, that someone was a lackey for that man but still, it was normal. She would step through and see Kurogiri, he would tell her Tomura was still recovering and she would go back home. It would be over and done within fifteen minutes.
Closing the phone she shoved it into her back pocket and walked through.
The bar was just as dingy as in the daytime, with no windows to let in the sunlight, only lit by the orange light on the ceiling and behind the countless bottles of alcohol on the wall. Last night Katsumi had wondered if they were actually used or just for show. Kurogiri stood behind the bar just as last time as he polished some glasses, she felt compelled to smile at him if only to build some sort of rapport with the mysterious man. That smile faded, however, when her eyes drifted down to the one thing that had changed since the last time she had secretly left the comfort of her father's house.
After a short, silent moment, she took a deep breath, swallowed in an attempt to remedy her dry mouth, and stepped towards the bar.
"Ah, hi, Tomura. " She was already stumbling over her words. Her heart had started thumping uncomfortably, and her hands were shaking. Clasping them together in front of her, she slid into a seat. Tomura didn't make any move to even spare a glance at her, he faced forward, a glass of something alcoholic in one hand. Even now, when he was so near, it didn't feel real. All these years blocking out his existence, it felt more like a realistic dream to be so close to him than something she was actually experiencing. Her head actually felt light, and she had to lean one arm against the bar as she turned to him, smiling awkwardly.
Her mouth opened and closed many times as her mind tried to conjure something to say. Nothing could live up to this moment, the length of time they had been separated, the situation they were in, what could she say? It didn't even feel real anyway.
"So, how are your wounds?" she asked finally. "I'm surprised you're up already. I didn't know bullets healed so quickly." Her words were too giggly for her liking; her nerves were getting to her.
"They don't, Miss Yagi," Kurogiri spoke up before Tomura said anything, though it wasn't like he looked like he was going to say anything. "It was against my advice that Tomura Shigaraki decided to come and meet-"
"Shut up."
His voice made Katsumi flinch slightly, his raspy words harsh as he finally spoke. Katsumi's brows furrowed.
"Apologies," Kurogiri responded with a small bow.
"You speak to your friend like that?" She said it before she had a chance to think. It was something she would have said to Bakugou or any other annoying egotistical asshole, but not something she should say to Tomura, the person she was trying to get to like her.
Tomura turned his head, his burning red eyes peeking through the fingers of the grey disembodied hand that clutched at him. The rest of his face was covered by unkempt light blue hair, eight years and he still hadn't learned to brush it. It didn't look bad though, she wondered if it was Kurogiri that cut it or if he did it himself. In a way, the unkemptness sort of reminded her of Izuku's adorably messy moss garden of a head. A little smile grew on her lips as she thought of him.
"Fuck off."
Katsumi blinked. After a second her face began to burn as she came crashing back to reality, Tomura's disdainful glare boring into her as she shuffled back on the stool. Tomura shook his head, huffing as she picked up his drink. Katsumi pursed her lips together as she looked away, she'd already pissed him off, damn he was sensitive, even worse than her.
Okay, so he was mad at her for getting in his way yesterday. The logical thing to do would be to apologise and explain her thought process. But when dealing with an emotional person who takes everything personally, which she could probably quite accurately assume Tomura still was, in fact, he seemed worse than back then, that was unlikely to cool them off. They may take it as an insult, like you are telling them they are wrong for feeling upset by your actions when you are simply explaining them, not excusing them.
Well in this situation, Tomura was in the wrong, he had tried to murder her father and best friend and she had tried to stop him. Surely deep down he knew that, which would only serve to make him more sensitive about it. It was probably not a good idea to argue with him, especially not during their first proper meeting in so long. So she just decided to try and move on from it.
Katsumi looked back up to Tomura, who had placed his drink back on the bar. He didn't drink from it, she realised, he had literally just picked it up and put it down. Eyebrows furrowed she looked at him, and he stayed still, staring ahead blankly, well she assumed blankly, she couldn't see his expression after all because of that gross hand.
That's why he didn't drink. Katsumi's eyes widened and lips twitched upwards. Turning around to face forward she bit down the smile. After trying to act all aloof and superior he had just failed to take a sip of his drink because of that stupid hand on his face. The idea of him bringing the glass up to where his mouth was before he realised the obstruction in the way and having to put it back down was fucking hilarious, how badly she wanted to say something out it.
Right, at least she had her first goal. Get him to be comfortable enough to take the severed hand off his face.
"So," she turned back around, brushing her fingers with long gold hair as she cleared her throat. "What should I do? I'm supposed to be doing your bidding or whatever, right?"
The silence was just as uncomfortable as she should have expected. Tomura really didn't want to talk to her, just staring at his full glass. The words 'you gonna drink that?' were just begging to leave her mouth.
Kurogiri didn't say a word to break the silence, he glanced at Tomura for a second before returning to his glass-polishing. Katsumi waited patiently for exactly five seconds before she began to tap her fingernails against the bar.
Tap tap tap.
Tomura stayed silent.
Tap tap tap.
Katsumi puffed her cheeks out before letting out a long breath. She looked around the room and continued to tap her nails on the bar.
"So, Kurogiri, you guys got a TV or…"
"Just leave."
"Huh?"
Tomura clenched his fist around the glass. It cracked and shattered, the liquid pooling out as its container turned to dust.
"There's nothing for you to do." He hissed, "So leave."
Katsumi stared at him, lips parted as he refused to turn to her. She glanced over to Kurogiri.
"I will warp you back, same place as last time."
"Oh, uh yeah. Will you uh, contact me if…" Sliding off the stool Katsumi's sentence trailed off as she stared at the unmoving statue that was her old friend.
"Yes, we will contact you through the phone master gave you if anything comes up. Until then Katsumi, keep quiet."
"Yeah…"
She went home feeling strangely down. She should feel at least somewhat pleased, she had escaped being assigned any sort of task that might put her father or friends in danger. But, god she really had her work cut out for her with Tomura. The idea of him hating her felt awful. She owed him so much, he had done so much for her, and she literally wouldn't be here without him. And he hated her.
There was no way she was convincing him to abandon All For- him. There was no way she was convincing him to abandon that man at this rate. As she shoved the burner phone back into her mattress she collapsed onto her bed, completely exhausted. What was she supposed to do? How on earth was she going to make him not hate her, let alone listen to her if he didn't even want her around?
Just as she began to try to rack her brain she heard her phone buzz from where she had left it before she left… all of fifteen minutes ago. All this anxiety for a quarter of an hour.
Picking up the phone she raised her eyebrows as she saw Izuku had added her to a group chat. It mainly had the most outgoing people from the class, though Kirishma kindly offered Ashido his help in getting the rest of the boys at least.
She wondered who added Izuku…
By the time she was done with the conversation, she was just tired. She threw her phone away, it landing somewhere down the side of her bed, and just groaned into her pillow. She lay face down, trying to sink into the bed for a long while, eventually falling asleep for a few hours.
When she woke up she had a headache… and her arm was missing. She jumped up immediately and her head reeled in pain. Fuck, the second quirk. She breathed slowly and heavily, trying to ground herself. Grateful for the headache, the pain easy to focus on as she grounded herself back, the dark shadow seeping away from her skin.
Another problem she had to deal with it seemed. Apparenly that quirk was supposed to help her with helping out Tomura, but he didn't even want her help so what was the point? She needed to get a hold of it, that was the first time she had used it since getting it and jesus, she was in pain. What even triggered it? She needed to get a hold of it, sooner rather than later.
Buzz
She had forgotten about her phone, with a big sigh she reached down the side of her bed and checked the time. It was past five o'clock, she had been sleeping for a while after all. There was also too many notifications from the message app.
Multiple notifications from messages
78 unread messages from '1-A students': Kaminari- Guys do you think the press will come again and…
1 unread message from 'Jiro': Hey I'm so sorry about what I started in the gc that was so awkward I had no right I just assumed thats what Yayorozu was talking about and…
1 unread message from 'Momo': I should have brought that up privately, sorry Katsumi.
1 unread message from 'Dad': Everything good?
18 unread messages from 'Gymnastic Gyalzzzz': Tilly- Holy shit katsumi was that your class that got…
1 unread message from 'Izuku': Hey sorry I didn't message you earlier I was…
4th of April 20XX (today) 5:23 pm
3:21 Izuku
Hey sorry I didn't message you earlier I was helping my mum with something but do you wanna talk?
5:24 Katsumi
hey yes yes
sorry i was away from my phone
whats up?
5:24 Izuku
Oh hey yeah its just about what they were talking about in the gc
About the league's leader
5:25 Katsumi
Dude I've already got Jiro and Momo in my pms apologising for that
5:25 Izuku
Oh sorry!
You really do not think its like that then?
5:25 Katsumi
oh my goddd
no
literally why would it
Izuku is typing…
Katsumi
Dont.
The whole convo was unneeded
honestly just makes ME feel awkward
You guys need to leave the theorising up to the police cuz whatever you say is nothing more than gossip.
Izuku
Yeah i just was worried that it worried you
Just remember I'm always here!
Katsumi
I know Izuku
I appreciate that
More than you know
Izuku
Oh haha
Thats nice of you
Katsumi
hush
But seriously
if anyone brings it up around you could you tell them to drop it
If it gets spread around it's only going to be a pain for me
Izuku
Oh of course!
Don't worry about it
She switched off her phone a little more forcefully than she meant to, throwing it onto her bed as she got up. Her head still hurt like hell and now she was even more annoyed than before. She could reply to Izuku if he said anything more and the other messages later. Ugh damnit, she did need to reply to her dad though.
Well, Tomura could actually go fuck himself, not only was he being a little bitch and not talking to her but he'd inadvertently caused awkward tension between her and her classmates. She could only hope they would all forget about it by tomorrow.
Despite how mad she was at him, she still had to find a way to get him to talk to her so she could earn his trust and convince him to abandon this stupid League. To talk to him, however, she needed to be around him, and he had made it pretty damn clear he didn't want that. So what she needed was an excuse, a good reason she had to be around him, to talk to him…
"Katsumi!"
She jumped at the sound of her name being called from downstairs.
"I got takeout! …Two days in a row…" Her dad's voice accompanied the sound of the door shutting. Katsumi scoffed, a smile creeping up on her lips. She should just take some medicine for the headache and call it a day.
"Coming down!" She called out.