He watched Kendo wave at him through the window of his bus seat. The entire time, the slight reflection of his bandaged face cause shivers throughout his body. It was almost symbolic, the face he's so much afraid of seeing was right next to the girl he liked to see the most. The thought of something wrong about to happen still was on the top of his mind, even if it didn't come yet. He turned away from the seat and leaned over the edge of the seat. A long and smooth exhaled out of the 'O' shape of his mouth. His hands slapped his knees and popped up from his seat. Geus glared at the driver but shook it off as he walked off the last step.
Geus and Kendo walked side by side to the school. "Do I still fight like a 1-C student?" Geus asked, his smile outline from his bandages.
"You got lucky." Kendo shoved her side into his. "But you have earned your 1-A position."
The walk over was silent for the rest of the way. Both of them had weary feelings toward each other, the damage they did to each other. Geus walked up the few raised steps and held the door open. "Kendo."
"Woah, Woah, you had one lucky fight. We're on a first names basis." Itsuka giggled, she ticked her tongue and walked through.
"Why can't I look you into the eye?"
She stopped just as she past him, her head lowered to the ground. "With one fight, the damage we did to each other, it changes." Her head sprung up and twisted her around, her smile was large and hopeful. "Once those lips heal up and my face heals, we'll be fine."
The words wouldn't let him see himself in a mirror any time soon, but he still felt a little better. "Thanks." a sigh slashed his sentence. "I needed that." They stopped at the split of their classes. "I'll see you after school."
Geus walked into his overly talkative class hallway. Each of his classmates was overly excited about the ripple effects of the festival. It made him happy that other people had the same positive reaction he had. He felt like the black sheep in the hall. Others pumped out their ecstatic behaviors to their friends while he followed into a straight line. "The rumors always get more and more true." Geus mumbled to himself. "'It may be a detention center, but think of it as a prison for anyone under seventeen.' Bailey."
"Geus! Geus Sansei!" A girl's voice screams got closer.
He turned around and crashed directly into the person that shouted his name. His natural reaction wrapped his arms around her as they crashed to the ground. Geus broke open his eyes and finally saw the person on him. The closeness of the pink hair girl turned his cheeks red. His eyes felt forced to keep up to the ceiling to avoid the low cut shirt she had on.
"Are you ready to have my baby?!" She shouted.
"Oh god no!" Geus grabbed her shoulders and pushed her upper body off of him. "No no no." he crabbed walked away from her and up to his feet.
The girl that crashed into him squirmed up to her feet as well. Her side stepping trail rounded him through the hall and eventually pinned him against the wall. The psychoitc look on her face with the reticle style yellow eyes seemed to fixate on him. Her body pressed against his hard enough to push in his several layers of clothes. "My baby! Please take my baby, I spent the past two days on her." Her arm twirled around between their faces. A box larger than her hand blocked out his scared feelings.
"You're baby?" Geus grabbed the box from her hand and lifted the lid off. Just above soft white padding was a gas mask similar to his old gas mask design. The mask did the same of a lower half design that covered down from his nose, his cheeks, and chin. Instead of it sutured to his face, was smooth edges without a buckle design or sewing holes. The filters were also designed a bit differently than the original, a inch longer and thinner with hexagon shaped filters. His left hand dipped inside the box and lifted the ivory design.
"I took your initial design and made a few improvements. Open ports and hexagon tanks smooth out your quirk better. The mouthpiece actually opens up with fingerprint sensory to 'unfilter' your quirk. It's the exact same but better. My best baby for you."
"Thank you. But I can't hold it on my face without any straps or buckles."
Another student ran up to them both and was completely out of breath. "I'm Yosetsu Awase, I was also sent here for you." His back curled in the air to accumulate the largest amount of air possible. "God she's fast." he panted. "I'm going to weld small magnetic clips inside your gums."
"No."
The new boy sighed. "It's not like that. My quirk is weld, I can connect any two things together." He peeked inside the box and grabbed six tiny black pieces from under the pads. "Just hold still." He grabbed the bandages on his face and unraveled them. He let out a long stress whistle. "That's a lot of damage." Geus couldn't do much except roll his eyes. "Hold your breath, I don't want to get burned." The boy reached in his mouth and placed around the six blocks in his mouth. Geus was surprised that he didn't feel any pain except some numbness from the use of the guy's qurik. "Try it."
Geus flipped the mask over. He grabbed the mouth center and placed it on the magnetic connections. He heard a small click and released his grip. It felt firm around his cheeks and chin line. His index finger dragged around his jaw line for any divots but found none. The girl was wide-eyed and wide-smiled.
"My baby is perfect!" She jumped and cheered. "If you need anything else come to the best support class girl, Mei Hatsume."
"And I guess if you need anything welded come to me." Awase joked. "I'll see you next time. I still don't see what Kendo sees in you." He waved away and raced to the end of the hallway. Geus sucked in his breath and, ignored it.
"If my baby needs any work let me know." She pressed against his chest and squeezed his pecks. "If you need any more armor to quirk with the design of my baby, I can make even more babies for you."
"I'm so uncomfortable." Geus whispered. He grabbed her shoulders and twisted her around to the entrance of the hallway. "Thank you."
He over exaggerated his next moves; he held his arms out as he curved his back down. He took one step back after the other to his classroom door. His head whipped over to the now silent class. Their eyes were on his scared eyes. He looked directly at Jiro. For just a second she looked down then back up with a weak smile. Geus grabbed the mask on his sweatshirt and pulled it over his gas mask. His exaggerated moves continued back to his his desk.
"Geus have you been recognized because of the festival?" Sero asked as if he really wanted to speak about himself.
"No." Geus folded his arms over his desk and rested his head. "I came from a prison. Not a lot of visitors."
"Oh yeah. Forgot about that." Sero spun back around. "Wait, I thought you were instituted inside a detention facility." He walked around the desks and position to his. "Are you really an convicted convict?"
"It's an inside joke."
"Good morning." Aizawa introduced in his normal dull voice. Everyone greeted their homeroom teacher with basic enthusiasm as they always did. "You need codenames." He wasted no time in the introduction. "Time to pick your hero identities. Normally this is common for second and third years, but we've extended it to first years. This gives drafts time to invest in your potential, gradually raising it or lowering it before graduation."
"So we still have to prove ourselves after we gotten recruited?" Hagakure asked for confirmation.
"Correct." Aizawa pressed a button on a remote and activated a small animated screen on the chalkboard. "Here are the total of offers you got from the festival."
Geus looked down the list handed to him from Aizawa. Sixty-eight total offers for him. Quite near the bottom but he was still happy he got some and not none like some of his other classmates.
"Offers or not you'll all be interning with pros, got it? These hero names will likely be temporary. But take them seriously or"
The classroom door slid open. "Or you'll have hell to pay later!" Midnight dramatically entered the room. Whatever you pick today could be stuck with you for life." She strutted inside with her arms behind her head, an obvious way to show off the assets on her body.
"Yeah she's got a point. Midnight will overlook all final okays." Aizawa reached under the podium and grabbed his signature sleeping bag. "Good luck."
A whiteboard and marker were passed down the rows for everyone to write their hero name. Geus didn't need any time to think about his hero name. He thought about it for the first week before school.
"Now students, who among you is ready to share?" Midnight asked after a few silent minutes.
Geus pulled the gas mask from his face and walked to the podium. The shocked faces from his friends was a deliberate plan for them to quickly ignore the name he wrote down.
He flipped the sign in front of the class and showed them the single word written in sloppy penmanship. "Gasus. 'Gas' from my quirk and 'us' from my name."
"A great signaling name especially to signify your love for your cross-class other." Midnight approved.
Geus was less than amused at the constant jokes. Geus's eyes avoided the group and instead went to the ground. "I don't like her," Geus mumbled. "I like someone else."
"Even more saucey!"
Geus rolled his eyes and sat at his desk. He placed his mask back on. Along with his hoodie and wrapped himself back up. He listened to everyone else play their own names. Only looked up to his great friends for their names. The next step in line was for the whole reason why they picked names. To pick a hero agency to intern at, everyone had forty internships to choose from. Some of the students had specially picked ones based on heroes with interests in them. Out of all the heroes that showed their interest, only a single hero agency from them was on his list. Not that Geus actually knew anything of any of these heroes in the first place.
"Ah, Geus," Midoriya spoke and knocked Geus out of his secluded mind. "what pro hero agency are you going for?"
"I'm going for the pro hero Gunhead." Uraraka punched the air next to Geus.
"I don't know," Geus handed the paper to his friend. "What suits me best?"
"No way! I don't have him on my list." Midoriya looked at the paper with pure interested and shocked eyes. "Oh, right you don't know him. Kamui Woods is a new hero on the scene." Geus just raised his bald eyebrow. "His style of combat and the way he uses his quirk is most similar to yours based on your list here."
"I'll go under him." Geus grabbed the paper back and scribbled a line under the agency name. "Have you decided anything yet?"
"I haven't decided on anyone yet, I still have to sort through everybody and see who will be able to help my quirk the best."
Geus eyed past his friends to the other side of the room. Jiro was mixed with Kaminari, Ojiro, and a few others. Their attitudes showed that none of them really knew where they wanted to go. He didn't know if he was even able to select a pro agency. Usually, with things like this, Lt. Bailey would make him sign papers or at least agree to these terms. So the interest in this was more than lackluster. All his classmates would be able to do this except him.
"Are you alright Sansei?" Tsu asked. Her large face caused Geus to jump up into a straight posture. "You completely ignored Aoyama's question."
Geus looked to his left and at the sparkling boy. He was trapped in one of his over the top poses for dramatic attention. "I knew it, it was miss Jiro that you truly like." He instantly went into another pose.
Geus's eyes went wide and his face started to red. If his quirk didn't cause so much damage and wasn't slow, he'd use it right now. The trust he had in Tsu metaphorically went away. 'Really? You couldn't move the subject on? You girls and your god damn romance complex.'.
"I have no words." Geus tried to cover up his racing heart rate and shaky voice with the dullest sound he could come up with.
"But you're not denying. Mmwa! I'm right aren't I?"
"I showed you my face," Geus mumbled. "I haven't even seen my face." Geus turned his head back to the other group. Now he noticed that Jiro had on a different face, she was freaked out with one eye directly on 'Can't Stop Twinkling'. It was obvious to him he had asked her too, and she had the same face he did. Though Geus was able to change it back to boredom. "Uraraka." He spoke out after a minute of silence. He waited for her to have full attention on him. "Deku."
"What are you talking about?" Uraraka went full on spasm, just like how Midoriya would go on. "Deku, he's just a friend. I'm trying to be just like him and be on the top. What ridiculous things could you be thinking of? Of course nothing!"
Geus gave a thumbs up to Jiro which heavily relaxed her. In only two words he was able to trade to attention from him and over to someone else. It gave him a chance to think of what was really important. If the hero agency was a valid option.
