ACT 1: KANEGAWA MIYABI

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by hyuckiebabe

by hyuckiebabe

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I still get nightmares.

Every night, with the lights open as I slept, I get dragged into another hell of a nightmare. 'For someone so gifted and strong, she's sensitive.', people would say to my father. Then, he'd look at me with an unreadable expression and retort to them with false confidence. He was the number 3 hero after all, anyone would fall for his confident facade.

My name's Miyabi, and I'm scared of no one but myself.

When my quirk manifested, it wasn't the most exciting. But it was definitely eventful. I was five when I slept in my room one night. Lights off, the air, cold as I laid there without a worry in the world. Suddenly, i felt like my body was being pulled apart. Like my soul was being sucked out by some sort of entity. But it was just me, and my extremely annoying quirk.

Next thing I knew, I couldn't see anything.

Dark. Dark and suffocating. If this was how it felt to gain power, Miyabi would rather live her life as a laughingstock because she was quirkless. She was screaming. At least she was trying to. She couldn't see, couldn't hear, couldn't move.

Was she paralyzed? She didn't know. She's heard of sleep paralysis before but she never thought she'd be one to have it. All she knew was that she hated this and she tried to get someone to help her.

"NAOKI! NII-SAN! NAOKI-"

She could feel her surroundings shaking violently. The more she tried to scream, the harsher the shaking was. To her ears, everything was muffled. And it terrified her how each and every one of her senses were blocked out but there was still muffled noises if she listened enough. She couldn't. All she could hear was her frantic heartbeat that was quickening by the second.

Panick Attack.

What was taking them so long to get to her? Was she still asleep? Was this all a dream?

"OTO-SAN! OKA-SAN! PLEASE- NAOKI!!"

Her screams felt real enough to her. Even though she couldn't hear it, she could feel her throat hurt. She could feel her vocal cords start to break.

Then there was light... Then there were voices... Then she could hear herself sobbing.

"Toto! Yabi- it's me, it's nii-san. It's me,
it's okay-" she could feel her brother hug her. Tighter than he ever has. His voice trembled and she could tell he was terrified. When her vision started to clear in the slightest, she tried to look for her parents.

She wish she hadn't.

Her mom stood by the door. She wasn't frozen- not really. It was more like she didn't want to take a step further. The look in her eyes stirred something in the heart of the small girl. Mothers weren't supposed to look at their child that way, were they?

Mui, her father, didn't look any better. Instead of her, he looked around her room. Precious treasures were a wreck on the floor. The walls were cracked and the ground looked like it would cave in any second. He looked impressed. But that wasn't what she needed.

"Mui... The villa is a wreck. How do you propose we fix this?" Was what her mom first said.

"... Let's drive over to my mom's place. I'll just have to explain this to her. Naoki, bring your sister to the car."

At this point she's trying her best to tune out her parents that found time to discuss their plans with them in the room. She'd much rather listen to her brother that was doing his best to calm her down.

"It's okay toto... You're okay... That was just your quirk, you're safe. Okay?"

I wasn't. With a quirk like mine, I wasn't safe anywhere.

We ended up moving houses solely because of the manifestation of my quirk. Talk about overkill. The place we moved into wasn't any better in any way. The school sucked and all I really got from the people were whispers and insults and hate.

At least I met Neito and Shinso. Neito wasn't the most pleasant- sure. But he liked me enough to actually talk to me without any insults unlike everyone so, that was a win. Shinso's got some bite in him but he's agreeable.They both weren't the most quiet people, especially when they're together but, they understood and that's all I needed.

I knew life was just going to get somewhat worse starting then. More so because I was trying out to be a hero. So, it was nice to have friends with me while going through this path.

Maybe I could use my villainous quirk into something good.

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