Shoko and Izuku didn't stay at the Gala for too much longer. They'd accomplished what they came here to do.

Izuku talked with a few more heroes, and Shoko raided the buffet tables a few more times, but their hearts weren't in it anymore.

They wanted nothing more to go home and forget about everything that had happened that night in each other's arms, so that's what they decided to do.

Eventually, Shoko simply called up Akko and asked him to come pick them up. He did, and Shoko nearly fell asleep on Izuku's shoulder the moment the sore closed behind them.

"That was exhausting," she muttered.

Izuku patted her arm reassuringly. "I know," he said, "but we did it. If he knows what's good for him, we'll be left alone at last."

She looked up at him. "I hope so, because I meant what I said. If he tries anything, I'll bring him crashing down."

Then, Shoko snuggled closer to her boyfriend, her eyes lightly shut.

Izuku hugged her to him, not noticing Akko's approving glance in the rear view mirror.

Shoko had regained most of her energy by the time they got back to the dorms, well after midnight.

She and Izuku gently tiptoed through the hallways until they reached their room.

Izuku pushes open the door, looking around. He found himself a little disoriented by how normal it felt, as though he hadn't just become a nationally known face like his girlfriend.

Even though it would have happened some day in his chosen career, being famous was not a consequence he would have imagined of finding love.

He was okay with it, though, because it meant Shoko was safe.

Speaking of Shoko, where was she-

WHAM!

As Izuku turned to check on his girlfriend, he got flung back into the bed by the force of her leaping at him.

Izuku found himself pressed back into the bed.

He gulped as he saw Shoko's dual-tone eyes above him, as she had launched forwards and straddled him.

Her eyes were shining with animalistic hunger, and Izuku swore he saw her licking her lips.

In a sultry voice, Shoko said, "Now, I can get this fucking suit off of you. Do you have any idea how much I've wanted you this entire night? You look so fucking good, Izuku, and you're all mine. Now, I want you to fuck me until I can't stand."

Then, she was done talking, and she started ripping off their clothes with astonishing speed, grabbing at her boyfriend as she satisfied herself.

She didn't care how late it was, or that others might hear her wild moans as Izuku responded eagerly to her demands.

She needed him right now.

The next day, the headlines were all anyone needed in the Class A common room lounge.

By now, most of them were aware of or subscribed to at least one or two hero tabloids, even if it was just to laugh at them.

And now there were a pile of the Hero Gala special editions the trashy magazines always put out on the coffee table, for everyone to admire.

All of their gigantic front page spreads featured two particular classmates of theirs, and a secret all of them had been painfully aware of for months now.

"SHOKO TODOROKI REVEALS MYSTERIOUS BOYFRIEND!" announced Japan Life.

"YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF THE NUMBER ONE HERO IN COMMITTED RELATIONSHIP WITH FELLOW HERO STUDENT!" blared Heroes Weekly.

"SHOCKING ROMANCE AT THE HERO GALA: PRINCESS TODOROKI FINDS A HANDSOME PRINCE!" declared Hero Insider , who conveniently left out their numerous articles about how Shoko was definitely dating Bakugo the whole time.

"ENDEAVOR: 'NO COMMENT' ON DAUGHTER'S TRUE LOVE!" discerned Quirk Magazine.

And of course, there was Mr. Tokuda's article, slightly more tastefully named, "An Interview With Japan's New Favorite Couple: Life, Love, and The Future with Shoko Todoroki and Izuku Midoriya."

Mina was curled up in an armchair opposite the couple in question, thumbing through a magazine that declared her friends "A MODERN ROMEO AND JULIET!" unfortunately forgetting that the literary lovers mentioned were not an example to emulate.

"Dang, you guys really stole the show, didn't you?" the pink girl said.

Shoko put down a just-finished newsprint with the headline "ICE QUEEN SHOKO SHOWS US WHO MELTED HER HEART!" and exchanging it for one that she already liked, which asked, "WHO IS IZUKU MIDORIYA? THE ORIGINS OF THE NATION'S NEW HOTTEST CATCH."

To Mina, she replied, "Yeah, and they didn't even catch the best part of it, when Izuku tricked Endeavor into shaking hands."

Mina leaned forwards. "You know, you guys still haven't told me what you actually said to the flaming dumpster. So, spill," she told her best friend.

Shoko grinned. "Oh, you know, nothing much," she replied, "just that he's a disgrace to heroism, an inhuman piece of shit, and that if he ever tried to mess with my life again we'd destroy his life and everything he's ever done. Oh, and Izuku told him to "fucking shut up," which was awesome."

Mina's jaw dropped. She looked at Shoko for a second, then over to Izuku, and then back.

She started laughing, rocking back and forth in her chair as she declared, "Holy shit, Shoko, you are the baddest bitch I've ever known! That's glorious!"

Shoko furrowed her brow. "Is what you said a good thing?" she asked.

Mina nodded emphatically as she answered, "It means you're the best, Shoko, and that I could not be prouder to be your friend."

"Oh, that's good then. I thought I might have to do what we did to Endeavor there for a second," Shoko said cheekily, making Mina recoil in mock terror.

Izuku looked up from reading yet another trashy tabloid, this one aiming for cheap shock value by hyperventilating, "IS SHOKO CHEATING ON IZUKU ALREADY?"

"Will that be good enough to stop him, you think?" he asked Shoko, who snuggled up against him as she read through her own tabloid.

Shoko looked at him, loving and tender, gave him a quick peck, and then said, "Well, if it doesn't, I'll just unleash you on a reporter again, and you can tell them how you plan to marry me. I liked that, by the way."

Izuku harrumphed, but he couldn't disagree.

"Oh yeah," Mina said, "I'm pretty sure the reporters are sieging UA again, except this time they're here for you."

Izuku and Shoko stared at her in horror.

Teasingly, the pink girl continued, "Hey, maybe I should give an interview too...I'm sure that some tabloids would love to hear about what you two get up to in bed."

Izuku whispered, "You wouldn't…"

Mina replied, "I absolutely would, and you know it. Consider it my revenge for you two being so loud. Seriously, I'm super excited to be the cool aunt and all, but I really don't need to hear the kids getting made, alright?"

Izuku blushed, but Shoko simply fixed her friend with a steady gaze.

"Go ahead," Shoko told her, "tell them how I use the tricks you taught me. I'm not ashamed of how much I like fucking Izuku, I'd tell the world if I could."

Mina grinned. "And that," the black-eyed girl answered, "is the other reason I'm proud to be your friend."

But the students weren't the only ones in UA enjoying the chaos.

In the teacher lounge, the special Nemuri-kick-proof doors were shown to be not, in fact, Nemuri kick-proof, as one of them was battered nearly off its hinges as the 18+ Hero charged into the room.

"Shouta, your students are AMAZING!" she yelled, cackling with glee and waving around copies of multiple tabloids.

A head poked up from the couch, where Aizawa had been sleeping. "What the fuck is it now?" he asked.

Nemuri slammed down three different headlines in front of his eyes.

"Todoroki and Midoriya went to the Hero Gala together!" she replied, "and I'd bet my salary that Endeavor is looking for some metaphorical aloe vera right now."

Aizawa buried his head into the cushions and groaned.

"How much property damage was there? Any casualties?" he asked.

Nemuri responded, "Only Endeavor's ego, I imagine."

Aizawa couldn't help but smile at that thought; he'd told Nemuri everything, and her immediate response had been to demand a place in the line to dismember Endeavor. Aizawa had happily invited her, but he was afraid the line was getting pretty long now.

He hoped that his problem children had verbally eviscerated the disgusting excuse for a hero that had done so much to Shoko (and maybe physically eviscerated him, too.)

Then he looked back down at the headlines.

"A NEW UA POWER COUPLE APPEARS!" was the first. So far, not that bad.

"IZUKU MIDORIYA: A HEARTTHROB ALREADY OFF THE MARKET" read the second. Aizawa didn't like that one, because describing Midoriya as anything other than a massive headache was factually incorrect.

And then he saw the third.

"IS SHOKO EXPECTING ALREADY?" it claimed, complete with a helpful picture of her at the Gala, a bright red circle drawn around her midsection as if to highlight a bulge that wasn't there.

Aizawa looked back up at Nemuri, who was clearly trying not to giggle at the third headline.

In a calm, steady voice, he told her, "No."

Smirking, she said, "Hey, you don't know for sure. She could be pregnant by now, the sensors show that they've been basically living together in her dorm for two months."

Aizawa knew that, he just didn't care anymore.

"I refuse to acknowledge the possibility," he replied, "and I also believe in God and Nezu. The boss bet on Todoroki not having her first kid until after she graduated, and his bets are always right."

"Actually," came a terrible, happy voice, "I'd like to change my bet in light of new information."

Without getting up, Aizawa looked over to see Nezu himself striding through the door.

Aizawa sighed, and asked, "Fine. What would you like to change it to? And while we're at it, what new information?"

Nezu came to a stop in front of Nemuri and Aizawa. He said brightly, "Why, the wonderful interview Todoroki and Midoriya gave at the Gala last night! In it, she indicates her interest in having lots of children. In light of this, I'd like to bet on...the two of them expecting their first child before the beginning of their third and final year."

Aizawa looked at Nezu in horror.

"No," he said, "that's not possible. They're not that irresponsible! What, does protection stop working or something? How are they supposed to be parents while they're hero students?"

Nezu replied, "Why, with our support, of course. UA is no stranger to planned, wanted children among its heroics students. Many strong animal-form mutation quirks cause mating urges or breeding seasons, after all, and we have never wished to force people to fight their own quirks in order to succeed. As such, we run a daycare and offer many services to expectant parents. We'll help them make it work. And I must say, their children will be extremely adorable."

Nemuri was doing a gleeful little dance at the thought of one of her ships producing children. Nezu was smiling fondly.

Aizawa wanted to scream.

Instead, he simply buried his head in the cushions again and let out a long groan of suffering.

"Permission to die?" he asked.

"Permission denied," Nezu responded cheerfully.

Then, Nezu simply began to walk away. As he did so, though, he added, "Be sure to congratulate All Might on the impending birth of his first grandchild!"

Aizawa ignored him for a moment, more concerned with screaming into the void.

Then he processed the words, and he bolted upright.

"No," he told Nezu, "you better not have said what I think you just said."

Nezu smiled innocently, checking his nonexistent watch. He said, "Oh dear, look at the time, I really must be going now."

Aizawa yelled, "You don't get to drop something like that and then just walk away!"

Nezu replied, "Actually, I do! Goodbye!"

And then he slipped out the door and was gone.

Nemuri, who had watched everything in stunned silence, finally said, "Hang on, so Midoriya is All Might's son?"

Aizawa slumped back into the couch; he didn't want to hear this.

Nemuri continued, "That...that means that All Might's son, the heir of the man Endeavor did all the shit he did to surpass, seduced Endeavor's daughter?"

Nemuri began to howl in laughter.

"Holy shit," she gasped, "that's the most poetic justice I've ever heard. Oh, I hope Todoroki and Midoriya's first kid has Midoriya's quirk, just to make it sting even more..."

Aizawa was reminded of the potential horrors of a toddler with the ridiculous self-destructive power of Midoriya's quirk, and he officially decided to retire.

Of course, he couldn't actually retire, because Nezu wouldn't let him, but he could dream, damnit.

"What the hell did I do to deserve this, God?" he wondered as Nemuri kept dying of laughter.