Chapter 5: Chapter 5

My name is Kimi Sugihara.

I’ve been living in an orphanage ever since I could remember. The matron said I was found abandoned in the orphanage entrance inside a basket when I was only one month old.

My name is the only thing I had that was given to me by my parents or only parent! I wouldn’t know.

My childhood wasn’t that bad. We always had food, clothes, and stuff since the orphanage was sponsored by a rather kind couple. They were really rich and it was said that they managed other orphanages as well.

I was a late bloomer since I didn’t manifest a quirk even when I turned four, people thought I would be a quirk-less kid. I didn’t mind though I didn’t really care about whether I had a quirk or not. I would be content playing with my friends until evening till our matron scold us. Study while laughing. Sneak out of the study room etc. and there was my best friend, I don’t remember her name anymore but she was very lively and cheerful, I always wanted to be like her.

It all started going haywire when I turned five years old. I started to feel pain in my tailbone. When I spoke to the matron, she told me it would be all right. But once it became unbearable, she took me to the hospital that was closest to us. After a slight check-up, the doctor told us it was the manifestation of my quirk and that I don’t have to worry, the pain will go away in a few days.

And the doctor warned us to not worry even if I experience pain in other parts of the body and that will also be a part of the quirk. And we only have to come by to register the quirk.

That day we returned to the orphanage. And I started having pain in my ears as well. it was not an unbearable pain though. I couldn’t sleep comfortably since there was pain in my tailbone and ears but I eventually managed to fall asleep. The next day I couldn’t really feel any pain but I could feel an uncomfortable itch in my ears, but when I tried to scratch my ear, I couldn’t spread my fingers. Looking around I also found some hair scattered around my bed. Then I heard a scream. Looking toward my left I could see the other kids in my room, looking at me with a horrified expression on their faces. I could also see my best friend looking at me with horror-filled eyes. When I stood up from my bed and tried to approach them, I could see them screaming and scrambling out of my room.

I couldn’t understand what was going on. But I could feel it has something to do with my appearance. So, I tried to look at the full-body mirror placed in the room. My instincts were screaming to me not to look, but I took a look anyway.

I was horrified, there stood an abomination, it had a blad head that still had some hair sticking to the head. There was no earlobe, but a hole can be seen a little upwards from the normal position. And the nose was slightly flat. I couldn’t think of anything, I stood there still, looking at my own reflection, terrified.

Hearing the commotion, the matron charged in, and looked at me with an agape expression. But by the time she came the kids from other rooms also came to look at the commotion. She quickly dispersed the kids and took me to a room with only a bed.

The matron was someone trained to take care of situations like these since this was a society filled with all kinds of weird quirks. But she didn’t take any measures since she didn’t think the situation would take a sudden turn like this. It wasn’t particularly the matron’s fault. She guessed it was a mutant-type quirk. But didn’t think it would affect the whole body like that.  

Since then, the matron told me not to worry and gave me counselling on the situation. Mine was a mutant-type quirk, it seemed my body was in the middle of transforming. The matron told me not to worry and that I will be all right. I believed her, I thought it would be all right, I believed it will be. My transformation took two full days to complete. During this time the matron arranged food and the necessities in the room. It wasn’t that painful but a slight discomfort.

Once my transformation was complete matron bought a mirror to the room I was currently using.

I looked at my appearance in the mirror, it was not as unsightly as before, but it was not something I was comfortable with. My body was fully covered with silver fur since my whole hair has fallen down but now in its place silver fur can be seen. My ears transformed into cat ones and situated above my head, different from the normal position. Whiskers can be seen under my nose. My nose turned into a weird shape my hands fully transformed into a cat’s paw. And the same can be said for my legs as well. And a tail was protruding from my tailbone.

Overall, my appearance looked just like a cat. And I had a constant urge to stand on all fours. But I held on, I didn’t want to stand like that.

My matron said that I looked cute but I didn’t believe that. Not after my friends started distancing themselves from me. Even my best friend distanced herself from me. From that day onward everyone in the orphanage started avoiding me. But some older kids started bullying me saying that I looked like a beast. But the matron reprimanded them, chasing them away. And from then on even the bullies started avoiding me.

From that day onwards I became lonely. There were some other kids as well with mutant-type quirks but their full bodies weren’t transformed as mine.

I always cried alone in my bed, I cursed my quirk, I cursed myself, I cursed my friends for not understanding me and I cursed my parents for abandoning me. The matron would always console me. She always told me, that there are people like me all over the world. But she couldn’t do anything about people avoiding me.

Quickly a year passed by it was time for me to attend elementary school, I was not excited to attend school though. I expected the same treatment from school and I was right.

Kids started openly showing their scorn toward me and I avoided them.

Days went by and one day some kids started bullying me. I tried avoiding them but they still pestered me. But one day when one bully was holding me by my hair an upperclassman came by and saw me getting bullied. She chased away the kids and brought me some chocolates.

I politely refused her and came to the orphanage.

But from that day onwards that upperclassman started pestering me, trying to make friends with me. After she followed me around for days and started visiting me in my orphanage I relented.

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We became friends quickly, she was four years older than me, and she was the granddaughter of the couples sponsoring our orphanage.

So, she started coming to the orphanage to visit me.

She always dragged me around everywhere. She always said I was cute. She treated me like some sort of pet. But I didn’t mind though. I started talking with her frequently. Her name was Okabe Yuki.

One day I curiously asked her about her quirk but, she avoided my gaze and didn’t elaborate. It seemed like she didn’t want to talk about it.

Like that, three years passed I didn’t make any more friends though, my only friend was Okabe.

At that period, I opened up to her about my problems and about my quirk. But she still didn’t open up to me about her quirk. I didn’t mind though I was satisfied as long as she remained my friend.

One day she asked me,

“Kimi, you don’t like your quirk?”

I was perplexed, ‘she didn’t understand a thing from all my rambling’- is what I thought

I answered,

“Didn’t I tell you already?”

“You didn’t specify whether you like it or not though.”-she replied with a cute tilt of her head.

I pointed at myself to answer her question. I was covered from head to toe and I was covering my face with the hood of my sweater.

She replied with an ‘ohh’ look and started seriously contemplating something.

After a while she said,

“Hey Kimi, I want you to come with me to a place tomorrow.”

I was perplexed, so I asked,

“Where?”

She picked up her stuff and ran toward her car. she said while running,

“To my house, I will come with grandma to your orphanage tomorrow.”

I was surprised but I didn’t protest.

I started looking forward to the next da

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