Shangri La Pt. 1

12: Encounter

( Flashback )

Katsuki left the rest of the knights right after Gin had already left for 'needing some air' and walked around the grounds of the Temple. 

'Why's this place so big, I just need to find her, she should be here somewhere.' Katsuki thought, as he went towards the direction of the Shrine. 

'It had to 've been her, I recognized the scent pretty easily when she walked past me earlier. And... she kept looking away from me, which meant she knew who I was. Heh- she's not gonna run this time, I'll make sure of it.' Katsuki thought with a smirk.

He stood at a distance, but was leaning off the walls of the Shrine, knowing that he was just a few feet away from the door leading to the Great Pisces. 

'She must be in there.' he thought, crossing his arms. 

He kept waiting, and stood there for a pretty long time, watching as the Sun was slowly starting to leave the sky and the Moon rising. 

'What's taking so long, does she know I'm waiting here?' he thought, starting to get aggravated from waiting so long. 

'What am I doing, there are plenty of other attempts to see her, so why am I-' He pushed himself off the wall and was about to leave, until he heard a very familiar voice.

"What a relief, I haven't come across that guy since earlier. At least I don't need to use this disguise anymore." 

Katsuki pushed himself back against the wall and slowly pushed his head and could see in the corner of his eye the same girl, as her hair slowly changed from Silver back to Dark Green. His eyes widened, as he finally remembered how he saw her face before he passed out from having an arrow in his back. 

He saw her face, he knew it was her!

"Hah- that really did drain all the energy out of me, I wonder if Emra has done this before. Oh who am I kidding- she's got more energy than me." 

Katsuki knew she was walking in the direction towards him as her voice was getting louder. 

"Let's just get some sleep and hope everything'll be fine in the- ack!" 

Katsuki found the right chance and grabbed her by her wrist and pulled her towards him and then pushed her against the wall. He looked down at the greenette, her eyes remained shut and he could feel her shaking in his arms. 

'Heh- just like back then.' Katsuki thought.

"So you thought I wasn't gonna find you, huh?" a deep but raspy voice said. 

Izumi froze, she recognized the voice, but she was praying that it wasn't who she really didn't want it to be. She slowly peeked her eyes open only to find those piercing Ruby Red eyes staring down at her. 

He looked deep into her soft Emerald Green eyes, just the color he'd been wanting to see. 

"Hello again... Izuku." 

"Ah- I-I-"

 "So... this is where you've been hiding, huh? That means you were the one who left that letter for me to deliver it then. And you must've begged that weird doctor not to tell me your name, right? You think I'm stupid, don't you?" 

Izumi couldn't stop staring at his gaze, it didn't help that when he was leaning in closer to her, she could smell sweet caramel.

"I-I didn't say you were stupid, I just- I just thought it would help me out since you are a Todoroki Knight and were going back that way." Izumi said, trying to avert her eyes from him.