Chapter 4: All things

School that day was awkward…really awkward. In homeroom, Midoriya attempted to speak to Uraraka, but every time he tired, she would run off and start a conversation with the nearest classmate.

Things weren't much better during their classes. All the students of class 1-A kept looking from Midoriya, to Uraraka, then back to Midoriya. From what Iida could tell, Midoriya wasn't even paying attention, he just kept scribbling something in his notebook and look longingly and guiltily at Uraraka. Uraraka, on the other hand, was focused…too focused. She was constantly writing down notes, volunteering to read or answer questions, and finished all of her work in class. Iida started to get the sinking suspicion that she was doing everything in her power to keep her mind off of the green haired, freckled boy on the opposite side of the room.

Throughout day Iida was bombarded with questions from concerned classmates.

Tokoyami was the first to ask him something. "Did something happen between those two?"

"Sacrebleu! What happened to our precious little rays of light?" Aoyama dramatically pontificated.

Asui pulled him aside and bluntly asked, "One of your plans backfired, didn't it…Ribbit?"

"What did that useless piece of shit do this time? All of his sulking over his girlfriend is pissing me the fuck off!" Well…Bakugo had his own special way of showing concern...

"So…This means Uraraka's single now…right?" That comment earned Mineta an earphone jack to the eye courtesy of Jiro.

"Don't be stupid, everything is going to go back to normal soon…right Iida?" Jiro asked, retracting her earphone jack from a now blind Mineta.

Iida honestly didn't know how to answer that question. He'd like to think so…he'd like to say that by lunch time everything would be sorted out, that Midoriya and Uraraka would have heard each other out, and that they would go back to being the awkward 'definitely just friends,' friends that they were.

Unfortunately, things didn't turn out that way. If anything…things got worse.

Iida sat at his usual seat in the cafeteria, hoping to be joined by his two friends. He thought that he may be able to help patch things up between the two and explain things to Uraraka. The two in question, however, had other plans.

To avoid the inevitable on slot of questions, Uraraka sat at a table by herself, telling anyone who came to sit with her "sorry, seat's taken."

Midoriya, for much the same reason, also sat at a table by himself, unlike Uraraka, however, when someone asked to sit with him, he'd say "sorry…I kind of just want to be alone right now," and as much as everyone didn't want to leave both of them alone, they respected their boundaries.

Well…almost everyone…and that's where the problem started.

"Oi, Midoriya!"

Midoriya turned around and looked in horror as Mei Hatsume walked towards him, completely oblivious to Midoriya's panic attack. She sat down next to Midoriya and slung an arm around him "What are you doing here eating all alone? I'll tell you what, I'll join you and in exchange I'll tell you all about my new babies!"

Iida could see that Mei was close…way to close…to Midoriya. It looked like his heart was going to give out at any moment. After franticly turning his head from Mei, then to Uraraka, then back to Mei, and nodded. Iida was shocked! Midoriya even declined his offer to eat lunch with him and yet here he was allowing Mei to sit with him. To be fair, it was always hard to tell her no when she started talking about her gadgets…but still…

"what is he up to…" Iida couldn't help but think.

Eyeing his classmates, Iida noticed that all the other members of class 1-A were also paying attention to Midoriya and Mei, murmuring amongst themselves at the development. Many were already drawing conclusions that whatever was going on between Midoriya and Uraraka, that the pink haired inventor was somehow involved.

He then turned around to see how Uraraka was reacting to all this. What he saw made him fearful for Mei's life.

If looks could kill, then Mei Hatsume would be dead where she sat. Iida had never before seen so much rage and hate emanating from one person before. Uraraka was sitting at her table across the cafeteria, looking…no…glaring…at Mei and Midoriya. The can of juice she was holding was now nothing more than scrap metal due to the force of her grip tightening. She currently had her thumb on the back of her fork, which slowly bending as she pressed into it. Iida gulped as he could only imagine Uraraka fantasizing that she was holding Mei's neck instead of the fork.

Iida turned back to look at Midoriya who was still whipping his head from Uraraka to Mei, while Mei seemed to be oblivious to everything around her. She no longer had her arm around Midoriya, but she was still extremely close, showing him all kinds of blueprints and notes on her latest creation.

"This doesn't make any since," Iida thought to himself, cupping his chin and closing his eyes in an attempt to concentrate, "Midoriya is well aware that Uraraka's anger involves Mei…even if he is wrong about the reason why," he opened his eyes to glance at Midoriya, "Is he trying to antagonize Uraraka? What is he thinking?" He noticed how Midoriya was trying to get a word in against Mei, but kept being interrupted by said girl's enthusiasm over her 'babies.' Then he remembered what Midoriya said to him that morning.

"Thanks Iida, I know you were just trying to help, but I'll take it from here."

"Oh no," Iida thought to himself, he turned around one more time to look at Midoriya's table, and sure enough, he was trying extremely hard to interrupt Mei's rants and say something. "This is not good; this can't get any worse."

As soon as he thought that Mei slung her arm around Midoriya once again, stars in her eyes, excitedly pointing to her blue prints, not minding at all the fact that she and Midoriya were now cheek to cheek.

Iida immediately turned his head to Uraraka in time to see her completely bend the back of her fork over her index finger.

"Ok…now I REALLY have to stop this!"

Iida looked around in a panic until something caught his eye…or rather…someone.

Bakugo, who, up until this point was lounging around with his feet on the table, pissed off at the world for some reason or another, saw that Iida was staring at him "What are you looking at four-eyes?!"

Iida thought for a moment about the pros and cons of his plan, when he saw Uraraka slowly starting to get up, the look of death in her eye, he decided this was the lesser of two evils.

"Bakugo!" He said "Can you steal Mei's blue prints and keep them away from her?"

"Huh?" Bakugo looked over at Mei and Midoriya, then back over to Iida "Why the hell would I do that?"

Iida snickered "What? Are you saying you can't keep them away from her?"

Bakugo's eyes widened as his nostrils flared "FUCK YOU FOUR-EYES! ILL TAKE THAT DUMB BITCH'S PAPERS AND THERES NOT A DAMN THING ANYONE CAN DO ABOUT IT!"

"He took the bait," Iida thanked whatever god would listen to him that his plan worked

"HEY! PINK HAIR!" Everyone stopped and looked at Bakugo, who had may his way over to Midoriya's table.

"You mean me?" Mei asked, pointing a finger at herself.

Bakugo didn't even bother to answer as he snatched up the blue prints and bolted towards the door.

"MY BABIES!' Mei cried out as she left the table and ran to give chase to Bakugo, leaving a very confused Midoriya.

As everyone started whispering amongst each other trying to find out what the hell just happened, Iida sighed and relaxed in his chair.

"Crisis avoided"

Notes:

Hey all, so, a few things.

One, I re-wrote the entire fourth chapter. I wasn't happy at all with the first one I posted, and felt that it would have been a big disappointment to anyone who read it.

Two, you may have noticed that the story hasn't ended. I realized that one of the things that made the first chapter four so bad was that I felt like I had to end it there. So I went in with the mind set of "I'll be done when it's done." That being said, I think there is only one more chapter after this.

Anyway, I hope you all enjoy