I ran down the hallway, tears threatened to spill down my face. I had yet again embarrassed myself. Maybe my horrible mother was right, I should stop trying. I busted into my room and promptly locked the door. Collapsing onto the bed, looking up at the poster of the constellations above me. Oh how I wish I could touch them.
(10 minutes prior)
"Today's the day, Toshiko! I'm going to fly!" I laughed, standing atop the jump pad. "Hidaka, I don't know if this is a good idea. How do you know that you have a hidden flight power?" My.sister asked me, her eyes filled with concern. "Oh come on Toshiko, you just have to believe! Soon I'll touch the stars and clouds, just like Hawks does!" I smirked, the image of my idol and I soaring in the clouds, away from the worries on the ground, gave me the boost I needed. I imagined my fire becoming Wings, a burning feeling in my back gave me hope. I ran as fast as possible, leaping off the high perched platform with the grace I had imagined. I soon caught air, laughing wildly until I began to plummet. Embers and wisps of flame surrounded me as I fell, I knew that if I did, it wouldn't hurt because of the foam padding underneath the platform. But when I landed, I hit something hard and solid, and a floor shouldn't be able to yell in pain. I looked up, to see the one person I had made so many promises to. Bakugo had a huge burn on his shoulder, he sat up looking at me with his ruby eyes full of confused anger. "What the hell was that shit?!" He snarled, my classmates turned their heads in our direction. "S-sorry Kat, i-" he cut me off, "that's not my nickname anymore! Stop being so goddamn stupid and look past your own fucking nose. Maybe your mother was right, you are just a reckless maniac huh?!" He snarled. My blood colored eyes burned uncomfortably as tears piled in the corners of them, and Bakugo's face softened almost instantly, replaced with regret. "Nakano, I-" but I stood and ran away, to embarrassed and angry to listen.
(Present)
As I stared up at the star poster longer, the more I realized how stupid I was.
I aimed my palm up at it, feeling the familiar burn in it as flames rushed up from my hand like an erupting volcano, incinerating the poster into useless ashes. "Everyone's right.".I huffed, laying back, "it was reckless of me to think I could fly." As I began to cry, a loud knock exploded off from my door, causing a faint and unwanted memory to cross my mind. I shook it off and stood up, opening the door. It was Bakugo, his shoulder bandaged, he leaned across my frame, looking up at me, since I was taller. "Ugh, why are you here?" I said, not angry but exhausted. "I wanted to visit you, see you were okay, dumbass." I sighed, letting him in my room. He looked at the burned roof, and back at me. "You destroyed that poster? Why?! That was stupid!" He snarled, brushing the ashes off my bed, not facing me. Why was he always right? I began to silently cry, the hot tears finally flowing down, burning my cheeks. "I realized, you're right. Everyone was. It's dumb of me to think I could fly, that my fire could become Wings? Ludicrous." My voice cracked, he whirled around to look at me, he knew I almost never cried. "Hey dumbass, what did I tell you when we were kids?!" He said, despite being shorter, he managed to look me in the eyes. "I dont remember much, despite you saying you never wanted to see me again after I was attacked by Akari." He grabbed my shoulders and spun me over to my bed sitting me down. He crouched to my eye level, glaring into my blood red eyes with his ruby ones. "Ignore that, you know what lies your mother told me to get me angry at you? I was young and proud and stupid, and I still am! But I always told you and myself this, NEVER let anyone tell you what you can do, and show them that you fucking can to make them look dumb as fuck, cause they are!" He said, his hands on my shoulders and face. I looked at him, smiling like an idiot. "I don't deserve you." I said. "Maybe not, but I think you do. I promise, I'll help you touch the stars." He said, smiling. A rare sight. I couldn't help but lean into him, kissing his lips. He looked shocked, but soon returned the kiss. "I love you, sorry about your arm." I said, frowning. "It's nothing. I love you too, Hidaka."(Two weeks later)
walking to my window, he opended it too walk out to my balcony, bakugo chuckled at the joke I had just made. I followed him. I looked at his face as he looked at the stars. I looked up at them too, feeling my back burn, I stood tall, learn from my balcony. He looked at me, his ruby eyes wide. "Nakano...?" I stood on the railings, Finally, my fire taking the form of two red and golden wings, and I flew. He kept his promise. And I touched the stars. I grabbed his hands and flew him with me, he cried in panicked fear, but calmed down as I held him to my chest. "Thank you Kat." I smiled at him. He smiled back. And we flew through the clouds in quiet and calm sky.
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