Beyond Ultra (a MHA story)

Chapter 82

Jiro sat down and held a pillow to her chest, Tsu, Uraraka, Hagakure and Momo came into the room to see their friend with watery eyes. "Jiro! What's wrong?" Hagakure said as she knelt next to her. "Nothing." Jiro said as she wiped her eyes with her hands. "You can't lie to us." Uraraka said, sitting down infront of her. "Ok fine, I'm not good. I'm actually pretty pissed." She said, sniffling. "What happened?" Momo asked as she got a blanket and wrapped it around her. "I heard Horoki and the other girl talking. They were talking about dirty stuff." She said, wiping her nose. "What?!" The girls shouted. "This is why I shouldn't have said anything." Jiro muttered. "No no no we are gonna be mature about this." Momo said. "Even if I was right and he was an asshole." She muttered the last part quietly. "Well, why would he say that then?" Hagakure said. "Well, maybe he said it in a joking way." Uraraka said. "Maybe...I just don't get why he hasn't said anything to me." Jiro said. "Maybe you should break up with him. He seems to be interested in the other girl." Momo said. "What?! No!! That's not the way to do this!" Hagakure said. "You can't just judge what Horoki said, and go with it!" She added. "What's going on?" Mina said, entering the door frame. "Oh Horoki messed up hard and now we are deciding his fate as the council." Tsu said. "What happened exactly?" Mina said as she sat down with the group. "Supposedly, Horoki was talking to the new girl of Class 1-B named Lily and they were getting intimate by how they were talking." Hagakure said. "You realize that they could be good friends right? If anything, you'll have to talk to Horoki about this Jiro. It really isn't our place to make the decision." Mina said. "Really?" Jiro asked. "Yeah, he loves you Jiro. Even if he doesn't want to say it, he does. Guys don't talk about their feelings at all, Liam can be such a migraine sometimes." Mina said with a laugh, the girls then decided to just watch some movies to get Jiro's mind out of the gutter.

Liam and Kirishima were coming back from training, Kirishima held his arm a bit. "Jeez your kicks are getting strong, almost broke my armor back there." He said. "Gotta give 110% you know that." Liam said smiling. The two then saw Horoki and Lily walking next to each other, "so that's where he's been." Liam muttered. "Oh hey guys!" Lily said smiling. "Hey Lily." The two said. "I gotta get going to see Ryukyu. Think you can try and cool down with the flirting?" Horoki asked with a smirk. "Uhhh yeah right, you think I'm flirting with you?" Lily asked. "I mean, how can you resist all this?" Horoki said as he motioned himself. The two laughed and waved bye to each other, Lily was heading home until she was stopped by Liam. "Hey Lily, we gotta talk, real talk." He said. "Umm ok, about what?" She asked. "Well, not sure if you know this, but there's a rumor going around that you and Horoki are hooking up. Now, you do know that Horoki is with someone right?" Liam asked. "Yeah I know he is. Ear jack girl right?" She asked. "Yeah, well, she's a good friend of ours and we don't wanna see her get hurt." Kirishima said, crossing his arms. "What he's trying to say is, you can hang with Horoki, but seriously keep the flirting to a minimum. The girls might try and get you to back off and as their friends, we're gonna side with them." Liam said. "Ok, well, thanks for the heads up, I appreciate it." Lily said, turning around and walking in the opposite direction of them. "Think we might've been too rough?" Liam said. "Hope not. I don't want Horoki getting pissed off that I made his friend get upset." Kirishima said worriedly. "Hey it's fine man, I'll back you up." Liam said as he raised a fist, Kirishima bumped his fist with Liam's and the two headed home.

Horoki arrived at Ryukyu's house who was just making dinner for herself. "Hey Horoki, just made dinner." Ryukyu said as she set it down. "Thank God! I'm hungry!" He said. "You washed your hands right?" She asked. Horoki sighed and went to the bathroom to wash his hands. He came out of the bathroom, "water and soap?" She asked. He sighed again and washed it thoroughly this time and came out. "Now you can eat." She said smiling. Horoki sat down and ate her dinner, she then smiled. "So tell me about yesterday's training." She asked. "Ok, so we had to fight Gang Orca and Endillion, who we didn't know was Endillion. She was wearing a motorcycle outfit. Liam, Jiro, Lily and I were heading towards a door and Jiro decided to use her ear jacks to listen in. Endillion blasted the door and hurt Jiro. We had to retreat and I told Jiro to stay behind since she was hurt, but get this, she actually refused and wanted to push forward! We won sure and I totally carried the team but I didn't like that Jiro disregarded her own safety like that and tried to push." Horoki said, trying to spit out his day like an excited toddler. "Why are you upset that Jiro wanted to push with you? She's a tough girl." Ryukyu said, sipping her drink "I just didn't want her hurt. Plus, if Gang Orca or Endillion got the drop on us and took her hostage, we would have an even bigger problem and would've lost the fight." Horoki said. "I understand the sentiment but try not to turn into Eraserhead or Endeavor where they go 'grrr I don't need friends. I am the night!'" Ryukyu said in a dark gruff voice. "That wasn't Endeavor or Eraserhead, who were you trying to mimic?" Horoki asked. "Some billionaire who uses martial arts to beat thugs within an inch of his life instead of going into therapy. I forgot his name, handsome man though." She said, trying to remember the hunk's name. "Ok besides the point. I just think Jiro should've sat that out." Horoki said. "You may be right, but in the end, it's up to her." Ryukyu said. "Although I do agree with you, it's a bit careless to go in hurt, specially with what happened to the poor girl." Ryukyu said. "Yeah...we won though. Liam actually pulled his weight and Lily did an awesome job! Next to me, she helped carry that team to victory." Horoki said. "So about that." She said, she then held up her phone and played the video to Horoki. To which, he saw Gang Orca beating the absolute snot out of him and making a fool of himself. "You...carried the team?" She asked with a raised eyebrow. "H-How did you-"

"Lincoln sent me a video. He had to see how his class preformed." Ryukyu said. Horoki sighed and silently cursed Lincoln in his head and began making plans to get back at him. Ryukyu then looked at her phone's clock, "it's getting late and we didn't train. Tomorrow after class, come here so we can work on your smoke form and see if we can expand on it. Might be some things we might've missed." Ryukyu said. "Ok, see you tomorrow Ryukyu!" Horoki said as he left the house.

Horoki arrived home and went straight to bed, unaware of the drama going on with Jiro and her. Jiro however saw Horoki and felt sad that he didn't even say hi to her, she looked down and wrote in her music book, Saint purred and rubbed her head on her arm. "You ok?" She asked. "Yeah I'm fine." Jiro said as she wiped her eyes. "Good. Now feed me!" She meowed. With that, Jiro smiled softly and fed the small cat, she then went to bed and her mind replayed on all of the happy and sad memories with Horoki.