Chapter 7: The dangers of paparazzi
It's another morning and another day of school. But unfortunately, getting to school kind of got… complicated. Unlike the previous days where we are able to get into school with little to no trouble, today is where it got trickier. From what I can tell, someone must have let it slip that All Might is teaching at Yuuei, and the mass media being the ever nosy and persistent group of individuals they are, decides to hound the school entrance for hopes of even getting a scoop on this event.
And that leads to us just standing a block away awkwardly as me, Taikou and Shinsou all looked at the massive crowd of journalist that is blocking our way in. We have saw them hound on the other students like piranhas on fresh meat, a few of my classmates have already fall victim to it with Midoriya, Iida, Uraraka and even Bakugou being the most prominent of the bunch.
"What do we do?" I asked, "They are blocking the way in!"
"If I could use my quirk, I could fly us in…" Taikou noted.
"Maybe I should-"
"Don't you even think about it, Shinsou." I tell him sternly, "Brainwashing them is just going to make things worse."
"…Good point."
"So, that leaves…" We all stare at the sea of cameras and microphones. I let out a loud gulp before taking a deep breath. We turned to each other, nodding at the only remaining plan of action we could take.
Rush them.
"Run!" Taikou took point as we all charges right through them.
"Hey, you! We want to ask you some questions!" "Please wait! How is All Might as a teacher?!" "Why did he become a teacher?" "What is All Might's goal in becoming one?!"
Answers after answers barrage at us over and over, we ignoring them all as we rush right through. After a few agonizing seconds of dodging questions and microphones, we finally got through the gate and into the school grounds proper.
"Wait! Please! Just a few question-AH!"
We all turned around just in time to see the infamous Yuuei barrier closes right behind us. Got to love their security, go beyond and overkill. At least we don't have to worry about the paparazzi anymore. Nothing can get pass that barrier!
"If you are done gawking…"
I looked back with Aizawa standing there with his hands in his pockets with his ever-present look of exhaustion staring at us, "I believe homeroom is in an hour. To your classes, now!"
"Y-Yes sir!" We all dashes down towards our respective classes.
"So, that's your homeroom teacher?" Shinsou asked me, I nodding in response, "Must be quite an experience."
"You have no idea…"
I manage to made it to class a good half-hour before homeroom start, to my relief. And when I entered the classroom, it is obvious what the conversation topic for this morning is.
"Tatsuya-chan!" Hagakure calls out to me waving her invisible hand, "You're okay! I thought the paparazzi got to you!"
"Nearly did." I tells her as I sat down in my seat, "But if you ignore them enough, they probably won't pester you much."
"When I heard Heroes get a lot of attention, this isn't what I was expecting…" Sero noted, "I'm almost tempted to just use my tape and go over them."
"All Might sure attracts a lot of attention." Tsuyu stated, "It's only been two days since the start of the semester."
"For them to just crowd the entrance like that…" Kirishima muttered, "So unmanly!"
"I don't think that has anything to do with manly or not, Kirishima-san…" I tell him.
"Okay, everyone settle down." Aizawa walks into the classroom and everyone all sat down proper and silence filled the air. "Good work with yesterday's training. I've looked over your grades and evaluations."
And he proceeds to critique all of our actions. Todoroki for using his power too haphazardly, Sero and Kirishima for not taking note for other possible entrance point, Ashido for being too reckless, the list just goes on for most of the class. Even I got some sort of feedback off him. Too reckless and to think harder next time. Apparently, my plan of divide and conquer isn't a bad idea but the execution needs tweaking.
Then, came the real meat of his critique, his gaze almost drilling into the explosion teen's skull, "Bakugou. Grow up already. You have talent, so stop wasting them."
He could only growl in response, "Got it…"
"And… Midoriya." Said teen flinched at the mention of his name, "It seems you yet again ended up with a broken arm. Learn to control you quirk. Just trying isn't going to cut it. I hate repeating myself, but you DO have potential, assuming you can overcome this. Work at it."
"Y-Yes sir!"
"Alright. On to homeroom business." Our teacher stated, "Sorry for the sudden announcement, but today…"
We all waiting anxiously for the bomb to drop. What is it this time? Another last-minute test like last time?
"You'll pick a class president."
"""So school-like!"""
One by one, or all at once, everyone all volunteer for the position, shouting out their desire to be president. I personally just sat down and puts my hand on the table. Being a class president isn't something I wish to do in my first year, especially when we hardly know anything about each other.
"Quiet down, everyone!" The noise stopped as Iida continues, "Leading the many is a task of heavy responsibility… But! Ambition does not equal to ability! This sacred office demands the trust of its constituents. If this is to be a democracy, then I put forward the motion that our true leader must be chosen by election!"
""Aren't you the most ambitious?!"" That statement is very well be true, considering how high his arm is raised compared to what he just said.
"Why would you even suggest that?" Kaminari asked.
"We haven't even known each other long to build any trust, Iida-chan." Tsuyu points out.
"And everyone would just vote for themselves!" Kirishima added on.
"That is precisely why anyone who manages to earn multiple votes will be the best suited individual for the job!" Iida explains, "Will you allow it, sensei?!"
"Sure, whatever…" Aizawa stated groggily as he crawls into his sleeping bag, "Just make it quick…" And with that, he is snoozing away.
After passing out pieces of paper for us to vote for, we all wait anxiously for the results. I choose to help out with counting to votes in the ballot box, "Okay! Time to count the votes!" I declare as I reaches into the box, "And the first one is… Midoriya."
"Huh?! M-Me?!"
"Okay, that's one…" I marked it down before reaching back in, "And… Yaoyorozu. Then… Kirishima. Jirou. Shouji. Hagakure. Ojiro. Bakugou. Ashido. Koji. Satou. Yaoyorozu again! Looks like someone is popular~!" Her blushing face tells me all before I continue to count, "And-oh, there's one for me. Okay… Aoyama. Midoriya, two votes down! Tokoyami. Sero. Kaminari. Tsuyu-chan. And the last one is… oh, who would have guessed it? Midoriya got three votes!"
"W-What, I got- what?!"
"What in the- Who voted for Deku?!"
"Well, it's settled then! Midoriya is our class president!" I announced.
"M-Me?! I-I…!"
"Now, vice-president time! Everyone, place your votes!"
In the end, we got Midoriya as Class President and Yaoyorozu as Vice Class President.
"You guys picked your class president yet?" I asked Taikou and Tetsutetsu as Pony returns with her lunch with Kirishima and Tsuyu in tow. I invited the frog girl since we hit off quite well after the whole Battle Trial yesterday while the redhead somewhat ambushed me once we are released for our lunch break, wanting to have lunch with me. All we need now is Shinsou but I never saw him in school grounds.
"Yeah, Kendo Itsuka." Taikou noted slurping his udon. "Kind of fits. She's rather… well…"
"Is she a redhead?"
"Yeah." Tetsutetsu noted.
"T-That has nothing to do with it!"
"Is there something I'm missing here?" Kirishima asked.
"Yeah, what is with Taikou and redheads?" Pony asked curiously.
"Taikou actually has a thing for redheads." I tell them despite his agonizing groans in the background, "Found an entire stack of porno of the same category under his bed once."
"Dude, your girlfriend found your porno stash?!" Tetsutetsu cried in shock.
"Okay, misunderstanding here. That stack was one of the tenants in my uncle's apartment who think it would be funny to hide his stash under MY bed!" Taikou stated angrily, "Seriously, Genko. I thought we were over this!"
"Never." I chuckle. He should know by now that I'll never stop teasing him over this.
Then the last part of Tetsutetsu's statement finally hits me, "Wait, what do you say? I am Taikou's girlfriend?"
"Aren't you?"
"Oh, heavens no!" I stated in shock, "Dating him is the last thing I'll ever do!"
"Same here!" Taikou agrees with me, "She's basically family to me! Who would want to date family?!"
"Really?" Pony asked in surprise, "You two seems so close, though!"
"Family, Pony-chan." I tell her, "That's as close as we are ever going to get."
"You two seems closer than family, though." Tsuyu points out.
"We literally grew up together!" I stated, "Heck, I've seen this guy naked so many times that I'm not even fazed by it!"
"Is that something a girl should be saying out loud…?" Kirishima noted.
Just as I am about to retort to that-
*VVRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!*
*VVRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!*
*VVRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!*
Everyone stopped what they are doing when a loud siren rang and echoes across the entire cafeteria.
[SECURITY LEVEL 3 HAS BEEN BROKEN] An electronic voice announces over the intercoms, [ALL STUDENTS, PLEASE EVACUATE IN AN ORDERLY FASHION] [REPEAT, SECURITY LEVEL 3–]
"What's level 3?" Kirishima asked as most of the other students all rushes towards the exit almost immediately.
"It means someone infiltrated the school!" A random upperclassman answers for us, "You freshmen hurry and get out of here now!"
"Infiltrated?!" Taikou cried, "Someone got passed that metal barrier?!"
"Then we better move!" Tetsutetsu noted as we all rushed out of our seats towards the exit along with several others.
Unluckily for us, this is Yuuei; top hero school in the nation, which in turns means their students are top tier in terms of responding to a crisis. That is a double-edged thing to have in this scenario as pretty much everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, have reacted in the exact same way at the exact same time, resulting in a clusterfuck of students all crowding and smushing against each other in an attempt to get away.
That includes us, as we are all dragged along unwillingly by the sea of grey and white.
"Damn it, guys, seriously?!" Kirishima shouted out in agony as he along with Tetsutetsu and Taikou are dragged along the ride, separating from the rest of us. Me, Tsuyu and Pony are stuck near the sides, our bodies being squeezed against the wall as the other students scrambling pass us.
"Ah! Tetsutetsu-san!" Pony cried out.
"Gah! This is getting ridiculous!" I groaned out as the horse girl's horn nearly slams into me for the tenth time in the past minute.
"AAAHH~! Someone help!" I turned to the familiar voice screaming out, to see Midoriya getting sweep away into the sea of people and coming towards where we are. Acting fast, I reach out my hand and grabs onto his wrist just as he passes me, "Ah! Tatsuya-san!"
"Just hang on-Oh no!" I then felt myself getting pulled along as well, Pony just barely manages to grab onto my thighs as both us tries our best to stay together in this massive ocean of bodies.
"I can't hold on much longer…" Pony grunts out.
"This is bad! Really bad!" Midoriya stated out, "Everyone is too much in a panic!"
"We need to calm everyone down!" I stated out.
And just as I said that, I heard engine roaring and the image of Iida spinning towards the exit in the air came to vision. He slams right into the wall, grabbing hold on the pipe for stability and with a loud and bold voice, "EVERYONE! EVERYTHING'S FINE! It's just the press! There's nothing to panic about! We're fine! This is Yuuei! Behave in a way befitting this great institution!"
That got everyone to calm down almost immediately, the crowd instantly stopped pushing one and another and everyone starts moving out orderly manner.
Soon enough, we all got out of the jam-packed hallway and onto another hallway where everyone splits up to their proper classes, I letting go Midoriya's hand immediately after we got out, he leaving to catch up with Uraraka and Iida. I took a deep breath to replenish myself. Thought I was actually going to drown in there. Got to thank Iida for what he had did.
"Pony-chan, you can let go of me now."
"Um… Genko-chan?"
I looked at Pony confused, whose hands are free and not on me, and Tsuyu who is pointing down towards my legs. I glance down, to see a small boy with purple balls for hair and is rubbing his face against my spandex-clad thighs.
"So… So soft and wonderful…" He moans out to my disgust, which I immediately response by grabbing the pervert by his head and tosses him across the hall as hard as I can.
"What a creep…!" I shuddered in disgust as I rubbed my thigh to try and rub his presence off of me. Never am I glad for wearing spandex under my skirt since junior high…
And then I realized that I can't remove my hand from my thigh. No matter how much I budge, it would not move. Looking back down, I notice a purple ball like the ones on that little creep's head sticking my hand to my thigh. What in the…? What is this thing?! I can't get it off!
"What's wrong?" Tsuyu asked.
"This thing won't come off!" I groaned out pulling on my hand.
"Hey, Tatsuya! Tsunotori! Asui!" Kirishima called out as he walks toward us with Tetsutetsu and Taikou in tow along with. Where did he came from? "Are you guys alright?!" He then notices my predicament, "What's wrong with her?"
"Mineta was just here." Pony tells them with a slight shudder, "Rubbing his face on Genko-san's legs…"
"WHAT?!" Taikou screams out in anger, "Where did he go?! That little perverted fuck!"
"Dude, chill out." The redhead tells him worriedly, "You looks like you're about to blow a gasket."
"…And you guys are NOT a couple…?" Tetsutetsu asked.
"Brother and sister at most." I tell him, "And Taikou, tosses him right about that way." I pointed at where I've thrown him, "But one of his ball things is stuck to my leg and I can't get it off."
"Oh, that's Mineta's quirk." Our steel-named friend tells us, "It sticks to pretty much everything beside him. It'll come off, just not sure when…"
"So I'm stuck with this for the rest of the day?!"
"Most likely."
This day just keep getting weirder and weirder…
The police eventually came by to arrest the paparazzi, and the alarm went back down to level 0 as the school day continues as usual.
After that, we had a small meeting with Aizawa debriefing us on the whole Yuuei threat level system, and Midoriya stepping down as Class President in favor of Iida being in-charge, taking account on how he well has handles himself during the whole mess back in the hallway, which he accepts wholeheartedly once everyone commented on it as well, me included.
Then, for heroic class, we are to remain in class for Heroic Laws. For the Hero Course, our afternoon heroic classes are separated into two different types of classes, each alternating between even and odd days. For even days, it would be practical field work like yesterday's battle training. For odd days, it would be academics, like today's Heroic Laws.
The door soon slides open and the teacher walks in, which brought a smile to my face when I saw who it is.
"Good afternoon, Class 1-A." Dad walks in wearing a black business suit minus the tie and with a walking stick with wings accessories on the handle courtesy of yours truly, "My name is Tatsuya Maki, and I'll be teaching you Heroic Laws today." He glanced at me for a moment, before his eyebrow raised a little when he saw my hand still stuck to my thigh.
"Oh my god, it's Hermes!" I heard Midoriya muttered from behind me, "He is most known as the fastest hero in the nation, ranked 100th in the hero rankings for twenty years straight! And holds the record for the most number of people saved that still stands to this day! And he is most famous for-"
"Okay, Midoriya-kun, calm down there." He tells the excited fanboy, "When All Might told me about you, I wasn't expecting a trivia on myself…"
"But I've heard you retired almost ten years ago."
"That I did." He patted his injured leg. Is it acting up again? "But Principal Nezu calls me and ask me to join the faculty as a teacher, to share my experience with the future generation."
"After almost an hour of persuasion…" I mutter to myself.
"But that's not what I'm here for today." He places a book on the table and turn to us, "As you know, being a Hero has plenty of benefits. From the fame and glory of it all, to its most practical of allowing the usage of one's quirk in the public domain. But, with it come with its own set of rules and guidelines, one that if crossed would spell the end of your hero career. For example…"
"Bakugou." The teen face him as Dad, no, Hermes-sensei, stares right at him, "I've seen the footage of yesterday's battle trials. What you did to Midoriya, even if it's not intentional, it WILL land you in prison and more if you are a certified hero out in the field. Even if you are authorized to use it, using your Quirk for such brutal violence is against the very law that bring about Heroes to begin with. I know Aizawa might have not gone into much elaboration, but if you ever did such a thing again, we have the right to expel you from Yuuei. Is that clear?"
"…Crystal…"
Dad is really laying into him… Never seen him this upset since that time I nearly broke someone's nose back in elementary school…
"With that in mind, I would first like to explain the first and most known criminal offense of the heroic career: Quirk Violence." He proceeds to being writing on the blackboard with the chalk, "Heroes are permitted to use their quirks to take down and defeat Villains. But, there is a fine line between heroic deeds and plain out brutal violence. Of course, you are not allowed to kill, and some heroes took advantage of this loophole and acted in less heroic manner."
"The best example of this, Endeavor." I notice Todoroki flinched as dad continues on, "He may have the greatest number of arrests since the introduction of Heroes, but he also has some of the most lawsuits against him. During the start of his career, he has torched a good chunk of Villains, no matter how small they are. This resulted in countless lawsuits filed against him, but were in the end dealt with by his lawyers."
"Now, don't get me wrong. I don't think Endeavor is a bad Hero. He is ranked two for a reason. But he has skid over the law time and time again, which has brought up somewhat of a bad rep." He stops writing and turn to us, the blackboard now filled with a chart, "With that said, let us look over what the law against Quirk Violence actually represents. Turn your textbooks to page 3."
Mineta's purple ball drop off right when the class ended.
Soon enough, school is over and I am packed up and ready to go home. Although I'll be eating out today. Dad has told me right when class ended that he would be staying late tonight dealing with a few small issues and mom wouldn't be back till the morning, her current case needing much more work to deal with.
Not the first time this has happen, the first time was back in elementary and I had dinner with Taikou and Kemuri, who treated us to some donburi where I had my first taste of tendon, got hooked on it ever since.
But unlike that time, Taikou is busy with helping out Kemuri with some stuff. And Shinsou left school earlier, the General Course having less periods than the Heroic Course.
"Hey, Genko!" Kirishima walks up to me with a grin, "Want to grab a bite with me?"
"…You really aren't going to let this go, huh?" I stated, "I thought lunch was enough."
"Yeah, but you pay for your own meal so…"
"…Alright, you win." I sigh, "Where's this ramen shop of yours?"
"Oh, right before the station." He beamed at my answer, "We might beat the crowd if we hurry!"
"Right, right, just let me get my bags."
As we left the campus, we passed by the entrance gate, which was sealed off due to the barrier being disintegrated. That would explain how the press even got through… But would a normal journalist even have a quirk to do such a thing?
"Damn, look at that…" Kirishima noted, "I wonder what could have did this?"
"I don't know…" I stated, "But it is giving me a bad feeling…"
Little did I know, that this little thing will soon come to a head, and I would blame myself for not noticing the signs beforehand…
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To be continued…
Omake
"So, where's this shop?" Genko asked curiously on their way to the station.
"Just right around the corner." Kirishima told her as they turn the block, "Right there! Lucky, it looks like there are still some seats left!"
"Okay, let's see if this shop is any good." She was about to walk in before she saw the poster on the window.
"…Um… Tatsuya-san?"
"Oh, it is on now." She stated with a grin as she reads the ad for the food challenge.
…
"We have a winner!"
Kirishima could only gawked in either awe or fear as the waiter raises his companion's hand, her large bowl completely empty and her mouth greasy from eating the mountain of noodles she was presented with.
And yes! Second chapter in a day! And what a day it is! Never thought I would actually finish the second one so quickly! Then again, this only consists of one single chapter from the manga so I guess that makes sense. Anyway, Kirishima and Tsuyu joins the gang! I hope I nail Kirishima's personality alright… he is one of my favourite character from this show. And Mineta made an appearance!
With any case, the whole Heroic Laws part. That part I add in myself. In the manga, it was stated off-hand that there is a class for it but it wasn't really shown in the manga. As such, I decided to make it Maki's subject to teach.
Hopefully I have done it well. Law isn't something I've studied myself so most of it is just stuff I made up.
And something I want to know. Are the omake okay, or are they an annoyance? And if they are, how do you want them to be? I'm open to suggestions!
With that, I thank you for reading this!
