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Weird
[adj.] Strikingly odd or unusual, especially in an unsettling way; strange
The soft breeze brushing green hair.
"Midoriya, you're weird."
"Sorry...?"
"That's a compliment." The purple haired teen responded.
"A compliment?"
"Yes, you are weird Midoriya and I don't mean it in a bad light, I just can't find myself to understand you." Shinsou scratches the back of his neck as he walked towards Midoriya to take a spot next to the shorter on the rooftop. "You have a great quirk, great friends, from what I know you also have a great mother and you are the prodégé of All Might." "Well, I---" "Yet at the start I thought you, like almost all the rest of your class, where just another brat with an heroic quirk. Why are you even here anyway, you don't seem like the type to have trouble sleeping or other stuff" Shinsou turned to the greenette curiously
"Uh, usually... I sometimes, I feel restless so I can't. Sleep I mean and the breeze is nice, relaxing even." "Can't say I disagree," The liliac boy nods to himself "I am here for the same reasons afterall."
"Why am I weird?" Midoriya asked under his breath almost like a soft whisper of the wind blowing through the trees branches
The purple haired teen looked down at his feets dangling off the edge of the roof "You are a golden child yet you act like that . Like you ."
"Shinsou, what do you mean by that?"
"Even if the others might not notice, I do, you are too sacrificial to be a pretentious brat that doesn't understand the meaning of danger. You act like a victim trying to save other victims from your fate."
Midoriya got quiet and somehow he looked like he stopped breathing, the wind clearing the boy face from his green curls. If he didn't see him breathe and talk just moments ago, Shinsou would have thought it was a realistic porcelain doll of his classmates. His expression looked more serene this time around but something in his eyes told pain, the sort of pain you can't physically see.
"Midoriya, I am going to ask you a single, yes or no, question." Then the liliac added in a whisper "Something happened before you arrived here."
"Do you want to talk about it?"
Silence, he was debating it internally. Shinsou knew it by the way his eyes darted around as to search for answers in the deep blue sky.
"I... Kami, how can I explain it..." Midoriya muttered under his breath "I would love to get it off my chest but, Shinsou, why do you want to listen to me? Didn't you hate me---"
"I mildly dislike you." The purple haired teen cut his rambling "It's different and also I try not to be a bigot myself. Aizawa-Sensei told me that, you never know."
The greenette brushed his fingers through the side of his fluffy locks and nods softly with only one head tilt. "I never had this many friends since like when I was four? Five? A lot of time." The liliac tilted his head curiously, he thought it was impossible for the ray of sunshine to me friendless.
"I am... Was, technically, quirkless all elementary and middle school,"
"Uh, wait, seriously?" Shinsou couldn't help himself to ask. And damn his blabber mouth became the other made a sour face and that expression on Midoriya confirmed the liliac question with a fat yes.
"Technically, I was a very... umh... a very late bloomer and on top of that my body decided I should also be a fake positive."
"Wait a second, I never of fake positive. Please, explain it to me."
"Wow you said this weirdly politely Shinsou," He joked with a laugh. "And well it's like you have extra body parts that are usually found in quirkless people... like, one of the most common examples I can give is the extra toe joint. I don't know if you noticed my shoes are slightly bigger than normal. Not to mention they are Primal brand shoes..."
"But you have a quirk anyway"
"Exactly." Midoriya confirms him before adding "So imagine having the luck of being a fake positive and late bloomer and... and everyone is just so mean and. You know as well what quirk discrimination does to someone." Shinsou heart sank for the other. he looked up at the greenette who started to tightly grip his hair almost on the verge of pulling them out.
The purple haired teen hummed in understandment. Then softly, he replied. "I should... I think I should apologize for what I said during the sport festival. I was a complete asshole to you, assuming stuff about you because of your quirk status."
"Oh, Shinsou!! Don't you worry, I am sure you didn't mean it! Your quirk is vocal based so it's just natural for you to like try and get the enemy to talk and tage baiting is a very simple strategy to do even psychologically it's an effective way, so you don't have to apologize--" Shinsou interrupted. "I meant every single word at the time."
"You don't have to forgive everyone. You are too nice for your own good Midoriya." The rambling that slowly was starting to become mumbling got stopped like that. Simply.
"I insist! You didn't know--" "Didn't need to. I assumed."
"Then, umh... I do accept and appreciate your apology and... and I forgive you" "Grateful to be forgiven by you."
The moonlight hit the green haired boy child-like facial features, illuminating his skin with a dim blue light. He layed down on his back looking up at the sky. Here on UA ground the sky looked cleaner than the ones visible from the top of the city building. The light pollution didn't reach them.
It was weird being able to stargaze. For once. A rare instance of peace.
Then Midoriya started to talk, slowly about his experiences as a child and pre-teen. It was heavy, heavy stuff. He talked and went on. The liliac haired boy didn't stop him or look at him, just by the voice Shinsou was able to tell the tearful state of the other. A few hums, then the greenette asked a rhetorical question and to make known he was actually listening to the rant right from his heart he nodded grimly.
"I was naively stubborn." He paused. "Naively stupid, I am actually starting to think all the repercussions from middle school are hitting me now with an iron bat."
"And it's brutal."
"I hate it."
"Sometimes I am so exhausted."
"I know the feeling." The green haired boy started to giggle quietly, that exasperated laughter only tired people do. "I didn't know, it must been truly horrific."
"It was, Shinsou. It was."
"I am not the best at this but you like physical affection. Or at least, I see you with your friends so... umh...would you feel better if I offered a hug!" Shinsou seemed embarrassed by his own proposal given the pinkness in his cheeks.
Midoriya didn't hesitate a second to pull the liliac teen in a thight embrace.
"Thank you." The greenette spoke softly on his shoulder. "Don't even mention it Midoriya. I can do only so much to gain your forgiveness in a way a see fair."
"You don't have to, I already accepted them."
"Again, I insist." Shinsou stared at the sky, his neck starting to ache after a long period of gazing at the stars "Do you want to go back for coffee? I could make it for two if you like, even if I never saw you drink it before, maybe you just don't like it."
"No. I would like it, please."
Suddenly class 1-A didn't understand why Shinsou seemed ten times more friendly in a way to the golden boy of their class.
Maybe it was just the Midoriya effect.
It hit everyone.