Next in Line | ShinKami

XIII - "Working"

Kaminari

I smiled softly as the city's morning sun rays grazed my skin, the sounds of Sero and Ashido whining over how early it is almost drowning out the birds' chirping.

We were walking a few steps behind Kirishima and the newly made pro Amajiki, the two of them walking next to Fatgum.

While Kirishima was considered a part of Fatgum agency, being a work study student, we were now interns. Just for a few weeks though.

The pro-hero Sero and I previously worked for retired after a work accident during the spring. Sero and I were working with his sidekicks on a different area of the city so he was on his own and... yeah.

The grievance was hard and the agency shut down for a week or so but we got back to work shortly after, his best friend and partner taking over for him but I decided to try and change agencies for next year and Sero wanted to try and be in Iida's agency but inevitably failed.

I was rejected from any agency I tried working at because my powers were something they already had on their team, or they weren't looking for new work study students.

I sighed and looked at Sero and Mina, the two of them placing some sort of bet between themselves. God, if Mina wasn't a lesbian and Sero wasn't head over heels for Iida, they would 100% be dating.

"Eiji," Mina called silently, wrapping an arm around her adopted brother, "do you think Bakugou misses you?"

Kirishima's face reddened and he cleared his throat, pushing Mina off of him, "we're currently working, if you want to talk about personal life you'll have to wait until lunch, okay?" he answered professionally.

Mina tilted her head with a sigh and turned back to Sero, the two of them going back to making bets.

Did they really bet on how much Bakugou is gonna miss Kirishima?

I swear, if we were ever to go to a casino these two would lose all of their money to the same game and end up not being able to afford drinks at the bar so they freeload off of Kirishima, Bakugou, and I.

That or they waste all of their money on weed 'just to try it' when the five of us know full well they've gotten stoned together many a times before.

To be honest, I think the four of us taking a nice break to work on our hero work to distract ourselves is a good thing. Mina distracting herself from her breakup, Sero thinking over whether he's demi and Kirishima just having a nice time hanging out with Amajiki and talking about their loud blond boyfriends.

God, I can't wait to be the loud blond boyfriend already but it's gonna be a bit hard. Sure, he's gay, but it's so hard to actually talk about my feelings. Especially with what happened last week.

I snapped out of my thoughts after I bumped into Mina's back. I shook my head a little and looked at what the rest of the group was watching.

We moved to the sides of the building, hiding from the people in the alleyway. They were obviously making a drug deal and not the legalized type.

Fatgum symboled for us to quiet down as he put his finger up to his face and threw and set down an audio recorder, and pushed it quietly into the alley, their conversation now being broadcast to our audio receivers.

"Look man, I'm not looking to buy anything," the man leaning against the wall said, his face hidden behind a hood. He looked up and the guy he was talking with took a step back.

"You- You're-" he stuttered, continuing to walk back into the wall. The man walked towards him slowly and Fatgum nudged his head towards me.

I nodded and shot out a disk. Sero swung himself up onto the roof and Amajiki followed him.

My disk fell in between the two and they both looked down at it. I used static to climb the wall and stood next to Sero and Mina while Kirishima and Fatgum stayed on the sidewalk and split up to each side of the alleyway in case the men ran.

"Twenty thousand volts!" I yelled, the two looking up at Sero and I grinning as a bolt shot out of my fingers and out to the disk, electrocuting the two men.

Sero fell down and wrapped the two in tape, their heads slumped over. Fatgum looked over the men and picked them up.

"Alright, let's take them in," he said and we started following him to the police station nearby, Kirishima and I keeping an eye out on the two and Mina, Sero and Amajiki checking alleyways in case there were any of the drug dealer's accomplices in them, which it didn't seem there were from the look of it.

"It's either he's working alone or they took off," Amajiki said quietly and Fatgum hummed in understanding.