My Reciprocation (Mikan x Reader)

WARNING: Dark topic mentioned briefly in this fan fiction.




You find yourself lying in an unfamiliar bed, staring at the ceiling of a room that seemed slightly familiar though you couldn’t remember from where. You slowly tried to turn your head, but you felt serious pain as you did. Despite that pain, you were able to move your head enough to notice a curtain surrounding your bed. Were you in a hospital? No, you had seen this curtain before... That was when you realized where you were; you were in the infirmary at Hope’s Peak Academy. But what brought you here? You couldn’t seem to remember, no matter how hard you tried.

About ten minutes after you regained consciousness, you heard someone walk into the room. Moments later, you saw the curtain move, revealing a girl that was very familiar to you. It was Mikan Tsumiki, the SHSL Nurse as well as your secret crush.

“Th-Thank goodness, you’re awake!” Mikan exclaimed, a smile on her face. Seeing that smile on her face made you smile, regardless of your pain.

“Hey Mikan... What happened?” you asked.

“Y-You don’t remember?” she asked, sounding pretty concerned about the fact you didn’t know. “I don’t know exactly what h-happened, but I was walking from the headmaster’s office and I heard a loud b-booming sound. I ran over to the chemistry lab and found you l-lying on the ground unconscious.”

“Chemistry lab? ... !!” With that, you finally remembered. As the SHSL Chemist, you had been working on some experiments in the lab. Unfortunately, your equations were a little off and after a small chemical explosion, you ended up losing consciousness.

“I-I did some tests while you were out. You’ve suffered some serious chemical burns, though aside from that, you seem alright. You probably won’t be able to attend classes for a few days, but you were pretty lucky,” she told you, sounding pretty relieved.

“I see... Wait, Mikan, were you the one who brought me here?”

“Y-Yes, though I did have some h-help from the headmaster.”

“Thank you so much, Mikan. I greatly appreciate this.”

“It’s no p-problem. I’m just glad I could be useful to s-someone,” she told you, walking towards a cabinet and taking something out of it. “I have some burn cream that could help. I’ll put it on for you.”

“Alright,” you mentioned. She opened the canister, got some of the cream on her fingers and softly touched your face with her cream-covered fingers She knew she had to be gentle, as the burned skin would be incredible sensitive and would likely cause you to feel intense pain with even the slightest amount of excess pressure. This was the closest that the two of you had ever been to each other, and you didn’t care about the circumstances that brought you into this position. You were able to spend some one-on-one time with a beautiful nurse, and even with the pain, you were loving every second of it.

“H-Hey, (YN), you aren’t allergic to the cream, are you? Your face is starting to look a little more red than before...” she mentioned to you.

“No worries, I’m not. Must be just the burn,” you mentioned, knowing full well why your face was suddenly looking a bit more red. It was because of the way you felt about Mikan, and even if those feelings were to go unreciprocated, you would still really care about her.

“I see... (YN), might I ask you something?”

“Sure, what is it?”

“Were you ever a victim of b-bullying?”

“To be honest, not really. I wasn’t ever really popular, but I mostly just kept to myself throughout all of school,” you explained. You could tell where she was going with this, and to be honest, it was something that was bothering you as well. Mikan had been bullied for a good portion of her school life, and although it seemed to be toned down a bit more lately, there were still a few incidents with Mikan as the victim every now and again. You hated seeing her upset, but you weren’t sure yourself about what you could do for her. True, there was the obvious answer of telling one or more of the professors at the academy, but that could potentially just add fuel to the fire, and you knew that could be worse for her than doing nothing at all.

“I see. This might be a hard answer for you to answer then, but do you have any ideas I could use to deal with my bullies?”

“Well, I’m not sure, but who is it that’s bullying you? The best way to go about it would depend on the bullies themselves.”

“It’s my mother...” Naturally, with how unexpected that answer was, you didn’t quite know how to respond to that. She then explained what her mother had done to her, from insulting her and neglecting her to abusing her and even beating Mikan up in a drunken stupor. You were starting to get very upset as Mikan told you about her life, but not with Mikan, obviously. You forced yourself to sit up in the infirmary bed, regardless of your pain.

“(YN), you need to res- EEP!!” she exclaimed by the sudden embrace that you gave her. You held her close and weren’t going to let her go for a while. She needed some love, that was clear, and you intended to give her some.

“Mikan, I’m so sorry... I never realized you were suffering this much,” you told her. “I won’t let you get hurt like that again, by anyone. No one deserves to be treated like that by their parents, especially you.”

“(YN)...” she muttered, suddenly sobbing as she returned your embrace. “Th-Thank you... Then let this be... my reciprocation.” She held you close and softly kissed your lips. You had hoped this would someday be your reality. True, you imagined them to be under different circumstances, but you weren’t going to make any complaints.

“Now, you should get some rest, (YN). I’ll wake you up before school ends,” she told you, giving you one more kiss before you closed your eyes.