OH MY GOD YOU GUYS. OH MY GOD.
I'd like to present chapter 10 for you all! I'm happy that the sports day is over, because now it's time to get ourselves some more drama, action, and KACCHAN LOOOOOOVE!
I'm so hyped too keep going, you guys have no idea!
SO HERE IT IS! THE HERO KILLER ARC BEGINS!
Izuku stood on the crowded morning train pressed up against Katsuki as the morning crowd commuted to work or school. She let out a bit of a sigh as she held onto his arm like she was ordered too by him, while his hand gripped the hand rail in the train that she was too short to reach. She was looking at her phone, trying to distracted herself from the awkward situation, before she heard some one call out to her.
"Hey.. Midoriya of Yuuei!" She looked up to see a pack of middle school girls grinning at her brightly. "Wow! It is you! You did such a great job!" The attention of the train was directed on her, and Katsuki growled in annoyance as some people noticed him too. "So cool, I want to be like you in highschool!" One of the girls called out to her, and Izuku blushed a bright red, but smiled happily.
"Hey, you're pretty short, huh? But that is a crazy punch you've got there!" A business man said to her, and gave her a thumbs up.
"Young girls are full of energy these days! Good job getting into the top four!" A Lady said with a grin at her, and Izuku's face continued to heat up in embarrassment.
"Does this guy always look this mad?" A man asked looking at Katsuki who looked about to pop. "But still, you did a stellar job by winning the whole thing! Keep working hard!"
When the train stopped, Katsuki stormed out with her in tow, and Izuku looked up at him nervously as they stepped out of the station and opened their umbrella's up to protect themselves from the rainfall.
"You should smile more, Kacchan..." Izuku said with a thought as they walked the rest of the way to the school.
"WHO NEEDS TO FUCKING SMILE?!" He shouted in anger, before a familiar figure blew past them at top speed.
"GOOD MORNING BAKUGO, MIDORIYA! HURRY BEFORE YOU'RE LATE!" Iida shouted back at them, and Izuku watched as he ran through the gate, and frowned a bit. She had heard about his brother's incident with the Hero Killer in Hosu, and she felt terrible that she couldn't be there for her friend before he took off to visit him in the hospital. When they entered the building to takes their shoes off and put their umbrellas away, Izuku looked over at Iida, who looked back at her, a smile on his face.
"If you're worried about my brother, there's no need to be." He told her, and took his rain coat off. "Sorry for causing you concern. Hows your hand?"
"I'm going to go get it looked after right now," Izuku said with a frown as she looked up at her friend who nodded his head, and headed for the classroom with out another word.
"Wow! Everybody was staring at me intently on the way to school!" Hagakure said loudly as Izuku entered the classroom after visiting recovery girl. The bandages were gone from her hand, and she headed to her desk with a nervous smile on her face.
"Yeah, me too!" Kirishima said with a nervous grin on his face.
"I got told not to worry about it from some elementary kids..." Sero sad with a frown.
"Don't worry about it," Asui croaked out and looked to Izuku as she sat down. "Deku-chan, how is your hand today?"
"It's good! Much better!" Izuku said, lifting up her right fist, the scars on her hands were very noticeable. Uraraka was beside herself with horror at the sight.
"That's not better!" she cried out, and Izuku laughed a bit, telling her friend it was okay.
"Shut up, idiots!" Katsuki snapped at them all, and Izuku let out a sigh.
"Oh, that's right!" Uraraka said with a thought, and she stepped up to Katsuki's desk, a frown on her face as she pulled out her phone and flipped through it rapidly. The class watched her in confusion, before Katsuki's phone started vibrating over and over again inside of his desk. "As promised, my treasures... But you better not use them for evil!" she shouted down at the ashe blonde who opened up his phone, and glared at it as he saw all the pictures that had flooded his messages.
"O-Ochachan..." Izuku blushed a bright red, and rested her head on the desk as the class all laughed around them.
"WHO THE FUCK WANTS THESE?!" Katsuki shouted at the brunette, and Uraraka narrowed her eyes at them.
"I DO! THEY ARE MY PRECIOUS MEMORIES WITH DEKU-CHAN SO YOU BETTER TREASURE THEM TOO!" Uraraka yelled back at him, before Aizawa entered the room.
"Would you all settle down... Morning..." He grumbled out, and the class took their seats, chiming good morning back at the teacher.
"Aizawa sensei, its good to see you with out bandages, Kero." Asui said with a smile.
"That old lady got over dramatic with her treatment, but that aside... Today's hero informatics period is a special one."
"What could it be..." Jirou said nervously in her seat and Kirishima sweated nervously himself.
"I hope it's not a quiz..." The red head said with a shaky grin.
"It's tie to formulate your Hero Names." Aizawa said with a tone of boredom and the whole class jumped to their feet and cheered loudly. "This is related to the draft nominations by the pros. These nominations will start to truly matter after you've gained some experience with your fighting ability. In other words, he nominations you're getting this year are more akin to expressions of interest in your future. It's not rare that interest dries up by graduation, or is dropped entirely. Now, the tally is as follows." Aizawa turned to the smart board on the wall behind him, and tapped a button on a remote.
"o-over one thousand...?!" Izuku said in disbelief as she saw the number beside her name on the board. She stared at the list, and saw Katsuki was above her with over 3000, and Todoroki at the top with over 4000.
"first and second places are reversed!" Kirishima laughed out loud, and Katsuki shot him a glare.
"That's cause seeing him all straight-jacketed on the winners stand must have scared them off." Sero commented, and Katsuki snapped.
"THET AINT GUNNA BE SCARED!" he shouted at the class in frustration.
"Deku-chan, wow! Over 1000!" Uraraka called from a few rows over, and notced Izuku looked very pale. "Wh-why aren't you excited...?"
"th-thousand..." Izuku muttered out, and Ashido started to freak out on her behalf.
"Her soul! We're loosing it!" The pink girl cried out, before Katsuki slammed a hand down on Izuku's desk with a small explosion to startled her back to their earthly plain.
"H-how...?" Izuku looked around at the laughing class, and blushed a bright red.
"... Based on this, regardless of whether or not you received any nominations, I'll be having you all go get some so-called work place experience." Aizawa continued on with his lesson with a bored look on his face. "You've all dipped a toe in the world of Pros, but I think experiencing the activities of Pros firsthand will prove to be more fruitful training."
"So that's why we need hero names!" Kirishima said with a big grin.
"Well... Placeholder names are fine, too, but something appropriate..." Aizawa continued on but was interrupted by Midnight walking through the classroom door.
"The names you pick now, in many cases will stay that way after becoming pros!" Midnight grinned at the class as the boys all stared at her in awe. "These are the names you will come to be known as to the world!"
"MIDNIGHT!" The class cheered loudly, getting over the shock as she stood at the front of the classroom.
"I'll be having Ms Midnight evaluate your naming sense, since theres no way I can." Aizawa said with a sigh as he pulled out his sleeping bag and zipped it up around himself. "The way your futures end up will be effected by your image that your name projects. It's all down to that old phrase 'Names and natures often agree.' For example: All Might."
Izuku listened intently to their teachers, before looking down at the cars Katsuki passed back to her, and she sent them along behind her after taking one. She stared at the blank piece of paper with her full attention,
She was starting to feel nervous as she sat there. She could hear her classmates already deciding their names, some picked some funny ones, but Asui and Kirishima had both picked names they liked since Childhood... She gripped the marker tightly in her right hand, and bit her lip. She thought back to all the names she used to think up for herself... All of them were far to similar to All Mights, a mantle she wasn't entirely ready to pick up just yet by devoting her name to it... She looked up as more presented their names and Izuku watched with interest as Todoroki held up his sign with his first name on it.
"Shouto." He said simply, and the class let out a collective laugh.
"Just your regular name?! Are you sure?" Midnight asked and Todoroki nodded his head. Izuku watched him go back to his seat, and frowned a bit as she turned back to her own card, before Katsuki stood up and slammed the edge of his card down on the podium at the front.
"Explosion King." He said with a dark growl, and the class all hid their laughter, except for Uraraka.
"HAHA! What kind of name is that?!" she shouted as she got up with her own card.
"THE NAME OF THE NEXT #1, STUPID ROUND FACE!" He snapped at her and she pushed him out of the way, and grinned as she showed the class her card.
"Actually, the name of that hero is going to be Uravity!" She said with a bright smile and Izuku beamed happily up at her friend's unique name.
The class all exclaimed happily at the choice of name, and Izuku looked back down at her card with a nervous smile as Iida stood up next, and held up his card with just his first name on it as well.
"Well, all that's left is Midoriya!" Midnight said with a bright smile as Izuku scribbled on her card. "What do you have for us?"
"Uhm..." Izuku stood up and headed to the front of the class. She looked up at everyone, and her cheeks turned a bright red before she turned her card around.
"... Up until a few months ago... I really disliked this name... I felt like I couldn't do anything..." She said in a small voice as she stared at the floor beside her, but the whole class could still hear her. "But... Thanks to everyone here, the meaning of this name has changed for me..." She gripped the card tightly with her scarred right hand, and lifted her head up and smiled brightly at everyone. "Thanks to all of you, I will proudly wear the name Deku as my Hero name!" She told them all, and Uraraka stood up from her desk, clapping her hands wildly before the others started to smile at her. Izuku felt a swelling pride in her chest as she looked at everyone, before making eye contact with Katsuki who had his arms crossed.
After they had all picked their names, they were given the chance to look over their nominations, or a list of agencies that they could pick from to go intern at. Izuku looked at the long list she had in front of her, trying to calculate who would be the best choice. She started muttering to herself about how she needed to do research before picking, when Uraraka sat beside her a chair she pulled up to her desk.
"Ochachan." Izuku looked up at her, and smiled warmly. "You had 20 nominations right? Who are you going to pick?"
"Gunhead's agency!" Uraraka said with a proud smile and Izuku's eyes widened.
"The battle hero?! But I thought you wanted your main hero focus to be rescue!" Izuku set her own list down on her desk, her arms trembling a bit.
"I do, but my fight with Explosion King over there got me thinking..." Uraraka said as she jerked her thumb to point at Katsuki who glared back at her. "I need to get stronger, and to do that I need to learn how to fight better! Gun Head is an expert in battle, and he nominated me, so I figured this was a great opportunity!" She said happily. "By the way... I noticed you've been trembling for a while now, Deku-chan... Are you alright?"
"Hmm?" Izuku blushed a bit, "Oh I'm... I'm just doing isometric exercises..." She said in an embarrassment.
"Wh-what?!" Uraraka stepped back and Ashido and Asui approached Izuku'z desk, and noticed what she was doing.
"Air chair, kero? What on earth are you doing that for?" Asui asked curiously, tilting her head to the side. "Have you been doing that this entire class?"
"Oh uhm..." Izuku started to sweat nervously and she let stopped the air chair exercise. "I just... It helps me train my muscles and stay fit... And it's easy to do during class!" She smiled up at the other girls, before looking down at her list again. "I want... I want to be the person these heroes think I am, I want to be as strong as they expect me to be."
After the school day was over, Izuku slung her bag over her shoulder, still trying to fiugre out just who exactly she should choose.
"Come on, let's go home slow poke." Katsuki grumbled out as he headed towards the door with her which was wide open. They were about to step out when All Might slid in front of the door in his hero form, bowing to Izuku with a nervous look on his face. "WHAT THE FUCK?! CAN'T YOU COME IN NORMALLY!?"
"SORRY BAKUGO, MY BOY. BUT I NEED TO SPEAK WITH MIDORIYA RIGHT AWAY!" All Might said in an urgent voice, and looked to Izuku who was a bit startled.
"Wh-whats wrong? You seem really nervous..." Izuku calmed her heart and stepped in front of Katsuki.
"I need to speak with you for a moment about your nominations." All Might said as he stood straight. "If you could follow me for a moment?"
"Ah, sure." Izuku said with a smile, before looking at Katsuki. "You can go home with out me if you want."
"Of course I will! " Katsuki snapped at her. "I don't need to fucking walk home with you every day!" He shouted as he stormed down the hallway, and Izuku sighed a bit. He was always the one waiting for her... She followed All Might down the hallway quickly to put distance between themselves and the class room. "Is something wrong with the nominations?" She asked curiously. "Some of them messed up in asking for me right? I knew over 1000 ws too good to be true..." Izuku muttered to herself as they walked and All Might looked back at her, sweating nervously now.
"No... It's about one in particular though." He told her and seemed to visibly shake with nerves. Izuku was curious as to what had him so unnerved. "His name is Gran Torino... He used to be a teacher here at Yuuei, but only for a year... That man was my home room teacher."
All Might continued on his way down the hall, talking in a low voice so others wouldn't hear him as they walked. "He also knows about One for All. I bet that's why he even bothered to put a nomination in under his hero name..."
"S-someone that amazing asked for me?" Izuku looked up at All Might with wide eyes. "How many others are there that know about One for All?"
"Heh..." All Might looked down at her, his grin still twitching in nervousness. "Gran Torino was a close friend of my predecessor... he retired a long time ago, I can't remember how many years it's been..."
All Might turned away from her, his hand on the wall and his head bowed. "He must have been compelled to nominate because my guidance must be lacking something... The thought of him taking up his hero name once again for this is... it' terrifying!"
"Uh..." Izuku started to worry about this Gran Torino that had All Might of all people trembling in fear. Just what kind of person was this hero?
"Anyways, it's still my duty to train you... I was going to offer up my own service, but if he's asking for you... you should maybe give going to him a thought considering all he knows..." All Might looked at her, and Izuku was shocked by the look on his face.
"A-All Might... Y-you're making me worried!" Izuku told him, shaking as well now. "I-I don't know what to do now! I was requested by Best Jeanist at his Hosu office, and Uwabomi at her agency... B-But maybe I could make a visit to this Gran Torino...?" she was worriedly muttering to herself now, and felt a pair of hands on her shoulders.
"THAT'S A GREAT IDEA! JUST A VISIT!" All Might said with a large grin on his face. "PERFECT! THEN IT'S SETTLED! JUST GO SEE HIM A COUPLE DAYS BEFORE THE INTERNSHIP!"
"Uhm..." Izuku looked up at her hero, pale in the face. "You want me to go alone...?" She asked him nervously.
"I'm sorry Izuku, my girl. But..." All Might paled himself. "That guy scared the crap outta me! OH!" He came to a sudden realization. "By the way, this reminds me. Your costume is back from being repaired!"
Izuku nervously left the school, and walked outside towards the gate. Her head was spinning... She had been convinced by All Might to leave a few days early to meet his old teacher on her way to what ever internship she decided on. She frowned a bit as she walked, holding her umbrella with both hands, before she looked up to see Katsuki standing just outside the gate. "Kacchan? Did you wait?"
"NO!" He shouted at her, and growled. "I just decided to stop and think, idiot!" He yelled at her before they made their way towards the train station. Izuku held back a small laugh as they walked, before looking up at him curiously.
"Did you decide on your internship...?" She asked curiously, "I'm stuck between Best Jeanist and Uwabomi myself." She said thoughtfully as she walked. "Both have their merits..."
"Like I fucking care where you go." Katsuki growled out as they walked. Izuku let out a nervous laugh, before she tapped a finger on her cheek.
"I think I'll go with Best Jeanist... He's the number 4 hero in Japan, and asked for me. I love his positive appearance, it's important for a hero to have one. That and I love his fighting style! I think it'll be very informative!" She said happily as she walked, clenching her left hand into a fist.
"ENOUGH RAMBLING!" Katsuki snapped and Izuku let out a laugh as they got on the train to head home.
"Do you have everything...?" Inko asked her daughter a few days later. Izuku looked up at her mother, and gave her a smile as she held up her bag and hero costume case. "Do you want me to send you off?"
"No no! I'll be okay, mom. I'll message you when I get to Gran Torino's place, then again when I'm in Hosu." Izuku said with a bright smile to her mother as she fixed her uniform to be straight. "I'll see you later!" She called out, before she took off too the bullet train station a few blocks away. She got up onto the platform after buying her ticket, and noticed Uraraka, Yaoyorozu and Iida waiting for her. She smiled brightly as she ran up to them. "What are you guys doing here?!"
"We heard you were leaving a day before us, so we decided to see you off." Uraraka said with a big smile. "Make sure to brush your teeth!"
"And wear a sweater if it's cold." Yaoyorozu said with a bright smile at the smaller girl.
"Thanks, mom's." Izuku said with a big grin, before looking at Iida. He still seemed different than usual, and Izuku was worried. "Uhm, Iida..." The other girls looked at him too, and he lifted his head. "You know, if you need someone to talk too, you can always talk to us... we're friends, right? I'm worried about you..." Izuku said with a frown.
"Thank you Midoriya, but I will be fine. Enjoy your internship." He told her with what Izuku felt like was a sad forced smile on his part. The platform dinged in warning that her train was arriving, and Izuku hugged them all.
"I'll see you guys back at school!" She said as she got on the train and waved good bye. "Be careful!"
"YOU BE CAREFUL TOO!" Uraraka shouted back as the doors closed, and she felt tears come to her eyes. "Our little girl is growing up!" She said in a sad tone.
"Uraraka..." The other two looked at her, and sighed.
"Hmm... I've never heard Gran Torino's name before... I wonder what kind of hero he's like.." Izuku said as she walked down the street with her things. "He must be great though if he trained All Might and taught at Yuuei! Super great! A hero to follow with out question-!" She stopped at the address she was supposed to go too, and looked up at the run down building in front of her. She paled as she looked up at it, before knocking on the door. "U-Uhm... Hello? Gran Torino, sir? It's me, Midoriya from Yuuei...? It's really nice to meet yo-OOOOOHHHH!" She stopped as she opened the door and saw an old man face first on on the ground and a red substance everywhere. "AAAAH! A DEAD BODY!" She screamed in horror, before the man lifted his head up.
"I'M ALIVE!" He yelled at her with a grin.
"AAAAAH! A LIVE BODY!" She screamed, and fell to her knee's from the shock. "Oh my god... You gave me a fright, sir!" She looked up at him as he stood up from the puddle of red.
"Settle down, I just dropped my plate of sausages and ketchip got everywhere when I fell!" the man stayed up off the ground with the help of a cane, and looked at her. "Who are you?"
"I-I'm Midoriya Izuku from Yuuei!" Izuku said with a start.
"What?" he asked her, still staring at her face with a smile.
"I-Izuku... I'm... Midoriya Izuku..." she stammered to him, wondering if he was flat out ignoring her or not...
"I wanna eat some food." The man said, heading to a chair to sit down on.
"Uhm... I just need to make a phone call." Izuku said nervously as she too got up to head out side to make a phone call to All Might, but was stopped as she heard her costume case click open.
"Come at me with One for All." Gran Torino said, looking through her costume as she turned to look back at him. "I want to see for myself how you handle it."
"Uhm... I don't..." Izuku clenched her fist as she looked down at him.
"Wahaha! Nice costume young lady! Now put this on and come at me!" The old man pulled her outfit out of the case, and she blushed a bright red as she saw it for the first time since it was fixed. It was a leaotard now, but still had the puffy sleeves from last time on her shoulders. The Hood remained pretty much unchanged, but minus the part that pulled over her face like a mask. Instead, inside the case was a plain black eye mask. Gran Torino seemed to stare at it for a long moment, before looking back at her. She was starting to think he was a pervert... "Who are you?"
"UWAAAH! I-I'm Izuku Midoriya! My Hero name is Deku!" She shouted in frustration, and heard a snort from Gran Torino.
"Deku, that's some name for a young lady like yourself. You sure about that?" He asked with a grin, and it dawned on Izuku what he meant by asking her name a thousand times earlier.
"Uhm..." Izuku looked down at him, and clenched her fists. She looked at her right hand, and raised it up in front of her. "Sir... Gran Torino... I... I came here before heading to Best Jeanist because All Might said you might have something you can teach me... Even though I'm only here for the couple of days... I'd like to hear everything you have for me!" She looked at him, a proud look in her eyes.
"Hooooh?" The old man grinned back at her, before he took off with a powerful leap and began bouncing around the room. Izuku's eyes darted about as she looked for where he possibly could be, before spinning around to look up at the doorway. "Well, if you have that kind of conviction, let's get started. I don't have long to teach you what I know. The way you used your power during the sports festival was impressive for a lady such as yourself, but you still have a long ways to go. I could see the strain it put on your body, the way it destroyed your hands and legs from the inside when you used it." The old man jetted around the room again, bouncing off of every surface he touched. "Now, et me see what you've got! Now wear it, your uniform!" He pointed at the case near her as he stood on the kitchen table.
Izuku felt her whole being buzz with excitement as she grabbed her hero costume and hurried into the bathroom to change. When she stepped out, she blushed a bright red, feeling embarrassed at the lack of coverage on her legs now, but ignored that fact as she stood in the middle of the room, her fists clenched. She still had her tall black boots and knee protection, her long white gloves going up to her forearms with wrist support in her right one. She had even put the mask on her eyes, her hair tied up with the bow that imitated All Might's hair.
"I'm ready." she told Gran Torino, clenching her fists tightly. "Please teach me." She looked down at Gran Torino who grinned broadly, before he blasted off around the room, and Izuku lost sight of him, before she felt a kick to her back. She toppled forwards and rolled across the ground before Gran Torino landed on the Microwave.
"Come on girl! We're doing a mock battle! Put your butt into it!" The man shouted at her s Izuku stood up, clenching her fists again. "To think the Ninth would be such a slow poke and tiny girl, That All Might is such a novice teacher."
Izuku narrowed her eyes at the old man, and clenched her fits as she felt a burning power inside of her chest. She channelled it into her fists, holding that concentration as Gran Torino took off around the room again. She felt him kick her in the back once more, and she groaned out as she rolled on the ground, but was back up on her feet instantly. She still had one for all charged in her arms and she looked around, the room. He had only attacked her from behind so far... A thought came to her mind as she quickly redirected her power to her legs, charging them with all her being, before she saw a streak to her right bounce behind her. She narrowed her eyes, and dove forwards onto the ground, turning as she fell so she was on her back. Her eyes narrowed up at the streak flying over her, and she kicked upwards with all her power.
Gran Torino had acted at the last possible second, jerking out of the way mid flight as she used One for All, blasting a hole into the ceiling above them. She quickly flipped back up to her feet, and turned her head to look back t Gran Torino who slid to a stop on the ground behind her. She clenched her fists tightly as he grinned back at her.
"You almost go me young lady... I saw you charge it in your arms, but you switched it at the last second... I was genuinely surprised." The old man stood on his feet, and grinned at her. "Though, the way you handle that power, charging each limb up with One for All... It slows you down if you need it to move from your legs to your arms. I think you're over thinking it, You need to be more flexible." He grabbed his cane and hobbled to the door. "I'm going to go grab some food." He said as he hobbled outside. Izuku stood in the room, dumbfounded by what he had said to her.
He was right... She had to focus with all her being to move One for All from one part of her body to another... She had to hold concentration on her legs or fists to keep it there with out it getting out of control... Izuku turned her head to look around the damaged room, and her eyes landed on the broken microwave. She stood there, thinking hard for a long moment, "Flexible..." she told herself, and sat down on a chair at the table. "Flexible... I need to be more flexible while using One for All... It's a part of me now like my original quirk..." She said with a thought, and pulled her glove off her right hand to look at it, before clenching her fist as it glowed green with warmth. She could feel it's heat spreading through out her muscles, making her stronger all over.
"All over..." She looked up in realization, and stood up out of her chair, grinning madly. "All OVER!" She shouted, "THAT'S IT! IT'S ALL OVER! IT'S A PART OF ME!" she shouted, and laughed loudly as she clenched her fists tightly, and activated her strength quirk all over her body. She could see the soft green glow that warmed from her inside, and took in the feel, the way it felt comfortable. She held it, flexing her arms before she picked up broken chain and bent the metal frame of it easily. She smiled brightly again, and took a breath, before she activated One for All through out her whole body. It crackled in her chest at first, before the electric feeling spread through out her body like the warmth from her quirk, and she could feel her muscles pulsing with it. She laughed nervously as she picked up a piece of brick from the ceiling damage, and held it between her hands, before crushing it to dust.
"This was it... This is what I was missing..." she said as she let the dust fall to the ground. "This feels..."
"It feels right, doesn't it?" Gran Torino called from the door, and she turned her head to look at him. The old man took in the sight of the girl who was now glowing a golden color with red electricity sparking off her skin. "Toshinori said you were a smart girl, I see he was right." The old man finished the tail of a Takoyaki he was eating, and tossed his bag to the side, before grinning at her as he crouched down to ready his attack. "Well, now that you look like you've come to an epiphany, let's continue training. I only have you for one night and day before you leave tomorrow evening. Let's dance."
"YES SIR!" Izuku shouted back at him with a mad grin on her face, before she dove at her teacher to continue her training.
The next afternoon, Izuku was packing her things up. All last night was spent training to fight with Gran Torino and she let out a groan from how exhausted she was. She hoped she could have a nap on the train to Best Jeanists new office in Hosu.
"Little Lady, this thing keeps buzzing." Gran Torino said with a frown as he held up her phone for her. Izuku blinked in surprise at that, and opened up her phone to see who was messaging her.
WHERE ARE YOU, YOU FUCKING IDIOT?! Was the first one she read, and saw it was from Katsuki. She was confused as to why he was messaging her. She flicked to the next one from Uraraka.
Guess what! That Bakugo also picked Best Jeanist as his internship! Isn't that hilarious?! It totally doesn't suit him! Good luck with this week!
Izuku paled a bit at this information as she swiped open Katsuki's next message to her.
YOU BETTER HURRY THE FUCK UP AND GET TO THIS FUCKING OFFICE YOU MORON. I WILL NOT BE THE ONLY ONE TO BE RIDICULED LIKE THIS. SHOW UP IN YOUR FUCKING COSTUME AND GET TO WORK, IDIOT! WE HAVE NIGHT PATROL TRAINING TONIGHT, MORON!
"Hmm, I should get changed. He's right, it's late and I don't want to keep Best Jeanist waiting." Izuku said as she hurried to the bathroom to put on her costume. She blushed a bit as she thought about Katsuki seeing her dressed like this and her heart pounded loudly in her chest. She exited the bathroom, stuffing her things into her back pack and turned to Gran Torino. "Thanks for having me, Sir!"
"Hmm, I'm going with you young lady. I'd like to see you off to the office myself." Gran Torino said with a grin, and Izuku smiled bag at him, letting out a small laugh.
I guess I'm not getting that nap. Izuku thought to herself as they got on the train. She leaned back in her seat, and felt bad for being a bit late to Best Jeanists office, but All Might had sent noticed to him for her about the situation. She leaned her head back against the head rest, and closed her tired eyes while Gran Torino read a magazine beside her. She let out a sigh as she started to drift off.
"Hmm, Hero Killer is in Hosu huh? Maybe I'll stick around for a few days." Gran Torino said with a thought and Izuku opened her eyes at that information. She knew Iida had also headed to Hosu for his training the the Normal Hero office, and thought about how his brother was crippled by the Hero Killer. She looked to her phone, frowning at it. Was that why he went to Hosu...?'
"Ah, Welcome to my Hosu branch, Ms Midoriya." Izuku had entered the agency of Best Jeanist after parting with Gran Torino, and was directed up to his main office. She noticed that it was very spacious and open, and many heroes with slicked back hair were there. She blushed a bright red as she thought about her own appearance, and held her costume case in front of her, trying to hide her exposed thighs.
"Mr Jeanist, sir! Thank you very much for having me, I apologize for being late." Izuku bowed to the hero, who let out a chuckle.
"What a sweet girl, You'll have no problem becoming popular, but that hair." He said, pointing at her long unruly curls. Izuku blushed a brighter red than before and touched her hair with her fingers. "I think we can tame it. Appearance is important as a hero, you know. You'll be a role model for all children soon."
"Ah uhm, I've never... thought about my hair really." She said nervously, and Best Jeanist spoke to a side kick of his, who kindly took her bags for her. Her whole face went red now as she had nothing to hide behind with now. "Ah uhm..." she looked around, biting her lip. "I heard a class mate of mine was here too, where is he...?"
"Ah, I sent him down stairs to bring up more hair products. It takes a lot and the strongest product to keep his hair in shape." The hero said with a sigh, and Izuku was confused by that until the door was kicked open with a bang.
"HERE'S YOUR STUPID HAIR SPRAY." Izuku turned around to look at him as he shouted, and was stunned instantly at the sight of Katsuki with out his grenade bracers, and his hair styled flat and combed neatly into a side part.
"Pfft..." She lost her composure quickly, and burst out laughing. She hugged her middle as she doubled over onto the ground, crying in hysterics at the sight of a 'neat and tidy' Katsuki.
"OI! SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH AND STOP LAUGHING!" Katsuki shouted at her and she continued to laugh on the ground as he started hurling hair products in her direction.
"Bakugo, that is not how a hero acts!" Best Jeanist stormed up to the boy and clapped his hands on his shoulders with first.
"LIKE I FUCKING CARE!" Katsuki snapped at the man, before they both heard the camera sound of a phone, and Katsuki's head snapped to look at her. Izuku had her phone out and was snapping pictures of him, holding back her laughter. "THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!"
"T-Taking pictures of a good memory!" Izuku choked out, out of breath. She couldn't believe she had laughed so hard, but she never thought she'd see this in her life. She quickly sent them off to the girls group chat on Line and stuffed her phone away quickly before Katsuki lunged at her and held her up by the front of her costume. "Wh-wha! Kacchan, put me down!" she cried out, struggling not to laugh again as he dangled her off the ground.
"YOU WILL ERASE THOSE!" he shouted up at her, before looking down at her costume, and pausing. "The fuck is with your outfit?!"
"WHAAA! DON'T LOOK!" Izuku cried out, and flailed her legs, before kneeing him in the chin. They both dropped to the ground with a crash, and Izuku sat up, looking at Katsuki with a bright blush on her face as he sat up, growling in anger now. "I-I'm sorry! I'm really sorry!" she shouted as she sat up to look at his chin. "Are you okay?!"
"I'M FINE!" he shouted at her, before a shadow was cast over them. Izuku got a nervous feeling in the pit of her stomach as she looked up into the fierce eyes of Best Jeanist who held a comb and hair straightener in his hands.
"You both need to settle down, and stop fighting. Now come here Ms Midoriya, it's time to tame those curls and personality. And you," He shot a look at Katsuki who glared back. "Pick up those hair products and read over the code of conduct for my agency! A hero never yells, curses and threatens anyone!"
Katsuki growled out in anger and got up from the ground. Best Jeanist pulled Izuku to her feet and directed her to a chair to sit in. She looked back at Katsuki with eyes pleading for help, but he looked back at her and smirked before giving her the finger, to let her know she was on her own.
About an hour later, Izuku was sitting on a chair, shaking nervously after Best Jeanist finally declared that he was finished. He held up a mirror for her to see, and she saw her hair was completely straight, and doubled in length now that the curls had been flattened out. She saw how neat and shiny her hair looked in the mirror, and pulled at the hair around her face in confusion.
"How did you do that...?" She asked, looking back up at the Hero who looked tired but proud of his work.
"Paitence, my dear girl. Even the most unruly villain can be straightened out with paitence, just like your curls." The man looked down at her, and she couldn't tell if he was smiling or not. "It is my personal duty to straighten out unruly heroes to become proper ones, which was why I requested Bakugo over there. For you, my dear, I saw a shining cute hero with amazing strength, but she did not seem to care that she was utterly crushed and bloodied. You need to treat yourself better, or others will become scared of that cute smile that's hidden behind blood." Best Jeanist pulled out a thing of lipgloss from his sleeve, and tilted her head back. He quickly applied the glittery pink to her lips for her, before pocketing the gloss. "There, perfect. Though I admit, the curls seem to be much cuter and suiting for you."
"Ah uhm... Thank you." Izuku said nervously as she glanced at the mirror again, and gripped her knee's. She quickly took out her phone, and turned the camera on herself before snapping a picture of herself with the hair do. She smiled a bit as she looked at it, thinking she looked rather pretty with straight hair.
"Now, I believe it's time for a night patrol. Shall we?" The hero offered his arm to her and she took it, standing up with her before escorting her into the main bull pen of his agency where many heroes interacted. Katsuki was busy glaring at everyone he had handed a bottle of water or cup of coffee too, like a regular intern, before his eyes snapped to look at Izuku.
"THE FUCK DID YOU DO TO HER HAIR?!" He shouted at her, and Izuku blushed a bright red, and looked down. "It looks ridiculous!"
"My my, that's no way to speak to the young lady, enough." Best Jeanist said with a look, and Katsuki growled at him.
"She. Looks. Better. With. Curls." He growled out in a low voice at the hero darkly and Best Jeanist raised an eyebrow at him as he looked over at Izuku who hadn't heard and was receiving a cup of coffee from one of the secretaries of the office. "DON'T YOU DO THAT SHIT AGAIN!"
"I see..." The hero said with a thought, before he coughed. "Well never mind, let us go out for patrol. Enough shouting." He gave a swift whack to the back of Katsuki's head, causing his hair to spring free of the gel's grip back to his bed head spiky style. "Aah, My hard work!" Best Jeanist groaned out in frustration.
Late that night, the young Heroes had arrived back at the agency. Best Jeanist had set them up with some beds in a room at the agency that were usually used by Heroes who were on a call shift. They hadn't done much that evening other than stop a purse snatcher and some drunks, but Izuku was exhausted as she took a shower in the girls locket room of the agency, before getting changed in to a comfy pair of shorts and a All Might t-shirt. She walked back to the room full of beds down the hall, and stopped as Katsuki stepped out of the boys locker room with a glare on his face, before he looked down at her. She had a towel around her neck, her hair back to it's mass of curls and dripping wet after she washed the products out of it.
"What the fuck are you doing standing there?!" Katsuki snapped at her, and Izuku jumped a bit, startled. She then felt her cheeks burn with heat as he looked Katsuki over with a flick of her eyes, seeing he was only wearing a pair of shorts, and no shirt. She looked back up at him as he glared down at her. "Stop standing there and dry your stupid hair you moron! You'll catch a fucking cold!" He told her, pulling her towel up over her head with a yank before he rubbed his hands furiously with the towel on her head.
"Ow ow ow! Kacchan!" She cried out, and grabbed his wrists to stop him. "That hurts! I'll dry my hair, so stop!"
"Fucking moron!" He snapped before he stormed off to the sleeping room, and Izuku followed him with a pout. He took a bead along the far wall, a few other heroes sleeping in the room for the evening. Izuku let out a sigh as she sat down on one a few away from him, and looked at her phone as she dried her hair. She smiled a bit at the girls reactions to the photo she sent of Katsuki, and lay down on the bed after she finished drying her hair. She let out a soft yawn, before drawing the blankets up to her chin and curling in a ball.
That night, she had a horrible nightmare about a Man with many knives, and a dead Iida.