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Aizawa walked into class with his usual bored expression on his face.
"Get your costumes on and meet me in gym C. Your going to be sparring with each other today."
Once outside Aizawa explained the rules.
"This will work tournament style, so the winner moves on to the next round."
First up was Bakugo and kaminari. Which ended pretty quickly with Bakugo blasting kaminari out of bounds.
Next was Bakugo and Raiden. Bakugo sets off an explosion to close to his face and he feels a miniscule crack in the plates, but ignores it. They keep going for a while, with Bakugo getting more pissed by the second. Kuni just kept dodging his explosions or taking them with out a care in the world, throwing blades of wind that were occasionally swirled with pyro from the explosions.
Eventually Raiden gathered up enough energy for his burst. Condensing anemo energy into a ball and kicking it down on Bakugo, knocking him to the ground. Kuni pinned him with a single foot in-between his shoulder blades. Naming him the winner.
As Bakugo was walking away Kuni stuck his toung out, and pointed at his eye, looking smug.
He ends up sparring with kirishima next .
Halfway through their battle, Kirishima ends up punching Raiden with his hardened skin right where the crack had already started to form. Kuni got sent back quite a bit because he got distracted by the sound of something cracking. When he lifts his hand up to see what happened he feels a hole in his check surounded by little cracks. He stands there in horror as he realized what just happened, not even paying attention to the fact that he was pushed out of bounds.
Kirishima and the other people who were watching all freze in their place. Because there is now a black hole in their classmates face, and skin shouldn't be able to crack like that.
Kunikuzushi meanwhile was internally spiraling. The thought has now occurred to him that this could be bad. He hadent thought about if before, but he is a puppet, who could still be damaged. He wasnt indestructible. His thoughts were so loud he didn't even realizing he was whispering out loud, and in Inazuman. "Im made from Khaenri'an technology that has been lost to time and to Teyvat. If something destroys any of my internal mechanical components I have no way of repairing it."
He keeps spiraling, thoughts getting louder and more jumbled until his legs eventually give out and he falls to his knees with one hand supporting some of his weight. His hand is still hovering above the crack in his face.
On the outside nobody is doing anything. They are frozen in place unsure what to do. Nobody, even Aizawa have ever seen this happen before.
Eventually they hear laughter which confuses everybody more. By now everyone present in the gym is looking directly at Raiden.
That bit of Scaramouche that is still there comes out and he starts laughing. Its quiet at first but eventually gets louder. (Think CN VA Scara laugh) "Curse this fucking body!" He felt the slight shock of electro on his hand as a purple almost blood-like substance started to seep through the cracks and drip from the hole in his face.
As both the physical and emotional pain starts to set in his hysterical laughs start to morph into chocked sobs.
Raiden's yelling was enough to snap Aizawa out of his state of shock and go running over to help his student. He really couldn't understand him though. Seemed like he was speaking a completely foreign language. Him having switched to Teyvatian at some point on instinct.
As Aizawa reaches out to Raiden, he hears him say something that really confuses Aizawa. "If any of my components gets destroyed or damaged its going to be irreparable." Between sobs he keeps talking. "Curse this Khaenri'an body." He chocked on another sob completely unaware that Aizawa is hovering just above him. He kept switching between Inazuma and Teyvatian. Comfusing Aizawa even more.
'I wish Nahida was here. Heck even the Traveler. Or better yet, I wish that I had burned down with the rest of Teyvat because obviously that the house fire the first time didn't do it. But hey third times the charm. Right?'
He flinches and freezes at the feeling of someone rubbing their hand up and down his back in a slow, soothing motion.
"It's ok kid, just let it out. Sometimes we just need to cry it out. I'll help get you to recovery girl and we can figure this out-"
"No." His voice came out horse and broken from crying. "Get my phone out of my bag and call Lumine." He just needs someone he can talk to freely about this.
This Aizawa could understand. He was speaking Japanese this time, not whatever that other language was.
"Somenody who knows what his phone looks like, go grab it. Now." Aizawa yelled tward the group of students.
Eventually, Midorya runs off to go find his phone. When he comes back over with it he runs over to Raiden giving it to him. He quickly unlocks it and dials Lumine's number. After the third ring she picks up.
"Wanderer? Hey, what's up?"
"Lumine, please meet me at UA, we need to talk. Its urgent." She can hear the urgency and shake in his voice and is already running over to UA using the elements to help her get there faster. She has never heard Wanderer sound so desperate, enough so to even say please on the first try, in the entire time she has known him. He also wasn't speaking Japanese. He was speaking Teyvatian.
"Do you want me to stay on the phone, or can I hang up?" She was going as fast as she could to get to UA using electro to weave through crowds. 'Curse the school being so far away.' She thought.
"Please stay. Don't shut up, embrace the inner Paimon and for the love of all the Archons don't stop talking." His thoughts were too lould right now and he just wanted something to shut them up. Something to listen to that wont bore him to death if the pain didnt do it already.
"Ok, yeah, I can do that. Um, oh! I know! This morning Aether did a really dumb thing and it was so fucking halarious-"
The entire time she stayed on the phone talking about the most random and stupid shit ever. Things from her time in Teyvat, or other worlds with her brother.
Kunikuzushi was slowly calming down. Just hearing a farmiliar voice was already helping so much.
As she approached the giant glass H shaped building she suddenly remembred that she never did ask where he was at the moment. "Hey, um, where are you at right now?"
"Gym C. Its one of the indoor gyms."
"Gym C. Got it. Im almost there just hold on for a moment longer. Your going to be ok."
A beat later the doors to the gym burst open and a worried Lumine rushes in past the small crowds of students, crouching down infront of Wanderer.
"Hey, Im right here. Look at me. You're going to be ok. We can go somewhere more private and we can talk, but first show me what happened."
Wanderer slowly lifts his head, removing his hand from his face, and turning slightly so she can see what happened. Her eyes go wide with shock. She opens her mouth to say something but nothing comes out, so she opts to give him a hug instead. His face is destroyed, there is tears still running down his cheeks and a purple blood like substance that sparks with electro energy.
Everyone in class 3A's jaws were on the floor because Raiden, the guy who snaps at you if you even get to close is accepting a hug from who they suppose is this Lumine he was talking about. (minus the ones who have already met her anyway)
Wanderer leaned into the hug, burying his face in the side of Lumine's neck. "Lumine, if any of my internal mechanical components gets damaged or broken I have no way to repair or replace them."
With a hum she sat there not saying anything for a moment seeming lost in thought. "My brother lived in Khaenri'an for the better part of it's existence, we could see if he would know anything. I also studied a good amount of Teyvats mechanics, from old ruin guards, to Fontainian clockwork mecha, even some of the things that Xilonen made for Chasca and Mavuika using phlogisten. Im sure we would be able to figure something out."
Wanderer let out a relieved sigh "ok, thank you, Lumine."
A small smile graced her lips before she spoke "how about we go somewhere more private so I can help you clean your face up. Yeah?"
"Yeah, we can go to my dorm. That would be the most private place I have access to. The damn rat has eyes pretty much everywhere else."
Lumine finally looked up to where everybody was standing still staring at them with wide eyes. "I'll take care of him. He will be fine we just need a moment alone to discuss some things."
Aizawa just gave her a confused look, like he couldn't understand what she was saying. It took her a moment to realize that she wasnt speaking Inazu- Japanese but Teyvatian. Whoops. She ended up automatically switching to Teyvatian when she was talking to Wanderer. But she just laughed it off "I'll take care of him. He will be fine we just need a moment alone to discuss some things."
"Ok then, but you should take him to recovery girl, the school nur-" Aizawa tried to chime in before Lumine cut him off.
"No." Lumine gave him a hard stare that shut him up quickly. "I said that I will be the one to help him out for a reason. Got that?"
The woMAN was to stunned to speak. "Ok, fine. Just make sure to let me know his condition later."
Lumine gave him a mischievous look "no promises~" Aizawa just glared at her, not wanting to argue right now.
Turning back to Wanderer she switched to Teyvatian "can you stand?" They pulled back so they can look at eachother, Wanderer lifting his hand back up to cover his face. "maybe" came his slightly horse voice "I'll try, but you might need to help me." It was honestly weird seeing him be so soft and vulnerable. 'Was this what the real Kunikuzushi was like?'
Lumine stood up first and reached out her hand to help him up. Once he was standing she held him by his shoulders so he could regain his balance. She left her hand on his arm just in case as they walked out of the gym and over to where the dorms were.
After they left all the students started to congregate, talking about what just happened. People were all super confused because 'what do you mean his face cracked?' and "there was just a black hole in his cheek. Im telling you.' Also the people who were closest to him were wondering what language he and the girl- Lumine- as some of them know, we're speaking.
Back at the UA dorms, Lumine helps walk him to his dorm. Once inside she sits him down on his bed and crouches infront of him, gently turning his head towards the light to see how bad the damage is. "Wow. Never thought I would see the day that you would be down on your knees infront of me." He weakly mocked. She just scoffed at him, hitting his knee with the back of her hand. "Shut up."
She sat back infront of him before she spoke again.
"Do you have a first aid kit somewhere?"