Realities

"(Y/n)... (Y/n)..."

'What... What just happened? Who- who's saying my name?' I groaned mentally and tried to open my eyes. 'Why does that voice sound so familiar?'

"(Y/n)... (Y/N)!" I was jolted awake by a hard push. My eyes finally opened, and I felt like I was falling... probably because I was.

I fell to the ground, square on my butt, "Ow... what?"

I tilted my head up to see who had pushed me. It was someone who I could've never expected, someone I'd been longing to see for over a year now...

"Akemi?" I asked, as my eyes adjusted.

My eyes focused and the light that was limiting my vision died down. There in front of me stood my brown-haired friend, Akemi. The real Akemi, not the skateboard or some mannequin I'd created, though I couldn't be so sure of that. But this Akemi felt real, it- it was Akemi.

Akemi crossed her arms and laughed. "Yes stupid! Will I have to wake you up every day after class? We're the last ones here again."

"Oh- ok." As I stood up I looked around. I was back in my same middle school classroom, the same backpack I carried then placed beside my desk, and my notebook opens on it.

I started to quickly shove my things inside of my backpack but stopped when I got to my notebook. There on the opened page was a half-finished pencil drawing of Jiro, the date: June 15, 2020.

My eyes widened, 'Wait 2020? The 15th? What-what's going on. Don't tell me that was all a dream?!'

"(Y/n) come on, we've got tons of homework to do and you said your aunt would be home early today," Akemi complained behind me.

"Yeah- yeah coming." I quickly shoved my notebook into my bag and closed it. I swung the bag over my shoulder and followed Akemi out of our classroom.

As we walked at a fast pace, I studied the halls, 'I guess shifting really is just a dream state. I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up that I'd be actually there. After all, it's just a show.'

Eventually, we got outside and walked all the way to my house. The front door looked foreign to me now, like a view I'd never thought I'd see again.

"Make sure you do your homework! Pages 55 and 56 for math and we have a reading log due Friday ok!" Akemi said goodbye and left me at my doorstep.

'Pages 55 and 56? Friday?' A wave of déjà vu swept over me. I could've sworn she told me that already, the day I went home and shifted... she said those exact words.

I walked into my house, empty per usual, and headed straight to my room. Everything was the same from the way items were scattered across my desk to the door of my closet being slightly agar.

The sight was warm, welcoming, but also gave a chilling sensation. An uneasy feeling that something wasn't right.

I decided to shake it all off and carry out my life as I had always. I showered, played music, and started to draw again.

I opened the desk drawer to my left and pulled out a piece of paper to start a new art piece. I turned on my desk light and began to draw, but stopped when I realized something.

The light from the lamp made the paper a bit see-through, exposing that a drawing already lay on the opposite side. So what did I do? I flipped the paper over, and to my horror? Surprise? Just some feeling of shock, my eyes stared down at the paper.

In front of me, the paper showed a half-drawn picture of none other than Denki Kaminari. The same danky thing I'd drawn before, just before my Aunt got home.

I checked the clock- 5:55 pm. I jumped out of my chair and rushed downstairs, 'Now I swear- If I see this bitch here right now with that man I'm going to-'

"Ah... Ummm hey kiddo!" Kei, my aunt nervously said from inside the kitchen. I looked next to her, there stood a tall man with brown eyes and gelled back black hair in a suit.

"No... no, no, no, no... this can't be happening..." I started to mumble to myself.

"Hey, hey. I know it's a shock for me to bring someone to the house but you don't need to be so mean about it?" Kei laughed. She soon stopped though when she saw how disturbed I looked, "Are you ok?"

"No... NO NO NO! THIS- THIS ALREADY HAPPENED!? WHAT'S GOING ON!?" I started yelling and clung to my head.

"(Y/n)-"

I cut her off, "NO! I- I'm fine... just leave me alone for the rest of the night. I don't feel well." I stormed off to my room without another word.

I slammed my door closed and collapsed on my bed. 'What- what's going on?!'

I opened my phone to Tik Tok, and the first video scrolled up.

"Guys! I just came back from shifting! It was so cool! Follow me to learn how-"

I immediately shut off my phone, I even went as far as to throw it across the room. "AAAH! WHAT- AH!"

I crawled to the backboard of my back and got into the fetal position. "What the hell is going on?"

Almost instantly, for a reason I can not explain, I passed out. I'd like to believe it was stress, but I know that would only be a lie. To say it was a time skip wouldn't be that much of an exaggeration either, for when I opened my eyes they were met with a blinding white.

Once my eyes got adjusted I saw in front of me Akemi. Her face showed that she was scared, she looked worried, but most of all sad. She was drenched from head to toe as if she had just been running in the raid. I was sitting on a chair, but couldn't seem to move my body, stuck there just watching.

I also noticed behind her the familiar blue of hospital curtains. "Akemi? What's wrong, what's going on?" I called out to her, but it seemed like she couldn't hear me.

She turned to her left and talked to someone, though her words were faint, almost muffled to my ear.

I followed her gaze and saw Kei, her face distressed as well. "Guys? Tell me what's wrong," I pleaded

They both froze, a doctor walked in through the curtains behind Akemi. Both females immediately started talking, probably asking the doctor some questions.

The doctor calmed them and began to look over their clipboard. My ears popped, unclogged and I could now hear what they were saying.

"I'm sorry, but (Y/n) is in critical condition."

'What? No- I'm fine. I'm right here.'

Akemi and Kei bursted out into tears. They kept looking at my right, eyes pools of sorrow. I slowly turned my head and saw something horrifying.

My own body.

Laying there, unconscious, unmoving, face looking as though the color had been sapped out of it.

My lips trembled as I tried to make words, but the doctor drew me back into reality. "As you know (Y/n)'s coma conditions haven't been doing well."

I was taken aback. My what conditions!?

"She's had several spikes of mind activity and her heart rate has accelerated multiple times without explanation. She just went through a seizure of which we're not sure the reason of right now."

Akemi and Kei stayed silent as the new dawned on them.

The doctor hesitated with their next words, trying to be sensitive of Akemi and Kei's feelings.

"At least those are signs that her body isn't completely dormant. However, if these spikes continue (Y/n)'s life... may be in danger."

My head started spinning as I tried to understand what the doctor had just said. "W-w-what?! I-I'm in a- my life's in danger?! WHAT'S GOING ON!? WHY CAN I SEE MYSELF!? WHO IS SHOWING ME THIS STOP!"

Thus the mental breakdown commenced. I started clawing at my head, hyperventilating, and sweating.

*BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP* The heart monitor next to my hospital bed started going crazy. Like what I was feeling now, seeing now, was actually affecting my body.

"No, no, no, NO! THIS ISN'T REAL! IT'S JUST A DREAM! AAAAAAAH!!!" I yelled more.

My hearing drowned again. Akemi un-audibly screamed and Kei started crying. The Doctor dropped their clipboard and rushed to my side, the side where I was sitting. I stretched out my hand to try and grab at their coat... but my hand went straight through.

I started whimpering, swinging my hands through the doctor's body only for nothing to happen.

The last thing I see is more doctors rushing in and tending to my distressed body. Akemi and Kei being forced out of the room as the situation worsened again. My vision started to get blurry and faded into darkness.

It felt like minutes- no hours that I waited in this darkness. It felt like I was going insane, muttering to myself, trying to make sense of these events, juggling which reality was real or not. Was I really in a coma? Was this shifting thing fake? Did I just fabricate My Hero Academia into my mind as a pastime while my real body was in a coma? What's real, what's fake, who am I, how can I get back? Heck am I dead already?

I continued on like this, but slowly a voice started to creep into my mind getting louder and louder.

"(Y/n)..." It was faint, almost a whisper.

'No, go away...'

"(Y/n)..." The voice got louder.

'I said leave me alone...'

"(Y/n)!" The voice rings my ears and I finally begin to flutter my eyes open.

I smell smoke, hear ambulances, and my eyes meet with a pair of emerald green ones.

"Who?" I begin, but they hush me.

"I'm so glad you're ok!" They seemed winded. That's when I noticed I was on a stretcher being pushed fast towards an ambulance.

I looked at the green-eyed person, "I-Izuku?"

"Yes, it's me, hang in there." The greenette said with a worried voice. He stopped running as I was ushered into an ambulance. The doors of the ambulance shut and I dozed off again.

I wavered in and out of consciousness the whole ride. Whether it was fatigue, shock, actual injuries I didn't know.

3 hours later

I woke up suddenly. My heart is racing. "AKEMI!?" I yelled out, but no one was around.

I looked around me, I was in a hospital, the body I could feel and look down at hooked up to machines.

"(Y/n)?" A soft voice said as they pushed through the blue curtains around me.

"Izuku..." I said, my voice obviously disappointed. My head retreated into the pillow behind me and silent tears started to roll down my face.

"(Y/n)! Are you ok? Are you in pain? Should I go get the doctors?" Izuku started to fret.

"No no I'm fine. I just have a lot on my mind right now," I admitted. "But Izuku, please tell me why I'm here."

Izuku stared blankly at me, "What?"

I raised an eyebrow, "What do you mean 'what'. Why am I in the hospital? Did something happen to me? Did villains attack?" 'Not really sure though how I could've gotten hurt from a villain though? I mean I could kill them with a single thought so that doesn't make any sense...'

"(Y/n) you- you really don't remember?" Izuku sat in the chair by my bedside.

"Remember what?"

"Well... well (Y/n) you-" Izuku explained the entire thing to me. I listed with wide eyes as this was the first I'd ever heard of it. I seemed to have no memory of the event like I'd been sleeping that entire time.

"So you're saying I took out the nomu, threatened you, captured all of the villains besides two, and Mr. Aizawa is miraculously healed and I'm not hurt at all?" I briefly repeated what my friend told me.

He nodded.

"Wow..." I sighed and sat up. "And you're not lying to me right?"

"No, no of course not! I wouldn't!" Izuku reassured me.

"Ok."

"But-"

"But?" I asked him.

"There was a slight thing I left out..." the personified broccoli admitted.

"What Izuku?" I slouched a bit.

"Well... just before you passed out... this foggy-looking creature showed up. It wasn't like that warp villain though. It didn't have a body and it had glowing eyes. It was made of some dark greyish black smoke and resembled a feminine body. It appeared next to all might and punching him hard on the side and repeated the action a few times. All Might was seriously hurt and spewed blood everywhere. He even collapsed and Cementos put a wall around him just before he transformed into the slightly less awesome All Might."

I started at Izuku for a long time. 'What? That's- that's not supposed to happen?' "Ok..."

I started thinking hard, 'Well canonically All Might was supposed to fight off the Nomu and get injured in the process directly where All For One injured him in their battle many years ago. Maybe- maybe that thing was fate? Maybe it came and hit All Might to keep the timeline in place since that injury lowers All Might's time to stay in his muscled form which is vital to the plot. Though that doesn't explain its form or how it appeared so suddenly.... There is probably a lot more behind this...'

"Umm (Y/n), sorry to interrupt your thinking time. But the doctors said I was just allowed to check on you and then I had to leave. I'm sorry." Izuku stood up from his seat.

"Oh," I snapped out of my trapped mindset. "Yeah, no worries I understand. I'll probably be out by tomorrow, maybe even later today so I'll see you soon." I smiled.

Izuku waved goodbye and left me in the room alone again. I began to think again, now on multiple topics. Though again this was interrupted by someone entering my area.

"Hey kiddo you alright?" A tired scruffy voice said to my right.

"Oh yeah, thanks Dadzawa. But are you alright!? You were completely pummeled by the Nomo according to Izuku!?" I started to worry about him.

"No, I'm fine, don't worry. But Midoriya? You're not allowed visitors... but I'll address him breaking in here later.

'Oh no... I'm about to be lectured...'

Unexpectedly, I felt arms wrap around my torso and a head bury itself into my shoulder. I stayed sitting up, unsure of what was happening.

"I'm so glad you're ok. Your classmates and some pro heroes told me what happened and it scared me so much. I'm so thankful that you saved me but you were reckless and- and I don't know what I would've done if I'd lost you I-" Mr. Aizawa's voice died down into hushed mumbling.

My eyes started to water, then I cried and wrapped my arms around my guardian. "I'm so sorry for what I did- I don't believe I had consciousness, and even if I did my actions were reckless. I'm sorry for worrying you."

We stayed in this silent position for a while, the silence comforting.

Mr. Aizawa then pushed away, "But you know that was stupid right."

"Hahaha, yeah..." I laughed his comment off while wiping some tears off of my cheek with my finger.

Mr. Aizawa and I talked for a pretty long time about what the media was saying and some of the pro heroes that were there. Apparently, a few news stations wanted to interview me after footage from the USJ attack went viral online. Mr. Aizawa even said that I was allowed to do up to 3 of these interviews as to not pass up the opportunity, or course as long as I didn't reveal any classified information.

He also said that since I didn't actually have any injuries I was free to leave whenever but suggested I stay at least another day.

"Speaking of injuries, how are you!?" I flipped the conversation to concern him.

"Don't worry I'm fine as well. Somehow miraculously I'm completely healed, do you know anything about that?" He asked already hinting he knew. "People also said that you yelled some stuff in English, I mean you could just tell me know or I could as Mic."

"Heh... no what? I have no idea what you're talking about."

"Hmmm sure. Well if you find the person that healed me please give them my many thanks," he joked. "And I will be asking Mic."

"Will do!" I saluted, jolting the wires connected to my arm. "But please... don't ask Mic... I may just wipe everyone's memory of the event entirely. Hmm, maybe I should do that..." I started to mumble quietly to myself.

Mr. Aizawa chuckled, "Ok then kid, I have to get going. I still have to teach classes today, but I'm allowing you to come back tomorrow it's your decision."

I nodded, "Yeah ok. I think I want to take a break anyway, I have things I want to think about and just generally collect myself again."

"Ok, understandable." Mr. Aizawa started to walk away but stopped at the blue curtains. "But really (Y/n), thank you."

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Something a bit wholesome for you there! A bit out of character but that's fine!

THE PLOT THICKENS!!!! (I know I've had multiple people ask if (Y/n) was in a coma and I just have to say for the record... I THOUGHT OF IT FIRST!!! IT WAS MY OG PLAN!!! Phew ok enough of that)

I really hope you enjoyed and this wasn't too hard to follow... if you have any questions feel free to ask!

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