Shinsou trailed behind his teacher to their normal training spot, expecting to get kicked around for a few hours by Aizawa. As they got closer he could see someone stretching, as if they were about to work out.

"Uh sensei, I think someone's trying to crash our spot"

Aizawa just shrugged and kept moving forward. Hitoshi let the conversation die. His teachers lack of response spoke for itself. The mystery person was ment to be there; Shinsou just didn't know why.

From the look of it their guest was a girl,a small one at that. It may have just been the distance but she barely looked 5 foot. Her hair flowed down her back like a waterfall made of bubblegum. The aspiring hero instantly thought of the acid girl in 1-A, but quickly remembered her hair was short and the girl they were nearing didn't have pink skin.

As if she could feel Shinsous gaze she perked up and turned to greet them.

"Hello Aizawa-sensei, hello Shinsou-kun." She said with a little wave and a level voice. Up close Hitoshi could definitely verify her height. With her long hair and big silver eyes she almost looked like a fairy.

"Shinsou, this is Noriko Gamatsuchi from class 2-B. She's here to help you get into the hero course. " Aizawa gestured towards the 2nd year with a lazy pass of his hand.

"As you know things have been pretty hectic on my end and I don't want my other responsibilities to be the reason you don't get transferred. "

Shinsou understood where Aizawa was coming from. 4 students in the hospital and a little girl that couldn't control a deadly quirk. That was a lot for anyone to deal with, let alone someone who already spread himself so thin.

His teacher didn't wait for a reply. "That's why I've asked miss Gamatsuchi to help out."

"I understand why you asked for someone to fill in, but... Uh wh-No, I mea-"

"I already told you Shinsou, it's alright to ask questions. You won't get in trouble. " Aizawa cut in, putting an end to the boys inner conflict. "I assume that you were going to ask why I chose another student, or why her specifically."

Hitoshi nodded and looked to the girl in front of him. To be honest she didn't look like she could hold her own in a fight, he was pretty sure he could toss her over his shoulder without breaking a sweat. Whatever his teacher had planned was a mystery to him.

Noriko stayed quiet, but her neutral face shifted into a small frown.

"Well there's a few reasons. If you don't recognize her I can safely say you haven't went back and watched the sports festival for the other grades."

The young hero looked away from his teacher and down at his shoes.

"No, I haven't had time."

Which wasn't a lie. Aizawa approached him soon after the festival and from then on it's been non stop training.

The erasure hero just shrugged. "I'm not upset, I know I keep you on a tight schedule. I'll just spoil the end for you and say who won by a landslide. "

Shinsous eyes shot up to the 2nd year. "You were first place in second year?" He winced as soon as the question left his lips. Hitoshi knew that his teacher was alright with him asking questions, but he wasn't sure how the girl in front of him would take it. Especially somewhat rude questions.

Her little pout turned into a small smile. "Yeah, I took first this year, and second last year."

As soon as she said how she placed in the previous year everything stated to click for Shinsou. He remembered her fight and how she broke a guys jaw with a mean looking kick. Norikos hand to hand skills came rushing back to him.

"Ok, so I get why you wanted her to teach me hand to hand. But I still don't understand why you chose a student instead of a teacher."

His teacher raised an eyebrow. "Shes capable of more that just knocking you around, Noriko is also the top of her class in the hero curriculum courses. She can help you train and study."

"More over, I don't think the other teachers would benefit you much. Most of them have physical quirks and the hero life came to them with out that many oppsticals."

Shinsou thought for a moment and realized he couldn't think of the other students quirk. He couldn't recall her using it much ,if at all during her first sports festival.

Aizawa saw the confusion in his students eyes and continued.

"Noriko has a physical quirk, but she knows how to fight for what she wants. I trust her with this and she agreed to help you."

Hitoshi looked from his teacher to his schoolmate. Aizawa looked run down as usual, but he also looked confident. Like he knew this would work. And Noriko...she looked passive to the whole situation. At first it seemed like she didn't care to be here, but her face was calm and patient. The choice to train with her was Hitoshis, and she didn't want to sway him either way.

The tired teen huffed and bowed to his new tutor. "Thank you for helping me, Gamatsuchi-san."

"Just Noriko is fine." She finally let a full smile creep on to her face. "I look forward to working with you Shinsou-kun."

Training for that day was mostly the three of them talking about Shinsous week points and how to correct them. Noriko went back and forth between the 2 men, trying to sort out her role in all this.

After about an hour it was decided that Aizawa would train Hitoshi on Monday and Friday, while Noriko would fill in the rest of the days, as well as studying on Saturday.

The more Shinsou thought about it he realized that he would be taking up a lot of the second years time. If he remembered correctly, most students in their 2nd and 3rd year had internships.

"Um, Noriko..." The young hero turned to Shinsou, giving him her full attention.

"Well...uh..I don't-I mean..." He turned to his teacher, hoping he would understand his current problem .

Aizawa seemed to connect the dots well enough, and stepped in for his student.

"As you probably know Shinsou can activate his quirk by asking a question and getting a verbal response. I'm assuming he wants to know if your comfortable with him asking you questions. "

The look the other student gave him was full of confusion and pity. Shinsou hated it.

"Of course you can ask questions. Who tells you that you can't?"

"Dont pry into people's personal lives, Gamatsuchi." Their teacher intervened.

"Right, sorry. So was there a question you wanted to ask?"

Relieved he didn't have to share his backstory, he continued with his initial thought.

"Dont you have an internship? Wouldn't training me get in the way of that?"

"I do, but my boss is about to have a baby so we've mostly been doing private security gigs." She said, tucking her hair behind her ear. "That and I kinda had an incident, so my family wants me to take it down a notch for a while. "

"Accident?"

Noriko lifted up her shirt to reveal a long scar across her stomach. "I got stabbed and my mom freaked out."

She was so casual about it Hitoshi couldn't help but laugh. "I bet she did."

The second year let her shirt drop as she laughed along.

"All joking aside, these things do happen. Is that something you can cope with?" Aizawa asked.

Hitoshi knew this. He knew that with his type of quirk that he would likely die in the line of duty. Knowing that never stopped him from applying to UA, and it won't stop him from joining the hero course.

He just shrugged and gave his teacher a cocky grin.

"I think I can handle it. "