A Second Life

The day would start no matter how much one detests it. Students would need to attend school, just like a.d.u.l.ts go to work. Everything's lovely, but Kiyoko just never discerned one thing.

"Why can't I wear my pyjamas to school?"

"Um...cause it would make you fall asleep?"

"Then shouldn't I?"

"You're not getting the point Kiyoko-chan. You cannot sleep in the school."

"That's what I did yesterday, so I'll just wear these clothes and go to school."

Sumire looked at the little girl, dressed in kitten-printed pyjamas. Cute enough to commit crimes.

"No, you're changing."

"You're being controlling."

"I know."

"You won't get a boyfriend if you be like that."

"I could care less about it."

"You're impossible."

"I know."

"And you're fine with it?"

"Enough of that, so now are you going to change by yourself or should I do it?"

Kiyoko stared at Sumire for ten solid seconds before giving in.

"Fine, you change it."

The two girls got ready for the day set out.

On the way, the girls chatted.

"You said you slept in class yesterday."

"Yeah."

"The teacher didn't say anything about it?"

"Yeeah."

"And why is that?"

"I'll answer it if you carry me."

Sumire picked the girl into her arms and carried her while walking. Bakugou caught this sight and was spooked. Seeing Sumire early in the morning was not something he looked forward to...at least for now.

"What the hell is this?"

"Ah, Good morning Bakugou-kun." Sumire greeted the boy.

"Good morning Spikey." Kiyoko did the same but with a personal touch.

"WHO'RE YOU CALLING SPIKEY KID?"

"Who do you think it is, Spikey~?"

"I'LL FREAKING-"

"Uh huh, that's where you both stop." Sumire said with a smile that didn't reach her eyes. An ex-shinigami is, nevertheless, an 'ex-shinigami'.

" " Yes, ma'am." " The two of them were smart and shut up.

"Good. Now tell me how your teacher allowed you to sleep in class?"

"Simple. I showed her I was doing some algebra and fell asleep. There was a little hustle and bustle, but the principal was okay with it, so I get to sleep when I do the math.. That's why I needed pyjamas. Not a blue frock."

"Oh." Sumire didn't know what to say.

"They're just idiots." Bakugou found it funny. He didn't think it was normal for a first grader to do algebra just so that she could sleep.

"You're right, Spikey."

"CALL ME THAT ONE MORE TIME AND SEE WHAT I DO! YOU BRAT!"

"Let's see. And by the way, are you the one who made Sumire nee-chan angry?"

"...yeah."

"Didn't expect you had it in you. I'm shocked Spikey. You're more capable than you look!"

"...What the hell is wrong with you?"

"Okay, Kiyoko-chan, school's here. Bye now." Sumire sent the kid in with a peck.

Kiyoko did the same.

"Muah. Bye Sumire nee-chan! Bye Spikey!"

"YOU BRAT! YOU-"

"Bakugou-kun, let's get going."

"Tsk."

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They both reached the school. UA was as imposing as ever.

They got into the class and sat in their own seats. Bakugou was behind Sumire.

They both minded their own business. Sumire played with her iPad(?) and Bakugou, just stayed silent(!!!).

At long last, Bakugou started talking.

"Hey, you didn't tell me why you were angry about being called…" He paused, cursing himself for being a fool.

"Ah, it's nothing really. Just some bad memories."

"Tsk. Fine." 'bad memories my a.s.s. You practically eliminated me for that.'

"Sigh...can you not bring it up, please?" Sumire asked genuinely.

Who knew Bakugou Katsuki would get easily swayed by her serious eyes.

"Ok." 'Damn it! What the hell is wrong with me?'

"Thank you." Sumire flashed a 1000-watt smile and turned back to fiddling with iPad.

Hence, she was unable to see the rare, tomato red face of Bakugou.

Poor Bakugou, he had no idea why he is behaving this way.

Time passed, and Bakugou looked normal again, like he was about to murder anyone who talked to him.

All the members were here, just as the class was about to start, Sumire put her iPad away and Bakugou glared at everyone.

They had typical classes in the morning. English was particularly boring for the lot of them. Present Mic tended to use the grammar he never thought, hence very few understood.

"Okay, who wants to answer the question? Raise your hands!"

Sumire thought for a moment and decide to not raise her hand. She instead wrote the answer in her book and started doodling. Present Mic, who observed everyone though he didn't look like it, saw this.

"What are you doing, Azumi?" Present Mic asked, he was especially intrigued by this student since the entrance exam.

"Nothing, just this." Sumire replied. Present Mic saw the notebook, not the scribblings. Even a god would find it hard to see them when Sumire hides anything.

"You understood the content of this comprehension?" He murmured under his breath, in English, cause he was surprised.

"Yeah, wasn't that hard?She replied back in a Southern accent.

"Oh, can you answer all these questions then?"

"No problem." And she did.

Present Mic was overjoyed. Finally, someone was paying interest to the class, though it's not entirely true.

"Well, since you know the answers, why didn't you raise your hand?"

"Nobody likes a know-it-all. And I personally don't want that title." She said, looking at the class who were interested in anything but the class.

[Look at them, so hungry for drama...they would make fine writer, all of them.]

"Hm, don't worry about it." That was all the man could come up with.

"I won't."

"Good, do whatever you want. Just see class doesn't get disturbed..." the teacher felt guilty about highlighting the girl. No one likes being judged after all.

[Never thought Kiyoko-chan's trick would work. I don't see why I shouldn't take a break.] With that she slept, well started meditating…

The process repeated in all the classes and Sumire managed to sleep or meditate or whatever.

It was lunch now, and she didn't wake up.

Bakugou tsked and stood in front of her desk.

'What's he going to do?' The class was excited to see what he was about to do. The infamous Bakugou would do something notorious or not, they had to find out.

The person in question just glared at everyone and that was enough for everyone to back off. Iida wanted to intervene the moment anything was out of bounds, but he never had to.

"Oye, wake up. It's lunch time now."

"...mm…?" Sumire woke(?) and looked at Katsuki with questioning eyes. Katsuki couldn't resist the misty eyes and answered right away. "It's lunchtime."

"...oh. Arigato. Let's go." Sumire stretched and walked in a way what looked like sleepwalk till they reached the cafeteria.

As they were rather early today, there were few places left. Sumire just randomly sat on a chair, Bakugou followed and sat with her. She didn't mind his company. They both started eating the food they brought.

Sumire selected a fried fish, rice and some soup which had a lot of veggies. Bakugou on the other hand, started eating noodles, they looked really red.

"You really like spicy stuff, don't you?"

"...yeah, any problem."

"Nah, enjoy it."

After they had finished their lunch, Sumire offered him some peppermint. He took it without a word. They both went back to the classroom, since there was nothing to do here.

S.u.c.k.i.n.g on the peppermint candy, the lady started fiddling with her iPad again.

"What do you do with all the time?" Bakugou asked curiously, she was always stuck with it whenever she had free time.

"It's nothing. I'm just playing games." She was playing Minecraft and showed it to him.

"What's this?" Bakugou was puzzled.

"You don't know this?" Sumire was surprised. She would be stupefied if she knew that majority of the hero aspirants rarely played, they were very much into outdoors and fanfare and GOSSIPs. Even if they did, the games they engaged in would flaunt heroics. So Minecraft was new to Bakugou.

She briefly explained the game to him. Just like everyone, he was 's.u.c.k.e.d' into the game.

"No, no! Not like that!" Sumire couldn't stay still.

{ GAME OVER }

The screen displayed this message. Sumire quickly grabbed her iPad back before he exploded it.

"Shit! I was about to win."

"Yep. But the game is not that simple and it's your first time playing it. You did very well."

Sumire tried to cheer up the boy whose face is now black and smoke was rising from his head.

"Give it to me, I'll clear that f*cking level."

"Nah, you do it later. The class is about to start."

"Tch."

The entire class heaved a sigh of relief when they saw Bakugou back to being normal(?) again.

They were afraid that he'd start fighting or breaking things. He was pretty reckless after all.

The break was over, and everyone got to their seats.

Not much later, All Might came in.

"It's me. I came through the door like a normal teacher."

Sfx: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (by All Might).

[You came in 'normally'(?), ho...that laughter is anything but normal]