Chapter 22 || Kusuo's POV

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"That's it?" Y/n asked, unamused. I twirled my desk seat around to find her resting her head in her hands. Her body made an indention on my blue comforter as she sat, sulking. I had to take offense to her insulting tone.

"Well, do you have any better ideas?" I'd vouched for the classic water-over-door prank. It was simple and didn't take much time. I only suggested a prank for her favor. I was planning on giving him a special voltage course of electricity, anyways. Good grief; girls were so high- maintanence.

"Well not that! That's literally the most half assed idea you could come up with."

"Wait... what if we laced it with electricity."

"Huh? Water, you mean?"

"Yeah."

"How would we lace water with electricity... and how do you know I can even control my powers enough to not zap you in the process?"

I rolled my eyes. "You know, not everything is about you, Y/n. Believe it or not, I have electrification: the power to control electricity."

Y/n mimicked me, rolling her eyes but throwing her head back dramatically. She groaned. "Oh, yeah, that's right. I forgot, the Great Kusuo Saiki. The man with the power of the gods, and-" she gasped, "-the ability to bend spoons!" She displayed her fingers and fluttered them sarcastically.

"Good grief," I muttered, "are you done with that little show?"

"Whatever. Just tell me more of this so called electrification plan."

"I can use my powers to extract a current of electricity from somewhere... and put it in the water. That's all there is to it. It's not rocket science."

She huffed. "But what about me? I want to be relevant; I want to do something too!"

"For starters, we don't even know if the power you have is to control electricity. So you lacing the water is definitely not going to happen-"

"Why~"

"Because unlike you, I can control my powers. You're just some radioactive little rookie who hides in the shadows and hopes not to be seen." I knew she couldn't deny it, but of course she wouldn't give up the fight.

"Well I haven't exploded yet, have I? It's been a month or so, and the only person who knows about my powers is you! And plus, you told me about yours first!"

"Yeah, well how did I figure out your powers? Oh, that's right- you were shaking like a wet dog while sparking with unnatural molecules."

"Well- you- you flipped a cake."

I pinched the bridge of my nose. "The bottom line is, until we can test out your powers, it's not a good idea to use them for something as mere as a prank. It's best to sit back and let the professionals handle this."

"But you never even told me how to control them! How do you control yours?"

I sighed. "These limiters." I tapped the control devices perched on each side of my head. "Without these, my powers would be too strong to control."

Y/n's jaw dropped. "You're telling me, this whole time, you've been cheating?!"

"These aren't cheating- if I were to unleash my full potential, the slightest sight of a bug could send the world into a nuclear apocalypse or even explode Earth itself!" that might have been a tiny exaggeration, but I didn't want to take the risk either way. She needed to know how perilous and urgent these controllers really were.

"Fine," she conceded, "Let's just get on with it."

I nodded. "Alright, I'm going to use my power of clairvoyance to locate Toritsuka. They should be starting to switch classes right now, so stay quiet. Also, if you make any more comments about how my face looks during this task, I will expose your latest Levi Ackermann x reader fanfic."

I almost smiled at how fast her face went pale. "I told you, I'm a psychic," I told her before she could question my ways. When I touched her computer the other day, my psychometry glove was off. I got to see every game rage, anime excitement, essay tear shed. I never knew girls could be that emotional- especially over a fictional character's death.

I crossed my eyes and focused to find the purple haired perv. I found him harassing some first years on the 3rd hall. 

"Got him," I said. My eyes uncrossed and I glared at Y/n, who was holding in a laugh. 

"Let's go."

"What about the supplies?"

"I'll just apport them."

"What-"

"Just come on." I got up from my swivvel chair and met Y/n. I took her hand and willed myself to teleport back to the school. We appeared in front of the lockers, a few meters away from where Toritsuka was.

"Are you crazy!?" Y/n whisper-shouted at me. "He'll see us!"

I held a finger to my lips and sent my answer via telepathy. "Quiet, we're invisible. Not to brag, but I also have the power to turn myself and others invisible. On top of that, I'm using hypnosis to make sure he can't see us."

"Oh, right, since he can see ghosts and stuff. So, does that mean it was actually a ghost who looked up my skirt..." 

I was surprised when she was able to communicate telepathically as well. Then again, she mentioned something about reading minds. I was somewhat relieved that she couldn't read mine as I couldn't hers.

"Okay, give me that bracelet on your wrist," I thought, making sure to change the conversation. She handed it over reluctantly. I apported it for a bucket.

"What the hell, Kusuo! That was a gift from my Grandma!"

"I'm sorry. We'll get it back later. I had to exchange the bucket for something."

"Ugh... where are we getting the water?"

"Simple. I'll use my hydrokinesis. Since we're by the restrooms, this won't be hard at all. God, you're really going to owe me a lot of coffee jelly."

Just as I said that, the bathroom doors swung open following a toilet flush. We were hit by a putrid stench, one so bad that even I staggered back a little. The one power I needed, but I could not shield us from the horrific odor. The culprit of the smelly after math was no other than Riki Nendou.

"That sure was relieving," he said, walking past us. I expected to look down to see Y/n with a sour face, but as she tugged on my arm, she pointed to Nendou's shoe with a shy grin on her face. His shoe was tagged with toilet paper. I couldn't help but smile too, even though it was immature how Y/n found it humorous.

"Okay, here it goes." I focused my energy on a spot where I felt the most water. I pulled a few liters from it, just enough to fill the bucket. When I plopped the blob of water into the bucket, I noticed Y/n was looking annoyed. 

"Are we ready yet, mister Show-off?"

"Yes, actually. Let me lace it." I concentrated power from the lights into my hand. The light flickered, and Toritsuka's eyes landed on our scene. With me using more than four powers at once, I hoped I was strong enough to use them without an accident. Why was I even doing this? It's not like I necessarily cared about impressing Y/n.

I flicked the electricity off my hand and into the water. When I used my telekinesis to set the bucket on top of the door, I spilt some. 

"Wow, Kusuo, I thought you were better than that."

"So why don't you do it then, Miss perfect?"

"That's not me, that's Teruhashi." She pointed to a blue haired 'goddess' standing by the window. She was talking to Yumehara, Nendou, and Kaidou. With my enhanced hearing, I heard them discussing the morning's incident.

"You really think they broke up?" asked Kaidou to Nendou. He shrugged and twisted his pinkie into his ear. "Yeah, sounds like a lovers quarrel to me."

"That's not good! We should go see him after school," suggested Teruhashi. What a pain. She was using her savior charms again.

"Yeah," agreed Kaidou, "there was something different about them today. I'll have to make sure they haven't been kidnapped and replaced as clones from the lair of the Dark reunion."

"Kaidou, you promised we would study for our test today!" Yumehara pouted.

"We don't have a test-" started Teruhashi. Clearly the study plan was an excuse to get time to hang out with Kaidou. Chiyo elbowed her and she got the plan.

"Oh- I mean, yes! You guys should focus on that! I'll just go by myself."

"You're forgetting him," Chiyo said, pointing to Nendou. She was still under the impression that Teruhashi liked Nendou.

"Oh, right..."

Y/n tugged my arm. He's walking through, Saiki. Take your googly eyes off Teruhashi and focus on the task at hand." 

"I wasn't 'googling' at her, good grief. They're talking about heading to my house after school. We'll have to ditch my house after this."

When I turned my head back to the scene, Takahashi was red with anger. He was looking around, accusing everyone of something. I asked Y/n what was happening.

"Well, while you were zoned out, that drop of water you spilt landed on Takahashi and now he thinks someone spit on him."

I sighed. What an idiot. Problems kept popping up more and more. I decided to blame it on Nendou. Using telepathy, I sent him the idea that Nendou did it. He went to yell at Nendou and break off the group's plans to visit me.

Toritsuka went into the classroom to chase after the girls who'd escaped. Y/n and I counted, then I flicked the bucket. It dropped and spilt all over him. We watched as his body jittered and spazzed out. Purple striped zipped over his body. We both smiled.

"Toritsuka!" nobody shouted. He was left to seize all by himself, as the girls were more than happy to ignore him and Takahashi was busy blaming Nendou. As I looked at Y/n, I felt a soft feeling like I've never felt before. Something about seeing her happy made me feel nice. The warm feeling of holding her hand without electrical shocks.

She noticed me staring and toned down her smile. Her bangs fell back into place, covering her face. I had a strange urge to push them back. 

"Why are you staring at me?" she asked.

"I'm surprised you can hold my hand without electricuting me."

She glanced down and he eyes widened. Suddenly I felt the familiar tingles pop within my hand.

"You can't let go-" I started. If she did, she would undo the invisibility. But, Y/n being the shy Y/n, she pulled her hand away. I grimaced and focused my hypnosis onto her so she wouldn't be seen. By doing so, Toritsuka was able to see me. We had to get out before that happened. 

I tried to communicate telepathically to her, but it seems without touching, I couldn't. Since I was invisible, she couldn't see me either. I pulled her into a closet in a spur of the moment decision. Good grief- I've touched her way too many times without her permission- I had to hope she'd forgive me.

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A/n: TYSM for reading!!!! I estimate 9 chapters more until the end!! Are you excited? what do you think the outcome will be?? Until next time- here's your chapter saiki pic! 

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