Shinsou X Neko Reader

Part 12-Meeting

          You woke to a knock on your door, and glanced out the window. Had you somehow overslept? It was still dark outside. The clock read that it was only four. You groaned. If this was Mina-

          Mina, overly bubbly and peppy burst into the room. You had half the mind to scratch her with your claws. Your claws. Suddenly, you saw a vision of cat-you scratching someone's arm, blood coming out of the wound. You gasped, mouth hanging open. Did you actually remember something that happened to you while in cat mode? A rush of memories, just barely out of your grasp, only flitting fragments of whatever transpired. A tub, a towel, Hitoshi's smile.

          "You ok? You've been standing super still not blinking for like two minutes it's TOTALLY creeping me out!" Mina looked at you, puzzled. 

           "Yea, I think I'm fine. It's actually 4 am. Care to explain why you're here, annoying me, instead of me sleeping peacefully in my bed?" You didn't have time for pleasantries. After the night you had, and work studies the next day, you wished only an emergency could have awaken you.

            Mina looked more than excited to share the reason. You sighed. "Well you see, I figured out how to make a new type of acid that's really sticky." You flinched back against the wall, half-expecting her to shoot more of her prototypes at you. She laughed at the movement. "It doesn't melt through things though! Isn't that cool? So anyway, I put it on you, and you didn't come back to talk to me about how to get it  off! How did you get it off without me? I don't know how you did that! Someone else must have gotten it off for you. Anyway, let's gooooo!" She tugged on your arm. "We are supposed to be in the common area already."

         "Why didn't you tell me that FIRST!" You yelled, pulling your jacket over your nightclothes in a rushed haze. 

          She took your hand and lead you out into the common area, where about a fourth of your class was waiting. "Hey, what's going on?" You asked. 

           "Work studies. Some of the heroes wanted us to get up early." Iida said. Oh, so that was what this was about. At 4 am. He was already handing out a pile of papers to each of the students, taking his role with a very no-nonsense attitude. "This shows where you are going to meet with the person you're interning with, and when you need to be there. All of the people up right now have to get to where they are going before five." He squeezed the bridge of his nose, lifting his glasses. "If you don't get there ready on time, you will not be allowed to intern with the hero. It's kind of like a test." He handed you a piece of paper. 

                 U.A. Gate by 5. That was fine; you had a whole hour to get ready and walk out. The paper said you should dress in your hero outfit and have eaten breakfast. Still, you had a whole hour. Some of the other students were already leaving, frantically rushing to book taxis, ubers, or the subway. You went to the cafeteria, and took some cereal, since the cafeteria wasn't really open yet. That was all that was available to eat outside hours, which would have been fine, except that you were lactose intolerant being a cat, and you had to eat it dry, crunching the flakes and struggling to gulp the messy clumps down. You considered adding water, but grimaced at the thought.

             Next, you changed into your hero costume; extremely tight to allow it to stay on when you turn into a cat, and be identifiable. It really accentuated your everything. You still had about a half hour until you had to be at the gate, but you felt no reason to wait around doing nothing, so you walked by the gate. Anxiety's a bitch. After about ten minutes, Hitoshi came over to you with a confused look.

           "Hey, what are you doing here?" you asked. 

          "I could ask you the same thing." Ugh.