Yoichi Shigaraki, the first user of One for All, leaned back in the chair he had made appear in the dreamscape of One for All. "Alright everyone, emergency meeting. First of all, rollcall. First? Here. Second?" He asked, pulling out from nowhere a paper and a pen and marking himself present.
The second stared at him for a long moment. "Yoichi we literally can't go anywhere."
"Alright, here. Third?"
"I'm standing right here, Yoichi, look at me."
"Good, good. Fourth?"
"Here."
"Don't encourage him!" The second and third shouted, but Hikage Shinomori, the fourth user, just shook his head.
"It's a lot easier to just let him do his thing." He replied, with a defeated sigh, "I'm surprised you guys haven't figured it out already."
"Correct. Fifth?"
"Right here!" Daigoro Banjo said, raising his thumb.
"Sixth?"
En, the sixth user, raised his hand.
"Seventh?"
Nana Shimura, deep in thought, her hands covering the lower part of her face, didn't answer.
"Seventh?"
No reaction.
"Nana!"
"Uh, what? Oh, here. Sorry, I was thinking about something else." She said, the shout finally calling her out of the slump she had been into.
"Alright. Alright. And our new entry. Eighth?" He turned to the golden fog that would eventually form Toshinori Yagi's Vestige, even if right now it only resembled him in the two large spikes of fog on top and the silhouette of a face. Still, the fog nodded.
"Good. Good." Yoichi took a long, deep breath, then chucked both the pen and the paper at the All Might fog, the objects passing through and clattering past him, "What the actual fuck where you thinking?!"
"Oh shit! The boss is angry!" Banjo shouted.
"I'm fucking livid! A Yakuza child?!"
"In his defense, none of us had figured it out." En pointed out.
"In our defense, we are limited in what we know." The Third replied, "It was his job to pick a successor, not ours."
"I mean he did…"
"Yes, he chose the heir of a Yakuza clan!" The second shouted, "How do you even manage to do that by mistake?! Just, what's the likelihood of finding, in a post-Quirk Japan, a Yakuza gang, and one that still matters, that has an heir this age, that happens to want to be a Hero despite being Quirkless, that happens to meet the Number One Hero, happens to try to save a child in front of him, and happens to be dedicated enough to actually deserve One for All?!"
"That's my point, would it even be something you think about?" En pointed his finger toward the Toshinori Fog, "It's not the first thing that comes to mind."
The fourth user nodded, then he glanced at Nana. "Shimura, you have been unusually silent."
"Yeah you are usually very talkative, what's up?" Daigoro asked, finally noticing what he felt was off about the conversation.
"I think Toshinori has been hit in the head one too many times, but maybe this isn't too bad? I mean, we still have to check his full memories, but the kid at least seems honest about being a Hero. His thoughts all align with that."
"Yeah, and he has a lot of other villain and Yakuza friends that also want to be Heroes. What the fuck is wrong with Japan?" The second spat.
"Yeah that's… weird." En nodded, "But let's not be hasty. We should really check his memories to figure out more about Ninth, right?"
"True, true." Nana nodded, "Let's do that right now." She turned toward the whisp of black smoke that had just formed in the vestige realm, the entity that in a – hopefully far off – future would become the Vestige of the Ninth. She touched it.
She blinked.
She frowned.
Her eyes went wide.
"Oh, that's not good…" she muttered.
"What is it?" En asked.
Nana laughed nervously, "Aaaah, uhm, you know guys, maybe we don't need to check the memories of Ninth after all, right? It's a bit of a breach of his privacy, after all."
Yoichi, the second and the third narrowed their eyes, "What did you see?"
"N-Nothing? Definitely nothing problematic and that might make you three just straight up jump All Might's vestige to kill him." She replied, looking conspicuously away from the three oldest Vestiges, "I assure you this is nothing problematic."
"Banjo." En suddenly said, "Stop her."
"Wha…" She started, but Daigoro grabbed her with her Blackwhip, ready to go, and En rushed in for the memories.
He blinked.
He frowned.
His eyes went wide.
"You know, I don't think that's a good sign." The Fourth commented with a defeated sigh.
And then he groaned loudly. "What the fuuuuuck…" He whispered, before turning around, "Uhm, actually, I agree with her, we can wait before checking his memory! Especially you three, you can definitely wait!"
"Yeah, you totally can!" Nana shouted from inside the Blackwhip cocoon Banjo had created.
"Come on, it can't be this bad, let me see…" Shinomori, unnoticed by the others as he slipped past En and Nana, touched it too, and Banjo, curious and already close, imitated him. They both stared at each other for a long moment, Banjo so overwhelmed he dropped Nana entirely, ignoring her shout as she hit the ground, before coughing in their fist.
"You know, I think we should do something else today. Want to watch a movie?" Banjo awkwardly asked "I think I still have the memory of that flick you liked so much..."
"We have watched all those movies a thousand times." The Second deadpanned, marching forward "Alright, step aside."
"Please don't..."
"I said, step aside." He repeated, glaring at the Fifth, who couldn't help but be cowed by the Second and move out of the way, grumbling.
"I hate when he does the death stare…"
"Anyone else wants to get in my way?" The Second asked.
"Just don't say we hadn't told you." En replied with a shrug, "Poor Eighth, this is gonna be such a shitshow…"
"Be my guest." Shinomori said.
"At least don't tell Yoichi…" Nana grumbled.
"Tell me what?" Yoichi, still unsure of how to react, asked, before they all watched as the Second's eyes went wide and he grabbed his face, pinching the bridge of his nose and making the deepest, loudest groan they had ever heard, before just starting to scream.
"He is in a relation with All for One's daughter!" He shouted. Everyone stared him, five pair of eyes glaring daggers at their predecessor and two in utter disbelief.
"You are fucking with me, right?" The Third asked, rushing to the fog, touching it, and then gasping loudly too "What the fuck, All for One is alive?! How?! We crushed his head like a fucking watermelon on a beach during a summer day!"
"Well, Toshinori did…" Nana said with a smug smile, before the Second and Third turned toward her.
"Shut the fuck up Nana, now it's not the time!"
The other vestiges slowly turned toward Yoichi, and followed his gaze as he went from staring at his hands to slowly, painfully turn further toward All Might's golden fog.
"You… You gave… You… My brother… You… Nineth is…"
And then he fainted, frothing at the mouth, which was a rather impressive thing to do considering he was basically a ghost and thus shouldn't have been able to do something like that. The other Vestiges awkwardly looked at each other. "Soooo, who wants to break the news about All for One's other son?" En asked.
"Shotgun not!" Nana shouted.
"Not me."
"Nope!"
"Hell no!"
"No."
"N- Fuck!" Banjo pointed to All Might, "Wait, he never said no! Ahah!"
"I'm fairly sure that for the time being we will have to keep the Eighth far, far away from Yoichi. I don't know if you can murder someone in here, but the First is definitely going to try." Nana said.
"I want to try too, give him here!" The Second shouted, but Daigoro just grabbed him and the Third both with Blackwhip, ignoring their angered cries of murder.
Nana gave the man a thumbs up and grabbed the fog – which apparently she could do, good to know, but also bad news because Yoichi murdering a Vestige now sounded more like a real option – and started dragging it away. "Hopefully if I drag him far enough Yoichi won't just go look for it."
"Big hopes there." En replied, and she scoffed.
"What can I say, I was always pretty confident." She sighed, "So, I guess we will discuss this another day?"
Everyone else nodded, and Nana started walking, the All Might Vestige waving like an oversized flag as she took off and ran in an unspecified direction in the Vestige dimension. Considering the place was technically endless, and she probably had infinite stamina given she was the equivalent of a Force Ghost, she was probably going to arrive fairly far. Hopefully far enough from Yoichi he wouldn't just strangle Eighth.
The Second sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose, finally calming down once he realized there was no hope to bring the hammer of vengeance down on Eighth for his terrible choice. "You know, I think this is a new low for One for All users. I thought Banjo was the low point."
"Hey, fuck you!" The bald man shouted, but he ignored him.
"I mean, you almost lost One for All while having sex…" Shinomori pointed out, making him go bright red.
"A-Anyone could have made that mistake! Don't judge me!"
"I wouldn't for the first time. I will because it happened seven non-consecutive times. How hard is it to learn that shouting 'take it all' when your Quirk can be given away is dumb?"
"Can you stop?" En asked, "I really didn't need the details. I was living in bliss until now."
"But it's such a funny story."
"Anyway, let's… let's just call it a day. Good luck man." He patted the Fifth on the shoulder and walked away, dissolving into fog after a few steps. The other imitated him.
"Hey! Hey! Come back here!" Banjo was very tempted to dissolve too, but he knew that if someone wasn't there when Yoichi woke up he would throw a fit.
"Don't leave me alone with him." He wimpered, sitting down and waiting for the fainted First to wake up with a disgruntled expression. He pointed at the future Vestige, the black fog that was his only companion left, "You have a long way to go if you want us to trust you, kid." He grumbled.
-x-
Izuku blinked, slowly opening his eyes, and stared at the ceiling.
For some reason, he felt like a lot had happened that night, but he had only slept. Weird.
He turned around and went back to sleep. Just six days for the UA results.
-x-
"They are here!" Dabi exclaimed, marching into the bar holding two large envelopes.
"Ah, excellent." All for One nodded, "Both of them, I assume."
"Yes sir." The scarred man dropped on the table the envelopes, the logo of UA on the sigil, he judged by touch. A rather old-style way to send the results in the age of e-mails, but evidently the rat was very old school. "Well, let's see." He decided, opening the letter directed to his 'daughter' first as the two teens entered. She was the one that mattered most for his plans, after all.
They were both on edge, he noticed as he awkwardly tried to open the latter with the impediment of his eyesight being close to non-existent when it came to objects like those. Funny to see, considering neither of them wanted to be Heroes. Then again, he was more than happy that his hard work to tie them to the Yakuza child had worked so well.
Finally, the paper gave way.
A metallic holoprojector fell on the table, and he smiled, thankful his Quirk would allow him to see it at least a bit. So, it wasn't about being old school, it was about presentation. Typical of those glory hounding heroes and-
"I am here-" All Might's voice shouted, his silhouette appearing suddenly.
"Aaah!" All for One shouted back with a surprisingly high-pitch tone, raising his arm and launching an Air Cannon on instinct.
Everyone else shouted immediately after as said Air Cannon, luckily kept at a low power by All for One due to the sudden 'attack' and the knowledge he was indoor, hit the ceiling, making several pieces fall on them, luckily none big enough to hurt them.
"-as a projection!" The holographic video continued, zooming out from All Might's face into him standing on a podium, wearing a suit and still smiling that asinine smile.
"What was that dad?!" Himiko shouted, ignoring All Might.
"Sorry, I was… surprised." All for One replied, using an Emotion Control Quirk to calm himself, "Good. Let's see…" He tapped on the holoprojector, rewinding it back.
"I am here as a projection! Good day to you, miss Himiko Shimura. It's been a nerve-wrecking week, I'm sure!" He kept smiling, bowing slightly, "But it has come to an end! As the new teacher at UA High School, I have been bestowed the honor to inform our students of their results!"
All for One groaned. Of course All Might was at UA. He had figured out the man would want to train his successor, and of course said successor would be at UA, but he had really hoped some miracle would come together to make him be a Shiketsu kid, so that his plans with All Might and his plans with the Green Valley Clan didn't intertwine. No such luck, it seemed.
All Might took a gleeful look, "And therefore, it is my job to inform you that you achieved a good result in the written exam. In addition to that, you totaled a very impressive 45 Villain Points during the Practical Exam." All Might nodded, and Himiko cheered.
All for One nodded. Of course his daughter, even if adoptive, had done well.
"Unfortunately, you did not totalize any Rescue Point, the other measure of evaluation UA had set into place, something we wish you to reflect on! The path of a Hero is one of self-sacrifice, and of putting the life of others before yours."
All for One rolled his non-existing eyes and scoffed. "The path of a Hero is one of self-sacrifice…" He repeated mockingly. Sure, self-sacrifice, call it that, surely most Heroes self-sacrificed a lot when they did all their idiotic posturing for the cameras.
"Nonetheless, with a total of 45, you have proven yourself as a strong and powerful fighter, and what you were missing can certainly be taught. Therefore, it's with great pleasure that I welcome you into the UA Hero course. A mail will arrive later tomorrow, confirming your class of attendance." He smiled again and extended his hand, "Welcome to your hero academia, young woman!"
And with that the hologram disappeared.
"I did it!" Himiko screamed.
"You did it!" Mustard shouted.
"Good, good. Kurogiri, prepare to engage operation Celebrate." All for One ordered, and Kurogiri left the room, "Now, let's check Mustard while we are at it." He added, opening the second letter, "Pity your father isn't here yet."
"I am here as a projection!" All Might shouted again. This time, All for One managed to resist the urge to try and shoot the projection in the face. "Good day to you, mister Masutaro Sako! I'm delivering the results of the UA Entrance Exam this year, given my new role as teacher of this fantastic institution!" He paused, "Your results at the entrance exams proved quite above average. However, with a total of Thirty-Seven Villain Points in the Practical Exam, you did not achieve quite enough to reach the required amount."
"Noooo…" Mustard whimpered.
"However, we weren't just testing you on your skills at facing Villains. Run the video!" He pointed to the screen, and a video of Mustard using his Quirk appeared, starting with him yelling at everyone to get away and putting on his gas mask. The video continued, showing another examinee – Katsuki Bakugo – rush into the gas and fall asleep, and then Mustard dragging him out when the giant robot charged forward them.
"That's how your exam went?!" Himiko asked.
"Uhm…"
"You said there was no problem at all!"
"I mean, no major one?" He replied, and she pointed at the screen that was now showing him dragging Bakugo out of the testing area.
"The video was carefully reviewed, and you can imagine why! Some of our examiners judged your actions reckless, while a few others argued that you handled it like a Hero would, even rescuing someone you accidentally involved in your attack." All Might nodded, "After deliberation, you were awarded sixteen Rescue Points, raising your total to fifty-three! With this amount, you now have enough! As such, I welcome you in the Hero Course of UA High School!" He smiled, extending his hand, "This is the beginning of your Hero Academia."
Mustard blinked. "What…"
"You did it Mustard!" Himiko shouted.
"I did what?! How does it count to save someone if I knocked them out?!"
"Don't know, don't care." Himiko grinned, "We did it! Now we just wait for the good news from Izuku!"
-x-
Izuku stared in disbelief at the hologram. All Might was teaching at UA?!
"With a total of eighteen, however, you would have failed the Practical Exam. However!" He said, before Izuku could even start to cry, "Observe!"
All Might showed various scenes of him facing the robots while giving suggestions to Pony, Jiro and Hiryu, and then the video of him jumping to save Uraraka from the giant robot. "You showed a willingness to cooperate with your peers, even in a situation like this, you worked well with strangers, and then you saved someone from such danger. Young man, there is no way an institution that is training Heroes could not reward those factors, and for this reason the Rescue Points exist!" All Might grinned, "After careful deliberation, you were awarded eighty-one Rescue points! With this, your total is a staggering Ninety-nine! Congratulations on achieving the third highest score in the history of UA's Entrance Exam. With this result, you have qualified as the number one in the exam!"
All Might smiled, an expression that even through the tears rolling on his face Izuku could tell was more than just a façade, but a genuine expression of happiness. "And while we are at it… Pony Tsunotori, Twenty Rescue Points! Hiryu-Rin, Twenty-five! And Kyoka-Jiro, Thirty! Welcome, young Midoriya, to your Hero Academia!"
Izuku bawled, screaming in happiness. He hadn't wasted his chance! It hadn't been stupid to attack the zero pointer! It hadn't been wrong to suggest the others to team up! He had done the right thing!
He was going to be a Hero! He was going to be a Hero!
With shaky hands, he grabbed his phone and wrote a message.
-x-
"You did it boss!" Pony Tsunotori shouted.
-x-
"Good job boss." Kyoka grinned.
-x-
'I did it!' Himiko read, and a smile grew on her face. "He did it!" She shouted.
"Let's fucking gooooo Izukun!" Mustard shouted, reading the same message a moment later.
"Very well. Kurogiri, engage operation Celebrate." All for One nodded, and Kurogiri, who had returned a moment before, opened a portal.
Nothing happened, except for a muffled discussion.
"Why do I have to do this?!" The raspy voice of Tomura Shigaraki asked.
"Because your father said so!" The deep voice of Atshuiro Saiko, also known as Compress, replied.
"There must be a deeper reason!"
"No, he just wants to celebrate. Now, get to it!" The older voice returned, and after a weird sound Tomura was clearly pushed outside, a party hat on his head and a party horn in his mouth as he staggered into the room, Dabi, Himiko and Mustard's eyes all staring at the utterly humiliated man.
'Hooonk' sounded the horn when he tried to sigh.
He grumbled as Himiko snickered and Mustard started to chuckle, while Dabi just bent back in laughter, before Compress walked in the room, carrying a bag of party horns, party hats and a sack of confetti he released in the air with an elegant gesture. "Congratulations!" He shouted, "I knew you could do it son!"
All for One allowed himself a coy smile, "Alright, let's celebrate. Kurogiri, I believe we are missing the cake."
"No sir, I sent our dear guest to take it."
"Ah, a good choice."
-x-
Stain sighed. This was so humiliating, he thought as he made his way through a wall of women buying for some reason only chocolate to the counter, finally able to grab his order.
"Good afternoon, sir, and have a nice day. And congratulations to your children!" The clerk of the pastry shop said, handing him the package carefully, and apparently nonplussed by his appearance. Then again, in a world of Mutants, missing your nose was hardly something worth noting.
"Not my children but thank you." The serial killer replied, before carrying the large cake outside of the store.
Here was the Hero Killer, having to pick up a cake for his students' Fake Heroes School admission party. He watched the black fog form and stepped through the portal without hesitation, entering the bar to find everyone wearing party hats.
Including All for One.
Alright, that was an image he was not going to forget anytime soon. Especially because he did see Dabi pull out his phone and take a picture, and felt the buzzing of his own phone a moment later. Maybe that counted as blackmail material, actually. Not that he was dumb enough to try and blackmail All for One. He had known him for long enough to know that that would end with him painting the closest wall.
He watched the two students he had trained exchange a high five. If anyone asked, that scene hadn't warmed his heart at all.
-x-
Hisashi and Inko both celebrated the result of the exam with a mix of surprise, relief, and pure joy for their son. However, Hisashi couldn't quite shake the feeling that he had to ask.
"So, son, I have a question for you." He said, looking at him, "You said your Quirk came through during the Entrance Exam. Are you sure that's the case?"
"What do you mean dad? I told you, when I first punched a normal robot, nothing happened. I just guess the tension made my latent Quirk emerge. It has happened a couple times."
"Yes, I read about it." He replied, "But are you sure that's what happened?"
Izuku paused, "Dad, what are you implying? Superpower is a weird power to come out from you two, but… I don't know, maybe it's a mutation?"
"Or maybe he is actually using telekinesis to make his punches stronger!" Inko suggested, returning in the room with a serving of katsudon large enough to make Izuku cry again just by the blessing of eating so much. "You know, pushing the energy forward through his fists?"
"I'm not sure that's how telekinesis works, but…" He hesitated, and Izuku raised an eyebrow. There was no way his father could know about One for All, so he was probably having doubts for some…
Other… reason…
'Oh fuck, is dad thinking mom cheated on him?' Izuku wondered. That sounded dumb, he looked a lot like his dad, and he was basically Yo Shindo's younger, freckles-bearing clone. "Dad…"
"Eh, I suppose this is good." His dad decided to say just at the same time, "Quirks are weird, and whether it's a mutation or anything else you can definitely do it now. Maybe it was all the training? In that case, I should give mister Yagi some extra payment for this!"
Izuku sighed in relief. Of course, his dad wouldn't think that. Mom would never do anything like cheating in the first place. "Yes, I'm sure Mister Yagi and Mister… Uh, I never learned his actual name." Izuku frowned. Stendhal's training had given him the combat experience he would have lacked in his own time. Without it, could he have even made those eighteen points? "I'm sure that their training made me strong enough to pass the exam." He said, and that couldn't have been any more true. One had given him the Quirk, the other the training to not freeze.
According to Himiko, her forty-five were enough to pass, but if he didn't get a single Villain Point, his Rescue Points would have also been lower, since no one would have teamed up with him. 'Well no, thinking about it, all of them were going to hang around me even if I was useless…'
Did that count as cheating? Had he cheated at the UA Entrance Exam?
Oh shit, he had cheated at the UA Entrance Exam.
… Was it a problem that he didn't care all that much? I mean, he was a bit unsatisfied, and did wonder how it would have gone if he couldn't push his weight, but after all it wasn't that bad to have received help and helped the others- 'No, bad Izuku, bad. Don't be happy that you passed because of your bodyguards.'
He nodded. He didn't think it was undeserved to get in UA – he had still jumped toward that robot by himself, and he had made his Villain Points fair and square – but he wouldn't let it go to his head. He was going to prove he could be a Hero, no matter what or who he was.
"Oh by the way Izuku, what are your plans for Thursday?" His dad suddenly asked, making him raise an eyebrow.
"Uh… Nothing, why?"
His father raised an eyebrow. "Izuku. What day is today?"
"The twelfth of February? Tuesday?" He said, confused, "Why?"
"What day is it in two days? The number."
"The fourte-" His eyes went wide, "No."
"Yep."
"No."
"It's Valentine's Day!" He smiled, "It's your next big step!"
Any other worry Izuku had was lost completely in the face of this one, but he paused a moment later. "W-Well, it's not really up to me, right? I-if I get any chocolate, that's up to Himiko, right?"
"Oh, right, we are in Japan, not the US!" His father slammed a hand on his forehead, "Damn, your big day is White Day, in a whole month." He paused, "Well, you should at least go out with her on Thursday."
Izuku froze, "Uhm, can I… Can I make our other friends come with us?"
"On a date?"
"I… don't think Himiko really likes dates one to one." Izuku replied, unsure of how much to say. In fact, he was sure she didn't, but he didn't want to make it sound like there was a problem between them. They were good friends, just… he didn't think Himiko saw him as a lot more than that.
N-Not that he did either, of course, she was just a close friend he had to pretend to be in a relation with.
Nothing more.
His father sighed, "Well, I'm not here to tell you how to go with this. You have been doing well, so keep it up." He smiled, but Izuku couldn't really take his mind off.
What where you supposed to do on Valentine's Day?
-x-
"I'm supposed to do what?!" Himiko shouted, covering her mouth a moment later.
"Well, you…" Mustard paused, scarfing down another piece of cake, "Are supposed to give him some chocolate. And don't try to cheat out of it, they have to be Honmei."
"Honmei?"
"Honmei-choco." Mustard nodded, "You… you know what that is right?"
"O-Of course I know what Honmei-choco is. Do you know what it is, though?!"
Himiko looked away, and Mustard sighed, "Alright, listen. The point of Honmei-choco is that it's the extra special one you gift to your significant other. On contrast, people like me get Giri-choco."
"Giri what?"
"The chocolate for male friends and the like." He looked at her, "You must have seen it on Valentine."
She thought back. Her last Valentine in school she had heard about both, thinking about it, but back then she was at her worst when it came to her blood craves, just a week or so before she… Well, did what she did. She hadn't even listened to the explanation back then. "So, I have to just buy Izuku chocolate, right?"
"It has to be good quality, mind you, not the treats that people normally buy for friends." Mustard smiled, "Don't worry, I'm sure that Izuku isn't expecting much from this."
-x-
'It's gonna be Giri, right?' He thought, staring at his phone, 'I mean, there is no way she will actually buy me Honmei, right?'
He bit his lip. He had never received chocolate on Valentine, period. His classmates weren't exactly interested, and he didn't have female friends either. So the idea of finally receiving some was… surprising, to say the least.
So, what should he do? He was supposed to return the gift on White Day, three times over. No problem there, but the question was, what about Valentine?
He had no experience, and he knew Masuchan had no experience either. Birds of a feather with that.
As he parsed over the phone number, he wondered if it was the right idea. His dad had given it to him months ago and he hadn't used it once, but now he really needed advice.
-x-
Konako Haizono, eldest daughter of Maguma Iwata and future right-hand man of the next boss of the Green Valley Clan, grinned as she climbed down the vent. She could smell her prize already, and she grinned as she took the final few steps towards her target. The training her father had given her to defend herself and escape from any tough situation – literally – came surprisingly handy for stuff like this.
Just two more steps…
And her phone rung. She jumped, stunned by the sound, and then the door slammed open, a woman with black hair darting into the room and staring at her. "Oh my god Konako, really?!"
"It's not what it looks like Onode, I swar, I was going to pay!" She shouted, and her friend stared at her, her hands trembling slightly.
"I know there is a long queue for the Honmei, but that is not a good reason to…" She stared at the open vent, "Did you really climb through my vents?! You will bring filth all over the kitchen!"
"… No?"
The girl sighed again, "… Remind me again, why are we friends?"
"Well, it started because some of our ancestors were friends and the Clan keeps the area safe in honor of that, and then…"
"I wasn't asking!" She pinched the bridge of her nose and waved her hand, "Just… get out. Please. I can't do this."
"Do you mind if I answer this call?" She asked, and in response the girl glared at her so fiercely Konako was half sure she would have been dead then and there. "Alright, geez." She muted her phone and walked to the backdoor.
"Wait." A voice called, and when she turned a packet of chocolate flew in her hand, landing gently there, "Next time just ask." Her friend said, "I don't mind keeping one aside for you. Especially if it means you won't sneak through my vents."
"Oh my god Ayumi, thank you so much!" She shouted, hugging her.
"Konako, stop, you'll get ash and dirt in my clothes!" The girl shouted back, but she waited for Konako to let her go gently. "Alright, now get out for real, people will wonder what the heck I am doing."
"Fine." Konako sighed, this time walking out of the door for real, "See you."
The sweet shop owner just waved, and Konako walked out of the back door, pulling out her phone. The missed call was from an unknown number, she noticed. Grumbling, she called back.
"Who is it?" She asked, when the caller picked up.
-x-
"Uhm, hello?" Izuku asked, unsure, "This is Izuku. Hisashi's son."
"Oh shit! Izu! How are you? We haven't heard each other since that dinner!" Konako's voice on the other end of the line seemed friendly, which was a relief, seems he hadn't called at a bad time.
"Y-Yeah, it's been…" 'Not enough.' "A while. Uhm, actually, I was calling to ask something, if you can help…" He shook his head, "A-Actually maybe it was a dumb idea, I just… I didn't know who to ask and you are married, so maybe… but then again maybe I shouldn't have…"
"Izuku, take a deep breath and explain."
"Alright. Alright." He coughed in his fist and took a deep breath, "What should I do on Valentine's Day with my… my girlfriend?"
"Well, I usually fuck."
Izuku half-gasped half shouted incoherently, before falling into stuttering and burning like a furnace, "F-F-F-F-F-…"
"Relaaax, I'm joking." She paused, "Well, not on the part about me fucking, but more about that's what you should do. I mean, if you do, nice for you, but that's a bonus, and you don't need me to tell you when it's appropriate. No, you want to go out on Valentine's Day? Take her out on a nice night out."
"Wh-Where should I take her…"
"A love hotel?" She asked, and Izuku underwent a complete transformation into a burning fire, although he heard her chuckle, "Oh man, you are burning up, aren't you? Relax, cous, I'm joking. Look, what do you want, a nice night out with friends or a private date just the two of you?"
"The former, definitely the former!"
"Booooooring." She sighed, "Boys, they always act tough and then get scared when intimacy can come up. But ugh, whatever. What about dinner out and karaoke? That usually works."
"I-I see, thank you so much!"
"Wait, I should also ask another opinion." She smiled, "One sec."
-x-
Konako put Izuku on hold and quickly composed another number. "Hello?" The voice on the other hand of the line asked.
"Yo, Shindo!" The phone call ended. She stared at the phone for a long moment, before composing the number again, "Did you just hang up on me?!"
"Yes?" He sighed, "What do you want?"
"Izuku needs your advice, and I figured he'd prefer a boy's advice to what to do on Valentine's Day."
"Did you already tell him to fuck?"
"First, eeewww, I don't need to know what you and turtle girl do in your free time." She grinned slyly, "But yes."
"Night out and karaoke?"
"All suggested."
"Then it doesn't sound like I have much more to add."
"As expected, because I am quite awesome at giving romantic advice."
"So did you call me just to make that joke again?"
"… Maybe?"
He hung up again.
Konako chuckled, before clicking on Izuku's call. Of course, she actually wanted Shindo's input, as a male he might have had some extra-opinions to share. She just also licked to make fun of her dear cousin. "Alright, I'm back with some freshly collected male intel. He agrees with the plan."
"Who did you ask?"
"Ah, Shindo."
"Yo?! That's nice of him! So, uh, did he suggest anything else?"
"Yeah he said you should fuck."
The phone call ended, though not before she heard another explosion of stuttered embarrassment and a quick thank you. She chuckled, and started walking away from the store, whistling.
-x-
Toga winced, staring at the long queue in front of the sweets shop she had been told to visit, and Mustard next to her did the same. "Ugh, we are never going to make it inside." He whined, and Toga had to admit she thought the same.
That was until she looked up.
"Say, Mustard, how are you at crawling in a vent?"
-x-
Mustard slowly made his way down from the vent. The idea was really dumb, but somehow it had worked. They were actually in. Also, the vent was surprisingly clean, like someone else had already made it through before them.
But come on, how many people would crawl through a sweets shop vent to steal chocolate?
Toga quickly grabbed the chocolate she needed, already labeled, and he put the money on the table. What? Just because he could steal it didn't mean he would always do that. He was a Villain, not impolite.
They quickly made it out of the store, and a moment later heard a shout from the door they had just closed and ran away from O. Sweet Shop, though they couldn't help but wonder something.
Who the hell was Konako, and why did the sweets shop owner shout her name just now?
(xx)
And we are back with more False Love Academia. For some reason it feels like this chapter took forever to come out despite it taking just a week as usual.
Anyway, a lot of stuff in this one. For those that don't know, all the stuff about how Valentine actually works in Japan is as right as I could make it, down to the distinction of kinds of chocolate. And well, did you really think we would jump straight to UA before getting Izuku through Valentine's Day, the day of love?
The Onode Sweets Shop is a rather obvious reference to the other source of the story. I'll leave it up to you if this is an actual descendant or only me liking to make references.
As for the points, I can give a break down, but basically: Himiko didn't kill any bot with the intention of helping others. Mustard saved someone in danger, even if by his own Quirk, and for his behavior before that. Izuku got his canon sixty (since there isn't any significant difference between the two, he still was very short on points and despite this sacrificed is chances to save Ochaco) and twenty-one for the cooperation effort.
If you are curious, in canon the top 10 of the Entrance exam is actually known, you can look it up on the wiki. It was interesting to study because I wanted to figure out how it worked.
By the way, the two highest scores at the UA Entrance Exams are All Might's (190) and Endeavor's (131).
Also, I now have a discord server (d is co rd . gg/ Ds8GsbkuZZ), so if you like that, come around.