My Hero Acadamia Short Stories (Volume 1)

Grounding: Part 3 (Kirishima)

"You should go!" Joy told me as I sat at my desk.

"Can I at least finish this first?" I asked, gesturing to my homework.

"Nope." She told me and bounced around on my bed like a little kid. "That's not due until the end of the week anyway." 

"But I still want to get it done." I commented.

"But there are cute boys that want you to hang out with them." Joy said as she hung upside down directly in front of me. I gave her a look. "What?"

"I'm not looking to find cute boys." I said.

"Well too bad, they found you. Come on get to know them. Do it for me." She begged. "If you don't date them maybe I will." She said, and I snorted. 

"Fine." I said and put my pencil down.

"Yay!" She squealed and jumped around the room waiting for me to leave. I shook my head and walked over to Denki's room. I knocked on the door, and Kiri opened the door.

"Hey glad you were feeling up to it." He said and I walked in.

"Me too." I said and Denki sat on his bed and Kiri joined him before tossing a controller at me.

"You're up." He told me and Denki started a game.

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"He's right there!" Kiri yelled.

"I don't know what I'm doing!" I yelled back. And then we all cheered as I some how magically won us the game. I laughed and took a deep breath. After the I release the breath, I felt something picking at the back of my head. I touched the back of my head and turned around to see Kiri and Denki sitting up against the wall next to the bed, nowhere near me.

"You okay?" Kiri asked me, when he saw me looking at him. I turned back around towards the tv, and there in my face was a man crouching over my lap with dark red hair.

"Hello darling." He said.

"I'm fine." I said.

"You might be right now." Anger said. "But give it a few minutes. Give me some time to really sink in."

"Hey Kiri, how about you go a few rounds." I said and handed him the controller.

"Come on Anger! Let her have a good day for once." Joy demanded as she sat next to me, and I could see her fading away.

"Why would I do that?" Anger asked as he got in my face. "It's so much fun to watch her unravel after a good day." I closed my eyes and grabbed my bracelet trying to keep myself calm, and trying to control him to go away. "See it's so much fun to watch."

"Go to hell!" I yelled at him, as I got up and left the room.

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I laid down on my bed gripping onto my pillow facing the wall, not giving Anger enough room to be in my line of sight. There was a knock on my door, and I didn't get up to answer it.

"Who is it?" I yelled.

"It's Kiri." He answered. "Can I come in?"

"I'd rather you didn't." I said, unfortunately it was aggressive.

"Well I'm going to anyway." He said, much clearer since he was already in my room. "You dropped this in Denki's room." I turned my head to see him holding my bracelet. I sat up and took it from him as I sat up against the wall.

"Thanks." I said.

"Wow could you be any ruder?" Anger asked me as he sat in my desk, and I gritted my teeth.

"Will you show me what you can make with it?" He asked, and I didn't say anything as he sat on my bed with me. I started making different shapes and a couple of animals, after a couple of minutes I looked up and Anger was in my face.

"You'll never be a hero." He told me and I crushed the cat that I had just made.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Kiri asked me.

"Not really." I said. "There's not much to tell."

"Yeah nothing exciting about you huh?" Anger commented.

"Shut it." I snapped, and Kiri flinched a little. I covered my face and took a deep breath. "I'm sorry."

"It's okay." He told me. "You can't control it right?"

"She could if she actually tried." Anger answered him, even though Kiri couldn't hear him. 

"No, especially when I get angry." I said.

"And that's what this is?" Kiri asked.

"Obviously." I snapped, and closed my eyes and took another deep breath. "I'm-."

"You don't have to constantly apologize to me." He said and I looked at him. "I deal with Bakugo every day, and he never apologizes to me." I smiled a little.

"Y/n." Anger said, and I looked at him and he was suddenly nervous. But he had a reason to be. There was a dark shadow standing next to my desk, but it didn't do anything. I got a bit nervous too, but didn't say anything.

"I still am though." I said, carrying on the conversation in hopes that the tightness in my chest went away, along with the shadow. "I'm not a very angry person. Or at least I don't think I am."

"What do you mean." He asked.

"To be completely honest, I don't really know exactly who I am." I said and pulled my knees to my chest. "I know that I don't like being angry, but when my anger shows up it feels so natural to just act like a total asshole."

"Well everyone has anger in them." Kiri said.

"Yeah I guess." I said.

"Is your anger different from your fear?" Kiri asked and I looked at him.

"Yeah." I said. "They're all different, they all have their own little personalities of sorts. Fear picks at me until I'm nervous as all hell. Anger just shows up out of nowhere and his presence alone just pisses me off, and then proceeds to push my buttons."

"Same to you sweet cheeks." Anger said pointing finger guns, while sitting next to us on my bed, probably in hopes to get away from the shadow. I still growled at him, cause he couldn't just not be annoying. 

"And Joy only shows up when I'm happy." I said.

"You only have three?" Kiri asked as he watched me form another animal.

"Well obviously I have more than three, but they are my main emotions." I said, and eyed the shadow in my room. "Now that I think about it, that's probably why when I use earth with my quirk I feel a bunch of other feelings instead of just one." This time I made a small dragon with my metal bracelet and handed it to Kiri. I watched him take it and play with it while smiling and laughing like a kid. I smiled and breathed a laugh.

"Sweetie you did it!" Joy suddenly squealed bouncing on my bed and I jumped from her sudden appearance.

"Whats wrong?" Kiri asked as I looked around my room to see that Anger had left, but the shadow had gotten closer to the bed. Out of the three, Joy was the only one that wasn't scared of the shadow

"I'm over my anger episode." I sighed and closed my eyes as I could feel the anger leave my head.

"Well then." Kiri said as he stood up from my bed and handed me my metal figurine back. "Wanna get back to the game?" 

"Is Denki mad at me?" I asked, and made my bracelet back into a hoop.

"Nah." Kiri said before dragging me off my bed and back into Denki's room, where thankfully the shadow didn't follow. I walked in behind Kiri and Denki looked at me.

"Juice?" He asked holding up a juice box.

"Oooo, apple juice." Joy squealed in excitement.