Scars Burned Over Time (Boku No Hero Academia Fanfic) VERY SLOW EDITS!

Ch 3 - Below Zero

Have I seriously been living a lie? Are moles and sun spots really different things?

~ Aurora
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The moment she walked out the house she was immediately met by a cool wind. Shivering a bit she pulled her gloves on tightly to keep her hands warm. Even the fall could bring a chill down her spine...how lucky for her.

"Waah!"

Immediately she crashed into someone, she put a hand on the wall while she steadied herself. The other person wasn't so lucky as she was, falling to the floor. She could also hear the sound of something ripping. That's no good....Only one way to get out of here with a clean conscious.

"I'm so sorry!"She and another voice apologize at the same time.

The synchronized echo made her smile she looked down to hide it though.Harumi crouched down to help the woman pick her things, once they finally fixed up the groceries back in the bags. She allowed herself to get a good look at the woman, she had white hair with hints of red. She looked young and from the incident she was pretty lightweight. Not recognizing her from anywhere Harumi holds out her hand.

"Oh, thank you."The woman takes her hand with a smile.

The second Harumi came into contact with the stranger something felt. Off. It dug through the leather, permeating her defenses, invading her skin like a virus. Pulling up the woman quickly she let go once she was on both feet. Pulling her glove on right even forcing her sleeve down a little further. Taking a step back to create some as it suddenly felt

...

"Are you alright?"The woman seemed to notice her body language, moving her groceries to see her past them.

Her eyes were soft, comforting clearly not one who would harm someone she just met. Her body refused to listen to her mind, her breath quickens

"I'm alright."Fixing her hair she tried to distract herself from her heart beating faster than it should.

"...if you say so."

She nodded her head toward the stranger rushing off before the woman could continue. For some reason she couldn't stop, farther and farther she could hardly hear her footsteps. The thumping of her heartbeat overshadowed all other noises, Harumi put a hand over her ears to force herself back to being semi stable.

To little affect.

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"That's all for today..."Her teacher's voice seemed to fade out in her ears.

She looked down at her hand, the same one she used to help that woman earlier. It was shaking despite Harumi clearly checking there was no damage. If it wasn't physical. What was it? It didn't matter that she had a turtle neck under her uniform.

She felt so cold.

Her mind felt like she was submerged, the water climbing up her legs to her stomach. She attached her own behind the front legs of the chair. Feeling the need to ground herself, she had to think. This was all in her head. Wasn't it?

Regardless of her thoughts the coolness of the water, even her clothes were affected. Her socks clung to her skin and the water just continued to climb. Reaching her knees threatening to completely submerge her in its cool depths. The water was muddy and she could barely see her own shoes at the bottom.

A chair bumped into hers as it slid across the floor, alerting Harumi of their presence. It was Amane. The brunette looked unaffected by the water that was at waist level by now.

How odd?

The classroom was empty before she knew it and all that was left was them three.Harumi looked at them and followed their eyes down at her hand, an iridescent liquid seeping past her bandages. Dripped onto her lap, down her legs and dampening her socks explaining the strange dream. Feeling so real.

"...m-my bad."Harumi reached into her bag pulling out some napkins she had, laying on her hand to soak up the dripping mess.

"Need help?"Shinsou offered as she looked to be struggling to clean up her mess with one hand.

"I wouldn't make contact with it."Harumi quickly warned as she used the rest of her napkins to wipe the liquid off her legs."It's slippery and fast working the second you make contact with it, you won't know until it's too late."

She looked at her white socks, the iridescent fluid tinted them into a more dusty purple color. So much for translucent. It was a pain to remember that she did not have a spare pair of socks. Maybe it was the sudden overflow of her quirk or the feeling of her calming down from her hallucination.

Dizzy...

The back of a hand made contact with her forehead stopping her from leaning any further. She looked up at Shinsou who looked down at her with a sigh. She quickly thanked him feeling awkward that they caught her in such a bad time.

"Want to take a trip to the nurse's office?" Amane offered putting an arm over Harumi's shoulder.

"Doubt you can make it through another lesson."Shinsou agrees with her, which did not seem to occur often.

"...ugh alright."

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Harumi fixed her bandages as she left the nurses office, already regretting to take the walk of shame back to class. She didn't even want to be seen after her incident as she wasn't sure who else seen it. And thus began a saga of everyone avoiding her in fear. New record this time as it had only been two weeks since she got here.

"What's the diagnosis doc?"Amane leaned up against the wall by the entrance, a big smile on her face.

"I say a case of gravitational pull, there sadly is no cure for it."Shinsou saying all of that with a straight face was honestly impressive.

Wait.

"Was that a bit? Based off my height..."The longer it settled in her brain the more embarrassed she felt.

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"Woah you were so cool down there!"Ashido praised her as she joins them in the waiting room."You are bang! Bop! And a bit of boom and crush. Can you teach me how to do some of that"

"Would you really like to learn" Harumi asked knowing the answer.

"Nope but it was cool to watch up do it"Ashido smiles congratulating Harumi anyway.

"Uh Harumi"Uraraka smiles as she motioned to the damage Harumi just caused.

The metal dummies where ripped apart burned and short-circuited from attacks by another. Basically Harumi used the attack from the specials onto the regular then destroying the specials brutally.

Harumi just crossed her arms not wanting to admit that she used the lesson to let off some steam.

"I guess I went a little overboard." Harumi shrugs turning away from them.

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Please let me know how I can improve, having not personally experienced a panic attack. I can't say for sure if what I'm writing is even good enough representation. （￣へ￣） I will keep playing with that scene after some much needed research.

Although the sneak peak of Harumi's quirk was fun to write, to slowly break down into the unreal and psychological. I hope you enjoyed this chapter :)

~ Aurora <3