Ain was anxiously standing in front of the big gate in front of the academy spelling out its name. He couldn't remember ever seeing a building before in his life that looked so inviting and colorful.
Lily was already brought inside the building. He was supposed to meet her and another teacher in the cafeteria as it was about time for lunch. He assumed Lily was still unconscious when she was carried to this building, meaning there was still explaining to be done. Ain wanted her to do this no matter the cost. As the only two survivors of the Daemon experiments they had grown quite close and for Lily to live out her years in a small, disgusting prison cell is the last thing he wanted. They didn't feel emotions of affection towards one another but they did hold a strong brother-sister bond. Ain already knew that Lily probably saw this as some kind of scheme. The girl trusted nobody besides him. He was glad they made her go unconscious or else she would have never agreed to their proposal.
A lump appeared in Ain's throat as he pulled the guest pass Principal Nedzu provided him with out of his pocket. He had to take a second and rethink all of the previous events that just happened all too sudden. Stepping over this line would mean the end of his current life, a new beginning. Getting a chance such as this one had always been something he didn't even dare to think about, it was way beyond his wildest dreams. It was going to be a hell of a long ride but he wasn't going to back down now, so he started to do what he always did when he was nervous or scared. Ain straightened his back and closed his eyes, he opened his mouth and sucked in as much air as he could and held it all in for 10 seconds. A smile appeared on his lips when he exhaled.
The pass was pushed against the scanner and it beeped, granting the teen access to the large building.
The male teen chortled in delight when he got through the gate without issues. It had been a long time since he was able to pass security sensors without having to work for it or getting into trouble.
Midnight was already waiting for him on the other side with a beaming smile directed towards him. Midnight ruffled Ain's hair a little bit when he walked over to her side. She was pretty hot he would admit. He never thought a pretty lady such as her would ever be waiting for him, let alone touch him. Hoping the girls from the hero course would be cute they walked towards the building's entrance.
Lily's eyes opened, she felt as if she just woke up from hibernation. She yawned. Lily brought her hand to her eyes wiping away the tears welling up in her eye. Those were the only tears she had shed over the past few years, the annoying ones that would build up automatically when yawning. It took a few seconds before she realized she woke up in a different room that she passed out in. "What the..." She narrowed her eyes and scanned the room from corner to corner. Where was she and how did she get there. Lily closed her eyes to think back to what happened before she passed out. Ain and herself were in the institutions' yard, waiting for the pro-heroes to come arrest them. Then they offered them a place at U.A's 'hero course'. That's right they told them they could be safe. Lily scoffed at remembering it. What a joke. Anyways shortly after the offer Lily felt threatened and jumped at 'principal', the woman walked forward and made her sleep? Lily scratched her head signing that she failed to remember exactly what had happened before blacking out.
All she remembered was the face of the blonde male with the silly haircut. The man with speakers around his neck. Yeah, she remembered very clearly how she wobbled in front of the individuals looking into the man's eyes. He was familiar with her as well, she could tell by the way he looked at her. It was almost as if he was glad to see her.
A sudden haze of panic took over her, butterflies fluttering in her stomach. "Wait, school? What do schools look like?" Lilith rolled out of the comfortable bed she was lying in and crawled up from the floor standing up straight. This looked like the medical office at the institution. "Ahhh son of a bitch!" Lily's hand flew to her head and she stumbled, blinking a few times. Dizziness after standing up too quickly, even a demon couldn't get used to something idiotic like that. After leaning against the wall for a few seconds she felt like the dizziness had gone away enough to move on to what she was planning to do. Leave the room, find out where she was and break out. Clearing her throat, ready to venture on her quest to escape, she made her way to the door. She eyed the door for a second and smiled before she pushed against the door and walked face first into it.
"..." Lily stared at the door in confusion. "...Well if there isn't a doorknob it has to be a damn push and pull don't it?" She pushed against it once more but the door didn't budge. "I fucking knew it was a fake offer, this is going to be jail but worse." A low irritated growl escaped her lips before she popped her fingers and neck. "Alright, I'll play your game Nedzu." Saying his name sounded like poison dripping off her tongue. She lifted her right knee into the air, her foot facing towards the door. It would only take her one kick to get the door off its hinges and make it fly toward the other wall. A little mischievous smirk started playing on the girl's lips as her foot was in the air about to collide with the door. Three loud bangs echoed through the hall. The first was the door getting kicked out of its spot, the second was because of it flying into the wall and the final one was because it fell straight down to the floor. Lily stood in the doorway proud and strong. The proudness was showing through the enormous smile stretched across her face as she punched into her open left hand. "You can't beat me, government!"
"..." The existence of the woman who was standing right next to the fallen door was completely ignored. "Uhum..." She cleared her throat to catch her attention, or maybe to comprehend what just happened right before her eyes. "Is this Aizawa Lilith?"
Lily blinked once or twice before turning her head to the left. There she saw a very small lady in something that looked like a doctor kind of outfit. She was wearing a normal doctors coat with some kind of striped dress and pink long socks underneath. Her grey hair was tied tightly into a perfect bun, but the thing that made Lilith feel more nervous and uncomfortable than she already was from seeing the doctors coat was the thing in her hair. there was a syringe stuck in the hairband that was used to keep her hair tied. Something she had seen far more often in her life than other 14-year-olds would. It was a very old lady, a crackly voice but other than that she seemed kind. Lilith knew better. There was no way she would ever trust a doctor again. Doctors had been lying to her from the day she could last remember getting into contact with one. She glared the lady down and turned her head into the opposite direction, seeing the hallway stretching out. "So this is what a school looks like.." Lily muttered to herself, soft enough to not let anybody else hear it. Somehow the woman did happen to though and the corners of her lips perked upwards.
"Good afternoon dear, you must be very hungry. Shall I help you find your way to the cafeteria? Don't worry about the door, someone will come to fix it to keep you out of trouble. I'll keep my mouth shut." Lilith gazed back at the elderly lady in utter confusion. There were multiple things she didn't understand but the first thing on her mind right now definitely was: Why did she not get scolded right now? Lily was really getting sick of not understanding what the hell was going on however, Lilith didn't need to say anything. The woman could read her like an open book and opened her mouth to start talking to her. "I'm sure you must be very tired and confused but I promise you we aren't here to hurt you." She smiled and made sure her tone was overall very calm. Lily could tell and she hated to admit that it was working even a little bit. "My name is Chiyo Shuzenji, often referred to as Recovery Girl. I'm assuming I am going to be seeing you a lot. I heard you like to get into fights." She giggled, making Lilith feel all the more uncomfortable and maybe even a little bit upset. She didn't need a nurse for a few wounds, she was stronger than that. "If you're talking about tending to my wounds, that chance would be very minimal that I will be coming here much." Lily scoffed. She tried her best to set off the elder and get some alone time but she seemed very resolute to take Lily to the cafeteria.
Recovery Girl as well looked into the girl's right eye all she could see was Aizawa. Lilith definitely showed more signs of aggression than Aizawa did but the resemblance was most certainly there. She did remember what the girl was like before the day of her disappearance. A cheerful energetic young lady she was. The girl had her father's eyes and hair color but personality wise there wasn't much of a resemblance. Recovery Girl gave a deep sigh before shaking her head in disapproval. To think doctors would ever do something to a human, no a living being. She was even acquainted with one of the doctors there. The possibility that Aizawa's daughter was there undergoing painful experiments never even crossed her mind once. Knowing of the documents that were found in an office containing information on all of the diseased children that had gone through the same experiments as Lilith and Ain. The only two survivors of the Daemon experiments. Chiyo glanced back towards the girl who had ever so reluctantly begun to follow her, some groans of annoyance to let Chiyo know she didn't really want to come with but she had no other choice.
They were lucky she was strong enough she survived the experiments.
Besides Lilith's discontented groans the walk to the cafeteria was in silence. Lily looked out of the window inspecting all of her surroundings. She was surprised she could look out the window, to begin with. What kind of prison didn't barricade their windows? Psht this place was going to be easy as heck to break out of. Those were Lily's thoughts but never once did she try to run away from the lady, she just followed. Maybe it was her curiosity, maybe she actually didn't mind being away from the institution. She didn't know. All she knew is that she still wouldn't get the chance to see the outside world during the daytime. Her and Ain had always been confined and locked up inside unless it was time for action. Looking out of this one window is the most Lily had actually been able to see in real daylight. The brightness was painful to her eye but it looked so beautiful. There were so many colors.
Her eyes got caught on an individual walking on campus outside. His expression was very stoic and if Lily looked close enough she could make out some bags under her eyes. The boy reminded Lilith of the man's face she could only faintly make out in her dreams. "Interesting..."
After a minute more of silent walking, they reached the end of the long hallway, spreading into a wide open area. There were many tables and chairs, even long boots against the wall. It looked like the cafeteria in the institution but... prettier. More colorful. The people currently in the cafeteria were very minimal and her eyes instantly fell on the small group of people sitting at the table in the middle. Ain was sitting there together with Principal Nedzu, Present Mic, and another man. Lily narrowed her eyes when she looked the man over.
Lily inhaled through her nose sharply when she could feel herself getting nervous. Those nerves however soon disappeared when she smelled something amazing. Her hand flew towards her stomach, it started growling fiercely. Her mouth started watering forcing a little bit of drool to drip from the left corner of her mouth.
"Come on dear, let's walk to our table. There are people waiting for us. Lunch-Rush will make you something to eat, don't worry"
Lilith huffed and nodded, crossing her arms over her chest. She didn't want to oblige but Ain was sitting right there and... she would be getting food. With small footsteps, Lilith made her way to the lunch table the small group of people was sitting at. She stepped over the bench and sat next to Ain who was happily scarfing down his food. He was eating as if he hadn't eaten for weeks, but she couldn't blame him. Only the smell of whatever was on his plate made Lily's mouth water all over again. As if her prayers had been heard the man she assumed to be the one named Lunch-Rush walked to the table putting a tray down in front of Lily, the smell of what was placed atop invading her nostrils. It was a Japanese curry with rice, seemed to be an extra large portion too. Lily would have almost said it was generous of them if she didn't know any better. Nonetheless, she bit down her teeth on it happily. It tasted as amazing it smelled, no, even better!
"Holy shiiiit~~" Lilith drew out the last word before stuffing her mouth with another spoonful. She was to indulged in her food to notice the raven-haired man looking in her direction, intensely glaring at her contently eating form. He worried if no one had ever cooked her a nice meal though, his face however still devoid of emotion. When Ain looked up from his plate his eyes immediately shot back over to the man. Ain didn't know what it was but there was something that reminded him of Lily, it was almost amusing to him. The two, Aizawa and Ain, looked each other for a good bit before Aizawa cleared his throat.
Present Mic leaned over to the right. "What a sweet family reunion." He mocked him.
"Shut up, Mic."
The blonde grinned while he as well had his gaze focused on the raven-haired girl sitting in front of his best friend from high school, who as well happened to be the young ladies father.
Lilith's head perked up, staring straight into the grim looking man's eyes. Sheesh, that's the second person with a stoic facial expression she'd seen today, the rings under the eyes not being very reassuring.
But that was not important. That voice, that was important. She heard it before, she could swear it. It wasn't just the voice that had been odd to her. The man's appearance felt familiar as well, even his scent. She felt like it held even the slightest bit of comfort. Lily felt uncomfortable about how comfortable she felt in his presence, she hated it. Now she thought about it, she remembered her palms getting sweaty when she first saw him. It was like her subconscious mind knew of something so evident, so plain-to-see, that she just couldn't figure out.
"D...Do I..." Lily started to mumble as she looked down at her thumbs. She quickly glanced back up to meet the male's gaze. "H-Have we met?" Lily couldn't imagine that not being the case but, she could also not remember anything about ever coming in contact with the male. She could have sworn that hearing his voice struck something inside her brain, there was something there! There had to be... but what was she missing?
"God, are you blind woman." Ain tilted his head only slightly, just enough to be able to look at Lily from the corner of his eye. He seemed to be very pleased about something. Her guess was that Ain already figured out what was going on and was now thoroughly enjoying, and taking advantage, of Lily being incredibly slow. Before Lily had the chance to say anything else Nedzu stood up from his seat.
"Aaaah, so everyone is finally here then!"
Nedzu's beady eyes sparkled with excitement as he spoke up. From the looks some of the other people shot the table, Lily assumed these people didn't very often enter the cafeteria. The two teens attention was on the principal.
"We are very glad to have the both of you here!" He merrily spoke.
"Yeah about that," Lily started, thinking back to her earlier confusion. "How did I get here? I don't remember ever agreeing to this."
"I decided it for you, Lily."
Lily twisted her head to the side looking at Ain, feeling almost betrayed by what he said. "You did what?!" Her fist collided with the table roughly. The echo of a loud bang could be heard throughout the entire cafeteria.
"BECAUSE IT WAS EITHER WATCH YOU ROT IN JAIL OR GIVE YOU THE LIFE YOU DESERVE!"
Ain's outburst scared Lily even the slightest bit if she was very honest, but it wasn't uncommon. Because Ain's heart had become tainted because of the experiments. Mood swings, especially when it came to negative emotions, were very habitual. However, this outburst felt different. Lily even felt a little guilty. Of course, he wanted what was best for her but, was this really the best?
The sadness Lily felt made a tinge of pain shoot through her left eye but she ignored it. She looked down at the table and muttered lowly. "Sorry Ain... if this is what you think is best then... I-I'll do my best to cooperate..."
Ain's hand planted itself on top of Lily's head, his other hand was clenching his shirt near the chest area. It was obvious he was in pain and Lily knew exactly why that was so she just dismissed the issue knowing he could handle it.
"I'm very glad to hear of your cooperation, miss Aizawa." Nedzu continued happily. "I would like to repeat that we are a school, not a prison." He quickly glanced over at Lily while he emphasized on the prison part. "Like I explained before, this is U.A High school. You two will be following a special program in the hero course I have created for just the two of you. You will learn how to be heroes instead of villains because we believe that you kids aren't bad at heart. You both have the potential to become amazing heroes. However, you will have to follow extra classes and student counseling sessions which are starting this week. There will be no normal classes since the hero course students are all doing their internships. We will start off by having you go through some tests to see what you can and can not do."
Lilith flinched when she heard the word tests but, she had to do them ever since the experiments started. She could do it one more time. As long as she would be able to do something that would relieve her anger it would be stared into the principal's eyes intently before letting out a sigh. She wasn't ready for this at all but... The promise to Ain was already made.
"The man next to me is your homeroom teacher, your mentor for the coming three years. Also one of you will be residing in the guest room of his apartment. Aizawa Shota."
"...Eh"
Lily abruptly stood up from her seat and looked the man in the eyes like she had done many times today. "A...Aizawa S-Shota?" The world started turning for Lily when his name was mentioned. She didn't know whether to be sad, angry or happy. Her hands were trembling as tears welled up in her eye. She was told all her family was dead. Lily never knew her family after being put into the institution, they kept everything a secret from their subjects. Aizawa as well stood up from his seat and sighed softly.
"It is true that I am your father, however, I will not treat you any differently than any of the other students in my class. My job right now is to keep you from being dangerous to society and turn you into a Hero." His emotionless expression was the same as always but there was something there that Lily found extremely comforting. There was a tone in his voice that proved he was relieved to see her again. Lily didn't know if that was the confusion talking though. She felt quite overwhelmed by the newly gained information. If it was for Lily's current assumptions all she could think of was him not even acknowledging that she was his daughter. He must have been disappointed, angry that his daughter turned into a villain. Lily figured that to him she was nothing more than a disgrace if it wasn't for the thing that followed shortly.
His lips curled up ever so slightly and his expression softened when he looked at the hurt girl in front of him. "I am glad to know that you're alive and well. I was afraid I'd lost you all those years ago in that hospital, I never thought I would ever get the chance to see you again."
A tear fell from her eye, rolling over her cheek without Lily even realizing it and she just nodded. All the heroes in front of her smiled at her making her bite her lip. What the hell was this?
"Why don't the two of you come with me? Lilith, Ain." Midnight, who was now standing as well, motioned for them to come follow her. "You're going to need your school uniforms, we have them in the 1-A classroom."
Lilith stayed unnervingly quiet the entire walk to the classroom. Ain already discussed the so-called 'hero costumes' with the principal and All Might. They would continue to wear the clothes they wore for missions as their hero costumes. He figured both him and Lily would be most comfortable to fight in those clothes. At first, the heroes were worried that Lilith would show too much skin but he reassured the heroes that it would be fine. She had a pretty nice looking body so there shouldn't really be a problem. Ain's perverse thoughts were put on hold when they stopped in front of a door designed to let a giant in. The teen's mouth was agape as he squinted his eyes in utter confusion.
"Ain, there's a problem..." Lily started as she as well was looking at the door with concern. Ain looked over at her in puzzlement. "What's wrong?"
"I'm not sure if your ego is going to fit through this door."
A tick mark appeared on Ain's forehead and he chopped the girl's head softly. "Glad you're back."
Midnight giggled and slid opened the door to the classroom. Lily widened her eyes upon seeing the woman perform the action. The doors... slide?
Oops
There were two seats in the back of the classroom, it looked like it was a tight fit to place the two desks there. It was the only uncompleted row so it was quite easy to assume they were their seats. Packages were placed on top of the desks. Uniforms packed in clear foil. Not only that but Lilith's katana was leaning against the table. She smiled happily. She was already afraid that her weapons were taken from her after noticing the rest of her weaponry wasn't strapped to her body anymore. No one noticed the knife in her boot though so she'd still have something to defend herself with if she really had to. Lily and Ain walked closer towards the tables to go take a look at the packages. They both noticed there were two packages on each table instead of one. One was mostly blue and white and the other held two pieces of fabric as well. It looked like a grey jacket with a green ski-
Lilith snatched the top package off the table and ripped it out of the foil holding up the skirt in front of her. Beads of sweat formed on her forehead as she imagined herself wearing one of these. Look at how short it was, it probably managed to reach just past her butt!
"Sorry, it's school regulations. You have to wear it."
Lily's cheeks flushed with red as she looked at Ain who was looking at her with a smirk. "Come on Lily~ How bad can it be! Don't worry if every girl here is either wearing either a skirt or a body tight suit my eyes aren't going to be on you the entire time." She huffed and kicked his shin softly but hard enough to let him feel a small amount of pain.
Lily stared at the skirt in horror. She knew she had to wear the thing but she has never worn a skirt ever in her life. Well, maybe before she was admitted to the institution she was then but she has had to have been no older than 5 years old.
"Why don't you go and put them on, we're going to start some counseling sessions tomorrow in the afternoon. Right now we're going to allow you to explore the building before going home with your designated caretakers." Midnight spoke very honestly about what was going to happen and Lily couldn't find a reason to doubt her honesty so she simply followed Midnight along to the dressing rooms.
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Lily stood in front of the tall mirror looking at her reflection. She pulled the hem of her skirt down but it didn't really work as much as she hoped. The usual pair of thigh highs Lily wore made her feel a little bit more comfortable about the fact that it only took one small gust of wind for everyone on the street to see her panties. Her katana was strapped to her back so it wouldn't poke everyone in the hallway but she refused to take it off. The teachers would just have to accept it. She had to give up her trusty combat boots for a pair of nice brown school shoes. Lilith however really liked the school's jacket and shirt. She thought the red tie and the grey jacket looked good on her.
"Well... Fuck me."
"Gladly princess, you're looking good~" Ain peaked his head around the corner and whistled at the girl who was taking off her one of her shoes, ready to throw it at his face as hard as she could at any time. "Is it too hard for you to just shut up for a second?!"
Ain smiled and leaned his back against the wall with his arms crossed over his chest. He smiled at her. "Sorry, it's too much fun to see your face that flustered. It's been a while since I've seen that I couldn't help myself." Lily smiled and shook her head. She stumbled a little when she tried keeping her balance to put the shoe back on her foot. While walking over to the door she felt the embarrassment wash over her all over again. She could feel her skirt brushing over her bare legs and felt very, very uncomfortable about it.
God, I never knew it would be this embarrassing.
The duo was allowed to explore for a few hours before they had to go 'home'. They searched every single corner of the schools ground and first floor. A little while after searching for anything to prove their suspicions without finding anything they decided to check out the places they thought they would spend most of their time in or would enjoy being the most. The sportsfield was very large and the two teens were amazed by the school having built something that looked like multiple small cities. They set foot in one of the areas, it seemed to be a very industrial type of place. A lot of iron and tubes were all over the stone skyscrapers. They spent about 20 minutes playing around in the area, jumping from building to building. The other areas just seemed to be simple cities and had no real appeal to them other than Lily constantly creating apocalypse scenarios in her head for fun. No matter how much Ain would ask her to stop doing it she would never stop.
They found a pool in the building. Lily's eyes started sparkling with excitement when she saw the blue water. Chloride invaded their nostrils but they both seemed to be unaffected by the disgustingly strong smell and amazed by the sight of the place overall.
"Wow..." Lily walked over to the side of the pool and swished her hand around in the clean pool-water. "I've never seen a pool before, only in magazines." Ain never replied or touched the water but he felt the same way Lily did. The world held so many wonders that were unexplored by them, that's another reason why he agreed to the deal. They would be allowed outside and explore everything. He would finally be able to go to a mall, taste some ice cream. Maybe even apply for a job or pick up a girl. Ain smiled and placed his hand on Lily's shoulder.
"let's continue, we can swim in a public pool outside the school sometime, you know, with one of those big slides." Ain said that but even though his words were true, he knew that wasn't going to be anytime soon. Both Lilith and himself weren't ready for too much human contact yet. The day that they were going to be allowed in public would come as long as they kept to the rules and their past in the institution a secret. Lily nodded and stood up patting her skirt down.
"Let's go then." Even though Lily was nervous about the situation and somewhat... skeptical, it wouldn't take too long before she accepted it. Ain chuckled and ruffled her hair before they moved on to the next room that seemed even a little interesting to them.
Lily couldn't remember the last time she has had this amount of fun. Her nerves were absolutely killing her but she slowly started to realize that the situation might be not all that bad after all.
The time to go back to the gate arrived quicker than they expected. Maybe even the slightest bit bummed out that their free day had ended they headed back to the front of the building. Lily never gave it much thought but she was about to head outside. Her nerves were returned to her straight away when she stepped foot outside the building where they could already see the forms of two individuals waiting. The blonde and the raven-haired male were both waiting by the gate to each bring one of the kids to their new homes. Lily could already guess who she was going to have to go with and she didn't know exactly how she felt about it.
She nervously stood in front of Aizawa, fiddling her thumbs while her quietness took over her again.
A smile pulled on the corners of Aizawa's lips although it wasn't big enough for other people to notice besides Lily. She felt her chest welling up and she mistook the feeling for fear and nerves.
"Let's go home, Lilith."
She could only nod before following him outside the gate, checking out with her very own U.A school pas.
