Chapter 16: Getting To Know One Another

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Okami once again found herself walking beside Shouta as they approached the UA entrance. Unlike the previous few days, where the school's exterior was relatively empty, today there was a dense crowd of nosy reporters trying to force their way into the school. Okami couldn't even see where the bottom of the gate met the concrete floor as there were so many people blocking the entrance.

She glanced beside her to see Shouta sigh with knitted brows and a deep frown on his face. "Stupid fucking press, they must have found out All Might works here..." the tired man next to her mumbled. Ignoring the chaos surrounding them, the Pro and his daughter pushed their way through the mass of people surrounding the high school.

Once inside the gate, Okami spotted her other father, Hizashi, who had split off from them earlier in an attempt to clear the ever-growing crowd of ignorant reporters and fans. Once reunited, the small family of three walked into the building together before going their separate ways again.

Okami opened the door to class 1A to find that most of the students, including Emika, were already in the classroom. The tall navy haired boy, Iida, was buzzing around the room telling others off for being 'disrespectful', the Pikachu kid, Kaminari, was having a seemingly intense conversation with Sero and the red spiky boy, Kirishima, about Cheetos and weed, and the shitty blonde was once again sitting back with his feet propped up on the desk as he taunted the broccoli kid in the seat behind him. There was also a dude with a tail reading a book in the front right corner next to the pink girl who was attempting to converse with a purple-haired girl who Okami assumed was listening to music from her phone.

Okami saw Emika in the back left talking civilly to the guy with an animal communication quirk, waving her hands chaotically in an over-exaggerated circle movement as she spoke. Okami walked over to the pair and sat down next to Emika. She launched herself at the wolf girl and latched herself around her in a hug. The friendly greeting was reciprocated as Okami sent a small wave to the quiet boy next to her friend. Just as Okami opened her mouth to speak, the morning bell rang, shutting everyone up. Well, everyone but the electric blonde who just continued his rant in the middle of the room.

However, he was quickly shushed by the death glare Aizawa shot his way as he entered the room, still dressed as a yellow caterpillar, crawling on the floor.

Aizawa stood at the front of the room and unzipped his sleeping bag, discarding it on the ground under his desk. "First things first, today you have to choose a class and vice representative," Aizawa grumbled, already looking like he wanted to go back to bed. "I don't care how you decide, just get it done by the end of the period," he turned around and grabbed a piece of chalk before writing on the chalkboard. He read aloud, "use this time to get to know each other more, then choose your reps." Aizawa slinked back into his sleeping bag and fell asleep, not moving from that position beside his desk.

No one dared to speak, all too frozen in shock from their homeroom teacher's strangeness. That was, until the electric blonde from before jumped up onto his desk and spoke to the class. "Let's have a QnA to get to know each other better!" Kaminari seemed excited about it so Okami wasn't against it. By the way Emika also stood up on her desk and shouted "Heck yeah! This is gonna be so fun!" one could assume she was also a fan of the idea.

"Wait, what about choosing class representatives!?" the blue-haired boy, Iida interjected, slashing his arms robotically.

"We can do that later, we have plenty of time!" Kirishima replied.

With that, the students moved their desks to the exterior of the room and sat in a large circle in the centre, Aizawa still snoozing by the door, undisturbed.

They decided to start with introductions, taking turns around the circle to say their name, quirk, and a random fact about themselves.

The electric blonde started them off. "The name's Kaminari Denki, my quirk is electrification and I really like pizza," Kaminari said enthusiastically, earning a few snickers from the girls. He was followed by a boy named Kirishima, a girl named Ashido and Okami and Emika's junior high classmate, Sero, who all seemed like good friends already.

The annoying spiky pomeranian went next only speaking his name with a huff of annoyance. Okami already wanted to punch him again for his arrogant attitude and obvious rudeness. After Bakugou, a few more students introduced themselves before it was Okami's turn.

"I'm Yamazawa Okami, my quirk is Hellhound and yes, Aizawa sensei is my dad," Okami spoke happily with an amused smile tugging at her lips. Emika, who was sitting next to her, went next.

"Mei Emika at your service," she saluted dramatically, "My quirk is Animal Shapeshifter and Oki here is my bestie!" Emika giggled, gesturing to Okami beside her. The introductions continued for a few more turns before they moved on to the questions.

They went around the circle again, this time asking a question each to someone else in the group. Most questions were about middle school, quirks or friends, though there were a few more invasive questions about romance and relationships from a certain pink girl and invisible girl.

Emika continued to talk about their time in middle school with Suki and how they became friends. In Okami's opinion, it was cute that Emika talked so highly of them. Okami also mentions said friend a few times in her answers. She also bragged about the time she won their junior high athletics carnival with Emika and everyone died laughing at her mention of Emika getting disqualified for accidentally using her quirk and bulldozing a teacher in the process. Said girl only replied with an annoyed grumble before eventually laughing too.

Okami could feel the curious gazes of her peers staring at both her and Emika. Before she could question it however, Kaminari leaned forward, grinning excitedly. "Soooo, Mei, Yamazawa, when can we meet this friend of yours!?" he asked expectantly.

"Yeah! I want to meet them too, they seem pretty manly from your stories!" Kirishima added. Several others agreed with a mix of hums and nods.

"Hold on a minute, does Akiko even go to UA? It would be hard for everyone to meet them if they don't." Sero reasoned.

"Yeah, they're in the hero course too!" Emika cut in, practically sparkling with enthusiasm. More than a few cheers were heard from their excited classmates and an equally excited Emika agreed to bring Suki to the classroom to introduce them later that afternoon. The questions and answers continued, everyone in high spirits (except a certain blonde) and everyone felt as though they knew their class pretty well.

Eventually, the questions stopped and they broke off into their own little groups talking about more random shit like afternoon plans and hobbies.

Okami had never appreciated her dad's laziness more than now.

The end of class quickly approached and with only five minutes remaining, Iida reminded them of their original task. They all agreed on a vote, suggested by Iida himself, and the results were somewhat expected, to Okami at least.

Most people voted for themselves but the winners were clear.

The vice rep, with a total of three votes was Emika. Okami was super happy for her friend and watched as Emika squealed and bounced in excitement. The class representative was, unsurprisingly, Iida. He had gotten four votes one of them being from Emika, herself. Iida waved his arms robotically as thanked the class at least a hundred times.

When the bell rang for first period, Okami was more than ready to get to work after that morning's chaos.

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