The aftermath of USJ was just as if not more stressful than the event itself.
Once all the teachers had arrived and they had checked that all the students were spik and span, they had called the police, and whilst the merry men in blue were on their way to collect the villains, Izuku, as the one responsible for capturing the villains in the plaza had been made to help apprehend them properly as to hasten the police's job of bringing them all into custody.
Not all that much of an issue with the help of a bunch of pro heroes and the fact that most of the villains were out cold and all of them were heavily restrained by the giant piles of purple goop Izuku had used to capture them.
The problem lay with freeing the villains from their capture, and that alone took a good hour, by the time the villains were all in cuffs and off to the precinct, the green haired boy was about ready to drop on his back and sleep right on the concrete of the training facility.
Of course, he wasn't allowed to, not only was sleeping in such a place wholly inappropriate and not particularly comfortable, the greenette needed to give his report of the whole situation to the police, which took him quite some time since he gave it in as vivid detail as he could, and had to once again explain the abilities of his watch.
Being a police officer, the man that was interrogating him was more than a little suspicious about the watch's origins, but thankfully he didn't pry too much, well, not as far as Izuku was aware of, hopefully there wasn't an open investigation trying to figure out where such powerful technology had come from and just how it had gotten into the hands of a quirkless teenager.
Izuku did get home eventually, but then he had to console his mother who had heard about the event on the news, how it got out so fast, the green haired boy didn't know, but it was on every news station he could find, and the internet was abuzz with information about the event.
Thankfully, the task of convincing her that he was alright had gotten remarkably easier after the boy had shown her the powers he now possessed.
When he finally got into bed, he just thanked his lucky stars that school had been cancelled for the next day, it let him sleep in in a way he hadn't done for almost the last year, deciding he had earned a day off from training.
Once he finally crawled out of bed some time near lunch, the greenette decided that it was too late to start on his training routine without spending the rest of the day on it, and that personally wasn't how he envisioned his day off, sure he spent most of his time at home using his training system to master his own body, or researching the watch and the forms it provided him, and he quite enjoyed doing so, but even he couldn't bounce back from such a stressful situation so quickly.
He did realise that once he graduated, said situations would be a daily thing, and he would definitely need to get used to it, he couldn't make a dent on the current society if he needed to take a day off every time something went a little wonky, but he was hoping that by then he would understand his primary form of defending himself a little better, or have more time to work with.
Regardless, this one time he had allowed himself a little break.
Said break came in the form of hanging out with Ochako, he let her pick this time, since he always defaulted to training, not his fault, he literally spent all his free time doing it, so he was a bit out of touch with where teens usually went to hang out.
She chose going out for Mochi, which she always did, so really the girl had no right to complain about his lack of variety when it came to choosing.
He indulged her though, it wasn't everyday that you watched your favourite hero get torn to shreds right in front of you, luckily thirteen had survived or Izuku would have been stumped as to how to console the girl, regardless, she obviously needed some support, as her usually upbeat attitude was a little dampened that day.
After that he went home and took some notes on the quirks he saw the villains wield the day before, he was under no illusion that he would never see either of them again, and he needed to find a way to counter them before the day where they inevitably faced each other again knocked on his door.
He didn't fully figure it out before bed, teleportation was a real doozy to deal with, and even with his versatility, Izuku couldn't wrap his head around a way to fully nullify the ability, he had considered using XLR8 to hit the villain's physical body before he could react, but that was exactly what Katsuki had done, and it had not but the villain out of commission.
Eventually, the boy decided to go to bed, which put an end to his thankfully rather mundane day.
Unfortunately, the boy couldn't say the same for the day after.
He looked at his homeroom teacher who had come to class anyway despite being the person who had taken the most damage during the incident, and the greenette just knew something stressful was bound to happen before the day was through.
"Good morning students, for today's announcements, I need to inform you that your fight is far from over." Aizawa said casually.
Izuku noted that those were perhaps not the best words to say, the atmosphere in the room got significantly heavier, no doubt due to some small amounts of PTSD that most students had accumulated from the recent events, the only ones that didn't seem moved were those that had fought against the big three villains besides All Might, Izuku chalked it up to Katsuki being a little rattled in the brain after the whole sludge villain incident, Todoroki being usually apathetic and the son of a pro hero, and Kirishima probably being a real brave dude, although he couldn't cross off the fact the boy had seen some things, it was possible.
"As you may know, U.A's sports festival is fast approaching." The man continued, this guy and his theatrics, honestly, he hoped his class would catch on soon before he went death from their surprised yelling.
"Come on! We just had a villain attack. You sure about this?" Mineta questioned fearfully, it seemed almost getting his face disintegrated hadn't done wonders for his confidence, Izuku was slightly apologetic for using the boy as bait, but he hoped it would teach him to focus on his training rather than ogling girls, the diminutive boy needed to do as much as he could due to his physical disadvantages.
"It's necessary to demonstrate that UA's crisis management protocols are sound… fret not, compared to the past years, there'll be five time the police presence." Aizawa reassured, "Anyhow, our sports festival is the greatest opportunity you'll get. It's not an event that can be cancelled over a few villains."
"You sure about that?" Mineta asked, still seemingly concerned.
Izuku turned towards the boy and gave him his best reassuring look, which was probably another trigger for the boy's PTSD since it was the exact same face that Izuku made before he enacted his less than safe plan back at USJ.
"Well, the event is too big just to cancel Mineta, and considering this is one of our three chances to show off in front of the whole of Japan, missing even one can cause serious repercussions to our hero career before we even start."
"As Midoriya put it, a lot of pros will be watching this event, if you're hoping to become a hero, this is an event you can't miss!" Aizawa said finally ending homeroom.
Unfortunately for the teens, classes started straight after, so their excitement over the upcoming festival was left to boil for four whole periods until lunch finally rolled over.
"Man, I'm so freaking pumped for this!" Kirishima cheered. "Showing our stuff here is one big step towards going pro."
"That's true dude, I also think it's a good opportunity to talk to the class about something." Izuku said, walking up to the teacher's podium and clearing his voice for attention. "Okay gang, listen up because I'm saying this once, and if you miss it, then you're going to miss out on a great opportunity. Due to recent events, and those that you are all now aware are coming up, I'm going to start running the after school quirk training club earlier than I planned, I don't know if any of you even read the flyers I put up around school, or are thinking about joining, but I'm making all of you aware of it now, if you want to join meet me after school tomorrow, that is all, I will take questions before or after I've eaten, do not ask me stuff whilst I'm eating or I will glare at you for the whole answer, thanks for listening." With those words Izuku came down from the podium and made his way to the cafeteria.
Realistically speaking, Izuku should have told the class at the end of the day, despite his friendly advice to not ask him during his lunch, it didn't stop six separate people from coming to ask him questions in the middle of his rice.
Ochako and Mina giggled at his expense every time he huffed or rolled his eyes, so at least someone was amused by his suffering.
Suffice to say, Izuku was not a happy camper by the end of his meal.
His mood was only worsened by the mob of people blocking his way out of class.
"What's going on?" Ochako exclaimed as she looked at all the students.
"They're obviously scoping out the competition round face, we survived a villain attack, it makes sense to take a look before the sports festival." Katsuki groused. "No point though, Move aside you bunch of extras."
"Now now Porcupine hair." Izuku soothed with a grin, receiving a growl from the blonde from the nickname, "I'm sure they're just here to check up on fellow classmates, although I suggest you guys move aside, I'm a bit jumpy from the villain attack, and would really appreciate getting home without having to fight my way through the door of my classroom." The greenette added with a serene smile as he loomed over the kids with his newly muscular form, he didn't when it happened, but the boy had sprung up a few inches in the last ten months, and now he was of a respectable height, taller than Katsuki at least, which, much to his delight, definitely annoyed the blonde.
"It's true we came to take a look, but you guys sure are arrogant." A head of purple haired proclaimed as he pushed to the front of the class. "I have to admit, you guys are a little disappointing if the rest of you are like these two. Did you know there are quite a few of us stuck in the general studies course and other tracks, and depending on the results, they may consider giving us one of us a place on the hero course, at the expense of one of you of course." The boy continued. "This is the perfect chance to knock you down a peg, you guys might think you're great because you have strong quirks that are suited for fighting, but don't rule us out just yet, I suggest you don't consider this reconnaissance, this is a declaration of WAR."
Izuku physically held back his blonde rival, who was about ready to make the boy's face match his hair, not to say he didn't want to as well, but he wanted to verbally tear the boy a new one first.
"I see." The greenette said, "but Mr. Panda eyes, did you bring a gauntlet or white glove? Official documents? You want to declare war on us without any of the proper procedures? That's just unbecoming of gentlemen such as us." Izuku smirked, watching the boy as he gave the greenette a deadpan stare.
"Did you just call me panda eyes?" The boy asked numbly.
"Well I don't know your name, you forgot to give it when you came over here and just decide to declare your enmity to twenty people you've never met, but it doesn't matter, you want to come and lump your grievances over the result of the entrance exam onto us? You're probably one of those people who are not happy with their quirks, but I seem to recall beating one of those robots without using anything but my physical abilities, even then, tools were allowed, you could have passed, regardless of your quirk, it's obvious you just didn't want it as much as you seem to think." Izuku's smile never left his face, but the emotion that burnt in his emerald green eyes betrayed his calm facade, "That's fine though, if you get to the final event and we meet, I'll treat you just like an enemy" Izuku then took a step forward, causing the crowd to move away from him slightly, "now kindly step aside, it's been a long day."
"Hey Deku-kun, maybe you should go a little easier on them." Ochako advised, tapping her friend on her shoulder.
She knew that Izuku only ever lost his temper over a few things, the main one being people who were ungrateful for their quirks, and the girl thought that was totally justified, she couldn't imagine living as someone who was quirkless, growing up being bullied like her friend, despite that, she wasn't sure annoying an entire mob of people was a good plan.
Izuku sighed.
"You're lucky Ochako-chan is here, or I'd lose my cool, all things aside, we're all from the same school, and we should all be getting along." The greenette said, extending his hand out to the purple haired boy, "Izuku Midoriya, 1-A's class rep, pleasure to meet you."
The boy just scoffed, and skulked away.
"Urgh, I'm going to have to punch him into being my friend aren't I?" Izuku asked, mostly to himself, honestly, coming here and being a dickish rival type, the greenette already had one of those, he certainly didn't want another one.
Now he had someone else who was probably gunning for him, what was next? Todoroki wanting a piece of him? Knowing his luck, which had really screwed him over at every chance it had, it was probably going to happen.
He should have known having two relaxing days in a row was too much to ask for.