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Midoriya’s POV
I wake up. Another day of school… I yawn. I get up, still feeling sleepy. I’m in the dorm room of the prestigious hero high school, U.A. So, I decorated my room in the only way acceptable- with an ‘autistic’ amount (according to Kacchan) of All might merch. I smile- it’s so childish but it’s helping me deal with a lot of the chaos happening around us. I sigh and go to my bathroom.
“HELLO EVERYONE!” Iida says immediately after I walk into our classroom. As always.
“Hey Iida!” I smile.
“Midoriya!! Iida!” Uraraka bursts into the room.
“GOOD MORNING URARAKA!” Screams Iida. I almost cover my ears.
“Iida, you’re too loud!” Jirou complains, laughing in the corner with Tokoyami and Shoji. I chuckle and talk with Uraraka.
At another corner, I see Kacchan grumbling to Kirishima and Kaminari. Strangely, I feel a tinge in my chest. Are my ribs acting up again…? But as quickly as they came, the pain went away. Weird.
”Alright, go to your seats everyone.” Mr. Aizawa says. As we all get to our deignated areas, he starts prepping for class. “Today, we will be doing basic training. Should be easy for you all.” The whole class breaths a sigh of relief as we don’t have to do something extremely hard. Everyone is still sore from all the fighting. Even I can’t help but feel glad.
As we get our costumes, I see Kacchan look at me. When I turn my head, he looks away and grumbles. I sigh. I couldn’t talk to him at all ever since the fight with All for One. Maybe we really didn’t grow closer. I shake that thought. Even if we didn’t, there’ll be still a lot of time to get him to warm up to me.. right?
Mr. Aizawa assigns us partners, but it’s more or less the same since before the war. I’m, again, paired with Kacchan. I glance at him and see him tense up. Of course…
I go up to Kacchan. “Kacch-“
”Shut it Nerd. Come on.” He walks ahead without me. I jog up to him and match up his pace. He’s looking straight ahead, but I can tell he’s tense.
“K-Kacchan? You alright?”
”OF COURSE I AM!” He whips his head at me. Then he has a strange expression on his face and looks away. Weird… he’d usually blow me up right now.
We get to the field, and at Aizawa’s whistle, we jump at each other.
“Full cowling.. 25%!” I shout and aim at Kacchan before releasing. A gust of air hits Kacchan but he stays standing. He propelled himself using his explosive powers and starts flying towards me, his grin as terrifying as always.
I dodge his bombing and circle around. Kacchan turns to me but suddenly stops. That gave me enough time to scream “DELAWARE SMASH!!” And punch him in the face. He goes flying, like he’s been caught offguard. Some of our friends turns to us, shocked that Kacchan didn’t do anything to block me. What the hell…?
I stare at kacchan’s body, when his hand twitches and he shoots up to sit straight. He’s coughing and punching his chest with his left hand. When he finally stops, he gets up.
“I was just going easy on you.” But I stare at him. The Kacchan I knew since 5 wouldn’t go easy on me. Especially not now, now that he’s almost died to save me. “I’ll.. go take 5.”
“Oh my god, Kacchan are you ok?!”
”Yeeaa..? Why wouldn’t I b-“
”You never ‘take 5s’.” It’s impossible for him to. It’s not in his programming. It’s either win or die.
Kacchan gives me that strange expression again before saying, “I CAN take 5s. After all the shitty fighting I’m fucking TIRED.” Before he goes to the grass and plops down, grumbling, but his ears are a little red. Oh no. Maybe he’s sick! I think to tell Mr. Aizawa since Kacchan OBVIOUSLY won’t do it himself, but he hasn’t shown any symptoms yet. I’ll keep a close eye on him.