Silence Destroyed (MHA)

Chapter 16- Meeting the Mentors

The list of nearly a hundred hero agencies who wanted to work with Naoko had slowly and painfully been cut down to a far more manageable list of ten agencies that focused on helping the people over getting publicity. Hasame was a major help when it came to researching all the locations, despite her reservations with this whole system.

The only draft that received any special attention was the one from a certain flame-headed hero, whose draft ended up pinned to the living room wall as soon as Naoko showed it to Hasame. Already it had one knife stabbed through it, courtesy of Hasame, and Naoko wasn't far behind. In fact, while they were discussing each of the agencies they were having a casual target practice to pass the time.

Now that Naoko had a much more condensed list, she was ready to just close her eyes and chose randomly. Hasame would probably kill her if that's what she ended up doing, but it really was so tempting.

Instead, Naoko actually looked into each agency's reputation and what they commonly dealt with. She didn't care all that much about helping with things like robberies, but anything that would directly help the people she was willing to jump into. In the end, she actually made a thoughtful decision, writing it down and handing it into Aizawa the next day directly after class.

It was one of the few moments where he wasn't swamped with people, so he was actually able to talk when she handed him the fully filled out sheet.

"Not Endeavor's?" He asked quietly, pushing down his scarf that, as always, was hiding his mouth slightly. He guessed that she didn't like the fiery pro-hero, and the sports festival confirmed that fact for him; however, it was odd that she was ignoring the amazing opportunity of training with the best of the best.

The moment he asked that Naoko's face twisted into a snarl and she looked away from Aizawa to glare viciously at the chalkboard, "Obviously not, I wouldn't train under that self-important idiot if you paid me." Without another word, Naoko walked out, leaving a trail of sass behind her.

Aizawa watched her go with a slightly raised eyebrow, "Why do I get the feeling she was holding back?" He muttered as he looked down at the paper in his hands, "Hosu City Hero Agency over the number two hero, huh? You certainly will be an interesting hero."

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Hosu City was nothing special, there were buildings, traffic, and more people than Naoko would like. It looked just like every other city out there, perhaps even a bit less interesting as it was meant to be more of a business center.

It's not like Naoko wasn't happy to finally be there though, she nearly had a claustrophobia-induced panic attack on the crowded train ride to Hosu. She was thanking her lucky stars that she had gotten a place to stand next to one of the windows, otherwise, the train would have had one less car by the time it got to the Hosu Station.

Two heroes were waiting for Naoko and Iida at the station and before long they found themselves walking through a small office in downtown Hosu being given a tour that Naoko completely missed out on.

She knew that Aizawa had sent them an email about her handicap, but she made sure he also added in not to treat her differently, so she hoped that this was just them conforming to this request. Really, there was enough for Naoko to pay attention to without adding in literally everything else...

The longer Naoko spent walking through the building, the happier she was that she chose to intern there, no she didn't get a single thing their tour guide was telling them, but she saw the looks on the heroes faces, something about the aura of the place was so professional yet friendly... It was amazing.

Though, it wasn't until they entered the main cafeteria of the building that Naoko really got a shock. Standing in the center of the room were two men who were literally butting heads as they glared daggers at each other.