MHA: A Cat's Way

Ch 93 Offers

"So, who are you all thinking about choosing for your internships?" Midorinya asks in the lunchroom from across from me two days after getting handed our offers. He's to the left of Uraraka, who's eating with much more fervor than usual, and Tsu is on her right. Meanwhile I'm sandwiched between Tormew and Minya. I groan in response to his question, letting my head fall to the table.

"Mew have no idea how litterous it is having to go through more than three thousand offers. Especially with how low mrowst of them are in the rankings!"

Minya snorts, nudging me with her shoulder and smirking at me. "Well~, you did break a guy's legs on national television."

Tormew nods her head. "Yeah. I mean, it was completely reasonable, and I got my own revenge on him for what he said, but Midoriya is always talking about how the top heroes need to keep their image in mind."

The walking broccoli nods. "It's true. Image management is almost as important for the top hundred as actually doing hero work and that's not even including did you just say you got revenge on Shinso?" He smoothly changes his explanation and gives the invisible girl a deadpan look. She sticks her tongue out at him in reply, smirking at how he can't tell she's doing so.

"Mayyybe~." I hold back a snort as I eye her, wondering what she did. Midorinya tries to maintain eye contact, not realizing that she's turned her head to shoot me a cheeky wink. "Guess you'll have to wait and see when he gets here!"

He sighs and we fall into a comfortable silence as we continue eating. Eventually, Tsu breaks it when she turns to the still dazed-seeming Uraraka.

"Are you ok? You're eating like you just ate the worst tasting thing in the world and are trying to get rid of the taste."

"I can still taste the hair gel." She replies as if on automatic before seeming to realize what she said and flushing. "I-I-I mean, I'm good! Just... a bit worried about who I'm going to be interning with."

Midorinya raises an eyebrow. "Don't you already know who you're going to be interning with? Gran Torino?"

Never heard of them.

She groans, slumping forward onto the table along with me. "I mean, I know their name, but other than the fact that they helped train All Might I've ever heard of them! I only even know their name because he literally told me about them!"

Both my eyebrows shoot up at that tidbit. Being trained by the Symbol of Hypocrisy's teacher? That is a good opportunity. As long as she doesn't start resembling him in personality. Then again, the number one basically just relies on his overwhelming strength for everything. Which is absolutely terrible for someone as mobile and flexible as Uraraka.

If she starts acting like him...

I forcibly discard the thought, flexing my toes to get my claws back in. Down, Cataclysm. I huff, letting my head roll sideways as I stare at her. "At least mew know who you're interning with. I'll be licky to figure it out by the deadline."

Midorinya gets a thoughtful look on his face. "Did you get any offers from people with animal-based quirks?"

My ear twitches. "Yes, but also nyo." At the questioning looks the table sends me I clarify with an annoyed tone. "The Wild Wild Pussycats sent me-owffers."

"You don't sound very happy about that." Tsu says with a finger on her chin and her tongue sticking out. "Given that you share a cat theme with them, I would have thought you would be happy they would send you an offer."

My tail bristles and I sit back up as I glare at her. "They're fake cats, nya! Mew don't just choose when to be a cat and when mew don't! That's not even accounting fur the fact that none of them are actually felines! Fur them it's just a gimmick! It's offensive, nya! How would mew feel if some random heroes decided to make their gimmick being frogs without a-nya of them having frog-adjacent quirks!? People act like they're some kit of baseline for how those with cat mutations are supposed to act! It's lick they're making fun of us, nya!"