Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 110 - I pull on you

Midoriya rubbed his eyes as he stared at his piece of paper, with notes of different gifts written down on them. He had already finished copying the notes of three of his classmates, and he wanted to take a break before continuing. He didn't want his hand to cramp up from writing notes non-stop, and why not use that break to try and figure out what to get for all the others?

He wasn't too sure what to get for his friends, his Secret Santa giftee, and the two sidekicks of Sasaki.

He did remember there being that time when Awata had accompanied the two interns to the train station since it was raining and neither of the students had an umbrella, and she had offhandedly mentioned that she really liked rain, and that she enjoyed showers and long baths after a stressful day at work. Maybe he should get Awata some bath salts?

He wasn't too sure how to go about getting that though; he knew nothing about bath salts. Maybe he should ask some of the girls about it.

And there was that other time where Moashi had replied that he liked aromatic scents. Perhaps he could make Moashi some potpourri; they smelt nice, and they could be used as a decoration. It wasn't too expensive to get some nice flowers, and he could just use the oven in the art room and finish the entire thing in an afternoon. He needed a fixative, but he could borrow that from the science lab. He'd rather make his gifts instead of buying them; he had no idea how much ties and the Gold Tea or... whatever that elusive tea was, and he wanted to make sure that he had enough for that.

His problem with potpourri wasn't that he didn't know how to make it; he had made it before, with his mother. He just didn't want to be using the oven and end up getting a panic attack midway. Maybe he should ask someone to accompany him to the art room, just in case. He didn't want to blow up the school by accident; Hatsume already did that enough, and he did not want to put more stress on Maijima or Nezu in having to fix it.

That was Awata and Moashi down. But he still had no idea what to get for his friends. Iida was, no doubt, a fan of Tensei, looking up to his big brother, and always sang his praises whenever the older Iida was mentioned, but the bespectacled teen didn't seem to have any merch of Ingenium at all. And Uraraka was a huge fan of Thirteen, and Midoriya didn't recall her having any merch of the Space Hero. Maybe he could get them something along those lines.

His hands felt fine now, though, so he would continue making notes. He'll think about the gift problem later.

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"Alright. Today, I'm going to be talking to you all about "internship hopping". Uraraka, Asui, Midoriya, Kirishima, Tokoyami, this applies to all five of you at the moment, but the rest of you should also listen up because it's likely that you will all be involved in this somewhat." Aizawa stated, "There isn't actually a proper term for this, so we just use "internship hopping" to make it easier for everyone to understand. You guys know what "job hopping" is, right?"

There was some murmuring, and Aizawa sighed, "Iida, explain."

"Yes, Aizawa-sensei." Iida replied, standing up straight, "Job hopping when a person has a pattern of changing what companies they work for, every year or two. They usually choose to resign on their own instead of being laid off or fired, or other reasons like the closing down of a company. But isn't something like that considered as negative?"

Aizawa shrugged, "Job hopping isn't too uncommon; most people do it while they're still discovering their career path. It isn't uncommon for heroes to be transferred through several agencies before they find one that is suitable for them. Basically, "internship hopping" is the same thing; you cycle through several different internship opportunities, working under different heroes and in a variety of agencies. But this is different from job hopping; you are still signed under one main agency as interns, but another agency puts out a request to "borrow" you for a few days, so to speak."