Aizawa and Izumi's walk to the teacher's lounge was pretty quiet, neither having much to say to the other. The man left her be once he'd escorted her towards room, leaving for his class muttering something about "letting the brats know you're alright"
The greenette nodded, before turning to the door and wlking in, where to her surprise the skinny for of her mentor had been writing something at a desk. Looking up, his eyes shined and he stood immediately. "Ah Midoriya, my girl! I'm glad you're all right! I'm so sorry I wasn't there when you needed me, I only just heard the news a moment ago."
"It's alright All Might." she said quietly, but didn't resist when he came over and wrapped his arms around her. "You're not made, are you?"
"Mad? Of course I'm not mad! Well, I'm mad at young Bakugou but not at you. It doesn't change anything at all." Her mentor reassured, directing her towards one of the couches. "I should let you know though, the other teachers have been informed of what's happened. Other classes saw before we could cover it up."
The greenette let out a flinch, gritting her teeth.
"But we teachers will do everything we can for you!" The skinny blonde assured, giving her a smile which she returned half-heartedly. It was nice they cared, but at the same time a part of her couldn't help feeling annoyed at the idea they might think of her as to weak to deal with things herself. She shook her head though, doubting that would be the case. "So, I assume you're here to try to gather your bearings."
"Yes sir." She nodded, leaning back. "I want to explain to my class but I just… I need to think of what to say first."
"Completely understandable, young Midoriya." He nodded, heading towards his desk. "Let me know if you want any help at all! Or advice, I'll do what I can."
"Thanks All Might." She nodded, smiling softly.
Time moved faster than either expected, as bells rang and Izumi got not closer to an explanation she was satisfied with.
It wasn't HARD to explain, but she couldn't find the right words no matter how hard she tried. All Might occasionally sneaking concerned glances her way certainly didn't do much to help.
Eventually, the final bell rang and she took a deep breathe. She still was so not prepare for this but she wanted to say something before the end of the day so without a word she got up and took off.
She passed a few students, some of him giving her funny looks which she met determinedly with a harsh glare, causing many to back off. It didn't take long at all for her to reach her classroom, where she could hear people shuffling inside.
She heard the tail end of a conversation with her enhanced hearing, iida's concerned voice speaking with someone. "-Hope she's ok."
Wasting no time, she pulled the door open and stepped inside. Much to her relief, the photos had all been removed and put in a stack in the corner, likely for the girl herself to decide what to do with.
"Midoriya!" Kaminari of all people cried out first with relief, and all eyes whipped around, many similar relieved shouts sounding out. As she looked around, she noticed there were only three students missing. Todoroki, Mineta and Bakugou.
"Hey guys." She said quietly, giving them a nervous wave. Deciding to just bite the bullet, she walked towards the front podium. "So… I used to be a boy."
Everyone was quiet, giving her their full attention and respect which she was incredibly thankful for. "I was until I was nine years old, and as I've said before I was quirkless. You all know my quirk involves shape shifting. Maybe it was a result of my powers affecting me, maybe it was always there and I just didn't realize until I had a way to 'test' it but… as time began to pass, I hated staying in my original form more and more. I made my hair longer, my face more round, anything to fix the 'problems'. Izuku is who I used to be, before I got my powers. He is dead. Izumi is who I am now. I hope you can all accept that, and don't think any differently of me."
There was silence for a moment, as everyone processed that before a scraping of chair on floor caught everyone's attention. Uraraka stood up, and walked for a moments before sprinting towards her green haired friend and pulled her into a tight hug. "Of course we don't think any differently! You're our friend , our classmate and nothing else!"
"Yeah! You're still an unstoppable badass!" Kirishima encouraged, mindful not to use his usual encouragements of 'manly'.
"And an awesome person!" Sero and Mina said at the same time, before laiughing. The greenette grinned widely, as tears pricked at her eyes.
"Thanks guys, it really means a lot." She said quietly, thankful for all the words of encouragement she got. No one tried to make her speak before she was ready.
"None of us are going to judge you for something you can't control." Momo assured, and the girl just nodded.
"Thank you." She repeated, before finally letting go of her brown haired friend. "Now, we… we should probably get going."
Everyone voiced their agreements, setting off towards the door. The greenette could of swore she saw Asui looking at her instead of packing for a moment but it passed, and they all ended up going on their way.
"Oh, and guys? Sorry I have to break my promise but I don't think I'll be able to do the whole test thing you guys wanted to do today. Maybe tommorrow but…."
"Understandable. Don't concern yourself over it." Shoji said, Tokoyami nodding beside him.
"Thanks." She nodded, before looking towards Asui. "See you at the station, I guess."
With that, she began walking off. She checked the room beside them but it was empty, meaning Kendou must have been waiting outside. She hurried throughout the halls, moving down the stairs and eventually coming up to the door way where Itsuka was waiting.
"There you are!" She said, hurrying over and hugging her again.
"Hey, you saw me just a few hours ago." The shapeshifter laughed, and Kendou shrugged.
"Hey, can you blame me for worrying?" She asked.
"Eh, not really. So shall we go?"
"Yeah. Have a feeling All Might will want us to come by for a training session later." The red head laughed. "Used my power again for the first time today, actually got it right and it was so weird!"
"Oh?"
"Yeah, just needed to pull down the power a bit. Using like 17% is already put me top of the class! I was expecting to maybe have my strikes get like way stronger though, and instead I got these weird extra energy limbs!" Kendou exclaimed, throwing her arms out.
"Woah, really?!" Midoriya asked, eyes wide. "That sounds so cool! Like this?!"
As she asked, two arms burst out the sides of her chest so that she had four and Kendou looked at her with a sickly smile, as they came up to the train station.
"Yeah, but a little less creepy. No chest bursting."
"Ah."
"Oh, and aren't those the girls from your class by the way?" Kendou questioned, causing Izumi to look back. Indeed, trailing behind Asui seemed to be getting the other girls from her class to follow her.
"Yeah, that's odd. I said I'd meet her at the station." Izumi said, cocking her head. "Wonder why she's getting everyone else together."
"Eh, I doubt it's important." Kendou shrugged, with a small smirk playing on her face. "Not as important as turning around now."
"Huh, what- Oof!" The greenette let out a sudden noise of surprise as she turned, only to walk face first into the station door and causing her sister to laugh at her expense.
"Well done, izu." She teased, opening the door. "And this is how a door actually works."
"Oh, haha." Izumi grumbled, walking inside and heading towards one of the benches where the red head sat beside her. A few moments later, the rest of the 1-A girls walked in and made their way over to the two.
Midoriya didn't say anything aloud, instead just turning to Asui with a questioning look. The frog girl seemed to know instantly what she was wondering, not that it was hard to guess. Kendou crossed her arms, doing her best to look intimidating.
"You're just another girl, as far as any of us are concerned. Ribbit." She started, and Kendou gave her an approving nod, relaxing slightly while the rest of the girls all voiced their own agreements. "And we wanted to make sure you know that. Ribbit. We all wanted to hang out as a group anyways to get to know each other and we'd really love to have you along."
Izumi felt a smile form on her mouth, and she was on her feet in no time.
"I'd love to, on one condition." She said, getting questioning looks from the other girls. "Kendou gets to come along to, not gonna just ditch my sister."
"Fine by me! More the merrier!" Ashido said excitedly, clapping her pink hands together.
"Yeah!" Uraraka agreed enthusiastically. "There's a little town just up the road from here we can spend some time at. There's not much we can do considering this is all kinda sudden but I know they have a little Café!"
"That sounds nice." Kendou spoke up, tilting her head to side. With that, the others all nodded their own agreements and the group set off towards the place.
When Uraraka had said it was small, she hadn't been kidding either. It only had a few general stores with apartments on top. There wasn't all that much around at all.
Still, the café was a nice little place, with outside seating they all took their places at. Yaoyorouzu had took it upon herself to buy them food, being the one person with a debit card on them.
They had all promised to pay her back, but she had declined, saying she wouldn't miss the money. Still, in her mind Izumi knew the creation girl would be getting a quick visit from the Prototype, just to drop off something as repayment before disappearing.
Sure she couldn't be the proper vigilante anymore but what was the point in having a secret identity if she couldn't use it now and again?
They all had a lovely time together, exchanging tales of their childhoods and such. Kendou in particular had gotten a kick out of playing the game 'How much can I reveal about the prototype without compromising her identity' apparently because almost every time she revealed something about the greenette it was something she'd done as the Prototype.
Mainly stuff she'd done that was embarrassing in retrospect.
Still, she'd laughed with everyone else and retaliated just as well, sharing the tale of the time Kendou had accidentally broke her father's own hands in a Rock, Paper, Scissors game.
Even once all their food was downed and gone the group had stayed their just chatting and laughing with one another for hours. It wasn't until Asui got a text on her phone that they all finally started to realize it was time to leave.
"My siblings need me to come home." She had explained to them all. "My Mom and Dad are both stuck at work and I'm the only one of us who knows how to cook. Ribbit."
"Aww." Mina pouted, before shooting them all with a smile. "Well this was super fun anyways!"
"Yeah. I normally don't enjoy big gatherings or large groups of people but this was actually bearable." Jirou said with a light grin on her own. "Wouldn't mind doing this again sometime."
"Yeah! Not to mention helping Midori feel better!" Hagakure said, practically bouncing in her seat. A moment later the shapeshifter felt arms wrapping around her neck and she returned the hug happily, while pulling out her phone. "Oh! We should all trade numbers!"
Everyone agreed, Izumi already anticipating as much and they began swapping numbers, all naming each other. After that, there wasn't much more left for them to do so it was time they had to return to the station.
They all waved and in some cases hugged as they departed from one another, getting on different trains. Kendou and Midoriya were the first to board their train, going to Mustafa together and talking about their day (Aside from the obvious incident.)
Itsuka had been impressed and not at all surprised when she heard about the combat training, finally finding out what they had meant by Bakugou literally pulling the building down on them.
They also laughed, and Itsuka continued to tease her smaller sister over how she had been unable to stop sneaking glances at some of the girls, Asui and Uraraka in particular.
Her defense of "it's not my fault they're so nice and pretty" hadn't worked to stop the teasing, unsurprisingly. Eventually, Kendou had to leave her sister behind on the train leaving Izumi with her thoughts.
She was still mad, even now about the pictures but after all the support she'd received from her friends it was really minor. It had been a roller coaster of a day so far.
A roller coaster going down, combat training with Bakugou, Up, winning that training, down, the pictures, up her friends supporting her and Bakugou getting his just desserts. Hopefully now the school day was over so two was the rollercoaster ride.
She should of realized she would never be that lucky, as she looked out the window into the streets of Musutafu, only to see someone swinging through the air with tendrils exactly the same as she did.
In a costume that looked exactly the same as her prototype costume, only white and blue instead of black and red.
And he was heading straight for her house.