"He wouldn't like me, would he?"
Chapter 3: The new teacher
Start of the new school year at U.A, a lot of new students enter the building, especially interesting are those from the hero course. The hero course at U.A was the most loved course there is, making it the one EVERYONE wants to enter, but you have to do good on the practical entrance exam to be able to. Sakura knew about that so she was kind of sad when people who deserved getting in, weren't able to because of their quirks. Working at U.A for her second year now, she has seen her fair share of mental break downs and inflated egos. Sakura knew that U.A could teach however they wanted, those kind of liberties were given to the teachers. Shota for example liked getting to know the limits of his students quirks, while others liked to get to know their students. Sakura wasn't cut out to be a teacher, she was way too emotional to be one. She would have been too attached to her students. She wasn't even originally a part of U.A staff, but thanks to her brother two years ago she got a job there, watching over students and staff being safe and also making sure the security system was always up to date. U.A couldn't effort having an old security system, given the fact that the Number 1 Hero has started as a teacher there, so naturally U.A was getting a bit more protective, though there wasn't any incident of villains killing heroes for about 10 years by now, at least not a single case that is well known by the public.
"I hope everyone is where they should be.", Principal Nezu exclaimed. Sakura just smiled: "There have been no reported incidents by the homeroom teachers that a student is missing or something like that, Nezu sir."
The principal smiled as well sending Sakura of, doing her work. Because the security system was up and running without any problems, Sakura just walked through the schools hallways with a watering can and watered the plants there. From time to time, she looked out the window, watching Class 1-A being taught roughly by their homeroom teacher Shota Aizawa, smiling about his training methods. Of course he wouldn't let them have a nice first day here at U.A, he didn't have one either, neither did Sakura, but seeing that the students weren't that durable than the two have been she kinda felt sorry for them. She sighed, thinking about her first day at U.A. She had been working hard to even have a chance against everyone else, who's quirks were a lot flashier than hers, but she had hold her own and even got points for saving someones life. Her villain-points weren't enough to get her into U.A but thanks to the rescue-points she had received she was attending U.A, just like Shota had before her, just like a lot of heroes had before her.
"Well, aren't you a happy one. Shouldn't you be working?", a male voice has brought her back to reality. Sakura didn't turn around, even though the voice wasn't really familiar to her.
"The security system is up and running without any problems and I'm not really a person who likes to sit around and do nothing. After all, I get paid for keeping everyone safe. Shouldn't you be working as well?", as Sakura said the last part she turned around and immediately froze. In front of her stood the newest U.A teacher, the number one Hero and Symbol of Peace All Might, in real life. She never thought that she would actually get to meet him, and that Nezu was just trying to pull a prank on everyone when he said that All Might would be the newest teacher. She just stood there in awe, she had never imagined him being such an imposing figure, but who was she to complain. Once she realized that she was staring at him, Sakura closed her eyes, shook her head and blushed a deep shade of red.
"I'm sorry, All Might. I didn't mean to be rude. I didn't know you were there.", she stuttered out, the blush still very much visible for the Symbol of Peace. "I just didn't expect you watching me..."
"It is quite alright. I need to get used to the layout of the school anyway. Maybe you cold help me, Miss…", he said with his hero smile on his face. Sakura's heart skipped a beat. He was asking er to show him around the school, it was like a dream come true.
"Aizawa, but please, call me Sakura, if you like.", she smiled back at him. All Might gave a thumbs up and the two started walking through the school. Sakura showed him the most important things he needed to now in order to be a good teacher and even made him laugh a few times with little anecdotes from her time as a new employee. Truth be told, she wasn't even close to being a veteran employee (like Shota or Hizashi were), but she was at least longer employed than All Might was, and spending time with him, exploring the school all over again made her smile. Shota hat told her once, that she shouldn't get too attached to any staff member, it could cause some major problems. She had pointed out that Shota and Hizashi were the closest she would ever get to attachment, but that was before All Might was even considered as a future teacher. That made her wonder: Why would All Might even start as a teacher at U.A?
As if reading her mind, All Might replied: "I can't really explain to you why, all I can say is that I have to train my successor."
"Your successor? Are you sick? Do you die soon?", Sakura panicked a bit after hearing his words. The Symbol of Peace who has been the strongest hero of all time, was here to train his successor, which could only mean he was going to die.
"Not yet, and I hope I can hold out a lot longer before dying. I have been the Symbol of Peace for a very long time now, I think it's time that I retire.", All Might smiled. Sakura sighed with relief. She could've never lived with the knowledge that the person she liked, a lot, was dying before she could tell them her feelings.
"I'm relieved to hear that you're not dying. Would be sad if you were only around for a year before you would have to retire due to you dying. Hehe..."Sakura chuckled a bit, blushing because she knew this was a bad joke and hoping he didn't think of her as weird.
"I like you Sakura, you're something else, though not in a bad way.", All Might stated. It was so nice of him to tell her that, because she always felt like she had to be different for people to like her. Around him, she was her normal self and he liked it.
"Don't let Shota hear you or he might get angry at you.", Sakura giggled, receiving a confused look from All Might.
"Oh, don't get me wrong. Shota isn't my husband, I'm not even in a relationship right now. Shota and I are siblings, he is my older brother.", Sakura said to clear things up.
"So you are single right now? But to be honest, who wouldn't want someone as beautiful as you?", All might complimented Sakura whose face became as red as a tomato. She giggled and said: "Well, I DID have a boyfriend some time ago, but it didn't work out. Our parents wanted us to date but we are more like brother and sister. We do still flirt with each other sometimes, but it's just fun and games.", Sakura explained with a smile. Before All Might could answer, Sakura showed him the Teacher's lounge and left, leaving All Might all by himself. She had fascinated him since he saw her and Shota enter the school together, wondering in what kind of relationship the two were. He had hoped that they were just good friends or brother and sister and he was relieved when Sakura said that she was single and that Aizawa was just her older brother. All Might never really thought about dating before, he had restrained from that to make sure innocent people wouldn't be caught in the cross fire when he was fighting villains. Now that he was about to retire as a hero, he had thought more about it and actually felt a bit lonely. He has been asked about relationships in interviews before, and he always answered with it being too dangerous for the person he would be with, even if they were a pro hero.
Little did both, Sakura and All Might know, that they liked each other. Sakura still struggled with being seen as someone who couldn't impress anyone with her quirk, while All Might had to deal with thinking he could never be enough for someone so spunky and optimistic.