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Chapter 1: A Welcomed Visit
🕑 Added 2024-01-08 18:43:05 +0000 UTCHappy New Year, people. I hope you had a fun little celebration like I did, even if I ended up staying up cleaning till 5 am…Moving on! As I promised last year, we're starting fresh with this chapter and a brand-new posting schedule which I've already posted on my Twitter, but for the sake of making things clear: This will be posted on Mondays, Path of Waves on Tuesdays, Path of Storms on Wednesdays and my Code Geass One will be twice a month on Thursdays. I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Chapter 1: A Welcomed Visit
"As it really been a month? It feels like it's been shorter." Midoriya thought aloud as she walked back to their class's dorm. As it had been explained to them, with work studies temporarily suspended, many 3rd years who had gone on them in the past had volunteered to help train them after classes. For her, she had been spending her days alternating between Hado and Amajiki, she would have joined Togata since he seemed to also have a meta ability that increased his power, but decided against it as she thought it would be better to train with people who didn’t to prepare her for encounters where raw power wouldn’t be enough.
It seemed like a good choice, between Amajiki’s ability to take on the abilities of anything he ate and Hado’s seemingly unending stamina and ranged blasts, she was certainly being put through her paces, getting almost as many bruises as she would when she trained with Rappa. Skipping a little, she smiled and also recalled that she got to spend more time with her new classmates because of it, specifically Uraraka, Kirishima, and Tsu as they also decided to train under one of two seniors. It made it a little easier to deal with the fact she was still academically behind by months, she might have gotten enough credits to pass middle school, but U.A. was a top school regardless of course, and she had most of the first semester's topics to catch up on.
Because of that, she had to attend 2 hours extra classes 3 times a week such as what she was returning from, having gone over Math with Ectoplasm. The other days she spent in the Gym after school, having been given the all-clear by Recovery Girl who didn't take kindly to hearing she used a blowtorch on herself to close a wound. Still, she could feel herself getting stronger, as the venom in her blood-even at its lowest concentration, meant that she could train and achieve a level of strength that often came from a quirk of some kind.
Even after just a couple weeks of it, she swore she had a little more detail to the muscles, and Mina had even complimented her abs the other day! She even got to hang out with others while at the gym, namely Shoji and Sato, and two students from class B, Kendo and Tetsutetsu with whom she's been lucky enough to form a regular workout group, keeping an eye on one another, spotting for and encouraging each other to grow even a little every time…it left a warm feeling in her stomach, one she was growing to cherish more and more as time went on.
All in all, it was a fun experience, more than she had ever hoped to have at U.A. even if she wasn't training to be a hero like she had once believed she would, she wasn't dissatisfied. She had found her place in the world and was making genuine connections with people even if Amajiki froze up whenever she tried to have a conversation with him, Hado more than made up for that with how bright and bubbly she could be, her curious nature reminding her of her master-if her master was 20 years younger. Maybe they could be friends, but…no, not as things stand, not when she’ll have to hide so much of herself to keep the 3rd year from guessing that there is something amiss with her.
Stepping into their dorm, she feels her phone ringing. Taking it out from her jacket, she saw it was her mother.
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"Man, I'm beat," Sero stated as he lounged in the common area, the rest of the class present in their groups.
“I can only imagine how hard things would be if we were allowed to go on work studies.” Kaminari agreed with him, having been spending as much time as he could training with the 3rd years, he was starting to wonder if they liked beating on them a little too much.
“And the 3rd years did that all the time? How’d they even keep up with their classes? I heard you could be pulled from them for something and still need to keep up.” Jiro wondered aloud, dreading when the day came to find that balance as if their school work wasn't already a challenge enough.
“Stop complaining,” Bakugo stomped over from the elevator, having changed into more casual stuff after training. “Hero work isn’t for babies, Aizawa-sensei told us as much on the first damn day.”
“You sure you’re not just mad that you still can’t touch Togata?” Minata asked him, getting the blonde to shoot him a glare.
“Shut up!” While they argued on the TV, Koda was seated closer to the kitchen, texting with his new friend with a big smile on the normally shy boy.
“You’ve been getting chummy with your new friend, haven’t you?” Mina, who along with Ojiro, Hagakure, and Asui was preparing the class’s dinner, noted with a big ol smile.
“She’s nice…” Koda replied, looking a little reserved by her attention but she calmed him with a smile.
“We heard, and I’m happy for you.” She didn’t like to think about that day, about the things they saw, heard, and smelled but if one good thing came out of it, it was that Koda made a friend from another school, a girl named Amy Yuki who was the one that found him after his disastrous battle with that flame villain. Since then, she and the rest have noticed how much they text one another and how happy and relaxed their class animal lover would get. “Maybe you should invite her over, it’ll be fun meeting her!”
Koda smiled back. “I’ll ask her about it.”
“Where’s the big spoon?” Ojiro, who was getting ready to make some curry for them, asked as he checked the drawer where it normally sat along with the rest of the cooking utensils.
"Should still be by the sink, I washed it earlier," Asui replied as the tailed boy walked over and saw it.
“Thanks.” Picking it up, it went back to it as it was their time to cook, the class had decided that groups of 4 would cycle through cooking dish duties and today happened to be theirs. Meanwhile, by the tables, Shinso sat with Todoroki and Yaoyorozu as the two top students helped him with his chemistry work. He might be in the upper ten of the class academically, but with finals approaching, he couldn't afford to slack off. It was also a good way to not have to think about the licensing exam outside their therapy sessions with the HPSC-appointed therapist.
It was this sight that Midoriya walked in on, a smile as wide as Fat Gum's waistline on her face. Tokoyami, who was closest to the door, looked away from the conversation he was having with Aoyama to address her. "Has something pleasant come up?"
Midoriya turned to him, her smile beaming. “It has, my mother just called and said she organized for Eri to visit tomorrow for the whole day, principal Nezu’s already given his permission and everything!”
Hearing that the little sweetheart was coming was a big pick-me-up to the class, they might not have spent much time with her, but what they did was a great first impression. “Sweet little Eri is coming over?” Hagakure asked from the kitchen as Midoriya nodded.
“Awesome!” Kaminari cheered.
"She's a bright one," Shoji added, though his short response couldn’t mask that he was also excited for this.
“Ha, she’ll be a looker when she’s older.” Mineta joked, only for Midoriya to seemingly teleport behind him, the air becoming thick and heavy with barely restrained malice.
“Mineta,” It wasn’t just him that found themselves sweating at her calling his name as she grabbed him by the back of the neck and effortlessly lifted him off the ground, her grip tightening just enough to ensure he didn't try anything even as his face went white as bed sheets. “Make any comment, look at her funny-just act like your normal degenerate self,” Turning her wrist let him see that she was still smiling, still beaming but her eyes-oh Lord, he thought had seen death before but what lay in those pools of acid made him rethink that.
“And I’ll grind you into grape juice and flush you down the toilet, are we clear?” He couldn't nod his head fast enough, she was scared before about the leg comment, so he had refrained by eyeing her in fear that she would carry it though but that got nothing from the feeling of overwhelming fear he was getting now.
“C-crystal!” He managed to peep out as she gently placed him down, the air returning to normal as if she hadn't just threatened bloody murder with the weight of an early grave.
Dusting off his shoulders, she was back to normal. “Glad we came to an understanding, wouldn’t want her first experience to be marked by anything bad, now would we.”
‘Scary.’ The entire class thought to themselves, now knowing that what they felt on the bus ride to the licensing exam hadn’t been a flunk, that their classmate was a bonafide momma bear and they'd be fools to draw her ire.
There was only one who didn't mind that as he dismissed Mineta' looking like he was about to piss himself, and that was the resident explosives specialist. “Pervert deserves it.”
“You’re not the hook, either Bakugo!” Midoriya turned to him as well, her glare on her face. “I don’t want you swearing around her, or losing your temper and acting…like yourself or I swear, I’ll smash every one of your All Might collectibles!”
“Like you would!” Bakugo jumped to his feet, but Midoriya met his glare with one of her.
Crossing her muscular arms, she met his glare. “Do you want to test me, Bakugo? Your door isn't something I couldn't break down in my sleep." The two kept this up for a moment, long enough that the class feared it might come to blows, but Bakugo eventually relented and sat back down, not verbally agreeing but that all knew he had been cowed.
With that done, she collapsed on a seat between Shoji and Tokoyami, exhausted from the day’s events from their classes, the extra classes she had to do, and then working out all before she returned. Ignoring how Sero, Kaminari, and Ashido were laughing at the fact she managed to threaten Bakugo into compliance and get away with it, which he was already lying to them about, she turned to the two she was seated with.
“How’s your training been going, Tokoyami? I already have a good idea on Shoji, but not on you.”
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Yawning as she entered her room, Midoriya felt ready to just lay down and sleep. She had spent the evening talking with Shoji, Tokoyami, and Uraraka till it came time for dinner. After that, she went up to her room to do her homework and study before heading back down to continue to talk with her classmates till curfew approached. The school didn’t have an actual curfew for students, but they certainly did as Aizawa patrolled the place and made his feelings clear on seeing someone awake past 10, how that man still managed to wake up early to teach them, she would never know.
With that curfew approaching, she had just changed into her sleeping clothes when her phone got a notification for a game she played, or at least one that her classmates and teachers thought she had.
Quickly unlocking it, she saw that it was a message from her allies, a mission assignment to be accurate. Reading through it, she couldn’t help but groan. “No rest for the weary'' She said to herself before she closed the app, the message auto-deleting itself, leaving no trace it ever existed. With that in mind, she opened up her normal texts and sent one to Toga.
Muscle Gal. 13/10/XX 21:48: Hey, you still up?
Bloody Mary. 13/10/XX 21:50: Of course, I am, I don’t have to worry about school like you.
Muscle Gal. 13/10/XX 21:50: You know that’s not a good thing, right?
Bloody Mary. 13/10/XX 21:51: Bah! I can just do what I need to online, no need for stuffy and boring classes.
Muscle Gal. 13/10/XX 21:51: It’s not that bad, especially if you have friends.
Bloody Mary. 13/10/XX 21:51: Exactly! :(, you’re not there if I had to attend school again.
Muscle Gal. 13/10/XX 21:52: You know I would if I could, you would look great in a U.A. uniform you know.
Bloody Mary. 13/10/XX 21:52: Thnks, but I'd rather pass. Hero schools and I don't mix.
Muscle Gal. 13/10/XX 21:53: How would you know that? You never attended :)
Bloody Mary. 13/10/XX 21:53: My old friends from middle school do, if they got in, something tells me they’ll I’m not normal and need to change or something…
Muscle Gal. 13/10/XX 21:53: You’re not Normal.
Muscle Gal. 13/10/XX 21:53: You’re Himiko and I wouldn’t want you any other way! :)
Muscle Gal. 13/10/XX 21:53: If anyone tries telling you otherwise, I'll break their kneecaps.
Bloody Mary. 13/10/XX 21:54: Thanks, bestie, I needed that.
Muscle Gal. 13/10/XX 21:54: Anytime, friends are there to help each other. But speaking of friends…
Bloody Mary. 13/10/XX 21:54: No.
Muscle Gal. 13/10/XX 21:54: Oh, come on, Himi! You didn’t even wait to hear me out!
Bloody Mary. 13/10/XX 21:54: Don't need to when I know what you're gonna say.
Muscle Gal. 13/10/XX 21:55: It's still important, you should try contacting them again, you said yourself you never showed you I know and love
Muscle Gal. 13/10/XX 21:56: Himi?
Muscle Gal. 13/10/XX 21:58: Sorry, Himiko, I didn’t mean to be pushy.
Bloody Mary. 13/10/XX 21:59: I’m not mad at you…just dealing with stuff…
Bloody Mary. 13/10/XX 22:06 Yeah, you like me…and everyone in the army does too, but I didn't show them for a reason, they're…they're normal, I'm not.
Muscle Gal. 13/10/XX 22:07: Doesn’t change the fact you were friends; you should give them a chance to see what I see. Maybe they’ll surprise you. I know a pretty and wonderful person like you should have at least 100 friends!
Bloody Mary. 13/10/XX 22:08: I can communicate just fine :)
Muscle Gal. 13/10/XX 22:08: Don't I know it, and just like a certain socially challenged anime girl, you're far more likable than you give yourself credit for.
Muscle Gal. 13/10/XX 22:08: And we can have plenty of time for me to show you that as I have something planned for the weekend, there'll be plenty of boys.
Bloody Mary. 13/10/XX 22:10: I’m always up for a little mixer! It’ll be fun to hit the town, just the two of us!
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Izuku was up bright and early, it might have been a Saturday that her classmates were taking as a chance to sleep in before relaxing for the day, but she couldn’t find it in herself to do the same. Waking up, she did some stretches, went for her morning jog as normal, running into and then with Kendo before returning, showering, and making herself breakfast-all before 10 am. Stepping outside, she found their homeroom teacher waiting for her, the man nodding but remaining silent as he led her to the main gate to wait.
They didn’t need to wait long as they were only at the gate for a few minutes before she saw a familiar duo walking up the road to the school, being escorted by Ectoplasm, or was it one of his clones, she wasn’t sure and didn’t care to be sure as all her attention was on the door as she raced out to meet them.
Seeing her running towards them, Eri let go of her grandmother's hand and ran to meet up, with the two girls meeting halfway with Izuku pulling her into a swinging hug, both of them giggling, excited to see each other again. Soon Inko caught up, being pulled into a hug along with them, a sweet moment between the Midoriya family which neither teacher stepped in to stop, as such things were to be cherished, especially in such hard times.
"Thanks for bringing her, Mom, I know it's a long trip," Izuku told her mom, who waved it off.
“It wasn’t an issue, sweetie. Besides, she was looking forward to this the entire week.” She replied, with Eri nodding along, too happy to be embarrassed about being outed.
“I like being with mom." Was her simple reply as Izuku hugged her tighter.
“And I like being with you, little blessing.” She told her, meaning every word of it as the trio, with the two silent pros shadowing them, approached the gates once more, but Inko stopped at the entrance proper.
“Have fun, girls. I’ll be back to pick her up around 6, I’ll be spending the day with Mitsuki.” She would have gone back, but it was over 3 hours after being driven here by a work friend who had business in town, a train would take even longer. So why not take the day to catch up with a friend, especially when things have been long-distance for a while now?
“Have fun!” The two waved as she turned to leave, Ectoplasm shadowing her all the while to ensure that she made it to the station safe and sound. With that assurance, Izuku could turn her attention to the little unicorn in her arms. “So, Eri, why don’t you tell me about your day.”
Eri didn’t need any more prodding after that, as the three walked back to her dorm, Eri told her about all she had done during the week, with Izuku smiling all the while as she might have heard about this via their nightly calls, but seeing how bright and engaged Eri would get about what class activity or what she and her growing group of friends got up made it more than worth it. She didn't care that it was a school run by the MLA, as far as she was concerned, it merely meant that the staff were in a different universe compared to the staff she had growing up, people who understood meta-abilities and children enough to ensure that they could freely express them while learning understanding and restraint.
It was clear that such an environment was doing wonders for Eri, who went from fearing her meta-ability to looking forward to showing off whatever progress she made and telling her what she and her friends did with their meta-abilities.
Reaching their dorms, they spotted Shinso and Kirishima out front, training by the look of it. Hearing them approach, Kirishima looked over Shinso’s shoulder before that golden retriever smile formed on his face as he waved at them. “Hey, it’s Izuku and Eri!” Turning as his loud classmate and friend called, he saw the two approaching, the little girl walking by her mother’s side with Izuku holding her hand.
“Hey, guys, trying to get some training in?” Izuku asked them as they made it to the courtyard outside their dorm.
“You know it,” Shinso replied, before kneeling to be more level with Eri. "Hey, little unicorn. You excited?" He did his best to not give a creepy smile.
"The place is super big, way bigger than my school," Eri replied, as it was a super long walk from the entrance to the dorms, much longer than what she would have at her school which looked tiny now.
Shinso chuckled at that statement. “I had the same feeling when I first came to U.A. I almost got lost on my first day.”
“Really?” Eri looked up at him, having expected that he would have no issue with it.
“Yeah,” Shinso scratched the back of his head, recalling the rather embarrassing memory. “It was the day of the entrance exam, wasn’t a fun experience.” If not for Snipe finding him, he might have missed the hero exam.
Kirishima came up and wrapped an arm around his shoulders. “Hey, but you found your way again, right?” Despite his misgivings about the dyed redhead, he couldn’t help but appreciate just how straightforward and kind he could be.
“Yeah, yeah I did.” Izuku smiled, suspecting that there was a double meaning there, but deciding to leave it among friends as she did.
“Anyway, enjoy your day at U.A, Eri!” With Eri in hand, walked away from them, promising to watch them train later so that Eri could see what they'll be made of. The duo waved back and got back into things as Izuku opened the front door.
“Morning everyone!” She greeted those she found, were a little over half the class in some form of eating breakfast or lounging watching some movie on the TV. The class chose to avoid the news in the group area with how bad things were getting outside the walls of U.A.
“It’s little Eri!” Uraraka came sliding towards them, a stupidly wide smile on her face.
"Welcome to the class 1 dorm." Tokoyami nodded towards her, Eri smiling back as she got past how his face reminded her of Overhaul. As she spoke with the older students, she spotted that they had some fruit, a banana to be specific.
“They have it!” Jumping out of the group forming around her, she raced to the kitchen area and picked the fruit, holding it for the earphone girl to see. “Can I borrow this, please? I want to show my momma how far I’ve gotten with my gift.”
Jiro smiled, speaking with Eri doing more to wake her up than her cup of coffee. “I don’t see why not.”
“Maybe later, why don’t we spend a little more time with the class.” Izuku stepped up and placed a hand on her head, messing with her hair a little as her child tried to get her to stop it.
"You'll have to wait a little longer, some of them are still asleep," Yaoyorozu informed the two.
“Is that fine with you, Eri?” Izuku turned to Eri, as this day was for her after all. If she wished to leave, they'd leave.
Eri thought about it, she wanted to see the rest of the school since it was really big and her mom always told her how amazing it was, but she also wanted to talk with her mom’s classmates some more. “We can wait.” She eventually decided as she sat down on the couch, Izuku on her one side, and Shoji on the other as they switched the channel to something more favorable to a young girl. After some time, more of their classmates appeared, still looking sleepy and in the process of waking up, but they greeted her with a smile and wave all the same.
Koda was one of them, and when he saw her, he whispered something to Kaminari who had come down with him, and went back upstairs before returning a couple of minutes later with something.
“Hello Eri,” He greeted her with a special little furred friend in his hands. "I thought you'd like to meet my rabbit." Eri's eyes shined like rubies as she saw the rabbit, jumping off the couch, she ran up to see it up close and personal.
“It’s so cute!” Eri gushed, having only seen them in books and TV, but in person, it was even better as she watched its little nose wiggle with its big floppy ears too! “Can I hold her; I promise to be super gentle.” She asked, remembering what she had been taught about other people's pets. Koda nodded and knelt so he could properly hand her the animal, the boy using his quirk to ensure that the rabbit remained calm in Eri's inexperienced hands.
"He likes people," Koda noted as the little girl giggled as she pat the little rabbit, some of the others joining in as they moved to the lounge area to place the animal down and play with it, leaving Izuku to fondly watch the entire thing as the rest of the class made their way down, and offered their greetings to her, some speaking with her a little about themselves with Tsu being the best, though she said she had younger siblings so maybe this came natural to her. Todoroki was the most…out there as she could see he was trying, but he was a fish out of water, lucky Eri could carry the weight of the conversation while she heard Hagakure laughing at how Todoroki was out of his depth.
Still, after some time, Eri wished to explore more of the school so she handed the rabbit back to Koda and took her mom’s hand as they walked to the entrance, the two turning to the class to wave them off. “Alright, we're off to explore the school, we'll be back soon!"
“Enjoy your day out.” Sero waved back as the two left, talking about visiting class B for a while before heading to the support class to see what Hatsume was cooking up this time. Hoping that they won't catch an explosion to the face, Sero turned to Mineta who had remained in the corner of the room, far from the group the entire time since he came down from his room. “You were pretty darn quiet, Mineta. Any reason why?”
“I don’t have a death wish…” Mineta muttered, as he had seen the look in his nightmares, how he messed up and Izuku carried out that threat. They all started well enough, similar to his dreams with Midnight but it took a very dark turn from play to torture. When he finally dragged himself downstairs and saw the class playing with Eri and Koda's rabbit, she looked at him, and for a second gaze was nothing but acid which made his heart skip a few beats.
Uncaring how pale Mineta looked from fear, Ashido instead got an idea from it. “Maybe we should have Eri around more often if it means he behaves.” Mineta looked her way in horror.
"Nay, he'll slip up sooner or later and I'd rather not explain to Aizawa-sensei why Mineta would be scattered to the four directions." Kaminari shot that idea down as the rest of the class nodded.
“You wouldn’t even defend me from her?!”
“Like you said, we don’t have a death wish.” Kaminari wasn't the brightest bulb, but he wasn't an idiot. He'll sooner let Bakugo blast him to bits than get in-between Midoriya and whoever manages to piss her off.
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With the two in question, they enjoyed the chilly fall weather as fall was as they explored the campus, they had already given class B a visit and had a good time talking with Kendo, Tokage, Honenuki, and Awase, even Monoma who was just adorable with how he handled Eri-so she left after giving him a little peck on the cheek as Tokage laughed at how red his face got. Which now meant they were on their way to see Hatsume as it might have been a Saturday, but that girl practically lived in the support lab.
As they walked through the campus, pointing out things that Eri had never seen before, or that U.A. was working on, they passed by other students who were surprised to see her walking around with a small child, some must have thought she was her little sister, others must have realized she was her daughter but regardless of what they thought, they didn't approach them and kept their distance, while some only waved at them as they passed, finding the sight amusing but calming. It was this that led to her coming across two students from general studies if she was recalling them correctly.
The two in question were working on a clay statue with the tall boy with the impressive chin and hair posing for his smaller classmate as she molded the clay into shape with little hand gestures, using her meta-ability to move and shift the clay. The two didn’t hear them approach so Midoriya coughed into her hand to draw their attention as they looked their way. “Morning, I hope we’re, not disturbing you.”
“Morning, and it’s fine.” The girl, whose name escaped her at the moment, replied.
Looking over her, an easy feat since Izuku was taller, she saw what she had been working on, a clay figurine styled after the tall boy imposing on her. It wasn't finished. It was still impressive with how much detail she had already managed to mold into the clay. “I didn’t know you could use your gift like that, you must have made plenty of wonderful pieces of art.” Walking forward just a bit, she appraised the air with Eri, a smile on her face as the artist blushed a little.
“I wouldn’t call them wonderful…but I do like to make them in my spare time.” She replied.
"Cementoss must be a good teacher since you have a similar quirk to his," Izuku stated, sure that their modern literature teacher would have recognized her talents and stepped in. She might not be in the hero course, but it would be all but a crime to merely stand aside and not simply because it was against the law.
The girl didn’t confirm or deny this, merely scoffing at the comparison between her and the seasoned pro. “I wish, his quirk is a lot stronger than mine since he can control concrete and cement, while I can just control a specific type of clay-kaolin.” She pointed towards her work, a relatively rare material that she had to buy with her cash, whereas Cementoss was at his strongest so long as it was even a small town.
Izuku could understand that but also didn't like how this girl was putting herself down for it. Power didn't equate to use, nor did diminish the person, Curious had a meta-ability that could easily be called a weaker version of Bakugo's even if she could stack onto it, but she was still the better person. “But still, your gift seems like it was made for the arts, and I saw how concentrated you were, you can get invested in your work.”
“I guess.” The girl rubbed her arm, feeling a bit uncomfortable with the attention, which was why she hadn’t done this near their dorms.
“She looked like she was enjoying herself, right Eri?” Izuku turned to Eri, whose attention had been on the half-finished sculpture and the boy posing for a while there.
Blinking at her mother’s question, she turned to answer it. “She looks like you when you make notes!” Izuku giggled into her sleeve at that, of all the comparisons she could have picked…
“Besides, while your quirk might not be as powerful, I’m sure it has its advantages, right?” Izuku steered the conversation back to the girl in question, who looked a little flustered with their attention, but not as much as before.
“Well, I can harden the clay so I don’t need an oven and if I make a mistake, I can soften it again to correct it.” She revealed, with Izuku clapping her hands.
"There you go! Something that most artists outside those who work in digital formats would kill for." Izuku told her, loving how a smile was breaking out over her face at the praise, she looked better when she was happy. "But if this is what you make, I fail to see when you ever need it." Turning to the piece in question, she could admit that she wasn’t an art expert, or all that interested in it, but she was interested in people’s passions and she could see that a lot went into this.
“She’s a perfectionist when it comes to her statues.” The boy posing spoke up, getting out of his pose to stretch his arms and legs a bit. “Never a hair out of place.”
“Or a limb where it wasn’t a second ago.” She told him, predictably irritated that he had dropped his look.
“Come on, Togeike, give me a second to stretch, holding that position isn’t the most comfortable you know.” Oh, that was her name? She should have asked when they first walked up.
“It’s a very subtle power too, like my mother's.” Izuku would have glided her finger over it but knew that would be rude. “Did you have any interest in the hero course?”
“No.” Izuku blinked at how quirk the response was, and how Togeike’s eyes narrowed there as she realized that she had made a mistake.
"I'm sorry for asking! I tend to forget that it's not the end all, be all. My mind is kinda geared towards it most days so I typically jump on 'how that would work for a hero' or 'how that would help in this situation'. I didn't mean to offend." She bowed to the girl, who blinked at how quickly Izuku was to apologize. She had expected her to act high and mighty, forgetting that U.A. was more than a hero school like most hero students.
Finding the situation a little awkward, she tried to get her to stop. “It’s fine, it’s something you come to expect in U.A.”
“It doesn’t mean it’s right.” Izuku got up from her bow, a frown on her face at that statement.
“Just because a lot of people do something, doesn’t make it right. If everyone was eating glue, that doesn’t mean you can.” Eri nodded, with Izuku pleased that she understood that as well, though she’ll have to ask if she saw someone eating glue to get that sort of example.
“Right, so we need a way to make amends for this…” Tapping her chin, she thought of a means to make it up, before his eyes landed on the half-finished sculpture and an idea hit her. “Oh! How about you pose for you?”
Togeike and her classmate and friend, Agoyamato’s eyes widened at that. "Excuse me? I couldn't ask you to do that, you looked like you had your plans." She told them, with Izuku being firm in her rebuttal.
“There is always time to make amends, and you don’t have to ask, it’s no trouble at all.” She picked up Eri, ready to take up whatever pose she wished for them.
“It’ll be Mona Lisa.” Eri giggled.
“Wrong piece.” Despite Agoyamato’s correction, neither had it in them to deny them. Besides, it would be a good chance for her to practice sculpting people besides her friend so she got them to take his place and prepared another piece of clay to work with, having them take a pose with Eri seated on Izuku’s lap, both smiling as they faced her and she got to work.
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We are back! And just like my earlier chapters, there was more stuff planned for this chapter but had to be cut to keep things within the word limit.
