In the hot waters, Sora and Tomoko were relaxing together, enjoying the nice warmth of the water. Together, they had their arms wrapped around each other as they waited for Ryuko and Shino.
Whispering to each other, Sora and Tomoko chuckled until Shino and Ryuko finally stepped out of the changing room. They both had red faces, embarrassed to join Sora in just towels.
Towels that can fall at any moment!
Whilst walking towards Sora and Tomoko, Shino was furrowing her eyebrows.
'Why did I follow them?! I didn't need to be here…' Shino sighed as she nervously continued to hold on tightly to her towel. 'I should have left whilst in the changing room…'
Gingerly stepping into the water, Shino and Ryuko joined Sora and Tomoko. Their eyes curiously looking at how close Sora and Tomoko were to each other.
"Why don't you both come closer," Sora said with a smile on his face, beckoning Ryuko and Shino closer to himself and Tomoko.
"I'm fine where I am…" Shino responded with a calm look on her face, her blush betraying her.
Chuckling, Sora narrowed his eyes before turning his gaze to the one that didn't answer, Ryuko. Her hands were pressed to her knees, nervous of making the wrong move. She looked around, trying not to look at Sora for too long.
"How about you, Ryuko? Want to join Tomoko and I over here?"
Sora teased, lifting his free arm and calling her over.
The wide-eyed, Tomoko pouted, seeing how Sora was calling Ryuko over. Still, she didn't pull away, Sora's body is soft, and she didn't want to peel away from this. Not to mention his strong and numbing heartbeat.
She closed her eyes and listened to the strong pulses of his heart, feeling every contraction and expansion of the heart through Sora's chest.
"I…"
Ryuko looked left and right nervously, unsure of what to do. Despite how desperate she was to get into a relationship, now that the opportunity had presented itself, Ryuko felt nervous.
"Come here…" Sora gestured with a smile.
Biting the bullet, Ryuko stood up and walked over to Sora. With a burning face, she closed her eyes and sat next to Sora. She felt as Sora's hand smoothly and gently touched her waist before wrapping around it and pulling her closer.
"See, you're alright."
Opening her eyes, Ryuko turned to look at Sora. She looked at his kind smile and felt her heart tremble before rapidly turning her head away.
"… you're right."
She finally muttered.
Chuckling, they all began talking, Sora and Tomoko initiated most of the conversations until both Ryuko and Shino finally relaxed.
They relaxed in the bath for a while, and with Sora's powerful senses, he could hear their phones ringing in the changing rooms. Meaning, their relaxing time has come to an end.
Since it is coming to an end, he finally needs to talk about the real issue.
The matter that Mirio had told him about.
***
"Where were you all?"
Returning back to the field where everyone was cooking their own food after a long day, Sora, Shino, Ryuko, and Tomoko were all surrounded by the students and both Aizawa and Tiger.
"They showed me around," Sora responded to Aizawa's question.
"Showed you around?" Frowning, Aizawa turned to look at the three women from Wild, Wild Pussycats.
Even Ochaco and the rest of the girls found it hard to believe. They narrowed their eyes in suspicion, but as students, they didn't say anything.
Wanting to say something, Aizawa stepped forward, but his gaze fell on the students around them. He held back and sighed, "Everyone, head back to cooking."
"Awhhh!"
"Alright…"
"Come on everyone!"
The students returned to their cooking, leaving the staff alone. Once they were gone, Aizawa turned to look at Sora, and sensing the situation, the Wild, Wild Pussycats left silently.
"What do you think you're doing?" Aizawa began questioning Sora, his face serious. "This is a school trip, you can't go acting by yourself. You have a responsibility here and to these children. You are unfit as an instructor and a danger to these children."
Aizawa had a burning fire in his heart, anger coursing through his veins as he glared at Sora. What made him even angrier, was Sora's smiling face. He didn't stop smiling, even after everything he said. His golden eyes were staring at him through half-closed eyes.
"I'm doing this because I have full trust in you, Aizawa. A capable teacher who looks out for these children and hoping to see them have a bright future as heroes," Sora said honestly.
He had respect for Aizawa and his teaching professionalism.
Right now, after various years of training, Sora wanted to relax and have fun. He might not be acting careful, but that was only because he had full trust in Aizawa and Tiger's ability.
"You…"
Aizawa frowned, staying quiet.
With a grunt, he turned to leave. "Act better."
Sora sighed, shaking his head lightly.
…
The sky was growing dark and the students of U.A. were finally done with their first day of quirk training. They moved on to their lunch break, where they were surprised by their objectives.
To grab their own ingredients and prepare everything themselves
Watching them cook, Sora turned to Shino and gave her a meaningful look. She nodded, turning around and leaving to go talk with the rest of the staff.
Walking around, Sora chatted with the students and gave them tips.
"What about me, Sora? What kind of tip can you give me?"
Passing by Mina and her friends, the young pink girl approached Sora with a smile.
"You don't need any tips," Sora responded.
"Yes we do!"
Mina groaned as she grabbed Sora's hand and pulled him towards her group. All the girls were together and looking at Sora with smiles on their faces.
"Hahaha, you girls make me laugh," Sora said, deciding to stick around for a while with them. "Tell me, what's new?"
"You!!"
Mina laughed and jumped on Sora like always, hanging on to him.
Sora chuckled.
"What about you, Momo? Anything to say?" Sora asked, his eyes gazing at her.
Momo smiled, "My family recently bought some new land, a large forest. We… all of us… should go one day."
She had stared at Sora, looking at him with a coy smile. At first, she wanted to go with Sora and just her, but she felt the stares of her friends and rethought her words.
Sora nodded, agreeing to Momo's suggestion.
They talked for the rest of the day, letting the children relax and prepare for the next day of quirk training. Sora eventually returned to his bed with Tomoko before returning the next day to oversee the training of Class 1-B.
…
The morning rapidly passed and the night was approaching rapidly. His eyes turned more serious by the second, subtly feeling the change in the atmosphere. As the children went out to the forest in a little game of testing their courage, Sora began walking around after looking at Shino and the rest.
They nodded and instantly got moving.
[Why don't we tell the children about the incoming danger?]
As Sora was running, he heard Shino's voice in his head. He stopped in place and instantly turned to look at Shino who was still debating whether to run. She was looking over at him, with a nervous expression, wondering if anything bad would happen.
He looked at her, smiling before turning his head to look in a certain direction. She followed his gaze and looked at all the students from Class 1-A and 1-B, huddled together and in groups, laughing and joking around. They were all excited about the test of courage they were about to pull off.
With a flash of understanding in her head, Shino turned back to look at Sora and found that he was gone already. She clenched her hands and looked back at the smiling faces of the students before finally nodding her head subtly.
She understood.
Turning around, she left as well, letting Ryuko summon a couple of earth beasts to take care of the children.
Then, she and the others ran out to take care of the incoming villains. Aizawa stayed behind, actively protecting the children in case any villain arrived.
…
Entering the forest and using her quirk to rapidly get around, Ryuko managed to arrive near the edge of the forest. She began moving rapidly, searching for any clues, or even a person.
'Is there really…'
Ryuko was frowning a little, hoping that what Sora had told her was simply a lie. A lie to get them to run around for a little surprise that he had prepared beforehand. Yet, unconsciously, she felt that Sora wouldn't lie about this.
That's why she was rather serious about this as well.
'I don't see anyone… I should report this…'
Stopping in her tracks, Ryuko looked around once more. Over 30 minutes had passed since she began her search, but she hasn't seen anyone or anything unusual yet. She raised her hand, ready to press the button on her cat ears.
"Move quick."
Suddenly, a couple of meters ahead of her, Ryuko saw a large dark fog forming out of thin air. Voices were coming out of the fog, a couple of figures stepped out of it.
Ryuko froze.
She stopped what she was going to do and quickly went into hiding. Behind a tree and at a distance away, Ryuko looked at the villains that were stepping out of the warp gate. She counted their numbers and instantly reported her findings to the others.
The villains were too far away from her location and she couldn't hear a single word they were saying. She stayed behind and simply followed them.
"I have eyes on three figures…"
Ryuko instantly pressed the button on her headset and spoke softly into it. Her eyes follow the three figures seriously.
Instantly, Sora, Shino and Tiger stopped what they were doing and listened to what she was saying seriously. However, Sora began frowning.
For a force that came to attack the students of Class 1-A and 1-B, the numbers were too small. 'There are more…' he thought to himself.
Soon, the three figures that Ryuko had discovered were identified. Mustard, Magne, and Moonfish, each of these three figures are infamous villains.
'Mirio is not there… he must be somewhere else,' Sora surmised. He focused back on the conversation that Ryuko and the rest were having. Opening his mouth, Sora left this problem to the Wild, Wild Pussycats, "You guys deal with them. They aren't the only ones coming here…
If what you said is true, that dark fog will bring more villains."
Ryuko and the rest didn't hesitate to agree. They decided on a point of interception and rapidly got moving while Ryuko continued following behind the three villains.
"Aizawa… keep an eye out. The other villains will soon appear within the Test of Courage. Keep the Kota near you, he likes walking away to think," Sora told Aizawa through the radio.
"Yeah," Aizawa replied with a short response.
With swirling golden eyes in the darkness, Sora got moving. He poured all his concentration into his ears and eyes, searching and listening for anything.
He ran through the forest, his figure moving fast.
"Where are you, Mirio?" Sora frowned, searching.
Smiling, Sora wondered how he should slap some sense into the blonde boy. Maybe even 'torture' him once he returns to normal.
Chuckling lightly to himself, Sora's ears twitched. Like a hawk, Sora's head instantly snapped towards a certain direction and locked eyes onto a figure in the distance. With a smirk, he planted his foot deep into the ground.
With a twist of his waist and shifting the weight of his body, Sora planted his other foot and instantly dashed forward, his body in a tackling form. Before, this move would have been impossible.
A simple turn of the body while still running. With the tiny bit of talent formed from a smidge of contact his soul had with his body, Sora was rapidly increasing the control he had over his body.