Chapter 8

"Aizawa drives a car in this one"

"YOU AREN'T GOING?!"

"Yeah I mean, I can't afford to go and I have a lot to focus on." Alarice said with a nervous, shrug of her shoulders. Doing her best to play it up to hide her disappointment. "It's probably for the best."

Mina stared at her, almost horrified. "But you adore him!"

"No, I mean..- uh" Alarice defended. "I just think he's neat! That's all!"

"Mhmmm the only person in this building with a room more decorated than yours in their favorite hero is Deku's. Sure you do." Mina countered back, Forcing Alarice into a sort of half-hearted, red cheek tinged glare at the pink girl for her teasing and also fairly accurate point.

"So?" "So I can't believe you aren't going to go!"

"Guys. We were supposed to be studying." Jiro reminded them, not nearly as interested in teasing Alarice about her affections as Mina was. Though her commentary snapped the girls back to their tasks at hand. Eventually giving in and joining the other girls into a bigger, all girl study puddle. Mostly because Momo was a lot better at some of this then they were.

Nothing really held Mina back from re-sharing the fact that despite the Screaming phone incident, Alarice wasn't taking the first chance possible to go to a Live djing show by her favorite DJ. News had spread fast and most of 1-A didn't particularly care, after all she did have extra classes, and with her suit recently destroyed...

Except for two of the group who had taken an interest in seeing more of the transfer student they lived with.

Luckily for Alarice, Jiro had over-heard the hushed tones of Kaminari and Mineta trying to get a hold of tickets. Grape Juice had apparently changed his mind at some point about the transfer. Or maybe it was the photo opportunities such an event provided for some one with his interests. Neither was particularly attractive thoughts to Jiro. With some of her familial connections, it hadn't been hard to even get two tickets. Not to mention, Alarice had happily given Jiro some of her own music, so it only seemed fair to do her this favor in return.

"Oh.. Jiro.." "You can call me Kyoka now, Alarice, " "Kyoka thank you." Alarice stared at the ticket with an inability to control the smile that just spread on her face widely. "you didn't have to do this for me."

"And you won't be alone," Jiro had a small smile back, while she flashed the second one. She was totally going with her. Consumed in the joy that she was getting go, and possibly share a good event with someone who was definitely considered a friend now, she didn't notice the crestfallen faces of Kaminari and Mineta.

"Well now what, we have an extra ticket too!" their voices whined in unison.

"Well, good for you I wouldn't mind going either!" Ashido's chirpy voice answered them, nabbing the spare ticket out of Kaminari's hand. The show would absolutely have a chance to get some real dancing happening, and she wasn't going to miss seeing Alarice act like a fangirl. "I guess we're all going to be going together huh."

Alarice only found herself able to smile. Getting to go to a live show, by her favorite DJ and radio host, who just happened to also be a nifty Pro Hero was probably the best. The hype enough that she didn't care about Mina's reasons for going. Mina and Kyoka were definitely her friends now, sharing this was just sugar on top of a very awesome cake.

All that was left was to make sure that Aizawa knew they were going. As the school had been moved to a Boarding school for safety reasons, their homeroom teacher did need to know about any plans to leave campus. His face was as deadpan as ever when he heard the plan. He already knew about Present Mic's show, he'd been hearing about it quite a lot, with boisterous excitement, directly from the source.

"That's fine, " his voice tired as usual, "Since Mic works here as well, he'll be making sure you guys get back to the Campus dormitories once the show is over."

Since it wasn't a crazy late show any way, that would work. He blinked slowly, nodding. "Just follow the rules."

He watched Alarice follow the others out, a definite spring in her step. Children. He just shook his head, looking at the grumpy texts from Mic briefly about being given "the babysitting" duty. He'd enjoy it like he always managed to but for now: he was going to whine at Aizawa for as long as he could about it. He hoped his students would be smart enough to make use of the time before, to get work done, rather than not.

They caught up to the Saturday evening of the show at a break-neck pace it seemed. Saturday mornings hours flew by with prep and homework; for the few who did their homework any way. Alarice found herself flushing all over, not sure what her classmates would think of her "party wear".

Seeing Kaminari and Jiro's outfits when she came downstairs, was a massive relief. She'd fit right in with this almost all black color aesthetic. Kaminari seemed to have pieces of his hero outfit on, the jacket and choker, but his shirt was a deep red color and his pants were dark jeans. Jiro's looked similar to her outfit, but the shirt had some phrase on it, not clearly read due to her jacket, and had black leatherish looking boots on..

"Ah good... I guess we're just waiting on Mineta and Mina huh?" She offered, her usual calm demeanor was elevated to excitement for today. Her outfit of choice was a pair of shorts, decorated with studs, sandals, stylish and securely tied to her legs. An undershirt that looked like it was netting, and a shirt over-top that was more of a purplish crop top. She too though, was wearing a jacket over this. At her mention of the other two, Mina had just made it downstairs.

"You look adorable Mina!" Alarice commented. Mina had a habit of always looking pretty adorable, and was the much needed splash of color to the group. A pair of jeans in lighter shades than Kaminari's, and a very cute top on it, in a colorful array of pastel colors.

Mineta.. wasn't really as interesting, Grape Juice was clearly out of his element. Jeans, T-shirt, he figured that would work.

"You guys make sure you get back here safe!" Iida proclaimed, that brotherly vibe was coming off him in waves.

"I'm sure we're be fine Iida.." Jiro said, giving him a hand wave, Alarice waving good bye to the young man and following Jiro out the front door of the dorms. "Hey Jiro... how are we getting there?"

"I'm driving you." The kids stopped, Jiro had been about to explain that they would just take public transport but Aizawa had apparently decided otherwise.

It was odd riding in their homeroom teacher's car. It was surprising he even had a car. Sometimes a car told you things about a person... his said nothing. It was clean and devoid of any character. It didn't even smell like a new car any more. He let them out with no fanfare, and nodded to a familiar faced crewmember of Mic's team. They were ushered in by the said team member, whose apparent job was to protect the entry way so to keep casual problems out.

"I'm still really glad you helped me out Kyoka," Alarice's face had pink on it, and there was a slight wiggle to her. Jiro couldn't help but smile a bit herself.

"You don't have to keep thanking me, It wasn't a problem, especially after pikachu embarrassed you." she gave a casual pat to Kaminari's shoulder who could only flush red in the face at the reminder of the 'shrieking phone incident. "I was meaning to ask, is he actually popular over there? Present Mic I mean."

"In the states?, yes and no?" Alarice offered a shrug. "I mean via internet yes, which was the only way I could get ahold of some of the recordings. Out on the street no one really knows who he is, that's only here. Its only since coming here that I've been able to catch the show when it plays over the radio proper." She let out a sigh from deep in her chest, and it wasn't hard to imagine that if she had her tail it would have wagged. It was now official: she was a definite fan for him. With her guard down she was entering 'Midoriya grade' territory of fan-girlishness.

"I told you, you are big fan of his!" Ashido chirped, smiling wide and patting her shoulder. "I bet you nearly lost it when you found out he was our english teacher, huh?"

Alarice buried her hands in her face at that, even her ears turned a little red at Ashido's words. Quietly avoiding responding to her for a moment, Mina's teasing was the only one she couldn't handle. Her voice was muffled from her hands when she responded "He's just so cool."

Smiles pulled at Jiro and Kaminari's faces, Ashido was smiling pretty wide. Cool wasn't exactly the word they used to describe the energetic and loud hero, but it wouldn't do to put a damper on the girl's enjoyment of the moment. Even if she was trying to hide her face about it.

"Well, you do a good job hiding it at school." Kaminari stated blandly, right before the venue's lights dimmed a little, the show was about to start. It was obvious that Mic was the 'boss-man' of his crew, he had clearly made sure his crew knew to keep an eye on the kids for him when he couldn't. They were still setting up just a few more things, however.

"Well... mom was a hero right? She had fans too, I learned what not to do from them in all honesty." Alarice gave a shrug, and a shaky smile at her offered explanation. " He's a person too.. I have to respect that. It wouldn't be appropriate when we're at school."

Jiro at least nodded in agreement, it made sense.

However all 5 teens jumped at the sound of the stage speakers turning on. It was just so loud so suddenly that they were unprepared for it. Despite being at a Present Mic DJ concert.

"Hey Hey Listeners! we're 'bout ready to get started! We're going to have a good night tonight right?!"

There was noisy screams of affirmation in response as Present Mic, in full outfit, walked onto his moderate stage. With his hair, he was visible from a distance, nodded his head approvingly of the response. "Then lets get this thing started already!"

He was his own microphone, and his room of fans for his DJ show, were happy to try to imitate his loudness to celebrate the start. Music began to play quite quickly after that, Mic taking his position with his table, and equipment on it.

Heavy beats filled up the room, and the sound of people having a good time along side it. Having never heard his radio show, or even caught an earful of her teacher's DJing, Jiro was a little surprised at how.. actually good it was. It was blatant that he was having fun, and consequently, so was everyone else.

Alarice and Mina had already gotten to their feet, wordlessly recognizing the other's desire and went to show off to each other their moves on the dance floor.

Alarice fit right in, it was blatantly obvious that she went to these quite often in the states. Just as it was clear to her that Mina was just as practiced in dancing, and break dancing, as her. So they did the natural thing and started dancing with each other. Easily becoming a dancing pair that at some point seemed to have been swallowed up by the mass of other dancing folks.

At some point Mineta had left the sight of the other teens.

Alarice and Mina, had reappeared after a bit from the mass, clearly having been dancing their teenage hearts out. Alarice breathing heavily but grinning broadly.

"Denki! Join us! It's a lot of fun, and we're gonna get closer to the front!" Mina insisted, Alarice gesturing for Kaminari and Jiro to both join them. The hound wasn't going to bother trying to compete with their DJ's beats for sound-space by yelling.

"I dont.. know..!" The blonde found himself pushed towards the pair, Jiro joining behind him.

"Come on Pikachu, you can't hang out on the wall all night!" Jiro could barely hear her voice, a smile on her face as they joined Alarice and Ashido on the 'dance' floor. Alarice taking 'point' in getting through the crowd. She had no problem leading her friends closer to the front, finding a space not too cramped to dance. People had already formed a circle for showing off their more flashy break dancing moves. Alarice looked to her side to Mina, her new found dancing partner. The two UA students hopped right in to show off, and some extra room was made for them. Especially after Alarice's hair came loose by accident, and all the long cords fell from the big braid. Even so, it didn't stop her from keeping pace with her impromptu dance partner. They even managed to get Kaminari to attempt to show off, as well.

The rest of the show blended into a joyous cacophony of sound, light, and friendship-building dancing. It was of course occasionally punctuated by the loud DJ's voice encouraging dancers, ( and every one else ) to get their groove on.