"You won't have any special accommodations on this one."
The words from Eraser flashed into her mind for a moment, while she stood staring at the cubbies for everyone's clothing. The other girls were undressing and talking casually, but Senji had frozen up. Her face was beet-red, and she contemplated running out.
"Hey, come on! Let's get ready for the hot spring bath," Mina prodded her. She had noticed Senji's face and was trying to make the situation a little lighter, but she had startled Senji who let out a little yelp.
"So…cute!," Mina and Hagakure both exclaimed. Senji tried to shut them up, but Jiro and Tsuyu joined in. Soon Senji was laughing with the rest and gave in. She peeled off her clothes and wrapped herself tightly in a towel. She waited til the others were done cleaning off, then took care of herself and headed to the spring.
…
"Hey, guys," Mineta started up on the other side with the boys. He went into some tangent about staggering bath times, and the other boys reacted with a mix of disgust and silent intrigue. Bakugo remembered a scene from a few weeks ago, when he'd accidentally walked in on a shirtless Senji. His face grew hot for a moment and he remained unusually quiet. Thankfully for him, the other boys were too distracted by Mineta, then the falling kid Kota.
He sat up after Kota was carried out, remaining strangely quiet while lost in thought. He only saw a brief glimpse, and Senji hadn't brought it up afterward. But her back had huge scars on it. Or, something like scars. They were a bluish color, similar to the weapons she'd made earlier and her wings and tail.
"Hey, what's with that face Bakugo?," Kaminari teased.
"Huh?! The fuck you on about, cheap sed vjpokemon," Bakugo reacted stronger than he intended to, but the others took it as his usual type of outburst. Most of them anyway. The three boys that kept surrounding him took the opportunity to tease him hard. Kirishima even joined in, and almost slipped up and said something that would have been extremely incriminating.
…
"Man, now it's ruined," Jiro complained about the near miss with Mineta's antics over the wall. The other girls seemed to share her sentiment, and sat quietly for a moment debating on leaving. After a few minutes they all decided to leave for now, with Bakugo's shouting echoing loudly over the wall.
"He sure is loud. Wonder what it's about this time?," Tsuyu commented as they all got dressed. Senji started to make a jab, but then remembered the barely avoided disaster on the pool day and went silent. She hadn't thought about it too much that day, after the argument with his mother. But now it really sank in, and her face turned bright red again. Mina started to tease her, but Senji collapsed from the heat of the bath and that stole the show.
…
Later in the night, unable to sleep, Senji wandered outside and sat down. She looked up at the stars, thinking. She recalled some unpleasant memories from her childhood, and frowned. The words of a certain old lady crept into her mind, the one who had given her a complicated assignment.
"Work to track down All For One."
That was it, her job. She was to work in the shadows to track down a nasty villain from years ago. She didn't understand fully at the time of the assignment, since she was only a child. But as she was raised by Eraser, and trained with another hero under the old lady's group, she understood the task was a difficult on.
"Work with them, get to know them."
A second order, given through Eraser but likely from the old lady as well. It was to get to know her classmates at UA. To practice her skills in regards to communication and deception is what Senji thought the order to be. But over time, she genuinely grew attached to some of the students. Learning their quirks, getting into wacky situations with a few. Even the two she avoided the most had helped her out in various ways.
"What am I doing anymore," she said aloud. With a heavy sigh, she got up and returned to the girls' room. She curled up in the corner and drifted off into a restless sleep. A few hours later, she was shaken awake by her classmates and pulled outside. It was time for the training camp to start for real.
"Senji, quit grumbling," Eraser scolded her before jumping into his explanation. The students would focus on honing their quirks. Each of the four Pussycats would handle different types of training for the varying styles of quirks each student had, with Eraser overseeing them all. The students split off to do different things, Senji being grouped with Izuku to work on physical stuff and sparring with anyone who had quirks like his. When not doing that, she was tasked with practicing flying.
By the end of the day, Senji and the others were thoroughly worn out. They had to cook their own food, though. Senji was assigned to peel potatoes first, but after scraping her hand Iida took over. Then she tried cutting vegetables. She zoned out while doing so and ended up slicing her finger.
"You're shit at this, move!"
Bakugo shoved her aside and took the knife. He rapidly chopped all the vegetables, earning Uraraka's attention. Senji tended to her second injury and sat down while the ingredients were prepped. She ended up falling asleep while waiting, only waking up when Todoroki brought her a plate of food. She ate quickly, then went to clean up and go to bed. The others filtered in slowly after a while. Senji was unable to shake a bad feeling she had, and ended up staying up playing games on her phone.