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A couple that will go down in legend
Chapter thirty-three: Secrets aired
The students of U.A.'s class 1-A were relaxing in their homeroom class one well enough day at school. Their homeroom teacher, Aizawa, was out at the moment, as he and other members of the school's staff were covering something in a meeting. As such, the twenty-five students were more or less left to their own devices, something that the underground hero normally would be very much opposed to, given the history of some of his brats, as he called them occasionally.
It would be to Aizawa's relief that his students were not causing all that much of a ruckus, actually. They were all milling about the classroom, chatting amicably with each other on what all they had to talk about. One such group of students consisted of Bakugo and his squad, that being the collection of Mina, Kaminari, Sero and Kirishima. As the explosive teen went on about how he scored a lot of points with his girlfriend Pony, Kirishima, with a mildly troubled look, let out a bit of a sigh.
This did not escape the notice of his friends, Bakugo most of all since the sigh interrupted him. Normally, the explosive teen would be pissed that someone interrupted him, but he noticed that his crimson-haired friend looked a bit sad, and that his sigh indicated some degree of feeling like he wasn't good enough for something. "…Oi, Kirishima." Everyone in Bakugo's group turned to look at him, Kirishima most of all. "You okay, man?" Bakugo asked, his usual attitude not there as he regarded the hardening quirk boy with a sympathetic look.
Kirishima, realizing that he wouldn't get out of this one, held his hands up at around level with his head, a gesture to show that he wasn't going to resist the questioning. "…Sorry, bro. It's just that I…" Another sigh, coupled with a gentle shake of his head, served as an interruption from what Kirishima was trying to explain to Bakugo. "…Hearing you talk about how you managed to get together with a girl, having heard of other guys in our class succeeding in getting with a girl, I just can't help but wish that I was that lucky."
Surprisingly, Bakugo did not get pissy or anything over Kirishima's attitude. In fact, he casually pointed right at the crimson haired boy. "…Listen, Kirishima," Bakugo began, "There is no way in hell that there doesn't exist a girl that would find you appealing." Moving the finger he was pointing at his friend with to the door leading into the classroom, Bakugo continued on, "You're a good man, and any girl out there would be lucky to have a guy like you show interest in them. You just need to keep having faith that you'll one day find the one."
Kirishima, although still looking like he was lacking a bit of faith in himself, smiled a bit in appreciation. "…Thanks, dude. Although I should still probably put some effort into shaping up a bit to be more appealing." A look of consideration crossed the hardening quirk boy's face as he remarked, "Maybe I should remodel my dorm room. I mean, Hagakure did say that my dorm room would place second in a contest of 'rooms girls wouldn't want their boyfriends to have'."
"Yeah, that was a big dick move on invisible girl's part," Bakugo remarked as he crossed his arms over his chest and nodding in agreement with what he said, with the others in his group aside from the still mildly-troubled Kirishima nodding along as well.
Over a ways away, the girls in class 1-A (aside from Mina who was still agreeing with Bakugo about how Hagakure was a bit careless in what she said to Kirishima) were all gathered around as they talked about what was on their mind. "So Yaoyorozu," Hagakure began, her tone making it clear she had something juicy to talk about, "I heard word that your father, at one point, tried to reach an agreement with Todoroki's dad where the two of them would set you and Todoroki up to be an item."
The wealthy girl sputtered a bit before turning her head to the side somewhat. "I…did hear that from Todoroki himself, yes," Yaoyorozu began. She gently shook her head, showing that the subject was one that made her somewhat uncomfortable. "I still cannot believe that my father would try to control my life in such a fashion."
Hatsume, who was one of the new students added to class 1-A due to recent changes in how the staff ran things at U.A., crossed her arms over her chest as she wore a look of mildly serious consideration. "…Yeah, with all due respect I don't see a relationship between the two of you working out. I mean, all that you and Todoroki have in common is the fact that you both come from very well-off families, although you do vastly outstrip him in said regard."
"There's also the fact that Todoroki is in love with and now currently dating Reiko over in class 1-B," Tsuyu pointed out with a croak, "To his credit, Todoroki is doing quite well, and Reiko seems perfectly happy to be with him kero." The frog girl nodded once before adding, "The same goes for the surprising couple of Pony and Bakugo."
"I'm still surprised that someone as sweet and bashful as Pony would agree to go out with someone as violent and short-tempered as Bakugo," Kyoka remarked. The rock lover took a quick look in the direction where Izuku was talking to Tenya, Todoroki and Shinso, before she returned her attention to the girls she was talking to. "…But then again, it's not the first time that a sweet, bashful person hooked up with someone who's violent."
Uraraka could tell right off the bat that Kyoka was talking about Izuku, was able to tell that she had shot a quick look at the green-eyed boy briefly. The gravity girl let out a troubled, resigned sigh before she gently shook her head. "…I still can't believe that I was too slow to act in getting Izuku to notice my feelings for him. And now look." Briefly gesturing over to where the boy she had a crush on was talking to his friends, Uraraka continued, "He's now in a relationship with a woman a little more than twice his age."
The other girls in the group proceeded to try and comfort their brunette friend, telling her things such as how Izuku would have been lucky to have been confessed to by her and whatnot. Even so, none of it changed the fact that her friend, her crush, was now off the market for her. And it was causing Uraraka no small amount of emotional pain, let me tell you.
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The students of 1-A weren't the only ones with what was essentially free period at the moment. Over in class 1-B, the students there were amicably chatting with one another as they waited for their teacher to get back from whatever meeting he and the other U.A. staff members had to take care of right now. Over in one corner of the 1-B homeroom, Monoma was talking to the five new boys that had been placed into 1-B due to recent changes.
"And onto point one-hundred and forty-two out of twelve-thousand on why we must save U.A. from falling into anarchy at the hands of the Neanderthals over in class 1-A," the blonde boy began, but he was cut off when Itsuka, who passed by the group at that moment, whacked Monoma on the back of his head with a chop from her large hand, which she shrank back to normal after she had disciplined her unruly classmate.
The class rep of 1-B gave Monoma a dry, mildly exasperated look as she gently shook her head. "You really need to stop it with this hating on 1-A, Monoma. Yes, a bit of healthy competition should be between us and 1-A, but you've taken that healthy competition and turned it into bitter rivalry." Hands on her hips, Itsuka continued, "And I'm not the only one here in our class who thinks that the pointless harping on everyone in 1-A has got to stop. Some of us here are actually friends with the students over there, you know."
"She's got a point," Akuma remarked in a mildly gruff tone as he crossed his arms over his chest, "Hell, I'm friends with Sakaki, although the two of us have known each other since before we were both enrolled here at U.A."
"Juzo's pretty chill with Midoriya and Shinso," Omono pointed out, "Hell, Yosetsu even has a crush on Yaoyorozu over in that class!"
Monoma, as he sighed while gently face palming, replied, "And you all wonder why I have come to question if he's alright in the head or not."
Hearing that from Monoma prompted Itsuka to strike the blonde boy in the head again with an oversized hand. "There's nothing wrong with Yosetsu liking Momo," Itsuka scolded, "Likewise, there's nothing wrong with Reiko now being in a relationship with Todoroki, as well as nothing being wrong with Pony now being in a relationship with Bakugo." With a final glare at Monoma before she left, Itsuka said, "You have got to change that tune of yours."
Having said her peace, the class 1-B rep left the boys, heading over to where the other girls in class were. From what Itsuka saw as she approached, Reiko and Pony were the center of attention since the other girls were all talking to them. Reaching the group, Itsuka grabbed a chair and sat down to join them, drawing their attention in the process.
"Oh, hey Itsuka," Reiko greeted in a friendly enough tone, "Yeah, Pony and I were just telling the girls here about the double date from two days ago where Todoroki and I went out with Pony and her guy."
Itsuka nodded in acknowledgement, as well as a hint of amusement. "Did anything good happen?" Itsuka asked.
"Oh!" Pony suddenly exclaimed, "We meet Midoriya mom while we out. She giggle cute when Bakugo introduce me to her."
The other girls all giggled a bit at that, although Kinoko sighed a bit in a resigned manner. This did not escape the ever-attentive attention of Itsuka, who right away turned around to face the mushroom girl. "…You're still struggling to work up the courage to confess to Kirishima, aren't you Kinoko?" the class 1-B rep asked, sympathetic concern clear on her face.
Kinoko, with a very troubled look on her face, gently shook her head, a sign that she was still at something of a loss. "I just don't know what to do. I mean, how can I tell Eijiro how I feel about him? To make things worse, what if he rejects me?" Kinoko scrunched up into a fetal position on the chair she sat on, her arms around her knees and her face pressed into her knees. "I don't think that I could take that."
As Kinoko was being worried and depressed, the other girls in the group looked on in concern. It was Itsuka, who partly wanted to see KinoShima (that's the couple name that she came up with for Kinoko and Kirishima) become a thing, who placed her hands on the mushroom girl's shoulders, made her look up at her. Itsuka gave her shy, timid friend a firm, serious look as they locked eyes with one another.
"…Kinoko, listen to me." Itsuka's tone made it clear that she was serious, that she would be having Kinoko's attention as she talked. "You will get your heart across to Kirishima, you hear me? You will be able to tell him how you feel, Kinoko." The mushroom girl was surprised by the words of her classmate, although she was feeling a bit better after the pep talk.
She was about to say something, but before Kinoko could get one word out, the intercom system came on with some crackling noises from the speaker in the one upper corner of the room along the top of the wall. This likewise got the attention of everyone else in the classroom, as well as everyone over in 1-A since the intercom speaker in their classroom crackled to life as well.
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"…What in the name of Vishnu is happening now?" Mina muttered to herself as she and all of her classmates in the 1-A homeroom looked up at the intercom speaker.
"Good morning, U.A.!" a random female voice called out over the intercom system; it didn't sound like any of the women on the school's staff, so it had to be a student.
"Who here all wants to know what makes the lucky ladies in the hero course here tick?" a second female voice said over the intercom.
"Heh, I sure do," the first female voice said, "And I'm certain that we aren't the only ones here who wants to know what goes on in those girls' heads!"
As the students in 1-A all looked on in confusion, they turned to look at one another, with a fair number of the boys looking right at the girls. Bakugo, while looking at where the rest of the girls all sat in the classroom with a suspicious and mildly confused look on his face, pointed up to the intercom system. "…What manner of bullshittery is this?"
The girls all returned confused looks to the explosive teen, with Kyoka even shrugging in a confused manner. The confusion in one classroom, however, did nothing to hinder the two girls that were apparently using the intercom system to do something of a gossip corner-type segment as part of some morning announcements. A clap from the intercom speaker drew everyone's attention back to it.
"Well, students of U.A., do we have a treat for you!" the first girl said, "The two of us were able to…borrow…some certain reading material from the hero course girls, and we're going to take the time here to share what we have with all of you!"
Right away, Shinso face palmed, drawing the attention of the boys that he was talking to. "Those two girls are going to get themselves into so much trouble," the brainwasher remarked, sounding more exasperated than anything else.
The first girl in the announcements cleared her throat before she began, sounding like she was reading from something. "Like, seriously! Why does Momo have to keep reminding everyone about how fabulously rich she is?"
Yaoyorozu, since she heard that she was mentioned by name, looked a bit confused, as well as suspicious. The wealthy girl's attention, as well as the attention of the other girls, were drawn over to where Bakugo and his group were hanging, given that they heard Mina let out a worried gasp. "Hey, Mina!" The pink-skinned girl turned to see Yaoyorozu look at her, her expression showing that she was suspicious. "I'm…not causing you any problems, am I?"
Mina chuckled a bit nervously, her gaze darting from side to side as she poked the tips of her index fingers together. "Umm, look Momo, this isn't what it looks-"
"I mean, come on!" the first girl in the announcements said as she went on, "I'm starting to get the feeling that she's intentionally bringing it up and only acting like she's doing it without meaning to! Sorry Momo, but not all of us were lucky enough to have been born with silver spoons shoved firmly up our asses!"
The pink-skinned girl's eyes widened in shock as that last bit was read over the intercom. Yaoyorozu looked rather annoyed with Mina, but the other girls had a mix of expressions; as for the boys in class, most of them started laughing, with Bakugo being the one to find the most humor in how Mina apparently describes the rich ponytailed girl of 1-A. Similarly, the other three boys in the 'squad' had to suppress some snickering.
"Ooh, I want to do the next one," the second girl in the announcements said. Clearing her throat as she sounded like she was picking up something, the second girl said as her words reached the whole of the student body, "I had a really weird dream last night where Tamaki took a bite out of Mirio's ass, then he turned into a second Mirio, which meant that there were two goofballs going around the place."
Everyone in class 1-A looked on in confusion, wondering just whose journal or diary was being read from now. After a few moments, everyone got their answer when Hagakure declared loudly, "They must have Nejire-sempai's diary! Why else would it mention both Mirio-sempai and Tamaki-sempai in the same passage?"
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Over in the 3-A classroom, everyone, even the teacher, looked up at the intercom speaker at what those two girls were doing went on. "When I woke up and thought about it, I began to wonder if, in real life, Tamaki really could turn into others by eating ass, given how his quirk works."
As everyone in the class started laughing, Nejire turned to look at where Tamaki sat and said, "Tamaki, I am SO sorry!" Tamaki only moaned in resigned embarrassment as he scrunched up into a fetal positon at his desk, his head down so no one could see his face.
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Back in the 1-A classroom, after the first years settled down from laughing about what one of their sempais in the third year wrote about, the two girls that were reading aloud from the private writings of the hero course girls continued on.
"Ooh, here's a good one," the first girl said as she picked up a journal, "Ahem." After clearing her throat, the first girl read aloud, "I still can't believe that Izuku's now in a relationship with Baukgo's mom. I mean, seriously! What the hell happened there?!"
As the reading went on, Uraraka let out a mildly frightened gasp as she quickly covered her mouth, hoping that just the girls she was talking to would notice the movement. Sadly for her, however, Bakugo and his squad looked over at that time since Mina turned to see how Uraraka was going to hold up.
To make things even worse for Uraraka, Bakugo had noticed that the gravity girl had quickly moved her hands to cover her mouth, and in a jerk move decided to not show mercy. "Holy shit!" Bakugo exclaimed in clear amusement, "I think those girls are now reading from Round Face's diary now! And she's jealous that my mom's dating Deku!"
A number of students in the class started laughing, although to his credit all Aoyama did was say something along the lines of how he knew it all along. Tokoyami was, respectfully, not among those who were laughing, but Dark Shadow was for some odd reason, as it was looking in Uraraka's direction while pointing and laughing at the embarrassed gravity girl. The bird headed boy of 1-A had to scold his shadow familiar, telling it to behave itself.
As Uraraka nervously glanced around the classroom, she noticed that Izuku, with a wide-eyed look of shocked surprise on his face, was looking right at her. Uraraka prayed that this would just end, but the girls reading from the gathered diaries wouldn't be having that. "I don't know what Mrs. Bakugo is doing with Izuku, but whatever it is, I bet that I can do a way better job at it. Especially when it comes to making him into a man."
That last bit sent a lot of 1-A into laughing hysterics, Bakugo especially. A few had the decency to not laugh, although what pained and embarrassed the gravity girl the most was the way that Izuku was still looking at her, as if he couldn't believe what was going on, what the words of his friends being read over the intercom said. The green-haired cinnamon roll normally would object to the very idea of someone's private writings being broadcasted in such a fashion, but since said musings were written by one of his friends, and it talked about him and in such a manner, there was no way he could help but be shocked.
"Let me do the next one here," the second girl in the announcements said, clearing her throat before she began. "My class went to the tennis courts earlier yesterday morning, and the twenty-five of us played there while everyone in class 1-A played in the court next to the one that we were in."
"Oh, this has to be a girl over in 1-B," Hagakure remarked, "This is going to be good!"
The other 1-A girls (even Mina, over where she sat with Bakugo and the others) turned to regard their invisible classmate, with Kyoka even giving a shocked and appalled look. Seeing all of the looks she was getting, Hagakure defended, "Oh, come on! You know how I like gossip!"
"I saw Yaoyorozu, one of the two girls in 1-A who's mean to me, hit a tennis ball with her racket, and that ball ended up striking her perverted classmate Mineta right in his tennis balls," the second girl continued, "Sort of like what happened the previous time that all of us were playing tennis, only it was Eijiro's electric friend who did it that time."
As the diary reading continued over the intercom, the 1-A girls looked on with some confusion, although they all turned to regard Yaoyorozu and Hagakure. "…You two are bullying a girl over in 1-B?" Tsuyu asked, "That's not very nice kero."
Scoffing incredulously, Yaoyorozu said, "Hagakure and I are not bullying anyone over in 1-B, Tsuyu." Crossing her arms over her chest, the rich girl continued, "But now that you mention it, I would have to guess that those girl are now reading from the diary of that creep Komori, since neither of us feel okay being around her, and we have made that point known." The plastic headband that Hagakure wore on her head moved up and down in a way that showed that the invisible girl was nodding in agreement with Yaoyorozu.
The diary reading continued on, with the second girl in the announcements reading, "Pretty much everyone in 1-A laughed when the pervert got hit in his special place by Yaoyorozu's tennis ball. I think everyone in my class laughed as well when we all saw since we were in the court right next to 1-A, but I wasn't paying all that much attention to it since I was looking over at Eijiro instead. I mean, why wouldn't I want to look at him? Eijiro's the most attractive guy ever, not to mention how he's not only really tough, but he's also rather chivalrous as well." Everyone in 1-A looked on in confusion, although both Yaoyorozu and Hagakure (the latter couldn't be seen, though) had varying looks of disgust on their faces.
"…Oh my God," the wealthy girl remarked in a somewhat disgusted tone, "Don't tell me that Kinoko actually has a crush on someone!"
"Oi, Ponytail!" Bakugo snapped when he turned to face the direction the 1-A girls were sitting in, "Pinky and the other girls here are right in how you and Invisible Girl really need to zip it with giving Shrooms a hard time!" Jerking a thumb at the intercom speaker in the classroom, Bakugo continued as he glared at Yaoyorozu and Hagakure, "Although I don't have any idea who in the hell that Eijiro guy that Shrooms is talking about is."
Bakugo's squad all looked at him with a mix of confused looks, and it was Mina who spoke up. "Umm, Bakugo," the pink-skinned girl began in a tone that was mildly unsure due to confusion, "Eijiro is Kirishima's first name."
"Wait, what's going on now?" Kirishima asked, looking very much confused.
Bakugo turned to face his crimson-haired friend, have a shrug. "…Huh. I told you that you'd eventually find a girl that would like you, and here we go." The explosive teen jerked a thumb over at the intercom speaker in the room, never taking his eyes off of Kirishima. "Turns out that there is a girl that has a crush on you.'
"THERE'S A GIRL THAT HAS A CRUSH ON ME?!" Kirishima exclaimed, very clearly surprised by the news that he was just given. Bakugo nodded calmly a few times in the affirmative while Mina patted Kirishima on the back in a congratulatory manner; Kaminari and Sero even applauded the hardening quirk boy, celebrating their crimson haired friend's success in finally finding someone interested in him.
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Things were not as celebratory over in the class 1-B homeroom. In fact, a number of the students in class were surprised with what all they were hearing as the reading of their mushroom-themed classmate's diary continued on over the intercom. "I still wish that I can be right there next to Eijiro, laughing with him, loving him," the second girl said as she read on from Kinoko's diary, "But I'm still being kept from being embraced by and held in his arms. The chain link fence that separated the two courts was one barrier, but my own nerves, my worries that he might reject me, are another. If it wasn't for all of that, then maybe I would have long since told Eijiro how I feel about him by now."
As the talking in the 1-B homeroom reached something of a fever pitch, Monoma turned around to face where Kinoko sat in the classroom. "Oh my god!" the blonde boy exclaimed while pointing at the mushroom girl, "You aren't afraid of that red-haired idiot over in 1-A! You're in love with him!" Monoma declaring it made most everyone cry out in surprise; Kinoko could only put her face on her arms as she laid at her desk, wishing that this was all a bad dream.
"Hey, zip it, you idiots!" Itsuka scolded her classmates, "So Kinoko has a crush on a boy! It's nothing to hoot and holler about!"
Kurama, one of the few who was not in hysterics over the reveal of Kinoko having a crush on someone, raised hjis right hand as he wore a look of confusion on his face. "…Umm, who in the hell is this Eijiro guy that, from the sounds of it, seems to be the boy that Komori has a crush on?"
Tetsutetsu, with a look of curious confusion on his own face, crossed his arms over his chest as he turned to look where all of the girls in 1-B were gathered. "Yeah, I have no idea who the hell this Eijiro joker is, either," Tetsutetsu said, "Yo Kinoko, can I get some clarification here, please?" The mushroom girl, too embarrassed because her private thoughts were not only broadcast over the whole of U.A. but now her crush on Kirishima was made public knowledge before she could have told him herself, could only sink down in her desk, laying her face on her arms as they laid on her desk's surface as she moaned in embarrassment.
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Back in class 1-A, everyone was continuing to look up at the intercom speaker when the first girl doing the announcements said, "Well that was interesting! Ooh, which one should we do next?"
"I sort of like the looks of-" the second girl began, but she was cut off when the sound of a door being forced open came from the intercom speaker.
"What in the name of Gilgamesh is wrong with the two of you?!" the gruff, angry and commanding voice of Aizawa yelled, sending the two girls that were doing the announcements into something of a panic.
"You both have a lot to answer for!" came the equally frim and disappointed voice of Sekijiro, clearly sounding like he and Aizawa were glaring at the two girls who were broadcasting the private writings of the hero course girls.
In Aizawa's homeroom classroom, Shinso let out a bit of a chuckle as he heard his teacher slash mentor slash foster father lay down the law on those irresponsible girls. "Hoo boy, won't that be a fun show to watch," the brainwasher remarked in clear amusement.
Later that afternoon, after classes were done for the day, the staff of U.A. had to do an emergency meeting due to the incident where two female students of the school had not only stolen a bunch of private journals and diaries from hero course girls, but broadcasted the content of some of said books for all of the school to hear. There was clear disappointment on the faces of many of the staff members at the meeting; even Nezu, who normally looked more or less happy all of the time, had shades of displeasure on his face.
"I can't believe that we didn't know about what was going on until after the meeting to go over a few points in regards to the foreign high school visiting Japan to see us," Snipe remarked as he gently shook his head, clearly having a bit of disappointment in himself for how some of the girls in the hero course were failed as badly as they were by the staff, of which Snipe was a part.
Yu Takeyama, also known as the pro hero Mt. Lady and one of the newest additions to the U.A. staff due to the increased need for security, gestured to the marksman pro hero. "Well in our defense, the announcements didn't play on the intercom speaker in this office since Nezu turned off that functionality in order to let the meeting go on uninterrupted."
At that point, both Aizawa and Sekijiro walked into the meeting room, having returned from dealing with some matter of business. "…As it turned out," Aizawa said with a grumpy huff as he and Sekijiro collapsed into their respective chairs at the meeting table, "It was a pair of girls from the second year general studies course that had pulled that stupid stunt."
"Aizawa and I took it up with the girls' teacher," Sekijiro said, sounding mildly disgusted, "But that woman only felt like giving the girls a week's worth of afterschool detention." The class 1-B homeroom teacher crossed his arms over his chest, clearly looking disappointed. "And that was only after Aizawa and I complained to her about her students' lack of respect for other students. I have no doubt that she's unwilling to punish those two girls any more than that."
Nezu, closing his eyes to have a look of being calm, let out a resigned sigh. "…Yes, as the homeroom teacher of those girls, Ms. Hammerlock has the right to decide on how to punish the students in her homeroom class." Opening his eyes, the quirked animal principal continued, "But as principal of U.A., I have ultimate say in how a specific student is punished. You recall how I overruled Aizawa's decision to want to expel Mineta a while ago, correct?"
"As much as I would have liked to see the little pervert punished for the stunt he had pulled during the class's field trip over in Royal Woods," the underground hero began, "I understand that recent events necessitate that as many heroes are on deck as possible. Additionally, Mineta having saved some of Japan's most prominent figures from certain death during the recent monster attack has made him something of a national hero, so expelling him would have put the school in a bad light." Aizawa gave Nezu a knowing look, one eyebrow arched in a wry manner. "…I can only hope such leniency won't be shown to those two gen ed course girls."
"Given the nature of their offence," Nezu began, his tone sounding resigned, "As well as what we can reasonably assume they had done in order to carry out said offence, I have enough justification to have those girls suspended at an absolute minimum. Chances are that I may even straight up expel the both of them."
"It's always a sad day when U.A. has to expel even one of its students," Toshinori remarked in a grim tone, "But what those two girls had done is not something that can be swept under the rug."
The other staff members at the meeting all nodded in agreement with the former symbol of peace. After the agreement was made, Nezu turned to some papers that he had sitting in front of him. "…I'll have to do some background checking on the two girls who stole and read the private journals of some of the hero course girls over the school's intercom system, but that won't take too long. There's one thing that I wanted to go over with you all, a final point from what we were talking about in the meeting before this one."
The other staff members at the meeting all turned to regard their boss with looks of curiosity, the four new hires especially. "Oh?" Pixie-Bob asked as she, along with Mt. Lady, Mirko and Ryukyu all looked over where Nezu sat at the one end of the meeting table, "So it's something about that foreign high school that's coming here to Japan so a team of its quirked students can face a team of U.A. students from the hero course in a team battle." The member of the Wild, Wild Pussycats had a look of mild confusion on her face. "…What was the foreign high school in question, again?"
The new hires to the U.A. staff turned to face Aizawa's direction when he let out a troubled sigh. "…It's the local high school of that Royal Woods place over in Michigan," the underground hero said, "Simply called Royal Woods High." Aizawa turned to face Pixie-Bob specifically, giving her a serious look. "…We've been discussing the upcoming team battle between the two schools since before you and the other new members of the staff were hired, and it's the main reason why I cast my vote to hire you, Pixie-Bob."
Sekijiro nodded in agreement with Aizawa before he said, "It's also the reason why we've been having you spar with our respective homeroom classes as much as we've been doing."
"Yeah, I heard about some of the sparing you two have been having your students do with Pixie-Bob here," Mirko remarked. The bunny pro hero turned to face where Nezu sat. "So boss, you said that you had a final point on the upcoming team battle event."
Nodding once in confirmation, Nezu remarked, "Yes, I have it right here." The quirked animal principal flipped through his papers before he found the one he was looking for. He gave it a quick scan before he looked up from the papers and to his fellow U.A. staff. "…The party from Royal Woods High will be here in five days."
The announcement from Nezu made the others at the meeting all go wide-eyed with a bit of shock. "The party, from what I've been able to gather," Nezu went on, "Consists of the school's principal, ten quirked students that make up the school's team for the team battle, and two others that are being brought along as guests."
"Do we know if Visionquest is part of the Royal Woods High team?" Aizawa asked, a clear hint of worry in his tone.
Nezu gently shook his head. "Unfortunately, I have no idea on the identity of any of the students on the Royal Woods High team. All that I have is that there will be a total of ten quirked students that will make up the team that represents the school that we here at U.A. will have to send a team of our hero course students to face."
"Hang on a minute here," Mt. Lady said as she skimmed through a copy of the info that she had, "It says here that this Royal Woods High place isn't even a hero high school. It's just a regular, run of the mill public high school." Looking over to the underground hero, Mt. Lady said, "And yet they have you worried, Aizawa?"
Aizawa let out a troubled, resigned sigh. "…If what I fear ends up coming true, then not only is there no way that U.A. will be able to win the team battle event, but I wouldn't be surprised if at least one of the U.A. students that takes part ends up horribly injured, if not worse." Aizawa had an involuntary shudder as he recalled, during the time his homeroom class had that field trip to the very town that the opposing high school is coming from, what ended up happening to seven of the boys in his class, with said event being the main reason why he wanted to expel Mineta in the first place.
The underground hero hoped like hell that he was being paranoid, that the team from Royal Woods High wouldn't have anyone with a quirk of that level. It would be a great relief to not just him, but all of U.A.'s staff, if that did indeed ended up being the case.
END, CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
Author's notes;
The reading of those journals was the best that I could come up with to expose Uraraka's jealousy of Mitsuki dating Izuku, Kinoko being in love with Kirishima, and Mina's annoyance with Yaoyorozu's tendency to show off her wealthy status (yes, Mina's displeasure with Yaoyorozu in that regard IS a plot point), but now that the cast at large knows about all of this, things can go full steam ahead. Something else that's going on full steam ahead is the aforementioned plot of a foreign high school visiting Japan to see U.A. for something, with said high school in question being confirmed in this chapter to be Royal Woods High.
Sorry if some of you aren't amused by the idea of this story pseudo-crossing over with some of my non-BNHA works, but it had been a long time coming, something that I had been planning on since before I got the first chapter of this story out. Remember how I've been occasionally saying that the characters in this story were going to learn just how big of a world is there outside of the protective walls of U.A.? Well, that's going to kick off in earnest starting in the next chapter. Yes, this is the last chapter of the 'Extra arc', and the next chapter after this one will be the first chapter of what I'm calling the 'Team battle arc', a truly epic event that I'm aiming to make a truly spectacular, action-packed arc that will have more of a concentration of battle than any arc before it.
Don't go making any assumptions about what will happen in the next arc yet, though; you'll be surprised with what actually ends up happening.