BNHA: Lessons Learned

Chapter 5

   "Plans for world domination?" He joked as he walked up to the sink to deposit the items. "You two could do it easily."
   "That's not my style." Chiyo smiled. "It wouldn't kill you to wash-up once in a while, you know."
   "Ha, I do enough of that at home." He then looked at Sasha. "We're almost done here, some of 'em have gotta be up pretty early in the morning. They're dyin' to see how you approach your first lesson."
   "Heh, I bet." She managed.
   "You okay? They're not that bad, really, I'm sure that you can see that for yourself now. Even Goggles, he's harmless."
   "I...guess that I'm just a little nervous, that's all."
   "Divinity doesn't get nervous." He grinned.
   "It doesn't?"
   "Nope! Well, that's what I heard."
   "Then I guess that I'll be just fine." She smiled.
   "You two go ahead," Chiyo told them, "I can finish this. And I'll tell you the same thing that I tell this lump- please try to curb the students and not cause too many injuries. It takes stamina to heal, you'd end up with a class full of Aizawas."
   "Thanks, I'll remember that." Sasha nodded.

   "Are you staying nearby?" Toshi asked as they met with the outside air again after saying goodbye to everyone. "I could give you a lift home, if you like?"
   "You have a car?"
   "I know, right?" He grinned. "Amazed it still works after all the times I didn't use it. But, the offer's there."
   "I'm at Mi'en Plaza." She supplied.
That triggered an impressed whistle from Toshi. "Niiice, that's a State-funded pad, right? I heard they're real swish."
   "I didn't want anythin' like that, but they insisted."
   "Hop in." He gestured to a red car that they drew up alongside a moment later. "It's the least I can do for you."
It wasn't that far away from the school grounds themselves, fifteen minutes or a little over. The Mi'en Quarter was full of working houses, elegantly designed and furnished for State visitors or people who had high-ranking jobs in society.
The Plaza area itself was one of the best, full of pristine pathways and armies of topiaries cut into every shape or animal that it was possible to cut shrubbery into.
She directed him to number fifteen, and he pulled up outside.

   "I had a great time tonight." He smiled. "Thanks for insisting that I come along."
   "Like I said, it was your meeting too." She replied. "Those ideas of yours are awesome, when did you think of them?"
   "...before I arrived." He admitted. "Two hours before."
   "So that's why you were late."
He nodded. "You and Izuku have my thanks for that too, you were both right. I'm so used to telling people that my eyes and brain aren't injured, but I still wasn't using them much.
Eyes can be opened; that's what you did, and hopefully I'll think of more ideas to add to that list very soon."
   "Once it starts, it's tough to stop." She agreed. "Something stood out for me though, between all of them. Kinda like...a common theme? Something to link them together?"
He paused briefly. "...oh? In what way?"
   "They're all things that you never did. Or at least, maybe didn't quite do enough of." She said gently. "Still don't."
He looked at her for a moment, then he sat back in his seat and his eyes headed for his knees. "...true." He said. "I figured that you were a smart one, goes with the job."
   "You're probly the only person that's never needed anything pointed out to them before recently, I'm guessing. You have nothing to prove to them or to Izuku, okay? Nothing at all."

Toshi laughed quietly at that. "You could be wrong about that last one. He and I meet up at least once a week, or every few days? I help him with his classes, sometimes he comes over and I let him practise his special moves in my backyard. I would love to be able to look at that kid one day, and say to him, 'Guess what? I'm back!' But I can't do that just yet. So instead, I tell him that...well, at least it's still there. In me. He's probly sick of hearin' it by now, I couldn't blame him."
   "I...think you're being a little too negative about it, Toshi, he probly doesn't think anything like-"
   "He will, because that's what I fucking think of it." He then snapped back. "Cos' every time I try to do anything, even if I need to go down the road to the fucking store, all I can see in my future is this." He then unbuttoned his jacket and yanked up the white shirt underneath...
And there it was; Sasha had never seen it before.
A central mass of heavy scarring was present over the bottom half of his ribcage on the left side, and radiating out from it, she could also see several jagged scars looking not unlike the many spokes that were present on bicycle wheels.
   "You try to tell me that I'm too negative now." He added.