Green Innocence

11: A Crush?

    Today was...an odd day, for one to say the least.

     Ibara was currently running down the hallways in such a hasty pace that, quite frankly, she was completely confused as to how. She knew why; the green haired girl was around twenty minutes late for class. But how, it was a mystery for her to say the least.

      All she remembered was she was having the sweetest moment with her bestest friend, our protagonist, then she was at their stop, the station to be exact. Everything else between that was a blank void, yet she felt so...rejuvenated. She felt as if she had taken the greatest nap in her entire lifetime, so much so that she never wanted to wake up from it. What did cause her to wake up was the green haired cinnamon bun that was her friend, whom held a odd red in the face expression, warning her that she was going to be late for class.

     She herself was red in the face right now for a couple of different reasons. For one, she was usually in class earlier than most, with the biggest exceptions being the likes of Kendo, Kodai, and even Honenuki occasionally, so for her to be this late to class felt rather embarrassing for the green haired girl. For two, well, the events that had played out what felt like mere minutes ago still replayed themselves through her brain over and over again. How close they got...how warm he felt...how soft his gaze fell on her...

     Her blush hardened, and she stole herself away to try and shake off this odd feeling in her heart as well as these otherwise lustful, in her eyes, ideas she was getting. Alas the mere shaking of ones head, it couldn't simply shake off such a core memory.

    The vine haired girl finally turned the last corner that lead down the hallway that housed the first year hero programs, both 1-A and 1-B alike. A sensation of relief fell on her chest after seeing this, twenty minutes may have been a lot, but it still gave her time to try and catch up with their homeroom lesson. 

     The loud thuds of her heels against the tile as she sprinted, an unusual thing for her to do at all let alone in school, towards her classroom's large door. And another thing that was unusual that she'd done was when she gripped the doors handle, and she flung it wide open, the door's hinges creaking loudly as the other sides handle nigh dented the wall that the door was connected to. The slammed opening of the door gave such a thunderous crack that the characters in 1-A had even heard it.

     The holy girl puffed a huff with a small bed of sweat almost gracing her brow; her hair fell loose and undone across her face with some strands as she uttered out, "*Huff*...*huff*, present....*Huff*, forgive mine tardiness...Vlad-Sensei.".

     Her eyes were closed as she keeled over leaning on the very knob she used to open the door, just trying her hardest to catch her breath with each inhale and exhale. It was until when she looked up that she was given several stares from her classmates, all from this sudden outburst of noise, and whom to be the person to cause it other than her. Of course...there was also many things to wonder about her little 'incident' with the hero killer himself.    

    While the whole entire case was of course blamed on Izuku, the actual public release of the article on what had happened was more secretive than what she initially thought. Of course the quartet of our friend group were stated to have come across the hero killer, alongside Native, it was stated in the public release that the students came across the two while evacuating civilians. With the actual ones stopping the hero killer being Kamui and Endeavour, but none the less their names were mentioned in the article, so to say that all of her classmates were worried when their class nun hadn't shown up at her usual time...

    That was beyond an understatement; they were terrified.

     In a mere second, each and every single member of class 1-B had jumped out of their seats, and crowded around the vine haired girl, and yes even Monoma had joined the fray; though, he only joined to boast about her having to, 'save those three 1-A chumps'. They all stressed and worried about her in their own way, with some even asking her if she needed anything.