Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 39 - But I can't go back

When an ear-piercing screech rang through the air, Aizawa wasn't too sure what to expect. He had given the students homeroom lesson as a free period since some of the students had counselling sessions, and it wasn't like he had anything to teach. He just wanted to sleep, dammit.

"What was that?" Uraraka asked, looking up from her worksheet.

"No idea. If I didn't know better, I would think that it was Kaminari." Shinsou admitted.

"Hey!" Kaminari whined indignantly.

"Stay here. I'm going to check. Iida and Yaoyorozu are in charge until I'm back." Aizawa sighed, slipping out of his yellow cocoon and walking out of the classroom. Inui's office, along with the staff room and Nezu's office, were a floor above his classroom's floor, and Aizawa internally groaned at the thought of having to climb stairs.

He reached the top of the stairs, before making his way to the staffroom.

Suddenly, a blur of green raced past him.

Aizawa whirled around, trying to figure out what just happened, "Midoriya?"

He heard a meow, and he looked at the ground just in time to see Reiko running past him, in the direction that Midoriya had headed.

Aizawa turned in the direction Midoriya had run in, and was just about to chase down the green haired boy when a voice called out, "Aizawa, don't."

Kayama poked out of the staffroom, and beckoned him inside, "Stuff happened. Give the kid some time to cool down. Nezu will go find him later."

"What happened?" Aizawa demanded, crossing his arms, glaring at Kyoken and Nanji, "Was it you two?"

He wouldn't admit it, but he might have developed a small soft spot got the broken child. He himself had suffered from quirk discrimination when he was younger, until he had problem himself in the UA first year sports festival. Plus, he had been the one to rescue Shinsou from his former household; Aizawa owed him for that.

"He overloaded my quirk and I might have freaked him out." Kyoken admitted, rubbing his arm nervously. He didn't know who Aizawa was, but he did not want to piss of an angry pro hero.

Aizawa narrowed his eyes, "As far as I know, one, you deal with military trauma and stuff like that. Two, your quirk is supposed to dampen the emotions that you felt from him. Mind explaining how he managed to overload it?"

Kyoken sighed, "There is a difference between normal abuse trauma and military trauma. In most cases, soldiers and fighters are at least somewhat aware of what they are getting into, and they have appropriate training to handle and deal with their circumstances. They're not jumping in blindly, they know what is and isn't normal."

Aizawa nodded grumpily.

"In Midoriya's case... at least, from what I can tell, he's had a lot of negative emotions festering since he was a child. He didn't know what he was getting into, and he slowly started accepting his negative circumstances at the norm and tried to get used to them." Kyoken continued, "But the more he got used to them... I'm guessing... the more he was hurt and bullied and abused by those around him. It's just a vicious cycle that continuously gets worse and worse, and his mentality just deteriorates exponentially the more he tries to hide his pain and suffering. He's not emotionless... like I originally thought. He's angry, guilty, sad, upset, and he can't trust the people around him. He just believes that people are going to harm him. But he just hides everything behind a mask and tries to act normal so he wouldn't influence other people, because he believes that he can only harm people. He didn't know beforehand what to expect, and it resulted in him growing up thinking that way."