The sun shone high in the sky, under it, students of different years could be seen walking as they chatted.
Today, the school wouldn’t be half a day, but a total day as usual. Even though they still had to wear the black uniform in a sign of respect.
As Kuroha walked, he thought back to his morning with Mirko. Surprisingly, she acted as if nothing was wrong and said that after he returned from school, they would have another training session.
She said that since his micro-control was so shitty, they should focus on Macro. After their discussion, he made breakfast for the two of them before he took the road toward school.
“Hello, Kuroha. It’s been a while.”
Kuroha turned, generally when in a crowd, Kuroha didn’t sharpen his senses. Hearing the heartbeat of tens of people was extremely confusing and upsetting. He turned to face the one who greeted him,
“Hello, Izuku. How are you?”
The one who called Kuroha was Midoriya. They didn’t have time to chat yesterday and didn’t do so since the abrupt and short holiday.
“Not bad. Frankly recently I hit a limit and wished to find Sebastian sensei to teach me. You know I want to develop a still different from All Might since my body is still unable to cope with the strain.”
Kuroha nodded, the SMASH of All Might was a technique who had harsh requirements on the resilience of the upper body. As such, the more Izuku used it, the more dangerous it would be.
“I see. What kind of styles do you have in mind?”
“Hum, frankly I don’t know. I could simply use my mixed martial art, but I'll need a finisher move of my own.”
“Ok. I if have any idea I will mention it to you.”
“Thanks, man.”
After that, the two of them resumed walking to school. But, once they reached the school gate, a short girl with chestnut-colored air could be seen waiting. Kuroha simply smiled before walking ahead of Izuku. Once he reached the girl, he simply nodded before continuing. Behind him, he could ear, “H-hello, Ochako.” followed by, “Sa-same to you Izuku.”
(Izuku and Ochako. Seem like it will be the birth of a new couple.)
He hoped that Izuku had less trouble than him on this side.
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Today class went by without any notable events. The bad mood of yesterday was still a little present, but it was way better.
Kuroha thought, looked at all this without much interest. During the break, he would talk with Momo, Tsuyu, Mina, Toru, Denki, and Kirishima, but apart from that, he didn’t really interact much with the rest of the class.
He could also see cliques slowly forming in the classroom. Well, it was nothing particularly weird. They might all aim to become heroes, but their goals were relatively different. Still, Kuroha’s group was basically formed from half the students, so it was rather merry.
Weirdly, when it was time for lunch, Momo bowed to the group before pulling Kuroha aside. Mina and Toru didn’t seem to find it weird and even had a grin on their face. Well, Mina had a grin on her face. But with how Toru moved, he supposed she also had one...Perhaps? Fucking invisible quirk. Playing blackjack and poker with her should be hell.
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Momo was pulling Kuroha as they went out of the school building. Once again UA was huge. The land used to build it was extremely large, equal to the quarter of a city. Apart from the school building, and other building such as the cafeteria, the training ground and etc, there was also a beautiful garden where students could enter and relax during lunch as long as they cleaned behind them.
Deciding to sit under the shade of a tree, Momo pulled Kuroha under the tree, before turning to face him, her face was a little red, and her heart was beating like crazy.
Kuroha looked around with an impressed expression. Sometimes he wondered how it was possible for UA to not be a private school. The funds put in maintenance should be insane. Then again, with quirks everything was possible.
After a while, he stopped paying attention to the garden and turned back to face Momo. He would have many other occasions to come here.
“So, Momo, why did we come here?” As he said that, he looked at the box she was holding.
Momo blushed a little, before simply beginning to open the box. Firstly, she took out a large blanket that she put under the three, then she finally, opened the bento.
Kuroha feels as if he was blinded. It wasn’t any bento. But THE bento. Ordinary bento box only had one level, divided into different compartments. This one though had four different levels. Each level full of delicious and nutritive food.
*Gulp* Kuroha could already feel himself salivate a little. Even for him, affording such bento wasn’t easy. To put it into perspective. The price of this bento alone was equivalent to half a year of salary for a normal family. If you added the rare tea and the side dish, then...Let’s just say, that sometimes people lived happier if they didn’t make comparisons. Still, he had one doubt,
“Are you the one who cooked this?”
He didn’t doubt Momo’s skill. It wasn’t an anime where even when following the recipe, some people would still cook black substance of unknown origin. Still, some level could never be reached even with the full recipe in front of you. Only a pro could do something like that.
Momo wasn’t shy about that, she knew her skill. As such, she shook her head and answered,
“I simply played the role of aid. What I truly did were the side dish and the tea. The main dish was cooked by Suzuka.”
“Huh…”
Hearing this, Kuroha enthusiast diminished quite a bit. He didn’t know why, but that girl seemed to hold a grudge against him. Well, not that it mattered, poison was useless against him, so he didn’t fear whatever she might or might not have done.
After that, they sat on the blanket as Momo began to place the dish. While looking at her working so diligently, Kuroha couldn’t help but feel a little weird in his heart. She looked like a wife putting the dish for her husband. He shook his head at the thought,
(I should stop thinkings such weird things.)
Finally, Momo poured tea and made a seiza pose before bowing, her head low and her two hands straight in front of her. This move nearly made Kuroha heart stop beating. It wasn’t a dogeza, but it was very close in nature to it. You could basically see as a gesture of submission. This form was only used when in front of a superior. For Momo to take such a position, even if for a short instant was very meaningful.
Kuroha was stumped, finally, he sighed and said,
“Raise yourself.”
In such a situation, Kuroha had two choices, he could have simply moved aside or got up, which would mean that he refused her submissions.
But, since he told her to raise, it means that accepted it. He didn’t know why he did it, but right now, he didn’t think that any other choice would make sense. He knew what he represented for Momo and he was ready to take this burden.
Hearing his words, Momo rose and a beautiful smile full of happiness could be seen on her face. Kuroha, seeing this, simply sighed
(*Sigh* Firstly Mirko and now Momo. Let’s hope that Himiko won’t do anything crazy once she learns of it.)
He put the thought aside and finally put his attention back to the food, just have he was about to use his chopsticks, he could see Momo take her chopsticks before taking a little bit of food and presenting it toward him,
“Say, ahhh!”
Kuroha smiled a little, before calmly opening his mouth. If you forgot all the blood, gore, sadness, death and pain, his life was really worthy of a romantic comedy.