Kapitel 23: First Day
The Aquamarine Agency was a huge building with impressive infrastructure, decorated beautifully with stuffs like seashells, corals, etc. Y/N walked towards the reception, and gave a copy of her internship form to the lady standing behind it. Although it wasn't needed, because all eyes were set on her the moment she entered the building. Ofcourse, they heard about the rumors and almost everyone stared at her nowadays but here, in this building, people were staring at her because of her power and quirk.
"You were impressive there. I was rooting for you, and we are really glad that you chose our agency," the lady behind the desk said with a smile and handed her ID card, "Here's your ID card. You need to wear it for the rest of the days whenever you come here. The lift is to the right. And the students waiting room is on the 3rd floor, room number 405."
"Uh, thank you." Y/N smiled, wearing the ID card immediately. She left the lobby and walked to the waiting room. All the other students were staring at her when she entered the room. Some of them were nice and introduced themselves.
"Hey, all the others are afraid to ask so I will just be straight with my question." A guy with black hair and blue highlights which matched his eyes asked her, "Aren't you the girl who's rumored to be going out with Endeavor's son?"
Y/N chuckled at his straightforward question and answered, "Honestly I'm kind of glad you asked instead of just staring at me. Yeah, it's just a rumor. I fainted and he was just helping me by melting the ice."
"Yeah, I kinda figured. Oh, I'm Oikawa by the way," he said.
"And I am-"
"Y/N Y/L/N, we all know that."
After a short while, Y/N saw a lady come over and call all of the students waiting in the room. She took them to the main office where the hero along with the assistants were waiting. Her hair was tied in a pigtail, her hero costume looked mostly like what a diver wears. It wasn't exactly shiny or something catchy but it definitely had multipurposes.
"Oh! You're here! Come in!" the lady said, keeping down her pen and concentrating on the interns. "I'm glad that all of you joined. We definitely didn't expect so many of you here, but oh well! The more, the merrier! Let's start with our introductions. I am the Water Hero of Peace: Baiji. Well, I did come up with the 'peace' later when I heard what people frequently call me on local news. Cool right?!"
"Well, she looks lively." Y/N thought. She noticed the assistants standing beside her, with comforting smiles on their faces.
Baiji clasped her hands and got up. "I hope you're ready for the training you're going to receive. Today we will just focus on cleaning up. We do fight against villains and protect people, but making sure the water body is clean also falls on our part of job."
It turned out that Baiji was actually serious about cleaning. Every intern was assigned with a small part of the bay and assistants of the water hero were there to keep supervision on them. Y/N realized, it might be because some of these interns might slack off. And she was right, but a few also threw a tantrum over how this was not what they were here to learn. She considered herself lucky to be not one of those, since these interns were given double amount of cleaning and an hour of it everyday.
"Yes, you are going to be a hero. But firstly, you've to get off that high horse and be on the same level as the general public. Only then you'll be able to see through their eyes. It often helps in figuring out the kind of villains you'll be dealing with. Being a hero doesn't just mean saving lives, but also inspiring them to be a better human being."
"That's a lot of responsibility," one guy said.
"It's a choice though, and a lot less than what mothers have in general," she replied, with the same smile she had in the morning.
When almost everyone was done with the cleaning, Baiji came to inspect their work.
"It's not clean."
"Maám you didn't give us instructions on whether we are allowed to go in the middle of the waters," Y/N said.
"Europa, was it?" Baiji turned to her asking, to which Y/N nodded her head in answer, "Well, you are not allowed to go there without permission, ofcourse."
"So can we go now? Are we allowed to take a boat?" A guy asked.
"A boat?! Wha- okay, what agency did you join?"
"Aquamarine, ma'am."
"And what are the common features in all of your quirks?"
"Water, ma'am."
"Then don't ask stupid questions boy! Use your quirk!" Baiji said, her ears getting bright red. One of her assistants held her shoulders, in an attempt to calm her down, "What?! They're supposed to be smart by now!"
"Regardless, you're supposed to train and teach them."
"Okay smartass," Baiji pouted.
"Language."
"Ugh, okay get to work heroes. I shouldn't be able to find a single trash in water."
Y/N controlled the water body and made it flow towards herself, collecting the trash and keeping it in a bag beside her. At first she wasn't able to reach the ones too far away, but watching her peers and the techniques they used, she learnt to use it a bit differently and control the waters. About half an hour later, when the interns looked a bit tired, Baiji came forward and called them.
"I'm bored. Let's make it a bit interesting. I'll be exactly in the middle of all of the assigned posts. I'll pull the trash towards me, and it's your responsibility to make sure each and every one of these are out within the next half an hour. I'll create disturbance and make sure you don't achieve it by the way. Good luck!" she jumped into the water, and was in her position in a minute.
"Just swimming couldn't do that," Y/N thought, "she's really good in controlling the water."
"Ready? Start!"
Y/N was ready to pull the water towards herself with all of her strength. But suddenly she heard a whipping sound and looking up, she saw Baiji throwing what looked like broken tin cans. She jumped back, dodging it by an inch. Y/N tried to catch the others thrown at them with the help of her quirk. Within a minute, the water current started going the opposite and she looked at Baiji with a amused smile on her face. She wasn't only throwing tin cans at them, but also using it as an opportunity to take the trash towards herself.
She tried every other way to try and get the trash towards herself, but it didn't work. Y/N sucked at multi-tasking. She knew that she couldn't just wait for her quirk to miraculously become stronger and get all the trash out. The only plan she had in mind was to somehow distract the pro hero. Maybe, if she was able to distract her only for a minute or so, it would be more than enough for the others to get the trash out. And Baiji was someone who loved flaunting about her powers. It took some time, and Y/N didn't know if this was gonna work but in this field of work there would be times that she has to make plans without anyone's help. She needed to test it, and only 7 minutes were left.
"Hey! You'll get just a few minutes to clean up!" Y/N said, and used her quirk to move fast near Baiji, just like she did before fainting in front of Todoroki.
Y/N was about to hit her with one of her water blade technique at first, but Baiji was quick to notice her. And in no time, another tin can was thrown at her. The water was fierce and uncontrollable near the hero, and she had just one chance to do something that would distract Baiji.
And she did, although it was a careless move. Y/N just stopped controlling the water with her quirk. Her body suddenly got dragged under water and with the amount of power that Baiji was using, she would either drown or get thrown far away.
Her move made Baiji panic. She stopped controlling the water and rushed to search for her, when suddenly interns took control and using their quirk, pulled the trash towards themselves. Coughing, Y/N used her quirk to swim fast back to her assigned post. But she was too tired, something she didn't think of. She never thought water could make her feel tired, when it was her own quirk.
Y/N felt arms on her waist. She looked up to see one of Baiji's assistants carrying her towards the land. She was surprised to see her part of water clean along the way.
"Ah, damn that almost drowned me. Didn't worry about that before," Y/N chuckled sitting down on the stairs and resting her body on the concrete wall behind her. The interns walked up to her and sat down on the stairs beside her - all tired after using their quirk for an hour straight nonstop.
"Remember, too much of anything is bad," Baiji said, kneeling down in front of the exhausted interns with a small smile. "One of my assistant will escort all of you to your dorm."
Baiji smiled at Y/N and said, "Well done." She walked away with her sidekick, as the interns broke down into a joyful laugh, finally feeling comfortable to talk among themselves. The assistant called for them and they got up to follow him.
"Baiji complimented you," the assistant said to Y/N as they were walking.
"Yeah well, she's a cheerful lady," Y/N replied.
"No, she might be cheerful but you've no idea how hard she is on the interns. Besides, she's a little petty too. She would never admit that an 'intern' outsmarted her."
"Oh, then...that probably means she'll be extra hard on me?"
"You're right about that."
Y/N sighed, already worried about her training even though it was only the first day.
On the other hand, Baiji's sidekick was observing her mentor closely. "Oh god! Just say it already instead of staring!" Baiji shouted at him.
"They were different from the other times, right?"
"This batch is surely different. None of the interns of the previous years had the guts to do something other than try their best to pull out the trash. Besides...that girl from U.A. Academy..."
"What surprised me is that not even a single one of them talked to each other. How did they plan this? It was also the girl, wasn't it?"
"Yes, and I've no idea whether she's too dumb or too smart but it was just over in a few minutes and she trusted the other interns to actually do it."
"But they did it, didn't they? The people who didn't even talk when they arrived are now actually getting to know each other."
"So she's one of those..." Baiji smiled, taking out her activity sheet and writing down the progress of her interns. For a long time, she didn't write these new qualities, and it felt nice.
Her pen moved and in a beautiful cursive handwriting, she wrote the words -Glue of the team.
Wöchentlicher Energiestatus
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Rangliste 
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