I hope you enjoy this chapter. I quite like this chapter so I guess it won't be too bad!

No. 5 Something Wrong

"Oh!" Recovery Girl gasped in delight when she saw Ryouka the next morning when she came to report in to her. "You cut your hair!"

"Obviously." Ryouka muttered under her breath, but she could understand why the old lady was surprised. Even she herself was surprised. She forgot how good she looked when she wasn't hiding beneath unnecessary glasses and her long, unkempt hair. The hairdresser from yesterday had done a good job too to bring out her good points—not that it was difficult to do since she was already beautiful from the start. Was that a bit vain? She didn't care though because she looked good.

Closing the door of the nurse's office behind her as she stepped inside the white room, she looked around quickly before she noticed a strangely familiar-looking green-haired boy with an arm in a cast, sitting on a chair behind the healer's desk. Deciding to ignore him, she addressed the healer grumpily.

"Well, I'm here now. What should I do now, Recovery Girl?" Ryouka asked.

"Aww, you don't have to be so cold to me. Call me Chiyo-sensei, Ibuki-chan," the tiny woman said, pouting as she went up a stall to take something from amidst the bottles of medicines and strange chemicals that Ryouka couldn't read the label inside one of the shelves.

"You look beautiful, by the way. The new hair suits you," she added, shooting a smile at her direction as she stepped down to approach the boy and checked the cast on his right arm.

"I know, but thank you for pointing that out anyway," Ryouka nodded as she watched the healer work on the boy. "What do you need me here for, Chiyo-sensei?"

"Oh, right! I have to explain to you about your timetable," Chiyo-sensei said. "But first, here, change into this."

The healer gave a bag to her and Ryouka peeked inside and saw that it was several uniform sets for winter, summer, and also for Phys. Ed. She took it and went to one of the beds and pulled the cover so that she could change without revealing her body to the boy. As she changed, she could hear the old lady's voice from behind the screen, explaining her schedule for the rest of the year.

"From the 1st through 4th periods you will spend with your classmates, then after lunch you will join the first years for your Foundational Hero lessons in 5th and 6th periods. You'll join 1-B for this week. You will spend your lunch break here with me in the Nurse's Office for your main duty as my apprentice and after school you will join me again in here until all extracurricular activities are over in case any of the students need our help. In addition, whenever there's an emergency, you will accompany me to the location immediately and help me heal the heroes on duty."

Chiyo-sensei paused, before she spoke again. "Did you get all that?"

"Sure." Ryouka nodded from behind the screen as she finished up tying up the tie. She pulled the screen aside again and went to put her previous clothes on the desk, and Recovery Girl nodded in approval at how neat she wore her uniform.

"Good." The healer said, smiling at her briefly before she turned to the boy again. "You're good to go, Midoriya-chan. Come back here after school for a final checkup, okay?"

'Midoriya, huh… wonder where I saw him before. Even his name was familiar,' Ryouka thought as she saw the boy bow deeply before leaving the room.

"Now, follow me to your classroom. You have to introduce yourself in front of the class, so choose your words carefully, okay? Your classmates' are going to be your companions until you graduate, so try your best to get along with them, okay, Ibuki-chan?" Chiyo-sensei said as she led him through a number of hallways, finally stopping in front of a door with the sign, [2-A] on it.

The old lady put a finger on her lips, motioning her to be silent before she knocked on the door.

"Thirteen-chan, I've brought Ibuki-chan here."

Ryouka heard a rustling sound and approaching footsteps from within before the door opened, revealing an astronaut suit.

"Oh! That's right, your apprentice!" The suit said in a cheery, soft voice. "It's very nice to finally meet you, Ibuki-kun! I've told the class about your transfer yesterday, and they really look forward to meet you!"

"I… I see." Ryouka stuttered, not expecting her new teacher to be this… cute. "That's great."

"It is! Everyone is such a good kid, you'll love them!" The astronaut suit said, and somehow even though Ryouka couldn't see his face he got the impression that they were smiling proudly.

"Oh, I almost forgot! I'm Number Thirteen, and I'll be your homeroom teacher in 2-A. Please treat me kindly!" Thirteen-sensei bowed lightly, and Ryouka wanted to bang her head on the nearest wall because of how adorable their voice was.

She managed to curb the urge.

Barely.

"I'm Ibuki Ryouka. Please treat me kindly too, Thirteen-sensei." Ryouka bowed in return, and again, he got the impression that the astronaut suit-wearing teacher was beaming at her in delight.

"Great! Now, let's come in so you could introduce yourself to your new classmates!" Thirteen-sensei said, opening the door and motioning for her to come in.

"Stand!" Someone from the class said loudly, followed by another word immediately after. "Bow!"

"Thank you, Narushige-kun!" Thirteen-sensei said, nodding at a beautiful tall boy with the long ponytail and an iridescent snake around his neck. The boy, Narushige, smiled radiantly at the teacher before he sit on his chair.

"Listen, everyone! Our transfer student is finally here! Please give her a warm welcome, okay?" Thirteen-sensei said cheerily as they made a big gesture towards her as she stepped beside the astronaut suit-wearing teacher.

When she stayed silent, the teacher nudged her with their elbow and nodded encouragingly.

"Go on. Introduce yourself!"

Taking the teacher's cue, Ryouka finally addressed her classmates who were looking at her with curiosity and excitement. Ryouka could understand why since it wasn't often that people transferred to U.A.

"My name is Ibuki Ryouka. I'm 17 and transferred here from K-High because Recovery Girl scouted me." Ryouka paused, contemplating if she should say something more personal to her new classmates. In the end she decided not to. "…That is all."

Thirteen-sensei clapped their hands happily after her introduction.

"Thank you, Ibuki-kun! Now, if there's anything you want to ask her, I'll give you five minutes to do it before we will begin our lesson. Any other questions will have to wait until lunch break, so go!"

Immediately, excited murmurs could be heard all over the classroom.

"Sensei, I want to ask something!" Someone said, raising their hand. When Thirteen-sensei nodded at him to continue, he continued with his question excitedly. "What's your Quirk, Ibuki-chan?"

The person behind him quickly slapped the back of his head. "Stupid, she's Recovery Girl's apprentice, of course it's a healing Quirk!"

The first person pouted, rubbing at his head. "I'm just trying to make a conversation, sheesh!"

Ryouka's lip involuntarily twitched upright. She had thought that being a student of a prestigious school such as U.A. would make the students here stuck up and arrogant, like how Malfoy used to be, but turned out they're just normal kids.

"It's alright," Ryouka said finally. "My Quirk is called Spring of Life. It is indeed a healing Quirk."

Another guy raised his hand. "What's your favorite food then?"

Ryouka hummed, contemplating, before she came to a decision. "Right now? It's pizza."

"Want to get some with me this weekend?"

"Can someone shut him up?"

The silly questionings continued on for some times before finally Thirteen-sensei clapped their hands again to sign that the time was up.

"Alright, that's enough for now!" The teacher called to quiet down their students. They motioned for Ryouka to come closer and pointed at a brown haired boy that sat near the back of the class. "Now, Ibuki-chan, your seat is next to Sawa-kun there. Sawa-kun, help her out, okay?"

'It's the other recommendation student', Ryouka realized, recognizing the name. She saw as the boy smiled pleasantly and surprisingly genuinely at her, and Ryouka could almost see flowers blooming behind him like those shoujo manga effects whenever a prince just did something amazing.

"Of course, Sensei," Sawa-kun said with his refreshing smile, and Ryouka's heart felt like she just saw the sun with how bright the boy was being. Was that his Quirk? Did he just smile at the Villains and blind them with his radiance?

Betraying her train of thoughts, Ryouka just nodded at him expressionlessly as she walked to the desk beside his. Sawa-kun just smiled at her and pushed their desks together so he could share his book with her.

Satisfied with the boy's actions, Thirteen-sensei nodded and turned towards the black board.

"Now… let's begin with math—"

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That first week went on quite well, surprisingly.

Ryouka did well in her classes, worked with Chiyo-sensei during lunch and extracurricular activities, heal All Might once a day, and sometimes got called during the night to help with heroic duties.

Imagine Ryouka's reaction when a guy with ridiculous fish costume just appeared on her hotel room one night, introducing himself as "Quickie" and telling her that he had been assigned the task of retrieving her for heroic duties by Recovery Girl so that she could arrive on time because he had a teleporting Quirk.

She was not amused.

Besides his dubious name and ridiculous costume though, he was a nice guy. A bit loud maybe, but nice. They worked well together and he would deliver her back to her hotel room when they were done, so Ryouka couldn't be too annoyed at him (especially since he was just doing his job).

There was also a small incident where U.A.'s intruder alarm went off during lunch two days ago, but it turned out to be a reporter who accidentally overstepped into the school grounds. Besides that, everything seemed to be normal and Ryouka actually made some friends at school.

Sawa-kun, (who insisted on being called "Rakan") had been very nice to her after their initial meeting in class. He and his friends, Shigeka Narushige-san, Tohno Tohji-kun, and Senroh Chigusa had helped her a lot during her first few days at school, showing her the way when she got lost—which was almost all the time. It wasn't her fault though. The school was built like a maze.

Rakan was a really kind person too and flowers literally bloomed whenever he was around. His Quirk, "Sanome", was a Quirk that lets him manipulate the growth rate and genetic makeup of plants and he constantly experimented with new and strange plants. The Bell fruits he gave the entire class yesterday were particularly delicious. If he ever decide to back out from being a Hero, he could probably make a living from selling his creations.

Ryouka also got along well enough with the students from 1-B, which was the class she joined during the Foundational Hero Studies for that week. Monoma Neito was a headache she didn't want to acknowledge that he existed though. She was glad that Nedzu-sensei had decided that she would alternate between which class she would join every week so she didn't have to deal with that boy's strange grudge on people in [A] classes every day.

At the end of the first week, her home reparations were finally finished and she could move back in, All Might had finally gotten more comfortable around her to eat lunch with her and Recovery Girl in the infirmary, she hadn't slip up and revealed her magic to anyone, and her hero… costume… was finally finished.

Ryouka grimaced, holding up the costume with both of her hands.

To be honest, it wasn't all that bad as far as costumes went, but it was just so… blinding… in all its all-white glory. The only other colors in it was gold and red and it looked terribly heroic it was like a bad joke. It wasn't too revealing and proved to be easy to move in though, and his boots, while it was high-heeled was tweaked with some gadget by the Support Department so that it provided balance no matter the terrain she walked on in those things.

Oh well.

At least the gloves were nice.

"How do you like it?" All Might asked her from where he was rested with a small smile in her direction and Ryouka turned to look at him. The tall and gaunt man had become more comfortable with her after a week now and he didn't blush or stutter as much when she had to use her Quirk on him.

Ryouka berated him a lot the first days they worked together. She could tolerate it when the man neglected his own health and limit if it meant he could save more people, but, seriously? Morning jogs? With his failing lungs and nonexistent stomach?

This man was a disaster waiting to happen.

Usually when people was being this hardheaded, Ryouka would just beat them, heal them, and then beat them up again until they freaking gave up on their ridiculous ideas, but she couldn't do that when the person in question was already halfway dead could she?

Instead, she made an agreement with him.

If the stupid Hero wanted to be reckless, at least he should have done it with a healthier body.

And so was Ryouka tricked into making a stupid healthy and nutritious meal plan that she made the stupid Hero promise to follow down to a tee. Now every lunchtime, after their daily healing session, All Might sat in the nurse's office with her as he ate the meal she asked Lunch-Rush to prepare especially for him.

It was difficult getting him to actually keep anything down though since his new stomach was practically useless and Ryouka had to heal him every few mouthfuls of food so that he could keep it down, but he was trying. He genuinely wanted to be better, so Ryouka will help him even if that meant that she have to heal him like every few minutes.

That 'making All Might some new organs' idea from the week before grew more appealing each day though.

At least it would save her the hassle.

Ryouka quickly stuffed the costume inside its briefcase again and turned towards All Might, who were looking at her expectantly.

"It's not that bad," Ryouka began, trying to hide her distaste. "I imagine the white will dirty easily though."

"Hero costumes are made with special fabric so it's more resistant to tearing or dirt." All Might chuckled as he continued eating. "I think it looks great. White will look good on you. You're wearing it for the afternoon lesson today, right?"

Ryouka nodded at him.

"Yeah. I'm joining 1-A starting this week."

"You'll like them. They're good kids," All Might grinned. "Actually, I'm supposed to be joining Thirteen-sensei in today's lessons—"

"Absolutely not. You have used up your 3 hours of heroics today. Even if my Quirk extended the time limit by a few minutes, you have to call it quits today," Ryouka hissed before the Hero could finish his sentence, glaring at the man who shrunk guiltily from her gaze.

"Now finish your meal. Just drink the soup if you don't think you can handle the rest. I have to go back to class. If I see you at class later you won't like the consequences, you hear me?" Ryouka threatened All Might who nodded hastily before she yelled at him again. He made the mistake of disobeying her that one time when she found him on his morning jogs and had been properly terrified by what she could do to him.

Ryouka sighed and gathered her things before she went to 1-A's classroom.

She walked in the empty hallway that connected the Nurse's Office to the classroom buildings with heavy footsteps.

Ever since she woke up that morning, Ryouka had been having this uneasy feeling. Everything was fine as usual so far. She got along with All Might and the other teachers, she worked well with Recovery Girl, and she managed to keep her magic a secret from everyone for another day, but…

…somehow she had a bad feeling that grew like a poisonous vine inside of her.

Ryouka fiddled with the pendant necklace around her neck in a rare gesture of apprehension. It was a diamond-shaped ruby stone that was encased in a frame made of gold. She had bought it a long time ago as a substitute focus for her magic since she didn't have her wand with her, but she never wore it before today.

She gripped the pendant tightly as she stood in front of the classroom door.

She didn't know what about today that sets her senses off, but she hoped to whatever higher being out there that her feeling was wrong, for once.

Give her a break, please.

No. 5 Wrong — End

*If you want to know about Rakan, Chigusa, Narushige-san, and Touji, go read Silver Diamond! It won't waste your time, it's really a good read!

Next chapter (or the next one) is something that I've been wanting to write since the beginning! It's not that exciting but somehow I really love the idea of a blood-drenched Ryouka making a declaration to the Villain Alliance. (Consider that a preview lol.)

Also about her new focus/pendant, ruby is Harry's birthstone so I used it! Her Hero costume is red because of it too actually. The link for the doodle is in my profile page as usual. Hope you like what I imagined her looks like! If you don't like it, just imagine what you want, it's okay with me!

PS: I reposted this story on AO3 under the same username. It's slightly edited and so a bit better in my opinion. I probably will edit everything here too later, but the formatting there is better. Also, I almost always reply to your review so check your PM or emails in case you missed my response!