It's Okay To Be Yourself

Chapter 22: Please Remember

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~after she gets hit with Midnight's quirk~
I woke up in an empty room, a long table and a few chairs. I tried moving, but my hands and legs were tied.

"I see you've finally woken up." A voice said to me. I looked over to the direction of the voice and it's none other than Aizawa-sensei himself. "Aizawa!" I screamed, "what are you doing, get me out of here!" He shook his head, "no can do Jiro. If I untie you, you're just gonna escape again. This is for your own good."

"What do you mean it's for my own good?" I asked. "Jiro, I know this might sound crazy, but you're being taken over right now." Aizawa said, "If we don't fix it soon, you might be taken over completely. So please, let us help you."

I didn't believe anything Aizawa had to say. I mean, taken over? That's crazy! I mean surely I would remember if I was being taken over right, but the tone in his voice made it like it was a serious matter. Maybe he was right, maybe I should listen to him.

"Alright, if you insist, but I'm telling you, you're wasting your time, I'm completely fine." I said. Aizawa sighed, "you sure about that?" He moved from where he was standing and I saw two familiar people, "hey, those are the guys that kidnapped me!"

They didn't actually kidnap me. In fact, they were my parents, but I didn't know that at the time and I still feel bad about it to this day.

My mom started crying, she couldn't handle the fact I couldn't remember her. "It's worse than we thought." My dad said with tears in his eyes. "She's completely forgotten who we are."

'What are they talking about,' I thought to myself, 'I've never seen these people in my life.' "Do you think you could bring her back?" Aizawa asked. "We can try," my dad said, "but I don't think it's gonna be easy."

My dad wiped his tears and he bent down to be in eye level with me. "Kyoka don't worry, we're gonna help you remember who you are." He said to me.

"Who the hell's Kyoka?" I asked.

His soft smile turned into a frown. "You don't remember your own name?"

"My names not Kyoka." I said.

He looked down for a moment before looking back up at me, "Remember when you were a kid, we would always play guitar and sing together. Don't you remember that?"

'I don't get it, why is this guy acting like he knows me?' I thought to myself.

"Or how about the time we enrolled you in music classes." He asked, "you had so much fun there, I think that was the first time I've ever seen you had so much fun."

I started thinking, despite how hard I tried, I couldn't remember what he was talking about.

The tears in his eyes started coming back, "remember when you got your quirk. You were crying the whole time because of all the loud noises and me and your mother went to comfort you."

My expression went blank, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't remember anything.

I felt like all the emotion have been drained out of my body, but something was telling me I had to remember, they're depending on me to.

'Wait, why do I care?' I thought to myself, 'I don't even know them.'

I thought more; 'Why should I care if I remember or not? They're probably just trying to trick me into going home with them or something weird like that.'

"I don't know what you're playing at." I said, "but whatever you're planning, I won't fall for it."

He started crying more, "come on Kyoka, don't you remember anything?"

"What are you talking about?" I asked, "I've never known you, or her. I only met you twice. Once was when you kidnapped me and the other-"

I stopped for a moment, for a spilt second I remembered my name, but I couldn't remember who it belonged to.

'Who was she anyways?' I thought to myself, 'I only saw her once and then I never saw her again.'

'Wait that's not true.' I thought to myself, 'I saw her other times. I talk to her all the time. She's been acting weird lately though and everyone kept saying that I'm acting weird. Is it possible that I'm Kyoka Jiro? Did something happen to me to make me forget everything?'

That's when I remembered, the villain attack. I was there with Denki and ever since then I've been acting like him and slowly starting to forget who I was.

'Oh my god, what have I done?' I thought to myself, 'I made everyone worry about me. I forgot my own parents.'

I started crying. 'How could I do this to my own parents?' I asked myself, 'They must have been devastated slowly watching me slip away. But I can make things right. I can bring Jiro back! I just have to remember. It's not too late!'

"NO!" I heard the voice in my head say, "You're not supposed to remember! I won't let you!"

Suddenly I felt myself trying to escape from the ties. 'This isn't good..' I thought to myself, 'if I succeed in escaping I might never remember who I was before'.

Luckily Aizawa-sensei noticed I was trying to escape and went over to make the ties tighter.

"There you go," he said, "you'll have a hard time escaping that now."

Despite the voice inside screaming at Aizawa, telling him to let me out I stayed calm and smiled, knowing we were one step closer to bringing the real me back.

"Thanks Mr. Aizawa." I said smiling at him.

He smiled back, "no problem Jiro."

Then he looked over to my parents, "It's not too late," he said, "shes still in there we just gotta hurry."

My parents started panicking. "Well what do we do?" My dad asked.

"I don't know," Aizawa said, "continue reminding her of stuff hopefully she'll turn back to normal if you do."

My dad nodded he knew what to do. He looked me directly in the eyes and smiled at me holding on to my shoulders as he did.

I had no idea what was going to happen, but whatever he said had to be good, or I would stuck without my memories forever.