Burnt

Chapter 12

"Over here!" Harry heard a call from above him, looking up as he tried to calm down his coughing to see it was Denki, with his yellow, rather than blond, hair with a black streak that looked like a lightning bolt. "You okay?"

Waving away most of the dust, Harry was finally able to breathe, and gave him a nod. "Kept inhaling the dust." Harry's voice was a little horse as he talked.

"Potter!" Izuku said after the area got lit up with a green lightning which dissipated as he stopped near Harry, making him turn his head away as the dust got stirred up again, holding what little breath he had. "Are you okay?"

"I can't walk, but otherwise I'm fine." Harry explained, as he was supposed to be an uninjured civilian who was just trying to stay out of the way, and there were no villains involved.

"Is it okay if I carry you?" Izuku asked, Harry noticing Shoto with his bicoloured hair coming into view.

"Yeah, that's fine." Harry said, feeling a little awkward at the idea of being carried by someone he didn't really know. Sure, he had been carried by Remus and Sirius before, and Ron had carried him too, but those were all people he knew really well, he barely knew Izuku, but it seemed like he was well liked, and he was nice, so it was unlikely he would be dropped. "If I'm too heavy then let me know."

"Trust me that won't be a problem." Denki said as the three people Harry could see tried not to smile, Izuku scooping up Harry with ease, like he was as light as a feather.

"You're so light anyway. Seriously!" Izuku said, the green lightning illuminating their faces as Izuku rushed downstairs with Harry in his arms.

Harry was trying to keep his breathing regular as he got scared by how quickly they were moving. He was more than used to going even faster than this on his broom, but then he was on his broom, he had complete control of the movement and speed, but it was very different when he was being carried by another person and the only thing he had control over was holding onto Izuku as tightly as he could.

"You okay, Harry?" Izuku asked when they were outside, Harry's breathing still not back to normal as he started relaxing his grip on Izuku's clothes.

"Mhm... That was just not what I'm used to." Harry said, as he continued trying to regulate his breathing, eventually being able to let go of Izuku, finding himself not any less secure after doing so.

"Sorry, did I go too quickly? It's an area where explosions might go off and I wanted to get you out of there before any of them went off." Izuku said, looking slightly embarrassed as he looked around for a seat he could put Harry on.

"I've gone faster before on broom, but I'm just not used to being carried that quickly, or really being carried all that much. I prefer trying to get around on my own." Harry said, his cheeks a little warm, he should be fine now provided he could get his walking stick out to hover on.

"When do you usually go on your broom?" Izuku asked, ignoring an explosion that came from the building they just came out of. Harry had a feeling he was trying to keep Harry's attention away from what might be going on in the building, as this was hero training.

"Are the people inside okay?" Harry asked, looking at the building that he could have sworn was shaking more than it was supposed to.

"Don't worry, our class is able to handle explosions even larger than that thanks to Kacchan. His quirk is explosions, as you may have seen during sparring, and he likes to set them off all the time." Izuku said, finally finding a chair and putting Harry in it. "Sure you're okay?"

"Yeah. You can go back in there and continue to help out, it's fine." Harry said, feeling a little awkward. It's not like anything had happened, and the role he was playing wasn't one of anyone who needed any specific help. He had been through much worse on his own and then be sent back to the Dursleys with it only brought up to either get more house points or for people to say he was irresponsible.

"We have ear pieces so they can ask for me if they need me, otherwise I'll stay here with you." Izuku said with an almost blinding smile as he pointed at a black ear piece that seemed to match Izuku's dark green hair that was hidden in his ear. "By the way, you never told me about the whole broom thing."

"Oh, I'm on the Gryffindor Quidditch team, I started in first year and I'm the youngest seeker in a long time. Basically it's my job to catch the golden snitch at the right time and stop the other team's seeker from getting it. Catching the snitch ends the game and earns the team that caught it a lot of points, but you can still catch it and lose. It's the chasers that score most of the points, the keeper that stops the other team earning points, and the beaters that keep the bludgers away from their team and aim them at the other team." Harry explained, his eyes lighting up a little. "I would say I'm pretty good as I win most games, but something always ends up happening in important games. Last years the dementors attacked during an important game so we lost. Cedric was pretty good about it, kept asking for a rematch because it wasn't fair, but it is what it is."

"Wait, the soul sucking things attacked a game and it wasn't immediately made invalid? I'm sure you wouldn't have been the only one affected." Izuku said, looking at Harry in concern.

"The game was almost finished anyway, and after that they weren't allowed within the grounds again. It wasn't the only thing that threw me off, I had recently started Divination and she chose me as the one who was going to die and I kept seeing a big black dog around which is a wizard symbol of death, but it turned out I was just being paranoid and it was Sirius wanting to see me." Harry said, still a little embarrassed about how scared he had been of seeing the dog form of his godfather.

"'Chose you as the one who was going to die'?" Izuku asked with raised eyebrows.

"Professor Trelawney is the Divination teacher, most of the lessons are rather useless and I don't know if she's actually a seer, she acts like she is, but the only things she says that come true are things that she kinda made happen. She told Neville he would break a cup and that made him nervous so he did. Professor McGonagall said she always predicts someone's death in the first lesson to make it interesting, this year it was me." Harry explained, now he was thinking about it, he had to agree with Hermione, it was completely fake, everyone was going to die sometime so it was the easiest prediction. If it hadn't been for finding out what the Grimm was supposed to mean and for Sirius having escaped and being told he was the target he wouldn't have thought much of it.

"So she predicts someone's death to make it interesting? Why is that allowed?" Izuku asked, concerned.

"Well, Snape can do whatever he wants, so I assume all the teachers can." Harry said with a shrug.

"Training Complete!" A voice said over the loud speaker.