The Emperor's Dragon

A Good Friend

Dear Ochaco,

I hope you are going well. Have you spoken to Kazue recently? Dad says that since we moved her dad might let her talk to you! I'm jealous. Say hello for me. To Minato as well please. Who have you got as your homeroom teacher? Did you get Mr Yoshida or Miss Hirano?

I got Miss Semai. She's kind of like Miss Koushi. She dismisses the quirkless. Why do people do that? I haven't been able to make friends with anyone in my class. They have all formed their own groups. No one talks to me. Don't worry. I'm not alone. I have made friends with someone in fourth year. Her name is Himiko Toga. I think you'd get along well with her.

The rest of my class is.... Horrible.

They keep taking my bento, or bag, or pencils, and sometimes all three. The bag comes back. I have a cheap one but I think Kurogiri is getting tired of replacing bento boxes. Thankfully no one takes things out of my shoe locker so I've been able to keep lunch tokens in there. They are so mean! I don't know what I've done wrong!

Kurogiri hasn't said anything and Tomura just laughs.

I miss you, so much.

Izuku looked at the letter and then he screwed it up. He couldn't tell Ochaco that. She'd worry. He took out another piece of paper. Kurogiri had gotten him some writing paper when he said he wanted to send letters to his friends, since he couldn't text them. Ochaco didn't have a phone and it wasn't fair to just send the message to Minato and expect him to pass it on. Izuku knew he would but it would be better if he gave them both the same message.

He started again.

Dear Ochaco,

I hope you are doing well. Summer was so boring! Tomura played games all summer and I wrote in my notebook but believe it or not, even that gets boring!

Who did you get as your homeroom teacher? Mr Yoshida or Miss Hirano? My teacher is called Miss Semai. She's okay and has been able to help out in science a bit, so she's better than Miss Koushi that way! I know Miss Koushi was our first year teacher but I like science, you know that!

Have you spoken to Kazue recently? Dad said that since I moved, her dad might let her talk to you again. I'm jealous. If so, say hello for me! I'm sending a letter to Minato, so you don't need to say hello to him.

How much weight can you lift now? I can now project my fire breath 2 meters!

He looked at the letter. It was a bit shorter but definitely safer. Izuku added a few smiley faces and signed off before he folded the paper and put it in an envelope. Kurogiri had the address and had already said he'd post it.

Izuku pulled out one of his quirk notebooks. It was the one he'd started this year on the quirks of his new classmates. They might be mean and liars but their quirks were interesting.

Zakuro's quirk was to change other peoples hair and eye colour! That was so useful! He could be so helpful in generating disguises for others, though Izuku hadn't been able to figure out if Zakuro actually changed the hair and eye colour or simply changed other peoples perception of them. He desperately wanted to ask but he knew Zakuro would run a mile from him if he did. Mawari's quirk allowed her to recognise any smell and he thought she had great taste buds as well if her bentos were anything to go by. He wasn't sure, and she hadn't answered any questions but the bentos she brought were filled with an assortment of very yummy looking things!. Yusei's quirk allowed her to mimic any animal's cry. She could literally sing like a songbird. Izuku didn't know if she could use that ability to 'talk' to animals. They were saying things when they made noise after all, even if it was only to confirm that the tree was theirs but how cool would it be to know what they were proclaiming and to be able to talk back?