6: 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑢𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛
She didn't hear from Midoriya after that. Though surprisingly her uncle did show up once or twice.
"So uh... When is your graduation?"
He asked her, he had actually shown up to pick her up from school. Leaving poor Iida to actually go straight to his own house for once.
"This Saturday." Kira said, looking out the window.
"Saturday... I'll have to mark my calendar so I don't forget." He thought simply. "Are you excited for high school?" He asked.
She shrugged. "I don't know, school is school I guess." Kira said with a frown.
"Well Princeton's girl's school is a great highschool. I did some research and there are plenty of opportunities." He said with a smile. "Well my assistant did research. But that's basically the same thing. Besides she knows much more about schools than I do."
"The best school around."
"Besides UA of course. But she can't go there..." He glanced at her in the review mirror.
To Kira's surprise he had actually considered passing one for all to her. He had thought about it three years ago. But decided that she was too fragile.
He still thought about it sometimes though. It was deeply buried, it almost seems like it had been something he wished could have been. But it was more of a dream than reality to him.
"Sounds great." She mumbled.
"Would you... Would you have wanted to go anywhere else?" He asked nervously. "I didn't even think to give her an option. But why would I? It's a fine school."
"No sir." She said. They were quiet until they pulled up to her apartment building.
"Well now it's time to pick up young Midoriya. The kid has been improving greatly these past few weeks. I'm really proud of him." He thought, saying bye to Kira and driving off, not even waiting to see if she made it inside the building safely.
He never thought that about her.
But why would he? She didn't do much for him to be proud of anyways.
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"Kokoa, Kira.
Lani, Obo.
Lekki, Rose."
The principal listed off the students in her class with a bored, monotone voice. The girls stepped up on the small stage to receive a useless "diploma".
Kira didn't understand why they made such a deal over graduating middle school. It wasn't important like highschool or College.
She took it with a nervous smile, glancing over the crowd of people.
There were so many thoughts she couldn't even pick anything out. She took the roll of paper from her teacher. They both bowed, her lower than him. Then she walked off stage back to her seat.
After the entirely too long speech from the popular girl that was kinda a bully they were dismissed to their clapping families.
She looked over the crowd for the hundredth time. He wasn't there. She checked her phone. No messages explaining why not.
She shouldn't be upset by this. He was basically always absent, so why was she so surprised? Why did she expect anything more? She really didn't know.
Maybe it had something to do with all of these families around her. Each kid has two parents to greet them. Some even had siblings and grandparents here as well. And Kira? Well she was used to this disappointment. Choir shows? She performed to no one but strangers. Valentines day family dinners? She ate alone. Christmas parties? She didn't even bother going most years.
Her eyes felt warm. She wanted someone, she wanted her parents. But here she was, sitting in a fold out metal chair.
Alone.
"Kokoa!" She glanced up, messaging her temples. Iida was waving her over. She sighed and got up.
There was a tall man with black hair beside a shorter meek woman with blue hair and glasses just like Tenya. There was also a young man taller than Tenya with slightly darker hair.
So this is the family he cared so much about. The brother and father he desperately wanted to imitate. To please.
She found them intimidating.
She walked over with a small smile and Iida put a hand on her back. "I wonder where her parents are. She's never met my family before, she might be nervous about it. Where is her own family?" He kept circling back to that. Where is her family? The answer was she didn't have one. Not an actual one. Not one like this.
Jealousy burned in her chest.
"This is my parents and my brother Tensi."
He said, gesturing to the family.
She bowed slightly. "Nice to meet you all." She said with a permanent small frown on her face.
"This is Kira, Kokoa." Iida introduced her.
"Will they be proud of me? Of my friend?"
He wondered to himself. Kira didn't really know what he meant by that. But she felt a little less lonely when he called her his friend.
"Oh it's very nice to meet you dear." The mother said kindly. "Her hair is very short. She looks like a boy, and she has no meat or muscle. She's basically a skeleton."
The mother mentally fussed over her appearance. Though it was in a motherly way.
His brother seemed very warm. "I'm glad he has friends." The older brother thought kindly.
"And she's quirkless." Iida explained. She felt her gut twist like she had just been punched in it. His mother's smile deepened and his father stood as stoically as earlier.
But his brother's eyebrow twitched for a moment. "Tenya..." His brother thought.
"Oh poor dear." The mother looked at Kira in pity.
"Will they be proud? They've always told me to stand up for those less fortunate than myself. To protect the lesser people." He thought casually.
Kila's eyes felt warm again. Lesser people?
Tenya smiled proudly.
She felt small. Lesser people? Was that how he actually thought of her? The less fortunate?
Less than.
She plastered on a fake smile.
"I'm also an orphan. Your son is really a stand up guy for tolerating my pathetic presence!" She said, her voice laced with sarcasm. He looked over at her, eyes wide in surprise. His brother pressed his lips together obviously he had seen this coming. His mom covered her mouth with her hand and His father quirked an eyebrow.
"What is she talking about? Why would she say that... An orphan? I didn't know..."
Tenya's thoughts were spiraling. Maybe she shouldn't have snapped like that, she hurt his feelings but...
"She had every right." Tensi thought, staring at his little brother.
Kira bowed to his parents. "It was lovely to meet you." She muttered. And then she ran, away and out the stuffy building. She couldn't think. She could barely breathe. Her face was hot with anger.
She wasn't his friend. She was his trophy. Someone to show off to his parents, someone to say: "Hey look I'm helping her, she really needs it. Aren't I such a great person?!"
It made her sick. She felt like a thing. Like a puppy he was heroic enough to save from her little cardboard box.
The funny thing was, she Wasn't quirkless. The one thing that made him so proud of her was a lie. She was completely and totally Normal.
She walked home with her arms wrapped around herself.
Once again feeling so alone.
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Tenya, Iida:
Kokoa I don't understand why you are upset with me.
Please come back inside.
My brother explained it to me, I'm sorry for not taking your feelings into consideration and for making you feel like I was using you to get affirmation from my family.
Please come back inside.
Kira looked at the text messages from the boy and frowned. She was already two blocks away, and she didn't want to turn around. She didn't want to see him again.
She didn't HAVE to see him again, she realized. He was going to UA high. She was going to an all girls school miles from him. She never had to see him again.
She blocked his contact.
He'll be alright, maybe even better off now. At least she served as a lesson to him, as a way to encourage him to treat others differently.
"Lesser people."
He didn't realize just how much she knew about how he thought. Her outburst probably seemed dramatic if you didn't hear his thoughts. If you didn't know she could read them.
But she could, and now she was upset.
She was alright with their paths never crossing again. He'll grow up to be some great pro and she'll be... Well she wasn't sure what she was going to be. But she knew they would never have to see each other again. "Good bye Tenya Iida." She mumbled to herself as she walked down the street.
Rain began to pour down, soaking her uniform. She had known it would rain, but a part of her had thought her uncle could take her home.
But he wasn't here.
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