Chapter 30: Emotions!

"It is the ruling of this court that the testimony of Hiro Fuji was illegally obtained." Judge Nakamura called out to the courtroom and a smug Morooka, "As the whole case and all subsequent evidence would have never been obtained without said testimony, it is my judicial duty that I must throw out all that evidence out as well. As the prosecution no longer has any evidence, I must dismiss all charges."

"NO!" Hiro cried out as Izuku looked shocked.

"Hiro Fuji." Two officers imperiously called to him. "The Midoriya's guardianship over you has been terminated. You will be coming with us to your new orphanage in Okinawa."

"But my schooling at UA!" Hiro cried out as the two officers forced him out of his chair, frog marching him out of the courtroom.

"We have found a local trade school for you to be enrolled in." Guard One said, "There will be no hero school for you!"

"AAAAAARGHHGHGH!" Hiro cried out as he violently rolled out of bed hyperventilating. He felt wet, he opened his eyes and realized he must have activated his quirk in his sleep. It was then that there was a loud rap a the door that made him jump.

"Fuji!" Togata called from the other side of the door. "There was an alarm for extreme quirk usage that went off in your dorm. Is everything okay in there?"

"Yeah." Hiro breathed out as he opened the door, "I just had a really bad nightmare. It's nothing really."

"You sure you're okay?" Mirio asked looking concerned, taking in the partially flooded room. "You sure you don't want to join me downstairs for a cup of hot chocolate? No use in trying to going back to bed, it's 5:30 in the morning. By the time you reach REM you'll have to wake up."

"Might as well."

"Okay then." He said quietly, "I just need to clean this all up first." Gesturing to the drenched room behind him.

"Meet you down there in five then." Mirio said with a smile and a thumbs up.

Hiro closed the door as Mirio left and leaned his back against the door as he slid down onto the ground and sobbed for a bit and shook. Thinking for a moment about what would have happened to him if this nightmare induced quirk usage happened to him while he was still living in the orphanage.

Knowing his RA was waiting for him, he reached out to the water logged room and began drying it up. When he was done, the room was far more humid than normal, but everything was completely dry. He couldn't just vanish the newly created water, it had to go somewhere. He then slowly walked down the plush carpeted stairs and entered the common area to see Togata with two cups of brown liquid and took the seat across from him when gestured to do so.

"So did you have a nightmare about how things could've gone wrong this past week?" Mirio said calmly, causing Hiro to nearly choke on his hot beverage.

"H-h-how?" was all he managed to splutter rout as he coughed, trying not to choke all while being grateful that his drink didn't go down the wrong pipe.

"Intuition and experience." Mirio answered, "Given what happened these last few days, it was a natural guess. Besides, it is one of the those dreams all heroes go through."

"How many of these dreams are there?" Hiro moaned as he banged his head onto the table, leaving it there.

"Couldn't tell yah." Mirio shrugged with a smile, although Hiro couldn't see it because his head was still face down on the table still. "I haven't experienced them all myself."

"Not helpful!" Hiro groaned as he finally took his head off the table as he leaned back in his chair.

"Unless you can stop yourself from having dreams, which I doubt is all that healthy, there isn't much I can say." Mirio joked, "Comes with the job is all I can say."

"Why does everyone say that?" Hiro moaned as he stared into his mug, watching the last marshmallow finally melt into the hot beverage.

"Normally it takes a while for hero course students like ourselves to start having these dreams, but you aren't a normal case." Mirio explained with air of someone casually talking about the weather.

"Well if that isn't an understatement." Hiro snarked back, "I just want an ordinary life. Isn't that too much to ask for?"

"I don't know what to tell you then." Mirio answered, his face falling for a bit. "Part of being a hero is accepting the abnormal into our everyday lives. That is because part of our future jobs is dealing with situations every day that people want to stay away from. You know if being a hero is too stressful, you could probably get an assignment on a transport ship, there's a lot less pressure there."

"Transport-What?" Hiro asked, not understanding where Togata was going.

"Sorry. Pre-quirk era joke." Mirio abashedly said, "All I know is that it made Sir laugh his butt off."

"I'm not all that familiar with pre-quirk era things." Hiro said with unsureness in his voice.

"But seriously," Mirio went on, "You shouldn't be ashamed for having all of these bad dreams. If you weren't having them after all you went through, it would be weird if you weren't having them. I saw what you went through first hand remember? I was on the rescue team that helped save you."

"Sakura-Sensei and Dr. Maruki say that all the freaking time." Hiro moaned, dreading his next sit down session with UA's dedicated therapist in a couple days, not looking forward to having his brain picked as he was forced to relive old memories.

"They both are smart men who are at the tops of their fields, you should listen to both of them." Mirio smiled, "Besides, I've seen firsthand how much you've grown these past several weeks. You've changed so much for the better compared to the broken and beaten boy you once were when I helped rescue you from that dungeon. Back then you were at the lowest lows anyone could go, but look at yourself now. You won a full ride scholarship to arguably one of the best hero schools in the entire world and get to learn from the best of the best. Plus, you now have an amazing family that accepts you as though you are their own flesh and blood. You now have so much that a lot of people yearn for and some that would kill for."

"I'd suppose so," Hiro shrugged as then both boys turned their heads to watch Izuku buzz himself through the front door wearing his tracksuit, causing Hiro to immediately assume that he had just come back from his morning run.

"Hiro!" The viridian teen called out as he walked past him and Mirio to the fridge to grab an ice cold bottle of water, eagerly taking a few gulps before placing the bottle against the back of his neck, "You are up early. Is everything okay?"

"Yeah." Hiro lied, but Izuku's face fell a bit.

"Hiro, please don't insult my intelligence." Izuku said, and from Hiro's perspective, it was full of disappointment, "You hate getting up this early and you are sitting across the table from our RA the morning after one of the most emotionally challenging weeks of your life. I'm your brother Hiro. You don't have to lie to me."

"Sorry Izuku—" Hiro started but his brother cut him off.

"You don't have to be sorry about anything Hiro." His brother said in a calm voice, "There isn't a person here who doesn't have your back based on the massive party they prepared for you last night. If you don't want to talk to me, you have plenty of friends to talk to."

"Sorry about that." Mirio interjected. "About the party that is. Nej and I had no idea about it. You see, we arrived after you guys did. Had we known about it, we would've shut it down before it could've started. We did lecture them and explained why it was a poor idea. But apparently they were told off by Izuku first so they all wound up getting the lecture twice in one night. I had them pack up all the food in the fridge. You can take some of it with you to the training grounds with you today. You two only have three days including today to prepare for your first Sports Festival after all, so all classes have been cancelled for these few days. You two are in Class B, so you'll have ground Beta all day to your selves, Ground Omega for tomorrow, and Ground Gamma the day after that. Your business and support coordinators are welcome to accompany you and use the grounds as well, but I wouldn't count on seeing anyone from the support course out there unless they are testing their inventions because they can bring anything they build themselves to the sports festival. Also, few if any business course students bother putting any efforts into the sports festival. Oh and it won't just be 1-B, but also 2-B and 3-B will be on the same training ground as well."

"Thanks Mirio." Izuku said with a smile, "I'm going to hit the showers before breakfast. Oh and Hiro, I'm always free to talk."

With that, he watched him head back upstairs to get his shower supplies. Mirio placed a hand on his shoulder before getting up himself. Hiro looked down at his now lukewarm chocolate as he sat in the now very silent common room. The only noises being the hum of the refrigerator and the air conditioning system pumping in colder air into the room. The silence became heavy on him as his mind became blank for the first time in forever. He had no idea how long he sat there in his silent solitude, staring into this mug. It was only when his phone vibrated in his pocket that he violently jumped out of his blankness.

PAINT PALLET: Are you up?

WATER DROPLET: Yeah.

PAINT PALLET: Are you okay?

WATER DROPLET: I'm doing better.

PAINT PALLET: I'm sorry I convince your classmates that you would've preferred a quiet evening rather than a loud party. I left when you went upstairs after telling them so last night.

WATER DROPLET: Thanks for trying. Togata this morning told me he and Hadou told them all off and made them pack away the food.

PAINT PALLET: I remember after my trial, I didn't want to talk to anyone. My aunt and uncle had to blackmail me to get me out of my room.

WATER DROPLET: I understand the appeal. However, I got the sports festival literally around the corner and I haven't done any training.

PAINT PALLET: I haven't gotten much training myself. Not that the business course puts in much effort.

WATER DROPLET: Why not? Unlike me, you weren't trapped deep in an underground bunker for the past week.

PAINT PALLET: Well, I still had actual classes that I had to go to. Besides, like I said, many business course students often opt out of the Sports Festival. The other courses put in far more effort. The hero course to try and get a great internships, and the support course to show off their inventions to get internships of their own. Then there is the General Studies course students to desperately try and get into the hero course. There just hasn't been a reason for the Business Course students to put in the effort.

WATER DROPLET: But you actually have a quirk that could be useful for the sports festival!

PAINT PALLET: I guess.

WATER DROPLET: Want to keep me company while I train at Ground Beta? I can bring some of that food from last night and have it for lunch.

PAINT PALLET: (Dots go back and forth for a bit)

PAINT PALLET: Sure. I think they'll open up for us at nine.

WATER DROPLET: Okay! Meet you there!

Kaito had finished packing everything in his little day bag and had already put on his lime green PE uniform and was about to head out when he heard a knock at the door.

"Come in! It's unlocked!" he called and the door opened to show his friend Alex walk in.

"You are actually bothering to train for the Sports Festival?" he asked as he took a seat at his friend's desk.

"Yeah." Kaito answered, "Hiro asked me to keep him company, and heaven knows he needs all the moral support he can get right now. Besides, he told me I might actually have a quirk that might be of use in the Sports Festival."

"I heard a rumor that they were throwing out the usual format for something radically different."

"Where did you hear that rumor?" The grey haired boy asked as Alex gave his friend a grin and a shrug.

"Just from hints that Nezu has dropped that's all." He slyly answered.

"You don't have to rub it in that you are getting special lessons from the principal!" Kaito groaned as he shoved a change of clothes into his bag for when he was all sweaty from the heat.

"It's not just me!" Alex protested, leaning forwards and sticking two fingers up in the air, "Midoriya and Hadou are their too. Although Midoriya hasn't been able to make in a while thanks to his other obligations of late."

"So you have been training your quirk for the Sports Festival then?" Kaito asked and the revelation hit his friend like a sack of bricks. Alex simply leaned back in his chair, not tipping over it because it met the desk as he looked up at the rotating ceiling fan, trying to keep track of the blades.

"And here I thought I was being lazy." He laughed before he got control over himself, "Anyways, I bet part of the reason you are heading down to Ground Beta to train with Hiro is because you can't wait to get a peek at Hiro in the shower room once you are done training for the day."

"Not in the mood Alex!" Kaito shot back, grabbing Alex's t-shirt and rearranging the ink on it to spell out: decaffe for life.

"Not cool man!" Alex moaned as he ripped the shirt off of him as though it said a vile message, "Now I have to burn this shirt! Why did you have to go and do that!?"

"Why don't you just donate it?" Kaito asked, "Or better yet, promise to stop teasing me about Hiro so I would fix the shirt?"

"Yeah, I kinda can't make that promise. So, I'm definitely burning this shirt so it doesn't go out into the world with such and evil and heinous message." Alex said as he stood up and violently balled up the shirt.

"Are you done teasing me? Or are you going to make several other inappropriate insinuations?" Kaito grunted as he finished zipping up his duffle bag before turning to glare at his shirtless friend. Alex just put his hands up in response and began walking backwards out of the room.

"Sure." He chuckled as he put a hand on the door handle and opened the door, "I'll get out of your hair and leave you be. That doesn't mean I won't tease you about anything that might or might not happen when you come back from hanging around the boy you desperately want to –"

However, whatever Alex was going to say would forever be a mystery as Kaito chucked a shoe at him, finally driving him away. With a grunt, Kaito swinged his bag over his shoulder as he pocketed his phone and keys before picking up the spare shoe. Of course he was stared at the moment he locked his door, noticing a male and female classmate raise an eyebrow at the sight of him in his PE uniform. That wasn't the only weird look he got, from the moment he got into the elevator, all the way till he exited the dorm, he was stared at by his fellow business course students. Thankfully, none of them asked why he was bothering to train for the Sports Festival. Kaito checked his watch once he got outside and he saw that he had fifteen minutes to make it to Ground Beta.

Kaito picked up the pace as he hurried over to the training ground, remembering how far it was from the main building when he was last there for the faux hero entrance exam. He then cringed as he remembered how poorly he performed during that test. He then remembered he would then be going up against his crush and thirty-nine other hero students who had actually passed that same exam. It was then that he took in the lack of muscle on his body. He then thought of how Izuku was made of muscle and Hiro, while not as muscular, was toned a bit. Thinking of Hiro in such a manner caused his cheeks to redden and his core body temperature to rise for a bit as he rushed to clear his mind of those thoughts.

He then picked up the pace, urging his body to calm down. He fiddled with his bag as he walked along the pathway, no longer the only one on the path to the training grounds as he walked past the third year hero course dorms. As he walked among the growing number of students, he felt more and more like an oddball. Red and blue PE uniforms made up the majority with the occasional support course orange carrying equipment, but as far as he could tell, he was the only one in the whole crowd who was wearing green.

It was then when he got to the gates to the locker rooms for ground beta he managed to pick Hiro out of the crowd. He nervously walked over to him, cursing his knees for they were trembling. He called out to him and he turned around, noticing a smile for a bit.

"Good morning Kaito!" he heard Hiro call out as he walked over towards him, "Do you feel like the odd man out?" He said this as he scanned the crowd around the gates, also noticing that his friend was the only one clad in green.

"Yeah." Kaito answered as he shuffled his feet back and forth and accidentally kicking up a little bit of dirt, all while staring at the ground. It was then that the massive doors to the training ground and the locker rooms opened and the students from 1-B, 2-B, 3-B, their support coordinators, and the various general studies course students that got permission to use this training ground began filing in. The two friends were in no rush and casually walked into the locker room to drop their stuff off in lockers that had been assigned to them for the day. Kaito blushing when he noticed that his and the non-present Felix's names were on either side of Hiro's assigned locker. Carrying the lunch bag, they headed out of the locker room and into the training ground.

In search for a body of water to help Hiro train his quirk, they walked down the faux city's streets for a long while until they got to an impressive one to one scaled river that had large bridges spanning it. They went down the concrete embankment and settled down on the walkway on the water's edge. Kaito was entranced as he watched his friend make the water rise up on out of the river. It was like watching a twirling moving sculpture, a thing of beauty.

"Kaito? Are you okay?"

Kaito snapped out of his revelry as he looked at Hiro who was staring at him with a look of concern. Kaito was at a loss for words as he made eye contact with his crush, light green starring into lilac.

"I'm sorry." He stuttered out, feeling his cheeks redden a bit, "It was just that… what you were doing with the water reminded me a bit of a kinetic sculpture. You know I'm obsessed with all forms and types of art."

"Oh." Was all Hiro managed to get out as he blushed. "I'm sorry for distracting you. You know I've been doing this form of practicing water control for the past few hours?"

"Um. No. But it's okay!" Kaito responded quickly, raising both his palms in front of himself. "I just get heavily interested when I see stuff like that. It was really beautiful."

"Thanks." Hiro blushed, "I was just doing what felt natural. I never did anything artistic growing up at the… they didn't bother giving us the luxury of anything like a hobby. Not to mention Aldera never bothered properly funding their art programs so no one ever bothered taking those classes. Not like I could have if I wanted to though. Taking those classes meant paying a fee and buying your own supplies since the school couldn't afford their own. There was no way that 'they' would have given me or any of us there a single yen to buy even the cheapest of supplies of the crappiest quality."

"That's okay! You can always come over to my room and I can help teach you! I brought tons of supplies!" The words came out of his mouth as though he were on autopilot. He wished he could take them back as soon as he realized what had just come out of his mouth and the implications if his friend said yes. Hiro and him, alone, in his bedroom. Him possibly painting him. The panicky part of his mind wanted Hiro to say no, but part of him desperately wanted him to say yes.

"I would really like that Kaito." The words came out very softly, but he couldn't help but noticed how Hiro's smile gently tilted upwards and his eyes shone for a bit as his face glowed at the invitation. He was wearing what looked like the very first genuine smile he had worn in weeks. He looked absolutely beautiful with that smile, all nervousness that was there inside him left as he felt his chest lighten and a smile grew on his own face.

"Sure thing." He said, "We can do it after the Sports Festival when the two of us actually have some free time. Our internships shouldn't start for a week the day after the third years complete their own sports festival." This caused Hiro's eyebrows to rise a bit.

"The business course students have internships?" Hiro asked curiously. "I didn't know they got any. I know of course the hero course has them, and the support course has their own set of internships based upon how their inventions that they bring with them perform throughout their time during the festival. How do the business students qualify for their own internships? I doubt it has anything to do with the festival itself given the historical precedent of the those students doing not the best. As I recall the last one to transfer from the business course to the hero course was Principal Nezu and that was a long time ago."

"We have to write a very big thesis paper." Kaito explained as he leaned his back against the concrete embankment, raising his arms so he could rest his head on them. He then saw Hiro's look to his answer and that was screaming: Really? So Kaito rushed to elaborate. "It wasn't like any other research paper. We had to write a massive paper on our course partners. We had to write about how you would perform as a pro-hero as if you had graduated, got your license, and started up your own agency tomorrow. It wasn't easy for me to do! There was a lot of math I had to do! The worst kind of math! Statistics are sadistic!" Meanwhile Hiro had a surprised look in response to this news.

"So you have been writing about me for the past several weeks?" he asked, unsureness in his voice, "And you didn't once ask me anything when you were writing about me?"

"Well you were occupied and tied down with other stuff until recently!" Kaito spewed out, his words tumbling over each other. "I couldn't well interview you when you were occupied with that other stuff. All of that was far more important than my paper!"

It was then that Hiro's face fell and Kaito's fell a bit more. "I shouldn't have asked you to come train with me today! I'm taking you away from something big that is due in a couple of days! You should head on back and get it done as soon as possible before it is too late! And oh no! I've been taking you away from doing it by having you help me prepare for the trial!"

"Oh no Hiro! It's not like that at all I swear!" Kaito blabbermouthed, "There is no need to worry at all! I've already completed my paper! I finished it yesterday! I've been working on it from dusk till dawn this past week the day after you testified. In fact I already turned it into Tosui-Kan-Sensei last night! I'm waiting on my grade still though." This eased all of the tension out of Hiro as his body visibly relaxed which by result helped Kaito relax.

"Do you think I could still read it when you get it back from Euphoria-Sensei?" Hiro asked, looking hopeful, and Kaito nodded his head which Hiro returned with a smile. It was then however that they heard their names being called. They turned and up on top of the embankment and a bit down the river on their side of the river they saw Izuku waving at them as he came jogging in their direction.

"Hey guys! How are you doing?" he asked once he got up to them, "What have you guys done so far?"

"Well we've been testing out our quirks." Kaito began but Hiro coughed and he corrected himself as they were walking up the embankment before flopping underneath the shade of a tree in a large patch of grass. "Hiro has been practicing his quirk with water control and I've been simply watching him for the past few hours. I was about to suggest a lunch break." He then reached into the cooler that Hiro had brought with him and that he took responsibility for carrying and pulled out some of the food from the party the night before, and Izuku looked hopeful.

"Did you not bring any of the food from the party your classmates tried throwing for you last night?" Kaito asked as he handed Hiro a blue flavored sports drink and a bag of chips and grabbing some for himself, "There were tables of it that they had to put away once you went to bed."

"Uh no." Izuku smiled embarrassingly, rubbing the back of his head like he always did when he was uncomfortable slightly, messing up his hair a bit in the process, however thanks to his hair always being a mess, the change was negligible. Hiro thought Izuku kept doing that because he suspected that Reiko might think it may make him look cute when he did that quirk of his.

"So you thought you could come over here to beg and freeload?" Hiro scowled, and Izuku fidgeted, as though he was caught in the act, "So you searched the entire training ground for us when you could have just as easily gone back to the dorm or Lunch Rush?"

"Well ummm.. You see…" Izuku mumbled as he sweat dropped a bit, but stopped when Hiro began to laugh.

"It's okay! I'm just teasing you. I brought too much food as it is." He then chucked a bag of cheese puffs and a red flavored energy drink at his brother.

"Did you only bring junk food Hiro?" Izuku groaned as he remorsefully opened the bag of puffs, and popped a couple in his mouth. Nearly choking as he noticed that rapid change in Hiro's facial expression. Even Kaito could tell something had just snapped in Hiro's psyche as anxiety flooded through him.

"Sorry." Hiro replied with a voice full of sarcasm and anger that flew Izuku through a loop, this most certainly wasn't how Hiro was talking when he was pretending to mad a few seconds earlier. "there wasn't any gourmet food left in the fridge. Sorry I couldn't provide you with any twice baked potatoes or foie gras. They only had junk food for the party that never happened, so its junk food for lunch today. If you wanted something fancy, you should've made it yourself. Only a few months ago, eating junk food like this was a luxury that I couldn't ever dream of having." To Izuku and Kaito's alarm, his angry voice now developed a growl, "How about you just take that silver spoon out of your mouth for once Izuku and just appreciate what has just been handed to you!"

"I wasn't insinuating anything like that Hiro." Izuku said slowly, clearly hurt by Hiro's words, "You know full well I would never—"

"Then stop complaining!" Hiro snapped, both Kaito and Izuku wincing, both clearly shocked and still confused at Hiro's aggressive behavior.

"Hiro could you pleas calm down." Kaito said slowly, his voice shaking slightly as he stared at his friend. "I'm sure your brother didn't mean anything harsh or negative based on his comments. Please calm down and take a few breaths. There is nothing to be angry about."

"Hiro please." Izuku said slowly, reaching a hand out to his brother, only for him to smack it away and to get up and storm off out of sigh. Izuku made to get up and go after him but Kaito forestalled him by grabbing his arm.

"Let him go." Kaito said quietly, "If he wants to spend time alone, then let him. Forcing him to talk is only going to make things worse."

"But what did I do?" Izuku whispered, emotional pain etched across his face as tears began to glisten at the corners of his eyes.

"You didn't do anything wrong Izuku." Kaito said reassuringly, helping guide Izuku back to the ground next to him onto the grass in the shade of the tree.

"But I clearly made him upset!" Izuku protested, attempting to get up again and chase after Hiro, but Kaito once again restrained him. "Let me go! I need to talk to my brother!"

"And accidentally say something that would set him off again?!" Kaito countered, "If anyone is going to talk to Hiro, it is going to be Hounddog-Sensei, Dr. Maruki, or Sakura-Sensei. Hiro clearly needs to talk to someone with more and proper experience handling issues like this. Do you honestly not see what you did to set him off?"

"NO!" Izuku shouted, causing Kaito to release his grip on his arm out of shock, "I don't know what his problem is! That is why I want to go and talk to him to find out!"

"His problem with you is quite obvious if you ask me! Given that I have been in similar shoes before and I know you know that already because Hiro told me you figured part of my story out already!" Kaito said coolly causing the greenette to stare at him with a wide-eyed look. Kaito took a deep breath before launching into his explanation and asked Izuku to sit back down next to him.

"Listen." Kaito started to explain slowly, "Hiro has just gone through one of the most stressful weeks of his life. He has just been forced to relive his entire childhood, or lack thereof, and have it broadcasted to the whole world. All those emotional scars and wounds that were in the process of healing with Dr. Maruki and Sakura-Sensei's help were just ripped wide opened again as a result of having to relive them by proxy of all the testimony given by him and the people he used to live with at the trial. I don't know if he has told you this, but he is probably jealous of you." Izuku made to interrupt but Kaito raised a hand to stop him.

"Listen. Hiro is probably jealous of you because you are able to take the simplest of things for granted while growing up. Your joking about there only being what you call junk food to eat for lunch, was in his current mindset as extremely insulting. You have to remember that it hasn't been long enough for him to break the mindset of someone who treats everything they have as a luxury. From his perspective, you grew up in absolute privilege. Remember from his testimony? Getting a new toothbrush once every six months or so was something to be grateful for. When he gave you the food he bothered to pack, and you made those remarks, even if they are made in jest, he took them as both as highly ungrateful and as highly insulting."

"That…. Didn't cross my mind." Izuku whispered as the guilt became evident on his face.

"Listen Izuku." Kaito said slowly, choosing his words carefully after Izuku remained silent for a time. "Try and think of things this way. Hiro views Uraraka the same way most of us view Yaoyorozu in the same respect in terms of privilege. He may have slowly been changing his viewpoint or his perspective as time went on if I'm honest… well… I don't know… Crap… I've lost my train of thought of where I was going with this, so please bear with me."

Kaito then got up and then did a couple of laps around the tree they were sitting under before turning to face away from Midoriya and to stare out at the bridge where a couple of support course students were testing out devices they had made. He thought he saw Hatsume among them. His suspicions were confirmed when he saw a small explosion followed by a trial of grey smoke heading skywards. He sighed and took a deep breath before speaking again.

"In the end Izuku what I'm getting at in the end is this, you need to be extra careful with what you say around Hiro. He has just exited one stressful situation and has very little time to prepare for another extremely highly stressful situation, that being the sports festival and Hiro hasn't been given the proper amount of time that he needed to mentally adjust. He is under too much stress right now. He may do his best to hide all the stress as to not worry you, but inside he is a swirling mess of emotions. I originally had no drive to come out to train for the Sports Festival like my fellow business course students. However, he asked me to come with him so I decided to keep him company despite not having any heroic aspirations myself. So in the end I thought to myself when he asked me to keep him company this morning, I thought to myself why not? Wasn't like I had anything better to do. Am I rambling again?"

"A bit." Midoriya sighed, "You were rambling a bit, although I'm probably the last person to lecture you about rambling. But I think I get what you are getting at. He was acting down this morning and by the time I got to the training ground I completely forgot about that. Essentially what you are getting at is that he is under an unordinary amount of stress, and as a result of the sports festival being around the corner he is liable to snap at anything at the moment. Is that what you were getting at?"

"Essentially." Kaito sighed as he turned to look at Midoriya head on right in the eyes, "But also, even though he probably won't admit it to you because he is too noble, but he is most likely very jealous of you given that you had a somewhat normal childhood and what you considered normal growing up were unattainable luxuries for him. That comment he made about a silver spoon was likely the closest we will ever get to him admitting that he has those feelings without confronting him head on."

"I've wondered about that." Izuku finally spoke after a five minute period of silence where he thought to himself. He then thought back to the night where they both had spent their first night at Might Tower and how Hiro had come into his bedroom and the conversation they had. How he had asked him: why is he now living the life of luxury when everyone else he grew up with was still living miserable lives. He thought back to other similar conversations he wad with Hiro on other subjects. It was then he noticed and realized what Kaito had noticed in one altercation

"Wow." Izuku breathed out as he slowly closed his eyes, "I know I'm not the most observant person but… I'm thick…"

"Don't blame yourself." Kaito said softly, putting a comforting hand on Izuku's shoulder, "You weren't actively looking for it."

"But still…" Izuku groaned, "Ugh… I'm still not going to look forward to our next conversation."

"Why's that?" Kaito asked and Izuku looked at him as though he was an idiot.

"Because I have to find a away to apologize to him for being an unobservant idiot and not being a proper brother and—" but Izuku was interrupted as Kaito smacked him. "What was that for?!"

"For being an idiot." Kaito said with a sigh, as Izuku gave him an annoyed look as he rubbed his cheek. "Seriously. You are putting too much blame on yourself. Did Hiro once admit that he was jealous of you for having a mother? For not being violated every god damn fucking day? It was up to Hiro to bring this up to you. It was up to Hiro to bring this all up to you. It was never your responsibility. This is something he needed to address to you personally. There was simply no healthy way for you to have been the one to broach the issue."

Izuku simply hung his head as Kaito's logic stun him badly. It made so much sense that he felt as though he was taking a lot of mental damage. He groaned again as he flopped back onto the grass. Cursing himself inwardly as his mind flew into overdrive. It was then something clicked in his mind as he remembered he was talking to Kaito one on one alone."

"Okay Kaito, new topic." Izuku said formally after sitting up and stretching. "When are you eventually going to ask my brother out?" To his pleasure, Kaito's face turned Fuji Apple red in an instant as his eyes widened comically.

"I have no idea what you are talking about Izuku!" Kaito said way too fast and too loudly for someone pretending to be ignorant.

"You called me unobservant earlier, but you two have been blatantly obvious on how attracted to each other you are. And yes, I know all about the whole boner incident that happened to you two." Izuku facepalmed, his annoyance clear in ever syllable. "You two are clearly infatuated with each other and yet ignoring your feelings for each other! It is honestly driving the rest of us up the wall!"

"The rest of you?!" Kaito squeaked as he began to sweat from overheating out of embarrassment.

"Yeah!" Izuku shouted, "We have all noticed what is going on between the two of you! Even Tenya noticed on his own that you two fancy each other! Tenya! And he is notoriously more less observant than me! That means that most of the other first years have probably also noticed by now! When are you going to grow the balls and ask him out?!" However, Izuku did not count on Kaito regaining his composure as quickly as he did and to be shouted at back.

"Well if you haven't noticed or learned anything from our prior conversation, but your brother has been emotionally occupied these past couple weeks!" Kaito roared, face purpling with anger and Izuku hurriedly took a couple steps back. "Where exactly can you tell me would have been an appropriate moment to pull him aside and tell him how I feel?! His mind rightfully has been focused on other matters these past few weeks. And now is not really the right time with the sports festival in a few days and he has to perform well in order to get a good internship! I can't in my right mind distract him given that we just saw earlier how easy it is for him to snap emotionally at the moment at trivial things! Perhaps you should start thinking about your brother's emotional well being rather than getting rid of what you think of as a casual annoyance!"

However, Izuku's blood then began to boil as One For All flared up throughout his body in response. "Don't you ever fucking dare accuse me of not wanting the best for my brother! Or you may deeply regret it!"

"Really?!" Kaito shouted, "Perhaps you should actually start giving a damn about him instead of setting him off when he is highly sensitive!"

That caused Izuku to snap as he lunged towards Kaito who quickly dove out of the way, creating golems out of the concrete embankment who then lunged towards Izuku who shot powerful fireballs at the golems, but weren't all that effective against the rocky figures. The flames dispersed without any effect on the stone. The golems then took another swing at him and he ducked rolling on the ground as he switched to OFA smashing a golem apart, only for it to instantly reform as though it had taken no damage and move to clobber him again in retaliation.

Izuku jumped back twenty feet and reached out with his telekinetic quirk and reached to lift them up, only to find them way too heavy to lift for some reason, despite having lifted things far heavier. He couldn't get them off the ground for some reason and that just aggravated him even more. He couldn't lift these things, when he smashed them they reformed, and they were immune to his fire. It was then that to his shock the white stripes on his red PE uniform instantly jumped off his clothes and began to strangle him. He began to choke and try and wrestle the stripes free from his neck, but his vision began to blacken around the edges.

"IZUKU!" he faintly heard being shouted at him, he thought it was Hiro shouting his name but he couldn't tell because he drifted out of consciousness.

Sometime later he woke up in Recovery Girl's office who was glaring daggers at him. "You sure have been reckless today! I swear sometimes I wonder why I picked you to be my apprentice."

"It wasn't my fault I passed out!" Izuku shouted, feeling woozy as he sat up way too fast.

"Oh really?" Recovery Girl snarked, "We have microphones and cameras all over that facility. You started that fight with your poor choice of words. But dear Nakamoto has apologized for his actions while you were being carried over here by your brother and Dr. Maruki who arrived on the scene right after you passed out. Poor Mr. Nakamoto was so full of panic that he nearly passed out himself. He thought he had killed you in his anger. Not to mention how Hiro was angry with Mr. Nakamoto too. But I think those two have worked things out."

"Glad to hear." Izuku said slowly, as he swung his feet off the bed, taking in his PE uniform, noticing the white stripes were back where they belong, on his uniform and not around his throat.

"You are to head back to your dorm Mr. Midoriya." Recovery Girl said with a stern voice, "You will have plenty of time to train tomorrow and the day after."

"Okay ma'am." Izuku said softly as he made his way to the exit, but when he opened the door he heard a growl directed at him.

"Oh and Midoriya. If you ever get the smart idea to practice your flaming wings by jumping off a building, don't. I saw you heal your clearly broken legs and go about your business as though no one was watching. We are always watching. And if you try that again, I'll break your kneecaps."

"SURE THING RECOVERY GIRL!" Izuku shouted with a bow as he rushed to get as far away from the enraged nurse.