Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 144 - Embracing its starlit fate

Midoriya trudged into the common room, and flopped down on the bean bag, sighing in exhaustion. Reiko and Ryuto looked up, confused to see Midoriya back so soon, and the feline just padded over to Midoriya's side, and curled up next to him.

Midoriya shuddered, and curled up into himself. He could feel a weird chill down his spine, and he stretched, turning himself over and rolling onto his back. His sleeve hiked down slightly, and Midoriya peered at his wrist in confusion. That black mark that had somehow appeared on his wrist was still there, but he swore that it had been a line the last time he checked on it.

Now, it was an oval, for some reason.

Midoriya just stared at it for a good minute, before he ignored his wrist and pressed his face into the bean bag. Ryuto waddled over, and perched on Midoriya's shoulder, biting onto his ear gently, as Midoriya groaned.

Reiko gently nuzzled her human, and Midoriya just wrapped himself around Reiko protectively.

That strange urge to just drive a knife through his chest, or jump off the building, had just suddenly intensified, and Midoriya really wasn't too sure what to do about it. Give in to the urge? Ignore it?

"Reiko, I want to die." Midoriya muttered, and the feline just raised her paw and smacked his cheek lightly, purring.

"Yeah... I should do that... They'd be sad... right?" The greenette muttered, and just closed his eyes. He was going to take a nap first, and think about it later; he was too tired to think about killing himself at the moment.

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Nezu tapped his feet nervously as Aizawa wove through the traffic, and stepped on the accelerator. Even with low traffic, it was still taking them quite some time to get back to UA.

"Once we get back to UA, you check the classroom, I'll head straight to the dorms. Ectoplasm always releases the kids once the tests finish." Nezu stated, and Aizawa nodded, slamming his foot down on the brakes, narrowly avoiding an accident as a car cut in front of him without using the warning lights prior.

"Fucking piece of shit." Aizawa cursed under his breath, slamming down on the horn in frustration, before he took the first opportunity to zoom forwards, and jam breaking when the traffic light turned red, "Fuck."

Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, Aizawa drove up into the UA driveway. He wasn't even bothered to park the car properly, before he ripped the door open and dashed out, making a beeline towards the UA main building. Meanwhile, Nezu also hopped out of the car, heading right in the direction of the UA dorms, trying to go as fast as he could on his stubby little legs.

Aizawa raced towards the stairs, and ran up, two steps at a time. He nearly tripped on the last step, and barreled down the hallway, the only sounds being his footsteps. He turned a corner, and ran towards the 1-A classroom, only to find that the students were starting to leave the classroom. Some of them heard Aizawa's footsteps and turned, facing the Erasure Hero in confusion, as Aizawa quickened his pace.

"Is Midoriya here?" Aizawa skidded to a stop, hastily scanning over the students, and Ectoplasm looked up from where he was packing up the test papers, "He fell asleep during the test and I sent him back to the dorms early since it was the last lesson of the day."

Uraraka held up Midoriya's bag to make a point, "Yep! Just bringing his things back for him! Did you need him for something?"

"Shit." Aizawa cursed, before he raced towards the dorms. He knew that Midoriya was tired, and had the tendency to sleep during lessons, but now was a really bad time for Ectoplasm to be nice and send Midoriya back to the dorms without any supervision before he did something stupid.