Endeavor arranged for her to live in one of the hotels near the agency, at first Akemi wanted to decline, as she has her own floor in the Hayashi Financial Group's headquarters (She is rich, she just doesn't show off.), but if she goes to the Hayashi tower her father is sure to hear about it, and will undoubtedly visit her to remind her of certain rules, so she discarded the idea and settled with the hotel.
The hotel wasn't half bad. The service was awesome; she loved the dinner and all. And as dawn arrived Akemi welcomed the next morning with sleepy eyes. Akemi won't call herself a morning person, not really, but she needs very little sleep, she partially functions on less than four Horus of sleep daily and nothing is wrong with her health, so meh.
The next morning saw her walking into the Endeavor Hero Agency in fresh clothes and a pile of more detailed notes on her quirk, which Endeavor requested, and once again bumped head first into Todoroki.
She rubbed her forehead and got up front the ground, gingerly taking his hand and letting him pull her up, she sighed.
"We really have to stop bumping into one another, don't we?"
"Agreed," Todoroki nodded with a small smile and she giggled, before the two headed into the elevator for the top floor.
"I thought you would've went to the Hayashi Tower; you probably have a room here, don't you?" Todoroki asked during the ride, tilting his head.
"I would," She hummed, "But Tatsuri-Ojii-san absolutely LOVES my father, and if he hears that I'm staying there, he's going to pay a visit, to remind me of certain 'ground rules'."
Todoroki's face darkened, and Akemi smiled a little bitterly. Barely a moment later the doors open and Akemi walked out, closely followed by Todoroki.
There's only one room on the top floor, and that is Endeavor's office. The two stopped briefly before knocking on the door, and entering.
"Shouto. Kimura." The man nodded, and Akemi felt the same feeling of distaste raising in her stomach, but rationality forced it down and she greeted him with a quick nod, "Now for today, I want to focus on your training. Shouto, go to the training room on the 124th floor for your usual routine, one of my sidekicks will the there for supervision." Todoroki nodded and glanced at her, " Kimura, I want you to stay here so we can discuss the details of your quirk further."
Shouto gave her a slightly worried look before leaving, Akemi nodded back with a reassuring smile and he relaxed slightly then left. As the door closed, Endeavor sighed and Akemi bought her files up to her chest and hugged them for comfort.
"I've read the notes and diagrams you sent me the previous night." The man spoke, "They are rather impressive for your age, quite detailed and very informative, along with the note Eraserhead written down towards the end, I already have a general grasp of how your quirk functions." He fell silent for a moment, as if to collect his thoughts.
"Kimura, " The man started, "what the name of your quirk implies is very powerful." He looks her in the eye seriously, " If you can truly manipulate and control energy, and so many different forms of it to such a degree, you can be formidable."
Akemi bit her lips, it's true, what the name of her quirk implied is very powerful, but with her level of control she can never truly bring out its full potential, and that is a huge problem.
"However you are too reliant on it," He stated, "you showed training in martial arts and combat, but you are sloppy, slow and your strikes are hesitant, you need to improve your hand to hand combat. The practice you did with Eraserhead to strengthen yourself without your quirk was a correct decision, but it wasn't enough." He looked up, "Though I want you to tell me, why did you not use it on a person directly? By draining someone's vitality you can easily put them to sleep."
"But life energy isn't just vitality." She replied, frowning, "Life energy, as stated in my notes, although not varying as much as astral energy does from one person to another, still holds a unique signature. And that in itself is a problem, since this unique signiture can interfere with my control. which means I can slip and drain too much. Last time that happened was almost ten years ago and my teacher fell in a coma, she still hasn't woke up."
Endeavor nodded. "And as for the relation between astral energy and life energy?"
"Well... essentially Life energy, Stamina energy and Astral energy are the same thing, but they have been split due to their different functions." She pressed her lips together in thought, "Well, think of it as one bar, with a gradient of three colours, for example, red, purple and blue." She pulled out the folder on the topic and placed it on the table, "Red would be the stamina energy, which the body has assess to use to power yourself. Blue would be Astral energy, which the body has no assess to and is purely spiritual, and purple would be Life energy, in between the two, the body has minimal access to, as it also affects psychological energy. The bluer it is, the more unstable the energy, and the less control I have over it."
"I see..." The man looked up towards her, "Then through this internship, exercise your control over this gradient. Get as close to blue as you can. The more it tilts towards Astral energy, the stronger it is, correct?"
"Yeah."
"Then use it to its full potential." He leaned back in his chair and looked down towards her, "Go to the Training room, tell Burnin', my sidekick, to assign you the third training set, she'll know what to do."
"Alright." She nodded and turned on her heels, exiting the door she lt her face fall into a scowl— After interacting with her father for so long she knows exactly what this kind of people wants, so staying on Endeavor's good side should be easy.
She just don't know how long she could hold out the act.
Current Poll Results~ (from both the poll and the reviews)
Akemi's paring:
Todoroki Shouto: 9
Midoriya Izuku: 1
Iida Tenya: 2
Seiba Hiroi: 0
Ueno Hibiki: 2
Kaminari Denki: 0
Bakugou Katsuki: 2
Tokoyami Fumikage: 0
Iida Tensei: 1
Others (Please state in review!)
Hibiki's pairing:
Todoroki Shouto: 0
Midoriya Izuku: 0
Iida Tenya: 3
Seiba Hiroi: 0
Kimura Akemi: 2
Shinsou Hitoshi: 2
Others (Please state in review!)
Ahhh... training is finally starting!
A surprising reveal regarding Akemi's quirk in the next chapter!! Izuku, Hibiki and Tenya will appear soon so no worries! Hibiki really is becoming one of the more important characters!
Hiroi will play a bigger role after Kamino, and Koki will be joining him.
I just realized there is only one chapter from poor Hiroi's perspective and he is supposed to play such a big role later on... time to edit the chapter plans! Now onto the replies!
To darkpaladin89: I want to cuddle her too, but she is so shy... (As i was typing this one Chubby came inside the room and meowed, my heart melted like cheese. w) no worry's she will probably get to meet Gran sometime later. As for Akemi and Endeavor... Well, she judges people by two scales, objectively and personally, so as long as he stays out of her personal business he won't be pranked and he won't hurt Akemi, he's got nothing to threaten her with after all.
To milkywayheartcupcake: Your vote have been received and noted! Votes for Shinsou x Hibiki and TodoAke it is!
