I Can't Cope Alone (A Kamijiro FanFic)

Chapter 9

KAMINARI'S POV

I yawned and stretched. It was seven. Homeroom started at 8:25. I had time. I slipped out of bed and everyone was swarming around someone. Todoroki....? Jiro and Tokoyami even seemed fascinated. "How did you even get back here?!" Ashido cried. "I... um.... I broke out of the confinement center Hagakure was holding us in. I couldn't manage to get Ojiro though... sorry." "Dude, don't be ashamed! It's so cool that you got out of here on your own!" Kirishima cried. "N-no, it's not like that. That place was horrible. T-they were torturing us and I just left him there." I was surprised. Todoroki seemed shaken. He was showing emotion. Actual emotion. "Maybe we should stop questioning him. I don't think he's in the mood for this..." Jiro said, but so quietly that only I could hear. "Jiro's right." Shoji said. Apparently, he heard too. Annoyed and begrudgingly, but knowing it was for the best, the class cleared up. Jiro and I turned to give Todoroki some space, but he placed hands on both of our shoulders and told us to wait. "What's up?" I asked, sitting back down. Jiro sat next to me.

As fast as lightning, Todoroki pulled a cloth out of his pocket and swiftly tied it around Jiro's mouth. "Crap, I forgot one for electro-boy." he muttered, and just gagged me. Jiro coughed agonizingly, and tried desperately to get the thing off of her mouth. I could tell that the cloth was ejecting something into her lungs. Hagakure appeared in the background. I could see her, though. Her bright yellow eyes and Cheshire grin. Jiro's eyes rolled into the back of her head and she passed out right into Todoroki's arms. He smirked. "One down, one to go." I was so stupid. He forgot to tie my hands.

I couldn't shock Todoroki or Hagakure without shocking Jiro too... I hated my quirk in that moment. I tore the gag out and started screaming at the top of my lungs. "Shut up, or your girlfriend gets it." He had a knife at Jiro's throat. I stopped immediately. Luckily for me, practically everyone in Class 1-A heard me screaming. "I KNEW SOMETHING WAS UP WHEN YOU GOT ALL EMOTIONAL ABOUT OJIRO!" Kirishima screamed. Bakugo just let out a low-pitched sound that sounded like, "GRRRRR..." Todoroki untied the cloth around Jiro's mouth and hung it between his fingers. "Bolt boy, we're coming for you." He whispered gravely. Hagakure wrapped his arm around his neck and all three of them disappeared.

"What... just.. Happened...?" Uraraka breathed. Iida waved his arms mechanically at me. "Kaminari! Are you alright?" I wasn't sure about both of their questions. My mind was swirling. They just came here. Todoroki was evil. He hadn't even tried breaking Ojiro out of there. They took Jiro right out from under me. Did I even try to stop them? Not really. "Kaminari? Are you alright?" Iida repeated, more calmly this time. "I... I don't know." I stammered, then bolted up to my room.

KIRISHIMA'S POV

I sprinted after Kaminari. Nobody tried to stop me. None of us knew why he'd been screaming. It was all clear once we saw it, though. "Kaminari!" I called after him. "Wait up!" He didn't stop, but slammed the door in my face. I pulled it back open without question. Kaminari was laying facedown on his bed, his face buried into his pillow. I was gonna screw this up but I was gonna screw up worse if I just gave up and left. I just stood in the doorway in brief silence before walking over closer to him.

"Kaminari," I started, but I didn't know what else to say. Suddenly, and saving me, the rest of the class minus Bakugo, Todoroki, Ojiro, and Jiro were in the doorway (the last three I named, obviously). I motioned to Kaminari with my chin. "Please... get out, guys." Kaminari mumbled, the sound even more muffled by his pillow. "What's wrong, bro?" Sero asked. Kamianari looked up from his pillow. "What's wrong, Sero? What's wrong? What's wrong is the fact that I let Ojiro get hurt, I let Jiro get kidnapped right out from under me, and I let both Todoroki and Hagakure get away. I didn't even do anything to stop it." he said, then flopped back down onto his bed. "Please go." He added quickly. I could sense the irritation in his voice. "Come on. Let's go." Tokoyami said.

KAMINARI'S POV

I picked up the lyrics Jiro had written me and ran my hand over the neat ink. Maybe if I'd done something more, she'd be here. Safe. With me. A tear rolled down my cheek and landed on the paper. Some of the ink smudged. That's when I noticed Jiro's wordplay in the lyrics. The first verse went: Your eyes; I can't look away from them. Your smile keeps me going and I-I cannot stop believing that you're the one I need.

I read it over and over again. Then I moved onto the chorus. You taught me how to fly and now I can do it on my own, but that doesn't mean I want to! As it goes, I want you! You taught me how to fly and I listened. And I've seen it before, you glisten! Your smile and eyes say it all! Say it all.

I was so shocked at my realization that I dropped the papers. She was talking about me. She wrote that song about me. It was this the whole time! Her settle way of telling me and I missed it! Now I was more determined than ever to go save her.

I stared at the dark ceiling and wrote Jiro a letter in my head. I wish I was telepathic. Then again, she was probably a mindless minion of Hagakure now. My phone was buzzing repetitively. It was Kirishima. He kept texting. I got annoyed and finally answered.

Kirishima: bro i know ur restless

Kirishima: talk 2 me

Kirishima: hullo

Kirishima: kaminari

Kirishima: plz

Kirishima: talk 2 me

Kirishima: come on

Kirishima: kaminari

Kaminari: what i dont feel like talking 2 u

Kirishima: bro just hear me out

Kirishima: im getting the class together to raid hagaures empire and get jiro ojiro and todoroki out i know u want to

Kaminari: duh

Kirishima: k so u in or what

Kaminari: fine

He gave me all the details. We'd leave tomorrow morning before classes so the teachers and the students that weren't coming wouldn't try and stop us. We met up in Kirishima's room. I looked around the room. It was Uraraka, Midiroya, Kirishima, Sero, Ashido, and me, obviously. "I only asked the ones I knew would come. It would be risky asking the others like Iida and Tsu and Tokoyami." Kirishima said. "Okay, I think we should go before anyone catches us." Sero said. "And fast, because I just heard someone's door open." Midoriya pointed out. I swallowed and willed myself not to die.