Green Innocence

6: Fun With Friends

   A great shock had rest upon Ibara's heart; birthed in the hot breath that was one sentence of an audacious theory. Izuku? Bullied?

    There's no way because after all he has such great friends, even classmates that were basically friend's to him in their own right. I mean sure he was shy, easily startled, and nervous to boot, but that HAD to be from his god given personality alone right? 

    What's more, when they first met he stated about how people were trying to speak to him, so, therefore he's seemingly popular among the other classes. Besides that, he was just so gosh stinkin nice to everyone around him that Izuku will literally say sorry for them several times over something that he never caused. Not even Mother Tarissa, and this was said with respect towards a mother of the church, paled in comparison against his sweet heart in the young Shiozaki's eyes. Heck, even the mere thought of someone wanting to raise a fist against him for any personal fault or even for fun felt alien to the mind of the vine haired girl. After all, who would want to harm such a pure and innocent wingless angel given to the earth from heaven? Apparently somebody that didn't like angels.

    The first guess she had was Satan, or Lucifer. They definitely would do something like that.

   With a shaky smile and a twisting head of rejection, the green haired girl replied in an emotion brewed with assurance yet concern, "No. No no, I can hardly believe something like that to be possible; I find it difficult to believe any of god's good creations would ever wish to harm Midoriya-San, for either no reason or nothing more than for sinful joy.".

    "Honestly from watching the two of you interact, even I gotta admit he's a sweet bean. But, I cannot help but look at the guy and see some pretty straight facts that he may have possibly been picked on in the past...", stated the ginger. She leaned against the wall, looking forward towards the crowd, seeing if she could see the person they spoke of, "I mean, I'm surprised you never even noticed, what with how perceptive you are most of times. But, then again, I guess his entire personality does scream introverted, only reason I noticed was I guess he gave me some look that just didn't sit well with my gut.".

    "Look? Do you mean he frowned deeper or was especially shy around you? I do not wish to be rude against Midoriya-San but, I believe he is like that towards everyone he doesn't know too well. Thankfully, heaven has blessed him for his ability to connect with them further down the line in such a kindred way.".

   "Riiight...But back to what I was saying; it wasn't necessarily him being awkward around me particularly, or even shy. Nah, it was more so, like his body language...that was what made me think.". 

   "Midoriya-San's body language?".

   "Yeah, exactly...Sure it's faint as all hel- heck, but after observing close enough, it's kinda hard to not think it.", the turquoise eyed girl responded with the expression as if she were processing her own words, "I guess it first crossed my mind with the way he kinda hides himself inside of his own shoulders. Now somethin like this is something we see from Koda-San from class A as well...but...Midoriya-San's seems to be less so hiding, and almost more like a need to go unnoticed of some kind. Ever notice the way he hunches over with his back and tucks himself away in his shoulders sometimes? It's sorta reminiscent of say a lower member in a wolf pack trying not to be the center of attention when among the rest.".

   Shiozaki pondered her mind for a moment; searching throughout her treasure trove of fun and even casual memories that included our protagonist within them, and it did finally click with her mind after she remembered one faint memory. Before they ever really begun talking, whenever all the first year classes were together; she did steal one look at his general direction, mostly observing her competition and what their attitudes were like. Purely for the case of the festivals' tournament, but, it did snake it's way to her brain that he did have an odd way of hiding himself. Either covering his whole head with both arm's wrapped around it, or hunching down in an odd way while simultaneously hidden within the safety of his shoulder's.