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Chapter 4

"Mommy….Daddy….Wake up….Come on please wake up."

"They won't wake up you stupid child….They're DEAD."

"Dead?...No they can't be dead, they can't. You're lying!"

"Stop whining, it's you're fault they died anyway."

"M-My fault?!"

"Yeah, they died protecting you. But now that they're gone, you're coming with us."

"No stay away from me. Leave me alone. No NOOOOOOOO!" Shino woke up from his nightmare sweating and breathing heavily like he has been using his quirk for a week straight. 'Goddamnit, I thought we were done with these nightmares.' He looked to his right to a frame that looked like a book open in the middle with two photos in each side. The one on the right was of him, Mother, Maria, and his siblings with the orphanage behind them. The second photo was a little singed on the sides and had what looked like a young Shino with adults in a park. Looking at the photo only deepened Shino's frown. This was not a great start for his day. Moreover, the press swarming around the gates of U.A. didn't make any better. Shino hated reporters and news channels in general, they always looked like drug addicts looking for their fix and getting violent when being denied. As he passed through the hordes of reporters trying to interrogate him about All-Might as a teacher, he did his best to not lash out at them for disturbing the students.

"Today's assignment will shape the next three years of your life." Aizawa stated as soon as he reached the teacher's table. The entire class stiffened up fearing another test. "You will be choosing your class president and vice-president." Finished Aizawa and all the students' worries melted away and were replaced with excitement as students started shouting asking to be chosen. Their shouts were stopped by an even louder shout coming from Iida. "EVERYONE PLEASE QUITE DOWN." As the class looked at Iida, he started talking again, "This no way to act for students of U.A. we have to be civil about this, so I suggest we do an election. Is that possible Mr. Aizawa?"

Despite sounding very professional, everybody could see that Iida was as excited about this as everybody else if not more.

"Do what you want, but you have to decide before the end of the day. The presidents and vice-presidents of each class will meet today after school." Answered Aizawa as he was getting in his sleeping bag.

"Thank you Sir."

"But won't everyone just vote for themselves though." Argued Kirishima.

"Yeah, we haven't known each other for long so why should we vote for others." Added Jiro.

"Maybe, but that just means that the one that gets more than one vote will be the most suitable to be the president." Iida argued back.

"If this is like normal elections, can we nominate people?" Asked Shino.

"I suppose, but I don't think anyone will nominate others."

"Actually, I want to nominate you Iida." This shocked the rest of the class including Iida himself.

"I get he's a nice guy and you're friends but why did you choose him." Questioned Yaoyorozu.

"I am not choosing him because he's my friend," Shino stood up. "I truly believe that Iida is the most suitable person to be the class president. You all want the position but we have to think who is really suited for it, the class president will be our class's voice and will represent us in the future. If you believe you are up to the responsibility, then come forth but if not then I see no reason not to choose Iida."

Although some of the students like Yaoyorozu, Uraraka, and Midoriya seemed to agree with Shino's words to some degree, most of the class didn't and still believed they were the right choice as the class president and in the end nothing was decided.

Later during lunch break, Shino's group was discussing the topic once again.

"I didn't know you had such a high opinion of me Shino. When you talked about nominations I thought for sure you were gonna nominate Midoriya." Said Iida

"Midoriya is shy and gets flustered easily, no offence Midoriya but you're not suited to be a class representative as you are right now." Explained Shino.

"None taken, I don't think I'm qualified to the position either." Midoriya smiled while rubbing the back of his head.

"Indeed, wanting a position and being qualified for it are completely different things, watching the Iida hero agency has taught me that much." Iida's statement caught his three friends' interest as they all stared at him encouraging him to explain.

"Have you heard of the hero ingenium?" upon hearing the name, Midoriya jumped to action listing all the information he knew about the hero -which was a lot- until his mouth was shut by Shino's hand prompting Iida to continue.

"Well he is my older brother, the Iida family have been heroes for generations and as the second eldest son, it is my dream to become a hero like my brother." The looks of awe from his friends filled Iida with pride.

"That's awesome Iida, so your goal is to inherent the igenium name!" Uraraka exclaimed.

"What about you Uraraka, why do you want to be a hero?" The bubbly girl's smile dropped and she looked down as if in shame.

"What's wrong? If you don't want to talk about it that's fine." Shino tried to comfort her.

"No, it's okay. Compared to Iida, my reason is selfish so just hear me to the end before you judge."

"Okay." Said the three boys though they started to worry.

"I'm doing it for the money." The group tried to keep natural faces, they promised to wait until the end to judge.

"My family runs a construction company but it's a small company and unlike the big companies we don't have people with suitable quirks and have to rely on machines and that puts us at a disadvantage. My parents sacrificed everything to give me a good life so I want to be a hero to earn enough money to give them a good life and repay them for everything they did for me."

After she finished talking Uraraka finally raised her head and was met with the smiling faces of her friends.

"There was nothing selfish in your reason Uraraka." Said Shino.

"Indeed, helping your family and loved ones is an admirable goal." Added Iida.

"Yeah Uraraka, you don't have to be ashamed your reason is a noble one. And if anything you should be proud." Said Midoriya.

Their response made Uraraka so happy her tears threatened to fall.

"Thanks guys."

"Don't mention it, now Midoriya it's your turn. What made you want to be a hero?" Shino didn't forget what he heard the other day, but with the media and the class president problem he couldn't find the time to ask him about it. He figured this was the best time to bring the subject to light without exposing what he heard.

The green-haired boy's eyes shined, this was clearly a topic he liked talking about. "I have admired heroes since I could remember, the thought of saving people with a smile on your face, being useful to someone, and helping others sounded so cool to me. So I want to be a hero to do all these." If anyone didn't in some way admire Midoriya up until now they would surely do after hearing this.

Unfortunately for Shino, before he could continue his questioning Uraraka turned to him.

"You're the only one left Shino, so why do you want to become a hero?"

He was focused on getting Midoriya to talk about his quirk that he forgot to think what would he say when it was his turn. Before he could answer, an alarm rang throughout the school "Warning, level three security breech all students please evacuate the building in an orderly fashion."

Not knowing what a level three breech is, Iida asked an upper-class student that was next to him.

"What's a level three breech?"

"It means someone has broken through the school's defenses, this didn't happen through my three years here." Answered the student as he was getting up. "We should evacuate now!"

Everyone started panicking and heading to the exits but due to the large numbers going through the gates at the same time, they started pushing each other. In the chaos the group was separated with Iida being pushed against one of the windows where he could see that the one who infiltrated the school were none other than the media.

Knowing that there was nothing to fear, Iida tried sharing the information with his fellow students but their loud and panicked voices muffled his own. That's when he noticed Shino struggling to move through the crowd and an idea popped in his head.

"SHINO, IT'S JUST THE PRESS. WE NEED TO THE STUDENTS SO THEY WOULD CALM DOWN."

Shino barely heard what Iida was saying but he could see that he had a plan.

"WHAT DO YOU NEED ME TO DO?"

"I NEED A PLATFORM TO STAND ON TO GET THE STUDENTS' ATTENTION."

As instructed, Shino created a circular shaped platform for Iida then directed it towards the gates.

"FELLOW STUDENTS PLEASE CALM DOWN, THERE IS NO DANGER, IT IS JUST THE MEDIA. WE ARE NOT UNDER ATTACK."

As Iida planed, seeing a man floating on a golden platform caught the students' attention and they calmed down enough to hear him. After learning the truth of the alarm, the chaos stopped making the teachers' job of directing the students to their classrooms easier when they came minutes later.

After that, Shino and Iida met with Midoriya and Uraraka and they all headed to their classroom. When they entered, they found their classmates there and Iida was praised for his actions.

"You were so manly Iida! Me and Kaminari tried to calm everybody down but were swept and pushed aside but you were able to do it no problem." Kirishima exclaimed.

"Thank you but I couldn't have done it without Shino's help." Iida said while looking happy.

"Don't look at me; I only followed your instructions Iida." Shino argued.

"That's why we all agreed that you two should become the president and vice-president."

"Wait why me too?" Shino asked confused.

"You were the first to recognize that Iida was the most suitable for the position of president, you always seem to stay calm under pressure even when you're angry, and the teamwork you and Iida displayed were all reasons that drove us to choose you. Besides it was a decision made by the entire class except Bakugo so you don't really have a choice." Yaoyorozo answered.

At that moment, Aizawa entered the classroom prompting the students of 1-A to all sit in their seats.

"I hope you finally decided on your class president and vice-president."

Yaoyorozo stood up, "Yes Mr. Aizawa we have decided that Iida will be our class president and Shino will be the vice-president."

"I see. Iida and Shino, you will come with me after the end of the school day to complete the forums and have the first meeting where you will meet the presidents and vice-presidents of the other first year classes. Now let's begin today's lesson."

Shino sighed 'This better not screw up my work schedule.'

At the end of the day, Iida and Shino followed Aizawa to a room labeled "Conference Room" and inside were class presidents and vice-presidents of class 1-C and 1-D and their respective homeroom teachers.

"Take your seats you two; when class 1-B arrives the meeting will begin." Said Aizawa as he walked to take his place besides the other teachers.

Two minutes later the door open and two girls entered the room. The first had orange long hair tied into a high ponytail on the left side of her head that extended halfway down her back and blue eyes much like Shino's but darker in color. The other girl had large green eyes and dark green hair that reached just below her shoulders. Behind them was a man with silver hair, pointed lower fangs, and he was wearing a costume which lead Shino to believe they were class 1-B representatives and their homeroom teacher.

However, Shino didn't pay much attention to the teacher or the green-haired girl. What he was really interested in was the orange-haired girl, seeing her enter the room sparked two different feelings in him. The first he couldn't identify but it felt like his chest was getting tighter for some reason. He could admit she was beautiful but he met many girls that he could call that but none of them sparked this feeling in him when he first met them. The second feeling was that he saw that girl before in his life but he couldn't remember where or when. These two feelings drove him to keep staring at the girl trying to discover what those feelings meant. He was pulled out of his trance when Aizawa started talking.

"Now that all of you are here the meeting can begin. You are the representatives of your respective classes and your job is to make sure your class's issues are brought to our attention and you will assist in finding the most optimal solutions. You are also responsible for making sure that your class is updated if there are any changes in schedule or any announcements. We will have meetings like this one at the end of every week where you will report the status of your class. Today however, you will be introducing yourselves and being acquainted with each other."

The students decided that they will go with the order of classes starting with 1-A. After Shino and Iida introduced themselves came 1-B's turn. The two girls introduced themselves with the orange-haired girl being Itsuka Kendo the president and the other girl was Setsuna Tokage the vice-president. Shino remembered Kendo's name from the entrance exam being that she came in fifth place but he didn't remember seeing her in ground beta so that was not the answer to his feeling. In addition, as he watched her speak the unidentified feeling in his chest seemed to increase.

After the rest of the students introduced themselves they started talking in a more casual way, getting to know each other better. Shino went to kendo determined to learn about her and the feelings he had. However, before he could speak she turned to him with an angry look that startled him.

"You're the guy that's been staring at me. What do you want?" Shino didn't realize that he was actually staring until he was told.

"Oh sorry about that, I didn't mean to disturb you. It's just that I feel like I've met you before but I couldn't remember where or why." He decided not to talk about the other feeling since he still couldn't understand it.

"No I don't remember seeing you before, sorry." Her angry expression softened after the boy's apology.

"I see, maybe it's just my imagination. Anyway, I hope we can get along and I hope you didn't get a bad impression because of the whole staring thing." Shino offered a handshake.

"No problem, let's work together for the betterment of our classes." Kendo accepted the handshake.

When Kendo touched Shino's hand she noticed the metallic feeling of the gloves he wore, she wanted to ask but didn't want to be rude. Luckily, Shino noticed this and decided to explain.

"I wear these gloves because an aspect of my quirk can't be deactivated." Shino expected a sympathetic look from Kendo, he got many of those whenever he told people about his gloves with the only exception being his classmates but they have seen how powerful his quirk was. However, the look he got from Kendo was not one of sympathy but curiosity.

"Why? What's your quirk?" She seemed interested in him.

"My quirk turns anything that touches my hands to gold that I can manipulate at will." Shino looked sad.

"Wow! With a quirk like that you must have scored very high in the entrance exam." Somehow, Kendo's excitement seemed to infect Shino too.

"Yeah I placed second actually, one point behind the first place."

"No way! That's impressive. Compared to yours my quirk isn't anything flashy." Kendo enlarged her hands, "All I can do is enlarge my hands which increases my strength." Kendo looked discouraged, which Shino didn't like seeing for some reason.

"I think your quirk is awesome. It might be simple but it's in no way weak. And a hero is more than just their quirk anyway." This seemed to cheer her up.

"Also I think there would a lot of uses for your quirk. Few that come to mind are capturing villains, lifting heavy debris and people, and with some martial arts you'd be even better in close combat."

"Thanks, I'm actually practicing mixed martial arts."

"See you're already on the right path. No need to be discouraged."

"Is everything okay here big-sis?" Tokage came behind kendo.

"Big-sis? You two are sisters?" Shino was confused; the two girls looked nothing alike.

"No. The entire class just decided to call me that out of nowhere." Kendo's embarrassed look made Shino's heart skip a beat and he chuckled.

"What's so funny about this?" Kendo hit Shino's shoulder, which actually hurt him a bit showing she didn't lack physical strength even without her quirk.

"Nothing, it's clear that your class admires and loves you enough to consider you their big sister. To get so close to your classmates in such a short time is nothing short of impressive. And shows great potential as a hero." This change Kendo's expression from embarrassed to thoughtful.

"Well if you put like that I guess it's fine."

"I like him." Tokage smirked. "I didn't catch your name in the introductions mind telling me again."

"Just call me Shino."

"Well Shino, it was nice meeting you. Let's go big-sis we have other people to meet." Tokage walked away dragging Kendo with her.

"Goodbye Shino." Kendo waved as she followed Tokage.

After the meeting was over Shino returned home and immediately went to Mother to tell her about his day as he always did and to ask about that feeling. He hoped the old lady had an answer.

"Oh my god, you have a crush on her!"

"Wait, a crush? Like in those cheesy romance movies you always watch?" Shino never thought he would experience that in his life.

"Yes my boy. Now tell me how you felt while talking to her." the woman was excited about her son's feeling.

"Well it was actually fun while it lasted and I actually felt really disappointed when she left."

"That's what having a crush feels like. I'm so happy for you." Mother hugged Shino tightly.

"Sooo, what am I supposed to do now?"

"First, you should wait on these feelings; it's in our nature to be attracted to others so not every crush is romantic. You should let the feeling sink in and then determine what you should do next."

"I see. Thanks Mother, I'll keep that in mind."

As Shino laid on his bed, he started thinking about everything that's happened so far. When he entered U.A. he never expected to have to fight to not be expelled on the first day, or learn about a quirk that can be transferred, or develop a crush. All that in only the first week. He thought this couldn't get any crazier but the future would prove him very wrong. As he fell asleep, the last thing on his mind was Kendo's embarrassed face.

Thank you for reading.