Mystery from Another World--MHA

Part 188: Snowball Fight

The drive up to the Rockies was going to take all morning, and they only ate a quick breakfast and, of course, bought coffee first.

The tensions in the group were high in Shine's car. She could sense it. Her perceptive eye didn't miss that Ren and Shigaraki kept frowning at each other whenever the other person wasn't looking.

Rumi was oblivious to that, as she usually was to people's signals. She was the only one in a good mood. Iida was still down, and Ibara was even more depressed than the day before.  She informed them she'd worked out that they were not kidnapping her, since she did remember them as friends, but it puzzled her as to why she had such hazy memories of how they met and how she'd left home. She still wasn't convinced the ninja had treated her badly. She thought they had misunderstood the group's intention.

It bothered Shine less that she still had gaps. Shine had dealt with this sort of thing many times, though this was a new version of it. She was sure Ibara would remember in time--though no doubt, not all of that would be a pleasant experience for her. Shine still wondered how she'd gotten all those cuts and bruises. Kayla wouldn't tell her any more about it, and that bothered her.

But Iida was not used to things not making sense or not being able to be fixed with just winning a fight and getting an A-grade. It was stressing him out.

Shine had to get her mind off of everyone else's mental states for a while. She turned up her playlist and tried to block them out.

Wally's car was much calmer. Kayla was in a black mood still, probably from guilt, if he had to guess. But the kids and Hawks were cheerful.

Medea was better after getting some rest and time to calm down. She wasn't quite her normal, dauntless self, but she was talking at least. Camie and her kept up a good dialogue.

Eventually the kids fell asleep though. They had not gotten enough last night. Momo was texting her other friends at UA at first, and Shoto too, but she also dozed off eventually.

Medea fell asleep on Monama's shoulder, not on purpose, and he didn't try to move her...then he fell asleep leaning on her also. 

It was just so cute, Wally wanted to take a picture. He wished Shine was there to share it with him... He missed her. Hopefully those crazy adults weren't giving her too much crap over there.

The plan was to go high enough to need snow chains and make it look like they got stuck up there, then portal home. That way, the ninja might be confused for longer. Wally was sure they were following them--but so far no sign of them actually catching up. They had to be stunned after how fast it had all happened.

"Where are you gonna go, Kay?" he asked, in English, since everyone else was asleep--except Hawks, but he was on his phone playing a game.

Kayla looked up.

"I haven't really decided yet," she said, "I can't stay around here. Once they figure out it was me...I should leave the country. My visa is still good for Japan, and they might take longer to find me there. I could disappear. I wasn't working there for that long, so not that many members knew me."

"Well, if you settle there, we could help you out, if you keep in touch," Wally said.

"I don't see any real reason to keep in touch," Kayla said, "All this doesn't make us friends. I just needed an escape."

"But what are you really running from, Kay?" Wally said, "Is it just the Originals? Or is it yourself too?"

Kayla frowned. "You and your girlfriend both talk so oddly. What does that even mean, running from yourself?"