Chapter 44 - One-For-All
So, some of you suggested something for the plot and I always like taking in suggestions and mixing it with my own style.
One of those suggestions got in and I'm thankful for your support. Your suggestion is taken in this chapter, Data_0405200. Enjoy!
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The night is young but a lot of people are already out to sleep. The moon rises up in the sky, but only a few stars can be seen because of the clouds. In a neighborhood, no one can see a figure jumping from roof to roof in an inhuman speed.
Its green hair glistens in the moonlight and grunts and pants can be heard. All coming from the pouncing figure.
A red transparent leash appear around his neck, every now and then, but he lets it choke him. It only disappear when he stops and run for a few minutes.
His senior's leash is a curse for him, but to get the crazy visages out of his stupid dreams, he need a consultation from the one who gave it to him: Yagi Toshinori, more commonly known as AllMight.
Landing on a veranda of an apartment, he faces a locked sliding glass door. Behind the door are curtains of the color of baby blue. Hesitantly, he took one knife from his vest and uses it to pick the lock on the door. Once it clicked, he bites his lower lip in nervousness. He never trespassed into someone else's property yet. At least, this persona of him.
He slid the door open and wind blew inside the room. The person by the bed seems to noticed the sudden change in temperature and wind brushing off his exposed skin, waking up from his slumber.
Being the alert kind, AllMight, all deflated and frail, stood up and looked at him with a shocked expression.
"Young Midoriya...?"
"AllMight, please help me."
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The day turned out to be pretty normal for the students of KAI. Usual villain lessons, too delinquent students got sent to the guidance office and the never ending rivalry between the League and Team Gigantum.
Uraraka is stuck in between of all of that. She sometimes wonders if she could just run away and be free from Nekta's grasp, but something's holding her back. A deep feeling in her stomach and a little voice inside her head tells her to stay, but for whatever reason? She don't know. And she probably wouldn't for the next couple of days—or weeks.
She just feels so out of place in all of these. She knows she have to do the right things, but she don't know what that is at the moment. It's causing her so much frustration, but kept it deep inside. She's hurting and feeling bad for being part of this charade of villainy. She is attending a school for villains, the complete opposite of UA, she's sticking with the worst group of people she could think of, the League of Villains, she's following orders from the youngest recorded villain and and to top all of that, she can't do anything to oppose any of it.
She feels like a bird in a cage.
"Uraraka-chan," she turned to her side to see Midoriya in his usual spot. His bright green eyes looks into her brown ones and in that whole time, Uraraka thinks she saw the old Midoriya. The one who us not corrupted by all of this. She just hopes she's right.
"Yes?" She inquired in a very quiet tone. He looked at Nekta and the others on the corner of his eyes and then averted them back to her.
"Can I talk to you in private, please?" He asked, politely which surprises Uraraka. The villain Deku usually demands and get it done without asking, but at this moment, he asked with politeness in his tone. Not just that. He seems to be careful and edgy about something and whatever it is, he doesn't want Nekta or any of them to know.
This just makes Uraraka nod. For once in a long time, she feels confident.
Midoriya didn't said anything else and turned his heels to walk to a private spot where no one else is in it as the brunette girl follows. They went to a corner in the underground school and when Midoriya looked around to see the coast is clear, he shakily sighed, looking all frustrated.
"W-What's wrong, Deku?" Uraraka asked, wide-eyed. She's surprised to see Midoriya acting all different from the pass few months.
"These are all freaking me out. My nerves can't take it," he rants and took a deep breath, flashing Uraraka a sheepish smile.
"Is...everything okay?"
"First of all," Midoriya bowed down, apologetically, "I'm sorry for everything that I've done for the past months and I'm sorry that I dragged you in all of these."
"Deku...what are you saying?"
Midoriya stood up straight and scratched the back of his head and looks at his hand. A distant look are shown in his eyes and that only makes Uraraka feel a lot more confused and concerned at the same time.
"I know now, the emphatic parasites that was injecting into me and so as Kaachan and Todoroki-kun acts as drugs and changes us. However, unlike drugs, they also affects our cognition, changes us in ways an illegal drug don't usually do."
"In English?"
"They give us mental problems that is hard to cure," he said and continued, "And mine is having a two or more personas in one body with completely different personalities."
"Wait, you mean," Uraraka put a hand over her mouth as tears threatens to fall from her eyes, "Deku, this is really you, right?"
Midoriya smiled and nodded, "I'm able to control my body for sometimes but the other...me usually uses it. He's way to strong to keep down."
Uraraka can't help herself but hug him. This caught Midoriya off guard and blushed to the tip of his ears. He stuttered her name before hesitantly wrapping his arms around her. He smiles as the thought of her missing him lingers around his mind.
"I missed you, Deku. I thought you were lost forever. I'm glad you're back. I don't know what I'll do if I've lost you," her voice cracks at the end and her words warms his heart. Good to know that someone still cares about him despite all the wrong doing he had done.
"Thank you," he said and very soon, they pulled away and Uraraka wiped her tears away, smiling in happiness.
However, Midoriya knows that his other self is fighting back so his time is ticking limiting. It pains him to cut their reunion short but he have something go tell her and it's important.
"Uraraka-chan. You have to know something and really quick. My other self is fighting me back to take over the body," Midoriya said and Uraraka understood, nodded. Her eyes is still red and puffy after crying, but she knows better than to prolong what he have to say.
"You can tell me, Deku."
"The real reason why you are here is in order to help me. It's good enough that I tricked Nekta to get you here. The other me doesn't even know anything about my plan," he said with a serious expression and Uraraka's eyebrows furrowed.
"Then...how does he..." Realizing what her inquiry is, Midoriya feels himself blush and fidget.
"Ah...y-yeah about t-that. Well, let's discuss that some time else," he dodged as Uraraka raised an eyebrow but decided to let it go.
"I still want to be a hero. But I may be able to become a hero by fighting from the inside and you have to help me, Uraraka-chan," Midoriya said and clenches his fist, "I've talk to AllMight last night and informed him. So can you help me?"
Without hesitation and giving his full trust that this really is Midoriya, Uraraka nodded. Midoriya smiled and begun explaining while still fighting back his other self from getting out.
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It's quiet in the KAI library and it's a perfect place for Nekta to skip class and play her games. She harshly push the buttons on her PSP as she avoid any contacts from the people around her. She even threw the librarian across the room to shut her up.
Her cheeks blush red when she remembered what happened the other night and she can't help but think about it.
"Stupid rooftop. Stupid night. Stupid Katsuki. Stupid ki--" she stopped realizing she can't make herself say it. She bit her lip and punched into the buttons harsher as if attempting to murder it.
She ended her game by knocking out her opponent and sighed in frustration. She laid the PSP on the table and slumped on her chair. What really happened that night? She don't know.
First thing she know, she was having a decent and civil conversation with Bakugo and the next thing is, the younger teen planted a kiss on her forehead and on her lips. It's not like it's their first. It's the second actually. But forget the first one that happened in the alley when he's still sane and hero-y. That was just a faster way for her to inject emphatic parasite into him and nothing more, nothing less. Just business.
And that kiss the other night doesn't count as such. He just...literally slammed his goddamn lips into hers like as if nothing is wrong with that. Everything is wrong about that. She gotta know wrong because she do wrong things all the time. Okay, she's freaking out. She can't even look at Bakugo right now because of the frustration she feels.
She doesn't like the churning in her stomach, the blushing on her face and the uncontrollable beating her heart does. It's insane and she doesn't like it.
"F*ck this goddamn hellhole," she cursed and closed her eyes as she slump backwards on her chair. She scooted backward in order to get her booted feet on the table and lean casually, not worrying about falling down. Good thing she wears a pair of jeans today and not some kind of skirt or loose shorts.
"This ain't hell yet, ya' know" a voice said and Nekta opened her eyes to come face to face with one of Miokia's cronies, the brown haired guy. Kyumre, if she remembered correctly?
This guy is tall for a high schooler, maybe standing to 6'4". He have blue eyes and lightly tan skin, right for someone living in a tropical island. Nekta never really find anyone attractive enough for her to make her go gaga. The only guy that ever made her feel so---
She scowled, remembering why she feels so frustrated and clicked her tongue. The newcomer raised an eyebrow, thinking that she might not like his presence around her. Who is he kidding? He's Miokia's, Nekta's school rival, right-hand. What else to expect.
"Tch, if that attention-w**re wanted some amusement from me, tell her to give me a a million yen first," Nekta said, gesturing her hand as if shooing him, which she is. This made Kyumre laugh.
"Nah, I ain't here because Miokia wanted to mess with ya'. Just passin' by to come and see whaddya' up to," he said in a weird accent in his speech. It's like he grew up in another country and migrated here just a year ago, still working on his Japanese.
Or he's just one big bimbo who's trying to impress people with a strange accent and acting like an imported doll.
"You're not gonna impress me with a fake accent," she said, straight on and put her feet down. She grabbed her PSP and glared at him, standing up. She didn't even stood up to her shoulder.
"And I've actually seen your records and you have a quite reputation of being as the Playboy of this school. So, if you're trying to flirt with me..." She gestured her hand awaay and turned around, "not gonna happened."
She raised her hand, striking her middle finger and left the six footer there, standing with wide eyes.
She pass by a shelf and heard chuckling. Her eyes widened and turned to that direction, cheeks reddening.
"You're one hard to please b*tch, aren't you?" There stood Bakugo with a look of confidence in his smile. At the moment, all Nekta wants is to get that smug look on his face. He looks like he's the most endearing figure in the world, having the confidence in teasing a murderous teenager who have killed a dozen souls and may probably still. He may be an addition to her kill counts.
(Author trivia break:
The Disney Princess that have the highest kill count is Fa Mulan.)
"Say that again, bastard and I'll skin you alive," she threatened but her hostility only amuses him. Nekta scowled. She's the only one who should find frustration amusing, why is this guy enjoying it instead?
"You kinda look cute, flustered and all," he snickered as Nekta glared and just decided to ignore him. She started walking away, until she can feel calloused hands grabbing her wrist, "Geez. You can't take a hint, can you?"
"What the heck do you want? First, you f*cking kissed me and now you're acting like a total creep. F*ck sh*t, Katsuki!" She nearly screamed, but managed to contain her voice while still glaring at the red-eyed boy in front of him.
His expression changed into what he usually wears; plainly irritated. She'd seen Midoriya change emotions in a millisecond but seeing Bakugo do it is just weird.
"Goddamnit. I'll say it straight then," he said, scowling and a pink tint appeared on his skin, "I came to like you. Be my goddamn girlfriend."
"What?" Nekta's eyed widened, not believing the words that came out of his mouth. Forget being a red head. She's a ripen tomato. She expected Bakugo to only to only be unable to disobey her and be a little servant of hers. That way only. Not this.
"You heard me. I'm not saying it again," he said and Nekta jerked her hand away, almost stumbling backwards because of the strength she used. Thankfully, something caught her before she fell.
Looking up, she saw Midoriya and Todoroki staring down at her and she pulled away, immediately.
"Ooh! Did we interrupt something?" Todoroki grinned, maliciously. Nekta glared and refuse to utter a word before leaving the three of her underlings in the company of shelves and books.
Midoriya raised an eyebrow suspiciously and turned to his rival, crossing his arms. He's still quite bitter about his prisoner getting out earlier this morning.
"What did you do, Kacchan?" Bakugo only smirked and put his hands into his pockets.
"None of your business, nerd."
And with that, Bakugo left. The other two had an eye contact and shrugged. Then they realized of why they were there in the first place and missed the opportunity to inquire Nekta about Math tutorials.
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After so many chapters, Bakugo finally admitted defeat to his feelings and sorry if he kinda became slightly OOC here. But for reals, I'd picture Mr Sparky Sparky Boom Boom Man like this and Nekta the tsundere in the first.
And also hold on. Next chapter, I will have an announcement at the end so stay tuned.
~RSE out
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