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Helloo!

Recently I have become obsessed with both Boku No Hero Academia anime and manga. And I really wanted to write a fanfiction on Kaminari Denki. As I noticed there are very few fanfictions written on my little ray of sunshine, so I have decided to write one.

There will be no romance in this story as that genre is not my cup of tea, though there will be platonic relationship shared between the characters.

The actual chapter will begin from chapter 2.

See you all soon in the next chapter.
Bye!

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The UA building shook with such an intensity that Denki had to hold on to a pillar nearest to him in the support department.

Everyone was in a frantic state as they were running here and there doing the repairs, providing information about the ongoing battles through the courtesy of Business course students and Tsuchahi and his team.

This chaos made Denki's anxiety spike so badly that he had to close his eyes sharply as another tremor shook the building. So strong that he thought his legs might give out. They were trembling so badly and he was beginning to feel sick with all the stress that was present in the air at the moment.

All of a sudden everything became quiet.

Denki opened his one eye to peek why everyone had gone quiet all of a sudden.

Manadaly's voice echoed through the com and her quirk reverberates in his mind, "Deku has entered the UA Fortress".

At this Denki felt relieved for some reason but the battle was far from yet over.

The people present in that room cheered at this news while others gasped and started doing their assigned duties with hope, determination and calmness unlike the earlier chaotic situation but unfortunately that moment was too short lived.

Now the whole building shook with much more intensity as the battle had gotten much more fierce and intense between Midoriya and Shigaraki.

Suddenly Yaoyorozu Momo screamed, "Powerloader sensei! The glass dome is going to break, we need the make a barrier around it!".

Now panic was starting to set in everyone present in that room.

Powerloader yells backs," We don't have the time! Everyone! Get away from the dome. Hatsume! Activate the ultra barrier of UA iron defense and alert the authorities".

Before Hatsume could reply back, "Rodger Sensei!".

Another set of explosions shook the building and the glass dome cracked, now panic has ensued.

Everyone was running back and forth just like before screaming and shouting. 

They were busy moving the material and heavy equipment from getting damaged from the falling debris.

In that moment of chaos, Denki notices a business course student had fallen in the amidst of the chaotic situation.

The glass dome ceiling finally cracked and a huge piece of glass slab was about to crack into more small pieces, which were about to fall on her, so he ran towards her without a second thought or hesitation or fear that he might either get hurt or crushed by the falling debris. 

That's when it happened, a sudden bang of light and explosion appeared in the room and he could hear Yaoyorozu screaming his name but everything had gone black.

Then, he jolted awake in his room.

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kaminari Denki jolted awake in his old room, the very same room, where he stayed for three years with his Aunt Kiko, her daughter Lizzy and her alcoholic husband, who was on rehab now but he had abused Denki and touch him inappropriately during his middle school years just thinking about it made Denki shudder.

Denki gets up from his bed to check in the washroom mirror whether this was a dream or a hallucination.

Slowly with dread he steps into the bathroom to check himself in the mirror. He was shocked to see his 14 year old self staring right back at him in the mirror.

Denki was in a total state of shock, he had time traveled into the past before his UA entrance exam.

Now he could only assume that this all had to do with the quirk malfunction of that blonde haired business course girl, when he had run to save her from the falling debris.

Denki sighed at the realisation that he was stuck in the past and now he had to repeat everything from A to Z.

He calmly walked out of the bathroom and sat down on his bed, staring at his phone charging on the beside stand.

He then tried to test his theory one more time. He then hesitantly plucked his phone out of the charging point and went to his contacts list to check whether this is a fever dream or his worst nightmare.

The latter part had come true.

He could not find neither Bakugou's nor Kirishima's name in the list of contacts nor the Dekusquad in the list of contact names.

Now he was hundred percent sure that he was in the past and he starts to make a note of what to do, like a plan ahead of his admission into UA. Because he knows from the future events what the obstacles he is going to face, once he starts going to UA. He wanted to protect them all and he knew what traumas his friends had endured especially Izuku Midoriya, Torodoki Shoto and little Eri-chan.

He was going to help them from the sidelines especially starting from Izuku Midoriya by helping him realise, how he could utilise his quirk better but first he needed to get a hang over his own quirk.

Now with his future experiences, he has an upper hand and he knows how he could make a better usage of his quirk.

But he hard to do this all very discreetly, as he later on in the future come to know through Hawks and Lady Nagant, on how corrupt and selfish the Hero Commission is and he did not want to come under their radar and he needed to avoid them at all cost.

Nextly, he will have to convince his Aunt Kiko to let him join her hospital as an intern in the trauma department, in order to learn and hone his skills on healing those poor patients wounds also learn some gymnastics along with quirk moves from Lizzy, he could become flexible when fighting villains. These were the things, he needed to focus on, in these three upcoming months plus study and he had to accomplish all these priorities in just three months!.

Just thinking about all of those things which he needs to accomplish before UA exam makes Denki grit his teeth and say, "Fudge".

Why did it happen to him only! He was not smart like Izuku Midoriya or had the calm mind of Yaoyorozu Momo. He felt so overwhelmed by the new situation. 

He could literally feel the migraine kicking in and he needed a distraction and he got a distraction at the exact moment his alarm clock began blaring and he turned it off, while sighing he looks at the calendar and realises that it is the exact day, when Bakugou gets attacked by the sludge villain and how Midoriya heroically saves him and hence from today onwards All Might decides to mentor Izuku Midoriya, before he bestows him with One For All quirk.

But sadly he could not save them as he had a counselling appointment in the afternoon and he left his two friends in fate's hands.

As he already knew they will be saved by All Might and he wasn't needed there. It was not his turn right now to get involved and make a mess in the timeline and he flips through the pages in his plan book.

Denki gives it a Plan Book Name, so that no one would bother opening it to read what the contents are inside it. But still he hides it away inside a storage box in his wardrobe for the fear of the book falling into the wrong hands, he places more clothes on top of the box.

His fear of Hero Commission was legit.

Then, he grabs his school uniform from the hanger, to get ready for the day and closes the wardrobe door after having one last look to see that the storage box is not visible underneath the folded clothes.

And he gets ready while giving himself some words of affirmations to stand up to his bullies and fixes his blue checkered tie annoyingly. He seriously hated them and also the hell hole place called school but now he knows how to stand up to them.

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Two months have gone by now, Denki was well into the third month of his last year of middle school. Everything was going smoothly according to his plan.

On a random day, he convinced his Aunt Kiko to make him an intern at her hospital department of trauma patient's ward and his Aunt agreed to his request as his quirk could be used in electric shock therapy and also speed up the healing process of the deep cut wounds.

In three months, he had gotten so good at healing both the trauma victims and patient's wounds and he also made it a habit to carry star shaped candies and gummy bears and mini soft toys with him, when visiting them during their checkup routine.

And during his three month internship, he also made a friend named Estella, who comes for rehab every two weeks for her legs.

She had been injured in a car accident which resulted in a spinal cord injury leading to paralysis of both her legs.

And what was more shocking to him, was when he found out that she was the famous EMERALD not that emerald, the EMERALD, who was famous for creating hero costumes, support gear and weapons.

Her brand was known for her elegant designing of costumes which left many uprising Heroes wanting her to design their costumes but she had a strict policy and rules as her costumes were not meant for all.

They were only designed for heroes, who truly deserved it and these costumes were made with love and were not meant for greedy and selfish evil Heroes.

And Denki was also so awed to find out that Estella was the same age as him, which was the most surprising part for him.

Estella had skipped a few grades due to her high IQ level and he had also come to know during a conversation with her. One day on her rehab therapy session to why she had stopped taking requests from Heroes and support companies due to depression.

But now, she says she has found her spark and promised to design his costume and weapon, hearing this made Denki very happy and grateful for her help and she also had promised to help him with his preparation for UA entrance exam.

(*Estella's character is inspired by Tomoya. She is a character from a very popular anime called Cardcaptor Sakura)

Denki's internship at the hospital was on the weekends only and during his regular school days, he would study for the UA entrance exam either at the library or study at home while face-timing Estella.

She was really of great help to him.

He understood even those concepts where Bakugou would have failed to explain it.

He even asked his father for help, who was a physics lecturer at a university in the USA

                      FAST FORWARD ⏩ 

Middle school had officially ended for Kaminari Denki.

He skipped happily from the stairs while humming to himself, when all of a sudden someone grabbed him by the shoulder and spun him around.

Denki's eyebrows went up to his hairline, when he saw who it was.

It was Daichi and his extra two goonies standing beside him. Both three of them had a smug look.

Daichi was the first one to say, "How can UA accept such a dumb person into their school?". While saying this he squeezed Denki's right shoulder hardly and this makes Denki wince, he could feel his school blazer burning from his bully's palm's heat quirk now moving down to his skin.

Denki takes a deep breath and says very slowly with intonation in each word looking straight into Daichi's eyes with determination burning in his eyes, "At least I have a place where I am accepted unlike you jerk".

Denki uses his quirk to lightly electrocute Daichi, so that Denki does not fall under the category of misuse of his quirk.

If asked why he did it. If he was caught by a teacher, he could say he had used his quirk as part of self defence also at the same time to keep his report from getting negative remarks.

As UA only considered the brightest among the stars and he did not need that happening with him.

Daichi quickly removes his hand from the shock while his two friends cower in the back from the fear of getting electrified.

While looking with fear at Denki with shocked faces was this the same kid, who they had bullied standing up for himself?.

Watching their scared shit faces, Denki walks away feeling satisfied with himself and resumes back to his usual humming and catches his reflection on one of the outside windows of the school building of his ruined uniform.

Seeing the ruined state of his uniform, Denki shrieks and digs his hand into his pant's pocket for his phone. He clicks facetime on Ela's name ( a nickname Estella asked him to call her, since they had become close friends).

After a few rings, Ela answers the video call with a fond smile, "Hey Denki san!. I hope you are prepared for tomorrow!".

Denki yells into the video call, "Ela, my uniform is ruined and I am required to wear a uniform for the written exam and for the practicals I have a gym fit but this-". Using his finger to point at the ruined state of his school blazer.

Ela smiles again and says, "Calm down Denki san. Wear a button up white collar shirt and a baby blue sweater over it and pair it with black pants and also don't forget those horn rimmed glasses in which you look absolutely adorable!".

Denki stares at the screen for some time and with a relieved expression says," You're a life saver Ela!!".

Upon seeing Denki's cute expression through the video call Estella smiles at the screen and says, "All the best for tomorrow!".

After saying goodbye to each other, the video call ends and Denki begins to walk towards the setting sun with a look of determination.

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Finally, the entrance exam day had arrived.

Denki was literally buzzing with excitement and happiness.

He felt so prepared for the written exam than he ever was. And he looked up and down at his fit, which he had put on as suggested by Ela.

He looked really preppy along with the rimmed glasses he was wearing. Overall, he looked quite good in the uniform.

He also tried to hide his Lichtenberg scars as best as possible which ran from his neck to his legs. Overall, his whole body was covered with Lichtenberg scars.

These scars were in various colors ranging from green, blue to purple colors fading into his pale skin.

After seeing his makeshift uniform somewhat resembling a uniform in the mirror. 

He becomes satisfied with his appearance and does a little princess twirl in front of the full-length mirror.

After seeing his fit one more last time in the mirror, he checks his wristwatch for the time and sees that he needs to be there at the train station in 15 minutes. He quickly grabs his backpack from the chair and places one strap on the shoulder, then he tiptoes downstairs as quiet as a mouse for the fear of waking up his alcoholic uncle, he shudders at the very thought of his uncle waking up and quickly goes to the kitchen pantry, opens the cabinet and grabs a protein bar from it and gently closes the pantry door.

Then, he speed walks out the door with the early morning cool breeze hitting his face making Denki scrunch up his face. He reaches the train station, swipes his metro card at the gates and enters the train bound to UA high.

While waiting for the train to reach its destination, Denki gets bored with the passing by scenery of apartments and roads. He reaches into his backpack and takes out his handy dandy headphones and mobile phone and places the headphones on his ears, he hits play on his favorite song called "Afraid" by The Neighborhood.

The app starts playing on the phone and music is flowing through the headphones into his ears and then he closes his eyes for a while and starts singing to the lyrics quietly to himself, unaware that he was being watched by Kyouka Jirou and Fumikage Tokoyami, who both were present in the same carriage as him and their thoughts were, 

"Oh, wow he looks like he too is going to UA for the entrance exam and does not seem to look nervous at all ahhh!!. I feel so jittery just thinking about it. He really does have a good singing voice, and his music taste is also good".

"His light could rival the darkness. His radiance is blinding just like the sun". were the thoughts of Tokoyami.

Soon, the train speaker announces the arrival of UA high, Denki gets off at the train platform and walks up the hill, where his school is situated on the top of it and starts walking up the hilly slope.

Soon he starts feeling all nostalgic, while passing through the tall gates of UA high entrance and stops to see at the block A building bulletin board for information and whereabouts of the exam of where it is being held, and it seems his exam is in room G.

He starts walking towards his designated hall and he knows by heart that Aizawa sensei was the assigned teacher of this hall as he had given this exam before like his past self-had but he is repeating the cycle again through time travel and heck he had to keep his face neutral because Aizawa sensei's eyes were very sharp.

So, Denki had to play it both cool and dumb at the same time by pretending all this is a first-time thing for him by admiring the huge building and statutes of alumnus as he knows Nezu too must be watching every student entering the gates and building entrance through various cameras, on the sleek black monitor screen with sharp beady eyes.

Denki feels a shiver running down his spine just by thinking how clever and cunning the school principal is.

He reaches the hall and steps directly into the room without a second thought keeping a straight neutral face, while walking to his assigned seat feeling everyone's eyes on him.

"This kid looks preppy".

"Uwu how cute looking is he".

"How disrespectful! he is violating UA uniform guidelines".

"Long sleeves in this weather won't he feel hot".

"Hmph the amount of confidence this kid is radiating did he swollen the f***ing sun in the morning".

"Those glasses ahh he looks so adorable".

"I wonder if he is too applying for the heroic course".

With the endless number of stares that Denki is getting.

Denki starts thinking to himself, it must be because he is wearing something other than his school uniform.

Even though what Denki was wearing had some slight resemblance to an actual uniform.

He lets the thought slide, as he up until now had nobody question him regarding his uniform.

Denki sits down on the chair with a heavy sigh and grabs his pen out of the pencil case. Due to his nerves acting up the pen slips out of his fingers and rolls away towards the right-side row.

The right-side row said person bends down for his pen and holds it out towards Denki to take it.

Denki reaches out his hand to take his pen, only to see the said person to be Midoriya Izuku holding his pen out to him.

Denki gives Izuku a warm smile and says, "Thank you".

Izuku was shocked to hear the soft sweet gentle voice from someone who looked like he belonged to an elite school thanking him. He mostly assumed these kids were stuck up brats and he stuttered back, "Y-your welcome".

Denki could hear someone making a scoffing sound coming from behind him, so he assumes that it must be Bakugou Katsuki sitting behind one row away from him.

Izuku thinks to himself, "This person is literally the embodiment of sunshine. For some odd reason now, I don't feel nervous taking the exam and I also do not feel nauseated at all after swallowing All Might's hair piece. I wonder if he is applying for the heroics course as well it would be-".

Ding Dong Ding Dong

With that Izuku's train of thought came to an end, with the sound of the bell ringing indicating that the exam period has started.

Aizawa sensei starts handing out the question papers to the students present in the room.

After filling out all the personal information, Denki flips to the next page and looks at the first question in the paper and smiles it.

It was the very same physics question, which he had studied with Estella at the library a few days back.

He knew at that very moment that the exam was going to be very easy for him as his hard work had finally paid off.

Happily, he starts writing his answers into the answer book.

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Halfway into the exam, Denki felt while writing his answers.

He was hundred percent sure now that he would pass with flying colors in his written exam.

Now the only thing he had to focus on was his practical exam. The time traveler already knew what the practical would be based on as he was ahem* ahem* from the future and had already made up a perfect strategy on how to destroy and immobilize the robots and gain rescue points.

Just thinking about his perfect plan makes him giggle but he immediately remembers or is reminded by Aizawa sensei's stare that he is in an exam hall.

A bright pink blush creeps up on his face, and he quickly brings up both his hands to cover his face and peeks out through his slender fingers.

How badly he wished that the ground would open up and swallow him right there at the precise moment as everyone present in the hall were either staring at him or snickering at him.

Then, Aizawa sensei reminds the students, how many minutes are left before the exam comes to an end and everyone's attention is diverted away from Denki and they all go back to answering their own papers, noticing no one was staring at him. Denki brings his hands away from his face and places his hands on the table and lets out a deep breath.

After some time, he looks around to check on other students on how they were attempting their papers.

Someone scratched their head while answering the question, one in front of him was literally pulling his hair, Denki was afraid that the poor guy would lose his hair at the grip he was holding and to his right he peeked at Deku. 

The greenette's head was bowed in deep concentration while attempting to answer the questions, occasionally, he would mutter to himself quietly while putting his fingers on his chin. 

Hehe he looked very cute while doing this.

Denki smiles fondly at him and thinks to himself that old habits are hard to die.

He stares for a while at Deku before he turns back to recheck his own answers.

"I wonder if the pretty boy is done with the exam. He definitely seems to be from an elite private school" were the thoughts of Sero Hanta.

Sero has been watching Kaminari from the moment he entered the hall because he gave off calm confident vibes and he also found his embarrassing moment to be very cute.

On seeing the cute boy looking relaxed in the last 30 minutes of the exam made Sero feel envious. Sighing, Sero goes back to solving the last two mathematical questions, as these two were very important and time was very crucial for him as the last two questions were the most scoring marks and he muttered to himself softly, "Plus Ultra".

He resumes back to solving the last two nasty questions which determined Sero's admission into this top prestigious Pro Hero School.

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Ding Dong Ding Dong 

With the sound of the bell ringing the written part of the exam comes to an end. Everyone has a 15-minute break, before the second part of the exam begins with practical.

Denki gets up from his seat and stretches his arms over his head; after stretching he heads out with the crowd of the students exiting the hall, to grab a drink from the vending machine.

While some students are headed towards the cafeteria to have some food in order to restore their energy after the grueling written exam.

Denki wanted to keep his stomach empty in order to perform some acrobatic moves on the field during the bot battle.

Denki grabs a drink from the vending machine and stands outside the auditorium, where Present Mic soon would be explaining to them about the zero pointer etc. etc.

He still had like five minutes, so he decides to stay there leaning on the well nonchalantly sipping on his strawberry milkshake from the carton with a bored expression on his face.

Don't get me wrong, Denki was an extroverted person and was itching to strike a random conversation with anyone he could find but he had to control this urge, otherwise he might lose track of time. If he engages in a conversation and he did not want to miss out on Present Mic's speech.

Soon, Present Mic arrives there to unlock the doors to the auditorium and gives Denki a look of curiosity and then goes inside to get everything all set.

After a minute or two, Denki too goes inside and sits at the very back row seat of the auditorium from where he had a clear view of everything.

Slowly, the students start filling up the auditorium and Present Mic introduces himself, "Hello listeners! Are ya ready?".

Present Mic pauses for the students to reply back and in response he gets complete silence. 

Present Mic doesn't mind this and continues with his speech, the usual how they have to destroy the bots and gain points yadda yadda yadda yadda.

Iida Tenya abruptly stands up and interrupts Present Mic by asking a doubt about the printing mistake in the pamphlet and very brashly points at Izuku Midoriya that he is being too loud and asks him to get out, if he is here to be dilly dally.

Seeing this Denki feels bad for Izuku, and he did not like the past Iida very much. Denki preferred the future calm Iida, who was much more understanding and was like a big brother figure to him. Who was ready to help him with his homework or help him study for a test and crack jokes with him here and there. And was also quite aware of his ADHD disorder.

This version was extremely rude and worst who would jump up to point others for their mistakes by judging them immediately and bringing them in the spotlight of embarrassment.

Soon, the little interruption is forgotten as Present Mic goes back to explaining everything on how they have to gain points also makes mention about the infamous zero pointer at the end of his speech.

With that they are dismissed and are asked to change into their gym fit. 

Denki goes to change into one of the bathroom stalls instead of changing in the locker rooms given to them.

He was still not comfortable with others seeing his Lichtenberg scars. 

After changing he heads to the bus which will take them to the practical area. Now the last part of the exam begins.

Soon, the bus reaches the battle area. Denki steps out with the other candidates and they stand outside a humongous gate.

Soon, the humongous gate is opened to reveal big buildings set up like a mini city, many students gasp and awed at it.

While Denki pushed himself forward from the crowd and began walking towards the battle arena ground alpha.

His walk soon turns into running. Seeing the enthusiasm, Present Mic uses his quirk to amplify his voice, "Hey hey heyyy listeners the battle has begun! In a real battle there is no start or go. Plus Ultra!".

With that the buzzer sound is heard and all students in panic, start running frantically in all directions to destroy the robots and gain points as the countdown has already begun as everyone's goal was to get into this Pro Hero School.

Denki enters the tallest looking building in the set and starts heading upstairs towards the Terrance.

He reaches the top, his both hands on his thighs huffing lightly while trying to regain his breath. Then, he stands on the edge of the railing.

After calming himself. He closes his eyes and tries to sense the flow of energy of the bots in the vicinity and uses his fingers to move in a way as if he is pulling a puppet with strings towards him.

Then, he snaps his fingers and 7 of the robots burst in the area near him and he could see the black smoke arising around him.

Seeing his strategy working exactly as he imagined. Denki jumps from the roof edge and uses his support retractable rod to help him land safely with an acrobatic flip on the ground and goes running where the massive debris of the robots have fallen over, so that he could help the students who are stuck under the rubble by pulling them out of the mess and gain rescue points along the way.

He repeats the same process by bringing down the bots and helps those who are injured by either carrying ot helping them walk to a safe spot at the large gate which is the only entrance and exit of the set and it's the only safe space where the bots are not programmed to come and plus it would be easier for Recovery Girl to heal them if they have sustained serious injuries.

Meanwhile in the observation room

Everyone was watching all the student's performance in each arena on huge, big screens.

Powerloader smirks and looks at Midnight and says, "Kekeke we sure got an interesting bunch this year".

Midnight hums for a while and replies, "The passion of these youths is beyond my word".

Ectoplasm nods his head at Midnight's words.

All Might feels relieved  to see that his pupil was performing well, he went full smash mode by bringing down the zero pointer and the only thing he needed was to help Izuku get a hang on the use of One For All quirk as this power was pushed into him all of a sudden and everything was new to the vessel in which it resides currently.

All Might moves his eyes away from the screen to look at Nezu who was staring at the screen quietly.

A silent Nezu was not a good omen.

At the sudden silence, everyone began to get worried about what Nezu was scheming.

All Might taps Nezu on his pawn and ask, "Sir is something wrong?".

Nezu does not turn towards All Might but rather continues to stare at the screen that showed the footage of ground alpha and says with a sparkle in his eyes, "I want that boy with the electric quirk to be my apprentice".

Everyone in the room sweat drops at hearing this news.

                                                         Well, now that was unexpected..

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Denki was literally running on adrenaline his lungs were on fire, and he could literally feel his Lichtenberg scars flaring up.

He had lost count of his points after 48. Soon, the buzzer sound could be heard echoing around the arena signaling the end of the exam.

Denki lets out a big breath and tries to keep himself upright. He was already feeling the side effects of his quirk overuse.

At the very moment, Recovery girl enters the arena and starts healing the candidates, who were injured while fighting the bots and she also scolded the candidates who were too recklessly using their quirk and doing daredevil stunts, hearing this Denki gulps.

Denki thinks to himself, "Shit! she is going to scold me too".

Recovery girl notices Denki standing there near the injured candidates and she walks up to him and hands him some red strawberry flavored gummy bears.

Denki accepts the gummy bears gingerly and pops one into his mouth chewing them softly, after some he could feel the side effects of the quirk fading away, but he could not handle the burning sensation of his Lichtenberg scars.

Soon a small robot escorts them to the awaiting bus which took them to the main campus of the school.

Resolutely the candidates entered the bus with happy faces. While some had long gloomy faces as they knew they had not met the criteria that was required as their quirks was not sustainable for this type of battle.

As soon as the bus comes to stop at the main building. Denki literally leaps from the bus before the electronic doors could open.

Denki grits his teeth while running to the locker room as his whole skin was on fire.

He quickly enters the locker room and grabs his bag from the locker and rips open his top and stuffs it in his bag and brings out the cooling ointment spray and begins spraying it everywhere on his scars and lets out a content sigh when he feels the burning sensation of pain disappearing slowly.

Then, he puts on the white button up top with long sleeves but leaves the first two buttons of the shirt undone, he was not in the mood to cover his angry jagged red scars on his neck with that he puts on baby blue sweater and black pants and grabs his backpack and exits out of the UA building.

Then he drags his tired feet to the train station and swipes his card at the train gates and enters the train bound to his home.

It was the rush hour but luckily, he finds a seat. He sits down and decides to take a nap soon that nap turns into sleep.

Denki could feel someone shaking him, but Denki felt too tired to open his eyes.

Soon the gentle shaking turned into aggressive shaking, "Oi!".

Denki opened his eyes groggily to see Bakugou Katsuki staring down at him with red piercing eyes.

Seeing the mysterious cute boy awake now Bakugou said, "That girl with the earphone quirk asked me to wake you up as your stop would be coming soon".

Bakugou uses his thumb to point in Jiro's direction and sees Jiro staring at him from the far end of the carriage.

Denki smiles and waves at her. At Denki's cute gesture, Jiro's face goes red, and she runs into another carriage.

Now Denki felt bewildered at her Stange behavior, and he was lost for words on what was happening but soon tear away from his thoughts when he hears a snort like laugh and looks up at Bakugou, it seemed like Bakugou was trying to hold back his laugh and he also looked so cool, while holding onto the train handle with his right hand while his left hand was in his Gakuren's pocket in which Denki knows by heart is an All Might trading card that he had held onto from his childhood days as he wanted to get an autograph from All Might.

Denki sighs as he could no longer go back to sleep and stands up and puts on his backpack on his shoulder and is about to turn towards Bakugou to say, "Thank yo-".

But it seems like fate had other plans, the train jerks suddenly throwing Denki out of balance, but Bakugou catches his arm and keeps a soft grip on his arm and keeps him steady.

Denki stammers a thank you and blushes furiously.

While Bakugou nods back but still keeps a soft grip on his arm even though Denki was a complete stranger to him.

Soon the train resumes its normal speed, and an announcement is made on the speaker of the next approaching station.

Bakugou looks Denki in the eye and boldly says, "See you one week later".

Denki looks surprised and confused and asks, "What do you mean? I don't get it".

Slowly the train starts to slow down and the door open with a chime and people start getting out of the train while others side of the platform people enter the train.

Bakugou bends slightly down so his hair is covering his face making it hard for Denki to read his face.

After a short pause, Bakugou tells him, in such a soft voice that only Denki could hear him despite the moving crowd around them, "You look like the type of guy who would get accepted easily into UA".

Now Denki was lost for words he did not know how to respond back to Bakugou's confident statement. How was Bakugou so confident in Denki that he would get into UA.

With that Denki is brought back from his thoughts when Bakugou whispers into his ear, "Bye Sunshine". And steps out of the train.

Denki watches confusingly at Bakugou's retreating back blending with the moving crowd and soon he disappears into the sea of the crowd.

Denki stares at the crowd as the electronic doors of the train shut with a chime and his tired face is reflected on the train glass.

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One week later,

Denki's nerves were acting up, he needed to distract himself.

It's been a week since giving his UA entrance exam and the awkward conversation he had with Bakugou in the train ride which he tried to put it in the back of his mind.

He was literally on the edge, that he reads the entire Harry Potter series in one week. Don't get me wrong, the Harry Potter series was a safe haven for Denki, and he also had passed his time by attending acrobatic classes with Lizzy, in order to keep his mind off of everything.

He really needed to distract himself right now.

So, he walks up to his bookshelf and contemplates which book he should pull out to read. After much thought he picks Emma by Jane Austen.

Happy with his choice he sits down at the little reading nook corner.

He sits down on the little couch and opens the book's first page of chapter 1, when a soft knock is heard on his door.

Denki sighs and puts the book down and goes to open the door to see who it was.

Denki opens the door to see that it was Lizzy, and she has a big grin on her face and says with excitement in her voice, "It's here your UA letter!".

She hands the white envelope with glittery wax logo of UA high envelope into Denki's hand and once again grins up at him and say, "I will wait for you in the kitchen". 

At this Denki gives Lizzy a quizzical look while she run downstairs, giggling with joy.

After Lizzy is gone, Denki closes his room door and places the envelope on his study desk and stares at it for a while with a dreaded feeling.

He thinks to himself, 'I know I have passed but why the bloody hell do I feel nervous. I will open the envelope on the count of 1..2..3..go'.

Denki tears open the envelope, and a little disc starts displaying a video. Denki gulps as the video displays only a chair and a table, it looked like an office room, with no one in sight. That's when the chair suddenly turns, and Denki lets out a small 'eeps' sound and covers his face and thinks he got sent the wrong disc accidentally.

When all of a sudden, a voice is heard from the video, he recognizes the voice and removes his hands from his face to watch the video, "That's right. It's me, Nezu the one who could be a dog or a mouse or a bear, but more importantly...I'm the principal! Dear candidate 7013, you have been selected into the heroic course of class 1-A. Candidate 7013, you really are an interesting person, and I wish to see how far you will progress in these three coming years and I have very high hopes from you! And you have been ranked 2 among the top 10 rankers of the UA entrance exam".

Hearing this Denki's eyes bulged out, he ranked 2nd in the UA entrance exam. He stole Bakugou Katsuki's original position which he had previously upheld.

He just can't believe it. 

He was in a total denial but was brought back from his thoughts when he hears, Nezu-san saying, "Congratulations on your accomplishments and I whole heartedly welcome you to UA high". And with that Principal Nezu cutely waves his little pawn in the air and says, "Bye bye".

Then, the screen goes black and Denki stares at the black screen for a while, what just happened.

He thought it was supposed to be Present Mic, who would tell him about his acceptance into UA high, but he wasn't expecting it to be Nezu-san.

Wait a minute! did he alter the timeline. He needs to write it down in his Plan book, he pulls open his study drawer and grabs the book out and places the book on the desk and flips through the pages and writes down the changes that he had noticed or made on the new page since he had time traveled back.

After he finishes writing in the book. He hides it in its respective place and goes downstairs to see why Lizzy had called him earlier to come downstairs.

When he enters the kitchen, he is surprised to see a chocolate cake with the wording written in white cream Congratulations on getting into UA high, little Hero! placed on the table.

Seeing the little surprise brings tears in Denki's eyes. Now Denki starts crying with tears slowly streaming down his face and his rosy cheeks. While Lizzy runs up to him and gives him a tight hug and pats his back sympathetically as she knows how hard he had worked for the entrance exam.

After the little crying spell of happiness, both go back to having big slices of chocolate cake with grinning faces along with some hot coffee.

After stuffing his stomach with the delicious chocolate fudge cake. Denki decided to take a hot shower.

So, he heads upstairs with his school uniform bag in his hand which was sent along with the envelope earlier after saying goodnight to Lizzy. Denki enters his room and goes to his wardrobe to grab his softest Pj set and then hops into the shower and turns on the tap.

Soon the hot water starts coming from the showerhead and he starts scrubbing his whole body in strawberry shower gel with a loofah.

He used this specific shower gel because it reminded him of his mom's bear hugs and he got little teary while remembering her as he missed his mom a lot.

Due to her hero duties, she was transferred to the USA along with his father who already worked there as a lecturer at a university while Denki stayed here in Japan with his aunt Kiko and her adopted daughter Lizzy.

The happiest moment of his life was when they would come home for the Christmas holidays. And those big warm hugs which he would get when he was a little, usually had a sweet strawberry scent lingering on her clothes and the hot chocolate nights they used to have with little mini marshmallows, sitting around the fireplace with Home Alone movie playing on the Tv and his mother's coca butter kisses he would receive before bedtime when his mother would tuck him in the bed.

He wanted to keep these happy moments alive in his memory as he could feel these memories fading away into nothingness.

And after a few years both his parents had stopped coming to Japan due to the heavy workload and Christmas holidays never felt the same to Denki. But Denki was not sad as his mom was a Pro Hero and it was her job to protect the people and Denki being Denki always kept his feelings to himself. Whether it was bullying or the inappropriate touches of his uncle for two years after which he was placed in a rehab facility.

He always tried to stay positive even when his mental health was breaking him down from inside. Soon he was brought out of his musings as the water had gone all cold completely.

He sighs and turns off the showerhead tap and changes into his comfiest Pjs and applies his favorite watermelon ChapStick on lips and blow dry's his hair and jumps into his warm bed, giggling with the thought that he is going to meet his friends tomorrow.

With the happy thoughts of finally getting to meet his cute and innocent friends, he falls asleep into the world of dreams.

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The anticipated day had finally come.

Denki checks himself in the full length mirror admiring his school uniform.

He had worn underneath his white button up shirt, a black turtle neck full sleeves bodycon which covered both his neck and wrist Lichtenberg scars and this time he had ditched the jacket and put on a waistcoat.

And last but not the least after tying his red tie. He puts on his non-prescription glasses to complete the look and he looked smart in the waistcoat and the glasses.

Then, Denki heads downstairs to have breakfast with Lizzy. Both have a hearty meal that consisted of buttered toast, scrambled eggs, yogurt fruit bowls and smoothies.

After having breakfast, he hesitantly asks Lizzy, who was not a morning person and usually was very grumpy in the morning to click photos of his first day of school uniform. So he could send it to Estella.

Surprisingly she quietly nods at his request and asks where he wants to get the pictures taken.

Denki thinks for a while and decides to get his pictures taken next to the hanging flower pots in the balcony.

After being satisfied with the pictures on how they turned out. Denki bids goodbye to Lizzy and goes towards the train station.

...

while in the train, Denki could hear people whispering about him. 

"Mommy! Look he is wearing a UA high school uniform".

"He looks so cute hehe should I ask for his number?".

"From his looks, he must either be in a Heroic course or support department".

Denki tunes out the people conversing about him by placing his headphones on his ears and plays APT by Róse and Bruno Mars on his phone and starts bopping his head along with the catchy lyrics. Soon the train arrives at the designated station.

...

Denki walks up the hilly slope while admiring the blooming cherry blossoms.

The petals looked so pretty twirling and dancing in the gentle breeze and the gentle breeze was blowing and messing up his hair in a teasing manner as well which made him giggle and the blossoms fell on face when he stopped to look up at the trees and admire their beauty up close.

The pink petals fell on his face with such grace as if they were giving him little kisses of encouragement for the day.

Spring was his favourite season next to autumn.

After admiring the cherry blossom trees for a while, he resumes his walk and continues walking towards the gates of UA and enters the building like he has never been there as the time traveler can't be too sure and he pretends to ask some random general course student for class 1-A direction even though he knew where his class was located just like the back of his hand and after getting the directions and thanking the random student.

He starts walking towards the direction of his class, he could literally hear the commotion coming from his class in the hallway and walks towards the front of the already opened door and peeks inside, he could see Izuku Midoriya blushing bright red just like a tomato while Uraraka Ochako does some punch like movement in the air and Iida Tenya doing his robotic hand movements asks Midoriya how did he know about the practical exam's rescue points and praises him for his foresight to see through it.

Izuku Midoriya nervously laughs and rubs the back of his neck and was about to reply to Iida's inquisitive question when his eyes meet Denki's watercolor eyes and says with an exclamation of surprise and happiness, "Oh it's you!".

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Midoriya notices Denki standing outside the big door peeking in cutely and without thinking Izuku starts walking towards Denki with excitement and happiness in his eyes says, "Oh it's you! I am so glad that you too made it into the Heroic course". And extends his hand out for Denki for a shake hand.

Denki takes Midoriya's hand into his and shakes it firmly and says, "Right back at you".

Denki winks at Midoriya while he shook his hands with him.

Midoriya's face goes beat red and he thinks to himself, "This is the first time twice someone has spoken to me so sweetly. He is such a nice person. Wow UA is really different from other schools".

Denki could feel the whole class staring at him and listening to his conversation with Midoriya.

At the very precise moment Iida moves his hand in a chopping manner as if recognizing something was not right, very rudely tells Denki that his uniform is inappropriate.

To this Denki coolly replies with an angelic smile, "You don't have the authority to tell me that my uniform is inappropriate unless it's the teacher".

Hearing this Iida looks taken aback and opens and closes his mouth like a fish.

Denki feels bad for telling Iida off, but he really deserved it this time.

Midoriya and Uraraka who stood near him, looked at him with amazement and the whole class who were observing Kaminari's behavior thought-

"Damn he is both an angel and devil at the same time".

"Hmph the kid sure got a nerve".

"How manly".

"Even the glasses kid can't come up with a comeback".

Suddenly Denki could sense someone approaching the classroom and he knows who it is.

It was Aizawa Shouta who was watching his new students like a predator to see whether they would take notice of his presence or not.

Damnit! Sensei did it so Stealthily that Denki had some difficulty in sensing his Sensei's presence.

He looked around and he needed his friends to go back to their assigned seats, so he first starts with Midoriya.

Denki pats Midoriya on both shoulders and starts pushing him towards his assigned seat. Midoriya looks questioningly at Denki with one raised eyebrow at why he was pushing him all of a sudden towards his seat.

Denki gives him a nervous smile and says, "The homeroom period is about to start".

Understandably, Midoriya walks up to his table and sets his yellow bright backpack down and takes his seat behind Bakugou Katsuki who glares back at his childhood friend.

Then, Denki asks Iida and Uraraka to do the same thing and they to go and take their respective seats and Denki too goes to his assigned seat, at the same time the classroom door slides open to reveal their haggard looking homeroom teacher AKA Aizawa Shouta.

Aizawa Shouta drags his caterpillar sleeping bag with him on to the podium.

Aizawa in silence proceeds to stare at the students whom he is going to teach for the next three years.

His gaze moves slowly from each student then falls on Kaminari Denki, the kid who had ranked 2nd in both the entrance exam and practical and he too was curious to know why Principal Nezu was so fascinated by this boy, then he moves his gaze away from the fragile looking boy.

After some time, he introduces himself, "The name is Aizawa Shouta. I will be your homeroom teacher for the next three years and I want you all-". He pauses to see their scared expressions.

The whole class gulps beside the time traveler. Denki already knew what Aizawa sensei was going to say. 

Aizawa sensei pulls out the P.E. uniform from his caterpillar bag and asks them to go change in the locker room and meet him outside at the P.E. ground.

With that Aizawa Shouta walks out of the class with a grin on his face while muttering to himself, "The real judgement starts now".

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Everyone in dread changes into their P.E. uniform while Denki changes into his P.E. uniform in of the bathroom stalls as he is still not comfortable changing in the locker room.

He seriously needs to start changing in the boys locker room next time as he will be spending the next three years with them in this course. He decides to take baby steps for now.

Denki is the first student to reach the P.E. ground and Aizawa Shouta looks up at him from his letter pad list of names with a look of curiosity soon that look changes into a serious face, when other students begin to arrive besides Denki.

After everyone has finally arrived. Aizawa Shouta announces to them that he is going to conduct a quirk assessment test and if they fail the test he would expel them right on the spot immediately.

Now the whole class is ready to argue with Aizawa sensei besides Denki, folds up his hands over his chest and begins to think to himself, on how to put his quirk to use and weighs both the pros and cons as he can't reveal that he has full control over his quirk yet! He has to perform like an total amateur at the present.

Yikes! now the stakes were high and none of his friends were determined to lose.

Soon, the class goes quiet with Aizawa Sensei using his authoritative voice to keep the class in control by saying, "This is UA and things are done differently. So get yourself ready with some warming exercise the quirk assessment is about to begin". He brings out a timer and clicks on it.

....

A few moments into the quirk assessment tests, everyone was trying their best not get expelled and score the highest mark while Denki tried to keep his score average as he knew this was a logical ruse, but still he tried to do his best.

....

When it was Denki's turn to throw the ball and since the ball was made of metal parts and other electronic stuff material, he used it to his advantage by using 50% of his quirk to propel it forward and the ball disappeared with a speed of light into the sky.

With the look of amazement, Aizawa sensei turns his smartphone to show Denki's score to his students. 

Upon seeing Kaminari's score everyone's jaw dropped. He had scored infinity the same score as Uraraka Ochako.

This came as an absolute shock to Denki as he was not expecting to get a fudging infinity score!.

After Denki, it was Sero's turn to throw the ball. Sero Hanta goes forward with a confident stride and stands in the inner circle and wait for Aizawa sensei's singal.

While Denki goes back to stand next to his friends and looks at who looked extremely pale and terrified as it was his turn next after Sero Hanta.

Denki thinks to himself that Midoriya needs to loosen up a bit otherwise his quirk might go off the tangent.

So with a sigh Denki walks towards Midoriya and pokes him in th cheek to which the poor boy gets startled and lets out a yelp sound and turns to look at Denki with wide eyes.

Denki pats Midoriya on both the shoulders and looks Midoriya in the eye and says with a cute smile, "Don't think about it! Just go Plus Ultra!".

Midoriya stutters back with a nervous smile, "I-I thank you". And gulps in fear when he hears his name being called.

Midoriya moves away from Denki's warm touch and begins walking upfront of Aizawa sensei.

Denki turns back to see Midoriya's performance which Bakugou's burning gaze at him from the corner of his eyes but he chooses to avoid looking back at him. 

For a look of motivation, Midoriya looks over at Denki.

Denki gives him a smile and thumbs up and mouths, "Plus Ultra!".

Midoriya receives the throw ball from Aizawa sensei. Midoriya takes it meekly and stands in the inner circle.

Midoriya stands there for some time then he hesitantly with frustration brewing in his body, immediately goes to throw the ball with a reckless plan in his mind. When all of a sudden, his quirk gets erased by Aizawa sensei's erasure quirk.

Midoriya gets pulled towards Aizawa sensei with the use of his capture weapon.

Knowing this would happen at one point, Denki puts up one hand on his forehead and sighs earning weird glances from his classmates. 

Then, it is revealed by a surprise yell by Midoriya that their teacher is the famous underground Pro Hero : Eraserhead.

Putting all these tid bits aside, Aizawa sensei sternly scolds Midoriya with biting words by saying that he was going to use his quirk recklessly like he did during the UA entrance exam practical part and if he wants to stay here. He should improvise otherwise he is a burden to the hero society and he is wasting everyone's time and tells him to hurry up or is he too chicken to chicken out. With that he lets go Midoriya and returns his quirk back to him.

Midoriya deciphers the meaning behind Aizawa sensei's words and has a gleam of realisation in his eyes and takes a confident stance.

Seeing the knowing look in Midoriya's green eyes makes Denki grin from ear to ear.

Midoriya with a look of determination throws the ball at full speed with all his might, the ball goes up while breaking the atmospheric layers of the sky.

Aizawa sensei grins madly at Midoriya's performance and utters, "Oho".

Midoriya stands there with fierce determination burning in his eyes while clutching his swollen injured index finger and says to Aizawa sensei, "Sensei I haven't given up yet".

And before you know it the quirk assessment has concluded.

In the end before the bell rings, they are shown their rankings on the projectile screen and Denki was placed at 7th position.

At this Denki smiles. Seeing his ranking from 13th to 7th was a big deal for him.

Then, after that Aizawa sensei reveals that no one is getting expelled it was a trick to make them all bring out their full potential.

Hearing this class 1-A's soul leaves their body as they all had worked their ass off for nothing.

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After their quirk assessment test, they had regular classes followed by a lunch break.

Denki was so exhausted and hungry after the quirk assessment test that he could feel hunger pangs in the last history period before lunch break rolled on.

At the sound of the bell signalling lunch break. He literally ran out of the class to the cafeteria.

Denki doesn't care if Iida reprimands him later for running in the hallway like that. Right now his only focus is to get something in his empty tummy.

Grabbing his ordered tray from Lunch Rush. He starts looking for an empty seat but sadly it was too crowded today.

Among the crowd of students, he spots Sero Hanta and Kirishima Erijiou pestering Bakugou Katsuki and also the Dekusquad laughing and chatting while having their lunch together.

Denki did not want to ruin the happy moment by going there. 

So, he starts walking away from there before any of his classmates take notice of him.

Then, he sights an empty seat besides Shinsou Hitoshi and walks up to him.

Hitoshi was about to have his ramen when he noticed a preppy dressed or rather a cute looking boy carrying a lunch tray walking up to his table.

The said boy smiled sweetly at him and said, "Hey!". And at the empty seat beside him. This surprises Shinsou due to his quirk being villainous he knew people usually tended to avoid him.

What shocked him the most was this boy who looked like a literal doll with a perfect face, eyes full of sunshine and a smile that could topple empires, was willing to sit beside someone like him. Given the account of rumours floating around the school about his villainous quirk nature.

Hitoshi nods his head at Denki that he can sit beside him and goes back to slurping his ramen.

Denki sets down his lunch tray and digs into his yummy veggie cheese sandwich. That's when his phone pings.

With curiosity Denki takes out his phone from his pant's pocket and unlocks his phone screen to check who has sent him a message. Denki's face lights up when he sees it is from Estella and clicks on the message icon to read her message.

Estella had sent him two kissy face emoji under his school uniform picture which he had sent earlier in the morning and there was also a second message that read 'I hope you make a lot of friends on your first day of high school and just be yourself!'.

Denki smiles at the message and then puts back his phone into his pants's pocket and goes back to munching on his sandwich.

Shinsou looks warily at the boy sitting beside him. He notes that the boy had a sunshine type of a smile and when Denki had to bend his head down to unlock his phone scream to Shinsou's horror he noticed two or no was it three actually!?.

He spotted five angry scars peeking from Denki's turtleneck.

Shinsou prays in his mind that they are not what he was thinking. He really hoped those were not suicide scars and decides to keep a close eye from now on his new cafeteria seat buddy.

Soon, the lunch break comes to an end. Denki is happy with his stomach being full and gets up from his seat and bids goodbye to Shinsou who too replies back with a goodbye and says, "See you tomorrow as well".

This shocks Denki. The lone wolf Shinsou Hitoshi actually spoke to him.

With that Denki heads back to his class now. Soon, his afternoon Heroic class would begin with All Might. 

Everyone was buzzing with excitement in the classroom.

All Might soon enters through the sliding door by making a comical entry.

Then with his signature smile ask them all to get ready and head to the battle ground arena and clicks on the remote button device in his hand and the student's hero cases slides out of the hidden rack and everyone one by one grabs their hero costume case with the assigned number and heads to the locker room while Denki grabs his case and heads to the joint bathroom stalls to change with no clue on how his costume is designed as he had left all the designing in Estella's hands and had only specified what type of weapons he would be needing.

Denki sets the case on the counter and unlocks it and lifts it with both excitement and nervousness and lets out a gasp of surprise.

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Denki let's out a gasp of surprise, when he unlocks his hero case. Estella being true to her words had designed his costume very beautifully just like the EMERALD she was.

She really had outdone herself while designing his costume.

She had designed him a black turtleneck jumpsuit with a gold iridescent line running vertically both on each side of his jumpsuit as well as a hidden pocket swen very cleverly.

Denki slips on his black turtleneck jumpsuit and let's out a sigh of relief as the material felt too soft like cotton unlike the scratchy material ones which would have rubbed on his Lichtenberg scars.

Now he could keep his retractable rod without any worry in one of these hidden pockets and a vine lasso type of whip as well which he had suggested.

The whip had little tiny thorns on it. He wraps the whip around his left thigh. Then, pulls on a pair of black coloured fingerless gloves that cover his elbow and hands and he receives two wing ear cuffs set for both ears from Estella.

He places one metallic yellow wing cuff on one ear and leaves the other one in the case.

These were designed to heighten his sense for detecting quirks and villain movement in his line of fighting range. It also acted as sending SOS signals by using Morse code that was by snapping his fingers.

All he had to do was tap lightly on the little feathers and the SOS sensor would be activated.

Then, he puts on his boots which were red colored and both the boots went up to his thighs.

The red boots on each side had little wings. Don't get me wrong these were not there just for the show.

The wing edge was sharp as a knife and could be used to kick or hit someone as a form of self defence. They also help him keep his balance while flying in the air.

And lastly to complete the look was a red hooded cape with a big bow at the back.

The bow's tails acted as a quirk deflection and was made from the same special material used in Aizawa Shouta's capture weapon.

It seems Estella wanted to give Denki's costume a red riding hood kind of theme.

And Denki understood why she did it. Estella wanted Denki to look like a cinnamon roll but could kill you type of hero.

She wanted the villain to misjudge Denki by his appearance and get their teeth knocked out later by this very misjudgement.

Denki was so satisfied with his costume. He had a lot of room to move around freely and he was able to do acrobatic stunts just fine without being hindered or restricted by his costume.

The only thing he decides to leave behind for now is the hooded cape in the hero case.

He decides to use it later on in the future against the hero killer Stain while going stealth mode.

As it was made for stealth. He could use it to bind the anti hero killer, Stain with the help of the cape before he does any life threatening injuries to Iida, Midoriya and Torodoki and closes the case with a click and walks out of the stall and heads towards his waiting classmates as he was the last one to arrive.

All of his classmates looked dazzled and awesome in their own hero costumes.

All Might looks at Kaminari walking out from the tunnel and says, "Shounen! come join your classmates quickly so I can start explaining about the battle".

Denki replies back with enthusiasm in his voice, "Yes sensei".

Denki walks up to his classmates and stands beside Yaoyorozu Momo and waits for All Might to begin with his explanation while All Might flips through his lecture notes.

At the moment, Kirishima Erijiou puts his arm around Denki's shoulder and says with sparkles in his eyes, "Dude your costume design looks so cool!. It looks beyond manly".

While Sero Hanta nods his head at the red haired boy's words and says, "Yes, you definitely look cute like a doll".

At receiving two compliments at the same time were quite very unexpected and this makes Denki's face go red and smoke could be seen rising from his head.

Ashido Mina creeps up from behind and asks him with a teasing grin, "What's wrong doll chan?~".

Denki thinks to himself, 'When did they start viewing me as cute and doll like. Ahhh they are being so weird. Did they get hit by a strange quirk?'.

Denki sighs into his palm unknowingly to him that he was being observed by his classmates.

Aoyama Yuga comes to save Kaminari Denki from the awkwardness. He brings his sparkling cape in front of Denki's face and asks him, "Ne ne ne see how sparkling Kira kira my cape is!".

Denki looks up from his hands at Aoyama Yuga with a red face and wordlessly grabs his sparkling cape and buries his face into it. Oddly the cape smelled of roses.

The whole class thinks, 'Awww how can a person be this cute!?'.

Finally, All Might's booming voice could be heard to get his little zygotes attention back to the main point. When he finds the correct pages of his class lecture notes and explains to them that the battle will focus on the heroes saving the nuclear warhead core from the villains which they are discreetly going to deploy and it will be an indoor trial battle. So it will be a two-on-two team battle. He does a dramatic pause and ends it by saying Hero vs Villian indoor trial battle begins!!.

Soon, lots are drawn and the starting team is announced.

The first team is A which is the Hero team that consisted of Izuku Midoriya and Uraraka Ochako VS the Villain team D that consisted of Bakugou Katsuki and Iida Tenya.

Before the start of the battle, Bakugou Katsuki starts throwing curse words at Midoriya and pounds his fist into his hands while his quirk goes off exploding and declares that he is going to win with such a loathing tone which makes Midoriya cower at the back of Uraraka.

All Might asks the rest of the group to follow him to the surveillance room to watch the battle from there. With one last look  at Midoriya. Denki turns around and starts walking with the rest of his classmates to the surveillance room.

Denki could already feel the onset of Migraine pounding in his head.

Later after some time, the battle felt to much for Denki to watch his friend Midoriya being thrown like a rag doll here and there by Bakugou's explosion quirk.

It was too brutal for Denki to watch. He tears his eyes away from the screen and sees that everyone including All Might were watching the match with bated breath.

He had to stop the battle. This can't go on any longer.

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Seeing that madness in Bakugou's ruby red eyes and fearing for Midoriya's life. Now they were both going in for the kill.

Denki turns towards All Might and pleads with much urgency in his voice, "Sensei please stop them!".

Denki could see All Might hesitate while turning 'on' the mic in his hand to warn Bakugou but does not take notice that the mic has been turned 'on' accidentally.

All Might was in a delimma. He wanted to see what Midoriya shounen was going to do in this type of situation against his childhood friend.

Seeing All Might stalling in his words. Denki does not let the chance go away.

Denki takes a deep breath and yells, "Sir you are a Pro Hero and Izuku Midoriya is a student here at UA high and if anything happens to him your name will be tarnished".

Denki refrains himself from saying goddam he is your successor and you want he to die even before he gets a chance to take on All For One...real cool All Might and continues with his saying, "Bakugou-kun is behaving brashly in the battle as if he has a personal goal to settle with Midoriya-kun. In a real fight, personal feelings and emotions are to be kept aside.

With that Denki ends his eloquent speech and sees that All Might was looking flabbergasted at him and his classmates were staring at him with priceless and shocked expressions.

It looks like that Bakugou, Midoriya, Uraraka and Iida too have heard Denki's voice through the speaker cum com. It might have happened when All Might was going to warn Bakugou to not use his bracers against Midoriya.

The amount of power those bracers unleashed would have both destroyed the building and killed Midoriya but while contemplating between whether to let the battle continue, All Might had accidentally clicked on the turn button of the mic and forgotten about it when Denki had yelled at him to stop the battle.

Hence, the timer runs out with none of the teams winning.

Iida thinks to himself, after hearing Denki's voice, 'He did make sense there. I have greatly misjudged him. I need to apologise to him later'.

Midoriya is taken away on the medic/conveyor stretcher bots to the infirmary to get healed by Recovery Girl.

Denki stares at the screen with sudden sadness while his friend is being carried away by the medic bots. Denki's heart aches for some unknown reason even after saving Midoriya from being injured severely. Still Midoriya had managed to sustain severe injuries from Bakugou's quirk.

Lost in his own thoughts Denki doesn't notice Torodoki Shoto too has taken an interest in him, 'Why does he have that sad expression on his face?'.

Torodoki Shoto was silently observing everything from behind the room with great interest now.

While on the other side of the wall Bakugou glares at Denki and huffs and thinks, 'Why does he look so sad?'. He should be happy that he saved Deku from dying but still it was odd to see the usually smiling boy look sad and he clicks his tongue at the thought of feeling suddenly sympathetic for the sunshine.

He gets more interested when it is announced that the next teams are Kaminari Denki and Jirou Kyouka as Hero Team G vs Villain Team C which consisted of Yaoyorozu Momo and Mineta Minrou.

Hearing this announcement, Bakugou smiles and thinks, 'Let's see how well you perform in this sunshine' and turns his face towards the screen to watch the battle.

...

Denki and Jirou head out of the surveillance room and stand outside the building and wait for the timer sound.

Jirou looks from the corner of her eye to see Denki looking visibly upset about something so she decides to cheer him up with a joke.

She takes the initiative to make him laugh by saying, "Knock..knock".

Denki looks confused at her then says, "Who is it?".

Denki smiles cutely and repeats the words, "Hawaii?".

Jirou then continues by saying, "How are you?".

She takes a note of a glimmer of amusement in Denki's eye as he understands the little pun joke. 

Denki starts laughing while holding both his sides and tells Jirou, "Nice one".

Hearing Denki laugh makes Jirou feel happy that Denki is back to his normal smiling self.

The timer begins and they both enter the villain's den.

Jirou uses her quirk to listen where Yaoyorozu Momo and Mineta Minrou have kept the nuclear core hidden in the building. After pinpointing the location of it in the building. Jirou turns to inform about it to Denki who was busy knocking at the wall structure of the building.

Hearing his name being called Denki turns around to see Jirou giving him a quizzical look. Denki smiles when Jirou tells him that the nuclear core is located at the third floor and Yaoyorozu Momo has barricaded the front door with steel beams while Mineta Minrou is doing nothing just standing there idly.

Denki asks Jirou to let him handle the situation and Jirou gives him a nod. 

Denki snaps his slender fingers twice and two yellow white sparkling circular rings appear in the air with tiny stars floating around them.

Jirou stares at the two sparkling stars like rings with a look of curiosity and awe.

Then, with another snap they disappear within a blink of an eye in the air.

Denki asks Jirou to follow behind him as they both head upstairs.

Denki starts walking towards the barricaded room nonchalantly while Jirou stands at a distance observing Denki curiously at what Kaminari Denki was going to do.

Denki stops a few feet outside the door and snaps his two fingers.

The circular sparkling rings with little stars floating around it appear inside the room and binds both Yaoyorozu Momo and Mineta Minrou.

Both of them let out a yelp at the sudden appearance of the sparkling star circular rings which appears and binds them separately and renders both of them immobile.

Denki then uses 10% of his quirk to make the steel beams float in the air and opens the door with the help of his quirk.

Denki grits his teeth in pain and sways slightly as he was overusing his quirk and fears that the scars were going to start burning soon.

Upon seeing Denki swaying on his feet, Jirou rushes to Denki's side and asks him worriedly, if he is ok?.

Denki nods his head and calmly asks Jirou to go and capture the nuclear core.

While Denki sits down on the floor clutching his already burning shoulder in agony and prays that no one has taken notice of his little episode.

Meanwhile in the surveillance room 

Everyone was amazed by Denki's quirk use.

They had no idea that a quirk could be used so strategically and beautifully at the same time.

Even the hot headed Bakugou Katsuki and the cold hearted Torodoki Shoto stared at the screen with interest in their soon to be rival.

Iida Tenya and Uraraka Ochako had to literally remind All Might to declare that the Kaminari's team were the winner of the final round.

All Might was undeniably amazed by the boy's careful way of utilising his quirk.

He never once had seen someone use their quirk so elegantly and with such calculations and precision. No wonder Nezu was so interested in making the fragile doll looking boy his apprentice.

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The two-on-two team battle comes to an end with All Might suddenly disappearing when the bell starts ringing.

With the class dismissed, the students head back to the locker room to get changed while chattering excitedly about team battle and introduce themselves to each other and ask what their new friend's plans are now that classes have ended.

Denki too walks behind with his group of friends and tries keeping up with their pace at the same time clutching his sides in pain and tries not to wince and his classmates were sure oblivious that something was not right with him. 

Soon the boys enter into the locker room and  the door closes with a soft click while Denki keeps on walking towards the bathroom stall.

His walking soon turns into stumbling and swaying and with each step he took he could feel the pain increase. 

Denki opens one of the stalls and shuts the door and slides in the lock and with that an immense excruciating pain bursts through Denki's entire body.

 Denki slides down the wall of the stall and tries to make himself  as small as possible. 

Now he was terrified to even look at his own Lichtenberg scars which he knew by heart had turned into a ugly colour of purple and black. 

He grits his teeth in pain, blinking away the tears from his eyes and wills himself to get up from the cold stone floor.

He grounds himself by thinking, 'Your fine nothing has happened so far. Everyone is smiling even Izuku Midoriya is not depressed and Bakugou Katsuki and Midnight Sensei are not dead and Ayoyama Yuga is not declared a traitor yet'. 

With that last thought and calming himself down from the little episode, Denki gets up from the cold hard floor and puts on his uniform and hurries to his class before Midoriya rushes out to confront Bakugou about his quirk - One For All.

Denki enters his chattering classroom.  It seems no one had gone back home yet and they were really taking their sweet time to head back home except there was no sign of Bakugou Katsuki to which Denki surmised that Midoriya would be coming back from the infirmary soon. 

Denki goes towards his assigned seat and grabs his backpack and places the straps on his shoulders and stuffs something in his pockets. 

At that moment, Midoriya enters the classroom with a bandaged arm and is immediately bombarded with questions about his quirk by Kirishima Erijiou, Sero Hanta, Ashido Mina, Rikido Sato and Toru Hagakure. 

Denki sighs at the sight of his friends crowding around poor Midoriya and thinks to himself,  'At least give the poor boy some space to breathe'. 

And starts walking towards Midoriya  with a stoic face and stands in front of him and brings his fist up in front of Midoriya's face.

At this sudden strange gesture of Kaminari. Midoriya looks at Kaminari with a perplexed expression and fist bumps him with his good hand and to Midoriya's surprise. Denki opens his fists and puts star shaped colourful candies in Midoriya's palm. 

Then, it hits Midoriya that Kaminari was trying to cheer him up and was about to tell him thank you.

While a loud squeal interrupts Midoriya from thanking Kaminari as both Ashido Mina and Toru Hagakure holding hands in delight and squealing once again at the sudden cute gesture of Kaminari Denki.

Denki ignores his friends reactions and briskly walks out of the class and  says, "Bye". 

With a pained expression on his face Denki steps outside of the classroom door. While Midoriya takes note of Kaminari's expression due to his quick observational skills and begins to feel something is not right with Kaminari Denki. Then, his gaze shifts towards  Kacchan's empty seat. 

Later, when inquiring about Kacchan's absence in the class from Kirishima Erijiou and realising that he has left for home. 

Midoriya hurries downstairs to catch up with Kacchan. While his friends try to stop  from doing so and telling Midoriya that Bakugou was in a very bad mood when he had left the class but Midoriya pays no heed to his new classmates.

Meanwhile in the bathroom, Denki pops two pain medication pills in his mouth and gags while swallowing the nasty pills down his throat.

He could hear someone frantically running  across the hallway down the stairs which he assumes is Midoriya going after Bakugou. 

Denki walks out of the washroom and takes slow steps while walking down the stairs in order to avoid eavesdropping on the two boys conversation and also avoid raising suspicion in Midoriya as well.

But unfortunately fate was not on his side this time. 

Bakugou Katsuki catches him coming out from the building as Midoriya's back is turned to Kaminari.

So, Denki had no clue what Midoriya's expression was at the moment.

Seeing Kaminari approaching from the exit of the building. Bakugou clicks his tongue and like an angry pomeranian and starts rubbing at his tear streaked face aggressively. 

Seeing the sudden change in Bakugou's behaviour makes Midoriya turn around to see Kaminari walking up to them and stopping in front of Bakugou and bringing up his fist. 

Bakugou silently fist bumps back Kaminari and Kaminari hands out star shaped colourful candies to Bakugou and whispers so softly that only Midoriya and Bakugou could hear him say, "l need to catch the train back home...Bye". 

Midoriya stares at Kaminari's retreating figure with mixed feelings while Bakugou stares at the star shaped candies in his palm with a soft smile.

...

It was the rush hour, and the whole train was  crowded. Denki had to stand while keeping a hand on the pole in hopes that no one would push him while keeping a distance from the crowded people in the train. 

As his scars were still in slight pain and Denki looked around at the people crowded in his carriage. 

Everyone had places to be at. Be it back to their families, cat or bed or getting drunk at a random pub. 

While Denki had to be at home to attend a tea party organised by Lizzy.

He looks out of the electronic glass windows and smiles at the setting sun and thinks to himself, 'Today was a very fruitful day'. While listening to the music being played in his earphones and starts reminiscing with the lyrics to the song as the setting sun rays fell on his face.

Denki lets his head fall against the warm glass doors while the orange rays of the sun played with the features of his face and he closes his eyes for a while and lets the lyrics of the song sink into his soul, "I' ve known too well about pretending to be strong. But since then, my doubts have vanished. There's definitely things I want to show you. And so many words I want to hear. I want to see all sides of you when you laugh and cry. So I'll stop waiting and seize my "chance". I think of you and I feel like that alone is enough to make my heart grow stronger. I always, always wish that these fleeting thoughts would reach you...."

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Denki reaches home and unlocks the front door and his nostrils are hit with the yummy scent of banana cupcakes wafting in the air from the kitchen and Denki walks into the house and says, "I am home, Liz!". 

Denki turns around to shut the door. He hears Lizzy say, "Here". 

Then, Denki goes to check the living room and upon seeing it empty. Then Denki  goes  to check in the kitchen where the banana cupcakes is being baked inside the oven and sees the kitchen is empty as well. 

Then, Denki walks out of the kitchen and stands at the landing of stairs and says, "Lane?". 

Lizzy immediately replies back from upstairs, "Here Rory". 

Finally Denki gets the sign that Lizzy is in her bedroom and says, "Coming Lane". 

Denki enters Lizzy's room and says, "Hey"  and sits down on the settee and sets his backpack beside him.

And looks at Lizzy with mild interest who was busy checking out her blue gown  in the full length mirror for their tea party. 

She turns towards Denki with sparkles in her eyes and says, "Hey you! So how was your first day?".

Denki replies, "Good".

Lizzy looks at him confusedly, "Only good?". 

Denki replies back to the question with a tired tone, "I will tell you all about it while having tea, sandwiches and pastries and I am very hungry at the moment.

This sets Lizzy on fire. She puts both her hands on her hips and says, "Should have told so earlier not so cool Mr. hotshot".

Denki brings up both his hands in the form of a defeat and says, "Sorry sorry I should not have said that. A lot has happened in one day".

Lizzy stares quietly at Denki and thinks, 'He looks so tired and pale. I should not have spoken to him in that tone' and said, "We are having a tea party in the sun room and be downstairs in five minutes. While I set things up". 

With that Lizzy walks out of her room and Denki sighs and stares up at the ceiling for a while then goes downstairs

...

The tea was heated at the right amount of temperature and the cucumber sandwiches tasted so good after a long exhausting day.

Denki sighs contentedly sipping his tea and stuffing his mouth with strawberry short cake while Lizzy looks keenly at him and asks, "So how was your first day of UA high school and how are the teachers there? I bet all of them are Pro-Heroes".

Denki stops eating and replies, "Yeah all of my classmates are friendly and nice and as for teachers All Might is also a teacher there".

Hearing this Lizzy spits out the tea which she was sipping and stutters, "W-w- WHAT!?. All Might is teaching at UA high!?.

Denki nods at Lizzy's question and goes back to sipping his not so hot tea.

After a pause Lizzy asks Denki, "Did you ask All Might for his autograph?".

To this Denki replies with one word, "Nope".

Lizzy gives Denki a shocked look and says cautiously watching her tone, "So after all this time your favourite pro hero is your mom".

Hearing his mom being mentioned in the conversation, Denki gives Lizzy a soft smile and whispers, "Yes" with sadness reflecting in his eyes.

...

After the tea party, Denki heads upstairs and changes into his blue striped pjs and grabs a children's literature read from his bookshelf and goes to sit in his cozy reading nook couch.

The book which he had picked was called The Curse of the Cheese Pyramid by Geronimo Stilton.

Halfway through the book, Denki could feel his eyelids getting heavy. Soon he is consumed by sleep and his book falls into his lap.

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The next day, Denki took the last minute train bound for UA High as he wanted to avoid getting swarmed by the mass media reporters and his nerves could not deal with overcrowding today.

Denki reaches the UA gates and sees the media vans and cars standing at a distance and the reporters were grumbling and talking to their superiors on the phone while smoking cigars and on the other side some reporters were brewing conspiracies about All Might. This  scene was hilarious for Denki to watch.

Cementos who was stationed near the UA gate beckons Denki to hurry up and reluctantly Denki hurries through the gates into the main building of school.

As usual Aizawa sensei conducts the home room class by firstly saying he has gone through yesterday's footage of their heroic course and scores and scolds Bakugou Katsuki for acting like a seven year old brat. Then Aizawa sensei's wrath moves on too Izuku Midoriya and asks him to get used to adjusting his quirk and he wants to see some sweat out of Midoriya and lastly Aizawa's gaze falls on Kaminari Denki with a flash of concern passing by in Aizawa sensei's eyes. 

Denki eeks and thinks, 'Did Sensei notice his little episode in the recorded footage?'.

But to Denki's utter astonishment, Aizawa sensei praises him for using his quirk efficiently while keeping the surrounding area in mind. And asks others to take some inspiration from him.

At this his classmates applaud him. Then Aizawa sensei brings back his students attention to the main point of the homeroom announcement.

Hearing this everyone dreads what it's going to be.

Aizawa sensei asks them to select both Class president and vice president for their class while pulling on the caterpillar bag and asks his students not to wake him up until it is decided by whatever means they were going to use to decide the position. With that Aizawa sensei goes to sleep.

Hearing this everyone throws their hands up the air and says, "Finally something normal like a normal high school should be".

Then they all start raising their hands in the air and start saying vote for me no for me.

Denki looks around at his classmates excited faces while Jirou Kyouka who sits beside him asks Denki with a surprise tone in her voice, "Are you not going to stand for the class president position Kaminari-san?".

Now the whole class goes quiet and listens to their conversation and Denki after some thought says, "Nah, I don't have the leadership qualities in me so I am not going to stand in for the class president post but if you all want this to be conducted fairly then I guess I have no choice but to participate in the voting process".

At this suggestion Iida Tenya agrees with him.

A few moments later.

Votes are counted with Kaminari Denki getting the highest votes with a total 10 in number and Yaoyorozu Momo with 3 votes.

Denki was not really ready to take up this class president position as the position originally belonged to Iida Tenya and he was adamant to give back that position back to Iida.

Before the lunch bell could ring in the last 15 minutes.

Denki reluctantly declines the position while Yaoyorozu Momo looks at him surprised. 

On the other hand, his classmates try to convince him to take up the position and Iida Tenya says, "I have seen how well with a clear mind you have performed in the heroic course yesterday and you do certainly have the qualities of a leader no doubt". At this his classmates nod along with Iida's statement.

This was getting out of hand now so Denki decides to step up and say, "Yes I know you all have voted for me fair and square but I have to decline this post and I have full faith in you, Iida Tenya as you seem to have those innate qualities already in you".  With that Denki ends his conviction speech and the bell rings at the same time.

Denki quietly and nonchalantly walks out of the classroom while his classmates stare at him silently and then turn towards Aizawa sensei for some advice. Who was listening to everything quietly the whole time  standing in the corner of the room. 

Aizawa Shouta sighs at the sudden outcome of the situation and tiredly says, "It's in your lot hands to decide now, since he has mentioned the candidate's name, who he wants to see as the Class President of this class" and with that Aizawa sensei too walks out of the classroom.

Denki decides to ditch the cafeteria heads to check out UA high's grand library. 

He had heard from Estella that UA has a massive library filled with books from floor to ceiling and the aisle of books were never ending -oh what a delight for a book reader!.

Since Denki was getting good grades. He wanted to keep that rank up now. 

Previously he was not a studious person but now he did not want to disappoint his teachers with a bad grade as they already have such high hopes from him.

Denki walks around the various aisles of books and takes  in the scent of the books that's when his eyes fall on a children's literature book with a beautiful illustration of teddy bears on it and he picks it up from the selves  and finds the comfiest lounge area with hanging lamps from the ceiling and sits down to read the book and puts one airpod in his ear to listen to some music as well while he reads the cutest illustration book on which he laid his eyes on.

He hits "play" on his music app. And it seems like the song list has been shuffled as a random song called Happy Hare by Yaelokre begins to play. 

Denki knew this song was based on a lore but its lyrics sounded  eerily to Denki's ear, "Happy Hare Where Have You Buried Your Children ? Tell Me So I say...She Can't Keep Them All Caged They Will Be Far And Fly Away". 

Reading a children's book and listening to this song felt like an odd combination, when Denki's phone glitched and the song stopped playing.

Denki thinks to himself, 'That's odd why it turned off by itself ..well there must be a glitch in the app'.

Denki turns off his phone and puts it back in his waistcoat that's when the shrilling sound of the security siren goes off.

And commotion could be heard coming from the hallway, with a dreaded feeling Denki gets up and heads out to check what's going on but instead he himself gets pulled in the student's stampede.

In the frantic frenzy, Denki's glasses get knocked out from his face and Denki winces when he hears them getting crushed in the stampede. 

Iida Tenya's voice could be heard among the sea of the crowd of students, asking them to calm down. But soon his voice is lost in the sea of the students. 

In the midst of the push and pull of the students. Denki's eyes spots the black hooded figure standing in the centre of the chaos grinning at him like a cheshire cat.

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Denki's eyes go wide with fear and paranoia starts to sink into his skin. 

Shirgaraki Tomura was standing there among  the sea of students, smiling like Cheshire cat at Denki and mouths at him, "Look at  you looking all pathetic standing here who could not save his own friends from dying one by one". 

Denki starts to hyperventilate and he could hear the blood thrumming in ears. 

Denki wills himself to move his body. But it seems like his body is paralysed by the fear that consumed him. 

He knows he is hallucinating and he wants to scream and shout that he can't breathe properly, his lungs are burning and all he hears is someone from a distant calling his name softly. 

Soon he is shaken from the illusion by none other than Bakugou Katsuki, who stares at him with a furrowed expression of concern and says, "Bell rang five minutes ago and everyone has gone back to their respective classes, Oi say something Sunshine?". 

Denki just stares at Bakugou and opens his mouth to speak but words don't come out and his vision goes black. 

Denki  faints into the caramel smelling hands of Bakugou Katsuki.

...

Denki wakes up in an empty room with  curtains drawn around his bed so he assumes he must be in the infirmary. 

He tries to sit up but is stopped by a cute furry pawn placed on his thigh.

Denki slowly moves his face to the side to see Principal Nezu sitting on the  stool staring at him cutely and saying, "keeping your feelings bottled up is not a good sign. I am here for you and here-". 

Principal Nezu hands a chocolate bar to Denki who takes it bewildered at the kind gesture displayed by the principal and says, "Thank you". 

Denki winces at the sound of hoarseness in his voice and brings his hand to his throat.  

At the very moment, Recovery girl draws up the curtains and says, "Ah you are awake!". 

And hands him a glass of water which Denki accepts the glass gratefully and starts slowly sipping water from the glass. 

While both Nezu and Recovery girl stare at him in silence.

The awkward silence is broken by Principal Nezu who declares that He and Denki are friends now which surprises Denki a lot.

As Principal  Nezu was never the type of person who would become friends with anyone that easily. 

Given the account of his past abuse and discrimination history. He mostly kept it to himself just like Kaminari Denki did. Both of them were quite similar in keeping their feelings repressed.

This sudden declaration of friendship comes as a big surprise to Denki and Nezu also asks  Denki to call him Nez whenever they meet and brings up his paw to do a sign of fist bump which Denki obligingly does return back the first bump.

With that Principal Nezu jumps off  the stool and tells them that he has to head to the office to attend a meeting.

Denki stares at the door through which Principal Nezu left a few minutes ago.

Principal Nezu is so hard to read. 

Soon his attention is brought back to the Recovery girl who asks him how he was feeling now. And also tells him that his friend looked very worried about his health when he had bought him here earlier to the infirmary.

Denki assumes that the said friend who brought him here must be Bakugou Katsuki because he was the one who caught him from hitting his head on the ground when he had fainted. 

Denki gets out of the bed and checks his wristwatch. It is 12:15 pm which means his heroic classes must  have started 10 minutes ago and the time traveler knows that they will be taken to USJ and the league of villains will make their debut there. He can't miss out on this fight. He needed to be there in this crucial fight.

Recovery girl confirms one last time  from Denki. If he was feeling well enough to attend the heroic class otherwise he could lie here in the infirmary for sometime. 

To which Denki declines with a polite smile and says he is feeling perfectly fine.

Recovery girl sighs and sees through his little lie and says, "I have informed Aizawa sensei about your condition as well. Now go away if you are feeling better. I have a lot of things to do". 

She shoo's him away from the infirmary.

With the same polite smile Denki shuts the door and starts running towards his classroom to grab his hero case while biting onto the chocolate bar slab given to him earlier by principal Nezu and letting the sweetness savour in his mouth. 

He had 10 minutes left to change into his hero costume before the bus left for USJ.

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Denki hurriedly gets dressed into his hero costume in the empty locker room and walks towards the waiting bus. 

Denki steps into the bus and nods at Aizawa sensei who was just staring back at him with a tired expression. 

Then Denki starts walking towards the far end of the bus with a neutral face. 

Denki could feel the piercing stares of his classmates burning holes into his back but he avoids them all. He was not feeling chatty at all.

He sits down on the empty seat opposite to Torodoki Shoto who is equally as his classmates staring at him with one eyebrow raised but soon breaks his gaze away from him and looks out of the window.  

Denki still felt drained from his earlier episode and decides to take a power nap before the bus reaches USJ. 

He closes his eyes and lets the darkness consume him and feels the bus engine start. 

Soon the bus rolls out of the school campus towards the USJ.

His classmates go back to their normal conversation and then they move on to the topic of who has the best quirk?, which leads to Bakugou Katsuki getting enraged by a comment made by Sero Hanta on his explosion quirk. 

Then Tsyu Asui speaks up and says, "Even though Torodoki, Bakugou and Midoriya chan have flashy and strong quirks. I fairly like Kaminari Denki's quirk as well. He uses it in a very subtle and indescribable way" . 

At this Midoriya nods his head and Sero Hanta comments in a teasing tone and says, "It's too bad that sleeping beauty is not awake to hear your compliment tsuyu chan~". 

At Sero's remark, the whole class turns to look towards Kaminari who was fast asleep at the back seat of the bus with his head resting on the window of the bus and his yellow hair strands lightly falling on his face and his pink lips parted slightly in his sleep and the sun rays fell on the right angles of his face, making his metallic yellow wing ear cuff glint softly in the soft rays and giving a ethereal doll like appearance to Denki.

Uraraka Ochako immediately and worriedly says, "Guys is it just me or does he look rather pale?". 

Now Ashido Mina squints her eyes to stare at Kaminari and says, "You are right he does look pale and sick if you observe him very closely". 

Kirishima Erijiou agrees with Ashido Mina and says, "He did faint during the lunch break right Bakugou?. 

Bakugou replies back with a Hmm sound. Then Iida Tenya at last mumbles, "He really is a fragile doll with a strong quirk that needs to be protected at all cost". 

Soon they all fall into silence, they don't speak to each other until they arrive at USJ

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Denki is awaken from his pleasant slumber by soft tapping on his shoulder. 

Denki's eyes flutter open and stare groggily at Uraraka Ochako, who looks at him with a soft smile and says, "Kaminari-kun we have arrived at USJ". 

Still feeling sleepy Denki nods his head and follows behind Uraraka Ochako.

Both step down the bus and walk towards the group. 

Denki pinches his cheeks to wake himself up while he stood next to Iida Tenya and the rest of his classmates. 

The air was buzzing with excitement as No. 13 sensei explains to them what they were going to do that day.

Denki suddenly feels a shift in the air and he immediately activates the SOS sensor by lightly touching the wing of the ear cuff and starts snapping his fingers in morse code before the electronic magnetic waves quirk of the villain comes into effect and disrupts the signal.

He could hear  his classmates gasp as they notice villains starting to appear one by one from a strange purplish portal at the central plaza  and Aizawa sensei grunts at the sudden appearance of villains and puts on his goggles over his eyes and asks No. 13 to protect his students and make a emergency call back to UA.

To which Denki calmly replies he has already sent an SOS. Mineta Minrou lets out a wow sound while the rest of friends stare at him with the look of admiration.

Midoriya tries to stop Aizawa sensei by fighting alone as it was not his style- to which Aizawa sensei looks unbothered at the large number of villains and replies back, "A hero always has more than one trick up  their sleeves". Then jumps towards the villains and starts fighting with the villains. 

Midoriya stands marvelling and watching Aizawa sensei's fighting style and muttering to himself while Iida Tenya drags him along with others to the centre of the entrance gate. But they are stopped by Kurogiri.

No. 13 shields both Uraraka Ochako and Ashido Mina who was now nearly in tears and asks, "What is their real purpose is for attacking the children here at USJ". 

Kurogiri blinks his golden eyes  and says in a monotone voice, "They are the league of Villain and their goal is to destroy the symbol of peace but it seems like there have been slight alterations in the schedule".

Seeing an opening both Bakugou Katsuki and Kirishima Erijiou go in for a surprise attack but it does not affect Kurogiri as his mist body goes back to the same shape as before. 

Watching his friends behave recklessly makes Denki mutter, "Idiots". 

Soon his attention is captured by Kurogiri who now says, "My my my since you are the golden eggs of the hero society I need to get rid of you all". He then activates his warp quirk.

No. 13 screams at them to run away and  Denki feels the ground beneath his feet disappear. 

Before he gets warpped away he yells out to Iida Tenya to go to UA and inform the Pro Heroes ASAP! As he did not have any idea when the authorities would arrive even though Denki had sent out an SOS signal .

Iida Tenya looks at Denki with a shocked and terrified face but nods his head.

Denki gives him a reassuring smile and says before disappearing completely, "I trust you class president Iida Tenya".

Denki lets the cold blackness of the warp gate consume him.

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Denki sees the light at the opening of the portal and prepares himself while his wing boots, make a screech sound in the void to reduce his fall speed. 

When the ground below him becomes clear. Denki immediately recognises the Mountain Zone area and clicks on his retractable rod to elongate it in order to soften his landing by doing a flip.

When his feet make contact with the ground, Denki at once goes attacking the villains both left and right who were already waiting there for them to arrive so they could kill him and this friends, that were Yaoyorozu Momo and Jirou Kyouka who as well fallen with him in the same zone.

Denki does not let the villains get  the chance to retaliate. He hits them with the rod on the head, hand, face and even in the dick and binds them all with the helping of the sparkling circular rings with little stars floating around them.

Denki stands around the unconscious pile of villains huffing slightly and he for some reason tastes metallic flavour in his mouth but chooses to ignore it.

He turns his attention to where Yaoyorozu Momo and Jirou Kyouka who both stood there looking bewildered and awe.

Suddenly the strong muscular villain with the electric quirk appears for whom Denki was exactly waiting for.

Denki suddenly asks Yaoyorozu  Momo to create an insulator sheet and cover themselves as he was going to go wild at this electric villain manic.  

To which Yaoyorozu Momo replies, "Hai Kaminari-san".

Denki unwraps the vine whip around his thigh and throws it into the air and lets it glide and wrap  itself around the muscular electric villain manic who laughs hysterically and says, "Watcha gonna do pretty boy?". 

Denki gives the manic villain a dark grin and says, "I just want to have fun playing with you mister crazy villain-san~". 

The Muscular electric villain stutters, "W- what!?". 

But he does not get to complete his sentence as he lets out a terrified scream. He could feel the vines ripping through his skin and the shock that was going through his body was indescribable. Soon the villain lost unconsciousness.

Yaoyorozu Momo and Jirou Kyouka remove the insular sheet from their heads once the villain's screams die down to see the villain lying unconscious and Denki next to him on knees breathing heavily both the girls rush to Denki's side screaming his name.

Denki could feel black spots appearing in his vision and he blinks them away and his lungs hurt so bad that he had difficulty in breathing but he had to go and save Izuku Midoriya and Aizawa sensei. 

Denki tries to stand on his two feet but sways very dangerously but is prevented from falling as Jirou Kyouka places her hand to support his back and says concern clearly ringing in her voice, "Are you ok Kaminari kun?". 

Denki gives a warm smile to Jirou and pushes her hand away once he feels he was not going to fall and says, "I am fine, it's nothing". 

Jirou tries to say, "But-".Is interrupted by Yaoyorozu Momo who says, "These villains are not fully unconscious beside the electric villain they might wake up soon, we need to tie them  with a rope".

Denki smiles and thinks, 'That's my cue'.

He smiles at them and says, "You both tidy up the situation here while I go back to the central plaza to help Aizawa sensei". 

Denki knows that he is not needed here now. Since the girls could handle the situation by themselves as they were equally strong in their quirk usage and he had full faith in them.

He starts running towards the central plaza while hoping that he isn't too late.

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Denki reaches the central plaza and spots Tsuyu Asui and Mineta Minrou carrying Aizawa sensei over their shoulders.

Both stop when they notice Denki  running towards them while they both look at him worriedly.

Denki sighs and thinks to himself, 'Why do all of them have that look of concern, whenever they look at me'.

Denki asks them to lay injured Aizawa sensei on the ramp and then Denki goes on his knees and places his two hands on Aizawa sensei's left under eye and the other one on his bended elbow's skin.

With interest Mineta Minrou asks, "What are you doing with Sensei?". 

Denki does not look at Mineta but instead stares at his hands with concentration and replies back, "I am going to heal Aizawa Sensei". 

Hearing this Mineta Minrou lets out a shriek and yells, "You can't do that! Your quirk isn't suitable for that!. You will just kill sensei. Oh my God! You're just crazy like Midoriya!". 

While Tsuyu Asui clamps Mineta Minrou's  mouth shut and tells him to trust his friends during this type of serious situation. And she too looks with interest at now Denki's glowing orange hue hands.

Denki uses 4% of his quirk with feathered touches to speed up the flow of blood vessels in Aizawa Sensei's body to start the healing process as soon as possible. He could feel Aizawa sensei jolt and groaning in his unconscious state. 

Denki's hair covers his face as he bends down  to whisper in Aizawa's ear softly, "Sir stay strong don't give up yet. We the children of class 1-A need you". To which Aizawa sensei grunts. 

After healing Aizawa Sensei, Denki stands up and dust his knees and tells Tsuyu Asui and Mineta Minrou to take sensei back to the exit of the USJ. 

Tsuyu Asui looks carefully at Kaminari's figure and says, "You look worse for wear". 

Denki rubs the back of his head and says, "Haha do I?".  

Tsuyu Asui nods her head at his question.

Denki sighs tells them both to head back and starts running towards the central plaza to help All Might and Izuku Midoriya against Nomu. While his friends call him back to return but he does not pay heed to them.

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Denki's eyes go wide when he sees the Muscular Nomu about to hit Midoriya. 

While All Might stood there helpless clutching his left side of his bloody ribcage. The same side on which he received a deadly scar from All For One. 

Denki winces at the thought and uses 15% of his quirk energy to snap the Nomu's mind numb for the time being. Making the Nomu go lax . 

While Shigaraki Tomura tries to command Nomu to break the boy into pieces but  receives no response from the artificial intelligence, Nomu. 

Shigaraki Tomura starts stomping his feet on the ground at the same time Kurogiri appears informing him that a kid has escaped and the Pro Heroes would be arriving soon. Hearing that Shigaraki Tomura clicks his teeth as Kurogiri unravels the warp gate. 

Denki had no idea how long his quirk effects were going to last since the Nomu has an absorption quirk and uses his sparkling circular rings with tiny floating stars at the Nomu to bind it at one place. 

At the sudden ambush, Shigaraki Tomura and Midoriya Izuku turn to look at Denki standing there huffing and puffing bended over with one hand placed on his knee looking at them.

Denki straightens himself and starts walking up towards Midoriya who was holding his injured gloved hand towards his chest staring at Denki with amazement. 

Denki stood beside Midoriya with a mischievous look in eyes and cutely smiles and says, "The hero's support character has arrived to defeat the last boss villain's ass". 

Hearing this Shigaraki Tomura's eyes glint and stare piercingly at Denki with interest and says, "So it was you who have paralysed Nomu?".

Denki hum's at Shigaraki Tomura's question and says, "Maybe" and winks at him and is about to snap two sparkling circular rings at him. 

When a series of explosions appeared on Kurogiri and Bakugou Katsuki keeps his hand on the metal plate warning Kurogiri to stay still or else he will be blasting the Villain's shitty ass to space and semi-yelling at Denki, "Oi sunshine! this isn't the time to be chit chatting with the villain".

Denki whispers, "Right".

Suddenly Shigaraki Tomura has a dark expression and menacingly  says, "Nomu go grab that angel and Kurogiri use that warp gate".

Kurogiri compiles at Shigaraki's command and  opens up the portal and Nomu breaks out of the trance-like state and jumps into the portal.

The portal appears underneath Denki's feet. Denki yelps while Midoriya with quick reflexes grabs onto Denki's right hand while Midoriya's injured gloved hand starts crackling with One For All energy. 

Soon the Nomu appears half way through the portal and grabs Denki's right ankle and pulls him in. Denki raises his left wing boot to swing at the Nomu with the wing glinting  dangerously like a knife in the air. 

When all of a sudden a cold breeze blows through the central plaza and suddenly the ground is covered with ice and freezing the half side of the Nomu as well.

Midoriya pushes Denki onto the side and falls on top of Denki but immediately gets up with a bright red face stammering apologies while Denki uses his elbows to push himself up and turns to look at the direction from where the ice attack came and smiles seeing Torodoki Shoto and Kirishima Erijiou too have arrived to help them.

Seeing his students working so hard with passion and determination to protect him. All Might regains his strength and goes Plus Ultra on the Nomu sending it flying through the glass dome and soon the Pro Heroes arrive at the scene along with Iida Tenya. 

Claiming defeat the league of Villain disappears into the portal.

Cementos arrives at the central plaza and asks the boys to go and stand at the exit of USJ, so the medic could heal them.

Denki feels the adrenaline fading away now and feels a series of bursts of pain everywhere in his body.

He grits his teeth and sways side to side while clutching his sides but immediately drops his hands to the sides as his Lichtenberg scars are burning horrendously now. He feels the same metallic taste rising in his mouth and he coughs blood into his palm. 

Then he coughs up blood again, now his whole palm is dripping with blood. While Denki shell shocked stares at his palm and whispered to himself, "Please don't tell me this is another side effect of the quirk usage". With that Denki's world goes black.

Hearing Kaminari's coughing fits, Kirishima Erijiou being a good friend turns around to check up on him, only to scream out his name, "KAMINARI-KUN!".

The scream catches the attention of Bakugou Katsuki, Izuku Midoriya and Torodoki Shoto. The three turn around to witness  Kaminari Denki's body hitting the ground with a thud.

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The strong scent of hospital disinfectant and incessant tapping on the phone wakes Denki up. 

He blinks twice at the white ceiling of the hospital and turns his face to the side to see an IV drip connected to his right arm. Denki pushes himself up to sit up. He hears the phone cluttering on the pristine floor and turns to see Lizzy looking at him in disbelief and say, "You are awake?. No you are awake!".

She immediately presses on the Nurse call button and immediately goes to hug Denki and say, "Oh thank God you are awake. You have been passed out for two days, Aunt Kiko and I were so worried about you. When we received the call from both the hospital and police informing us that your class has been attacked by the villains and you were badly injure-". Suddenly she realises and immediately lets go of Denki from the hug. While Denki looks at her confusedly.

Lizzy starts stammering, "Your your lichtenberg scars? Are you in pain? Did my hug hurt you?". 

Denki smiles at Lizzy's innocence and says, "I am fine. I don't feel anything at the moment, it must be due to the heavy pain medications". 

Then Denki's eyes fall on a bouquet of yellow roses and  black cupcakes box with chocolate and strawberry cupcakes inside it and with an orange sticky note placed on top of the box and a little teddy bear plush with a get well soon card placed in its little paws.

Seeing Denki staring at them . Lizzy informs him that his homeroom teacher Mr. Aizawa and some of his classmates had come to visit him but due to no visitors allowed policy they could not enter the room and handed the bouquet and cupcake box to the nurse and Lizzy also tells him that cupcake box was from the spiky blonde haired boy and the little teddy bear was from the Greenette boy with freckles on his cheeks.

Denki moves his hand to pull the sticky orange note from the box and reads it.

The sticky note read:

            𝙶𝚎𝚝 𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚜𝚘𝚘𝚗 𝙺𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚒 𝙳𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚒                                       S̶u̶n̶s̶h̶i̶n̶e̶! 

Denki smiles at the sticky note and pats the teddy bear on the head with his IV connected hand and covers his eyes and  starts laughing soon his laugh turns hysterical. While Lizzy stares at him with a worried expression and her hand could be seen slowly inching towards the Call Nurse Button.

Soon the nurse enters the room and does some series of checkups on Denki and tells him he is fit to go back to his house.

Lizzy had already booked a cab which was waiting for them at the entrance of the hospital. Both sit in silence. 

Denki grabs his phone from his sweater pocket and turns his phone on.

When his mobile screen lights up, he is shocked by 1000+ message notifications from friends and their class group.

He clicks on his class group messages and reads the latest two messages posted  a few minutes ago about the Sport festival event.

Then Denki gets hit with the realisation that tomorrow is the sport festival event.

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After coming back from the hospital, Denki mostly stayed up in his room but later decided to head downstairs into the kitchen to make some hot chocolate and call it a day, as he needed plenty of energy for tomorrow's sports festival.

He enters the kitchen and opens the fridge to grab the milk carton and places it on the kitchen counter. And opened the drawer beneath the counter for getting out the pot so he could pour the milk into it. 

That's when Denki's body is thrown like a rag doll on the opposite side of the kitchen wall.

Denki's entire body bursts into pain making Denki grit his teeth when a sudden realisation hits him. He knows who this quirk belongs to. 

He tries to move his body but only to find some slight sensation in his left hand then he tries to wiggle his fingers. 

When his bloody Uncle stomps their foot onto his left wrist making Denki scream in agony and then his body goes rigid. 

Denki could only move his eyeballs in his socket and stare at his sadist Uncle. His Uncle's face changes into a creepy smile and says, "Hello there cutie, it's been so long". 

His Uncle's piggy hand moves towards Denki's face. 

Denki could feel the panic setting in and he uses his quirk to get out of his Uncle's blood bending quirk. 

Denki uses all the strength in his body to make his quirk flicker all the lightning bulbs and tube lights in the house as an SOS signal and hopes Lizzy notices it.

Eventually it works Denki could feel his uncle losing his grip on his quirk for a minute as his Uncle's eyes move to the flickering lights. 

Denki takes a deep breath and screams at the top of his lungs, "LIZZY! SISTER MARY! HELP ME!".

Suddenly his Uncle realises what Denki was doing and slaps him on the face. Denki could feel blood on his teeth. His Uncle goes back to slap Denki again. 

Denki closes his eyes for the slap to come. But no slap hits his face. He opens his eyes to look up and see his Uncle's eyes had gone all dreamy and he stood there in a trance like state with a toothy smile.

Denki gets up as he could feel the traces of the blood bending quirk disappearing away and looks at the door to see nurse Mary huffing lightly alongside Lizzy. 

It seems like Nurse Mary has used her lullaby quirk on his Uncle and takes him upstairs to put him to sleep and administrate some meds as well. 

Nurse Mary with a serious look nods at Lizzy as she heads upstairs to check up on the patient.

Lizzy runs to Denki with tears in her brown hazel eyes and hugs him and says, "I am so sorry sorry sorry. I know you won't forgive me. I had forgotten to mention that he would be at home for two days then back to the rehab centre again. Sorry I am sorry, Denki I don't deserve your forgiveness". 

Lizzy literally starts sobbing into Denki's shirt. Denki uses his good right hand to pat Lizzy on her back and says while trying to keep his voice from quivering, "Liz! Calm down I am okay only my left wrist is injured. Other than that he did not do anything to me". 

Denki could not let Lizzy see his other side when he himself was on the verge of getting a panic attack a few minutes back. Denki finally manages to get Lizzy to calm down.

After the little crying session, Lizzy wraps Denki's left swollen wrist in bandage, after applying a good amount of numbing and healing ointment. Lizzy hands him an ibuprofen pill and asks him to go upstairs to relax with the promise of bringing hot chocolate with a nod Denki heads upstairs and sits on his bed. 

As promised Lizzy brings hot chocolate as well as cookies into his room and sits on the study chair. Both sip their hot chocolate and munch on cookies in silence. 

After a few minutes, Denki decides to go to sleep and lies down on his bed and pretends to sleep by snoring loudly, so Lizzy would go back to her own room instead of worrying about Denki.

Seeing Denki asleep Lizzy gets up from the chair and goes out of his room and his door closes with a soft click. 

Denki lies wide awake staring at the glow in the dark stars stickers on the ceiling while the other residents of the house slept peacefully.

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With a sleepless night and getting only two hours of sleep, Denki is woken up by his Aunt Kiko's cheery voice saying, "Wake up and smell the coffee". 

Denki grumbles and trudges out of bed and gets ready for the UA sports festival and to his horror he does not have any single black turtleneck left to hide his lichtenberg scars as all his clothes were in the laundry basket which were in the dire need of washing. 

Grudgingly Denki buttons up his sports uniform collar and uses concealer to hide the little peeking scars and puts on a black cardigan with loose sleeves so that they don't stick to his scars and the sleeves on each side have little bows. Lastly he remembers to bandage his left wrist which was still swollen from yesterday's incident.

After that Denki heads downstairs to have breakfast and while Denki nimbles on his buttered toast, his Aunt Kiko fusses over his weight and asks him to have a fruit cup as well. 

But Denki was already running late so he left the half eaten toast on the plate when his Aunt was not looking and dashed out of the front door.

Denki luckily manages to catch the train. He holds on to the train handle while his wrist throbs in pain and with yesterday's memory still fresh in mind. 

Denki really needed a distraction. He needed to listen to some hardcore music. So he puts on his headphones and hits play on "Say Goodbye" by Micah Ariss and starts vibing along with the lyrics of the song " I'm stuck in this hell I can't decide. To let you stay or to say goodbye. Every night and every day. I take damage from you and pretend it's okay. I don't want to fight but I can't take anymore. Before I break".

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Denki had to go through a security system three times before he was allowed inside the UA campus. He could already see the various food stalls being set up and people heading towards the stadium to take their seats before the match and he also spots some famous Pro Heroes patrolling on the campus like Mt Lady and Kamui Woods etc.

Before going to the waiting room, Denki walks to the sports committee office and fills the form for using support items in the tournament. 

They were allowed only two. So he lists down his retractable rod and his thigh high wing boots. He wanted to use his vine whip too but it was too destructive and he did want to skin any poor soul today so he decides against using  it.

Then getting the confirmation for using his support items. Denki walks to the waiting room and stands outside takes a deep breath and thinks, 'That's odd there is no sound coming from inside. Am I at the wrong door?'. But still twists on the knob and opens  the door to see Torodoki facing Midoriya with a steely expression while his classmates stare at the two in  pin drop silence and intense atmosphere surrounding the two. Denki gulped. 

Denki so badly wanted to close the door and walk out from there. In no time the intense atmosphere changed to a cheery one . When Ashido Mina takes notice of him and exclaims his name, "Kaminari-kun!". 

Now everyone's attention turns towards Denki who immediately places his hands behind his back to avoid the scars and bandage from being noticed by his friends and says with a cute smile, "Are you all excited for the sports tournament?. Well I am". 

Soon his friends circle around him and  start questioning, "Is he okay enough to participate or is he still in pain?". 

Denki replies with a reassuring smile to his friends that he is fine and perfectly well enough to participate. 

His classmates take a sigh of relief. 

Denki catches Bakugou and Midoriya staring at him. Denki makes sure that  the sleeve goes down to his hand is fully covered and raises it slightly and waves cutely at them while he does this, the little bows at the edge of the cardigan sleeve flutter along with his hand moment. 

The whole class thinks, 'He is going to be the death of us all'.

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Soon Class 1-A stepped out onto the freshmen stage ground and was joined by other course students as well. Then, Midnight Sensei calls out Bakugou Katsuki who was chosen to come up on the stage to give a bit of a motivational speech  before  the tournament commences. 

Denki hears other course students whispering about his class and saying,

"Hmph look at their attitude". 

"They just want to show off themselves since they have defeated the villains". 

"They are full of arrogance and ego".

Soon their anger intensifies, when Bakugou Katsuki declares that he is going to be the winner and steps down from the stage while Iida Tenya reprimands him for his behaviour and the rest of Class 1-A sweatdrops at his speech. 

Denki suddenly feels a chill running down his spine as he feels someone is  staring at him. 

He turns around to look at the students. Denki's eyes fall on Shinsou Hitoshi, who was staring at him. 

Denki waves at him cutely but Shinsou immediately turns to look the other way. 

Now Denki feels like he has done something wrong and from the corner of his eye catches Torodoki Shoto staring at him as well.

But soon Denki's attention is diverted back to Midnight sensei who announces the first stage of the race was going to be - THE OBSTACLE COURSE

Soon they were asked to stand at the start gate, which was the  starting line, the passage was so narrow that Denki could feel the paranoia hitting him with all the students crowded around him.

Denki stares ahead among the sea of students, trying to dispel his anxiety and there is a beep sound and Present Mic's voice is  heard over the speakers, "Hey there Listeners! the Sports event has begunnnn". With that students start rushing out of the gate. 

At that moment, Denki feels a cold sting on his nose and cold air flowing beneath his feet and he immediately grins knowing that it was Torodoki Shoto's quirk and luckily he had on his wing boots so he had no fear of slipping. 

He starts skating through the students who were facing difficulty while walking on the ice or he could hear them throw curse words at his classmates. While he skirts through the students.

He passes through Uraraka Ochako and Izuku Midoriya who both stare at him skating gracefully on the icy path. 

Denki also brings down the big robots by zapping at them while humming happily and moving forward on the ice path.

Denki soon enters the obstacle race's second stage called - The Fall, a canyon that must be trekked by walking ropes. He sees Torodoki Shoto who was leading the race had already finished trekking across the fall and now has entered the final stage of the obstacle race.

Denki contemplates on how he can use his quirk to travel across the rope but he was immediately pulled away from his thoughts. When he was immediately grabbed by the pink haired girl Aka Hatsume Mei who dragged him along with her across - The Fall. 

Denki could hear both Izuku Midoriya and Uraraka Ochako screaming his name.

Within a blink of an eye, Denki was standing on the other side of the rope while Hatsume Mei winked at him and said, "See you at the finish line cutie". She uses her support item - the hover boots to speed herself away to the land mine field.

Denki stares at her flabbergasted at the sudden change in the timeline but he does not have the time to think about  it and pushes the thought at the back of his mind and hurries to the Land mine field to catch up with his already leading friends.

Denki propels himself forward over the mine field keeping a careful distance from the scuffling duo which were both Bakugou Katsuki and Torodoki Shoto who were fighting for the first place in front of him. 

Denki could feel the ground shaking and looks up in the sky to Izuku Midoriya flying on the robot shield  across the mine field and uses the robot shield  to hit on the mines in between Bakugou Katsuki and Torodoki Shoto and there is a huge blast of pink smoke and Izuku Midoriya goes propelling forward while running on the ground and not stopping and crosses the finish line followed by Torodoki Shoto and Bakugou Katsuki.

Seeing this stunt by Izuku Midoriya makes Denki grin from ear to ear and he thinks to himself, 'That happens when you let your impulsive thoughts win kids. Izuku Midoriya was really a beacon of inspiration and how he came up with those little tricks and strategies made Denki always feel jealous of him'.

Luckily Denki manages to come fourth place in the obstacle race.

The crowd cheers and becomes more  thunderous as 42 students have advanced to the second event of the race.

Midnight Sensei then announces the second event is The Calvary Battle and explains the rules to the students and tells them to pair up and they are given 15 minutes to do so.

Denki stares at Midoriya as the poor boy was facing some difficulty in forming a team and feels sympathetic for the boy. That's when Denki feels a cold hand being placed on his shoulder. 

Due to his muscle memory, Denki slaps away the hand and turns to see whose hand it was. 

It was none other than Torodoki Shoto staring at him mildly in concern and says, "I want you to join my team. You can be the rider of the team". 

Denki looks confused at Torodoki and tilts his head while saying, "Rider?. Why don't you be the rider and I will be at the rear back?".

Torodoki lowers his gaze and looks down at Denki's body.

Denki  follows Torodoki's line of gaze and realises that he was staring at his bandaged left wrist peeking out from the cardigan and stammers, "I- I am totally fine being at the rear end!". To which Torodoki replies with a raised eyebrow, "Fine".

On the other hand.

Izuku Midoriya manages to form a team with Uraraka Ochako and Tokoyami Fukimage, now he needs another person to join his team. That's when Hatsume Mei decided to join his team and said, "I want to show off my babies to the world and I want to see Emerald's spark in action as well!".

Izuku Midoriya stammers in confusion, "Emerald's spark??".

Izuku notes that Hatsume was staring at someone intently and he too looks in the direction where she was staring and his eyes fall on Kaminari Denki who was speaking happily with Torodoki Shoto, Yaoyorozu Momo and Iida Tenya.

Izuku mutters in disbelief, "Kaminari- kun?". Hearing Kaminari's name being mentioned Hatsume Mei nods her head and says, "He is wearing those boots designed by Emerald. I want to see why Emerald chose him".

Izuku's eyebrows go up into his hairline and he starts stammering, "Wait! Y-you mean the famous EMERALD!?". Seeing Midoriya's reaction, Hatsume hums in response.

Soon the buzzer sound is heard and they have five minutes left to plan their strategy.

Izuku Midoriya tells his team his plan and strategy for catching the number of headbands but he warns his team to watch out for one person and that was Kaminari Denki as he was very unpredictable when he was using his quirk and the very same thing Bakugou Katsuki's mentions too about Kaminari Denki to his team before the Calvary Battle begins.

Both Izuku Midoriya and Bakugou Katsuki stare at a smiling Denki animatedly talking to Iida Tenya and think to themselves, 'I should have asked him to join our team in the first place'.

Denki sneezes and rubs his nose and wonders who is talking about him. 

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Denki sneezes and feels a sudden chill running down his spine and unconsciously rubs his arms around his body to warm himself up. 

Yaoyorozu Momo glances at him and asks him if he was feeling ok?. To which Denki nods while Iida Tenya questions Torodoki Shoto whether he was going to use his left side of his quirk as well.

To which Torodoki Shoto replies back coldly with a steely expression, "No, I will definitely not be using that bastard's quirk". And turns around to look up at the stadium stands facing the public.

Denki knows he is going to hit the sore spot and says in a soft voice, "Blood is thicker than water Torodoki kun, that choice is yours to make but keeping it hidden is just like being a coward". 

Hearing Denki say this Torodoki stumbles in his words.

Soon the buzzer rings and Torodoki's team takes their stance. It seems like everyone has an eye on the 10 million point headband which was Midoriya's team. 

But Midoriya's team with the courtesy of Hatsume Mei's support gadgets - jetpack and hover boots propel themselves in the air and start moving forward in the air over the other teams.

Denki sighs while standing at the rear end and thinks to himself, 'This is going to be a tough battle'. 

Soon his team mates also made a move. They gained points pretty quickly with the help of Iida Tenya's Turbo Engine quirk and Yaoyorozu Momo's quick witted thinking. 

Now the only team left for Denki's team to focus on now is Midoriya's. Slowly they start moving towards Midoriya's team. 

Yaoyorozu Momo turns to look at Torodoki and says, "It seems to me that they are having some problems with the hover boots. Now is our chance to grab the 10 Million point headband Torodoki- san!". 

Torodoki uses his ice quirk to create a boundary around Midoriya's team so that no other teams could interfere between their battle.

Torodoki turns back to look at Denki and says, "It's your turn Kaminari-kun".

Denki nods and closes his eyes, feels the various energies floating around him and he can even sense Torodoki glancing back at him, watching him very closely at what he is going to do. 

Denki opens his watercolor eyes and blinks, his eye pupil contracts and 3 random electric sparkling little fairies appear in random places on Midoriya's team. 

One appears on the Dark Shadow's beak while the other two appear near Midoriya's jetpack and Hatsume Mei's hover boots. 

Both Torodoki and Midoriya observe the little electric sparkling fairies flying in the air with curiosity. 

Midoriya could literally see Denki's golden eyes glowing at the back of his teammates.

Midoriya places his fingers on his mouth and starts muttering to himself, "He is not going for the electrocution. Then what is Kaminari-kun really aiming for?". Then, the sudden realisation dons on Midoriya and he was too late to act.

He saw Denki's blinking his golden eyes and his eyes stopped glowing with that little tiny sparkling fairies zapped Dark Shadow on the beak and malfunctioned both the jetpack and Hoover boots. Before disappearing with a burst of little light.

Midoriya grits his teeth this is going to be a tough battle he thinks to himself, 'Kaminari-kun really inspires me to get a hang on One For All'.

Denki's fingers were literally trembling after using that ability. He knew he would be mentally exhausted as it used up a lot of mental energy and his already injured wrist was throbbing so badly that he needed to lie down and he drowns out the voices of his teammates fighting for the 10 Million point band and he tightly shuts his eyes and prayers for the game to get over, so he can collapse on the ground and he knew the outcome of the match already.

The buzzer sound is heard and the game is over. 

The winning teams are announced. While Denki falls on his butt and huffs lightly, his bangs cover his face and he sees someone bringing their hand towards him to help him stand up.

Awkwardly Denki grabs the hand only to realise that the hand belonged to Torodoki Shoto. 

Denki winces when Torodoki Shoto's hand at lightning speed grabs Denki's bandaged wrist. 

Torodoki's tight grip makes Denki hiss in pain while Torodoki Shoto mutters, "I knew it". And starts dragging Denki towards the exit tunnel.

Denki looks around for his friends to help him escape from Torodoki's clutches but nobody seems to notice him besides Izuku Midoriya and Bakugou Katsuki.

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When they enter the tunnel Torodoki Shoto's hand starts radiating cold energy on his wrist making Denki sigh in content at the soothing touch and he could also feel Torodoki holding his wrist in a gentle hold now.

They both stood in silence with Torodoki Shoto's back turned to Denki.  

Denki could not see Torodoki's face, so he had no idea what his expression was. That's when Torodoki Shoto spots Izuku Midoriya walking towards the exit and stops him and says that he wants to speak to him about his quirk.

Izuku Midoriya gulps with a nervous expression waits for Torodoki Shoto to begin whatever he was going to say. 

The tense atmosphere between these two was killing Denki.

Now Denki seriously did not want to be a part of their conversation. He already made a lot of changes in the timeline and he does not want to be part of this mess as well. 

Denki tries to pull away from Torodoki's semi-hard grip while Izuku Midoriya stares at him sympathetically.

Denki could feel his senses telling him that Bakugou Katsuki is standing just around the corner listening to their conversation. 

Denki wants to escape so badly and his stomach comes to his rescue by grumbling so loudly that Torodoki's grip becomes loose on his wrist and Midoriya looks at him with a look of amusement present on his face.

At that very moment, Denki's face goes beet red and he does one thing - at which he is best in doing that is, he runs away at full speed and he even bumps into Bakugou Katsuki who says, "Hey!". 

But Denki does not stop. Bakugou Katsuki watches his friend with a puzzled expression running towards the cafeteria.

Denki doesn't stop running until he bumps into someone. 

Denki rubs his nose and looks at the person, who he has bumped into and exclaims, "Shinsou-kun it's so great to see you! Are you going to have  lunch?". Denki asks with some hope in his voice. 

Shinsou along with his two general course friends were waiting in line to place the order for their food. 

Denki rubs the back of his head and says, "Can I join you as well?. He tilts his head cutely after he finishes saying his sentence.

Denki moves forward towards Shinsou but is stopped by the two general course students, who both cross their hands over their chests and stare at him with intimidation.

The black haired girl with two pigtails is the first one to speak, "Who are you? And what you want with Shinsou". While the other black haired guy recognises him and says, "Hey aren't you with those heroic course students. You are here to bully Shinsou right aren't you?". 

The black haired guy starts cracking his knuckles and Denki takes a nervous step back, shocked with accused statements thrown at him. 

Seeing his friends ganging up on the cute boy. 

Shinsou steps in front of Denki and tells his friends that Kaminari is cool. He is different from his classmates and asks his friends to leave him alone as he wishes to speak with Denki. With a nodding look both Shinsou's friends leave Denki alone and walk away.

Soon Shinsou and Denki take their lunch order from Mr. Lunch Rush and find some good seats near the big windows and start slurping on their ramen and discussing general things.

Denki intentionally brings up his chopsticks to his lips and says, "I wonder what the next round is going to be?".

Shinsou huffs and says, "What to expect since this is UA it's going to be beyond our wildest imagination".

Denki replies with a soft smile and says, "That's true".

Soon the noon break comes to an end.
Shinsou asks for Denki's phone number before they go back to their respective groups. 

Denki happily gives his number to Shinsou and also gives him a bit of advice.

As the time traveler knew what the next round was going to be and how badly Shinsou Hitoshi was going to lose against Midoriya and how it would affect him.

Denki with a soft smile says, "Whether it is a win or lose take it as an experience and don't mule over it and just keep on moving forward and perfecting yourself... Good Luck for the second round".

Denki walks away from Shinsou, while Shinsou stares at Denki with mixed feelings in his chest.

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With the end of noon day break, the tournament resumes back and Midnight sensei declares that the final event of the sports will be a Tournament Match.

The first match was between Shinsou Hitoshi vs Izuku Midoriya. Denki watched the match along with his friends, sulking and sipping on his strawberry milkshake. 

He could feel a bit of sleepiness hitting him. He just wants to close his eyes or listen to some music for dopamine but Denki could not get up as he will soon be going against Ibara Shiozaki.

The second round of the match between Denki vs Ibara Shiozaki comes and ends within a minute or so before it even starts as Denki binds Ibara with the help of sparkling circular rings. Due to Ibara unable to move Denki is declared the winner of the second round of the first match by Midnight Sensei. 

Later after his match, Denki walks to the locker room to grab his headphones and mobile when he encounters Torodoki Shoto walking down the hallway with raging fury. Seeing the murderous look on Torodoki Shoto's face makes Denki eek like a little mouse. 

Torodoki Shoto spots Denki walking across the hallway towards the locker room and his expression softens when he sees Denki flinch. 

Torodoki Shoto starts approaching towards Denki and says with a neutral face keeping his anger at bay after meeting his father, "First you and now Midoriya, I might consider using my left side. Since I am no coward". 

Denki was dumbfounded at Torodoki's sudden declaration and with that Torodoki starts walking away for his match against Sero Hanta while Denki turns back to look at Torodoki Shoto retreating away and whispers, "Please don't go overboard". 

Denki turns to walk into the locker room to grab his backpack and the door closes with a soft click. Whilst Torodoki turns around to glance at the now closed locker room with inquisitiveness of what Denki meant.

...

While Denki was collecting his headphones from his backpack. The whole building shook with such vibrations that  he had to hold onto the locker door and he knew the reason behind such shaking was none  other than Torodoki Shoto's quirk, who must have frozen half the stadium with his ice pillar including Sero Hanta as well in his rage of fury. 

Denki puts his phone in his sports pant's pocket and walks out of the room. To watch the next match between Uraraka Ochako Vs Bakugou Katsuki.

...

Denki lets out a low whistle, when he sees how Uraraka Ochako utilized her quirk against Bakugou Katsuki and utters, "Nice one Uraraka-san".

Both Midoriya Izuku and Sero Hanta, who were sitting beside him heard it. 

Sero Hanta with a grinning face asks Denki about Midoriya's performance against Shinsou Hitoshi. Hearing his name being mentioned Midoriya stops scribbling in his notebook and listens to Denki's response. 

Denki pauses and then chooses his words very carefully and says, "He still needs to improve". 

Hearing Denki's response Izuku Midoriya's face deflates but Denki does something unexpected which Midoriya never imagined in his wildest dreams. 

Denki boops Midoriya's nose and says his next words, so softly that only Midoriya hears it, "Don't worry you still have room for improvement".  

At this gentle gesture of Denki, Izuku's face goes bright red and he gets up from his seat stammering that he needs to use the restroom and walks away while trying to hide his blushing face from his teasing classmates. 

Denki tilts his head in confusion at Midoriya's abrupt behaviour.

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The battle between Torodoki vs Midoriya was so brute that Kaminari Denki wanted to close his eyes. Midoriya's whole body was battered in bruises and cuts.

Midoriya's fingers were all  broken beside one pinky finger while other fingers were busted during which he  used his quirk as wind pressure to propel Torodoki's ice attacks. 

The way Midoriya Izuku used his quirk was totally unhinged than the future Midoriya Izuku who had perfectly managed the art of using One For All quirk.

Denki holds his breath. He could see a beastly type of madness in Midoriya's dark green eyes. Midoriya looked very unhinged in his movement while fighting Torodoki Shoto's ice spike attacks.

Denki squints his eyes and tries to lip read what Midoriya is saying to Torodoki while clenching his fingers into a fist in the arena.

Denki's eyes widened with horror.  Torodoki is going to use his fire quirk!. The air becomes extremely hot and Torodoki Shoto's left side bursts with huge flames.

The bright red flame looked like an unleashed monster waiting for his master to let it go loose. 

Midoriya did not have the chance of surviving this. Denki could see Midnight Sensei and Cementos sensei using their quirks to lessen the damage between these two vicious raw powers.

Suddenly Denki gets up from his seat  and moves towards the railing and clutches the railing until his knuckles turn white and screams, "Midoriya! Use your pinky finger to rebound Torodoki's attack!".

While Denki was screaming at Midoriya. Both Kirishima Erijiou and Sero Hanta  tried to pull Denki away from the railing now as the air was getting extremely hot. 

Denki screams at the top of his bloody lungs for one more time at Midoriya to listen to him, "Use your quirk to rebound it back to Torodoki! .. MIDORIYA! Dammit IZUKU get away from there!". 

The last thing Denki sees is Midoriya smiling at Torodoki before a huge protective wall comes up as a shield blocking Denki's view. 

Denki mutters under his breath, "You crazy bastard!".

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After the most insanely tough battle, Midoriya gets healed by Recovery Girl.

All Might praises Midoriya in the infirmary at his performance and asks him to watch the rest of the tournament matches with his friends to which Midoriya obliges.

Izuku walks back to the stands to watch the next matches with his friends while he walks through the corridor - one thing keeps replaying in his mind and that was Kaminari Denki's pained voice.

He did not know how to describe it, as Kaminari's voice was mixed with different emotions. If he had to really use one word to describe it sounded painful to Izuku's ears. 

Izuku frowned at the thought because a sad Kaminari did not suit his image and he did not like Kaminari looking hurt. 

Izuku was starting to feel this unknown type of feelings in his chest like he needed to protect Kaminari from the evil people in the world and oddly his quirk was resonating whenever Kaminari was around him like a kind of familiarity which Midoriya needed to speak about to All Might later on.

He goes to the stands and stops next to Uaraka Ochako and stares at Kaminari who was quietly scrolling through his phone with a disinterested face.

Mineta Minrou takes notice of Midoriya throwing little glances at Kaminari and whispers  to Izuku Midoriya, "He has been like that since you have been gone to the infirmary". 

Midoriya can only utter, "Eh?" .

Izuku did not know what he did to Kaminari to make him give the cold shoulder and sits heavily beside Uraraka Ochako and watches the other course students matches. 

After some time, Uraraka, Mineta, Kirishima and Midoriya sweat drop when they see Bakugou Katsuki using a barrage of explosions on poor Dark Shadow in order to bring him out of the bounds soon their attention is diverted to the soft singing voice of Kaminari, "Even Knowing I'll never be a goddess. I live on. The Cruel Angel's Thesis. Will soon take flight through the window with surging, hot pathos. If you betray your memories. Embracing this sky & shining. Young boy, become the legend". 

The whole class now turns around to stare at Denki who was unaware with close eyes and snapping his fingers while bopping his head along with the music playing in his headphones and his classmates think,  'He is really out of this world'. 

Denki was feeling pumped by listening to 'A Cruel Angel Thesis Cover by Rosalia'. The song itself was intense, dark and electrifying and his mood now felt instantaneously better than before.

...

After some time Midnight Sensei announces the top 4 contenders of the final around.

Soon Denki and Bakugou Katsuki are called in for the battle tournament.

Denki gulps he did not make a proper strategy to fight against Bakugou Katsuki as Denki had no idea that he, himself would come this far in the tournament.

Bakugou immediately goes into attack mode. He concentrates his blasts on the ground and creates a dust smoke screen.

Denki bent his elbow to cover his nose from the dust and coughs into the sleeve of his cardigan and thinks to himself, 'He is too fast for some unknown reason. It's as if he wants to end the battle as quickly as possible.Why? His wrists! His wrists must be cramping in pain from using his quirk so many times without stopping'. 

Then, Denki's eyes go wide. When he hears a cool voice behind him say, "Aren't you gonna throw your cardigan away like Kirby did as a decoy?".

Denki curses under his breath, "Shit". 

When did Bakugou Katsuki sneak up behind him?. Without Denki noticing his movement.  

Denki does a back flip to keep some distance between him and Bakugou Katsuki. 

Denki was clearly at a disadvantage now and he could not use his quirk properly at the moment as it was too taxing on his little body and instead used his retractable rod to hit on Bakugou Katsuki but sadly Bakugou caught the rod with his hands and pulled the rod towards him, bringing Denki along with the rod towards Bakugou. 

Denki yelps and tries to pull away by changing the trajectory of his attack but Bakugou beats him to it. By pushing his face on the ground and twisting his left wrist behind his back.

Denki lets out an agonised scream and closes his eyes, as it was his already swollen wrist getting crushed by Bakugou's tight grip. 

Upon hearing Denki's agonised scream, Bakugou's red eyes narrow and move down to Denki's slender wrist and to his utter horror. He sees the swollen wrist as well as the lichtenberg scars running down his elbow to where God knows underneath the cardigan.

Katsuki got a glimpse of those ugly purplish scars when the cardigan sleeve had slightly slid back to Denki's elbow and he thought to himself, 'Damn sunshine. What did you do to yourself!?'. 

But soon he had to move away from Denki. As Denki in agony and pain used star burst electric balls to burst around Bakugou causing him to move away from Denki. 

The air was crackling with static energy now and Denki was at his limit as the last move which he used required a lot of mental energy and his mouth was dripping with blood and his  lichtenberg scars were burning horrendously and he stumbles and lets  the darkness take him away for a while and  blackouts. 

Bakugou Katsuki with shocked expression stood there seeing the medic bots taking away Denki on the stretcher to the infirmary meanwhile Midnight sensei declares him the winner of this match and the crowd cheers as Bakugou Katsuki now advances to the final stage of the tournament. 

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After regaining his consciousness and getting healed by Recovery girl who later scolded Denki lightly for overusing his quirk. 

Denki also came to know that the final round of the tournament has ended between Bakugou Katsuki and Torodoki Shoto.

Denki sat on a stool chewing on some gummy bears given to him by Recovery girl. 

While she had stepped out of the infirmary to inform Midnight sensei. When the two boys (Bakugou Katsuki and Torodoki Shoto) would regain consciousness and how many minutes would it take for the award ceremony to commence.

Denki pops the last gummy bear into his mouth which was green apple flavour. His favourite one. 

Denki chews on it, slowly savouring the flavour and hums to himself as he starts to feel much better now. 

From the corner of his eye, Denki notices Bakugou stirring and Denki stares at Bakugou's unconscious form lying on the bed and a flash of mischievous idea comes to his mind and he grins slowly getting up and walks towards Bakugou's cot.

Denki stands by the side of his bed and waits for Bakugou to wake up.

Bakugou Katsuki's eyes flutter open and he stares at the white ceiling confusedly and then turns his face towards Denki, who now brings his face a little close to Bakugou's face and says while grinning, "Good Morning Pineapple!. Looking good and very niceeee~".

Soon Bakugou's expression turns from confused to anger and he starts throwing profanities in gibberish while trying to grab Denki.

Due to his fast agility, Denki moves out of Bakugou's arm reach and sees Bakugou ever changing expressions. Denki starts laughing while clutching his stomach .

At the sound of laughter, Torodoki too woke up from his cot staring at Denki with a soft expression and Bakugou too had a soft smile on his face but that moment was short lived.

The infirmary door opens and Recovery hirl walks inside followed by All Might and Midnight sensei and some of the class 1-A students.

All Might walks directly up to Denki and pats him on the shoulder and gives Denki his signature smile and says, "Well done Kaminari shounen you have ranked third in the sports festival".

Denki's eyes go wide with shock and he starts smiling cutely and goes to high five Midoriya on both hands who reluctantly returns it.

Then All Might turns towards Bakugou and speaks in his loud booming voice, "I see our champion is awake".

At this Bakugou grits his teeth and says aggressively, "All Might senseiiii I'm not going to accept that shitty medal". And let out small mini explosions while ending his sentence.

Hearing this everyone sweat drops in the room except torodoki and thinks, 'What a vicious child he is'.

Now it was Torodoki's turn to add fuel to the fire by saying with a deadpan expression, "But you will have to accept it".

Now Bakugou jumps out from the bed with his mini explosions turning slightly bigger now, like an angry chihuahua, Bakugou says, "What part of NO don't you understand icyhot uhhhh".

Torodoki aggravates the situation by saying, " You said you were going to win and you won the tournament".

Now Bakugou replies back with venom laced in his voice, "Damn you icyhot it was not a fair battle". 

Torodoki stares back for a while and replies, "Was it not fair fight?".

Bakugou was about to leap at Torodoki now but All Might luckily caught Bakugou by the cuff of his shirt's collar. 

Bakugou grits his teeth and turns to look towards Denki, "Oi Kaminari!". 

Denki eeps hearing his name and waits for Bakugou to speak it seemed like Bakugou was debating what his next words should be and says very slowly and calmly, "I want you to zap that icyhot, it seems he has gotten frostbite on his brain".

Hearing this Denki could only utter one word, "Eh".

Soon the awarding ceremony rolls in, All Mights hugs both Denki and Fumikage Tokoyami and praises them. Then next he goes on to praise Shoto Torodoki as well saying he never had seen him use his quirk with such raw power. Then lastly, All Might places the champion with the golden medal around his neck while Bakugou Katsuki rages at All Might by telling, it was not a fair victory and he is not a champion but All Might rebukes him and says he is a champion still to the audiences but begrudgingly makes Bakugou Katsuki wear the medal around his neck and turns towards the mass media for pictures to be clicked.

Bakugou Katsuki silently stares at a medal in his palm and glances at Denki, who was happily smiling and talking to Tokoyami and has a flashback of what Kaminari told him before the awarding ceremony. 

Kaminari Denki's words were clearly ringing in his head. 'Bakugou kun this is a sport event you can't expect everyone to equally have a strong quirk as you're under such circumstances you just have to accept it, Carpe Diem Bakugou kun'. Soon they are called on to the stage for the awarding ceremony. And the flashback ends. 

With Bakugou Katsuki coming back to reality. He steps down from the podium with his golden medal around his neck glinting in the sun rays and mutters under his breath, "Easy for you to say".

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After the sports festival, they got a two day holiday. 

Denki utilised his two days by doing his laundry and made sure that all his black turtleneck tops were washed this time and caught up with Estella at the local cafe who fondly listened to Denki's sports festival event narration. 

Later that night, he and Lizzy caught up with the latest episodes of Detective Conan. 

Two days went by like a bliss for Denki.

...

The next day it was pouring outside. Denki walks to the metro station and waits for the metro to arrive while holding his hot chocolate tumbler for warmth and comfort. 

Soon the metro arrives and he steps inside the metro bound for UA high.

As soon as Denki entered his carriage, he was bombarded with high school girls asking for his phone number as they had recognised Denki from the UA sports festival event.

Denki hesitantly declines against giving his number to them and moves away from there to the next carriage. And comes across Bakugou Katsuki who was leaning on the electronic doors with a faraway look in his ruby red eyes. 

Denki did not know how to describe this new found Bakugou's expression. One word that was coming to Denki's mind was that he looked kind of soft when he was calm and quiet. 

Denki sighs and starts moving towards Bakugou Katsuki and stands opposite to him, mirroring his body movement and says, "Hey!". 

Bakugou grunts to Denki's greetings.

Denki frowns and remembers that Bakugou never liked the raining weather and then Denki's eyes moved to the warm tumbler in his hands. 

Denki brings the tumbler forward towards Bakugou. Bakugou stares at the tumbler held by Denki's slender fingers and gives him a quizzical look by raising his one eyebrow. 

Denki gives Bakugou a big smile and says, "It's hot chocolate. It might cheer you up. I have not taken a sip from it yet". 

Bakugou carefully takes the tumbler from Denki's hand and takes a few sips from the tumbler and utters, "It's good". 

Both stand in silence staring at the passing by scenery.

Soon the metro reaches the station. Both the boys step down from the carriage and start walking the hilly slope. 

It had stopped raining though the sky was dark and cloudy. Both the boys continued walking in silence until Denki got splashed accidentally by a moving vehicle and Bakugou Katsuki started spewing all types of profanities at the poor trembling driver, who was mumbling apologies continuously non-stop. 

Denki puts his hands up and asks Bakugou Katsuki to calm down but instead Bakugou starts gritting his teeth at Denki like an angry pomeranian stomping his feet and starts walking away slouchingily towards UA gates while Denki runs behind  Bakugou telling him to wait up for him. 

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Both the boys enter their classroom and Bakugou goes and takes his  respective seat with a look of irritation and slightly glowering more at Deku.

Denki spots Iida Tenya sitting motionless in his seat. He knows what happened to his older brother but decides not to confront it with Iida right now.

Denki walks to take his respective assigned seat when he sits down on the chair. His desk becomes crowded around by his friends - Ashido Mina, Kirishima Erijiou, Mashirao Ojiro, Hakugure Toru huddle around him and ask him, if he too was recognised by the public outside of UA. Since Denki  had come third place in the sports tournament. 

At this Denki avoids staring at their faces and rubs the back of his head and says softly, "Nah I did not". 

Hearing Denki's response to his friends, Bakugou Katsuki scoffs and puts his face in his palm and listens to their conversation. 

At this Ashido Mina exclaims,  "How can anyone not recognise you doll-chan!?". 

While Rikado Satou nods along with Ashido Mina and says, "Yeah. You performed so well in the sports event that everyone had their eyes glued to you". 

Kirishima Erijiou nods his head up and down with excitement and says while punching the air, "Yeah. You were very manly!". 

Now Denki does not know how to respond to his friends on going questions and he starts thinking to himself, 'Were they always so overly energetic?'.

But is broken away from his thoughts by a onset of sneezes. Everyone in the classroom stops talking and looks at Denki. 

Denki rubs his nose. 

Tsuyu Asui was the first one to speak, "Denki-chan your waistcoat looks drenched by water". 

Now Jirou Kyouka too walks up to Denki and touches his waistcoat fabric and feeling the wetness of the fabric between her fingers, nods at Tsuyu Asui. 

Looking at the scene in front of him, Bakugou Katsuki scoffs and says with disdain, "Should have kept an eye out while walking around your surroundings".  

Now everyone stares at Bakugou Katsuki and says with exclamation of surprise, "You both walked to school together!".  

Now Bakugou Katsuki gets ticked off and uses his quirk at Midoriya's desk while Midoriya eeps and shrinks back in his seat. On seeing his childhood friend's antics  

Bakugou glares at everyone staring at him and opens his mouth and yells, "Why are you so interested in knowing.. you damn nerd!. Yes. We both come from the same train not that I have an intention of coming to school with damn extr- sunshine!". 

Suddenly the classroom goes quite shocked at Bakugou Katsuki's words but soon the attention is diverted back to Denki. As he sneezed again and now his nose had turned pink. 

Tsuyu Asui with a worried face says, "I think you should go to Recovery girl, Denki-chan". 

Denki was about to protest when he felt someone draping a jacket on his shoulders and turned around to see that it was Torodoki Shoto. 

Torodoki shoto with a neutral expression says, "You can keep it on with you". With that Torodoki walks away and takes his respective seat . 

Denki could feel the heat lingering in Torodoki's jacket. Denki puts on the jacket and gets a whiff of vanilla cinnamon from Torodoki's jacket.

It was a nice pleasant smell which made Denki feel calm before a storm brewing ahead of him.

Ashido Mina squeals in the background. Denki looks back at Torodoki Shoto with kindness and gratitude. 

While Tsuyu Asui says to Uraraka Ochako, "Torodoki-kun sure has changed a lot since the sports event". 

To which Uraraka Ochako smiles and replies, "Yes".

Soon the bell rings and everyone goes back to their respective seats and Aizawa sensei enters the classroom and announces that today they are going to pick their Pro Hero Names.

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As soon as Aizawa sensei announces that today, they are going to be picking out the student's Pro Hero Names.

Hearing this the whole class faces light up in joy and a roar of discussions erupts among them.

But Aizawa sensei silences them and implies with a stern tone and looks at each one of his students with a serious look and says, that picking the hero's name is a very crucial thing and the chosen name is going to be stuck with you forever, if not chosen properly and he also tells them that they will be assisted by  Midnight sensei, who will help them in picking the proper hero name.

Ending his speech Aizawa sensei pulls on his yellow sleeping bag and goes to sleep in the corner of the classroom.

Midnight sensei saunters into the class after 15 minutes and hands out little white boards to the students to write down their hero names.

Halfway into the picking hero names for themselves, the majority of the class have picked wonderful and unique.

Beside Bakugou Katsuki, Iida Tenya, Midoriya Izuku and Kaminari Denki, who have yet to come up with a hero name.

Midnight sensei waits patiently for the boys to pick their names and is happy when Midoriya Izuku finally walks to the podium and shows his classmates his decided hero name written on the white board for his classmates to see.

Denki looks sideways at Bakugou Katsuki, who now was scribbling very angrily on the little white board after hearing Midoriya's hero name.

After Midoriya returns back to his seat. Denki gets up and walks towards the podium and puts his white board in front of the whole class to read his hero name.

His classmates let out a gasp while
Midnight sensei snaps her fingers and says she quite likes the name and it really suits him.

On the white White Board it was written.

His friends pronounce his hero name on the tip of their tongue and soon like how the name sounded.

Now with pressure building up, Bakugou Katsuki comes up with another pro hero name but is sadly again rejected by Midnight Sensei. After the hero name selecting is done.

Aizawa sensei then hands out Hero Agency Internship forms and asks them to fill it out before the end of the day and leaves the classroom.

Everyone starts discussing which hero agency they want to do their internship at while Denki strums his fingers on the table and stares with a frown at the first name he wrote on the paper and sighs.

Denki sees a hand grabbing his internship paper and turns around and says, "Hey!".

It was Sero hanta who had the form in his hands and said, "Tsk tsk.. It's very rude of you doll-chan to ignore someone, who called your name thrice".

Denki makes a huh sound with a questioning face while Ashido Mina brings her hands to her chest and nods along with Sero Hanta.

Sero Hanta then goes to say, "Let's see what got your attention so fixated on-".

When Sero Hanta sees the name written in the form his eyes bulge out and he starts trembling and his face goes pale.

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The whole class stares at Sero Hanta with mixed expressions at his reaction to the form which he held in his trembling hands while Denki tries to grab the form but fails as the form was kept away from his arm's reach. 

Upon seeing no response from the pale Sero Hanta.

Kirishima Erijiou grabs the form and utters, "Not manly at all" and hands it over to Denki. Only for it to be grabbed by Rikido Satou, who very loudly exclaims with utter horror in his voice, "You want want wanttt to do internship at  Endeavor Agency!?". 

This catches the whole class's attention.

Denki immediately snatched the form away from Rikido Satou's hand with a light pink blush already creeping up on his cheeks. 

In that moment, Torodoki Shoto gently grabs the form again from Denki's grasp and checks it with his own monochrome eyes.

Torodoki Shoto needed to confirm what he heard was true. When Torodoki Shoto sees the name is the first choice of Denki's internship mentioned very clearly written in a beautiful cursive handwriting.

Torodoki Shoto's  hetrochromia eyes go wide and he asks,  Denki with  a neutral face while trying to keep his voice steady, "Are you sure about your choice?". 

Denki shrugs and rubs the back of his neck and speaks so softly that the whole class has to strain their ears to listen, "I want to learn how deathly can lighting be when it merges with fire. No no i phrased it wrong. I want to see how these two powers can be used to prevent a natural disaster". 

When Denki finishes speaking his point . His classmates let out a shock gasp  and think to themselves, 'He thinks so far ahead.. He is totally out of our league at this point'.

Midoriya Izuku is the first one to speak up with sparkles in his eyes and enthusiasm in his voice says, "Your right Kaminari-kun joining Endeavor Agency would be quite useful for you in understanding how your quirk can be used in those circumstances". 

'Thats my quirk analysis buddy. God how I missed this'.

Denki gives a soft smile at a now mumbling Midoriya lost in his own world of quirk analysis.

Hearing Midoriya's enthusiastic voice Bakugou Katsuki scoffs and says, "Already pulling the carpet from beneath our feet eh sunshine but I will not let you surpass me that easily". 

Seeing the murderous aura surrounding Bakugou Katsuki. Denki lets out a eep sound and goes to  hide behind Kirishima Erijiou while Torodoki Shoto ruffles Denki's hair and asks him not to erase the agency's name. As he will ask his old man to take him in for the internship along with Torodoki himself and walk away with a small soft smile forming at the corners of his mouth.

The  whole Class 1-A is shocked to see Torodoki Shoto smiling for the first time and Mineta Minrou pokes Denki in the ribcage and teases him by saying how lucky he is.

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The next day finally comes, where they go off to do internships at their selected Pro Hero Agencies. 

Torodoki Shoto somehow managed to convince Endeavor to allow Denki to do internship at his agency. 

All the students of class 1-A  now had gathered  around Aizawa sensei on the train platform. As he gives them some important instructions before they go off to their respective internship location. 

Aizawa sensei once again emphasizes his words and reminds his students to be mindful of their manners during their internship work and not to lose their hero costumes. 

To which the students nod at Aizawa sensei's words. Slowly everyone starts walking away to their respective trains. 

Denki stops at a distance and stares at Midoriya Izuku and Uraraka Ochako, who both ask Iida Tenya, if he was okay? and if he was going through anything that they are not aware of and they are here to listen to him. That's what friends are for. Denki could hear the concern clearly ringing in Midoriya's voice as he spoke with Iida Tenya and Uraraka Ochako just kept nodding her head at Midoriya's words. Iida Tenya slightly smiles which looks fake to Denki from his observation. 

Denki could hear Iida Tenya saying to his worried friends, "Thank you for the concern but I am really fine". And walks away from them while Izuku Midoriya and Uraraka Ochako stare at him worriedly.

Denki catches Iida Tenya walking away with a scowl on his face.

Soon Denki is brought back from his observation, when Torodoki Shoto taps him on the shoulder to inform him that their train has arrived on the platform 9. 

Happily Denki starts walking with Torodoki, while holding tightly on to his hero case for reassurance. 

Denki thinks to himself, 'I have somehow managed to get an internship at Endeavor's Agency and the location itself is ideal as well. When the artificial intelligence Nomu creatures attack's Hosu I can immediately go and save both Midoriya Izuku and Iida Tenya from Stain'.

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The First Day of internship

Denki is given the duty of a call dispatcher, one of the most boring jobs by Endeavor much to Torodoki Shoto's dismay.

And heck he had received orders from some sub-supervisor called Hiroki, a sad quirkless man, who seemed to enjoy bossing people around. 

On the first day, Denki did not receive any calls for help, since the heroes here at this agency did 24x7 patrolling and Denki could not even leave his seat to stretch. 

As Mr. Hiroki says, "Nooo noo no! you have to sit there in that small cubicle for 7 hours and do your job. You can't just simply waltz here into this prestigious Endeavour Agency. Trainee you have to work your ass off, if you want to do an internship here".

It seems like Denki was already disliked by Mr. Hiroki before he even stepped into the agency.

Grapevine communication can be really scary sometimes, when the whole building knew that only Torodoki Shoto was going to do an internship here. While the supposed rumor spread at this agency like wild fire was that Denki had bribed Endeavour to let him join his agency to do internship along with his son. 

Hearing this from Mr. Hiroki and seeing him currently throwing glaring daggers through the glass window. Denki gives him a nervous smile and pretends to type something on the computer's keyboard, when in reality he has nothing to do.

Just like that the first day of Denki's internship comes to an end.

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The Second Day of internship.

The second day was quite ok for Denki. He was not as bored as the first day as an old lady had accidentally dialed the helpline number thinking she was calling an old friend. 

Denki had a pleasant time having a conversation with her and to his astonishment and she had a quirk, where she can communicate with cats and she had like 15 cats at her home. 

Soon dinner time came. Denki went to the cafeteria to check what was being served but he did not feel that hungry, since he did not do much which required any movement. 

He spots a vanilla ice cream sandwich among the buffet display options and grabs it and sees everyone occupied on tables with their friends and chatting happily with them. 

Making Denki feel a bit  left out and  lonely as he did not have anyone to hang around with or have a conversation with during his free time.

During his working hours, Mr. Hiroki kept a hawk eye on Denki, watching all Denki's movement and waiting for the opportunity to strike and berate Denki. 

Denki sighs at his sudden feeling of loneliness. He really missed having a conversation with Lizzy during dinner time. 

Denki manages to find a cozy seating area outside the cafeteria with a beautiful night view of the skyscraper and tall buildings and a downview of the moving  traffic and he could also see the train crossing the bridge. 

The view was quite serene to Denki. 

Denki grabs a lounge chair and sits down and brings out his phone to check if he has received any messages from his friends.

Sadly he received none. 

He could not blame them as they all wanted to pursue their goal in getting better in the internship and sighs and tries to open the packaging of the vanilla ice cream sandwich, when someone places a tray of cold soba in front of him. 

Denki looked up to see Torodoki Shoto standing there. He looked handsome as usual in his hero costume. 

Torodoki Shoto's eyes move to the ice cream sandwich in Denki's hands and he quickly grabs it from Denki's slender fingers. 

This sudden behaviour  from Torodoki Shoto shocks Denki making him say, "Hey!".  

Denki tries to reach for the sandwich but Torodoki moves it away from his arm's reach and says, "How about you have some soba. Then, I might consider giving you the ice cream sandwich back". 

Denki can only stare at Torodoki Shoto as if he had grown two heads. 

Now it's Shoto turn to sigh and say, "Don't think I haven't noticed that you are skipping your meals and even birds eat better than that". 

Denki was about to protest at  Torodoki's comment. 

But stops when Torodoki Shoto narrows his eyes and says one word, "Eat".

Denki immediately sits down and grabs the soba tray towards him and with the help of the chopsticks, starts chewing on the noodles. 

With a satisfied smile, Torodoki Shoto sits down and places his chin on his palm, while he watches and Denki eats the cold soba noodles.

After some time, Torodoki Shoto stops beating round the bush and asks Denki how he is finding the internship so far. 

Denki immediately jumps with joy and tells him how an old lady had called the helpline number accidentally and says that if she had not called he would have been bored to death. 

Denki realises that he should not have said the last part and covers his mouth with his hand and looks with horror about what he did and sees Torodoki Shoto's face change into a dark expression. 

Torodoki Shoto gets up immediately from his seat. Before handing Denki back his ice cream sandwich, which was surprisingly cold and leaves the lounge area.

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The third day of the internship.

On the third day, Denki exasperatedly says, "Screw everything!". 

To no-one in particular as the cubicle was empty that day and Mr. Hiroki was busy in some meetings and not there to supervise Denki, so he was left to his own devices.

Seeing the opportunity, Denki pulls out his Plan Book from his bag and starts to roughly plan out his strategy against The Hero Killer Stain, as he knew today was the day, Iida Tenya was going on a hunt and spots Stain about to finish  Pro Hero Native and jumps into the fight with the aim of revenge and tries to kill Stain. And starts to devise a plan to prevent Iida Tenya from going down the dark path of villainy.

Some time passes and Denki sighs as he sees the incomplete outline of his ingenious strategic plan and it  makes Denki in annoyance grab a handful of  his hair strands and he ruffles his hair so badly that his hair stood in all wild directions.  

While he tries to come up with some fight moves to take down Stain and pens them down his Plan Book rather impatiently in ineligible  handwriting. 

There was a  sound of a sharp rapt knocks on his cubicle window.  

With annoyance on his face, Denki looks up to see Torodoki Shoto standing there staring with curiosity in his eyes at what he was doing.

Denki blinks and immediately closes the book and pushes it underneath the manual books and rubs the back of his head and gets up with giddiness and opens the glass door of the cubicle.

Denki smiles sheepishly and asks Torodoki Shoto if he needs anything from him?. 

Torodoki Shoto gives Denki a soft smile and  asks him to change him into his hero costume.

Denki tilts his head in confusion at Torodoki Shoto's words because he did not anticipate this sudden change of heart from Mr. Hiroki.

Torodoki smiles at the cute expression of Denki and says he had asked his old man to let Denki come along for the hero patrolling. 

Hearing this Denki hurries to the changing room and puts on his hero costume and checks, if he had all the weapons with him to take down Stain peacefully and starts grinning to himself mentally.

      The cat and mouse game was on.

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The sun was setting into the distance. Soon dusk would arrive. Denki looks up at the orange sky turning slowly inky black.

Denki was assigned to Team Two which consisted of sidekicks  while Torodoki Shoto's mood turns sour as he was in Team One with Endeavor instead of being with Kaminari. 

Torodoki Shoto grits his teeth in anger  as he helplessly watches Kaminari walking away with Team Two.

...

It was a cold night, Denki was glad he had on his red hooded cape. He keeps his senses alert for the Nomu rampage sound.

Suddenly there was a blast in the nearby area and  people were running from a restaurant, it looked like a winged Nomu crashed into it and flew away from the burning restaurant. 

Denki runs towards the restaurant street and sees Hosu was burning and there was chaos everywhere on the streets.

On top of that the jukebox starts playing from the inside of the burning restaurant where the fire was consuming it's walls hungrily.

The wind was blowing hauntingly now, while the sky was glowing orange with the burning fire and smoke which could be seen rising from five different locations in Hosu. 

Suddenly Denki is pulled away from the scene by his elbow.

Denki tries to resist the pull by the side sidekick hero named Gluttony.

Denki could hear the jukebox playing music, surprisingly the music sounded hauntingly beautiful to Denki's ears which echoed in the distance.

🎶Tell me. Tell me of your consolation Tell me I am lost in the gray. Tell me that your final home is not a... A shot in the dark. Tell me that your hopes and dreams don't end in the heart Of a graveyard🎶

Denki grits his teeth and uses his quirk to zap at Gluttony and walks away from his chubby hold.

The wind silently starts fluttering with his cape's bow tails as some kind of omen.

Denki closes his eyes and lets his quirk float around him and soon he is surrounded by sparkling static yellow crackling energy. 

He uses his wing boots to jump into the air and maneuver them in the direction of Stain and Iida Tenya.

Meanwhile, Torodoki Shoto among the chaos spots something flying in the dark night sky. 

At first he thinks it to be a shooting star. Then he sees the bow tails and a flash of yellow sparkles and realisation hits him, 'DENKI!'. 

That's when Torodoki Shoto's phone pings with Izuku Midoriya's live location on Class 1-A group chat.

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"Shit shit shit SHIT!." 

Denki curses at himself as he was already running 10 minutes late to the battle and knows by now that Midoriya  must have reached the alley and must be fighting Stain head on head.

Denki propel his body to move faster he needs to reach them. 

He spots Midoriya slouched up against the wall with his face scrunched up in pain and Stain moving towards Iida Tenya and raising his sharpened sword at Iida Tenya, who was paralyzed by his blood curdle quirk. 

Iida Tenya stares with fright while bleeding profusely from the wounds sustained by Stain and Pro Hero Native lies there unconscious near him.

Denki unwraps the vine whip from his thigh in mid air and slashes it in the air and it miraculously hits Stain on the cheek and the current from the vine makes Stain let go of his sword with a hiss of pain and makes him look up to see Denki standing on top of the streetlight with glowing golden eyes and with the full moon shining brightly behind him, giving Denki an eerie glow and his red hooded cape gave him the effect of Red Death.

Stain with madness in his eyes laughs and says, "I did not expect the red riding hood to come to take my soul". 

Denki retorts back, "Well someone has to come to  take your soul away eventually. Since your ideals are so twisted that even the angel of death is sick with the horrendous crimes which you have committed up till now".

Midoriya and Iida Tenya look up at  Denki standing on top of the streetlight and yell, "Asterope!". 

...

Iida Tenya and Midoriya stare at Denki for the fear of his life as how fast he is dodging Stain's sword swings from left to right while hitting Stain back equally with the vine whip on his body occassionally making him slow in his attack movement. 

Unfortunately Denki stumbles in his steps making Stain grab one of his bow tails and tug at it and throws a dagger across Denki's cheek. 

Which grazes Denki's right cheek  slightly. 

Denki's eyes go wide with horror as his back of the head hits the ground. Now he is pinned under Stain's weight, who was now bringing up his tongue to lick Denki's right cheek in order to paralyse him.

Denki tries to wiggle himself at the same time and starts hyperventilating.

Denki hated these types of blood quirks as it reminded him of his uncle and he felt like his plan misfired back at him.

He blinks away the tears from his eyes when he notices a huge flame coming towards his direction.

Seeing the incoming flames, Stain dodges away from Denki while Midoriya Izuku let's out a sigh of relief to see Torodoki Shoto standing in the alleway with both his quirks activated looking murderously at Stain and says, "Midoriya I knew you were never the type of person, who would  leave a hurried message in the group chat. It took me some time to understand your message-". 

Abruptly Torodoki's eyes moved towards Denki, who was lying  flat on his back staring right back at him with a tear-streaked face. 

Torodoki Shoto scowls at this and stomps his feet on the ground creating an ice path, which slides his friends back  towards  him. While Stain stares at them with vengeance burning behind his eyelids.

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Stain's quirk was sickeningly strong, Denki starts planning his next attack moves in his mind, while Iida Tenya starts lamenting on how he behaved like a villain in this kind of situation and how that was not totally acceptable.

Stain throws multiple daggers at Torodoki who deflects it gracefully with his ice pillars and Midoriya wills his body to move and jumps into the air and drags Stain away from Torodoki by using full cowl but instead gets hit in the face and becomes immobilized on the opposite side facing his teammates. 

While Stain draws another Kanata from his sheath and runs towards Torodoki with fury present in his eyes. 

Then there at that moment an idea clicks in Denki's mind and he goes behind Torodoki's back so that Stain could not read his body movement.

Denki's red hooded bow tails dance with him, as he goes back behind Torodoki Shoto and whispers into his ear, "Cover me and keep aiming that fire at this range and angle". 

Torodoki grunts while keeping intense concentration to keep his flames under control and beats of sweat could be seen forming on his temple now from the extreme use of both his quirks.

Denki starts focusing on creating an electric shield around him, so Stain kanata does not touch him and jumps over Torodoki. 

Torodoki's eyes go wide as he had no clue what Kaminari was planning to do. 

He could only watch the electric energy sparkling and dancing around Denki, giving him an ethereal glow. 

Denki leaps over Stain and raises his left thigh wing boot and positions the wing that glistens dangerously in the street light as it makes a screech sound as if the wind is howling in agony. 

Seeing Denki's unpredictable move Stain brings out his other best blade from the sheath and licks it and says in a lustful tone, "I will soon have so much fun...cutting you up.. little red riding hood".

Midoriya behind Stain watches bewildered at what Denki was doing.

He could feel Stain's quirk effect leaving his body. As he watches with a petrified face at the scene unraveling in front of his eyes.

Denki's iris were literally glowing golden along with the static energy surrounding his body and the red hooded cape bow tails were dancing eerily in the cold wind then Izuku got it. 

Kaminari was acting as a decoy. 

Izuku gets up and moves his injured ankle and finds a proper step on the ground and activates One For All : Full Cowl throughout his entire body. 

Midoriya's eyes began glowing bright green with One For All energy crackling around him.

Izuku locks his eyes with Kaminari. Denki who nods back to Midoriya and screams his name, "Deku now!". And leaps over Midoriya landing on the ground softly and starts coughing little amount of blood into his palm while Midoriya immediately charges forward and sees Kaminari coughing up blood and grits his teeth in anger and raises his arm to punch Stain with 100% of his quirk and Stain gets punches from both sides one from Midoriya and other one is from Iida Tenya, who to flew into the air after asking Torodoki Shoto to freeze his engine mufflers.

From the impact of the punches Stain becomes unconscious and his body falls into the pile of trash cans.

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'Oi oi oi don't tell me Izuku Midoriya  just went feral, while punching Stain on the face'. Just thinking about it makes chills run down Denki's spine.

'Geez the going berserk mode was happening too soon!'.

I wonder what triggered that in him?.

Anyways Denki sees Stain being tied up by both Pro Hero Native and Torodoki Shoto, which makes Denki grin from ear to ear. 

Denki thinks to himself, 'I did it I saved them from grievous injuries'.

Then he is brought back from his thoughts by Midoriya's soft voice, "Are you okay?".

Denki turns around immediately and sees Midoriya staring at Denki's bloody lips which have already dried up from coughing up blood earlier. Denki was about to reply to Midoriya when he himself was hit by a wave of dizziness. 

Denki thinks to himself, 'Shit I need to do something about this quirk overuse'. 

Midoriya screams his name catching the attention of Torodoki Shoto, Iida Tenya and Pro Hero Native. 

Now Izuku Midoriya holds onto Denki's arm to keep him steady on his feet  and everyone looks extremely worried at the pale fragile boy. With concerns written all over their faces with no filter present.

Denki catches his breath  while trying to stand upright and mutters, "Thanks Deku". 

Seeing Kaminari's conditions Iida Tenya starts berating himself to his friends with tears falling from his eyes. Denki loses it now and starts walking towards Iida Tenya.

Right now he felt his whole body stinging with pain. Denki clenches his teeth and slaps Iida Tenya hard on his cheek. 

Iida Tenya stops his wild rambling and stares with wide eyes at Denki who looked at Iida Tenya with a furious expression, while others were shocked at the sudden action which was so unexpected coming from the sweet boy. 

Denki with anger in his eyes says to Iida Tenya, "Do you have any idea of the consequences of what you did! You are a Pro Hero in training! Not a villain goddamnit think before acting rashly and for god sake! I voted you as the class president because of how saintly you follow the rules and all!".

Hearing this Iida Tenya's eyes well up with more fresh tears.

Now Denki is feeling out of breath and falls on his knees and starts coughing violently at the same time spitting blood into his palm. 

Torodoki Shoto too kneels with one leg on the ground and pats his back, watching Denki sympathetically with a worrying gaze. He wanted to do something to take away the pain from the suffering boy.

At the moment, Gran Torino arrives at the scene and sees the damage has already been done on the scene and kicks Izuku Midoriya in the face with his boots and tells him that he told him to stay put and not to engage in a fight but still praises him for handling the situation without causing harm to any civilians.

This little praise makes Izuku gloat.

Soon Endeavor team two of sidekick heroes arrive at the scene and tie up Stain with more ropes and praise the kids for being brave and how well they fought against Stain fearlessly and head on.

Iida Tenya speaks up and says he does not deserve their praises while the sidekicks look at him with confusion.

While Denki watches the whole scene in pain. Denki could feel the pain radiating everywhere in his body, which was too much pain for his body to handle at the moment as his pain tolerance level at present was zero.

Denki shuts his eyes tightly and leans into Torodoki's cold side, while Torodoki keeps one strong arm around his waist to keep him steady and upright.

Suddenly there is a screech sound and flapping of wings and Gran Torino yelling at them to do something like duck themselves on the ground?

At that moment of panic among the heroes, Denki felt his feet lifting up away from the ground.

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Denki could hear his name and Midoriya's name being screamed by his friends down below him.

Denki opens his eyes wearily  and groans  at the erratic speed at which the Winged Nomu was flying at. 

Hitting Denki with another wave of dizziness and from the corner of his eye.

Denki sees Midoriya desparately activating One For All quirk. But suddenly Denki notices a blur figure moving towards them at a deathly speed and hitting the Winged Nomu with the dagger in the brain. 

Denki could feel the creature's claws losing its grip on his cape and he falls.

Midoriya screams Denki's name and grabs his fragile body and puts himself underneath Denki, so his fragile body does not get impacted from the ground below them. 

Torodoki Shoto with his quick thinking uses his ice quirk to cover the ground in order make the impact less hurtful for both of them.

Denki could feel Stain's malefic aura and his preaching yadda yadda about hero society being pretenders yadda yadda how he will purge them all.  

Denki looked tiredly at Stain's hysterical speech and thought to himself 'This guy seriously belongs in the psychiatric ward as well as Shigaraki Tomura. Both of them are a nut case'.

Feeling too tired to think, Denki places his head on Midoriya's shoulder and blinks and feels his eyelids closing with sleepiness. The last thing he remembers is Midoriya's hands circling around him protectively. He sighs in his sleep. 

The Siren's of the ambulance could be heard echoing in the distance.

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Denki's eyes flutter open and he groans in pain and quickly shuts his eyes tightly because of the blinding overhead lights of the hospital room made the room look extremely bright and white.

Sleepy Denki turns his head and blinks to the side to see his Greenette freckled friend speaking softly on the phone looking all clean and dressed up in a UA uniform beside the white bandage covering his knuckles and hands. 

From the soft tones of his friend's hushed voice. Denki assumes Midoriya is speaking to Uraraka Ochako on the other line.

Izuku ends the call after whispering bye to Uraraka Ochako and says that he has to go back to Gran Torino for his internship as he is all well enough now to continue with his internship duties.

Izuku ends the call and walks towards Denki's bed to see the still healing injured fragile boy was semi awake now.

Denki blinks and looks at Midoriya approaching him and tries to smile but fails miserably as his ribcage is shooting an odd upward pain, when he tries to move his body into a sitting position, so instead he chooses to lay still on the bed.

Izuku furrows his brows at Denki's pained expression and stands beside his cot and asks him, "How was he feeling?". 

Denki just nods his head tiredly. 

Midoriya looks ultra worried now at Denki's sluggish behaviour.

Denki sighs mentally and says, "M kay. Just very sleepy". 

Denki feels his eyelids becoming heavy and closes his sleepy eyes and feels Midoriya gently ruffling his hair and a quick kiss being placed on his forehead. 

Denki does not open his eyes until Midoriya walks out of the room into the hallway before his footsteps disappear down the hall and could be heard no more.

Denki opens his eyes and pulls his blanket over up to his head to hide his face from the nurse as a lovely shade of pink blush crept up his already rosy cheeks. 

'Damnit Izuku! Now I have mixed feelings for you'.

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During his hospital stay, Denki was everyday visited by either Torodoki Shoto or Iida Tenya during their internship breaks to keep him company which Denki really appreciated. 

Meanwhile Izuku Midoriya sent him a sorry message as he could not visit Denki because of Gran Torino's hero agency being located a good distance away from the hospital. 

With the forehead kiss memory being still fresh in his mind. Denki had sent a smiley emoji to Midoriya's apology message and hit the turn off power button of his phone and screamed into his hospital bed pillow. Luckily he was in a private room.

During the last day of the internship, Denki got discharged from the hospital after the doctor confirmed his vitals were ok and the next day was back to school for Denki.

Next Day

Denki stood among the crowd for the train, waiting for the train to arrive at the platform. 

It seemed like all the trains were running late. Denki sighs and thinks back to how this whole week has been so stressful for him, since the day he started an internship to his encounter with Stain. 

Denki felt someone staring at him.

Denki looks up from his phone to stare at the other side of the platform, only to catch two pairs of beautiful turquoise eyes  staring right back at him into his soul. 

Denki feels his body freezing from the intense stare.

The face of the said person was covered by a black hoodie and a black mask, only the eyes were visible and  Denki could also see the metal ear cuff glistening in the station's neon lights. 

Denki squints his eyes at the mysterious figure and to his horror to realise who it was.

'Touya Torodoki!'.

Denki moves his hand to cover his mouth and blinks his eyes, willing the image in front of him to disappear. 

Denki did not have any idea, if he was seeing a real person or an illusion.

Or that his mind was playing tricks with him. 

Since the Hosu's incident, Denki started seeing mysterious shadow figures  looming around Izuku Midoriya but kept quiet about it. 

Denki did not know what type of Looney tunes shit the doctors have prescribed with his depression meds. 

Now his world was spiraling out of control. He needed to do something. 

Suddenly a shadow creature pulls Denki into a hug, while the metro swooshes past him. 

Denki starts hyperventilating as he could see the hooded figure AKA Dabi on the other side of the platform disappearing with the walking crowd while the dark creature who turned out to be a Dark Shadow pats him on the head and looks at him concernedly and croons his name softly.

Denki feels his heartbeat quicken and he starts breathing heavily and tries to control his breathing. When he feels something cold touching his cheek. 

Denki looks to the side to meet the red eyes of Fukimage Tokoyami who looked at him with a worried expression and a bottle of cold water was pressed against his cheek. 

Denki grabs the cold water bottle from Tokoyami's hands and unscrews the cap of the bottle and takes a few sip of water from it. While Tokoyami looks at him with the same expression he had earlier on and says,

"You have a dark cloud over your head". 

To this Denki gives a nervous laugh and says, "Do I?". 

Tokoyami nods his head and says his next words very carefully while keeping a keen eye on Kaminari's facial expressions and body language, "I am here for you. If  anything is bothering you can tell me and that's what friends are for right?". 

Denki replies quietly with sad eyes, "Yes".

Both the boys board the train bound for UA high.

And just like that, till reaching UA high. Dark Shadow held onto Denki in a hug form and let Denki go only when they had safely entered the UA campus. 

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Denki's class was being boisterously loud with bubbling energy and they spoke among each other with excitement about their internship.

Upon entering the class Denki winces at the loudness of his classmates and takes his seat to lie down his head on the desk for a while.

He could feel the gazes of his friends  burning holes in his back. He could not deal with anyone today. He just did not have the energy for it.

Denki glances at Midoriya's desk and sees it to be surrounded  by the hyperactive Ashido Mina, Uraraka Ochako, Kirishima Erijiou, Mineta Minrou and Sero Hanta. 

Then Ashido Mina moves away from Midoriya's desk and walks around Kaminari's desk  and says, "How cool you guys took down the baddest villain".

At the same time, Mineta Minrou  pipes up and says, "Ohh I feel the shimmes just talking about it! MIDORIYAAA!!! how can you take in all the action while we all had to work diligently here". 

He keeps on pounding his little fist on Midoriya's desk with tears streaming down his face.

Izuku Midoriya gives a nervous look at Mineta Minrou's actions and glances at Denki, who looked tired and pale but kept nodding his head with a fake smile on his face to whatever Ashido Mina was happily yapping about.

It seemed like Izuku Midoriya could look past Denki's careful facade. Midoriya furrows his brows and thinks, 'He always puts other people's interest before his own first. He never cares about his own safety'.

Midoriya was about to get up only to  be startled away from his thoughts. When he hears Iida Tenya loudly reprimanding Sero Hanta, who had thought that Stain looked cool even though he was a Villain in the recent video which was circulating over the web and everyone present in the classroom had heard it and they themselves had mixed views about Stain's incident. 

But some students regardless still praised Iida Tenya, Izuku Midoriya and Torodoki Shoto for taking down Stain fearlessly. 

They all looked up to these three with awe while Bakugou Katsuki clicked his teeth in annoyance for the umpteenth time.

Soon, the class goes back to their own usual chattering among their friend groups.

While Izuku Midoriya, Torodoki Shoto and Iida Tenya's thoughts on the Stain incident were-

"This all praise goes to Denki kun he was the one who kept Stain occupied until the authorities arrived at the scene".

"Endeavor should not get all the praise only my little sunshine deserves that praise".

"Kaminari-kun is so heroic in his heroic path. I must learn from him".

Denki could not take it anymore. His head was pounding very badly now he needed to go to Recovery girl's office and he immediately gets up from his chair. And turns around to come face to face with Midoriya's beautiful emerald green eyes.

Midoriya looked surprised at Denki, as he had gotten up very abruptly from his seat and was about to speak.

When Denki suddenly said, "Shush Midoriya-kun do you hear that?. 

Midoriya replies back with confusion in his voice, "Eh I don't hear anything?".

Midoriya tilts his head and looks at Denki with curiosity and wonderment. 

Denki pauses for some dramatic effect and then says the words very slowly, "The council is deciding your fate".

Midoriya stammers with wide eyes and says, "Eh!? What fate?". 

Denki makes a  hmm sound at Midoriya's reaction and says with a mischief flashing in his eyes, "The council says that you need a hug!". 

Denki suddenly wraps his hands around Midoriya, who goes rigid at his touch and thinks, 'Ah all my feelings are going wild. I can't keep calm when Kaminari-kun does something out of the blue I hope I don't activate One For All accidentally'. 

Ashido Mina squeals and joins their hug while saying, "No fair! I too need Huggies from you doll chan!".

Very soon the hug is joined by Uraraka Ochako, Iida Tenya and even the cold hearted Torodoki Shoto and even Tokoyami and his sentient Dark Shadow joins them. Slowly everyone joins the group eventually it becomes a big group hug. 

They all suddenly become aware that they are missing out Bakugou Katsuki in their group hug. 

While Bakugou Katsuki stands a few feet away from his friends and says with a frown and annoyance, "Hell Nah".

Denki looks at Bakugou Katsuki with puppy eyes and says, "Kacchan don't be a wet blanket~" . 

Denki sticks his tongue out at Bakugou and Midoriya's soul leaves his body while the rest of the classmates fear for Kaminari's life and safety now.

An angry tick mark appears on Bakugou Katsuki's forehead and his hands crackle with mini explosions and then after some time contemplating, Bakugou says viciously with a smile on his face, "You little contiguous sunshine!".

He begins walking towards his classmates and joins the hugging group.

Aizawa Shouta watches his class students huddled in a group hug with a fond smile. 

He did not want to break their happy moment but sadly the homeroom period had already begun and he slides the door open.

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The first day back to classes after the internship kept everyone's confidence level high but with Aizawa Sensei's announcement of the upcoming end of term exam and an exercise exam sends every single student of class 1-A into a frenzy except our time traveler.

Ashido Mina exclaims loudly after Aizawa sensei leaves the classroom, "Aw man I did not even touch my books because of so many events". 

Kirishima nods along with her while Rikido Sato too joins their conversation and says, "They had so many things to do one after the other that he too did not get much of his studying done". 

Sero Hanta with tearful face says, "Dude I don't wanna fail both the exams!". 

Iida Tenya approaches the group with chopping hand movement and tells them to not be discouraged before even starting their studies and Midoriya Izuku and Torodoki Shoto too come up to the group. 

Midoriya Izuku tries to encourage his classmates to work hard so that they all could go to the forest lodge camp. 

But soon Torodoki Shoto lets their spirit down by interjecting with a stiff expression, "If you already knew about it you should have studied". 

Causing his classmates to jump up in anger and say, "That's so mean of you Torodoki".

While Mineta Minrou watches his friends and smugly says with a smirk, "Fufufu at least I am not at the bottom ranking of the class~". 

The whole class gasps at Mineta not believing their ears or what they heard just now it was shocking to be true.

Then Mineta adds more fuel to the fire by saying, "Oh did not  Kaminari-kun come second in the mid terms?". 

Hearing this everyone starts gathering  around the Kaminari's desk. 

While Denki was engrossed in reading Agatha Christie's book called "The Death on Nile". Not taking notice of his friends gathering around his desk a single bit as he was getting to the good part of the book.

His concentration is soon broken away from his book, when a pair of two pink hands slam down on his desk and his book yanked away from his hands. 

Denki looks up to see his friend's sullen faces and says while sighing, "As Iida kun already said it's not too late to start now". 

While others let out a displeased cry by saying, "Not you too Kaminari-kun!". 

At the same Iida Tenya clutches at his heart and with joy as Kaminari agrees with what he said earlier.

Now Momo Yaoyorozu comes to their friends rescue and says that she is delighted to teach them but she is not confident about the exercise test. Hearing this Sero Hanta, Rikido Sato, Mashirao Ojiro and Ashido Mina cheer with joy while Kirishima Erijiou looks at Bakugou Katsuki and says with sparkles in his eyes, "Yaoyorozu sure is a virtuous person". 

Hearing this Bakugou makes a gruff sound  and says with irritation present in his voice, "I can be a virtuous person too". 

Kirishima Erijiou sweatdrops at Bakugou Katsuki's words and says, "I don't have any problem with you tutoring me but I need help in English too- Ah Kaminari-kun! Can you please tutor me in English pretty please". 

Denki's eyes go wide with surprise and he lets out a eh sound. 

Kirishima Erijiou puts his hands together as a form of request. Midoriya Izuku and Torodoki Shoto too ask Denki to help them as well in that subject. 

Now Denki was feeling overwhelmed by the situation and Tsuyu Asui comes up with a solution and says why don't the half of the class be split into two groups with whom they want to study. At the  end it. After a lot of discussing it was decided. 

The class 1-A formed two study groups. 

The first study group consisted of  Bakugou Katsuki, Midoriya Izuku, Torodoki Shoto, Iida Tenya, Kirishima Erijiou, Uraraka Ochako and Asui Tsuyu, who were going to be tutored by Kaminari Denki while rest who were left were to be tutored by Yayaoruzu Momo.

After finalizing everything and deciding the date and time of their study session.

Kaminari's study group decided to meet up at La Vie en rose Cafe for the study session on Sunday around noon time. 

The lunch bell rings. They all head to the cafeteria to have their lunch with ease in their hearts as they had finally found a solution to their problem. 

Denki wanted to eat something like comfort soul food so he ordered mac and cheese pasta. 

Mr. Luch Rush hands Denki his tray of hot piping Mac and cheese pasta along with two chocolate chip cookies which  Denki did not order.

Denki raised his one eyebrow in confusion and while Mr. Lunch Rush winks at him and says, "I just finished baking them fresh out of the oven". 

Denki grabs his tray and moves away from the queue of hungry students waiting to place their order and walks around the food court to find an empty seat and notices Asui Tsuyu waving at him to join the Dekusquad's table. 

Denki spots Monoma Neito saying something sarcastically to Izuku  Midoriya by reading his lips.

Monoma Neita catches Denki staring at him with a scowl on his face.

Denki for some reason did not like Monoma Neito at the beginning of the school year but Denki forced a smile towards Monoma Neito.

Monoma Neito gulps when he sees Kaminari approaching the Dekusquad table and does not want to get involved with the boy. Whenever he glanced  at the pretty boy during the lunch period, Monoma would always feel butterflies fluttering in his stomach. 

Monoma Neito hurriedly walks away with Itsuka kendo, who looks at him with apparent confusion and asks him, "What is wrong with you all of a sudden? A few minutes ago you were all high and mighty?". 

While they were walking back towards their own table surrounded by their friends. Soon the conversation was forgotten between the two friends and shifted to Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu's ranting about a new comic issue.

Denki sets his tray down and sits in between Iida Tenya and Torodoki Shoto and munches on the freshly baked gooey chocolate chip cookies and drones out the excited voices of his friends who were discussing about the fake cheat information regarding the exercise test. 

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Denki was minding is own business  while walking down the hallway after the foundational class and spots All Might just around the corner looking fixedly at Class 1-A door.

Denki sighs and moves with quiet steps without All Might noticing his presence. And stands behind him and peeks at what he was looking at so intensely. 

Denki smiles at how readable All Might is. 

All Might was watching his pupil Izuku Midoriya talking with Uraraka Ochako and Iida Tenya about his quirk improvement.

Both  Izuku Midoriya's  friends listened to his rambling with great interest and awe on their faces.

Seeing the trio talking happily about the foundation class, unknown to them that their talks were being listened to by All Might.

Denki makes a fake cough sound  and All Might makes a eek sound and turns round quickly to face Kaminari.

Denki gives All Might an unimpressed look by raising his one eyebrow while All Might stammers and says, "K-kaminari Shounen you literally scared the daylights out of me .. haha not that I get so scared easily". 

Denki smiles at All Might and says with a cheerful tone, "You should tell him. You have that look on your face~". 

All Might looks taken aback by the boy's sharp sentence and asked with suspicion rising in his tone, "Have that look on your face ? Just what are you referring to Kaminari Shounen haha?. 

Denki replies, "You are here for Midoriya-kun right? You were wondering how to approach him just now-".

Denki pauses in his sentence because he knew the trio had stopped talking when they heard All Might's shriek.

Denki could feel Midoriya approaching around the corner of the wall and soon as he noticed Midoriya coming into view. 

Denki says cheerfully, "Since you and Midoriya-kun have super similar quirks! You wanted to give him advice on how to improve it". 

Hearing this Midoriya stops with whatever he was going to say and looks hesitantly at All Might going stiff at Denki's words. 

All Might sweat drops at the boy's quick intelligence and begins doubting if the boy possessed a second quirk like Nezu's and says without his signature smile, "Yes". 

While Izuku Midoriya looks confused at Denki's interaction with All Might. In Izuku Midoriya's eyes they both seemed to get along eerily well.

Denki looks at Midoriya and gives him a bright smile then turns to look at All Might and says with a mischievous grin, "See ya Mr. Stalker-san". 

All Might's eyes go wide with horror and he tries to correct the little  misunderstanding by doing the weird hand movements and says, "Shit shit shi- (he bites his tongue accidentally*) No no I am not a Stalker Kaminari Shounen! I merely came to inform young Midoriya about the exercise test". 

Denki nonchalantly does not bother listening to All Might's justification and brushes past Izuku Midoriya who stared at the boy humming a cheerful tone and entering the classroom now.

The master and student stood there in silence for sometime staring at the classroom door through which Denki entered with mixed opinions.

For the first time in his career the well loved All Might, who was practically worshipped by fans all over the world was dissed by a student.

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After their foundational class, they were all dismissed. Izuku Midoriya returned to the class room after a few minutes with a nervous look. 

Bakugou Katsuki with much hostility and irritation grabs Midoriya Izuku by the collar and says with much so much venom present in his voice that he is going to beat Deku fair and square in this exercise test and tells deku to make sure to remember he is above him in everything while he will always be a DEKU in whatever he does...period. 

The whole class sweat drops, when they all heard Bakugou speak in such a vicious way.

At the moment, Tokoyami tells Kirishima Erijiou who was closest to him that Bakugou's enmity is getting better of him.

Ignoring the commotion happening around him in the classroom. Denki puts on his backpack and stops to see the door only to be blocked by the quarrelling duo and walks to stand near the duo and whispers so softly that only Midoriya and Bakugou could hear him speak. 

Denki with an impassive face says, "You both need counselling and Bakugou-kun, be careful you are showing some villainy attributes. Someone might even mistake you for one". 

Midoriya lets out a surprise gasp at Denki's bold words while Bakugou with furious rage grabs Denki's shoulder to make Denki face him in the eye and says, "Why you sunshine! just who do you think you are-!". 

Iida Tenya jumps in between them to save Kaminari from getting harmed by Bakugou Katsuki and says, "Bakugou Katsuki violence is prohibited in the classroom". 

Iida Tenya had developed a soft corner for Denki and he did want to see him get hurt again since the Stain's incident . 

Then something unexpected happens, Bakugou Katsuki immediately removes his hand from Denki's shoulder as if he got burned from fire and looks with a terrified expression at Denki, whose usual honey coloured eyes were glowing golden and takes a step back. 

The whole class 1-A watches quietly at the scene and wondering what pissed off their little sunshine to make him look at Bakugou Katsuki with so much anger and Denki after calming his raging heart, says while trying to keep his anger under control in such a calm and deadly manner which would make even All For One shiver in fear, "Bakugou-kun let bygones be bygones". 

The whole class seems to freeze at Denki's words. He said what others were so afraid to tell Bakugou Katsuki the absolute truth.

Denki does wait for anyone to speak at what he said out loudly. He did not want to hear their opinions about it and turns around and starts walking out of his classroom door without even turning around to say goodbye to his friends.

Denki was fuming with rage.

Denki's phone starts to ping with messages but he chooses to ignore it. 

He was not in the mood to deal with his friends so called tantrums since he had time traveled back everything felt taxing on his little body. For the matter of fact his body could not handle overusing its quirk in such large amounts.

Denki sighs he wanted to reach home and curl up underneath his cozy blanket and just sleep and not think about tomorrow.

After some time, the train station comes into view and Denki could feel his spirits rising at the thought of getting a good power nap once he reaches home.

But that happiness does not last long as Denki's arm is grabbed by someone and he gets forcibly pulled into a dingy alley.

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Denki tries to tug his wrist from the mysterious stranger's grasp. 

Soon, the mysterious stranger removes the hoodie from their face and turns to face Denki.

The colour drains from Denki's face, when Dabi's face comes into focus in the darkness in the unlit alley.

Dabi grins his cannie teeth poking from the corners of his mouth and says in a playful tone, "Hello there Kitten~".

Denki's face expression changes into fear and he tries to tug his wrist from Dabi's hold. 

No no no the LoV were not even supposed to know about his existence yet, for crying out loud! Why does this always happen to him only!. He needed to get away from here. 

Denki tries to use his senses to check if there are other villains around the vicinity hidden to ambush him. But felt no presence in the nearby area.

Fudge! he was all alone in this scary alley with Dabi, whose deadly quirk could burn him into ashes at any moment, if he makes a mistake in his actions.

Dabi looks at Denki with amusement and twinkles in his eyes and says, "Whoa whoa easy there kitten~".  

Denki now knows that the person, who he saw at the train station in the early morning was in fact, Touya Torodoki aka Dabi.  Mind you, he was not hallucinating and he was perfectly sane. 

Denki grits his teeth and snaps in anger, "I ain't no kitten!!". 

Denki tries to tug his wrist aggressively out of Dabi's hold but this action only makes Dabi, the crazy bastard to tighten his grip around his wrist with no intention of letting it go.

Dabi now stared at Denki with a dark look. His beautiful turquoise eyes stared into Denki's eyes, as if searching for the darkest secrets that he held in his soul.

Denki begins to feel entranced by those beautiful eyes. 

Denki was not gonna lie but all of Endeavor's children were outwardly beautiful. 

Slowly Denki starts to feel his skin sizzle now.

Denki blinks and soon becomes horror stricken and uses his quirk to slash at Dabi. 

The electric slash hits Dabi on the shoulder making Dabi lose his grip on Denki while he groans in pain. 

Denki puts some distance between him and Dabi and turns around the corner and starts running and does not turn to look back to check if he was being chased. 

Denki kept on running even though his lungs were burning for air, he did not stop.

Denki manages to reach the crowded section of the street only to bump into a sturdy body of someone.

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Denki bumps into the sturdy body of someone with a 'oof' sound. 

Denki could hear flapping of wings and two firm hands being placed on his shoulders to keep him steady which prevented him from falling backward on his head. 

Denki blinks open his eyes and looks up to the person who saved him from falling and let's  out an air of gasp it was the third most popular Pro Hero : Hawks!.

Hawks stares at Denki with amusement and pats his shoulder and brings his face up close to Denki's liking, making Denki take a nervous step back as Hawks looks at him up and down.

Finally Hawks asks Denki with a humming sound, "Ohya aren't you a UA student?. What is a good student like you doing in this shady part of the area?".  

Denki makes up an excuse immediately on his feet by saying, "Um I was looking for a stray calico cat, it's this chubby and quite cute.  I feed it food every day here in the nearby area.." Denki trails away from his words and makes a disappointed face by lowering his head so that some of his hair strands would fall on his face giving him an innocent look and he whispers, "I wonder what happened to the poor thing?".

Hawks raised an unamused eyebrow at Denki's reply.

Denki's mind goes 'Shit he did not buy it now he thinks I am a suspicious person'. 

Denki is soon broken away by his thoughts, when he feels Hawks hand lightly ruffling his hair.

Hawks tells him in his usual laid back tone, "It's alright little cupcake. I get it but it's not safe to be roaming these streets with the setting sun soon".

Hawks adamantly walks Denki to his apartment building and after being satisfied, when Denki enters his apartment door, only then he flies away from the street from where he had stood keeping an eagle eye on Denki as he twisted the keys of his apartment door.

Denki sighs and goes up to his room and looks out the window to see the number three Pro Hero flying away in the clear night sky. 

After some time, Denki pads over to his door and closes the door and slides down against the door and covers his face with both his hands and says to no one in particular, "Shit shit shit, this was not supposed to happen". 

He was not supposed to meet Hawks so early. Now Hawks will keep a suspicious eye on him and on top of that he knows where Denki lived. 

Denki thinks for a while on what he can do. He felt like this encounter was set up by someone but who? then at last he says, "Fudge it".

He will just go with the flow from now on. 

Denki gets up from the floor and wraps his semi burned wrist with cold cream and bandage. And hopes to heavens that it does not leave a scar and goes to bed as he had a study group session to attend with his friends at a local cafe tomorrow. 

Despite facing so many strange things in just one day. 

Sleep came very easily to the time traveler.

                     The Next Day

Denki jerked awake from his nightmare.

The nightmare, It felt so real and he remembered everything in his dream so vividly.

There was a hooded figure in his dream. It had slashed his neck and he was bleeding profusely and there was blood everywhere. 

The dream felt like some kind of foreshadowing to Denki. 

Denki shivers just thinking about the morning nightmare as they were bound to come true. 

But for some odd reason, Denki noticed he was not shivering from the nightmare but his whole room seemed to be freezing cold and temperature seem to have dropped.

Denki's eyes slowly wander around his room and falls on the window. The window panes were open and the curtains were fluttering gently in the cold breeze.

Denki had no recollection of his leaving his window open last night.

With nervousness building up in his gut, Denki gets up from his bed and winces when his feet touch the cold hard floor causing a shooting upright pain through his Lichtenberg scars.

Denki pauses and takes small steps towards the open windows and closes the pane and looks around his room for any sign of anything being touched or moved.

Everything was exactly as he left it.This was very odd. Who could have entered his room yesterday when he had gone to sleep.

Denki feels a set of eyes watching and him.

Denki immediately looked out of his window and his breath hitches, there was no one in sight and the road below his house was quiet with no sign of life anywhere. 

The people of Musutafu were still sleeping in their cozy beds while one little boy in his room tried to calm himself  with no one to help him when he was going through a panic attack all alone.

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Denki was awakened by the warm sunrays peeking through his curtain and falling on him making him feel all warm and fuzzy. Denki groans in his sleep.

Denki does not remember when he had fallen asleep in the wee hours of the morning after his little episode on the cold floor. 

Denki blinks his eyes open and waits for the room to come into focus and stretches his whole body and thinks to himself that being awakened up from the nightmare early in the morning was so unbecoming of him. 

Denki takes his sweet time dressing up for the study group session.

This time he covers his whole body from neck to toe leaving no scars behind and double checks in the mirror to check that the scars are hidden from the prying human eyes.

The outfit he decided to wear for the study session was a black turtleneck and a white peter pan collar top over it and then he puts on a a grey cardigan over it since cafes are always cold -obviously and black pants with a little golden charm dangling from the pant's pocket and black boots.

As they had so many good delectable items to choose from the menu.

Denki booked a cab before hand which had saved him the hassle of taking the train and Denki reached the cafe a bit early as there was no traffic on the way.

Until his friends arrived, Denki decided to order a venti cappuccino and butter croissant. While his order gets ready, he decides to browse out their reading corner bookshelf.

Sometime passes, Denki being unaware of the time and immersed by the lovely collection of books, grabs a book from the selves and hears his name being called.

Denki walks up to the counter and pulls out his wallet from his pants to pay for his order. But the sweet barista says that his order has been paid.

Denki stares at the barista with a surprised expression. The sweet barista points at a table. Denki's eyes move towards the direction where she was pointing and he is surprised to see his friends sitting there.

Kirishima Erijiou was waving at him with a grin. Denki gives Kirishima Erijiou a real genuine warm smile.

Kirishima Erijiou goes red when he sees Denki smiling at him and walking towards the lounge area where his friends decide to study after much contemplation.

Kirishima Erijiou feels embarrassed at himself for some odd reason as Denki's attention was on him. He was never good at receiving attention from people since he started UA. The poor boy berates himself and under his breath he mutters, "No no Erijiou that's not manly at all. One day you are going to be a Pro Hero it's about time you man up!".

And does not know where to look and turns to his right to only see Bakugou Katsuki raising his eyebrow in a questioning manner then Kirishima remembers and whisper says to Bakugou, "You have to apologize to Kaminari-kun for your yesterday's behaviour dude?".

Bakugou scoffs and huffs and crosses his hands over his chest and says gruffly, "Mmph as if he is going to remember".

Sadly, all Bakugou's friends hear him and he gets multiple replies to this-

"That's so unbecoming of you Bakugou as class president I am truly disappointed in you!".

"Kacchan!".

"Man up dude he did promise to tutor us!".

"Bakugou-chan it's not nice to be rude to the hand that feeds you".

"YEAH I agree with Asui".

"I only joined this study session because of him otherwise I would not rather be much near you Bakugou".

Hearing Torodoki Shoto say such words with venom in his voice makes the whole group go stiff and Bakugou immediately gets up from his chair. The chair makes a screeching sound on the pristine tile.

Bakugou with furious eyes, grits his teeth and was about to open his mouth to retort back when the scent of cappuccino hits its nostrils.

Bakugou turns to his right to face Kaminari Denki.

Denki stood in between him and Torodoki Shoto looking at them with confusion clearly written over his face.

Well, now this was going to be awkward. 

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Denki was quite aware of the little altercation that took place between his two friends -Bakugou Katsuki and Torodoki Shoto. 

That's why he stood there dumbly on purpose between these two vicious quirks users and tilted his head in a cute way and looked confusedly at his friends.

Midoriya desperately looks around his friends to break up the ice as he did not want Denki to know that he was the subject matter of this little fight.

Iida Tenya, the class president comes to the rescue. He breaks the awkward silence between the duo by saying, "Kaminari-kun, I even brought mock test papers and colourful highlights for the study session". 

Iida Tenya swells with pride when Denki beams happily at Iida Tenya and says,"That's so thoughtful of you Iida- kun!".

Denki takes his seat between Bakugou Katsuki and Torodoki Shoto, making the duo flinch at the sudden change in Denki's behaviour.

Soon, Denki starts helping Kirishima and his friends in solving their doubts and problems by explaining to them the concepts while frequently sipping on his steaming cappuccino and munching on his buttered croissant.

Both Bakugou Katsuki and Torodoki Shoto did their own independent study but occasionally asked Denki for help.  Even though they  knew the answer to the question, they just wanted to hear the soft spoken voice of the electric quirk user.

And just like that the study group session comes to an end. Everyone gets up from their respective seats with satisfied faces at how much they covered the syllabus in one day. 

The first group to leave were Uraraka Ochako and Asui Tsuyu. 

Then, followed by Iida Tenya, Izuku Midoriya and Kirishima Erijiou. 

Before leaving the cafe, Kirishima knows Katsuki's temper and carefully nugdes Bakugou in the ribs and whispers something in his ear. 

To which Bakugou Katsuki huffs and looks at Denki, who sat next to him reading Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, which he had picked earlier from the reading corner of the cafe.

Bakugou Katsuki and Torodoki Shoto both decide to stay a bit longer at the cafe to revise a bit with Denki and both boys were in the state of awe, at the fact that Denki had already finished doing revision for the end of the term  exam one week prior to the announcement of it. 

This fuels both the boys to complete the syllabus.

Sometime passes soon it is going to be evening. And the cafe was also getting busy and crowded with students and friends visiting the cafe for the ambience and yummy food or just to study and get their work done.

After some time, Denki gets up from his seat and stretches himself and excuses himself to use the restroom, while both the boys nod at him instead of looking up at him from their notes and revision notes.

Denki sighs at the fiery determination of both boys who wanted to ace the exam.

A few minutes later,

Shoto notices that 15 minutes have passed with no sign of Kaminari. 

So, him being a sensible person. Shoto gets up to look for Kaminari.

Bakugou Katsuki looks at ichyhot with a quizzical look and Torodoki takes notice of the look and  in a monotonous tone says, "I am going to look for Kaminari- kun". 

To which Bakugou Katsuki responded with a gruff sound as a form of agreement and goes back to doing his revision.

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Meanwhile outside the restroom of the cafe, Denki encounters his ex-former middle school classmate, Daichi. Who looked all stylish in his brand new clothes imported from some french designer's luxurious brand. 

Seeing Denki's whole attention on him now, makes Daichi throw a smug look at him, this gives Denki a sense of deja vu.

Denki sighs while seeing the disgusting face Daichi was giving him.

Daichi was the first one to speak, "So the freak really did get into UA". 

Denki nods at this and equally retorts back, "Please do add Heroic course after UA in your sentence. Come on Dai! even toddlers form better sentences than you". 

Daichi looks flabbergasted at Denki's reply and says, "I did not dilly dally my way into UA either!". 

Denki raised his eyebrow in a lazy manner and said, "General course department right?". 

Daichi chokes on his own salvia when he hears it . Denki knew all about Daichi's admission into UA at the end of the middle school graduation as Daichi was parading along with his goony friends the whole day that on how he got accepted into UA.

Denki sighs at the memory.

Now Daichi's surprised face turns into seething rage and he immediately grabs Denki by the shoulder and activates his steel heat quirk on all his fingers. 

Denki keeps a neutral face. He does not give a single satisfaction to Daichi by not wincing on how his steel claws enclosed with heat energy were digging into the cardigan and now into his delicate skin. 

Denki could feel blood trickle onto his Peter Pan white top and down to his ribcage it felt so uncomfortable. 

Denki cringes in his mind this was his favourite white top and uninterestedly looks Daichi in the eye. 

Daichi tries to form his words in his mouth only to grit his teeth in anger, "You freak!". This only aggravates the now forming wound on Denki's shoulder.

Denki was not a sadist but he had fun riling up Daichi and upon hearing Daichi's comment.

Denki sticks his tongue out in a playful manner and says,

"Whey".

Now Daichi loses it and raises his other free hand to form into a fist that's when the temperature outside the restroom starts to drop eerily.

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Denki's careful demeanor turns into surprise as he takes notice of Todoroki Shoto standing behind Daichi with a scary dark angry expression. 

'Did he hear the whole conversation?'.

Denki prays to the lord above in heaven that Todoroki Shoto did not hear the whole conversation. He did not want things to take a wrong turn.

Upon seeing Denki's surprise expression Daichi gets confused and  turns around to see who had interrupted him and immediately lets go of Denki's shoulder when he realises that in front of him stood the Number Two Pro Hero's son, Todoroki Shoto.

Shoto with a murderous look immediately goes to stand in between Denki and Daichi. 

Shoto uses his muscular body's physique as a shield to hide Denki behind him and tells Daichi while trying to keep his voice as calm as possible, 

"Who are you? And what were you doing to him?".  

Daichi takes a step back and gives a nervous laugh and says, "J-just catching up with an old acquaintance dude". Daichi raises up his hands as a form of gesture that he did not do anything and Todoroki Shoto was misunderstanding everything.

Todoroki Shoto was no fool.

Shoto turns Denki around and places his one hand on Denki's clawed shoulder gently activating his cold quirk and says with the most dark expression, "Stay away from him and if this happens again you know UA is not at all lenient on bullying matters". And begins to pull Denki into the restroom room.

Shoto was silently fuming in anger while tapping on his phone and luckily the restroom was empty and to make matters worse Kaminari-kun just keeps a good distance space away from Todoroki as this was his first time seeing the boy in so much anger. 

After a few minutes, Todoroki Shoto  clicks his tongue and puts away his phone in his pocket and says, "Remove your top".

Denki's face goes bright pink and he stammers loudly, "w... What! No!"

Denki brings his hands over his chest for the fear that Todoroki will yank the cardigan off him.

Denki gulps in fear at the situation and also the way Todoroki Shoto was looking at him with a dark expression which seemed like his cardigan was not going to get any mercy that day. 

Todoroki lets out a big sigh and runs his hand through his monotone hair and tries to keep his tone as gentle as possible and says, "Your hurt" and starts taking a step towards Denki while Denki too takes a step back until his back is touching one of the bathroom doors. 

Denki squeaks as he does not have any other place to run now, much to Denki's comfort Todoroki Shoto with very careful and precise steps was approaching him quickly that's when the restroom door is kicked open by none other than the great Bakugou Katsuki who walks in with a angry mark on his forehead and points to his phone screen and screams, "Icyhot what this two word message you are playing at?....huhhh".

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Bakugou Katsuki shoves this phone into his baggy pants while muttering all sorts of profanities at the monotone haired boy and takes in the scene in front of him and he blinks when his ruby red eyes take notice that Denki looked cute like a mouse cowering in fear in the corner of the room against the stall. 

Soon, Bakugou Katsuki's expression turns dark when he takes notice of angry five red colored claw marks on his cardigan.

"What th-".

Bakugou Katsuki tries to control his breathing and looks at Denki with concern written all over his face and asks while keeping his voice gentle as possible, "Sunshine what happened to you?". 

Before Denki could open his mouth to reply to Bakugou's question, Todoroki beat him to it and said with anger in his voice, "It was a UA general course student". 

Bakugou punches his fist into his palm and looks at Todoroki with a deadly aura and says, "Where is that little shit?". 

Todoroki Shoto shakes his head and stops Bakugou Katsuki before he could commit bloody murder by pointing at Denki and saying he needs medical attention and also how he refused to show Todoroki his wounds. 

Bakugou looks confused at Denki and shocked by his abrupt reaction when he refused once again when he was asked  by Todoroki Shoto to remove his cardigan.

Denki shakes his head while Todoroki Shoto starts frowning at his behaviour.

Bakugou Katsuki sees a glimpse of fear in Denki's eyes when he is asked to remove his cardigan just like Deku. Whenever the boy was constantly bullied by other Bakugou's friends (bullies*) and would get hurt while trying to defend himself, Deku would tend to hide his wounds by pulling his clothes sleeves down from his mother's prying worried watery eyes.

Bakugou Katsuki narrows his eyes at the memory.

Then, slowly says that there is a pharmacy nearby and he could go and get an ice cold band aids and walks out of the restroom without another word.

With that Todoroki Shoto and Denki sit in the waiting area for Bakugou Katsuki to arrive in silence.

During the wait, Denki could feel Todoroki Shoto's quirk switching up the atmosphere in the cafe, in a few minutes it felt hot then the next few minutes it was extremely freezing cold. 

Denki knows the monochrome boy beside him is upset. But hey what can he do it's not Todoroki Shoto's  business to butt into his personal matters.

Denki feels an incoming headache and says to himself under his breath, "Aigoo I feel like I am becoming the main protagonist instead of being a side character". 

And begins to massage his temple unknowingly that Todoroki Shoto was curiously watching Denki rumbling to himself.

Torodoki Shoto sighs mentally and thinks to himself, "How can someone be mischievous one second and be cute in another moment?". And continues to stare at Denki quietly.

While Denki thinks to himself, 'I must take Midoriya with me whenever I am with these two. Sigh Bakugou Katsuki, Todoroki Shoto and Izuku Midoriya are the main trio not me remember ..not me brain!. I need to unite these three and make sure they have a good chemistry with each other.  Apparently Todoroki Shoto and Izuku Midoriya have seemed to have formed a good friendship since the Hosu situation'. 

Denki begins to bite his finger while wracking his brain on how he can make Bakugou Katsuki become more friendly with the green bean but sighs when he feels his headache increasing and closes his eyes for a bit.

Only to feel his wrist being tugged. Denki opens his eyes to see Bakugou Katsuki quietly pulling him towards the restroom door with Todoroki Shoto walking behind him with an unreadable look.

Denki is roughly pushed into one of the empty bathroom stalls by Bakugou Katsuki before that he was  handed a plastic bag which contained a healing ointment and bandages.

Denki utters with surprise in his voice while trying to keep his hands from shaking as he looked into the plastic bag, "Holy moly! these are the very expensive ones Bakugou kun!.. I -".

Before he could say thanks to Bakugou. 

Bakugou clicks his tongue and slams the door of the stall with a bang on his face.

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Denki blinks at the now closed door and sighs before sliding in the lock. 

And makes sure once again that the restroom door is locked for the fear of Todoroki Shoto barging in.

Slowly Denki starts to undress himself by unbuttoning the cardigan first and then he removes the ruined peter pan collar white shirt stained with blood. After those two pieces of clothing items were removed. 

The only hassle thing to be removed was his black turtleneck. 

Denki messages his temple as his headache once again increases and hisses in pain as he slowly tries to pull the black turtleneck over his head as gently as possible and tries his best not to let the fabric touch his sensitive lichtenberg scars. 

Once removing the turtleneck top and hanging his clothes on the door hook. Denki unscrews the ointment cap of the healing gel and applies a generous amount on his red angry clawed shoulder. 

When the gel touches his skin. Denki lets out a whimper and things to himself, 'fudge! this is worse than the one which I received during the last day of middle school'. 

Denki stops applying the ointment when it feels bubbling under his skin as a sign that the skin was recovering.

Denki sighs again. He has lost count on how many times he has sighed today. How in the world is he going to repay back to Bakugou Katsuki for this expensive ointment and bandage rolls.

Denki is brought back from his thoughts by a gentle knocking on the door.

It was Todoroki Shoto who asked him if he needed any assistance?. Bless his heart. Denki hopes Todoroki Shoto stays the same as he is. 

Denki gives a nervous laugh and says, "Nah, I am fine ..thanks for asking Sho-kun!". 

There is a pause and Denki feels like he should not have called Todoroki Shoto by that nickname. As the boy was not his close friend in this timeline.. wait did he even consider Denki his friend?. Since he was always hanging around with the Dekusquad.

Then he hears a soft voice saying, "Ok, but I am ready to help you. If you need help please don't hesitate to ask Kaminari-kun". 

Then Todoroki Shoto goes quiet again and snort like laugh is also heard outside from the stall. 

After wrapping his injury with bandages, Denki puts on his clothes and opens the stall door slowly and pokes his head out to see both the boys standing on each side of the door like vicious bodyguards. 

Denki looks surprised at his friend's strange behavior.

Hearing the door opening both Todoroki Shoto and Bakugou Katsuki whip their heads around to see their Sunshine friend walking out of the stall with no sign of pain on his face and washing his hands under the sink while humming some kind of a lullaby tune.

Both the boys let out a sigh of relief and look at Denki's figure up and down again for signs of any discomfort or pain as their sunshine friend was quite an expert in concealing these things while Denki turns around and gives his friends a clueless look and unfazed by  their piercing gazes and unaware of their vicious thoughts going on in their mind, 'Next time I see that bastard imma gonna blast/freeze him'.

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After having an unexpected encounter with Daichi and getting hurt and seeing his two classmates now keeping an eagle hawk eye on his every movement left Denki feeling drained out and soon it will be time to take his oh so happy feel good meds.

Denki cringes at the very thought of swallowing those nasty tasting pills down his throat. 

Denki decides to call it a day and go home and lie down on his comfortable bed and stare at the glow in the dark stars stuck on the ceiling of his room and keep on staring at them until sleep comes to him.

He had this odd sensation of an unknown feeling inside his chest tightening for some unknown reason.

It was difficult to put it into words, this sickening feeling did not disappear since last night, it only seemed to intensify much to Denki's dismay.

Denki quietly kept playing with the loose threads of his cardigan. He kept twisting the black threads to and fro between his slender pale fingers and then he looked towards his friends sitting across from him, furiously scribbling into their notes or making quizzlets on their phone app with burning determination in their eyes, to rank first in the exam.

After some time, Denki tells his friends that he is going 'home'. As soon as the word home is mentioned both the boys whip up their heads to look at Denki's tired face.

Both Bakugou Katsuki and Todoroki Shoto for a moment had forgotten about Denki who was quietly sitting with them while they both were competing against each other silently to complete their syllabus. 

'Don't tell me. He is in some kind of pain. He was being mysteriously quiet after meeting and getting hurt by that bastard general course student' were the thoughts of both Todoroki Shoto and Bakugou Katsuki.

Denki could feel his irritation increase when takes notice that both of them were going to ask him the same question for the nth time. 

Denki does not let them speak and he says he has a curfew he can't be late getting home. 

Denki receives mixed reactions from his friends. One stares at him with a stoic look and the other one just frowns at him silently. 

For some reason his two friends expressions reminded him of a cat meme which he had stumbled across on Instagram the day before yesterday.

Denki shakes his head at the thought and smiles to himself; perfect, they believed his lie well it was not technically a lie. It was actually a white lie, he really needed to go home to take his meds as he had no idea how long his study group session would go on and he did not expect it to prolong till the evening. And truth to be told, Denki never had a curfew to begin with. His aunt Kiko was a very chill person and she always had faith in Denki that he would not abuse the privileges which were given to him.

Denki gives his friends a soft smile and bids goodbye to both the boys while they just stare at him with unknown emotions as he leaves the cafe.

Denki starts walking down the street and takes a sharp right turn and stops against the wall and listens for any sound of footsteps following him and takes a sigh of relief, he thought his friends would follow behind him but luckily they did not. 

Denki resumes his walk and sees the sun setting in the distant sky, and a nice pleasant breeze blows by. 

Slowly each street lights start turning on by the roadside. The streetlight casts a glow of orange hue, making the passerby's shadows look elongated and creepy, like ghosts moving.

Denki feels chills just imagining it 

Denki decides to head to the convenience store to buy some ready to eat meals and go home.

The 24 hour convenience store which he decides to go to was located in a secluded area of a quiet neighborhood around the little corner of the street.

It looked very cozy and from the outside.

He enters the 24/7 convenience store. The door of the bell chimes as the door is pushed open and he steps into the toasty atmosphere of the store.

Even, though it was rush hour there were very few people in the store having their food at either the table or on the glass side counter barstool.

Denki passes through various aisles of food debating on what he should have and spots someone playing 'Animal Crossing' on their nintendo . 

Denki sighs and says to himself, "It's been so long since I played animal crossing". 

The person who was playing the game suddenly went rigid and stopped playing it on his nintendo. 

Luckily the said person was sitting with their back turned towards Denki. 

Denki takes the view of the person only to realise that this person's hands were reptilian green skin and they were trembling slightly and they also had a black hoodie over their head. 

Denki's mind goes, 'Shit shit shit get away from there MAYDAY mayday mayday it might be a villain'. 

Denki's heart starts beating wildly in his ribcage. 

He begins to move on autopilot mode towards the ramen aisle and begins to take down various ramen cups from the selves while he could feel the intense stare of the hooded figure on his back.

Denki tries to keep himself calm as possible.

Denki's thoughts at the moment were, 'Inhale. Exhale. Inhale. Exhale. Oh look- they have an iced Americano in stock here' . 

He grabs it with his shaky hands and holds onto it dearly while his arms were already overflowing with various snacks. 

Soon, Denki hears the door bell chiming while the cashier chirps in a happy tone, "Please visit us again". 

Denki quietly peeks from the aisle and sees the black hooded figure to be nowhere in sight and puts all his snacks into a random basket near him. 

Denki was about to let out a sigh of relief only to feel someone placing a firm hand on his shoulder. 

Then, Denki let out the manliest shriek ever heard in mankind.

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It was Aizawa sensei who had placed his hand on Denki's shoulder. 

Shouta was patrolling that area due many compliments of shady criminal activities going on in that neighborhood for the past few months and he happened to spot his trouble magnet student in that area and decided to follow his student into the  24/7 convenience store. But he was not expecting his student to get startled so badly.

Denki had turned his head so fast in fright to stare at Aizawa Shouta. 

Aizawa prays that the boy's head is intact with the speed he had turned around and then the unthinkable happens. 

Denki throws an impulsive punch at Aizawa's face not realising that it was his sensei and not a villain whom he had assumed earlier.

With years of training Shouta manages to avoid getting hit by Denki's punch by simply moving to the side.

Denki mutters with a horrified yelp, "S-s-sensei!". And slips on his feet due to his sudden movement. 

Aizawa's eyes go wide and he immediately uses his capture weapon to throw it around Denki's waist and tugs it to keep Denki's body upright. 

Denki's body gives a jerk at the sudden pull and his butt hits the ground while his bright yellow hair covers his eyes. 

Denki winces in pain when his back hits the food shelf behind him.

Denki blinks the tears away from eyes and looks at Aizawa sensei standing there in front of him. 

Aizawa sensei crouched down looking at Denki clearly in the eye with concern flashing his eyes, "You okay kid?". 

Luckily Aizawa sensei does not ask why his cardigan had claw marks which would be a big task to explain the whole "Daichi thing".

Denki just nods his head.

Aizawa sensei lets out a sigh of relief and looks at the snacks scattered around them and helps Denki pick them up and asks Denki if was going to buy all of these snacks.

Denki nods his head at Aizawa Sensei's question and does not make eye contact with Aizawa sensei and whispers, "Yes" after a pause.

Denki did not want to be judged by his sensei on his food choices. 

He knew it was not healthy to have these things especially when you are a student enrolled in a Pro Hero School taught by the world best Super Pro Heroes.

Denki always remembered how the future Bakugou Katsuki would always push green veggies and meat onto his plate and keep an eagle eye on him when he ate the food cooked by him.

Somedays Bakugou would cook dinner for the whole class and make sure that Denki's body received all the balanced nutrition or otherwise he would playfully threaten him by saying if he did not finish everything on his plate. He would literally shove it down his throat.

And Denki with a sulking face would continue to chew on the leafy green veggies while Kirishima Erijiou would pat his back and tell him it's alright take his time and Sero Hanta and Ashido Mina too would sit with him until he finished eating his food on his plate and  what would Bakugou Katsuki do?.

He would watch him fiercely with his red blood eyes from the other side of the  dining room leaning against the wall with his hands crossed over his chest and at the same time, Denki would receive sympathy looks from the Dekusquad.

Denki grimaces at the memory. 

He really missed his future friends and had not realised that he was now standing at the counter and the cashier had checked out all of his snacks and said the total amount to Aizawa sensei

Denki curses at himself as he was so lost in his reminiscences that he had not noticed walking up to the counter and puts his hand into his pants to pull out his wallet but Aizawa Shouta beats Denki to it  and immediately pulls out a black card from his wallet and hands it to the cashier. 

Denki let out a wow sound and thought to himself, 'Wow Pro Heroes are really rich. No wonder All Might would spend so much money on Izuku Midoriya.. hey not that he is complaining..All Might after all did treat Midoriya like his own son'.

Denki grabs the plastic bags from the counter and bows towards Aizawa sensei as a sign of gratitude while saying, "Thank you sensei!. 

Denki feels his hair being ruffled gently by Aizawa sensei who replies back with a small smile tugging on the corner of his lips, "No problem kid". 

And walks out with Denki and does not leave him from his sight until Denki gets into a cab, from the cab window Denki waves at Aizawa sensei and the cab starts moving and Denki turns to face himself forward in his seat .

He was feeling dead tired and sleepy now. 

Denki tries to blink away the sleep and takes notice of a shadowy distorted figure standing under the tree on the other side of a poorly lit park area.

Denki blinks his eyes and that unknown thing was not there anymore. 

He shrugs it off as an illusion that his mind is playing tricks on him due to the poor lighting of streets. 

But still he could not get the image of the thing standing under the tree out of his mind.

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Denki lets out a sigh of relief as the cab moves away from the creepy neighbourhood but now the cab was unfortunately stuck in traffic.

It has been 15 minutes, he checks his wristwatch twice again and stares out of the window at the unmoving traffic ahead of him with no sign of moving soon.

The cab driver was too getting irritated with the slow moving traffic and turns on the radio and the announcement is made on the radio that a high profile villain attack had occurred on the same road leading up to the  national highway 2 and all the civilians are asked to corporate with the traffic police and the Pro Heroes as they try to resolve the situation.

How Denki wished he could do something to save those poor people held in a hostage like situation but then remembers the Hero Comission would take him into custody and start questioning him on how he had such a perfect control on his quirk despite being so young and all.

Nope stupid brain bad idea... abort that thought immediately from your brain.

Denki feels helpless at the situation and prays that the Pro Heroes will arrive soon and save them from the geyser quirk villain.

Denki sighs and searches for his airpods in his pockets of his cardigan and he places one airpod in his ear and plays on his phone music app, playlist to shuffle the songs. 

Soon the traffic resumes and the cab starts moving.

Denki stares out the window of the cab at the big skyscrapers and people walking on the sidewalk unaware of the villain attack that occurred just a few miles away.

The music begins to play in his airpod. 

🎶Throw on your pretty lies

We're in the city of wonder

Ain't goin' play nice

Watch out, you might just go under

Better think twice

Your train of thought will be altered

So if you must falter be wise

Your mind's in disturbia

It's like the darkness is the light

Disturbia

Am I scaring you tonight

Disturbia

Ain't used to what you like

Disturbia

Disturbia🎶

Denki's mind goes back to his morning nightmare, he could clearly remember the shadow black hooded figure and how It was digging the sharp knife into Denki's neck while he screamed in agony in the inky cold blackness that surrounded around him.

Just thinking about the nightmare makes Denki Lichtenberg scars start burning in pain underneath his black turtleneck top. 

Denki had to ask the cab driver to turn the AC up a notch.

Denki stops thinking about his nightmare and concludes at the end that this hallucination and nightmares have to do something with that business course student's quirk that caused him to travel back.

Ping.

Denki gets  startled by the sound of his own phone notification. He sees a message popping up on the screen.

Both Bakugou Katsuki and Todoroki Shoto messaged at the same time asking him if he had reached home safely or not?.

Denki chuckles to himself softly as both his friends message clearly screamed We Are Worried About You. 

Sigh. They both are becoming possessive.

He goes back to gather his previous thoughts he really wanted to meet the blonde haired business course girl  but he had a problem at the moment as from tomorrow his End of Term Exams and Exercise test would begin. 

Denki's stomach churns at the thought of giving both the exams and exercise test once again.

Denki sighs into his hands. 

Tomorrow was going to be a long day for him.

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The end of term exam day came and Denki was in hermit mode. 

He went to school and gave the first two days papers and went back home with exhaustion lingering in his body with the constant recurring nightmares which were getting too intense like an omen. 

For two days straight, Denki was avoiding his friends whenever he would see them approaching him. He would run off and hide in the library for comfort among the books.

He felt pressured by the recurring nightmares that were becoming too vivid day by day and felt that he would break down if any of his friends asked him how he was feeling. 

Then, soon as school ends, he would run back home and do his independent studies for the last third day of his exam

He was starting to feel guilty about avoiding his friends.

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Today was the last day of the written exam and this afternoon he had to give the exercise test too. 

Denki was feeling dead tired from giving back to back exams.

All his papers had gone well. 

Now Denki was slumped on his desk while his classmates chatted around him about their own papers.

Denki felt Kirishima lightly tapping his shoulder.

Denki slightly raised his head from his hands to look up at him.

Kirishima Erijiou gives him a toothy grin and says, "Dude thank you for helping me study for the exam".

Denki smiles at Kirishima's honesty and then Kirishima Erijiou does something unexpected and brings his face a little close to Denki's liking. 

Denki stills and does not make a move from his original position.

"Are you getting proper sleep Kaminari-kun? You look too pale. Are you sick?" asks Kirishima Erijiou with concern laced in his voice. 

Denki blinks his golden honey coloured eyes at Kirishima Erijiou and gets up at the same time when the bell rings for lunch.

Denki looks at Kirishima Erijiou and quietly says, "I am fine. it's just the room's lighting that's making me look like I am sick". 

Kirishima frowns at Denki's words and tries to stop him as he quickly moves away from him. Kirishima was about to go behind him just when Sero Hanta and Ashido Mina called his name making him turn to look at them.

At the cafeteria. 

Denki chewed on the protein bar while his stomach did somersaults. He tried swallowing the food down his dry throat even when his stomach protested against it. He was feeling nauseated but he needed the strength for the afternoon exercise test.

The only good thing was that he had his headphones on. He was listening to Bang Bang Bang by BigBang. 

The cafeteria was mostly empty today due to the exam week. 

Denki sighs and places the half eaten protein bar on the table and puts his head on his hands. He could feel his classmates gazes burning holes in his back.

The Dekusquad was worried about Denki as they had their own lunch. 

Tsuyu was the first one to raise this concern, "Denki-chan looks much worse than yesterday".

Everyone stops eating and stares at Denki more intently. 

Uraraka Ochako says, "It must be the exam pressure?". 

Iida Tenya shakes his head at Uraraka Ochako and says, "No no it must not be that it must be something else". 

Next was Todoroki Shoto who spoke up, "I will just go and ask him".

Shoto was about to get up and go ask the sunshine boy what was wrong with him, only to be stopped by Iida who shakes his head and mutters, "He will just run away and start avoiding us. Then it will be like that all over again". 

Todoroki sits down in his seat and sulks like a baby at the thought of Denki avoiding him. He did not like it. 

Kaminari Denki was his first friend besides Izuku Midoriya who accepted him for who he was . He did not treat him like others would treat him when they would find out that he was the son of the no two Pro Hero Endeavor but Denki did not behave like those fake people he was different from them. Shoto liked being around Denki. It felt like being surrounded by feelings of warmth and love which he never experienced during his childhood days.

Iida Tenya pats Todoroki Shoto on the shoulder and tells him that, they can ask Kaminari-kun about the avoiding thing once the exercise test is over.

Uraraka Ochako smiles at her two friends and turns to look at Izuku Midoriya who with no expression stared at his untouched food and asks worriedly, "Are you ok Deku-kun?".

Midoriya is broken away from his thoughts and he laughs nervously and says, "I am ok Uraraka-san, just thinking about the exercise test".

Soon the group topic shifts to the exercise test.

But Izuku's thoughts were somewhere else. Izuku lets his viridian eyes linger on Denki's tired form slumped on the table for a while and thinks to himself, 'Why do you avoid your friends Kaminari Denki? You really are a mysterious puzzle that is becoming hard to solve day by day'.

...

After the lunch break, their exercise test starts and Whole class 1-A students were dressed in their hero costumes and stood outside the battle grounds building.

Denki was all decked in his hero costume and he also had on his signature red hooded cloak as well. 

He tugged on his fingerless gloves nervously ignoring what was on going around him as his teachers explained to them the rules of the test.

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Denki was  amazed by how each student was paired up into two teams,  according to their quirk compatibility  and the teachers which were assigned to them in this exercise test were equally strong as their quirk.. wow there was no flaw in this grand planning. Principal Nezu left no crumbs behind.

And also the exam is going to be monitored by the Recovery girl.

But now the only problem to be dealt with was the wonder duo AKA Bakugou Katsuki and Midoriya Izuku who were paired up with each other and had to work together to win against  the world's most famous top no.1 Pro Hero All Might.

All Might gives both the boys his signature smile and thumbs up and asked them to come at him with all they got.

Hearing this Bakugou Katsuki turns towards Midoriya Izuku starts glaring daggers at the poor boy.  

Midoriya Izuku literally starts fidgeting  at the intensity of Bakugou Katsuki's glare.

'Ay ay ay'. 

Denki pulls the cap of the hood down to cover his face and also to mask his emotional exhaustion from being noticed by his Pro Hero teachers who stood in front of him. 

'Making the wonder duo work together is going to be a big pain in the ass'.

The students were once again informed by the teachers that before the commencement of the exercise test they would get  15 minutes before each  team is taken by buses to their respective battle locations and what they have to do in order to win against the villain and the winning condition of the battle simulation was also told to them in advance. 

After the little speech, Principal Nezu jumps out from Aizawa sensei's scarf and walks up towards Denki and puts his little furry pawns up, a sign which indicated 'pick me up'.

Denki sighs mentally and bends down to pick up Principal Nezu in his hands. 

Denki gently holds principal Nezu like a soft toy and keeps a soft hold on the creature's little body. 

Denki can feel the intense staring of his classmates and teachers now on him.

Instead of turning to look at them. 

Denki stares into the twinkling and curious eyes of Principal Nezu. 

Both stare at each other in silence.

Then, Principal Nezu does something which Denki did not anticipate. 

Principal Nezu squished his face and said in a cute voice, "You look a little bit pale Denki-kun... After the exam please get some vitamin D pill from Recovery Girl". 

After saying this Nezu's tail begins to sway from side to side. 

And everyone who was watching the scene, thinks to themselves, 'For the sake of our heart and health this duo is deathly but cute too'.

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Denki convinces no bribes the robot bus driver with the "Extra shine oil for your cogs" oil bottle after some time of debating the machine finally agrees to take Denki to the exercise exam location of Midoriya Izuku and Bakugou Katsuki.

Denki was glad that these AI robots of UA had a mind of their own and could make their own sound judgements. 

The Robot really saved him through the hassle of explaining the whole process why he wanted to go to another battle ground when he was not a candidate to an actual human being.

The Robot driver stops the bus at the battle ground location and hums in its mechanical voice and says that It will wait for him to return and starts whistling to itself. 

Denki with astonishment stares speechlessly at the robot and it's the sudden change of heart . 

The Robot driver continues with its whistling while staring straight ahead in front of him. 

Denki shakes his head at the sudden kindness and jumps down the steps of the bus and starts running towards the exam gate where he soon spots Izuku Midoriya trying to stop an angry Bakugou Katsuki from walking away from him.

Denki stops in his tracks and sees the wonder duo quarrelling back and forth mostly with Bakugou giving Midoriya the nastiest words while Midoriya equally retorts back in uncontrollable anger with shaking fists.

Denki could not still wrap his head around the fact that these two are childhood friends and stops in his tracks and stares at the wonder duo quarrelling and mutters to himself softly, "Why did not UA give Bakugou Katsuki counselling for his anger management issues and how did his class manage to handle Bakugou's tantrums in the past and why did Aizawa sensei ignore all the red flag signs in Midoriya and why was not All Might reprimanded for leaving Midoriya all alone on the roof during the sludge villain attack".

'Ahhh'.

Denki grits his teeth and pulls at his hair strands and thinks to himself, 'Aigoo ..where is the damn common sense here!'. And let out a heavy sigh.

Feeling another person's presence coming from the bushes.

Both the boys stop with their arguing and Bakugou Katsuki takes his fighting stance while Midoriya mutters about the buzzer not going off yet.

"kacchan?" .

Bakugou Katsuki licks his lips with fiery madness in his eyes and yells at Midoriya, "Shut up damn nerd! he is playing the damn part of a villain here and why would he wait for the buzzer to go off and I'm gonna crush him into pieces".

Bakugou says the last two words with so much venom that Midoriya yelps at Bakugou's ever growing rage.

Denki feels chills going through his body when he hears this. 

He needs to act quickly otherwise Bakugou might attack him mistaking him for All Might and Denki did not want to get caught in the line of the already messed up action. 

Denki swallows down his anxiety and fearing for his life walks out of the bushes with his hands raised in a defensive manner. 

Now both the boys look baffled at Denki's sudden appearance there.

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The time traveler gives the wonder duo a nervous smile as he steps out from the bushes and Bakugou Katsuki huffs and under his breath mutters, "It figures".

Bakugou stomps his feet and starts walking away while bumping lightly into Denki's shoulder. 

Midoriya tries to reach out his hand to stop Bakugou. But Denki beats Midoriya to it and gently holds onto Bakugou's hand which makes him stop in his footsteps.

The sandy blonde haired boy tries his best to give an angriest scary look to Denki but stops when he sees Denki grinning at him with twinkling eyes and say, "Sexually repressed feelings eh Bakugou-kun?". 

Midoriya looks at Denki with a shock expression and Bakugou has a look of confusion then that look turns to realisation and he lets out mini explosions from his palms and screams his name, "KAMINARI!". 

Denki ignores the angry boy and walks up to Midoriya. Denki could now clearly see the bruise forming on Midoriya's right side of his cheek from Bakugou's punch earlier.

Midoriya goes rigid under Denki's stare and becomes tense, when Denki pats his shoulder and gives him his signature cute smile and speaks to him in his soft gentle voice as if he is speaking to a small child, "Why are you always doubting yourself you are not that Deku any more right? . You are DEKIRU the one who can do it right now". 

Hearing these words coming from Denki's mouth makes Izuku feel tears pricking in the corners of his eyes but somehow he manages to control himself from crying. 

This was the first time someone other than All Might and Uraraka Ochako who accepted him whole heartedly.

Izuku wanted to open his mouth to reply to Denki's encouraging words but if he did open his open mouth he would probably end up crying. The best he could do right now is to give a smile and nod his head while he tried to control a whirl of emotions in his heart.

Midoriya shyly nods his head and gives a small smile to Denki.

Soon, Izuku feels all the nervousness and tension leaving his body when he hears Denki's words of encouragement. 

Denki had voiced his words deliberately in a loud tone on purpose so that Bakugou Katsuki could hear it and indeed Bakugou has heard it . 

Katsuki grits his teeth and immediately grabs the said boy by spinning him around to face him. 

At the sudden movement, Denki feels a wave of dizzy hit him but does not  let it show on his face while he stares impassively at Bakugou, who minced his words while asking him why he was doing this on purpose.

'Finally you caught on'.

Denki simply smiles and says, "I want you two to work together as a team and I have my full faith in you both" and flicks Bakugou on the forehead. 

Bakugou Katsuki stares with shock evident on his face at Denki's gesture and thinks to himself how can someone have so much confidence in him and Deku. 

They were facing Fucking All Might the world's strongest Hero but someone had the faith in them that they would pass the exercise test. Bakugou for some odd reason did not want to disappoint his sunshine now.  

Bakugou's hair covers his face and a small smile could be seen tugging at the corner of mouth while Midoriya Izuku lets out a soft gasp at his friend's unexpected behavior.  Both the boys are brought out from their musings when Kaminari's name is announced on the speaker, asking the blonde haired boy to arrive at his given exam gate in 10 minutes.

Hearing his name being called, Denki tugs his wrist out of Bakugou's hold and starts running towards the exit of the gate while his red hooded cape and bow tails flutter with the wind.

Denki does not turn back to stare at the wonder duo.

After Denki disappears from their sight. Bakugou Katsuki lets out a snort and says with a soft smile forming on his face, "He is  like a shot of espresso, he is like bathed in sunlight". 

Midoriya giggles at the new found look of Bakugou and says, "Kacchan um your right.. he is like the sun present even during the darkest hour of the day".

Denki was huffing while running. He was nearly out of the gates now moving hurriedly towards the waiting bus only to be pulled by his arm and is spun around.

This sudden action by the unknown person makes Denki feel dizzy.

"What the-".

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Denki blinks his eyes and waits for his vision to come into focus. It was All Might.

All Might had on a serious expression and not his usual happy demeanor which Denki had grown accustomed to.

Denki gapes at All Might, as he bends down to his eye level and smiles softly and boops his nose.

Denki blinks his honey coloured eyes in both surprise and confusion at this unusual behavior displayed by All Might. 

All Might then gives Denki a sad smile  and tells him, "Just now you did what my job was supposed to do".

He laughs softly and ruffles the fragile boy's hair gently while keeping himself  aware of his ungodly strength

All Might then gently pushes Denki towards the waiting bus and wishes him good luck with his own exercise test and walks towards the gate as the buzzer sound is echoed around the area indicating the beginning of the exam of the wonder duo.

Denki quietly enters the bus while the robot driver happily welcomes him back and turns on the engine of the vehicle  and starts driving towards his test location ground.

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Both Ashido Mina and Denki arrive at their test area. 

Before entering the gate, Denki discusses his strategic plan with Ashido on how they are going to outwit their Principal in the test match.

Ashido was literally buzzing with excitement. But she looks confused at Denki when he points his index finger at his head, silently indicating that this test was all about using their intellect rather than their quirks. 

Ashido Mina's happy face soon turns into that of nervousness now. 

Denki  takes notice of  her nervousness and gives her a thumbs up. 

Unknown to the sunshine boy that he was being watched by his friends from the observation room.

At the sound of the buzzer, an iron ball comes flying their way at a great speed,  and Denki immediately pushes Ashido out  of the harms  way and uses his fairies sparkling quirk to blast away the falling steel beams from above them.

'Keep focused Denki the real test has just begun and you need to pass it'.

Denki immediately without thinking grabs Ashido Mina's wrist gently and softly mutters, "Sorry" while Ashido Mina looks confused at him because Denki had grabbed her hand without her consent.

Denki then  uses his quirk to fly in the air and land in the centre of the construction of steel beams.

Ashido Mina becomes much more anxious when she takes notice of  more steel beams that have fallen in their way and blocking their way towards the exit goal.

She was losing all hope now.

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Meanwhile in the Observation Room,

Mineta Minrou grits his teeth while clenching his fist tightly, "Kaminari you are already flirting with a girl" tells to himself in anger. 

Kirishima Erijiou looks with worry at the screen and says, "Ashido and Kaminari-kun look like they are in a big deep".

On the other hand, Asui Tsuyu stares at the screen and says, Principal Nezu is going all out today kero"

Uraraka Ochako just stares at the screen with a worrying look. 

Then, all of the sudden Mineta Minrou perks up and says, "I guess they are going to fail at this rate". 

The whole class goes deadly quiet hearing this. Both  Kyoka Jiro and Kirishima Erijiou reprimand the boy for saying that to his own classmate. 

Iida Tenya who stood near the exit of the building muttered under his breath, "You can do it Kaminari-kun". 

While Yaoyorozu Momo brings up her hand to her chin and says, "This is going to be a tough one against Principal Nezu". 

Todoroki Shoto with a stoic expression says, "It's hard to tell". But there was a noticeable under tone of curiosity in his voice as he spoke back to Yaoyorozu Momo. 

Tokoyami who stood between the two said, "There is light at the end of every tunnel".

Suddenly everyone stops speaking their opinions about who is going to win and how, when  Recovery girl says with a stern tone, "I would not underestimate this boy who has more than one strategy up his sleeve". 

She was the only person who was quietly watching the screen. Hearing this everyone goes quiet and continues watching the screen with intrigue at how Kaminari Denki is going to overcome this obstacle?.

Back to Kaminari Denki and Ashido Mina's test.

Denki and Ashido hid behind a pile of steel beams, even though they knew it was useless in hiding against Principal Nezu's quirk.

Ashido Mina was close to tears now and said, "It's like a labyrinth with no exit. We are going to fail the  hiccup* my god we are going to fail Kaminari-". 

Ashido Mina stops talking when she sees Denki  covering his head with the red hooded cloak and swears there is a flash of golden glow in the boy's eyes. 

Denki brings his face close to Ashido Mina's ear. Mina gulps at the sudden closeness of the pretty boy and her heart starts thumping wildly in her chest but somehow manages to calm her wildly beating heart and hears Denki's softly whispering his plan into her ear, "Run straight  and take the left turn which a dead end and randomly start throwing your acid quirk in different directions and start running towards your right where the goal exit is. While I  go and distract Principal Nezu with my quirk".

Ashido Mina stares at Denki with marvel at how seamlessly he had come up with his plan but tries to protest at this strategy and shakes her head and says she can't leave him behind. 

Then, Denki responded back with a stern look that they are going to be graded on their team work and not individually.

Hearing this Ashido Mina makes an oh face and grins .

She takes her running stance and waits for Denki's signal. 

Denki lets out a blinding light around the parameter while Ashido Mina starts running and does not  turn to look back because she had full faith in Denki. 

Denki uses his sparkling fairies to burst randomly around the area keeping Nezu distracted from using his high speck quirk. 

Meanwhile in the bulldozer machine, Nezu stops drinking his chamomile tea and looks at the scene outside with interest and says, "Oya!..hmm interesting so you are using reverse psychology to make me fall into your little trap tsk tsk my little apprentice this Principal to has got a plan up his sleeve!". 

Nezu starts cackling at his brilliant plan  hysterically only to stop laughing when he hears a soft knock on the glass window of the machine. 

The little furry creature pauses and turns to stare at Denki floating in the air looking very ethereal with the static golden energy floating around him. 

The little furry Principal goes back to sipping on his tea with a contended expression while admitting his defeat. 

Denki grins and says, "Boo!". 

Nezu smiles at the cute behaviour of the boy. 

Denki snaps his fingers and the machinery equipment short circuits and the buzzer sound is  heard  at the same time as Ashido Mina had crossed the exit gate.

It was a moment of euphoria for Denki and Ashido Mina as they had won the battle. Both high five each other at the exit gate.

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Back in the observation room,

Everyone has mixed reactions regarding  Kaminari team's victory.

Iida Tenya screams while clapping his hands at the screen and says, "Well done Kaminari-kun".  And turns his head in the direction of the screen which shows Midoriya and Bakugou's fight against All Might but soon his happy expression turns into a horrified look. 

He felt air choking in his throat at the sight of his two friends covered in bruises.

Even though the Midoriya's team has won against All Might. Both boys were greatly injured. 

This somehow reminded Iida Tenya of his first foundational Heroic class which he had with All Might. He is broken away from his thoughts as Recovery girl leaves the monitoring room muttering profanities at All Might and goes to the infirmary to heal both the injured boys.

...

Denki skips in his steps while on his way  towards the infirmary. 

Denki was over the moon he had outwitted Principal Nezu against his own quirk and he did not even cough up blood this time but felt a slight headache after the test was over.

So, he was on his way to get some pain relief pills from Recovery girl.  

That's when he happens to spot Midoriya and Bakugou walking around the corner moving towards the infirmary room as well.

Denki in his moment of happiness forgets everything and screams Midoriya's name and jumps at him. 

Midoriya being Midoriya with fast reflexes catches Denki.

Denki on impulse circles his slender legs round Midoriya's waist and says gleefully, "My team won!". 

Both Midoriya and Bakugou stare for a while and blink their eyes at Denki and think at the same time, 'Too bright'. 

Midoriya despite being in terrible back pain from his earlier fight with All Might  manages to keep a nice hold on the thin fragile boy.

Izuku manages to keep his face stoic from showing concern on the fact how light the boy's weight felt in his arms  but instead he chooses to give a smile and say, "Wow that's great!". 

Denki's eyes go wide, when Midoriya compliments him and there is a snort-like laugh heard coming from behind Midoriya and he feels an aggressive ruffling of his hair by Bakugou who too softly said, "Well done Sunshine". 

The time traveler after such a long time felt like he was home.  Oh how he missed Bakugou's aggressive hair ruffling this action of Bakugou makes him giggle softly. 

Both Midoriya and Bakugou forget their own pain momentarily. 

Then, Denki realises and jumps immediately out from Midoriya's gently holding hands and stammers, "Y- you both are injured really badly!".

Indeed, both the boys were badly injured and battered in bruises.

Denki pushes both the boys who despite his contrary slender figure were quite bulky and muscular however he manages to push them  through the infirmary door and slams the door on their shock faces and slides down against the door and hears Recovery girl's voice echoing from inside the room as she scolded All Might and the boys. 

Denki covers his eyes with his hands and berates himself on how he is such a  klutz and he felt so bad for jumping on Midoriya despite how much pain the boy was in, but he did not let go or drop Denki no matter how hurt he was. 

Denki sighs and pulls his knees up to his chest and places his chins on his knees and giggles softly to himself when he hears Recovery Girl tell All Might to apologise to the two boys for injuring them so badly. 

Unknown to Denki, his cute behaviour was being recorded by Nezu from the cctv camera while he sipped on his lavender tea in his office room.

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The next day, 

The whole class 1-A students are informed that they all have passed and no one has failed the written part of the exam but some have failed the simulation test yet again this was all a logical ruse to pressurize them in order to make them bring out their full potential to fight against their teachers who were playing the role of the villain, Aizawa sensei says this with a grinning face despite his haggard appearance.

Hearing this Kirishima Erijiou, Rikido Sato and Sero Hanta cheer with excitement that they will also get to attend the training camp but their spirits were again dampen when Aizawa sensei informs them not to get their hopes up as they would have to take remedial classes while strengthening their quirks at the training camp.

The point of the training camp was to focus on strengthening their quirks. 

Then, Aizawa sensei handed out the pamphlets about the camp site to the class president and asked them to be distributed to the whole class and dismissed the class for the day.

Denki hears all of this half-heartedly while rotating the pen in the middle of his fingers absent mindedly. 

He again had the same recurring nightmare where his neck gets slashed by a creepy hoodie figure it looked quite similar to a dementor from the Harry Potter series. 

Everyday Denki woke up in cold sweat breathing heavily. He wanted to pour out this unknown feeling in his chest to someone but to whom could he tell?. Right now he did not trust anyone.

He is broken away from his thoughts when he feels a gentle tap on his shoulder. 

Denki looked up to see Izuku Midoriya and Kirishima Erijiou standing next to his desk . Both looked equally with concern at him.

Midoriya was the first one to speak, "We are planning to go to the mall tomorrow to get the mentioned things in the form". 

"It would be great if you came along as well" continues Kirishima Erijiou with a toothy grin.

'How could he not say NO to those innocent faces'.

Denki gets up from his chair and grabs his backpack and replies in a hurried tone as the migraine starts to get worse, "Yeah sure...Message me the location and timing". And starts moving away from both Midoriya and Kirishima.

Both the boys stare at Denki with startled looks.

Denki's one foot was out of the classroom door only to feel his wrist begin tug back. 

Denki turns his face around to stare into the emerald eyes of Midoriya Izuku. 

There was a flash of an unknown emotion which Denki could not decipher in Midoriya's eyes. The boy stared at him with a frown . 

Denki lets out a shaky breath and asks, "Um Midoriya do you need anything?. 

Midoriya immediately realises that he without thinking held onto Denki's slender wrist. 

Izuku feels something jagged rubbing underneath the pads of his fingers. Izuku scowls at the thought of the words that flashes in his mind but shakes his head and lets go of Denki's wrist slowly.

Izuku was having a dreaded feeling in his chest that he was going to lose Denki and out of reflex he caught Denki by the wrist. 

Denki smiles at his Greenette friend and says, "Bye Izuku".

Midoriya immediately goes beet red as he was not used to being called by his first name by his friends and Denki takes this opportunity to run away from there. 

Luckily today was the half day of school for them.

The hallways wore a deserted look as the majority of the students had left the school building as their summer holidays had begun officially from today .

Denki steps out of the entrance gate and walks down the hilly slope and smells the air and smiles, it was finally beginning to smell like summer and the sun too was setting in the distance with its beams dancing off from the window panes of the houses and buildings in the nearby area and the sky had turned into a lovely shade of pink, blue and orange it looked like a beautiful painting.

Denki starts singing to himself while he walks down the quiet road.

🎶You were the shadow to my light

Did you feel us?

Another Start

You fade away

Afraid our aim is out of sight

Wanna see us

Alive🎶

Denki shivers slightly as he passes by the same dingy alley. The one through which Dabi had pulled him into, a few days ago and continues with his singing while trying to forget the event and to avoid getting another set of panic attack from the memory and continues walking down the road and continues with his singing.

🎶Another dream

The monster's running wild inside of me

I'm faded

I'm faded

So lost

I'm faded

I'm faded

So lost

I'm faded🎶

Unknown to Denki there was a movement in the alley as a dark silhouette figure grins madly and says, "Phase 1 begins".

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12:11 pm at Kiko Valkyrie's residence,

Denki decides to ditch his usual black turtleneck top  and puts on a white hoodie and blue denim overalls and completes the look with his all star converse shoes. Denki looks himself in the mirror with a small smile forming at the corners of his mouth.

The hoodie effectively hid his Lichtenberg scars and the fit overall highlighted both his innocence and cute looks.

After getting dressed. Denki steps out of the apartment building and raises his head up in the sky. The noon air was sultry and the sun was shining in its full glory. So Denki took a cab to the kiyashi Shopping mall at the end after much contemplation.

At the entrance of the shopping mall, Denki is greeted by an overly excited Iida Tenya and Mina Ashido and the rest of his classmates except Todoroki Shoto, Bakugou Katsuki, Tokoyami Fumikage, Momo Yaoyorozu, Mezo shoji and Koji Koda were absent. 

Toru Hagakure and Mina Ashido literally scream making people turn heads at them in confusion. 

The source of their scream was Denki's fit. 

Mina Ashido literally jumps towards Denki and pinches his rosy cheeks and says, "Doll-chan is dolling today".

A lovely pink blush crept up Denki's cheeks. Denki tries to hide it by covering his face with his hands only to be grabbed from both sides by a giggling Ashido Mina and smirking Sero Hanta as they drag him with them to the third floor of the mall to shop for clothes while talking to each other excitedly about the latest trends going on in the fashion world while at the same time ignoring Denki's attempts to escape from their tight grips.

Both Ashido Mina and Sero Hanta turn 

to look at their now pouting friend and grin internally, 'Not gonna let you escape that easily today doll-chan'.

Now Denki's last resort was to use his secret weapon: The Puppy Dog Eyes.

Denki uses them on Izuku Midoriya and Uraraka Ochako who stood among the crowd of people debating where to start their shopping from which shop.

Seeing Denki using THAT look makes Midoriya for some unknown reason to turn beet red and look the other way nervously while twiddling his thumbs  and Uraraka Ochako too does the same as Midoriya while low key whistling.

Upon seeing his strategy failing, Denki let his head fall and his fluffy hair strands covers his face to hide his disappointment in his friends.

A few moments later,

'He did it'.

Somehow Denki was able to ditch Sero Hanta and Mina Ashido when their backs were turned towards him.

Just don't ask him, how he had  managed to escape his friends but he did it and started grinning to himself while heading to the elevator to go down to the ground floor to look for Midoriya. 

Denki bumps into some school kids along the way. Some even recognised him from UA sports festival and even asked for his autograph which he declined politely and while some college perverts were trying to hit on him and   grab his slender wrist and drag him to the arcade to have some fun. But Denki gave them his signature look called  'The Death Glare' look which he used on the trauma ward patients during his internship at his aunt Kiko's hospital.

He used this look when the patient refused to take their medication or started behaving in a rowdy manner with him.

Thus, this action of Denki prompted the patients to give Denki's stern look 'The Death Glare'.

The pervert boys cower in fear and lets go of his wrist and move away from him before they start attracting attention towards themselves and start walking away from Denki.

Denki swears that he heard one of the short boys call him b*tch . Denki's hands were literally itching to snap the boy with his quirk but he had to follow the no quirk usage policy in the public and he had other matters to focus on. Right now his main priority was to save Izuku Midoriya from Shigaraki Tomura.

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On the way to the elevator, Denki finds Uraraka Ochako fanning her red face while walking around aimlessly among the crowd of people without even noticing him passing by her.

Denki stops in his tracks and catches Uraraka Ochako's hand.

Uraraka Ochako let's out a gah sound of surprise and turns around looking wild at who grabbed her hand unknowingly.

She smiles when she realises it is only Kaminari who has stopped her and sweatdrops and thinks, 'Ah I was unexpectedly about to use Gun Head's martial arts technique on him'.

When Kaminari worriedly asks Uraraka Ochako where she had left Midoriya?. As the poor boy was no where in sight.

Her brown eyes go wide and she comes to an realisation that she has left Deku on the ground floor at the water fountain bench and runs to search for him there.

For some reason, she felt bad for leaving Deku like that and she noticed Kaminari too is running behind her but his pace was quite slow compared to hers.

She soon reaches the water fountain bench area and finds Deku looking terrified sitting beside a creepy hooded boy who had his fingers oddly pressed around his neck adding pressure around the poor boy's throat occasionally.

Something in Ochako's mind screamed 'DANGER'.

Ochako gulps with fear and tries to keep her voice steady and asks the unknown hooded boy to remove his hand from Deku's neck and with a click of the tongue the hooded boy pulls his hand away from Deku's neck.

Midoriya falls on his knees panting for air. Ochako without keeping a cool head runs to Deku and rubs circles on his back.

Ochako's blood freezes when Deku with anger building in his voice asks Shigaraki Tomura what his plan is with All For One?.

The Villain looks back half-heartedly and says with mirth lacing each word in his voice, "Try not to die when we meet again Izuku Midoriya".

Tomura moves away while he tries to blend in with the moving crowd in front of him while clicking his tongue in anger. That's when his red ruby eyes fall on the blonde haired boy and he grins darkly and starts walking towards the angel who had ruined his plan at both the USJ and Hosu.

Denki stands at a distance seeing that Midoriya is unharmed and Tomura Shigaraki has moved away from the duo with a disgusted look but the cost was not clear for some odd reason Shigaraki Tomura is walking in his direction!.

Denki tries to keep his cool as Shigaraki Tomura stares at him with those deathly red eyes as he keeps moving closer towards Denki.

Denki could feel the fear sinking into his body as Shigaraki Tomura slowly inches near him and reaches out his hand towards Denki.

This action makes Denki shut his eyes tightly. Shigaraki Tomura with a force grabs Denki by the collar of the hoodie. 

Then, Tomura pecks Denki on the lips. 

This unexpected move by Shigaraki Tomura makes Denki's brain stop functioning.

Eh.. Ehhhhhhhhh!?.

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Seeing this unexpected situation in front of his own eyes taking place. 

Izuku feels something like a feral beast trying to claw its way out of chest and he on instinct activates his One For All quirk.

While Denki immediately opens his eyes at the feeling of cracked lips on his mouth and is about to push Shigaraki Tomura away from him, only for his eyes to go wide with fear when looks behind Shigaraki Tomura at the glittery beautiful green static energy of One For All quirk flowing around Izuku Midoriya.

'Did Midoriya's quirk always look this beautiful? He could not remember'.

At the same time, Uraraka Ochako can be seen  activating her quirk as well and placing her hands on Midoriya's shoulder so he can lunge himself forward towards them. 

But Tomura was quick to read the situation and pulled away from the kiss and muttered to himself, "Tsk, what is so special about you anyways?". 

Shigaraki Tomura looks at the flustered boy in front of him. He himself had no idea why he kissed him. He can't be here any longer he needed to move. Before he gets caught by the annoying Pro Heroes. 

Tomura walks past Denki and whispers near his ear softly, "Bye Angel".

Denki gets shocked at the soft tone of Shigaraki Tomura's voice and turns around to watch the black hooded boy swiftly blend in with the crowd before disappearing from the sight completely.

Only one question rang in Denki's mind, 'What game is Shigaraki Tomura playing with him?'.

As soon as Denki turns around to face his friends. He lets out a small cute eep sound. They both had appeared in the blink of an eye in front of Denki.

Denki was about to choke on air and he thought to himself, 'That was a quick response'.

They were too close to his face. They both started speaking at the same time with worried expressions clearly written on their foreheads and at the same time Midoriya's hands roamed around his body to check if he was hurt and while Uraraka Ochako squinted her chocolate brown eyes due  bright lights of the mall to look for signs of any invisible injury.

Denki shudders at his friends behaviour. His friends behaviour felt out of character to him.

Both Midoriya and Uraraka were speaking so fast now that he could not make sense of their words. When he was about to ask them to calm down. 

That's when all of a sudden he is hit with a wave of dizziness and feels the bile rising up throat. He needs to puke very badly and covers his mouth with his hand and disregards his friends looking at with extreme concern at his behaviour. 

As he was about to turn around to run the nearest restroom but only to be stopped by Midoriya.

Midoriya at the speed of lightning grabs his wrist and looks worriedly at Denki's face and he could literally see tears prickly in the corners of Denki's honey coloured golden eyes and asks him in a panicky tone, "What's wrong Kaminari- kun?". 

Izuku could not let Denki disappear out of his sight now as it was very risky as they both had an encounter with Shigaraki Tomura and it was still dangerous to let Denki runaway God knows where. What if Shigaraki Tomura is lurking around the corner waiting for the chance to pounce on his poor friend.  No no no!.. he can't let Denki get hurt again. Izuku starts to scowl. He needed to call All Might ASAP.

Denki somehow manages to say while still keeping his hand over his mouth, "Restroom...puke". 

Hearing this Izuku, immediately activates his quirk and uses full cowl and scoops Denki into his arms and rushes him to the nearest restroom and holds him as gently as he can.

Izuku literally swears in his mind as Denki looked like a fragile doll in his toned arms!.

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While carrying Denki to the restroom  earns them both weird and curious looks from the passersby.

Midoriya as gently as possible while keeping aware of his speed brings  Denki to the restroom. 

Upon seeing the restroom sign, Denki leaps out of Midoriya's arms. While Midoriya yells from behind him that he is going to wait for him here outside and Denki half-heartedly hears it and rushes into one of the stalls and empties all the rainbow content out of his stomach and after that he rinses his mouth- five times or maybe seven?. he has lost count of the number.

Then, he searches his both overall pockets and luckily finds his cocoa butter scented lip balm and gingerly applies it on to his lips.

Slowly, with a dreaded feeling building in his stomach Denki walks out of the restroom door.  Now He wanted to run away to his home and stay huddled in his  blanket and never come out of his room ever again. 

Sigh, what kind of Pro Hero in training does that lame thing. He shakes his head to remove the very thought of running back to his aunt's apartment.

Denki lifts his head and spots Midoriya. True to his words standing just outside the restroom door, texting someone on his phone with furrowed brows while his other hand held an energy drink bottle.

Feeling of someone staring at him makes Midoriya look up from his phone screen at Denki.

Midoriya walks up to Denki and softly asks, "How are you feeling?".

'No no no I am dying inside as this was my first ever kiss stolen by a villain.. how romantic isn't ? thank you very much next'. 

Denki shakes his head and replies after a pause while staring at Midoriya with a stoic face, "Kiss me".

Midoriya blinks his emerald eyes twice before looking flabbergasted and asks, "Excuse me .. WHAT!?".

Denki giggles and says, "Nothing ...just testing the waters" and reaches out to grab the energy drink from Midoriya's scarred hand and takes it from him and twists the cap to take a few sips. When all of sudden all his friends appear in front of him and he is bombarded by questions mostly from Ashido Mina and Kirishima  Erijiou and behind them he could see Jirou having tears in her eyes and even Mineta and Sero and Uraraka looked worriedly at him. While Iida Tenya tried to calm down his shaken friends.

At that moment, Midoriya's eyes flick to Uraraka Ochako who nods at him and says she has informed the police about Shigaraki Tomura's appearance at the mall and they will arrive soon and by then they asked them all to stay alert.

Soon, the class 1-A students move to the centre of the shopping mall and keep a close watch on Denki who now sat in the middle around them on the circular bench.

Denki could feel bullets sweating down his body at how intently Midoriya Izuku, Iida Tenya, Kirishima Erijiou and  Uraraka Ochako kept their eyes trained on him. 

Denki sighs and places his head in his palm, 'In which rabbit hole has he fallen into ? .He sighs to himself again mentally. 

Only to look up to see a policeman approaching his friend's group. 

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Soon, the police arrived at the shopping mall along with some of the famous local Pro Heroes of that area and the mall was forced to shut down and a thorough search was conducted and at the end there was no sign of Shigaraki Tomura and it was surmised that he had used a teleportation quirk to escape. 

After that the two police officers took both Denki and Izuku Midoriya to the station to take their statements individually. 

Denki's statement was taken by Mr.Tsuchahi. Denki was quite aware about the man's quirk and answered his questions quietly nodding his head. 

In his mind he prayed that both Midoriya and Uraraka not make mention of the unexpected kiss to the police or their to classmates. 

At the every thought Denki could feel the bile rising up his throat even when his stomach was empty but controls himself from vomiting in the interrogation room. 

After taking in their statements, they are finally allowed to go home and All Might is called to the police station. Denki assumes he must have come for Midoriya. While Denki is sadly informed that none of his family members can come to receive him. 

He will be dropped at his house by Mr Sansa. Denki nods his head softly with a sad look. Unfortunately Midoriya takes notice of this. When Denki turns around to follow Mr. Sansa towards the waiting police patrol car.

He hears his name being called and followed by frantic footsteps running towards him, "Kaminari-kun!".

Denki stoically turns around to face Midoriya who lets out a gasp when he sees the boy's features illuminated from the neon street lights giving him a soft glowy look but his sad eyes were quite noticeable.

Midoriya frowns and searches his pant pockets while Denki stares at his Greenette friend in confusion.

Midoriya smiles and brings up his fist up to be bumped. Denki bumps Midoriya's fist and Midoriya opens his fist and places a cute yellow sequin sea turtle keychain in his palms.

Denki stares at the yellow sequin sea turtle keychain in surprise and it looked so pretty and glittery in the streetlight.

From the cute little keychain, Denki looks up to meet Midoriya's hopeful green eyes and there is a flash of something else that Denki could not find the exact word to describe and sees the boy's cheeks covered in light pink blush but the does not shy away from his stare. 

'How can everyone call this boy a plain looking person. When you can obliviously see how handsome he is. Jeez those people really need to get their eyes checked'.

Denki is brought back from his thoughts by a fake cough by Mr. Sansa. The cat man tells him to hurry as he had other duties to attend to after this. 

Denki mutters an apology and gives Midoriya a small soft smile and says, "Thank you".

Denki gets into the car and shuts the door and the car starts moving

Midoriya stands watching the vehicle slowly drive away until he turns around to see his mom approaching him with a concerned look. 

Mrs Midoriya with tears in her emerald eyes pulls her son into a bear hug. 

Seeing this makes Denki's heart ache. Soon the car takes a left turn and the mother and son duo disappear from his sight.

Denki lets some of the fresh cold tears fall from his eyes.

Mr. Sansa takes notice of this but did not make mention of it.

After some time the car stops at the given address of Denki's apartment and Denki steps out of the car and bows towards the cat man as a form of gratitude and takes the elevator to his apartment floor.

Denki enters the quiet apartment and sees it dark at the entrance. 

Denki moves into the entryway while his hand searches for the light switch and confusedly calls out,"Lizzy?".

Then, he hears the dreaded voice which he did not want to hear, "Lizzy is at a slumber party hehe". 

Denki feels his blood run cold and something sharp is felt across his neck. 

It's coldness making Denki wince in pain. 

He realises what was happening but he was too late. He stumbles and falls on the floor with his back hitting the ground with a thud sound echoing in the quiet apartment building while the muscular person breathed heavily and straddled Denki's hips making him unable to move.

Then, there was a burst of sharp pain which ran across his neck.

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Damnit it! He was burning and freezing at the same time. Denki was struggling to breathe while his Uncle in his hysterical state kept digging the knife further into his delicate pale neck and at the same time kissing his mouth and neck with his own damn blood on repeat  and his piggy fingers kept twisting the bloody knife in his neck and his other free hand roamed around his body. Denki felt disgusted to the core. 

He wanted to scream but no words came out of his mouth. He was in too much pain to think properly.

He was struggling to control his quirk from going berserk and he was bleeding everywhere. He could feel his white hoodie soaking up his blood. 

'Ugh'. 

Denki blinks his eyes at the ceiling. His vision was going blurry. He needed to do something. 

'Think Denki come on Think!'.

His last resort was to scratch the man on the face and the smell of alcohol coming from the bastard only made Denki feel dizzy once again.

Denki's struggle only makes the man more angry and aggravated.  He growls like a wild beast and wraps his delicate wrists with his belt to make him immobile. 

Denki was burning and freezing in pain. He felt like he was losing consciousness now.

'Someone please help me he thinks with futility.....Midoriya........Bakugou..........anyone.. Sensei ....Mom'.

Denki could feel more tears rolling down his cheeks and his vision began to go black.

'Was he going to die like this all alone on the entryway floor while being assaulted by this piggy perverted bastard?'.

Then, suddenly all the lights of the hallway are turned on and the hallway becomes flooded with lights and there is a scream and shouting of his name.

Somewhere at Midoriya's residence.

Izuku woke up with a start from his pleasant sleep.  He did not know why but his heart was beating wildly in his chest. 

He heard someone scream his name in his sleep but that voice was distorted.

Izuku swings his legs to the side of his bed and looks at the clock on his bedside table.  The clock read 2:15am.

Izuku sighs and feels like he won't be getting any sleep now and decides to go for a quick jog at the beach side. The one he cleaned up  during his training with All Might before the UA entrance exam.

He quickly changes into his athleisure clothes and steps outside his house and makes sure to close the door quietly. And walks down the flight of stairs. 

The whole residence of his area was quiet and the night air was chilly. His hands started to ache at the biting cold. So, he puts them into his jacket pockets and starts walking towards Takoba Municipal Beach Park.

...

He reaches the beach and starts jogging around the track. He had put on his headphones. He was not a big fan of listening to music but he wanted to calm his racing thoughts. He opens a random music app and hits any genre of music.

Izuku resumes his jog and the random music starts flowing through his headphones.

🎶I've got another confession to make

So complicated let me try to explain

Don't want this feeling to go away

So it stays, it stays, it stays, it stays

Is it the way that you talk

That's causing me to freak?

Is it the way that you laugh

That's makin' my heart beat?

Is it the way that you kiss?

It's gotta be the way

You taste, you taste, you taste, you taste

You're such a gorgeous nightmare

Old habits never seem to go away

You make me feel brand new, yeah

We resurrect it's like I've come back to life

I feel so alive

I feel so alive

First impressions are hard to erase (hard to erase)🎶

Oddly this song reminded him of Kaminari Denki. His thoughts went back to their fight against Hero Killer : Stain. 

And how his red hooded cape fluttered in the wind while Denki stood on top of the broken street lamp looking very ethereal but deadly as the golden static energy crackling around him and how his honey golden eyes glowed majestically when he used his whip to attack Stain head on with no fear.

Izuku looked at the boy with a new light. The boy always knew what to say at the right time and how he helped him calm down during the exercise test against All Might and how easily he made his self doubts disappear like the wind. And how calmly he would listen to his quirk analysis and rambling without making fun of him with great interest. He was always there for his friends. But who was there for him...huh.

Izuku stops his jogging and thinks to himself, 'That's odd why did that thought come across  his mind. A sign of loneliness. Was Denki lonely?'.

Izuku tries to recall conversations or snippets where Denki never mentioned anything about his home life.. no he never once said anything related to his personal life except one kid who Todoroki Shoto had mentioned. What was his name again ah right ! A general course student's name Daichi had used his quirk to hurt him at the cafe.

Izuku is broken away from his thoughts when he feels his phone buzz in his pant's pocket. He pulls out his phone to check who was messaging him at 3:00am in the morning and stares at his phone in surprise. 

Speaking of the devil, it was Kaminari Denki who had messaged him . Izuku sits down on the bench and clicks open the message to read it after some time he frowns at the message sent by Denki. 

Something was not adding up or did not make sense to his mind. The message itself was weird. He waits for the boy's reply but sees that he has gone offline now.

Izuku sighs and puts his phone back into his pant's pocket and stares up the starry sky soon the sun will rise and it will be morning. 

He too should get back home and start packing for the training camp as day after tomorrow they were going to be taken to the forest lodge.

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Denki's worst nightmare had come true. His uncle before getting permanently admitted into the mental hospital had left him with a parting gift... 'A scar'.  

He could still hear his uncle's words and evil laugh still echoing fresh in his mind while he lay still on the hospital bed, 

"Hahaha now who will love you. .look at you!. You are all broken now hahahaha". 

His bloody uncle had slashed at his neck with a knife which left a jagged scar across his neck. 

Denki grimaces at the memory as the wound on his neck starts throbbing in pain again.

He was rushed to the hospital the very moment when his Aunt Kiko had returned from her night duty and found him on the floor bleeding everywhere, while her crazy husband kept on stomping on his unconscious body. Screaming at him to get up. 

It seems like her husband had an dissociative Identity disorder which went undiagnosed in the early stages of his rehab sessions.

His uncle was taken away by the medic personnel to the mental hospital while his aunt had speed dialled the ambulance number on her phone. His aunt was called in for interrogation at the police station on her husband's behaviour and previous history records at what he had done to Denki.

The day this all happened was when Denki had just gotten back after giving his statement at the police station about his encounter with Shigaraki Tomura at the shopping mall.

...

Upon reaching the hospital, the medical staff had to also call Recovery Girl for assistance as the wound kept on bleeding endlessly with no sign of stopping and he was a kiss away from death.

Luckily Recovery Girl's quirk sealed up the wound but left a nasty line of jagged pink scar running vertically across his neck to his collarbone.

In the end, Denki was feeling all drained out when Recovery Girl had her quirk administered on him.

At present, Denki now lay still on the bed with tears glistening in his honey golden eyes threatening to spill any moment. 

Luckily he did not manage to lose his voice. Just thinking about it makes his throat contract in pain. 

Denki could distinctly hear the doctor and nurses talking about his health condition with Recovery Girl just outside the door.

He did not want to hear the extent of his injuries.

Denki tries to reach for his phone placed on the table and grabs it and unlocks the screen and winces at the time. Who in their right mind would give him a reply. But Denki does not care he types in the message and hits on the send button.

He was not expecting to get an instant reply at 3:00am in the morning. Denki smiles at the enthusiastic message of Midoriya Izuku. 

                            Izuku Midoriya 

(Online)

Hey 

                     You up?

Hiii Kaminari-kun are you Excited for tomorrow's camping  trip?

 Yeah..

Totally 😁

Nenene Izuku-kun

Why did the banana go to the hospital?

Umm I am not good at guessing

Why did the banana go to the hospital?

Because it was not peeling well

OH MY GOD😂😂😂

Hahah nice one Denki-kun

Denki smiles at Midoriya's genuine reply and starts to feel sleepy and puts away his phone dazedly at the side table.

All the events of one day had taken a toll on his fragile body. But one thing he had failed to notice was a creepy shadowy distorted figure looming eerily at the end of the bed.

It grinned eerily before disappearing into the shadows of the night.

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The next day, Denki's phone starts pinging incessantly with messages.

Denki groans in sleep and pushes his face into the cold pillow  and curls in his sleep and waits for his phone to stop pinging but it doesn't stop instead he keeps on receiving messages.

Then, in his sleepy state he tries to search for his phone but feels only empty space near his bed.

'That's odd his phone was always on the right side of his bedside'. .

Then yesterday's incidents of memory came back with full force.

Denki's eyes fly open with fright. His vision is still clouded from sleep and he shakes his head to wake himself up. 

Denki felt his neck scar was burning and choking him at the same time. The intense pain makes him whimper.

Like a wounded animal, he tries to pull on  the bandages carefully wrapped around his delicate slender neck.  This movement causes the  heart machine to start making a beeping sound now.

Denki's eyes frantically dart round the empty cold white room before falling on the empty flower vase on the left side stand. 

With no thought, Denki jumps out from his bed and his cold feet touches the cold tiles of the hospital making him wince but in a dazed state, he  grabs the empty vase and smashes it onto the ground and grabs the largest glass shard piece and drags it along the delicate and sensitive skin of his thigh.  Then, starts dragging the shard more deeply along the skin.  

It felt cold and nice to see the blood trickle down his thigh and he felt an odd sense of satisfaction on seeing the  blood droplets falling down on the white polished floor. 

Denki stares emotionlessly at the blood falling on the ground.

He needed to 'cleanse himself'. 

His  blood was dirty and impure and touched by the cruel hands of the world. 

Seeing the blood slowly pooling beneath his feet made him  light-hearted for some odd reason and he groans at the realisation of what he has done.

Then, Denki in his confused state feels some type of cloth wrap around his waist pulling him away from the glass shards. 

He did not hear anyone enter the room. 

Who was it? Why is everything moving so slowly. Why does his mind feel stuffed with cotton?.

Denki languidly tries to touch the cloth material with his hand and whispers softly, "Eraserhead". 

Before becoming unconscious, he feels something cold inserted into his neck like a needle? A sedative to calm his nerves maybe?. 

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Denki could hear Recovery girl scolding someone maybe a doctor perhaps?.

Denki groans in his sleep and turns his body to the side and peeks with one eye open to see Recovery girl scolding a senior doctor for leaving him unattended.

She was fuming with anger.

Suddenly she turns around to look at him. Denki eeks in fear. And sits up straight immediately on the bed while trembling in fear and says, "Hello!".

Recovery girl walks up to his bed and pinches his both cheeks and says in a motherly tone, "You nearly gave me a heart attack when they called me in the early hours of the morning!".

Denki winces at the tone and looks down at the sheets covering his lower half of the body and mutters, "Sorry".

Recovery girl sighs and turns towards the senior doctor who trembles in fear and continues as if nothing has happened by asking the senior doctor to keep a good eye on him for the next coming five days as she right now had to hurry back to UA to send the some emergency medical supplies along with the teachers today as they were heading off to the training camp. 

The mention of training camp. Makes Denki yell in surprise then he starts coughing as the neck wound is still in the healing process.

After recovering from the coughing fit. Denki puts his hands together and pleads to Recovery girl to allow him to attend the training camp but she shakes her head in a stern manner and says she can't allow him to go as he needs constant monitoring.

Denki once again tries to convince Recovery girl to let him go to the training camp. Recovery girl was once again going to say 'no' only to be stopped. When the Senior doctor interrupts her and says, "It's better if he goes ma'am".

Recovery girl narrows her eyes dangerously at the senior doctor. The doctor yelps in fear and immediately shuts up his mouth. 

Then, Recovery girl asks the doctor in an icy tone to continue on why she should allow the poor boy to go?.

The senior doctor gulps and continues speaking as if he did not cower in fear just now and says, "Regarding his previous history. It's better if he goes because there will be multiple people there to keep an eye on him so he won't get the chance to do that due to the intake of heavy medication".

Recovery girl hums at the words of the senior doctor.

Denki's breath hitches once he hears the senior doctor make mention of his history of self harm.

'They know'.

Denki nervously looks at Recovery girl with hope in his amber eyes and starts twiddling with his fingers.

After some time, Recovery girl lets out a sigh and says, "Fine. I will allow it".

Hearing this makes stars appear in Denki's Golden eyes and he jumps with joy, "Yay!".

Only to go back to coughing badly. Recovery girl scolds him lightly and says to keep a notebook and a pen  or sticky note and not speak unnecessarily until his neck scar heals properly and reminds him to keep changing the bandage around his neck as she won't be there but she will make sure to inform Aizawa sensei about his condition.

...

After much convincing, coaxing and threatening from Recovery girl. Denki finally leaves the top two buttons of his school uniform undone in order for the skin around his neck and the bandages wrapped around it to breathe.

She reminds him once again that she has made someone among his friends group to act as her eyes which he  clearly knows is a lie or may not. But still manages to shudder at the thought and hopes it's not Bakugou Katsuki. 

Denki clearly knows she is only doing this to make sure he does not put on a jumper or black turtleneck on his healing injury but he himself adheres to her words as he very much better than an anyone knows what happens to an injured skin if not treated properly and walks along with her towards the waiting school bus at the parking lot.

Before Kaminari Denki reached the school bus.

Aizawa Shouta was informed about the problem child's condition before just a few minutes ago even though he visited the child yesterday at the hospital but the latest message sent by Recovery Girl on his phone made his blood pressure spike when he read what type of meds he was on and he was in need of constant monitoring. 

Shouta rubs his temples. He was already feeling a tension headache setting in before the start of the trip.

The class 1-A students sat in their respective seats and stared at their sensei who rubbed his head absentmindedly while staring at the phone clutched tightly in his hand.

Mina Ashido whispers to Kirishima Erijiou , "I wonder why it is taking so long to leave. The Class 1-B bus already left 15 minutes ago". 

Kirishima Erijiou with knitted eyebrows looks back at Iida Tenya, "I dunno maybe the class president can ask sensei".

Iida Tenya too was confused by the situation and was about to get up to ask but only to be stopped

When Aizawa sensei informs them that they are moving a bit delayed then the decided schedule warns them not to ask Kaminari Denki anything related to his condition and to also keep an eye on his behaviour. If they take notice of anything usual in his manner or action come directly to him.

Now the whole class was confused about what exactly happened to their sunshine in two days?. 

While Ashido Mina in a whiny tone voiced everyone's single thought which they all had in their minds.

"Eh!!! Why not sensei?".

They knew that the said boy was not responding to their group messages but now they felt extremely worried about him. 

And speaking of the devil, Kaminari Denki just entered the bus looking all  pale and skinny with a white bandage wrapped around his delicate neck with noticeable scars of different pastel blue and pink colors peeking around the bandage. 

His fake smile had sent a warning alarm in class 1-A's minds.

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Denki and Aizawa sensei stared at each other as if a silent agreement had passed between the two and nodded at each other and broke away from the eye contact.

Denki stands in the aisle and musters up a fake smile and directs it at class 1-A students as they keep on staring at him with different expressions.

Dammit he could not look them in the eye.

Denki can see from the corner of his eye, Aayoma Yuga staring at him with great interest. Since when did the soon to be traitor begin to get interested in him and why? . Should he not be keeping an eye on the star of the show : Izuku Midoriya?.

'weird'. 

Denki wordlessly walks past Todoroki Shoto and Aayoma Yuga's seats and sits at the very back of the bus.

His friends all turn around and look at him with extreme concern.

Denki felt too exposed without the black turtleneck which used to hide his scars and the bandage around his throat made his throat constrict now at all the undeserved attention he is receiving. Deep down he felt he did not deserve his classmates love and care.

Denki shuts his eyes for some time and feels the bus driver starting the bus engine. 

Soon, the bus starts moving out from the school campus and now they are on their way to the training camp.

After a few minutes, he could hear his friends chattering loudly and felt someone staring intensely at him.

Denki puts his somewhat charged airpods into his ears and plays a random song on his phone app.

🎶Then she fell in love with a pill that could take away all her pain, uh

Then she fell in love with a whole new drug that could fill her veins, and then

She's high (high)

She lives in the sky

Tonight, she's satisfied (satisfied)

Rolling back her eyes

But then she starts to cry (to cry)

Everything is turning to black

All in one night (one night)

She just went to heaven and back (back) 🎶 

Feeling satisfied with the choice of the song being played. Denki closes his eyes for a while and leans back on the seat and tries to get as comfortable as possible and doesn't even care even if his scars are exposed to his teammates. 

The meds he was on made him feel good and high with giddiness. His mind was clear this time with not a single depressed thought. 

He seriously needs to ask Recovery Girl about the meds name after getting back from this training camp and slowly feels himself drifting into a blissful sleep.

After a minute or so, everyone was either sleeping or chatting. 

Then, Mineta Minrou could be heard while defending his words while speaking to Rikido Sato loudly. Not known to the fact that what he was saying was heard by some of his classmates.

"Hey you just don't get the gist of what I'm saying! Some scars look cool Rikido!!".

This prompt makes Izuku stop writing his bits and pieces of information in the hero analysis book and he turns back to glance at Denki with his curious virdian eyes. He lets his eyes roam at Denki's sleeping form. Before settling on his neck Lichtenberg scars which were protruding out from his neck as the boy had leaned back in his sleep. The scars were  visible peeking around the white bandage wrapped around his neck. The scars looked like tree branches and were in pastel blue and pink light colours.

Usually these scars were gross to look at but on Denki it was a different story. They simply enchanted his already alluring features. 

Now with his airpods dead and the feeling someone staring at him.

Denki opens his eyes looks straight ahead and spots his Greenette friend sneaking glances at him.

Denki notices Mineta Minrou getting up from his seat excitedly to get pocky sticks from Ashido Mina. As she distributed some of the snacks which she had brought along with her, to some of her classmates who sat beside her.

A mischievous idea comes in Denki's mind. 

He gets out a yellow sticky note from his pants's pocket and clicks on his pen and writes on it and sticks the note on the poor boy's big forehead. This action makes Mineta yell, "Hey!".

Denki smiles at Mineta and tells him to show the sticky note to Midoriya while he is none the less going in the same direction. 

Reluctantly, Mineta Minrou walks up to Midoriya's seat and points at the yellow sticky note stuck on his big forehead and Midoriya reads the sticky note and immediately goes pink and pulls the sticky note from Mineta's forehead and hides it in his trembling hands. 

This action makes Midoriya receive weird looks from the Dekusquad.

On the sticky note. It was written in cursive handwriting-

Stop staring at me stalker jr :p

Denki grins at Midoriya's priceless reaction. 

He was starting to feel better now.

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One hour into the bus ride, 

Denki sat at the very end of the back of the bus lost in his own thoughts,

'Any minute they would soon reach the cliff side of the road' .

That's when he is broken away from his thoughts by the growling sounds his stomach was  making. He had not eaten much since he left the hospital in the early hours of the morning after getting discharged immediately from the hospital even though Recovery Girl was strictly against the idea of letting him go to the training camp but he needed to be there. He needed to save his classmates from the Villain Vanguard squad that's why he pleaded like a little kid in front of Recovery Girl even resorted to throwing tantrums if plan A did not work. But eventually it worked in the end.

He sighs and finally gets up from his seat  and walks up to the front of the aisle seat and sets himself down with a thump next to Kirishima Erijiou. 

The red haired boy looks surprised to see Denki sitting next to him. It was as if he was not expecting him to sit next to him.

Denki winks at him and turns to Ashido Mina and asks her in his soft voice, "Ashido-san do you have any cookies and cream pocky flavor left?".

Ashido Mina nods instead of replying because she did not trust her mouth  What if she blurts out something and what if her actions hurt Denki's feelings mentally so she quietly digs into her backpack and hands Denki the cookies and cream pocky sticks.

Denki whispers back, "Thanks". And opens the packet and bites into the stick chewing on it quietly.

Denki could see Aizawa sensei looking at him from the corner of his eye before turning to look forward in front of him.

"Um".

Denki turns to look at Kirishima Erijiou who looks worriedly at him before his red eyes immediately move away from his scarred neck bandage and musters up the courage and asks him, "Dude are you feeling ok?".

Denki hums for a while. Then grins at the boy next to him and says his next words very carefully with such precision that the whole class hears him say, "I feel much better as long as you don't ask me about my scars". And with that he goes back to munching on his pocky stick happily despite his throat feeling like a raw sandpaper when he tried to  swallow the food down his throat.

His whole classmates just heard the whole conversation between him and Kirishima Erijiou and they all had one single thought, 

'Did he implicitly threaten us against asking about his scars?'.

Then, everyone goes quiet clearly shaken by their sunshine's strange behavior. They all frowned in their minds as they felt Denki was putting up an invisible shield around him.

After a few minutes they all were asked by Aizawa Sensei to step down from the bus.

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The bus stops at the cliffside of the mountain and everyone is asked to get off the bus by Aizawa sensei. 

Denki steps out while humming to himself and stands next to the masked boy, Mezou Shouji.

Shouji looked surprised to see Denki standing next to him. As they hardly spoke to each other during the four months of their start into Pro-Hero in training school.

Shouji being an observant person was quite aware of how Kaminari was admired by the majority of his classmates and how even Todoroki Shoto, Bakugou Katsuki, Midoriya Izuku and the class president considered him as their rival despite his fragile appearance his quirk was deadly strong. 

Some days Shouji would rack his brain on how he  could defeat Kaminari's quirk if they happen  to go against each other in the Heroic Class in the near future but nothing comes into his mind. He felt more inferior when he came to know how strategically Kaminari used his quirk to defeat Principal Nezu against his own quirk at the end of the term exercise test. But is soon broken away from his thoughts when he hears enthusiastic voices of two  ladies dressed in cat  costumes introducing themselves to be 'Wild, Wild Pussycats'. An excited Midoriya who continues telling everyone how the Pro Hero team who stood in front of them were specialists in mountain regions where their expertise came very handy during natural disasters.. Only to be stopped by Pixie-Bob's cat claws' placed on his face as she glared at him as they were going to say that in their little introduction but he had ruined their little kitty cat introduction. 

Meanwhile, Denki catches Izumi Kouta staring at him or rather at his scars with curiosity. Denki winks and waves in the direction of kouta only for the little boy to get flustered and look the other way.

Then, as if stuck by lightning his friends start running away from there to the bus. While Denki stood there calmly with his twitching eye muttering under his breath, "It's useless". 

Denki activates his quirk to make his fall smooth from the landslide quirk of Pixie-bob. He can hear the shrieks of friends and the earth dirt flowing in his direction. The fall was okay not like the first time. He landed on his feet perfectly while his friends coughed behind him covered in dirt. 

Denki felt unimpressed by Pixie-Bob's quirk usage.  What if someone did not have the right quirk and had gotten hurt suddenly without any warning they were going to chuck like a bag of potatoes into the forest and ask to return to the  camp grounds in three hours! These people really loved showing off their quirks without thinking about the consequences!.

Denki is broken away from his thoughts  when he starts to feel the ground  beneath his feet vibrating as 5 more beasts approach his classmates out of the dense forest.

One of the earth beasts was about to crush Mineta Minrou by its foot But Midoriya saved him by using full cowl. And uses his quirk to punch the beast only to realise that it's made of dirt and mud. 

More five beasts emerged from the forest followed by more behind them. Denki uses his quirk to burst the nearby three beasts with the dirt falling in all directions and uses his quirk to jump on to the tree branch as he knew soon the ground below him will become a battlefield between the monsters and his friends and he did want to get caught in the crossfire. 

He decides to operate from above and  was the safest option for him right now. 

Denki screams from above at Iida Tenya, "Chop chop class president please say  the magic words". 

Iida Tenya is broken out of his reverie when he hears Denki's soft voice giving him a command.

Iida Tenya composes himself uses his class president's tone, "Everyone lets do our best and reach the camp side in three hours!".

"Hai!" Replies each one of class 1-A students.

Everyone starts using their quirks to bring down the beasts of the forest. Denki tries his best to bring down some earth beast by himself. 

He grits his teeth whenever he feels his scars burning. Ahead of him, he spots Bakugou Katsuki and Todoroki Shoto bantering with each other but still worked as a team reluctantly. Denki was so lost in his thoughts that he stumbled while landing on the next tree branch. 

Denki let out a small yelp when he felt his feet slipping. How he wished he had on his wing boots  right now. 

Denki saw a flash of green blur and felt warm hands slipping underneath his knees and a hand placed on back. Denki blinks his honey coloured eyes  and looks up at Midoriya Izuku who looks down at him with worry and ask him, "Kaminari-kun are you alright?". 

Denki gets an angry mark on his forehead and playfully punches him in the face, "Put me down ! Do I look like some damsel in distress!". 

Midoriya lets out a nervous laugh and puts him down gently on the tree branch and moves himself forward with his full cowl to help Iida Tenya to defeat two beast monsters in front of him. 

Denki was about to jump onto the next tree branch when he heard Tokyoyami shout his name,

"Kaminari-kun catch".

Denki reaches his hand out to grab the item thrown towards him by dark shadow. Denki looks at the item in his palm. It was a whip that looked somewhat similar to his support weapon. 

Then, he heard Yaoyorozu Momo's voice from beneath the tree who just used a cannon ball to blast away the beast monsters which had blocked their path.

Yaoyorozu with a proud face and smile says, "I made that prototype whip for you from my creation quirk. I am not sure how your original one works". She whispers the last part ashamed that she did not know the working mechanism of his support weapon.

Denki smiles and replies softly, "No, this is quite alright. Thank you Yaoyorozu- san". 

Denki jumps in the air and slashes the  whip into the air that sends electrical current waves at the earth beast monsters. 

Denki smiles to himself the prototype whip worked just fine with his quirk although he could feel blood dripping from the corner of his mouth. 

'Shit he needed to move fast'. 

The signs of quirk overuse were appearing quite fast then he anticipated.

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After sometime around evening.

The sun was setting in the distance illuminating the orange sky as each of the class 1-A students emerged from the forest covered in dirt and bruises. The worst one out of them was Denki who kept on swaying from side to side while he walked behind his friends. 

His white shirt was covered in his own dried blood and his scars were burning and his throat was throbbing, overall his entire body was hurting him.

Tiredly he slumped against a nearby tree trunk for some support.

Meanwhile, Pixie-bob teased his friends shamelessly and then called dibs on Iida Tenya, Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki and Todoroki Shoto. As they had performed extraordinarily well in this type of unexpected situation.

Denki slightly sweatdrops at  the sight of the funny scene. Then, Denki catches Aizawa sensei staring at him with extreme concern. It must be because he was covered by his own bloody blood.

Denki pushes himself away from the tree trunk and walks forward and stands in the middle of Bakugou Katsuki and Todoroki Shoto. 

Then, Izuku Midoriya started moving towards Izumi Kouta to introduce himself.

Denki could feel himself choking on his blood and starts coughing in his hand and starts seeing black spots appearing in his vision. 

He lets out a quite shaky voice, "Todoroki.. Bakugou.. please catch me. I am going to faint". 

Both Todoroki Shoto and Bakugou Katsuki whip their heads around at Denki. when they hear Denki's quiet voice almost in a pleading way. They frown at the boy's sentence.

Both the duo quickly catch him from each side. Before Denki's eyes rolled behind the back of his head. The last thing Denki sees before he faints completely is Midoriya getting punched in the balls by Kouta.

'Ouch. what a memorable thing to remember before fainting'.

...

Denki's eyes flutter open and he looks around the quiet room painted with cat pawn prints. Then, he hears a little voice saying, "Ah you are awake!". Denki looks to his left side to see Izumi Kouta jump from the high stool and run outside the door. Denki sits up and sees that his clothes were changed.

He now had on a  blue cookie monster onesie. On instinct Denki's hand moves to his bandages wrapped around his neck. It seems like someone had changed them as well.

Then, Denki's attention moves to the frantically footsteps of someone running in the corridor. The door slides open to reveal Aizawa sensei panting lightly as he walks into the room and looks at Denki up and down before asking if he was in pain or felt anything. To which Denki reassured Aizawa sensei that he was fine.

Aizawa sensei then asks him if he is able to eat with friends in the dinning room or if not he can have his dinner here.

Denki replies that he will have dinner with his friends. Denki walks into the  dining room and smiles when he sees his friends digging into their own food lost in their own little world. 

Denki slowly moves towards the empty seat beside koda koji. Koda looks skeptically at Denki before continuing on putting more rice into his bowl. 

Denki gives him a soft smile and grabs a bowl of spinach soup towards him and starts slurping and lets the flavour and warmth of the soup warm up his cold body and throat. 

After the hearty dinner. The class 1-A students headed towards the outdoor spring bath to relax their tired achey muscles. While Denki goes to grab a  clothes basket from the boys changing room only to stop in his tracks when he takes notice of  Mineta Minrou in a creepy way grinning at his phone. 

Denki with a frown looks at the boy and quickly understands the boy's perverted intention and walks up behind him quietly and quickly grabs the phone from his sweating hands while the boy is lost in an ecstasy dreaming state. 

Denki uses his quirk to burst Mineta's phone. Mineta whips his head around and stares at him with a shock face. 

Denki gives Mineta his angelic smile and hands the phone back into the boy's trembling angry hand while the boy screams in rage and says, "Y-y-you ruined my brand new phone. What's your big deal KAMINARI!?'.

'Eh the boy dropped all the honorifics  now' were Denki's thoughts.

Mineta's angry words caught the attention of Iida Tenya, Kirishima Erijiou and Rikido Sato who were nearly half undressed to go and take a dip into the hot spring.

The three stared at the scene not knowing how to approach the two boys as the situation has already escalated out of their hands before being intervened. 

Denki does not mind it at all.  He did what he was supposed to do. He starts walking away from there nonchalantly only for Mineta Minrou to say with burning rage, "Hmph what crawled up his ass and died!. The Kaminari I know is an angel who would usually keep to himself instead this fake one keeps butting in other people's private business!".

Kirishima Erijiou tries to calm Mineta, "Shush! Mineta that's enough-". 

Both boys look up at the ceiling lights to see the lights flickering eerily.

Then, they both look at Denki and gulp in fear while Iida Tenya and Sato Rikido stand there paralysed by fear when they see Denki giving a death glare over his shoulder.

His eyes too happened to glow in a frightening way and then in a very quiet and scary tone Denki said, "You better sleep with one eye open" and with that Denki quickly grabs the clothes basket and walks out of the changing room not bothering to see that Mineta Minrou had pissed his pants in fear.

Chapter Text

On the way out of the changing room, Denki bumps into Midoriya but does not stop and takes a turn around the corridor. Before Midoriya could even stop him. 

Izuku looks back worriedly at his friend walking away from him  without even stopping. 

A few minutes ago, he heard some commotion  coming from the changing room and the flickering of lights occurring in the kitchen as well while he, Tokoyami and Ojiro helped Mandalay  in washing the dishes.  The flickering lights made Mandalay go out and check if something was wrong with the electrical fuse box and Izuku had his own doubts.

Izuku wonders what was wrong with his friend as he was behaving rather unusually strange than his usual self. 

Izuku looks back one more time at the end of the corridor and hopes in his mind that the boy was toying with him. Maybe he is toying with him. Izuku sighs and quietly turns around to walk into the changing room.

...

Denki lets out a sigh of content at the steaming hot water coming from the shower head. Even the private stalls were quite big and luxurious then he had imagined. The water was just the right temperature and he did want to walk out of the stall  but sadly he had to step out. Otherwise his would go all wrinkly if he stayed much longer. 

He puts on a pair of night shirt and shorts both had cute teddy bears sleeping on the clouds kind of print. 

He felt embarrassed while putting on his night shirt as all his  clothes for the trip were packed by his Aunt Kiko while he was in the hospital and he can hundred percent guarantee that his aunt packed his suitcase in a hurry while being already late for her duty .

Then, Denki proceeds to apply some good amount of the body lotion and which leaves his skin feeling like a newborn baby. 

He walks out of the private shower area to grab his luggage from the infirmary room. Only to stop when he hears the quiet voice of Mandalay narrating the tragic story of Kouta's parents to Midoriya.

Denki stops and leans against the wall. He did not have the heart to enter the room and the timing was not correct either. 

So, he stood there dumbly waiting for the topic to change only for him to sneeze loudly.

"ACHOO!".

Denki curses at himself and rubs his nose and hears shuffling of feet walking out the room.

"Kaminari-kun!".

Denki looks at Midoriya tiredly and replies with the same enthusiastic way Midoriya called him just now

"Midoriya-kun!".

Midoriya looks taken back at the taunting tone. Denki grimaces at the sound of his voice and the new meds were making him feel either guilty or high. 

"I need to get my luggage from the infirmary room". 

Midoriya goes quiet with a hurt expression moves out of his way while Denki goes in and grabs his said luggage and  walks out of the room into the empty hallway. 

He sighs. Midoriya had left him. 

He should not have spoken to him in that manner. He needs to apologise to the sweet boy. 

Denki tiredly runs his fingers through his semi-dried hair.

'Sigh. What is wrong with him?'.

Out of the corner of his eye, he sees a shadowy figure glitching in the corner of the hallway. 

Denki frustratedly yells out, "Who is there!".

Upon getting no reply, Denki clicks his tongue and drops his luggage on the floor and runs towards the shrouded corner of the corridor.

Only to stop and see that it was a dead end and no one there. Denki could feel his heart beat wildly in his chest.

'No no no'.

'What was happening to him'.

He sits down on the floor and brings his knees to his chest and hides his face in between his knees and starts sobbing.

'This is too much'.

Chapter Text

Denki does not know how much time has passed or how long he sat there sobbing his eyes out. He sniffles once again. 

He felt someone's footsteps approaching towards him with careful steps. But still he does not raise his head and  look up. 

He was too tired. Too drained. His behaviour hurted the person whom he truly loved and admired.

Then, he feels a finger lifting his chain up to stare into the obsidian eyes of Aizawa sensei. 

Shouta was in panic mode on the inside. When he was informed by a worried Iida Tenya. They could not find Kaminari Denki anywhere after the hot spring incident which occurred between Kaminari Denki and Mineta Minrou.

Aizawa Shouta starts searching every nook and cranny of the facility. Shouta felt the dread setting into his bones. What if the child got kidnapped by the villain league?.

He clicks his tongue at the unpleasant thought and he is about to go and call Vlad King to help him search the premises for the child. 

Only to stop in his tracks when he hears soft sobs echoing down the hallway. He starts moving towards the dead end of the hallway.  

To find  his problem child  sitting alone in the hallway and crying his heart out. 

Shouta's heart ached at the sight of the child. Shouta did not know how to comfort the child as the child kept to himself mostly which was usually not a good sign. And on top of what his uncle did to inflict him with a mental and physical pain. Shouta knew he was threading on the water at the moment. 

He had to calm down the child first somehow. He starts walking towards the child with precise calculated steps and crouches down on the floor and lifts the child's chin and asks, "Do you want to talk about it". 

Denki feels more tears and spill from his  eyes as he shakes his head. 

Aizawa sensei softly says, "You can tell me anytime. Just think of me as a friend". 

Denki nods his head with a small smile and stops crying and says quietly, "Sorry for always causing you the  unnecessary trouble sensei". 

Shouta scowls at the word "always".

The boy never caused any trouble in class. He was a good kid. What did he mean by "always?". Shouta felt confused by this use of the word.

Aizawa sensei shakes his head, "You never did cause any unnecessary trouble in the first place". 

Aizawa sensei gets up and extends his hand out towards Denki to grab it and says, "Come on now. let's get you back to your room. Tomorrow is going to be a big day of training ahead of us" . 

Denki rubs his red puffing eyes and says with a bright smile, "Yes sensei!".

After a few minutes, Denki enters the boys dormitory room. 

Everyone stops their chattering and goes quiet and stares at Denki's red puffy eyes. 

Denki quietly walks inside while his friends keep on staring at him. 

Denki takes the farthest corner in the room and places his luggage on the floor and opens his bag and takes out his pill box. And takes out one pink and white pill  and pops them into his mouth and takes a few sips from the water bottle and places it near his pillow and quietly lies down on the futon and pulls the sheets over his head and goes to sleep.

After some time light snores could be heard coming from the tired boy who was fast asleep now. 

His classmates let out a sigh of relief to see the boy was fine but they were very shaken up  when they could find him. After some time it's light out and everyone goes to sleep.

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The Second Day at the training camp 

They all had to wake up at 7:30am in the morning and get dressed in their  summer P.E. sports uniforms and they all had  a quick breakfast. 

Now the time was 8:10am, all the class 1-A students stood outside the facility in front of Aizawa sensei.

Denki was freezing while he stood outside and subconsciously half hugged Todoroki Shoto's left side. 

It seemed like the half cold half hot quirk user did not mind him hugging his left side at all. So Denki did not move from his position. Denki sleepily looks in front of him to see Aizawa sensei handing Bakugo the quirk assessment ball.

Everyone looks excited with interest as the ball will show how much they have progressed so far in three months and they were all confident that Bakugo Katsuki's score would be much higher than before.

Sero Hanta and Ashido Mina started placing bets among their friends excitedly. 

While Bakugo Katsuki  steps forward and with a grinning look starts rotating his arm and throws the ball with the use of his quirk and looks back proudly at his classmates and friends and waits for Aizawa sensei to announce his score.

Denki closes his eyes as he already knew what the result was going to be. He starts counting in his head mentally  '1..2...3'. 

He hears the shocked gasps of his classmates on seeing Bakugo Katsuki's score. 

Then, Aizawa sensei casually with a stoic look goes on explaining since three months they all had concentrated on improving their quirks no doubt but one thing they all failed to focus on was  strengthening it.

Aizawa sensei then grins darkly and ends his speech by saying please don't die on him during the brutal training.

Everyone goes pale at the words except the time traveler.

Soon their Hellish Training Week officially begins.

...

Soon the Wild, Wild Pussycats make their appearance and they start dividing the students according to their quirk type. 

At the end, Denki is left standing with Midoriya Izuku. Denki looks at Pro Hero Tiger approaching them in a menacing way as if he would pounce on them at any given moment. 

Denki lets out a small yelp and hides behind Midoriya. 

Midoriya looks surprised at Denki's action. Only to go trembling as Tiger stood at his full height and scratched his chin with his cat claw hand and spoke, "Oya you are that kid the one who breaks his bone during fights mostly? What was your name again.. Izuku Midoriya?".

Midoriya shrieks in fear but looks up at Tiger with burning determination in his eyes, "Yes sir!".

Tiger's eyes glint at the boy's enthusiasm and then his eyes move to Denki.

At the look, Denki tries to shrink himself behind Midoriya's back while Tiger analyzes the fragile boy in front of him. 

Finally, he comes to a conclusion. And said by placing his cat claw on top of Denki's head, "You have a good head on your shoulders. What I want you to do is grab that yoga mat from the equipment basket and meditate and on random intervals I will call you to spar with this bone breaking  kid and that kid who has a sentient quirk called Dark Shadow. Got it?". 

Denki nods his head. And sees Midoriya walking away with Tiger in the corner of the forest to get trained. 

Denki goes to grab the yoga mat from the equipment basket while being mindful of his friends using their quirks nearby. To his right side, Bakugou Katsuki was creating extremely big explosions and while Todoroki Shoto to his left was using both of his quirks simultaneously. And Iida Tenya ran mindlessly around the area at full speed and Uraraka Ochako was floating in an air bubble which moved up and down in the sky.

Everyone was busy concentrating on strengthening their quirks and he felt guilty that he was the only one who had it easy this time. 

But hey he was not complaining. He sets the mat down under the shaded tree and sits down cross legged and goes to mediate. 

He was soon broken away from his concentration when Class 1-B let's out a surprise yell at their intense training.

Denki looks at their paled and terrified expression as Tiger walks towards them again in that same fashion which he had earlier done with them as well.

Denki soon turns his head back to go meditating only to stop when he hears the sound of rustling bushes coming from behind him.

He gets up to see Izumi Kota peeking at their training. 

Denki quietly walks behind the boy garbs his red hat. And puts the red cap on his head and crouches down at the boy's eye level. 

The little boy let out a yelp when he felt his hat being lifted off his head and yelled "Hey".

Only for his expression to turn to surprise upon seeing it was one of the students from the hero course.

Kota narrows his eyes and pretends to make an angry face. Denki smiles at the little boy's behaviour and tilts his head and asks the boy softly, "Do I look cool in this hat?"

Kota immediately yanks the hat placed on top of Denki's head and makes a  hmph sound and says in an irritated tone,"No you look ugly".

Denki just smiles at the boy's action. 

The boy in front of him reminded him of Bakugo Katsuki. 

Kota takes notice that Denki was unfazed by his actions and decides to walk away by stomping his shoes.

Denki starts giggling at the boy's actions which prompts the boy to run away from there. 

'How cute!'

Denki is brought back by his musings by Midoriya's nervous voice, "Um Kaminari-kun. Tiger-san is calling you to spar with Tokoyami and Dark Shadow".

Denki gets up and dusts his pants and walks past Midoriya to Tokoyami to spar with him.

...

It was past 7:00pm and they were dismissed from their Hellish Training for the day.

Denki had lost track of time while sparring with Dark shadow. Dark shadow just seemed to get faster and faster during sunset hours. 

After 11 hours of hellish training they were dismissed while the failed students were dragged to remedial classes for which continues for the next four hours. 

...

Denki took a quick shower while the rest of his friends were back in the hot spring. After the quick hot shower. Denki walked back to their assigned room and saw that the futons were freshly laid out. Denki felt his bone ache after the long hours of training. 

He lies down on the random futon not  caring whose it was and tried to take a power nap soon his nap turned to sleep.

...

Denki could hear his name being called in his sleep. He furrows in his sleep and curls up into a ball making himself as small as possible. He did not want to get up he was so tired. 

"Oi Sunshine wake up!". 

He hears the gruff voice of Bakugo Katsuki.

Seeing the boy showing no sign of waking up. Katsuki clicks his tongue and pokes the fragile boy on the cheek while whispering softly, "Kaminari-kun get off from my futon". 

The scent of strong caramel emitting from the ash blonde boy makes Denki groan in his sleep and turns to his other side. Bakugou gets an angry mark on his head and he lets out an angry explosion sound. 

Denki sleepily pulls the covers over the top of his head with shivering hands while muttering quietly with a defiant, "No".

While on the other hand, Iida Tenya reprimands Bakugo Katsuki for using his quirk to harm their fragile classmate.

Kirishima Erijiou pats Bakugou lightly on his back and says the room is quite big so he can sleep anywhere.  

Katsuki huffs and walks away from there and grabs an extra blanket from closet while Kirishima thinks that Bakugou is going to hit Denki with the blanket and moves to stop him only to become surprised when he sees Bakugou dumping the blanket on top of Denki's shivering form. 

Katsuki smiles when he sees Denki has stopped shivering and moves away from there to grab an extra futon and places it next to deku. 

Midoriya looks at Bakugo with surprise. Bakugo uses his quirk again to scare off Deku and says in a semi- loud voice with no biting tone, "Mind your own business you damn nerd!" . 

While the rest the class sweatdrops and thinks 'Some things don't change do they?'.

Chapter Text

On the third day of the training camp,

Today Denki had to spar with Izuku Midoriya.

'Move left .No right. No.no again to your left'.

Denki was avoiding getting punched from Midoriya's quirk as he knew how powerful his quirk is. 

At the same time, Denki could hear the two boys from class 1-B, Jurota let out a low whistle while Rin stared at them fighting with amazement. He mostly focused on Kaminari. 

The said boy moved with such grace and flexibility and at such an incredible speed made Rin feel jealous.

Denki was starting to get tired now he knew his Greenette friend was not going to go easy on him as Tiger had basically threatened Midoriya to at least land a punch on the electric quirk user  otherwise he is going to increase his training hours.

Denki out of the corner of his eye takes notice of Midoriya curling his left hand into a fist 'was he feinting?'. 

Denki moves away from the left side then realizes he was not feinting. Denki was too late with wide eyes he stumbles on his feet and loses his balance. He was about to fall face forward only to be caught by Midoriya who panted heavily while the One For All energy crackled in the air brightly around them. 

Denki does not let the opportunity go to waste and punches Midoriya on the chin. 

Midoriya was not expecting this move and stumbles on his feet and stares with surprise at Denki. And it seems One For All too has deactivated. 

On the other hand, Tiger and Aizawa Shouta watched the fight with amusement at Kaminari Denki who used the stumbling part as an opportunity to defeat Midoriya. 

Tiger laughs heartily at Midoriya's defeat and says, "You have an interesting batch this time. What is that boy aiming for?. Is he trying to become an Underground Pro Hero just like you?".

Aizawa Shouta sighs and says tiredly, "Can't be too sure. The career plan of students is usually decided in their third year".

Tiger hums at the Aizawa's words.

Aizawa jumps down from the cliff and calls Kaminari to get his neck bandage changed. 

While Midoriya stares at Kaminari walking away from him towards Aizawa sensei and watching them walk to the facility.

Izuku runs his scarred hand through his hair and grits is teeth in confusion. He had finally got a hang of his quirk but the only problem was that whenever he used his quirk against Kaminari it went 'soft'.  Just Like a human emotion. It's as if the quirk does not want to hurt Kaminari. 

'His quirk was resisting'.

On the other hand, the quirk also went wild during the Hosu incident when he had seen Kaminari coughing up blood during his fight against Stain. Izuku was too confused more like super confused by the malfunction of his quirk.

Right now, he needed All Might to answers these questions as he was the predecessor of this quirk and he might have some clue but sadly he knew that all might can't come here as the villains had kept him as their target. And he felt like he was left on a thread barely hanging. 

Izuku sighs only to go still when he suddenly feels the menacing presence of someone standing behind him. He slowly turns around to look over his shoulder to see Tiger cracking his knuckles and speaking in a menacing tone which makes him squeak in fear, "Oya you lost to the pretty kitten that means you have to train  for more than 4 hours~". 

Midoriya bows his head in fear and says, "Yes Sir!". 

Then, Tiger turns towards the two class 1-B boys who tremble in fear at the sight of the man. As he moved like an angry feline towards them and said, 

"I don't see any progress here like those two". 

He brings out his cat claws which glinted dangerously in the setting sun's rays. 

"Get back to training".

...

Denki walked out of the infirmary whistling to himself. His neck scar finally closed up and he was bursting with joy. 

He spots his friends preparing curry outside the facility. 

He starts moving towards Bakugo Katsuki to help him chop up some of the vegetables. 

On the way, he overheard the conversation between Todoroki Shoto and Midoriya Izuku.

Todoroki Shoto was saying to Midoriya that he should not meddle in sensitive matters since it was a thing which he could not stop himself from doing.

Denki could not himself from saying, "The denial  is a river in Egypt and the kid is fine~".

Both Todoroki Shoto and Midoriya Izuku stop their conversation and stare at Denki with surprised looks.

'Just how much did he hear?'.

Denki goes immediately red and walks away from there. Midoriya gets up from his sitting position to catch Denki. While Todoroki Shoto stops and says let it be and he too is right.

Denki speed walks up to Bakugo Katsuki chopping vegetable at the counter station and mutters with a bright red face, "B-b-Baku- Bakugo-kun can I help you". 

Bakugo stops chopping the carrots and looks up at Denki with a irritated face and was about to tell him off. Only to stop when he saw Denki's red face and the sun setting behind him, making the pretty boy look even more beautiful in Katsuki's eyes. 

Katsuki clicks his  tongue and pushes a bowl of potatoes towards the boy's direction silently that needed to be chopped and hands a knife too. 

'Get a grip on yourself Bakugo. You should not have these types of feelings. You joined UA high to surpass All Might Dammit!". 

Bakugo grits his teeth silently and watches the fragile boy in front of him rolling up his sleeves and starts chopping the potatoes into small bite sized pieces. 

Feeling satisfied with his knife skills. Bakugo goes back to chopping the carrots in front of him with a small smile forming at the corner of his mouth.

After 20 minutes the curry was cooked but Denki's eye twitched at the sight of curry for some reason the colour of the curry looked spicy.

Someone from class 1-B decided to turn a NORMAL curry into red thai spicy curry. 

Suddenly Denki felt all the appetite in his stomach disappearing. 

From the corner of his eyes he notices Midoriya carrying a plate full of spicy red thai curry towards the mountain trail. 

Denki decides to follow his Greenette friend .

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Izuku was feeling frustrated he did not like Kota's views moving towards the darker path and his hatred towards the Pro Heroes. 

Izuku sighs he wanted to change the little Kid's view before he falls into the wrong side of the path. He did not want the boy to grow up with villainous thoughts of hatred and revenge.

Izuku is startled from his thoughts when he hears someone speak behind him softly, "To accept the reality is always hard. It takes time to accept it fully. I wonder when I will accept that myself".

Izuku stops in his tracks and turns his head to the side fully knowing whose voice it was.

Kaminari Denki stood there leaning against the tree trunk with a faraway look in his eyes with a hint of sadness in those honey coloured golden eyes. 

It was a bright night as it was the full moon tonight making it easier for Izuku to spot Kaminari's slender silhouette leaning against the tree. 

The electric quirk user had on a green tee shirt and blue shorts and red sneakers. The only thing that was exposed to Izuku's eyes were the Lichtenberg scars and the bandage wrapped around his delicate neck.

Izuku swallows the salvia down his dry throat. It felt so awkward standing there like a fool and staring at his friend with unknown feelings in his chest.

But Denki starts walking past Izuku and whispers, "Everything will eventually work out whatever you are thinking in that big brain of yours".

Izuku gasped at Kaminari's words on how he figured out what he was thinking?.

But snaps out of his daze when he sees the boy leaving him behind and runs behind him to match his walking pace with him.

Izuku from the corner of his eye peeks at Denki and frowns he has that sad look on his face again.

Izuku wanted to ask Kaminari what was wrong but he did not know how to ask the boy such a sensitive topic as he was aware of Aizawa sensei warning them before the start of the trip. On not to question him regarding his scars or any  sensitive topics so as to not trigger him as he was under heavy medication but keep an eye out for him. 

But Izuku did not know that the situation would be this much worse than expected.

Then, Izuku sights as he notices Iida Tenya ahead of them doing his robotic hand movement beckoning them to hurry up and have the curry as it would be over soon and the test of courage would start soon as well.

On the other hand, Denki felt as if someone had filled his head with cotton balls. He was literally moving on auto pilot mode. 

He did not even touch the hot piping steaming curry placed in front of him. 

He was drowning in unpleasant thoughts. When he felt a gentle tapping on his hand from Todoroki Shoto who sat opposite of him.

The boy had a worried look and a frown on his face. Denki blinked his tired eyes at him. Todoroki Shoto with caution in his words asks, "Are you not going to eat?".  

Denki's stomach retches at the sight of the curry and he pushes the dish away. 

Todoroki narrows his eyes and says in a calm tone, "You should eat at least a little Kaminari-kun".

It seems Iida Tenya heard what Todoroki said and moves towards the table and moves his hands in a robotic manner and says, "Kaminari-kun you need some food in your system to function". 

Denki raises his eyebrow and in a teasing manner says, "Well if you want to see me barf rainbow content out of my stomach then fine. I will eat it". 

Iida Tenya realises the mistake he made finally raising his concern and tries to correct himself of his mistake but he had raised his voice slightly while over explaining himself and everywhere present there heard it, 

"Oh Kaminari-kun if you don't feel well I no-". 

Iida Tenya bites his tongue in frustration while Pixie-Bob moves towards them to see what was going on at their table. 

Denki starts giggling at the sight of Iida biting his tongue but stops when he feels chills running down his spine and then he hears Bakugou speaking in a cheery voice, "Kaminari-chan turn around~".

Denki stiffens at the sound of the cherry voice of Bakugou. That tone felt so out of place. Denki slowly turns his head in fear while on the other hand he could hear Todoroki Shoto grit his teeth and say, "Don't Bakugou!" .

While Midoriya too screeches, "Kacchan don't!".

Denki opens his mouth to ask but only to feel something cold being spoon fed into his mouth.

Denki blinks away the tears stinging in his eyes at the sharp sensation that his throat is sending to his brain and then he swallows.

'Uh Vanilla ice cream?'.

Bakugou huffs and places a bowl of the vanilla ice cream in front of Denki as he glares at Todoroki Shoto and shouts at him, "Icy hot you should be damn aware that if he has this spicy curry it will only aggravate his injured throat". 

Todoroki Shoto's eyes go wide at the mistake and he immediately looks at Denki worriedly and says, "I am sorry Kaminari I wasn't aware that I was hurting you!". Todoroki 's face droops at the thought of hurting his precious friend. 

Iida Tenya bowed his head apologetically, "I am so sorry!" continues the embarrassed class president class. 

Denki waves his hands airily and says, "Nah I am fine".  

Denki proceeds to eat the mouthful of the vanilla ice cream and feels the coldness soothing the pain away and hums in happiness. 

Todoroki and Bakugou share a knowing look at each other and smile at Denki's cheerful and cute look. 

Todoroki Shoto moves his hand across the table and ruffles Denki's hair slightly. 

At the affection displayed in front of him. Bakugou turns his head away from the sight and clenches his fist and walks away from there.

Meanwhile Pixie-bob gushes at the cuteness displayed in front of her and looks at Iida Tenya who goes stiff at the wild look in her eyes while she says with buzzing excitement was Kaminari Denki always this cute?. Ah she needs to make dibs on him as well. 

Hearing this the whole class 1-A sweatdrops and class 1-B boys huff in jealousy and standing at some distance near the camp building, Aizawa Shouta facepalms his forehead and while Vlad King looks at the situation developing in front of him with keen interest.

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The test of courage begins and they are to go in two pairs while the remedial students were dragged away by Aizawa sensei who had used his capture weapon to drag them back to the camp building while the rest of class 1-A students stared at their friends pathetically whining at them to help them while Mineta Minrou waves at them with a napkin in order to create a comic effect. 

Soon, they had to enter the forest turn by turn. Denki smiles to himself as Midoriya did not have to go long alone this time as his partner was Ashido Mina.

Then, Denki is broken out of his musings when he hears a pawn hand poking his cheek and saying in a teasing tone while giggling, "Neko neko neko you have a crush on that green haired boy neko neko neko how cute~". 

Pixie-Bob goes back to laughing to herself while covering her mouth with the cat pawn.

Denki huffs and raises his eyebrow and says while keeping his face stoic, "He is just a friend".

Pixie-Bob stops laughing and makes an 'oh' face and says while bringing her face little closer against his ear shell and says in a breathey tone, "You are and don't deny it neko neko".

Denki can feel the pink blush creeping up on his cheeks.

She starts laughing and pushes Denki into the forest and continues laughing while her teammates stare at her in confusion while she tells the other group to get ready and they are going next.

...

The forest was too quiet to Denki's liking even though the wind was not blowing everything was quiet but luckily it was not dark as the path was illuminated in front of him by the full moon's light.

Denki continues looking around the trees for the sight of any villain movement he knew today was the day the Villain Action Vanguard were going to make a move.

He feels a slight breeze moving towards his way and he immediately on instinct covers his nose with his hand and blinks his eyes and thinks, 'Shit it has already started'. And starts moving towards the direction of the poisonous gas which was visibly swirling in the air now.

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Denki was running towards the direction of the poisonous gas. He could feel the air get thicker and thicker as he moved towards that direction.

He grits his teeth  in pain as blood starts slowly dripping from the corner of his mouth. His already unhealed body was already under pressure as he was already moving a thunder cloud towards the villain named  Mustard's direction. 

As much as he wanted to go and help Midoriya in his fight against Muscular. 

He knew he could not interfere in the fight as it was already decided for Kota to look up at Midoriya as his personal hero.

Denki blinks away the tears in his eyes only get bumped into the steely muscular body of Tetsutetsu. 

The silver haired boy's eyes go wide with surprise to see Denki there.

Both Kendou and Tetsutetsu together say, "Aren't you Kaminari-kun from class 1-A?".

"You should not be moving in this direction the air is too poisonous and you don't have a face mask on" says Kendou sternly.

At the same time, Tetsutetsu exclaims with horror, "B-Blood blood you are bleeding!-". But gets cut with Manadaly's quirk as it  echoes in their mind.

It seems the villain's targets are both Kacchan and Kaminari Denki.

Denki's eyes go wide at the mention of his name.

'Ah shit!. Why am I on the wanted list!?'.

But he does not pay heed to the warning and moves towards the direction of villain's poisonous gas quirk with a made up plan.

While Kendou and Tetsutetsu ask him to return back. Upon seeing the fragile boy not paying attention to them. They too run behind him.

Denki runs into the villain Mustard's line of sight who was already prepared with a gun in his hand. And he points his gun and shoots in Denki's direction.

Denki gets pulled back by the cuff of his shirt by Tetsutetsu and thrown back behind him in the process, Denki's back gets hit against a tree trunk.

While trying to protect Denki poor Tetsutetsu gets hit by the bullet in the forehead again and again causing blood to trickle down his forehead.

On the other hand, Kendo uses her big fists quirk to swing her hands around to make the poisonous air around them to move away. 

Now Mustard strikes a nerve in Denki when he calls both Kendou and Tetsutetsu simpletons of UA in his little speech.

This comment makes Denki angry and he immediately takes out the prototype  whip created by Yaoyorozu Momo from his short's pocket and slashes it at Mustard. 

The masked boy yelps in pain and causes his gun to fall on to  the ground.

The masked villain holds his hand in pain and says, "What the hell-". But goes quiet with fear when he sees Denki's honey golden eyes glowing dangerously.

Both Kendou and Tetsutetsu look at Denki with worried looks. 

Denki starts to move towards Mustard quietly while the masked boy tries to back away from Denki.

But Denki  keeps walking and says, "Keep yapping and see where it gets you soggyflake".

The masked boy  tries to buff himself up and replies, "Hahha what are you going to do huh? You are already bleeding from the corner of your mouth. You are just digging your grave we are the Villain league first strike squad hahah".

To this Denki raises his brow and replies, "Oh really" with the corners of mouth slowly turning into a smirk. 

The masked boy immediately gulps and starts trembling in fear like a leaf. He knows about the boy's quirk in front of him. They all were debriefed about the class 1-A students quirk.

Denki without looking back throws the prototype whip at Tetsutetsu who confusedly catches the whip and looks back at Denki

Denki continues to speak coldly, "You both hold on to that whip unless you both want to be affected by my quirk".

Kendou's eyes go wide and while Tetsutetsu screams with a surprise edge in his voice, "Hey just what are you planning to do pretty boy!?".

Denki does not reply back as he grabs the fallen masked boy's wrist and tugs him to his feet. 

The boy in the form of resistance scratches Denki's hands with his sharp nails. 

Denki does not wince at the pain but does not let go of the struggling feral villain boy in front of him and asks him in an icy tone, "Have you ever felt Zeus's anger?".

The masked boy gulps in fear and replies back, "N-no".

Denki grins and says, "Well now you do".

Suddenly a big bolt of lightning falls from the sky on the two boys.

The ground shakes with such vibrations that everyone felt Kaminari Denki using his quirk at such scary intensity.

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After dealing with the weak ass villain named Mustard. Denki starts running towards the direction of the centre of the forest where he has to save Bakugou before he gets pulled into the warp gate. 

Cough*

Cough*

Denki stops and coughs more blood into his hands and he could feel his body screaming at him to stop! Because it could not take the load on how he was using his quirk in a versatile way which a 16 or 17  year old Kaminari Denki could do easily.

Denki knew his body would give up on him if he continued using his quirk any longer. 

He stares down at his Lichtenberg scars littered on his hands and feels his throat constrict at the sight of them. They were turning purplish and black now.

Denki grits his teeth in pain

He needed to move. Time was precious. Each moment counted. He puts his pain in the back of his mind. 

'This pain is nothing much compared to Midoriya Izuku and Bakugou Katsuki which they have endured in the future'.

He starts running with determination and hears Tetsutetsu yelling from behind him, "Hey Hey pretty boy wait up!".

Denki without looking back yells, "Go back to the main camp area".

Tetsutetsu immediately replies back, "Haha very nice. I quite like you already!. If I leave you behind then that will make me very un-heroic and Vlad King sensei will most probably will chew my ear off, If I do that and I always follow my instincts~".

'Damn he was hard to shake off and sharp too'.

Denki clicks his tongue as he feels his body was slowly him down and replies back, "Fine do whatever you want".

Tetsutetsu hums at his words.

...

'Damnit it he was too late'.

When Denki arrives at the centre of the forest. He was devastated by the expressions of his friends. The warp gate was slowly dissipating in the distance before disappearing.

In front of Denki, each face of his friends had a different story to tell.

Denki had failed in saving Bakugou Katsuki.

He failed. 

FAILED

FAILED!

FAILE

FAIL

FAI

FA

F-

AAAAAH!

Denki's emotions get the better of him and all the suppressed emotions piled up in him start pouring out of him while he screams so loudly until his throat starts to hurt. 

He keeps on screaming until he can scream no more. 

He did not care if his neck scar started to throb. He felt so pathetic at himself he could feel the vision in front of him starts to blur due to the tears falling from his eyes and suddenly he makes the rain clouds burst on the surrounding private property and the training camp to extinguish the deadly blue flames. 

Tetsutetsu with a shock expression looks up at the sky with rain coming down heavily on him and crouches down to calm Denki down from his crying fit. 

Tetsutetsu was a tough guy but when it came to comforting someone, he was totally zero in that field. 

He did know what  to do and unknowingly hugs the boy only to feel the fragile blonde boy to start scratching him on his hands making Tetsutetsu activate his quirk.

"Ow ow that hurts pretty boy!"

Then, Tetsutetsu hears a cold voice speaking to him. "Leave him to me".

Shoto quickly removes his already drenched denim jacket from the pouring torrential rain and throws it over Denki's body.

Shoto grits his teeth at the sight of Denki's trembling form.

Shoto knew Denki was literally in fight and flight mode and calming him down at this rate would be a dangerous task. 

He does one thing he can. He scoops up the poor boy in his arms and activates his both quirks to calm down the boy and  surprisingly it works as he feels Denki going limp in his arms . 

While Midoriya too looked much worse for he seemed to have become unconscious from the pain of his Injuries.

Shoji carries the injured boy towards the camp while shoto carries Denki in his arms with Tetsutetsu, Tokoyami following them closely from behind them quietly in the pouring rain soon they are met up with Uraraka Ochako and Asui Tsuyu along the way back to the camp site both of them very equally drenched in rain as them. 

The scary silence was too much for Tetsutetsu and he breaks the ice by saying, " This weather is un-brella-ievable!. This  is the first time for me to see an electric user using their quirk to make rain. Like how cool is that! To have an in depth knowledge over your own quirk. How I wish I too knew how my quirk functions as well". He ends his talk with a nervous laugh".

Everyone in the group now worriedly looked at Denki wrapped around in  Shoto's denim jacket. 

Both Uraraka Ochako and Tokoyami decided to walk side by side of Todoroki to in order to shield Denki's Lichtenberg scars and his tear streaked face from prying eyes as they were not safe until they reached the camp side as they all were pretty much shaken up from the unexpected villain attack and were afraid that there are still some villains roaming around the area near by and waiting for an opportunity to kidnap Denki as he too was on the wanted list. 

But luckily they did not take him and they were happy that he was saved but seeing him injured makes their heart ache. He was doing his best presumably  his best to protect them all.

The very thought makes Shoto's stomach twist in pain and anger and he clutches Denki tightly in his arms. 

He needed to hurry back to the camp site as Denki's temperature was dropping despite his quirk which was trying to regulate it and on top of that  the light rain was making it much worse as everyone was drenched to their bones and the open forest around them started to feel cold all of the sudden.

The sound of fire engine and ambulance sirens flooded at the camp area giving  Shoto a somewhat sense of relief that help was here. 

Shoto looks up at the dark sky to see the pouring rain turning into light showers.. Then looks down at Denki's tear streaked tired pale face and starts moving quickly towards one of the ambulance stationed there along with shoji behind him carrying an equally injured Midoriya Izuku on his back. 

Just like Tetsutetsu mentioned earlier about Denki's quirk this was the first time even for Shoto to see how someone use their quirk in a multifaceted way so up close. 

He feels a twinge of jealousy in his chest. He too needs to improve his quirk ASAP.

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"Mama.. Papa?"

"Where are you?"

Sniffs*

"Mama?"

A little boy around 7 years old was walking through a cold dark passage slightly shivering in the darkness of the unknown place. 

He was lost.

He looked around his shapeless smoky  surroundings helplessly around him. 

Searching for his parents then he sees a light shining at the end of the passage and rubs his teary eyes and starts running towards the shining light at the end of the passage.

Then Denki jolted awake, he groaned at the sharp lights of the hospital above him and the scent of flowers is making him feel more nauseated than ever now. 

Denki turns his body to the side and blinks his eyes letting his eyes get used to the lighting of the room. 

He sees a colorful flower bouquet on the bedside table with a get well card attached to it.

Denki sits up and winces at the pain that shoots through his entire body.  

Irritatingly Denki reaches for the get well card and crumples it in his palm and throws it across the room into the dust bin. 

He wants to flug the bouquet as well but decides against it for the fear it might make sound alerting the nurses that he was awake.

Denki swings his leg to the side of the bed and stares at his feet and sees that his Lichtenberg scars have flared up and they looked so grotesque under the lighting that the doctors had to apply cooling patches here and there on his legs and he could see the scars on his thigh which was worse in a nasty purple shade colour as his hospital shorts had hiked up the above revealing his thigh that showed how he had brutally overused his quirk and it's consequences. 

Then suddenly there is a flash of Midoriya's screaming and Bakugou's terrified face appears in his mind. 

Denki gets up from the bed and winces when is feet hit the cold stone floor but regardless of the pain, starts moving and opens the door and peeks out at the hallway and sees that All the patients and nurses eyes were glued to the tv that showed that the Pro Heroes are now going to raid the hideout of the infamous villain league. 

Denki tiptoes across the hallway as quiet as a mouse while dragging the portable IV stand along with him.

Denki quietly enters the empty nurse station and grabs the emergency medical supply box and rips out the IV drip and winces at the sharp pain and starts rolling the bandage around his wrist. 

He was glad that his internship at his aunt's hospital had finally paid off. After wrapping up his wrist in bandage. He looks around and spots a fresh pile of fuzzy socks from the laundry supplies and puts on those fuzzy socks on his  already freezing feet and grabs someone's black cardigan left on the clothes rack and puts it on and begins to move quickly without being spotted.

He exits the hospital building and manages to hail a taxi. Luckily the cab driver does not ask about his dishevelled appearance as Denki gives him the address to take him to UA High school. 

The cab driver rapidly nodded his head as he was invested in listening to the latest news on the radio, About how All Might is going to save the poor abducted child.

All the world's eyes were not All Might today

On the way to the school the streets were starting to get crowded with people but luckily he had arrived before the actual chaos could take place.

Denki gets out of the taxi and pays the driver who with the grunt accepts the crumpled cash and drives off the road leaving dust behind.

Denki coughs lightly and turns to look at the ominous gates of UA and starts walking towards the gates.

'I need to speak to Principal Nezu ASAP'.