Puppetry

11

Kuroza's internship passes without much difficulty after Stain, and eventually the day to leave comes. "Azugo" "Yes?" "Before you leave, I'd like to say again, you have progressed much in this week, but you much more to grow, remember what I told the press. You will one day become a fine hero, but you must first put in that effort, do not think I am telling you to slack off" "I wouldn't slack off, I know I have room to grow and I intend on doing so" Edgeshot nods, and sets a hand on her shoulder, "You proved to me that you truly desire to help those around you, even to the point of going out of your way to help a classmate you don't get along with. Do not stop being that way, that is a mark of a true hero" "Thank you Edgeshot sir, I won't" "You may go, I'm sure your mother is waiting for your return" Kuroza gives him a quick bow before walking away.

After a long train ride home, she walks in her and her mom's apartment "I'm home" she gets met with silence, which she finds weird, but not out of place, her mom does have a job, but usually says when she'll be out of the house for it. She goes into the living room and finds a note from her mom "Hey sweetie, sorry about this, my phone died so I couldn't text you. Shota had something important to talk to me about so I went over to his place to talk, there's lunch in the fridge" Kuroza goes into the kitchen and grabs the container that has a sticky note on it saying that this is what she had for lunch as well. She starts warming it up while scrolling through her phone, mainly news articles to see what is being talked about, most of them being her taking down Stain, but one does stick out to her. "'The effect of arresting Stain'? What could that mean?" She opens the article and starts reading it, "Huh, I knew that there were people who thought Stain had good points, but by arresting him that caused more villains to show up...? I guess that could happen, it would make sense"

She grabs her food and sits down on the couch, starting to eat when her phone goes off, seeing that it's Kirishima calling she decides to answer, "Hey Kiri" "Hey Roza, did I call at a bad time? Looks like you're eating" "I am, but it's not a bad time, actually kinda glad you called. Mom is out for a bit, Uncle needed to talk to her about something so she's with him at the moment" "Huh, well glad to help out then" Kuroza lightly laughs, "Thanks Kiri, what did you call about?" "You apparently arrested Stain?" "Oh yeah, long story short I was helping civilians when I heard a yell, and after getting permission, I checked it out and it was Stain attacking a pro hero, so I snuck up on him and got him with my quirk" "Your quirk is actually insane, a simple tap and you have control over them" "Yeah, but I didn't always have control over it, there were a couple times I accidently used it on someone and had no idea how to stop it" "There were a few times I couldn't figure out how to turn mine off either, it happens" "I know it does. Anyway, how'd your internship go?" "It was interesting, Fourth Kind had me and Tetsutetsu help around town, prep his office for clients, and a few other things. He was strict but it was clear he was trying to teach us manners and all that" "Nice, so you had more of the helping out around town part of being a hero rather than fighting villains" "Yeah, I guess so, how'd yours go?" "It was okay, Edgeshot and I patrolled, stopped a couple small things, mainly purse snatchers, and training, that was pretty much it until Stain, even after" Kirishima nods, "So what do you think we'll do tomorrow?" "Probably some form of training to show what we learned during our internships" "True"

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Kuroza walks into the classroom and goes over to Kirishima, "Hey Kiri" "Roza, hey" "Azugo! YOU ARRESTED THE HERO KILLER?!" "O-oh, hey Ashido" "Answer my question!" "Yeah, I did, why?" "This is why!" She puts her phone in Kuroza's face, and she sees that there's "A... fan page...? You're kidding" "Nope! It doesn't have much right now since you haven't done much, but man is it blowing up about your arrest of Stain" "Fuck" "You really shouldn't use language like that, it's unheroic!" "I don't really care, Iida. I'll watch my language in public, but in moments like this I do not care" "I suppose that's fair" Kuroza sits at her desk and starts making random drawings in her notebook, "When did things between you and Iida lighten up?" "Oh, we ran into each other in Hosu and long story short we had a talk and figured some things out between us. He doesn't out right hate me now, so that's a win in my book" "I'll never understand you Azugo" "Good" "Don't be like that Roza, Mina's just trying to get to know you" "I know, sorry Ashido" "It's cool! I'll just join the fan page and share anything you do in it" "Fuck no!" Kuroza tries grabbing Ashido's phone, "AH! No! I must join it!" "I swear I will kill you if you join that!" Kuroza gets up, and tries grabbing the girl's phone again "Nope! Too bad!" "Ashido I swear!" The girl only laughs and shows that she had joined the page, "Too late!" "Ashido!" Kuroza's face goes a bit red, embarrassed about Ashido being not only aware of that page being a thing and joining it, but that it exists to begin with.

"It's really not that big of deal Roza, so what if people have a fan page of you?" She looks over at him, still blushing a bit, "I get that, but it's more so about the fact that ASHIDO JOINED IT" He sighs, "Mina..." "What?" "Look at her, quit teasing her. She's not finding this as funny as you are" "Ah, s-sorry Azugo" Kuroza sits at her desk and puts her arms on it before resting her chin on her arms, which get's met by Kirishima patting her head, "You good now Roza?" She makes a small hum in response. Izuku speaks up, asking everyone to return to their seats as class will be starting soon, "He's really growing more confident in himself since the class made him stay the class rep. Good job Izuku" Aizawa comes in a few minutes later and immediately goes to sleep under the podium. "Well, we're having a guest teacher" Right after mumbling that to herself, All Might comes through the door, "HA HA! I AM HERE! HELLO THERE CLASS! WE'LL BE DOING HEROICS TODAY! PLEASE CHANGE AND MEET ME AT FIELD GAMMA!" All Might leaves and the class makes their way to the changing rooms after grabbing their suits.

"So... you have a fan page?" "Shut up Jiro" "Oh come on... it's not that big of deal right?" "Shut. Up. Jiro" "Alright alright, not need to be upset" "I'm not, not at you anyway" "Oh yeah, Ashido joined it, right?" "Yeah... and she better pray I'm not set against her today" She slowly looks over at Ashido as she talks, who quickly looks away when she sees Kuroza staring. "Hey, Azugo?" "Yeah Yaoyorozu?" "I have a question" "Sure, what's up?" "Well... I was wondering how you seem so... confident in yourself no matter what happens" "Ah. Truth be told, it's kinda an act, but one based in reality" "How?" "You know I didn't really talk a lot before the USJ, if at all. Basically I just kinda... didn't care what people thought, so it's not that I'm this all confident person, I just don't give a fuck about what others think" "Oh" Kuroza studies Yaoyorozu's expression and body language, and comes up with the reason she asked that question, "I have a feeling why you asked me, but I won't press if you aren't comfortable explaining" Kuroza puts her leather jacket on and walks out. As she gets outside Kuroza grabs a pair of sunglasses that were in a inner pocket of the jacket and puts them on, continuing to walk, seeing the guys a bit up ahead of her. She picks up her pace to catch up, quietly appearing beside Kirishima, "Sup" "Oh geez! You scared me Roza!" "Sorry" She talks with a bit of a laugh. "The rest of the girls on their way?" "Yeah, they're probably on their way now" "Alright" "So, what do you all think we'll be doing?" "Probably some form of test" "A test?! I didn't study!" Kuroza stares at Kaminari in confusion, "It's not that type of test dumbass. It's probably one about what we learned in our internships" "Oh"

The other girls eventually catch up and they all get to Field Gamma, where All Might and Aizawa are waiting, "ALRIGHT, NOW THAT ALL OF YOU ARE HERE I WILL EXPLAIN THIS EXERCISE! THIS WILL BE A SIMPLE ONE TODAY, YOU'LL-" "Your yelling is hurting my ears, as well as Jiro's, shut up" Kuroza holds back a laugh at her uncle's words, truth be told she was thinking the same, but was still trying to figure out how to say it nicely. "I'll finish explaining. Basically All Might here will go hide somewhere in the area, you all will be broken up into groups of four, except one where there will be five. One group at a time will go in and try to find All Might before the others. This is not a team exercise, this is everyone for themselves, though do try to not bring harm to anyone. Now go hide All Might. Once he's hidden you all will start in different areas" Kuroza's group of her, Bakugo, Kirishima, and Ashido is set to go last. She goes off to the side to think about a plan, somewhat paying attention to Midoriya when his group is going, cringing a bit when he falls "Yikes... that looked painful, such a shame too, you were pretty close if you didn't fall" "Hey Roza?" "Yeah Kiri?" "I was wondering... we've been watching a lot of movies and whatnot over the phone, but would you be interested in going to the theaters with me?" Kuroza raises an eyebrow, "Is this you asking me on a date?" "W-well that's not what I was planning... b-but sure" "I'm down, what time and day?" "Really?" "Yeah," She puts her chin in her hand, "You do want this to be a date right?" "Yeah" "Alright. Time and day" "I'll have to double check what movies are there at the moment, but I'll let you know by tonight" "Cool. I look forward to it" Kirishima smiles and walks off, and Kuroza blushes as soon as he's gone, "Keep it cool, yeah he said this was a date, but stay calm... fuck what do I wear"

A/N: I'M BACK! So sorry for not updating lately (like 2ish weeks), I have been super busy and just never had a good time to sit down and write. I'll try to get back to normal update schedule but I sadly can't make any promises. But I'm back and with some GREAT ideas for this story, and trust me, Kuroza's going to really shine soon.