𝔼𝕣𝕒𝕤𝕖 𝕎𝕙𝕒𝕥? [ON HOLD]

85

Work-study? We are allowed to do that in our first year? I thought that was for upperclassmen. Now that I'm thinking about it, I haven't seen Uncle Toshi all day... was he maybe at the assembly and I missed him?

Either way, now I was sitting in my spot in the classroom, tapping my pencil to the thumping of my heartbeat as Dad explained that we might be able to do work studies this year.

It sounded cool but I didn't know if anyone would take me... maybe I could work with Rock Lock? It was an idea at least.

He had a quirk that could take away the active motion of an object, while I had the quirk to take away stamina and other quirks. Maybe he could teach me a few tricks...

With a quirk like mine I'm probably very useful in a situation, in multiple ways, it can give me the edge when fighting a villain who only knows how to do things with his quirk, I can immediately drain someone's stamina... though I have noticed it decreases my health... lastly I'm a great support quirk on the field.

Maybe Rock Lock will see that. When the bell rings I link up with Mina and Eijiro, apparently both Katsuki and Midoriya were on house arrest, but I was allowed not to be because I had told Dad about the potential fight beforehand.

As we were about to walk out of UA however...

I then decided to hold back a moment to try and find my Uncle Toshi, I wanted a hug from him and I felt bad for setting such a harsh boundary the other day, I feel as though I might've hurt his pride.

I walked around the school for a while, running into Shinso from that general studies class. He looked like he had muscled up a bit since the last time I saw him. Then I remembered abruptly that he had never heard my voice before because I was mute when I met him.

"Shinso!" I waved at him, he looked around confused as to who called his name before he spotted me. He made an 'oh' face before he walked up to me.

"Hello, did you need something?" He asked.

"Nope, but I'm glad to see you're doing better, during the sports festival you looked a little sad." I smiled at him.

"Well if you don't need anything from me I'll be on my way, it was nice seeing you again Lily." I chuckled and watched as a little smile grew on his face as he walked away.

But once he was out of eyesight my smile dropped and I continued my search. Walking through hall after hall, going up a flight of stairs before repeating.

I felt numb to any and every outside force. I carried my books and my weight as though it were chains and shackles tying me to this place.

I only snapped out of it when I heard my name slip from a skeleton at the end of the hall. My black eyes meeting his blue ones as he looked unto me in confusion.

"Lily? What are you still doing here?" I looked around and spotted a clock on the far end of the hallway, it was 3 hours after school had ended, the sun was going down and I could feel a slight draft coming from the lower floors.

I didn't answer him as I walked towards my Uncle, he looked a little unnerved at my emotionless state.

I stopped in front of my family member with a blank face, my hands holding onto the straps of my book bag as I tried to read why he lied to me.

Eventually, I settled on one reason. He was trying to protect everyone, he must've had an old enemy or such to need to keep something so vital from even his closest friends and family.

Safety... he wanted to smile and reassure the world that he was there for them without the public coming for him and his quirk.

I unlatched my hands and wrapped them around the small frame of the former symbol of peace. Hearing his breath hitch as I talked to him with an emotionless tone.

"Thank you," I said quietly before unhooking myself and heading away from the blonde. My face was just as cold as it came as I walked from there down flights upon flights of stairs.

I don't know what he said after that but it sounded like a 'you're welcome.' Though I couldn't be sure because of the distance between us. In all honesty, I couldn't even be mad anymore, with the possibility that he lost his quirk against All For One, he no longer had a quirk.

Erase what? He had nothing to erase. It wasn't about erasing things anymore for him. It was about drawing his future the way he needed it to be, this including Midoriya. It didn't mean I forgave him for lying to me for basically my entire life. Nothing like that.

He was like a teacup, most heroes are. When it's full they have a purpose to serve until it empty's. When it does, however, it is up to the person to either fill it up again with a new purpose or put it away and give up. So really it wasn't only about him.

It was about all of us.

I just needed to accept the fact and move on, I had bigger fish to fry and things weren't all about One For All and All For One. Some people needed saving and things needed to be done.

I could only imagine what Uncle Toshi did with his teacup, but I have a feeling he filled it up again.

His purpose now is to train all of us and make us into the best hero's we could possibly be.

So I said thank you because finding a new purpose is hard.

Especially at his age.

Also because he used his last time fighting against the most dangerous criminal on the planet. Leaving a clear path for us youngsters to pave a new way for the hero world.

I would have to eternally be grateful for that.

I stepped into the dorms, seeing nobody around I made my way to my dorm room. Stopping at the end of the hall as I saw who was standing there waiting for me.

Katsuki.

In his hand was a beautiful blue orchid. He waited as I walked his way, making no advancements as I stepped cautiously to him. He handed it to me silently and walked away just as so, but it spoke the words he couldn't bring himself to say.

Orchids are usually meant to express regrets, it meant he was saying...

'I'm sorry.'