The morning that they left, Shouta was watching Ichigo say goodbye to Toshi and the kittens with an amused gleam in her blue eyes while he waited by the bus. Right that moment she was saying bye to the one that had sent Toshi into hysterics. Her little baby boy, as she so fondly called him.
He was a chubby little long furred black kitten with a weirdly cute voice and a freaky looking little lion's mane that surrounded his fuzzy little face. And the shameless little beast was eating up the attention that she was giving him like the little attention hog that he was, while he purred up a storm.
"Now you be good for me. And don't do anything terrible to poor Toshi. He's the one with access to all of your food and water, and he'll probably poison you if you bother him too much." She crooned.
Of course, the kitten's purr faltered some upon hearing her words and for a moment there- and even Shouta would swear right then and there, that it was intelligent enough to understand the weird threat to it's life. Because the little beast's ears flatted against it's skull and it turned it's head just enough to glower maliciously at Toshi as if it were trying to will him to burst into flames.
"Uh-uh Raphael." Ichigo said as she used her finger to turn the kitten's head back so that it was looking at her again. "No glaring. I want you to behave."
The kitten huffed and meowed at her as if it were reluctantly agreeing with her terms before she let it down so that it could trot off in a snit.
Toshi looked at her for a moment in absolute awe of her handling the little monster and couldn't think to say anything beyond, "You're a good kitty-momma, Ichigo."
"Damn right." She said with a grin as she stepped up to him and gave him a quick hug while telling him in a soft tone that she had a few squirt guns hidden upstairs in her room.
If Raphael didn't behave then he could use those to chase him around with.
Toshi was positively glowing with happiness by the time she moved away from him and grabbed her bag and started to the bus.
Once there, Shouta took her bag from her and climbed on board so that he could pack it away for her and then moved back a little bit from the door so that he could help direct her to their seat. Because as much as he wanted her to socialize and make some nice friends her own age, he also had to keep reminding himself that she was a fourteen year old girl under his protection.
And his class as well as the others didn't know anything about her outside of Izuku, Todoroki, Iida and Kyoka. So there were bound to be a few hiccups here and there as far as making friends went. And he would be damned if he let some little asshole bully her.
She might get pissed and OK the little bastard. And he'd have to let her to teach the other kid a lesson about bullying people.
Since the bus had already picked up everyone from his class that was going on the trip- then once he and Ichigo were on board- the bus headed out of the city towards the camp grounds. The trip would last several hours, during which time he'd have to keep an careful eye on everyone to make sure that there weren't any behavioral problems that would need to be nipped in the bud before they reached their destination.
They were about a third of the way through their trip when some of the kids that had been staring curiously at Ichigo, finally seemed to work up the nerve to try striking up a conversation/interrogation. And for the most part, Shouta was proud of the way that she handled herself.
She did really well evading the questions that she didn't want to answer because things like her- quirk, abilities, her bra size and what her idea of a perfect date was- wasn't anyone's damned business. Also she was there as a guest. Not a student. So she didn't have to tell anyone squat anymore than she had to listen to any ridiculous 'fake' rules that the second years had come up with.
Telling someone that they had to be their slave and do what they wanted because they were younger, was incredibly stupid and foolish. Shouta only had to hear part of the explanation once from one of the second year boys before he took the little shit to task over such foolishness.
Aside from those things though, there was only one small incident worth mentioning at all. And it involved one of Bakugo's little friends taking an instant dislike to Ichigo because she didn't want to trade phone numbers. It probably never even occured to the kid that she couldn't anyways because she didn't have a cell on her. But that didn't really matter.
He'd taken her lack of response/interest as a rejection- which it was- and had started to throw things like pencil led at her and stuff. However it wasn't until something actually hit her in the eye and she let out a loud yelp that Shouta even realized what was happening.
Being one guy looking out for a bunch of kids wasn't easy when said kids outnumbered you fifty something to one. He'd only looked away for a second.
But the moment that he'd heard Ichigo yelp, his attention had automatically snapped back to her for a moment and then he'd started to scan the other kids for the source of her eye injury and saw the boy in question grin smugly as he prepared to throw another...something at her face.
Shouta was on him in an instant, slapping whatever he had in his hands, out of them and then grabbing him by the front of his shirt and roughly forcing him back in his seat as he leaned down and told him that if he did it again, he'd be choking on it. Because Shouta was going to shove whatever he'd had down his throat.
The boy had paled and promised not to do it again. After which Shouta had let him go and returned to Ichigo's seat to check her over and make sure that the damned fool hadn't put her fucking eye out.
Once he was sure that she was okay, he sighed in relief and made a mental note to take the boy aside later for some one on one training/a beating in the hopes of teaching him a lesson about fucking with his kid.
Not long after that the bus finally came to a stop on a mountain about ten miles away from the actual camp, where everyone was told to get off of the bus. Shouta was the first person off, followed closely behind by Ichigo, who was slightly curious as to why they were so far away from their destination.
Though she didn't actually voice the question aloud.
Apparently she was content to simply wait and see what was going to happen next. Which worked perfect as far as Shouta was concerned. He figured that maybe he could get her to demonstrate her survival skills while everyone else tried to display theirs.
Once everyone was finally off of the bus, another vehicle rolled up and Shouta smiled at the welcoming sight of the Wild, Wild Pussycats. The small group of four, were a not only the ones who ran and oversaw a lot of the U.A. training camps for the school. But they were also a pretty well known pro-hero group with cat like characteristics and impressive quirks.
They were great hero's. And even greater people.
Lifting his hand to his mouth, he let out a loud whistle to get everyone to shut up and pay attention as the group walked up to them. They did their group intro real quick, and Shouta heard a funny little strangled sound come from Ichigo as she ducked her head in an effort to hide her face.
His lips quirked in an effort not to smile. He supposed that for someone like her, seeing something so...out there from a group of adults was pretty amusing. But he was happy that she was trying not to laugh. The group had worked hard on that intro and it wasn't easy to make a fool of oneself while trying to be professional.
"Hello everyone! And welcome to quirk training camp!" A bubbly woman with a bob cut and brown hair greeted them.
Everyone greeted the group back with a collective, "Hello, pro-hero Pussycats!"
"Before we get this camp started, you're teacher Mr. Aizawa has a few things to say about a special surprise guest present among you all as well as some of the rules. So all of you be good kittens and listen carefully to what he has to say."
"Thanks, Mandalay." Shouta said as he grabbed Ichigo's wrist and stepped forward. The sudden shift in everyone's attention elicited a squeak from Ichigo as he tugged her along with him until he was in front of everyone. Letting go of her, he put a hand on her shoulder and quickly introduced her.
"This is Ichigo Kurosaki, the guest present at our camp. She is not a student at U.A. however if she's agreeable then she will be helping some of you to learn some more complex combat moves. As well as sparring with some of you. She is the kid of one of your instructors and you will treat her with the upmost respect while she is here. Say hello to everyone, kid." He finally said to Ichigo, who looked as if she were going to faint for a moment.
But managed to catch herself at the last moment and give everyone a polite- if awkward greeting before he sighed and then started to go over the camp rules. Once that was done, it was up to the Pussycats to do the rest.
"Okay everyone, now as you've already noticed we're quite a ways from the actual camp. What you're going to do is jump down from here, and make your way through the woods to the camp before dark. Once there, you'll have dinner an then go straight to bed to prepare yourselves for tomorrow."
"Ichigo-" Shouta said, causing the girl to look at him questioningly before he then suggest, "Why don't you show these kids how things are done."
She looked over to the edge of the mountain and then back as he said with a mischievous grin. "Unless you're scared that is." She narrowed her eyes at him and then walked over to the edge and stepped off. However instead of falling like he and everyone else expected her to, she simply seemed to remain in place for a moment before shooting back at him.
"Actually, I think I'm going to go check out the mountain and do some exploring. Later!"