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Emiko [POV]

I woke up early in the morning like usual.  The sun hadn't come up yet and Mika was already up and dressed.

"We should get Ichi up so he can eat something before school and before mom gets up" Mika suggested

"Yeah you can start to make something I'll wake him up" I agreed stretching my arms above my head.  She nodded going downstairs.  I yawned throwing my covers to the end of the bed.  I walked silently down the hallway knocking softly on Ichi's door before opening it slowly.

"Ichi you should start waking up so you can have some breakfast before school" I instructed my eyes adjusting to his dark room.  Ichi was curled up in his blankets.  It always baffled me how he could look so small for his height.  I walked over sitting down on the edge of the bed.   I gently stroked his hair brushing it out of his face

"Ichi?" I asked, I smiled at how at peace he looked unlike when he was awake but that didn't last long.  He squeezed his eyes closed more before opening them again.  He rubbed his eyes with one hand

"What time is it?" he asked groggily

"Around 4:45 you should eat something" I explained standing up

"Yeah" he seemed uncertain but sat up I smiled turning the light on as I left padding back to my room to get changed.  I buttoned up my school uniform as Ichi peeked his head into my room.

"Ready?" he asked.  I brushed my hair quickly following him down the stairs into the kitchen.  Mika was sitting at the counter eating a plate of pancakes that she made

"Help yourselves I made enough for everyone" she invited turning as we came downstairs "And Ichi would it kill you to brush your hair every once in a while"

"Maybe" He scratched the back of his neck grabbing a plate from the cupboard sitting down next to her grabbing some pancakes from the plate in the middle of the counter.  I grabbed a plate of my own and grabbed a glass as well

"Do you guys want anything to drink?" I offered

"Orange juice" Mika told me, Ichi shook his head

"You're weird Ichi you know that you eat pancakes without syrup or butter and don't drink anything with it either
 I teased getting another glass setting it down on the table.  I poured two glasses of orange juice and sat down next to Ichi.  I grabbed some pancakes dousing them in syrup

"You put too much syrup on" he scoffed

"You don't even put any on at all so mind your own business" I defended stuffing some into my mouth.  We ate out food talking quietly and once we finished Mika put the rest of the pancakes in the microwave writing on a sticky note that they were pancakes then sticking it to the door of the microwave.  I washed our dishes and Ichi worked to dry them at least somewhat before leaving them out to dry the rest of the way.  

"Ready?" Mika asked

"Ready" I agreed

"Mhm" Ichi mumbled slipping his shoes on.  By the time we left the house it was around 5:30 school started in like two and a half hours but we had to leave early so we left before mom woke up.  There was barely anyone out on the street when we left.  The few that were there gave us weird looks noticing our uniform.  Ichi kept his head low I knew he didn't like the weird looks we were getting.  So I hurried our pace entering school.  We passed a few teachers on our way to class

"What are you kids doing here this early?" Present Mic shouted from all the way down the hallway Ichi jumped turning halfway to stone

"We had to leave before mom woke up" I called back slowing our pace down a bit.  When we had to split up with Mika we said goodbye and me and Ichi continued to class.  We opened the class door and as figured there was no one there in class.  We both sat in our spots Ichi rested his chin on his arms reading a book.  I played on my phone for a while.  After around an hour I started to get bored so I looked over at Ichi hoping to start a conversation, but he was immersed in his book.  He seemed almost done with it but he also just seemed to start it today.  Around 7:45 a few kids started to come in including Midoriya, Iida, a girl with a neat looking ponytail, the red and white haired boy that I smacked and a short girl with long green hair.  Midoriya came up over to me after dropping his bag off at his desk

"How'd you guys get here this early what time did you get here?" he asked

"Around two hours ago" I replied with a yawn

"What why so early!" He exclaimed

"Had to get out of the house before mom woke up" I explained glancing over at Ichi.  He had finished his book and had started on another and was around halfway through.  I didn't even know where he was getting all these books I don't even remember him bringing them to school in the first place.  Midoriya looked over as well

"Ichiro did you really get here around two hours ago?" he asked, Ichi didn't answer I leaned over trying to get a better look at him.  As I figured he was to immersed in his book to notice the world around him his eyes had changed to a dull red color.

"I wouldn't bother trying to talk to him when he gets into a book there's no stopping him it's his only escape from reality" I sighed

"What kind of books does he read?" Midoriya asked

"I don't know go see for yourself I doubt he'll notice you" I shrugged Midoriya raised an eyebrow and went over to Ichi's desk.  He glanced over the books he raised an eyebrow with concern before he walked back over to me

"The one on the desk is called 'blood in hallows lake' and the one he's reading is called 'the orphan song'" Midoriya reported

"I honestly don't know where he got those books I don't remember seeing him have a book when we left the house but, I guess he has two" Ichi closed the book he was reading I assumed he had finished it because he didn't mark his place.  He reached into his bag and pulled out another book from his bag and started to read.

"Where does he get those from" I exclaimed curiously standing up.  I went over to his desk looking inside the bag.  There was some of his school work but otherwise it was filled with books ranging from titles 'weeping in hell' to 'demons who stare' I never knew that these were the kinds of books he read.  I leaned down to look at the book he was currently reading 'weeping angels' the cover depicted a stone statue of an angel their head bowed low hands clasped together in a prayer.  I sighed tapping him on the shoulder.  He jumped almost falling out of his chair.

"Ichi class will be starting soon" I told him

"oh" he mumbled sheepishly marking his place with a bookmark putting the rest of the books in his bags

"Where on earth did you even get all those books?" I asked surprised

"The library" he answered very 'matter of factually' like that was the most obvious thing in the world

"How do you manage to read all those by the time you have to return them" I asked

"I already read two" he looked at me with his big puppy dog eyes

"What do you want?" I asked already knowing his scam

"I want you not to tell mom about this" he begged

"Why would I reading is good" I smiled shaking my head.  He's always been a good reader and has always loved books

"Just in case" he smiled weakly noticing more kids filing into the classroom.  Instinctively he lowered his head letting his bangs fall in front of his face

"You're hopeless" I sighed returning to my seat just as the bell rung Aizawa slithered into the room in his yellow sleeping bag thing.  He stood up unzipping it.

"Today we'll be doing some practicing fighting against each other I'll let you pick sparing partners because I don't care.  Go get changed into your gym clothes and meet me outside on the field" he instructed I sort of wanted to be partners with Ichi but I figured it would be best for him to socialize with classmates.  I turned to the red and white haired boy next to me

"Hey wanna be sparing partners?" I asked cheerfully.  He paused for a while

"Okay" he finally agreed sounding slightly annoyed though he didn't turn me down which was good.  We all got up going to the locker rooms.  I caught Ichi's eyes and gave him a smile and a thumbs up.  He seemed paranoid.

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