Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 149 - I lost my soul

Luckily, Aizawa had the hindsight to call Shuzenji to the gym before the entire exercise started, and she wasted no time in healing Midoriya and Shindo, before checking the four students to make sure that they weren't injured from the falling rock formation. While the black haired male was fine and had no major injuries, Shuzenji still stated that he had to sit out for a round or two due to how hard Midoriya kicked him in such a sensitive area.

"Hey, kiddo." Fukukado glanced over at the greenette, "Want to explain why you looked like you were trying to murder my student?"

Midoriya glared at Fukukado and gritted his teeth, growling as he narrowed his eyes. The teachers were all taken aback; sure, he might be a little hesitant to listen to instructions sometimes, and usually took things way too seriously, but Midoriya was usually never outright hostile to a teacher.

"It's not like him to be so hostile..." Jiro muttered, as Iida dryly replied, "Let's just say... he had a bad encounter with him."

"You're a UA student! By attempting to kill another student, you're acting in ways that cause its dignity to decline -" Shishikura took a step back as Midoriya glared at him, baring his teeth, but Aizawa just stepped in between them, trying to diffuse the situation, "Midoriya, you're being overly aggressive. Go sit down and cool your head."

Midoriya looked a bit hurt by Aizawa's words, and the boy drooped his head slightly, like a kicked puppy, before he turned around and walked to the bench by the side of the gym.

"Sensei... isn't that a little harsh? I don't think he meant any harm..." Kirishima spoke up, and Aizawa just sighed, "I should have known."

"Known what?" Kaminari asked, and Aizawa turned to the students, "Doesn't matter now. Go back to your fights."

Aizawa turned, and gazed at where the boy was sitting silently, all alone. Midoriya was constantly distracted, most likely stressed due to the addition of students he wasn't too familiar with, and when one of his friends had gotten hurt, Midoriya had just ended up hyper fixating on whoever had hurt his friend. First, it had been with Shishikura with Monoma, then Shindo with Shinsou, Yoarashi, Todoroki, and Shiozaki.

But whatever it was, at the moment, Midoriya was far too dangerous to be left on the field. If one of the other students ended up doing something that would set them off, it might be too late until one of the teachers intervened. Plus, when he ended up being a hero, there wouldn't be anyone there to stop him from going too far, and there was no doubt that the Hero Commission would use it as an excuse to pull Midoriya out of the hero course.

He needed to give Midoriya some time to sort out his thoughts before they could help him solve the problem.

"Mic, make the next set of groupings."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes." Aizawa growled.

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After several more rounds of battles, the teachers finally called a water break. Shinsou quickly snatched his water bottle up, hearing Utsushimi rambling about her work study with Uwabami to Yaoyorozu and Kendo, while Monoma tried to rile Yoarashi up, with the Shiketsu student not understanding what the blonde wanted and just taking all of his words as compliments.

"Hey, Zuku." Shinsou sat down next to Midoriya, and Midoriya let out a small rumble from the back of his throat in response.

"You know... Aizawa-sensei and the other teachers mean no harm by pulling you out for the time being." Shinsou stated, taking a sip of water as he shuffled closer to the green haired boy. The lavender haired boy took a larger gulp of water, before he turned to Midoriya, "You just want to protect us, don't you?"