I'm stuck on what to write her for once.
1) Mint Chocolate chip 2) Strawberry 3( Salted Caramel (My top 3 ice-cream flavours)
This chapter's song is DESTINY by NEGOTO aka Gintama ending 23.
HOLY SHIT HUNTER X HUNTER IS RETURNING?!
I didn't expect to be typing this out. Fuck, it's been years since the last HxH chapter... literally four-ish. I started HxH back when I was a dumb six year old watching the 1999 version on a bootleg CD my parents bought me with 'Naruto' written on top. Needless to say it's been over a decade since then, and I'd never thought I'd see tis day coming.
Thank you Togashi for giving me an excuse to increase my word count! I was really struggling this chapter's un-funny comedy skit, but you saved me!
Summary so far:
This is Chapter 30?! Holy shit. I think we need to celebrate this.
17 year old boy dies - Gets reincarnated as Sora - Get's adopted by the Yamazaki's and meets Miwa - Acts like a thug - In his second year of middle school he get's a kick up the bum, and decides to be better - Get's into U.A - Makes friends with everyone - Aizawa sort of takes him under his wing - USJ happens, Zero reveals himself - Sports Festival, Sora get's his goal of building a carefree tomorrow by changing canon and helping everyone - Tokage says 'Hello there!' - Iida's brother get's stabbed to death - Iida goes on a revenge crusade - Sora uses Talk-no-Just (It's ineffective!) - Stain tries to stab them both - Yozora and Nanao are introduced - Talk-no-Justu is effective on Iida! - Filler arc! - Start of camping trip - ?
That's a rough timeline of sorts.
My unfunny comedy routine is now finished!
"1A! Over here, everyone from 1A please get on the bus on the left!" Iida yelled at us, waving his arms around in the air to try and herd us like sheep. Or something. It was seven AM, which meant that I had… four hours of sleep. Fucking bullshit, but it was for a good reason for once! It was August the First, which meant that it was Jiro's birthday. Since I had wrapped Kaminari's gift horrendously, it took me hours to finally get it right - Even with Hinata and Miwa helping me!
Nervously, I scratched my head and waited for Jiro to arrive. For once she was late and I was early, which meant that I'd make sure to remind her of this fact as soon as she arrived.
"Hey Iida," I tapped the boy on the shoulder, "Is my hair messy?"
"It looks the same as always, that being messy as always. But, I suppose it looks neater compared to usual. Did you comb it?"
"Dude, I always comb my hair. It's just I'm a natural perm-head, and that shit sucks."
"But your hair has never been curly… just messy. Sometimes there might be slight, and I mean very slight curls, but they don't count. What's the term you and Mineta refer to heterosexuality as? Right, your hair is as straight as a ruler, yo!" Iida explained, throwing up a hand-sign as he looked proud of himself for that comment. "Well, what do you think? I've been researching slang in order to connect with Sero more. There are times where I can't understand what he's saying. It's wickety-wack, yo!"
"Stop, please for the love of God, just stop!" I pleaded, covering my ears so that I wouldn't hear anymore of his butchering of the language. "Slang isn't for you."
"Why not?"
"Iida, you went to a private middle school. I respect you trying to learn some slang, but it isn't necessary. Even if you can't understand what Sero's saying half the time, you can feel what he's trying to say. Communicating with others doesn't just rely on the meaning of the words, tone of voice and body language play a large role in it as well."
"I see, that makes a lot of sense!" Iida nodded at me, stroking his chin as if he had an epiphany. "So you're telling me that I should read up on body language and tone of voice? You really are a dependable person, Sora!"
"And you really are a pair of glasses pretending to be a human." I muttered underneath my breath, walking to the 1B bus to strike up conversation with living, breathing humans and not an alien/robot.
"Well, look at what the cat dragged in," Tokage joked from inside the bus, her window having been fully opened. "Well you are allergic to cats, so maybe I should be careful about speaking about them."
"Don't," I shook my head at her, "Just don't."
"Don't what? Piss you off? Please, as if I'd do that. Someone might call me a bitch when it comes to me talking to you, and I'd agree, but it's all just a joke. Right Sora? Please can you tell my friends," She then pointed to a few girls in 1B that sat beside her, "That we are just joking around. Please?"
"I can't believe I'm going to be camping with you for a week." I ran my hand through my hair, resisting the urge to pull out a knife and stab myself in the stomach so that I could skip this trip. "Oh God, you are going to make my life hell, aren't you?" Tokage's friends shrugged their shoulders, smirking at Tokage as if they had just proved a point. Was that a tick mark on Tokage's forehead? Holy shit, had reality crashed and burned down to the ground?
"Oi, oi, oi." Tokage shook her head, "Sora, please admit that we are good friends, and that you receive a lot of compliments from me."
"You have never once complimented me in the entire time I've known you!"
Tokage's brows furrowed as she was deep in thought. "That's impossible, I'm one-hundred percent positive that I've called you a fool many times."
"How's that a compliment?!"
"Because even a fool is smarter than you," She explained nonchalantly, "I'm high-balling your intelligence level, you stupid ape. Actually no, I can't even call you an ape - That offends ape's!" I sighed heavily as Tokage's friends told her off, with Kodai and Yanagi comparing her to an…
"SORA-SAMA! SORA-SAMA!" Oh God help me, "SORA-SAMA, OVER HERE!" Monoma yelled excitedly. Dressed in white shorts, some sandals and a yellow shirt he had some style, more than my outfit which consisted of my broken trainers, a football top and some grey joggers. "Are you going to sit with us? I mean, not that I want you to of course, our bus has broken a air-con which makes it objectively the worst bus to sit on, but I'm sure that I can convince Ibara to create some plants that can blow wind on you to keep you cool! 1B would be very happy to accommodate you-,"
"No we wouldn't," Tetsutetsu interjected, glaring at me, "We don't want your inferior 1A genes on this bus."
"Tetsutetsu, tsk, tsk," Monoma chided his friend by grabbing his head and smashing it against the seat in front of him. "Sora-sama isn't inferior, in fact his genes would be beneficial for 1B's continued success!" I stopped listening to their argument and walked back to the 1A bus, where Aizawa-sensei now stood in front of it.
"Do you know where Jiro is?"
"If I did, I would be with her right now."
"I see." He sighed, resting his head against one of the windows to the bus. "Have you brought you 'Kazekiri' with you?" He asked me.
"Nah, Hatsume said she hadn't finished improving it. Apparently she added some new 'features' to it that would make it more durable compared to before." I was still pissed at Cementoss for breaking my sword, but fair play to him I suppose. But Hatsume's expression of pure excitement unnerved me to some extent, who knows what concoction she was brewing for me.
An ice sword? A sword capable of emitting electricity? Actually, that last one sounds pretty cool.
"Well you better have bought a bokken or two." Aizawa replied with a smirk having been formed on his lips, "I'm planning on drilling some sword forms into you during this week. Amongst other things."
"Other things? Like what?"
"That's for me to know, and for you to guess." I rolled my eyes at his response, but I was excited for this training trip. "Well, Jiro's finally arrived." Wearing a grey and blue sundress with black boots, along with a baseball cap and her earphones sitting snugly around her neck, Jiro was panting heavily as she apologised profoundly to Aizawa-sensei.
"I'm so, so, so sorry! My mum wanted me to wear this dress cause' it's my birthday and she wanted pictures, and then dad started crying because I turned sixteen. So then I had to change my outfit to this dress and take a lot of pictures, and then I didn't have enough time to change so I brought my clothes with me, so could you please spare another five minutes while I go change?"
"Fine, but if you take longer than five minutes you'll have to walk to the summer camp."
"Deal!" And with that Jiro was off again, not sparing me a single glance. Cold, but then and again I'd never seen her wear a sundress before. And damn did it look good on her, maybe I should try and convince her to wear more sundresses. A few minutes later Jiro rocked up in some jeans and a band t-shirt, grinning as Aizawa-sensei walked inside to tell the driver of the bus to start the engines.
"Hi," She waved at me, "Aren't we going to go inside? Or are you going to tell me that you are sitting with Kaminari instead of me for the trip there?"
"Nah, Kaminari and Mineta have already started their binge session watching the latest season of Xaruto. God knows why, the most recent season of Kintama just wrapped up and it blows Xaruto out of the water. I just wanted to give you your birthday present before we got on the bus."
"You didn't-,"
"I did," I interrupted her, holding out her present wrapped neatly. "Just know that I bought you multiple things, so I hope you enjoy them." She tore into her present using her teeth, apparently I had used far too much tape for her to open it normally, and I watched a grin form on her face.
"These are the newest albums from a few rock bands I've seen in your room. I think. Well, either way I know you haven't listened to them yet since most came out today, you wouldn't believe how much haggling I had to do with the manager of the music store. He was convinced that I was going to leak the albums online or something. I knew you were bringing your new Walkwoman on the trip, so I thought you would want to listen to them on the way-, Oof!"
I wasn't prepared for Jiro hugging me tightly, thanking me. I was definitely blushing since Mina and Hagakure tapped their windows, grinning at me and sending me a thumbs up. Tch, I thought I had made myself clear!
"Thanks," Jiro replied, "Do you want to listen to them with me?"
"Sure, why not." Really it wasn't like I was doing much anyways, I had chosen to forgo bringing my PSP for the simple reason that I'd be too busy to play anything, plus I probably wouldn't be able to charge it. They were taking our phones as soon as we entered the camp, and we'd only be able to use them when we ate. Bloody bastards, the newest Devil Might Cry game just released as well! Oh well, I'd play it in a week or two.
"Where are we sitting again?"
"At the back," I answered, grabbing her luggage and giving it to the driver who placed it on the side of the bus, before closing the trunk once and for all. "Now let's go, I bought snacks for the two of us. I hope you enjoy strawberry sweets. I stocked up on them."
"Of course you did, why wouldn't you buy sweets. Geez, at this point I'm starting to think that eating sweets is a side effect of your Quirk." She complained, making me smirk as I stared at Aizawa-sensei, who naturally guessed what I was going to say next. Hah, maybe next time he shouldn't refute me!
"Sensei, do you remember when you said I was full of shit on the first day of school? You didn't believe me when I said eating sweets is necessary or my Quirk-,"
"Shut up. Seriously, why is it that I always get the annoying ones." Aizawa grumbled, closing his eyes and ignoring me for the time being. Ha, I managed to make him ignore me! Score! I win!
"Well then," I stepped to the side, allowing for Jiro to climb up the stairs and into the bus. "After you, mademoiselle."
Chapter
Thirty
'The most popular sandwich on the food stall is always the chicken mayo, even when it should be the ham and cheese sub!'
"Time for a break." Aizawa explained to us as the bus stopped near a cliff, "Everyone get out, if I see that you are still sitting down… well, I sure hope that one of you aren't stupid enough to disregard my instructions." I gulped at that, Aizawa-sensei's warnings promised pain and humiliation. In that regard, I'm pretty sure he was a closeted sadist. The teacher from hell, or in this case Tokyo.
"Oh man, I really need to take a piss." Mineta complained, causing the girl in our class to glare at his crass words. Not that I could blame him, I needed to take a piss as well, but I wasn't just going to telegraph my actions that easily. No, I'd say that I'm 'stretching my legs' and then find a nice tree and piss all over it.
"Hold on, where is 1B?" Yaoyorozu looked around and couldn't find the bus that I swore was following us. "What kind of rest stop is this, Aizawa-sensei?" Before our teacher could reply, someone else beat him to the punch.
"Rest stop? Didn't Aizawa explain things to you?" A sensual voice asked from behind us, the kind of voice that I immediately recognised. "Well, we might as well start with introductions then. Rock on with these sparkling gazes!"
"Stingingly cute and catlike!" Another female added, this time I couldn't hold my excitement in as I turned around, a bright smile plastered across my face.
"HELLO CLASS 1A! WE'RE THE WILD, WILD PUSSYCATS!" Pixie-Bob and Mandalay said in unison, winking for extra effect. "And we will be helping out with your training camp, so save the questions for later-,"
"Holy shit, you two are hot." Sero said without thinking, immediately covering his mouth in horror as Mineta and I snickered from beside him, pushing him towards the two members of the Pussycats who appeared to be both shocked, and extremely pleased with his words. "I-, Well, uhm. You two are hot for your age-,"
"What. Do. You. Mean. 'For our age'?" Pixie-Bob asked slowly, a fake smile having been formed on her face. She grabbed Sero by the collar and pulled him real close, making me envious of the boy. That should have been me… "What did you say? Sorry, I didn't catch that."
"Oh, are you ears failing you from being old already-," He didn't get the chance to finish his sentence as Pixie-Bob threw him off the cliff down below.
"Well, since that happened, I might as well explain what's going to happen," Mandalay sighed, "Your lodging is at the foot of the mountain opposite us. You have until noon to get there, and you are permitted to use your Quirks. If you manage to arrive at your lodgings after lunch… Well, there won't be any food for you to eat." She giggled, "Now hurry up. Oh and please don't try to run, It'll make this much more annoying. Pixie-Bob, if you will."
The smokin' hot blonde grinned as she slammed her hands to the ground, and using her Quirk she manipulated the earth beneath us into throwing everyone down below. Well everyone but me. Making a Cloud construct that allowed me to grab on to it, I floated in the air for a few seconds before pulling myself up and sitting on top of it, waving at the two members of the Pussycats and my teacher.
"If I get there first, can I have a quick nap?" I asked them.
"Why you-," Pixie-Bob began, but Mandalay stopped her teammate and tilted her head to look at Aizawa-sensei, who merely shrugged his shoulders in response. Clearly, he didn't care what I did as long as I completed the exercise.
"Well, we didn't account for one of you kids being able to fly, so I don't see why not. Jeez, that's really thrown a spanner in our plans. Here I thought we would have no kids making it in time, but clearly I thought incorrectly. However, you can't eat any food until everyone else arrives. If they arrive that is." Mandalay explained to me.
"Alright. Oh, can I grab my suitcase? It'll take me an hour or two to fly there, so I might as well bring my luggage with me. What cabin will I be staying at? Or will we be staying in tents?"
"Cabins, the one on the left is for the boys." Mandalay replied as Aizawa-sensei threw my suitcase at me.
"Cool." I then waved goodbye to my teachers, and flew towards our lodgings. I had half a mind of helping my friends down below, but it was an exam. If they passed, I wanted it to be because of their own merit and not because I helped them cheat. I wasn't cheating, just using my Quirk, but Kaminari's Quirk didn't give him the same luxuries as mine did. And so it was with great pleasure that I flew past my friends, many of them yelling 'traitor' at me, which only made me grin even more.
They weren't going to have lunch, but I was.
Ha, who's the loser now, Bakugo?
"Yo," I lazily waved at everyone. While their clothes were covered in filth, I was as clean, not to mention eating some remaining sandwiches. Since it was clear that no one was going to make it for lunch, Mandalay had allowed me and her nephew to eat the sandwiches. Kota was quiet, and he mostly ignored me, but it's not like I tried to introduce myself.
He was a nice kid, not too loud and he kept to himself.
"Fuck you man, fuck you." Mineta cursed, hugging the ground in relief. "I never want to enter a forest ever again."
"Seems like you had fun."
Everyone glared at me for that comment, Mandalay repressing a snort as she gained the attention of everyone else with a clap of her hands. "Well now that you have all been reacquainted with each other, I might as well explain that we, that is the Pussycats, would have made the journey in three hours. I'm sure I don't need to point out how far off you were from reaching that." Well it was around seven PM right now, daylight was starting to dim by the minute.
"Now we will eat but after that have a wash. The boys cabin is on the left, and the girls cabin is on the right. All your stuff is already inside, so don't worry about it." Mandalay explained, "However should you-,"
"Who's the brat?" Bakugo asked, pointing at Kota.
"Oh, he's actually my nephew." She replied, grabbing his arm as she pulled him forwards. "Say hello to them Kota, you'll be spending a week together after all, so you might as well make it a good week."
Izuku Midoriya, despite his nervousness, stepped forward and offered his hand out. Kota punched him in the balls. I tried to stop myself from laughing, but the situation was too funny. Kota was just a kid, a snot nosed brat, and he managed to dispatch one of the best fighters in our class with a single hit. Iida rushed towards Midoriya immediately, checking if he was alright, while Bakugo smirked.
"Cute kid."
"Right? You can tell he's a blast." I added, "He reminds me of you so much it's actually crazy. Hey Kaplosion, do you think your MILF mum will send me a few baby pics of you?"
"Piss off."
"Language." Pixie-Bob clicked her teeth, glaring at the two of us. "There is a kid here. Can't you two act more, I don't know, age appropriate?"
"Sorry granny, I'll make sure not to go overboard with my language, jeez, I can be such a fuckin' sex-crazed maniac sometimes." Bakugo sarcastically replied, instantly everyone around him sighed.
"Come off it Kaplosion," I said, "Pixie-Bob isn't that old. She's only been active for like twelve years-," She glared at me for that comment, "-I don't think she's that much of a prude. But to be fair, that time when you had a massive orgy was insane. Like holy shit dude, you took on fifteen boys at once!"
"Yeah I-, The fuck did you say?" He screamed at me.
"That you had a gay orgy? Don't you remember?"
Before he could attack me, Aizawa-sensei rushed us into eating, claiming that the food was going to get cold if we stood out here any longer. A well timed sound coming from Sero's belly that both scared and intrigued me that made us all head over to the dinner hall. I watched as everyone scarfed down their food like they hadn't eaten before, even Jiro and Yaoyorozu ate like absolute pigs.
I made sure to take sneaky mugshots of them all in action, just for blackmail pictures at a later date.
"Tch, I can't tolerate goons who want to be heroes." Kota complained as Uraraka tried to talk to him, stunning her into silence. With that the small boy stormed off, causing Mandalay to apologise on his behalf, before running after him.
"He's an angry kid." Ojiro commented, biting into a chicken leg.
"He's a hero, and if any of you disagree I'll blow you up." Bakugo replied, stuffing his face with rice.
"A hero?" Jiro mocked, "I think your definition of a 'hero' is very skewed, Kaplosion. That kid is a menace, and I'm surprised Sora hasn't snapped at him yet." Everyone then stared at me, waiting for my response. I merely raised my hands up in the air innocently, as if I'd ever try to help a kid like him. Well apart from that one time in Hosu, but they were in danger and no one was going to help them! Kota wasn't in danger, and he had Midoriya here to help him.
"He's a neat kid. Quiet, doesn't make too much of a fuss. Shit man, he allowed me to read my manga in front of him no problem-,"
"The manga on your phone?" Kaminari asked me.
"Yeah, why?"
"Dude, you only have ecchi manga downloaded onto your phone. Like that seriously weird shit, and you claimed that Mineta and I were a bad influence on kids. You were basically reading porn in front of a young, impressionable child! You monster!" I opened my mouth to defend myself, and immediately closed it as I realised what he was saying. Fuck, that wasn't a good look.
"It's not like I let him read it! And he's a growing boy, might as well start him early. In teaching him about sex, not about… you know what, I'm going to shut up now." I managed to narrowly avoid a plate of potato mash being thrown my way. Yuck, that would have gotten all over my hair and made it sticky.
"Oi, first one to the hot springs gets to choose what game we are playing tonight?" I asked the boys, who agreed to the game. Within seconds we all dashed madly towards the hot springs, unfortunately Iida one. God damn Quirk.
"Tonight we shall be playing a game of… revision! That is right, we shall be revising our-,"
"So how about we play fuck, marry and kill?" Sero asked.
"That's not what I-,"
"Sure, I'm down." Mineta replied. "Now, what's the best thing about going to the hot springs?"
"The water." Midoriya answered.
"No!" Mineta replied, "Think, what can we achieve at the hot springs?"
"Becoming clean?" Tokoyami asked, confused and unsure of his answer.
"Wrong!" Mineta sighed. "C'mon you guys, do you really have no idea of what I'm talking about?" Oh I definitely knew what he was talking about, I just didn't agree with what he was trying to suggest we do. "Peeking! We can climb that mountain in front of us, and we can take a good peek at the girls! Do you now understand, my comrades?"
"No, I don't understand." Shoji instantly replied, grabbing Mineta like a ball and throwing him to the pool. "I don't want the girls to be angry at us. Please, keep your antics at a minimum."
"Now, now," I patted Shoji's arm, "That's not fair. I've seen the way you look at Hagakure, maybe Ojiro might have some competition-" The boy with the Tail Quirk blanched at that, glaring at me as he shoved me forwards, "-If you don't want to be involved, then no worries. We were going to blame the whole thing on Bakugo anyways." Predictably, the blonde boy reacted at that as he jumped into the pool and chased after me, threatening to kill me.
"BAKUGO! This is a time for rest-,"
"I'll rest when I kill that bastard!"
"K-Kacchan… please."
"I'll kill ya'! Ooh, look at me, I'll kill ya'!" I repeated, trying to imitate Bakugo's voice. "I'm such a cool guy, Kaminari look at me, or else I'll kill ya'! Mineta, if you try and look at the girls without me, I'll kill ya'! Todoroki, if you continue to sit on that rock all alone, I'll kill ya'!" I mocked him, laughing as he failed to corner me.
"Sora, please stop," Sero complained, splashing some water on me. "I just want a nice bath-,"
I didn't give him the chance to finish his sentence as I pushed his head underwater. I then splashed water on Mineta, who was the closest to me.
"What was that for?!"
"Water fight." I replied, running to the rock where Todoroki sat and splashed some water on him, luckily Todoroki was in a playful mood as he used his legs to kick some water at me. But unlucky for him, I grabbed one of his legs and dragged him to the water, smirking as he tried his hardest to make me let go of him. "Haha, you can't back out now, Todoroki!"
"I GOT YOU NOW!" Bakugo yelled as he tackled me from behind, causing me to let go of Todoroki's leg as I was dragged down below, drinking a facefull of water. Bah, it was salty as well! I really hope no one took a piss here! Luckily, Kaminari jumping into the pool with a 'cannonball' threw Bakugo off me as he chased the other boy, allowing for me to target other people like Ojiro, who was trying to sneakily push Koda and Midoriya in front of him, unfortunately my aim wasn't that good as I splashed water at the three of them.
"Sorry," I apologised as we all agreed to a truce in order to beat Iida, who tried his hardest to be the 'responsible' one, but even he cracked eventually. After a few more minutes of kicking and punching each other, we eventually decided to relax, with Kaminari and I leaning beside a rock where Todoroki sat on top, possibly sleeping judging by the snores coming from him.
"Remind me to never try and fight Bakugo ever again." Kaminari complained, holding his bruised arm tightly, "Shit, this hurts like a bitch. It's not like I can challenge him again, he was probably going easy on me. Fuck." I decided not to mention that Bakugo didn't know what restraint was, nor was he likely to go easy on Kaminari of all people.
"Mmh, still I can't believe that Koda was able to beat us all that easily. Who woulda' thought? Not me. Anyways, where's Mineta?" I regretted asking that question, as Kaminari pointed to the wall behind us, where the boy in question was trying to climb up it using his Quirk. "Oi, stop trying to be a perv and get in the pool, you dumbass."
"NO!" Mineta rejected my offer, "Just a perv? Please, put some respect on me. I'm a super pervert!"
"...Why do you look so proud of saying that?"
"Because it's an honour bestowed upon the fan-favourite characters! Master Boshi, Manji, Kiraiya, Issei, Smeliodas and even Shinra!" Mineta explained, "And the fan-favourite characters are always the ones who get the most love from the fans! I want that!"
"Alright then…" I yawned, choosing to swim to the other side of the rock to watch his attempts of climbing up the wall as a form of entertainment. To be fair to him, he was climbing it up pretty quickly, even if at times he stumbled. Eventually he made it to the apex, and-,
"Hn. It's you." What the hell was that brat doing up there?! Kota, sitting on top of the wall, peered down at us with a vindictive look on his face, especially when Mineta climbed back down. The shitty brat thought it would be funny if he pushed Mineta off the wall, and gleefully laughed as Mineta fell down to the ground. Luckily, I was fast enough to summon my Nimbus and caught Mineta in the air safely, before glaring at the shitty kid. I thought he was well behaved, not a psychopath.
"Heroes shouldn't be perverted." Kota shouted at us.
"Fuck you." I instantly replied, resulting in Iida, and many others berating me for using such language around a kid, but I shrugged them off. "If the kid wants to act tough, then let him, but I'm not going to allow him to hurt Mineta for the thrill of it."
"Yeah but he deserved it," Sero replied, "I mean we told him not to peek, but he still did."
"Sero, I tell you not to annoy me, and what the fuck do you do everytime I buy food? You try to leech off me, but that doesn't give me the right to snap your fucking neck now does it?"
"Two different situations." I waved him off, checking to make sure that Mineta was okay. Even he was surprised that I cared, which frankly pissed me off. I know that we were just teenagers, but surely everyone should have been a little more worried. It's not like I didn't see Izuku tensing when Mineta fell, or the fact that Kaminari and Iida had come running over to try and catch Mineta before he fell to the ground. Unfortunately, Kota's loud scream for help broke my trail of thoughts as I had to catch him this time, glaring at Midoriya who tensed yet again.
He should have moved.
Instead he stared at the kid and Mineta guilty, turning away from them as his eyes met mine. Tch, this was really starting to get on my nerves.
"Next time don't look at girls who are older than you," I warned Kota as I threw him into the pool. "Now be a good brat and just be quiet until we have to go to bed." I ignored his protests of 'I can't swim' and merely sat down next to Todoroki, who was sleeping peacefully. I'd do anything to trade places with him right now, alas I was getting more annoyed as Kota kept on bitching about me.
"Shut up," I growled, "Please, just shut up." I hated loud and annoying kids, I really hated them. Hyperactive little shits. Sure, if I were related to them it would be a different story, but on the whole I preferred inquisitive, reserved kids more. They were pretty cool, and when you showed them a game their eyes lit up with so much excitement that it put a smile on my face. But with brats like Kota, I could show him the coolest RPG ever and he would scoff and demand that I let him play 'Shitnite' or whatever that free-to-play shooter was called.
"Aren't you being a bit mean to the kid?" Shoji leaned over to ask me.
"If I was being mean to the kid, you would have already called the police for child abuse." I explained, "He would be a smear against the wall. Metaphorically, not literally. I don't hit children."
"But I thought you beat up some kids once for glaring at you?" Sero asked me, a grin on his face as Kota visibly blanched. Hoho, I see what Sero was doing.
"True, those brats deserved it. But I was a kid when I beat them up, so it doesn't count. Hey, have you guys heard of my old nickname? They used to call me a 'demon.' I don't think I look like a 'demon,' so what do you think, brat?" Kota ran out of the pool at that. Deciding that legging it would a smart idea, but what I didn't think would happen was Madalay to come running in, demanding for the person who hurt Kota to apologise, and when everyone pointed at me I knew I was fucked.
Kota, that fucking brat, had just lied and said I punched him in the arm. Multiple times. I could see the smirk on his face, one that read 'I won'. Tch, just you fucking wait! My pain is faaar greater than yours!
"I'm sorry, things got a little out of hand."
I sat opposite Aizawa-sensei, who looked at me in pity, as I bowed my head real low. To say that my face wasn't bruised was an understatement, I understood that this was an 'anime' world, but that didn't mean that I had to be beaten up. It was like one of my teeth and grown into baseball with the way my face looked. Not that anyone had actually beaten me up, no, Kota tripped me up.
"Just a little out of hand,'" Aizawa repeated, clearly amused by my situation, "I think you need to read a dictionary and understand what the word 'little' means. So let me get this straight, Mineta almost commited a crime, you saved him, you swore at a six year old, tried to scare him, got played by a six year old and got tripped up by them, all in the span of an hour."
"Oi, Mineta wasn't going to commit a…" I paused to think what I was saying. Was Mineta really going to peek? I mean, on one hand I don't think he was that depraved and was probably doing it for attention, on the other hand, well some things were just better left unsaid. "ANYWAYS, what punishment is Kota going to get. Is he going to have to wake up early every day, is he going to apologise to me, is he going to clean my shoes?"
"None of the above, in fact he isn't getting punished at all," I sighed at that, "You are." I groaned loudly. "Your actions have consequences, even if I disagree with them, Mandalay is the one dealing with you. If you have a complaint, take it up with her."
"This is nepotism! She's obviously going to favour her nephew!" I complained.
"Yeah well blame society, don't blame me." Aizawa replied, "I'm just a teacher, an underpaid and undervalued teacher."
"You are a hero, why do some hero-shit and fix this!"
"Hero…shit?"
"Yeah! Save me! Please."
Aizawa sighed. "Well, one of Mandalay's punishments for you is that you won't be able to sleep in the cabins with your friends." Oh God, that fucking bit-, "Don't worry, I told her that you would have killed her if she suggested you sleep in tent outside. Luckily, you don't have to suffer the same fate as 1B."
"What do you mean?" I asked him, confused.
"Well, Kan, Ragdoll and Tiger thought that 1B's week would be more productive if they slept in tents outside." Aizawa explained with a smirk on his face, "You should be more grateful that I'm nice to you guys. I could have made you follow that same regimen, but I didn't. I really think you should convince the rest of your classmates that I'm the best teacher, you know, because I deserve it."
"Oh wow, you didn't torture us for once, congrats Mr 'sadist-zawa,' you've really had a massive character arc here." I sarcastically replied, clapping my hands to add extra dramatic effect, "So if I'm not sleeping with everyone else, nor am I sleeping outside, where the hell am I sleeping then?"
Aizawa pointed to the blankets laid down on the ground right next to me.
"No," I replied, "Please, this can't be happening."
"Why's that?"
"We were going to be playing a game of fuck, marry and kill! Please, let me spend one night with the boys! I'll never get this chance ever again! Please, don't do this to me! I don't want to be stuck in a cabin with some geezer all week long!"
"I'm only thirty-three…"
"Exactly!" I yelled, "And I'm sixteen! Summer is supposed to be the time of making memories that you'll remember for the rest of your life, not whatever this is! Please Mr Aizawa, Aizawa-sensei, Aizawa-sama, Aizawa-dono, Aizawa-,"
"Stop with the honourifics, you are butchering like half of them," He interrupted me, "And as much as I'd love to let you go back to your cabin so that I can have uninterrupted sleep, Mandalay is ultimately the one in charge. So for tonight, you are bunking with me. But if you want, maybe you can convince her to let you go back tomorrow,"
"Tomorrow? Who gives a shit about tomorrow, I could die within that time frame! I'll have died without ever experiencing sleeping in a cabin with the boys…" Aizawa's brow twitched, which meant that he really felt sorry for me.
"If I let you leave to stay with them for a few hours, will you promise to come back to the cabin before you go to sleep?"
"Yessir!" I saluted.
"Alright then, scram. Go live out your youth."
I grinned, grabbing my snacks as I ran out of his room and across the field towards the boys dorm, where I kicked their door open and jumped right on top of Kaminari's bed, startling everyone.
"Haha bitches, I'm back!" I yelled, pushing Kaminari off his bed, "Now, let's play fuck, marry and kill!"
"Good morning everyone, I see you are all up nice, bright and early." Aizawa-sensei greeted us. He had already woken me up at six AM, which was when our training was supposed to start. I hurled a bunch of insults at him, thinking it was Miwa before realising where I was and apologising right away. Luckily, Aizawa didn't hold a grudge.
"Screw you," Sero yawned, "Let me go back to sleep."
"I agree." Uraraka added, "Please sir, just let us sleep for another two hours. It's way too early in the morning for this."
"Well if you are enthusiastic to disregard my order, then you should be enthusiastic to follow them as well."
"That doesn't make sense. Like at all. Yaomomo, please tell him that what he said doesn't make sense." Mina complained. Unfortunately, Aizawa ignored their pleas. Not that I expected him to conform to their demands in the first place, after all he was our teacher. If he did that, well all respect in the classroom for him would be lost instantly, and it would quickly become unmanageable.
"Today's your first day of training, so don't think we are going to go easy on you. Now, 1B will be coming over for a joint training session tomorrow, and do you know what really ticks me off? It's Vlad King's smug face as he thinks he's 'beaten' me once and for all." Aizawa-sensei explained, "And I'm sure I don't need to explain to you why losing to 1B is a bad idea for your sanity, so I'm letting you make the decision. Be humiliated tomorrow, or put in the work today to humiliate them."
"But sir, what are we even going to do today?" Kaminari asked, yawning while doing so.
"I'm glad you asked that, Kaminari. I really am." Aizawa-sensei smiled at the blonde haired boy, but it was a fake smile. Like a predator finally catching his prey, Shota Aizawa had lured us into a false sense of security. "Starting from right now until the sun falls, you'll be training your Quirk to its limits. No, you'll surpass them even. Lunch? You won't be having any, not unless you've given it your all. And best believe me when I say that if you want to eat anything, you'll have to be completely drained or else you'll be eating air until dinner."
"That's not fair!" Hagakure complained, "How are we supposed to get our energy to continue our training if we don't eat?"
"Well then, I've always wanted to say this, but perhaps you should go beyond 'Plus Ultra.' It is our school motto after all." Aizawa replied, taking perverse pleasure from everyone's reactions to it. He clearly enjoyed torturing us, maybe a little too much than he ought to have, but I was still excited nonetheless.
"Alright, when do we start?" I asked our teacher, who's unnerving smile turned to face me. Gosh, he really looks like a homeless person from that angle. Maybe it's the stubble? To be fair, I was already starting to shave every now and then. I really wanted to grow a beard, but when I realised it would turn out blue I immediately shaved it all off. A blue beard? No thank you.
"You've already started. Midoriya, Yamazaki and Mineta, you're with me. Iida and Yaoyorozu, split the rest of the class between Mandalay and Pixie-Bob, they've been briefed on how to help each of you and are very eager to help out. Chop-chop, in the real world no villain will allow you to walk that slowly, unless you are looking to get murdered horribly, you better pick up the pace!" I had to give it to the man, he knew how to motivate us in all the right ways.
Following him, with Mineta and Midoriya trailing behind me, he led us deep inside the forest before he turned around to tell us to sit down on the ground. I growled slightly, summoning my Nimbus to create a thin blanket to sit on. I didn't want to get my clothes dirty, and I hated the ground. I saw all types of bugs crawling around, and I really didn't want to commit genocide on a species of insects.
"So, you are probably wondering why I've decided to call you out here, aren't you?" He asked us.
"Yeah, why'd you do that?" Mineta asked.
"Well, it's rather simple. Midoriya, you didn't even try during your final exam. That's unacceptable, and I have half a mind to expel you right now, but I know that you have potential buried deep down. I know that if given the chance you can really show us how amazing you can be, and it's only for that reason that I haven't deemed you a failure. Yet. Mineta, while you are a valuable asset to the class, one thing I cannot condone is your behaviour, and while most of the time it's all fine and dandy - You nearly crossed the line yesterday. I know you mean it as a joke, but there are some lines you cannot, and will not cross, both in this classroom and in real life."
Both of them looked at the ground in shame.
"And so I've decided that your remedial lessons will be a reflection on your actions thus far, and where you can improve. Until then forget training your Quirk, because a real hero relies on more than just their Quirk, a real hero has a strong mind first and foremost. And that's what you two currently lack, a strong and disciplined mind. One too weak to even try, and another far too weak to understand the difference between a joke and harassment. If you provide me with a plan that you've made to rectify your mistakes, then and only then, will I allow you to train your Quirk. Are we understood?"
They both nodded at him, with Midoriya looking as annoyed as ever. Annoyed at himself, and it really annoyed me just looking at the bastard, I just wanted to knock some sense into him. Maybe it was a bit hypocritical of me, but I really hated the fact that he blamed himself for everything. Sure, some of it was his fault, but he took things way too personally.
Mineta took it better than the green haired boy, but even he had an odd look on his face. I pitied him, but at the same time he got what he deserved, even if he was one of my best friends. He was funny, and he never failed to make the room brighter, but there were times when he crossed the line. I was secretly thankful for Aizawa-sensei, I really didn't even know how to even begin approaching Mineta regarding his behaviour sometimes.
"And Yamazaki, consider this just an extension of the training you and I usually do." Aizawa-sensei explained, making me gulp. They involved heavy exercise, and heavy use of my mind. "Let's say you are in a fight and you can't get up close and personal, not only can you not use your support items, but you can't use your Quirk to its fullest ability. What do you do?"
"I attack from a distance." I replied.
"Good, but how? You only really have one ranged attack, and that's your 'Truth Seeking Orbs.' If that's blocked, what do you do next?" He asked me, crouching slightly as he entered his fighting position. I sighed, cracking my knuckles as I feared what was going to happen next. Every bloody time.
Wait!
"What about if I make a bow and arrow like I did for the exam you asked us to do on the first day of school?" It counted. But even I knew it was a lost caused as Aizawa-sensei raised his eyebrow at me, asking me if I was stupid or what.
"Tell me, have you ever had training with the bow before?"
"No…"
"How are you going to hit me from a distance if I'm moving around and trying to fight you?" Fair point.
"So, I'm going to train my Quirk to create more long ranged attacks?" I asked him, readying myself for a fight as I transformed my Nimbus into the floating cloud behind me. Aizawa nodded at my question, his lips slightly twitching upwards as I created a cloud grenade, throwing it at him as it exploded into tiny Nimbus particles pushing him backwards, before I recalled them all.
"Good. What else?"
I rubbed the back of my head sheepishly, that was it. Sure, I could make a gun, but I didn't want to kill someone. My 'grenade' wasn't even a real grenade, it just pushed the enemy backwards.
"I see, well luckily for you I have an idea. What's your opinion on puppeteers?" He asked me suddenly.
"Uh, weird question. They are alright, I guess. I've never met one in my life I don't think. Why are you asking?" I replied honestly.
"Well, perhaps you could use your Nimbus and control it from afar, much like a puppeteer. You already sort of do it normally, but why not go the extra step. Take as many steps afar away from me as possible and send your Quirk flying towards me." I did as he asked, standing around thirty metres away from the man before sending my Nimbus flying towards him. However, much to my surprise, at around the half-way mark, my Quirk started to violently shake, and not matter how much I tried to focus, it wasn't able to reach Aizawa-sensei at all.
"What the hell?!" I yelled confused, I didn't know my Quirk had a distance drawback?! But when I threw my 'Truth Seeker Orbs' at my opponents, they usually hit even beyond thirty metres..
"Confused?" Aizawa-sensei asked me, a small smile on his face having been formed. "Well one of my close friends had a similar issue to you a few years ago, only his Quirk wasn't able to be split up into tiny pieces like yours."
"Is this 'Oboro' again?" I asked out of curiosity, and the man nodded.
"Yeah, it is. Essentially Yamazaki, I think that the smaller your construct is, the further it can travel. The larger the construct is, the more concentration is needed from you for it to travel lengthy distances. Which means that in order for you to achieve this exercise-"
"-I'd need to increase my concentration levels!" I finished, grinning as he nodded at me and left me to my own devices. I see, the entire time I was thinking of my Quirk in the wrong way! I thought that if I got used to fighting under pressure and to being hurt, then my concentration wouldn't be broken so easily, but that wasn't the issue! The issue was that I wasn't concentrating enough on my Nimbus, not nearly enough for it to remain stable enough.
It wasn't that my Nimbus disappeared out of existence, rather it was so unstable that it couldn't be controlled anymore.
Theoretically, if I could increase my concentration levels to match what my Nimbus needed, not only would I be able to use it at an even longer range compared to before, but I could even increase its mass, and potentially its strength. Even if I got hurt, my Quirk wouldn't just disappear like normal. If I could manage that, then I could finally become a heavy hitter, I'd finally be able to join the front lines with Midoriya, Todoroki and Bakugo comfortably and not be injured.
I'd even be able to not rely on that Quirk, I wouldn't have to gamble my life away for power.
If I could achieve this, then I'd be able to finally beat them.
Yozora, Shigaraki, All For One and…
Zero.
I'd finally be strong enough to be able to help take them down once and for all.
The only problem was that I had no clue as to where to start. I mean, how does one even increase their concentration? What even was concentration? Why was concentration even a thing, and most importantly, what the fuck does this even mean?!
"What do you mean we have to cook our own food?!" Everyone screamed at Aizawa-sensei, mostly in confusion. Although some voices, particularly Sero's, carried such an anger that I didn't even recognise it at first. It wasn't that I minded cooking our own food, lately Hinata had been busy with work and since Gekko always came home late due to being a doctor, it was up to me to cook for everyone since I always came home first.
"I thought that it's self-explanatory, you should know that I hate repeating myself. And Sero, lose the attitude before you'll regret it." Sero had the decency to gulp and apologise to our teacher, making me and Kaminari snicker behind him. "You'll be cooking for the rest of the week, yesterday was simply just us being nice to you. The ingredients you will be using for this task, and this is a task, are inside the main building in the fridge. You'll be expected to prepare a meal for not only your class, but us four as well." Aizawa explained, pointing at himself, as well as Mandalay, Pixie-Bob and Kota.
"What if the food is inedible?" Uraraka asked him.
"Well, you'd better not wake up in the middle of the night feeling hungry." He smirked at us, leaving us to decide what meal we would cook. At first, the hotheads of the group immediately tried to rush into action, with Iida and myself having to restrain Bakugo and Mina from going to do anything rash to our ingredients. Yaoyorozu then asked all of us what we would like to eat, which led to some mixed results.
"Yakisoba."
"K-katsudon."
"Mochi!"
"Lasagna."
"Burgers and fries, and some chicken nuggets."
"Pizza." I answered.
"I would like to eat the heart of a child," Tokoyami had a small smile on his face, "But for real, I wouldst prefer to consume some curry."
"Shepards pie! I've always wanted to try shepherd's pie!"
"Salmon en papillote."
"Alright! Enough, I really don't think we can cook that many foods all at once. So how about we lower it down, to let's say, three meals. Everyone, you should vote for one from that list." Luckily, pizza managed to get through to the next round. Pizza, curry and katsudon were final options. Unfortunately, barely anyone voted for pizza and curry so katsudon won the vote, forcing us to eat katsudon with pork cutlets. I suppose it wasn't too bad, we could have had whatever 'salmon' thing Aoyama suggested…
"Okay, who knows how to cook katsudon here?"
Only my hand went up.
"Oh come on, seriously?!" I yelled in surprise. "Not one of you knows how to cook katsudon? It's dead easy. Literally, I know kids that know how to cook better than you, don't you have any shame?"
"Hey, we have parents that cook for us."
"Is that supposed to make a difference?" I snapped at Hagakure. "I have parents as well, that doesn't mean I didn't learn how to cook some food. Okay, fine then. Whatever. I'll cook it for you, so when I tell you to give me the ingredients, seasoned and what not, you better get it to me quickly."
"And who made you the boss here?" Bakugo asked me.
"Well, Kaplosion, if you want to not eat some food and starve for the night, be my guest. How about that? It doesn't sound too bad now, does it?" I asked him sarcastically.
"Fine, fine. I fuckin' get it. Whaddya' need?"
"Some pork, cut up and seasoned with salt and pepper - I can season it, and cut it up, all you need to do is pound it flat. Someone please start a fire, and Yaoyorozu, try and make some pans if you can. Next I'm gonna need some flour, and then the rest of the ingredients. Eggs, soy sauce, a tablespoon of dashi soup stock, some oil, mirin, onions, a knife, a spoonful of panko and obviously rice. Now hurry up, we only have an hour and a half max until they will start demanding for food!"
"YES SIR!"
"Don't call me that!" I snapped at them. "I ain't some old man-,"
"We know." Bakugo cut me off with a nasty smirk on his face, "You are far too short to be one anyway."
Was my eye twitching? I couldn't stop myself from picking up one of the eggs and threw it at Bakugo, grinning as it hit his face and sprayed yolk all over his clothes. When Kaminari threw another egg at both him and Kirishima, it officially started our class-wide food war. Even Yaoyorozu and Iida got involved, with both pouring flour on everyone while Mineta pelted pieces of pork at us.
Eventually when Aizawa, Mandalay and Pixie-Bob came to check up on us, they were dumbfounded.
"What happened?"
"Well," I started, pointing at Bakugo who was covered head to toe with various ingredients. "He started it."
We sat around the campfire, singing random songs out of tune as Jiro tried her hardest to teach us how to sing, well everyone else apart from me. I was a lost cause. She sat to my right, holding out her stick filled with smores whilst Kaminari sat on my left, throwing some sticks and stones at everyone else in our class.
"Come on you guys, sing it again. Change the tempo this time."
"Jirooooo," Uraraka complained, "What's this 'tempo' supposed to mean? I thought singing was supposed to be easy."
"Tempo is-, Argh, why am I even bothering to explain it to you." I patted Jiro on the back, smirking as I told her that there was a spider on her shoulder. Predictably, she screamed loudly at that and jumped away from the log we were sitting on to run around the fire like a headless chicken, causing Kaminari and I to laugh at her antics.
"That's not funny!" She yelled, punching both me and Kaminari in the arm lightly. "What if it was a poisonous spider?"
"Then I would have buried a good friend of mine. Death by a spider. How tragic…" I replied, dodging the kick aimed at my shins. "Jeez woman, calm down. I was only joking, no need to try and kill me for a harmless prank."
"To be fair, it was pretty funny." Mineta added, which only infuriated Jiro even more.
"Shut up you perverted asshole! If you aren't careful, I'll hang the three of you up on a pole so that the world can laugh at you! And don't think I won't do it, because I will!"
"I have no doubt that you'll try to do it, and you'll probably succeed in hanging the two of these idiots up," I replied, "But you have another thing coming if you think that I'll be an easy target for you."
"Oh please, if I promise to flash my tits for you I reckon you'd become my slave for a day." She told me, making everyone around the campfire laugh. I blushed heavily, burying my head in my hands as I groaned loudly.
"Fuck you-,"
"I'm sure that's what you want to do with her, So-chan!" Kaminari joked from beside me, poking my ribs with a goofy grin on his face. Which made it all the more funnier when I put him in a headlock and we wrestled on the ground, both of us trying our hardest to beat the other up.
"You'll be set on fire!" Iida scolded us, but we paid no attention to him, instead I grabbed some dirt on the floor and threw it at him.
"Not this again…" He groaned, shaking his head as he sat back down next to Uraraka and Midoriya and watched our 'fight.' Mina and Hagakure were both cheering me on, while Bakugo and Mineta were shouting for Kaminari to 'kick my ass.' Rude. Jiro was chasing Sero around the campfire, the boy having stolen Jiro's food when she wasn't looking, resulting in Yaoyorozu to trip him up. It was funny seeing Sero plant face-first into the ground, especially when Jiro sat on top of him and started to eat his food.
Ojiro, Koda and Tokoyami sat on the bench a little further away from us, engrossed in the game of snap that Aoyama had put on for them. Shoji, Todoroki and Kirishima were comparing their training for today, with all three giving out advice for the other in terms of improvements to be made, and Aizawa-sensei leaned against the tree behind us, a happy look on his face as he slowly drank his beer.
"Oi, let's pull a prank."
"Sora, we always pull pranks." Kaminari replied, punching me in the stomach, "What do you have in mind this time?"
"Uh…"
"Don't tell me you just wanted to cause some chaos."
"Hehe."
Kaminari sighed, getting up from the ground as he brushed the dirt off his clothes. "I have an idea, but it might make everyone angry at us for the rest of the week."
"Oh?" I leaned forward, grabbing his shoulders as I nodded at him. "I'm game. What's the plan, boss?"
"Well, how about we sneak into the girls cabin and put some bugs on the floor." He explained, "Koda's training today was getting over his fear of insects and using them in battle. His insects are grouped up nearby in some small bag, I'm sure that I can lift it up while you make the distraction for me. I'll plant all the bugs in the girls cabin, and then they get to sleep over with us for the night! Think about it, this is more than a prank. This is an opportunity. You can sleep with Jiro-,"
"Alright, alright. Cool it off with the Jiro jokes, I get it." One of these days she's going to catch on, and I'm going to regret whatever comes next. "How long of a distraction do ya' need?"
"Ten minutes."
I nodded at him, patting him on the back. "Alright, I got this." I totally did not have this, fuck, what sorta distraction was I supposed to do? Now I was regretting ever deciding to ask Kaminari to do a prank with me. God, the girls weren't going to forgive us for a month, let alone a week. "EVERYONE, COME HERE! I HAVE AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE!" I yelled as loudly as I could. "EVEN YOU AIZAWA-SENSEI!" I added.
I waited for everyone to walk over, everyone in our class looking at me curiously. Oh God, was I sweating?
"Where's Kaminari?"
"He, uhm, he's taking a shit."
"Ew. I didn't need to know that." Hagakure retched. "Anyways, what's this 'announcement' that you wanted to share with us? A love confession?" She then turned to face Jiro.
"No, nothing like that. I don't like anyone romantically." Everyone stayed silent at that, some like Midoriya and Sero looked at me as if I'd grown another head, while others like Mina and Mineta rolled their eyes at me. Aizawa-sensei was just staring at me, an amused smile having formed on his lips. "I have gathered you all here, too, uhm."
"Spit it out already, we don't have all fuckin' day!" Bakugo snapped at me.
"Well, you guys all mean a lot to me. So I thought why not play a game or two, like two truths and one lie. Losers have to do a dare. Whaddya' say?" I stammered out, rubbing the back of my head as I prayed that Kaminari was hurrying up with depositing the insects in the girls cabin.
"Aww," Mina yelled, hugging me. "You are such a cutie." She told me, pinching my cheeks. "Honestly, it makes me sad that you always scowl so much. I mean sure your smile isn't amazing, but it's better than looking angry all the time."
"You're hurting me."
"Oh shush you, you just admitted that we all mean a lot to you. I think you can cut us some slack for the time being." She then smirked as she winked at me, turning around to push me towards Jiro who had been pushed forwards by Mineta and Yaoyorozu oddly enough. Oh no,
"Uh, hi." I awkwardly waved at her.
"Yo." She waved back, "Yaomomo and Mineta said you wanted to tell me something. They called it 'important,' so why don't you spill it. I thought we weren't supposed to keep secrets from each other." Everyone was pushing for me to ask her out, weren't they. Fuck, even Aizawa was grinning at me. Fucking bastards, the lot of them.
"I, uhm, I have nothing." I replied, "I'm not hiding anything from you." The fire burned to the left of us, I looked down at her and realised that I was actually taller than her. I'm sure she realised the same thing because she looked up at me in surprise.
"Wow, you've actually grown a little." She joked, giggling as her hand covered her mouth. "You look a little more like a man now. And is that facial hair I see growing?"
"Hm? Oh yeah. I shaved before we came here. I want a beard, but since my hair is blue, I don't think it'll look good."
"A shame, I reckon a beard would suit you."
"I know right!" I complained. "Stupid hair, I wish I could just change it's colour. What kinda asshole is born with blue hair? In fact, what kinda sperm donor gives their offspring blue hair? I ain't even met the man, and I'm already angry at the bastard."
"Are you sure you aren't hiding something from me?" She asked, "I'm not an idiot Sora, I know you've been acting weird around me for these past two months. I've seen the way that you sometimes look at me, it's almost as if you are wishing to talk to me, but then you pull out at the last second. Did I do something to you?" She was biting her lip nervously, staring at the ground to avoid my gaze.
I put my fingers under her chin, raising her head so that her eyes could meet mine. "Kyoka, there is nothing you can do that will make me annoyed with you. Even if you destroy everything I own, I'll just burn all your guitars. Listen, I just, well… Ugh, this is so hard to explain."
"Just say it, I'll help you however you can!" She told me.
"You can't help me out on this one, trust me on this. I'm just going through some stuff, it's not going to impact our friendship at all, alright? I'll be back to normal before you know it."
"I will help you," She repeated, "I'm not taking no for an answer by the way. Is it Tokage? I bet it's that bitch, I've seen you hang out with her a few times. You can tell me if she's forcing you to do something you don't want to do, trust me I won't get angry. Well, not at you."
I laughed at that.
"Nah, it's not Tokage. I appreciate it though, trying to help me that is."
"As you should," She punched my arm lightly, "You've helped me so many times that I can't even count it on one hand. I've promised myself that the same girl who nearly died during the USJ wasn't going to live anymore, I'm the new and improved Kyoka Jiro. That includes me helping you out by the way, so if you ever need a shoulder to lean on I better be the first person you call on."
"Hell no." I instantly replied, dodging the punch aimed at my chest. "As if you'll be able to help me. You are such a tiny little person, at best you'll be able to be a distraction, but actually help me? Forget it. Just be the same damsel in distress as always. Maybe you should wear a dress next time, a nice pretty pink one."
"Misogynist." She rolled her eyes at me, shoving me backwards. "You are such a misogynist it hurts."
"Oi, I love and respect women! There are many women who could kill me, it's just that you aren't one of them."
"So then tell me the problem that you are facing, we can face it together. You don't have to fight alone you know, I know that you can fight with everyone else, but it just feels like you are trying to baby me at times. I'm a hero just like you, I'm not some flower that needs to be protected from the wind!" Jiro shouted at me, "You can't keep on trying to protect me forever! I want to be a hero. I'm studying to be one, I'm going to be put in dangerous situations, so stop trying to baby me!"
I'm not-,"
"Sora, I just want to help you. I already don't speak to our friends from middle school as much as I used to, it feels like I've lost them. I don't want to lose you too." I flinched at that, because I was in the same boat as her. Our middle school friends… It wasn't like we didn't speak to each other anymore, but it was like we just grew apart.
It didn't hurt me because, well, I understood that it was going to happen. It happened to me in my past life, and eventually I got over it. But for Jiro, for her who saw our friend group as a family in the end, I'm sure it hurts her to see everyone slowly drift away. To see everyone walk down different paths in life, because that was adulthood. Tch, what a fucking mess.
"If that's how you really feel, then you don't need to say anything else." I eventually replied, sighing as I stepped forward towards her and hugged her. "You won't ever lose me, not in a million years."
"A million's too short."
"Yeah, how about a billion years. Is that better?" She nodded. "Good. Jiro, the truth is that I…" I paused, looking over at everyone who stared at me, waiting for the damned words to come out of my mouth. Well, only Mina, Hagakure and Mineta looked interested. Everyone else looked bored out of their minds, or just confused as to what was going on.
Why was it hard to just say three words?
"Jiro, the truth is that I lo-,"
"AGHHH!" A loud scream came from behind us, one which sounded more like a girl. Running towards us, yelling for help, Kaminari was holding a bag as insects crawled around him, and he was using one of his shoes to flatten them, only to realise that he was hitting himself in the process and ran towards us so that we could help him.
Oh for fucks sake, I let him try to set up one prank and this is what happens?!
"What the…"
Eventually, Koda ordered the insects to stop and retreat back inside the bag as Kaminari vomited in the corner. Even Bakugo looked a little green, muttering something about 'murdering those insects' under his breath.
"Sora, I'm never doing that again." He called out to me, and I immediately froze. Oh no, oh fuck, not again-, "Your plan to put the insects inside the girls cabin in order to sleep with them? Next time, you should do it yourself." I cursed Kaminari silently as the temperature around me dropped by around forty degrees. Fucking hell, were they glaring at me? I feel like they are glaring at me.
I looked down at my wrist, and hummed to myself.
"Oh would you look at that!" I said loudly, pointing towards my empty wrist. "It's getting a little late, well I'm going to retire for the night. See ya'!" Summoning my Nimbus, I immediately jumped on it and forced it to fly upwards as the girls of 1A pelted sticks and stones at me. Even Bakugo joined in on the fun, although that was probably so that he could just try and hurt me.
"You're dead meat." Jiro yelled at me.
"Weren't you being nice to me just a minute ago?" I replied.
"Yeah well, that was before you tried to put insects in our dorm." Mina replied, "I can't believe you would do such a thing. And just to sleep with us? Ew. Disgusting. I can't believe you and Kaminari came up with such a plan-,"
"Actually," I interjected. "It was Sero's." I replied, pointing towards him. "It was all his idea, he even bribed me by offering some of Jiro's food. That's why he stole your food by the way." I lied, grinning as their ire turned towards Sero who tried to run away from the girls, but predictably failed. Ah, Sero was such a perfect scapegoat. What a reliable guy.
"Alright, well goodnight everyone. Make sure not to fuck up breakfeast tomorrow, I want to show those 1B bastards what real food tastes like." And with that I flew towards our cabin, basking in the moonlight as Sero's screams for help faded away into the night.
Originally, the chapter was going to end on a more sombre note, but I decided to leave that scene for the start of the next chapter. Considering what's happening in the world right now, well I just wanted to make you smile a little before shit hits the fan.
In a good way of course.
Freaky Geeky: I thank you for your praise. I don't think I've surpassed MHA yet, but hearing you say that I have puts a smile on my face. I'll try my hardest to make sure that I live up to your praise!
Inevitablybad: Tokage will remain like this for a while, as much as I'd love for her to change right away it wouldn't be fair to the character to do so. But she will change and become better in the future, that I can promise.
The One Reb0rn: Not many verbal fights this chapter, one was cut for next chapter however. And Sora not being liked by everyone is a deliberate choice that will come into play later on... Plus, his trauma still affects him in some ways. And it's because of that ******** [REDACTED] will happen. Hehe. :)
Drake Fenix-san: First of all, awesome name. Secondly, the Midoriya interactions will come soon enough. And no, I haven't read Vigilantes (I stopped at around chapter forty) but I'm planning on finishing it soon. But the fact that it's ended and that canon is ending soon, well I really don't know if MHA will still be running at the end of this year.
Insomnia8: Yeah, I don't know what I was smoking when I originally planned out Miwa's arc. I'm much more happier with the role she has now compared to before. And many of you love Sora x Tokage, which intrigues me. The and again, I love writing out their interactions so perhaps my enthusiasm has rubbed off on the story in a way that teases Sora x Tokage... Or maybe I tease them on purpose? Romance is such an interesting question.
And thank you for saying that this is a top 5 fanfiction for you. That really made me happy, and I'll try my hardest to make sure that it stays in that top 5 for the rest of this story's publication!
Guest: I've seen it happen before, it's weird. So if you ever see someone nearly die, go and call an ambulance. Please. Don't just stand there in the middle of the road recording it.
Guest-Questioner: I'll up the rating once I reach a specific scene I have in mind. Not a chapter sooner as the scene I have in mind will represent a shift in this story, it'll still be the same lighthearted mess that it is, but there will be an ugly monster looming in the background. SO until then, this story will remain a T rating.
Uqoxe24: Here is more. And I do not live in America, but thank you for the warning. To my American readers, it has been brought to my attention that COVID is picking back up again in your country, so please stay safe!
Kayvien: Sora is a hypocrite. There are two sides of him, and currently he has no idea what side he really is on. Also, his training is a little more different compared to others. He can train his body, but considering he never fights using his fists, there isn't much of an advantage for him to be as muscular as Kirishima or Midoriya. However, his training as you can see from this chapter is picking up. If he can improve his concentration overall, his Quirk will become stronger.
But that's one big ass hurdle.
And that's it for the reviews!
I can't believe we got 13 reviews last chapter, that's the most amount of reviews I've gotten thus far from one chapter. So, let's try and aim for fourteen this time... or next time. The summer camp arc has just begun, and there are many things looming on the horizon... or is there? Who knows.
Next time on Over the Top:
"What do you mean you've started to play games?! Holy shit-,"