My Hero Acadamia Short Stories (Volume 1)

Shift: Part 10 (Shinsou)

"I'm scared." I told Shinsou as he sat on my bed, looking at the massive bruise on my arm.

"Come here." He told me and pulled me into his lap. "You're okay." He whispered into my ear, and rubbed my back. He hushed me quietly as I cried into his shoulder.

"I'm so scared." I said again.

"What are you scared of?" He asked me.

"I'm scared of my Father." I told him and hiccuped in his ear. "I'm scared that he's going to find me and take me back. I'm scared that one day I'll decide not to listen to my self control. That people will always want to muzzle me."

"Hey." Shinsou said and tried to pulled me away from him, but I hugged him tighter. I didn't want him to look at me right now. I lost the tug of war and he held my in his lap so I would look at him. "If someone tries to muzzle you again, you snap at them. You let them see those fangs of yours and let them know what you're capable of. But don't let it go too far. Let them see what you could do to them, and let them realize themselves that you are holding back from that."

"But I don't want people to be scared of me." I said. "I've been scared my whole life of a monster. I don't want to be like that." Shinsou sighed, and smiled.

"Then show them how nice you are." He told me. "But don't ever let people take advantage of you. You got that?" I nodded and he hugged me again. And we laid down in my bed.

He laid on his back with his arm out so I could rest my head there and I watched him fall asleep. I closed my eyes and focused on only listening to his heartbeat and his breathing. I focused on matching my breathing with his and didn't notice that my door opened until I heard a floorboard squeak.

I sat straight up and was met immediately with a cloth with chloroform on it. I wanted to react, I wanted to wake Shinsou, I wanted to cry out. But out of the panic I took a giant enhanced whiff of the chloroform and with me already being tired, it really knocked me out of the park.