Chapter 28: Could you kindly pass the Grey Poupon?

Author Warning: Non-PG material is in this chapter, but it does not go into any sort of Lemon Territory.

"And that students is why you need to be extra careful when testifying on the stand." Euphoria-Sensei explained as he finished explaining to the large auditorium full of students. "Now get along all of you. You have more fun and interesting things to do then listen to a bunch of old farts talk, except for the Midoriya Squad that is. You all have a super special lecture! Aren't you just thrilled and excited?!"

As everyone started to rush off towards the entrance, Izuku tried to call back out to Alex who was running towards the exit saying something along the lines on how he was taking a: special exception temporary absence from the Midoriya Squad, and also how he didn't want extra lessons, leaving the original trio and the Big 3 the last ones behind in the auditorium.

"Aizawa-Sensei!" Nejire pouted, "We have already given testimony at villain trials before. Why do we upperclassman have to sit through these repeat lectures?!"

The Big Three had been excused from their regular lessons and had been forced to sit through the first-year lectures when it came to covering trial procedure. They had started where they left off in Might Tower, apparently the readings were assigned to the rest of the Hero and Business Course while their classmates were stuck at home while the security was being overhauled, but Izuku and his friends had the privilege of having the teachers come to their home and lecture them.

"Because none of you have ever given testimony at a trial were Zu'Kuvma members were arrested." The caterpillar answered, his patience thinner than normal as he shed his yellow carapace, "And Zu'Kuvma members have always been extra slippery at trial. It is part of the reason why and how they have managed to exist for hundreds of years on such an international scale. Believe me when I say you'll need to know every trick in the book to make your story stick. Though things may be easier for us now that we have been cleaning out their ranks inside our police forces throughout the country, vastly reducing their abilities to tamper or destroy evidence and coerce witnesses who are about to testify against their members."

"Besides this trial is the most important one yet." Snipe, the homeroom teacher for 3-A went on to explain, "This is the first time in decades that a base has been discovered. The data that we have managed to recover thanks to Nezu's genius puts us in a position we have been longing to be in for as long as many of us have been heroes. However, we cannot use one ounce of it legally if the raid on the base is concluded to be illegitimate. That would not only be a major setback for us in Japan, but also for our allies in Europe, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas who are also trying to take down Zu'Kuvma operations within their own respective borders."

"That is why nothing is being left to chance." Vlad finished, "It is the key testimony of you three first years that will play a pivotal role in securing victory for us in this trial. Fuji for giving the testimony, Midoriya for recording the testimony, and Iida for passing along the testimony to his brother to start the whole chain of events that would lead to the raid in the first place."

"Not to mention we are heavily relying on Code 263-37 of the Hero Code." Euphoria-Sensei morosely explained, "263-37 is hardly ever used anymore because of what happened during the Endeavor Scandal. Endeavor was well known for abusing Code 263-37 which allowed him to… monitor… people his agency was suspicious of and then seek out a retroactive warrant against them. Ever since knowledge of Endeavor's abuse of the code got out, it repeatedly got attacked by the media and lawyers claiming it was a violation of citizen's due process, being spied upon based merely on a suspicion. As a result, juries started being vocal about being opposed to the Code, but it is still on the books. Without it, Tsuragamae would have never been able to give us the retroactive warrant and permission on us to raid the base. That's why part of the raid was set up to look like just a wellness check on Fuji in case things went or do go bad in court."

"Hence why we have been having you study the few cases were Code 263-37 was used successfully since the Endeavor Scandal took place, although they are few and far between." Sakura-Sensei took over, "We need to make sure we can justify our use of Code 263-37 was legitimate and in the well being of not just Fuji in general, but the general public as well. Now, let us go back to my classroom where it isn't as open in this auditorium and go over a case that took place a few years ago."

It was well past dinner time when the trio plus Mirio managed to get back to the boys' dorms despite it being normally being Izuku's turn to be head chef since Bakugo's departure to Class E. Monoma and Sato had been switching it off every other night as the only other two good cooks in the dorms, but they didn't mind however. In fact, most were surprised by Monoma's change in attitude when they moved back into the dorms after the USJ incident given his prior behavior towards his non-class A students compared to when he was behaving when they first moved in. Midoriya just theorized that the other boy soon realized that they couldn't very well behave in such a manner when living under the same roof as the people he was picking on. Plus, Bakugo's demotion to Class-E given his bullying prior to UA also may have had something to do with it too.

"So, you four only have a couple of days before everything goes down then?" the blond asked as he placed a plate of chicken and rice in front of Izuku.

"Yeah." Tenya groaned as he graciously accepted his plate of reheated food. It was just the five of them in the common area given the lateness of the hour. The teachers had been piling homework on all the hero course students as they shoved court knowledge down their throats, even cancelling normal Math and English classes to make room for all the material they had to cover in such a short period of time. "I just hope I do my part accordingly. My family was banging the knowledge into me when I was stuck at home for that week."

"At least you didn't have the teachers coming to your home and giving you class in your living room!" Hiro groaned as he drowned his rice in soy sauce, earning a disapproving look from his brother, "It was so weird to be stuck in your own home and not being able to relax."

"Hey at least you had the teachers there if you had a question." Monoma interjected, "The rest of us were sent massive files into our e-mail inboxes and told to read ten thousand pages worth of material before the end of the weekend without the ability to ask for help from the teachers."

"Well, I think we should clear our minds and find something else to talk about because I'm sick and tired about talking about this for another hour this day." Izuku harrumphed as he began to snap under the stress of the pass few days. "Can't we talk about something else or just eat in peace?"

They chose to eat in silence after that because no one else could really bring up a new meaningful conversation topic that could hold their attention. Eventually, they cleaned up all their dishes and Hiro volunteered to put everything away while everyone went upstairs. When he was done, he heard the chime that someone was at the door, he walked over and saw Kaito waiting for him on the other side of the glass door, no longer dressed in his UA uniform like Hiro, but in a simple white t-shirt and a pair of grey sweatpants.

Kaito had been coming over as often as he could ever since he revealed he once had to participate in a trial and give testimony against Zu'Kuvma members. However, he always had been vague and never specific about details about who he had given testimony against however. Every time that they had come close to discussing it, he had clammed up and got too nervous to speak. Hiro walked over and buzzed him into the building as he led him up to his room where he sat on his green and grey plaid bed set while Kaito sat in his desk chair.

"So, you covered Code 263-37 after class today then?" Kaito asked his friend as he twiddled his thumbs clearly uncomfortable.

"Yeah, how did you know?"

"Tōsui-kan Sensei sent me a message." Kaito answered, "He gave me the rough gist on what that is all about since it didn't come up at the trial I was forced to testify at. Apparently, the whole trial comes down and relies on the testimony that you wound up giving."

"And I had no idea Izuku was recording me the entire time." Hiro groaned as he lay flat on his bed.

"That is what is going to make things convincing because you had no idea you were being recorded." Kaito sighed, "What you really have to worry about is the slimy lawyers for the Zu'Kuvma bastards who made your life hell. The conditions alone in that orphanage would have given the heroes justification to come charging in before they even found out that you were being tortured. You really have nothing to worry about."

"Tell that to the teachers who won't stop forcing info that won't stick into our heads." Hiro groaned as he rolled over and moaned into his pillow. "Were things complicated at the trial you attended?"

"Um… No…" Kaito answered looking extremely uncomfortable, "Things were pretty quick and straight forward. There was too much evidence presented for them to defend themselves."

"Why were you called into testify?" Hiro asked taking his face off his pillow, twisting his body around to face the boy he had a massive crush on. "Were the lawyers hard on you."

"I had to testify yeah." Kaito answered, picking as his collar as he started to sweat from being uncomfortable, "But the lawyers gave them up like a lost cause. I'd rather not talk about what went down in that courtroom though. It was rather… personal, and something I'd rather not go into any specific details though."

"What happened in that courtroom must still being having an effect on you." Hiro asked, finally sitting up straight looking directly into his friend's green eyes were he only saw pain in them and across his freckled face.

"Yeah." Kaito sighed, "I… still haven't gotten over it even though it was now a year ago. But I'm talking about it with Sakura-Sensei and Tōsui-kan Sensei already knows everything about it. I'm not sure I would've talked about it at all or even let you know if you weren't my friend, and I wasn't asked by my teacher to see if you wanted some help. I know I'm not of much use given that I still don't like talking about it, and as a result I haven't been much help."

"Hey, just knowing that someone else has had to go through something similar has been a major help to me." Hiro rushed to say as he saw his crush's heart begin to break, "Just knowing that I'm not the only one… Well of course I'm not the only one, but I know someone else who has gone through something similar, well… makes things easier on me. I'm doing a terrible job at explaining myself aren't I and I should probably shut up shouldn't I?"

"Pretty much." Kaito deadpanned.

"You weren't supposed to agree with me." Hiro groaned as he flopped back on his plaid bed spread gazing upon the ceiling.

"Well… I don't know what to say then." Kaito said unsure of his own words, "Perhaps you should stop developing the habit of digging yourself into holes you can't get out of?"

"That wasn't a hole!" Hiro argued back, "That was a small ditch at most."

"Ditches turn into bottomless pits though." Kaito smarted back resulting in Hiro grabbing his pillow and chucking it at Kaito who lazily caught it and threw it right back at Hiro. This resulted in them throwing the pillow back and forth until Kaito decided to hold onto it and snuggle into it.

"Hey! Give me back my pillow!" Hiro pouted, and Kaito stuck his tongue out at him.

"Then you should've stopped repeatedly throwing it at me." Kaito retorted, making sure to snuggle up to the pillow even more, "Besides, it's very comfy!"

"But it's mine!" Hiro growled as he got up the bed and attempted to wrestle the pillow out of Kaito's grip, but the teen held onto the pillow for a good while before being freed from his clutches. However, when the pillow was free, they wound up on the floor with Kaito laying directly on top of Hiro.

Hiro's hormones instantly went into full overdrive and his second brain below instantly responded to the close contact of his crush literally laying on top of him. His body temperature seemed to go up a full fifteen degrees on the Fahrenheit scale. He began to sweat nervously as his heart rate jumped up all the way to 130 beats per minute as his breath caught in his throat. Tingles travelled throughout his body as his muscles twitched for a second as irregular electrical impulses fired down his body. His eyes widened as he looked straight into the face which was within accidental kissing range if either of them wasn't careful.

Hiro could feel Kaito's sharp and cool minty breath on his face. His green eyes wide with just as much shock as Hiro felt. He thought he could feel Kaito's heartbeat fast through his chest which was right up against his own. That wasn't the only thing he could feel on his body however. He felt something cylindrical and hard pressing into the lower part of his body and when he realized that he nearly fainted from shock and surprise. It was then that Hiro realized that Kaito probably felt him pressing into him in return.

Quickly Kaito immediately rolled off of him as both boys were shocked into silence through embarrassment. When Hiro looked up at his friends, he was instantly reminded that his friend had already changed out of his UA uniform before coming over… into a simple t-shirt and… sweatpants… which hid nothing. Hiro immediately and chivalrously attempted to keep his eyes focused on Kaito's face, but his self-control was… lacking as his eyes against his will, instinctively kept darting downwards before he got control to look at Kaito's heavily embarrassed face. Hiro assumed that he didn't look that much better, which he didn't. At least his UA uniform slacks helped hide his growth, partially.

"Hiro! I'm really sorry! I didn't mean to!" Kaito spluttered out, tripping over his words as he began to hyperventilate, "I just wanted to wrestle… um… fight over the pillow… and um… umm... uhhh…"

"I'm sorry!" Hiro interrupted him, his voice high pitch and squeaky as if he were attempting to insult Principal Nezu, "I was the one who started to wrestle… struggle for the pillow."

"It was my fault…" Both boys then said at the exact same time but finishing within a syllable of each other as the awkward tension between the two heavily aroused boys failed to dissipate much like their active muscles and blood flow in certain areas of the body.

"I'm going to head back to my dorm room." Kaito said quickly, putting a hand in his pocket as he headed to the door, "I'll come by again tomorrow, to help review what we should've reviewed tonight." He then bolted and closed the door and rushed out of the dorm and headed back to the first-year boys' business dorms, all while begging his body to calm down as he tried not to run all the way back and hoping to get back before it was officially curfew. He had heard what Hounddog had done to two different second year gen-ed students who were caught out of their dorms past curfew with the new security measures. Nezu had to threaten to reprimand Hounddog if he scared students in such a manner again, the man took security very seriously.

Kaito buzzed himself in and rushed to the elevator and pressed the button that would take him up all the way to the seventh floor where his room was. He hurriedly got inside and deadbolted the door as he slumped down against it as he collected his thoughts. He had been within inches of kissing his crush! Not only that, but he had also felt his crush's member press into him. He was equally parts excited and mortified from the experience overall.

He quickly thought of an explanation or an excuse to give as to why his body reacted that way to Hiro when they would meet tomorrow. Hiro already knew he was gay, he had told him, Tenya, and Izuku back at the diner during their first weekend away. Perhaps he could play something off of those lines. He didn't know what to do and he couldn't calm down. Now that he was alone in the privacy of his own room he started shaking.

He knew he had a small crush on Hiro Fuji when they first met that day on the practice fields during orientation when he became his assigned hero student. He was surprised that he managed to hold himself together when he first laid eyes on him. Speaking of eyes, when ever he spoke with him, he always made eye contact with the other boy. Not because he found it polite to do so, but because he was always enraptured by his lilac eyes which had sparkles of cyan in them. He was just always… enraptured by the other periwinkle haired boy.

He hated talking about his parent's trial. He swore he would bury the memory of that day in the courtroom where they were sentenced to 30 years in a medium security prison so he or his little brother would never lay eyes on them again. He thought he would never reveal any detail no matter how small, about what his parents did to him. He didn't want to risk becoming a pariah by association of his parents despite already pretty much disowning them as much as he could. It was only because he liked Hiro so much and he related to him being abused by those who were supposed to take care of him that he was able to open the littlest of bits to help him prepare for his trial. It was rather hard to do however whenever he clammed up as they got close to talking what his parents were exactly guilty of other than child abuse of course.

Shaking he got up and ran into his private washroom and threw water on his face. He'd rather douse his body, but he would have to go downstairs to the public bathing facilities, and he didn't want to head down there with a massive… growth and so he settle himself with splashes from his sink. Kaito looked at himself in the mirror and couldn't understand the expression that stared back at him. What he saw looking back at him was a grey-haired teen who looked either shocked, scared, or determined.

Back in the hero course dorm Hiro had managed to get his shaking under control enough to head down to the onsen to wash up before heading to bed. It was deserted of courses like it had been for the past couple weeks every time he had gotten there because everyone else had already washed up by the time he, his brother, and their RA (who got his own private washroom in his dorm, which caused Izuku to rage when he found out about this privilege) got back to the dorm.

Hiro walked to the many empty baskets and removed all of his clothing, placing it in the bin with his name marked on it and grabbed his towel and toiletries before walking over to the row of showers and sat down on the stool and began to wash himself. The entire time he was cleaning himself he couldn't get the memory of Kaito on top of him out of his mind. Every sensation from feeling him press into him from his minty breath on his body was stuck in his mind as he cleaned himself. When he got to washing a certain part of the body that he saved for last, it reacted to him cleaning it while the memory was still stuck in his head.

"HIRO! Please don't tell me you are doing what I think you are doing!"

Hiro's heart jumped as embarrassment flash flooded through him as he fell off his shower stool hitting his head on the rocky tile. Violently ripping himself around quickly enough that his spine gave a couple cracks he turned to see his brother staring wide eyed at him. Of course, the only other person who had yet to wash themselves up was his brother who actually quite enjoyed the lack of company in the onsen apart from himself, who he didn't mind for the simple fact that he considered him his brother.

"Please tell me you weren't about to try and jerk off in here!" Izuku called out from the hot spring, a mixture of horror and disgust on his face.

"No!" Hiro protested, as he stood up off the ground rubbing what could turn into a bruise and feeling a bit of blood come trickle out from a fresh wound where he hit his head. In an attempt to make the onsen feel like it was really outside next to a flowing river in the middle of a cherry blossomed tree line canyon, when they were designing the place, they hadn't thought to put smooth tile like a rational person but realistic rocky flooring that felt like the real thing, and really hurt like the real thing when fallen upon.

"Come over here and I'll heal you up." Izuku said feeling guilty as Hiro entered the hot spring, grateful that the lower half of his body was now hidden below the milky mineral filled cyan water. He walked next to his brother who placed a hand on his head where there was sparkling cerulean energy for a moment near where he had fallen on followed by the familiar gold energy swarmed around it with the usual hum for a few seconds as the scratch on his head was healed.

"I made sure to check that it was just a small cut before healing it, which it was by the way so nothing to worry about." Izuku explained, Hiro still not being used to the blue diagnostic glow and used to getting the straight gold glow. "But what is going on with you? You walk in with a big boner and you were about to jerk off in a no jerk off zone? What's up?"

"It's really embarrassing." Hiro said very quickly as he desperately wanted to submerge his entire body in the hot spring.

"Does it involve Kaito?" Izuku asked, an evil grin on his face. "Don't think I haven't noticed your crush coming over every day and going into your room. Did something happen between you two? Did he ask you out? Did you kiss? Did you do more than kissing?"

"SHUT YOUR MOUTH!" Hiro cried out as he grabbed Izuku's head and forcefully dunked it into the hot water, which is what he just got himself into, in order to shut him up. Eventually Izuku freed himself with his telekinetic abilities by forcing his brother's hands away as he took his head out of the water as he took in a deep breath.

"Don't try and deny it now!" Izuku said coolly, "For you to react in such a manner, something clearly happened. Now spill, I can't help you if you don't tell me what happened."

"You don't want to help me!" Hiro shot back, his voice an octave higher than normal, "You just want to embarrass me even more!"

"Not true and true." Izuku said calmly, counting off two fingers on his right hand, "So what happened between you and Kaito or do I have to theorize?"

Gulping, Hiro weighed his options. He decided he'd rather tell his brother exactly what happened so that way he didn't risk his mother finding out what happened. Although, Izuku wouldn't tell their mom, he wasn't that down the dark path of evil and world domination.

"Well, I can't really tell you all the details." Hiro began before Izuku cut him off.

"He's the one who went through a similar experience in court as you? The one that Euphoria-Sensei recommended right?" Izuku guessed and his suspicions were confirmed by the shocked expression on Hiro's face, and he went onto explain. "The rest of the boys and I theorized that was the case when we noticed that he was visiting you every night and we all know neither of you have the balls to ask each other out. Oh, don't give me that look! It is plain as day both of you are head over heels about one another to all of us! I would've figured out who your crush was is if you didn't tell me already because it is as plain as day!"

"Is there a freaking betting pool out there for when we start dating?" Hiro called out incredulously as he felt betrayed that his friends were talking about him behind his back, but then he felt justice was due because he did the same thing with Izuku and Reiko.

"I can not confirm or deny such allegations." Izuku answered raising his right hand, "However, if you do ask him out and start dating him right after the sports festival you will make your brother a rich man."

Next thing Izuku knew was that the water instantly around him in the hot spring instantly became ice cold thanks to Hiro's quirk. Assuming it was just the water around his body, instinctively he rushed to the other side of the hot spring, knowing what Hiro was doing, but the cold water around him stayed cool all while Hiro was still relaxing in the warm waters. In reality Hiro had just turned the onsen into almost ice water except for the part he was occupying so Izuku had no where to run to except out of the now cold spring which he did eventually. When he got out dripping cold water all over the rocky floor, Hiro returned the onsen back to its factory settings before inviting Izuku back in who was suffering from some serious shrinkage.

"That was not amusing Hiro."

"For you perhaps."

"But seriously what happened between you and Kaito? I can't help you if you don't tell me what is going on. Can you say you wouldn't tease me if something happened between me and Reiko?" Izuku said, his logic finally getting through to Hiro.

"We were discussing Code 263-37 for a bit when he then got on my nerves and I tossed my pillow at him." Hiro started to explain before his brother interrupted him.

"Your special pillow that you begged mom to bring over from Might Tower."

"Yes, now shush. Well, we then started tossing the pillow back and forth and eventually he wouldn't give it back… so I tried to wrestle it free from him." Hiro meekly said causing Izuku to roar with laughter.

"You got down on the ground and wrestled with the boy you have a crush on!" Izuku cackled, but then immediately stopped when the water got cold once more. "I assumed something happened that led you to have your body standing at attention when you walked in here?"

"He…. Ummm…. No…." Hiro stuttered, trying to get the words out through his embarrassment, "We weren't wrestling on the floor, but we wound up on the floor and once we did, he was on top of me. And… his face was less than a centimeter away from mine and both of our bodies reacted… and I felt him…. Pressing into me…"

"You felt his boner pressing into you?" Izuku asked, trying to control his laughter because he didn't want to get frozen again, and Hiro nodded.

"It was so embarrassing!" Hiro cried as he put both of his hands on his face in shame, "If I had leaned forwards the tiniest bit we would have kissed, and I could literally feel his body pressed into mine."

"What happened after that?"

"He made an excuse and left right away, but I could see it—"

"What did you mean you saw it?!" Izuku freaked out, his face turning red, "Don't tell me it was poking out?!"

"No! He was wearing sweatpants, but that meant not much was left to the imagination!" Hiro shouted back, his face hotter than the water he was sitting in, too embarrassed to show his face. "The image is burned into my eyes and I can't stop thinking about it!"

"Want some hot sauce to burn the image out of your eyes?"

"NOT HELPING IZUKU!" Hiro shot back, finally driving Izuku scampering out of the cold spring. "What right mind would you have in me thinking I was going to say: Hey, I have the image of the outline of my crush's dick stuck in my head, could you kindly pass the Grey Poupon? Not something I was going to ask you freaking idiot!"

"I didn't offer you mustard, I offered you hot sauce!" Izuku countered as he ran towards his towel and ran back behind the cubbies to get his pajamas, coming back around when he was dressed for bed. "Okay, I'm sorry for teasing you. Please know that I'm only doing this because I love you and I always wanted a little brother to tease."

"You are only older by a couple weeks!"

"Shush and respect your elders. Anyways, you are going to have to talk about this over with Kaito eventually, this is something neither of you can ignore since it is clear to both of you that you are attracted to one another now. I suggest you do it after the trial in a couple days. We only need to be there for the first day because the rest of the week they'll be going over all the bastards they captured. You need to think of a strategy of talking about your feelings with each other."

"Great! How do I do that exactly?!" Hiro shot back as his brother made to leave the onsen.

"I don't know! I've only been in a relationship a few weeks longer than you!" Izuku called back before he closed the door behind him.

"Great, just great." Hiro groaned as he leaned back, his body still rigid.