Chapter 6 An Old Memory
YOUR POV
The next day you were on your way to school. Everywhere you went you ran into reporters.
"Do you go to U.A.?"
"Excuse me miss, what can you tell me about All Might?"
"Whats he like as a teacher?"
"Do you enjoy his classes?" Getting annoyed with the questions you walked faster. Arriving at the gates you saw a huge crowd of people and reporters trying to interview students who were trying to get in.
"GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!" You yelled pushing people aside.
"Is that the daughter of Natsu Dragneel?" "No way! I didn't know she went here!" "What is Natsu like as a father?" Immediately all the attention was turned to you. You tsked. You pushed people out of the way. It wasn't working so you lit your hands on fire.
"LOOK I'M TRYING TO GET TO SCHOOL HERE!!! I WILL PUSH YOU OUT OF THE WAY IF NEEDED!!! DO I NEED TO EXPLAIN FURTHER!!!" With that a path was made as you stomped your way to the gate, your hands still lit.
"Thanks for clearing the way." Turning at the sound of the voice you saw it was Todoroki.
"Oh... hey Todoroki. How's your day been so far?"
"Apart from being attacked and swarmed by reporters pretty good. How bout you?" You and Todoroki talked all the way to the classroom. It was nice. Todoroki was a quiet person. He didn't show much emotion and was kinda socially inept. But it was nice to talk to him.
You avoided talking about heroes with him so you talked about school instead. Walking in to the classroom, you sensed someone staring at you. You knew it was Bakugo. You and Todoroki split up. You walked over and sat down in your seat behind Bakugo.
"Why the hell were you talking to that half n half bastard?" He asked you. With hostility in every word. Smirking you replied
"Why? You jealous or something?"
"I- tch whatever." He huffed and turned around in his seat before putting his feet on the desk.
Smirking you turned to Aizawa who was talking about choosing a class rep. Immediately everyone started yelling, except for you, Momo, and Todoroki. Even Bakugo was yelling
"PICK ME YOU IDIOTS!!!!" After everyone calmed down a bit Iida spoke.
"I say we vote on who we want to be representative!"
"I don't care how you do it just get it done." Aizawa said climbing into his sleeping bag.
Knowing how this was gonna work you sat there thoughtfully. You'd definitely be one of the best options but considering your temper and disregard for the rules you thought someone else would be better suited. When the votes were tallied you had the most with 3 and Momo had the second most with 2. She would be the vice representative. Bakugo was yelling at everyone for not picking him.
"OH SHUT UP BAKA-GO!!!!!" You were standing at the front trying to keep your temper down but it didn't work. Everyone started laughing.
"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME FUCKER!!!"
"HOW MANY TIMES ARE WE GONNA HAVE THIS CONVERSATION!!!" Calming down you turned back to the front. Everyone was trying to hide their snickering.
"Well thanks for voting for me or whatever. I'll try my hardest to keep you idiots under control... but we all know I'm gonna be one of the ones causing trouble, so keep that in mind. I have a temper and no regard for the rules but I'll try my hardest to make... this work. I'll put you through the wringer. So no funny business. We're trying to become heroes here. So keep that in mind. Know when the time is right for joking and when it's not. Got it." People laughed at your comment about your temper.
While it was true it would be helpful later for controlling people. Turning to Momo you said.
"Hey Momo you'll have to help keep me in check because we both ah... know how competitive I can get." She smiled at you.
"Already on it."
Later at lunch you sat down at an empty table to eat. You heard people sit down around you. Looking up you saw Mina, Kirishima, Bakugo, and Kaminari. You turned back to your food. You had asked the cook to give you something on fire. Giving you a puzzled look he went back and came out with a plate that had wood and tar on it and lit it on fire. Thanking him you took it along with your plates of food and sat down.
"Umm Hey Dragneel... um why exactly do you have a flaming plate?" Kirishima asked. Turning to look at him you responded. He looked amazingly puzzled and curious.
"To get me back to full strength my quirk requires me to eat fire after I've used large amounts of it or want to stalk up. This is normal. Also depending on what's burning it can make the fire taste so good." I explained as I gestured to the plate.
"Why don't you just eat your own fire then?" Mina asked. Shaking your head you replied.
"It doesn't work like that. I can't consume my own fire. I could eat explosions if I wanted to." You remarked smirking at Bakugo who scowled at you.
"Cool... so uh... this is gonna sound weird but can I see you eat it?" Kirishima asked. Giving him a weird look but turning to the plate you grabbed a piece of burning wood and tar.
Sniffing it you sucked in, inhaling the fire and extinguishing the wood and tar.
Hmm not bad.
It had a smoked taste to it from the wood and the tar made the fire pure. Looking around you you saw amazement on the tables faces. Smirking you picked up another piece and did the same thing.
"Wait that's so cool." Mina commented, staring at you with amazement as you ate fire. Bakugo was trying hard not to look amazed. He knew you ate fire but he'd never seen you do it before. You had always gotten embarrassed about it. Suddenly people had stopped to watch you. Just as you finished the last stick of fire an alarm went off.
"Level 3 security breach. All students evacuate." A voice came on over the PA. While everyone was fighting to get to the hallway you ran to the windows to see what was happening. Its the fucking press. They got in somehow. No someone let them in.
Having a bad feeling you turned to go to the hallway were students were packed together. Using your quirk you blasted past them and to the front where you hit the wall above the exit with your hands and feet. With holes now in the wall you turned around so you were holding on with just one hand and one foot.
"EVERYONE!!! STOP FUCKING PUSHING!!! SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!! ITS JUST THE GOD DAMN PRESS!!! CALM THE FUCK DOWN!!!!" Your voice rang over the panicking students and they all stopped pushing each other to look at you. Tching you jumped down onto the ground where students were now pushing the other way to go back to class as lunch was now over. You pushed passed people and ended up running into Bakugo.
"Watch it!" He snapped with out looking.
"Watch who your speaking to!" You snapped back. He turned to look at you surprising but then tched and kept going. Staying behind him you followed him to the classroom, reliving old memories. Some welcome... others not so much.
The rest of the week went off without a hitch, apart from you becoming distracted in class all the time. Teachers constantly called you out on it. Normally you'd be staring at the window, staring off into space. When they called you. You'd turn to the front, people would sometimes catch a hurt and pained expression on your face before it went to its usual scowl.
Your eyes had a persisting anger, hatred, and sadness in them. Everyone noticed. Teachers noticed, they would try to bring you out of your memories. They had been told of all the stuff you went through. It didn't make a difference.
One time Present Mic got more than he bargained for out of you. You had been staring out the window, a far off look in your eye. Unbeknownst to anyone but Bakugo, who had a habit of watching you with one eye, a silent tear went down your cheek. It was the only time you've cried in a long time. You were thinking about the day Natsu decided you'd inherit his mantle.
Erza was crying. You hugged her. You started crying to.
"Erza don't cry. Please! I hate it when you cry!" You said as you clung to her.
"You sound so much like your father you know... he hates it when I cry too." She grabbed your hand and lead you to the elevator. You came out onto a floor.
"Now... I don't want you to get scared of what you see. Ok?" Erza said as she put her hands on your shoulders.
"O-ok." You said. She opened the door to a room. You walked in behind her. Then you saw it. Natsu was unconscious. And wrapped head to toe in bandages. From what you could see of his skin it was completely gone. You could see the muscle underneath. Gray was sitting next to his friend. Gray had black hair and silver eyes. He was as tall as Natsu. He could make ice into inanimate objects. He had a bad habit of stripping from his former mentor. So he was shirtless most of the time. He was normally confident and had a temper to rival Natsu's. That was all gone now as he sat there beside his long time friend. Silent tears rolling down his cheeks as he turned to look at you.
"Dragneel!" Suddenly you were brought from your memories by Present Mic. You snapped your head towards him. The hurt look gone from your face.
"What! What now!" You snapped. You didn't care if you got in trouble. It hurt to relive those memories but you couldn't stop it. You stood up. Slamming your hands into your desk.
"Whats so damn important! What do I have to pay attention to now! Why should I?! Chances are I already know it! So just leave me be!" Your class froze. They have never heard an outbreak from you before. Especially not like this. They looked on in shock. Present Mic didn't know what to say. He came up to you silently.
"Dragneel... if you need to leave the classroom for a few minutes you are welcome to do so." He said gently as he put a hand on your shoulder. Your breathing increased as you tried to stop the flashbacks.
"Ok." Was all you said before you grabbed your bag and walked out. Once you were out of the classroom you slumped against a nearby wall.
You were hyperventilating. Tears streamed down your face to the floor. You pictured your father, the strongest man you knew, wrapped in bandages, with the possibility of never making it. You still didn't know who did it. That was 5 years ago. But you knew you'd find out who did.
After calming yourself down you walked back into class and sat back down. You were at war with yourself. You had a panic and terror stricken face as you stared at your desk, but not seeing what was in front of you. You didn't see it, but Bakugo gave you a worried expression that no one had seen on his face before.
"(Y/n)" Gray said. Suddenly he was down before you, sweeping you into a hug.
"Gray... Erza... what's wrong with dad?" You asked as tears rolled down your cheeks.
"He... he got badly injured against a villain. We didn't stand a chance against him. We were all down. And... and he hurt Natsu. Natsu was sticking up for us, defending us as we were down. Waiting for reinforcements. He protected the citizens. The villain had enough of him. He... He badly hurt him... we don't... we don't know if he'll ever recover." Erza said as she sobbed. She collapsed down onto the floor next to you and Gray. You all started sobbing and weeping, all holding onto each other on the floor.
'No. No! Not father! Not him too!'
Suddenly the bell rang. Bringing you out of the flashbacks and memories. Present Mic stared at you worriedly. You collected your things. Not really thinking about anything. Your body moved on it's own. Soon you found yourself in your next class. You were the last one to arrive. You were so lost in your memory of that day you didn't notice your whole class watching you with worried expressions as you sat down.
Unblinking. Suddenly something happened that no one could've seen coming. Bakugo leaned over and said something to you. You seemed to instantly snap out of your trance. You looked at him. He had worry written all over his face.
"Are you ok?" He repeated in a soft tone. His normally angry ruby red eyes were soft and caring.
"I'll be fine." You said as you stared at him. He wiped a silent tear off your face with his thumb before facing the front. Your whole class was shocked. For the rest of the week you never went into another trance. You didn't want Bakugo to worry. You could relive those memories another day when Bakugo wasn't around.
A.N. 2270 words! Sorry I haven't updated in awhile guys! I've been so busy and wasn't really sure what to write with this chapter! Hope you liked it! Tell me if you have any suggestions!
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