My Old Hero

52: Overcome

The alarm ran through her ears and she slowly turned it off. 

'It's morning already, it didn't feel like the night went by at all...' Izumi thought. She stretched her arms and then got ready for work at 6 in the morning. Once she changed her clothes and fixed her hair, she went to the kitchen and saw the same bag from yesterday sitting on the counter. 

This is your breakfast and lunch, and don't skip any of your meals. 

Izumi couldn't help but smile and looked at the couch to see her cousin was sound asleep. 

'Thanks for taking such good care of me, Emra, I'm truly grateful.' Izumi thought, grabbed the bag and went to work having her breakfast on the way there.

Once Izumi got to her office, she saw the packet for the banquet and knew what she needed to do. 

'Kacchan's suit will have to wait. I need to take care of this first out of anything.' Izumi thought and looked through the stack of papers. It took her about an hour to read through everything and then she started going through the invitation list. 

'This can't be last minute, so I need to get the invitations done first.' Izumi thought. 

She looked through the invitation list and froze when she saw Katsuki's name. She remembered how close they had gotten the night before, but then remembered what she promised her cousin. 

'It'll only be until Emra leaves, then I should be fine. Family comes first over anything else.' Izumi thought and continued to look through the list.

It took her another 2 hours to finish writing all the invitations and her hand was cramping afterwards from writing so much. 

'Finally, the longest part is done. I knew that was going to take me longer. I haven't written this much with my left hand in a long time. I could write with my right hand better... but I can't do that anymore.' Izumi thought. 

She looked at the clock and knew that this would be around the time she should be 'training'. 

'I've been working for a few hours, a little training wouldn't hurt.' Izumi thought and changed her clothes and went to the training room.

Katsuki was stuck in his office for most of the morning doing nothing but paperwork. He couldn't help but remember how close he was to kissing Izumi the night before, he started to blush. 

'Arg- why did her cousin have to come in before that happened? And why does her cousin have a strong hate towards me?' Katsuki thought. There was a loud knock on the door, he looked up and thought it was Best Jeanist. 

"What?" The door came open and Katsuki froze to see it was Emra actually entering his office.

"Good morning, Dynamite." Emra said, shutting the door behind her. 

'What the- why's she here?' Emra stood in front of the desk, she looked very serious. 

"I'm sure you got home perfectly fine last night, correct?" 

"What do you want?" Katsuki said. Emra sighed and then crossed her arms. 

"I'm only going to say this once, and you'd better listen to me, since I'm Izumi's older cousin." Emra said.