Priceless (KiriTodoBakuDeku x OP! OC) BNHA Fanfic

Chapter 21

In the weeks that followed, Aimi helped most of the students of 1-A, 1-B, and Shinsou Hitoshi train under the guise of Pro hero N-Themis. There were some students who absolutely would not work with her. Including Todoroki Shoto and Bakugo Katsuki. Todoroki had taken up a slightly hostile way of speaking to her and she could not get him to even spar with someone else under her supervision. Bakugo had claimed he didn't need anyone to help him win, yet had taken Kirishima away for sparring occasionally, furthering themselves from the pro hero's eyes. Midoriya had been Training with All Might almost exclusively and kept to simple conversation with the prodigy hero the best he could without passing out.

This was good, she wasn't in danger of accidentally touching one of her soulmates and them noticing. But she felt a pang in her gut every time they crossed paths in the halls. her eyes would linger on them as they walked away not knowing that she was indeed the final piece of their puzzling relation. 

Soon, it was the day of the sports festival and unlike students and other teachers, she'd be patrolling the area and keeping a lookout for any villains. Aizawa had initially found it strange that the girl would volunteer to head security and miss out on all the fun. But she assured him that she'd be just fine. What Aizawa didn't know was that what she was actually doing was keeping herself away from her soulmates, her demon side had started to grow more violent without the acknowledgment of her soulmates and it would be just a matter of time before the signs of her internal abuse would grow visible. 

Aimi could hear Midnight explaining the rules of the obstacle course from over the speakers as she watched the crowd with hawk eyes. Her eyes narrowed at Mt lady, for some reason, the young hero had never liked her. And her disdain was only amplified when she realized the woman was supposed to be on the lookout on the south side of the stadium but was using her hero name to extort food from stall owners.

Aimi shoved her hands into the pockets of her Hero costume in an attempt to soothe the itching for a good fight. The impulse to bodily harm the false woman only increasing. "Tch." She muttered as she observed the people around her. The obstacle race had just finished and the hero started to relax as she heard her soulmates' names over the speakers. The demon inside her lowered its hackles and the impulse subsided. 

Rolling her shoulders back, she continued her patrol. She listened to the commentary on the cavalry battle with a smile, the majority of her attention still on her task at hand. Which led her to notice several people in a crowd had started to approach the stadium trying to get in through the backside, "Hey, entry on this side is restricted. Please find another entry." She calmly called out to them.

A man twice her size walked up to her with a sinister smile, "Oh little lady, I think I'll go this way. If you try to stop me, it won't end well." A gun in his hand reflected sunlight as he moved to her.  More of the thugs slinked towards the hero, the many men towering over her, smelling mainly of beer, smoke, and motorcycle oil... 

Aimi winced as her insides grew hot with the rage of her more infernal side. A dry chuckle spilled from her lips under her mask, "And here I thought I'd be in agony all day... I suppose I should thank you for giving me an outlet. " 

Her reply stunned the men that had now encased her in a circle. Her neck cracked as she bent it from one side to the other. The sound made everyone around her go on the offensive and pull guns and knives from their holsters. She was now surrounded. 

A rookie news reporter that had been running late to the sports festival stopped in her tracks. She had been in a panic, of all the days her alarm could not go off it was the day she needed to be the earliest. even her quirk, four-leaf clover wouldn't be able to generate enough good luck for her to get a spot in the stadium to document the day. She was outside imagining her boss shouting at her when she spotted... "Pro hero, N-Themis?... Camron! Stop. Stop. Stop." She demanded her cameraman who was driving the news van and turned to her crew, "Set up here, I think we just struck gold!"

Aimi watched with mild amusement as the reporter had gotten a camera to set up and broadcast live in less than 15 seconds. "I'm Glenda, reporting live from UA high where a group of thugs have the prodigy hero N-Themis in a tight bend. It seems she is not involved in the completion today and is fighting villains. It looks like she is on another level from everyone inside!..." She drawled on

"I guess I can't make this gory for all the kids who'll be watching at home." She spun dramatically while generating a cushion of highly dense air that captured anything around her in an oobleck-like layer. The cacophony of bullets rang loud and clear in the air silencing the reporter only momentarily before she continued commenting about how this could possibly be her end.

Her words were thrown right back into her mouth by Aimi winking at the camera with bullets and weapons lying useless at her feet. "Now, It's not me who should be in the spotlight today!" She joyously proclaimed while she lovingly caressed the air around her with glowing fingertips. 

A ring of orange fire kept anyone from running away and the newly summoned vines sprouting from the earth held the men's legs in place. They slowly made their way around the men to grow into giant cherry trees in a matter of seconds, only their shouting faces visible from the trunks. "Shut up, or I'll get the tree to drain your life force until you are so malnourished that you fall unconscious." A cloud formed over them as her eyes widened in anger and lighting stuck in warming at her command, silencing any last protests from the men.

Glenda, the reporter tried not to gape in awe. Aimi just held out a hand to the tree closest to her which delicately lowered its branch to her, dropping an unnaturally large cherry blossom in her hand. She approached Glenda, offering her the flower before walking away. The reporter just stood flabbergasted holding the cherry blossom with a delicate smile. "And that was her victory! UA is most definitely safe with her around! I wonder if any of the students know her real identity! It was confirmed by the principal that the teenager is indeed a real student here! I hope we get to see much more from this hero shrouded in mystery!"

As Aimi got farther from the scene that now had the older hero's and police arresting the villains she felt a tightening in her chest, she coughed into her hand, red shimmered back at her. She heard Midnight announcing that during the break they'd play the freshly served tea from the gates outside of UA. 

A different voice echoed into Aimi's ears from the stadium's speakers," I'm Glenda, reporting live from UA high where a group of thugs have the prodigy hero N-Themis in a tight bend. It seems she is not involved in the completion today and is fighting villains. It looks like she is on another level from everyone inside!..."

Everything went black.