Aneko walks out of the infirmary with a look of sadness and irritation. Recovery Girl stops her right before she reaches the exit.

"What's the matter, honey?" 

"Oh...it's nothing. I'll be fine." She replies with a fake smile.

Recovery Girl looks at her with a look of disbelief. "Your friend will be fine. He just has to learn to control his--"

"I-I'm sorry but, he's not my friend...friends don't speak to each other the way he just spoke to me. We're just in the same class together. But I'm glad he'll be ok. Umm...please excuse me, I have to get back to class." She bows quickly and exits the infirmary.

Aneko briskly walks down the pathway to the training grounds and she notices the closer she gets, the more chilly it becomes. She looks up into the sky and sees clouds hovering over the area where her class is. Now, it seems as if they are beginning to dissipate.

[i]Is this Riku? Shit. Did I miss his turn against Endeavor?! Arrrgggh![/i] Her brisk walk turns into a full on sprint. Her bun falls and her thigh length hair flies behind her as she gets back to her class. Once she sees Riku walking out of the arena brushing off the grass on his pants leg, she slides her way through the crowd over to him. She comes up behind him and places a hand on his shoulder.

"Wha...what I miss?" She says in between breaths.

He looks around and directly into Aneko's eyes. He gives a one-sided smile. "Where'd you go? And I just went up against Endeavor."

"Oh...I went to check on Noir..."

"He alright?"

"He will be....but how did the match go?"

"It was interesting...." he trails off.

"...but did you win though...." Aneko asks?

He looks at her and raises an eyebrow. "Of course..." Aneko gives him a toothy grin and puts her hand in the air for a high-five.

"Awesome! I'm proud of you!" He returns the high-five with a smile of his own.

"Thanks. It wasn't easy, but I got him. Thanks to my Master's training. He actually had the nerve to say that I would become a major villain if I didn't get control my quirk."

Aneko furrows her brow, looks down at the ground then back up to Riku. "Villain? Why would he say that?"

"Just to provoke me I suppose. Kinda what he does to everyone, ya know?" He turns to face the current match between Endeavor and another student.

"Yeah...wait. Aizawa trained you before, yeah?"
 
"Mhm." He studies the movements and strategies of his teacher.

"Oh, I've heard good things about his training. And---is it true that he really does carry a yellow sleeping bag on him?"

Riku chuckles. "Yeah, he actually does. It's actually pretty funny to see him cocoon himself."

Before they know it, all of the students have battled their teacher. Endeavor walks over to the group of students, arms still folded across his chest and still peering down his nose.

"You all have a lot of work to do, but you have to be willing to learn what I have to teach. This class will not be an easy grade....I'm going to push you, and challenge you to the best of your abilities. Either you bring you best, or withdraw from my class because I will not waste time on anyone. To those that won, good job. To those that didn't, don't give up. Now, lets migrate back to the classroom. If you feel the need to go to the infirmary, you know how to get there. Everyone else, lets move out. Class is almost over."

All of the students gather their belongings from the designated area on the sidelines and prepare to head back to the classroom. She falls to the back of the group to gather her thoughts about what's to come this semester. As her mind races, she thinks back to the conversation that Noir had with her and it made her slightly irritated all over again. [i]"Why was he so angry? I was just trying to make sure he was ok..."[/i] she thinks to herself. 

"Hey..." Riku calls out. She turns around, startled because she didn't know anyone was behind her.

"Yeah?" She stops and looks at him.

"It's getting close to lunch time. Want to go grab food? I'm kind of hungry..."

"Me? Uhhh...well...sure."

"Cool. I'm going to hit the showers in a bit...meet you outside the classroom?

"Y-yeah! I'm going to freshen up too. I'll see you there."

"Good." He smiles at her and walks away to catch up to the rest of the class. Aneko beams inside at the fact that someone actually asked her to go to lunch. Her first year was spent as a loner. No one ever really talked to her because when she wasn't in the classroom, she was either in the library, or practicing on the training grounds trying to hone her quirk more. [i]Am I finally about to have a friend here? I sure hope so....[/i]