Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 135 - I can see

A knock on the door rang out, and Midoriya immediately tensed up. He reached out, hastily grabbing his collar off the floor, and tried his best to put it on as fast as possible in order to hide his scar, as Shinsou called out, "Who's there?"

"Just me!" Yaoyorozu's voice called out. Shinsou glanced at Midoriya, who had just finished pulling the strap through the buckle, and Shinsou stood up, making his way towards the door and opening it.

Yaoyorozu asked, "Do you know where Midoriya is? He left the common room while the others were playing, and I can't seem to find him."

"He's with me." Shinsou replied, the girl nodded, before asking, "Kaminari's setting up the television. Will you two be joining us?"

Shinsou's mind flickered back to the time when Kaminari had found that cutesy visual novel and played it with the rest of the class; with his current set of knowledge about Midoriya's past, no wonder that damned game had affected Midoriya so badly.

"I'm not trusting Kaminari when it comes to games anymore." Shinsou growled, his eyes narrowing slightly, as Yaoyorozu laughed sheepishly, "It's not a game this time. It's a movie. One of the Disney ones, I think, since Todoroki mentioned before that he hasn't watched them before."

Shinsou raised his eyebrow, "That's... okay, I guess. We'll think about it. I'll see how Izuku feels first."

"That's alright! Take your time." Yaoyorozu smiled softly, "They're going to start in about half an hour, but if you want popcorn, you should message him around five minutes before it starts."

Shinsou nodded, and Yaoyorozu skipped off, most likely to ask their other classmates if they would be watching movies, and the lavender haired boy gently closed his door, before turning back to Midoriya. The smaller boy was in the same position that Shinsou had left him, his hand still hovering over the buckle of the collar.

The lavender haired boy crouched down slowly, gently placing his hand on Midoriya's back, "You okay?"

Midoriya slowly nodded, and lifted his head slowly, "That was... Yaoyorozu... right?"

"Yep." Shinsou responded, and Midoriya asked, "What did... she want?"

"Ah. The others are going to watch a movie down in the common room, and she was asking if we were going to join." Shinsou replied, and he could feel Midoriya tense up and shudder violently. The smaller boy glanced up at Shinsou, "Are you... going to go watch it?"

Shinsou shrugged, "I don't know. Do you want to watch the movie?"

"I don't know... I don't..." Midoriya reached up, absentmindedly scratching his neck, right above his collar, before he admitted, "I'm scared... it's going to be like last time -"

Midoriya's breath suddenly hitched as memories rushed through his mind, and his throat tightened. His thoughts seemed to be swirling around too fast, too chaotic, and he couldn't make heads or tails of anything -

And all of a sudden, everything was calm.

"Deep breaths." Shinsou ordered, and Midoriya found himself following Shinsou's orders before the taller boy gradually released his hold on Midoriya's mind.

"It's not going to be like that time. Not again." Shinsou murmured, wrapped his arm around Midoriya's shoulder gently, "It's a kid-friendly movie. And if it somehow isn't, I'm sure everyone would kick up a huge fuss."

Midoriya's eyes trailed down towards the floor, pondering over his choices -

He had to make a choice.

As much as Midoriya liked being in control of his own situation, he hated making choices. It was just easier to do something wrong if he just let other people decide on what to do.