This isn't the first time he'd met her, but it's the first time he'd noticed, Shouto glanced towards the black haired girl tapping away on the phone awkwardly, that as a girl two years his junior, Kimura Kōki is toweringly tall. The girl is barely a centimeter or two shorter than him, and considering the height that she was last time he saw her, she is still in her growth sprout. And that alone is scary.
She is not only tall, he noted, now that the girl is wearing a fitting tank top, he can see that she is quite strong, too. Just look at her arms, really, she might be stronger than him. And right now, waiting for Iida and Midoriya to get discharged so they can go find Akemi (Who as always, stuck with Ueno.), He felt a little awkward standing next to someone he've only met several times.
The girl is now on her phone calling someone, looking incredibly impatient as she tapped her feet and scowled, "No, Sato, training is called off today." She paused, "No, I'm not sick. No, I didn't break my hand dunking, and no I certainly didn't forget to hand in my homework, I say"
She sighed.
"Yoshihide, something happened last night, I'm not exactly free to go around, I wasn't even at school!" a groan, and dragging her hand down her face she shook her head. "Look, I'm in the hospital right now—" she blinked, "Yeah, Ueno private. Why? Wait. Oi, Sato? Yoshihide? Oi calm down- hey wait a sec don't go calling the team—" she pulled the phone away from her ear and stared at it for a moment, grumbling. "He hung up."
The girl slipped her phone away, then turned towards him accusingly.
"Todoroki, right?"
He nodded.
"What in the world did my sister get tangled up in now?" She sighed, "Honestly sometimes I feel like the elder one..."
Shouto thought back to this morning, when the Hosu police chief (yes the one with the dog head) debriefed them, "em..."
"Never mind. Classified, right?" She waved him off, "I say I'll try to kick it out of her when we get home."
Shouto had no idea what to say to that, so he simply nodded. And after that, it was silence. Neither of them spoke, and he can almost imagine Akemi making some weird noice like blowing a raspberry of imitating a raccoon.
"Todoroki-kun! Ah, You too, Kōki-San!"
Shouto looks up, and saw that Midoriya is waving at him, dogging away from the reception.
"Midoriya." He nodded in greeting as the teen approached him, Iida just behind the greenette. "How're you two?"
"I'm mostly fine, but Iida-kun..."
"My arm suffered minimal nerves damage." He said, wincing a little, "It's not very severe, but there will be long lasting damage... Not permanent, but..." Shouto evinced slightly.
"Iida..."
"It's alright. It could be worse, much worse." The ravenette shook his head, "Kōki-kun, I thought you had...?"
"We schedualed a practice, but I called it off." She sighed, "I shouldn't 've called Yoshihide..."
"Yoshihide... isn't him the one who-"
"Captain!"
Before Iida could finish his sentence, a figure barreled through the door and half running, half stumbling, made his way to them and began fretting over Kōki-San.
"Are you okay? You're not involved in the whole Hosu thing, are you? How are you? Any broken bones? Burns? We can't loose our best small forward!"
"Get OFF, Sato!"
"Oi, Yoshihide!" Four more figures began making their way towards them, and began talking all at the same time. He recognized one as Seiba, one of Akemi's friends from Soumei, but none of the others.
"Cap, Yoshihide said you were in the hospital and—"
"Kō, you hurt anywhere? I was a little concerned when you called off the training—"
"Seriously I heard Akemi was involved too—"
"Now can you calm down, you idiot—"
Shouto blinked, a little lost what's going on, until Kōki-San had enough, and blew up.
"Alright all of you shut up or I'll triple your training, I say!" She turned back towards them, " You guys go ahead. I need to talk to my team."
Iida nodded, but Midoriya looked just as lost as he is, but their class president just nudged them and began walking towards the elevator.
"Who are they?" After a while, Midoriya spoke up, and Shouto glanced towards Iida, "I know Kōki-San is now the vice-captain to the martial arts club but they aren't talking about karate, are they?"
"Kōki-san is the captain to Elements." Iida replied, and at their questioning gaze, he added, "A street basketball team in Matsutafu. I don't know a lot about it, but I've heard that they're good. Akemi said they are one of the best."
At this, Midoriya blinked and tapped his chin in thought, "I might've heard of them. Not much but I think I've seen one of their matches sometime last winter?" He frowned in thought, "OH! Right! Kōki-San was playing!"
They exited the elevator and Iida nodded, "Akemi probably knows more, I think they have a match coming up soon, but I'm not sure."
They continued their way down the hallway and reached Ueno's room, and as soon as they opened the door, they are greeted by the sight of the two best friends huddled together watching something on Akemi's phone.
"Oh, Tenya!" Ueno perked up and waved towards them, "Hi, Todo, Midori!"
"Hibiki, you're alright!"
"Hibiki-San!"
The girl shrugged and giggled, "I'm fine, I just fainted yesterday cause I over-exerted my quirk, I'm pretty much good to go now but I'm a little low on energy so the doctors want me to stay a little longer. I heard Hiroi is visiting, is he here yet?"
"Yeah, Him and Kōki's entire team." Iida answered, and Akemi startled.
"Wait, the entire team? You're saying even Hamano is here?"
"I... don't actually know who Hamano is. He played center. Right?"
"Hamano Teruki, and yes, he plays Center. He's the tall delinquent guy with the dreadlocks. Super tall, has a guitar case, most probably chewing on a lollipop."
"Then yeah. He's here."
"Okay... what are they doing here?"
"I think they thought Kōki-San was hurt, or involved with the Hosu incident." Iida guessed, then shrugged a little, "I'm not very sure."
"I made a mistake and called Yoshihide." Shouto turned around and found Kōki-san standing at the door, her basketball team nowhere to be seen, with the exception of Seiba, who stood right next to her. And Shouto is a little surprised to see that the Kōki-San is taller than Seiba, and when Akemi stood up and walked towards her sister, he snorted slightly at the staggering height difference. Akemi barely reach up to her sister's chin, almost five inches shorter. She is so tiny compared to everyone else it's almost funny.
"Oh, and Todoroki," Akemi nudged him and gave him a cheeky grin, "I don't know if you've noticed, but Kō here has a pet phrase."
"Wait, you're not still talking about it, are you?"
"It's 'I say', she just adds it every now and then," Ueno added in giggling, "It's hilarious how she tries to stop herself from saying it."
"Oh, and she did that just now while getting the team to focus." Seiba grinned, as if catching onto what the two girls are trying to do, which Shouto still had no idea of, "It's a little funny, but no one on the team theses her about it, or else she'll kill us during training—"
"Twenty laps tomorrow, Hiro,"
"Oh, Com'on—"
"Thirty and counting"
The teen wisely shut up.
"But Kō, you do have a pet phras—"
"I say I do not have a pet phrase!" The younger girl screeched, only to turn bright red at the realization of what she just said.
Akemi crackles.
Akemi's paring:
Todoroki Shouto: 16
Midoriya Izuku: 2
Iida Tenya: 3
Seiba Hiroi: 0
Ueno Hibiki: 3
Bakugou Katsuki: 3
Iida Tensei: 1
Others (Please state in review!)
Hibiki's pairing:
Todoroki Shouto: 0
Midoriya Izuku: 0
Iida Tenya: 4
Seiba Hiroi: 0
Kimura Akemi: 3
Shinsou Hitoshi: 6
Others (Please state in review!)
Alright. Never mind the schedual. Being bored out of my mind, I'm writing so much I'm now about 18 chapters ahead. So I'm gonna post daily.
School isn't starting till at least April the 20th, and I'm so bored I'm growing mushrooms...
I'm working on the new Cover, digitally now. Follow Sonder's Tumblr and Twitter to ask Akemi and co questions! You can also see the latest Develoupment of the story this way!
Now onto the comments!
To darkpaladin89: No worries, Smudge will make an appreace soon! And I'll have Chubby (Who has conquered my bookshelf as her bed) do a cameo!
