The dorms were buzzing with excitement. It had just been announced by Mr. Aizawa that they were going to be getting a new student, transferring from a hero training academy in another country. This was the only information that they had received, but the third year UA students were all chatting excitedly on the Friday evening before the new student was due to arrive the following morning. Everyone had questions and theories about what they would be like.
"I wonder why they're transferring here. I mean yes, UA is one of, if not the best hero training academy out there, but there must be a valid reason for it." Deku pondered to Iida, Uraraka and Tsui. All the students were sitting together in their little common area, but they had broken off into groups.
"Their family must be moving. That's really the only reason that I can think of unless they're a problem student…" Uraraka trailed off, glancing towards Bakugo sitting in the corner with Kaminari and Kirishima, who were chatting away animatedly to each other while he sat in silence. "Although I can't imagine the Principal would really want to take on another one of those." She finished, catching Bakugo's eye when he turned to glare at her. She quickly looked away from him. Even though he wasn't nearly as bad as he had been during their first year, Bakugo was still a force to be reckoned with and could blow up at any time without warning.
"You're right Uraraka, that must be it. They be be someone with a really powerful Quirk and high intellect to be willing to transfer into a new third year class though." Iida stated and the others nodded in agreement with him.
"I hope she feels comfortable here. Everything that's gone on here, some of it must reach other countries in the news. I don't want her to feel like she doesn't fit in." Tsui frowned in thought, but her words had caught the ears of another group of friends near by.
"SHE?! How do you know they're a girl? Who told you?! Tell me how you know!" Mineta yelled excitedly, his creepy obsession with women was always waiting right under the surface of his being. Tsui rolled her eyes at him, along with a couple of the others who had heard this outburst.
"I don't know for sure. I just have a feeling." Tsui concluded, turning away from him and back to her core friends. She felt confident in her gut feeling. She didn't always say much, but when she did she spoke with her heart and her instincts. The others nodded thoughtfully and continued their conversations. Out of the corner of his eye, Deku watched Bakugo get up and leave his little grouping to start to walk back towards his own dorm room. He had that look on his face that told Deku he was stewing about something, which honestly happened a lot of the time. Deku excused himself from his friends and ran off after him. They still weren't the greatest of friends and they probably never would be, but they had formed a weird compromise of a friendship after their suspension together in first year. Deku managed to catch up to him at the end of the hallway.
"Kacchan! Kacchan wait!" He called out, causing Bakugo to sigh and turn around. He didn't need this right now. Sure, he found Deku much more tolerable these days than he used to but he had a lot of his mind with the idea of a new student arriving at UA suddenly. He had been eavesdropping a bit on Deku's conversation with the others and found Iida's comment in particular rather bothersome. "Kacchan please!"
"What, Deku? I'm going to bed. You have two minutes to ramble through whatever you need to say before I hit you and leave." Bakugo's insults had been tamer for the most part. He still had a lot of anger he needed to work out, but he was doing his best to channel it into his training and additional exercise instead of trading insults with his peers. Not to say that he didn't still enjoy doing so every once in a while when he was spectacularly pissed off, but he preferred to physically release the negative energy instead. Deku stood in front of him looking sheepish and Bakugo rolled his eyes. "You're wasting both of our time. You're already down to a minute and thirty seconds.
"You – You just looked really bothered by something. I just wanted to know if you are okay…" Deku trailed off. Feelings were not Bakugo's strong suit, but he knew Deku would not leave him alone about it if he didn't give him some sort of answer. "Are you worried about the new student?"
"Worried? Of course I'm worried about a new student and you should be as well!" Bakugo scoffed. "They're transferring in third year and Iida made a good point; they're probably highly skilled with their Quirk. We're both still contenders for being our year's Top Three but what if this new kid changes that? They could be better than either of us. We don't know who they are, where they trained or what they can do. We know nothing. I want to maintain my place at the top and I don't want to worry about someone new fighting to be there as well." Deku considered his somewhat friend's words and nodded. He was right. He opened his mouth to respond to him but was immediately cut off by Bakugo. "Well, that's your two minutes up. Goodnight idiot." He waved flippantly and turned his back to Deku, stalking off down the corridor to his dorm room and shutting the door firmly behind him. Deku sighed. He knew there was no point in trying to get anything else out of him and quite frankly, it was more than he had expected in the first place. Deku walked back to his own dorm room and tucked in for the night, both excited and nervous for the new student's arrival the next morning.