Todoroki Shoto took a deep breath. Being Endeavor's son, he didn't really have to go to the Number Two's on his own, rather he just had to meet up with his dad. However, before that, he had to ask an important question to someone.

"Morning Shoto." Fuyumi said, yawning as she crossed him in the corridor. Shoto nodded. He would have to handle this with tact.

"Fuyumi, I think I want a girlfriend." He said.

Fuyumi, who was about to turn and enter the dining room, whipped her head around and kept going, ending up slamming straight into the doorframe. "Ouch-ch-ch-ch. You what?! Wait, is this why the other night Kurumada said that 'youth is the most blessed time of one's life'?"

"I… guess? I felt weird for the last few days, like I'm constantly on the verge of a heart attack, but it only really happens when I look at her or think about her."

Fuyumi brought her hands to her mouth. "Oh, Shoto..." She hugged him, "Of course I will help you! Leave it to your big sis! Oh, we should invite her for dinner too! It's a pity she won't be taking the Internship with you-"

"Errr, she will actually." Shoto replied.

Fuyumi gasped, then frowned. "Wait, did dad send someone else an Internship request?"

"Yeah. He seemed to want her to come to the agency."

Fuyumi smiled and nodded. "Alright Shoto, good for you! Why don't you go change? Dad is probably up already."

Shoto nodded, realizing he was still in his pajama, and rushed off to change. Fuyumi sighed, opened a nearby closet and grabbed a spray bottle, before walking in the kitchen. Endeavor was already sitting at the table, looking at a diagram.

"Mh… Touch-based freezing seems possible, but I wonder if that would include the fire aspect…"

Fuyumi looked at the diagram, a series of intertwined lines that listed various facets of Shoto and someone else's Quirk, and she sighed.

And then she sprayed her father. "Agh!" He shouted, "What did I do?!"

"Bad dad, no eugenics at the table." She said.

"Come – stop! – on Fuyumi, this is – stop it! - necessary!" Her father shouted as she mercilessly kept dousing him. She paused.

"Why?"

"Well, I need to know if my grandson will be the Number One-" Fuyumi started to uncork the spray bottle and he raised his hand, "And I'd like to avoid another case like Toya. I can offer them suggestions if that happened."

"Suggestions." He nodded, "From you." He nodded again, "On how to raise children…"

"Yeah, of course. I think I did a fairly good job on three children out of four." She uncorked the spray bottle entirely and threw the whole content in his face, then stormed off. "Alright, but I can give him advice on what not to do at least-"

"Dad, you fucked up so badly that your wife is in a hospital, your eldest son burned himself to death, your daughter spray bottles you, your second son hates you and your third son can't figure out the difference between being in love and having a heart attack."

"Is that a no on giving Shoto relationship advice? I was planning to arrange a meeting with the girl's parents-"

"Do that and I will douse you in gasoline next time."

"… You know I'm fire-resistant."

"That's why it's a threat of injury and not of murder!" She said, and then slammed the door behind her back as she stormed into the kitchen.

-x-

"Alright, so, this is the place…" Shinso looked up. The building looked new, but it seemed convincing enough. The insignia "A.F.O. Hero Agency" stood atop the entrance in bold black and red letters, and the entrance was a large glass door. Shinso pushed it forward and looked inside. Behind the desk was a woman with her hair tied back in a short ponytail, who looked at him with a mixture of… contempt and disinterest. Uh, great start?

"Can I help you?" She asked.

"I'm looking for the Pro Hero Shimura Togaraki?"

"Oh, right. Two floors up, it's the big door. You are… Hitoshi Shinso, right?"

"Yeah…"

"I'm Hi- Hime. Nice to meet you, kiddo." She said, though her tone said she didn't find it that nice. Shinso nodded and walked off, up two set of stairs. The first floor he passed was, according to the signs, where the bathroom, showers and changing rooms were. The floor above had a series of smaller offices – for sidekicks, he assumed – and at the end of the corridor a large door. Shinso gulped.

This was it, his first meeting with a Pro as a Intern. He had to make a good impression. This was an exceptional opportunity.

He opened the door. "Uhm, hel-"

"Oh fuck off!" A man with grey hair kept elegantly back, wearing simple glasses and dressed in what looked like a red and black Hero Suit with four-fingered gloves, the thumbs left fingerless, shouted, slamming the controller of his videogame console to the ground, "You fucking cheated!"

"I did not! Mario Kart 29 is a complex art!" The man sitting next to him replied.

"Bullshit! It took my nine controllers to beat my record, I refuse to believe you fucking beat it in two tries."

"Git gud, To-" He froze, staring at the purple-haired teen standing at the door. "Ahem, Mister Togaraki, your guest."

"Wha-" Shimura Togaraki turned around and froze too. "Ah." He quickly turned off the television and slid the pieces of the controller he had thrown to the ground under the couch, before coughing in his fist and standing up, "Hi. I'm Shimura Togaraki."

"Yeah, I figured- I mean, I'm Hitoshi Shinso sir, nice to meet you." He said, extending his hand, Togaraki shaking it after a moment.

For a long moment they just stood there, awkwardly shaking each other's hands and trying desperately to find something else to say. 'Kill me now.' Shinso thought.

-x-

'Kill me now.' Tomura thought. Ok, so, admittedly his Hero Agency plan was made up a bit on the fly. It wasn't his fault! He had an opportunity, and he took it! His much bigger, more successful, and dad-approved plan was absolutely going to work, but this one was… a work in progress.

Step 1: Make up a fake Hero Agency.

Step 2: Get Crust to guarantee for you so you can get a student to said Hero Agency.

Step 3: Convince the kid that being a Villain is awesome.

Step 4: ?

Step 5: Laugh at the pitiful Heroes as society crumbles around them, dance on the grave of that asshole of Izuku Midoriya, and get crowned by dad as the future Overlord of Japan.

Step 6: Force videogames companies to accept his fucking ideas, he had been sending threatening letters for years and they still refused to answer. He would have his official Nintendo girls ero ga-

"Mister Togaraki? Sir?" Shinso's voice snapped him out of his thoughts.

"Ah, sorry. Come, sit down." He said, gesturing to the desk and the two chairs in front of it. He had to use the acting skills Hina had hammered into his head, he supposed. He sat down too, behind it, and did his best smile. He could physically feel Hina's hits with a book as she 'helped' him find a way to make a fake smile that didn't look like he was about to bite someone's face off. "So, Shinso… You like videogames?"

The man on the couch slapped a hand on his face, before sighing and giving a shaky thumbs-up. Cheeky bastard. Just because Compress looked 'not intimidating', 'professional' and 'an actual human being capable of having a human discussion' without the mask, Hina had pretty much forced him to take the role of Tomura's guardian for this charade. Like Kurogiri wasn't perfect already. Did Hina have something against corpses brought back to live a life of subservience to an evil overlord? Prude.

"I-I do…" Shinso admitted, and Tomura nodded.

"Good. Good. And Heroes?"

"Yes! I absolutely want to become a Hero!" The kid replied, before coughing in his fist, "I-I mean, yeah, they are cool…" The teen said, trying to hide his earlier excitement. Compress rolled his eyes.

Tomura hid his grimace behind a fake smile. "Great. Great. Sooooo…" He glanced at Compress and tried to get his help by using his perfectly trained facial expressions to convey the message. 'Compress, what the fuck do I tell him now?' Compress stared at him for a second, then nodded, pulled out a piece of paper, wrote something down and turned the paper around, 'May 4th- Goddammit I didn't ask the date!' Fuck it, Tomura would make it up as he went. "Ahem, so, here at the A.F.O. Hero Agency we handle low-key cases. We are underground Heroes, after all."

"Yeah, I understand." Shinso nodded.

"Good. So, here is how this will work. You will train with me and my sidekicks during the day. I know you are a General Course student, but I expect you to put in the effort to make up the difference between you and a Hero student." 'I need you to be good enough that you can compete with them, after all.' "And then we will go out on patrol at night." That was what Hero did, right? "We will sleep during the morning, of course. Don't worry, we have rooms for that."

Shinso nodded, and Tomura smiled back. "I'm glad to have you on board, Shinso." He said, and he could almost see the relationship points rise.

Eh, maybe real life wasn't so different from a Visual Novel.

-x-

Bakugo had been prepared for a lot of things during his internship. Training with the Number Four, Best Jeanist complimenting his style, him getting a sidekick invitation and proudly refusing, maybe getting romantic advice from someone that wasn't Raccoon Eyes… No that was stupid, he wouldn't do that. Probably. Ugh, fucking hormones. Anyway, he had expected a lot of things.

He hadn't expected to have Asui follow him there. "Where are you going, Asui?" He asked.

"Call me Tsuyu. And I assume where you are, ribbit." The frog girl replied, "Best Jeanist, right?"

"Well yeah, what are you coming for though?"

"I got an internship offer."

"I thought you were going to Selkie's Hero Office." Bakugo said, and Tsuyu nodded.

"That's what she thinks too. I don't want her to spend the whole week worrying." She said laconically.

"What?"

"Nothing. Just you know… a last-minute change." She shrugged, "Let's go, Katsuki."

Bakugo made to say something more explosive to fish for details, but then remembered Raccoon Eyes stern warning. Be nice, Katsuki. Don't growl at any human being you meet, Katsuki. God, Raccoon Eyes sounded like his mother. And father. And therapist. And Deku whenever he thought he was better- Fuck he was getting pissed off. "Alright." He finally replied.

The two marched inside the large Hero Agencies, welcomed by a sidekick with perfectly trimmed hair, a pretty amazing result considering the man's hair was actually made of fire. He directed them to the upper floor, and there they found the Number Four. Best Jeanist was one of the most popular Heroes out there – probably fourth after All Might, Hawks and Miruko – and was definitely one of the best in the business. Bakugo admired the man, even if not as much as All Might. He might have chosen the Internship mostly because he was the highest-ranking Hero that had sent an offer, but it was undeniable he was curious about it.

"So, you are here." The man said, putting down the book he was elegantly reading, "Welcome, Mister Bakugo, Miss Asui. I'm glad you two agreed to intern under me. I believe Mister Bakugo will find I can help smooth out his… rougher edges, and Miss Asui, who like me seems to use long-range restraining, should learn much from my guidance. At the same time I shall impart on you the proper attitude of a Hero."

Bakugo nodded, and the man gestured for them to follow him. He glanced out of curiosity at the desk, to see what book Best Jeanist was reading.

Sometimes, Bakugo forgot that people usually had hobbies. He did too, after all, even if he had put most of them aside. He had started reading love manga thanks to Momo, after all, and was planning to ask for more suggestions too.

It was still surprising to notice what Best Jeanist was reading.

The Hero Delinquent and the Kuudere Heroine Vol.20: School Arc - Internship of Love.

'Wait what the fu-'

-x-

"Shotoooooo!" Endeavor shouted, hugging his son.

"Dad… My ribs…"

"Silence Shoto, I have trained you to handle more than this!"

"The fact I can't deny that is sad." Shoto replied, non-plussed. Endeavor put him down and looked to Uraraka, who was trying really hard to not discuss the elephant in the room regarding the father and son's relationship.

"Welcome to my agency." He said, sounding very insincere.

"Th-Thank you?" She glanced at Shoto, who however promptly looked away. Uh, that was weird. She coughed in her fist and looked at Endeavor, "So, uhm, what's the plan?"

"Shoto and I… and you, of course, are going to take a trip to Hosu. I've been investigating the Hero Killer for a while, and I believe that after his first defeat ever, he will return with a vengeance. Since his strength seems to be the real deal, and we know he has accomplices, I will also be taking Burnin', Kido and Onima." He said.

"Who's Burnin?"

"I'm Burnin!" A girl with green flames for hair shouted, bursting in, "Sup kids! Sup boss!"

"H-Hi!" Uraraka said, immediately straightening her back and bowing rapidly.

"Awww, she's a cutie! Can we keep her boss?" She turned to the girl, "What does your Quirk do?"

"Oh, uhm, I can deny gravity by touching something?"

"Cool! Ohi, Kido, you are out of the team!" Kido, a guy with bandages all over his body, did an overdramatic 'sob' and slumped down. Onima, a fairly normal-looking man with metal horns on his headgear chuckled and patted him softly on the back. "Either way, good to have you girl! Make sure to keep up though!"

"I-I will!" Ochaco nodded.

"And the same goes for you, Shoto!" She added turning to the young Todoroki.

"Naturally."

"Excellent! Shall we go boss?!"

"Yes. Let's go." Endeavor stood up, "This is going to be an important week."

-x-

"Hi." Kendo said, "Weird to meet you here, Yaoyorozu."

"Oh, hi Kendo." Momo blushed, "Yes, I believe this Hero is the one I need. I was considering a different agency, but ultimately I figured learning from this one would be for the best."

"I see." Kendo nodded, "Shall we go in?"

Momo nodded, entering the main hall. "Hello!" The Hero they had come to meet saluted, waving his hand. Gunhead marched forward. "I'm glad you decided to come! I believe you are a hand-to-hand fighter, right Kendo?"

"That's correct." She said, bowing her head.

"And you use tools in combat, right Yaoyorozu?" He asked next.

"Indeed, sir."

"Great! Let's go to work. We are going to make you both sweat, girls, but come the end of the week you will be trained. Gunhead Martial Arts include an armed form for long-range, so you will focus on that, Yaoyorozu."

Yaoyorozu nodded. She had originally planned to go to Uwabami's Hero Agency, but then she had reconsidered. Her talk with Bakugo had showed her the boy seemed to enjoy fighting a lot. To Yaoyorozu, it had never been quite fun to do so, but maybe… well maybe trying to put more effort into it wasn't a bad idea. At least she could try to understand his interests.

And considering her results at the Sports Festival, she also needed to work on her fighting skills anyway.

-x-

Jiro panted as she reached the top of the stairs. "Who… Designed… An office… With giant… Spiral… Staircases…" She managed to say between ragged breaths.

"Ahah, I know right? It was a bit weird early on." The blonde sidekick replied, giving her a thumb up. "Anyway, I'm Lemillion, nice to meet you. And you must be Kyoka Jiro, right?"

"Yes." She nodded, "Uhm, I'm here to-"

"Intern with us. Don't worry, we know. I'll introduce you to Bubble Girl and Centipeder later, but for now you should start with Sir." He said, waving toward the entrance. "You know, you didn't tell me your Hero name yet."

"Oh. It's Earphone Jack."

"Nice, for the years right?"

"And my Quirk."

"Good name then! Easy to remember too. By the way, my actual name is Mirio Togata, and I'm actually a third-year at UA."

Jiro blinked. Uh. That was surprising, "So you aren't a Hero yet?" She asked.

"Well, I do have my Provisional Hero License." He said, showing it off, "In just a few months I will graduate and move to become a sidekick here, but until then, I'm just your senpai."

Jiro nodded. "That's great, senpai. Uhm… What about Sir Nighteye? How is he?"

"Oh, Sir is great. All you have to do is remember to make him laugh, alright? He loves cheer and humor."

"Uh, what happens if I don't make him laugh?"

Lemillion gulped and opened the door. Jiro's eyes went wide as she watched a girl a handful of years older than she was tied to a tickle machine, laughing hysterically under the gaze of a man with striped dark green and yellow hair.

"Oh god I'm sorry I didn't know it was BDSM hour!" She shouted.

The man turned toward her.

And chuckled.

"Good reaction." He said, ignoring the woman still tied and laughing behind him, "I'm Sir Nighteye. And you are Kyoka Jiro, or Earphone Jack. Nice to meet you."

"Uh, we are seriously ignoring her, aren't we?" She asked.

"Oh, you are the straight man." Sir commented, "This is gonna be fun."

Jiro really wished she could be anywhere else right now, but then shook her head. "Uhm, anyway…" She said, trying really hard to not bring up again the tickle machine and the laughing woman, "Errr… What do you do at this agency?"

"Oh, right. I should explain. Currently, we are investigating Yakuza groups."

Yep, she really wished she was anywhere else. Iida was probably having the time of his life right now.

-x-

Iida smiled as he kept up with Slidin'Go. "I have to say, sir, this is quite fun. I don't get to use my Quirk that often in public."

"Ah, Iida, that is exactly why we must let go when we can. If only we could more often…"

Iida nodded. He could see the point. "It would be very convenient, absolutely."

Slidin'Go smiled. "Correct! Now, why don't we stop somewhere for a drink?"

Iida smiled. He was having a really good time on his first day.

-x-

Jiro frowned. Uh, for some reason she had a feeling that thought hadn't led to a proper punchline. She shrugged.

Eh, at least the boss was probably having a good time.

-x-

Izuku looked down from the roof of the building, staring at the ground below. He was wearing his optimized Hero Costume – which Miruko had lauded even as she cheekily called them 'ear buddies' and proceeded to use to make awful 'ear buds' puns.

-x-

"Help!" A woman shouted, as the mugger ran away.

"Oh no, watch out mister mugger, Miruko and Valiant are behind you!" A female voice roared, as a white shadow jumped into action.

"Wha-"

"Oh no he can't hear them, they are ear buddies!" The same female voice concluded quickly before closing the distance and punching him in the face, before grinning as she stood over the unconscious man.

"… That didn't really work." Valiant commented.

"Yeah, I regret it a bit in hindsight."

-x-

She had then dragged him to a building, up an elevator, and now was basically pushing him to the edge. "Is this necessary?" He asked.

"Ohi, Valiant, you better not chicken out on me now." She said, "If you don't jump now, you will be renamed to Chicken Hero: Chicken Chicken Chicken and I will make it my mission to drag you to eat at KFC every single day."

"… Now I'm tempted to not jump, though the name is pretty bad."

She snorted, "You better jump now. Come on kid, take swan dive off the roof and activate your Quirk to land like I showed you."

"… You know, there is something off about that sentence, like it should have been said in a very different context, but I can't quite put my fingers on it."

Miruko rolled her eyes and then promptly kicked lightly Izuku off the edge. He shouted, but then activated One for All and managed to land. "Why?!"

"Oh don't be a pussy, you landed right! And here I thought I'd have to take you to the hospital." She shouted back, "Come on, now jump back up here using your super strength thing!"

"She is going to kill me. I'm going to die because she does something like throwing me off the Tokyo Tower." He muttered.

"Nah kid, I'm gonna kick you off City Tower Hiroshima!" She shouted back.

"You heard that?"

"I have giant rabbit ears!"

A window opened suddenly, and a man with black hair popped his head out, "Will you shut the fuck up!"

"S-Sorry!" Izuku shouted, and then activated One for All to jump back on the roof.

Miruko grinned. "Alright kid, let's go. We jump roof to roof, so you better have some parkour training."

"Errr… not really?"

"Then you better be a fast learner." She replied, and then jumped. Izuku sighed. Could this get any worse? "Come on kid, I think there is a Green Valley Clan base nearby, we are gonna scout it."

Yes. Yes, it could.

-x-

Masutaro and Tooru, walking hand in hand, looked up to the Hero Agency. It was a rather large building, all things considered. It was really lucky this Pro had decided to contact both of them. It was pretty much the best Internship they could hope for, and they were doing it together.

"We go in?" Masutaro asked.

"Yup!" Tooru replied, and they walked in.

The room was somewhat dark, but the masked man behind the desk still pointed them to the room where they had to go. Walking in, they looked at their teacher for the week.

"Hello, and welcome." He said, turning around, spiked air and black mask his distinctive features, along with his ninja suit, "I'm Shinya Kamihara, Edgeshot." The Number Five introduced himself like they wouldn't know who he was, which was nice, Masutaro supposed.

"I-I'm Tooru Hagakure." His girlfriend – oh boy, wasn't that something he still had a hard time wrapping his head around – said. "Invisible Girl."

"And I'm Masutaro Saiko." He bowed, "I go by Fogman."

"Mh." Edgeshot nodded, "I've invited you both here because one of you shows an inclination for sneaking around," He pointed to Tooru, "And the other uses gas in combat, obstructing his opponent's view. At the sports festival, you both managed to get fairly up high, despite the difficulties within your Quirk. Therefore, I intend to help you smooth those issues during this week. It will be a lot of hard work on your part, but if you are willing to put the effort in it, I'm sure you will have something to show when you return from our time together."

Masutaro nodded, and Tooru did the same. "Of course."

"Oh, and one last thing." He added, "I believe the two of you are dating."

"H-How did you know?!" Tooru asked, and Edgeshot looked meaningfully at their still entangled hands. Or well, what looked like Masutaro's hand grasping air awkwardly, but it was clear what was going on. Tooru let go with a yelp, and Masutaro did the same, blushing a bit.

"To be clear, I have no problem with that. I'm not some control maniac. I just ask you don't use the fact you will be sleeping in the rooms next to each other to…" He coughed, looking for the words "… Just not bother to go in different rooms, if you know what I mean."

Masutaro turned a violent shade of red. He couldn't see his girlfriend, but he was sure she had also turned into a – very cute, undoubtably – blushing mess. "W-W-We aren't going t-to do that!" He managed to stutter.

Edgeshot sighed in relief, "Good, nice, great. Alright, we will go training now. Ready?"

"Yes please."

"Let's also pretend we never had this conversation?" Hagakure added.

"Fine by me." Edgeshot replied.

-x-

Stain watched the assembled Villains. Garbage, all of them. He could have slaughtered the whole room without breaking a sweat. With Compress and a few of the better one – and that was already pushing it – off with Tomura for his absurd charade, he was left with mostly the worst of the trash.

"Sir, you know you are monologuing out loud, right?" Emperor Yotsuura asked.

"Yes." Stain replied.

"Oh ok. That's not very nice." The penguin man added, but a look from Stain shut him up.

"We should cull them." Mini-Stain said from his shoulder. Stain did his best to not acknowledge the fact that for some reason the duo was still there.

"No, we should raise them." Mini-Stendhal replied, "They might be weak now, but what they need is guidance. We shall turn them in the army of our rightful crusade against fake heroism."

Stain sighed. "Alright, listen here. We have five days to turn you all from being complete garbage into at least a force that can stand up to someone. Handjob's plan hinges on that, and I've been tasked with training you. I will show you all what it means to fight, and you better do everything I say if you want to win and show Japan its fake Heroes are no shield against true Villains. Is that clear?"

The people in the room nodded, and Stain sighed. Training thugs, this was how far he had fallen.

Raising thugs for a guy named Handjob.

Who was a gamer.

And was pretending to be a Hero.

Stain really wanted to cry right now.

Fucking All for One.

-x-

All for One felt the urge to grin. Someone was suffering because of him. Excellent, he hadn't lost his touch.

'Sir, we are landing in Klayd. Please tie your seatbelts.' The pilot of his private jet said, and All for One smiled as the signal to do that lighted up. On his way there he had spent a couple days in Paris, just to see if this Claire Voyant woman's Quirk was worth stealing. It might have been, but the French Hero was on her guard, so he had just noted it down for the future. And now, he was reaching his destination.

"No." He declared at the sign.

'Fair enough.' The pilot replied.

Ah, it was nice to break the rules. His little brother didn't know what he was missing.

-x-

"… I'm just saying it's not fair to judge him as a Villain just because he might not turn against his family!" Daigoro said.

"His Yakuza family!" The Third replied, "And are you seriously saying that in front of Yoichi?! He literally did that! This Quirk exists because of that!"

"Alright, but to be fair, most of Izuku's family isn't the literal Symbol of Evil." Nana pointed out.

"They are still criminals! You are just defending him because All Might chose him." The second shouted, "If he doesn't take this chance to stop their crimes, you can't seriously say he is a Hero!"

"Not true!"

"Yes true!"

Yoichi sighed. He really wanted a vacation right now. Pity that was a bit difficult on account of being the Vestige of a dead man trapped within a Quirk. He really hoped his big brother was suffering, but for some reason that brought to mind the image of the man relaxing on a private jet with a drink in hand instead.

That bastard.

-x-

All for One grinned again. Oh boy, he was on a roll today.

(XX)

Ah, the Internships. This is gonna be a fun arc. Just to be clear, we won't be jumping as much in the coming chapters, but establishing chapters do be like that.

Yes, Best Jeanist is totally in the BakuTsuyu camp. No, he has no idea if they are interested into each other, he just likes the delinquent/kuudere pairing.

For the rest, we have Shinso meeting the totally not fake pro Hero Shimura Togaraki, Jiro working for an anti-Yakuza Hero, Momo going to Gunhead instead of Uraraka, since she is at Endeavor's agency. Kendo... Well, you might be able to figure out why the change for her. Slidin'Go is totally not trying to recruit Iida in the MLA, Miruko is making terrible jokes and trying to murder Izuku on day one by telling him to take a swan dive off the roof and actually following up on the threat, and Masutaro and Hagakure start their internship with ninja man.

Also AfO arrives in Kleyd.

This will be a perfectly normal training week with no accidents whatsoever.