"So…" I say, trailing off while looking around at the crowd of class 1-A students surrounding me, Himi, and Eri in the mall courtyard. "Would someone care to explain exactly why we're here?"
"Camp shopping, duh!" Toru shouts with a voice full of excitement that her waving arms mimic, only to stop and blush after she notices the stares she's getting from the mall passerby. Stares directed at her instead of just her general direction since I finally got around to testing her quirk! All it took was a laser pointer and Himi drinking some of her blood to figure out that what she actually has is an emitter quirk that she never figured out how to turn off instead of a mutation. Thanks to the intimate knowledge of Toru's body that Himi gained after turning into her for a week the three of us managed to figure out how to deactivate it!
It's honestly kind of ridiculous just how terrible most quirk councilors are; between Momo, Denki, and Toru, I really have to question if anyone actually cares about labeling quirks correctly. Like that one guy in the General Studies course whose quirk is labeled as Brainwashing when it's clearly Mind Control! Seriously, what kind of quirk councilor can't tell the difference between the two!? The only thing that connects them is the fact that they both affect a person's mind! And in Mind Control's case, there are so many different ways that a person could be controlled that it might not even control the mind! Maybe they're just messing with the signals the brain is sending out, or maybe they're being sent hallucinations that are only targeting them, making them act out and seem like they're being controlled! Lazy idgits!
Where was I going with this again?
…Oh yeah! Quirk councilors and how I'm better at their jobs than them. I'm probably going to ask Shiggy to revamp the criteria necessary to get a quirk counseling licence, because the current people who have them are just pathetic.
Anyways, tangent thoughts over, back to the mall!
"Yeah, but I meant more like why are we here," I gesture to myself and the girls, only one of who looks interested in our current environment. The other has her eyes closed with a happy expression on her face while she drinks from a juice box. It's adorable, so I reach out a hand to pet Himi on the head, which she leans into without taking her lips off of the straw for her blood. "I mean, UA already purchased the stuff I'm going to be allowed to take to the camp, they refuse to give me any money for an allowance, and I'm not allowed to do crime!" I let out an exaggerated sigh, because really, not being allowed crime is the biggest problem I have. Sure, I got away with killing Stain, but that's only because of the backlash it would have caused if UA or the government punished me for taking out one of their number one public problems. But that was months ago! I want to do something illegal! Stupid Nezu and stupid game! Shiggy needs to get off his ass and rescue/kidnap the three of us already!
Toru doesn't respond to my completely valid complaints, instead leaving it to her pink skinned bestie to answer. Which she does, with her fists planted on her hips and confidence radiating off of her, she declares, "We knew that if we left you and your girlfriend at the dorms while we all went shopping, the entire place would reek of sex when we got back!"
"…"
The other students give her looks that firmly state that they were not thinking that was the reason we were with them. It's also a completely ridiculous thing to claim! Eri has her own room in the dorms in Himi and I's suite, so of course we'd avoid that area. Therefore only most of the dorms would smell like blood and sex!
Of course, before I can explain this to the girl who I'm pretty sure is in a relationship with my sister (Himi refuses to confirm or deny it whenever I ask), Momo steps forward to explain. "Usagi is here to show the public that the villain rehabilitation program is working as intended, and that in less than half a year in UA's care he and Himiko can be trusted to not act out on any criminal impulses they might have while in public."
Himiko immediately finishes off her blood juice box before spinning on her heel and reaching a hand up to her messy buns, where she undoubtedly has a knife hidden away. Somehow. "Oh boy, here I go killing again!"
Momo doesn't even blink as she reaches out to grab the blonde by the back of her iconic sailor uniform. "No. Bad Himiko. No killing." Himi just looks over her shoulder at the taller girl before crossing her arms and pouting adorably. After keeping a hold of her for a minute and not feeling her try to get away, Momo finally lets my girlfriend go before turning a suspicious eye on me and raising an admonishing finger. "No chaos shenanigans either, Usagi!"
I hold a hand to my chest in mock offense and open my mouth, only for her to cut me off before I can get started. "Yes, that includes glitter bombing people, places, or things. Pickpocketing people and transferring the stolen item or items to others and causing fights by telling the person you stole from that the other individual stole from them, is also prohibited." She closes her eyes and takes a deep breath before letting it out in a long suffering sigh. "I find it utterly ridiculous that I need to say this, but using Eri as a justification for illegal, immoral, or otherwise unethical actions is also forbidden."
I cross my arms and look away, now pouting as hard as Himi was before she started snickering at the list of things I'm not allowed to do. "Sure, take the fun out of everything, why don't you…"
She just gives a small shake of her head before turning to Tokoyami. "Would you mind keeping an eye on the three to keep them out of too much trouble? There aren't many of our classmates who can handle the responsibility."
The bird headed boy nods even as the shadow-made individual living within his body pops out. "Wouldn't Tsu be a better choice considering how rare it is for her to lose her composure?" Maleficent Nightingale - as Dark Shadow wished to be called after her and Tokoyami came to the agreement that she should have a real name - asks.
Momo sighs while side-eying the frog girl who is the picture of innocence. "Yes, but she's just as likely to join them in their shenanigans as she is to stop them."
The frog girl doesn't really have anything to say in her defense since she knows it's true, just letting out a neutral 'kero' in response to the accusation. Though what Momo is probably thinking of is that time Aizawa asked her to find Himi and I for whatever reason and stumbled upon the three of us in a 'compromising' position with Midnight. Sure, we were just comparing our Shibari techniques, but despite what some people would tell you, clothing does detract from the experience! Not that Momo stayed to figure out what was going on. After opening the door and seeing three naked students with their equally naked teacher, she promptly said that it wasn't her problem, slammed the door closed, and walked away.
Anyways, that's why Momo doesn't trust Tsu to keep an eye on us. Which is understandable.
A few minutes of socially acceptable mingling later, the class separates to go their separate ways to prepare for the summer training camp. Which leaves me, Himi, and Eri with Tokoyami and Maleficent. We just stare at each other for a few moments before I finally break the silence. "So, what do you want to do? Because we're good on supplies."
"As are we," the bird boy reports calmly before looking at the bird girl. "Maleficent?"
The quirk shrugs. "I've got books and your phone to keep me occupied, so I'm good too." Tokoyami hums in acknowledgement before looking back at me and Himi. So, with none of us really having anything to do here, I choose to instead look at le' child. The others follow my gaze, and upon realizing that she's the center of attention, Eri points to the food court.
"I'm hungry!"
I nod and bow deeply to the smoll horned overlord. "As thy wish, milady." I then proceed to pick her up above my head and rush towards where I can smell pizza. "Onwards! For cheesy goodness!" The other three follow at a more sedate pace, and before long we're all seated at one of the very few boothed tables in the food court and chowing down on an extra large meatlover's pizza. Sure, Himi and I had to threaten the people who were just sitting and talking in it, but even Tokoyami silently agreed that it was necessary! I mean, there were only two of them here, why did they need a whole booth?
We've each barely finished our first slice before someone comes to our table and shoves Tokoyami deeper into the booth and steals his seat. "Move over, noob." The boy opens his mouth to admonish our guest, but when he catches sight of just who it is he's too shocked to make sound come out of it.
Said guest casually swipes a piece of our pizza for themselves and takes a large bite out of it before turning his red eyed glare on me. "Been a while, Midosagi."
I nod in agreement with our addition's statement. "Indeed it has, Shigaraki."
Then, without warning, another body drops into the booth from above, landing on Tokoyami's other side and making the boy jump in his seat. "Damn, we really need ta' stop lettin Giri take days off." The new,new addition says as she claims her own slice from the rapidly depleting pizza, making me think that we really should have gotten another one. She gives me a nod in greeting before taking a bite then saying hello to my girlfriend after swallowing. "Hey, Toga."
I pout at her. "Why does Himi get a hello and I just get a nod?"
"Cause she scares the fuck out of me," Sky says point blank. Which is understandable, really. Himi was left alone without me for a few weeks, and there's only so much that Shigaraki and Kurogiri could do to keep her from indulging in her blood fetish more than usual. In a nonsexual context, I mean. Like how she told me that she died one of my villain outfits red with the blood of a rabbit woman so that we could match after we're allowed to go back to villainy. Sky wouldn't have been as desensitized to Himi's antics as One was forced to be, so it makes sense that she'd be scared of her. Especially with how queasy she gets around blood. Something that really isn't suited for someone who's a part of a villain organization, but oh well. We all have our 'quirks'. Heh.
On to more important matters though! I lean forward and put my elbows on the table while interlacing my fingers, all of us completely ignoring the shivering form of Tokoyami and Maleficent wrapped around him reassuringly. "So, Shigaraki, tell me. What's been going on with the LoV while I've been gone?"