|BNHA| Hiraeth II

Suicide Forest [34]

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"Heh, you're funny kid." The hero laughs lightly with her  hands on her hip. "The names Emi Fukukado, though everyone calls me Ms Joke!"

Kirishima immediately bows in respect, "I know who you are you're from Katsu academy!" Straightening up, the boy offered the woman a friendly grin, "it's a real honor to meet the Smile hero in person!"

Ms joke raised a brow curiously at the younger boy and crossed her arms with an impressed look. "Not only are you quite the looker but you're well mannered as well?" The hero assesses before shooting the horned girl a pointed look.

"Hey little M you should make this one you're new darling, he seems like a gentleman unlike that hedgehog with anger issues."

Kirishima's brows furrowed and he couldn't help but muffle his laugh upon realization, "You mean Bakugou?"

I rolled my eyes in response and crossed my arms,"Ne, you're one to talk about replacing Darlings, last I checked, you still haven't even nailed yours yet." I retorted bluntly with a raised brow causing an imaginary arrow to shoot through the woman's heart. So brutal.

"I'm working on it." The hero whined.

"Work faster, you're not getting any younger."

Emi pursed her lips and took a step toward the horned girl, reaching up and smushing the girls crimson cheeks in her hand. "Says the century old teenager."

"Says the one with wrinkles."

The older female gasped and wrenched away from the younger girl dramatically, touching her face. "You take that back right now."

Kirishima watched as the horned girl and hero bickered back and forth before his head snapped in the direction a train sound came from, "I hate to interrupt you two but the train's coming?"

Ms Joke spun around and clapped her hands together with a grin, "Good looking out kid!" The woman reached tossed two large bookbags at our feet making us give her looks of confusion."I knew that lazy Eraser head wouldn't have prepared you two to go into Aokigahara first so I brought both of you hiking bags."

"Oh wow thank you ma'am !" Kiri yipped whilst I snatched the bag from the ground with a smirk. "Mama Joke to the rescue as always."

Stepping in the train we took our seat and got comfortable. "Alright listen up you two," Her voice got serious which made me raise a brow in curiosity. "From Aizawa's notes here, it's gonna take a day to reach our destination so we'll take a break once we're half way there so you two can gets some rest during the night. I'm gonna set some ground rules before we get there." Holding up one finger, "Stick together."
She sticks up her second finger, "Do as I say."
She then holds up a final finger, "And whatever you do, don't stray from the path, got it?"
I saluted whilst Kirishima nodded in understanding.

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Kirishima gazed at the beautiful mountain surrounded by a sea of teas, indicating that this was indeed the notorious Aokigahara forest.

"Everyone remembers the ground rules right?" Ms joke looked over her shoulder.

"Yeah, yeah! Let's just hurry up and get this over with before sundown." I mumbled hurriedly whilst the pro hero took the lead onto the main path into the forest. "As I already told you, it will take a few hours, maybe even a day on foot. since we left late, we'll most likely have to stop and set up camp."

"You don't have to answer this if you don't wanna but, why would your father have a facility in Suicide Forest. I mean with the monthly patrol, I'm surprised the authorities didn't find you first before Sensei..." Kirishima inquired, snacking on one of the many granola bars Ms Joke has put in the bag.