Chapter 38: Pride And Past

Mavis' pov


My hand covered my mouth as I yawned. Last night was disappointing to say the least. When Kai and I went to meet the LoV, they talked for a bit, until big sis tried to attack Kai.


First I wanted to step in, but as I took a step forward, Kai blocked me, stretching out an arm. He killed her. And it was fascinating. The League got angry and they tried to attack Kai. But I stopped them all, the annoying ones I mean. I let crusty slip, wanting to see some action after all. But he failed to strike Kai, and I was disappointed. Kai thought the same as I.


He had bigger expectations for the LoV, but oh well.


"Aren't you going to fight with them?" Aizawa pulled me back from my thoughts. We were standing in... I don't know, the school has a lot of rooms to train...


The big three were here, and the blonde one wanted to fight against the whole class. Bakugo was the only one that wasn't here, he did some shit with Midoriya, which got them both in trouble. He would have loved this... Besides me, was Todoroki. Watching our classmates, fail miserably.


"No" Aizawa raised a brow.


"I thought you liked fighting?"


"Well nobody asked you to think." I snapped and felt bad after a second.


"Sorry... didn't get enough sleep." I mumbled and Aizawa just nodded. "So?" He waited for my answer expectantly and my eyes found my classmates again.


"Blondies quirk is good, I could finish him, but he would die in the process maybe. So I pass" His quirk lets him go through things, his body won't be solid. And it won't contain water while he uses his quirk. I could use my other quirk and let him fall asleep. But while I would do it, he could have activated his quirk already and be under the ground.


I know that he can't breathe while being in something. That's how I could possibly kill him. When he is in deep sleep, his lungs won't get oxygen in the ground, and he would die.


"How so?" Todoroki asked besides me.


"My quirk. He could die from lack of oxygen-" I stopped talking for a second.


"You know, I had this theory for a while now... I think I will test it." I stepped over the boarder of the fighting zone and walked to the blondie. My classmates were already on the ground, whining in pain.


"Don't kill him." Aizawa's monotone voice echoed in my ears and I hummed.


"If you are ok with it, I would like to try something. You could get killed in the process. Do I have your permission to use you as my Guinea pig?" My hands were behind my back, clasping themselves. He smiled brighter than I thought he could, and I wanted to vomit. Disgusting...


"Of course! Do your best!" I nodded and held eye contact with him. He disappeared in the ground and I whispered faintly 'sleepy'.


Just a second later, his body jumped out of the ground, and he was laying on the floor. Sleeping. The others thought I killed him because he didn't move and Aizawa warned me ahead not to do it, but then relaxed when they saw that he was breathing.


My gaze wandered towards Aizawa, and he gave me a nod. I don't know why, but pride filled my chest when he nodded to me. As if he was praising me with it.


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"What's up, bitch!" Kyoko slung her left arm over my shoulders, and gave me a tight side hug. "Geez, did they forget to give you affection?" I freed myself with controlling her body.


"Actually, yeah. They are all doing some work for Kazue, even Akito works hard and doesn't get much sleep." She made her way inside, to our basement where we hung out in the past, and seated herself on a rotating chair.


I followed her but took a seat on a bean bag, not far from her. "What happened when I left you guys?"


"You mean when you ran away from your problems, what you do every time?" I rolled my eyes and scoffed. "Just answer my question, hooker." She smiled at me. We insult each other to show our love, and it made her happy that I called her a 'hooker'. To others it's weird, but who cares?


"Well, after you 'left'" she pronounced 'left' longer and made a gesture with her hand. "Kazue was pissed. He wanted us to search for you, but we refused. We knew that something must have had happened that you just left us behind. Akito spoke lesser than he ever did, and Daichi stuffed his head with work, to stop himself from screaming at us 24/7. You were the one that made this group after all. Weren't it for Yamaguchi, we would have fallen apart, everyone in their own miserable life again. Who knew that you were only an hour away from us?" She rotated slowly with the chair while she explained.


"And Kazue was passive aggressive, for a long time. I told ya that he had a crush on you-"


"That would be utterly disgusting. I was 14 and he was 20. He saw me as a sister not a fucking lover." I told her that like thousands times before, but she couldn't get that in her small head, and it was annoying. In the past and now.


"Theeeeen, he lost his trusted member that he saw as a sister, just because why? What happened that day, Mavo?" Mavo is a nickname that my dad always used. My name is short, but he still gave me a nickname. I let out a sigh and looked up the ceiling.


"Nothing happened. I was just getting tired of being in so much illegal shit-"


"You never cared if something was against the law. 'Fuck the law' remember?" Right, that's what I always said when someone said something about the law.


"And we both know that you would never care less if we had a killing mission. We only killed people who deserved it. So what happened? Spit it out." She stopped rotating and leaned forward, looking at me intensely. I never stopped looking at the old, cracked ceiling.


"You remember what I told you about my foster parents?" She first nodded, but then said 'yeah' after she remembered that I can't see her movements.


"Well, I was with Kazue at a meeting on that day before I left. He wanted to talk with another big gang, so we wouldn't be in another war in the underworld. Guess who I saw when I entered the meeting room." I turned my head towards Kyoko and saw that she leaned back again, her eyes unfocused and looking to the ground.


"Yeah... Looked like my foster dad joined a gang so he could find me and other children that had powerful quirks better. He saw me, and I needed to make a choice fast. Kill him, and have revenge for what he did, or leave the town, so I wouldn't start a war between the gang and us." The next thing, that came from Kyoko was a tight hug. Her legs on each side of me, her head in the crook of my neck, and her arms pressing me on her.


"I would have taken his worthless live then and there. But I couldn't risk your lives. We all know how gangs work, kill and take revenge if a member got killed. And if something happened to me, you guys would have killed everyone. A bloodbath, and I didn't wanted that." She didn't let me go as I continued talking, stroking my hair to comfort me.


"He smiled in my face when he saw me. As if he didn't watched me suffer in his hands. As if he never even laid a hand on me. As if I was a beloved person that he didn't see in such a long time. He stood up from the chair that he sat on and opened his arms, coming towards a frozen me with a low chuckle and a wicked smile in his face." I took a deep breath and closed my eyes.


"Which gang do you mean?" She leaned back to look in my face. A face that reflected bitter emotions.


"Kobe"


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