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Chapter 68:

The door to Class A slid open and twenty-one students looked towards it. They still did not know who their homeroom teacher would be, and as the woman walked in a few of them had surprised looks at the sight of the teacher who was apparently going to be replacing Aizawa. She took one step in the door in her all-red hero costume that outlined the large muscles covering her body. Mother Russia looked around the class after taking one step through the door, and immediately her eyes narrowed at the students who had depressed looks and frowns on their faces. She wore a red bandanna around her forehead and the top of her hair, and her bleach blonde hair fell straight down her back before getting wavy near the bottom.

"Good morning students," Mother Russia said, her voice deep and laced with a thicker Russian accent than they heard at the Sports Festival where she had purposely toned it back a little. "I will be your homeroom teacher from this day forward." She stopped in the middle of the front of the room, and she looked around making eye contact with each one of the students individually. Then she crossed her arms over her chest and her eyes narrowed more while facing the center of the room, "I am not Eraser Head."

The statement made most of the students stare at her wide-eyed, even though all of them had been thinking about their old homeroom teacher anyway. "I had great respect for him, as I am sure all of you did. You will show me the same respect that you showed him. There is no time to reestablish the same bond that you had, so I will just tell you a few things about myself now." She uncrossed her arms and walked over to the desk that she stood behind, then she put her hands down on top of the desk and her fingers dug into the wood while she glared straight forward at Midoriya who leaned back at that look. "When I was six years old, I killed my first bear. My father began my training when I was that young by sending me out into the woods outside our house in northern Siberia, and he told me that I had to survive for six months on my own before I could return."

The jaws of every student in the room lowered. They all stared at their teacher who suddenly got very personal and very straight to the point, with a very intense story too. "He sent me out in the early fall, after the first snow had already fallen. I had to survive the winter on my own, far from my house so that I would not be competing with my father for food. In those woods I was not only competing with my father however, and I needed to learn very quickly how to survive. The bear proved a more powerful opponent than I could defeat at first, and I used my Quirk solely to escape from her. But the hunger got to me. The scars I received fighting that bear stay with me to this day." Mother Russia narrowed her eyes while darting them towards Mineta who gulped while keeping his eyes locked with Mother Russia's and not sliding down towards her large breasts pushed against her tight red costume.

This is crazy.

Why is she telling us this?

What a cruel childhood.

Russia's, pretty wild.

"It was cruel, and a terrible thing for a father to put his daughter through," Mother Russia continued. "However, the training I endured during those six months, made me into the hero I am today." Some of the students started nodding as they felt like they were starting to understand why she had told them this.

Even though it was hard, she appreciates it.

It was tough, but he must have known she could take it.

Does that make it okay? Todoroki thought, and he looked down at his desk for a second. If training that harsh, creates a good hero… What Dad did, if I become a good hero because of it, does that mean-

"Then when I obtained my hero license, I arrested my father for child neglect," Mother Russia said, derailing most of the class's thought processes. Todoroki stared at Mother Russia with eyes much wider than a moment ago. She paused and cracked a small grin that unnerved the students around the room, "He looked very proud of me as I handed him over to the police."

Zach stared forward with a blank look and a bead of sweat rolling down the side of his face. What is the moral of this story? Is there one? Or is she just telling us this to get acquainted?

If it made her into the hero she is today, then why- how could she- And she seems like she cares about him? Todoroki's fists clenched at his sides. Why did that strange story somehow get to me? The circumstances are not the same, are they? She never said anything about her dad being a hero, but does that make a difference? She didn't make him out to be that bad either though… Endeavor. Dad. The man he's trying to be now, compared to the one from my childhood. I'm not going to say anything- but, does Mother Russia forgive her father? I can't tell.

"Now then," Mother Russia said, now that the class was fully focused on her and were not thinking on something so depressing at the start of their first day back. "Those of you who fought Inhuman have gained my respect," Mother Russia announced. Nine of the students in the class looked at their teacher in surprise, though a few of them remembered how Inhuman had sent her flying with his power. Some of them had even thought he had killed her with that attack that had smashed her through one of the stadium's giant screens. "The rest of you will have to prove it to me that you deserve it, during our training that will be even harder than mine was." She said it in her thick accent and smirked while half the class gulped at what sounded like a terrifying threat to them.

Didn't she arrest her dad for training that hard?! Sero thought while pushing back in his seat.

"You are not children, but heroes already," Mother Russia told the gawking students. The students in front of her remembered how she had been six years old in the story she was telling, and they were all sixteen or older even for Bakugo. The students still had nervous looks on their faces after she said that, but she nodded as their fists tightened and they appeared to be ready for whatever she was going to throw at them. "Good," she said, and then she lifted up a remote and pointed it at the green board behind her. The center of the board changed colors with a click of the remote to turn into a black screen instead, and then that screen changed to show a familiar sight to the students who started staring in confusion.

"Then for today's training, we will be watching footage of the Sports Festival fights," Mother Russia said. The entire class sweatdropped and many of them held onto their desks to prevent from falling out of their seats. After such a build up, they were all expecting something a little more exciting. "To see what you can do better, differently, like a sports team going over old clips."

"Is she serious?" Sero whispered, leaning over and whispering to Kirishima who shrugged as he was having a hard time getting a read on their teacher too. He had been pumped-up until she mentioned arresting her father which threw him for a loop, and now he was once again confused as he was expecting some epic training.

I don't think she's messing with us, like Aizawa sensei did, Zach thought while giving the teacher an odd look. Then he turned from her to the screen that she was fast-forwarding with her remote to zoom past a lot of footage she had recorded for them. Oh wait, no, no no no, Zach slouched down in his seat. At least the camera angle is down at the stage and not the screens around the stadium. Still though, I embarrassed myself a lot that day. Please pick a good moment-

"Here is a good place to start," Mother Russia said, speaking to herself and nodding in agreement with what she said. She pressed play, and everyone in the class stared wide-eyed as Shoji got lifted off of the fighting arena stage and thrown high up in the air.

Shoji's eyes bulged over the top of his mask, and Mother Russia said while he was being slammed back down in the video, "I can assume at least one of you has not seen what happened after this, so we will continue on from here. I will pause it on occasion and we can discuss what you should have done differently." Shoji's body slammed into the stage, and the boy with six arms in the classroom felt his heart skip a beat as he watched himself die. As much as they were all expecting something different, he felt his heart racing as fast as it would in any training simulation.

Zach bowed his head to his desk and felt his face turning red. As much as he felt bad for Shoji having to watch that, he did not want to look up and see what was about to come. This is going to be a long video- On the video, the other student on the screen between the villains dropped to his knees and started crying in the middle of the stage as he broke down. Zach sank deeper into his chair as he heard his own voice screaming in the video, and he thought, I just hope no one brings up this stuff to me later.

Zach walked quickly down the hall away from Class A, trying to get his lunch and go find somewhere quiet to eat as fast as he could. "Hey Zach," he heard a voice calling after him and he paused for a second, glancing back at the short girl with brown hair running his way. "Wait up a second," Uraraka said, and she ran up next to Zach who continued walking once she was next to him.

"I. AM. LIFEBRINGER!" Oh my God, that was the longest class ever. It wouldn't be so bad if she didn't pause it there to mention how that was a good morale boost that people needed to see. I mean, it's what I was thinking about, kind of. It was mainly for myself though. I think… Geez, I felt like that whole time I was just embarrassing myself. The whole break down before I saved Shoji. And when I turned Nightmare, I swear I looked scarier than any other time I've seen it. "Hey, Uraraka," Zach started, and he glanced out the corners of his eyes hoping she would not bring up anything too embarrassing about the clips.

"Re-watching all of that," Uraraka started, and Zach tensed up as he prepared to hear something he didn't want to. "I, I never thanked you. You know, for getting in the way of that shot." Zach's eyes widened a bit, though he realized he should have known that was what she wanted to say anyway. He thought about that point in the video that Mother Russia had allowed to play through and did not comment anything about. He had seen more odd looks from his classmates then than anywhere else in the clips, and he figured if he had not just dove on top of Uraraka then someone might have asked why it was the villain took those bullets for him.

"It, wasn't me," Zach said. "I didn't-"

"If you didn't do that," Uraraka cut him off. "Spinner wouldn't have gotten in the way to save you." Zach stared at her with wider eyes, and she said, "He wouldn't have done it to save me, and you ran all the way across the stage leaving your fight just to, to put yourself in the way." Uraraka paused, then she smiled up at Zach in a soft way. "So you did save me. Thank you."

The camera angle wasn't great, so it still wasn't clear that I killed Spinner. Uraraka knows though. She was right there. She heard him ask for it. What does she think about that? She was telling me not to, at the time. Zach nodded at Uraraka, and he gave her a small smile back. "No problem. What are friends for, right?" He asked, and she smiled brighter at that and nodded at him with an affirmative hum. Zach looked back forward and continued off for the cafeteria. His lips were flat as he walked, but the corners of them tugged up at that conversation and he couldn't help himself from smiling. I saved her? That's, awesome.

Zach felt a warm feeling in his chest that felt as good, or even better than when he brought people back to life. I wasn't too late this time. Shoji cut in during class to thank me, only for Mother Russia to tell him to be quiet until she paused the video… But saving someone, and making it so they didn't have to die first before I did it, that's amazing! Zach got a small skip in his step, and Uraraka was glad as she followed after him towards the cafeteria.

Back behind them down the hallway, Momo Yaoyorozu stared towards Zach's back and she looked hesitant. Maybe I was wrong, she thought. Momo shook her head and started walking down the hallway to get to lunch herself. Seeing what he did to save Uraraka, it was the same… But, when he ran to save her, I remember. What he shouted when he was running towards her: "Watch out! Momo! Uraraka!"

Momo hummed to herself and then shook her head again. The villain was aiming at Uraraka, but he knew I had been the target before so he was just calling my name to make sure I knew where the villain had moved to. Or, he called my name first because he looked towards me after seeing the villain move, before he noticed Uraraka was the target… Yaoyorozo slowed down in the hallway and she got an even more hesitant look on her face. But that's not right. He, looked my way after seeing the villain move. He called out after already running towards Uraraka. And, when he came out of the rubble as we fought Inhuman, I was looking straight towards you this time.

She thought about how during the reviews of the video clips she was focused solely on Zach even though it was supposed to be a time of self-reflection. When I thought he was trapped under a pile of rubble, he suddenly appeared behind me. I thought it was magic or something, but in the video he really didn't come above the rubble that long before the shot. He popped out and, and his head was focused straight towards me. Yaoyorozu took in a sharp breath as she sped-walked down the hallway. Then he turned to K-Blaster, and then he sprinted so fast across the arena I barely saw it. Sprinting across the screen and getting in the way of the villain's shot. Saving my life. At the cost of- Her heart fluttered and she stopped where she was. Yaoyorozu smiled brightly down the hall for a second, then she spotted two of her classmates walking by her on her right side and looking at her oddly since she had stopped in the middle of the hall.

Yaoyorozu's face turned red and she quickly started walking again herself, straightening out and coughing once for some reason. Hagakure and Ashido watched as Momo hurried past them, then the two girls turned to each other and grinned big, (not that Ashido could see Hagakure's smile). Ashido ran forward and up on Yaoyorozu's left side and Hagakure ran onto the taller girl's right. "So Yao-Momo," Ashido leaned up towards the taller girl's face and Yaoyorozu turned with slightly pink cheeks but a confused look at Ashido's expression. "Have you thanked Zach yet for jumping in front of that shot for you?"

"Of course I have," Yaoyorozu said, looking at Ashido in surprise that the pink girl would think she hadn't.

"Sacrificing himself for you like that," Hagakure said, spinning around in front of Yaoyorozu and then letting out an enamored sigh that made Yaoyorozu's cheeks go even redder, especially as the invisible girl said, "It's so romantic."

"Ah- ahem," Yaoyorozu cleared her throat with a cough and then stood straight up as she continued walking. Without breaking stride she said in a scolding tone, "It is not something to make jokes about. Zach actually died-"

"That just makes it more romantic," Hagakure said, not going to let Yaoyorozu guilt-trip her way out of it that easily. "Don't you think he deserves a little more than just a 'thank you.'" She rose her eyebrows at Momo a couple of times while the taller girl kept walking and looked away like she had no idea what her short invisible friend was talking about.

"Haahhh," Ashido sighed at Momo's reluctance to go along with what they were saying. She put her hands behind her head and looked down the hall herself, not that Zach was still in sight like he was when she first saw Momo staring that way. "He's always been like that," Ashido said, and the other two girls looked to their left at their pink friend who started smiling after saying it. "We met at the entrance exams you know? He jumped in to save me then too, not that I couldn't have handled it on me own," she added, but she kept smiling anyway.

Despite Ashido's smile, Yaoyorozu started frowning as they kept walking down the hallway. Maybe it was just… She thought her frown was because of the same thing she was just questioning herself about with how Zach saved Uraraka, but that made her eyes widen more. Why would that bother me? That he just saves everyone- and I'm not special to, Momo pursed her lips and kept staring straight forward, hoping the girls next to her had stopped looking since her face had turned beet red.

"I'll come with," Monoma said, standing up as the boy across the table from him did.

The dark boy across the table with wavy white hair glanced back through thin eyes at his classmate and nodded once. Shihai Kuroiro then turned and started walking towards a door on the side of the cafeteria, and Monoma jogged to his side holding a tray of food himself. Neither had gotten much into their meals when they saw the person they were looking forward to seeing at lunch quickly dip out of the cafeteria instead of going to a table to eat.

Kuroiro and Monoma left the cafeteria and glanced both ways, and they figured out which way the black-haired boy they were looking for had gone by the directions other people in the hallway were looking. "Well that makes it easier," Monoma said in a smug voice. Kuroiro just started walking, and Monoma sped up for a second before walking at his side. "You know I only left the hospital after a day there because my power could be used in other ways around the city?" Monoma asked, and Kuroiro nodded his head once accepting Monoma's reason.

I wouldn't want to go through that over and over again either. Kuroiro thought about the night in Camino Ward where Monoma brought Mt. Lady back to life, and he was not going to criticize his blond friend for anything if he voluntarily went through that pain multiple times even after knowing how much it hurt. The fact that Monoma was saying it too meant that he felt he needed to defend himself, and Kuroiro glanced right at him wondering if that was what Monoma was coming with him for. I don't really want to talk about what I need to with you there Monoma. Whatever though, Kuroiro spotted their friend up ahead peeking into a classroom to see if it was empty.

Zach grinned and glanced back and forth to see if anyone was watching him about to duck into the empty classroom. When he looked to the left, he sweatdropped as there were not just two people watching him, but walking towards him too. "Oh, hey," he said, turning to the guys from Class B and pretending like he was not about to enter the room next to him. He had his lunch tray in one hand and scratched the back of his head with the other he was about to grab the doorknob with. "What's up?"

"You eating in here?" Kuroiro asked, and he walked right up and grabbed the knob. He opened it and stepped into the room, making Zach sweatdrop more and then follow him into the room after Monoma who was smirking in a way telling him they totally caught him.

"Yeah," Zach replied as he walked in behind them. "Just didn't really want to eat in the cafeteria today," he said, and he walked over to a desk that he sat at without hesitation. Guess it was a little too much to hope for that I'd get some time to myself. Zach glanced Kuroiro's way and he lowered his gaze after meeting the black boy's eyes. Shit. There's no way we can avoid that, can we? Zach was losing his appetite by the second.

"So I had a lot of work the city needed me to do the days after I left the hospital-" Monoma began, and he was about to brag about what those things were in great detail.

"I'm sorry, Zach," Kuroiro said. "She seemed like a really nice girl."

Monoma spun to Kuroiro who could not deal with the awkward moment he and Zach were having any longer. If he just let Monoma keep on going as he knew the blond would have, the moment only would have lasted longer. Zach looked into Kuroiro's thin eyes, and he frowned that the Class B student brought it up just like that. "Huh?" Monoma wondered, looking at Kuroiro oddly as he had no idea what he was talking about.

Zach shook his head at Kuroiro. "Thanks, I don't know if I told you it before." Kuroiro started opening his eyes wider, while Monoma just looked back towards Zach in more confusion, and a bit of annoyance that no one was filling him in. "In that letter, I told her… I thought I never got to say goodbye." Monoma's eyes started to widen, while Kuroiro's face filled with understanding as he remembered what Jenny said while reading the letter aloud. "The last thing I ever told her, was how much I missed her and her parents. How much I loved them."

Kuroiro's face got a bit of confusion on it, but he nodded at Zach. She did seem like she didn't say everything when she pulled back afterwards. It sounded like it was something personal. I'm glad though, that you got to say that.

"Knowing you got that letter to her," Zach started softly. "It makes it a little easier. So thanks." Jenny. I wish I could write that letter again. If I knew then what would happen, there's so much more I wish I had told you. The secrets I said I would tell you the next time we saw each other… How much I really loved you… Everything. Zach looked down at his food and he put his fork into it. I'm done being depressed over that though. Done thinking I can't, have a life because of it. This new life I have, I have to live it. It's why I was brought back after all. Zach turned to Monoma and started grinning at the blond who had a hesitant and uneasy look on his face like he felt he shouldn't have been there for all that. "So you were giving your excuses?" Zach said, nodding his head for Monoma to continue.

Monoma's eyes opened wide, then they widened more and he exclaimed, "'Excuses?!' Excuses for what? I really did have to go and help clear out debris and re-base several structures. Much of Musutafu has been rebuilt because of these two hands, and all the Quirks that they have Copied…"

Zach started nodding along and he agreed with Monoma, saying he was just joking about the 'excuse' thing. "Did you hear, Class B got a new student?" Monoma asked.

Zach lifted his eyebrows up and shook his head once. He wondered why Monoma grinned at him while saying it, since Kuroiro's expression got a lot darker at the mention. "It's Shinso," Monoma said, and Zach's eyes opened wide.

"Really? He got bumped up?" Zach asked in surprise.

Kuroiro looked down and he shook his head of a dark thought for the moment. He looked back up and into Zach's eyes and said, "Apparently he was pretty heroic at the Sports Festival. He got most of the general studies and support course students out. People are attributing the low number of student casualties to him." That mention made Kuroiro's expression darken again, but he continued even as Zach noticed Monoma start frowning too, "He made villains fight each other and cleared a path straight out of the stadium."

"Because of that," Monoma started, as he could see Zach was catching on to their dark looks already. "Only one general studies kid died. He was in Shinso's class and tried helping out too; he had a strong Quirk, but…" Monoma shook his head, then he looked down and said, "No one from the support classes died though. And only one, from the hero course," Monoma paused and then looked up into Zach's eyes. Zach was confused as he wondered if they were talking about him, but they wouldn't have said 'one' in his case because Shoji would have been included.

Zach realized it after a second as he saw the grim looks on each of the Class B students' faces. "Oh," Zach whispered. "Sorry, I didn't hear about it," he said quietly. Who wants to talk about something like that? After the hospital the night of, no one's really talked about Aizawa sensei either. Mother Russia brought him up, but… "Who, was it?" Zach asked, wondering if it was someone he knew well.

"Nirengeki Shoda," Kuroiro said.

The black-haired boy from Class A nodded his head once. Shoda? That guy, who was with Ojiro in last year's Cavalry Battle… Oh shit, and with Shinso too. Shinso brainwashed him back then too. Zach grimaced and thought, Wonder if Class B is okay with him? "Were you guys close?" Zach asked softly.

"Weren't great friends," Kuroiro said. "But he was a classmate," he added.

Monoma nodded in agreement as that alone meant enough. Then he tried lifting the mood and said, "Didn't really appreciate him coming in and taking our classmate's spot. But," he held up a palm and let out a small sigh. "When Vlad King sensei told us what he did at the Sports Festival, we figured we'd give him a chance." Kuroiro nodded his head in agreement, and Zach smiled as he was worried how they would react.

Wouldn't be a great hero course that rejected someone who saves people like that. Wonder if he would have come to our class instead, if I had been the one to die? Nah, we had an extra student anyway. If anything it would have just evened out. That thought made Zach grimace, feeling like the extra student that made it an odd number. "Sooo," Monoma continued, and Zach looked into the blond's blue eyes wondering what he was trying to get out of him.

Kuroiro shot Monoma a glare, but Monoma lifted his eyebrows once more before sighing himself. "Who's, your new homeroom teacher?" Monoma asked, only hesitating for a second during the question like he did not know whether or not to ask.

"Mother Russia," Zach replied. He understood why Monoma was hesitant and why Kuroiro shot him that glare, and his eyes lowered for a second as he thought about their tired, former homeroom teacher. Then he lifted his gaze and put a smile on his face despite that thought though, "You guys won't believe the story she told us this morning…"

"Where's Zach?" Jirou asked the blond boy sitting down across from her at the lunch table.

Kaminari rolled his eyes and said, "I don't know. Probably not feeling up for being surrounded right now, after that," Kaminari sighed and shook his head before starting to pick at his food. "That video this morning was rough," he muttered. Jirou nodded in agreement, and she kind of understood why Zach had gone off somewhere considering she had been planning on saying all sorts of things to him about it.

Kaminari shook his head around then leaned forward while Sero was sitting down on his right side, "So, what were you doing while all that was going on?" Jirou looked at the boy across from her in surprise since he had not asked since the Sports Festival. Then again, all of them had been really busy around Musutafu since the day of and there had not been much time to just sit around and relax like this. "Take on any villains like we did?" Kaminari asked, and he nodded his head to the right at Sero who grinned at that.

"You fought?" Jirou asked in surprise. She glanced at Sero and added, "Without becoming useless right away?" The amazed tone in which she was asking that made Sero start laughing as did Ashido who just sat across from him next to Jirou. Tsuyu sat down on Jirou's other side and Mineta took a seat on Kaminari's left across from her, as Kaminari retorted about how he was the one who took down the whole group of them.

"Only 'cause we immobilized them first," Sero said. "Hagakure blinded 'em, I wrapped a couple up, and Ojiro did some damage too."

"Yeah yeah, it was a group effort," Kaminari agreed with a wave of his hand. He grinned at Sero and said, "Felt pretty cool saving pro heroes."

"Oh yeah," Sero agreed with a smirk. He scratched the back of his head while smiling over half his face, and he added, "Though Thirteen's a rescue-oriented hero, so I don't think it's that impressive."

"That still sounds so cool though," Mineta said, a jealous tone in his own voice. "We just joined a group of heroes evacuating this big group of people," Mineta said, sighing and putting his palms up like there was no other choice. "So disappointing," he said.

Tsuyu tilted her head to the side, and as the one with Mineta during that she said, "Mineta-chan, didn't you keep saying how you hoped we didn't run into any villains during the-"

"I don't know what you're talking about," Mineta denied loudly, and he put his fork down into the chicken while pointing a finger across the table. "I was so disappointed I didn't get to show off against all those Triggered-up monsters!" He said it with beads of sweat coming down his face, and it was not very believable to the others looking his way.

"What about you, Mina-chan?" Tsuyu looked in towards the pink girl who she had not talked to much since the attack.

"I tried joining in the big fight in the middle!" Ashido said with a big grin on her face. "I would've kicked that Inhuman guy's butt, and gotten Mother Russia sensei to think I was pretty cool too," she started sounding disappointed towards the end and let out a small sigh.

"What happened?" Sero asked the girl across from him. Jirou was already frowning at Ashido as she had known this already, but since Ashido wasn't making a big deal out of it she tried to lighten up her expression. Kaminari saw Jirou's look which just made him lean in closer towards Ashido who lowered her hand down to her side and then started pulling up on her uniform. Kaminari and Mineta's faces flushed red and they leaned forward farther excitedly, while Sero just got a confused look and slightly pink cheeks.

Ashido stopped only after raising her shirt up a little though, and she turned her body sideways to show the guys across the table and Tsuyu whose already big eyes widened more. Mineta's nosebleed stopped and sucked back into his nose, and he leaned back with a less pervy look on his face. Jirou was glaring at Kaminari for acting the same way while Ashido was showing them some scars on her right side, but she stopped when Kaminari started looking at Ashido in a more worried way and asked, "What happened? You okay?"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine," Ashido waved it off like it was nothing and lowered her shirt back down. "I was running down to help, but one of those portals that the bombs came out of appeared like, right next to me!" The others looked even more worried, and a few got scared looks on their faces as it sounded a lot like Ashido could have been one of the dozens killed by that initial attack. She was one of the hundreds injured by it though, and she added in a lower voice, "I don't really remember much of it after that. Had to be saved though," she sounded regretful, and her fists tightened at her sides.

"At least you're alright," Hagakure said, looking in from Ashido's other side. "That's all that really counts."

"Aww thanks girl," Ashido threw her arms around her invisible friend who sounded so sweet right there.

Kaminari turned back to Jirou and said, "So really, what were you up to?"

Jirou sighed and she twirled her fork around on her plate for a second. "I didn't get in any fights either," she started. "I just gathered a small group of civilians, and I used my Quirk to find good routes with few villains in them and lots of heroes. Compared to everyone else's stories, it's pretty boring."

"Huh," Kaminari said, and he leaned back in his seat. Jirou looked at him with lifted eyebrows wondering what that 'huh' was for. Kaminari saw that look and said, "I'm just surprised. Since your Quirk's got so much more offensive power than I first thought," he leaned forward with a grin and said, "like when you blew apart the whole second event's stage." He started laughing while the others groaned as they had all missed points because of Jirou destroying the arena like that. "Guess it was smart though to avoid getting in any fights," Kaminari finished, scratching the back of his head as he did.

At least while I was evacuating people, sure, Jirou thought. But afterwards, with so many villains there, I should have at least tried fighting. She hummed to herself then looked up at Kaminari as she just realized something. Did he just compliment me for that though? And wait, he brought up the second event, when we were partnered- No, when we partnered up with each other on our own. We made a pretty good team, even if we did lose. Huge offensive range for both of us, and defense is pretty good too. We could be a pretty great hero team when we're- Jirou's cheeks turned red and she looked down at her food fast.

Across the table, Kaminari did not notice Jirou's expression as he had started looking around the cafeteria himself. His smile lowered down a little and he looked at his food too. He listened as Mineta started talking about how he may not have gotten in any fights, but they had come close a bunch of times. As he listened though, Kaminari's face got a little frustrated and he twisted his lips while lifting his gaze to look about around the cafeteria. It's gotta be Class B, right?

He lowered his fork down and stared towards Class B's tables with a hesitant look. But none of them are, at least I don't want to think about them like that… "How do you think they knew where we were for the summer training camp?" How does such a simple question, make everything so bad? Why do you have to- well, I get why you need to think of it like that. I get why you have to be careful, Zach. But, these are our friends. Our classmates. I don't, want to suspect any of them. "…Could be one of the teachers, or someone in Class B. Or, it could even…" Kaminari clenched his teeth and he closed his eyes for a second. There's no way. No one here, could be, Kaminari opened his eyes and looked around the table he was sitting at.

Kaminari noticed Jirou giving him a strange look, but he just shifted his gaze past her fast so she wouldn't notice what he was thinking about. No one should know what I'm thinking about, he thought after looking past her, realizing it was silly to assume she knew the suspicious thoughts on his mind. But, if someone really was, a spy. That person would always be on the lookout for someone looking for them, right? Kaminari frowned more and shook his head at himself before smiling with a small laugh. His chuckle before he got back to his food was not convincing though, and his eyes were dark as he scooped some food into his mouth. If it really is someone here's fault though, that you had to go through all of that. Kaminari's hand tightened on his fork and he thought, I definitely won't forgive them.

A/N Thanks for reading! Mother Russia is the new homeroom teacher for Class A, hope you guys enjoyed her backstory 'cause I had some fun writing it. Was pretty disappointed/annoyed by the last manga chapters, since I was planning on bringing Shinso into Class B, and now it just seems like I'm doing it 'cause of current manga stuff... *sighs*. I like him anyway though so glad to see him back in it too. Anyway, we hear what he was up to during the Sports Festival, as well as a lot of others in Class A who I didn't really focus on during it talked about it at the end here... Short scene of Uraraka thanking Zach for saving her, and some thoughts from Momo too. I hope y'all enjoyed. And leave a review below telling me what you think!

Shade11224 chapter 67 . Aug 29

Sounds like a DC reference with the league of assassins I'm starting to suspect there is a underlying supernatural world.

Throwing in some more future plot possibilities there. I feel like the Boku no Hero world could be so huge and the manga really only shows us what's going on in Japan. Might have to explore some more of that, and maybe delve into something deeper... Who knows? Thanks for the review!