Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 85 - Just born to fade

Uraraka, Asui, and Kirishima had opted to have counseling sessions with Inui before they were due to have extra lessons to go through all the school work they missed due to their work studies. All of them felt that they could have done more, and not just let Midoriya take the brunt of the attacks, as Inui tried to tell them than they've already done the best they could, and if even the pros were having trouble, with all their experience, the students shouldn't be so hard on themselves; with Katsukame's quirk draining their energy, and Rappa having such an intense attacking style, they've already done enough by helping the pros.

But it still wasn't enough. With everything going on, as much as the students tried to focus on their work, they just couldn't. And the teachers couldn't really blame them; all of them were equally upset over the entire situation.

"Hey, Mineta, did you see this?" Kaminari asked, trying to lighten the heavy mood as he showed an article on his phone to Mineta.

"What's the rating?" Mineta asked, as Kaminari replied, "All ages. Mt Lady and Edgeshot have teamed up. Kamui Woods is there, too."

"Mt Lady?" Mineta jaw dropped, as Jiro peered over Kaminari's shoulder, "Team Lurkers, right? People have been talking about them for a while."

"A lot of heroes are teaming up these days, huh?" Kaminari grinned, as Ashido shouted, "Once we're pros, let's team up too! Ochako, you can make me float! And we can make acid rain!"

"Isn't that kind of cruel?" Uraraka asked, as Ashido continued, "Sero can control me with his tape."

Sero tilted his head upwards in confusion, "Huh? What are you talking about?"

"Koda and Shoji and Jiro can be scouts! We'll be called "Team Rainy Day"!" Ashido finished, and Jiro nodded halfheartedly, "Okay."

"What about us!?" Kaminari and Mineta yelled, and Ashido stuck her tongue out "Don't need you!"

"When you team up, you don't just look at quirks..." Yaoyorozu added, "Compatibility of personalities is also important..."

Hagakure paused before responding, "Yaomomo... that's just making it worse..."

"Everyone, start moving, or you'll run out of time to change!" Iida yelled, moving his arms about, as his classmates grabbed their hero costumes, with the only case remaining on the shelf being Midoriya's.

Just seeing the remaining costume case reminded everyone of how Midoriya was still being hospitalized, and everyone's mood fell. As much as they tried to lighten the mood with talk about their future careers, they can't help but remember that one of their classmate's careers could have ended before it even began.

Shinsou grabbed his case, and Kirishima patted him on the shoulder, "He'll be alright. I trust that he'll be alright. He wouldn't want all of us to be brooding over him; Midoriya's really manly like that."

The lavender haired boy slowly nodded, just to placate the redhead, but deep inside, he knew that the others wouldn't really understand. Midoriya wouldn't want them to be upset about him, that was for sure, but that was only because he felt that he wasn't worth it. He didn't think that anyone would care about him.

"I need to get stronger." Kirishima suddenly spoke up, "That villain... he easily broke through my Hardening... I need to make myself so strong, that it will never be broken apart. I'll be the perfect defense, and that would be my perfect offense."

Shinsou watched as the redhead walked over to Bakugou to annoy him, only to get blasted, before he straightened up, and walked to the gym with vigor. The only thing they could do now was to get stronger, and make sure that something like this would never happen again.