"Well everything seems to be in order with your transfer paperwork," Tenya says, offering Izuku a smile as he slips a substantial wad of forms into a cream coloured folder and places it on the desk in front of him. "You come incredibly highly recommended from your last school, each one of your references couldn't sing your praises more, so I am very much looking forward to having you as a member of my staff."

"Thank you," Izuku says with a smile of his own.

"All that's left to do now is get you started and in your classroom," Tenya finishes.

"Great." Since he woke up this morning Izuku has been nervous but he feels a little more confident now that he's talking to Tenya. No matter what age you are starting at a new school is never easy as Izuku discovered when he first began teaching. When he added the stress of moving house (and to one in a brand new area no less) it's no wonder he's been a little all over the place. Thankfully Tenya seems very straight forward and approachable: the complete opposite of Izuku's last headmaster who was formidable and terrifying and none of the staff ever wanted to go to him with any problems for fear of being called incompetent. Tenya already comes across as much more stable than Enji so if things suddenly get too much for him Izuku should be able to come to him for help. Izuku knows he should be fine though; he is good at what he does, his flat is mostly unpacked and he's done plenty of preparation for his first day of class so he's ready.

"Are you happy with the layout of the school from yesterday's tour?" Tenya asks.

"Yes," Izuku replies. "I'm so sorry I wasn't able to attend the whole training day and meet the rest of the staff. The delivery company could only bring the last of my things yesterday morning and they needed me to be there to sign off on everything."

"It's quite alright," Tenya tells him. "Most members of staff were sorting out their classrooms after the introduction so there wouldn't have been much opportunity for you to actually meet them. There was very little actual training so you didn't miss anything."

"Okay that's good."

"As the school day hasn't officially started yet everyone should be in the staff room so if we head over now I can give you a formal introduction before the day begins," Tenya says. "Would you like to meet the rest of the staff?"

Izuku smiles. "Yes please."

"Perfect." Tenya gets to his feet, taking the folder with Izuku's paperwork with him, and Izuku follows suit, following him out of his office. A blond man sits at a desk just outside the door and Tenya turns to address him. "Kaminari can you file Midoriya's paperwork for me please," he asks handing the blond man the folder, "and hold any calls that come in for me? I'm going to take Midoriya here to meet the rest of the staff."

"Of course sir," the blond man says, fluttering his eyelashes at Tenya. "You know I'll do anything for you."

"Thank you Kaminari, I appreciate it," Tenya says. "Midoriya this is Kaminari, my secretary," he adds, introducing Izuku to the blond. "Kaminari here is my secretary, he makes sure that everything is running smoothly."

"Oh I don't do that much!" the blond jumps in, blushing.

"Don't sell yourself short," Tenya tells him. "You're an integral part of my day and I appreciate everything you do for me."

He smiles, his entire face lighting up. "Thank you sir."

"Now I should return before that call I have with the board of education but can you please find our budget figures for me so that I'm prepared for when they do?" Tenya asks, opening the door out into the corridor.

"Absolutely," the blond says. There's an excitement in his eyes and Izuku can't help but think he either really really likes filing or he has a thing for Tenya. It looks as if the latter is far more accurate as he sighs dramatically once Tenya has gone. "Is it too much to ask for a pat on the head when he praises me like that? Or maybe the promise of a reward when I say I'll do something? He can't tease me like this!"

"I'm sorry?" Izuku asks, browns furrowed in confusion.

The blond sighs again. "Oh it's nothing," he says. "I'm just lamenting how oblivious to every one of my advances our delicious boss is. I mean I dress smartly every day because he said the shirt and tie looked good on me but I don't even think he would notice if I came in dressed in my crop top and lucky shorts!"

"You have lucky shorts?"

The blond laughs. "Everyone has lucky shorts and if you don't you should get some. I'm Denki by the way," he adds holding out his hand for Izuku to shake.

"Izuku Midoriya," he introduces.

Denki smiles warmly at him. "Welcome to our school, you'll love working here. I certainly do." Another dreamy sigh passes his lips as he stares after Tenya. "Also if you need anything at all, come to me and I'll sort you out."

"Thanks," Izuku says, suppressing a grin. The secretary at his last school was a bit of an oddity too (and was also trying to get into bed with the headmaster) with his fashion sense that seemed to be inspired by the mid noughties and his obsession with birds so Izuku can handle Denki being a little odd. Denki seems pretty nice though so hopefully, Izuku thinks as he heads off after Tenya, the rest of the staff will be as well.

The staff room is only a few doors down from Tenya's office so Izuku doesn't have much of a chance to look round before they reach the door, which is fine with him as it means he doesn't have a very long time for the nerves to begin bubbling up again. If he can get through meeting the rest of the staff then he knows he'll be fine with the kids – they're a lot less scary despite there being more of them. Once they reach the door Tenya turns to him. "I believe everyone should be here now," he says after a quick glance at his watch, "so I will go in and give you a formal introduction and then bring you in to meet everyone. Is that alright?"

Izuku nods. "Sure."

"Wonderful." Tenya opens the door to the staff room and a wave of chatter meets Izuku's ears. It quickly dies down as everyone inside realises that Tenya has arrived. "Good morning, it's so nice to see you all back after the holidays," Izuku hears him say. He tries to look around Tenya and into the room but with him standing in the doorway it's impossible for Izuku to see anything other than the back of his suit. "Now, as you will all remember, at the end of last term Mr Yagi left us to take retirement so I would like to introduce you all to our newest member of staff. Mr Midoriya if you would like to come in."

Taking this as his cue Izuku takes a deep breath to dispel the worry trying to chew through his stomach and enters the staff room. He's met with a sea of faces, all staring intently at him and that twisting feeling in his stomach tries to grow. Nerves begin to bubble up inside him again but he pushes them down and smiles brightly, hoping to seem as friendly as possible to make a good impression. "Good morning everyone," he says, "my name is Izuku Midoriya and I look forward to working with all of you."

That wasn't too bad or too scary. Yeah... I can do this, this is fine. Smiling and trying to appear as if he's confident and knows what he's doing Izuku looks around the room, trying to pick out specific features of his new colleagues for when he's told their names so that he can make a valiant attempt to remember them, the nerves finally dissipating. However it's not for long before they're back with a vengeance as his eyes meet a pair of ruby reds that he had assumed he would never see again.

Oh no!

Seeing Katsuki unexpectedly like this, when he'd told himself that it was just a summer thing and finally been able to make his peace with that, changes everything and Izuku isn't sure how to feel about it. He knows that he can't fall to pieces now, for one thing he's going to have to get his head in the game as he's going to have to deal with a classroom full of children shortly not to mention actually having to work with Katsuki. Fixing his smile Izuku tries to ignore Katsuki, who is still staring at him, and listen to what Tenya is saying.

"I trust that you will all make Midoriya feel very welcome and help him settle in to working here," Tenya continues. "I also hope that we all have a good first day and get the term off to a promising start. I have every faith that each of us will do our best to make this term of the year as much of a success as the last one."

The second that Tenya finishes speaking Izuku is mobbed by his new colleagues all telling him their names and wanting to shake his hand, like starving wolves around a deer carcass. It's a lot for Izuku to take in all at once as he tries to commit to memory Momo, Shouto, Ruidiko, Tsuyu and many others. Faces flash before him and Izuku smiles politely at all of them but is very thankful for the chance to breathe as a bell rings overhead and people begin to head to their classrooms. Izuku uses this chance to escape the remaining few colleagues around him and dash over to the coffee machine. Of course he's just going because he would like a cup of coffee as a pick me up before he begins his lessons, it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Katsuki is standing there (looking incredibly sexy in his shirt and tie) and has yet to come over to say anything to him. Although what he would say Izuku has no idea.

"Hi," Izuku says softly as he reaches the coffee machine but keeping his eyes firmly on the mug of coffee in front of him. He can't face looking at Katsuki just yet. It's cowardly, he knows, but he isn't sure what he's going to find on Katsuki's face. When their eyes met a few moments ago Katsuki didn't seem as if he was overly happy to see him and Izuku doesn't imagine that will have changed in the last few minutes.

"Alright Deku," Katsuki says as if it was only yesterday that they last saw each other. "Didn't expect to see you again so soon."

"No," Izuku agrees finally looking up at him. "You might have mentioned where you lived and that you taught here," he adds, finally building up the courage to say it.

"And when exactly was I supposed to do that?" Katsuki asks fixing Izuku with an unimpressed look. "When my tongue was down your throat or up your ass?"

"Kacchan!" Izuku gasps, his cheeks heating up.

"Calm down Deku," Katsuki snaps. "No one's listening and don't call me that here."

Izuku frowns. "Why not?"

"Do you want to explain to everyone here how we met?" Katsuki asks with a raised eyebrow.

"It was only in a coffee shop," Izuku mumbles. "It's not that sordid."

"And what about all the shit that happened afterwards?" Katsuki presses. "This lot are devious when it comes to gossip; they'll push and push until they get it out of you if you mention that we already know each other."

Izuku think about this for a moment. "Okay, well no then." He doesn't really fancy the idea of his new colleagues finding out that he slept with one of them only a few hours after meeting him and continued to sleep with him for the rest of the week.

"Why didn't you tell me where you were moving to?" Katsuki asks.

Sighing Izuku shakes his head. "I don't know," he says. "I guess because I didn't expect to see you again after we parted. I didn't think it was relevant and besides you never asked."

"Well there you go," Katsuki says. "I didn't tell you for the same reason: it wasn't relevant and you never asked."

Silence falls between them, masked by the chatter of the others around them, as Izuku works up the courage to say what he so desperately wants to, what he needs to otherwise he'll start overthinking everything and go crazy. "So what are we going to do now?" he asks before he loses both his nerve and his chance.

"What do you mean?" Katsuki asks offering Izuku nothing more than a shrug.

"Well..." Izuku begins tentatively, "when we parted ways we said that we'd leave things back in Takenohama but, now that I'm here, surely things have changed."

"No they haven't," Katsuki says, his face closed off and completely unreadable.

Izuku blinks. "What?"

"We agreed it was a holiday fling and it's going to stay that way," Katsuki snaps. "Nothing's changed so don't get it into your head that it has."

"But..." Izuku begins, a little taken aback.

"We're done here," Katsuki tells him. "We're not talking about this anymore, alright." And with that he leaves Izuku by the coffee machine feeling confused and more than a little hurt.

A second bell rings overhead so Izuku tries his best to push the conversation out of his mind and think about his classes. Maybe he was stupid to think that meeting Katsuki again would have changed their circumstances. Realistically he barely knows Katsuki – he only saw what Katsuki wanted him to while he was on holiday. He should try his best to forget the whole fiasco and move on. For one thing he has lessons that he needs to teach and a job to do, just because Izuku fell hard for him in the summer doesn't mean that Katsuki felt the same or thought it was anything more than just sex. Whatever his feelings are Izuku's not going to find it out unless Katsuki wants him to and he clearly doesn't want him to so Izuku should move on and try to get over it.


The morning of Izuku's first day goes by in a blur. It's quite a posh school so the children are all very well behaved, not to mention they're quite young and Izuku has always had more luck with younger children than older ones. By the time it gets to lunch Izuku is ready for a break after trying to commit about a hundred different names to memory. The staff room is quite full and at first Izuku doesn't know where to sit, trying to decide whether he wants to talk to his new colleagues or whether he wants to be by himself and reset from his hectic morning. He decides on the latter and finds a quiet table at the back of the room where he can be alone and begins to eat, thankful that he has the chance to breathe (and that Katsuki hasn't emerged yet).

"Hi," a high voice says and Izuku looks up to see a woman with soft looking cheeks and a brown bob, smiling at him.

"Hey," Izuku says.

"Do you mind if I sit with you?" the woman asks.

"Yeah sure," Izuku says smiling at her. Even though he wanted to be alone at first a one on one conversation is so much easier than when he was mobbed this morning. The woman is very pretty with her huge brown eyes and her bright smile and she gives off an air of kindness: the children probably adore her. Izuku knows he was probably introduced to her at some point this morning but he can't for the life of him remember her name. "Yaoyorozu?" he asks.

"Kirishima," she corrects. "Although everyone calls me Ochako as my husband Eijirou works here too."

"He teaches geography?" Izuku asks, trying his best to remember. Was he the guy with the red and white hair? There was so many names.

Ochako laughs. "P.E.," she says. "I love my Eiji but he's as dumb as a rock, not good at academics at all but he's super fit and great at motivating people. He has a heart of gold and an ass you can bounce a coin off."

"Oh?" Not something Izuku expected but he smiles politely all the same.

"Watch this." With a cheeky grin Ochako takes a can of coke out of her bag and a pink plastic cup. She opens the can and pours the contents into the cup, still grinning. "Eiji!" she calls across the room. From over by the door a huge, thick set man with flaming red hair, dressed in a tracksuit comes over to their table. Ochako holds the empty can up to him. "Can you crush this for me so I can recycle it please?" she asks in a sweet voice, batting her eyelashes at him.

"Sure thing Princess," Eijirou says. He unzips his tracksuit top, lifts up his t-shirt and crushes the can between his huge pecs. Izuku stares, eye wide with awe, as Eijirou hands the flattened can back to Ochako. "Here you go."

"Thank you baby," she says smiling at him as he redresses himself before he trots off, back to the group of people he had been talking to previously. "Isn't he amazing?" she says turning back to Izuku.

"Yeah," Izuku says politely. He's not sure what to make of what he's just witnessed, having never seen anything like it before, but he's trying to make friends here.

"So have you met everyone?" Ochako asks.

Izuku nods. "I think so, not that I'm necessarily going to remember everyone's name right off the bat but I think everyone did get the chance to say hi this morning."

"I saw you having quite an intense talk with Bakugou this morning," Ochako says. "What was that all about?"

"Nothing," Izuku lies, his ears heating up. If Katsuki doesn't want to talk about it then there's no point telling anyone. He can keep this to himself, no problem.

Ochako giggles. "Has anyone ever told you that you're a terrible liar?"

"Once or twice," Izuku mumbles, cheeks flushing. Okay so apparently he can't keep it to himself unless he thinks of something believable very quickly.

"So what's the story there?" Ochako pushes. "Is he pestering you already? He's such a jerk sometimes," she adds with a frown.

"No, he's fine," Izuku says.

"So why did you both look so serious?"

Izuku sighs. Ochako clearly isn't going to let it drop and she seems nice enough so there's no harm in confiding in her. "If I tell you then you can't say anything to anyone else." Katsuki was right about the others getting information out of him if they know something is going on: she's managed to wear him down and get him to spill everything with hardly any fight at all, it must be her sweet demeanour. Izuku is going to have to work on that if there's a chance that anyone else is going to ask him about that conversation.

She mimes zipping her lips closed. "Not a word, I promise," she says.

"Okay so before I moved here he went on holiday to where I was previously living and we met in a coffee shop," Izuku tells her in a low voice.

Ochako gasps, completely enthralled. "What happened?"

"We hung out," Izuku says.

"Oh come on there must have been more than just hanging out for the two of you to be looking so serious this morning." Ochako says, a knowing grin on her lips.

"Okay, the thing is... well we... we had a bit of a fling while he was there," Izuku hedges, deciding to put it delicately.

"A holiday romance!" Ochako squeals, her eyes sparkling.

"We said that it would just be a holiday thing as we wouldn't see each other again but then I moved here," Izuku finishes, "and now we work at the same school."

"So now that you're here are you planning on carrying on where you left off?" Ochako asks, already invested.

"No," Izuku replies.

She seems to deflate at that. "Oh, why not?"

"He's not interested," Izuku tells her. "He said that it was just supposed to be a holiday fling, nothing more."

"Okay but how do you feel about it?" she asks. "This isn't all about what he wants, you know."

Izuku shrugs. "If he doesn't want to then that's fine, I'm not going to force the issue. Now that we work together I just want to be able to get on and do my job without any trouble. I'll get over it, I was just surprised when I saw him this morning that's all."

"Shame," Ochako says with a sight. "He'd probably be a lot nicer if he had a cute little boyfriend like you."

Izuku chuckles. "After this morning I can believe that, he's so grumpy."

"That he is."

"Maybe I've dodged a bullet there if he's like that all the time."

"Guess we'll just have to see how things unfold," Ochako says with a smile and a worrying look comes over her face. Izuku really hopes he's wrong but it's the look of someone who is going to be meddling in someone else's love life. Yeah because that's going to end well...