"Oh, you're finally here, meow!"

Did she just fucking meow? I dropped my head. Yup, all pros are nuts.

"That took quite some time."

I nodded, agreeing with Red. I looked up at Aizawa from where I was sitting on the ground. Sweat appeared on my face. Uh oh. He didn't look impressed.

1-A all stumbled out of the forest and some collapsed onto the ground. I scratched my head and stood up. "Maybe I should have stayed with them..."

Red nodded.

"What do you mean, three hours?!"

"That's the time it would've taken us. Sorry!"

"Kitia! How did you get here before us?!"

"You went off on your own!"

I sweat-dropped. "Uh yea. Sorry guys. I thought it would have been that way..."

"Were you trying to boast about how much better you are? That's mean..."

"I'm going to ignore that comment..."

"I'm hungry...I'm going to die..."

Blue started to giggle. "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-"

Don't you dare say my name, Blue...

"You four!" She pointed at Iida, Todoroki, Bakugo and Midoriya. I sighed, relieved. "Were you able to act without hesitation because of your experience?"

She must mean with Stain. Everyone else experienced USJ as well.

Blue suddenly moved. "I'm looking forward to where you'll be in three years! I call dibs!"

I sweat-dropped. I had no idea what she was doing to those four, but I really didn't want to know. I turned to the rest of the class.

"Are you guys alright?"

"Do we look alright?!"

"No thanks to you!"

"Where did you go?!"

I lifted my hands. "I'm sorry! I figured they wanted to see what you guys could do! I didn't want to get in the way!"

"...Whose child is that?"

I looked over to see Midoriya pointing to the boy. I frowned. Did it really matter who the kid was? I mean, really?

"Oh, he's not one of ours. He's my cousin's kid. Come on, Kota. Greet everyone. You'll be with them for the next week."

Midoriya walked up to the boy. The boy, Kota, still had that 'I'm not impressed' look.

"Oh, um. I'm Midoriya from UA High School's hero course. Nice to meet you."

I quickly covered my mouth as Kota punched Midoriya full on in the balls. Wow. This kid. I kinda liked this kid.

He walked away without saying anything. I frowned. Was that sadness in his face I saw?

"You brute of a nephew!"

"Why would you do that to Midoriya's scrotum?!"

I glanced at Iida, who had gone over to catch Midoriya as he fell. "Shut up, Iida."

Kota glanced over his shoulder, his aura black. "I don't intend to hang out with guys who want to become heroes!"

"Intend?! Just how old are you?!"

"Precocious brat."

I looked over at Bakugo and widened my eyes. "Are you...actually smiling?"

"Isn't he kind of like you?"

"What? Not at all! Anyway, shut up, you GG bastard!"

What the fuck does he mean by 'GG bastard'?

"Enough with this charade. Get your stuff off the bus. Once you've put your stuff in your rooms, we'll have dinner in the cafeteria. After that, you'll bathe and go to sleep. We'll start for real tomorrow. Now, move quickly."

Sitting in the cafeteria, I listened to everyone talk. No one had bothered to ask what happened to me when I left them all in the forest, so I didn't bother to tell them. Let them find out later.

"Really? So the girls room is a normal size?"

There is literally like seven of us, man...

"Are the boys in a big room?"

"I wanna see it! Hey, can I go see it later?"

"Sure. Come whenever!"

Trust Ashido to get an invitation like that. I sighed and poked around my food.

"What's wrong, Kitia?"

I didn't look up. I was sitting on the end of a table, beside Shouji and across from Kaminari and Kirishima. How did those two end up on the other side of me?

"Uh, nothing. I just get like this sometimes. Sorry."

"I've never seen you like this..."

"Hm? Oh, I suppose that's true. That's probably a good thing."

"Oh? Why's that?"

I stopped poking my food. "Hey Shouji?"

"Yes?"

The memory of the day at the school pool flashed through my head.

You sound so evil sometimes, you know that?

"I was just wondering..."

...Evil again...

"Yes?"

I sighed again and continued playing with my food. "Nothing. Sorry." I almost jumped as an eyeball appeared under my hair, followed by a mouth.

"If there's something bothering you, you can tell me. We are friends, aren't we?"

I offered a weak smile. "I hope so, Morph-man. I really hope so."

"Well then, maybe you'll tell me later. When there's not so many people around, alright?"

I closed my eyes and gave a genuine smile. "Yea. Maybe later."

The mouth smiled back. "Good. I'll hold you to it." Then went back to eating.

I dropped my smile and looked back at my food. I really hope I start to feel better. I don't want to bother Shouji with my issues.

We are friends, aren't we?

I smiled again. Sure, Morph-man. Sure.

I closed my eyes and leaned back against the edge of the hot springs. The heat felt great.

"This feels great!"

"I love that there are hot springs here."

I nodded. "Definitely glad."

"Oh, that's right."

"What?"

"We forgot to ask what happened when you left us today."

I opened my eyes and sat up a little. "You mean, what did I see when I was alone?"

The girls nodded.

I shrugged. "The same as you, I assume. A few of those earth monster things. The first two I took down were interesting. One had wings and the other looked like a snake crossed with a centipede."

"Ew! Gross!"

I laughed. "It was fine. They weren't that strong, but I wouldn't say it was easy either." Lies. "I had a hard time trying to get rid of them." You're full of lies!

I looked over at the wall the separated us and the boys and smirked. I could almost see Mineta thinking about climbing the wall. I got up and went to the side of the bath closest to the wall. If he did try anything, I wanted to be as close I could to hit him. I sat down again just as Kota appeared at the top of the wall, looking down the other side.

"Before learning to be a hero, you need to learn about being human." He shoved who I assumed to be Mineta, off the wall.

I laughed. "Called it! I like you, kid!"

"Mineta really is the worst, huh?"

I nodded.

"Thanks, Kota!"

Ashido gave Kota a thumbs up as he looked down to us. Then fell backwards into the boys side. I face-palmed. Silly kid.

"Alright, I'm out."

"Kitia?"

"Hm?"

Ochako shifted in the water. "We...well, I mean, we all noticed you never talk about your family or your past. Apart from when you told us about your scars. You know us, but really, we don't know you." She looked at me with shiny eyes. "Will you tell us?"

I blinked, my heart jumped and then sank a little. I looked away and gripped a rock. "I got to go."

I got up quickly and grabbed my towel before leaving. I walked inside and shook my head, trying to get rid of the tears. I stopped in a hallway and leaned on the wall, wiping my face. No. I can't let this happen.

I went into the room, got dressed and walked out again. I'll go for a walk while everyone's still in the bath. I'm less likely to get into trouble then. Hopefully.

I walked out and found a balcony that overlooked that forest. I leaned on the railing and rested my chin on my arm.

We all noticed you never talk about your family or your past. Apart from when you told us about your scars.

I growled. Shut up, Ochako!

You know us, but, really, we don't know you.

I lifted my hand and created a ball. I stepped back and threw it as hard as I could towards the forest. It hit a tree and took it down. I didn't care this time. I just dropped my head and went back to the railing.

I felt a tap on my shoulder. I didn't move.

"You going to tell me now, what's wrong?"

I moved my eyes to the side to look at Shouji. An exclamation mark appeared next my head, as my cheeks went pink.

"Why aren't you wearing any clothes?"

He chuckled. "I have a towel on."

"You're as bad as Gang Orca, you know that?"

"What?"

"What?"

He shook his head and leaned on the railing next to me. "So..."

"Hm?"

"I told you I was going to hold you to it."

I narrowed my eyes. Dammit, Shouji! I sighed and nodded. "Fair enough. I just been thinking a lot lately. Well, ever since USJ really."

"About what?"

"When the villains all came through the gate..." I hesitated for a second. "It didn't really...It's like I wasn't surprised or something. I don't know. But then, Aizawa went down there, by himself, and all you guys started fighting them as well. Aizawa was hurt and so was Thirteen. Then there was the sports festival, the heroes I met there. The Hosu incident..."

"I heard you killed a Nomu..."

I growled. "I really wish everyone would keep quiet about that. I know everyone has their own issues as well, so I'm not trying to play the victim here."

He turned his head to me. "I don't think I could ever picture you as the victim."

I scoffed. "In all honesty, I'm still learning not to be one. All my life, I've been a victim in some way or another. A victim, a play-thing, a lackey. My brother and my M- my brothers guardian, have high standards for me. Even now, even here. My brother expects me to beat everyone in my class at everything, you know that? He didn't like the idea of me being exposed in the festival, but then did a whole 180 and asked why I didn't just take first place, instead of Bakugo. I just don't know what to do with myself. There's too many people with high expectations of me. On one hand, I'm expected to become some kind of hero; on the other hand, I'm expected to become-" I stopped and sweat-dropped. "Sorry. I'm talking too much."

He straightened up and stood in front of me. I blinked up at him. He went to say something, but we heard a voice.

"Shouji, I suggest you go get dressed and go to bed." Aizawa stood to the side of the doorway.

Shouji looked at me a moment then turned to Aizawa. "Yes sir." He left.

Aizawa looked at me. I scratched my neck. "How much of that did you hear?"

"Enough." He came over, away from the doorway. "I hope you are aware Nezu only wants you to do what you think is right. He doesn't have any certain expectations for you."

"'He' doesn't?"

Aizawa nodded. "I expect you to do your best. That is all." He flickered his eyes towards the doorway. I nodded and headed back inside. I stopped at the door. "Mr Aizawa?"

"Yes?"

I glanced over my shoulder and saw he hadn't moved. "What happens if I make the wrong decision? How will I know?"

He was silent for a moment before speaking. "You will just know." He gave me a serious look. "I suggest you don't make the wrong decision."

I watched him for a moment, then nodded. "Yes sir." I kept walking to the room, thinking about what Aizawa had just said. He hadn't said much, but the way he had said it...

I frowned. Did Nezu find out and tell him, or did he find out himself? I shivered. Let's just hope I can make the right decision. For everyone's sake.

"Good morning, ladies and gentlemen!" Man, Aizawa sure sounds chipper this morning! And the sun was barely up! Luckily, I was already used to going to bed late and waking up early! I looked around. That's more than I can say for almost everyone else...

"Today we will begin training camp to increase your strength in earnest. The goal of this training camp is to increase everyone's strength and with that, for everyone to obtain their provisional licences."

Wait, what?

"It is to prepare you all to face hostilities that are becoming more real by the minute. Proceed carefully. So Bakugo." Aizawa threw a ball at him. "Try throwing that."

Try...?

"This is from the fitness test."

"Your previous record, from right after you started school, was 705.2 metres. Let's see how much you've improved."

"Oh, we're checking our progress!"

"Since a lot has happened these past three months, huh? Maybe he can throw it a kilometre or something now!"

"Do it, Bakugo!"

"Here I go! Go to hell!"

I shook my head. Idiot.

"709.6 metres."

"Huh? That's less than I thought..."

I almost laughed at the expression on Bakugo's face, but I knew better by now. He was about to really explode.

"It's been about three months since you started high school. Through various experiences, you all have definitely improved. But that improvement has mainly been at the mental and technical levels, with some increase in stamina. As you can see, your quirks themselves have not improved that much."

I shifted. I felt personally attacked. Again.

"That's why we will work on improving your quirks starting today." Aizawa grinned. But it was like an evil grin. Oh hell. "It'll be so hard you'll feel like dying, but try not to actually die..."

I stared at him. Wow, Mr Aizawa. I take back what I said about never picturing you as a villain...

"Katsuki Bakugo. Plunging both hands into boiling water to expand his sweat glands and creating explosions repeatedly to increase the scale of his attacks!

Shoto Todoroki. Alternating between ice and fire to make the temperature of the bathwater he's standing in to uniform. This training is to get his body used to freezing and have him try controlling the temperature of his flames! He might even be able to use both quirks at once, eventually!

Hanta Sero. By having him produce tape continuously, his training will increase his capacity and improve tape strength and shooting speed.

Eijiro Kirishima and Mashirao Ojiro. By having Ojiro use his Tail to hit Kirishima with his Hardening activated, they can increase the strength of each other's quirk.

Denki Kaminari. By running his electric current through a large capacity battery, he's training his body to be able to handle large amounts of electricity.

Koji Kouda. In order to increase the reach of his Anivoice, he's doing vocal exercises to build up his vocal cords. It's also good for helping him become less shy.

Yuga Aoyama. Training to get his body used to Naval Lazer so that he can keep using it even if his stomach hurts and to increase the range of his laser.

Fumikage Tokoyami. Training to keep Dark Shadow under control even if it's going wild in the dark.

Ochako Uraraka. By turning continuously in zero gravity, she's training the semicircular canals in her inner ear to decrease nausea and increase the maximum weight she can use her quirk on.

Tenya Iida. Doing long training runs to increase leg strength and stamina.

Tsuyu Asui. Training to workout all the muscles in her body and her long tongue.

Rikido Satou. Working out while eating the sweets he needs to activate his quirk to power up.

Momo Yaoyorozu. Also eating while using her quirk to amplify her creations and shorten the amount of time needed to make them.

Kyoka Jiro. Increasing the quality of sound from her quirk by strengthening her earphone jack.

Mina Ashido. Intermittently creating acid to increase her skins durability.

Minoru Mineta. Training to increase the strength of his scalp so that he won't bleed even if he keeps popping balls off.

Tooru Hagakure and Mezo Shouji. They're increasing the strength of both their quirks by having Shouji quickly create multiple dupli-arms to look for Tooru as she continues to hide her presence."

I breathed out and almost dropped from the effort of so much talking. "Is that all? What am I supposed to do for training? Obviously you don't want me training my voice like Kouda..."

Aizawa looked at me and gestured to a group of people.

"Huh? Is that...1-B?"

He started walking over. I quickly followed.

"Can just six people manage the quirks of that many people?"

"That's why they're here."

"That's right! The four of us are one!"

I jumped and hid behind Aizawa.

"Lock on with these sparkling gazes!"

Oh hell.

"We've come to lend a paw and help!"

Please no...

"Coming out of nowhere..."

"Stingingly cute and catlike!"

Don't say it...

"Wild, wild Pussycats! The full version!"

I tugged on Aizawa's scarf. "If you were ever going to kill me, please do it now..."

He shifted his eyes to me. He tried to hide a smile, but I saw it. "I'm sure Bakugo would never forgive me if he didn't get to do it."

I looked over at Bakugo.

"Damn it!"

"Good point..."

I looked back over at the creepy cat group as a girl in yellow started talking. "My quirk is Search! I can know all the info about up to a hundred people by just looking at them!"

I gripped Aizawa's scarf. "I don't think-"

"Quiet."

I shut up and nodded.

"I can find out their location and weaknesses too!"

Blue was next. "With my Earthflow, I can make the perfect places for each person to train!"

Red: "And with my Telepath, I can give advice to multiple people at once."

The only man of the group was last. "And my job is assault through punching and kicking."

"There's a lot wrong with that..."

"All you power up types, come to me! Tiger's boot camp has already begun!"

"Ah, Mr Aizawa...What am I supposed to do as training...If 1-B is here, I can't exactly use...I can't go all out..."

He glanced at me over his shoulder. "What did I say?"

I shifted, but kept a hold of his scarf. "To be quiet. Yes sir."

"UA's busy, so it's hard to spare staff for just the first years of the hero course. Based on their track record and wide range of quirks, these four are the most logical choice to train your quirks in a short amount of time."

I nodded. I think I understood. These Pussycats already knew about my quirks. It was easier that way if they were going to help train me along with everyone else, right? All the UA teachers did, of course, even 1-B's homeroom teacher. 1-A had found out by accident, but had kept it a secret.

I hesitated, then stepped out from behind Aizawa. I had been thinking about it a lot, especially knowing that Monoma could try and Copy my quirks at any point. We had no idea what would happen to him if he ever tried to do that. Best case scenario, he'd just go crazy. Worst case scenario? We'd be picking pieces of him off the floor, ceiling and wherever else he happened to be.

Pony spotted me and waved. I smiled and gave her a smile wave back. Everyone from 1-B looked at me curiously as I stepped up to them. I made sure to keep a distance from Monoma.

I glanced over my shoulder and got a nod of approval from Aizawa. I turned to 1-B.

"Uh, guys. I kinda need to tell you something."

"What is it, Kitia?" Pony sounded a bit worried.

I looked at Kendo. "Uh, remember when we first met and Bakugo was really...intense about Monoma touching me?"

She frowned and nodded.

I took a deep breath. "And that my quirk is Reveal...?"

"Yea...?"

I hesitated, then lifted my hand creating my naginata in my right hand and a shield that covered my left arm. "I may have not told you everything. We can't allow Monoma to Copy my quirks. I have more than one. And it would more than likely kill him."

Monoma stared at me. He had gone white and a spirit flew from his mouth.

"It's not the only reason I'm telling you. I need to train as much as everyone else, and having you guys know just makes it easier for everyone. Mostly me though, of course, but we're both in the hero course, so we should all really learn to get to know each other and get along, right?"

They were all silent for a while. I didn't think they would say anything, but then...

Kendo smiled. "I knew there was something different about you! It's about time you had the guts to say something!"

I relaxed and made my naginata and shield disappear. Pony ran up and hugged me. "You should have used them in the sports festival!"

"You need to tell us everything!"

I grinned. "Or, I can just show you."