The students were back in their classroom, excitedly talking about their internships. Some were more eventful than others, the students talking to Todoroki, Iida, and Midoriya about what they had heard from the news.
"You were lucky Ms Ryoko showed up and saved you guys," Sato said as some other classmates walked over to the group.
"So cool!" Hagakure said. "Just what I'd expect from the Number Two Hero's sidekick!"
The three students exchanged glances, knowing the truth about what had happened. Todoroki glanced down, avoiding the looks from his classmates. "Yeah, that's right. She saved us." Midoriya nodded, a small smile showing. What Todoroki said was the truth. If she hadn't stepped in when she did, the repercussions of their actions that night would have been devastating for the young heros.
"Did you guys see the news about Ms Ryoko?" Ojiro said, bringing the other's attention to him. "The statement she gave about that night was pretty intense."
"Yeah but the way the reporters treated her was awful!" Kirishima said from the other end of the classroom. "The way they kept asking about All Might and her relationship was so uncool! She was just doing her job and got a major villain off the streets, and then they treat her like that?"
It was true, Midoriya had seen the statement and subsequent interview the day it aired on television. The media certainly wasn't holding anything back regarding their questions. He could only imagine how it made her feel, to be up there in front of all those faces and microphones and cameras, without anyone to stand beside her.
The students took their seats as one of the last bells went off. Their teacher would be joining them shortly. As soon as the students were all seated, the door slid open. They were expecting All Might, for their Foundational Hero Studies course. Instead, in slid Ryoko, literally. Midoriya blinked, Ms Ryoko always seemed to appear in places he least expected her to.
There was a moment of silence as Ryoko, dressed in all black with aviator sunglasses, stared at the students. A few students perking up slightly at her appearance.
"Oops," She mutters before her feet pivot, walking out of the classroom.
"Ryoko!" Kirishima's voice rang throughout the classroom. Her head pokes back into the classroom.
"Yo," No one moved, Kirishima losing his voice when she reappeared. Midoriya remembered how much of a fan Kirishima is of Ryoko, he was probably too starstruck to speak now that she was in the room.
Her lips slowly curl up as her hand moves to remove her sunglasses from her face, positioning them on her head as she walks back into the classroom. She looks around and Midoriya notices that, underneath her leather jacket, is a black graphic tee shirt. More specifically, it was All Might merchandise, an image of the Pro Hero flexing on the front. It had words on it, but from his seat, Midoriya couldn't read it.
"Hey," she starts, as if struck by an idea. "Who's your teacher right now?"
"All Might is," Kaminari answered her and the redhead grinned wide.
"Bitchin'," she says and she rushes to the back of the room, making Todoroki share his seat with her. Seconds later, All Might entered the room, dressed in his Golden Age hero outfit.
"Welcome back, class!" He walks to the front of the classroom, standing at the podium. He keeps his hands on his hips, smiling at his students. He begins to tell the students to get into their hero costumes and prepare to head to Field Gamma.
"Excuse me, sir?" Everyone turned to look at the voice that spoke, seeing Ryoko grinning wide, sharing a seat with Todoroki, hand raised in the air. "What if we don't have our hero costume?"
"Ryo!" All Might calls, his smiling getting wider as the redhead left the seat she was sharing, running up to the front of the classroom. She laughs as she hugs him, his own arms wrapping tightly around her. When they separated, All Might immediately saw her shirt and laughed nervously. "You're wearing that shirt today?"
"What's wrong with it?" She turns, looking down at it, as she grips the edge of the shirt, pulling it out to look at it. Midoriya could now read the words.
Training to beat All Might.
Ryo simply shrugs before she grins and starts to walk out of the room, backwards, never turning away from their teacher. "Just wanted to say hi before you started teaching today. I've gotta go though, I've got a hot smoothie date."
"But All Might is here teaching," Tsu stated, causing Ryoko to stop walking and look at her.
"I never said I was going with him." She grins, All Might watching her.
"Who will you be with?"
"Nezu." Ryoko states before she waves at the class and heads for the door.
"Ryo," All Might calls, the redhead turning around to look at him as she opens the door behind her.
"Business, babe! I'll bring you a smoothie later!" As quickly as she appeared, she was gone. The classroom held an awkward silence before All Might coughed and brought everyone's attentions back to him.
"Yes, well, get ready! We're heading to Field Gamma."
Ryoko took a sip of her smoothie, sitting with Principal Nezu in the teacher's lounge. Her best friend, Present Mic, was there along with another of her close friends, Aizawa. Nezu had sent her an email about what they were about to talk about, but she wanted to flesh out the details in person before she agreed to anything.
"Thank you for stopping by Ryoko. It's so nice to have you here!"
"Thanks for having me, dude." She takes another sip of her smoothie, before she places it down on the table. "So, I read everything you sent me."
"Amazing! So, what do you think?"
"I'm only accepting on a few conditions." Nezu nodded and Ryoko leaned forward, elbows resting on her knees. Present Mic had seen this stance multiple times before. Coupled with her tone of voice, he knew Ryoko was going to talk business. "First," She turns to Aizawa. "You need to be security."
"What? Why me?" The teacher questioned. Present Mic threw his arm around his friend.
"Come on dog! A Pro Hero with a quirk that can erase other quirks is ideal for security!" Ryoko simply gives the teacher a pointed smirk, motioning at Mic to emphasize what he had to say. Silence passes among the group, Ryoko's smirk never dropping.
"You gonna make me ask again?"
"Whatever," Aizawa responds, arms crossing as Ryoko's smile grows.
The redhead turns back to the Principal. "Second, I'm going to need to call in others for more security. No offense, but your school has been attacked and it's been attacked recently. I want to ensure safety for myself, my band, and the students."
Nezu smiles, arms extending to his side. "Of course! Absolutely! Who would you like to call?"
The younger pulled her phone out, hitting a total of four buttons before she put the end of the phone to her forehead. Everyone in the room could hear the ringing, knowing it was on speaker. After a moment, the call was answered on the other end. A gruff "yeah" came from the phone.
It was Endeavor.
"Hey, boss,"
"What?"
"Want to work a security job?"
"For who?"
"Me." There was a pause on the phone. No one in the teacher's lounge spoke, letting the call play out.
"When?" The Number Two Hero asked after a minute of silence.
Ryoko turned her wrist over to look at her watch. The face light up, showing her the date. "A week from tomorrow." Another long pause came from the opposite line of the phone.
"Fine." The clicking sound of the other line hanging up was heard before Ryoko turned her phone off and placed it on the table, picking up her smoothie. She put the straw in her mouth.
"I'm gonna want to hire others too." Nezu nodded and agreed with her. She takes a sip of her smoothie, putting it down on the table before she goes to speak again, Nezu speaking first.
"Cementoss is willing to help build a stage that will suit your needs. The other faculty is more than happy to assist in security as well."
The redhead exchanges glances with her best friend before she looks back at the Principal.
"... Alright, I'm down. We're going to need to start working today to get everything ready in time."
"Of course! The faculty will be made aware of the situation and should be available to help starting tomorrow after classes." Ryoko nodded, smiling at Present Mic who grinned back at her. "Then we have a deal!"
"No sir." Ryoko states, smiling wide at the Principal. "We have a show." She leans forward and grabs her smoothie off the table, also swiping the other smoothie, one that hadn't been touched by anyone in the room. "Pleasure doing business with you all." She says, looking around before raising her smoothie into the air to cheer them.
The class ended. The students were beginning to walk out of Field Gamma, chatting about the races they just participated in when a voice broke through their conversations.
"Excuse me, kids!" Midoriya looked from Iida to see Ryoko walking through the group, holding onto a styrofoam cup, her sunglasses back on her face accompanied by a smile. The kids stopped walking, watching as she walked over to All Might.
"Told you I'd bring you one," She says as she hands the cup to the hero. Midoriya swears All Might's already large grin grew as he hugged his girlfriend, thanking her. She turns around, after the two separate, and looks at the class. "Hey, real quick." Every student is now looking at the redhead, her manicured hand moving her sunglasses to rest on her head. "In a week, I'm going to be doing a concert here for you guys." Some students gasped, others began to whisper excitedly. "Well not, here, but like, the stadium. It's a free concert for just the students of UA, but I know you have exams coming up so you don't have to come if you don't want to," She shrugs. "Just wanted to throw it out there for you guys."
"That's so cool!" Kirishima shouted. "Thank you!"
Ryoko throws up two peace signs as she starts to turn back to All Might. "Thank Nezu!"
"Is that an engagement ring?!" Mina's voice rang through the air, causing Ryoko to whip around and All Might to freeze.
"What?" The redhead asks as Mina points at her.
"There's a ring on your finger!"
Ryoko looks at her left hand before she looks back at Mina. "Oh, yeah, this a promise ring though." Instantly, the girls were surrounding Ryoko, asking to see the ring. She holds her left hand out, smiling slightly as the girls oohed and aahed over it. Midoriya noticed that Kirishima was at the edge of the group, onlooking. Todoroki was too, and before he knew it, Midoriya himself was looking at the ring. It was a simple silver band, a knot as it's center. It almost looked like the symbol for infinity.
"That's so pretty!" Ochaco said, many others agreeing with her. Ryoko thanks her.
"When did you get that?" Jiro asks her.
"It was my anniversary gift," Ryoko says, her voice mimicking a stereotypical women. Midoriya could tell it was meant as a joke. Ms Ryoko didn't seem like the sentimental type, or at least, she tried not to be. Even at her joke, Midoriya could see All Might's smile. He was beaming with happiness over the fact that Ryoko could show off the ring he gifted her.
At her answer, many students sighed and continued to adore the ring. Ryoko turned, grabbing All Might's left hand with her left hand, and holding it up to show the students. "All Might has the same ring."
It was true. The same simplistic, silver knot ring was on All Might's ring finger. At the sight of the ring, the entire class erupted. Some were shocked, others ecstatic and happy. Ryoko laughs, looking around at the students.
"Why a promise ring?" Todoroki asks. The redhead gives a genuine smile to the student, one that Midoriya was certain he had never seen from her before, as she turns to look up at her boyfriend.
"Life is too hectic for us to get engaged and start planning a wedding. So I gifted Ryo with a promise ring to tell her that I promised to marry her one day." Midoriya could see the redhead's face start to blush as she looked to her right, eyes avoiding the students.
"Gross, romantic shit." Ryoko says, eyes rolling as the students, mostly the girls, fawned over the couple. Ryoko flails her arms in the air after a moment. "This isn't an interview! Go do shit!" She waved the students off. They began to walk off, waving goodbye to her and All Might.
Disclaimer: I only own Ryoko Iwasaki. All other characters belong to their respectful creator, Horikoshi.