'Just Another Love Story'

Chapter 20

It had to last for 6 hours, Tenya Iida was in pain for all of those minutes.

He laid there, knowing it was the only safe thing to do because of what happened. He would try to get up but one movement cause blurry sights, pounding headaches, body feeling numb and empty, forgetting how to take in oxygen, and even feeling like his body was falling when it wasn't. He knew how he looked on the outside, since the people around him kept saying this multiple times.

"Are you sure he's alright though Doc?" One of the teachers for the camp comes around the bed, looking at him from another angle. "He looks paler than he did 5 minutes ago! And I was staring right at him!"

Akamine could describe him as a literal ghost, not some annoying little *beep* that has come to puncture into his life. Tenya's skin was so pale that it seemed to beg for sun, eyes that couldn't even shimmer if they tried, lips just starting to look like their turning blue.

"Are the 6 hours up yet?" Akamine questions, knowing that once he gets his quirk back, everything will be fine. He did not take a fan to this switching idea once it was said a good while back.

"Nope, 4 more minutes."

"Should we at least try to move him out of here and back to his room?" A different teacher questions. "I don't think being in here is the last thing I wake up in."

"Are you seriously hinting the one time I accidently sent you here? And I said I was sorry like 10 times!"

"You actually said it 52 times, in a row." The doctor pats the one on the head, putting down his clipboard. "But, it may be better just in case he does want to sleep after."

Moving him was the most difficult thing one could ask for, if he wasn't feeling like a walking dead corpse every second that went by. Akamine was forced to carry him but found out 7 steps in that Tenya passed out completely, but still alive in which he was breathing.

Everyone hadn't really heard or seen much of anything but anyone could've guessed the looks on their faces then they saw them all walk by the rooms. There were those who were suprised but also those who were scared and confused.

Once getting into the room, they had all realized the time.

"Times up!" There was a quick moment of joy from all the adults as they knew all of this would be over.

The process to turn everything back was the easiest thing one could ask for, there were no weird blinding lights, pitched screams of pain, or anything turning into a natural disaster. No, all Tenya did was have a brutal awakening, like someone decided to give him whiplash.

"Woah, kid, not so fast there." The doc says as he prevents the boy from trying to get up. Tenya finds this much of a problem since he no longer wanted to be there. "You have to take it easy, you should be thankful we could turn things back."

After giving a list of caution and a quick checkup, it was then back to only Akamine and Tenya in the room.

"Sora, I do mind asking though, what is your quirk?" Tenya had nothing better to do at this point, but at least he could get that bug off his mind.

Akamine seemed rather hesitant at first, but after careful thought then decided that it may be for the better to let him know. He put down the random statue he had picked up earlier and sighed.

"You know math, like multiplication and division?"

"What do you think I am Sora, a newborn baby?" Tenya wasn't in a good mood at the moment and he sure did sound like it, but he was definitly not a newborn baby. The class jokes that when their older he will be like fermented wine. "Of course I know what that is! But what does it have to do with your quirk?"

"In the most simple way I can describe it, I can multiply and divide the power in myself and others."

It seemed like a new quirk, something Tenya has never heard from and isn't anything like from what he has heard from the news over the years. It also felt like it takes much power just to control it in general, like one wrong move or though could just kill.

Oh.

"So, if I had 100% hearing then you could reduce it to 50%?"

"I could do that to myself but there are limits to when I do it to other people." He starts to walk over, taking a seat on the bed beside Tenya. "It's not that I can't but just doing it to other people drains me already."

"It's more of a personal value quirk."

"Someone finally understands!" Tenya wasn't sure what that was suppose to mean but he took it as a good sign.

Akamine left to take a shower but as Tenya sat on the bed alone, he found that same odd guilty feeling, like it was sitting beside him.

Then it clawed at him, nails sinking into his weak flesh and bringing him who knows where, heavy weights pulling him under as he is unable to break free, trying to breath was like being in space, and all he could do was let it all happen.

It then changed, he could see a lake, the gutted salt water, the fogged sky that surrounded him on this sandy island. The musk water emerged over the island, covering Tenya's feet and the dry misted sand. He did nothing but look around, hoping there was something or at least someone.

Until the rug was pulled beneath him.

His entire body sunk into the depths of the sea, forcing him into a penetrating darkness, keeping him tied to the weight pulling him under, struggling to be freed when all he could do was just drown right there.

"Shift."

He felt like he teleported, where he now found himself looking around frantically. The island hand many lovely flowers, a few trees that swayed with a light breeze, it made it easy to forget the events that happened before.

"Do you remember me?"

He looked to see a creature, it being made of complete shadows. It stood on the island a few meters away from Tenya, no face, no arms, no legs, just a standing blob on the mint grass. Tenya did not recognize this thing but this thing would be his absolute nightmare.

The island then grew dead, decaying the life that stretched over it and replacing it with the smell of death. The land beneath his feet then started to swallow him whole, sinking him below the surface into a pit of despair.

"Failure, failure failure!" The thing repeated as Tenya dipped downwards.

It was getting to a point where he was getting too deep, to the point where he couldn't get out even if he tried. Dead roots grabbed on him for dear life, still dragging him down. The words of the blob got louded and louder, echoing as he sank downwards.

"FAILURE, FAILURE!"

it then felt like he hit rock bottom, his body going limp and the hole feeling like a dark empty void of nothing but failure.

What haunting him wasn't guilt, it was just a mirror of his failure.
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This is a little sad, this chapter in general, it is all sad.