An hour later - Ray's POV

I walk off the train, Eve sleeping on my shoulder.

I hear to the Kurashiki Graveyard, and I go to Mom's grave.

I sit down, unable to stand much longer.

"Hey Mom." I say as I look at her headstone. "I defeated Randy, my boyfriend is mad at me though." I say to her as Eve rubs her face against mine and I pet her head. "I don't know what I did wrong, but I did something wrong apparently." I give a small pity laugh. "Randy scared the shit out of me. The night he was arrested, the night you died, he had threatened to kill everyone I ever cared about, and it'd be my fault. He escaped and had come for me first." I say and I go on to explain what happened as I feel tears leak from my eyes. "God I was so scared of losing that fight." I say as I try to wipe a tear from my cheek. "I didn't want my friends, and family to die. I knew that if I lost, I'd have lost everything. I couldn't go through that again. I know Randy wouldn't kill me, he would have made me watch as he killed everyone I care about, die by his hands. I couldn't do that again. I couldn't live knowing they died and I couldn't do anything to stop it. I'd probably kill myself." I say as I wipe my cheek again and I sniff. "God, I feel stupid. Peter keeps trying to get me to seek some help for all the trauma I locked away. But instead I'm talking to a grave, with no one around." I say as I wipe my eyes again. "But I can't talk to anyone else about it, everytime I try to talk about how I feel, it feels as if I'm forcing my problems onto them, and I can't do that. I don't know, this seems easier, and a lot more peaceful than screaming my feelings out at Katsuki as he does the same back." I say and I sigh. "God, I probably do need a lot of help though. I just can't go and find it, I don't like the fact of telling my problems to someone as they record it, it feels like black mail to me." I say as get my legs in a indian style position.

I hum a lullaby I remember Mom used to sing to me when I was scared of falling asleep before Randy got home.

I can't stop the tears and my voice sounds broken, but Eve purrs as she licks my tears on her side of my face.

"I remember, how you would calm me down from being scared, whether it was a thunderstorm, or after Randy had just beaten us. You'd sing to me, in the softest tone, you'd just hold me as you cleaned my wounds. You would smile, as if everything was ok, even though you were scared too. I beat myself up about how I was never strong enough to protect you, I always thought that if I had been stronger, or more fearless, you wouldn't have gotten hurt. I remember the verbal fights between you and Randy when I was in my room, hiding under my blanket. They sounded so terrible, I got scared, that maybe I would go through those same types if arguements in the future if I ever was aloud to date. I'm still scared to be honest. I know Katsuki is just worried about me, but I'm pretty fucked up in the head, the trust issues are real. I've known him for so long, he's become my best friend. He knows so much about me, I know a lot about him too. At this point, I couldn't imagine a life without him by my side." I say as I wipe another few tears away, a smile on my face. "I just get, so worried about him, I can't just, not be worried, and he worries me to an unholy amount. But I love the blasty bomb boy. Not like I could leave him anyways, he's about 90 percent of my impulse control, Aizawa being the last 10 percent. I'd probably end up dying my hair a dark emerald green with out Katsuki, and then proceeding to jump off the empire state building in new york." I say and I add a small laugh at the end, thinking about how Katsuki would react. "I actually want to do that though, like dye my hair a dark emerald green. It sounds fun." I say and Eve licks my cheek. "Oh well. But I try to keep everyone I care about as safe as possible. I feel as if I always get into trouble doing that though. I'm not really sure people care about the efforts I make to keep them safe." I say  as I fidget with my hands as I stare at the ground. "Everyone tells me I did amazing, that they're proud of what feat I've done, I think the only people who actually thank me for doing what I do, would be the police officers who question me afterwards, and Inko, the lady who took me in after a year of jumping around the foster care system." I say and sigh. "I feel so useless at the moment, being unable to even walk probably, talking to air in a grave yard, with a kitten on my shoulder as I cry." I say and Eve just purrs.

A breeze goes by and I close my eyes.

I sit here quietly for a while, before I look up at the sky to see its around lunch.

I get up carefully and I attempt to grab my crutches, but I almost fall.

I catch myself, unfortunately I put to much weight on one leg and I wince slightly.

"Here, let me get that for you." The grounds keeper says to me as he picks up my crutches.

"Ah, thank you." I say to him as he hands me them, he looks to be in his sixties, but he looks like he's spent a lot of time laughing, the wrinkles around his eyes prove it.

"Your Ray Kage, aren't you?" He asks me.

I nod. "Yeah." I say to him as I get situated with my crutches.

He smiles at me. "Your mother was a brilliant woman, she saved me one time, from All For One, and I've heard about what you've done for people, especially for my wife, you got her purse back after a thief stole it." He says to me.

I smile. "I was just doing my job, I want to be a hero, like my Mother." I say to him.

He continues to smile. "I have no doubt you'll be a great hero. You are strong, for fighting through what happened to you, and for trying to be a hero." The old man says to me.

I don't know why, but those words make me really happy inside and I can't stop smiling. "Thank you." I say to him.

"No, Thank you." The old man says to me. "You stopped a few criminals already, you've done more than most hero's, and you did it because you wanted to." The old man says to me. "And your cat is adorable." He adds as Eve purrs.

"Her name is Eve. And thank you again." I say to the old man. "I must be going now, but if we ever cross paths again, allow me to buy you a tea." I say to him.

The old man shakes his head. "You do enough." The old man says to me with a smile. "Bye bye, Miss Kage." He says as I start to walk away.

"Bye Mister." I say to him and I leave the graveyard.

I go get lunch at coffee shop, along with some coffee.

I sit here peacefully, finally with some sort of peace inside me.

A waitress sits in front of me. "Your so brave, fighting your step dad for killing your mother." She says to me.

I look at her surprised and I eat as she goes on and on about this subject.

I just let her, since she has no intention of stopping.

I smile as she just continues to praise me about everything else I've done.

"Your so nice too." The waitress says to me.

I laugh quietly and I give her a closed eyed smile. "Well it is only polite to listen when spoken too, but I enjoyed your ramblings. It lifted my spirits, just like the old man from the grave yard." I say, not losing my smile.

"You mean Jiji?" She asks surprised. "Jiji is nice to everyone, so everyone calls him Jiji. We don't know his real name." The waitress says to me.

I just continue to smile. "I'm glad there are people who are genuinely nice in this city." I say to her.

"Your the nicest hero I know." The waitress says to me as I drink my coffee, just listening to her ramble on about how much she loves hero's.

I smile. "But I'm not a hero, I'm a student from class 1-A in U.A. Highschool." I add and she grins.

"But your a hero to me." The waitress says to me.

I look at her surprised.

"Your a hero to a lot of girls, we see the power of a woman in you when we see you on the news." The waitress says to me.

I smile. "I'm just a 16 year old girl." I say to her and I get up. "This chat was lovely, if you'll excuse me, I should be going now." I say as I grab my crutches.

The waitress grins at me. "Thank you for letting me ramble, people usually think I'm weird when I do." The waitress says to me.

I smile at her. "My brother loves All Might, if I had a 5 yen coin for everytime we'd stay up late, and I'd listen to him ramble about how cool All Might is, I'd be more rich than Japan and China put together." I say to her with an amused tone. "I love to hear people's thoughts about hero's, even if they ramble, because my boyfriend gets the same way sometimes too." I say to her. "Don't ever be ashamed to hide your true self, I found it easier to be who I am than suppress who I am to fit the world. I tried it for ten minutes, instantly became the worst 10 minutes of my life." I say and she grins, she looks so happy. "And never stop smiling for anybody." I say to her and I leave the building.

I hobble around for a while until I head to the mall, not really sure where my phone is, I had it when I was talking to Endeavor, then I lost it from there.

I head up to the phone booth and the guy just stares at me.

He just claps as I hobble over. "New record." The guy says to me.

I snort. "Yeah well, I don't even know where this phone went before my fight with Randy and got shot in the leg. I think the police confiscated it with a warrant for evidence, so, I'm probably never getting that phone back." I say and the guy just shakes his head. "So, I heard the stock markets went up for you guys since I created a plan with your company." I say as he gets me a new phone.

The guy laughs as he pulls it out of the box, iPhone XPro. "Your funny. But stop losing or breaking your phones, we'll run out of phones." Phone guy says to me as he turns it on.

We set the phone up and then I wander around the mall.

Once I believe I can handle Katsuki's temper tantrum, I go back to U.A. with Eve on my shoulder still.

I go to my room and Eve eats as I turn my game on, no sign of Katsuki anywhere.

I use my water to lock my doors.

I play Final Fantasy 7 for a solid 4 hours.

Then the door gets knocked on.

"Ah pain, agony." I say as I get up and limp to the door.

Unlock the door and I open it to see Katsuki there with chocolate and a brown Teddie bear.

I lean on the door frame.

"I am so sorry." Katsuki starts and I look at him confused. "I had followed you to the grave yard, and I listened to your conversation with Mizukage. I didn't know you felt like that. I didn't know Peter has been trying to get you to seek help, or that it was to hard for you to talk about it to a full extent." Katsuki continues.

I raise an eyebrow.

"I hope this fixes my blow up at you earlier." Katsuki says as he holds out the gifts.

I smile and I start to giggle. "For gods sake Katsuki, I love you too much to be angry at you." I say and I pull him forward by his shirt and I kiss him.

Katsuki drops the stuff carefully and cups my face in his hands as he deepens the kiss.

I have to pull back for air. "Thank you for trying." I say to him, out of breath.

Katsuki smirks and peppers me with kisses, which makes me laugh. "You deserve the world." Katsuki says to me and he picks up the stuff for me and hands them to me and we sit on my bed.

Eve curls up on Katsuki's head and I smile.

I open the chocolates and I pop on my mouth as I lay over Katsuki's lap and he runs his fingers through my hair.

"I want to dye my hair a dark emerald green." I say to Katsuki.

Katsuki scratches my head a little bit. "If you want to, but don't kill your hair." Katsuki says to me.

I nod slightly once I've had enough chocolate, I cuddle with Katsuki and Eve.
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