Shuzenji Amari had a love-hate relationship with her quirk. She adored being able to help and heal people in a way few others could. She hated the expectations placed upon her from the moment she developed her quirk.
With a grandma as famous as Recovery Girl and a father as capable as hers, it was intimidating to know she was expected to live up to their reputation.
Besides that, people often felt entitled to her powers. Whenever a classmate at her middle school got even a small cut they would turn to Amari for a quick fix. They didn't particularly care that healing even such minor injuries still took a chunk of her stamina for the day.
Her quirk after all was rather selfless in nature.
"Amari-chan, look!" She stared in bewilderment as her classmate shoved his arm in her face, a mildly disturbing grin on his face.
As soon as she had entered the classroom, flanked by Mina, the little purple haired boy had sprinted towards her, nearly barreling.
"Uhhh Minato was it?" She had honestly not bothered to remember his name "What am I looking at?"
"It's Mineta actually, but you can call me Minoru!" He waggled his eyebrows at her in a way that made her take a step backwards. "I have a bruise, look."
Squinting her eyes she could just managed to see the teeniest tiniest bruise she had ever laid eyes upon.
"Ah yes, Mineta." At that his shoulders slumped slightly "Why are you showing me this?"
His eyes glinted strangely as he pointed at her smugly.
"So you can heal me of course!"
She stared at him blankly for a few seconds. Attempting to process the situation and find a way out of it without offending her classmate.
"Ah uhh well you see." Her eyes darted around the room anxiously.
Mina, sensing her discomfort stepped in front of her. "I'm sure such a bruise won't kill you. Now scram."
She shooed him away with one hand as she used the other to grab Amari's wrist and tugged her towards her seat.
"Mina!" Amari clutched Mina's hand in both of hers, eyes shining with admiration. "You are my hero."
The pinkette laughed at her friend's dramatics.
"Anytime, but you gotta learn to stand up for yourself, girl. Seriously, people like Mineta are not worth your time and attention."
Amari looked down at her shoes, suddenly awkward. She knew she needed to stop letting people walk over her but some part of her was hardwired to try to be nice to everyone. Afraid that if she said no to something, people would cast her aside.
"Move out of the way, you extras."
She had to jump out of the way as the explosive blonde barreled past her, not even glancing in their direction.
In a way she was envious of his confidence and fuck everyone attitude.
"Wow can he get anymore rude?" Mina scoffed, narrowing her eyes in Bakugou's direction.
"Why do you force us to sit with him during lunch again?"
"Kirishima is nice."
"I suppose."
"Your costume looks so nice, Shuzenji!"
Amari looked down bashfully, fidgeting with her hands.
"Thank you Uraraka-chan, my grandma designed it for me. Yours looks really nice as well!"
In fact, every single costume the girls had looked nice. She felt a little plain standing in between them.
"Oh that's so sweet of you." The brown haired girl gushed, hands on her cheeks.
They were currently stood in front of the school, waiting for the bus to come to get them to some school owned building off campus where they would be performing rescue training. Due to the nature of the training, Aizawa had decided that she should be joining the hero kids.
This was the first time she actually had the time to observe everyone in their hero costumes. She had to say, her class sure cleaned up nicely.
"Won't your hair get in the way, though?" Midoriya inquiered.
Her eyes widened, one hand rising to touch her hair, confirming that she had indeed forgotten to tie it up. She usually wore a hair tie on her wrist for this exact purpose, as her grandma wouldn't let her near the nurse's office with her hair not tied back. But in all the excitement of a school trip she had completely forgotten to bring it this morning.
"Oh no! I have one in my bag, I'll be right back."
At that Amari ran/jogged off in a hurry. Since Aizawa nor the bus was here yet she supposed it would be alright.
She slid into the dressing room swiftly, quickly digging through her bag for the spare hair tie she always kept in the front pocket.
With a little effort, she managed to tie her hair into a semi-decent looking ponytail before jogging back to the group.
She cursed softly as she saw that the bus had already pulled up and her classmates were starting to get on.
She slowed down to fast walk when nearing the bus, not wanting to be panting when she got on the bus, smiling apologetically at Aizawa who rolled his eyes at her in apparent annoyance. She really should start increasing her stamina because this was just sad, then again running was a lot of effort and she wasn't a big fan so maybe not.
Her eyes wandered around the bus, trying to find an empty seat. She refrained a groan as she saw the only free seat was next to Bakugou.
Without making eye contact she took the seat as quietly as she could.
She heard him scoff but he didn't say anything luckily.
"Midoriya-chan." Amari, along with at least half of the class looked towards Asui as she addressed her shy classmate rather loudly.
"A-ah yes A-Asui?" He responded shakily, obviously not pleased with all the attention on him.
"Call me Tsuyu-chan."
"R-right"
Amari shifted in her seat slightly twisting to be able to peer at Midoriya, mindful not to touch Bakugou.
"Your quirk is like All Might's."
Sometimes she wondered if the amount of time her classmates spent talking about quirks was unhealthy.
Midoriya flailed his hands in the air awkwardly.
"Y-you think so? But I'm uh, well uh-"
"Wait a sec Tsuyu." Kirishima interrupted "All Might doesn't hurt himself every time he uses it, it just looks the same."
In Amari's opinion both of their quirks were just punching things very hard. It was impressive sure but not very flashy.
"But it's nice to have an augmenting quirk, you can do lot's of flashy stuff." The redhead continued. "My hardening's strong but doesn't look like much unfortunately."
"I think it looks super cool." Midoriya said earnestly.
Kirishima smiled at the compliment before scanning the bus.
"If we're talking about flashy and strong it's gotta be Todoroki and Bakugou ,right?"
The blonde next to her scoffed as he stared out of the window, probably salty about being looped in with Todoroki.
Boys and their ego
"Bakugou's always mad, he doesn't seem like he'll be popular." Asui said simply.
She sure had guts, saying that in his presence.
"What the hell? Do you want to fight?" He snapped, standing up in his seat, leaning slightly over Amari, causing her to duck in her chair as she tried to keep the distance between them at a max.
"See?" Asui deadpanned.
"We haven't known each other that long so it's kind of amazing that we already know that your personality is flaming crap mixed with garbage." Kaminari declared confidently.
Amari bit on her lip to keep the corners of her mouth from tilting up.
"What's with that vocabulary, bastard? I'll kill you!" Bakugou was literally shaking in anger, small sparks popping around his fists. He looked at her as his elbow hit her upper arm, but she looked down at her phone resolutely. His teeth audibly grinded as she felt his glare on her.
"We're here, stop messing around." Aizawa sighed, surely regretting his choice of occupation.
As soon as the bus came to a stop, Amari shot out of her seat and briskly walked out of the bus, eager to get away from the intimidating blonde.
"Everyone! I've been waiting for you." The cheerful voice of a person clad in a sort of astronaut suit greeted the class as soon as they had all dismounted the bus.
"The space hero: Thirteen!" Midoriya squeaked out somewhere on her right.
The building they were standing in front of was absolutely massive. She wondered exactly how much money their school had... and if they were willing to share some with her.
"Come, let's go inside." Thirteen ushered them all inside as they marveled at the looming structure.
Holy shit
The building looked impressive on the outside but the inside was on another level. The inside consisted out of several different simulated landscapes to allow them to practice in different environments. In the middle of it all sat a fountain to tie it all together.
If she became rich she also wanted a fountain in her house she decided.
"It's just like Universal Studios Japan!" Kirishima exclaimed on her left, several classmates nodding in agreement.
"A shipwreck, a landslide, fire, windstorm et cetera. It is a training ground that I made with different types of disasters and accidents. The Unforeseen Simulation Joint or USJ for short." Thirteen explained.
Interesting choice of name
Aizawa and thirteen exchanged a few words, too soft for her to pick up but Aizawa looked severely annoyed.
"Let's see" Thirteen captured their attention once more. "Before we begin let me say one thing, uh two things, or maybe four, perhaps five."
Thirteen shouldn't become a TED speaker.
"Everyone, I am sure that you are aware of my quirk Black Hole. I can suck up anything and turn it to dust."
"You've been able to save people from all kinds of disasters." Midoriya cut in, in his fanboy mode.
"Yes, but it is a power that can easily kill." That seemed the wipe the smile from most of her classmates faces. "In a superhuman society, personal quirks have been certified and strictly managed so it doesn't seem like a problem at first glance. However, don't forget that many quirks can easily kill. Here, you will learn to use that power to not harm others but help them instead."
Amari shrugged, she was pretty sure her quirk did not fall in the 'able to kill' category. She clapped politely as her class busted into applause for the spacehero's speech.
"Now then" Aizawa interrupted with yet another sigh. "Let's start-"
A crack sounded as the lights in the facility shut off. Amari froze as she looked around in confusion. Was this part of the training?
Her eyes focused on the fountain as it sputtered out, a strange purple mist forming next to it.
"What's happening ribbit?" Asui asked their teachers.
Aizawa's back, normally slouched slightly, was pin straight and his eyes wider and more alert than she had ever seen them as his eyes darted around.
"Gather together and don't move. Thirteen, protect the students."
Amari felt a cold shiver running down her spine as the realization dawned upon her. They were under attack.
A pale hand emerged from the purple mist, followed by a young man with faded blue hair and entirely too many hands stuck on his body. After him emerged a throng of what only could be villains.
"Don't move. Those are villains." Aizawa reached for his goggles, pulling them down as he angled himself between the still growing group of villains and his students.
She sucked in a sharp breath, hands trembling as she took a step back, bumping into an equally scared Mina. Her friend send her a small reassuring look and reached out a hand that Amari grabbed, grateful for the slight comfort it provided. Even though she could feel Mina trembling just as much as she was.
This was real
A/N So sorry to keep you guys waiting so long but I am incredibly busy. I hope to be able to have the next update out soon!
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