Twin Explosions

Ch 16: Hero Names

The cold rain had not helped Kazuki’s health. He had a cold now and was in bed the rest of his days off. He had not even been able to call and talk to Kirishima, being in and out of sleep. He was now walking next to Katsuki towards school. His hair cut back to the spikes, like his brother. It was his mother’s doing. She always loved them looking identical for some reason. She used them as models occasionally for her clothes line, especially Kazuki since he argued less. His mother wanted his hair cut for an upcoming shoot.

The twins walked into the school grounds and into class. Before they even sat down, classmates were making mistakes in who was who. Kazuki just sighed as he sat down in his chair. He hated being identical for this reason. He wanted to be his own person and not part of a pair. 

“Hey Red,” Kazuki said as he turned to the red head. 

“Hi..Kazu,” Kirishima said slowly.  Kazuki sighed. 

“Ill explain everything at lunch,” Kazuki told him and only got a nod from the usually loud red head. Soon Aizawa was coming in and he finally had his bandages off. 

“Sir, Im happy to see you were able to remove your bandages,” Tsuyu said. 

“The old lady got a bit dramatic with her treatment,” Aizawa said. “But today lets put that aside. Todays hero class is a little special. It is time to formulate your codenames.” The whole class let out an uproar of excitement. Which just caused Kazuki’s head to hurt. Aizawa began to explain about the nominations from Pros and their interest in the students' futures. He moved something off the board to reveal some numbers. The top three numbers were

Todoroki  4,123

Kazuki Bakugou 3,756

Katsuki Bakugou  3,556

“Usually results are more balanced.” Aizawa explained. “But this year all the attention leaned towards the three of you.”

“How?” Kazuki asked. “I lost to Kats in the third round. I didn't even make it to the winner announcements.”

“Look the first three are all screwed up,” Ashido said. 

“Seeing Bakugou in a straight jacket on the winners stand must have scared them off,” Sero joked. Kazuki noticed that the class seemed to call Katsuki by their last name while calling Kazuki by his first name. 

“Pros aren't gonna be scared!!” Katsuki yelled. 

“Based on this,” Aizawa said. “regardless of whether you received any nominations. Ill be having you go get so called workplace experience. You all have dipped a toe into the world of pros, unfortunately. But I think experiencing the activities of pos first hand will prove more fruitful training than before.”

“And because of that we need hero names!” Sero yelled out excited. 

“Of course, place holder names are fine too, but something appropriate,” Aizawa said. 

“Because if not, it'll be hell from there.” Midnight said as she came into the room. Kazuki rolled his eyes at Midnight and some of his classmates reacted to her. Kazuki thought of her as a fan service hero. “The names you pick now could become the names the world knows you by! In many cases, they stay that way after becoming pros.”

They were given a bit to think on it before writing them down on cards.  Kazuki looked down at his card and had no idea what to write. He did have one idea but wasnt sure how it would go off. One reason being his twin. Kazuki wanted them to have very different names as to never be confused for each other as heros. As people began to go up and share their choices, Midnight was critiquing them and either approving them or declining. Some of them were just a little odd to Kazuki.