Undeniable

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  Saki can feel her feet were trembling when she step inside the room. Her heart bounce up and down in her chest, making her feel a little tired and produce cold sweat. She finally meet them in person, not from a camera. Is it suppose to feel this real? To be this scary? It feels like salty water starts to infiltrate her ship; she’s starting to drown.

  Everyone in the room looked at her weirdly, making her shift her eyes to the ground; clearly showing that she feel uncomfortable. She was in her combat uniform which is quite revealing; she never thought how embarrassing to wear it until now. It consists of a white halftee with black triangle pattern that match her mini skirt that shows her black panties at the front, a white cloth with the same pattern on the outside and some kind of colour gradation that moves in swirls on the inside draped on her head like a veil. Everyone can see her ugly grey skin and the scars from the past that littered her entire body. Why didn’t she asked to change the uniform from the start?

  “Saki-chan, are you okay?”, Momo asked after regained her composure.

  “I-“, her breath hitched.

  She’s too scared. It’s the first time that she take the judging eyes seriously.

  “I.. I need to tell something to all of you!”, she exclaimed as she closed her eyes tightly like something she was scared something will hit her.

  “Then please say it, Saki-chan. We’ll wait patiently for you to calm down.”, Iida said with his usual hand movement.

  Saki took a deep breath. The triangles from her sides drew circles on her back, hoping that it’ll calm her down.

  “The me that you all know from the last three days including today is not me. It’s more like my clone, an android. I-I decided to do that because... I was too weak for Mineta-kun. What he wished needs a special support that I don’t understand. I... Don’t understand the feelings that sometimes bubbles inside me. That’s my weakness, so a friend of mine made an android and.. He’s the one who’ve been controlling it, and also another friend of mine. Now my robotic clone is out of control, it seems like it has been hacked or something and 10 minutes ago my friend said that it went towards the woods before shut down due to run out of energy.”

  The silver haired girl took a moment to scan everyone’s look; they took it seriously, which made Saki relieved.

  “And also, Kaminari is a trai-“

  “You’ve said enough.”

  In a matter of second, everyone collapse to the ground. Yellow electricity can be seen coursing through their body, making them numb and vulnerable.

  “Oh what a shame that you all didn’t trust me anymore. It’s all because of you, the girl who came from the unknown land.”, his slender fingers pulled her chin to face him.

  “You’re the one who made this nightmare fall upon all of us.”

  Denki smirked and walked to the glass door. “Now if you excuse me, I have a hunt that I must do.”

~****~

  The trio walked deeper into the forest, trying to find any kind of clue. They worked in silence, the awkward tension is still lingering.

  Eijirou himself didn’t know how he should feel towards two of his friends who believed him, especially to Katsuki. They understand what he talked about before, right?  Did they underline the sentence ‘I’m a traitor’? Did they lost in the midway? The red head just can’t believe someone will still trust him after he revealed everything. His deepest fear seems to be like an illusion that his heart made; and he was relieved to know he already cut the shackles off.

  “Kirishima-kun?”, the boy with dark emerald orbs called.

  “Yes? What is it, Midoriya?”

  “Kacchan may never say this but..”, the boy paused and take a look around him, “but he trusts you very much.”, he said with a hushed tone.

  “So you don’t have to overthink about it. He may have doubts in his heart after your confession before, but if you try hard enough, you’ll be able to fix it! Kacchan will always give you every chance that you need, you’re his best friend after all.”, Izuku smiled.

  The shorter male’s smile is contagious, making Eijirou smiling too. “Then what about you, Midoriya? Why did you believe me?”

  “Ah! Well..”, the freckled male scratch his cheek while looking away embarrassed, “Kacchan has a big role on my decision. He’s really good with reading people’s motive, and he sometimes loves to talk about it before we go to sleep. So, with his judgement about you, I decided to give you a chance. You’re still a good friend in the heart, Kirishima-kun. It radiates from you, it’s your inner beauty.”

  Eijirou was speechless and flushed red, almost as red as his hair. His cutest friend just praised him blatantly like that, it made him flew to cloud nine.

  “W-Well, w-we should continue o-our search.”, the freckled male becomes a stuttering mess, it made the red head laugh a bit.

  The friendly atmosphere suddenly cut off with sharp rocks trying to pierce them. They took cover to the nearby bushes, slowly crawling ahead cautiously.

  “Where did those rocks came from?”, Eijirou whispered harshly.

  “I don’t know, but it reminds me with Uraraka’s special technique!”, Izuku answered.

  The ground begins to rumble unexpectedly, halting the two male from their flee. The power from below made large cracks, then the pieces of the solid land starts to float.

  “It’s really Uraraka’s quirk! Is she around here?”, the dark forest haired male tried to look around while holding the floating ground.

  “There she is!”

  Not too far from them, their brunette friend stand with her fingers glowing, indicating that she’s the one who made all of this.

  “What is she doing?”, Izuku asked.

  “Maybe she’s trying to help us?”

  When the dark emerald and hazel clashed, Izuku knew there’s something wrong. Her eyes were empty.

  “No, I don’t think so, Kirishima-kun...”

~****~

  If someone asked Katsuki, does he feel disturbed with his best friend’s confession, then he would say yes. Who wouldn’t be? After trusting each other for a quite amount of time, he doesn’t expect the bond between them will have betrayal in it; and of course no one expecting it in their friendship. But it happened, and there’s no way to wash over a fault from the past.

  The aggressive male learned about a second chance in a hard way. He knew how hard it is to say something like that, and how scary it is; he knew how hard it is to put his pride away and bow down, begging for forgiveness with anxiety choking him. It’s hard, but its always worth it; whether will they get another chance or not. If he got it from Izuku, why can’t he also give it to his best friend, Eijirou? He already made his decision, and he won’t regret it.

  Suddenly spikes of ice stand tall in front of him, stopping him from going forward.

  “What the fuck..”

  When he turned his heels, his ember eyes met Shouto’s heterochromatic one.

  “Hey, dispenser! What the fuck do you think you’re doing, huh?”, the champagne male raged.

  The boy across him shows no other intentions than fighting. He steadily stand with fire emerged from his left side.

  “Oh, so that’s how you wanna play, huh? Then give me a good show, consider it as your redemption from the sport festival.”

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