if you're still breathing

[blindfoldcode]

Who: Izuku and Kido
What: Prayer #18
When: April 24
Where: The Near Shore
Warnings: shrug

Izuku has a habit of picking up prayers that are just about being generally nice to people. Kido has no issue with it, but she can't help but feel a little pointless when it came to things like actually interacting with people.

She's too shy for any of this. She's not good with people. And Deku's so much better than her, if there's no ayakashi, she doesn't see the point in her being pulled along. After all she felt like she made everything worse in their first prayer. She stings him, she's invisible half the time, now. He does well without her.

But she can't deny that it makes her happy that he insists she comes along. It's an interesting back and forth in her mind and chest. So she just stuffs her hands in her pocket, one earbud in her ear.

"You said we're trying to console somebody, right?"

Comments

[blindfoldcode]

He shakes his head. "I don't want to think about him like that."

[fullcowl]

Very gently, "It's a way you can say goodbye. I think he'd appreciate that."

It's not like this kid can bury his head in the sand forever either. He has to move on somehow.

[blindfoldcode]

"Would he even know?"

Kido glances at Deku. "Maybe not. But it's nice to think someone'd miss you when you're gone.

"And it'd be nice to think the people you cared about were okay."

[fullcowl]

"He might or he might not. But if there's the chance he does, isn't that enough?" It is for Izuku, anyway.

[blindfoldcode]

The kid thinks a minute. "... Maybe I'll tell him about how our favorite show ended."

[fullcowl]

He smiles, soft and encouraging. "I think he'd like hearing about that."

[blindfoldcode]

"You really think visiting there will help?"

[fullcowl]

"I really think it'll help you." It might take a little while longer, but as long as he feels like he can talk to his friend in some way- that should be able to soothe him, right?

[blindfoldcode]

He watches his hands again but he nods. "T-then I'll try it."