Beginning of Camp

Onsen...

Changing rooms...

Somehow, its difficult to change around Harry, everyone thought. Especially in the showers.

Sure he's a fellow guy, parts and all but why is it so awkward around him now?

Out of all of them, he just has only enough muscle for a normal boy. The rest of them are very muscular, having trained since Junior High and yet he outfought several teams.

He was also very smooth with flawless pale skin...

"He's a guy so why is it so weird?!"

On the other hand, Harry was just as troubled.

"W-why are their bodies affecting me differently? I'm a fellow boy too aren't I?!" Harry thought, controlling his junior down there not to react but...his classmates' bodies are attractive to him.

A very cross Bakugo pinned him to the walls. 'Ah!'

"A kabedon!" the others gawked. "Whyyy?!" and Harry acts like some shy girl in a shoujo manga making it all more weird!

'Oi! Gain some muscle already will ya? You're too damn skinny its fucking weird!' as in, he weirdly sees Harry as a 'not boy' but 'something else' and that freaks him out because last he checked...

'Hey, I spent months being tutored in Japanese Curriculum and Quirk Training! I had no time to gain some muscles!' Harry protested while red-faced at being 'pinned'. His reaction caused Bakugo to sputter and a double-take.

'Just get muscles already, jeez!' and he stormed out.

'And how?!'

'Ehem, perhaps we can help you out by introducing you to a gym after the summer camp...' Iida coughed awkwardly.

'But is it really necessary to grow muscles anyway?' Harry wondered. 'To me its just extra weight and load.'

'Muscles protect bones and inner organs somehow.' Todoroki told him. 'The more well-trained the more it makes a difference when withstanding impact injury. Though that doesn't matter when you're stabbed though.'

'Its a Hero staple Potter, so let's hit the gym after camp!' said Kirishima. 'Let's beef you up real good, yeah?'

'If you guys say so...' after having towels around their waists after they were finished bathing.

At the Hot Springs...

Harry was stunned stiff Midoriya had to guide him into the water. He was an utter shut-down-blank.

'Culture shock much?' Tokoyami mused.

'England clearly didn't have hot springs!' Kaminari chuckled as Midoriya even helped Harry into the water without revealing his secret. Because if naked and in the right angle...its easily visible.

'Its weird at first but it does feel nice...' Harry found himself lost in the heat of the pool.

'Isn't it? Good for training against sore muscles! Those teachers aren't kidding around this morning...' said Midoriya, sinking into the bath water.

'Well, who knows what they have for us tomorrow...let's relax while we still can.' Harry chuckled while restraining Mineta because he was going towards the walls he was ordered to restrain him.

'Damnit Potter let go of me! This is a one and li-gurk!'

Harry shut him up by giving him a water ball gag while tying him to the pool with concrete of the springs.

'Speak for yourself, you got here by flying!' Bakugo grumbled. His arms still throbbed from using his explosions just to get by.

'Fufu, I did but I got the mother of all backaches as I don't have wing muscles yet I forced my back to exert in order to fly...I had to strap hot bottles on myself while cooking you know.'

'Talk about first-world problems!' Sero snorted as Harry played with the pool water by forming shapes, making a seal playing with a ball of water like any seal would.

'That's so cool!' Kaminari gawked out. 'You said molecules are your playground right?'

'And atoms. And cells.' Harry grinned. 'They're all~ my toys! But its a life of constant studying Aizawa-sensei made me read science books for hours at home I'd say this camp is more for you guys than me. With him as my legal guardian I never got a break to catch up with everyone.'

'At school and at home huh? What's it like living with sensei though?' Ojiro asked him.

Harry recalled his first memory of Aizawa's apartment, and a section of his hair turned into a big, red throbbing angry vein. That's a very obvious sign he's annoyed, they thought, before his hair turned back to normal.

'When I first moved in...' Harry twitched. 'There was a good reason you see him sleeping in sleeping bags in class...until I came here, his apartment was more like a storage room for so much garbage bags, its a sea of trash.' he shook with a dark, angry smile on his face.

He got incredulous looks for this.

'We had to haul everything out and clean his place top-to-bottom its a health biohazard after cleaning, we applied antibacterial stuff everywhere, washed everything with antibacterial soaps, replaced all needed replacing...he was such a workaholic he had no time to clean or do the laundry that when everything's clean the teachers threw us a Housewarming Party. It took us days to clean his apartment. Well, its more like MY apartment now...he's such a workaholic if not teaching and grading papers, he patrols at night since he hates the media's guts, I wound up using his room and he's being his caterpillar self when he's back from work and sleeps.'

'If he actually had a free time, he puts me in situational analysis situations. Tough stuff for Heroes because he wants me to create a problem-solving ability that ensures while criminal is caught, there are little injury, no casualty and no property damage as much as realistically possible and that's without taking my Quirk into account. He had me play many Hero roles in my papers back home. He said he'll have you guys do it too after camp...and to get a high grade, those four criterias must be met. After all, Heroes are paid by commission but instead of getting paid if you cause so much damage, your earnings will go to pay damaged property and someone's hospital bills instead!'

'Oh wow...'

'Yeah, he put Mt. Lady as an example...she's so in the Red she took to teaming up with Kamui Woods and Edgeshot lately to start earning since graduating...'

'That's food for thought.' said Kirishima. 'We can't go nuts just to look cool while doing our jobs.'

'Speaking of going nuts...' said Shoji, looking at Todoroki. 'Todoroki, your dad just fried a street in Hosu back when Stain was around.'

Todoroki twitched.

'He doesn't care cuz' he's rich. He does avoid human casualty though.'

'That was one of my exams too.' Harry sweatdropped. 'How to be a logical and rational Endeavor because the man himself never will be one.'

Todoroki gave him a flat look.

Endeavor, logical and rational?

'Dream on.' said Todoroki.

xxx

After the springs, dressing up was an awkward affair yet again. Dressing into yukatas for sleep tonight.

Next day, was brutal.

4:45 wake up, get dressed and have breakfast...and after making Bakugo throw a computer ball to see if he improved(which was 4 points up)...torture camp started.

For Harry, its to learn how to transfigure things without having to touch them with his bare skin because there WILL come a time if he's mummified while in captivity! Granted, he can do this with a wand but its kinda mediocre compared to skin contact effect to his chagrin. At this rate, he really will surpass ol' McGonagall in transfiguration!

Bakugo plunges his hands into boiling water to expand his sweat glands and creating explosions repeatedly to increase the scale of his attacks.

Todoroki uses fire and ice alternatively to make the water temperature uniform to train him to regulate his temperature while using his quirks, along with improving his fire quirk skill considering he neglected it out of spite!

Sero keeps dispensing tape to increase his tape capacity, speed in dispensing and shooting.

Kirishima and Ojiro with their quirks constantly turned on while Ojiro's smacking him around to improve both the strength and durability of their quirks. Painful.

Kaminari trains with a battery to increase his voltage capacity and endurance so he can last longer in using his Quirk without being a 'yay-idiot' too soon.

Koda screams louder and louder to increase the reach of his anivoice. Painful for the throat.

Aoyama keeps shooting his lasers with a nearby portable outhouse to increase the range, accuracy and strength of his lasers and training his body's endurance.

For Tokoyami, he's in a dark cave, where Dark Shadow is at its strongest. His goal? Control the overpowered Quirk.

Uraraka trains hard in a zero-gravity ball while rolling around to overcome her nausea and increase the weight of things she can use her Quirk on.

Iida runs to increase his stamina and leg power. More stamina means more energy for Quirk Use!

Asui trains all her muscles, tongue included. She also has the increase the strength of both to be highly effective.

Sato eats and works out to increase the duration of his Quirk Activation.

Yaoyorozu eats a lot to increase her capacity, while shortening her creation time in creating objects she needs.

Jiro hits her jacks against the wall to increase the quality of the sound her jacks will make.

Ashido intermittently makes acid to increase her skin's durability.

Mineta keeps ripping off his sticky balls to strengthen his scalp so they will no longer bleed even if he pops off excess balls.

Shoji and Hagakure are training stealth and detection skills together.

Midoriya...well...he's sparring...more like, a one-sided beating in the hands of Tiger.

4 pm...

'Yosh! Everyone you have a job!' Ragdoll called out. 'One of you will cook! HOWEVER, you prepare the ingredients for the cook specifically to his instructions before he cooks the whole thing!'

'OHHHH?!' Class A who was dead with Class B came to life instantly.

'Oi, you guys came to life real fast...' said Hiryu Rin, sweatdropping.

'And drooling at that, even!' said Kendo, doing a double-take.

'One of us is a fantastic cook...' said Ojiro. 'He can probably make a cheap meal luxurious!'

'Oh shush, you...' Harry chuckled, amused.

'Oh, you can cook, Potter-kun?' Yanagi asked him.

'Yup.' said Harry. 'I'm doing the cooking ever since we got here.'

'Heeee!'

'Potter-kun, what will you have us make today?' Iida asked Harry excitedly.

'Well, as per everyone's request, our main star for any camping trip is Homemade Curry but there will be other stuff too.' said Harry. 'I'll divide everyone into teams, OK?' he said as with a stomp on the ground, five earthen walls rose to become blackboards containing written instructions in how he wants things done for each recipe regarding meat and vegetables, with the note: 'make how much you can actually eat so nothing's wasted!' as well as who's who in the group.

One to the meat section, three to the vegetables section and one to the spice and logistics station. They're also responsible for washing and cooking rice.

Meat: chopping up meat to bite-sized pieces as well as chopping up bones to specifications.

'Er why are we chopping up bones for?' Monoma asked, baffled.

'Bones contain nutrients and extra flavor! By boiling them in water it all comes out, see? Mix the bone broth with meaty dishes for extra savoriness! I want it natural, not those too salty crap sold in groceries!' Harry scoffed. 'Too much MSG and almost no natural flavors or benefits. So the muscular guys chop the bones for me before you start on the meat OK? I gotta boil it first. Todoroki-kun boil the water in the huge pot rapidly before you join the meat team, OK? It's so you guys can dump the bones in when you're done with the bones.'

'Sure...'

The pots are thus, aptly labeled for Beef Curry and Chicken Soup.

'...are we seriously going to eat rooster's mohawks and chicken feet for this, Harry-kun?' Kaminari croaked out as Harry was in the Meat Team as well. But the physically-weaker guys were dealing with chicken bones.

'No no, gross and no flavor, but I'm after it for its benefits when boiled.' Harry tut-tutted. 'Chicken Bones and Rooster Combs are a good source of Collagen, good for skin and bones if boiled to get the goods out before used for cooking. But if the soup made out of it cools down, it turns into jelly because of the collagen content but its like eating savory-delicious jelly so you can eat it either way.'

'It's OK?'

'Yes. People have unique tastes after all...some top-class chefs serve collagen jelly too y'know. Guess who guns for it first?'

'Women.' his fellow meat team deadpanned, causing some nearby girls' ears to perk up as they were in the vegetables teams.

Upon finishing the bones, they took care to gather what's needed and dump them on the boiling pots Todoroki boiled to 'human lethal levels'. His job was also to start other fires for the rice to cook.

Once everything was done...Harry began instructing the Logistics Team to bring everything over one order at a time.

Soon, a fragrant smell wafted thickly in the air that got the hungry and tired campers excited as the writings on the boards changed. Recipes enough for one person, a family of four and five.

Harry first cooked the easy ones first. The stir-fry vegetables and the thick delicious sauce used to mix it in with. Then soft-boiled eggs...

'Potter-kun, rice is done!' Ashido called out.

'Yosh! Todoroki-kun, take the heat away from the rice pots so they don't overcook with the remaining heat, just leave enough warmth for serving!' Harry instructed.

'OK.'

When Harry was done cooking assisted by the logistics team...damn...the SMELL!

'Eraser, Potter is still single, right?' Pixie-Bob asked Aizawa, drooling. Even the teachers were defenseless against the smell. Aizawa was long-since well-trained so his dignity was intact.

'He is still learning how to be a proper human being and a proper human teenage boy so yes, he's learning.' Eraserhead deadpanned. 'He is a living example that some people, are not meant to be raising children. He hasn't even had a determined gender nor fell in love with someone so yes, he's very single.'

'Determined gender?'

'If he likes girls or if he likes boys.' said Aizawa wryly as Harry can go both ways with good reason.

'Oh...'

So when food is served after Todoroki took away much of the heat and left just enough to keep food warm and not burn the tongues of hungry eaters...its a literal aroma and flavor assault.

DELICIOUS!

'DAMN IT CLASS-A, YOU EAT FOOD THIS GOOD EVERY DAY?!' Monoma howled in dismay as everyone almost inhaled all the food out of desire for more deliciousness.

'Not every day, its just two days!' said Kirishima.

'ITS STILL NOT FAIR!'

'Guys slow down, food's not going anywhere...' Harry choked out futilely. Nobody's listening. 'Yare yare...'

To be fair when he had all freedom within reason under Aizawa's roof, when he ate his best skill level, he was just as 'stoned' as they are...

...they left camp with literal pot bellies.

'Honestly, if I wasn't me, washing all these would be a pain...' Harry removed the remains of oil, sauce and soup on everything with a wave of his hand since nobody spared even scraps, leaving them sparkling clean.

'Gokurosama, Potter-kun, we'll take it from here.' said Mandalay gratefully. 'Tomorrow is another workout, so bathe and sleep!'

'Hai~!'

'For students who are in the red in grades...less sleep for you!' Vlad King called out, much to the dismay of Sero, Monoma, Kirishima, Sato, Kaminari and Ashido.

'Ehhhh?!' they whined.

'After a bath, get back out here!'

xxx

'Man, I feel sorry for Sero, Kirishima, Sato, Kaminari and Ashido...less sleep tonight with stomachs like these...' said Ojiro as the guys took out their futons after changing into their sleepwear in their airconditioned bedroom.

Again, seeing Harry's slender, frail-looking figure(by male standards) that somehow has 'that shape' on his hips got them all awkward and they're STILL wondering why to this day. It does not help that his sleepwear is a loose white shirt, and short bike shorts after a nice bath.

'It can't be helped. our reputation is on the line that UA can't afford students with less than 85% in their grades.' said Midoriya. 'Harry-kun told me that much.'

'With Aizawa for a legal guardian, the only way to make me forget that is a memory quirk.' said Harry wryly.

After lying down on their beds, they all immediately passed out since they all took their vitamins.

xxx

Day 3...more Quirk Training and Cookout to go but after dinner, Midoriya approached Harry about Kota, Mandalay's nephew.

'With a story like that, I don't blame him one bit.' Harry chuckled with a wry smile. 'When people who died doing a good thing, people praise their deaths tactlessly, without a care if their grieving relatives are nearby within earshot, hearing that their family members dying was a good thing when loss is still fresh in their hearts, rage and anger builds up in hatred. Its like, 'it's good they died' in the ears of a little child who lost their parents.' he told Midoriya softly while Harry cooked the food after ingredient preparation, unaware that the cats are coming out with more stuff with the girls AND overheard him talk. 'And hearing that from many people...builds anger and bitterness, all bottled up as they can't even express their hurt at insensitive imbeciles in this hero-oriented society and the genres and tropes that came with it.'

'For them in turn, Heroes actually translate into Martyrs in their heads. Martyrs are Heroes who died for a cause. For Kota-kun who lost his family at a young age and people praising those deaths, he is bitter about it no doubt, especially when his aunt is all he has left in this world. He has no way of telling when she'll be the next to go...and he'll be all alone for good and hear people praise her death next. His attitude right now? He avoids attachment to her. He only cooperates for food and a roof over his head and that's it. Attachment means more pain if they're gone the next day. Basically Mandalay-san is a scab over a wound and no telling when that very scab will be yanked off to make the wound fresh and hurt anew. Losing his one last family will make him hate society and hate Heroes even more until he falls on a slippery slope due to that festering hatred.'

'So your idealistic words just pisses him off, basically.' Harry finished as Midoriya fell into gloom. 'Your words will not reach his heart as to him, we're just a few more morons praising his parents' deaths and pushing him to like heroes who die for the cause and he'll think, 'They want me to become a Hero just to die too'. No therapy nor counseling will be of help as they'll just be additional morons to him, just more pressure into hero-hood...to your death.'

'So it's like that?' Mandalay croaked in sadness as the two boys got startled and they turned to see teary-eyed girls.

'Damn Potter, that's gloomy!' Hakagure choked out.

'Eek!' Midoriya squeaked as the Pussycats and their classmates were shaken with everything.

'That's the bitter reality for that boy. For I am the same and I understand him. I lost my parents to terrorists they fought.' Harry sighed. 'But unlike Kota-kun who has a nice aunt who tries her best to fill that gaping hole he has, my surviving relatives are monsters who should never become parents made my life hell. I am a failure as a human being because of them and Aizawa's busy fixing me up. I admit, he's doing a good job in that, though.'

'But...what can I do for Kota-kun?' Mandalay wondered sadly.

'Be there for him while being patient until his wounds heal. And do NOT make promises you cannot keep.' Harry said bluntly. 'Because with a job like yours, living long is a promise you can't keep.'