⚠️TRIGGER WARNING: THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS ABUSE AND POST SELF-HARM. DO NOT READ IF YOU GET TRIGGERED EASILY⚠️

This takes place right after the end of the exam, and Flynn walked Jirou home.

Flynn had just arrived at the Fortress of Doom, and Hayden is seen watching some of the Japanese news.
"You're back. How did it go?" Hayden asks.
The Slayer only smiles. A gesture that Hayden had never seen before on the Slayer.
"My.. my.. I take that it went extremely well then." Hayden says, astonished.
The Slayer can only smile and nod, overwhelmed with a type of happiness that he hasn't felt in a long time. Flynn walks to his room, gripping the part of his shirt where his heart would be. A single tear runs down his face.
<T-this feeling.. I'm so happy.. how could someone like me get so lucky..?> Flynn thinks. If only Jirou could hear his thoughts. Jirou.. they had set up a date tomorrow at around 4:00 P.M. He had to get a good night of sleep. Sleep? He hasn't slept since his time with the Night Sentinels. He isn't even sure if he can. Nevertheless, he sets up a makeshift bed in his room and takes off all but the boxers he's wearing, and lays down in it. Flynn sets an alarm for 12. He tries his hardest to fall asleep, but he just.. can't... So he lays there in bed for about 3 hours, it was midnight now. Suddenly, an image of Jirou pops into his mind, calming him. He thinks about their first interaction, the occasional texts, before, during, and after the exam, and.. the kiss... It gave him butterflies in his stomach just thinking about the intimate moment... He relaxes after a little bit, finally finding comfort in the bed. Flynn curls up a little, smiling. He slowly drifts off to sleep at the comforting thought of Kyoka.

Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep

There was some stirring in the bed. A few more beeps later, the alarm clock suddenly finds that a fist was coming down upon it. Once contact was made, the alarm clock simply just explodes. Flynn was having an amazing dream that he and Kyoka were in a beautiful field of flowers, dancing, playing, chatting, and just having the best time of their lives. The 2 were about to kiss when the clock so rudely interrupted them. Flynn was already put into an irritated mood. He was wondering why he even set an alarm when he suddenly remembered the date he and Kyoka had set up. Flynn shoots out of bed, immediately heading into the bathroom and taking a lengthy shower, making sure to use nice, good-smelling shampoo and body wash. After he gets out and dries himself off, Flynn checks the time. 3:00. He had been showering for three hours, trying his best to get the smell of blood and dirt off of him. Flynn quickly gets dressed in a nice but casual white button-up shirt with black pants. He quickly tries to use a comb on his hair but decides to leave it a little messy. Somehow, it looks really good on him. Flynn wonders what he should do about the scars, but decides to just leave them alone, figuring that if Jirou loved him, she wouldn't care about his scars. He sprays some old spice cologne on himself and decides he's ready. He looks at the time again. 3:30. He rushes out of his room and into the portal room. Hayden is doing some maintenance when he spots Flynn.
"Going somewhere nice Slayer? Meeting with someone special?" Hayden asks.
Flynn blushes lightly, "Yes.."
Hayden replies, "I see, well, have fun on your date. I hope it works out well for you. You deserve to have someone special in your life." If Hayden had a physical face, he would have smiled at Flynn.
"Vega? Can you open a portal to ***.******.****?" Flynn asks the A.I.
"Of course," Vega replies, a portal opening.
Flynn waves at Hayden, and Hayden waves back. Flynn walks through the portal, ending up in front of Jirous house. He sees a car in the driveway but thinks nothing of it. The Slayer walks up to the door and is about to knock when he hears a shouting voice from the inside.
"WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU DRESSED LIKE THAT YOU USELESS BRAT?!? ARE YOU GOING SOMEWHERE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION?"
Flynn then hears a smaller, more feminine voice that he recognized as Kyoka.
"N-no.. I-I-I-I would never, sir..!"
"STOP FUCKING LYING YOU BITCH" The shouting voice says aggressively. He then hears Kyoka make a fearful noise and thinks that now would be the best time to knock.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

Three knocks and the commotion stops. A few seconds later, a middle-aged man with a bottle of whiskey in his hand opens the door.
"What the fuck do you want huh?" The man Flynn assumes to be Kyokas father says rather aggressively.

"I'm here for Kyoka Jirou, sir," Flynn says respectfully, pretending like he didn't just hear what was going on a second ago.
"She's not here, now go away before I blow your fucking brains out." Jirous father threatens.
Suddenly, Flynns' facial expression turns serious,
"Bullshit." Flynn gives him a death glare, barely able to contain the anger.
"Didn't you hear me? I SAID I'LL BLOW YOUR BRAINS OUT!"  The man screams and pulls out a 45. Caliber handgun and points it right at Flynns' skull. He didn't even get the chance to touch the trigger before the gun was knocked out of his hand and his arm broken. A few passing civilians stopped to watch the scene when the man threatened Flynn. Kyokas father screams in pain.
"M-MY AR-" He was cut off as he was pushed into the wall behind him further in the house. Flynn walks in after him and grabs him by the neck, pinning and lifting him off the ground against the wall.
"I may not know what's fully going on here, but it's pretty damn obvious that you almost hit Kyo before I knocked... If you value your life even a little bit.. you will never bother her again.. DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?" Flynn raises his voice at the end. The choking man seems to sober up and is barely able to get out a fearful yes.
Flynn roughly knocks him out and looks around, seeing Jirou huttled in the corner, in fear and crying. Flynn rushes to her.
"K-Kyo!? Are you okay!?!" Flynn reaches a hand out to her, but she flinched back hard. Flynn just stands there in shock.
<W-what has he done to her..>
"Kyo hey.. it's me.. you're alright.." Flynn says, trying to comfort her when suddenly..
"HA HA HA, I AM HEERE!" A booming voice from outside says, the form of All Might comes into the house through the doorway. "LEAVE THAT GIRL ALONE VILLAIN!" All Might says, completely misunderstanding the situation.
"No, no! I'm her date! Her father was about to hit her, and I came in and saved her!" Flynn tries to explain.
"I WILL NOT BE FOOLED BY YOUR LIES VILLAIN!" All Might shouted.
Flynn looks down at Kyoka, seeing that she's becoming increasingly scared of All Might.
"SHHHH, you're fucking scaring her you douchebag! Can't you see she's scared of you!?" Flynn says, rather irritated.
All Might decides to look at her and sees that Kyoka is shaking, looking at him with fear in her eyes. All Might suddenly realizes the mistake he made and utters many apologies. All Might decides to just go outside and wait. Flynn, however, crouches down to Kyoka and pulls her into a hug, feeling how much she's shaking,
"Hey.. hey.. it's alright.. you're okay.. I'm here.." Flynn says, trying to comfort her.
Kyoka just tightly hugs back and cries hard into his shoulder.

About 10 minutes have passed, and Kyoka Jirou seems to have stopped crying for the most part.
"Are you feeling any better, Kyo..?" Flynn asks in a soft voice.
"A-a little.." Kyoka says in a quiet, still scared voice. She sniffles a little.
"You're gonna be alright.. I promise he won't ever hurt you again.." Flynn says truthfully and sits down next to her.
"I'm here for you.. remember that.. I'll always protect you.. you just gotta tell me about things like this.. alright..?" Flynn says in a gentle voice.
Kyoka thinks for a moment.
<Should.. should I show him..?> She ultimately decides to show him what she did to herself that morning. Jirou rolls up the sleeves of her now wrinkled black Bullet for your Valentine jacket, revealing some bandages that look freshly put on with some blood stains on them.
"...Did.. he-" Flynn was cut off.
"No!.. no.. I did this.. to myself.." Kyoka states.
Flynns eyes widen out of fear and worry. He suddenly hugs her tightly, his face in her shoulder.
"Hey! What are yo-" Jirou eyes widen as she feels her shoulder become wet.
"W-why.. why would you DO that to yourself.." Flynn says, now his turn to cry into her shoulder.
"..." Jirou says nothing, being too ashamed to answer.

5 more minutes pass

"H-hey.. you wanna get out of this place now..?" Flynn asks, now done crying.
Jirou nods slightly. Flynn stands up and holds out a hand to her. She takes his hand and stands up. They both walked outside of the house, and most of the civilians had left. All Might was standing a few meters away. Flynn looks at Jirou.
"Hey, I'm gonna go say something to him." Flynn says close to her. She nods.
Flynn walks to All Might,

"Hey, All Might." He says.
All Might turns to Flynn,
"Oh.. Hey there, young man! Listen.. I'm sor-" He was interrupted.
"Hey.. it's alright man.. mistakes happen.. you thought I was gonna hurt her.." Flynn puts a hand on his shoulder, but his grip causes All Might to wince slightly, "but.. if this happens again.. the injury that All For One gave you will be nothing compared to what I'll do to you..Yagi..." Flynn says, a thick aura of pure malice comes off of him for a second. All Mights eyes widened in shock, but before he could ask how Flynn knew that, Flynn had backed away.
"Have we come to an understanding All Might?" Flynn says with an innocent smile.
All that All Might could do was nod.
"Good!" Flynn exclaims.
He walks back to Jirou and waves at All Might.
"Be seein' ya, All Might!"
All Might shook off the shock and jumped away, Flynn and Kyoka walk off.
"I'm sorry that this didn't turn out the way you wanted it to Kyo.." Flynn says apologetically. Jirou blushed at the nickname.
"No, no! Don't be, neither of us could have controlled that.." Jirou replies reassuringly, squeezing his ha.
"You wanna reschedule the date?" Flynn asks.
"Y-yeah! I'd love that!" Jirou replies.
"Well.. since you don't really have a place to stay at the moment.. would you like to stay with me?" Flynn offers her.
Jirou is shocked,
"W-what?! Stay with you? Are you sure I wouldn't bother you?" She asks.
"Mhm! You would never be a bother, Kyo.. I love you too much for that.." Flynn says truthfully.
Jirou blushes, "I-I love you too, Flynn.."
They both smile and walk off holding hands, not headed in a particular direction. Just into the distance.

End of Chapter 5