MIST
Volume 1: A Certain Blank Slate
Chapter 3: A Certain explosive shopping chapter
(Kamijou Touma) (Monday September 3rd)
His eyes slowly drift open and he feels the soreness in his muscles.
(What happened last night?)
And then it all comes back to him. Misaka and him fought and after a decent fight they had ended up really close to one another's faces. Biri-Biri somehow concluded it was his fault and shocked him.
It's then that he notices he's in pyjamas.
(Holy shit who saw me naked?)
He really hopes if anyone did in fact see him naked that it was the adult inside of Index considering she could be an old grandma for all he knows. He picks up his scroll from his bedside drawer. It's 4 AM. He grabs his school uniform and goes into the bathroom. He showers and gets ready for school.
He looks inside the fridge in the kitchen and notices that they don't have any food in. He knows that school only provides lunch to students and so is glad that he woke up early.
He pulls off a post it note and leaves it on the door to their dorm.
Off to buy some food be back soon~Kamijou
Reading it once more to judge his horrible handwriting he hopes the girls can read it.
On his way out he notices Blake leaving her dorm.
"Hey Blake!" He greets the black haired girl who seems lost in her thoughts. She jumps in surprise when she hears his voice.
"Kamijou? What are you doing so early in the morning?" Blake asks, turning to look at him.
"The same thing could be asked of you. Anyway, I'm going food shopping for my team. No one else is awake and I don't want to deal with a team full of hungry and tired teens this morning." Kamijou replies as he imagines what that would look like.
He shivers.
Blake's eyes widened considerably at his reply. She looks at him expectantly and Kamijou sighs. He hopes this doesn't backfire on him later.
"Do you want to come with me?" He offers. Blake nods her head enthusiastically. Something about the way she bobs her head up and down reminds him of an animal. He pats her head.
Blake purrs.
They both silently agree to pretend that never happened.
(Blake Belladonna)
Blake rushes inside her dorm to grab her scroll but stops behind the door as she sinks to the floor blushing madly.
(Oh god. That was so embarrassing.)
BADUMP
She can feel her heart thump violently in her chest. Her mind flashes to two nights ago when she first introduced herself to the spiky haired boy and how he let her continue reading her book in peace.
It didn't last long mind you…but he still tried to be accommodating and even now he was being kind by inviting her out shopping for food. She wants to make a good impression with her team and hopefully make some friends that she knows will never judge her for what she is.
Grabbing her scroll from her bed she takes a deep breath before opening the door.
(Unknown)
"Find her." A voice snarled. "Find the girl!"
This voice belongs to the lead scientist of the IndexBreaker project; Doctor Sebastian White. His amber eyes harden and he screams in rage.
"All of the blood, sweat and tears we have poured into this project and you two imbeciles decide to ruin it all by forgetting to reactivate our anti-semblance barrier!" He rants pacing back and forth. He looks at the two teens in front of him.
Stiyl Magnus feels relieved. He had started this project because he was sold the idea it was all about giving those children plagued with certain death a second chance at life.
And the experiment worked! His childhood best friend had survived. However Index wasn't quite Index anymore and he had expected that. However his soul had been crushed when he learnt that Index had her memory wiped by White's semblance yearly leading to her personalities losing their memories. All for the sake of secrecy.
(I can feel a headache coming on.)
The most horrifying part is that all he has to do is touch a person and create a seal on them and it can last a lifetime. The only benefit to this is that it can only be used on the same person once a year.
It was used on her just before she left. He just hopes that she somehow pieces together who she is before it's too late. He also hopes deep down that she finds Imagine Breaker so that whoever they are can protect her.
So much death was on his hands, so much so that he doesn't deserve any sort of redemption. But he's glad that Index has at least a chance to make it out alive and return to the uber positive glutton she used to be.
"Find the girl and bring her back immediately." White orders the pair. "By any means necessary."
(I'm sorry Index…I'm sorry.)
(Kamijou Touma)
(This is…nice?)
He walks side by side with Blake as they walk into Vale. There's very few people out in the street and the sun is still rising. The few people who are about are a mix of those who work night shifts and the people who are stumbling home drunk.
There's an awkward silence as both of them desperately try to find something to talk about.
"So what team are you a part of?" Kamijou asks. Considering he missed the ceremony he is rather curious where Blake and the others ended up.
"Well I'm a part of team RWBY with Ruby, Weiss and Yang." The teen replies.
"Guess we are buying lots of cookies then." Kamijou comments.
"Why?" Blake asks curiously.
"Ruby. She's a glutton that loves cookies." Kamijou replies as he shivers and remembers what she was like when she didn't have sugar that one time. He had called to talk about weapon adjustments and heard a demon on the other end of his scroll.
Blake pouts. Why you may ask? He doesn't know, maybe she's jealous she doesn't know Ruby as well as he does or something.
Turns out it was "or something"
A newspaper flutters in the wind. He picks it up to throw it in the bin but he notices a headline.
Beloved supermarket is closing down due to monetary issues.
Reading further he realises the store in question is having a closing down sale and his eyes shine in excitement.
(Guess I know where I'm going shopping then!)
"Something wrong?" Blake asks, she looks at him in concern at the sight of him staring blankly at a torn newspaper.
"Nothing is wrong…something's good actually." Kamijou replies, turning to look at the amber eyed girl. She gestures with her hands telling him to explain.
His eyes shine. "There's a closing down sale for a popular supermarket today. Think about how cheap we can get the usual essentials!" He exclaims, Blake raises an eyebrow in amusement.
"What?" Kamijou asks upon seeing the girl's amused expression.
"Why do you look so happy about a sale?" Blake asks.
"You have your books and I have my love for eating cheap but tasty food." Kamijou replies.
"Fair enough." Blake comments.
They return to silence as they walk side by side towards the shop with the sale going on. Nothing interesting happens before they arrive at the supermarket. Once there they get their shopping done and he makes sure to buy Ruby some cookies.
He passes the cookies to Blake and she thanks him for the tip.
"Thanks for this." Kamijou says after a while.
"What for?" Blake asks confused, if anything he was who should be getting all the thanks.
"For being my packmule, I mean do you think I could have carried even half of this stuff all on my own. Do you know how much money I saved buying all this stuff now?" Kamijou explains smiling cheerfully however Blake doesn't appreciate the hidden look the boy has.
Suddenly Kamijou's face warps into a grin. Blake shivers, it turns out her fears were true.
"So if there is ever another sale on, would you come and help me out?" Kamijou asks eagerly, taking Blake's hands into his own and giving her his best impression of puppy dog eyes.
Blake blushes before nodding "Sure I'll help." She accepts his invitation, she's inwardly relieved it wasn't anything more sinister.
"Great, if I ever need help I'll call on you then." Kamijou states.
(Index 3)
Her eyes open almost mechanically. She sits up in some of Shirai's pyjamas Rose had been lent. She looks over at the boy's bed to find it made and with his pyjamas folded on top. His school blazer was hung up on the edge of the headboard.
Rose had undressed the boy yesterday and gotten him changed after the others had fallen asleep. They dubbed the oldest Index Rose because of her semblance, she can create white petals from all over her body and heal people's injuries with them. They need a way to differentiate them all after all.
It's only a shame that none of them can agree on a nickname for the rest of them. So for now she's Index 3 the third personality of the original Index.
She hears something sizzling in the kitchen and is immediately on edge. She remembers Rose mentioning that one of their captors has a fire related semblance. She's the only one who doesn't get memory wiped for some reason.
(Kamijou isn't here.)
The more practical choice here would be to wake up her teammates and get them involved. But then the other Indexes would hate her and she's had enough of feeling like a foreigner in this body.
The door to the kitchen opens and Index dives towards the closest weapon she can see: Kamijou's Dragon Cannon. Both of her hands grip the gun tightly as she points it at the kitchen door and the person stood in the doorway. Her eyes widened at the sight of Kamijou…in an apron?
(Oh thank god.)
"Oh, Index you're up. Breakfast is nearly ready, I was just coming in to wake everyone up." Kamijou says completely ignoring the fact that he has a gun aimed at his chest. His apron is a cream color filled with stitchings of cakes and cookies with his name Touma stitched in black thread in the middle.
"Oh." She says dumbly. She numbly recognises that if anyone else was in her situation they would feel embarrassed however she just feels numb. All she's ever felt is numb and scared.
Now that she's calmed down a bit she's assaulted by a multitude of smells, bacon, eggs and sausages are a few of the smells she can recognise.
She also realises that waking up with Kamijou's hoodie on made her feel something new…comforting maybe? She doesn't know.
She puts the gun back on the bedside drawer before walking into the kitchen and sitting down to a table full of food. She picks up a knife and a fork before digging in.
(Kamijou Touma)
He peeks into the kitchen and smiles as he sees one of the Indexes munching on food. Although her face is completely blank and devoid of all emotion he can tell she's enjoying the food by the speed it's going down into her stomach.
He then returns to his most frightening task of the day. Waking up the ticking time bombs.
He believes his best bet is to wake up Shirai first and have her deal with Biri-Biri. Speaking of Shirai he needs to find a way to become closer with her, he doesn't know what he did to the tawny haired girl but even he, as dense as he is, can tell that she doesn't like him for some reason or another.
Maybe it's because Misaka doesn't like him. Because even he can tell she has a massive one sided crush on Biri-Biri. Although it is incredibly unhealthy to judge someone based on the opinion of someone else.
He walks over to Shirai's bed. He can hear her muttering in her sleep as she cuddles up to a pillow. "Onee-Sama~" The girl moans quietly in her sleep. Kamijou makes a mental note to forget that ever happened. The poor girl really has it bad.
"Shirai." Kamijou says as he gently shakes the short girl. She stirs in her sleep before groaning quietly and opening her eyes. She takes one groggy look at him before disappearing and reappearing behind him with a needle to his neck.
He doesn't dare to move in fear of agitating the still half asleep girl. "Sorry." The girl mumbles quietly while rubbing her eyes gently. She walks off in her pyjamas into the bathroom. He sits still for a minute and inwardly sighs when he hears the shower turn on.
(Guess I'm the one opening Pandora's box today.)
"Biri-Biri, wake up!" He exclaims, he avoids shaking her like Shirai because he's not up for being shocked after such a perfect morning.
However he still gets a shock for his troubles.
"What?" The girl groans tiredly.
"Breakfast." Kamijou replies grumpily as he lets out a puff of black smoke from being shocked. Running a hand through his hair he can tell it was even more spiky than usual "School is in an hour and a half."
Misaka just nods before looking at the bathroom door and after hearing the shower running she walks into the kitchen in her…super cute pyjamas?
Her pyjamas are a set of those branded ones, you know that usually have artwork of some superhero or another but these ones are just filled with images of the same green frog head mascot.
(Maybe Misaka likes cute things?)
Pocketing the information for later use Kamijou finally gets to go into the kitchen and eat his own breakfast. "This is rather good, thanks." Index says distracting him from his thoughts.
"No problem." Kamijou replies to the emotionless girl, glad that she enjoyed his food.
"Seconds please?" She asks. Kamijou looks at the girl blankly but he doesn't have it in him to deny the girl anything at the moment.
"Just let me finish my food first." Kamijou replies. He was going to have to make more for Shirai anyway considering Index devoured both of their portions of food.
"Very well." Index agrees to Kamijou's terms before sitting in silence. Misaka is quietly munching on some food looking at Kamijou weirdly.
"Something wrong Biri-Biri?" Kamijou asks the electromaster.
"You…You look like a house…what's the word? A House Husband?" The girl states after another minute of silence.
He spits out his sip of water spraying it everywhere in shock. By the pained look in Index's eyes he can tell one of the other Indexes have taken over. Index begins laughing really loudly.
Kamijou pouts. "Just because I'm good at cooking, cleaning and doing other mindless tasks doesn't mean I'm a househusband!" He exclaims in frustration his cheeks pinkening in embarrassment.
"But you think it's a complement!" Index retorts cheerfully "I mean look at your face!" She comments hunched over from laughing so hard.
Misaka looks at him before chuckling slightly and looking incredibly cool despite being in such childish pyjamas. They hear the shower door open and Kamijou assumes that Shirai is currently wrapped in a towel while getting her uniform from wherever she kept it.
He hears the bathroom door slam shut. Around ten minutes later the door opens again. He's currently just finishing off Index's third plate and Shirai's first plate. Moving the eggs about in the pan he notices that the edges are beginning to turn slightly brown.
(Done!)
He's grateful that none of the eggs burst. He used to suck at doing eggs but practised and practised so that no money would ever be wasted on making more eggs than necessary like ones that have a lot of shell bits in.
He passes Index her plate who happly begins munching on the food. Shirai comes into the room in her school uniform which looks incredibly cute on her and she sits down.
She looks at the food on the table and gives him a puzzled look. Misaka leaves to go into the shower when she stops in her tracks upon hearing Shirai's question.
(Misaka Mikoto)
"So how did you get all this food? I checked last night and nothing was in." Shirai asks. Misaka feels guilty. She assumed that all he did was cook the food, not buy it for them and cook it.
"Oh, I got up really early this morning and walked into Vale to buy it." Kamijou explains and Misaka turns around to insist she pays him back.
"How did you get all this back here?" Shirai asks curiously.
"I ran into Blake and we went into Vale together." He explains "She's freakishly strong, you know, great for helping me carry stuff plus she's fun to talk to."
Misaka feels an ugly feeling blossom in her chest. Why didn't he invite her? A more rational part of her brain knows it's because she was asleep. However with every interaction she had with him the less he seemed to like her.
She decides to ignore any further conversation and walks into the shower and strips out of her pyjamas and turns the shower on before standing under the water. She feels the warm water run down her body as it slowly turns from lukewarm to hot.
Kamijou has always treated her like any other person even though he knew her identity. Every person she met either hated her or put her on some kind of pedestal. She wasn't that great.
That's not to say she has self-esteem issues, she knows she's strong and she loves a good fight but she knows the reality of her situation, there will always be someone stronger, smarter or merely more lucky than her.
She's not perfect and she knows it.
(What is this ugly feeling blossoming in my chest? And why is it bothering me so much?)
(Kamijou Touma)
Once everyone is ready they head to class by 8:30 to make sure they have time to find their way. They all sit next to each other and about five seconds before the bell, team RWBY and team JNPR come rushing in. The professor admonishes them for waiting till the last second before starting the class with the register.
Throughout the day he notices that there seems to be a bit of tension between Weiss and Ruby. Although it looks to be more one-sided with Weiss not approving of Ruby being so childish.
Some of the basic classes flew right over his head. However he can at least tell that the basics of the basics don't apply to him. Every person's semblance is created by their own personal reality and by using the aura they possess they can substitute their own reality onto the rest of the world.
This is why no two people share the same semblance. Except the Schnee's. But they are the exception rather than the rule. Other people can inherit similar looking abilities with completely different applications or some can look very different while achieving the same results.
Someone he knew could enhance their strength through enveloping themselves in green electricity while their father would go from incredibly skinny to incredibly muscular.
Even with such similarities, semblances are more often just completely random. However he has no Aura so how is he manifesting his will upon the world?
Once the school day was over they reconvened at their door room. Kamijou changes in the bathroom while the girls get changed in the bedroom. Kamijou changes into black jeans, an orange T-shirt, white and red trainers and his black jacket while Index borrows his hoodie again and is wearing some of Shirai's clothes.
Misaka is wearing blue jean shorts and a black T-shirt with three pink hearts just above her chest. She's also wearing an unzipped pink hoodie and green trainers with white laces. Shirai is wearing a pink skirt that hides the needles secured on her left leg, a white blouse and some cream and white sandals.
There is an awkward silence after everyone has changed.
"So…" Misaka pipes up. "We need to go buy some clothes for Index and other stuff, right?"
"Yeah." Shirai agrees.
"Do we all need to go?" Kamijou asks. "I mean I know there's some stuff you guys probably don't want me to see and I need to go into Vale to make some adjustments to my Dragon Cannon so…yeah." He explains further.
"I mean su–" Misaka goes to reply but is startled by Index running up and hugging Kamijou's arm. She shakes her head violently.
"Come with us." She murmurs in his ear. Kamijou sighs.
"Fine." He says with a huff. "I'll come with…but on the condition that there is no shocking…" He says trailing off and Misaka blushes in embarrassment. Shirai laughs at Misaka's embarrassed face.
"...And no needles being put against anywhere on my body." He finishes giving Shirai a look. It's Shirai's turn to blush in embarrassment while Misaka gives Shirai a smug look.
"Okay." Misaka agrees.
"Fine." Shirai huffs. (As long as you don't touch my Onee-Sama that is.)
Kamijou isn't quite sure he can trust the look on Shirai's face…but he decides to go along anyway for Index's sake.
"Let's go then." Kamijou says after a while.
(Kamijou Touma)
After arriving in Vale the group wanders about looking for somewhere to shop since none of them have ever really been here before. Preferably a mall of some sort because they want to try and get it all in one go.
Soon they decide to split up anyway with Kamijou and Shirai going to work on his weapon while Misaka and Index search for some casual clothes and some battle wear.
Since clothes can be reinforced with Aura it doesn't really matter how protective an outfit is as long as it covers most of your skin. Which is probably why Misaka is looking for an outfit herself.
"See you in a bit Onee-Sama!" Shirai calls as she walks off with Kamijou.
"Ugh…Why am I stuck with this ape?" She rhetorically mutters. She feels depressed that she's not going with her Onee-Sama.
"Excuse me but this Kamijou takes offence to that…plus I wanted you to come with me for a reason." Kamijou replies to her rhetorical question.
Shirai looks at him in confusion. "What possible reason could a perverted ape like you want me for?" She asks before blushing bright red and looks at him in anger. "Are you trying to defile me?"
"NO!" He shouts, drawing the attention of a couple of onlookers. "I know you have a crush on Misaka and I want to help you." He explains in a whisper.
"Why?" She asks, trying to avoid blushing from the fact that she's so obvious.
"Well, while you may call this Kamijou a pervert I like to think of myself as a romantic and every romantic loves a good unrequited love." Kamijou explains.
"So you're a pervert and a loser?" Shirai asks.
"I hate you." Kamijou pouts.
"I hate you too." Shirai states.
Kamijou sighs. Plan one to get closer to Shirai has failed miserably.
(On to plan two…Oh…What is plan two?)
(Misaka Mikoto)
After parting from Kuroko and the idiot she comes to the sudden realisation she didn't claim her reward from their bout the previous evening. She looks on in amusement as Index hops between stores and squishes her face against the glass of any food related shops.
Something feels off about the girl. Kamijou and Professor Goodwitch's explanation has so many holes in it that she can tell something definitely fishy is going on here. Also she looks nothing like Kamijou.
She's surprised that such a shabby lie was told. But she can't do anything about it, if something is going on, she wants to be a part of it. Index is her teammate now after all.
(Shirai Kuroko)
She was idly looking at the many options for dust infused needles. Wind dust, fire dust, gravity dust and so on. So many options and yet she simply doesn't have the funds to buy these special needles in bulk.
The Ape was talking excitedly with the shop's owner as they discussed working on his weapons. Her heart beats a little faster when she looks at the smile on the boy's face. She's reconsidering her rejection of the boy's offer earlier.
He was so accepting. He didn't judge her or call her love for Onee-Sama creepy and obsessive. He even offered to help. But then she wonders about his motivations. After the Ape is done talking with the store owner who has gone into the back to get some materials she walks over to him.
"So…About earlier…why do you want to help me?" Shirai asks curiously.
"Look, we could be on a team together for a long time, this seems like a sweet deal to this Kamijou. I help you be happy and I get a more peaceful team life without being shocked as much or shocked at all hopefully." He replies before going over to help assemble his weapon.
So his motivations aren't completely pure…but to be fair that makes her trust him more. Maybe…just maybe…if he stops being so much of a perv she'll accept his offer.
The Ape–No Kamijou then walks back over to the counter and begins putting together and tinkering with his new weapon.
(Index)
As she tries on another dress Index sighs in annoyance. It's clear that neither she nor Misaka have any fashion sense. Oh how she wishes it was easy to communicate with her counterparts. It's frustrating because she knows that Rose is a mother and that must mean she has at least a slightly better fashion sense than her.
Finally her eyes happen upon a white sundress. She puts it on and finds some chunky sandals to go with it. Chunky sandals are basically normal sandals that have really thick soles. The ones she picked out look incredibly similar to Shirai's.
And then she finds that her dilemma has just repeated itself. She can't fight in a sundress now can she? So she returns to looking at the isles of clothes for something more comfortable to fight in.
"Can I try on your zip up jacket?" Index asks.
"Only if you let me try on yours." Misaka agrees.
(It's not like she needs to know this is Kamijou's right?)
"Ok." Index says.
They both swap jackets however that is the last thing they do before the world turns black.
BOOM!
(Kamijou Touma)
By the time Kamijou is done with his new Dragon Cannon MK 2 the rest of his team are done with shopping. His new gun is still black but it's more rectangular in shape. It still has the white dragon emblem on the side but it is now for purely aesthetic reasons.
On his wrists are two black bands that when activated fires an incredibly tough wire. He can make a makeshift zipline now which is cool. He still hasn't figured out how he's going to move on the zipline but before he can start firing ideas off at the store owner he and Shirai hear a boom.
BOOM!
And all hell breaks loose
Kamijou pays the guy at the counter before joining Shirai on the street.
"Isn't that the way Onee-Sama and Index went?" Shirai asks in worry.
"Get over there!" Kamijou orders the short girl "I'll be right behind you."
Shirai nods. "On it." Is all she says before disappearing off from rooftop to rooftop.
Kamijou follows after the girl. He can hear the screaming, he sees a child covered in blood running from the scene. His head tells him to go check on his teammates. His heart tells him to check on the girl.
He follows his heart.
"Are you alright? Where are your parents?" Kamijou asks the girl as he approaches.
When she ignores him in favour of crying he checks all the exposed skin to make sure none of the blood is actually hers. Once he's sure she isn't injured there isn't much more he can do. He's never been amazing with children and he needs to know what happened to his team.
Suddenly his heart stops at the thought of a possibility he had never even considered. What if the explosion was a way to distract him from Index.
Passing the girl over to some nearby Judgement officers he runs off towards the source of the explosion. "INDEX!" He yells desperately. "MISAKA!"
His hands begin shaking as he pulls out his scroll and nearly drops it in the process. He tries to call Misaka but there is no answer.
Index doesn't have a scroll so he can't even call her.
(FUCK!)
He wants to beat himself up but he knows that until Index and Misaka are safe and sound he simply isn't allowed to be self-deprecating.
He calls Shirai too and she picks up. "Have you found them?" Shirai asks, sounding just as stressed if not more.
"No…" He says trailing off. "I've got my headphones on me, let's stay on call and keep each other informed."
"Ok. Let's do that." She agrees.
He connects his wireless headphones to his scroll before continuing to help pull people out from underneath the rubble. Occasionally he'll shout Index or Misaka's name.
"Hel–" He hears a faint sound.
"Did you hear that?" He asks Shirai.
"Hear what?" She asks, looking tired.
"T…Touma!"
"SHHH!" He shushes the tawny haired girl.
"-Idiot"
He pushes some rubble over and sees torn pieces of his white hoodie.
"I've found my hoodie…meaning that Index is nearby. Probably Misaka too. I'm near one of those super fancy restaurants." Kamijou says, sighing in relief before scrambling to pull more rubble off of where he believes the two to be buried.
Not even two seconds later and Shirai is next to him helping him. They Misaka first. "ONEE-SAMA!" Shirai screams. He doesn't know how well Shirai knows Misaka but he does know how well he knows Biri-Biri.
She loves fighting and cute things. She's a bit of a tomboy but still incredibly feminine but most importantly she's been there to shock him out of a bad day even if she didn't know it.
Her enthusiasm is unmatched by anyone else and yet seeing someone he thought to be invincible passed out with scrapes and cuts covering her body he can't help but want to cry.
"Get her out of here…" Kamijou says and Shirai nods before teleporting away.
(Who the hell caused this?)
Kamijou's fist tightens in rage.
(I need to find Index first and then I can beat the shit out of the bastard that did this.)
Soon he finds Index close to where Misaka was. She's wearing the tattered remains of Misaka's zip up.
(Did they swap?)
However in the end it doesn't matter. Because all that matters is that he can see her wake up again.
(Stiyl Magnus)
"You've got to give it to the kid he's determined if nothing else." His only friend besides Index, Kanzaki Koari says.
"Whatever." He says gruffly inwardly relieved that Index was found so quickly.
"We should leave her be for a while right?" Kanzaki asks.
"Right." Stiyl affirms.
(Just a little longer. For she deserves even a glimpse of happiness.)
The two of them are silent for some time wondering what kind of monster like semblance could do this.
(I'm sorry Index…)
(Kamijou Touma)
Kamijou Touma found himself feeling incredibly relieved. In the attack by the unknown bomber 5 people were killed and 25 injured. Misaka and Index are fine and are now resting in their beds from the tough day.
They have tomorrow off of school to allow any students injured in the attack time to rest and recover. People are being cautioned about going out into public places alone.
Nobody knows whether the attack was a one off or something far more sinister.
"Shirai, are you awake?" Kamijou asks tiredly. He can't sleep and by the sound of it Shirai was too. He could hear her softly crying. The attack was sudden and devastating. It was almost like some idiot decided to try using their semblance for the first time.
He hears a muffled "Yeah." Come from the girl.
"Would you like some hot chocolate?" He asks the girl.
He remembers picking up some hot chocolate this morning with Blake.
"Yes please." Shirai replies.
"I'll be back in a minute then." He says to the distraught girl before going over to team RWBY's dorm room.
He knocks and the door is opened by Weiss. She looks surprised by the sight of his red puffy eyes and asks what's wrong.
"Don't you know?" He asks his voice barely a whisper.
"Know what?" Weiss asks in concern.
"Misaka and Index were caught up in today's explosion." He explains.
"Oh." She says dumbly. "Oh."
There's barely a sound and Ruby is at Weiss's side. "What do you need?" The energetic girl asks.
"When me and Blake went shopping this morning we got some hot chocolate for your team. Do you mind if we have some?" He asks tiredly.
"Nah/No we do not." Ruby and Weiss say at the same time before going to get some for him. They go over the top however as he's soon handed a whole container of hot chocolate mix and a can of whipped cream. Plus a bag of marshmallows.
"Thank you." He says.
"Don't mention it." Ruby says. "We'll be over in the morning with the rest of my team."
"Ok, bye…Rubes." He says tiredly, causing Ruby to blush.
"Night Kamijou." Weiss says.
"Night Weiss, I'll see you guys tomorrow." Kamijou bids the two goodbye and returns to his dorm.
He goes into the kitchen and turns the light on before making some hot chocolate for the two of them. He turns the light off and re-enters the bedroom and turns his lamp on.
"Come on then." He says to Shirai as he puts the two hot chocolates on his bedside drawer. The short girl crawls off of her bed and sits next to him.
She picks up the mug and blows on the steam a couple of times before taking a sip. "It's lovely, thanks."
"No problem." Kamijou says.
There's a comfortable silence that is frequently broken by the sound of soft sipping.
Soon the hot chocolates are finished in silence. The mugs are placed on his bedside drawer.
"I was so scared…" Shirai admits quietly.
"I know. I was too." Kamijou says
She leans her head against his shoulder. Kamijou is surprised but doesn't move. "Can we stay like this for a while?"
"Sure." Kamijou replies.
They sit in silence.
"Are you feeling better Shirai?" He asks after a while.
"A bit. And it's Kuroko you ape. Don't let it get to your head." She replies sleepily.
"Touma." Is all Kamijou can say because he feels his eyes drooping. Soon sleep claims them and somehow they end up cuddling each other.
In her sleepy haze Shirai murmurs "So warm." As Kamijou's arms wrap around her.
So three chapters done, not including 2.5 the christmas one shot.
There are a couple of things to go over here but I'll start with a question asked by ShinSui23 on FFN.
ShinSui23
So Misaki's here too, I hope she becomes part of the gang somehow.
My reply to this will be that I want to add her in. But my only experience with her is the Railgun Anime, A certain Infinite Possibility by Darkbetrayer. And some other spoilers i've got from reddit.
Basically what I'm saying is that I don't really know who she is. Aside from a few things like the fact that Kamijou made her fall in love with him to stop her from commiting suicide or something and that something happened that makes it impossible for Touma to remember her.
So if anyone has any good one shot or short stories that help me understand her more I'd appreciate it. I'm currently reading the novels but it's slow going and I'm really busy so a one shot that I can read without needing to know too much about what happens in the New Testament and Genesis Testament would be great.
Also I don't mind spoilers so if someone would like to explain it to me instead I wouldn't mind.
Spoiler Warning! (Do not read if you do not wish to be spoiled about my future plans)
Now I know I might get complaints about how unnecessary the explosion scene felt. And that was kind of the point, originally I was supposed to just get through all the shopping and stuff in one chapter. Actually in the first draft there was no explosion and Misaka was to go with Touma.
But then the chapter felt kind of empty. Sure it was sweet and lovely but then my brain went into overdrive. I came to the conclusion that there is now way in hell Kamijou is going to be able to hide his memory loss from his team.
That is unless he has a helper. And ultimately the only person I could see helping him was Shirai so we got some cool Kuroko/Touma bonding stuff and eventually she'll be in on his little secret and helping him hide it in their day to day life.
NO MORE SPOILERS FROM THIS POINT!
Anyway I want to thank ttege from FFN for consistently commenting on each chapter and even though it's usually like 'Wow' or 'Great chapter' or in the case of the christmas chapter 'Merry Christmas' it means a lot to me thank you.
One last thing before I stop this incredibly long Author's note no one is going to read. I would like everyone's opinion on something.
I have just been posting these as soon as they feel finished. That means it could be early morning. Lunch or night so I'm wondering do you want me to set a time?
Like say I'm done with my chapter early morning but then I wait until say 6 PM to post the chapter? Or should I just post them when I'm done?
Anyway thanks for reading!