My Hero [Boku no Hero Academia]

Chapter 3 A New Start?

Edited-3/10/17

Edited- 8/27/18

I grit my teeth as I work to untangle the knots in my hair. Damn, it sucks not being able to brush your hair for 10 years without a proper brush. Up until now, I've been using my fingers to work my knots under control so anyone can imagine the joy I'm feeling now that I have a proper brush. Still, the whole process of unknotting my hair was a work in progress, but I know will be worth it when I finally do get the knots out.

After spending the next 10 minutes untangling my hair, I manage to get it back to its smooth state. Although my head feels as if it's been sucked into a vacuum cleaner, I smile to myself knowing it'll never be tangled like that again. Of course, I could always cut it, but I like my hair long.

I exit the bathroom wearing a loose long sleeve shirt along with sweatpants that are able to fit me perfectly fine. For the first time, I feel decent and presentable. Well, presentable enough to have a decent conversation with Mr. and Mrs. Izumi. I make my way towards the living room, which was very easy to find seeing as the house itself isn't very big, to begin with. When I enter the living room, I see Mr. and Mrs. Izumi in a heated discussion. Right before they notice I'm here, I catch the words, "Already being caught....chase....brought in for questioning," leaving Mr. Izumi's lips.

But before I'm able to hear anything else, they lift their heads up and look towards my direction. Mrs. Izumi offers me a slight smile before gesturing towards the pillow on the floor. "Come and get comfortable dear, there's something we'd like to discuss with you," she says kindly, turning her body towards my direction. I do as I'm told and sit on my legs on the pillow with my hands placed in my lap.

I watch as Mrs. Izumi looks towards her husband, and taking the hint he turns towards me and begins to say, "While you were in the bathroom, I made a call to the station to report what you told us. They went to investigate the neighborhood until they found your house." He pauses for a bit to frown and furrow his brows before continuing. "They were able to track her down not only with your last name, which Akabana was able to provide me with but also with the connection of an Akane Yukimori that became isolated after getting fired from her job. No one knew she had a child. Only a handful knew about you.

"I suppose what I'm trying to say is, your mother wasn't very smart enough to hide the evidence of what she did at her job, so we were able to enter her house and take a look around, but unfortunately she had escaped before we got there. Luckily, though, some of our officers were able to catch her before she could disappear completely. Not only that, but we got lucky she was apprehended before she could use her quirk on us thanks to the help of a nearby hero. She's being brought to the station now for questioning."

My eyes fall to my lap in shock. "She's been arrested?" I ask quietly before looking up at Mr. Izumi. When he nods his head, my shoulders sag with relief and a sigh escapes my lips. Mrs. Izumi makes her way over towards me and cautiously places her hand on my shoulder. Automatically, I shove my hands under my legs to prevent them from reciprocating her affection.

"Setsuna, I don't think you have anything else to worry about. The search through her house gives us more than enough evidence of the wrongdoings she's done to you. Not to mention she had more research with her when she was finally caught. That'll be enough to keep her in jail for a long long time." Mrs. Izumi says as she proceeds to rub my shoulder in a comforting manner.

She smiles kindly and I return it back to her, before a more serious thought causes it to slowly fade away. "But, what'll I do now? I haven't really thought about where I'd go from here on...well, I guess I could just start looking for that U.A. High School for now and worry about a home later. And of course, since I self-educated myself and also got educated at home, I'm technically in my last year of middle school so I only have a couple weeks until middle school finishes and ends for the year. That'll give me enough time to head to the library, and teach myself everything else I need to learn. That also allows me to find myself a job so that I can get my own apartment. Let's see....I wonder if there are any jobs out there that are willing to hire a 14-year-old girl with no experience whatsoever....And would I even be able to live in an apartment by myself? I'm sure they'll just put me in an orphanage, maybe even decide I need some kind of therapy..."