Electrify Me

Chapter 6

As soon as the door closes behind Shouta, the class erupts with comments about what All Might had said about Kaminari, the most vocal members being Bakugou and Midoriya. Surprisingly, though, Jirou stays out of the conversation, something that sets the pair of best friends on edge as they know about her relationship with Kaminari. Why wasn't she defending her partner?

"You think Ears was acting fishy?" Katsuki asks Deku as they're changing into their hero suits. He didn't like the girl's lack of voice in the argument with All Might.

Izuku nods. "She definitely wasn't acting like a good girlfriend, but I'm more concerned with Denki not coming to class. She's always extra punctual on her feminine days."

Katsuki grunts in agreement before shooing the green haired boy off to distract the rest of the boys from seeing him changing out of his shirt and binder for training. Just because he knows they would accept him for who he is based on how they all accept Dunce Face doesn't mean he wants them to know. No one can know.

"Kaminari," Shouta calls out quietly when he enters the nap room. Hizashi had said that he would have stayed and handled the situation, but he needed to get to Hitoshi's class for English, so he was leaving the blonde in Shouta's capable hands.

"I'm not here," Denki responds from her place curled up on the couch.

Shouta stifles a chuckle at his student's words and takes a seat on the couch in what little space there is that Kaminari isn't taking up. "I've known you long enough to know something's wrong, kid. What happened?"

Denki sighs and sits up. She explains to him about her assignment to get information and how she was told to date Jirou. She explains everything Ahmya had said to her that morning and how Jirou had been avoiding her since the USJ. Denki even goes so far as to explain the fact that she actually did have feelings for the purple haired girl before finally getting to what happened after lunch. "I don't know how long they've been together, but she could have at least told me she didn't want to be together anymore. Why did she have to cheat?" Throughout her explanation, silent tears continued to fall down her face. She just can't figure out what she had done wrong. Why did Jirou do that to her? Wasn't she good enough for the girl?

Shouta isn't sure how to handle the situation. He had no experience with this type of situation. He had only ever loved two people in his life, and one of them died before he and Hizashi could suggest a polyamorous relationship between the three of them. "The only way you're going to get an answer on that is if you talk to Jirou. I don't really have experience with what you're going through, so I don't know what to tell you otherwise. As for your assignment, I'll see what I can come up with to give them without giving anything sensitive, especially the part about All Might's successor." There is absolutely no way he was going to let the villains know about his son, even if that meant keeping secrets from his best friends.

Shouta takes Denki to class, telling her to get into her hero suit before heading to Ground Alpha. At the training ground, Denki is surprised to find the majority of the class glaring at All Might any time they had to be near him, but she doesn't question it. She's too focused on trying to get Jirou to herself to confront her about what happened with Yaoyorozu. She needs to know the truth.

Denki doesn't manage to get Jirou alone until the end of the day as they're about to leave for the day, or, well, Jirou is, Denki is about to go train with her close friends.She corners the musically inclined girl, blocking her only means of escape from the conversation.

"Why have you been avoiding me?" Denki asks her. She will ask about the kiss she witnessed after Jirou answers her.

Kyoka feels ashamed. She knows that what she had been doing to Denki is wrong, but she wasn't sure how to tell her what she was doing. This being one of Denki's feminine days makes her feel even more guilty. The blonde is always so genuine and kind. "I'm sorry, Kaminari." She sighs in defeat. "I should have told you sooner."

"Told me, what?"

Kyoka gulps. "I um... I thought it would be okay since you have days where you're a girl, but I just... I'm not into guys, like, at all. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you."

Denki tries her best not to collapse, but her legs give out on her anyways. "Is that why I saw you kissing Yaoyorozu in the bathroom?"

Kyoka stands there in complete shock. She can't believe Kaminari had actually seen them together. She had been so careful, then the location the blonde said sinks in. The bathroom. Kaminari always avoided the girl's bathroom due to not wanting to upset the girls, even on feminine days. "Y-you..? You went in the girl's bathroom?"

"By accident." Denki can't just sit there and not defend herself. "I walked in, realized which one I walked into, and turned around to leave. That's when I saw you two." She could hear her own anger in her voice, the anger and the heartbreak.

Kyoka looks away in shame. "We should break up." She forces herself to look at her ex-partner. "I shouldn't have accepted when you asked to go out. I should have known that I would get too uncomfortable with your masculine days, but I knew that if you were asking, it was because you had genuine feelings for me. I knew you weren't like Mineta who harasses us all the time." She gulps past the lump of guilt in her throat. "I guess I kind of pitied you, too. You're always the butt of everyone's jokes, but you worked up the courage to ask me despite how I often acted towards you, just like everyone else. I'm so sorry, and I understand if you never forgive me. It would be great if we could still be friends, but I understand if you don't want to."

Denki sighs. "Give me time." She forces herself off the floor onto shaky legs. She'll just have to see if Hitoshi can cheer her up. He could always find ways to cheer her up. "I gotta go. I'm sure my friends are wondering where I am." And with that, she turns and leaves, trying not to cry any more for the day.