The rise of Dekiru - できるの上昇

Confabulate

God he was tired.

Fighting the #2 hero was exhausting. He hadn't gotten much sleep that night due to the fight taking longer than he intended, severely cutting into his sleep time.

So here he was, that very same day, hiding in the library from Kacchan because he was too tired to try and evade him in order to make a break for it and grab some lunch.

His stomach rumbled as he studied a book on support items. Er- at least he tried to study anyways. The words kept on blending together and becoming blurry.  For all he knew it could've been a history book since he couldn't read very well at the moment.

Apparently he had began to nod off at some point because next thing he knew, his head smacked into a bookshelf in the tiny secluded corner of the library.

He groaned and rubbed the tender spot. He already got barely enough sleep for the average human to semi function as it was! That bank robbery and the fight had cut his sleeping time in half. Joy.

The voice that was not his own muttered profanities in his head at the pain.

"Hello?" Called out a voice, as someone popped their head out from behind a bookshelf.

"Hi?" called the emerald boy back.

It was the janitor from when he had a panic attack in the closet.

"Puberty kid?"

His face flushed from embarrassment.

"Please don't refer to me as that." he mumbled.

"Oh sorry about that!" Said the older male, as he rubbed the back of his neck.

"Wait you heard me say that?! He exclaimed. "I'm sorry!"

"No worries son. It's all good. If anything I should be the one apologizing. It's because of my quirk that I was able to hear you. It's called total audio and it allows me to hear everything around me in a 30 meter (or 98 feet) radius."

"Wow! That's an amazing quirk!"

"Why thank you, ...?" He trailed off.

"Oh! I'm sorry! How rude of me! I'm Midoriya Izuku."

"It's nice to meet you Midoriya-kun. My name is Bushida Dai."

"And to you as well Bushida-san."

"So, if you don't mind me asking, why are you in here instead of eating lunch in the classroom?"

"Well it's complicated." He said, glumly.

"Is it because you're quirkless?"

"Wait what?!" Exclaimed the emerald boy.

'Mind your own f*cking business!' Shouted the voice.

He flinched. It was starting to remind him a little bit of Kacchan.

"I um-" He stammered.

"It's alright," he said, waving a hand. "I couldn't care less about your quirk."

He leaned towards him. "I've heard everything that's been done to you and I'm sorry that you had to go through that. If you ever need a place to hide, feel free to hide the closet again or you can join me here in the library for lunch."

"Wait really? Are you sure? I would hate to be a bother." He replied, fiddling with his fingers.

"It's alright. As long as you don't make a mess, I'm sure that she won't mind."

"Do you mean the librarian?"

"Yup"

"So... um is it alright if I ask you a question?"

"Sure."

"Um... I was wondering as to why you don't eat in the staff room with the other faculty?"

He sighed and gave him a sad smile. "Same reason as you son. It's because of my job that I'm not treated very well by my fellow staff. It's because I spend my days cleaning up after others at a school that people assume that I'm not very smart for not having landed a better job."

"I'm so sorry Bushida-san."

"It's ok. Who cares what they think? I already know I'm smart. I actually have a PHD in computer science."

"Really? That's amazing!"

"Why thank you!" He said with a smile. "Oh look! Here she comes!"

"Hey Bushida-kun!" Called out a familiar sounding voice.

"Hello Sasaki-chan!" The older male replied, beaming.

The emerald boy turned around and sputtered upon seeing her.

"Y-Yuki?!"

"I'm sorry, have we met before?" She asked as she tilted her head in confusion

"N-No sorry. It's just that I uh, saw you on the news is all."

She grimaced at that.

"Ah. I keep on forgetting that that was on the news. Anyways, Bushida-kun I'm sorry but I won't be able to join you and your friend today. I promised my brother I'd eat with him. I hope you have a good lunch! See you later!" She said, waving.

After bidding Yuki a goodbye, the pair sat down at a table.

"Hey! Where's your lunch?" Asked Bushida.

"I uh... don't have one sir." The emerald boy replied, sheepishly.

"Here." he said opening his bag. The older male proceeded to pull out two bento boxes.

"I originally made one of them for... someone, but they won't be here today so here."

"Thank you very much Mr. Bushida!" He said, his eyes widening as he received the box.

The older male chuckled at the emerald boy's reaction.

"Its no problem son."

Time flew by as the two of them talked and before they knew it, lunch was over.

"Thank you very much for the meal Bushida-san!" He said with a bow.

"I'm glad you enjoyed my cooking." He replied with a smile.

As the emerald boy exited the library, the older male called out to him.

"Hey wait! I have something for you!" He pulled something out of his pocket and tossed it to him.

He caught it in his hands. "A guava hard candy?"

'Aw hell yeah! Free food!'

"I'm a sweet tooth myself so I have a ton of these and you look you could use the sugar."

"Thank you very much!" He yelled as he ran to his next class.

★☆★

That day he came home with smile on his face. It was nice to have someone to interact with that didn't want to beat you to a pulp.

When he turned on the news he nearly spat out the water that he had been drinking. Apparently, a certain incredibly pissed off flame hero has gotten part of his hair dyed white due to there being bleach in the water of the bucket that the boy vigilante had slammed on his head.

He could practically feel the voice rolling around on the floor in his head as it cackled at the sight of the #2 hero's hair that was now a lovely shade of pink.

Would you guys like to have a couple fluff pieces of Dekiru interacting with the Naruhata vigilantes? It'd probably be more like an alternate time line I guess really. It's just a couple of scenes that I already have pre written that I originally had wanted to incorporate into the storyline but they didn't really fit.

Also I gave you guys a long chapter since you guys had wait so long.