HAPPY HALLOWEEN ALL!

Yes, I know It's tomorrow, but oh well, hope everyone has been doing alright! Thank you all for your patience as I was writing chapter 10 and due to my health-related issues, it was taking more time than expected and I had to cut out most of the battle trials because that would have been even more pages to write on.

Also, this fic is a month old and ten chapters have been made and released... I honestly am shocked people have been enjoying it, and I thank every viewer and person who favorites/kudos this story. It has been a huge confidence boost and has made 2020 a little better for me.

Before we get to the Q a quick reminder that there is a new poll out for Naoki's future pairing - strawpoll. me/21151197.

The choices for this final poll on this topic are:

Naoki x Mina
Naoki x Kinoko
Naoki x Mina x Kinoko

So far, with three votes, the polyamorous relationship is winning and this poll will be up until the start of the sports festival!

Now onto the Q&A:

narusakufan1985: Thank you for the kind words, and agreed!

curlyboy01: Yes, Izuku will be getting the other quirks of One for All, when and how soon are still up in the air though, but more than likely after USJ.

SilverWolf227: Well wait no more for the fate of the grapist is within these words!

That being said, thank you all once again for reading and enjoying this story, and I hope to further entertain you with my silly writings. Feel free to leave a comment [positive or negative as it helps me grow!]

Disclaimer: I do not own anything in relation to MHA, BNHA, D&D, or WH40k. They all belong to their respective copyright holders.

Chapter 10:

Shower Secrets

To say the post-fight debriefing was shocking and silent was an understatement, not only from the conflict that happened between Mineta and Gensou but also because of the sheer power that was Momo Yaoyorozu when given time to prepare and plan. When both she and Sato returned to the viewing room, they were confused as to why their partners were not with them as well as to the less than cheerful smile that All Might was giving upon their return while their homeroom teacher was nowhere to be seen.

"Now, before we discuss what happened between young Gensou and Mineta…" All Might began to speak, though Izuku could tell there was anger when his favorite hero spoke the smaller boy's name, the class looked upon their teacher as Sato and Momo looked to one another confused.

"All Might-Sensei, shouldn't we wait for them before discussing the battle trial?" asked Momo, she was now getting a little worried about her partner and the reaction of mentioning the two boys from the class was setting off red flags in her head. All Might looked at her with a sympathetic look on his face.

"Normally, I would agree my dear, but… complications… arose that needed to be dealt with... Regardless, the lesson must go on!" he said raising a hand with a single finger, his smile returning, "Now class, can anyone tell me who the MVP was for this trial?" asked the pro hero as he looked around the seventeen remaining students. Izuku slowly raised his hand and All Might pointed at him, "Yes, young Midoriya?"

"I-it should be Yaoyorozu…" stuttered Izuku before looking at both her and Sato, "While it is true that Sato had been the one to take this exercise seriously on the hero team, it seemed like his mind and judgment was impaired slightly due to Mineta's antics and disregard to even follow a plan if there was one. And while I can assume the plan to ambush both heroes stemmed from Gensou's "spider queen" strategy, Yaoyorozu embraced her role fully, setting up multiple potato guns loaded with small sandbags to pelt Sato, forcing him to move and be herded towards the net trap that ultimately won the match. If Sato had been more focused, he would have easily seen he was being led to a trap, and if he did, then he may have been more prepared" finished the green-haired boy as the entire class looked at him with wide eyes. More in the shock that the normally stuttering boy had just vomited out an accurate explanation as to what had transpired.

Even All Might was thinking about how smart and analytical his successor was, and he once again thought back to that one night where he was glad that Izuku wanted to be a hero, all the while a cold sweat ran down his cheek that none of the students could see due to also remembering that Nezu was also going to be tutoring and improving on those skills, but he cleared his throat to get everyone's attention, "Y-yes! Correct, young Midoriya and thank you for the… rather in-depth analysis. Now, before we select the next fight, it would be best to explain what had happened between Gensou and Mineta-"

"By providing the audio to what we had missed." interrupted Aizawa as he had slammed the door hard to startle everyone in the room. Walking up towards All Might, he turned to the class and that look of anger from before wasn't entirely gone, but Aizawa seemed more somber. It was Momo who spoke up again as she asked what had happened to her partner and the small purple boy, which Aizawa furrowed his brow at her for a moment that seemed to startle her, before he sighed, then looked to the class.

"Due to audio evidence provided by Gensou Naoki, as well as further evidence supplied by the principal's own security devices, Mineta Minoru has been expelled outright from UA.," said the tired-looking teacher with a very serious tone, the class silently taking in this information as he roamed his eyes over them and continued, "As well, he will be facing criminal charges for sexual harassment and breaking mutation discrimination laws." The gasps and shocked looks at what he just said caused the man to glare at his students to quiet them again and get their attention, which he then focused on Momo, "Miss Yaoyorozu, you are aware of the illusion that Gensou created of you during the battle trial and how it acted?"

"Y-yes, while we were planning, he had asked permission to use his quirk to create illusions of both of us to lure and separate Sato and Mineta and he wished to have my permission for how it acted and apologized that he would make it act inappropriate to entice Mineta to follow it." Momo said with a stoic look in her eyes as she looked to Aizawa and then the rest of the students, "He also stated that if I refused, then we would work on a different plan, but I accepted though I made him promise that winking and some… "flirty" comments were only allowed, but to show no s-skin!" she blushed and rubbed her arm gently as Kyoka patted her back to comfort her friend, Aizawa nodded at this and crossed his arms.

"Good, that is what Gensou told me when I asked about the illusion he made with his quirk. Did he explain what his full plan was?"

"N-no, he simply asked if I could create a small net gun that he could wield with one hand, and then he helped me set up my bean bag guns for Sato before the trial started." She looked to her classmates than to her two teachers, "Why? Did the illusion change? We went radio silent before the exercise began." Momo then looked to Sato, "Did Mineta say anything once you both split up?"

The larger boy crossed his arms and shook his head, "Aside from his perverted mumblings, no. I even muted him because he kept saying disturbing things through it." He grimaced as the rest of the class frowned, including Momo before Aizawa cleared his throat loudly.

"Now, I am going to replay the interaction between Gensou and Mineta again with the audio playing." The teacher said, reaching into one of his pockets and taking out the recording device that Momo recognized from when Naoki had shown her before they had split, one of the others had asked what that was, "This is an audio recording device that Gensou keeps on his person and it is part of his hero costume. From what he explained in his costume application, it is to record any sounds up to a thirty-foot radius as during a takedown, a villain or potential suspect can say something that can incriminate themselves and this sort of support gear has been and still is used by multiple different heroes." Aizawa turned towards the console as the screens flashed onto the scene where Mineta had first entered the room with 'Momo' in the shadows, which said shadows were a part of the illusion to hide his person within and aim the net gun. With some quick work to find the right time between the video and audio, he plugged it into the console and looked back to his students, "Should anyone wish to leave now and not hear this, do so now, otherwise wait until the end." He warned as none of the students moved, or dared too. He shrugged and hit play on both.

'You have nowhere to go, Villain! For I have trapped you!'

'Indeed you have, hero… and oh no! Whatever shall I do?'

As the illusion spoke, Momo's cheeks went nuclear and she sputtered at the way her illusion was acting. While she was ok with the plan and he did apologize for how he was going to make it act, he made it way too dramatic in her opinion, and that some of the girls could be heard trying to stifle a giggle from just how it was. Mina was one of the ones trying not to giggle as this was how Naoki thought girls flirt and seduce? Oh, this was prime teasing material and she was eating it up as the video continued and began to play the part that had freaked everyone out before and still did.

'What the hell?! Get me outta this!'

'My my, such a tasty morsel… you look like a grape… I wonder if your meat TASTES like one too.'

'No no! I don't wanna be eaten! Not like this! I don't wanna die a virgin! At least let me touch your YaoYao boobs before you eat me!...H-Hey! I'm barely anything… but my partner, he's a big guy! He'd probably be more of a meal than little me! PLEASE DON'T EAT ME!'

When that part had finished playing, Aizawa paused it, looking over the reactions from his class. To say that most of the class was outright upset or angry was an understatement, Sato, in particular, was clenching his large fist hard enough that his knuckles were cracking. Most of the guys were growling at this too with a shout of 'unmanly' coming from Kirishima and Tenya waving his arm up and down while shouting how unheroic his actions were, even Izuku was frowning and clenching his fist at the sheer audacity of the former classmate. The girls were angry as well, but it was Momo who came out of a state of utter shock and pointed at the screen, "M-Mr. Aizawa... W-what in the world did Gensou-kun turn my image into?"

"That's a "Drider", or more specifically, "Lolth"." answered Izuku, turning his gaze to Momo who looked back at the green-haired boy, "A Drider is a creature of fantasy, normally that of something called a "dark elf" that been blessed by a demon queen of spiders they worshiped named Lolth… in fact, I think he used the baseline look of Lolth's more 'monstrous' side." He continued as if utterly unfazed by this creature while Momo looked at him shocked.

"B-but why need to change into such a horrid creature? Wouldn't the distraction alone be enough to have trapped Mineta?"

"Well, while his quirk cannot physically interact with anything, unless he pushes his vocal cords, most of the time he relies on fear and intimidation of the creatures he makes as they seem real enough to those they affect. It's a great quirk for distractions and ambushes as the person that's being affected by it won't be able to tell if it's real or not." continues Izuku, his hand raised to his chin and rubbing it while looking at the screen, then looked back to Momo, "His quirk isn't infallible though, as someone who is extremely perceptive and intelligent can tell it's not real and just ignore it. This is why he uses the fear tactics so that no one would be in the right mindset to figure out the difference, plus it doesn't help that if it made an "attack" at you and it used... let's say fire to do so, while physically you would be fine, mentally you could feel the heat and your brain would think you got burned, thus hindering you and your movements." Izuku tapped the side of his head to emphasize the point, making Momo also think of the greater applications of his Naoki's quirk, until it struck her that Izuku had pointed something out, for which Kyoka asked.

"Wait, you said 'if he doesn't push his vocal cords', what happens when he does that?"

"Oh! Oh! I know!" Mina chirped up and knocked Izuku out of his 'analytical mode' after she had gently pushed past him, "When he pushes them, his creatures can hit things! It's how he beat the zero-pointer by making this buff guy with pure white skin that looked like something out of an old film and punched it!" exclaimed with a wide grin and waving her arms about, said grin faded into a somber smirk as she relaxed and calmed herself, given they were still in class and Aizawa was glaring at her, "T-though he can't do it for long and when he pushed himself he coughed up blood."

"If you are all done, we can continue with the recording, we have a timetable to keep and it is illogical to waste time." called out Aizawa as he hit play on the recordings again and the scene continued to play out.

'Wait?! It was you the entire time?! That was a dirty trick-'

'Did... you try and sacrifice your partner to save yourself?'

'So what?! This is a simulation! I came here to be a hero and get with all the girls and fame that comes with it! Not face abominations going out trying to eat me! What the hell is your problem?!'

That comment got the girls to feel sick and riled them up a bit more, most wishing that they had fought the little purple twerp and shown him just how scary a woman can be, even more so than a giant spider-like woman.

'MY problem?!'

'Yes. You! You cockblocked me from peeking in on the girls in the locker room! Telling me off from describing how hot most of the girls were!'

'YOU WERE GRAPHICALLY EXPLAINING WHAT YOU WERE GOING TO DO TO THEM AS IF THEY ARE YOUR PLAYTHINGS, YOU LITTLE SWEAT GOBLIN!'

The room suddenly grew ten degrees colder as the group of girls were radiating a menacing aura that even had the two teachers look worried for the briefest of moments as Tsuyu turned to Izuku, who flinched when she spoke.

"Did he say those types of things, Midoriya-kun?" asked the frog girl, whose stare was still that emotionless blank look, but the green-haired boy could feel the rage coming from her, he nodded and stuttered out an apology for not saying what Mineta had spoken about as the boys had felt it wrong to repeat it, which Tenya had pointed out earlier.

"S-sorry Ts-Tsu…"

"It's alright Midoriya-kun, you and the other boys were trying not to be rude and repeat what the 'sweat goblin' as Gensou put it had said, just I and the other girls didn't hear the full conversation before and I'm sure most of us were curious, kero." she said while looking back at the screen, as did everyone wanting to just finish this and get over it, especially the boys who were still freaking out from the aura the girls were still giving off.

'AT LEAST I HAVE A CHANCE WITH A GIRL, UNLIKE YOUR MUTANT ASS!...What? Do you think your ugly insectoid like looks can get with any girl? who would want your sorry carapace which is probably hard to the touch unlike me where I have actual flesh! Sure you look like a devil in parts too, but you're more bug like that one mantis looking freak I saw when passing the dorms to 1-B! I mean, sure, Ashido and Asui are both mutants themselves but god damn they are fine!'

If the menacing aura and colder room wasn't a dead giveaway for how dead the purple goblin was before, the fact that it dropped to almost absolute zero which caused most of the boys to back off from the girls. Mina and Tsuyu, in particular, were the ones that gave off the feeling as Tsuyu let out a deep and almost menacing guttural croak and frowned, and there was a hissing sound by Mina as she had her fists clenched by her sides with her acid dripping down to the ground and causing bits of the floor to melt.

'Shut up…'

'And Ashido's bubbly personality? Probably a fake, I mean she has that "Gyaru" vibe to her looks, and I bet she would put out the easiest out of all the-'

*CRACK*

'I said to shut up…'

Naoki's sudden tone shift knocked the general air of the room almost back to normal, seeing the context and what was being said, no one could fault the devil boy for acting the way he did now and this was no more apparent than to Mina, who's chilling aura melted away and seemed to cause her pink cheeks to flush a soft purple, her mind racing with the thoughts that his tonal shift in his voice made it seem like he was particularly angered when Mineta was talking about her. The rest of the scene played out then, with Naoki reaching for his 'ax' on his back only to be stopped by Aizawa-sensei and told to stand down.

"So, now that you all know what has happened, I will tell you this all once. UA has zero-tolerance when it comes to sexual harassment and mutation discrimination, and if I find any of you pulling that crap you'll be gone as quick as Mineta, understood?" asked Aizawa with a serious tone and his eyes blazing red, which the students stood up straight.

"Yes Sir!"

"Now, let's continue with the exercise. All Might, if you would-"

"Wait Aizawa-sensei!" called out Mina as she stepped towards the teachers, her demeanor looking a little worried, "W-what happened to Genny- I mean Gensou-kun? He didn't get expelled too did he?" she asked as Aizawa looked at her with his dull gaze, the room silent as the teacher sighed and turned to the console, hitting a few buttons and a screen lit up with one of the security cameras on the outside of the massive gym where a lone figure could be seen running around the barrier that surrounded gym, Aizawa then looked to Mina.

"Gensou was not expelled, but he was about to break one of the rules of the exercise with excessive force on a downed opponent, so I gave him a choice…" he crossed his arms as the students listened, "Either he writes a ten-page essay on the fundamentals of the "Mercy Act of 2175" or run five laps around gym gamma… in his full hero costume."

"That second option doesn't sound so bad..." Ojiro spoke up as some of the guys nodded, while Aizawa looked at the gi-wearing tailed boy.

"One lap around gym Gamma is two kilometers, plus with his full hero costume on, that includes the added weight of his coat, which is thirty pounds of Kevlar plates that are stitched in." said Aizawa, which made a few of the students blink and gasp in shock, though there was a whispered "manly" from Kirishima. The screen turned off and All Might got the class's attention once again, hitting the randomized button to choose the next combatants and continued the battle trials.

Three hours had passed and most of the students were exhausted and sore from their battle trials, the last one was of the more interesting fights, to say the least as it was Shoto Todoroki and Ochaco Uraraka as the heroes versus Toru Hagakure and Mezo Shoji as villains. While the villains plan they had come up with would have worked, it was all for not as Shoto simply took a step forward with his right foot and encased most of the building in solid ice and freezing the two villains in place, though Ochaco pouted since she initially didn't get to do anything. When she and Shoto had arrived in the room that housed not only the bomb but the trapped villains they watched the many armed boy raise his fists and smashed the ice on the floor freeing himself and launching himself at the pair of villains.

This of course had sent Shoto careening into the wall, which he smashed through due to the ice and cold, and as Shoji was about to go after Ochaco, she had slapped her hand on his side as she made a quick dash to the bomb, causing him to float into the air, swinging his many arms at her in an attempt to grapple her, but he was too late to react and the bomb was touched signaling the win.

They had just arrived back at the viewing room and were about to discuss who the MVP was when the door opened again to reveal a very ragged looking Naoki, who was panting and his hair clung to his face with sweat.

"Well, good to see you finally made it back Gensou." Aizawa spoke as he walked up to the teen boy whose shoulders were slumped forward, panting heavily still, "I hope this will be a reminder to follow the rules of the exercises. Not following said rules will lead you to expulsion, no matter the circumstances, am I clear on that?"

"Cry-*pant* Crystal, sir…"

"Good, go take a rest while we finish the exercise." The teacher said in a whisper to the devil boy so only he could hear and said boy nodded and headed to a part of the back wall avoiding the others. Izuku watched as his friend do this as did a few others, so while the teachers were discussing who the MVP was with the rest of the class (Shoji and Ochaco had tied), the green-haired boy walked close to his friend, who looked up from his sitting position against the wall then looked down to the floor again.

"Hey…"

"Hey, Naoki… you doing alright?"

"Right now? Kinda… still pissed somewhat at Mineta for riling me up like that." sighed Naoki as Izuku was still a few feet from him, but leaning against the wall.

"It was very harsh what he said, and usually you let that stuff slide nowadays considering all the stuff that happened to us in elementary and middle school…" Izuku said looking at his friend whose eyes seemed to be staring down at the floor, "So what sparked it?"

It took a few moments of silence before Naoki answered, though hushed at the moment, "... It was when he started to talk shit about Tsuyu and Mina… especially when he was going to say that Mina was… well… you heard the audio right?" Naoki asked, looking to the standing boy, who simply nodded.

"Yea, everyone in the class did… though the girls gave us a scare up to the point where you decided the floor beside his head needed a hole." Izuku quipped as Naoki gave a quick huff and a smirk at that, "Didn't think your tail could puncture solid cement, best thing we could do at the beach was puncture holes in the old fridges there."

"Honestly, I didn't think so until that happened anyway… hurt like hell too."

"Just something we gotta work on, right?" Izuku asked with a smirk and Naoki nodded.

"One of many things… so I see you're still in one piece, how did your trial go?" the devil boy gave a shit-eating grin which made Izuku sputter and blush, given how many times Naoki would remind him of all the times he broke his bones for doing stupid things with his quirk while training.

"Wha-What is that supposed to mean? I haven't broken anything major in two weeks!"

"Izuku, breaking your hand to see if you can chop wood because Toshinori made a bet with you that if you could do it ten times in a row is not a minor fracture at all! Seriously, what was the prize anyway?" Asked the tired boy as Izuku looked away still blushing, then he sighed as he muttered out the answer.

"The bet was that he would get reservations for the nicest restaurant in Tokyo for my mom's birthday in a few months… and he'd foot the bill." Naoki whistled low and smirked at the green-haired boy, of course doing something in regards to auntie Inko would drive his friend to do a stupid stunt like that.

"You do realize me and my mom are coming right?"

"Of course, since when do we celebrate anything without you or auntie?"

"True, still you never answered my question about the battle trial..." said Naoki, leaning his head back against the cool steel wall and sighed as it seemed to cool his head down a bit. Izuku had turned his attention back to his classmates, though he did notice Kyoka had her head turned towards the pair of them before looking forward again, causing the green-haired boy to raise his eyebrow at that but then looked to Naoki after he had cleared his throat, "Oh right! The battle trial… Well, It went like this…"

"So, our opponents are Ilda and Kirishima, huh?" asked Hanta Sero as he stood beside Izuku and the fake bomb, he had crossed his arms and was about to ask Izuku what sort of plan they could use, but he stopped speaking when he could see Izuku mutter and mumble which he couldn't exactly hear, so he tapped the boy's shoulder, "you alright, dude?"

"Hmm? Oh sorry Sero-kun, kinda got lost in my thoughts there, was there something you needed?" asked Izuku with a head tilt, Sero just merely smiled.

"No worries figured you were thinking up a plan or something… I only know that Kirishima can harden his skin super hard, but never could figure out what Ilda's was when he wasn't trying to tell us to quiet down last night." said the ever-smiling boy as he put his hands behind his head.

"Ilda's quirk allows him to run fast, using those engines on his legs." answered Izuku as he began to think aloud again, "and from what Kirishima had mentioned last night, he cannot hold onto his "hardened" form for more than five minutes… right now Ilda is our immediate threat as he could simply rush in and scout the building to find the bomb, while there are corners he may have to slow down at, there are a lot of straightaways." Izuku looked to Sero who merely blinked at the green-haired boy, "Sero-kun, how strong is your tape?"

"Um… haven't fully tested out how durable it is in a while, but the last time I checked it was compared to "steal", why?" replied Sero and the only answer he got back was the beaming smile of Izuku Midoriya.

"We had laid out a few traps throughout the building, the main one and the one I hoped would be sprung first was Ilda racing into the building, which he did do and wound up tripping over some tape that was just low enough to the ground that he wouldn't have noticed while racing in. He then fell into a pile of Sero's tape and was completely trapped within it." spoke Izuku as Naoki simply stared at his friend who continued, "Kirishima went down as well as when he heard Ilda tumble, he rushed in and didn't notice Sero had wrapped his arm, then I took a hold of it and quickly spun around him using my speed and got him stuck in a cocoon of the tape." He finished with a smile as he waited for Naoki's reaction to what he just told him.

Naoki said nothing for a few moments, letting all that sink in as he stared at his friend who looked at him confused, "Iz-Izuku… how long did your battle trial last?"

"Barely two minutes when the buzzer rang, why?" answered the boy with a confused tilt to his head as Naoki simply sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose. He looked up to Izuku with a deadpanned look and a dull tone.

"You don't think that was a little too quick?"

"Well… no? Coming up with the best strategies quickly and efficiently makes it so heroes can stop the villains more quickly." replied Izuku, still confused as Naoki looked at him straight in the eyes to see if his green-eyed friend was joking and not, but of course he saw nothing but the most naive of looks as well as the seriousness of his answer. He turned his attention back to the group when he heard a sneeze and a sniffle come from the cluster of students, Naoki's eyes scanned to the group to find who had sneezed and came upon the scene of Mina holding Toru's shoulders (at least that's what he thinks she was holding due to the other girl being invisible), while the gloves of the said invisible girl were rapidly rubbing up and down her arms.

"What's up with Hagakure?"

"Hmm? Oh! She was a part of the last group, and Todoroki froze most of the building with his quirk, freezing Hagakure to the floor." replied Izuku as Naoki slowly reached into his belt, pulling out two things from one of the bigger compartments, and tossing them to his green-haired friend, who looked at the two items and then to Naoki.

"Thermal blanket and hand warmers, you always said to be prepared for any sort of rescue, right?" the blue-skinned boy smirked as Izuku nodded.

"Very true, but why don't you give it to her?"

Naoki simply looked down, though the blush on his cheeks was evident, "W-well… I'm not the most… I've been sweating a lot and-"

"Yea, why do you think I'm standing downwind and a few feet away from you?" quipped Izuku as he smirked at the still blushing boy, who suddenly turned his head quickly at him with a scowl. Izuku snickered and headed towards the two girls, the smile still present on his lips, and when he got close to the girls, he tapped Mina's shoulder and nudged his head for both of them to follow him a little behind the main group so they could speak quietly.

"What's up Midori?" asked Mina gently as she tilted her head slightly, the chattering teeth of Toru was clacking softly as the green-haired boy offered the two objects to the invisible girl, which both girls unwrapped the blanket and put it around Toru's shoulders and cracked the heating pad as she sighed in relief from the warmth now in her hands.

Mina smirked at the boy as Toru jumped up and down slightly to show off her happiness, which Izuku had to blush and look away due to how the blanket had revealed just how "bountiful" the invisible girl was. "Thanks so much, Midori-kun! I mean, we are going to be finished shortly anyway, but this will keep me toasty until then!" beamed the invisible girl as Izuku chuckled gently, still looking away, but rubbing the back of his head.

"I-It's alright Hagakure-chan… gotta help out one another right? Also, it should be Naoki you should be saying thanks too I'm just the messenger," he admitted as all three looked at said boy who was watching the rest of the class and listening to the instructor's talk about the reasons for the battle trial's.

"Oh?" said Mina as she looked to Izuku, "Well, how come he didn't come over and give it himself? Is he that shy around us ladies?" she asked with a hint of a teasing tone to her voice, wiggling her eyebrows at the boy in front of her.

"N-No, i-it's more that... Well... he did just finish a ten kilometer run in almost forty to fifty pounds of gear… s-so he's a little… umm…" stuttered the boy, clearing his throat before tapping his nose a few times. It took the girls a few moments to process this and a whispered 'ooooh' from the both of them, said girls looked to Naoki again as he had turned his attention to them for a moment, both giving a wave and Mina beaming a bright smile at him, with a wink to follow, which caused Naoki to look away and the flush purple on his cheeks caused Mina to snicker to herself.

"Aaaah… so warm!" Toru exclaimed as the rush of hot water poured down her body from the locker room shower's, "I can finally warm up properly since Todoroki nearly froze me to death!"

"I'm glad I didn't have to face him, kero." Tsuyu said from the stall beside her, she too was enjoying the hot water and short ribbits escaped her throat in delight, "I'd have gone into hibernation just from the cold alone, let alone my body freezing." she continued, and sighed gently as that was one of the few drawbacks to her quirk.

"I knooooow, I'm kinda sad that when Shoji broke free it didn't quite reach me so I couldn't escape, but at least Todoroki had freed me as soon as the trial was over. Thank goodness I got that thermal blanket and hand warmer though!" Toru spoke up, looking over the wall to Tsuyu.

"Speaking of, where did you procure those anyway? I didn't see a medkit in the viewing room." asked Momo, who was drying her hair and sat on a bench with a large yellow towel wrapped around her body, Kyoka beside her on the left side with Ochaco on her right, both drying off their hair with similar towels.

"That was because Genny gave it to her after he got back from his punishment, and he had Midori deliver it!" shouted Mina who was whipping her head back and forth to get her hair out of her face, the horns on her head more pronounced with her 'floof' soaked. Momo nodded gently as she looked at the other girls.

"That would explain the sizable pouches he had on his belt when he placed that recorder back onto himself…" she said softly, looking a little worried after a short while, which caught the earphone quirk user's attention.

"You alright, Yaomomo?"

"Hmm? Oh! Y-yes... I'm sorry, still trying to wrap my head around a couple of things from my battle trial with Gensou-kun." Momo replied with a touch of pink reaching her cheeks from the nickname she was given the previous day, "It was a good plan, and the use of intimidation tactics is perfect for the way his quirk works as Midoriya explained, but I am still unsure why he didn't tell me his full plan, or why he had made his illusion of me so… overdramatic? I mean, that surely can't be how he thinks women actually "flirt", right?" she asked looking at all the girls before her, some of them thinking upon her words before a shout from the other side of the wall caught their attention, quickly Kyoka plugged her jack into the wall, while Momo made a second speaker for the girls to hear, thankfully they were much quicker this time as they listened in.

[Meanwhile at the same time]

"Holy hell, where did you get that scar?!" shouted Denki which got all of the attention of the other boys in the showers as Izuku blushed deeply and had his hand over a large scar of a burn on his right shoulder, causing the said boy to sputter a few seconds before Tenya came up and waved his arm up and down robotically.

"Kaminari! It is improper to shout and ask such things!" exclaimed Tenya, as Denki sulked and apologized to Izuku, who waved his hands to make light of the situation.

"N-no it's alright, Ilda… It happened a long time ago when a classmate's quirk had manifested when I was four!." Izuku said with a smile that seemed to placate the others as they returned to what they were doing, Izuku sighing softly as he went to shower.

A few moments had passed and most if not all the boys had finished showering, leaving Izuku seemingly alone before a voice next to him caused him to squeal loudly, "You are lucky that Recovery Girl's quirk healed most of that to look so old…"

"AAAH!... Nao-kun! Don't scare me like that!" squeaked Izuku as Naoki was giving him an emotionless look, staring at him for a moment before getting into the stall beside him, turning on the water.

"Still lucky they bought that.." he continued the water running down his body as he lathered up the shampoo in his hands before running it through his hair. Izuku sighed and looked down, his own 'floof' matted to his head.

"I-I can't exactly tell them how recent it was, or give an explanation as to why it looks older than it was."

"I'm more surprised that it wasn't healed fully after your quirk manifested two weeks ago… though I'm guessing you already know the answer." Naoki said, turning his head to his friend, who simply nodded.

"Yea, apparently since the scar was already there when Recovery Girl healed me, all it could do was just speed up the "fading" that happens over time…" said Izuku as Naoki hummed in agreement, the waters of the showers filled the air in the silence before Naoki continued.

"Still… we have yet to see Bakago yet, I HOPE he didn't make it in, but given how much the staff at Aldera kept kissing his ass because of his quirk…" grumbled Naoki as Izuku sighed.

"Knowing how skilled Kaachan is, I'm sure he did… though he may have been put in Class 1-B." said Izuku which made his devil friend growl low in his throat for two reasons. The first being that Izuku was still referring to the rabid pomeranian by the childhood name he had given him. He knew why Izuku wanted Bakago to be at UA, all things considered, and even Naoki had to agree, he would make an excellent combat hero, and should he tone down and correct his attitude, it was still possible. The second reason being that Kinoko was in his class, and Bakago didn't care if you were a boy or girl, everyone was an "extra" and sometimes he would put them in "their place".

"Doesn't excuse him for all the crap he put us through! The beatings... the bullying… hell the way he led the charge to go after you specifically only because you were 'quirkless' at the time. And let's not forget the 'advice' he gave you when I was away from school that one week…" Naoki ranted but soon stopped, seeing the dejected look on his friend's face with his gaze lowered. The showers were silent once again, Naoki sighed gently, "Sorry, I didn't mean to go that far…"

"No, you are right… I always thought that maybe one day he would tone it down and we could be friends again, maybe realize his attitude could hinder him as a hero." sighed the green-haired boy, "Plus I don't think he meant what he said, I hope so at least… telling someone to jump off a roof to get a quirk in the "next life" is a rather dumb thing to say, because if it was reported, I don't think even the school could cover that up…"

"You know they would do their damnedest to make sure their "star student" didn't wind up with a criminal record for suicide-bating…" said Naoki and Izuku nodded gently, if it was one thing that they could both agree on was that Aldera's teaching staff were assholes. The showers grew silent once again before Izuku perked up suddenly and looked to Naoki.

"I have been meaning to ask, from what Yaoyorozu had said during the debriefing of your battle trial, you didn't explain to her what you were going to do…" he spoke which caused Naoki to lower his head, "... you were afraid that you'd scare her?"

"I mean… can you blame me? How would you react if an illusion of you turned into a monster- right nevermind, this is you we are talking about, you'd probably go into "mutter mode" and analyze the hell out of it." Naoki smirked and caused Izuku to splash some of his water from his shower onto him, causing both boys to chuckle before sighing as Naoki continued, "Anyway, I rather not be known for being the "creepy nightmare bug boy" again and ruin any potential friendships… amongst other things…" he finished as Izuku stared at his friend, a soft smirk on his lips.

"This is about Komori, isn't it?" he asked which caused Naoki to almost slip in his shower, panicking Izuku which he waved off.

"I mean, she's jumpy around me as is… and she's never seen my quirk outside of that incident in my room yesterday, and that was merely me summoning my "shadow" band, so it wasn't anything too scary…" he admitted as Izuku smirked at him.

"I think if you explained to her how your quirk works and even show her some monsters that wouldn't outright frighten her, you should be fine… I mean she did bring you that gift yesterday." spoke the green-haired boy as Naoki blushed deeply, earning a chuckle.

"Maybe you're right… still gonna give 'that' some time once we get into the routine of school… Anyway, you got that cinnamon-scented body soap with you? I ran out of my mixed berry this morning." asked Naoki as the two boys began to two about unimportant things as they showered.

The silence was all that could be heard within the girl's showers as not even water was running now. Many of their faces were of utter shock and two, in particular, were outright furious. The first being Mina who was flabbergasted at what both Naoki and Izuku had been through before coming to UA, mostly because both boys were super nice and while Naoki seemed to have a temper in regards to massive perverts and whomever this Bakago moron was, she couldn't believe that someone would bully them like that, and if it was one thing, it was that she loathed bullies herself.

Tsuyu was the other one that gave off a rather furious aura as her emotionless face remained, but her eyes were giving off a fire that was ready to toss this Bakago off of the roof for baiting her crush like that. That line of thought was quickly shaken out of her head from Momo suddenly speaking up.

"Two weeks… Midoriya has only had a quirk for two weeks?" she asked everyone in the room to make sure she had heard that right, Ochaco slowly nodded as did everyone else.

"It would explain why he broke his arm and legs in the practical exam… maybe he cannot fully use it since he's only had it for so short of time?" spoke the ever blushing girl, looking at Tsuyu who nodded with her.

"Still though, if this Bakago somehow got into UA, it sounds like we would need to keep the three of them separate," Momo spoke up and everyone nodded.

"Especially Genny, I know he would never start a fight, but if this Baka-go sounds as big of a jerk as he does, then he could potentially get him in trouble!" exclaimed Mina with fists raised and clenched.

"Gensou does seem to have a temper when pushed too far, but given how long he and Midoriya have known this person, it's safe to say it's justified. And from what I overheard when they were in the back of the viewing room, it almost sounds like this was an everyday occurrence throughout their school lives." spoke Kyoka as she twirled a jack around her finger, "Plus it also sounds like that this Bakago person was 'popular' enough that his actions may explain why Izuku and Naoki had such weird social skills."

"How do you mean, Kyoka?" asked Toru, drying her hair with her towel wrapped around her body, causing the earphone jack girl to blush slightly from how the towel was showing off how curvy she was. Said purple-haired girl also felt a little bit jealous due to said curviness but then cleared her throat and continued with her thoughts.

"Midoriya is pretty nervous around everyone but Gensou, hell, someone tapped his shoulder last night and he flinched and cowered slightly as if he was about to be attacked. Then there was how Gensou had the Yaomomo illusion "flirt" with the "grapist" earlier in the trial and how he also stutters when interacting with others when Midoriya isn't around." continued the cool girl as the others were listening and agreeing to what she was saying, "It honestly sounds like they never had a good social standing in whatever schools they were in together and it's possible that… well.."

"... they may have only had each other for friends since they were young." finished Momo as a few of the girls gasped. Mina and Tsuyu were now really upset at this fact before Ochaco stood up and had a face of determination.

"Then let's change that! We are heroes in training! What kind of heroes are we that we turn our back on two of our classmates' problems?" she announced and every girl in the room gave an equal nod. Then began to speak about how they would help the two boys who were just finishing their showers, as they were getting dressed they felt a chill go down their spines, Izuku turned to Naoki who was looking at him.

"Did you feel that?"

"The sudden chill down my spine and worry of shenanigan's involving you, me, or both of us? Oh yeah, big time."