For most of the next day Nico kept to her room, going over the papers left by Nagisa. If I understand this right, they want the families to work together more closely. But how is that going to work? She flipped through the pages trying to see what it was she missed. "Damn that rat, he didn't give me all the pages." she slammed her hand down on the table and went for her phone.
"Hey house cat, you going to come out of here some time today?" Bakugo asked as he opened the door when she didn't answer him.
"I should have known he would do that, I guess I have to come get them don't I?" he caught her in the middle of a conversation.
"Yeah sorry runt, I'd bring them to you but we're extra busy here getting ready for the first round of negotiations." Nick said as Nico groaned. "It's not super important what you're missing, it can wait for tomorrow when I can swing by. Don't worry about it today, it's nice outside why not go and enjoy the day."
"No I need to show Nagisa that he can't mess with me and get away with it." she sighed, "It's going to take all day to get there and back and I was looking forward to spending my day with Katsuki."
Bakugo didn't say anything, he wanted to hear what Nick had to say. "Oh first name, seems blondie gets special treatment now." he could hear the smirk in Nick's voice, "I take it your date yesterday went well."
Nico smiled a little, "It did, and he even asked me to meet his parents." she turned to sit on the bed and caught sight of Bakugo in the corner of her eye.
"Well now, should I be expecting him to come talk…" Nico cut him off by end the call.
"Awe come on he was getting to the good part." Bakugo laughed as she turned beet red. "You didn't have to end the call on my account. I just came by to see if you wanted to go for a walk or something."
"Just how much of that did you hear?" she was starting to think that she needed to put bells on her teammates so they couldn't sneak up on her.
"I'm not telling, I think letting freak out would be so much more fun." he smirked, leaning on the doorframe. "So you going to be going home today? I would have thought that you could get any info you wanted from icy hot." he said as her ears perked up a little.
Nico slammed her against her forehead, "I'm such an idiot, of course I could get the missing information from him." she jumped up, grabbed the papers and gave Bakugo a quick kiss, "thanks for the idea, it shouldn't take long then we can go do whatever we want." she skipped past him and down to the common area.
"Hey wait for me." he called after her, "You can't just run off like that." it didn't take him long to catch up with her.
"Sorry but I really need to make sure I understand what's going on." she bounced to a stop by Shoto. "Hey Todoroki, I was wondering if I could pick your brain on something?" she asked grabbing a seat across from him. "My cousin dropped these off for me but I don't have all the pages, I was hoping you'd be able to fill me in."
Shoto turned the stack so he could see what she was talking about. "I didn't know you were so high up in your family to know about this." he looked at her, "Basically my father wants to have your family be some kind of internal police for the hero organizations."
"Of course, because we don't involve ourselves with their politics." she narrowed her eyes, "I don't like it. I mean having a neutral third party is fine and everything, but I get the feeling there is more to it than that." she played with the end of her tail as she thought.
"I think that as well, but there is little that we can do." Shoto echoed her thoughts, "We are still just high school students, despite everything we've proven we can do."
"Yeah, thanks for the help Todoroki. Sorry for bugging you." she took her papers and rolled them up. "It was a big help talking with you."
"Not a problem, any time you have more questions about this proposal I'd be happy to answer them for you." Shoto said as Bakugo lifted Nico over his shoulder.
"Katsuki, what the hell?" she braced her hands against his back, "That was a little rude don't you think?" she wasn't sure why all of a sudden she was being carried off, but she wanted to know why.
"I didn't like the way he was looking at you." Bakugo muttered, "It bugged me, him being nice to you like that."
Nico managed to wiggle free, "You hot head, he was being nice to me to make sure that this deal between the families goes smoothly." she punched his arm and glared at him, "No need to get territorial when it comes to anyone else."
"You make it sound like I was jealous or something." he backed her up into a wall, "It's bad enough that I got to share time with Deku, so what if I don't want anyone else looking at you that way."
"Really? I'd say your more than jealous at this point." she planted her hand on his chest, "I will give you one warning, if you think getting possessive over me will impress anyone you are sorely mistaken. I will talk with anyone and if you don't like it you're going to have to find a way to deal with it." she stared him down, "Do I make myself clear?"
"I just want you all to myself, but if I have to share your time with the others, then I'll just have to make sure that I get at least one day just for us." he tried to move closer, but Nico held her arm firm.
"I'm going to hold you to that." she moved her arm with a small smile, "But you won't like me if you step out of line."
"Oh yeah, just what will the itty bitty kitty going to do to big bad me?" he taunted her tilting her chin. "Look at you, going all red. The mighty warrior blushing like a schoolgirl, makes me love you that much more." he leaned into kiss her but was interrupted by Izuku.
"Nico, you might want to come out here. Your aunt just showed up and she's not very pleased with something." he stammered and backing up as Bakugo glared at him.
"I'll be right there, just try to keep your answers short and to the point." Nico said as Izuku ran off back the way he came. "We should go, Auntie Nina really doesn't like to be kept waiting."
"We're not finished here, but we can pick it up later." he pulled away from her but she didn't move away from the wall. "You need that wall for something?"
"Promise you won't laugh if I show you?" Nico asked as he nodded. "Whenever I get excited or scared my tail likes to puff out." she left her tail out from between her and the wall, it was almost double in size.
"I think that will be useful to know." he noted as they made their way to the common area. "I'm going to love seeing just what makes your fur stand on end."
"Nicole Diana Gatta, I do not have all day, get you ass out here right now." Nina snapped as they came into sight, "My idiot brother was worried that something had happened to you by the way you ended your call. Clearly he was so very wrong." she noted the state of Nico's tail.
Nico flinched at the use of her full name, "Yes ma'am, sorry ma'am. I didn't mean to hang up on him but I came up with a way to get the information I was missing."
Clearly not pleased with that answer, "I guess you won't need this complete report then." Nina help out the file, "but maybe you should take it anyways as you have all bout killed your copy." both Nico and Bakugo looked at the now extremely crushed report.
"Thank you auntie, is there anything else you need?" Nico took the folder from her aunt.
"Not right now. You're just luck I was close by." she gave Bakugo one last glare, "I will be calling you later to discuss certain subjects with you and you best be alone when I do."
"Yes ma'am." Nico said as Nina shifted into a cheetah and trotted for the open door. "Sweet hell she's going to pin me to the wall." Nico went to a chair as her legs gave out from under her.
Bakugo went over and sat on the arm of her chair, "Let me guess this is going to have something to do with me." she nodded, "Can your aunt really be that scary?"
"Like you wouldn't believe." Nico lean onto him, "I'm afraid that she isn't too happy with me about you." she could sense his next question and answered before he could ask. "I'm kind of on a short leash while I'm away from the estate. I wasn't supposed to fall in love, but it's kind of hard with you around."
"How is it you haven't lost your mind with all these rules?" Bakugo ran a hand over her hair, "I guess this is because of you mother, they don't want a repeat of what happened."
"Your guess is as good as mine. The old man has already told me that he will be taking care of arranging a marriage for me but he at the same time let me come here so I can't tell what he's thinking." she leaned into his hand, "Certain things just can't be stopped, so I say to hell with them if they don't like it."
"That's the spirit babe, now how about you get changed and then we go see about doing something." he smiled as she whined when he took his hand back. "Might as well enjoy your last day to the fullest before Nina rips you a new one."
"Alright, I mean as long as I'm back to be yell at then what's the harm."
Nico had set her laptop up so when Nina called that night her aunt could give her the glares along with the verbal lashing. "Nicole Diana, are you out of your mind?" Nina demanded as soon as Nico answered the call. "I allowed Nicolas to take those boys with you to the cabin because he said he wanted to work on your team building, and then I find you coming out of god knows where with your tail looking like that. Just what kinds of things did my idiot brother allow to go on while you were away?"
"Nothing like that auntie, and my tail was puffed out because he managed to sneak up on me." Nico explained while not giving the whole truth. "Uncle Nick had us running one of his gauntlets so we didn't have time to do much else."
Nina narrowed her eyes, "I still don't like that you're getting close to that Bakugo boy, not with the spring cycle coming up. That and you know what your grandfather has said on the matter."
"Auntie, I love you but you're being over protective." Nico sighed, "Please understand that I need to be able to handle the cycles on my own, I'm going to have to learn how to deal with them while being around guys." It wasn't the first time they had this conversation since she had moved into the dorms. "It's going to be rough for the first few times but I will be able to get through it because I have friends who care."
Nina still wasn't sold on the fact Nico was ready for this on her own, "I want you to call if it gets to be too much and I'll be there in a heartbeat. Your uncle died laughing when I told him what had happened and asked me to pass a message along to the young man. He is to come see Nicolas if wants to steal you away first."
Nico tried fighting back a smile when Nina said that. "Oh no you don't, I see what's going on here. No I forbid it, I am not going through this again. I will not get caught up in the middle of this mess because your uncle wants to defy our father. I will become a teacher at that school if that's what it takes to keep you from starting a war within the family." Nina snapped, "I will not allow either one of you to do something stupid that will cause a scene."
"Auntie, you're the only one making a scene. I know for a fact you like your job with the family so you wouldn't leave it just to babysit me, you know how Uncle Nick likes to stir the pot and send you into a tizzy." Nico looked down at the time on her screen, "It's getting late and I have class in the morning. I'll call you every night if it makes you feel better, good night."
"I trust you to know your boundaries." Nina relented a little. "Just be careful the cycle has already started making its way through the estate, you won't have much longer before it takes you too. Sweet dreams Kit, and do call if you need me for anything." Nina hung up and Nico closed her computer.
Holy hell, Nina has gone off the deep end. Nico thought as she flopped back onto the floor with a deep sigh, But I guess she doesn't want a repeat of mama and papa and I understand that it would open old wounds but she doesn't need to lose her mind over it. She rolled over as someone knocked on the door.
"Finally someone with manners, come on in." she called out as Ochaco popped in. "And what can I do for my favorite anti gravity hero today?"
"The guys were worried that your aunt would pull you from school, and I don't mean just Deku and Bakugo. Most of them were waiting for you to come back down to see what happened." she explained stepping over Nico to sit on the bed, "They sent me up here to see who it was going."
"Auntie Nina can be pretty scary when she wants to be but she's a fluffy kitten once you get on her good side." Nico pushed herself up, "I take you hear what she said about my cycle. It's written all over your face."
"I didn't to listen in, but why is she so worried about you?" Nico loved that her friend as concerned for her. "It's not like you're living in a house with all guys."
"My cycle is a lot different than yours. While you go through a monthly cycle where you get cramps and wish every male on the face of the earth dead, I get them once every four months. And trust me, it is so very far from a blessing, they are so intense that I actually run a fever while it feels like my body is being ripped apart." Nico watch Ochaco flinch a little, "Yeah, I can thank my cat for that. Why do you think cats make so much noise when they are in heat, I'd kill to have a cycle like yours."
"I guess every quirk has its drawbacks, but that one has to be the worst. Are you going to be able to come to class?" Ochaco was really worried for her friend now.
"Probably not the first couple times, but once I get a handle on how to control the pain I'll be fine. I got my fridge stocked with cold packs so I'm good to go, the only think auntie Nina is concerned with is my sense of smell while it's sharp right now it's going to get sharper and I'll be able to tell if any of the guys come on this side of the hall."
"She's worried that you being in a state of pain you won't be able to fight any guy off if they try something." Ochaco stated as Nico tapped her nose.
"Right on the money, so I'm going to be couldn't on you and the other girls to help keep them away. I don't know what'll happen if I catch their scents." Nico said as Ochaco gave her a thumbs up.
"You can count on us. You can message me if you need help, and I'll be right here." Ochaco smile then leapt onto Nico, crushing her in a hug.
"Now I know that I'm glad I came here, I wouldn't have expected to make such great friends." they landed on the floor giggling, Nico couldn't think of a better place she could ever want to be.