Shinsou X Neko Reader

Part 3-New Friends

          The bell rang. Finally, lunchtime! You and the rest of the class rush out of the door with hunger. Training to be a hero sure was draining! You grab your food and look for a spot to sit. Most of the time, you sit at whatever table is empty, since most of the students already figured out their friend groups, and you weren't really in any of them. You sat next to Denki when he wasn't near Bakugou, who yelled at you almost constantly when you were near him. Denki said he got used to it, and he didn't really mean it (usually), but you were just too sensitive to put up with that nonsense all the time.

           Lunch was pizza with a side of soup, which you thought was a weird combination, strawberries, and a salad.

            Today, Bakugou was yelling as loudly as ever directly at Denki, and you didn't want to be near him. There were no empty tables today. Where would you sit? 

            "Hey hero student, care to sit with a nobody like me from general studies? You look like you want a place to sit. Probably not, I'm sure you have other hero course friends. Forget that I asked..." A guy to the right of you said. 

          You stop, unsure of what to do. Did he want you to sit there or not? Either way, you had to sit somewhere. You sat down, uncertain of what he would do. 

           You sit there for a minute and realize pretty soon that he has no interest in talking to you; or at least pretending to be uncaring. All he is doing is staring down at his phone. You start eating, and study him more. He has light purple hair with matching eyes and white pupils. Wow, those light pupils were unlike anything you'd ever seen. It was the type of thing you could look at for a long time and still be astounded with. Unlike most of the male students at U.A., he didn't have a ton of muscle, but nonetheless more than your average teen. "Oh! You're that guy I bumped into in the hallway! I'm so sorry if I made you late to class that day." He just stares at you, puzzled, and goes back to his phone. 

            "Whatever."

         The more you looked at him, the more you wanted to. He was kind of cute. Of course by that, you meant you thought he was really quite hot. He exuded exhaustion and uncaringness, but you couldn't help but wonder if there was hope or aspirations buried underneath there somewhere. For heaven's sakes, he was at U.A., so he had to be more than met the eye.

        About 5 minutes until the end of lunch, you attempt talking to him again. "Hey, are you going to eat? We only have a few minutes left of lunch. You can have my soup if you want, I'm full." You push the bowl towards him. 

          "I don't want your charity, hero student. Leave me alone." He huffs, pushing off the table and leaving for somewhere, then pauses and talks in a gentler tone before heading away, "...but thank you."

         Two days later, you find yourself sitting next to him again at lunch. He's pretty untalkative, but it's better than sitting by Bakugou and taking his abuse. Denki comes over as well, seeing you 'made a new friend'. Through the next few days, you learn that his name is Hitoshi Shinsou, and he's an 'I don't want to talk about it' kind of guy. Pretty much all you know about him is his name, that he is in class 1-C, and he won't tell you his quirk because he thinks you won't like him anymore. Not that he cares, according to him. His quirk is probably something dumb or silly, embarassing. At least it wasn't obvious when you first met him, you assure him, trying to comfort him, but that just made him sink deeper into himself. You feel sorry for him. Being a cat had its ups and downs, but at least you weren't quirkless like he may be.

      Slowly, you learn even more about him. He wanted to be in the hero class, but his quirk didn't let him get enough points in the entrance exam. He was always sleepy and never hungry, although sometimes he had tea or coffee during lunch. You always pestered him about why he looked so sleepy and why he didn't eat lunch, but he never told you. You had no 'classes' with him, other than lunch. You only ever sat at this table now. Even Denki started hanging out with you pretty regularly, finally realizing no company was better than bad company.

       You look up at lavender locks hopefully. "Hitoshi, do you like cats, by any chance?" He stared at you, as if that was a dumb question, and sipped his tea with an eyebrow raised.

     "Nah, me neither," you laughed off, judging his reaction. Too bad. He had seemed like a cat guy.  "So anyway, Shinsou, are you looking forward to the sports festival?" You asked. 

Denki chimed in. "Yea, seeing all those heroes fighting it out while you general classers can just lean back and watch them from the stands." 

         Shinsou scowled. "Actually, believe it or not, I was thinking I might be able to-"

         Denki interrupted him. "Who do you think will win? I think it would be Todoroki. TWO powers in one? I mean-" 

        Shinsou pushed his chair back angrily and left you both, clealry upset about something. Did he dislike Todoroki for some reason? Or had it been something else you had said? You couldn't make heads or tails of it.

        "Hey, what the heck man, you interrupted him." You acuse Denki. That was the only thing you could think of. Considering how little he started conversations, maybe it had meant a lot to him that he was trying to speak up and was silenced.

        "Geez, didn't know he was so sensitive." He replies. 

               "Well he wanted to be in the hero class, so you talking about him just sitting in the stands while we get to fight probably made him real angry." Realizing what he had done after you explained, Denki is left with a horrified expression on his face, and gets up and runs in the direction that Shinsou left, no doubt going to try and apologize. By now, it was probably too late anyways, and he was who-knows-where.

        Great. 

         Now you are alone with no one to talk to.

        You knock your empty plastic water cup off the edge of the table.

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