Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 118 - In a tragedy

A/N Just some clarification, Shindo didn't do anything to Midoriya besides... ya know... getting a little too close for comfort. Someone was asking about it on another website. I'm speaking from personal experience when I saw water cooler water is tangy; it always never tastes right, I swear to god, I had one at home, and it always tasted funny.

And Shindo is just really hard to write about. I honestly feel like shindo is an okay guy to his friends, but he just goes a little too far when it comes to teasing people (a little too far as in he'll definitely do anything he can to make the experience as hellish and uncomfortable as possible without physically hurting anyone).

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Midoriya walked into the main hall of the Genius Office, and made a beeline towards the receptionist.

"Hello. Midoriya Izuku, right? Or Hakryuen? Which do you prefer outside of patrols?" The receptionist asked, scanning over his ID, as Midoriya just shrugged, signing, "Anything is fine."

"Alright, Midoriya. Best Jeanist isn't here at the moment, and we have another intern joining you today, so we'll just wait for her to arrive, and I'll call one of the sidekicks down to collect you." The receptionist replied, gesturing towards some chairs in the large waiting area.

"She? Do I know this other intern?" Midoriya signed; after his encounter with Shindo the previous day, Midoriya was not taking any chances.

"... yes... I think you should know her. She also goes to UA. Tokage Setsuna, also known as Lizardy." The receptionist clicked through several files, "Is everything alright?"

"It's fine. Thank you." Midoriya signed back, and internally heaved a sigh of relief.

It had taken a few more minutes for Tokage to show up before they could start their work studies. Hakamata was still missing, and while Tokage used her Lizard Tail Splitter quirk while training with the sidekicks to deal with more troublesome opponents, while Midoriya spent his time analyzing the sidekicks and their quirks.

Overall, it wasn't too bad, though. Midoriya always did enjoy learning about new quirks, and Tokage's quirk was an interesting one that he didn't have that many opportunities to analyze.

All the sidekicks were wearing jeans, though, for some odd reason. That can't be comfortable to fight in. Jeans and denim made sense as Hakamata's hero costume because it was the easiest textile for his quirk to manipulate, but all his sidekicks? That just didn't make much sense.

Then again, who was he to judge? If they wanted to wear jeans, they could wear jeans.

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Midoriya just looked around, as he patrolled along the streets with X-Less, when his phone buzzed.

Blinking in confusion, Midoriya fished his phone out of his pocket, and unlocked it, careful not to cut his fingers on the ridiculously cracked screen. Apparently, Nezu had sent him a message, and Midoriya clicked on the notification.

"What colour do you prefer; brown, black, grey, red, or green?"

Midoriya just stared at the message. Why on earth did Nezu want to know what colour he liked? It wasn't like it was important or anything. But still, he figured he should reply as soon as possible, and typed out "black".

He sent it out, and Nezu immediately replied with a "Thank you!" and a "Take care of yourself during your internship today! That area you're in is dangerous!". Midoriya was about to close the messaging application and focus on the patrolling, when X-Less glanced over at him, "That's a lot of unread messages. You want to check it? Might be important."