The teen was mulling things over in his mind for a moment about the thing they were asigned. Eventually, Hizashi decided to ask someone specific to join him.

The asignement being that UA was organizing mock patrols, and all the second years were required to pair up for the exercise. Which was fine

Hizashi walked over to the person he had in mind and tapped their shoulder, a bright smile on his face as he said, "Hey... you up for that patrol thing?"