Soon after the Quirk Apprehension Test, and after accompanying Izuku to the infermary (to chew him out), Akemi found herself tapping her foot impatiently outside the teacher's lounge.
Where the hell is that big idiot?
She glanced at her watch and huffed, fiddling with her French braid.
It was in a complicated braided updo this morning, but she's lazy. So, meh.
"Kimura."
She turned around and found Aizawa-sensei standing behind her, staring down at her. She took a rapid step back to increase the space between them.
She's fine with peers sticking close to her. But she is not okay with adults.
"What are you doing outside of the teacher's lounge?" Her homeroom teacher asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Waiting for Toshinori-san." After a second of hesitancy, she replied. They haven't really talked about how to cover her connection to him yet, but she already has a vague idea of how to cover for that.
Aizawa-sensei's eyebrows seem to climb up higher, and the familiar voice spoke up behind her.
"Ah! Young Akemi! Sorry to keep you waiting!"
Akemi sighed, and whirled around.
"Toshinori-san."
He chuckled nervously, which looked weird in his powered-up form, and pointed at the door.
"Let's take this inside, shall we?"
A few minutes later the trio is sitting around a table, Akemi Toshinori-san a shrunken down Toshinori-san on one side and Aizawa-sensei the other, glaring at them with dark eyes that made one of the two gulp.
"Well?"
It was Akemi who spoke up.
"For the past year and more I have been in charge of monitoring Toshinori-san's quirk energy levels, as the usage of his quirk is severely damaging his life energy." She said, rather bluntly. "I met him at the Sky Egg Incident, where my friend was severely injured."
"You were there at the Sky Egg Bombing?" He raised an eyebrow.
"We were shopping in the area." She shrugged. "Then it started hailing debris all a sudden and I tried to shield her. I got hit and was injured. It was supposed to be a fatal head wound but my friend, with evolved healing and her quirk Wound Transferal, decided it's a good idea to take my wound for me."
Now both adults were staring at her.
"... She lived." She added, and they both nodded, in relief.
"This still doesn't explain how you know about his other form."
"Bumped into him in McDonald's." She shrugged, "recognised his Quirk and Astral Energy. Cursed and flipped my tray then he called me to UA the next day to talk to Nezu-san."
Aizawa-sensei looks as if he was about to smack his head against the wall.
"And your connection to Midoriya?" Aizawa-sensei asks and they start. He rolled his eyes.
"All Might, you came to watch his quirk apprehension test today and Kimura, you and Midoriya aren't from the same school but still knows each other. Even an idiot will know something's up."
Akemi glances at Toshinori-san, who gave her the OK. "Izuku met Toshinori-san after the slime villain incident. I bumped into him later on and I sensed an abnormal amount of energy in him despite he claimed he was quirkless. So I went ahead and checked and found that he has a hibernating quirk and kicked him to the gym to train his quirk out with Toshinori-san. It manifested on the day of the entrance exam so I placed the block on him."
Across her, Aizawa-sensei facepalmed.
"And you didn't inform me before I concluded that he didn't bother learning to control his quirk?"
Akemi sighed. "I was about to. But he went and broke his finger."
She then remembered what she was here for, and turned to face Toshinori-san.
"Toshinori-san." She smiled, "Recovery girl is looking for you, and, "
Pulling out her clipboard she smacked the back of his head.
"How many times do I have to tell you, to use your time sparingly!"
Shouta watched with amused eyes at the scene before him. A teenager smacking All Might around with her clipboard (which he still has no idea where it came from) and the man dodging while looking incredibly guilty, a weird combination. But at least she has a method to keep idiots under control, despite being a little bit of an idiot herself.
"What part of sparingly do you not understand? I told you to detransform at every chance you get, not transform for every little thing!"
"I'm sorry!"
He might consider getting a clipboard too.
Please RnR for Aizawa-sensei's clipboard!
