There are many things he'd expect to see when he sees a hero agency the first time.

He often imagine that heroes may greet them and there's this professional air to it. For one.

What he did not expect was for so many heroes to be in Oz's agency to be so friendly and casual with each other.

Oz's agency is known to train heroes with the program in the same vein as U.A, from what he searched into the agency together with Sora, but they're also known to create lots of hero teams as some of the apprentices work with each other more such as the Scout and hunt team, Black Hound, consisting of triplets who specialize in villain captures and the Swordsmen.

He can now see why there are more hero teams in Oz's apprenticeship program because of how the agency has the warm friendly and casual atmosphere.

It's... a bit different from what he expected of a hero agency.

"Good afternoon." He and Sora are greeted by a bespectacled man accompanied by a parrot at his shoulder.

"I am Torikawa Chou, the assistant of Hero Oz. If you are here as proxy for the media to look for a scoop, I'd like if you leave instead before we resort to desperate measures."

"Leave! Leave!" The parrot mimicked the man.

"N- no! That's not what we're here for! W- we're here for the apprenticeship program!" He corrected the man, with Sora nodding along in agreement with him.

There was a glint at the man's glasses as he adjust them. "Ah, so the brothers did recruit some new apprentices."

"Apprentices, apprentices!"

"Very well, Oz should be in his office. Please follow me."

As Torikawa walks away, both Izuku and Sora looked at each other for a moment before they followed the man.

When they reached the office, Torikawa knows the door. "Oz, it's me. We found new apprentices for our program."

"Oh, Tori-kun! Come in! Come in!" A cheerful reply resounded behind the doors.

Torikawa opens the door and beckons the two to follow him.

They were soon greeted by Oz himself. "Hiya!"

Sora was surprised by the cheerful greeting, but he himself, however, is in shock.

Oz... he's not wearing his hero costume at all.

Oz's hero costume consist of googles, a hood shirt with sleeves reminiscent of an RPG Wizard wardrobe and durable black plants since Oz's image is based on a Wizard. To finish it off, he even wore a little wizard hat and wear it on the left side of his hair like a hair pin.

But now? Oz is just looking very casual with a pink sweat jacket, white shirt and pink sweatpants. (He vaguely saw something dangling at his pockets that seem like a keychain too (And yep, it's also pink))

To sum it short, Oz is pink from head to toe in his all pink attire sans the white shirt, with his hair being pink and eyes a pastel green with pupils resembling a diamond.

Torikawa, however, exhaled an exasperated sigh. "Oz, I had hoped you look professional for your first impression with the new apprentices."

"Professional is booring!" Oz booed. Retorting. "Besides, most people would be way comfy working here if I'm more fun and less boring!"

"Not with other heroes."

"Only with them that I'd actually try to be professional!"

Izuku couldn't help but just stare at the bickering duo with Sora.

Then Oz stride towards them. "Hiya, again! I'm Momoi Takuma but you know me as Oz! Or Bossman!"

"That's what the heroes and apprentices in the agency call you, not the people outside the agency."

Oz, instead, blow a raspberry at Torikawa, prompting the bespectacled man to sigh as the hero turn back to Izuku and Sora.

"So you're here for the apprenticeship! Great! But before we do, we may want to ask what your quirks are first for registration."

He paled. Oh boy.

Sora turns to Izuku. "Can I-"

He shook his head, he knows Sora is trying to help to make sure he isn't treated differently but he has to say it by himself. "I... I'm quirkless."

The room was silent.

He has a secret to keep.

But Oz smiled. "Oh. We actually do have quite a few quirkless apprentices who graduated and staffs working with us and don't worry! Everyone here accepts quirkless people with open arms!"

...Is he dreaming?

Torikawa spoke next. "Just because one person is quirkless does not mean that they are not without talent. Oz always see potential in everyone, regardless of their quirks or whether they have one or not. So rest assured, you are not dreaming."

Oh god, he felt like tearing up again.

Then something was shoved to his mouth, not to the inside of his mouth, thankfully. "Have a candy! Candy always make everyone feel better!"

He took the candy and ate it. Nodding along as Oz asked the next question. "What about your friend? What's your quirk?"

"...Psychometry." Sora answers.

"Ah, I see! That's a rare quirk you have." Oz smiled on as he asked the two of them.

"What is your purpose for joining the program?"

At that moment, he felt his breath hitched, as if Oz is questioning their goals.

Slowly, he answers. "I... I always wanted to be a hero... but everyone around me has always said that I can't be a hero... even so... I still want to be a hero!"

Then Sora follows after him. "...Izuku... he's a great friend. He is analytical and unbelievably kind, but that is always overlooked by others because he's quirkless. But he has that drive that I admire. So I want to stand at the same ground as he is to watch his back."

Oz and Torikawa are looking at each other as they answered, as if they were having a silent conversation.

And then Oz smiled. "Well then, you both are accepted!"

...Huh?

"Oz questions you earlier to see if you both do have the right motivation to be a hero." Torikawa clarifies. Continuing.

"This agency's apprentice program is created for those who truly wish to make a change in society and help people, not for those looking for fame. Society forgets that heroes exist to make people feel safe, not for them to ogle on as public icons. That's why even though we advertise the apprentice program, we only accept those who truly wish for the best of society."

"And both of you had the right drive!" Oz showed his hand to them. "Welcome aboard! From today on, you are now apprentices of Oz's agency!"


When the school bell rang after the final lesson, he put his things in his back and left school as fast as he could.

Kacchan may have left him alone since the sludge villain incident, but he'd rather leave sooner than to stay longer.

Today's the day he's starting training in Oz's agency.

He even got an apprentice ID in Oz's agency along with the schedule!

He still cleans up Dagobah beach but with the new schedule they got from Oz for the apprenticeship, he took to doing so in the morning only than doing it both in the morning and after school. Except for the weekends.

Sora, however, took up the part-time jobs program for apprentices in the weekends.

She wanted to pay back for all their kindness, she says.

He wanted to say that she doesn't need to but felt that if he did say that, she'd insist in paying back.

He was greeted by Sora as soon as he reached home and they head on their merry way to Oz's agency.

It was far from home but not far enough from the prefecture.

He was a bit disappointed that mom had Sora enrolled to a school in Saitama prefecture and think that mom is being a worrywart, but does understand that she wants better for both him and Sora. And he also feared what would happen if Sora does meet Kacchan, since she declares wanting to fight him ever since she found out that Kacchan burnt his notebook.

It's hard to believe that in two weeks, he had people that finally believed him. He almost felt like falling again, that it's but a dream.

But, Sora looks back any moment that he felt like wavering, that it's not a dream, and she's there to watch his back, support him, and stay around.

And All Might always encourage him as he supervises him cleaning up Dagobah beach.

(To be honest, he was surprised at how easily Sora trusted him but he figured that it is attributed to her amnesia and she came to trust him as he's the first person she met since.)

Sora and All Might's support really meant so much to him now.

And by training hard, he'll pay back that support.


Oz took her and Izuku to a training facility in the agency, she and Izuku are met with stares by the other apprentices in the room. Whom she supposed had been in the program longer than they do.

Oz claps, gathering their attention. "Everyone! These two are Midoriya Izuku-kun and Asahina Sora-chan! They're new here so take care of them well, okay?"

There was a chorus of "Yes sir!" from the apprentices before Oz left to get them acquainted to their seniors.

She was approached by a blonde (wait, no, her hair looked almost like pudding) girl with another girl who has bells all around her, from her ankles, wrist, neck and hair. Even her hair shapes like one in a way. "Nice to meet you Asahina-chan! I'm Owari Himari but call me Himawari-chan! And this girl is Suzu-chan!"

"I'm Suzuhara Suzune, nice to meet you."

She bows in return. "I'm Asahina Sora. Nice to meet you too."

The surname doesn't roll on her tongue as naturally as her given name but it'll take time getting used to.

They seem honest, but she can't help but feel cautious. Owari starts.

"Say, Asahina-chan, what kind of things are you interested in?"

"Uh... as in, hobbies?"

"Yep! For an example, I actually like gardening and cooking! What about you Asahina-chan?"

"Well... I'm interested in photography."

Inko-san tried to teach her as much as she could about other field of occupations other than heroes and photography stick to her the most with the idea of making moments eternalized as pictures to remember and given her amnesia, it sounds appealing.

"Ah! That's awesome!" Owari then chartered her way about mundane things that she can't exactly catch up to the conversation. Suzuhara gave her a sympathetic glance. "Himawari-chan can talk a lot sometimes but she's a good person."

She nods in understanding.

She doesn't find it in her to be comfortable around strangers so she settled with gestures and body language.

Then the boys approached her as Suzuhara brought Owari away to where Izuku was.

"Hello, I'm Tanaka Takeshi." A chubby boy with a country like dialect introduces himself.

"I'm Yumiya Seijuurou!"

"Kanizuchi Kaname, hey!"

She introduced herself to them too while the girls talked to Izuku. Izuku looked nervous being approached by Owari and Suzuhara. She supposed it makes sense since he barely has much interaction with his peers other than the ones at school who mostly bullied him until she came by. Izuku's gotten comfortable around her, but not with others yet.

Maybe there's another reason why Inko-san had her transferred to a different school from Izuku. Asides the possibility of meeting Izuku's eternal bully, she felt like over-dependence on someone isn't healthy in the same way Izuku still chased after this Kacchan despite how he treated Izuku like dirt.

It's fine to depend on someone, but you can't depend on them too much either.

The senior apprentices then briefed them of what they usually do for the training regimen and help them out.

Sora thinks that maybe, she'd come to like Oz's agency and she doesn't regret joining.

The apprentices had been nice and are friendly to Izuku despite being (Currently) quirkless. And they were kind to her too. Maybe she'd come to like them as a friend too.

(The apprentices also introduced them to video games, as they are apparently appalled at how she and Izuku lack knowledge about video games in general.)


Sora and Izuku follow a routine for the next two weeks.

She'd stay in until noon or so and meet up with Izuku at the train station to get to Oz's agency and then train.

Weekends are spent on doing the part-time jobs.

Izuku continued with cleaning up Dagobah Beach on weekends so she is on her own on this one.

The part time job consist of... well, small time hero stuff.

Helping elders, volunteer work, searching for lost items... it sounds simple, really.

Quirk laws are weird and usually, you get considered criminal for helping them on your own volition but if you tell the client that you're here on behalf of Oz's agency with the apprentice ID as a proof, you are allowed to work.

Torikawa-san said that it's for the apprentices to learn about the small things that heroes these days rarely do.

Heroes aren't just about fighting villains, it's about helping people with little things to make their life a little bit better.

People forget that heroes are there to keep them safe and help them.

The part time job does net her a lot of cash, but she only gets half because the agency takes the other half to be used for charity and/or agency finances.

She doesn't mind though, she can save them up.


Something changed in Deku.

It's been a month since the sludge villain incident and there's just this change between them.

Deku stopped hanging around school for long. He went home as soon as school was over.

That had been the case for a week after the incident, but two weeks after that, he heard rumors that Deku is seen out with someone after school.

Someone with eyes as blue as the sky.

No one has eyes like that even if blue eyes are getting common to have thanks to quirks.

And he sure as fucking hell does not remember someone with that description in the neighborhood.

So today, he decided that he had enough of letting these rumors fly around and confirm it himself.

He doesn't let his lackeys follow him because it's going to be a fucking pain to get them to shut up.

But he is beyond the most subtle person.

He's sure Deku caught sight of him once as he tried to tail him before he went his way to what seems to be the train station and there was the rumored extra.

Some girl with ashen brown hair and, like the rumors say, she got eyes as blue as the sky. He's just going to call the girl Blue in his mind.

His mind went on overdrive as he head over to where Deku was. Explosions ready at his hand.

So Deku got a fucking date or something?

That's why he's gone after school?

But then Blue seems to be pointing towards his direction as he was about to get close, causing Deku to notice him.

Just fucking great.

"Kacchan!?" Deku called out in surprise.

"Hey, Deku." He greeted. "Now who the fuck is this? Your girlfriend?"

Wrong fucking question apparently. Since Deku groaned. "Why do people think we're a couple at first assumption I swear I thought the neighbors had it bad..."

Blue seems to be giving Deku a sympathetic glance before looking at him. "...So you're the rumored Kacchan."

"WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU CALLING KACCHAN!?" He exploded, literally, with his hands sparking some fire in an intimidation attempt.

But Blue stared dead in the eye at his explosions. Unintimidated. "...It's rude not to introduce yourself."

He scoffed. "Bakugou Katsuki."

Blue hummed. "And I'm Eevee."

"That is not your fucking name."

"I would have told you if you aren't so rude and explosive."

"THE FUCK IS THAT!?"

"You heard me." Blue grabbed Deku by his wrist. "Come on, our ride isn't going to wait."

Deku nods.

Oh hell to the fuck no.

"DON'T YOU FUCKING RUN YOU SHITTY DEKU!"

"And I say Izuku and I have to go because we're on a deadline." Blue retorted, pulling Deku and they both start running.

He would've given chase to get his answers if not for the fact that people are staring.

He clicked his tongue and decided to let them go.

Stupid Deku and Stupid Blue wasting his time...

(His mind, however screamed at how Blue looks so odd and out of place. It's driving him nuts.)


It was when they reached the train that Izuku asked. "...Sora, did you just flip on Kacchan?"

"Yeah, I did. I'll be honest Izuku, I don't like him after what he did to your book and your dreams." She bluntly replied.

Izuku looked sheepish. "Y-yeah... he isn't really as likeable as he thinks..." Izuku paused. "...But he has a drive I admire in being a hero."

"...As in?"

"He never gives up and keeps pushing through to win and he's so confident in everything. To me... he's like the symbol of victory."

She looked at Izuku and thought.

Kacchan, no, Bakugou and Izuku go long back, and she doesn't really see the trait that Izuku admired about Bakugou yet because her first impression of him is that he is a bully because he burnt and stomped on Izuku's own dream.

If she was Izuku, she would've stayed away from him. But there has to be a reason why Izuku still sticks around with Bakugou even after he treated Izuku like crap.

So she asked. "Do you want to stand on equal grounds with him?"

"W- well... I dream to..."

She supposed that she can understand. Izuku wished to be acknowledged as an equal for once.

"...Izuku, I think you shouldn't let him kick you down, you had to fight back if you want a chance for him to acknowledge that you can stand on the same level as him."

"...I know Sora... That's why... I accepted the training with Oz and... Yagi-san's suggestion."

They're in public space so they mentioned All Might as Yagi-san when they do but she knew what he meant. Inheriting One For All.

She nods in response. "I'm right behind you to watch your back."

Izuku smiled. "Thank you."


Before training starts that day, she brought Izuku to the support item section of the agency.

She took to familiarizing herself with the agency's building layout on the weekends she head off for part time jobs and she was amazed at the amount of support items available there.

Albeit, they're only for display.

There are, however, support items available for the public and for apprentices to use. The ones on display are ones for heroes.

Both of them are greeted by the Chameleon brothers as they entered. "Welcome Asahina-chan!"

"Hello." She greeted back.

"N- nice to meet you I'm-"

"Midoriya-kun, yes?" One of the brothers finished for him. "We heard from our bossman!" He smiled.

"We're the Kageto brothers!" They both introduced themselves to Izuku.

The Kageto brothers are in charge of the agency's business profile and also helps a bit with the agency's accounting.

The agency's own accountant is Reidou Yuuji, a pale man who had a ghost quirk. But he loves money and anything to do with it, but he's no gold digger. He is in charge of the agency's finances so the heroes get to be paid well and so the money for the agency's needs and liabilities are not spent frivolously.

As Izuku gets acquainted, Sora looks around.

"Kageto-san, is there anything that I can buy? The self defense ones I mean."

"Ah, you're in luck Asahina-chan! Dokuro-san just stocked new items!"

"Dokuro-san?" Izuku wonders.

"Dokuro Murasaki-san, he's the one that made most of these support items." Sora answered.

Sora never met the man, but she was in awe at Dokuro-san's inventions.

Kageto-san told her that Dokuro-san's quirk is Application, he can apply any element to an object in an atomic level, but it must be something in his environment. For example, fire in a brick.

If Izuku met him, he'd probably think of ways Dokuro-san can use his quirk to fight but the brothers told her that Dokuro-san likes creating inventions than fight.

When she first visited the support item section, she was honestly awed at Dokuro-san's inventions.

She can think of ways of using some of them in an actual fight. Some inventions seem mundane but she can see how they'd help in many scenario's in a battle.

The solarizer may seem like a tiny portable heater, but it's helpful to defend yourself against one who has an ice quirk and render them useless.

Float boots are like those flying boots but the air applied to the soles can give an user way more mobility than they would usually have and in case someone has a terrain like quirk, you can jump your way out to safety.

Oh, there are so many ways a support item can be used and who is she kidding, she likes Dokuro-san's way of thinking. Disguising his inventions as mundane daily life things to catch your enemies off guard gives a big surprise value.

She can consider using these support items to defend herself when hand-to-hand combat is no-go.

Now, Sora looked at the assortment of support items and bought some that she would use.

Izuku, meanwhile, looks at her like she's an alien as she picks a handful of the support items and pays them with her saved up money. (Hey, apprentices got a huge discount for buying these items okay? They do give a dent on her savings but she can still save up.)

She caught him staring. "What's wrong?"

"Sora... are they necessary for training?"

"Not really, but it pays to be prepared."


A week and two days left and she'll be enrolled to a school in Saitama prefecture.

The Golden Week arrives in two days so she doesn't really get enrolled to middle school yet.

All Might and Inko-san completely forgot about Golden Week until Izuku pointed it out and she had to stop them from profusely apologizing that it's fine and it's a honest mistake.

All Might sent her documents early in the week and had just finished with the details of her enrollment to her new school just yesterday.

The gossips about Izuku and her being a couple stopped when the documents came by with Inko-san clearing up that she is adopted into the family to the nosy neighbors who finally have the guts to ask and they apologized for their assumptions. The truth soon spread througout the neighborhood.

Izuku also complained about his peers who believed in that gossip and cleared up that she's his adoptive sister, ending the gossip as well.

Sister... she sort of like the idea.

She considers Izuku more of a best friend, partner, and brother in all but blood.

Similar to Inko-san, she see's the older lady as a parental figure.

During the day that she found out about her quirk, she and Inko-san got talking about human relationships but it still got her thinking.

What is love, really?

Inko-san told her that there are different kinds of love.

There is the love between family, like how Inko-san cares for her son, Izuku.

Love between friends. Like Inko-san and her friend, Bakugou's mother.

And there's romantic love. The kind that is more of a "I want to marry and spend the rest of my life with this person" kind of love.

She thinks that her love for Izuku was a mix of the first and second kind. She trust and care for Izuku as a friend, but also see him as a familial figure, in the same way Izuku easily identifies how he grows to love Sora as a friend and a sister in all but blood.

Izuku doesn't have much friends, but he is close enough with his mom that he can easily recognize how he sees Sora as a friend and family than the romantic kind.

She understood the love between family and love between friends.

But she's still not sure about romantic love.

Inko-san tells her that the neighbors all assume first hand that her relationship with Izuku is the romantic kind.

And since Izuku barely has much friends growing up, most people assumed that her relationship with Izuku is the kind where they want to get married. Especially as calling someone by their given name is a sign of intimacy in Japan.

"People often fantasize about wanting to get married and have a family." Inko-san explains after dinner during the day she found out about her quirk.

She can understand why some people think having a family is like a happy ending.

But, she thinks that family can be more than just blood. "That is what you call a found family, Sora." Inko-san elaborated when she expressed her thought. "Some people don't have a good relationship with their blood family. So they often find themselves more comfortable in found families, where they adopt each other as family in all but blood."

She supposed that's how she see's Inko-san and Izuku. A found family. Due to her lack of remembrance of her past.

"But what about romantic love?" She wonders.

"Romantic love" Inko-san stressed. "Is a bit complicated. You may find yourself liking someone in a romantic light but they don't see you the same way, or they're just making use of that to hurt you. Some people describe romantic love as a kind where your heart beats faster around them. But it can be toxic. Some people in romantic love may not end up truly happy due to how differently they perceive love."

"Then how do you know that you love someone in a romantic light?" She inquired.

"It's different for each person Sora. You may describe it as all you want, but regardless, you would feel that you want to spend more time with that person you may like, whoever that maybe. But to love is a choice, not because of fate."

She end up being unresponsive throughout the night because it's so much information overload. But she's starting to understand a bit.

She's still confused about romantic love though.

"You and Izuku are still teenagers. There's still time to learn. You don't have to understand it now. Learn about your own selves first before you learn about other things, alright?"

She took Inko-san's advice.

She still need to learn and try to find out about who she is before her amnesia.

She doesn't really have much of a dream other than that goal of finding out about herself.

So she trains to pay back the Midoriya's for their kindness and be able to reach to U.A with Izuku.

She had a feeling that becoming a hero will give her the answers she is looking for.

(The apprentices invited Izuku and Sora to a video game marathon for Golden Week with Oz joining occasionally in that week. She had fun as they all enjoyed the game and she felt that the agency can be found family too.)


Shinsou Hitoshi hears rumors that there will be a new transfer.

It's already May and Golden Week just ended.

He wasn't sure why there's a transfer a month after the start of his third year of middle school.

He slept for a bit until homeroom starts. Their teacher announced. "It maybe sudden, but we have a new transfer student to our class."

The class murmured in excitement wondering if it's a boy or a girl. He fixed his posture from slouching to sitting upright.

Part of him doesn't care but he is also curious like the rest of his classmates about the new student.

He hears their teacher calling for the student and the student entered.

It was a girl with ashen brown hair looking neutrally at the class but everyone of his classmates, including him, were caught in awe at her eyes.

Blue like the skies.

Blue eyes are common, but not as common as having sky blue eyes.

Maybe it's a genetic mutation? It's possible that someone from her family tree got a quirk where their eyes reflect the sky at the time of the day and it passed on to her that her eyes are sky blue.

That's a guess but anything's possible in a world of quirks.

The new girl introduced herself. "...I'm Asahina Sora. Nice to meet you."

How fitting that the new girl has a name based on how her eyes reflect the sky.


As soon as lunch rolls by, she was questioned by her new classmates.

"Asahina-chan, how old are you? When's your birthday?"

"Which school did you come from before?"

"Why is your eyes blue like the skies? Is it a genetic mutation?"

"What's your quirk?"

She answers one by one. "I'm fourteen, my birthday is August Four. I was homeschooled. Sort of. Well, my quirk is psychometry."

"So does that mean you see memories of the past?"

"...Only on non-living things." She replied. Keeping the future seeing aspect of her quirk a secret along with the fact that it works on people.

"Ah, since it's lunch, would you like for us to show you around?" One of her new classmates suggested.

Sora shook her head. "It's fine, I'd like to find my own way around. Thank you for the offer."

She stood, bowing her head to them. She noticed a wild hair, insomniac boy who was far away from the rest of her new classmates like he's almost singled out.

She'll talk to him later, she had food to eat.

Inko-san's cooking is a blessing.


The lessons are harder than she would've thought.

It's understandable since she had been studying from Izuku's older books from first and second year of middle school so she had to catch up to the rest of her classmates.

But she can still learn.

The bell for the final lesson rang and her classmates start packing their things. When she was done packing, she looked around to see that the wild hair boy was gone.

So she asked her seatmate whom she remembered introduced herself early in the morning. "Um... Harada-san?"

"Yes?"

"Who was that guy who looked like an insomniac?"

Harada-san tensed. "...You mean Shinsou-kun?"

She nods.

"...Maybe it's better you don't talk to him too much Asahina-chan."

"Why?"

"...His quirk is brainwashing. He can control people if they respond to his talk."

"...Has he ever used it on anyone because he feels like it?"

Harada-san hesitates. "...No."

"Then there shouldn't be anything to worry about."

Harada-san argues with her on that point, however. "But Asahina-chan, his quirk is brainwashing! It's a villain's quirk!"

"Has he ever declared being a villain out loud?"

Harada-san didn't respond.

"If he doesn't have plans on becoming villain then I don't see why I should fear him."

Something about him reminds her of izuku, just a bit.

Outcasted for something beyond their control.

Quirks may help people in more ways than one, but she thinks that quirks are also a curse with how society treat those with perceived villain-like quirks, quirks of limited usefulness, and quirkless people.

And she really hates it.


He wasn't sure what to think when the new girl comes very early in the morning.

He usually comes early due to the fact that there would be less noise in class and how he'd have more time to himself for sleep. (Having hereditary insomnia sucks.)

He thought she's just going to mind her own business, except, she was walking towards his seat.

"Hello."

He only nods in response.

The new girl seemed to be fidgetting around before asking. "So... what kind of things are you interested in?"

"...Cycling."

"...that's it?"

"...and cats."

"...That's a bit different from what I expected."

He was hissing at that. It sound far too offensive than what she intended. "What were you expecting from a kid with a villain quirk?"

"...I never said you were a villain. I just thought you seem like someone who'd be reading or playing video games till it's 4 AM."

...Well.

"...Why are you asking me about this anyway?"

"...Is it a crime that I talked to you and asked about it because I wanted to?"

He felt like his breath hitched at Asahina's question, like maybe things will be different but-

No, he's not going to fall for it.

He already had enough friendships where his so-called friends turn away from him because of his quirk.

He doesn't want any friends if they'd end up being like his fake friends.

It's far too scary to hope that maybe Asahina is being genuine.

He's already lost far too many friends because of his quirk.

Never again.


Waking up early almost daily is starting to take a toll on her.

She end up asleep on classes a few times and training at the agency doesn't help.

But she had to do it.

Shinsou's dismissive about her talking to him daily and she can't really do much about it.

Shinsou's a bit different from Izuku.

Izuku still cling on hope while Shinsou seem like he had accepted his fate.

She's only a stranger and classmate to Shinsou, nothing more. So she can't do anything but do what she had done first time she communicated with Shinsou.

Talking.

She doesn't talk much in general so most of her attempts on talking wound up ending quickly.

It's not like with Izuku, Inko-san, All Might, Oz, or the apprentices at the agency who know her enough that she doesn't talk unless it's necessary and prompted with gestures and body language rather than talk. But she's now close enough with them that she talks more than settling with gestures and body language.

She finds it uncomfortable to talk so much to some stranger and opted to stay quiet unless it's necessary.

Izuku thinks that maybe she should go about it differently and it felt like good advice right now as the process of trying to befriend Shinsou over the past two weeks are a no go.

She's been talking about it over at dinner with the Midoriya's.

She really had to get out of her comfort zone after all if she wants a chance to actually get talking with Shinsou more.


Asahina is still talking to him.

Instead of the usual where conversations end because she asked simple stuff like "How are you doing?" or the like, she complained about some bully that is far too explosive for his own good.

"I don't think I'll ever understand that guy. The problem is that my best friend and adoptive brother pretty much look at him like he is to be worshipped and that's just not right. Sure I can see where he maybe coming from but he'll forever be a bully in my eyes."

Then the next day, she was talking about how she barely has much of a hobby asides her fondness of some fashion trends, strategy like video games, RPG, having some interest in photography, and food. Then she talked lots about how she came to like Curry Omurice.

By the third day, she was talking about how juggling between sport activities (Or was it training? He didn't pay much attention) and studying is hard and now he felt like she's using him as a venting board.

The first two, it could be coincidence, by the third, he's convinced that something is up.

He usually ignored her talks the last few weeks she attempted any conversation with him which was all short lived because she's barely much of a talker herself.

But the fact that she gets very chatty is just out of the zone for him from the few weeks that he knew her.

By the fourth day, he spoke up. "Stop."

Asahina blinked. "Stop what?"

"Stop using me as your venting board. It's getting annoying."

"You didn't exactly complain after three times."

He clicked his tongue in annoyance. "I could just use my quirk to get you to shut up now, you know."

"I think you won't use it." Asahina spoke with a strong conviction.

"Why?"

"Because..." Asahina paused. "I believe that you won't use it on me unless you had to. You could've used it on me after a few times but you didn't."

She's got cheek, he can give her that. But it still doesn't erase his doubt about her.

"Mind if I ask something?"

"Sure."

"Why are you so persistent in wanting to talk to me?"

"...You remind me of a friend of mine. He got bullied for a situation beyond his control like you were."

"...Are you saying you befriended me because I'm the replacement goldfish?"

"No." She retorted. "That said friend is the adoptive brother I mentioned three days ago. And you're not him even if you're in a similar situation like he is. He's... I think you'd describe him as a cinnamon roll by personality."

...She did not just meme her way in the conversation, did she?

"...Do you believe me now?" She questions.

He didn't answer that. He still had doubts, but she doesn't seem to be lying either, looking straight at him in the eye as she talked.

"...Fine. Talk to me for all I care."

"Thanks."

Asahina showed her hand towards him. "Let's start over, I'm Asahina Sora. Nice to meet you."

"...Shinsou Hitoshi." He returned the greeting.

"Oh, by the way, I was right that you didn't use your quirk on me at all."

"...Do you have to ruin the moment?"

"Sorry, but it's proof that you don't want to use your quirk like how everyone in class thinks you would use it."

...Oh, so that's what it's about.

"...Fine."

For the first time in a while, he met someone who sees him as Shinsou Hitoshi, rather than a potential villain.


A quick note, the subject of romance does get discussed since I am not the kind of author to ignore the fact that the cast, including the OC's, are human and majority of whom are also teens who are still learning about the world around them and are growing up, it is NOT and WILL NOT be a focus of Skyline.

On a less serious note, Oz is a proud pink wearing man.

This chapter is also beta-ed by solarchan on AO3.

- torinokomachi