Chapter 6
One Year and 7 Months Later
She's was beginning to realize by now that she wasn't making the smartest choices in life. Since her graduation she hasn't gotten into a good college and she really couldn't afford anything better. She could hardly even pay for her loans now.
The decision to move out of her parents house was a poor one. One that she couldn't take back because about a month after her father transferred jobs. So her parents ended up downgrading and moving out of state.
She started going by the name Rin full time at the club and has even started to introduce herself to new people as Rin.
The fact that her fun summer stripper job is now her full time job didn't exactly make her happy. She made the best of it though. The VIP and waitressing alone weren't enough for her though. So she took to the stage.
It had just been another long night and she was exhausted.
When she made it to her apartment she said hello to the cat that she didn't own. There was a time when she wanted to adopt a cat because she was feeling a bit lonely. But she knew she wouldn't have been able to take care of it.
Instead she sometimes just likes to pretend that she had a cat anyways. She'd discovered that it was no different then the people that she knew who DID have cats. Every time she would go to Tori's apartment she'd claim there was a cat living there but I had never seen it.
Her best friend sometimes got mad at her for comparing their pets. After she'd tell a funny story about her cat, Rin would simply reply about how she found it funny when her cat did the same thing.
It was dry humor that had adapted over the time being alone.
There was mail on the floor at the entrance of the apartment. It was a strange place to have mail because she didn't have a slot on her door. She had a PO Box. That meant someone had personally slipped this under her door for her.
Rin was not a waiter for anything anymore. It's been a habit she's gained since living on her own. If she wanted something now she wanted it now.
The envelope did not have a return address on the front so she didn't have to worry about ripping the thing open. In the past she'd ripped open a letter and later needed to tape it to see the return address.
Always learning things the hard way.
Her apartment was basically a studio. In the sense that her bed was also her couch in her living room. Flopping down, opening the letter and slipping off her shoes Rin wanted an award for multitasking.
The envelopes contents dropped on her face.
"Didn't think that one through pussy cat." She sat up and spoke to her imaginary cat.
The first thing she picked up was the letter portion.
"Dear Ms. Lynn Marie Samson,
I'm writing on behalf of your interest in working in the resources department at our company. We're sorry to inform you that we're not in need of a linguistics operator right now.
We would like to offer you a position at our other office location.
We thank you for your interest.
Sincerely, Might Hero Agency"
Turning to the other paper in the letter she saw that it was a handwritten letter.
"Dear Ms. Samson,
I had received your email about a linguistics position at our American location.
I was happy to see you take up my job offer even if it was almost a year after. Unfortunately we do not have an opening at that location.
That's why I have taken the liberty to place a plane ticket in here for you. You have been hired to work at our Japan office here in Roppongi City in Tokyo, Japan."
Rin stared at the letter for a moment. There is no way that she read that right. Looking through the rest of the fallen envelope contents she saw that there was indeed a plane ticket dated for 3 days from now. She also scanned over what seemed my movers paperwork.
"We will be providing you with an apartment that is in a suitable location for your work. First and last month's rent has been taken care of by a charitable donor.
Your itinerary for the next week has been included with this.
I am excited to have you working at my office.
- All Might"
The Japanese was neatly written throughout the letter and at the bottom as a giant sloppy ALL MIGHT signature. Rin knew that this was a letter worth its money. Even if she didn't accept the job she could totally sell his handwriting for some cash.
She remembers when she met All Might all that time ago. She barely knew who he was. In America we had our own hero charts and when All Might had been in America it was before her little kid mind could understand the hero system.
The memory from that night was apparently life changing.
'She had returned with the 3 mens drink orders to see them standing ready to leave.
"Are you going" She asked as she approached them.
Yamada was the one to speak, "Yeah. Sorry about that. This old man here though it having a hankering to punish." It sounded dirty but he wasn't really exaggerating. Aizawa's 1-A Class was known for getting in trouble throughout their time at Yuuei but it's been uneasily trouble free this last year. He has been waiting for something to get them for.
"We will be paying for our drinks and your tip at the front." The dark teacher turned and started to head out Present Mic on his tail.
Lynn huffed she felt like they were leaving because of her. Guess she wasn't very good at communicating with people. Even if she did know their language.
"Excuse me." Lynn turned to see the lanky blond. "I'd like to apologize on behalf of anything our students may have done earlier on in the night."
The tall man was bowing. As a cultured individual Lynn understood. But all the people around her were staring at the man.
"I-It's okay." She tugged on his shoulders to have him stand up right.
"I'd like to give you this." He held out a card. "If you want a career change please contact me. Everyone's a hero in their own way."
Lynn accepted the card as the man left.
Glancing at the card she read the Might Hero Agency Logo. It had All Might written on it with Toshinori Yagi in a smaller font under it.'
It was a few months ago when decided she needed to make a change. She couldn't call the foreign number because the fees would have been too much money. So she stuck with an email.
She had been ready to move to Detroit if she got the job but not across the world.
"I GOT THE JOB!" She sent the text to Tori. The text sounded excited but she was more neutral.
"That's Exciting. Off to Detroit."
"It's at the Japan location."
Rin saw the classic '...' that signaled that her friend couldn't figure out how to respond. Which was okay because she had no clue how to feel about any of it either.
He felt like he was being sent to the principal's office. Which had hardly ever happened even at Yuuei. He wanted to cry but instead looked ahead at the receptionist desk. Bakugou had already been scolded and sent home. It was his turn and he knew that All Might wasn't going to be easy on him this time. He had given him a warning the last time that him and Katsuki did this much damage to a building.
"Mr. Yagi is ready for you now." The receptionist told me. She was a nice lady an often saw Midoriya Izuku visiting the business leader for leisure reasons. But the past 4 months the visits had increased to repremending reasons.
Izuku walked through the doors and saw All Might looking out the window.
Before the hero could defend himself his mentor stopped him.
"I had already given you both a warning the last time you caused this much damage. We had already discussed how this affects people's safety but it affects the company too. In turn it affects people's jobs. Not just hero's jobs but every person who works for the Might Hero Agency. You didn't think about that. Hundreds of people work here and at other locations. If you boys keep destroying the city the government won't help keep this company going. And all of these people will lose their jobs. I don't want to have to fire you both from hero work."
Izuku hung his head. He had always thought of the safety of the public. He hadn't thought of financial security the company provided so many other people.
"I'm sorry." Was all Izuku could think about saying he had already been unset about the building. Looking back Katsuki and himself DID have room to beat the villain without there being so much damage. He felt the disappointment rediate off of All Might.
With a heavy sigh the mentor walked over to the young hero. He placed his hand on his shoulder.
"Young Midoriya, I'm not saying this to upset you. I am proud of you and young Bakugou to finally be working together without fighting."
It was turn. Ever since All Might took Bakugou Katsuki off of Best Jeanist and he made the 2 of them go on a co-workers retreat they have become close friends. The down side was that both of their quirks together were destructive.
"I am taking you off of field work for a month." Izuku was shocked to hear this.
"What? But who will protect the people?" The tears dried up because he felt an anger behind them now.
"We have other heroes in the company and there are plenty of other hero companies in the city to help protect. I know that you don't like this. But you've gotten away the last few times with a slap on the wrist while young Bakugou had to file reports. The video evidence shows you this time though."
Izuku just wanted to help people but he also wanted to be the number one. He had made it into the Top 30 last month. With no field work his ranking would definitely drop.
"Okay. I can accept this." He signed and looked up at his mentor. There relationship has grown a lot and he knew that although we was being punished it was for good reasons.
The retired hero puffed into smoke and became big and buffy, "You don't have a choice but to accept it. Besides, since I've started dating Inko I can't make it look like I'm playing favorites with my girlfriends son."
Izuku rolled his eyes and smiled. 'There was that too.'
AN: Sorry if it seems a bit longer then the other chapters. I wanted to get all of the time lap in one chapter.
