I bring you all another uncommon ship! This time we have two minor characters who get the spotlight. Let me know if you like this fic in reviews. I really appreciate it.
Shihai looks at once was his lunch seat. His face was a line. What was once his seat at the table was now occupied by a boy with gravity defying purple hair.
Said boy was laughing with the other boys at the table.
Shihai had went to go get some extra napkins and came back to see that the new guy, Hitoshi Shinso had taken his spot.
He decides to ask nicely.
"Hey Shinso, mind if I get my spot back?" He asks, hoping that this would be simple.
Shinso turns to him with an eyebrow raised. All laughter stopped and all eyes were now on him.
'Oh no.' This was the exact outcome that he wanted to avoid. Shihai did not like being the center of attention. He mostly stuck to the shadows and avoided the open for a reason.
"This seat was empty when I came over. Besides, Monoma invited me over and said no one was sitting here." Shinso explains. He didn't know he was in the guy's spot.
Shihai turns to Monoma.
Monoma shrugs.
"What? I mean you took your tray and left. How was I supposed to know you were coming back. I thought you were going to join your best friend Tokoyami in 1-A" Monoma says with a hint of annoyance.
'So that's what this was about.' Shihai knew that Monoma didn't like 1-A in the slightest. Was it really to the point where he didn't want him making friends with anyone from 1-A?
"I told you I was coming back." He said to Monoma.
"I don't remember hearing that." Monoma says with classic haughty face. Since Kuroiro wants to get all buddy-buddy with 1-A, why should he sit with the elites in 1-B? To him, Kuroiro was a traitor.
"Yeah you didn't tell anyone of us. I can't vouch for you." Kamakiri shrugs. He wasn't lying. Kuroiro didn't say anything to the rest of them.
"Same here." Awase added
"He is speaking facts." Kaibara added.
"Sorry dude." Tsubaraba apologizes.
"Guys relax. I can just talk to you all another time. Kuroiro go ahead and-" Shinso is cut off when Monoma sticks out his arm to keep him down.
"No Shinso. You're new here. It wouldn't be polite to have you go elsewhere. I'm sure Kuroiro here can find somewhere else to go. Besides I enjoy your company far better anyways." Monoma says the last part with a slightly icy tone.
'Okay that kind of hurt.' Shihai kept a straight face but the familiar feeling of being outcasted was coming back. Sure it was simply being told the table was full, but Kuroiro always had to deal with this.
"Don't you guys agree with me? Isn't Shinso here far more entertaining?" Monoma asks the group of guys.
None of the guys wanted to admit it, but Shinso fit in with them more. They all turned their heads away from Shihai and Monoma. They liked Kuroiro and didn't want to offend him, but in truth they got along better with Shinso once they got to know him. Kuroiro was always kind of quiet when he joined them, none of them had a problem with this, but Shinso was just the guy that fit right in.
Shihai got the message.
"Alright. Its cool. I'll go join someone else."
Shinso's eyes flashed with concern. He didn't want to have the guy dislike him over a simple seat. He really had no idea about the seat. Not to mention he knew the feeling of being told he cant join a group. That feeling sucked.
"No really go ahead Kuroiro. I can move." Shinso insists. He had friends in General Studies, he knew that they would welcome him.
"No need. Its fine. Enjoy yourself Shinso." Shihai offers a smile. He seemed to be enjoying himself more with the guys. He didn't want to ruin that.
Shihai walks off before Shinso could respond.
'Maybe Fumikage and the others will let me join them.'
Shihai walks over to the table to see that it was…full? That was unusual.
Shihai then notices that Yanagi, Honenuki, Tsunotori, Bondo, and Komori were there.
The table had Fumikage, Jiro, Ojiro, Sato, Koda, Yanagi, Tsunotori, Honenuki, Bondo, and Komori. The Joint Training drew the classes closer together. Before the training, most classes all stuck together. There were a few exceptions such as himself. Sometimes he would join Fumikage's group at lunch. Now they were beginning to merge.
He kind of wished they didn't sometimes.
Shihai then sees something that made his chest pang with an unfamiliar feeling. Komori and Fumikage were chatting. Komori was gushing about how cute Dark Shadow was and how amazing Fumikage's new technique was.
"That was super cool Tokoyami! When you and Dark Shadow merged into one! That was one of the coolest fushrooms ever!" Komori chirps out. She was stroking Dark Shadow, who was wrapped around her neck.
Fumikage nods.
"I learned it while interning with Hawks. Thanks to him I managed to come up with the idea of flying with Dark Shadow."
"Hells yeah. We fuckin rock Fumikage." Dark Shadow reaches out his fist. Fumikage smirks and fist bumps the sentient creature.
"Oh man you've gotta tell me about the internship. How was the experience? Was Hawks shrool? Does he own a falcon? Come on you've gotta tell me shroom." Komori was vibrating in her seat with excitement.
'Oh. They get along well.' Shihai decides he didn't want to intrude. They were full anyways and Fumikage seemed to be in a full conversation already. He felt his hands shake slightly at the display, but had no idea why.
He looks around the cafeteria. Most of the tables were taken. The only seat that was available was with the 'Dekusquad' of 1-A, along with Kendo, Shishida, and Nirengeki who were there. The 'Dekusquad' being Midoriya, Uraraka, Iida, Todoroki, and Asui. Shihai didn't really talk to them and didn't want to make things awkward. He doubt they would accept him anyways.
He sighs.
'I'll just eat by myself I guess.'
He manages to find an empty table at the back of the cafeteria. It was away from the view of most people. Shihai sits down and begins to eat.
He tries his best to rationalize the situation. He didn't want to think too much about it. Sure all of his friends were all together and he was the only one excluded but that was alright. Tables were full. He understood that.
'She likes him more.' A voice told him. Shihai knew what this voice was. His doubts.
Shihai knew he had felt something for Komori. He knew this for a while, but he never knew how to talk to the girl. Shihai learned how she talked. He could translate the words she add 'Shroom' to. She had never openly tried to talk to him besides when they were on teams or had an assignment. Shihai never had the courage to approach her either, fearing that he may be rejected.
Shihai still smiles fondly remembering how she complimented him during the Joint Training. That was a memory that warmed up his dark heart.
Seeing what he considers his best friend getting along with her better caused his chest to feel weird. Like something wasn't right.
Still being pushed aside did hurt, even if he didn't admit it. It reminded him of middle school. Back when he was discriminated of because of his quirk. He was used to being isolated, it came with the package of being one with the dark. However, having it happen in U.A where he felt he had genuine friends just made the isolation hurt.
"Ugh…" Toru Hagakure felt annoyed looking at what was supposed to be her table. She hated being invisible. She was with Mina in the lunch line, but because she was only a floating uniform, most people passed her without even knowing it. She ended up near the back of the line and by the time she FINALLY got her food. The table was full.
It was full because Tokage, Tetsutetsu, Rin, and Fukidashi from 1-B had joined the 'Bakusquad' of 1-A at the table. The 'Bakusquad' being Bakugo, Sero, Kirishima, Kaminari, and Mina.
The training they had done brought the classes closer together. This was good because Hagakure liked most of the other class besides Monoma(she would never like Monoma). However it was bad because her seat was lost.
She kind of wished that the classes stayed separated. She liked 1-B but wouldn't mind if they stayed at their own tables.
Mina had told her she would join her shortly but Toru doubted it. For one, how would Mina find her? She was invisible. Second, Mina seemed to enjoy gossiping with Tokage a lot. She doubt that she would try to find her, or she might forget. Sometimes Mina got so wrapped in conversation that she forgets to do things..
Hagakure looked around for an empty table.
"Of course none are empty." She huffs. She tries to walk over to the table with the least amount of people at it. To her shock most tables were nearly full.
That was until she spotted a secluded table near the back of the cafeteria. At that table was a lone figure. A boy with pitch black skin and white hair. He seemed to be in deep thought and kind of down from his body language.
If Hagakure was good at one thing, it was reading body language.
'Wait I know him.' She knew that he was from 1-B but forgot his name. She wasn't too familiar with the ones that didn't talk as much.
Who was he? Was it Bondo? Wait no, that was the kid with the glue quirk.
No, she was sure it started with a K.
Kaibara? Kamakiri? She racked her brain for his name. She really wished she paid more attention now. She felt like she should know who he was. As if they had met at some point. But where? At what point did-
She gasps. Her gasp drowned out by the sea of noise around her.
'WAIT! I FOUGHT AGAINST HIM!' Hagakure remembered now. That was the other boy that was Tokoyami's counter during the training. He was on Kendo's team. He hijacked Dark Shadow.
She tries thinking back. She then remembers, it hits her like a truck.
'That's Kuroiro! I remember now.' Hagakure felt bad that she didn't know him. It sucked when she forgot someone's name. She didn't do it on purpose, if she didn't talk to someone she most likely would forget their name quickly. She had just never spoken to him before. She had only fought against him and its not like they became instant friends after the match.
Hagakure decides she might as well try to make a new friend. They have a conversation topic and are both from different classes. Besides she wondered why he was alone, she was under the impression he was friends with Tokoyami? Did something happen between them? Did they have a fight? Are they bitter enemies now?
Hagakure calmed herself. The gossip girl side of her was prying too hard for answers and coming up with crazy theories.
Hagakure walks over and sits down next to him.
"Hiya!" she chirps out. Hoping to knock him from his thoughts so she could get the juicy deets.
Kuroiro jumps back and holds his heart. He lets out a spooked noise and looks at the spot next to him. To his shock, he sees a floating uniform and a second tray next to him.
He ponders what this could be until he remembers.
This was Hagakure, the Invisible Girl from 1-A who he fought against in the training.
"Oh man. You scared me" Kuroiro catches his breath as he calms himself down.
Hagakure resists the urge to giggle. Seeing one of the guys who preaches about darkness all the time get scared was a different type of funny. She decides to give a playful sassy comeback.
"Do I look like a man to you mister?" Hagakure stands and puts her hands on her hips.
Kuroiro could tell he might have messed up.
He throws his arms up and clears his throat trying not to sound nervous.
"Not at all I-I just. Well I-" Kuroiro fails miserably. For one, he didn't speak to girls often outside of school work. So he was bound to be a little nervous. Also he didn't know Hagakure at all. They were in opposite classes after all.
She also seemed to be the opposite of him. She had a light quirk. She had lots of friends and was popular.
'Why did she come over here? Is it some kind of prank? Did 1-A send her to mess with me? Are they all recording and laughing at me?'
Kuroiro quickly looks around and doesn't see a single member of 1-A around. No phones. Nobody was even looking at them.
"Its okay Kuroiro. I was just kidding." She playfully punches his arm and sits back down.
Kuroiro does his best to hide a blush. This was the first time a girl has been playful with him. Most of his life, girls feared him. They were scared that he would drag them to the darkness and that they would be trapped forever.
Sure Komori complimented him after they won but she wasn't the playful type like Hagakure.
"Oh…okay." He says rubbing his neck.
Hagakure realizes that he doesn't have the best conversation skills. She would have to take the reigns of the conversation. She didn't mind this at all.
"Sooo, what are you doing over here by yourself? I thought you ate with your classmates." She inquired. Internally, she was practically bouncing as she waited for an answer. Any type of information was pure gold!
Kuroiro gains a withdrawn look to his face. He faces Hagakure(or tries to face where he thinks her head is. He couldn't tell.)
"Well. Our classes kind of got closer after the training. Monoma didn't like this. So he basically set me up to get kicked from his table. He called me a traitor for being friends with Fumikage. I go to try and sit with him and well. The table was full with my own classmates." He gives her the short version of events.
Hagakure's mind blew.
Monoma turning on his own classmates?! They had a fight?! He set him up?!
She did not expect Monoma to turn on his classmates at all. He was a bigger jerk than she thought. She felt her dislike for Monoma grow even more. She didn't expect him to stoop to this level just because someone talked to someone in 1-A.
Hagakure didn't plan on spreading this, but having information on hand always made her happy, along with people trusting it to her. It made her feel powerful in a strange way.
"So what brings you over here?" he asks, noticing how she went silent.
"Same as you. Your classmates had joined my table and I had to look elsewhere. Seems were in the same boat huh." Hagakure says the last part in a joking tone.
Kuroiro nods, eating more.
"Sometimes I wished our classes didn't grow so close." Kuroiro says without thinking.
He then realized what he said when he heard a gasp. He sees Hagakure's sleeves to her face, meaning she was shocked.
Kuroiro realized what he said was out of line. He also realized that Hagakure was Ashido's best friend and that she might tell her and rumors might spread. She knew how loud Ashido and Hagakure from 1-A could be.
"W-wait. I didn't mean it like that. I didn't even realized I said it out loud." He panicked.
"Kuroiro…"
Kuroiro feels his life going down the drain. Hagakure was about to tell everyone. Both classes might hate him for this. He wished he could vanish. That he could go to the shadows and never come out. He wanted to be anywhere but here.
"I feel the same way too!"
Kuroiro blinks. The dread disappearing for a second. Did he hear that right? Did she just admit to feeling the same as he does? They have something in common.
"Since I'm invisible I always get pushed back in lines. Now that classes are together most seats with my friends are gone. This isn't even the first time this happened either." Hagakure admits, feeling relief that someone felt the same.
"I like your class and I'm glad we all get along, but sometimes they overdo it. Mina sometimes makes plans with Tokage and I'm not included half the time." Hagakure felt she could vent her frustration to Kuroiro. He seemed like a discreet kind of guy.
"I get that feeling. Tokoyami and Komori have gotten closer and it seems like I'm getting pushed out kind of." He admits.
Hagakure catches on quick.
"Komori you say?" Hagakure leans closer. Kuroiro feels nervous as his palms begin sweating. He could smell Hagakure's perfume and it was honestly intoxicating. A sweet smell that wasn't too strong. It was like-
'No, focus Shihai. Quit having those thoughts!'
"Are there feelings between them? Are they secretly an item? I won't tell, promise." Hagakure gets closer as the urge to learn the truth overcame her.
"I-I'm not sure but I know they get along well." Kuroiro says.
Hagakure gets back with a huff. Seems like there was no romance, yet.
"Anyways I totally know how you feel. I hate the feeling of being forced to eat alone." Hagakure says in a serious tone. It brings back memories in elementary school. When her classmates would cruelly pretend that they couldn't hear her. That she wasn't there at all. Sure it was pranks, but back then as a kid it hurt seeing her friends act like she doesn't exist.
"I agree with you there." Kuroiro nods. Having someone to relate to made things so much easier in his eyes.
Hagakure then realizes how similar they truly were. Maybe not personality wise, but experience wise. Both of their quirks were good for stealth. Both were outcasted for different reasons, and both had to eat alone.
She picks up her cup and raises it.
"To eating alone because our friends are making new friends." She says.
Kuroiro smiles slightly. He raises his own cup.
"Here here." They clanked cups and began eating.
They began to get to know each other better as time went on. Kuroiro slowly coming out from his shell and Hagakure's mind opening up to some of his tastes.
They then began talking about their classes.
"Oh man, you got 13th on your Midterms?" Hagakure asks shocked. She didn't expect him to be so low, she thought he would at least be top 10.
Kuroiro nods.
"Yep. Surprised I wasn't lower. This stuff is hard. Sometimes people forget we are in the top hero school in the country." He shrugs.
"I made 16th on mine. Somehow that creep Mineta made top 10." She shakes her head shamefully. Being behind Mineta really said something.
"Wait what? That perverted grape made top 10? How? I expected him to be dead last." Kuroiro couldn't process what he heard.
"Exactlyyyy. I don't know how he did it." Hagakure huffs out. To this day that annoyed her how she scored below Mineta.
"So who were the top 3 for your class?" Kuroiro always wondered this since they took them.
"Obviously Yaoyorozu, Iida, and Bakugo."
"BAKUGO?!" Kuroiro's jaw dropped. He knew that Bakugo was a force to be reckoned with in combat but being top 3 in Class A for academics was another huge shocker.
"Yep. Surprisingly he is very smart and good at cooking. Sure he is an ass, but he always gets stuff done."
Kuroiro was under the impression Bakugo was just a brute(mostly from Monoma) and didn't expect him to excel to this degree. Not to mention the thought of him in an apron made him laugh inside.
"Top 3 from your class?"
"Tokage, Monoma, and Kendo."
Now Hagakure's jaw dropped.
"You mean to tell me that Tokage and Monoma are the top 2 in midterms?" This caught her off guard. From her attitude, Hagakure didn't think of Tokage as the smartest kid in the class. She thought that Kendo, Honenuki, and Nirengeki were the top 3 of 1-B.
"Hehe. Seems we were both shocked, but yeah. Tokage always remains number 1 in the class. She is a recommended student after all. Monoma always stays on his A game because he dislikes your class." Kuroiro explains.
"Both of our classes are weird."
"You can say that again."
Both laugh at this.
The bell rings and both realize that they spent the whole lunch period together. Just the two of them, and they were sitting right next to each other.
They both turn away blushing.
"Well. It's been fun talking to you Hagakure. I hope we can meet again." Kuroiro says as he gathers his tray.
"Wait." Hagakure reaches out.
Kuroiro takes a slip of paper from her hands. He looks at it.
On the paper is a phone number. His eyes widen in shock as his pitch black skin becomes a maroon color from how hard he is blushing.
"Call me later. We can study or hang out or something. I had a great time getting to know you Kuroiro."
Kuroiro stands there motionless, before he can say a single word the Invisible Girl hugs him. He feels her warmth and smells that intoxicating scent. Her warmth and scent was drawing him in. Kuroiro's heart began to pound faster and he feels his chest heat up slightly.
He doesn't know if he ever felt like this before. It felt as if light was pulling him from the darkness he created around himself.
Hagakure giggles and lets go.
"See ya later." She skips off happy to make a new friend.
Kuroiro stands there shocked.
While Hagakure skips to dispose of her food, she fails to notice someone glaring at her with a single brown eye. They watched the whole interaction between her and Kuroiro. They were not happy with what they saw.
Well everyone I hope you enjoyed. This fic was an idea I had after Momo x Ojiro. I figured writing about uncommon ships might be a new thing. Would you guys like to see Setsuna x Koda, or Shoji x Kendo? Let me know in reviews if you enjoyed and what you would like to see next. Also who do you think the Mysterious Person was who watched them? :)