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Hey guys! This story's been getting some follows and favorites lately, so I thought I'd update. Please enjoy!
Episode 7 – True Friends Are True Friends Indeed!
Over time, it wasn't long before I made true friends that meant the most to me, even if they proved to be troublesome…
I'm watching a popular soap opera with Izu-niisan when I get a message on my phone.
Kota
1 New Message
Kota: You free today?
Yup! Whassup?
Kota: There's this new pizza place I wanted to check out. You in?
Sure! Sounds fun! Is it just us?
Kota: I was thinking of invited a few others from our class.
Namely?
Kota: You'll see when we meet up.
Oh come on just tell me!
Kota: Meet us at the train station in 30 min.
Fine! I'll be there.
I sigh and close Kota's chat. I swear he's so difficult sometimes, but what am I gonna do? I turn to Izu-niisan and sweatdrop when I find him tearing up at some cheesy romance scene.
"Oh Aiko! You just wanted Atsushi to love you!" he cries out dramatically, as he scrunches his face. "You just wanted to be loved!"
"Uh…Izu-niisan," I begin, "Sorry to interrupt whatever…this is, but Kota invited me out with a group of friends."
He grabs a tissue and blows his nose, "Alright then," he says before reaching into his pants' pocket and giving me his card. "You can use my card if you need to pay for anything. Remember to be careful, alright?"
My eyes sparkle as I take the card in my hands. I give a wide grin, "I will! Thank you Izu-niisan!"
"No problem, Eri." My brother pets me on the head.
I finally reach the train station when I spot Kota and four other familiar faces, standing by the train doors.
"Hurry up Eri, the train's about to leave!" Kota yells out to me and I run as fast as I can towards him and the others.
We all enter the train together and take our seats. Honestly, I'm surprised to see who my blank-faced best friend invited along.
Sitting on the opposite side is our Class President and the prince and beast among men, Shinji Akio. He has a red button-up sweater over a black and white checkered shirt, grey pants and black sneakers. From the moment he entered the train, women have just been staring nonstop while he just smiles calmly like nothing's going on.
"How are you today, Eri-kun?" He asks kindly, his pretty boy aura almost blinding.
"Oh I'm fine, thanks for asking." I reply, trying to shield my eyes.
I turn to our shy class sweetheart, Mera Hitomi sitting on my left, as she keeps her gaze down, and tries to be invisible. She's wearing a jeans jacket over a white blouse, a blue skirt and brown boots. Simple outfit I must say, but she still stands out pretty well especially because of her blushing cheeks.
"You okay, Hitomi?" I ask her softly.
"I-I'm fine…d-don't wo-worry about me…" she squeaks as she starts trembling.
Yeah, she's not fine. Of course neither would I if I was sitting across from my crush.
My eyes shift to our class wannabe delinquent, Nagitani Junpei seated on the left side of Kota, with his earphones plugged in. He's wearing his usual dark green hoodie over a black t-shirt and blue jeans. He's pretending like he doesn't want to be here but I know that's not the case.
He notices me staring at him and scowls.
"Tch! What are you looking at Unicorn?" he asks and I simply smile back.
He's called me that every since junior high. I don't remember him too well but I do remember someone calling me 'Unicorn' all the time.
Although, someone I definitely remember just so happens to also be the younger sister of a Pro Hero and is our class bookworm and twintails extraordinaire, Asui Satsuki, seated on my right. She's the shortest out of all of us and has dark green hair tied in low twintails, large oval eyes and a cute face. She's wearing a yellow dress and white flats.
"So how much do you know about this pizza place Kota?" she asks curiously.
"Not much, only that they got cheap prices for quality pizza and I thought that I had to check it out to see for myself," Kota says.
"Oh~ so then why did you bring us if you were gonna check it on your own?" I tease him and he glares at me.
"I only invited you guys because I thought that just in case it is good, you guys deserve to try it too that's all…"
"Liar."
"Who are you calling a liar?"
Shinji-kaichou chuckles at the two of us. "Now, now you two no need for fighting. We don't want to attract unnecessary attention to ourselves."
"Says the guy who's attracted all the attention to us…" I whisper while sweat dropping.
"Has he not noticed all the women staring at him the whole time?" Satsuki whispers next.
"I wonder if being oblivious is his real quirk…" Kota says.
Nagitani scoffs, "Damn pretty boy…"
Shinji-kaichou, oblivious to it all, just sits quietly while humming a soft tune.
We all sigh.
He really is too oblivious but somehow, that adds to his charm.
The train finally stops and we hurriedly get off. It isn't crowded or anything but we just want to get to the pizza place early. After a long walk, we finally make it.
Italian Deluxe.
So it's an Italian restaurant, huh? That sounds interesting! The pizza must be quality then!
We all go inside and are immediately greeted with the smell of delicious pizza. My mouth is already watering.
"Table for six?" A waiter asks us kindly.
"Yes thanks," Kota replies and the waiter directs us to our table. We all take a seat and look at the menu. There's some good stuff here, maybe I should bring something back for Izu-niisan.
"Have you guys decided what to order yet?" Kota asks.
"There are just so many delicious options!" I whine not knowing what to choose.
"Just make the right choice so you won't waste money."
"Don't act like you're paying for all of us Kota."
"Shut up Eri!"
I giggle at my best friend before turning back to the menu. We all finally make our choices as the waiter comes around and takes down our orders. When the pizzas come, we don't waste time to dig in.
I have plain cheese, Kota has pepperoni, Nagitani has meat-lovers, Hitomi and Satsuki have Hawaiian and Shinji-kaichou has vegetarian.
I'm surprised at Shinji-kaichou's choice considering his quirk but he explains that the reason why he didn't order a meat pizza. Something about it meat making him extremely dangerous…
Nagitani comments how he's just a scared chump and real men eat meat but a swift twist of the hand by Shinji-kaichou shuts him up. The scary thing is how Shinji-kaichou sweet expression didn't change when he did that.
Kota and Satsuki try not to laugh.
Once we're done, we call the waiter over and he takes our plates.
"That was some good pizza!" I say, feeling satisfied.
"Yeah. Thanks for inviting us Kota." Satsuki says.
Kota shrugs his shoulders, "Meh, it's whatever. I just wanted you guys to enjoy the pizza too."
I smirk. "Are you sure you just didn't wanna come alone~?"
"Shut up Eri!"
I giggle at his response and angry look. I just love teasing Kota.
"The pizza was okay…I guess. It could have been better." Nagitani says, trying to be rude as always. Satsuki stares at him blankly. "How much better could it have been? This is an Italian pizza restaurant."
He clears his throat, "Well…"
"Whatever guys! It doesn't matter! We had a good time, right?" I say, turning to Hitomi. She smiles nervously.
"Ah…yeah!"
"I agree. The pizza was absolutely splendid." Shinji-kaichou says.
"Even though you had vegetarian?"
Our class president chuckles and it isn't one of those happy ones, it's an irritated one and we all know it.
"Oh Nagitani-san, you just love testing my patience." He says through his teeth, his happy tone contradicting his agitated glare.
Nagitani shifts his chair away from Shinji-kaichou and the rest of us sweatdrop. It's obvious Shinji-kaichou doesn't want to get angry in a public place like this.
The waiter comes back before anything else and hands us the check. Since we're all paying for our food individually, I bring out Izu-niisan's card from my purse.
Once everyone else is done paying, it's my turn.
But as I hand over my card to the waiter, he smirks which confuses me. He quickly replaces it with a smile though.
"You're Midoriya Eri right? The younger sister of the Symbol of Peace?"
I just look at him nervously. "Um yeah, I am."
"Sorry, I know you probably came here to relax with your friends but...is okay if I get an autograph?" He asks, handing me a pen and paper.
"Um...sure…" I reply.
Why can't a shake away this eerie feeling in my chest?
As he inserts the card into the machine, I scribble my signature on the paper. I then type the pin for the card before he takes it out and hands it back to me and thanks me. Finally, he gives us the receipt and we start to leave.
Weird, I guess I was worried for nothing.
"Wow Eri, does that happen to you often?" Hitomi asks me.
"Yeah, it does, although not as often as when I'm with Izu-niisan," I tell her.
"It must be nice to get all that attention, we really can't relate Eri." Shinji-kaichou says and Satsuki sweatdrops, "What do you mean 'we'? All you ever get is attention."
"Hmm, what do you mean?" Our class president asks while tilting his head in confusion.
The others sigh as Kota speaks up. "I dunno, but there was something suspicious about that guy."
"Yeah, I could see it too." Hitomi nods her head.
So Kota and Hitomi noticed it as well? Good to know I wasn't seeing things.
Once we exited the restaurant, Kota checks his phone. "The train will be here in 10 minutes, let's hurry so we don't miss it."
As we begin walking, I suddenly find myself being grabbed from behind. I try to scream but my mouth was covered and before I know it, there's a gun to my hand, chest and stomach. What-what is happening? Who are these people?
My friends finally turn around to see me held in place by these men.
"Hey! Let go of her!" Kota yells, preparing to use his quirk.
"Don't even try!" The man who's covering my mouth and holding a gun to my head speaks. "If you move we'll kill her!"
Kota grits his teeth as the others stare at me warily. I can't break his hold, the man's grip on me is too strong. People start to take notice of the situation but stay back out of fear. I don't blame them, honestly I don't want anyone getting hurt because of me.
At the corner of my eye I see someone through restaurant window. It's the waiter who was attending to us! The same smirk he gave me earlier is present on his face again. He holds up the autograph I gave him and rips it to pieces.
My eyes widen. He never wanted my autograph, he was just stalling so these guys could get here. Why didn't I listen to what Katsuki-niichan always tells me?
"Listen to your gut, it's probably right."
"Good. Now we'll be taking her." the man says. "And if the Number One Hero wants her back then he has to come get her himself, with a shit ton of money. Oh and if he doesn't hurry, my boys and I might get a little bored and entertain ourselves, if you know what I mean." He laughs maniacally afterwards.
That's when I couldn't take anymore. I try to stop my quirk from activating on it's own but my mind has been thrown into a panic and I don't know what to do. I can feel my horn growing longer but before I give in, I bite the man's hand.
As he wails in pain, I scream out to my friends. "Please! Help me!"
They all snap out of it and begin to take action. Hitomi who's normally so timid, doesn't seem to have a single ounce of fear as she steps forward and takes off her glasses.
"Second Eye: Petrification." She yells as her violet eyes glow pink, instantly causes the men's (holding the gun to my head and heart) hands to turn to stone. Panicking, they try to shake of the effect but it just continues up the arms.
One of them grits their teeth. "Shoot her!" he ordered the one pointing a gun to my stomach but before he can pull the trigger, a blast of wind throws him upwards.
Nagitani holds his hand and uses it to maneuver the man's movement in the air. He then surrounds him in a cocoon like tornado before Kota blasts him away with a powerful torrent of water from his hands. The two boys high five each other.
Even though, it's not over I manage a smile on my face.
Hitomi's quirk is Tri-Vision (第三の目, Daisan no me), which allows her to use three types of enhanced visions, namely Heat Vision, Petrification Vision, Penetration Vision. She also just naturally has good eyesight. The downside is she has to wear glasses to cancel out her Petrification Vision.
Nagitani's quirk is Air Control (空気制御, Kuuki seigyo), granting him the power to manipulate air and wind.
The next thing I knew, Satsuki uses her elastic tongue to grab me away from the men and back to her and the others. She has the same quirk as her sister.
"You okay Eri?" Hitomi asks me worriedly. I smile at her. "Of course, you guys saved me after all."
"Yeah, sorry we didn't react sooner." Kota says. "We didn't want to risk getting you hurt."
"But if it meant you didn't have to use your quirk, then there's no way we could just stand still." Satsuki says.
Nagitani smirks. "Be grateful Unicorn. We just saved you the trouble."
I smile at all of them. "I am grateful. Thank you guys!"
"Damn you!" The man who they assumed was the leader yelled His right arm was still petrified. "You better give us back the girl or else..." He pulled out a grenade. "I'll blow up everything in sight."
"This guy is so generic! It's hilarious…" Nagitani chuckles dryly. "I mean does he even have a quirk?"
"That won't be necessary." Shinji-kaichou walks forward. "Why humiliate yourself even further? You should just surrender before it's too late."
"And why the hell would I do that?" The man asks. "Step aside you damn pretty boy brat! I don't have time to talk to some weakling like you!"
"Oh? Weakling?"
Oh boy...here we go…
"Yeah, you're the only one who hasn't shown off their quirk yet." The man says.
Trust me. You don't want him to show off his quirk.
"That's rich coming from a guy who probably doesn't have one, yet you have the nerve to attack those who do? The reason why I didn't do anything is because my classmates are already so capable I didn't see a reason to intervene." He says, "Although, regardless Eri and the others are not only my classmates but my friends and the fact you decided to threaten one of them not only angers me as their Class President but also their friend…" His hair changes from platinum blond to strawberry blond and his eyes change from orange to gold. His nails become claws and his teeth fangs. "...and that is unforgivable!"
The man begins to tremble as Shinji-kaichou closes in on him like a hungry predator. He and the other guys try to run away but unfortunately (or fortunately?) they weren't fast enough.
I won't explain all the details but let's just say that if the police didn't come at the last moment those guys would have a lot more than a few injuries.
One of the policemen then asks us what happened and we explain everything. He thanks my friends for taking action and after a while the commotion is over. The police then offer us a ride home, which is cool. He drops my friends off near a bus stop but insists on taking me home directly.
But before we separated, I leap out of the car and we all have a group hug (even Nagitani after some convincing and threatening from Satsuki and Shinji-kaichou). I wave to them as I'm driven home.
The police explains everything to Izu-niisan who apparently fell asleep while watching his soap operas.
He hugs and checks my body to see any injuries but I tell him I'm fine.
"I'm so sorry Eri! If I hadn't fallen asleep then I could've saved you!" He tells me and I just smile at him.
"It's okay, my friends saved me. So you don't have to worry! And I promise, I'll work harder so I can protect myself too." I tell him and he smiles and hugs me again.
"You have some great friends Eri."
"Yeah," I whisper. "I do."
My friends were amazing, and I was glad that I had them...
A/N:
(Apologies! I edited this and damn, where there tons of errors! I mean I left out words in sentences! I'm so sorry! I don't suck at English, I just find editing tedious, maybe I should get an editor...")
Hey, I know I haven't updated in a while but yeah. There are about 7 more chapters to go for the first season of this. I actually plan on making a more serious storyline down the line so yeah, anyway, thanks for reading. And I'll go into the other characters quirks in detail in later chapters.
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~ Mizuki Kokoa