Chapter 5, confusion
"UIHARU, HELP ME I DON'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING!" Another girl shouted.
Aisaka turned back, and she saw Uiharu's friend, Saten Ruiko, she was the girl, she'd saved before. They all looked at each other with a confused look, while Saten was walking towards them. She greeted the girls:
"Oh hi, I need a little help…" Saten looked at Aisaka. "Umm… hello Aiska-san…" She was also confused just like them.
There was a long silence, then Misaka spoke up:
"Okay, what's happening now?"
"Good question…" Aisaka answered.
"It is good to see you again Aisaka-san, but why are you here? Do you need help with studying as well? Uiharu and Misaka-san will probably help you." Saten said.
Aisaka laughed nervously. "No, I'm not…" She couldn't really find the good words to explain it.
Misaka sighed.
"Onee-sama, is anything wrong? Did THIS girl hurt you?" Shirai said as she hugged Misaka.
'Are they dating?' Aisaka thought.
Misaka pushed Shirai away which gave an answer to her question.
Uiharu started to speak after a long silence. "It seems like we all know each other." She cleared her throat, then she looked at Misaka. "Misaka-san why are you here with Aisaka-san?"
Before Misaka could answer Shirai interrupted her. "Where did you meet with this girl Onee-sama?!" She asked without any sense of kindness.
"I just saw that she kicked a vending machine and I liked that move." Aisaka answered instead of Misaka.
"Onee-sama! You've been kicking vending machines again?! How many times have I told you that it's illegal?"
Misaka looked at Aisaka furiously and she couldn't understand why. 'Did I say something wrong?'
Misaka rolled her eyes then she started to speak: "Kuroko you are not my advisor and now we have more serious problem to take care of."
Shirai became ''more'' serious. "And what is it?"
"A scary robot attacked me and Misaka saved my life." Aisaka said.
Finally Saten joined their conversation: "Robots? I have heard some urban legends about robots!"
Before she could start telling the stories Shirai interrupted her: "Saten-san, you know these are not even real!"
"But I heard something about-"
"Saten-san!" Shirai interrupted her again.
While they were arguing Aisaka looked at Misaka who looked like she was thinking about something. Then she spoke: "Uiharu."
Uiharu immediately looked at her.
"Can you search if this robot have appeared somewhere before?"
Uiharu nooded then she went to her computer and started to search. Aisaka looked at Uiharu, but she couldn't really understand what she was doing. Misaka walked toward Uiharu and Shirai followed her. Misaka and Shirai were trying to help, but Aisaka was just standing there just like an idiot.
Suddenly she heard a voice calling her name and she looked to the voice's direction:
"Aisaka-san, since the others are really busy with their research and you are in the same grade as Misaka-san, I think that you can help me." Saten was looking at Aisaka with sparkling eyes.
"Umm, maybe…"
Saten opened her math book and showed it to Aisaka. Her eyes widened when she saw the problems. She almost failed last year, if it wasn't for her math teacher's kindness.
Before she could admit that she's an Idiot, her savior Uiharu started to speak:
"I got it. Yesterday a cloaked robot was walking nearby the Seveth Mist. Was this robot attacked you?" Uiharu asked them.
Aisaka walked to her and looked at the screen. The robot was the same as the one which attacked her like one hour before. She was kind of surprised because she had found it very quickly.
Misaka spoke:" Yes it was the one."
Aisaka interrupted: "And what if there are more robots. It was too easy to destroy it."
"Pff" Misaka giggled.
"We can't look through this possibility, good idea Aisaka-san." Uiharu praised her.
"And how did you beat this robot?" Shirai asked while raising her eyebrows.
"Well, it almost killed me, if your precious Mikoto Onee-sama didn't save me. I'll be grateful for my entire life, and I already know how to thank her…" she said with a smirk.
Shirai's face turned red like a tomato from anger, then she started hugging Misaka.
"How dare you call my Onee-sama on her given name?! And what did you mean by thanking her?!"
"Hmm...I was thinking about a kiss…" Aisaka said, because her goal was to make her as angry as possible.
Shirai took out her steel darts and if Mikoto didn't electroshock her Aisaka'd be dead by now.
'What should I say, I like living dangerously…' Aisaka was smiling from victory.
Misaka cleared her throat. "Then, I and Aisaka-san are leaving now. Uiharu, can you search about the robots? I've something to do."
"Yes, I can, but we need to finish another case first."
Saten was waving to them happily, but Aisaka saw that she wanted more drama.
After Aisaka and Misaka left the room, Aisaka saw that Shirai got up and she was looking furiously. She smirked at her before Misaka slammed the door between her and Shirai.
"Why did you said that?" Misaka asked her.
"I was bored and I love annoying people until they want to kill me." Aisaka shrugged.
"I realized that…"
"Then…" Aisaka tried to change the subject as soon as possible. "Can they investigate this robot case?" Aisaka asked.
"Probably, even we don't know what happened. But now I'll take you somewhere." She said, and Aisaka didn't want to resist.
After a little walk, they reached an empty bridge, Misaka walked down of the hill and Aisaka followed her. When they got down, Aisaka looked around, Misaka walked far away from her. Aisaka looked at her:
"Why did you bring me here?"
"If this goes on, they'll kill you. You should learn how to use your powers."
'This girl really pissed me of, but Onee-sama stepped between us…WHAT IF SHE LIKES HER?! Where did they go? To a date?!' Shirai had enough. "I NEED TO GO AFTER THEM!" Shirai shouted.
"Shirai-san, we have a bunch of work to do. I'll be glad if you stop shouting and help me, instead of wasting your time." Uiharu said.
Shirai sighed, but she's not going to just let her take her onee-sama from her. 'Next time I'll definitely kill that girl…'
She sat on her chair and Saten walked next to her. "I think they are dating."
"HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT! MY ONEE-SAMA WOULD NEVER DATE SOMEONE LIKE HER! GET OUT!"
Saten laughed. "Alright, I wanted to go anyway, Uiharu can you help me after you are done?"
Uiharu nooded. Then Saten went out.
Shirai was trying to concentrate on her work, but she couldn't focus because of a certain girl, that's why she started to investigate after her, while Uiharu wasn't looking at her.
She typed her school's name, then her ability, which her Onee-sama told her when they were searching for the robot. 'Manipulating the change of physical condition….I haven't heard of this ability before.'
There was just one person who fits these criteria, with the name: Aisaka Himitsu.
Shirai saw the same short brown haired and green-eyed girl who took her Onee-sama away.
'Level 4? She is not as bad as I thought she was…'
She started reading, It said that, she was a child error and she had been dropped out from several schools, which Shirai totally understand. Her grades are very bad, and she almost skipped all her lessons. She had fights in those schools and she was disrespectful too. 'She deserved to get kicked out….I'm not going to let her bee with my Onee-sama.' Beside that she couldn't find any information about her powers in general. She found it very weird. 'I'm sure in one thing: I have to keep her away from Onee-sama.'
"Learn to use my powers?" Aisaka looked at Misaka. "But I already know how to."
Misaka smirked. "As I saw, you have no clue how to use your ability."
Aisaka was staring at her. "Am I really that bad?" Aisaka was thinking. "Okay, then what are we going to do?"
"What can you do with your powers exactly?" Misaka asked her without answering her question.
"Well, I can manipulate matters physical condition and control them? Is it not obvious?"
Misaka rolled her eyes. "You really are an idiot. I wanted more detailed information."
"Like what?"
"Like, how many particles can you control and how is this process happen?" Misaka asked her.
Aisaka froze because she'd no idea what Misaka was talking about. Even though she saw that she was telling it to her in the way that a same aged student could understand.
"I-I don't really know…" she admitted it.
Misaka seemed like she already knew what her answer will be, she just sighed.
"Okay…For example there is the river, can you freeze it?"
"I'll try…" she walked to the river than she touched the cold water, which soon froze a large distance, because of her power.
Misaka looked a little surprised because she didn't think that Aisaka could froze this amount of water.
Then Aisaka realized Misaka wanted to see how much water she can froze.
Misaka calmly steeped on the ice then she made a few steps.
"Pretty good…" She said. "Maybe you are not as bad as I thought…Come here."
Aisaka also stepped on the ice, then walked next to Misaka.
"Can you lift out a piece of ice?" Misaka asked.
"Umm…Maybe…How big should it be?"
"Don't have to be really big."
She was really concentrating, then the ice cracked and she lifted a big piece of ice to the air.
Misaka nodded and touched my shoulder as a sign of praise. "Now melt it."
She completed the task, she turned the ice into water. There was a big puddle on the ice.
Misaka gave her the next task: "Now evaporate it."
She did this task as well, a big fog appeared, and she couldn't see anything. When she looked around Misaka wasn't next to her anymore. Then she heard her voice from somewhere.
"Okay, now let's fight." She said.
"Wait, what do you mean by fight?!" Aisaka shouted desperately.
Suddenly a lightning came toward her, and she managed to get out from its way.
"Use the technics that I taught to you." Misaka said from somewhere while she formed another lightning.
Then Aisaka realized what she wanted her to do. She quickly lifted up a piece of ice and before the lighting could hit her, she moved the ice in front of her. The lightning struck the ice and it fell apart. She stood back, but some ice pieces hit her.
"Let's try again. You must focus on yourself too, don't think that you'll win if you menage to avoid an attack. Think about the consequences." Misaka said.
Another lightning flew toward Aisaka, and she made another ice block. The lighting struck the ice block again, but this time she didn't step back, she melted the ice pieces which flew toward her. She was smiling from victory, but suddenly something electroshocked her.
"You didn't pay attention again. If you manage to avoid an attack, you still don't beat your enemy." She said.
Aisaka stood up then Misaka spoke: "Again."
A lightning came again, she avoided it, she defended herself. She did the same when another attack came. This time she dropped an ice block toward the direction of the lightnings. Misaka giggled.
"Wrong place."
The attacks happened again and she kept defending herself. She was thinking about how to beat her, when she realized: "I can lift up more than one ice blocks…" Misaka wanted her to use her brain. She made an ice storm and she sent sharp pieces of ice to every direction. She saw a big lightning at one of the direction, then something came up to my mind: "Wait…How can she see me?" She couldn't focus on that question now. Maybe it was a trap, but she sent a lot of sharp pieces where the lightning appeared. This time she saw an even larger lightning, which made her fell to the ground. The fog also disappeared, and just like her, Misaka was sitting on the ice as well.
Aisaka stood up and helped her up. They both dust their clothes then Misaka looked at her hand. "I see you have made progress."
She looked at her hand, there was a scratch on her arm. It was bleeding a little and her clothes were damaged at some places.
Aisaka felt bad because she hurt her, even thought Misaka held back. She could have killed her with a good, aimed lightning.
"Should I get some bandage?" Aisaka asked with a worried face.
"No, this is just a little scratch, I'll bind it in my dorm."
"l'll escort you back to your dorm."
"No, It's not a big deal. You should go back as well, it's getting late."
Aisaka realized she was right; the sky was already dark.
Misaka started to walk back, then she stooped and turned toward Aisaka. "You were better than I thought, but why didn't you just melted the ice and just left on one piece, under yourself?" She said than she left.
Aisaka froze, she realized she really could have done that.
She looked at her hands than she thought. "I didn't know that a power could do something like that, I just used my power to warm my tea and stuffs like that…"
She started walking home, but she turned back once, the ice was full of holes and iron sand. She realized how Misaka knew where she was. When Misaka touched her shoulder before, she put some iron sand on her.
"Why am I such an idiot?!"
Aisaka was walking home for some time, when she saw a spiky black-haired guy who was walking on the streets. When she was walking past him, everything fell from his grocery bag.
"Fukou da…" The boy said.
Aisaka laughed at him. The boy looked at her furiously. Then she realized she was very rude.
"Umm…" she nervously laid down and helped him pick up the stuffs.
They managed to pick his things up in a very short time. She gave him her grocery bag, because she always bring one with her.
"Thank you." The boy said.
"You are welcome, I've this incidents several time, that's why I always bring another bag with me."
"You are probably not as unfortunate as I am, this happens with me almost every day…" He said sadly.
"But for your luck, I helped you, I could have just walk past you." She replied.
After a little silence the boy spoke up: "Aren't you a middle schooler? Aren't you supposed to be at your dorm at this time?"
Aisaka laughed. "Who keeps these rules?"
"Yeah, yeah, I know a girl who are thinking exactly just like you…"
"Your girlfriend?" she asked curiously.
The guy froze and she saw fear in his eyes, then he panicked: "No way! She would electroshock you if she heard you say that!"
"Hm? What's her name? I like her." she asked him.
"I don't think you should annoy biri biri…She'd chase you as well…"
"Biri biri?" she laughed. "Nice nickname. I also have a friend, this nickname would fit her." her face became serious because she remembered she hurt her.
The guy saw it and asked her: "What happened?"
"I hurt her and I feel bad because of that. She said that there's nothing serious, but I'm still blaming myself."
"I'm so sorry, I hope you'll get better, and that nothing serious happened with her. You guys must be pretty close."
"Not really… I just met her a few days ago. She was kicking vending machines at that time." she smiled because of the memory.
The boy froze again. "...What is your friend's name?"
"Misaka Mikoto...do you know her?"
The boy sighed. "Biri biri…"
Thank you for reading this chapter!