Silence Destroyed (MHA)

Chapter 29- The League Attacks

The feeling of being watched was still clinging to Naoko like a second skin... She wanted to take a bath and scrub until the feeling was gone because, despite the fact that no one could be watching her, it was still there.

Aizawa had been droning on about the evolution of quirk laws for the last half-hour, ever since he managed to stop the other students from asking Naoko questions. For once that year Naoko was able to pay attention, but it was mainly to make the feeling go away. Her classmates were still sending glances behind them from time to time at her, apparently amazed that she wasn't staring out the window.

The truth of the matter was that Naoko was afraid of what she might see.

So she threw herself into learning about the steps law enforcement initially took when quirks appeared all those years ago.

It was dull, to be sure, but knowing that people had been arrested in the beginning for their unnatural behavior and thrown into testing facilities was better than wondering who could possibly be watching.

The class had already been going on for about an hour so far, and the longer she sat there, the more she struggled to pay attention.

Thank goodness Aizawa had made an effort to lower the capture weapon around his mouth, otherwise, Naoko would be left with nothing to distract her from her own thoughts... From personal experience, Naoko knew that would be a very bad thing.

Just as her body was settling in (A sad thing, because she had been trying to get it to do just that for the last handful of hours) something happened that shattered every chance of that happening... With a jerk, Naoko pulled away from the window she was sitting next to, nearly falling out of her seat in the process.

The whole class turned to look at her, but Naoko wasn't aware of that.

Her whole attention was focused on the window, her color had drained far more than was probably healthy, and she seemed to be mouthing something quickly enough that no one could tell what she was saying to herself.

Just a moment ago, there had been nothing but the boring rambling of their teacher, now Naoko looked about ready to pass out.

Aizawa immediately moved towards her. He had a lurking hunch that something was going on, especially after Chris had talked to him earlier that evening, and if this is what they feared...Well... Let's just say they were in for a bad time.

Everyone was asking Naoko what was wrong, but Naoko couldn't see them, and the moment Aizawa looked out the window as well, he realized why.

Blue flames.

The forest was on fire and the flames were massive.

A harsh cuss forced it's way out of Aizawa's throat as he grabbed Naoko and pulled her around, "Naoko," He murmured urgently and shook her. Her eyes weren't focused on him, so he shook her to grab her attention, "Naoko!" He hissed out, hoping he wouldn't have to do anything major to get her attention.

It only took a moment for her eyes to snap to him, wide with terror, "What do you sense?" 

Normally, he would never ask a student for their help, they shouldn't have to be in that kind of position, but this was bad. He knew enough about flames to know that this was no natural blaze, and his quirk couldn't help with something like this.

She shook her head, and Aizawa noticed her hands going to her wrists, stroking them. He hated putting her in a position like this... But he had no choice.

"No." Her voice was small and tremoring like a hummingbird. "Something's coming, Aizawa."

He nodded gravely and stepped back, looking around the room at some of his more... Problem students.