Seven hours and fifty minutes later.
Niwa and her fellow classmates climbed out of the forest for the first time since they had been thrown into that thing at nine-thirty that morning.
"Oh, you're finally here, meow!" the blonde Pussycat smiled proudly at the seriously exhausted class.
"What do you mean three hours!" Sato collapsed to the ground in the open field where the teachers stood waiting. Niwa and Kyoka also collapsed to the ground of the dirt field.
"That's the time it would have taken us. Sorry!" The Pussycat smiled innocently.
"You were trying to boast how much better you are?" Sato wheezed and Kirishima fell to his ass beside the sugar-guy.
"I'm so hungry… I'm gonna die!" Kirishima yelled in a gravelly, breathless voice to the sky.
The blonde Pussycat chuckled, "But honestly, I thought it would take even longer. You guys didn't have as hard a time beating my earth beasts as I thought you would. You guys are great… Especially…"
"…You four!" She pointed a glove clawed finger over to the right, "Were you able to act without hesitation because of your experience? I'm looking forward to where you'll be in three years."
The blonde launched right for the four boys. Iida, Midoriya, Todoroki, and Bakugou. Normally, Niwa wouldn't have cared too much about some middle-aged lady fussing around the four of them…
"I call dibs!" The woman said and started bouncing around the schoolboys.
The growl ripped from Niwa's throat faster than she had even noticed. The blonde Pussycat paused and looked over to Niwa, as did the rest of the class.
Niwa blinked away her glare and realized exactly what she was doing. Fuck…
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuuuuuuck.
Niwa's face flamed and her stare immediately snapped to the ground in pure embarrassment and she stuttered out the first excuse that came to mind.
"T-That was… my stomach…" Niwa glanced up from the ground, seeing some of her classmates look away and some watch her with worry. It looked like all of them had accepted her excuse. Well, except for Kirishima whose body was hunched over and shaking silently. The bastard was laughing at her, he knew exactly what was going on.
She was tired, hungry, annoyed, embarrassed, and now jealous.
Niwa risked a look further up, catching the smug stare of one explosive blonde. Niwa swore her face couldn't feel any hotter without passing out, but it did. The sheer embarrassment overload was almost too much but she saw something.
The corners of Bakugou's mouth picked up in the smallest of smiles before he turned away and focused on the conversation the teachers were having.
That smile… Almost made all of her embarrassment worth it.
What really made it, was seeing some tiny kid launch his fist into Midoriya's crotch. Niwa had no clue who this kid was or what kind of attitude problem he had, but that shit was just pure entertainment. Well, maybe not for any of the guys watching who winced in sympathy or the victim…
Iida rushed over to Midoriya and supported the now frail boy, "You brute of a nephew! Why would do that to Midoriya's scrotum!?"
The child turned back and glared at Iida, "I don't intend to hang out with guys who want to be heroes!"
"Intend? Just how old are you?" Iida asked, caught between outrage and surprise.
"Precocious brat." Niwa had never heard Bakugou speak in such a happy tone. That kid's punch was probably right up Bakugou's alley of humor.
Of course, that was completely ruined by Todoroki, "Isn't he kind of like you?"
Bakugou whirled on Todoroki with his usual face, "What? No way in hell!" Bakugou yelled, "Anyway, shut up, you bastard!"
"My bad."
"Enough with the games, get your stuff off the bus," Aizawa-Sensei instructed mercilessly, "Once you've put your bags in your rooms, we'll have dinner in the cafeteria. After that, you'll bathe and go to sleep. We'll start properly tomorrow so hurry up."
Niwa was the first of the lot sitting on the ground to pick herself up and stumble on past some of her classmates.
"Please?" A voice asked desperately from the ground. Niwa looked down to Kirishima, then to his hand asking to be pulled up, then back to the sharp-toothed grin. "You're lucky you're my friend," She groaned and hauled the spikey redhead to his feet before carrying on at a turtle's pace with Kirishima at her side.
Niwa dumped her luggage in the girl's room and plodded back down the hall and into the dining area she had passed on her way in. Niwa sat at the table, each and every movement sloppy and sluggish as she raised her hands together in prayer, "Thank you for this food…"
Despite being one of the more tired students in their class – thanks to the backlash of using her Quirk too much – Niwa was still one of the first students to sit down for dinner. Soon the rest of her classmates started pooling in and taking their seats on various tables.
It took her almost an entire minute to eat just one crumbed prawn. Chewing slowly and her eyes constantly blinking away their heaviness.
"Just go to bed." Bakugou snorted from beside her, stuffing his face almost an entire bowl of rice and a slice of crumbed pork into his face.
"I'm too hungry to sleep," Niwa mumbled, grabbing a slice of raw salmon between her chopsticks and stuffed it in her mouth. She moaned in delight as her very favorite food, cooked or uncooked, blessed her tastebuds. Niwa reached over and dragged the entire plate of sliced raw and cooked salmon over to her, ignoring the amused looks she was receiving from Sato on her left and Mina, Todoroki, and Tsuyu who sat on the other side of the table.
"You're gonna eat all of that fish?" Mina asked with a big grin as she happily munched away on some crumbed pork and her bowl of Miso soup.
"Unless any of you take it, I'm going to eat the entire thing." Niwa shoved another two pieces of the fish in her mouth.
"Really? So the girl's room is a normal size?" Niwa eavesdropped on the conversation between Sero and Kyoka.
"Are the boys in a big room?" Kyoka asked the tape boy.
Apparently, Niwa wasn't the only one listening in as Mina turned around in her seat and joined in, "I wanna see! Hey, can I go see it later?"
"Sure, come whenever!" The boy invited as Niwa had rapidly devoured through the three lines of sliced fish.
"You're really gonna eat all of that." Bakugou stared at her with a sideways stare in surprise.
"All of it," Niwa spoke through a full mouth before finishing her mouthful and smiled as an idea popped in her head. She picked up another piece of sliced Salmon between her chopsticks and offered it out to the blonde boy, "Unless you want some?"
Bakugou blinked in confusion, looking between herself and the fish held out to him. His eyes widened a fraction and a light pink dusting brushed against his face. Bakugou scoffed and turned away, picking up his bowl of rice and shoveling more of it in his mouth almost as fast as Kirishima and Kaminari were a table away. Niwa chuckled. Yeah, there was no way Bakugou would let her feed him. She was kinda glad he didn't anyway, it would have been so embarrassing and her head might have exploded.
Niwa yawned suddenly and blinked to regain her focus.
Niwa felt a stare on her, and her eyes scanned right to left before stopping on the heterochromatic gaze of Todoroki. Niwa popped the fish in her mouth – along with an extra three pieces – and tilted her head in confusion.
"What?" She asked after swallowing her mouthful of food.
"The two of you are very comfortable together even though your personalities are as bad as they are." The half-half guy said.
"Huh?!" Bakugou spat rice across the table.
Niwa smirked, "My personality is amazing, so I don't have a clue what you're talking about, " Niwa gloated and Bakugou scoffed, returning to his bowl. "Besides, Todoroki, all of us have gotten closer and more open with each other."
"I don't see your meaning." Todoroki stared back like he was asking a teacher a genuine question.
"Well, I mean… You're sitting here, chatting, right?" Niwa yawned and picked up the last piece of Salmon on the trey of fish. "You're pretty comfortable yourself."
"I see." Todoroki turned away and went back to his bowl of Miso soup.
Loud laughter from Mina Ashido caused Todoroki to look back over across the table, "Niwa's passed out!" The pink-skinned girl called loudly and several of the classmates chuckled along with her.
Laying across the empty dish with the final piece of salmon still perched between her chopsticks, Niwa lay dead asleep against the table.
"Will she be alright?" Tsuyu Asui asked in concern and even Midoriya at the other end of the table leaned across to glance at the knocked-out girl.
"She'll be back to her annoying ass self after her power nap, as usual," Bakugou said with his usual frown slightly less visible when stuffing his face with even more food.
Mina laughed, "Yeah!"
True to their belief, Niwa did wake up after the class spent another hour greedy consuming the food displayed for them across the tables and the girls helped the still sleepy Niwa stumble her way through the halls and out into the area where the Onsen waited.
The girls all stripped in the wash area, soaped themselves clean of all the dirt and sweat of the day, and one by one, they sank into the rejuvenating warmth of the hot spring.
"Ugh! This really is heaven!" Niwa slumped against the edge of the hot spring, relaxing her scrubbed raw bare skin against the cool rocks.
"I love that there are hot springs here," Kyoka agreed, joining Niwa in almost the same position and both girls sighed, relaxing deeper against the edge.
"Damn brat!" Niwa delightfully heard an outraged cry and an equally delightful splash on the other side of the wall. Seriously, they hadn't even been in the spring for more than five minutes.
"As expected, Mineta is the worst, huh?" Tsuyu commented, glancing over the wall that separated the boy's and girls' baths.
"Thank's Kota!" Mina waved at the young boy.
Niwa folded her arms over her chest and smirked, getting a brat like Kota to act as their guard against Mineta was really the best idea Mina has had for a while now. Going to Aizawa-Sensei and sticking the idea in the teacher's heads…
Mineta was the only guy who would put seeing a woman's tits above his life.
Disgusting little shit.
Niwa grinned menacingly, "One day, I'm gonna stick him in a hospital…"