Test six: Flexibility and Endurance. Emiko got Mineta as a partner to do sit-ups with. Ok, I can deal with him if he doesn't touch my skin. She looks down at the purple ball haired boy who was currently drooling onto the mat. Emiko felt her stomach turn at the sight. Maybe I can't do this after all. She lays down on the mat and prays. She looks down at her feet only to see her pants legs starting to ride up, revealing the bare skin of her ankles. She winces.
"Just grab my feet and press down. You know how to do that right?" Emiko asks him.
He smiles and chills run down her spine. "Ughha." Mineta answers.
He puts his tiny hands on her feet, and Emiko starts doing sit ups faster than she has ever done in her life. The sit-ups are so much harder since she was trying to keep her legs together; she really doesn't trust that little pervert. She has two more left when she felt a cold hand on the bottom of her shin. She looks down in disgust and anger.
Did he just touch me I told him not to?! Her thoughts explode in her head. If I get his personality I will maim him severely. She finishes up, so now it's Minetas turn. They switch places, and she forces herself to calm down so she won't severely maim him. They finish eventually.
Next is flexibility. She plops down against the wall and puts her feet in front of her, pushing the weird contraption past her toes. Yes! Yoga with mom in the mornings really paid off!
Everyone finishes by running around the UA campus. She watches in pity as Midoriya collapses on the hard ground. "Ouch!" This poor boy is having such a rough day. She walks over to him and offers to help him up. He reaches out his hand, and Emiko grabs his arm, careful not to touch his skin.
She pulls him up. "You know, stamina is a nice friend to have."
"Thanks, I just need to get better." He starts to cry a little. Emiko awkwardly pats him on the shoulder and walks away before the water works start.
Mr. Aizawa puts up the score, and Emiko scans over the list. She reads her name. Third place, that should be about right. Mr. Aizawa then expels Mineta on the grounds of complaints already received from several of the girls in the class. Emiko smirks. Serves the pervert right.
She walks out of UA and her phone vibrates. She takes it out of her pocket and glances down to see a text message from mom.
Mom:I'm outside.
Me:K
Emiko heads down the steps and opens the door to the front seat of the car. She looks back to see her cousin on his phone, like always. She sighs as she opens the back door and throws her bag inside. Then she flops down on the back seat. She glances up at her mom, who stares single-mindedly at the road, focusing on her driving.
Grabbing her earbuds, Emiko plugs them in her phone and cues up a playlist. She stares out the window and watches people running around, so focused on their lives. They forget there was so much evil in this world; how it could attack at any time without warning. She pities them.
"How was your first day at UA, was it all you thought it would be?" Emiko hears her mom's voice though the music.
She takes out the earphones. "It was amazing! I got to make a giant hole in the earth, and I copied a really awesome quirk."
Her mom glances back in the rearview mirror. "Who did you get it from?" Her tone of voice had a more than a hint of anger in it.
Me copying some guy's quirk is more important than putting a gaping hole in the earth? I mean some little kid could fall in and never return. She rolls her eyes a little as she answers the question. "Shoto Todoroki?"
Silence was all Emiko hears after she said his name. You would think Shoto Todoroki is a forbidden name. For all I know it could have been in our house, and I wouldn't have known.
Her cousin, Sho, put down his phone. "So... How awesome is this quirk?" His voice breaks the awkward silence.
Emiko leans forward between the driver and passenger seats. She puts out her index finger and a small flame appears on the tip of it. "Voila!"
Sho rolls his eyes. "Is that all you can do?"
"You know how my quirk works!" She pouts and punches him in the shoulder.
He rubs the spot where her hand hit and smirks. "Great, you have such an awesome quirk you can light the grill!"
She slaps the back of his head. "Oh, just shut up!" She slumps back down into her seat and turns back on her music while staring out the window.
Twenty minutes pass, and they arrive at home. Her mom drives in the garage and parks. Emiko takes out her earbuds and sets them in her bookbag, grabbing it and heading into the rest of the house. She carries her heavy book bag to the stairs and dumps it at the bottom. Lazily, she walks over to the couch and falls down on it. She lays there like she's dead for a solid fifteen minutes until her little brother jumps on her back.
"Oof, Akio! Sis had a long day, could you not?!" Emiko yells as she tries to get up, but her tired muscles are too weak to support her 'fragile' body.
Akio gets up and squats down near her face. "How was your day, big sis?"
Emiko groans in pain. "I feel like I got hit by a bus. Other than that it was awesome." She gives him a thumbs up with her face still planted in the couch.
"Akio, can you come in here!" Mom shouts from the kitchen. Her brother jumps up and runs to kitchen.
I wish I could have that much energy, then maybe I could get off the couch. Emiko slowly feels her eyelids get heavier and before she knew it, she was sound asleep. Nothing could wake her, not even a foghorn manned by Sho. Her thoughts fade and she falls into a dark void.
She was on the UA campus. Different teachers and staff were hurrying to and fro. Going up to one of them, she taps him on the shoulder asking, "What's going on? Why is everyone running?"
"Ah!" The man startles. "Ditto, I didn't see you there!" He pauses. "We're prepping for the announcement of the Number One Hero of course."
Ditto? Emiko looks down at myself, first noticing her magnificent teal hero costume.
Suddenly, a terrible villain climbs over the UA wall (because, you know, their wall sucks) and begins terrorizing the citizens. "Oh, help! We need a hero to come save us!"
Ditto jumps into action. With a burst of fire and then ice, she blasts the foe back. Then she creates a rope around the villain and captures him, holding him in place with her rockbending quirk.
"Yay!" All the citizens cry out. "Ditto saved us!"
The man from earlier comes up with a medal. "Ditto is the number 1 hero!" "Yay! Yay! Yay!"
She wakes up with a small smile. She'll be the best hero someday.
_time skip to the next day_
Emiko stares into space as she listens to Present Mic lecture. Surprisingly he's a really good teacher. Hearing the bell ring, she migrates to her next class with the one, the only, All Might! She walks into the classroom and sits down in the closest seat. She had grabbed her notebook out of her book bag and started to doodle when All Might suddenly appears in the doorway.
"Suit up Future heroes! Get ready for class!"
Emiko puts on her hero suit in the girl's changing room. Why couldn't I make this easier to get on? Note to self: put zipper in. She turns around to look in the mirror. Ugh, it's skin tight. It's not what I had in mind, but it's growing on me. Emiko runs her hands up her dark gray tights, stopping at the dark teal belt with white accents resting on her hips. She turns around to look at her backless shirt, moving her teal hair out of the way to see it clearer. Second note to self: do not let mom see your hero suit, or you will have a fate worse than death.
She glances over to Momo and the frontless hero suit she wore. I understand she needs less covered but still!
"Wow, your suit looks so cool! It looks like you're about to fight off some ninja!" Mina startles me.
"Oh, thanks. Yours looks really fun and awesome, like you." Emiko tries to compliment her.
"Thanks," Mina says as she fluffs her fluffy fur collar. "Hey, aren't you the girl that made a hole to the core of the earth?"
"Yep that's me, Emiko Suzuki." She introduces herself.
"Mina Ashido, nice to meet you."
Momo walks up to them. "Suzuki, like in the Suzuki hero family?"
Emiko nods as she puts her bag in her locker. "That's me."
"It's a privilege to be classmates with you." Momo says.
"It's nice to be classmates with a Yaoyorozu too." Emiko gives a friendly smile.
The three of them walk out and see All Might standing in his heroic pose waiting for them. Has he been standing there the whole time?