Punchline T.Shigaraki

8 I am Exo-Gloom

"Y/N STOP DAYDREAMING AND PAY ATTENTION TO THE FIGHT!"

Before I could react I was snapped out of my gaze with a punch to the face. I was pushed back a little but not enough to make me fall over.

"That hurt damn it..."

"Maybe it wouldn't if you took this fight seriously!"

"Y/n focus on the fight!"

"Okay fine I'm sorry Mr.Aizawa!"

I continued to fight my classmate. His punches were extremely powerful thanks to his quirk (he can manipulate the wind and air around him).

"Y/n what are you doing? You're supposed to defend while he attacks not counterattack."

Mr.Aizawa sighed and made us stop fighting.

"Everyone, class is finished for today. Y/n I will need to speak with you when you're done changing out of your gym clothes."

I groaned and glared at him but I quickly left the gym to change.

~

"Y/n, I've been really disappointed in your behavior lately."

I sat on my desk as Mr.Aizawa lectured me. He was standing right in front of me with his arms crossed and his eyebrows furrowed.

"You're in your third year of High school and you still make mistakes that you should have stopped making years ago! You're a hero for god's sake you can't be making these mistakes once you're out there, saving lives. This behavior is not fit for a hero!"

I looked down at my hands that rested on my lap, trying to stop any eye contact while talking.

"I'm sorry sir."

"You always say that y/n but I don't even know if you understand the meaning of that. It's like you don't know what the meaning of I'm sorry truly is."

I just looked away. Mr.Aizawa looked at me for a second before sighing and sitting down on the desk in front of mine.

"Y/n, why do you want to become a hero?"

I finally looked up at Mr.Aizawa. he was staring down at me.

"I thought that if I became a hero, the void in my heart would disappear."

"What do you mean by that?"

"My whole life, I've always felt this... emptiness inside of me. It feels like I have a goal that I have never obtained but I just don't know what that goal is."

Mr.Aizawa listened attentively to what I was saying.

"I've tried everything to get rid of this feeling, I tried every hobby I tried every boy I've tried everything but it still won't work! The only time this feeling went away is when I watched heroes fight with villains on TV."

Now I looked him straight in the eyes maintaining eye contact as I explained my twisted story.

"I would feel this strange feeling of hope whenever I watched those fights it's like I was whole again! But once the hero won and the fight was over my heart would go back to normal. I thought it was because I wasn't the one fighting villains but... being a hero doesn't do anything either!"

I sunk my nails into the skin of my cheeks while biting down on my teeth.

"I just don't know anymore! Did becoming a hero not work? Is it not the solution to this endless void that's eating all my emotions up from the inside?!"