CHAPTER 4 You deserve the world.
Tadaimaaaa.” Hidenka entered the house, dragging her feet in exhaustion.
“Oh. Welcome home, Hide.” Ritsuka greeted her at the door. “How was school? And hero work?”
Hide groaned in response, taking off her shoes and walking in to the living room to flop down on the couch.
Ritsuka walked over to fix her skirt so his sister would be more decent.
“I’m guessing your exhausted?”
Hide muffled a groan in to the couch cushions, affirming her older brother’s assumptions. Just then Mafuyu walked out of Ritsuka’s room, noticing the younger girl.
“Ah, Hide-chan, you’re home.”
“Mhmm.” She could barely keep her eyes open.
Mafuyu sat on the floor beside her, rubbing her back soothingly knowing that she was exhausted.
“Hide-chan, your fingertips…” Mafuyu said, startling her. “Are you playing guitar again?”
“EHHHHH?!!!!” Hide sat up abruptly, holding her hand close to her. She was surprised Mafuyu had noticed so easily. But that was one thing she loved about her brother’s boyfriend, he noticed everything. The small details were important to him.
Ritsuka looked at his sister as she pouted.
“It was supposed to be a surprise.”
“What was?”
Hide looked up at her brother,
“I’m going to perform at the summer school festival… with… my new friends.”
Mafuyu’s eyes brightened and he hugged her unexpectedly.
“I’m so glad, Hide-chan.”
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It was the day before the summer festival, practice had just ended. Hidenka was moving into her dorm room. It felt weird to be living away from Ritsuka and Yayoi but it was for everyone’s safety. She thought that maybe being far from her quirkless family, they’d be safer.
After moving in, Hidenka joined the other members of class 1-A in the common area. She sat down on the couch, next to Denki and Bakugou.
“Hide-chaaaaan!” Denki called, slinging an arm over her shoulders. “So so!!!! Tell us about your family! You have such a cool quirk, your family must be soOOOOO powerful!”
“Ah…” Hide stammered. “My family… they’re… they’re all quirkless.”
“NANI?!”
As everyone in the room seemed shocked, Deku went off to the corner, mumbling to himself as he wrote notes down in his notebook.
“My brother is a regular high school student, he has a band though. My sister is a university student. I’m the only one in the family to have a quirk.”
The room had mixed reactions, how could someone with such a powerful quirk come from a completely quirkless family?
“That’s good.” Bakugou said quietly amongst the chaos catching Hide’s attention. “Mean’s your human just like the rest of us.”
With that he stood up, disappearing into the halls.
As the chaos died down, Momo came into the room to give final reminders before everyone went to bed.
“Alright everyone, have we all agreed that Hide-chan would perform for the second half?”
“HA?!”
“SURPRISE HIDE-CHAN!!”
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Hide couldn’t sleep that night. She felt guilty, was she allowed to have this much fun? To be this happy? After all.. she… she let him die.
Hide walked quietly in the halls until she made her way out of the dorm, sitting on the front steps. She exhaled, it was a warm summer night, the sky was full of stars. It was exactly how it was when…
“Oi, trader.” Bakugou’s voice pulled her out of her thoughts.
The girl looked at him as he moved to sit down beside her. It had been almost two months since she had started going to school here, but this was the first decent conversation they’d have.
She only saw bits and pieces of Bakugou. The only lengthy conversation they had before this one was when she copied his quirk. It amazed him put pissed him off at the same time. She amazed him so much it pissed him off.
“What are you so depressed about?” He asked grumpily. Trying not to show too much concern.
Hide sighed, looking at the sky again. She smiled painfully, trying to be brave.
“Sometimes, I think I don’t deserve all of this.”
“All of what?”
“This happiness with everyone.” Her hands balled up in to fists as she spoke. “I don’t deserve anything really. You see, there was this one hero mission… and… I let someone die and I… that definitely doesn’t make me worthy of being a hero. Of being here.”
It was quiet. Hide took it as it was.
“And I definitely don’t deserve you.”
“Me? Hah?”
“You’re always looking out fo me. Even if it is through grumpy mumbles.”
“YOU HEARD ME?!”
“I’ve always heard you.”
Bakugou’s cheeks flushed pink. Was he being that obvious?
“But… I don’t deserve it. I don’t deserve y-“
He kissed her. He couldn’t help himself. How could someone so kind and so warm be so full of sadness? He wanted to take it all away from her. He didn’t understand where these feelings came from, but they were there and he couldn’t deny it.
He loved Hide.
“Stop that, you idiot.” He said in whisper. “You deserve the world.”