My Hero Acadamia Short Stories (Volume 1)

Grounding: Part 4 (Kirishima)

I sat in my seat waiting for class to start. It's been two weeks since I started school at UA, and me and Kiri, Denki, Mina, and even Bakugo had become pretty good friends. Although me and Bakugo bonded on a more aggressive scale whenever I suddenly got angry he was the first one up to bat to argue with me.

"Alright everyone, we're going to be training today." Mr. Aizawa said, as the bell rang. We got up and walked to the training grounds.

"Are you excited?" Joy asked and sat on my shoulders. "You'll finally be able to show everyone what you got." I laughed a little as I walked up to Mr. Aizawa.

"Mr. Aizawa, how exactly am I supposed to train?" I asked him.

"Well when you use your quirk is it draining at all?" He asked me.

"Not exactly." I said and scratched the back of my head. "It's kind of emotionally draining but that's more me just dealing with whatever emotion comes with what I'm working with, and then switching to another emotion rapidly. That and my quirk is constantly being in use."

"So you need emotional training?" Mr. Aizawa questioned.

"I'm constantly shifting emotions too." I said shrugging.

"Like right now." Someone said in my ear and I jumped. I turned to see the Anger was back.

"Oh boy." I sighed.

"What is it?" Mr. Aizawa asked me.

"I'm about to have an anger episode." I whined and hung my head.

"Why not work on hand to hand combat?" Kiri asked as he came up to me. "It could relieve some of your anger."

"I don't think that's a good idea." I said, and I watched a shadow appear behind Kiri. But I knew I was the only one who could see it.

"Oh but what fun we could have." Anger commented, sticking near me to avoid the shadow.

"Well it doesn't hurt to give it a try." Mr. Aizawa told me.

"Here hit me." Kiri said and got in a ready stance.

"No I'm not going to hit you." I told him.

"Come on I got thick skin with or without a quirk." Kiri said and started getting excited. "Hit me."

"Kiri I'm not-." I started to say, and I started feeling agitated.

"Do it!" Anger yelled and before I knew what was happening I punched Kiri in the face.

"Mother-!" I yelled and gripped my hand as I fell to the ground on my knees groaning in pain. Anger was on the ground wheezing at me, as I was bent over clutching my hand to my chest. "Shut the hell up." I sighed into the ground.

"You okay?" Kiri asked as he kneeled next to me, his face perfectly fine.

"Does it look like I'm okay?" I asked, as I sat up still gripping my hand. Todiroki came over and used some of his ice on my hand. When I sat up I saw Bakugo laughing at me. "What the hell are you laughing at?" I questioned him.

"I'm laughing at you dumb ass." He told me.

"Better shut your mouth before I brake my other hand punching you in the face." I told him. "Then I'll shove my foot up your ass!"

"You think you can take me?" He asked, and I could hear him getting excited.

"Bring it you over sized Pomeranian!" I yelled at him.

"That's enough!" Mr. Aizawa yelled. I took my bracket off and started playing with it. "Kiri will you take her to recovery girl."

"Yeah." He said and took me to the nurse's office. Where luckily the shadow didn't follow. "Sorry about that."

"Nah it's not a big deal." I said. And Recovery girl gave me a kiss, and almost instantly my hand felt better. She still wrapped it though. And gave me an ice pack. "I threw the punch, you just stood there."

"Still got hurt cause of it." He said and we started heading back.

"Well don't worry about it." I told him.

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Once we got back to the classroom I was covered in small welts. Mr. Aizawa started working with me and I ended up getting whipped by his scarf. It took everything I had not to light it on fire.

"Hey there." Someone said, and I looked up from my note taking. Fear stood bent over in front of my desk with her elbows resting in front of my notebook. I had an instant raise in anxiety and I looked back at my notes. "Oh don't think that you can get rid of me." She told me. "I'm here to stay today. We're going to have girls night tonight!" I could feel my heart pounding, and I accidentally hit my desk with my hand.

"Y/n?" Mr. Aizawa asked, and took a moment from teaching.

"I'm fine." I said and held my head with my hand. After a moment Mr. Aizawa went back to teaching.

"You're not fine." Fear said as kneeled next to my desk with her head in her arms. "You're panicking because you know everyone is looking at you right now." I didn't look, I just kept writing my notes. Until I wrote so hard that I broke my pencil in half and I gripped the side of my desk. "Everyone heard that." Fear whispered in my ear.

"Shut up." I said, not very loud but I know others heard it.

"Oh who are you talking to?" Fear asked, mocking me. "Cause to everyone else you're talking to nobody. They think you're crazy."

"Hey, are you okay?" Kiri whispered to me and he touched my shoulder. I jumped at him touching me, and I didn't turn to look at him.

"I'm fine." I said, and started rocking back and forth. I turned to see that Fear was still crouching down next to my desk, but was now tense due to the shadowed figure that now stood behind her. "I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine." I whispered to myself, and a tight feeling came to my chest. A pair of hands grabbed my shoulders and pulled me away from looking at the front of the class. Kiri made me look at him with my back to everyone, as he crouched in front of me.

"Hey, talk to me." He whispered.

"I'm fine." I said, and I felt like I was choking. I continued to say I was fine, and without meaning too I started saying it really loud. It felt like my head was spinning and it was starting to get really hard to breath. My vision started pulsing at the same pace as my heartbeat, and I couldn't stop it. I looked up and the shadowed figure stood behind Kiri. "I'm fine, I'm fine! I'm-!" I said before everything went black.