The neglected but loved hero

Chapter 22: Internships

(A/N: 2000 words. I hope you enjoy!)

"What? Why not?" Izumi looked like she couldn't understand why I wouldn't take it.

I just shrugged my shoulders. "I don't need its power. I have everything I need to be a hero already within me. You'll get more use out of it than I will."

Izumi looked down. "If... *sigh* if that's what you want."

I began to get curious about her reason. "Is this an attempt at trying to get me to forgive you?"

"N-no, not at all. It's just... One for All as it is. I can only use about twenty percent of its power before it starts hurting me. But if you had it, I'm sure you could use a hundred percent of it right away."

"Well then keep it." Izumi began to look even more confused. "Keep training with it until you fully control it. Then we can see just who the strongest is. You with all of One for All or me with my full strength."

Izumi smiled a bit and nodded. "Okay, Izuku. But don't you go slacking on your training."

"Tch, like I ever would. You need to step up your training if you ever hope to catch up."

Izumi walked out, leaving the door open as Kaina then filled the empty space. "Hey, what were you two talking about?"

"Oh, she wanted to talk about a few things from her family. Nothing super important. So what's up?"

"Oh, I wanted to spend some time with you, alone, just you and me~." She closed the door behind her and slowly walked up to me.

——

Everyone was in class, Aizawa walking up to the podium in the front. "Alright, today all of you will be choosing hero names." Everyone began to get excited. "But remember, this is a serious matter. If you don't take this seriously..."

The door to the classroom shot open. "There'll be hell to pay!" Midnight walked in, in her hero outfit.

"Midnight here will be helping you all pick your hero names. Just keep it down." Aizawa grabbed his sleeping bag and sat down in the corner, going to sleep.

Midnight handed out whiteboards to everyone and they all began to write out their hero names on it. Izuku stared at his board, thinking about what he wanted to call himself. 'Ugh, this is so much harder than I thought. Come on, think. A hero name... hero name...'

Students began presenting names as Izuku continued to think to himself about his hero name. Until he saw Kaina standing at the front of the room, pulling him away from his thoughts.

"I'm going to be Lady Nagant."

"Oh, I like it! It fits you so well, Tsutsumi!" Midnight said. She went back to her seat, leaving only a few others that haven't gone yet. Midnight looked around the room, looking for who was going next. "Izuku, you haven't gone, are you ready to present?"

Izuku took a deep breath and nodded. "Yes ma'am." He stepped up to the podium, looking at his hero name for a second before turning the whiteboard over to the others. "I'm going to be... the true storm dragon, Veldora."

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Everyone decided on their hero names. Well, everyone except for Katsuki. He couldn't come up with anything that wasn't king explosion murder or lord explosion murder.

Midnight had left and Aizawa was back up front. "Alright, now that that's over, you'll all be participating in internships. Heroes were watching you perform in the sports festival and decided to either ask for you to work under them or not."

He pressed a button and a screen appeared behind him with a list of names with numbers next to them. I saw my name near the bottom with only seven requests while Kaina sat near the top with over four thousand requests.