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Kirishima POV
I stared up into the bright blue abyss, feeling the cool breeze ripping through my spiky red locks of hair. I was falling, and although I was, it was oddly peaceful. That was until a powerful tug had pulled me away from the cloudy world. Before I could comprehend what was happening, everything had faded into white.
It felt like I had been lying there for hours when I lifted myself from the cold but warm floor, letting out a little groan in the process.
“Finally you’re awake,” An unfamiliar voice came from the left of me. My breath hitched.
Slowly turning my head, my eyes opened up to be greeted with a maroon haired male who looked around my age. He donned a white jacket with a black shirt underneath, paired with matching white trousers and black shoes.
Nothing but a small skwark like noise left my mouth. “Who are you?!”
“Hey hey, that’s a little rude,” he smiled. “Matsuoka Rin.”
“Kirishima Eijirou.”
‘This Rin guy seems pretty damn calm, I guess this isn’t his first time here.’ I sat up and looked around, we were surrounded by nothing but white.
“Rin, what is this place?”
“Beats me. I get sent here every night in my dreams though.” Silence struck between us as I looked around the place.
“It’s never ending...” Everything about this place felt weird, not exactly unsettling, but just a moment ago I was falling from the sky. Weird.
Rin POV
As Kirishima examined the room, I started to take more notice of his appearance. He had red hair, red eyes, shark teeth a lot like my own… wait a second.
‘This guy looks a lot like me!’
“Kirishima,” I started, his head swiveled towards me. “Don’t you think we look similar?”
His eyebrows furrowed for a moment, as he placed his hand against his chin.
“Whoa man, we do!” he marveled, frantically nodding his head up and down, his eyes scanning my body from head to toe.
“Wait dude, open your mouth and say ‘ah’,” I did just as he asked, although rather uncomfortably. “Damn, you have pointy teeth too? And I thought that was just something to do with my quirk!”
Suddenly, an interesting idea had popped up into my mind.
“Well, if we look that similar, we could swap lives and no one would notice,” I joked. ‘I might as well be joking about it though, there’s no way that Kirishima would agree to this absur-’
“Whoa, that’s a great idea! We need to do that, man!” his face lit up in excitement.
‘...Wait what?’
Astonished by his approval, I gaped at him. “Huh, I wasn’t expecting you to actually agree…”
“Oh wait, how do we even know that the other one of us is real?” Kirishima turned and then realised.
“Oh trust me, you’ll see. I’m definitely real.” For a brief moment, he appeared to be having a minor existential crisis, before he smiled back at me. I laughed, “Calm down, I’m sure you’re real.”
“But dude, where would we meet up? I don’t even know where you came from or anything else about you…” Kirishima went on. I began staring at the ground in thought. It was true. Kirishima and I knew nothing about each other, we only just met through this dream. Hell, we weren’t even sure if the other one of us was real or not! So how on earth would we meet? Are we even in the same universe?
“Rin, I have an idea,” Kirishima started, his voice dropping to a more serious tone. I lifted my head to meet his gaze. “Meet me at a lake.”
“What?”
“I know, it sounds crazy, but hear me out.”
“You think there’s some sort of supernatural portal there to transport me to you or something?”
Silence. Kirishima’s eyes were filled with determination as he gave me a reassuring smile. ‘Geez. This guy sure doesn’t give up, does he?’ I sighed, facepalming. “I can’t believe I’m going to do this… should we meet at the same time?” He nodded, his expression unchanged. “Alright, how about 6pm?”
“Sounds good… wait, if this actually works, would this mean we live in different universes?”
“Shh, Kirishima, don’t break the fourth wall-”
Suddenly, the white void we were once in had started quaking, if that was even possible. A powerful force was separating us; it felt as if we were being repulsed from each other, like two identical magnets being pushed together. I attempted to fight it off and get back to Kirishima; he was struggling just as much. Before I drifted out of consciousness, I heard a scream:
"Meet me at Lake Biwa, Rin!!"