Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 102 - As we walk in a straight line

A/N Okay, starting from here on out, THERE WILL BE MANGA SPOILERS!

READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.

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Midoriya just stared at his homework, his fingers twitching erratically. The words were all blurring together into a huge, unintelligible mess of black scribbles, and Midoriya sighed, rubbing his eyes blearily. He was completely drained, he barely slept a wink in the past week, but even with all the physical training that he was putting himself through during their training sessions, he was still unable to sleep.

He was hoping that he could go out and do some at Sasaki's agency to try and work off all the excess energy, but Sasaki was currently working on a new case for the Hero Commission and temporarily stopped both him and Togata from going on patrols. They were still interning under him, but they were just restricted to desk work until Sasaki had a good idea of what was going on.

Yamada had caught him losing focus in class once, rubbing his eyes one too many times to try and look at the board properly, and had sent him to Shuzenji to get his eyes checked.

Shuzenji found no problems with his eyes, though she did guess that his blurred vision was due to his exhaustion, leaving Midoriya no choice but to admit that he hasn't been sleeping properly. She did offer him some sleeping medication, but Midoriya had politely declined; he didn't want to be forced to sleep, and he doubted that he would feel rested anyways.

It didn't help that he was also throwing up pretty much anything he ate. His classmates' cooking, whatever takeouts that the class ordered to the dorms whenever no one was in the mood to cook, or even just instant noodles; no more than five minutes after he was finished, he would make a trip to the bathroom to expel everything from his stomach. He couldn't even drink coffee anymore without the risk of him puking it all up.

Midoriya wasn't too worried though. It wasn't like this was the first time its happened; just that it had never been this bad before. But regardless, it should pass sooner or later; he'd just have to hold up until then and catch up on his sleep later.

Midoriya took another look at his worksheet, before sweeping it off his desk. He slumped against his table, exhausted, as Reiko chirped, patting him on the cheek comfortingly. Ryuto was playing with his hair, as Yuwai sat on his desk, nibbling on some lettuce; it had been Koda's turn to go grocery shopping, and had asked Midoriya to take care of the rabbit while he was out.

Midoriya didn't really mind too much; Koda was a nice guy, and Yuwai got along pretty well with Ryuto and Reiko. His only problem currently was that he was far too tired to do just about anything. Maybe he should take up Shuzenji's offer for sleeping medications, or maybe ask Shinsou to use his quirk to force him to sleep.

There was some commotion downstairs, and accepting the fact that he wasn't going to be able to do his homework anyways, Midoriya put his pen down, and exited his room, leaving it open in case one of the animals decided to join him.

He took the stairs down, and made his way to the common room, only to find Enji fighting some Nomu.

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Something about the fight was really bothering Midoriya, and it wasn't about the fact that Enji was getting beaten up by a Nomu; he couldn't care less about that. If Enji wanted to prove he was capable of being the Number One hero, he'll find some way to take it down, and while Enji was a brash person, he wasn't stupid; he'll figure something out, somehow.

The problem was that Midoriya couldn't stop comparing this Nomu to Kurogiri, the teleporter of the League of Villains.

As far as he knew, the Nomus seemed to be classified, in some way, according to colour. There had been a few Nomus in Hosu when he fought Stain, as well as during the attack on the school camp, but as far as he knew, those Nomus were of a lighter colour, like beige and light aquamarine. The hulking Nomu that Shigaraki had claimed to be able to take down Yagi was dark purple, almost black, and this Nomu, the one that was currently smacking Enji into a building, was also almost black in colour.