"It was nice seeing you Eri." Midoriya and Mirio said with a wave. Exiting the room and leaving Rin with Eri for a moment.
The dual haired girl looked over at Eri and smoothed the hair on top of her head. Catching the girl's attention and looking up at Rin. The older girl having a small smile on her face.
"I'm so proud of you." Eri was surprised but hearing her mom say she was proud. It made her feel good inside. "It's hard for some people to say what they feel. And remember how I didn't have an arm before?"
After Rin said that, she purposely used her right hand to brush hair out of Eri's face. Then held the little girl's hand with it.
"I'm better off, because I met you. Never forget that." Eri suddenly launched herself forwards and wrapped her arms around Rin's neck. The dual haired girl doing the same, appreciating this moment of silence. They had each other, and that was everything they needed right now. Venom forming out of Rin and wrapping around Eri's back, resting his chin on Rin's other shoulder.
"Don't forget me."
They stayed like that for a moment, but it felt like a comfortable 30 minutes. The gentle shaking of leaves and the warm sun dancing on their skin. Everything was perfect.
Then Aizawa had to open the door.
"It's time to go." He said. Breaking the moment that the two of them had. Rin suddenly remembering something.
"Oh yeah, I brought you something." Rin stood up and walked over to the door where a bag was laying. She picked it up and dug through it. "I can only imagine how boring it must be here. So I brought you these." Rin pulled out a notebook and smaller bag, stuffed full of something. Walking back over to Eri and setting them on the bed. "You can draw whatever you want. I can't wait to see what that brain comes up with."
Rin tapped her finger against Eri's forehead. The small girl nodding and picking up the notebook. Seeing all the blank pieces of paper. The dual haired girl smiled and kissed the top of Eri's head. Walking away from her and out into the hall. Aizawa closing the door behind him and joining Mirio and Midoriya who were waiting, further down the hall. They walked in silence for a moment before Mirio had to ask a question that weighed on his mind.
"'Mama?'" He looked over at Rin for an explanation to what Eri called her.
"What did you expect? We were kidnapped together for two weeks, and she didn't know what parents were." Rin shrugged with a smile. "Besides, I'd gladly be her mother any day."
"Didn't Kota call you mom too?" Midoriya asked. Remembering the black haired kid with a red hat from the training camp.
"Are you making a kid army?" Mirio asked with a chuckle. Causing Rin to chuckle too.
"That's not a bad idea." Venom also formed but kept to Rin's side since they're in public.
"Ah yes. Everything's coming together."
"That's adorable though. You're, scarily good with children." Mirio smiled at Rin, to which she returned. Venom retreated back into Rin, only needing to make that one comment.
"Thanks."
Are we just gonna skip over the fact he basically called you adorable?
'It's okay. I kinda liked it.' Rin thought to herself, getting a loud and dramatic gasp that she was silently laughing at.
...Who are you? THIS ISN'T MY LOVE OBLIVIOUS HOST!!!
'I guess I learned a few things from Riot.' Rin smirked to herself. Leaving Venom to freak out and her to not laugh at his antics.
~•~
The next day was yet another average day after school. Rin opened her locker and took our her other set of shoes. Stepping into them and reclosing her locker, school shoes resting inside.
"Hey, Rin." The familiar voice got the dual haired girl to look over at Jiro.
"Sup, Killer Queen. You doin' good about this concert thing?" Rin asked in worry. Jiro smiling at the nickname she chose.
"Uh, a lot more attention than usual, but there's still a month to get my nerves to settle down." Rin smiled and let out an exaggerated breath and what she said.
"I get that. And hey, if you ever need a backup singer. I'm always in your corner." Rin said with an exaggerated wink, to which Jiro chuckled. The purple haired girl switching her shoes surprisingly fast with a little bit of comfortable silence between them.
The two girls started their walk out the school quickly being surrounded by Mina, Shoji, Denki and Bakugo. Blasting ideas back and forth, Rin pulling out her spare notebook to write down the ideas, intending to make Jiro's job just a little easier.
"The dance choreography and costumes...There's so much to decide." Mina exclaimed in excitement.
"What do you think people will like?" Shoji questioned.
"We hold do what's popular, right Jiro." Denki questioned.
"Hmm, maybe I could use Venom's super hearing to listen in on what the other classes think." Rin suggested to the group.
"That's a great idea!" Mina exclaimed. Not knowing that Bakugo was already hearing two students talking about their class. The two students were from general studies, thinking Class 1-A was just full of themselves, not caring about the other classes.
~•~
"The school festival is just one month away. We don't have much time, so we should decide various things today!" Iida said in front of the class, standing in the main lounge of the dormitory. The only students who weren't there, were the work study students that had extra classes.
"First we should decide on song, right?" Hagakure said excitedly.
"Its probably best to see what instruments we can use first. Then we can know what percussion we can work with." Rin suggested. Looking out the corner of her eyes and inwardly chuckling a bit. Seeing Denki playing with the tuft of fur on the end of Ojiro's tail.
That's cute...Why is that cute?
"Since it's for everyone, shouldn't we do a song most people know?"
"We should do something with a beat!"
"Something you can dance to!"
While everyone was spouting idea's Jiro was thinking, finally putting her ideas on the table.
"If I put together everyone's opinions, then were looking at a four-on-the-floor new rave type of club rock song. For dance music, we should really be playing EDM, but you guys want to play instruments, right?" Jiro asked the group. They all suddenly became stunned with confusion at the words she just spat. "Has anyone ever played bass or drums or anything?"
Silence...
"First the backbone of the band is drums, but I mainly play guitar, so honestly, I'm still learning drums. Teching a beginner and practicing myself will be a lot to do in just a month." Jiro said. Rin had a sly smirk grow on her face as she smirked over at Bakugo.
"I saw someone had a drum set hiding in their dorm."
"Huh?" Bakugo questioned.
"Really? That's surprising!" Mina exclaimed as the class awed.
Why are they surprised? I'm not. Drums seems like a Bakugo thing.
"Bakugo, try playing the drums a little!" Sero suggested, holding up the drum sticks.
"Like I'd do that." The blonde dejected and turned away form the cited class. A devious idea making it's way into Sero's head.
"I hear it's pretty hard." The black haired boy said. Subtly challenging Bakugo to the difficult task.
In a second, Bakugo was playing a few notes on the drum and it sounded amazing. He stopped after a few hits and stared at the class with an angry, expecting look.
"Well!?"
"P-Perfect." Jiro stuttered out in amazment.
"There he is, Mr. Talented!" Mina exclaimed.
"Bakugo's gotta be on drums." Denki agreed. Rin standing next to the energetic two with a 'hell yeah' look.
"Huh? I'm not doing anything so stupid." The ash blonde said with a scowl, standing up and going to walk away. However, Rin knew he had to play the drums. Jiro just beat her to it.
"Bakugo please. I mean, if you do it, it'll definitely turn out good!"
"There's no way it'll be good! Is that right? Some empty promise to let the students from other courses blow off some steam? For the cause of that stress to do that- if it's not self-satisfaction, then what is it? There's no way they'd take that quietly from the people they're mad at!"
"Hey, you don't have to say it like that!" Hagakure fumed.
"That's exactly what I'm talking about!" Bakugo shouted again
"But...It's true that we may not have been considerate enough..."Iida trailed off, understanding what Bakugo was saying.
"You didn't participate in the discussion, so don't complain about it now." Todoroki interjected.
Well, the dog's not wrong. I've been hearing a lot.
"Doesn't that make you mad?" Bakugo continued. "It's not like we wanted to be messed around by the villains. Why do we have to think about how they feel?If you guys are doing this to make them feel better, then stop right now! We've gotta hit 'em! We're not here to make friends, we're here to fight! If we're gonna to this, we've gotta be serious-let's kill everyone in U.A.-
Imagine he stopped there.
-with our sound!"
Damn.
"Your reasoning is scary but you'll do it!?" Mina happily exclaimed, along with the class. Relived that they'll have a great drummer. The class cheered and surrounded Bakugo except for Todoroki, Iida, Kota and Rin.
"Now we just need to see who's playing the other instruments." The dual haired girl said to continue the meeting.
"As part of my education, I studied the piano from a young age. Will that be of any help?" Momo asked.
"Then Yao-momo, you'll be on keyboards!" Mina exclaimed. Rin taking out her notebook again and writing this down.
"We've gotta have a synth for club music. Yao-momo it'll be a big help." Jiro said to the black haired girl. Giving Momo relief that she could help.
"I'll do my best!"
"I was gonna have a girls dance group with all the girls. But you'll be cute so it's fine." Mina said sadly, loosing one of her girls.
"I'll play bass, so we just need guitars and vocals, then." Ojiro suddenly added onto Jiro's conversation.
"So everyone else will be in the dance?"
"Yeah. But will that be enough to fire everyone up?" Iida questioned.
"It not just the music that's engaging, we'll also need special effects." Rin explained, knowing surprisingly a lot about concerts.
"Effects?" Sero questioned. Mina suddenly pulling out a computer and typing away.
"For example, like this." Mina said, showing the computer screen. "See how they use sparks and streamers and that disco ball to fire everyone up? Effects are there to set the mood." What Mina sandals caused Venom to form.
"Don't forget good lighting. With the right dynamics and patterns it'll make the audience more engaging."
Everyone paused to stare at Venom for a second in stunned silence. Since when did he know all that?
"What!?! I thought everyone knew that!"
"We're using the gym for this, right?" Sato questioned Iida, who was standing right next to him.
"Yes, Mr. Aizawa has already made the arrangements." Iida confirmed.
"Then what if, what if- Uraraka makes Todoroki and Kirishima float, and then Kirishima scrapes at Todoroki's ice to chip away at it! The Aoyama can be a disco ball...and it'll look like lights twinkling down like stardust! I call it 'Team Snowmen.'" Mina said in excitement.
"A human shaved-ice machine!" Mineta exclaimed, not exactly getting Mina's vision.
"It's like the teaming up thing we were talking about before!" Denki added.
"No shit Sherlock."
"I'm a disco ball?" Toyama said in sadness. However doing a complete 180 in a second. "That's not bad!"
"The gym will look spectacular." Momo said in fascination. Rin was standing next to her, writing away in the notebook. Venom covering over her shoulder, wanting to just swipe the pen and doodle. But he held back his urges.
"In that case, we need people working behind the scenes for the effects, huh?" Hagakure questioned.
"Hey." A new voice said. The already present class turned towards the door to see Kirishima, Midoriya, Uraraka, and Tsu back from their final extra classes.
"Welcome to the party dipshits. You've missed a lot."
~•~
"I see. We've decided on a new rave type club rock for the music, huh?" Tsu questioned.
"I understand Jiro on bass and Yaoyorozu on keyboards..." Kirishima trailed off.
"But Bakugo on drums is kind of...How do I put it?" Uraraka continued Kirishima's thought. Hagakure suddenly jumping in to finish her thought.
"Unexpected!"
"You got a problem with that?!" Bakugo shouted in anger. The three students who couldn't believe Bakugo plays drums shook their heads no.
"So who will sing the all important vocals?" Tsu asked
"Well we haven't decided yet..."Jiro trailed off. Hoping that Rin was the only one who wanted her to sing. Oh how wrong the purple haired girl was.
"Huh? You're not going to sing, Jiro." Uraraka questioned. Shocking Jiro, but Mineta was unknowingly saving Jiro's anxiety.
"If it's vocals you want, I can do it! It'll make me popular!" However, Venom didn't like Mineta's idea.
"Forget it tiny!"
"I can be a disco ball and sing!" Aoyama said.
"Yeah! I can't play any instruments, but I'm a pretty good singer !" Kirishima said, giving a small demonstration. But his burst of confidence didn't give him lead vocals.
Mineta also tried, but he was just yelling. Aoyama also attempting, singing one really good falsetto note.
"I'm with Ochaco. I think it should be you, Jiro! When you were teaching us in your room, your singing was super cool, too!" Hagakure encouraged the purple haired girl.
"Hey don't make the harder by making people expect-"
"It's fine, It's fine." Hagakure interrupted. Suddenly holding a microphone in front of Jiro.
"The hell did that come from?"
"You're just gonna disregard the shouts of our souls? Just how good is she, huh?" Mineta questioned. He was just being salty about not getting his shot to be more popular.
"I wanna hear your singing, Jiro! Sing something for us!" Kirishima encouraged.However the girl was frozen for a second. Hearing someone clear their voice. She looked up to see Rin with a thumbs up.
Jiro took a deep breath in and started singing
You know everyone wants to sparkle~
The stars, in the night sky~
In this wondrous place, filled with all~ the dreams
I've been wishing for, waiting for~ A chance.
An angel. Jiro's voice compared to that of an angel. No debt she had to be the lead vocals. Kirishima, Aoyama, and Mineta were laying on the ground in utter defeat.
"It's unanimous then!" Iida cheered with the rest of the class.
"Then, Let's leave that aside...So, we still need guitars." Jiro said to try and get the attention off her. Still having an embarrassed blush on her cheeks. "I want two!"
"Yay! I wanna do it! It's so cool to be able to play an instrument!"
"Let me do it" Denki and Mineta exclaimed.
"I feel like I'd cut the strings." Kirishima said with less energy than he had before.
"It's not 'I want to do it,' are you gonna kill it?" Bakugo questioned.
"Yeah, yeah, I totally will!" Denki said. Suddenly playing a yellow guitar and playing a few notes to show he can play.
"The guitar is the star of the band!" Denki exclaimed. Meanwhile Mineta was having a hard time reaching the strings on a purple guitar.
"Because of my character design, my hands won't reach!" Mineta said dramatically and ran away from a guitar that had the spotlight on it.
"HEY!!! Fourth wall breaking is my job!"
"I want to dance."
"Me too. I can move pretty well with my tail."
"I want to work on effects with my tape." Sato, Ojiro and Sero said din their own small little group. However Rin heard what they said and added their names to the roles they wanted. Pausing for a second and scraping the back of her neck. Opening and closing her mouth, bailing on something she wanted to say. But Venom beat her to it.
"Rin can play guitar!"
"What no I can't!" Rin shouted. That was a lie, she can, but she didn't want Venom to just spit it out to everyone. But they already heard what he said and were intrigued.
"Really?" Denki asked excitedly. It made him happier knowing she shared a hobby of his.
"Maybe...Just a little." Rin shrugged. Next thing she knew, she was holding a guitar and playing a brief guitar solo from "I Hate Myself for Loving You." By Joan Jett.
"Woah, Perfect." Hagakure praised.
~•~
And so, a little after 1am the roles were decided. The band team consisted of Jiro, Bakugo, Momo, Denki, and Rin. The effects team, made up of Koda, Kirishima, Sero, Aoyama, and Todoroki. And last but not least, the dance team consisting of Iida, Midoriya, Mina, Tsu, Uraraka, Mineta, Ojiro, Sato, Hagakure, Tokoyami, Shoji, and Aoyama technically.
Now that all the roles have been selected. It was time to actually start work for the Class 1-A concert.
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Baku: Author. Word association test! What's A?
A: Arson.
Baku: B?
A: Barson.
Baku: *chuckling* C?
A:Commit Arson.
Baku: D?
A:...Don't come near me, I'm going to commit arson.
Kiri: *laughing*
Baku: I trained her real' well. Uhh E?
A: Mmm...enjoying arson.
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