Chapter 1
Exposition and Introduction
Yuma, Hendraki, Akatsuki, Mina and Jin sat quietly inside of a small Taxi-Cab, packed inside somewhat uncomfortably, on their way from the Kingston airport to Valkyrie's Tower in London. The cab driver, wearing a typical cabby hat occasionally looked in his rear-view mirror at the young heroes. The UA student's luggage was packed expertly in the trunk of the cab, including their Hero suits.
Hendraki sat next to the right-hand window, his black hoodie, and dark clothes more wrinkled than it always was, his expression one of boredom and indifference. To Hendraki's left sat Akatsuki, her own soft, comforting clothes were too, wrinkled, and her expression read as one of excitement and anxiety both. To Akatsuki's left was Jin, his casual clothes looked careless and wrinkled as ever, who sat, asleep with his head pitching forwards, with only the seatbelt keeping him from colliding with the front seats. Mina sat on Jins left, on her phone, texting into the 'Bakusquad' group chat, and occasionally chuckling at the texts of memes the others message into the chat, her own clothes of stylish-casual were only slightly wrinkled, and hers was the only expression which read as on of positive apathy. Making conversation with the cabby, who only responded with nods and the occasional "oh?" and "really" was Yuma, his 'casual' clothes had very little wrinkles in them, and he sat in the passenger seat next to the cabby, as he often does.
Pulling up to the tower, Akatsuki nudged Jin awake, who jolted with a start before coming to his senses and unbuckling himself. Piling out of the car, as though it were a clown-car, came our protagonists; Netsuchanji Yuma, Genjiro Hendraki, Jinsoku Hatanaka, Akatsuki Ena and featuring Mina Ashido. Waiting outside the tower was Yuma's older sister, Yumeko Netsucharji, the Pro-Hero known as Valkyrie, who swept Yuma into an embarrassing sibling hug, to which Yuma protested to no avail. The cabby heaved the last of the luggage onto the sidewalk Infront of Valkyrie's tower, being handed a wad of cash by the woman herself, before hopping back into his cab and driving off.
"So, Yuma, wanna introduce your friends, here?" Yumeko asks, pulling away from her brother and nudging him playfully. "Oh, yeah." Yuma says, with a slight twinge of annoyance in his voice. "These are my friends from 1-A; Hendraki,". Hendraki gives a polite but uncommitted nod. "Jin,". "Pleasure to meet you, Ma'am" Jinsoku says as he shakes Yumeko's hand, her grip slightly, but harmlessly, crushing his own. "Akatsuki,", who waves at Yumeko from near the curb. "and you've already met Mina". Mina turns her phone off, slipping it into her pocket before greeting Yumeko. "Well, we've got a bunch quality suites for you guys on the 60th floor. I'm sure you guys know how to work an elevator, I've gotta attend to some business, but here's the keys to the suites. Don't do anything too stupid" Yumeko prods, handing Yuma two room keys, before spreading her wings and launching upwards into the London skyline.
Yuma, waiting until his sister had flown out of sight, pulled a small, card box from his pocket, opening it and producing a cigarette. He placed it between his lips and lifted his index finger to light the cigarette when, with a gust of wind, and a blur of movement, the cigarette was pulled from his lips. Jinsoku, who his friends lovingly referred to as the shortened 'Jin" stood where he was before, but a cigarette peaked out under his shoe. "You know those'll kill you, right? Just because your Quirk is fire based doesn't mean you have to smoke up all the time." Jin says, chuckling to himself a bit, the lines on his face only intensified with his wry smile.
Yuma shot him a dead stare before reaching back into his pocket and retrieving a new cigarette. Jin sighed as Yuma lit up the addictive-stick-of-doom. "My dad smoked, why shouldn't I smoke" Yuma finally replied after taking a long drag from the ciggy, exhaling long stream of smoke. "Because, A, your Dad's dead, and B, you're not your dad. It's pretty simple math, there, buddy" Hendraki states, their voice is as dead-pan as ever.
"also, Second-hand smoke isn't a joke, you could give any of us breathing problems. Jin needs to breathe the most out of all of us, and you could give him a lung condition" Akatsuki chimes in, her hands comfortably and safely nestled inside the pockets of her dark-yellow, pullover hoodie. Mina did not say anything. In fact, she had already made her way into the foyer of the building, somehow leaving with one of the room keys in tow.
"Well, that's just cheating" Jin says as he grabs his luggage and speeds off into the building, leaving the remaining present students of UA at the mercy of a blast of air from Jins sudden burst of speed. "well, we should probably join them" Hendraki says, once again, in his usual dead-pan tone, as he picks up his own luggage and begins walking to the entrance of the foyer, quickly followed by Akatsuki with her own luggage in tow. "Isn't it kinda rude that she just walked off like that? I mean, for real, did you even see her jack the keys?" She asks, a carefree tone to her voice. Yuma stands on the sidewalk, taking another drag from the cigarette, before throwing it on the ground and putting it out with his shoe, and grabbing his own luggage from the curb, following his friends into his sister's Tower.
The Keys jingled as Mina inserted them into the door lock, a clean, satisfying series of clicks followed as she turned the keys and opened the door. A clean, large, luxury apartment style suite awaited them. Jin, immediately spotting the couch bolted over to it, poking, and prodding it to measure it's comfort-rating. "I'd say that's a four-out-of-five-star couch" Jin says, standing up with a satisfied smirk on his face, immediately turning around and falling back onto the couch.
"Welp, we're not gonna get him back from the couch, lets check out the rooms" Akatsuki says, turning away from Jin's couch-vignette and to the suite's rooms. Opening up each of the five rooms revealed the same fancy, five-star hotel, master-bedroom. Akatsuki stood aghast, Hendraki's eyes widened the tiniest bit, Mina looked up from her phone, which she had been doing already, and Yuma sighed. "These rooms aren't nearly as luxurious as my estates rooms, but they'll do" Yuma said with a frown. Jin lifted his head from the couch. "My entire apartment could fit inside that room!" he yells from across the vast, open living room.
"Well, whatever, this is where we will be staying, you should all make yourselves comfortable, I'm going to the roof to text Momo" Yuma continues, putting his annoyingly neatly packed luggage down in one of the six rooms, and exiting the suite.
Jin laid on the couch in the suite, his head resting on his left arm while his right held his phone to his chest. He stares up at the ceiling, trying to make himself fall asleep. His phone pings. He sits upwards to check his phone and unlocks it. Jins face blushes and twists into a smile as he looks at a picture of a post-workout Kirishima, flexing his bicep, body glistening with sweat. "Hey u up?". Jin stifles a chuckle. "Yeah, wyd?" Jin texts back before lying back down.
Yuma lies on the roof, leaning back on a reclining beach chair, texting his girlfriend, Momo Yaoyorozu. "wyd rn?" Yuma messages to Momo. "Pardon?" Momo shoots back. "oh, shit, sorry, what are you doing, right now?" Yuma sends back with a huff. "nothing that interesting. Mainly packing for a Class trip overseas." She sends back. "oh? Where's the class going?" Yuma sends back, a raised eyebrow on his face. "According to Mr. Aizawa, we're going to London, the Hero Academy there's hosting us for a bit of a joint training period, we'll be there for a few weeks" Momo responds. Yuma's eyes widen as he reads the message on his phone's screen. "what a coincidence, Jin, Hendraki, Akatsuki, Mina and I are in London already, we'll probably be able to join you!" Yuma types excitedly, sending the message, standing up and heading back to the suites.
"Guys, guess what!" Yuma yells as he literally kicks in the door, behind him, a janitor stares at the smashed door with the most upset face imaginable. "What? You mastered your inner chi?" Jin says, from the couch, not looking up at Yuma. Hendraki stands at a window, back to the room, just staring out at the skyline, as they often do. Akatsuki and Mina had been talking before Yuma burst into the suite, and they now look at Yuma, both of them wearing an expression that reads as one of exasperation. "1-A's coming to London! apparently it's a part of a joint training program with the Hero Academy here! how cool is that!" Yuma reveals excitedly. Jin finally sits up from the couch. "Wait, really? They're coming here? when do they arrive?" Jin questions enthusiastically. Akatsuki, hearing that 1-A's on their way to London, their current location, masks a blush as she thinks of Bakugo, however, Mina notices her blushing and chortles.