Dreams can't hurt you, but memories can [Open/Saga]

One of the best things about Kyouko's quirk was the fact she could practice as much as she wanted to without too much trouble from others. Since her quirk wasn't that noticeable unless someone was paying attention. So training was very easy for the girl when it came to how long she could hold her quirks form. Still holding its form for long extended periods didn't help her exhaustion. She was already a girl who loved to sleep and practicing her quirk's limits wasn't very helpful. So as the sun was beginning to set she could feel her body becoming sluggish and her eyes drooping.

Kyouko gave a big yawn and stretched her arms out a bit as she found a place to sit down in the grass nearby. Something about nature was relaxing for the young girl. It was probably from the years of training in the forest near her home. She had become so accustomed to flora and fauna. Who could blame her though? Being forced to hide her quirk from the world just because of her family felt wrong. Kyouko wanted to use her quirk for good and freedom. She felt special with her quirk and she wanted to express this individuality. Kyouko didn't want to be like her older brother who was a simple student at another school just studying for a simple desk job. That was her reason for joining the hero program here at U.A. It might be a bit selfish even vain of a reason to do so, but she didn't care. Kyouko was happy and that's all that mattered right?

Sitting in the grass she looked up at the sky and admired the yellows and oranges slowly cascade down the sky creating a very ambient atmosphere. It was beautiful. Taking another deep breath she closed her eyes and let the sounds of nature overtake her senses. Birds chirping as they began to fall asleep in their nests and the crickets rubbing their legs to signal their presence. It was very calming, but the sounds of nature were disrupted by something more human. Kyouko's eyes widened in shock. "Did someone just?" she questioned herself aloud and looked in the direction of where the scream came from. She debated on if she should go see what was going on or not for a few seconds before getting up and making her way towards the source.

The moon was now visible in the night sky as she found the source of the scream. Another student who if she remembered correctly was in class A. A much larger student he was, but something about him struck her as a gentle giant type of person. Kyouko couldn't remember if the two had many interactions in school yet so why not now? As she approached him she commented on his hands being in the air, "if you are trying to reach the stars I don't think that will work." She gave the boy a soft smile as she got closer and noticed the tears in his eyes. He had been crying? Was making the joke a bit much then? She had only wanted to break the silence. Kyouko tilted her head and continued, "You seem troubled. Do you want to talk about it?"

Bura's hands were still outstretched as if he was hoping something would fall into his hands, but instead, it felt like his sanity and any sense of hope was slipping between his fingers like water in a river. Bura's shut his eyes tight, trying to stop the dam from breaking. It's fine, he was fine, she was fine, everything was fine. Bura echoed this mantra in his head as if it was a comforting song instead it rang hollow and it caused his heart to ache, Bura can't handle much of this anymore, he wanted this ache and sadness in his heart to vanish already, and he can go back to being himself.

Bura didn't notice the pink-haired girl's joke and only really noticed her presence between pauses of his inner thoughts. Bura's eyes reflected what little light there was from the moon while not fully glowing, it had an eerie effect in the dark. But Bura's tears have stopped flowing freely, and Bura lowered his hands to his face and wiped away his tears from his eyes and face, his breath slowed down to a calmer pace, and Bura let out a heavy yet stabilizing sigh and rose to a sitting position Bura's was still almost as tall as the girl standing when he was sitting. Bura gave the girl a forced reassuring smile and said, "I'm fine, thank you for your concern, I was Just resting up here and I had a nightmare, Everything is fine," Bura lied through his teeth. He knew this girl was from 1-B but not much else, his mind was still too groggy to pick up other tidbits of info about her.

Bura was too distracted to notice the glowing light approaching up until it was impossible not to. And Bura turns his head as a soft yet firm voice called him an idiot. Bura was taken aback after the initial bubble of anger boiled away to confusion and concern as he realized who said it. It was Kiersa, and Bura was confused and startled by her calling him an idiot. He knew her as a very gentle and caring person-so even that light insult felt unnatural to hear from her. Bura looked at her startled and couldn't help but hyper-focus on her words. She told him in chat not to train too hard and not too push himself too hard. Bura's only response was to defensively lie, "No, no! I wasn't training Kiersa-chan, I was just---uh having a nap on the grass---" Bura tried to lie not even realizing that his gym clothes were scattered all around him quite yet.

Kiersa scowled at Bura as he tried to deny the training he'd been doing. She gestured to all of the equipment and gear scattered around them. "Th-Then where d-did all o-of this c-come f-from then?" the blonde argued back. A part of her really wanted to smack him across the head for being such an idiot and pushing himself so hard that he'd obviously collapsed... But the dried tear stains that she could see on his face with her light held her back.

So Kiersa settled for trying to flick him on the nose instead. She understood Bura's desire to get better... because she felt the same way. Maybe not to the same degree as the big fluffy boy did for obvious reasons... But she felt she had to improve as well, compared to the rest of her class. Everyone in her class was so much more confident in their Quirks than she was, not to mention their own abilities...

That was when the pink haired girl's words caught her attention. Kiersa recalled her now, being in the same class as her but hadn't had much in the way of interacting with her yet. Kyouko, like the rest of Class 1-B, seemed to be so much more self-assured than Kiersa was, and she wasn't sure how to go about striking up a conversation most of the time. But that was a matter for later, right now they were outside the dorm... after curfew!

The blonde gave a small squeaking eep of realisation of the trouble the three of them were in, immediately beginning to try and help Bura to his feet! God he was heavy! "Y-Yes, l-let's g-get going now then. S-Sorry f-for i-ignoring you earlier Miss Kaminoke." she said rather rapidly in a feeble attempt at sounding calm. Her head started to sharply look around them like a demented meerkat on lookout. Kiersa had never gotten into trouble at school before, not once! And she wasn't about to start now!

He looked a bit confounded by the pink-haired girl's words Bura wasn't expecting that from her. He expected something a little less-professional sounding. Not that he judge her by her appearance but rather by the fact that he just woke up and was unable to process her words as best as he could at the moment. Bura groggily was unsure of how to respond but with a simple, "Wha-?" Bura wasn't able to finish his line of thought as a Kiersa arrived and accused him correctly of what he was lying bout. And before Bura could refute his point, the pink-haired girl started to grab his loose clothing and training stuff, and before he could say he can grab it himself. Kiersa flicked him on the tip of the nose. Which from the suddenness of it, Bura let out a small, "Gah!" as he grabbed his nose defensively. It didn't hurt more surprised him, to be honest.

As if things could be worse, another girl popped out of the woodworks and asked if they were okay, and frankly, Bura was starting to get a little annoyed by all this coddling by the girls, but Bura let out a small defeated sigh as he stood up. As Bura stood up to his full towering height, Bura's legs wobbled from his massive built, and he almost fell back down but thankfully caught himself in the last second with kiersa's help. Bura let out a small defensive "I'm fine-fine just still a bit sleepy-" Before anybody could start to worry about him. Bura's head felt dizzy, and his head pulsates with an ache, but he didn't let that show. He already wasted enough of their time and worry.

As Kyouko grabbed his clothes and bag, Bura politely bowed at Kiersa and then at Kyouko and gently grabbed his stuff with a small "Thank you." And he looked at the three girls surrounding him and asked, "I take we are all going to the same place--- What time is it exactly?" Bura asked genuinely confused by the time since as he pulls out his phone, it looks like it has been dead for a while now, how long has he been out cold? Great, he's going to be up all night now-at least he can get his studying done tonight and get caught up since his training session has been slowing down his studying by a considerable amount lately.

And then Miss Uta joined the ensemble as well. "Y-Yes Miss Uta. B-Burabura was just o-overdoing his training a-again..." she explained to the girl with a bow of her head, before starting to make her way back towards the dorms, with her hands lit up still in order to act as pseudo lamp slash torches. Don't want to accidentally fall into any holes or trip on anything out here after all.

Kiersa just hoped that nobody got any improper ideas if they saw Burabura returning to the dorms all sweaty and accompanied by a trio of girls... The blonde girl quickly smacked her cheeks and shook her head to remove that particular image from her mind before it could become any more prolific. When Miss Kaminoke mentioned that it was only eight or so, Kiersa blinked and double checked her own watch. After giving it a couple of taps the second hand began moving again, causing her to sigh.

Just how long had it been stuck like that?! She almost had had a heart attack thinking that it was past ten at night which would have meant they would all have been out after curfew! First thing in the morning, Kiersa resolved, is to get this watch fixed before it causes her any more grief.

As Bura and the girls enter the shared living area of the dorms, Niji wasted no time to head to the dorm's kitchens. Bura and the others (probably he wasn't checking on the others as keenly) followed behind as she spoke, asking if they liked tea, which frankly Bura felt parched from his impromptu nap. So he took a seat on one of the many chairs in the room and says, "Yeah, Tea sounds nice right about now." Bura says, trying to ignore how the girl mentions her butler so causally, he only focused on how it relaxes her.

Bura himself doesn't realize how much of a mess he looked, his usually clean wool, was all disheveled with his well-made braids and tied sections all wild and frayed with bits of sticks and leaves sticking all over the place. Even Bura's normally expressive eyes were half-lidded and had bags under them which even he never saw in his life, to put it bluntly, he looked like a mess. Bura despite how much of a mess he felt like and how much he looks like right now, Bura was surprised by Niji's question.

"What of course everything is fine, nothing's wrong, everything's fine, everything is fine, you needn't be concerned over yourself over me, I am fine, I'm not lying." Bura lied through his teeth.

Aaaand Niji mentioned that she had a butler after making the offer of tea for everyone. That would explain the limousine that she had seen the first day she'd arrived here at UA. It had been hers... The young blonde had to restrain herself from pouring the tea on Niji's behalf, biting her lower lip as she held her "maid mode" back as it were.

Thankfully Miss Kaminoke offered an avenue that could help alleviate her situation a bit. "Of course." she said with a smile and a nod towards the pink haired girl, accepting the offered brush and immediately getting to work on Burabura's tangled fluff. It really was quite soft. She had been expecting it to feel a little more wirey, but this was almost as soft as pillow down. Now she just had to make sure she didn't let sleep overtake her...

Kiersa would try to give the hair a few light brushes at first on the surface, partially to test the tangled waters since Bura had a lot of fluffy hair and she didn't want to accidentally hurt him... But then he began to lie about everything being fine. She gave the brush a quick yank through his fur, much deeper than the earlier brushing had been. There was a big tangled knot in the section she brushed, but the quick parse undid it although it would probably sting like an absolute mother.

"Oops. Sorry." the blonde apologised, although there was a hard glint in her eyes that seemed to promise more of the same if Burabura kept on lying to the group. She understood that he wanted to process things in his own time, but straight up burying it and lying to people who only wanted to help... That was a big no no in the young maid's books.