The Cat and the Inventor [Hideki/Tsubame]

It did not take long for the door to open to Hideki's office. While she knew that he would be busy, she figured this would be the best time to catch him since she too was busy with her own work; that she continuously kept putting off till the last second due to her constantly being out and about doing the normal things that Vice Headmaster's do. Even though her secretary might kill her one day with the amount of stress she puts her under, nothing will probably change and Tsubame might finally have a nemesis in the form of an angry bespectacled woman that is her secretary. Needless to say, Tsubame tries to make up for it with gift baskets and good coffee. Who knows if that will pacify the woman, but Tsubame remains hopeful. Going on with the meeting she hoped to have, she noticed one of his machines had let her in. She wasn't too keen on them at first, but she grew to just treat them like any other person. They were a part of Hideki, so she would show them the same courtesy she showed him. Waving politely to the machine that let her in, she then turned to Hideki who seemed to be lounging at his desk and working on something. Well, he usually was better at doing homework than I was. Tsubame thought to herself with some amusement. She always knew him to be better at the more administrative activities than she was. After all, they knew each other since they were in UA themselves. 

She walked up to his desk but did not sit down. The Vice Headmaster was always moving so sitting was not her favorite thing to do. It's a wonder she was able to keep her quirk under such control as she does now. Due to her training at home in the Shrine and at UA, she was able to at least know her body more than she started out in. At last her yellow amber eyes rested on his face. A small twitch ran up her spine at the look she received from his own yellow gaze. Damn him. A small scoff within her own thoughts was the only tell she had, otherwise she looked the part of a concerned Vice Headmaster. Hideki and Tsubame had a sort of 'secret lovers' type of relationship. Nobody knew but them and Tsubame liked to think they were masters at lying to the rest of the UA staff. She wasn't sure what made her like the men she did, but she figured it was something to do with how they carried themselves. Or the suits. It might have been the suits. 

Since the door had closed, she could speak more personally with him. No students and no other teachers were around. "Hideki, I came to see if you would help me with a concern that was raised at the teachers meeting. I know you weren't there, but perhaps you would be willing to help with one of the concerns that was brought up." Quietly she moved her body into it's 'resting' position. She stood with one of her legs relaxed as she leaned mainly on her left leg with her arms folded over her chest. Her head tilted slightly as she remained professional and the perfect image of a Vice Headmaster. Anyone that knew her knew that this was just a mask she kept on and that the real Tsubame was wild and slightly unprofessional. She didn't have to hide herself with Hideki, but considering what she was going to ask him, she had to keep professional through it. "In the incident prior, the teachers were not able to properly mobilize and in some miracle nothing worse happened." Tsubame went quiet at that since she had to deal with fall out from the incident, more so than the other teachers. She knew it came with the job, but she did not have to like it. "What I came to ask you to work on, if you would please, is to beef up the security measures and perhaps add a bit more complexity to them so that the teachers I asked to make a committee to better mobilize will have an easier time instead of flying in different directions. I was not able to protect the school and was instead called to disarm bombs." A self loathing smirk lit her face as she glanced to the side. "Better to have the woman who has a hard time being blown to bits disarm bombs...." While the physical aspects of her quirk were great, she was still able to die just like anyone else. However, those above her tended to think that she could take a beating, so why not a bomb? "That is not the issue, the issue is that we need a harder system in place to protect our students. I will not have my kids in danger again." 

She felt a slight burning sensation on her neck as she went to reach up to it. The disk that held the tiny computer in it felt hot to the touch and the jewel seemed to be hot as well. Quickly she reached into her pocket to find her phone and then use the photo option this time to check her neck. The jewel was glowing bright a yellow, then pale green, but stayed yellow and was turning orange almost. Haru what the hell?! Either this thing was malfunctioning or she misjudged her own body. Despite giving Hyousuke the lecture on how support gear would be helpful, she was too annoyed with how it burned her neck to think on the irony. Well, there was one way that Tsubame could fix her body and that would be her usual snacks. Once more she put her phone into her pocket and went to grab another rice ball that had both tuna and salmon in it with avocado as well. She had messed up and only had sugary snacks for a quick pick me up instead of eating right. In between bites she looked at Hideki, not able to hide how tired she was. Sleep did not come well to her lately. "Can I count on you to work on that? If you have any questions, either Walter or myself will be available. You know my phone number."