My Hero Apprenticeship

Chapter 5: Coach Beppu

Reiki sat on the floor for a few more minutes, taking the time to calm herself down. Yua curled up next to her and purred from getting her head massaged by her owner's fingers. The girl stared at nothing in particular and let her cat's purrs take over her senses.

When she felt she was ready to get up, her eyes focused on a dark spot on her glove. Oh yeah, my lip should be healed now since Recovery G. . . "UUUUGH!" Reiki cried in disgust as she recalled the villain leader's hands all over her skin. "UUUUUGH!!" She vigorously rubbed her arms and quickly got to her feet and trotted upstairs to the bathroom. "I would burn this uniform right now if they weren't so damn expensive!" She yelled while peeling off her black, blazer.

Reiki turned the shower head on full blast, making the water as hot as she could stand it and tried to scrub away the memories. She still contemplated on burning her uniform, but ran the conversation with her parents through her head on the subject and spoke out the dialogue. ""Why would you need a new uniform?"" She mocked her dad's voice. "Cuz it got torn up in the attack!" ""Well why would it be torn? You said you didn't get hurt-"" Reiki paused her scrubbing "OH NOOOOO!! I gotta call Mom and Dad and tell them I'm ok still!!" She yelled in the shower and scrubbed faster so she can check her phone and emails. The teen completely forgot to take her phone off silent mode.

Reiki wrapped herself up in a robe and ran downstairs where she left her backpack. She unzipped the side pocket and yanked out her phone to see 50 emails and missed calls from her parents as well as missed calls and texts from Amiko. Not wanting to have her loved ones wait any longer, she opened her messaging app and called her parents who picked up immediately.

"REIKI!" She heard her parents scream causing her to pull her phone away from her ear. "Is that you?! Are you ok?! Are you safe?!"

"Mom, Dad!" Reiki responded to try and get them to calm down. "I'm fine, don't worry!"

"What happened?!"

"It was a villain attack, but I'm fine. All the students are. The teachers and All Might fought them off." Reiki blurted out. "I hid and stayed out of the way. Everyone's doing fine. Recovery Girl took care of the teachers and security has been increased. Nearly all the villains were taken out. It's not going to happen again, don't worry."

"Was it such a good idea to go to that school?" Her mother sounded like she was talking to her dad.

"Even though a villain attack happened, U.A. is still technically the safest place to be." Reiki's dad reasoned, making her calm down the thought that her parents may not be supportive of U.A. anymore. "To think, if that happened at her regular high school, I wouldn't be able to imagine the amount of death and destruction that would happen."

"But U.A. is a target because All Might is there now." Her mother countered.

"U.A. is a hero school. Even though it may be a villain target now, I'm more comfortable knowing All Might's there even if he is the reason. He can't be beat."

". . . I. . . suppose you're right." Her mother agreed.

Thank you dad. Reiki exhaled a relieved breath. "The school will be closed tomorrow to make time to increase the security and even the detective said it would be stupid for the villains to make another move even if they wanted too. Their numbers were reduced significantly, so we have no worries of another attack happening at the school. Especially with All Might around." Reiki furrowed her brows. Lying to her parents didn't set well with her, but she couldn't tell them about All Might's secret for the safety of the world. She did reconsider telling them about what happened to her during the fight, after hearing her dad's logical thought process, but she was afraid to press her luck. "Well, I am really tired with all that happened today so I need to get some sleep. I'll email you tomorrow, ok?"