Catch me if you can - Yaoyorozu x Reader

Chapter 16

You had to be faster than Toshinori right?

You wave him off from a distance and make your way inside. With classes about to start most of the students you see are scrambling to get to class on time so they thankfully don't notice you.

You make it your classroom unbothered but now stand in front of the large door embroidered with 1-A in large red letters, frozen in place. Even through the thick door you can hear your classmates loudly chatting with each other.

You debate whether leaving and coming back another day is an appropriate course of action but decide that you're better off biting the bullet and face your classmates now.

Not showing up today would just make things worse.

With one final reluctant exhale you slide the door open and suddenly the room goes dead quiet as everyone's gaze turns to you. The silence is deafening as you trudge over to your desk, no one's eyes ever leaving you.

"It's rude to stare you know?" You growl, fiercely glaring back at them. Most of their heads snap away from you and the frenzied chatter slowly returns but at a much quieter volume. Save for Todoroki, Yaoyorozu and Bakugo whose stares linger just a touch longer. You're about to say something when the door slides open once again revealing Aizawa who was now without his bandages.

"Morning."

"Go-od.. mORn-I-ng."

Usually the classes 'good morning' response is perfectly in sync but the giant elephant in the room is offsetting everyone's timing. Aizawa can sense the tension in the room and knows the reason for it but it isn't his job nor his business to address it.

"Welcome back everyone hopefully you got sufficient rest during your break because we have two very important matters we need to attend to today."

Oh god it wasn't a test was it? You didn't have the mental clarity for something like that, your brain felt like it was smothered in a thick fog of misery and irateness.

"For starters." Aizawa grabs a remote that brings up a graph on the board. "These are internships offers from pro heroes, in others years it's been more spread out but all eyes were on these two this year." Aizawa informs everyone, which gets them all excited and lifts the mood in the classroom back up.

Both Bakugo and Todoroki have thousands of offers while everyone else only have a few hundred offers or less. Or in your case, sitting at the very bottom with just one offer.

You came first and got one offer.

The whole reason you tried so hard on the obstacle course in the first round was to impress the pros. But in hindsight it appears that not even passing to the second round would have been a more beneficial choice instead of wasting all that effort and compromising your safety.

It's rather ironic really.

"That makes no sense at all. How come Todoroki got the most offers?" Jiro asks.

"Yeah he placed second so how did Bakugo and L-l/N... uh I mean how did Bakugo get less offers?" The red head questions, bumbling through his sentence. And just like that the tension is back, real smooth Kiri.

Those who did get offers murmur excitedly as Aizawa moves around the classroom handing out lists containing everyone's offers which you stuff into your bag upon receiving deciding to check it out later.