Twisted Nightmares

Chapter 16

Good Morning, Class A!

Class A was well awake early in the morning. Very, very early. During their time spent at UA's school, the students learned the hard way that slacking off in Aizawa's class never ended in their favor. Aizawa was always one to quickly punish troublemakers, since he was always too tired to deal with their behavior. Although their heads throbbed, their legs ached, and some of them borderline could pass out while standing up, they still pushed through. They were Class A, and UA only expected the very best out of their students. So slacking off wasn't something they could afford to be doing.

Waking up was like they usually did, except as a group. Class A students were now not focused on working together, but more on getting ready as fast as they could. Both boys and girls scattering throughout their rooms in a rush to get ready for the day.

The girls were getting ready as fast as they could. Some more professional girls like Uraraka and Yaoyorozu were getting ready with warm ups and stretches, while some girls like Mina and Jirou desperately tried to make their frizzy hair look at least a little socially acceptable. The professional ones being a bit faster getting prepared then the ones concerned with appearance.

Meanwhile in the boys room, things were a bit more aggressive. The more scheduled boys of the room such as Iida and Midoriya were already up, fully clothed for the day, currently scrubbing at their teeth with their toothbrushes.

Bakugo was also there too, although scheduled wouldn't be the word for him. Perhaps "violently energetic"? He was currently scrubbing his teeth too, although he was screaming for the germs to "die". Though everyone was pretty sure the germs probably couldn't understand his war cries. His screaming also acted as an extra morning alarm to the few more slacking boys who tried to get a few extra minutes of shuteye. The lazy students desperate attempt for sleep gone as Bakugo's screaming was now piercing their sensitive eardrums, and forcing them to open their eyes and greet the new day. They grumbled and with much effort, made themselves sit up and start getting ready.

Kaminari stood up and stretched, groaning. He wasn't in the mood for this stuff, but he'd have to suffer through. He had nearly cried when he unfortunately failed against Nezu, and it still stung today. Hell, even Mineta had passed! Although, he had been feeling a lot less bitter about the whole situation, once Mineta had...attempted to take his own life yesterday morning. It explained why he was so bitter, and moody. And he was always by himself now, and isolating himself away from others as much as he could. He cursed under his breath. Yaoyorozu was right. It all made sense. He glanced towards Mineta's sleeping bag, intending to wake the boy. He'd probably feel like crap if he didn't wake the poor kid up.

But Mineta wasn't there. Kaminari frowned. He hadn't seen Mineta get up, and not getting into their uniforms like the other boys in their room. Only the 3 fastest students were currently brushing their teeth. The grape haired boy had seemingly vanished. Where would Mineta be right now? Kaminari knew that he didn't see Mineta go to the bathroom to brush, so it had to be something else. Why would Mineta sneak away from everyone?

Did Mineta sneak off to?

Kaminari's eyes went wide at the dark thought that his subconscious had planted into his mind. He tried to stomp down the rising feeling of panic that now started to rise in his chest. His heart began to beat faster. He wouldn't try again!

Would he?

Ignoring the panic currently bubbling in his stomach, he tried to casually speed walk towards the restrooms where Midoriya hopefully was still there brushing his teeth. He ignored the odd looks from his hurried classmates as he almost borderline ran to he bathroom. Kaminari thanked his lucky stars when he saw the green haired Class A favorite still mildly brushing his teeth, a bit of frothy saliva from the toothpaste stuck on the side of his mouth. If the situation was different he might of chuckled at the way Midoriya subtly inched away when the Bakugo's yelling somehow got louder.

"Midoriya!" Kaminari tried his best to not sound like he was in hysterics. In his defense, he only sounded mildly panicked. Well at least he thought he did. Midoriya looked at him, and spat out the toothpaste saliva mixed fluid, and washed his mouth out, then turned to the boy. His smile almost blinded the poor blonde, his freshly brushed white teeth shined brightly. Ow.

The shine forcing Kaminari to cover his eyes temporarily, until thankfully Midoriya's smile went down.

"Hey Kaminari! Is something wrong?" Midoriya said, seeming to have caught on to the slight panic in Kaminari's tone.

"Have you seen Mineta? He's missing." Kaminari felt a bit better that he steadied his voice. Panicking wasn't going to help anyone.

Midoriya shook his head. "No, I haven't. But we shouldn't panic! When did you last see him?" The boy washed off his toothbrush and put it back in his plastic baggie, since his brush didn't have a container.

Kaminari made a mental note about how Midoriya's voice was so calm and stable. How the devil did he do that so easily? Unless the situation was literally the worst case scenario, Midoriya was always calm and cool headed. A lot like Tsuyu actually. They both wore green costumes, and were usually the calm ones. Well Midoriya was definitely more of a heroic guy, not to say Tsuyu wasn't hero material or anything.

"I saw him get into his sleeping bag last night, and he just conked out without saying a word. But when we woke up, he wasn't in it. Did he sneak out or?" Kaminari didn't dare finish the implication, not knowing if the innocent boy standing in front of him would catch on or not.

The green haired boy swallowed, his small smile slowly dying. "M-Maybe he got up early?"

Midoriya's tone sounded a little too hopeful for Kaminari, his own face having a worried expression. "What if he might...he might..?"

His tone seemed to get through to Midoriya, as his green shining eyes widened as well. "We should search outside! But we should ask Aizawa first, we shouldn't panic."

Kaminari nodded. "R-Right!"

The two boys exited the bathroom and jogged past their classmates, ignoring the few warnings from their fellow friends about of how they looked "rather unready" or some telling them "don't rush".

They knew Aizawa would be definitely waiting outside of the cabins, standing menacingly as always, or curled up in his sleeping bag and glaring at them for being a minute early. With Aizawa, it felt like he could get mad at you for anything. But the two boys were ready to take whatever he dished out, just as long as they found out if Mineta was alright.

Slowing their jog to a brisk walking pace, they opened the doors to the outside, and were greeted by the very early sun. It was still a tad bit chilled, as it was pretty early in the morning. Kaminari felt the slightly chilled wind hit his face, and breathed in after shivering. Nothing like fresh air.

As if he had read their minds, Aizawa indeed was standing right outside, most likely ready to make sure none of the students were trying to slack off. And to Kaminari's and Midoriya's relief, Mineta was standing right by him. The boy seemed to be speaking with Aizawa about something, must be important if he had to get up before everyone else. Kaminari exhaled, realizing he had been holding in his breath in anticipation. "Oh, h-hey Mineta!"

"H-hey Mineta!"

Mineta halted his conversation/scolding session he was having with Aizawa and turned to see a very unusual sight.

Standing in front of him was Midoriya with one of his eyelids was halfway shut, as if he wasn't one hundred percent awake. The combination of toothpaste and saliva made an odd froth come out of the side of his mouth, which he yet to wipe off from brushing earlier. Standing by Midoriya was Kaminari, who looked to be half asleep. The boy had some drool slightly on the bottom of his lip and chin, the sun reflecting off of it making it painfully obvious of it's presence on his face. His hair was also not as neatly spiked (if that was possible) as usual. One part was flattened on his head, thanks to him sleeping on one side during the night, and the top pointing forward for some reason. It was a rather amusing thing to see. Mineta didn't remember them being so awfully prepared though, did something happen?

Mineta tilted his head curiously. "Oh, hey Midoriya. Hey...Kaminari." Mineta was caught off guard at the electric boy's sudden friendliness. Wasn't he still mad at him for what he had said to him during the exams? And basically everything before that?

"Did you get up early? No one saw you when we all got up, we were wondering where you went!" Midoriya said, a curious expression on his face.

If the conversation with Aizawa and the Pussycats weren't still in Mineta's thoughts, he would of noticed the slightly concerned tone Midoriya had. The grape haired boy shuffled a bit uncomfortably. "Uh, yeah I..." Mineta frowned. What was he supposed to say? "I was forced to wake up an hour early so Aizawa could slaughter me with words and now I'm going to therapy after this so yeah that happened, what's up with you Midoriya?" Mineta settled for giving a smile. "Decided to get up early and warm up. I figured I could use the stretching and stuff. You guys getting here a bit early as well?"

Midoriya opened his mouth, but hesitated. What should his response be to Mineta's casual attitude? "Oh sorry Mineta, we were worried you might of sneaked away to attempt to kill yourself again while everyone was asleep, my bad!" He nodded, although a bit wonky due to being still drowsy. "Y-yeah. We don't look the best, but I'm ready! Right Kaminari?"

The blonde boy currently being addressed seemed to be in another world, staring at the ground with his face scrunched up. A jab at his side courtesy of Midoriya's elbow, seemed to snap him out of it. "Huh? What? Oh yeah! I'm ready teacher!" He didn't even sound like he was trying to hide the fact he had no idea what had just transpired for the past 30 seconds.

Aizawa didn't look convinced either, as he raised an eyebrow at Kaminari's bizarre behavior.

"Uh, right..." Mineta said, also promptly weirded out by the lack of effort Kaminari put into his lie.

It took a few awkward seconds, but Aizawa decided to break the ice. "As much as I love enthusiastic students as much as the next unfortunate teacher at UA, you're clearly not ready. Kaminari, go brush, I can tell you haven't cleaned your teeth. Midoriya, go finish getting ready. I don't know what you haven't done yet, but the frizzy hair tells me you haven't done something. Go do it, because it's bothering me and I'm not in the mood to be bothered. Because I am already bothered. So go. Now."

The two students looked befuddled for a quick second, which was a mistake in their part.

"NOW." Aizawa thundered, seemingly shaking the ground.

Spooked out of their trance, the two gave once last glance at Mineta, then scurried back inside to finish getting ready for their day of training.

Mineta still was slightly confused. What was that all about?

Almost as if he was reading his mind, Aizawa looked back at Mineta. "They were worried, you know."

Mineta looked up with a inquisitive look on his face. What did he mean by that? "What?"

"You do have people who care about you, Mineta. I don't know what got you to think that no one cared about your well being." Aizawa deadpanned. His "scolding" tone was slightly coming back.

Mineta took a few seconds to absorb the info. He stroked his chin thoughtfully as he put the pieces together. They must of woken up, and didn't see me...so they assumed I went outside to...

Oh.

He understood what Aizawa meant now. He felt terrible that they were wasting their concern on him, as he was perfectly stable mentally. He began to feel really bad about lying to them about his situation, but knew he couldn't tell them. Perhaps once this was all over and everyone was safe, he'd tell them.

Maybe.

Mineta blinked back up at Aizawa. "You're right, I'm sorry. I just was in thought." He had no idea what he was saying, because he honestly couldn't think of a response. He didn't want to keep egging on the lie that he was depressed and suicidal, and that he probably shouldn't be left alone by himself.

But now, a few minutes later as he noticed the other students slowly coming outside, yawning and stretching. Aizawa had something planned, he just didn't know what. He had already gotten scolded multiple times by his famous Pro Hero teacher, so whatever was about to happen...

Mineta was unprepared.

Just like that, another rewrite done! This is rather beefy with paragraphs, so I tried separating them the best I could. Sorry if it's kind of short. If you like this stuff, please Review/Follow/Fav