Right Where You Left Me

Chapter 1

Ylang Ylang -FKJ

-Denki's pov-

Rays of sunlight illuminate her skin as she stops her outdoor workout to fix her raven black hair. I watch with abandon as she adjusts her sports bra and stretches out a little before resuming her kicks and punches to the helpless bag in front of her. I've completely abandoned my workout to instead watch her every move and fake out at the submissive equipment in front of her. The fire in her eye grows in intensity as she lets her quirk come out.

The ground begins to rumble and my friends stop their workouts to watch what kind of finishing move she'll use this time. Suddenly, a pillar of dirt and rocks launch the punching bag into the air. A quick flick of her wrist creates sharp dirt shrapnel, piercing the bag and tearing it apart.

I gasp at the absolute beauty of the whole display and my heart begins beating heavily in my chest when she looks over at me. Well, my way.

"How's that for flashy Bakugo?" She smirks at him and he rolls his eyes.

"Those are expensive, you know." He huffs.

"That was so manly!" Kirishima pounds his fists together.

I'm speechless.

She comes over and wraps her arm around Kirishima's shoulder. Now that she's closer to me, I stare at the sweat that slips down her soft skin. Some of it dips and collects in her scars. Scars she had gotten, learning to control her quirk. She was learning to control the ground and dirt, it didn't always listen to her, but now she has full control.

Midoriya comes over with his notebook and Bakugo lets out an even louder huff than before. "Ari, that's the sixth punching bag you've destroyed this week." He let out a little giggle. "You gotta stop that or Iida is gonna start taking them out of your paycheck."

She looks over at me and I hold my breath. "Can't we just say it was Kaminari this time?"

"Wha-what? No! You blamed two of them on me last week!" I yell.

"So? That's not enough to make you pay for them." She pauses and winks at me. "Yet."

I blush a little and look away from her. "Maybe you could just stop destroying them?"

Bakugo let's out a little exasperated noise. "If she fuckin listened to me to begin with we wouldn't be having this shitty conversation!"

Ari lets out a little giggle as she brushes past my arm on her way to the dressing room and I melt.

"Could you be any more obvious?" Sero laughed at me.

I whine as I try to punch at him but he evades all of them, laughing even harder. "Stop pointing it out to everyone! Someone is gonna tell her before I do!"

"Then you better tell her quickly before your blatant obviousness kills all of us." Shinso chimes in.

"Your shitty crush is going to backfire if you don't get to her before someone else does. Four Eyes and the fuckin Nerd pine over her too." Bakugo squares up against Kirishima.

"I do not! She's cute but also kind of scary. Have you heard her playlists?" Midoriya squeaks.

"She's your regular hot goth gf." Sero raises his eyebrow.

"If you don't snatch her up, I will. And you should probably drop Mineta, she almost actually killed him when he got handsy with Mina." Kirishima said as he dodged a punch from Bakugo.

"Shoto has been talking to her more frequently recently. She's even come over to our apartment. They haven't messed around or anything. They just watch movies in silence. It's a little unnerving to be honest." Midoriya muttered.

My heart drops. She's been spending time with Todoroki? Sure she spends a lot of time with the Bakusquad ever since Mina declared Ari to be her best friend, but I've barely spoken to her. I need to change that.

"GET THE FUCK OUT I SWEAR TO GOD YOU CREEPY FUCKIN BASTARD!" Ari screams from the locker room.

Mineta is thrown out of the locker room by a pillar of dirt and Ari comes out with it. She has a small towel wrapped around her body as she charges at him almost as fast as the dirt slamming him into the wall. She wraps her hand around his throat and begins to punch his face.

"I'll give her 5 good hits before I pull her off." Bakugo says as he walks calmly towards her, Kirishima right on his tail.

I decide to join them and maybe help out. Or at least let my presence be known to her. After more than five hits, Bakugo wraps his arms around her and pulls her up. As he pulls her up, her towel falls. It plays out in slow motion. I act quickly and shield the front of her body with my own before Mineta could see anything. She's still damp and I can feel her nipples poking against my chest.

"Hey, hey, hey. It's okay Ari. We'll clean this up, alright?" I coo to her as I continue to shield her body while Sero picks up Mineta by the leg. The guys clearly unconscious. Bakugo keeps his arms wrapped around her, knowing all too well that she would flash us all just to completely end Mineta.

"It's not okay Kaminari! It's not! I swear to god if that fucking creep doesn't lose his hero license after this I'll lose mine killing him!" She screams. "And YOU." She keeps Bakugo wrapped around her as she pushes me away, "you're fucking FRIENDS with him so that doesn't fucking make you any better than him so I don't want to hear a single fucking thing come from your mouth."

Kirishima takes up my place in front of her as Bakugo fixes her towel back onto her. She storms back off into the locker room and I just stand there. All of the guys are silent as they look over at me. I feel so small at this moment.

"I... I should stop being friends with Mineta." I rub the back of my neck.

"No shit." Sero says as the group walks into the mens locker room. "Come out tonight. You can apologize to her."