Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 78 - But they forgot

The students were on standby, but they were forbidden to say anything about the work studies. It had been decided that all of them would be part of the operation to save Eri, but it was easy for the other students to tell that something was off. Not just with Uraraka, Kirishima and Asui, but also with Midoriya. It was startling at how easy it was to see that, given how much Midoriya kept to himself and kept his own thoughts and feelings under wraps.

The boy was actually terrifying, even if he didn't mean to do so. It was obvious he wasn't concentrating in class, if all the scribbling he was doing in the middle of the lesson were an indication of anything, but no one could really complain; Midoriya was still getting full marks for his homework and tests, and it wasn't like he was disrupting the lesson.

1-A and 1-B were having a joint training session, as the gym had to be renovated after Kirishima accidentally used too much strength and broke down a wall, something that Aizawa oddly didn't seem too upset about, but everyone just steered clear of Midoriya. The green haired boy was attacking a punching bag with such ferocity that the chains holding the bag up were creaking.

Not to mention how many times they had to replace the punching bags whenever the chains broke, because otherwise, Midoriya would literally maul all the stuffing out of the downed, broken bag; it had happened once, and Aizawa was pretty sure that most of the students were traumatized by it.

At least, the boy seemed to be resting properly, or, he was trying to. He didn't eat lunch, as usual, but anytime he wasn't eating instant noodles or scribbling in his notebook, he was curled up in the bean bag in the common room, fast asleep. Given how little Midoriya actually slept, some of the teachers were actually worried that someone might have drugged Midoriya in an attempt to get him to sleep, only to find that Midoriya was actually fully awake, opening a gleaming green eye whenever someone got within a meter of his bean bag, even if they were really quiet, like Shirou, or invisible, like Hagakure.

He didn't seem to mind Reiko or Ryuto entering his safe space too much, and Ashido was able to borrow them for ten minutes before they returned back to the greenette's side. Oddly enough, he didn't seem to mind some of the students either. Iida, Uraraka, Shinsou, Koda and Todoroki were a given, since they were his friends, but lately, Asui and Kirishima could just sit down by the window to read, or check their phones, which was right next to Midoriya, and while the first few times they did that, Midoriya had woken up, but lately, Midoriya just ignored them and continued napping.

Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, the four students got a message in the middle of the night, and they all gathered in the common room.

"Did you all get the message?" Kirishima whispered, and Asui nodded, "Yeah. We did."

"Come on. Let's go save Eri." Uraraka nodded, patting Midoriya on the back.

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"It will be a nice day to enjoy the sunshine, but in the evening -" Kaminari switched off the television, as Sero walked up to him, commenting, "Tokoyami's in Kyushu, so it's expected, but the other work study students are absent too, huh?"

"Midoriya has been acting weird lately, hasn't he? I mean, I have never seen him so angry over something with no villains around." Kaminari spoke up.

"Yeah... he was literally glaring at Kirishima when he tried to get him to eat something..." Ojiro sweatdropped.

"It's not just him." Sero sighed, "Kirishima, Uraraka and Tsu also looked like they were brooding over something. Even Reiko and Ryuto seemed rather upset and downcast."

"You think they're after something big?" Kaminari asked, and Ojiro replied, "Even if they were, they'll be with pros. Plus, Midoriya was a vigilante, right? He should have experience with fighting villains."