Uravity P.O.V.
Ochako Uraraka: I can't do it anymore... I need to tell Deku how I feel...
Harumi Moon: WHAT?!
Ochako Uraraka: I'm sorry... something's wrong with him and I worry... I can't stand seeing him like this
Harumi Moon: I got the gist from the orange-haired class president of 2B, he said something bad about his dead friend, he's just a little shocked but you don't need to stick your head into it
Ochako Uraraka: I worry for him! I can't handle this anymore, if something bad happens to him-
Harumi Moon: forget him! This is you we're talking about!
Ochako Uraraka: I worry for him too much-
Harumi Moon: You can get Hanahaki if you keep this shit up!
Ochako Uraraka: ... Hanawhat?
Harumi Moon: ...
Ochako Uraraka: Harumi... what's Hanahaki...
Harumi Moon: a deadly disease... one that can kill you
Ochako Uraraka: what does that have to do with me loving Deku
Harumi Moon: exactly that, the victim coughs up flower petals when they suffer from a one-sided love... in your case once you hear it from him... at best you'll have a few months left, at worst a week or two
Ochako Uraraka: it sounds too much like a dark fairy tail
Harumi Moon: it's the truth because I had it
Ochako Uraraka: what?
Harumi pulled up her shirt a bit to reveal a nasty scar on her stomach, she had to be opened up for surgery
Harumi Moon: I used to have hanahaki
Ochako Uraraka: you surivied it
Harumi Moon: because of surgery... but that made me incapable of loving... I don't even remember the person whom I used to love, that's what the surgery does to you
Ochako Uraraka: so... you're saying...
Harumi Moon: I'm begging you Ochako, keep trying to get rid of your feelings before they get rid of you... you're the closest I've ever been to caring for a person since my surgery... I don't want to lose you
I could only cry... Harumi had been trying to protect me, that's why she used drastic measures... at least that's what I think... I knew better than anyone how much I loved Deku, and I knew that Hanahaki has the potential to kill me due to it... Harumi hugged me as I cried and I hugged back as I let the tears flow from my face...
Harumi Moon: Please don't tell anyone that I had Hanahaki...
Ochako Uraraka: I promise... and I promise I'll get rid of my feelings
Harumi Moon: *pats her back* Good girl
I regretted falling for Deku as hard as I did... I didn't want Hanahaki... if I die, I have to say goodbye to a lot of people who have supported me through my journey... I don't want anyone to mourn my death... but am making the right choice?
One thing is for sure, Love can be Painful...
Third Person P.O.V.
It's been about a week since that incident... it was Friday morning and there wasn't class that day. Uraraka had been avoiding deku altogether, in fear of Hanahaki. Harumi had fully explained it to her and it made her scared... little did she know Deku had Hanahaki for almost two full weeks and he's been suffering in silence because of it. He's been not doing much training due to his quirk making the process faster, and that stunt he pulled with Chiharu had him use a lot of power... he's been avoiding interactions with anyone so no one finds out about Hanahaki.
Some of the girls, especially Mina and Tsu, have noticed how distant Izuku and Ochako were like they didn't know each other. They noticed for a while but it became more obvious, but they can't figure out why.
Right now they were watching the first year's sports fest (except Shoto and Momo as they were at the Todoroki household at this time), and everyone was watching from the tv, although Izuku wasn't anywhere to be seen, he was at his room watching it alone for reasons they don't know, but the real reason.
Izuku Midoriya: *coughing a shit ton of flowers and even blood as he's watching the sports fest* (this isn't getting any better)
Nana Shimura: (Have you considered-)
]pIzuku Midoriya: (That will not work)
Nana Shimura: (It could)
Izuku Midoriya: *cough* She's been avoiding me
Yoichi Shigarakai (1st user): (You know you have been avoiding her too)
Izuku Midoriya: because she's been avoiding me
En (6th user): (You should just ask that one girl to rewind you)
Izuku Midoriya: She doesn't have enough power to, she's been drained
Higake Shinmori (4th user): (Why not just use the second's quirk)
Yoichi Shigarakai (1st user): (It will drain him, plus the more he uses any of our quirks the faster Hanahaki gets to him, even if she rewinds him to a state before Hanahaki he will still have it)
Izuku Midoriya: I know... *cough*
Daigoro Banjo (5th user): (That means black whip is of no use, it's based on your emotions, and right now there is chaos)
Nana Shimura: (Just please ask her out or something, I estimate about less than a week left before Hanahaki kills you assuming you don't use your quirks)
Izuku Midoriya: I'll do it after the sports festival then
Daigoro Banjo (5th user): (we're inside you, we know you're lying)
Izuku Midoriya: Shit... *cough*
Yoichi Shigarakai (1st user): (please don't let yourself die because of this)
Izuku Midoriya: I won't... I'm getting rid of my feelings
With the rest of the class
Eijiri Kirishima: The first years are doing good
Denki Kaminari: Indeed, but we'll steal the show tomorrow
Harumi Moon: that's not how someone "steals the show" because that's their show
Denki Kaminari: You get what I mean
Eijiro Kirishima: There's going to be a lot of people waiting to see us in action
Tenya Iida: That's true
Ochako Uraraka: Well we just have to give it our all for everyone
Mina Ashido: Yep
Once they finished watching they all went to do their things for the rest of the day, Momo was still at the Todoroki household and Ashido was snuggling with Kirishima, she had been thinking about something that Harumi had said to her
Harumi Moon: Hey invisible girl, and Ashido, how would you like it if people constantly pure pressured you into getting with Kirishima when you weren't with him yet
Mina Ashido: I wouldn't mind it
Kyoka Jiro: She has almost no shame, she was waiting to see if he would confess until she got tired of waiting
Harumi Moon: and yet she seems to care more about getting Uraraka with a guy who might not even love her back than her own boyfriend
Why did these words matter to her? She knew how she felt about Kirishima and was happy with him, but had she been paying more attention to Uraraka's crush on Midoriya rather than her own boyfriend? I mean she wasn't sure if Midoriya even liked her back, for all she could know he only sees her as a friend, plus they have been distant ever since the day he came back from that mission and Uraraka had been trying to get rid of her crush, so she assumed that's why.
Was Harumi right about her paying more attention to a friend wanting to get rid of a crush rather than her own boyfriend who loves her? Speaking of her boyfriend, he had noticed this behavior but hadn't been able to figure out why?
Eijiro Kirishima: Hey Mina, is something wrong?
Mina Ashido: Everything is fine
Eijiro Kirishima: you don't look fine, is something going on...
Mina Ashido: just a little worried about the sports festival, I mean everyone's gotten so strong
Eijiro Kirishima: don't worry Mina, I'm sure you'll do great
Mina Ashido: thanks...
Eijiro Kirishima: now tell me what this is really about, I know it's not just the sports festival
Mina Ashido: it's nothing
Eijiro Kirishima: please tell me, I don't like seeing you like this
Mina Ashido: ... be honest with me Kiri... have you felt I've been ignoring you these past few weeks of school?
Eijiro Kirishima: No, not at all
Mina Ashido: I mean I've spent so much time trying to help Uraraka with her crush, and I feel I haven't been giving you enough attention
Eijiro Kirishima: Mina, you've given me more than enough time, also I'm not going to tell you what you can and can't do, I know you want to help out your friends feel happy
Mina Ashido: Thanks, sorry about that I was just feeling down a bit
Eijiro Kirishima: it's fine, if something is going on with Uraraka you should help her out
Mina Ashido: she's been keeping her distance from her crush trying to get rid of it
Eijiro Kirishima: I see...
By the way, Mina has not told Kirishima who Uraraka's crush was out of respect for privacy, although it didn't take a genius to figure out who it was, but Kiri pretended to not know so Mina doesn't feel bad
Mina Ashido: she says it's to get rid of it... but she hasn't been happy when she's been trying to keep her distance
Eijiro Kirishima: then maybe you should give her a push in the right direction, I know you tease her a lot so maybe try and lessen it
Mina Ashido: I've done that, I've even tried to just not tease at all, but it's almost like she doesn't want to do it
Eijiro Kirishima: then maybe you need to lightly convince her to ask her crush out, not force her but just encourage her, telling her it's ok to want to love, I don't know what exactly you should say but you will figure out something
Mina Ashido: *hugs Kirishima* thanks Eijiro, I needed this talk
Eijiro Kirishima: any time Mina
They kept snuggling until Kiri had to go train for a sports fest, Ashido wanted to talk to Uraraka to try and talk to her, but she noticed her talking with Harumi. Ever since those two became close something was off about her feelings for Midoriya. She knew it was Uraraka's idea to get rid of her feelings, but it just felt off.
Ochako Uraraka: Oh, hey Ashido
Mina Ashido: Hey you two
Harumi Moon: Sup
Mina Ashido: What are you two doing
Harumi Moon: Just talking
Ochako Uraraka: yeah pretty much, I'm about to go to the gym to train
Mina Ashido: nice, how's your plan working
Ochako Uraraka: Oh that, it's going well, I feel a lot better after getting rid of it
Mina Ashido: You're over him already?
Ochako Uraraka: kinda
Harumi Moon: no thanks to you
Mina Ashido: look I'm not going to tease you or anything, this is her choice, I have to respect it
Harumi Moon: Took ya long enough to figure it out
Ochako Uraraka: I'm gonna go train now, please don't start drama while I'm gone
Harumi Moon: I promise I won't
Mina Ashido: Yeah same
Ochako leaves the two girls alone
Harumi Moon: she's felt a lot better after working on getting rid of her feelings
Mina Ashido: it was hard for her to do it at first
Harumi Moon: yeah, cause you and your friends wouldn't leave her alone, especially you
Mina Ashido: Look, Midoriya made her happy, I just wanted her to be happy
Harumi Moon: me too... but all you cared about was having those two together so you can make a cringy fanfic about them or some bullshit
Mina Ashido: I just wanted her to be happy, plus it's fun doing it sometimes
Harumi Moon: I get you to have no shame, but for some people, they do, and there's nothing wrong with it unless you keep trying to tease them
Mina Ashido: sometimes you have to give people a little push, you seem to be doing that to have her get rid of her feelings
Harumi Moon: It was her idea, I just helped her out with it but it's all her doing
Mina Ashido: I don't mind you helping her, it's just you're saying you're giving her advice
Harumi Moon: and that I did
Mina Ashido: I'm curious, what advice are you giving her
Harumi Moon: I've just been telling her to avoid him as much as possible and not think about him so much
There was a long pause on Mina's part, she figured out the reason they'd been so distant, and her name is Harumi Moon.
Mina Ashido: ... what?
Harumi Moon: no no, alright, I know that sounds bad-
Mina Ashido: IT FUCKING IS BAD ADVICE!
Harumi Moon: Says the girl who pays more attention to making a "ship sail" rather than her own boyfriend
Mina Ashido: Take that back
Harumi Moon: I'm only saying the truth
The other girls were coming in with Yaomomo, other than Ochako because she was training. They heard the outburst
Momo Yayorozu: So what was it that I missed
Kyoka Jiro: looks like some stuff
Tsuyu Asui: Not a whole lot but something happened here *ribbit*
Tooru Hagakure: Yeah...
Harumi Moon: Ashido cares more about other unimportant things
Tooru Hagakure: Ah shit, here we go again
Mina Ashido: I am not caring about it over my boyfriend, It's just I also care about my friends. Am I not allowed to do that?
Harumi Moon: if you did you would at the very least respect her decision
Mina Ashido: I do, it's just I don't see the logic behind what I found out is YOUR stupid strategy is all
Harumi Moon: It was her strategy, I just gave her a push in the right direction
Mina Ashido: You're the one who told her to do it
Harumi Moon: No, I just helped her out with it
Momo Yaoyorozu: Girls listen
Mina Ashido: nope, she wanted to get rid of her crush, which is dumb in my opinion but if that's really what she wants I can't stop her, and you're the one who suggested the "avoid him as much as possible and not think about him so much" I mean even if it worked I don't think it does, it would hurt their friendship since it gives the impression that she hates him
Harumi Moon: well it's what's most effective, it's scientific proof, and what worked for me
Mina Ashido: SCIENCE IS BULLSHIT!
Harumi Moon: Well she wanted this! Why is it such a bad thing I'm trying to help my friend?!
Mina Ashido: that's not the problem! The problem is the method you are using! There is no one size fits way to get over a crush and your method obviously isn't working on Ochako! Find another method! I would prefer no method but if she gonna do it I won't have it be in a way that hurts their friendship!
Momo Yaoyorozu: girls-
Harumi Moon: well if my method is so bad, why not suggest a method yourself?
Mina Ashido: don't think about the feelings and do things normally, they'll either eventually go away or they'll stay but only be a problem once you bring it back up or confess and get it over with, if he accepts them then no need to get rid of feelings if he rejects then you may be sad for a bit but eventually you can move on and ether lose the crush or not worry about it so much you barely think about. boom, two better options than trying to avoid someone
Harumi Moon: one, Ochako isn't able to do that for too long, and it's kinda on you girls as well, always going on about teasing her when she clearly hasn't wanted you to do it, and two, heartbreak can hurt like hell, and Ochako is at the point of where it happens she will be devastated, also partly thanks to you girls
Mina Ashido: you know what hurts more than heartbreak?
Kyoka Jiro: getting your spine ripped from your body?
Harumi Moon: ...
Mina Ashido: ...
Momo Yayorozu: ...
Tsuyu Asui: ... *ribbit*
Tooru Hagakure: ....
Kyoka Jiro: what? That would hurt more
Mina Ashido: ... well yes but not what I meant, I mean losing someone you care about. Your strategy is gonna have Ochako ignoring her friend which will ruin their friendship, and she can't even tell him why she avoiding him so he's just gonna be but her and even if they can still be friends it will be much weaker than before, heartbreak may hurt but at least they can still be friends after, your strategy can hurt their friendship if not completely destroy it, what is Midoriya suppose to be like "hey, you've been actively avoiding me like I was a gross monster that could kill with a touch for at minimum a month, I'm just gonna pretend that never happened and continue friendship like before" even if Midoriya tries to it will be a fractured friendship
Harumi Moon: She's too far down the hole you tried to push her in rather than help her out, she shouldn't even have fallen in love with her best place in the first place
Mina Ashido: *slaps her*
Tsuyu Asui: 0-0
Kyoka Jiro: 0-0
Tooru Hagakure: 0-0
Momo Yaoyorozu: O-O
Harumi Moon: ...
Mina Ashido: how dare you... how fucking dare you say that about my friend about something she can't control. you can't control who you love you know, love is cruel, and you have no choice on that fucking matter. I want my friends to be happy and with who they love, I want it to work out for them, but you? You act as your care but you really have so little empathy that when your friend is at risk of ruining a friendship all you care to say is "Shouldn't have fallen in love" She didn't have a choice to fall in love with her best friend but she did, and keeping that intact whether or not they get together or not should be a priority in that situation, and it should be something that real friends should also care about
Harumi Moon: I'm just trying to help her in an efficient way from the sickness she has you all call "love"... I'm trying my best but none of you have done anything about it... my advice might be considered "bad" but at least I've done more then all of you combined, so don't lecture until you've done something yourself to help her out
Mina Ashido: Love is not a fucking sickness you heartless jerk! and maybe we haven't helped because there are better things to do than try to get rid of a crush like pushing it to the side or taking the shot if I was you when I learned that there are better ways to help I would try to find one other then stick to my own
Harumi Moon: yet you or your friends never helped, only teasing her until she's completely in love, not caring to even bother if he feels the same way, this was her decision, I am only helping her because it's what she wants! None of you care for her!
Mina Ashido: you know I liked you at first, I thought you were cool and had a cool quirk, but now all I see is an empathy-less bitch who is so stubborn about her own way being best she won't even consider a better way to do it *walks off*
Harumi Moon: ...
Kyoka Jiro: she's got a point... these last two weeks... you might think you're helping Uraraka, but you're probably making things worse for both of them whether you realize it or not... we've been through a lot last year so feelings weren't something most of us could focus on, that's why some of us are in relationships now, we have time now that most of the paranormal liberation front is defeated, so there's more time for us... I'm sorry if love for you has been painful before. It isn't a sickness
Tsuyu Asui: yeah, it isn't one
Tooru Hagakure: well tomorrow is the sports festival, so we all need to rest... just think about How you help Uraraka
the girls leave and Harumi stays there thinking... was her method really working?
Harumi Moon: They don't get it
all she could do was smirk about it as she said that before leaving for her room
Deku P.O.V.
Right now I'm in my room, I had a box full of all the pedals I've coughed, and it was pretty filled, I didn't really know why I did this, but there was something I was working on. In the event of my death, I had been writing notes to everyone in case, if I die they at least deserve to know why. I knew heIwon't have much time left, especially since the sports fest will require me to use my quirk a lot. I laid in my bed going to bed... all I could think about is Uraraka
Izuku Midoriya: (... why did I have to fall for you... Why did my feelings for you have to be the death of me...)
All I could do was think about Uraraka... the girl who had helped me the most through my journey. She has been there from the start, and now she's going to be the end of me. Why, just why...
I'm sorry Ochako... I can't stop thinking about you... but Love can be Painful
End...
I'ma be honest, after this and maybe a few more chapters, I might put my story on hold due to running out of ideas and motivation. I have too many problems irl and I'm way too stressed out at times to work on this for like 3 people to read. My introduction has more reads then any other chapter and I find that weird.
I'll probably end up also delaying my P5 story, I thought I'd start working in it after I finish this book but ideas aren't coming fast, but hopefully I can finish this book soon.