𝘼𝙉𝙏𝙄-𝙃𝙀𝙍𝙊 [Dark Deku Male Reader X My Hero Academia Harem]

Ch 37: 'Natives'

[After a break, we're back, and with it I'm trying a different approach in the start of writing this chapter. More fast pace and doing a lot whilst still the same amount of words...]
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[Your POV]

...Peace...

It's a concept we all hope for. Long for. One we feel we can't live without. For without peace, how else can we go about our lives? The idea of peace has been one I've chased for years now. When I was a kid, my Mom take me shopping with her. I never really liked doing it, it felt boring. But Mom refused to leave me home alone. It didn't take much for me to understand why though. Ever since Izuku died, her whole life had been protecting me. Keeping me from the possible dangers that awaited my every move. Now, sure, that's something every mother does. But my Mom decided to take that level of parenting and turn it up to a twelve on the dial. So there was no being out of her sight for at least a few good years until I reached double digits in age. 

Until then, however, the only time alone I got was when I'd go to school and be in my room. Back to the point, when I was young, my Mom would take me shopping. I wouldn't say I liked it, but Mom didn't care. So I was forced to spend the time simply looking around at the world beyond my own life as a simple six-year-old. I watched as adults smiled and fellow kids laughed in delight. That's what brings me back to the idea of peace. Those adults and children, they were so intuned with peace at that time in life, that they managed this incredible skill that I have yet to truly master... Ignorance. Now, you could probably look pass the kids to realise they had no idea what the world truly was like. 

But those adults, those grown people who have already been through so much, somehow managed to find the strength to smile as they go about their day in a world like the one we live in. If the ongoing war of heroes and villains wasn't enough to bring about concern; then the outright evil that this world brews for us to take in most certainly should have. It annoyed me, how easily they could look pass it all. I was just a little kid, yet I had already faced the evil of this world head-on. I knew it wasn't a fun place. I knew there was no peace to be had, at least not without knowing that just around the corner, a worse fate then you could even imagine could be waiting for you. So what was the point of peace? For the longest time, I didn't know. 

I instead chose to rest my thoughts on keeping my promise to Izuku. But in the time that has followed since those dark days, I feel my ability to grasp such ignorance and false pretext has grown stronger, to the point I can now crack a smile and feel genuine happiness, if not just for a while. One such moment was right now, as I stood right outside the campsite of the training grounds my fellow classmates and I would be participating in for the next two weeks. Speaking of my classmates, they were the very reason I managed to smile right now. Their tired, dust-covered faces, as they wearily stumble to the finish line of the treacherous race they had just completed, all spawned the same look. 

Yet, despite seeing so much of the same expression, I couldn't help but smile. I guess it didn't help that I had no trouble with the Earth Beasts we had just fought during our trip to arrive at the campsite. My uniform only carried small specks of dirt; whereas everyone else appeared to have crawled along the ground to avoid being defeated. Some actually did do that. But the point stood that seeing people like Bakugo be enraged by what just happened was still one of the funniest things I have seen in a while now. Enough to definitely bring on a form of ignorance in a moment like this...

Bakugo: [Aggrivated] "This is total bullshit! I mean, I like punching piles of dirt as much as the next guy. But that was total bullshit! I didn't come here to punch dirt! I came here to set (Y/n) up with women and punch weak pieces of life like Mineta!"

Mineta: "Ah! Come on, man!"

Bakugo: "Quiet, worm!"

One by one more students arrived from both Classes 1-A and 1-B. As they did, they eventually came to join me in front of building the campsite grounds were located on. In front of that, Aizawa, Mandalay, and Pixie Bob could be seen. Surprisingly, there was no sign of Mirko and Midnight at the moment. Which was odd, mainly because I thought they'd be here to greet me. Oh, well, I'm not complaining. Finishing the track from the cliffside to the campsite first had its rewards...I got to be away from Bakugo for a while. Something I probably needed now more than ever as of late. It seems ever since I got with Yaoyorozu and Hagakure, he's really been pushing the idea of me--