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Chapter 16

"One of the Pack"

Parasus Stone tapped her foot slightly, waiting for her Official UA Escort, that would walk her through the gates, and let her see her little sister, Alarice Stone. Half-sister, any way. Always little sister to Parasus though. In a Family like theirs, half or not half didn't really matter.

She hardly looked related, her skin lighter in tone, jaw structure wider, her shoulders and over-all body more delicate looking. Her hair was just as midnight-dark, but it was long and barely wavy. Most obvious was her lack of black sclera, though, her eyes a bright cheerful blue. But, her paper work made their association far more obvious: related through their father, both were Giant-type Hell-hounds. With a sigh of relief her escort finally showed up, Hound-dog looking... well, like a dog.

"Thank you!" She said quite cheerfully, following delicately behind on mild heels. She got a gruff noise in response and accepted that.

"Very nice, a really lovely place to go to school !" she added, her enthusiasm genuine. "Wish my schools had been even half this nice and well cared for."

Hound dog didn't really respond just nodded and kept walking.

They weren't a prison, but, there wasn't a dedicated 'meeting place' for guests either. Well there sort of was, but you weren't required to meet there and only there. More like there was restrictions where a guest couldn't go more than anything else. She was led to where she was allowed, and technically, family guests were allowed in the Dorms but it had been decided that she meet her little sister out front, first.

Alarice took her time getting outside, and eventually did, halting a little at the door as if unsure if the person standing there at the foot of the stairs was really there.

"Alarice! Little Pup!" Parasus called, throwing her arms wide apart for her little sister. Alarice came down with a little less energy than that. Allowing herself into the hug, looking quite stiff about it, even as she folded her arms around her sister. The girls were slightly different in height, with Parasus being the taller one. "It's so good to see you!"

Alarice quietly nodded, releasing her sister and stepping back, her voice quiet in response too. "It's good to see you too."

Parasus took her hair into her hands. "Your hair's gotten so long, gosh how long has it been little pup?"

"... awhile." Alarice said, still quiet and subdued. Looking sometimes at her sister and mostly at the ground. "I missed you."

"I'm sure you did, I've just been busy that's all." Parasus re-assured, before turning to look directly into the eyes of her Homeroom teacher, who hadn't made himself known, but was standing idly by. "And who's this? This isn't my Furry escort."

"He's my Teacher, Eraserhead." Alarice answered, said Teacher nodded. Parasus smiled a toothy smile, still deliberately making eye-contact.

"That's a scary name for a Teacher." Her voice came out cool.

Aizawa just nodded, coming closer with barely a sound to his steps, and a forcefully relaxed posture. "Parsus Stone?"

"Nailed it. I am she." She answered easily, hardly bothered by the man. Alarice was quite silent, watching the staring match between the adults. She put both her hands on Alarice's stiff shoulders then, making the younger jump a little. "Thanks, for teaching my little Sister better than thoose losers in the states."

He was silent, and Parasus filled the silence easily for them both. "Alarice, I have to know what kind of fancy living you've got in these palaces you guys call 'dorms!" She gave Alarice a little playful shake by the shoulders, Before directing her towards the doors. Parasus turned around before continuing, grinning, having put herself between Alarice and Aizawa. "If that's okay with you."

"If Stone wants to." He gave a casual shrug, looking to Alarice who briefly met his look only to look back at the ground as if ashamed. Quietly answering; "Yeah, it's fine."

She lead her sister up the stairs with heavy feet and even held the door for her. Aizawa stayed at the foot of the stairs, debating going in, also. He noticed he wasn't alone in the watching, spying his other extra student Shinso. He'd been watching that, too, apparently, He headed over to talk to him, and nip a potential problem in the bud if he could.

Parasus took in a deep breath as she came into the foyer of the building, smelling the scents and not being bothered by her sister's look at her for it. Eyeing the big common room the kids had. "oh my such Fancy living!" Parasus complimented again, noticing a few heads popping up over the couch to look at her.

"Yeah... it's nice." Alarice said quietly, Following closely behind her sister, forcing herself to relax and let the tension in her body out. Parasus walking faster than her with her longer legs. She waved at the other kids of 1-A who were downstairs, who if they looked at her, just gave her odd looks. "um.. hey Parasus did you want to see my room?"

"Of course! Take me there!" She was so energetic and overjoyed, as Alarice gestured for her to follow, desperate to get her leave. Leaving confusion for her classmates below.

Parasus waited patiently to be let into her sisters room, walking in politely and almost throwing her small purse against the wall. Alarice having walked in first immediately regretted it, as her sisters person now blocked the door way. She came in far enough to keep it that way, examining the room around her. "You still like that LOUD guy huh."

"It's Present Mic." Alarice corrected, a little braver than before about it. Parasus waved her hand at her. Her voice less sweet than before. "Yeah I read that he teaches here. Must be nice, getting to play hero, getting to be around your idol, and living nice."

Parasus picked at something small Alarice had on her desk. Her body relaxing a bit, the facade of energy and cheer falling away. She fixed her gaze on her sister. "Listen, we gotta talk."

"It's about that thing... that Sunshine told me about isn't it... all the other.. uh.."

"Our Pack, our dead and missing pack! Of course its about that!" Parasus managed to bark out despite keeping her tone level. She folded her arms over her chest, looking impatient with her. Alarice didn't know what to say, bad things happened, regardless of who was around some times.

"Some good being in Japan did for them, huh?" She mocked before seeing Alarice's face, and let out a sigh. " Alarice, I came back so I could come get you."

Alarice looked up, and fiddled with her hair as she did so. "I.. think it's safer for me here." She said quietly, looking up then looking away from Parasus. Feeling the heat of her sister's gaze on her as she continued. "Prometheus is missing too, and I don't want to not ever know what happened to him."

"Yeah the baby-sitter Sunshine would leave you with." Alarice looked at the floor, her expression going dark. "Ugh, listen he'll be fine, I know you're attached to him but he'll be fine." The older hound let out a breath at her. "I'm not going to expect you to get it, Alarice, you're still a pup. I just hate it when you act like this."

The room became quiet again, before Parasus took a deep breath, and settled onto the bed, Patting it for Alarice come join her. Which with a moments hesitation did come join her. "You know I care about you, I taught you to fight, did like, all of the cooking, that sort of stuff."

"You taught me how to hot wire a car"

"Right, like that." Parasus paused to look at her sister. Alarice nodded quietly, remembering all the times Parasus had helped out after Miranda had died. Parasus had briefly been something like her 'mother figure' in the absence of her actual birth mother, and the handicapping of her Father. "I just want to do what's best, you don't have to do it, but it'd be smart of you to think about it."

Alarice only nodded again, allowing her sister to pull her into a hug she wasn't sure about. While older girl held tight to her sister, Parasus let out a teasing laugh at her too. "Also... might help if you grow up and let go of all this fan-girl junk." Alarice let out a huff and Parasus released her, to look at her sister's face.

"I'm teasing but I'm serious." She said, ruffling her hair some-what, despite its corded nature and braided state. "It's not like he can really care about you, not like me and dad. We love you and care about you, not them. Also: he's not even got a quirk like yours, there's nothing to gain from admiring some one who has nothing to offer you. It's time to put away childish things like that."

Alarice looked away from her, not giving that an answer. She already knew the answers around her that were so obvious. She just... didn't want to let go of her things just yet, they were just things after all. The room went silent for a few seconds before Parasus stood up. Dusting herself off, despite their being no dust. "Well, I have to go back to my motel, walk me to the door will you?"

Alarice nodded, quietly, having said little the whole time, falling back into the subdued, quiet girl she had always been at home. Parasus made a noise, and put a little piece of paper down on her desk. "Here, come meet me here Saturday, we can talk more then and maybe get some food huh?"

"Sure."

Alarice lead her older sister out of the 1-A dorm, ignoring the look from Iida and a few others as they passed. Parasus waving quiet goodbyes to the kids as she was lead out, a cheerful smile on her face. Walking her through the doors of the dorm and back out onto the walk- ways of the campus. The sun shining bright and warming their bodies. "See me out?"

"Yeah." Alarice knew better than to argue, and lead her sister out, even when Hounddog joined them, making sure their Guest was seen appropriately out the gate. It was a quiet walk there, and a waving goodbye, that followed with a relieved breath from Alarice, though the tension in her body didn't immediately release.

"Family is odd isn't it." Hounddog said, eyeing this young student's discomfort with a concerned dog expression.

"mhmm." Alarice agreed quietly, heading to turn back, before one of his overly large, gloved hands, trapped her shoulder, stopping her, she looked up at him, confused, then slightly panicked for a moment. Internally distressed that perhaps, some how, they knew, and now she was seconds from being thrown out, it would make their lives infinitely easier for them to do so right now, and now that her sister was back in town..

"If you need someone to talk to, Just ask." He let her shoulder go, she seemed to consider that, as she visibly calmed down. Though her gaze was distant and she offered up no information.

She headed back to the dorms, at a subdued pace, feeling a mix of feelings about what her sister's visit meant. Not to mention that she'd probably have to tell Sunshine... Then all that stuff Sunshine told her the day previous... she let out a sigh as she made it to the stairs. Looking at the ground for a moment, lost in her own troubled thoughts.

"Stone, are you alright?" Iida asked, appearing to have waited for her to come back. She couldn't make out his expression, with the sun glaring off his glasses. She walked up the stairs, unsure if she was going to tell him much. She decided by the time she got up to the stairs.

"I... don't know." She said finally, thinking how to explain this to Iida. "I was happy to leave America because, I figured, I'd be far from my problems."

She didn't quite go into detail and Iida remained quiet, she leaned up against a wall, and continued; "I haven't seen her in a really long time, and we didn't part on good terms. She was always very protective of me, almost controlling. "

"ah." he mused, giving himself time to respond, he could, in a way, relate. "I see. Family expectations.. they can be hard to live up to." He paused as if not sure what to say, looking away from Alarice's almost sad-dog look she was giving him. He found himself struggling to find some way to explain his sympathy for her without being condescending.

"Family is weird huh? They expect a lot out of you, and don't really ask what it is you want or think." Alarice stated calmly, folding her arms up over her chest.

"Yes." Iida stated, deciding how he would do this. "They often give you shoes... that seem impossible to fill. There's an immense pressure, even if you put yourself there." Alarice noted some tension in his shoulders as he talked. "I.. can sort of understand, how you might feel. I am from a family of Heros, and... while I have chosen this path for myself just as they chose it for me, there is still a large pressure to honor your family's wishes."

He reached out and put one of those big hands, that were warm with brotherly energy on her shoulder. Alarice couldn't read whatever is she saw in his dark blue eyes, but he smiled all the same. "Prove to her that this is where you should be. Defy her expectations with the role you choose for yourself."

Alarice looked up at him, almost blankly, before smiling a bit, she yet again found herself unable to stop the words before they tumbled out of her mouth. "I think that's the first big brother type speech I've ever heard." She couldn't help but crack a smile, perhaps out of a desire to break the tension, or perhaps because of what he didn't know about Parasus.

"Big Brother?" Iida questioned her, a little confused.

"Yeah, you've got this.. really good big brother vibe to you." Alarice said, laughing a little and wiping a tear out of her eye.

Iida looked stunned for a moment, as if not quite getting that what she was saying was a compliment. "I do?"

"Totally. It's comforting." Alarice said giving a little laugh at how he responded to being told he had big brother energy. "It's funny because, Parasus doesn't have any of that kind of thing about her."

"Well, isn't she your sister though?" Iida asked, still a little surprised, but quickly tried to backpedal "I don't mean to offend!"

"Half – sister, " Alarice corrected. "She took care of me, but she doesn't.. she doesn't really have that 'energy'." She shrugged, easily relaxing now into the conversation with stiff Iida. "It's weird, she considers me a sister, but... She just never feels like my big sister. I don't know how to explain it, and it doesn't help that there's this... Hell-hound loyality thing."

He still looked confused but since they were sharing a nice moment she kept going and hoped it wouldn't freak him out. The cat was kind of out of the bag, since the news and Sunshine's visit the other day.

"So, um, I don't like talking about it but... We have this really strong sense of loyality. Dad said the only reason he could turn on his 'so called family' was he fell in love with my mom. Even though I don't think of Parasus like my big sister, or even... feel that way... I can't not think of her as family. Blood runs thicker than water, and all that." Alarice kind of gave a half- hearted shrug again, and stood up off the wall.

Iida seemed to get it. Giving a simple "I see" in response.

"Thanks, Iida, for talking to me." She said simply, a light smile on her face, though there was touches of sadness on her features still. "thanks for waiting for me."

With that, she headed in feeling slightly better, even if what she had said to Iida was almost only half-truths. She couldn't, and wouldn't dare say what she was pretty sure Parasus was expecting of her, to Iida. Not to any one here for that matter.

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A few days later, Sunshine was stunned, and tried so hard not to show it. She wanted to be angrier, but even if no one had told her, again, it was in some degree, good news. Parasus was here in Japan.

"Parasus Stone came here?"

"Well, yeah, She's her sister. Half-sister." Came the confused response of Thirteen, who was truly confused as to why Sunshine would be responding in such a way. It certainly wasn't doing the woman any favors. Midnight quietly listening to this as she sat there pretending to work just to listen in better.

"Why … didn't any one tell me?" Sunshine asked again, almost offended before remembering to add on a little detail. "Since I'm her godmother, I would have liked to have been told."

"Shouldn't you have known to begin with?" Thirteen responded, failing to not sound to accusatory about it.

Sunshine went quiet, before settling to her seat again and dropping her surprise and anger as she did so. Or at least, tried too. She let out a curse under her breath, and ran a hand through her hair as she tapped her nail on the desk. She let out another big breath before conceding. "Yes, you're right, Thirteen."

"You seem agitated, Sunshine, is everything alright?" Thirteen asked, curious and concerned why this was such a big deal. Sunshine gave them a look, realizing something important.

"I'm worried." She forced herself to relax. "I have a pair of Sidekicks, and one of them isn't responding, they've gone missing."

The room had a sudden somber feeling to it. Any Hero would understand what that could mean easily. Thirteen's tone softened significantly for Sunshine. "I'm so sorry. I.. hope they're okay."

Sunshine nodded to them in thanks, before standing up. Grabbing her things, and preparing to leave, since she didn't have anything else to do that day. She wasn't challenged by the remaining teachers after that, she bid them goodbye, and nearly walked full-on into Present Mic, and quickly navigating around him. Disappearing down the hall way without a single word.

"What's with that?" The voice hero questioned, before walking in.

"Missing Sidekick." Midnight answered before Thirteen could. Mic made some noise of understanding.

"Explains that then." Mic sat down at his desk, picking up a pencil he had for marking papers. Though he notably didn't even start, twiddling the pencil between his fingers. "Doesn't explain why her God-daughter has been so avoidant lately."

Midnight gave him a look while he continued to prattle on, her response that she'd listen unnecessary to him.

"Like, usually we'd have some sort of little talk after class, Pupper, and I that is, usually about DJ' stuff but mostly remixes. It's really cute how into it she is! You'd never guess from her behavior that she'd ever be interested in DJ stuff at all. Or anything related, cuz she's so quiet. BUT, she is, and plus she's clearly got the punk aesthetic, on lock." He took a breath, to get back on track. "Anyway, She's just been so avoidant, and didn't even say hi to me at all the other day when I went to see how Aizawa's extra-classes were going! It's really heart breaking because A) I really like our little talks, they're fun! And B) I really wanted a Teachers Pet of my own! You know, like Yagi and Aizawa have with Midoriya and Shinso. I asked if something was wrong, and she just told me it wasn't any of my business. She emphasized it like that too."

"First off Mic, you can't call a student a 'teachers pet' like that, It's inappropriate." Midnight chastised. Mic looking back at her with knitted brows.

"Says the R-rated Hero Midnight who teaches at a highschool." He bit back.

Midnight blew past that and went back to his main topic. "I'm serious," there was a small 'so am I' under his breath, "You can't just have a 'student pet' that's.. not how that works. You are going to get in trouble talking like that."

Mic began to visibly pout that she said it. "But.." "Yagi and Midoriya's relationship is what it is because of their similar quirks. He has to be involved."

"Well what about Aizawa and Shinso then? Why can't I have something like that?"

Midnight let out a frustrated breath at him. "You could but you have to remember she's your Fan, and your student." This at least seemed to remind Mic what his position was in his relationship that he had with Stone.

"So, I'll just give Pupper some space."

"Whose Pupper?" Thirteen asked.

"That's my Nickname for Stone!" Mic proudly proclaimed without hesitation.

"Isn't that also kind of inappropriate for you have a nickname for one of your students?" Thirteen asked, with a good bit of hesitation.

"Only if it was just her, I have Nicknames for all of them! Do you want to hear them?!" Mic's voice raising in volume at the excitement of a change of topic.

"uh... n-no I don'-" "I want to hear, them. Right now. Then later, be my wing-man at the bar tonight" Midnight said, cutting in.

Mic gave her an enthusiastic agreement, and a thumbs up, before rattling-off all the nicknames he had for 1-A, and then 1-B, and... the list of students when on and on. Aizawa visibly looking like he was in pain when he came in. Turning around before his boyfriend noticed him in the room during his listing of student nicknames.