Sinking (Hitoshi Shinso x OC)

Chapter 18: our lord and savior izuku

Katherine walked to the vending machine, hoping to find a nice cool drink to calm her down, but she found Izuku instead. Gathering her courage, she marched over to him and said, "Hey, Midoriya-san."

He looked up from the machine surprised to hear another person's footsteps, but he became nervous after seeing Katherine standing next to him, "O-Oh. Hello t-there."

"You can ignore me like everyone else. It's fine," Katherine sighed after seeing his reaction.

His eyes widened and he shook his head vigorously, "I didn't mean it like that! I actually wanted to talk to you, but the rest of the class kept telling me not to. I'm sorry."

A small smile appeared on her face, "Really? That makes me glad. Say, can I just rant to you about something?"

"G-Go ahead!"

"Okay here it goes," she took a deep breath, "So I have my match with Todoroki soon and I have no idea as to how to defeat him with the parts of my quirk that I actually use. I don't exactly have a power type quirk like you, so I can't make him tire out unless I want to be flying around the arena and endangering the crowd. My wings are useless. I have no idea what to do."

He slowly processed the information in silence. Katherine bounced on her heels impatiently until he asked, "What do you mean by the part of your quirk that you actually use?"

Katherine froze, not knowing how to answer the question.

"It has something to do with how you handled everything at the USJ, right? How you healed Aizawa sensei and almost defeated a villain who was up to par with All Might? And how you suddenly convinced those villains to comply with your orders?"

Katherine blanked, "Uh, how did you know that?"

He smiled nervously, "I kinda have a notebook where I write basically everything about every person in our class, pro heroes, and other people as well and I wrote some stuff about you and your fighting style from what I remember..."

Still confused, Katherine sighed, "Okay, you already know everything, so there's no point in keeping you in the dark anymore."

Izuku's eyes widened in curiosity and twiddled his fingers in anticipation.

"There's a specific part of my quirk that I don't like to use in front of people unless I can get away with no one noticing me because it's considered a villain's quirk," she squirmed under Izuku's intense gaze, "It's part of having my quirk which is easily compared to the powers and features of Sirens, singing goddess who lured sailors to their doom. And-"

"So you're a goddess whose come down to Earth to save humanity from ourselves because human are slowly killing the planet?"

Katherine deadpanned, "If you'd be patient enough, you'd hear that I can control people using the power of my voice."

His left eyebrow quirked up, "So like Shinso's quirk?"

"Yeah, to a certain extent it is like Shinso's quirk. I just have to sing or hum a note with the intention of controlling someone and they're under my spell. They remain in an unconscious state while I can control them," she said with bitterness, "I hate that part of my quirk more than anything in the world. I'm scared people will think that my quirk is villainous and unfit for a hero."

Izuku frowned, "Yamada-san I hope-"

Katherine groaned, "I swear, if someone calls me by my last name one more time, someone is going to lose a limb, so please just call me Katherine or anything else."

"O-Oh sorry, Katherine. Um anyways, I hope you remember that I used to be quirkless before All Might gave me his, so having a quirk and having the power to do more for the people I care about has been life changing. It also gives me a chance at accomplishing my goal of becoming the number one hero someday," he clenched his fist and looked at the girl before him who seemed to be surprised at the sudden anger on his face, "You have no idea how unbelievably angry it makes me when people say they don't like their quirks and refuse to use them."

Katherine was frozen in place as she listened to her classmate's words.

"If you have the power to succeed for the people who do not have the means to, you must use all of your power. There are many who hold grudges for people with villainous quirks, but a quirk that is used by a villain is evil, not the quirks used by heroes. Therefore, no one can blame you nor loathe you for being born with a quirk that makes you who you are and give you the power to save people."

Katherine's eyes began watering as she rushed towards him and wrapped him in a bone crushing hug. Her sobs echoed off of the walls of the long hallways and Izuku panicked at the sight of the crying girl hugging him.

"K-Katherine, p-please don't c-cry!"

She only held him tighter and whispered, "Thank you."

He relaxed and held her closer. The smell of her intoxicating ocean side scent making him drowsy as she snuggled closer into his chest. He let out a sigh of comfort as his face turned a brilliant shade of red when he saw Katherine's purple haired friend staring at them hugging in front of the vending machine.

"Uh Angel?" Shinso called out, "You weren't back for a while so I came to check on you and you're hugging the guy that beat me?"

Katherine giggled, still firmly sttached to Izuku's larger frame, "I'm fine plus Izuku is friendly, so you stop holding a grudge, you meanie."

Shinso looked at her wiping her eyes and blushing cheeks and tilted his head in confusion, "Are you sure, Angel? You look... like a mess."

Izuku laughed as the said "mess" wrestled Shinso to the ground, "SCREW YOU, SHINSO!"

In a desperate need of a distraction, Shinso screamed, "YOUR MATCH IS STARTING SOON, ANGEL!"

Katherine looked at the time in her phone after untangling herself from Shinso who was still laying on the floor looking like he was run over by a truck, "CRAP!"

She dusted off her tracksuit and stopped in front of Izuku and asked, "Do I look okay?"

He nodded then proceeded to fix the tiara sitting on the top of her head and smiled, "You got this, Katherine."

The boy began blushing, so Shinso intervened and shoved Katherine in the direction of her designated tunnel entrance. She fled the scene screaming about being late, so he looked at the blushing nervous green haired hero in training.

"She's my friend, so don't expect me to hand her over so easily to a kid like you," Shinso sneered at the shorter boy before him.

Said boy shook as he said, "W-Well, I wasn't going to steal her or something but I mean she is really pretty and nice and-"

"You have five seconds to run."

Izuku paled as Shinso began counting down and ran all the way to the student stands where the rest of him class was awaiting the match where Todoroki would fight the seemingly villainous girl who was also in their class.

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ive rewritten this chapter about a million times and im so sorry i didn't upload on friday or saturday like i usually would. ive been feeling kinda bad abt my writing so i didn't know if i should keep writing but idk. i feel like no one rly enjoys it except for me so it's a little frustrating... bUt until someone tells me to stop, imma keep writing bc idgaf :D

i try to make each chapter at least 1000+ words(this chapter is 1862 words fufu) but i feel like its still too short. what do y'all think? ill try to find a good schedule to upload chapters now that there are a few people who actually like my story (i love u guys btw :3) but im still trying to figure my stupid life out rn sorry :/

also if y'all like my story, pls comment stuff bc i'd love to interact w y'all and see what you guys think is gonna happen. HEHEHE i have the whole story planned out already :P 

this is a rly long author's note smh imma leave u guys alone now,

cath <3