Silence Destroyed (MHA)

chapter 4- Hardships Trigger Warning!

You may have noticed the lovely trigger warning at the top... well, I mean it. This has the potential to be rather upsetting to several of my readers, so be warned. I'll place three bolded asterisks * before and after the danger zone. If your interested, pleased stay tuned after the chapter for a small message on why I decided to make the decisions I did here.

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Naoko gasped desperately as she approached the gates of UA; that morning had been one stressful thing after another, between almost losing her uniform and having to turn around when she forgot her lunch, Naoko was so close to being late that it wasn't funny. This, of course, led to her running about half the distance to school, not including the time on the train, which is why she was so desperately out of breath now.

The way her pulse beat relentlessly against her ears blocked out every vibration she would normally be able to feel without a problem; thankfully, she didn't really need to be able to sense vibrations to find her class. Though that didn't stop her from dissing herself the whole way there, 'Come on, Naoko, you do realize that heroes need stamina, right? Maybe if you spent less time studying unnecessary things and more time training your body, you would be more prepared for what's coming!'

As much as she wanted to argue with herself and stand up for her studying habits, she really didn't have a leg to stand on... Working on learning yet another language should take second place compared to her hero training now, even if she was better at learning languages than she was at any form of exercise.

Her heart rate slowly evened out, and she forced herself out of her inner world, so she could hopefully make it to class before the teacher. She heard that a lot of the homeroom teachers here could be strict about punctuality, and the last thing she wanted was to get on her teacher's bad side before she even- "Oof!"

Without warning, Naoko's foot snagged on something, and she got an up close and personal introduction with the tile floor. Though as much as that bothered her, feeling whatever had caused to trip squirm beneath her was so much worse. A gasp left her mouth, and she found herself sinking slightly into the floor as her quirk activated without her permission, liquefying the first few layers of tile before she could scramble away.

A hand grabbed her ankle, and she looked around to see what had grabbed her, only to be greeted by a man lying on the floor in a... sleeping bag? It took a minute for her to realize that this human caterpillar was actually speaking to her, trying to get her attention, "... Didn't you hear me? I said to calm down, I'm obviously not going to hurt you."

Naoko nodded and shifted so she was sitting up, taking in the amount of liquid that was covering both her and the caterpillar man, she pressed her hand to the top of the liquid and activated her quirk, turning the liquid tile into gas before focusing on the man in front of her. He looked familiar, but it took a second for her to remember why.

"Wait, you're Aizawa Shota, aren't you?" Naoko asked hesitantly, receiving only a nod in answer, "Well it's good to meet my new homeroom teacher, sorry about tripping over you, Eraser Head." She stood quickly, offering her hand to the man, but he simply shook his head.

"I see you've done your research." Aizawa said, adjusting his position so he was facing the girl directly, "Judging by that display, you must be Fujimura Naoko; I was one of the people who tried to convince our dear principal not to accept you." His words took the breath away from Naoko, yeah, she had known that many of the teachers were against her attending with her disadvantage, but she didn't think that she'd be faced with them so quickly. "You are going to be at a disadvantage to the others in almost every conceivable way, so if you want to keep up, I expect you to adapt, am I understood?"