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

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Denki does not know how much time has passed or how long he sat there sobbing his eyes out. He sniffles once again.

He felt someone's footsteps approaching towards him with careful steps. But still he does not raise his head and  look up.

He was too tired. Too drained. His behaviour hurted the person whom he truly loved and admired.

Then, he feels a finger lifting his chain up to stare into the obsidian eyes of Aizawa sensei.

Shouta was in panic mode on the inside. When he was informed by a worried Iida Tenya. They could not find Kaminari Denki anywhere after the hot spring incident which occurred between Kaminari Denki and Mineta Minrou.

Aizawa Shouta starts searching every nook and cranny of the facility. Shouta felt the dread setting into his bones. What if the child got kidnapped by the villain league?.

He clicks his tongue at the unpleasant thought and he is about to go and call Vlad King to help him search the premises for the child.

Only to stop in his tracks when he hears soft sobs echoing down the hallway. He starts moving towards the dead end of the hallway. 

To find  his problem child  sitting alone in the hallway and crying his heart out.

Shouta's heart ached at the sight of the child. Shouta did not know how to comfort the child as the child kept to himself mostly which was usually not a good sign. And on top of what his uncle did to inflict him with a mental and physical pain. Shouta knew he was threading on the water at the moment.

He had to calm down the child first somehow. He starts walking towards the child with precise calculated steps and crouches down on the floor and lifts the child's chin and asks, "Do you want to talk about it".

Denki feels more tears and spill from his  eyes as he shakes his head.

Aizawa sensei softly says, "You can tell me anytime. Just think of me as a friend".

Denki nods his head with a small smile and stops crying and says quietly, "Sorry for always causing you the  unnecessary trouble sensei".

Shouta scowls at the word "always". The boy never caused any trouble in class. He was a good kid. What did he mean by "always" Shouta felt confused by this use of the word.

Aizawa sensei shakes his head, "You never did cause any unnecessary trouble in the first place".

Aizawa sensei gets up and extends his hand out towards Denki to grab it and says, "Come on now. let's get you back to your room. Tomorrow is going to be a big day of training ahead of us" .

Denki rubs his red puffing eyes and says with a bright smile, "Yes sensei!".

After a few minutes, Denki enters the boys dormitory room.

Everyone stops their chattering and goes quiet and stares at Denki's red puffy eyes.

Denki quietly walks inside while his friends keep on staring at him.

Denki takes the farthest corner in the room and places his luggage on the floor and opens his bag and takes out his pill box. And takes out one pink and white pill  and pops them into his mouth and takes a few sips from the water bottle and places it near his pillow and quietly lies down on the futon and pulls the sheets over his head and goes to sleep.

After some time light snores could be heard coming from the tired boy who was fast asleep now.

His classmates let out a sigh of relief to see the boy was fine but they were very shaken up  when they could find him. After some time it's light out and everyone goes to sleep.