LOST // BAKUGO X OC

Training battles

Estelle woke up with a frown on her face. The upside-down smile stayed on throughout her shift at The Beanery. Thoughts rushed through her brain too quickly for her to catch up. Nona had noticed that Estelle was off today, smiling sympathetically towards her throughout the day and offering chocolates to lift up the young girl's mood.

She had a late start to school today due to UA accommodating her shifts. Estelle was currently in her room getting changed for class. She couldn't seem to shake the feeling that she wasn't doing enough or wasn't trying enough to reach her goal of getting back home.

Estelle has only been here for a few weeks. The simple fact that she was still here showed that she had made no progress. She looked down at her UA High School uniform with furrowed brows. Going to a school for heroes sounded right up her alley. It almost made her feel complacent. Her mind was running a mile a minute as thousands of thoughts shifted through her head.

Estelle raised her hand towards her face calmly before taking a deep breath and striking herself across her face. The noise bounced off the walls, and a red mark glowed on her cheek.

'It will fade in a few minutes, most likely.'

She shook her head to shake the negative thoughts away and pulled her bag over her shoulder. After saying goodbye to Nona with a small smile to ease the old woman's worries, Estelle made her way towards UA High School and Class 1A.

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Estelle reached the classroom with no interruptions. When she pushed the door open, she faced the class sitting quietly with All Might standing at the front. His big beefy body moved to look down at the intrusion before beaming out a wide smile. Estelle deadpanned towards the man.

"Hello, young Estelle! I was informed of your schedule! please! Take your seat!"

Estelle silently nodded before taking a step to the side to move around the monster truck that was All Might and made her way to her seat. The class silently watched as the girl who was missing from their classes all day just showed up without any care.

They all stared down at her. Estelle avoided any eye contact and calmly walked with confidence towards her desk. A few people within the class narrowed their eyes at her.

'She's definitely an oddball, isn't she?' They think.

Estelle noticed her desk was vandalised as soon as she reached her desk. She guessed nobody detected it or even cared since it was new. Trying to wipe the image away, Estelle was surprised to find it wouldn't budge. Leaning back on her seat, she let herself look at the drawn picture. It was an hourglass, the sand mainly at the top with a few grains trickling to the bottom. On top of the hourglass was a raven cawing to the sky.

Estelle figured it had to be a coincidence and ignored it when All Might cleared his throat to gain back the class's attention. "As I was saying, I teach Hero Basic Training. It is a subject where you train in different ways to learn the basics of being a hero. You'll take the most units of this subject! Let's get right into it! This is what we'll do today," he said, pulling out a sign. "Combat training!"

The class murmured in excitement and anxiousness. All Might continued talking whilst pointing towards a bunch of briefcases that were numbered. "Also to go with that are these! Costumes made based on your Quirk registrations and requests you sent in before school started!"

The class rumbled with another wave of excitement. "After you change, gather in Ground Beta!" All Might finally finished.

"Yes, sir!"

The members of the class grabbed their respective hero outfits before heading out the door. Estelle watched as they all made their way to the changing rooms. They have already begun to find their groups within the class.