This time I will protect them I won't be a coward

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Denki and Aizawa sensei stared at each other as if a silent agreement had passed between the two and nodded at each other and broke away from the eye contact.

Denki stands in the aisle and musters up a fake smile and directs it at class 1-A students as they keep on staring at him with different expressions.

Dammit he could not look them in the eye.

Denki can see from the corner of his eyes Aayoma Yuga staring at him with great interest. Since when did the soon to be traitor begin to get interested in him and why? . Should he not be keeping an eye on the star of the show : Izuku Midoriya?.

'weird'.

Denki wordlessly walks past Torodoki Shoto and Aayoma Yuga's seats and sits at the very back of the bus.

His friends all turn around and look at him with extreme concern.

Denki felt too exposed without the black turtleneck which used to hide his scars and the bandage around his throat made his throat constrict now at all the undeserved attention he is receiving. Deep down he felt he did not deserve his classmates love and care.

Denki shuts his eyes for some time and feels the bus driver starting the bus engine.

Soon the bus starts moving out from the school campus and now they are on their way to the training camp.

After a few minutes, he could hear his friends chattering loudly and felt someone staring intensely at him.

Denki puts his somewhat charged airpods into his ears and plays a random song on his phone app.

🎶Then she fell in love with a pill that could take away all her pain, uh
Then she fell in love with a whole new drug that could fill her veins, and then
She's high (high)
She lives in the sky
Tonight, she's satisfied (satisfied)
Rolling back her eyes
But then she starts to cry (to cry)
Everything is turning to black
All in one night (one night)
She just went to heaven and back (back) 🎶

Feeling satisfied with the choice of the song being played. Denki closes his eyes for a while and leans back on the seat and tries to get as comfortable as possible and doesn't even care even if his scars are exposed to his teammates.

The meds he was on made him feel good and high with giddiness. His mind was clear this time with not a single depressed thought.

He seriously needs to ask Recovery Girl about the meds name after getting back from this training camp and slowly feels himself drifting into a blissful sleep.

After a minute or so, everyone was either sleeping or chatting.

Then, Mineta Minrou could be heard while defending his words while speaking to Rikido Sato loudly. Not known to the fact that what he was saying was heard by some of his classmates.

"Hey you just don't get the gist of what I'm saying! Some scars look cool Rikido!!".

This prompt makes Izuku stop writing his bits and pieces of information in the hero analysis book and he turns back to glance at Denki with his curious virdian eyes. He lets his eyes roam at Denki's sleeping form. Before settling on his neck Lichtenberg scars which were protruding out from his neck as the boy had leaned back in his sleep. The scars were  visible peeking around the white bandage wrapped around his neck. The scars looked like tree branches and were in pastel blue and pink light colours.

Usually these scars were gross to look at but on Denki it was a different story. They simply enchanted his already alluring features.

Now with his airpods dead and the feeling some staring at him.

Denki opens his eyes looks straight ahead and spots his Greenette friend sneaking glances at him.

Denki notices Mineta Minrou getting up from his seat excitedly to get pocky sticks from Ashido Mina. As she distributed some of the snacks which had brought along with her, to some of her classmates who sat beside her.

A mischievous idea comes in Denki's mind.

He gets out a yellow sticky note from his pants's pocket and clicks on his pen and writes on it and sticks the note on the poor boy's big forehead. This action makes Mineta yell, "Hey!".

Denki smiles at Mineta and tells him to show the sticky note to Midoriya while he is none the less going in the same direction.

Reluctantly Mineta Minrou walks up to Midoriya's seat and points at the yellow sticky note stuck on his big forehead and Midoriya reads the sticky note and immediately goes pink and pulls the sticky note from Mineta's forehead and hides it in his trembling hands.

This action makes Midoriya receive weird looks from the Dekusquad.

On the sticky note. It was written in cursive handwriting-

Stop staring at me stalker jr :p

Denki grins at Midoriya's priceless reaction.

He was starting to feel better now.