Chapter 8 –
With Bakugou down for the count for the time being due to Midnight using a bit too much of her quirk, Uraraka would be escorting Midoriya-chan to lunch. But first she was helping him to make a rather large sign to advertise the kittens. Todoroki had made a weak attempt to return the small calico but one look at Midoriya-chan's watery eyes had had the teen backing away. Todoroki had glanced at the kitten who was still quite content in his arms, purring away. Those yellow gold eyes blinked slowly up at him and the kitten nuzzled against his fingers. Yaoyorozu smiled at him and quietly offered to help make him some supplies for his new friend.
With a happy sigh Izuku capped the maker he had been coloring with and declared his sign done. But before he and Uraraka-san could leave the room to make their way down the hall they were stopped by Aizawa-sensei. His tired eyes took in the sign. In big letters the words "Free Kittens to Good Home" then underneath it had pictures of the four unclaimed kittens.
Aizawa glanced at the four kitten pictures then to the kittens themselves where they were bundled up together in the kennel. Ignoring Present Mic who was shaking his head frantically at him, Aizawa reached forward and pulled the picture of the black and grey tabby from the poster board. Present Mic hung his head.
"I'm keeping this one." Was all the tired teacher said as he walked out of the room. It had been decided that the kittens would remain together in the kennel and that any potential owners could come pick them up after school.
"Yay! Now we only need to find homes for tree kitties!" Izuku proclaimed. Uraraka and Iida smiled at his enthusiasm and lead the way to the cafeteria.
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Shinso Hitoshi was sitting in the cafeteria for lunch listening in as a few of the kids from the hero class 1-B loudly plotted in the booth behind him. They were wanting to confront class 1-A this afternoon concerning the incident at the USJ. Maybe he would follow along, see what the hype was all about. There were already quite a few rumors floating around about the class.
As he finished off his meal he noticed a gathering of people by one of the entrances, curious he got up to investigate. There was a rather tall teen with broad shoulders trying to organize the attention of the gathered students around him. Behind him was a rather short girl with brown hair and pink cheeks she was holding some kind of sign and kept glancing behind her.
As Shinso got closer he caught a flash of green ducking behind the girl's legs. One end of the sign she was holding was awkwardly pulled back by a small hand that was clutching one of the corners. Was that a kid? Some people's quirks made it hard to tell, but it was for sure a little person of some sort. As he leaned forward a bit to get a better look he finally caught sight of what the sign said and instantly tuned into what the taller teen was babbling about.
"Someone left a box of kittens at the gate and we are currently trying to find anyone who may be interested in adopting one so that they can find good homes. There are three left, they are very young but old enough to be without their mother and seem fine with soft food. We currently have them in our classroom and are willing to keep them there until such a time as they can be picked up and taken home. "The small speech was punctuated with chopping motions from the tall teens hand. Shinso found himself hooked the second he heard the word 'kitten'.
"Iisda-kun, Iisda-kun- you gotta tell 'em 'bout 'em. N' ya gotta holds up the sign!" The small body had moved to the tall teens leg and was trying to push the sign up as tall as he could so that people could see it. The girl quickly helped by holding the sign up above her head so that it was clearly visible.
Shinso's eyes devoured the images of the small kittens. Somehow despite how much he searched he never found kittens outside on his walks that he might be able to keep. Sadly, the many adult strays he did find were too people shy to trust him. He had saved up and slowly purchased all the things he would need to own a pet but never seemed to have enough money to go through with a proper adoption through a shelter or cat café.
Looking at the adorable pictures of three kittens, one mostly grey with white feet and a white ear, and two orange tabbies. He wanted all of them but knew that he would not be able to afford that many, at least not at the moment. He noticed that there were several other teens that looked interested, so he quickly pushed his way forward in the crowd.
"This 'un likes to chase things- "The green haired child was trying to point at one of the orange tabbies. "'N this 'un likes to explore!" The other orange tabby. "'N this 'un likes to sleep!" The child finished chirping while pointing at the grey one. Shinso finally made it to the front of the ground and quickly pointed at the picture of the grey kitten.
"I want that one."
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It was surprisingly easy for the kittens to get adopted. They had people fighting over the last two since the one teen had been so quick to claim the gray kitten. First, they tried to narrow it down by double checking that each student that wanted the kitten had the means to take care of it. Even then they ended up with a handful, those they had call their guardians to confirm that it would be possible. Didn't want to trust someone with a kitten only for them to turn around and bring it back because parents said no. Finally, they ended up forced to have a rock paper scissors contest in order to narrow it down.
One blond boy walked away cackling over his win only to get bashed over the head by his red-headed companion who was trying to coach him on the meaning of sportsmanship.
Izuku was dancing in place, happy that all the kittens now had homes. They had given the pictures to the students so that they could stop by and claim the one they picked later.
"Okay, Midoriya-chan we're going to eat lunch and then the teachers said we could go outside if it had stopped raining so that we could play." Uraraka said as she set the kitten sign gently into a recycling bin and took the young greenetts hand to guide him to the lunch line. Izuku grasped her hand, swinging it back and forth with his own.
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They ended up in one of the gyms instead due the rain was still going steady. Luckily for them Cementoss had overheard their dilemma and lead them to one of the buildings set up for training. Once there he created a miniature obstacle course/play ground for the young boy to run around in.
It was there that Bakugou found them. He stormed in slightly out of breath only to quickly try and gain his composure when he noticed that his entrance had gained him everyone's attention. He coughed into his hand before shoving both into his pockets and making his way over to the small cement playground.
"Kacchan, Kacchan, Kacchan!" A green blur popped out of one of the tunnels and attached itself to the blonde's leg. Red eyes locked with sparkling green as the teen took in the out of breath kid. His face was flushed, and he looked slightly sweaty like he had been running non-stop since Katsuki had last seen him. Izuku just beamed at him before starting his typical word vomit to catch his friend up to all that had happened to him while the older teen was knocked out.
"Kacchan, it's so neat right! One of the teachers can control the sment and made a playground! If we had one like this by our house, you wouldn't gets into trouble so much 'bout melting stuff! Though to be fair Kacchan shouldn't be melt'n stuff that don't belong to him just to practice his quirk! Oh! And we found homes for all the kitties, this zombie guy is gonna take the grey one, and this funny blond guy is getting the tabby that likes to chase stuff. N' the other tabby is goin' to this guy that's looked kinda goofy! And- "
Katsuki quickly slapped a hand over the kids mouth. "Aight, Zu-chan enough. Yay all the little shits have homes now, whatever, Aizawa-sensei said that you've had a long enough break and it's time for our afternoon classes. Let's go.
The older teens quickly gathered their belongings to follow along behind the pair as they turned to go.
"Shit Zu-chan, have you been running around this whole time- you stink!"
"Mean Kacchan! I was playing, you the stinky one who napped too long!"
"That wasn't a nap! I got KOed!"
"Come on Iida-kun we better keep up!" Uraraka said with a smile as she and her taller classmate rushed to catch up. It was kind of a big eye-opener to see Bakugou interact with Midoriya-chan. They had started to think that maybe Deku was a touch delusional about them being childhood friends. That thought had the brown-haired girl pausing for a moment. If they had been so close- what had happened?
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The rest of the day went pretty smooth. Izuku hung out with Aizawa-sensei while the teens went to their hero practice with All Might (they conveniently left out mentioning that the class was taught by the hero- knowing what a fan boy Izuku was).
The one bit of excitement came in the afternoon with the announcement of the Sports Festival coming up. As they were getting ready to leave their classroom for the day. The bell had rung, and the students had just finished putting the room back to order and figuring out who's turn it was to take care of trash and clean up when they noticed a commotion coming from the hallway.
Izuku- trying to be helpful went up to the door and threw it open to answer the loud knocking. He startled when instead of a single person there was a mob outside of the room. Before he could even open his mouth the ring leader of the mob, a blond teen began to sneer at him and the others of class 1-A.
"You don't look like much! Don't think you can go trying to steal the spotlight from 1-B! I bet that you exaggerated your involvement with the USJ. Bet you all just whimpered like babies at the sight of real action! See you're whimpering now! Hahaha! We'll show you at the Sports Festival who the real heroes are!" The Blond teen gestured to the large group behind him who began to shout out their agreements. The teen had his eyes locked straight ahead and didn't seem to notice that the whimper had come from the small child that he had been yelling over.
Izuku felt his lip tremble at being in the front of so much angry energy, he brought his arms up to his chest, wishing he was holding Plush Might 2.0, but he had left him by his desk when he went to open the door. A large hand clamped down on top of his head and he smelled the familiar smokey smell of Kacchan. The hand pulled him back till he was slightly behind the teen before letting him go and Izuku quickly grabbed his pant leg.
"Oi Fuckface, what the hell is your problem yelling at a kid. You got beef with us then fine, I'll happily kick the asses of all you shitty little extras." Smoke began to gather in Katsuki's palms as he grinned maniacally causing several of the people to step back. Before the blond ring leader could open his mouth again he was pushed out of the way by a purple haired teen that looked like he hadn't slept in weeks.
"Zombie-guy! Is you here for your kitten?" Suddenly all the agitated atmosphere vanished. The group in the hall that had been standing semi-menacingly seemed to all glance down as one unit to take in the small child that was partially hidden behind the angry teen. Many of the teens in the hall blushed and mumbled apologies for scaring the kid. The purple haired teen and the blond both took a step back, pulling out the pictures of the kittens they had agreed to take and glancing at the information on the back saying what room to come to pick them up. 1-A stared back at them with bold childish coloring. They had both unintentionally planned on confronting 1-A and then going to find their kittens.
"Zu-chan save the kitten talk for later. I'm gonna kick their asses first!" The explosive teen took a step forward bringing up one of his hands.
"Tch, that's not very heroic sounding- "Katsuki's eye twitched. The purple haired teen coughed into his hand, not wanting to chance losing his kitten for starting too much drama with the people that were literally gifting him the think he wanted most.
"I just came to say that you should know that your spots aren't set it stone. At the Sports Festival if a General Ed. Student shows promise over one of you in the Hero course, then you can be bumped down and they can be bumped up. So, you better be prepared for a lot of competition." Shinso tilted his head indicating all those standing in the hall. This seemed to snap the blond ringleader of the group out of his daze.
"Yeah, I'm Monoma, class 1-B is going to show how much better we are than 1-A! We're going to smoosh you down and show that you can't steal all the glory for yourselves!
"Why are you being mean n' yelling? Shouldn't heroes work together to save more people? Isn't that was being a hero means?" All the teens that had been fixing to put in their own thoughts found themselves struck dumb at the innocent statement from the young boy. Aizawa-sensei found himself hiding a smile behind his hand. All Might's successor indeed.
"WELL SPOKEN YOUNG FRIEND!" Suddenly the group of students found themselves pushed aside by a large form of an upperclassman followed by two others. The teens found themselves unable to look away from the goofy face on the intimidating body of the taller teen. As the large student stopped in front of the open classroom doors he reached behind him to snag his dark-haired companion to drag him along-side him.
"We are here to collect my friend Tamaki's kitten! He is quite excited!" The others of class one glanced at the dark-haired teen who had his head hung low and a cloud of discomfort around him…. excited?
"'Course, come on in sempai, I'll show you where the kitties are!" Izuku reached forward and grabbed the dark-haired teens hand, dragging him into the room with his classmates following. Behind them came the purple-haired teen and the obnoxious blond who had introduced himself as Monoma. All the other teens were at a loss at what to do with themselves with the mounting tension having been broken so completely with Izuku's innocent statement.
Aizawa watched as Bakugou's eyes followed his young friend, a very thoughtful expression on his face for perhaps the first time in Aizawa's memory.
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I am so sorry that this chapter took me a bit to get out. It has been a crazy week and I was so undecided on who should have the kitties. So they have all been claimed and next we shall have more shenanigans between Izuku and his classmates as well as some possible…..DRAMA! Please leave a comment on what you think or any possible interaction idea's you might want to see. I have a few in mind but its always neat to brainstorm more!
Also I appreciate those being patient with my spelling errors and helping me find them. My only free time to type tends to be late at night when I am half asleep. My friend beta and I have been slowly working our way through to find them and will hopefully be posting the edited chapters soon.