•A New Chance• Bnha x reader

Chapter 8: A Sudden Turn

I slowly walk the road, my sore back and loss for breath making it a bit hard. I groan, putting my hand on my lower back.

I see a bench close by, and as it comes next to me, I sit down, catching a breath, while the exhaustion slowly fades.
I see some people arguing close by, and I can hear one of them shouting something. I try to listen closely, when I finally get what the teenager is trying to tell the others. Apparently there is a villain in the Tatooin Station? I get up, quickly running to them. I ask the directions there, and the boy says that he's going there so he can show me. He looks back at his acquaintances. They laugh, walking away slowly.
I see the boy looking slightly down, but as he raises his head, he starts running towards the city, looking at me questioningly. I get the message, and I start running behind him.

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We see a big crowd of people trying to get closer, and I thank the boy, giving him a smile. He smiles back, and I go my own way, trying to find the green-haired boy. He is obsessed with watching villain fights, so he must be here, right?

I find him, looking at the... Slime monster?? All Might probably lost the bottles where it was trapped when Midoriya jumped onto him..
I try to reach the green-haired boy, but people are packing so tightly I can brely breathe. The small spaces seem to get even more tighter, and I run forwards, pushing anyone out of the way who came in front of me. I see Midoriya's face contorting, as he realises that someone was in the villain's grasp. I reach him finally, as I put my hand on his shoulder. He jumps a little bit, and looks at me.

"PLEASE, YOU CAN PROBABLY DO A LOT MORE THAN ME!! SO PLEASE DO SOMETHING" He says frantically, almost shouting.

"I don't know... We should just leave the job to the pros, right? Of course I want to help... But it's just that we would probably just be in the way" I say, looking down. I feel Midoriya's arm touch mine, as he starts running. I quickly raise my gaze, seeing him running to the villain. I shout his name, quickly running after him.

I avoid the fires from the explosions, while trying to see a gap in the villain's defense. Midoriya thinks quickly, and throws his backpack into it's eye, making it flinch. I stop. I take the opening, seeing the metal sign above us piercing the slime monster's head with my mind.
The sign throws itself towards it, distracting it while Midoriya tries to save the ash blonde guy that's trapped. The slime monster looks at me.

"It's that pesky girl again..." It murmurs, and tries to move closer to me. I take a step forward, jamming the piece of metal on it's giant eyes, blocking the villain's view. I grind my teeth against themselves, as the slimy piece of crap tries to absorb the metal into itself. I pull it back, only to smash it against his eyes again.

Just as the sign is about to snap in half like a twig, and the slime reaches it's hand towards Midoriya, I feel something quickly, like a wind, running forwards. A big explosion is made, and I shield my head with my hands.

But nothing hits me.

I take a peep through the safety of my hands, and I see a familiar figure standing there.

"I'm pathetic" All Might says. I hear Midoriya calling him, but he continues his speech.

"Even though I put your dreams of becoming a hero down, in the end, I wasn't living up to my own ideals! Pros are always risking their own safety for others, and that's how it's supposed to be!!" He says, bringing his fist back. The slime monster tries to reach him, but it's futile.

"DETROOOIT SMAAAAASSHH!!" All Might yells, punching the villain to oblivion with wind pressure. The wind hits me, and I stumble a little bit, but then I imagine my legs staying on the ground like two giant boulders, but it doesn't help with my hair whipping my face roughly.

The whirlwind slowly dissipates, and I look around the place, seeing All Might breathing heavily. He then stands up as people start applauding loudly after the skies turn dark, and it starts to rain- wait, was that just me... Or did All Might stumble a little? No, it must've just been my imagination.

People gather around me and Midoriya, as I offer him a hand. Then, next thing I know, the heroes like Death Arms who were there, are scolding Midoriya, but praising me for keeping him safe and distracting it? While the ash blonde guy-thing is being praised for having a good quirk?
Hah, what a great reason to "feel good" about... Because you can't choose to have a quirk, so it's not like he deserves it. He just got lucky to have born the way he did.

Well, that also goes for me but still, you get the point.

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After the whole ordeal is over, we start walking towards our respective homes. Apparently we live around the same part of the city huh?

We are walking, when I take a glance at the green-haired boy. He's looking at the ground, a little sad guessing from the expression. I sigh, patting his soft hair. He jumps a little, and starts blushing.

"You did something that I didn't want to do....You took a risk I was hesitant on taking... You had more courage than I could've never had, and you did it without cracking under pressure... And that tells me that you have a real hero spirit inside of you, you just haven't let it out" I say softly, looking up at the sky.

Just as I say that, I hear someone running behind us. The person yells something close to "Deku", and Midoriya turns around.
Is that his nickname? The way the ash blonde said it makes it seem like an insult, so he must be a bully of some sort.

"I didn't ask for your damn help!" The furious ash blonde says between breaths. He looks like a blonde, really angry hedgehog, so that's what I'll call him from now.

"And you didn't help me in any way, got that!?" The pissed hedgehog continues, his voice growing louder.

"And you ugly hag! Don't ever get in my way, or I will blast your ass to next week!! HUH?! YOU GOT IT!?" The ferocious wild beast, that is known as a hedgehog, shouts at me, and then somehow, crouch-walks back the way he came from.

Midoriya looks down, and turns around. He seems to be in deep thought, so I let him be.

But, then something runs full speed in front of us. I raise my head, seeing that it's... All Might? But wasn't he surrounded with reporters?

"I am here!" He shouts, interrupting Midoriya's thoughts. He jumps a little, and gives a small shriek.

"A-All Might? Why are you here? Weren't you swarmed with journalists back there?" Midoriya says, looking around.

"Haha, getting away from them was a piece of cake!" He says.

"Why? Because I'm All M-" He continues and flexes, but then he spits out blood, accompanied by a cloud of smoke. I sweatdrop, as the ridiculously muscular guy turns into a scrawny old man with dirty-looking hair.

He coughs a couple of times, and wipes the blood off. He raises his gaze, and looks straight at me.
"I'm afraid you will have to be quiet about this, young lady" He says.
I give a smile, pulling my finger on my lips, just like zipping up a zipper. He nods, and looks at Midoriya.

"Young man, and woman. I come here with two thanks, a correction and a suggestion" He starts.

"If you hadn't been there... If you hadn't told me your life story... I would've turned into a man in a bodysuit who is all talk and no action. So, thank you" He finishes.

"Seriously...? But it was my fault all along in the first place... I came in the way of your work... And I said all those headless things even though I'm quirkless" Midoriya says, looking down.

"Exactly. It was because it was no other than a timid, quirkless you, at the scene, that I was able to act" He says. Oh boy, I think it's coming...

"All top heroes have stories about them from their schoolroad. Most of their stories have one thing in common... Their bodies acted before they could think" He says.

Midoriya's eyes start watering, as he looks down. He brings his hands to his chest, the tears slowly building up.

"That was true for you too, wasn't it" He asks, not waiting for an answer.

Midoriya drops to his knees, as All Might says the words the small boy has wanted to hear his whole life, and now the number one hero, was in front of him, telling him....

"You can become a hero"