Lucky Girl (BNHA OC Fanfic)

32 // Item: Doubt

Hey guys! Thank you all so much for the support you've given me, now dont worry, I'm not stopping this book or anything because I genuinely enjoy writing it! But, updates are going to be a hell of a lot slower over the next month or so because I have a lot of exams. Very important exams. So I hope you understand!

"What happened to you?" Mina's voice is laced with concern and it's honestly weird to hear such a serious tone from her. "You disappear for over a week and apparently Iida, Midoriya and Todoroki are the only people have any clue what's happened, but they've been asked not to say anything by Nezu." Her voice breaks slightly as her tone raises, she's clearly lost and frustrated.

"I'm meant to be your best friend! Please just open up to me." She sits down next to me and it takes me a second to process what she's said.

She's my best friend? We've never called eachother best friends before, but I guess she is the only person I get along really well with and she does always tend to turn to me to talk to.

I don't want to burden her though, I don't want her sympathy either, so there's not much reason in me telling her. It's my life and she probably has her own problems anyway, I feel like involving her is going to cause a problem.

"Something came up." I say bluntly without looking up from my notes. "It's fine, Mina."

"No it's not." We're both shocked by another voice chirping into the conversation. Mina turns around but I don't need to to, I know who it is.

"Todoroki?" Mina seems shocked. "What do you mean 'no it's not?'" She stands up and suddenly straightens herself out. "What do you know?"

"I spoke to Akamine." Those words from his mouth are enough to put me on edge. "She told me the basics of what happened but refused to go into detail as it's not her place."

An unsettling silence surrounds us and I can't figure out what to say but it doesn't matter because everything I do comes across as cold.

"Why do you care?" My quiet voice and low tone is barely audible but both of them pause.

"What do you even mean?!" Mina yells suddenly. "Of course I care! You're one of the most amusing people I've ever met and besides, you have the patience to put up with me."
I look up at her and she is visibly distressed, she's shaking and it looks like she's on the verge of tears. "I don't know about Todoroki, but I care so damn much about you! And don't think for a second that I don't."

"I.." Todoroki starts before rethinking his words. "I was there in Hosu. You were there because of my father, who wanted you there to test my skills. I saw what happened and you've made an effort to be there for me despite us not actually being close, in particular during the festival. So I owe you in a way. "

"You owe me?" I stand up in a fit of rage. "Does this mean you see me as some kind of chore because I was nice to you?!" A lot of emotions bubble inside of me, none of them nice. "You don't owe me shit, Todoroki. If you see me as a chore then piss off, I don't have time for people that see me as a deal."

As the words leave my mouth realisation washes over me, that's exactly why I'm here. Akamine sees me as a deal. That's all I was to her and I have no idea what I am to her now. Then again, it's my side that fell through, not hers.

"That's not what I meant, I just don't like feeling like I owe people anyth-"

"And I don't like knowing people pity me or feel like they owe me something, only to throw me out again." I cut Todoroki off. "So to answer my question, you don't care, you feel like you should."

My knuckles clench as my blood boils. As if I thought that this guy was actually going to be my friend, he's popular, attractive and strong, all of which I'm not. Well, I don't look that bad but that's beside the point.

"I do care..." He mutters very quietly. "The only reason Akamine told me was because she was so shocked I actually went to ask her, saying that I have a right to know since I was there and the only person to ask her."

"Can someone tell me what happened already?!" Mina suddenly yells.

"Aiko's dead." I say very bluntly and suddenly.

"...What?" Her voice is very quiet and soft. Her wide eyes burn into me, like I'm lying and she doesn't believe me.

"During the attack on Hosu, Aiko and Akamine were going to surprise me during my apprenticeship. Aiko got severely injured by the collapse of a broken building and died three days later in the hospital of internal bleeding." I push my lips together as a single tear roles down my cheek.

"And I didn't save her." I finally crack. I push my hands to my face and completely crouch down so I'm almost in a ball on the floor.

"Kiriko!" Mina says. "I'm so sorry I wasn't there for you, I had no idea." She falls to her knees and wraps her arms around me as best as she could. Todoroki places his hand on my shoulder and lightly pats me.

I eventually melt into the hug and wrap my arms around Mina, violently sobbing into her shoulder as she rubs my back. She keeps telling me that it's okay even though it really isn't.

"What are you writing notes about?" Todoroki says, trying to take my mind away from things and probably put himself in a more comfortable situation.

"Quirk science." I sniffle and look up at him. "Science and History are the only things I'm good at, and it's not even the history of quirks and heros, it's world history. I suck at pretty much everything else." I let out a dry laugh as I stand up and wipe my nose on my bandages.

I keep sniffing and rubbing my puffy eyes. Todoroki awkwardly places his hand on my shoulder, he clearly wants to comfort me but doesn't know how.

"You'll be okay." I raise my eyebrow at him. "Maybe not for a while, but you will be eventually."

His words give me some comfort and peace, but it quickly vanishes. I force a smile to my lips and look up at him, even though I might not believe his words, but he doesn't need anymore problems to do with me, since he does apparently care. So, I tell him what he wants to hear.

"I know."

Another shorter chapter, I'm preparing myself to write large chapters in the future so bare with me. Like I said earlier, updates are going to be a lot slower because I really need to do well on these exams, my timing in straying this book wasn't great but hey, I'm glad I did, I hope you all understand.