Despite being in a different surrounding, Minato warmed up to his new home easily. It helped that he was living with three familiar friends of his and Shiina, who was a walking trainwreck, but he liked her company anyways.

Unfortunately, the weekend was over meaning he could no longer spend time with either of his friends as much except for Koromaru. He sighed in dismay. He hated school.

"You're not gonna eat breakfast?" Akihiko said, looking up from his orange juice.

"Nope," Shiina replied as she slipped on her shoes.

Ken gave her a worried look. "This isn't some sorta diet you're on, right, because you look perfectly fine—"

She interrupted him a scoff. "—Please Kenny baby, I'm more than just 'fine' and you know it. And I'm not on a diet so don't worry. I'm having my slave bring me food from Ihop so I gotta leave early."

Minato blinked, wondering if he heard wrong. "Your slave?"

"Just don't ask," Akihiko advised him, sipping his juice as he rubbed his forehead in a distressed manner.

Ken's jaw dropped. "You were actually serious about that slave bet?!"

"Of course I was," she snorted. "I've always wanted to have my own little bitch to play around with and Kaminari was the one who accepted it anyways."

Minato really really wanted to ask, but he knew better than to get sucked up into whatever madness that Shiina had created.

"Don't make him do anything illegal." Ken pleaded.

Again, she snorted. "Kenny, it's like you don't even know me! I'd never make someone commit a crime when I'm there to do it instead."

Akihiko groaned.

Minato was expressionless.

Ken just looked defeated.

Shiina was grinning evilly.

Whoever this Kaminari person was, Minato pitied him.

Shiina left soon after that after bidding them bye and hurried over to UA to get the delicious stack of chocolate chip pancakes she asked (ordered) Kaminari to get her.

And he didn't disappoint.

"Viola!" He mispronounced, proudly handing her the container that held her glorious meal.

"It's voila," she corrected, her heart-eyes never straying from the food. She removed the lid and breathed the delectable scent in. Oh god, it was heavenly. If Akechi were here now he'd be so jealous.

"I bought some breakfast for me too," he said, opening his own bag.

"Oooh, what'd you get?" She asked curiously.

"Blueberry pancakes," he replied with a hungry grin. He opened his container and took a strong whiff of the fruity aroma. At the top of his stack were a bunch of blueberries lathered with blueberry jam dripping down to the bottom. It smelled scrumptious, but not as good as Shiina's meal.

Her pancakes were topped with whipped cream and Hershey kisses and while Kaminari got butter for his pancakes, she had two small containers full of chocolate syrup. If Shouto were here, he'd probably lecture her about diabetes, but he wasn't here so he couldn't do anything to stop her now.

"This is soooo goood~" She moaned in delight. "I should have you buy me this everyday!"

"I wanna say 'yes' but my wallet says 'no'." Kaminari sweat dropped as he began cutting his pancakes into sloppily made pieces.

"You need to get a job then." She chimed.

"Trust me, I've been trying!" He whined.

She paused in her eating to give him a surprised look. Swallowing the pieces in her mouth she asked, "Wait, you're seriously trying to get a job?"

"Yeah," he said miserably. "My mom ranted about me spending all her money on video games and then she told me to get a job. She was serious about it too so I've been trying to get one but I can never pass the interviews, man. Just before the internships, I tried to apply for McDonald's but they rejected me!"

Her jaw dropped. "How bad are you to get rejected by McDonald's?"

He pouted dejectedly. "Pretty bad, I guess."

"Hmmm," Shiina put her thinking face on before she reached out for her phone to text Yusuke.

[Any job openings at work??]

[Yusuke: Several, our dishwasher was fired for trying to make a 'Marijuana Sundae' why?]

[Perfect. We might get a new coworker]

[Splendid. I'll be sure to alert our manager.]

[Thx bae 😘]

Shiina sent Kaminari a beaming look as she tucked her phone away. "How do you feel about working at Sweetie's?"

"The ice cream shop?!"

"No the sex shop, yes the ice cream shop." She snickered at the mortified look on his face. "There's a spot open now that our old dishwasher got fired for making a marijuana sundae—"

"—What."

"Yeah I know right? I only managed to get in 'cause the last guy was a druggie—that, and I'm also, like, super pretty and all." She said, shrugging. "The interview was easy for me but she sorta made me pee in a cup so you might have to do that too."

"Dude, what the heck?"

"It's okay, you get to wash your hands afterwards." She assured, dumping a whole bunch of chocolate syrup onto her pancakes.

"I guess I can work there," he shrugged. "Saitama Prefecture's right next to Tokyo anyways. What sorta questions were you asked during the internship?" He asked, leaning closer as if she was about to disclose some big secret.

"Wasn't really much of an interview," she snorted, remembering it. "She wanted to hire me on the spot 'cause I was hot. The only questions I remember being asked is if I've ever worked before and if I was a druggie."

His eyes bugged out. "Wait, so it's a 'pretty people' only sorta thing?! Do you think I'm cute enough? Aw man, this is discrimination against ugly people!"

"Chill," she placated. "You're gonna be a dishwasher so it doesn't matter if you're ugly."

"I'M UGLY?!" He shrieked, clutching his face in terror.

"You're good-looking, but nowhere near me and Yusuke's level." She stated in a matter-of-factly tone.

He frowned. "Is Yusuke that really hot guy you were eating with the last time I was there?"

"Yep."

His frown deepened even more. "Damn, you're right. That dude's so majestic... Like, seriously how does he do it?"

"He was born aesthetically pleasing." She replied, and it was true. She had seen the real Sayuri and baby Yusuke was goddamn beautiful.

"Lucky," he pouted. "When I was born, my mom said I looked like a rotten peach that was screaming."

She shrugged in sympathy. "My older brother said me and nii-chan looked like a creepy cabbage patch kids."

He suddenly gasped and it was just then that she realized her mistake. "Whoa, are you saying you have a twin brother?!" He said excitedly. "That's so cool! Do they go here?"

She let out a really panicked "UHHHH" when Jirou came to her rescue.

"Did any of you guys finish the internship packet?" She asked, plopping down on the chair beside Shiina. She immediately began rifling through her bag and pulled out a thick looking packet and flipped through the pages. "Because I just don't understand what question 31 wants us to do—"

She stopped talking when she saw their blank faces.

"You guys didn't do the homework, did you." She deadpanned.

"What..." Shiina blinked in pure confusion. "What homework?"

Jirou sighed heavily. "The homework we were supposed to do over the internship."

"We were supposed to do homework during our internship week?!" Kaminari wheezed, looking absolutely horrified.

"Yes," she said, clearly enjoying their pallid expressions. "Also, we'll be turning it in to Aizawa sensei too."

"Oh my god," Shiina croaked. Aizawa, of all the teachers. It just had to be the one teacher who her charms and persuasive words wouldn't work on.

"Shit." Kaminari cursed. "We're so screwed."

Shiina immediately reached out for her bag. Maybe there was still time for her to do it now, but just seeing that thick packet in Jirou's hands made her doubt it. How many questions were in that thing anyways?! Just as she began to unzip, the bell rang as if to signify that their lives were forfeit.

Jirou grimaced. "Pray that he forgets."

Shiina wanted to cry because there was no way he was gonna forget. It was Aizawa after all.

But then she realized something.

Since when did she start caring so much about school? It was weird, behaving like a decent student who cared. When she first came to UA, she bull-shitted practically everything. Everything except group projects because she didn't want her group mates to get bad grades because of her.

Things like forgotten homework assignments never used to faze her. She guessed that now that she was beginning to somewhat warm up to the idea of being a hero, it meant that she had subconsciously began taking her schooling seriously too.

She didn't know if that was a good thing or a bad thing.

When they entered the room, Aizawa wasn't there but everyone else was.

"BWAHAHAHA! REALLY? REALLY, BAKUGOU?!" Sero and Kirishima laughed hysterically. Shiina turned to see what was so funny only to nearly choke on her spit.

It was Bakugou. Without his spiky hair.

Not wanting to miss the chance to make fun of him, she darted towards their direction with a shit eating grin on her face.

"Woooow, Bakugou~" She sang teasingly, snapping a picture of him before he could stop her. "Nice haircut you got there. You're really nailing the whole 'good little church boy' look!"

"SHUT THE FUCK UP, MILK JUGS, AND DELETE THAT GODDAMN PICTURE!" He tried to snatch the phone from her but she had one hand pressed against his face to keep him away. His hands were literally steaming at this point.

"Whoa, watch the hands, Bakugou, you might burn Kiberi-chan's clothes!" Kirishima hissed with genuine concern, stealing a wary glance over at Mineta, who had yet to notice what was going on.

"That's probably what he's trying to do." Sero snickered.

"You shut up too!" The blonde barked. "The only pervert here is Milk Jugs!"

"Oh please Bakagou, you stare at my boobs almost as long as Mineta does." Shiina scoffed.

His face turned a furious shade of red. "No I fucking don't!"

"Someone's in denial~!" Sero sang.

"W-wow, Bakugou, I never knew that you had a perverted side too..." Kirishima said awkwardly.

"F-FUCK OFF, SHITTY HAIR, YOU STARE TOO!"

"AHAH!" Shiina and Sero cried out, pointing at the blonde.

"YOU JUST ADMITTED IT!" Sero laughed.

"DIEEEEE!"

All the humor left Shiina's body once Aizawa stepped in and ordered for everyone to quiet down and return to their seats. She sat there stiffly, just waiting for him to ask for the homework.

However, the world seemed to realize it's mistreatment towards her and finally decided to give her a break by making him miraculously forget to ask the class to turn in their internship packets. A huge bonus was that the nerds (Midoriya, Momo, and Iida) had also forgotten to remind him of them too.

Kaminari and Shiina shared a victorious glance as Aizawa left the classroom as Ectoplasm entered to begin their math lesson. The two waited patiently for lunch to come, where they immediately dashed for the library to do their work.

"Honestly, who came up with this crap?" Kaminari mumbled as he flipped over to the next page of the packet.

"I know right. 'Explain the benefits of hero internships and how their teachings can be implemented in real-life hero work'. Isn't that basically the same thing as number 9: 'How can you use the lessons taught to you from your internship in real life?'." Shiina grumbled.

"Exactly! I just copied down the same thing."

"Yeah, same here." As she said that, her stomach let out a low rumble. "Kaminari, gimme food."

"Yes, master." He said playfully. He pulled out a giant family sized bag of Doritos and set it out on the table. The two of them were at the very back of the library so nobody could see them breaking the rules at the moment.

There were still three more pages to do when the bell rang. They both snapped up to look at each other. Lunch was over.

"Fuck." They said simultaneously.

"Quick, who do we have next period?" Shiina asked.

"Uh, Midnight sensei." He answered hastily.

"Yes!" She fist-pumped. "We don't have to go to class then. We'll be fine as long as it's Midnight sensei."

"We're really just gonna skip?!"

"Uh yeah, she loves me. She wouldn't care if I skipped, trust me." She assured.

Kaminari put on a thoughtful face. "Hey wait a second... is that why you've been absent for her class a couple of times? Were you skipping?"

"Yep." She grinned proudly.

He gaped. "What were you even doing during those times?"

"Don't you mean who have I been doing?" She smirked.

He made a dying noise in the back of his throat.

She laughed, not too loudly though lest the librarian hear her. "I'm kidding, dude."

"Oh thank god." He placed a hand over his heart.

She rolled her eyes at his antics. "Let's just finish this already."

They resumed their work dutifully. Everything was going great until they reached the last page.

"I-interview questions...?!" Kaminari whispered in abject horror, his eyes scanning the paper. "Oh fuck me, we were supposed to interview our mentors?!"

"We need a signature from them too..." Shiina added in a hollow voice, her dead eyes staring at the end of the page where the signature was needed.

"I hate my life," he moaned in despair, dipping his head back so it hung over the chair.

"We're not doomed yet," Shiina said with a sudden bout of determination. "We'll just make up the answers like we've been doing. As for the signatures... we'll figure that out later."

"Okay, okay," he muttered in agreement. "Good idea."

Answering the questions weren't that hard for her. She just answered them as Hawks would've and googled some things like 'why did you want to become a hero?' (honestly who thought up these super lame and generic questions?).

The only thing she had to do left was the signature part...

Not knowing what else to do, she begrudgingly pulled out her phone and texted her annoying ex-mentor.

[HAWKS!!!!]

[Chicken Wings: Hey!! :D How's my favorite phantom thief doin???]

[Send me a pic of ur signature so I can copy it]

[Chicken Wings: Ahhh looks like someone just realized they had a whole packet to do huh]

[u KNEW about it?!]

[Chicken Wings: Yep!👍 Tokoyami came in to interview me the day I let u off]

[Chicken Wings: He thought u already finished it so he didn't remind u]

[Chicken Wings: I woulda corrected him buuuuut I forgot to😊]

[ajfhfdfhhfb i hate u sO MUCH!!!]

[One day while ur out flying someone's gonna mistake u as an actual bird and shoot u down 😤]

[Chicken Wings: Awwwww ur so sweet to me 🤗]

[GIMME UR SIGNATURE OR ILL TELL ENDEAVOR UR BEING MEAN TO ME]

[Chicken Wings: Yes ma'am.]

She really hated to pull the Endeavor card but desperate times called for desperate measures. Within seconds the picture was sent to her and she immediately grabbed a spare sheet of paper to practice copying it (but not before sending him a 'thanks' though, she may be a bitch, but she was a bitch who knew her manners).

Kaminari, who didn't have his mentor's phone number and had given her an odd look when he realized that she did, went to google images to look for a signature to copy. Shiina wished she had thought of that before going to Hawks.

"And done!" He exclaimed, throwing his pen against the table's surface.

"And there's still... five more minutes until Midnight's lecture is done. We should head over to class now." Shiina told him. They began packing their things and when the librarian wasn't looking, they sneaked out of the room and went to class.

All eyes were on them the second they stepped into the room. Shiina tried her hardest to ignore her brother's hardened stare as she smiled innocently at a smirking Midnight.

"And where have you two been~?" She sang teasingly.

"Here and there," Shiina replied in an equally teasing tone.

"Let me guess," the older woman purred. "You made use of the closet on the top floor at the farthest west wing?"

"Perhaps."

"Smart move. Nobody ever goes there."

Shiina made a mental note of that.

At that point, Kaminari was steaming and so was Shouto, but for a different reason. As they returned to their desks, Mineta hissed furiously at his beet-faced friend, "You lucky traitor, I can't believe you!"

"It wasn't like that," Kaminari whispered hastily. "We were trying to finish our internship homework."

Mineta suddenly paled, "We had homework?"

— ❤ —

"I am here!" All Might announced in his usual grandiose fashion, hands on his hips and everything. "And the reason for that is... your basic hero training! It's been a while, boys and girls! How is everyone?!"

"Not much of an entrance," Sato mumbled. "I'd expect more after a break."

"Maybe he ran out of shticks?" Kirishima guessed.

All Might pretended not to hear them. "As an immediate follow-up to your internships, today's activity is a playful one. A rescue training race!"

Iida's hand went up. "Shouldn't rescue training be conducted at USJ?!"

"That place is for disaster rescues in particular," All Might clarified. "But what did I say? That's right, a race. This is field Gamma! It's a dense spread of factories that wind together to create an intricate network of maze-like alleys! You'll split up into teams and each team will be going one at a time! I'll send up a distress signal from somewhere inside, and you will start at the border! It's a race to see who can reach and rescue me first!" He then pointed at Bakugou. "Naturally, keep the destruction of property to a minimum!"

"Stop pointing at me!" Bakugou hissed like an offended cat.

The first team to go up first was Shiina, Bakugou, Mineta, Kirishima, and Uraraka. As they stationed themselves at the starting line, the two girls made sure to use Kirishima and Bakugou as a sort of divider from Mineta, who looked to be scheming something dirty.

"Ready..." Shiina gripped the edge of her mask. "Set... GO!"

Tullia emerged in a flourish of flames, causing a few kids to dive to the side to avoid being burned. Grinning, Shiina jumped into Tullia's awaiting arms before the pair zoomed away, now in the lead.

"BYEEEEE, LOSERS!" She blew raspberries at them and laughed at Bakugou's furious expression.

"YOU'RE NOT WINNING THIS, YOU HEINOUS BIIIIITCH!" He howled, blasting himself forward with his explosions.

Shiina's eyes bugged out at the speed he was going. Quickly, Tullia moved to the side to avoid being hit but a part of his explosions managed to burn the Persona's shoulder.

"Ow!" Shiina cried out, feeling the damage of it. "Fuck you!" She shouted, jumping off of Tullia and tackling him to the ground.

"Watch it, Milk Jugs!" He snapped at her.

"MARIN KARIN!"

"OH FUCK NO!"

Bakugou rolled to the side and successfully avoided getting hit from the accursed Marin Karin that he detested so much. Quickly he got up to his feet and aimed a punch at her face, but she blocked it and whacked him on the nose.

With a growl, he prepared to kick her only to be interrupted by a sudden proclamation: "AHAH! I'VE GOT YOU NOW! TAKE THIS!"

They whirled around to see Mineta hurling his... balls at them. Immediately, they tried to dodge each attack only to bump into each other and fall to ground.

"Dammit, get off me, Milk Jugs!" Bakugou snarled, trying to push her off of him. But he couldn't. It was as if she was stuck to him.

"I'm trying, asshole, but—Oh shit!" She cursed. "Dammit, one of his balls is stuck to us!"

"What, where?!"

"Stomach!"

Bakugou looked down and turned red. "I can't see shit! Your fuckin' boobs are in the way!"

She groaned in annoyance and heaved herself into a sitting position, Bakugou following suit. The two were pressed uncomfortably close to one another now and no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't dettach themselves.

"Dammit, Mineta, when we get ourselves out of this mess, you're DEAD!" Shiina threatened the trembling boy.

"It wasn't supposed to be like this!" He sobbed. "Bakugou, you lucky bastard! I hate you!"

"Oh go fucking drown yourself in tears for all I care, get rid of this shit!" The blonde ordered.

Mineta didn't seem to hear. He was too busy sobbing.

"HEY, GRAPE SHIT!" Bakugou called out to him.

He was still weeping.

"Oh my fucking god," Shiina muttered under her breath. She moved positions in order to get comfortable but stiffened when something hard brushed against her leg. "You're..."

"What?" Bakugou huffed impatiently.

Her face turned as red as her hair. "Are you seriously getting HARD right now?!"

"WHAT?!"

"NOW'S NOT THE TIME TO GET A BONER, YOU PERVERT! WE NEED TO FIND A WAY TO GET OUTTA THIS MESS!"

"SHUT UP! I DON'T—I'M NOT—JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP, MILK JUGS!"

Shiina tried to pull away from him. "That's it, I'm getting away from you!"

"D-dammit, stop moving, we're gonna—fuck!" They both fell down once again, but this time he was on top of her.

"What is going on here?!" A familiar gasp sounded from above. The two looked up to see Uraraka floating up ahead, staring at the scene in horror and embarrassment.

As if things couldn't get worse, Kirishima appeared next and instantly froze, his cheeks flushed like a little boy who had just walked in on his parents doing the do.

"Y-you guys... In the middle of an exercise...?" He blushed, looking away.

"IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK!" They screamed.

Uraraka gaped at them. "B-but I heard you! Bakugou said that you guys were gonna f...f... you know what!"

"I meant to say 'fall' dammit!" Bakugou barked. "We're fuckin' stuck alright? Because of that midget over there!" He jutted his chin towards Mineta, who was full on bawling now.

"What do you mean?" Kirishima tilted his head as Uraraka slowly lowered herself to the ground.

"His stupid ball thing!" Shiina fumed. "It got us stuck together!"

"Ball? Where, I don't see anything on you guys?" Kirishima frowned.

"That's because goddamn Milk Jugs' BOOBS are in the fucking WAY!" Bakugou yelled.

"ARE YOU SERIOUSLY PINNING THIS ON ME! YOU WERE THE ONE WHO BUMPED INTO ME!"

"HELL NO, I WASN'T! THAT WAS ON YOU!"

"Guys, guys!" Kirishima cut in before they could start strangling one another. "Don't kill each other okay? Uraraka-chan and I will get Mineta to undo this. Then we can get back to the race."

"Oh no," Uraraka shook her head. "I'm not going near that thing. Sorry, Kirishima-kun."

"That's... understandable." He said with a grimace. "Okay, I'll handle it then."

"Make it quick, Shitty Hair," Bakugou mumbled, making absolute sure to look away from Shiina's boobs. "I can't stand this bullshit."

Shiina snorted. "Yeah right, tell that to your super hard boner right now."

Uraraka let out a scandalized gasp.

"Just—shut up." Bakugou said through gritted teeth.

Meanwhile, Kirishima wasn't having the grandest of times trying to talk to Mineta.

"Come on, man! Just stop crying, it's not that big of a deal..." He tried to comfort.

"Not that big of a deal?!" Mineta hissed with reddened eyes. "That feral gremlin gets to enjoy Kiberi's soft pillows! IT'S NOT FAIR! IT SHOULD ME ME! WAAAAAAHHHHH!"

Kirishima sighed and put his hands on his hips. "How about this, he won't get to... er, enjoy... the, um, 'pillows' anymore if you removed your Quirk."

A determined glare suddenly appeared in the smaller boy's face. "I got a better idea," he sneered before a lecherous grin crawled over his ugly features. "Lemme get a feel of Shiina's boobs and then I'll—"

Kirishima activated his Quirk, his face darkening as he stared him down as if daring him to continue.

Mineta gulped, looking fearfully at his hardened arms. "N-never mind... I-I'll go undo it now..."

Kirishima's face brightened. "Thanks man!"

In the end, the one to win the race was Uraraka, who ran away when Mineta came to detach Shiina and Bakugou. Second place came to Bakugou, then Shiina, then Kirishima, and then Mineta who had been kicked into a set of pipes by the red haired girl.

After the exercise was over, they retired to their respective locker rooms.

"So did anything happen between you and Bakugou-kun, Kiberi-san?" Momo asked curiously as she began to slip out of her costume.

"Huh?"

"Ah, well, when Uraraka went passed the finish line, she was mumbling something about you and Bakugou-kun..." She explained.

"Yeah what was that? I've never seen your face so red." Jirou turned to Uraraka, who was frozen.

"Nothing happened between me and the pomeranian," Shiina grumbled as she switched back to her school uniform in a quick flash. "It was all shitty Mineta's fault!"

"Speaking of him..." Jirou muttered lowly, giving everyone a knowing look.

The girls suddenly turned serious as Jirou's earjack discreetly pointed at a hole in the wall.

Hagakure balled her fists. "Ooh that little!"

"Lemme handle it," Shiina sighed heavily. She walked over to the wall and shouted loud enough for the boys on the other side to hear. "Sho-chan! Mineta's being a pervert again!"

"You little—!"

"T-T-Todoroki, wait, please don—AAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!"

"Thank you, Sho-chan!" She grinned.

Shouto just grunted something in reply, still irritated with the pervert.

Mina swooned at how protective he was, completely misinterpreting everything.

Momo, pleased, smiled and used her Quirk to create a poster and some thumbtacks. She stuck the poster over the hole, successfully blocking it from the boys' side.

It was a job well done.

— ❤ —

The day was finally over with. After Aizawa came in for homeroom and asked for their internship packets (Shiina and Kaminari had completely finished theirs), they were let out.

"Sorry Sho-chan, I gotta go work in a few hours, you'll be okay right?" Shiina said as the exited the gates.

Shouto nodded. "Yes. I received a message from Kurusu saying he wanted to hang out, so I'll be fine."

She almost tripped over a rock. "Y-you're gonna hang out together?!"

Even Ken looked shocked by it.

Shouto, blank-faced as ever, nodded in confirmation. "Is something wrong with that?"

"You're gonna hang out with him... willingly?" Shiina asked slowly as if to make sure.

Another nod.

"What are you guys... gonna do...?"

"Stuff." He shrugged.

"Stuff?" Ken echoed. "That's what he said? Just 'stuff'?"

"Yeah."

Shiina and Ken exchanged a weary look. "Riiiiight," Shiina stretched the word out before forcing herself to smile. "You guys have fun then, okay?"

"We will." Shouto said.

"Weird," Shiina muttered as they parted ways. "I wonder what they're gonna do."

"Akira's probably going to make him some cold soba." Ken chuckled in amusement.

"You're right."

When they arrived to their shared apartment, Minato was the first to greet them with his nearly monotonous tone.

"We're home!" Shiina exclaimed, before pausing.

Home? When did she start referring to Ken and Akihiko's apartment as 'home'? She didn't know, but she didn't exactly dislike it either. It left a warm feeling in her chest so she didn't argue.

This was her new home now.

— BONUS! —

"So what is it?" Shouto asked once he met up with Akira, who was fidgeted nervously with his bag. Morgana peeked his head out, but even he was quite. It wasn't that hard for Shouto to realize that something was wrong.

"Um, well... this is sort of hard to say..." Akira began, letting out a soft sigh.

"Just go out with it." Shouto said blankly.

The older boy let out a weak laugh. "Hah..."

Morgana finally spoke up. "Akira's been proven innocent of his past crime, so his probation's gone. Which means..."

"...I have to go home." Akira finished.

"...Oh..." Shouto said, swallowing thickly. "Does... Does Shiina—"

Akira cut him off with a shake of his head. "She doesn't. Neither do the others. It's just you for now..."

"I see..." Shouto frowned. As much as he hated to admit it, he knew that his sister and Akira had a very close relationship and that she'd most likely be devastated to hear about his departure. Hell, even Shouto felt somewhat saddened to hear of the news.

"Please don't tell her," Akira pleaded. "I want to tell all of them myself. Tomorrow after school. If you don't mind, I'd like you to be there too for Shiina's sake."

"Of course," he replied automatically.

Akira smiled at him. "Thanks."

"Whatever."

Akira chuckled and patted him on the shoulder. "You're a good kid, Todoroki. I'm glad to have you as my confidant, as short as it was."

"Don't call me a kid," he mumbled, shrugging his hand off. "Out of curiosity though... Where do you live?"

Akira's face fell. "You're not gonna come over and kill me, are you?"

"Who knows."

"I'm definitely not giving you my address..."

Shouto rolled his eyes. "I wasn't asking for your address."

"Not like you'd need it," Akira said sheepishly. "My hometown's pretty small. It won't be that hard to find out where I live."

"Are you tempting me?" Shouto asked with a raised brow.

"N-no!"

Morgana interrupted them with an aggravated groan. "Just tell him where you live already."

Akira sweat dropped. "Fine then... I live in a small town called Inaba. It's nowhere special, but... it's... home. I guess..."