Bnha One Shots [REQUESTS TEMPORARILY CLOSED]

Piano Poem

Requested by Gibiey

1-A gets a music room with a beautiful piano and Izuku can't help but play a song. The class gets worried.

"A music room?" Momo asked surprised.
"The hero commission thinks we don't invest enough in our students free time and allowing them to express themselves... This was their proposal after seeing the school festival" Aizawa groaned.
"Jirou, make sure not to mix your instruments up. No music after midnight or before eight in the morning. Uhm, what else... Oh, you break it, you buy it and uh have fun"

He handed the key to Iida and yawned, crawling back into his yellow sleepingbag, going to nap right there and then in the common room. Everyone was excited to see this brand new music room and they all rushed to the first floor, where the room was located. There were instruments set up along the wall and a giant beautiful black piano in the middle of it all.

"This is so cool!" Denki exclaimed, taking an electric guitar off its holder.
"Now you can continue to teach me Jirou!"
"Yeah, I-I guess" she smiled, still acting unsure when people talked about her skills and music. People roamed the room for a little while before everyone left to eat dinner. Izuku stared at the piano for a bit longer though, feeling his fingers tingling with the urge to play.

It's been so long since he played piano... He's probably not any good at it anymore, but still... He was kinda bumped out when he got back from his extra classes to find that Yaoyorozu already took place in the band behind the keyboard, but he'd also been excited to dance so it was all good. Yet now he did have the chance to play piano again!

He slipped out of the common room after dinner, slipping into the music room. He smiled as he sat down behind the piano, letting out a long breath before he stared down at the instrument with focus. Izuku started playng the melody, slow at first to make sure he had the right tones before he played at the pace he wanted.

"When I was 5, I wanted to be a Star Wars character" he sang quietly, a small chuckle escaping his mouth.
"I would bounce around the walls and use the force to control all... Yoda would visit me and I would smile at him and then we'd defeat the Sith..."

Yeah, he remembered those days clearly... Bet his mom regretted ever letting him watch those movies with the messes he made.
"See, I didn't need anyone to play with because I was happy with myself... The lightsabers, imaginary wars, and pretend heroism..." he continued, a sad smile coming to his lips. He was quirkless... There was no way he'd become a hero...

Kacchan said so, everyone said so... His friends left him because he wasn't strong... But he didn't need them. He had his own imagination and that was more than enough.
"When I was 8, I wanted to be a soldier" Izuku sang, his fingers dancing over the keys, not noticing the small squeaking of the hinges as the door to the music room opened.

"So I wrote stories about great adventures fighting a war... And through my words, I soared high above burning landscapes...And kept my people safe"
He didn't notice some of his classmates listening in on him. Namely Jirou, Uraraka, Kaminari and Kirishima.

"I mean, it didn't matter who I was fighting as long as I was fighting because that's what a hero did... I wanted to be a hero, and I wanted to save everybody around me" Izuku mused, a tear escaping his eye at the memories. He wanted to be a hero so bad... It hurt so much that his dream could never come true... Yet here he was! At UA, with a quirk, with friends! He was on his way to become the hero he'd always dreamed of being!

"When I was 11, I wanted to be a comedian" he continued, confusing his classmates that were listening in. Some more people had joined in by now, the door already halfway open so you could hear the music in the hallway too.
"So I cracked jokes to pass the time and I wouldn't ever rhyme... And I would force my parents to listen to the same jokes over... And over, and over, and over, and over until it was told just right"