24 Man In The Box - Alice In Chains

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 - Aizawa's POV - 



He who tries, will be wasted

Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut




"You're just set on bursting my ear drums, aren't you, Zashi?" I shouted, holding my ears. I had no idea why we had to have these death matches at the end of the day. It was stupid, people were already hurt and this was the last day. I mean, could we not chill the last day? Do a hike instead or something?

"Sorry, Shou. You alright?" Hizashi asked and came over to me. We had both decided two days ago that we'd only do what was absolutely necessary to get through this camp, so we were mostly only slacking off, but Hizashi was just pretending to use his quirk from time to time, so it sounded like we were doing something.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I don't think I can move my legs anymore, though." I mumbled and sat down. Hizashi sat down next to me. I looked around and couldn't see our teacher anywhere. Good, at least he wouldn't pester us about getting back to work for the moment. I looked over to (F/N).

"So, you made a move on (F/N) yet?" Hizashi asked me, wiggling his eyebrows suggestively. I sighed.

"Not really, I guess... Hey, wait, how do you know about that?" I asked him. I had only told Oboro and he... I squinted at him and saw him floating around the place on his cloud. I swear, if he told Hizashi...

"Uh... I dunno..."

"You know exactly how you know that, Zashi."

"Oboro might have let it slip accidentally...? Anyway, even if he didn't, it's pretty obvious. So I'm surprised you didn't make a move on her yet." he said matter-of-factly. I sighed again. This was dumb. Feelings were dumb. Why did I have to catch them? Now of all times, when I had clearly more important things to focus on?

"Well, I haven't." I admitted.

"Why not? It's clear she likes you."

"Is it, though? I mean, yeah, she's my friend, but I dunno... I don't even know how I would make a move on her, it's not like I'm good at this type of stuff." I muttered, burying my face in my hands.

"Just ask her out or something." Hizashi replied, shrugging as if this was the easiest thing in the world and he had no idea what I was so hung up about. Maybe for him stuff like this was easy.

"I've known her for a few months, I can't just ask her out. How do you even ask someone out? I'll just not do anything about it and wait until all this feeling bullshit goes away on its own. I can't be bothered to deal with it." I told him. The thing was that this stuff wouldn't go away for a long time and if I was being honest... I kind of liked actually liking someone. Ugh, this was so frustrating.

"Oh, you should make a move on her tonight! They're going to all meet up and I bet they're playing Spin the Bottle again or something. You can always just blame it on the game if you get cold feet." Hizashi suggested. I looked at him with a raised eyebrow. It wasn't even such a bad idea, but still. It just sounded like a really scummy thing to do and it would still be way too awkward.

It wasn't like I had a ton of friends and could afford ruining the few friendships I had. And if I knew anything about myself, it was that I wasn't great at being social or having friends. I just never knew what to do or how to behave in groups, so I just tended to stay away from them. It was a miracle I had made any friends at U.A. And I wasn't going to try and screw it up on purpose.

"Just... just knock it off, okay? I'll think of something. Maybe." I mumbled and looked over at (F/N) again. Why was a pretty and kind girl like her friends with three losers like us? Sure, Oboro and Hizashi played it all off with their confidence, but in the end we were all the same - losers.

I suddenly noticed that there were three people fighting against her. That wasn't right - we were supposed to do one-on-one sparring. I checked and our teacher still was nowhere in sight. (F/N) was doing her best to dodge anything they hurled at her with their quirks, but it didn't last long, before she stumbled and Sensoji was just about to hit her with one of his blasts.

I wasn't even thinking when I activated my quirk and looked at them, forcing myself not to blink. They seemed confused about what was going on and why their quirks weren't working. I got up and made my way over to them.

"Hey, Shou? Shouta! What the hell are you doing?" Hizashi asked and got up quickly following me.

"What the fuck, Aizawa? Stay out of this, you freak!" Sensoji shouted. I heard Hizashi gasp behind me.

"Oh my God, (F/N), are you okay?" he asked.

"What the fuck is wrong with you? Three of you ganging up on her? Are you that scared of (L/N) that you need that many people, huh? You're pathetic!" I shouted at him. I had no idea where any of that came from. I was just so fed up with Sensoji pretending like he was better than the rest of us.

"Hey, hey, hey! What's going on here?" I heard someone say. It was Tensei Iida who had realized there was something going on and came barging in, as he damn well should as class representative. I sighed with relief and deactivated my quirk. My eyes were burning like hell.

"They've been ganging up on (L/N)! Shouta just stepped in before they could hurt her." Hizashi quickly chimed in, before Sensoji could make up some bullshit. Iida didn't look too happy about that. I glanced back at Hizashi who was helping (F/N) up from the ground. Thank God, he was thinking so quickly.

"Is that true?" Iida asked and looked back and forth between Sensoji and me. Sensoji just laughed and acted indifferent.

"Of course it's true! Why would you think we're lying?" I replied.

"Relax, Aizawa, it wasn't even that bad. Just cause it's your girlfriend you don't need to make a wave." Sensoji replied with a grin.

"Really, Sensoji? You're calling yourself a hero? You should be ashamed! I'll report this to both homeroom teachers, just so we're clear. Now get back to training, everyone. And switch partners or something." Iida said. There was a strange amount of authority in his voice that just made everyone feel like they had to do what he said.

"I'll get you back for that, loser." Sensoji mumbled in my direction, loud enough for me to hear it. I just rolled my eyes and turned around to head over to (F/N) who was still with Hizashi.

"Thanks for that, Shouta, but I was fine, really." (F/N) said. Excuse me, what? She was obviously not okay. She was about to get obliterated by one of Sensoji's air blasts. There would have been no way she'd have been able to train over the summer or do anything. What was she thinking?

"No, you weren't. You were about to get your face broken." I mumbled. Hizashi looked back and forth between us. He gave me a look that said Don't screw it up, Shouta. Fuck that. I knew I was on the highway to screwing this up, but I didn't care. I was just angry. Not even at (F/N), none of this was obviously her fault. More at myself and at Sensoji and the rest of his friends and at how unfair it was they always got away with their bullshit. I was just angry at everything.

"I can take care of myself, Shouta. I'm not in this course because I'm some sort of damsel in distress!" she replied.

"Well, you seemed pretty distressed to me!"

"I could have handled it!" she said loudly and stormed off. I shook my head. What the hell was up with that? Hizashi leaned on my shoulder.

"I don't know what you did, but I know you're wrong, man."

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