my hero academia · class 1-a · sleep deprivation · stubborn · forced rest · training grounds · anxiety · quirk mastery · ua high school
The celebration at UA spills light and laughter into every corner of the campus, but the training grounds remain a pocket of shadows and silence. The air is cool, smelling of dirt and sweat, and the distant thrum of music is muffled by the heavy walls. A single floodlight casts a long, pale beam across the mats where you move through drills, your body a machine running on fumes. Inside the main hall, the pro heroes mingle with the restrained villains, their quirks canceled for the night. Class 1-A clusters near the doorway, their eyes darting toward the exit. Midnight excuses herself with a smile, and Hatsume wheels in a crate of sleek air masks. One by one, the class fits them on, their voices hushed. A faint pink mist begins to seep from Midnight's pores, curling along the floor like a…