One day in class, Ashido called out to us "Check check! Check it out!" She stretched her arms out, and began to dance, turning from a leap into break dancing.

"Break it down, break it down!"

"Her hobby is dancing, isn't it?" Murmured Aoyama.

"So Ashido's impressive command over her body comes from dancing?" said Deku, watching her. "She throws her whole body into every action."

"I shall never forget how she burned my cape in our first training battle," said Aoyama.

"I wonder if I can do ti," continued Deku.

"Get her to teach you!" Piped up Kaminari.

"Yeah, boyeee!" Ashido tossed her hands in an odd way. "Let's dance!"

"Uh - um - sure, please show me how!" he stammered. She began to give both him and Aoyama lessons.

"Kinda like Sato with his sweets, right?" Kaminari continued. "It's great when your hobby comes in handy for hero stuff! How cool!"

Jirou and Yaoyorozu stood to the sidelines, watching; Yaoyorozu smiled, while Jirou looked rather perplexed.

"Speaking of hobbies," said Kaminari, coming over to them, "what about yours, Jirou?"

"Hey! Knock it off!" She said.

"Your room was like a musical instrument store," he reminisced. "I'd even say it's way more than just a hobby for you!"

"Sheesh! Let's forget about the whole "King of the rooms" thing!"

"Nope! Yours is a pro's room, for sure! I mean seriously -"

And a headphone went flying into his face.

"I said stop!"

"What'd I do?" He asked as she sulked off to her seat.

The bell rang, and class began. Sensei inched into the classroom in his sleeping bag and sat up.

"It's school festival time."

"ANOTHER SLE!" Our class jumped up.

"What about visiting Sri today, Sensei?" Tsu asked.

"Ah. We'll talk about that later."

"School festival! The best SLE ever! Gotta pick what we're gonna do!"

"For real?" Said Kirishima, standing up. "We're doing this despite what's going on in the world?"

"Kirishima, you've changed!" Said Kaminari.

"Wait, he's right! Even though all these villains are out there rampaging?"

"A prudent viewpoint," said Sensei. "But remember that UA consists of more than just the hero course. The Sports Festival is where the hero course has its chance to shine. So the school festival highlights everyone else. This doesn't get the same level of attention, but it's meant to be a fun event for the rest of the school. Not to mention the new dorm system that started with the hero course is a source of stress for many."

"When you put it like that," said Kirishima. "Yeah, it wouldn't be fair to them."

"This won't be like in the past," said Sensei. "In that the festival will be open only to students, staff, and a small group of outsiders. We aren't competing for the spotlight this time around, but each class will still have an exhibition of some kind. Today you'll be deciding what that is."

Iida and Yaoyorozu stepped up to the front of the classroom. "I, Tenya Iida, President of Class A, will be leading this discussion. Let's work together to make this process as smooth as possible! First suggestions! Those with ideas, please raise your hands -"

"ME! ME! ME! ME!" Everyone jumped up.

"Guh - what explosive enthusiasm! We must do this in an orderly fashion!" Said Iida, throwing his hands up to block all of our enthusiasm!

Kaminari jumped up first. "Kaminari!"

"Let's do a maid cafe!"

"Maids, providing a service! Not bad!"

I jumped up as Tsu strung up Mineta to stop his suggestion. Thanks Tsu!

Iida called on me. "Uraraka!"

"A mochi stand!" I called out, just imagining all the sweets we could serve!

"Arm wrestling contest," suggested Kirishima.

"Intense!"

"Haunted house!" Said Hagakure.

"Not sure, but that could be interesting!"

"A crepe stall! Said Sato.

"People could eat as they walk around!"

"A dance!" Said Ashido.

"Flashy!"

"Petting zoo," said Koda.

"Petting zoo…"

"A banquet for disciples of darkness," said Tokoyami.

"Ho ho!"

"My very own sparkling show," said Aoyama.

"Huh!?"

"Open mic comedy?" Said Jirou.

"Not bad. I suggest a Presentation on Hometown History!"

"Deathmatch!" Snarled Bakugou.

"Takoyaki stall," said Shoji.

"Asian Cafe!" Said Hero.

"Martial arts Demo," said Ojiro.

"A study party," suggested Yaoyorozu.

"Hero Quiz show!" Said Deku

"Handmade soba noodle stall?" Todoroki volunteered.

"Frog choir," said Tsu.

"I believe everyone's given a suggestion," said Yaoyorozu at last. "Let's eliminate the unreasonable, unfeasible, or nonspecific ones."

"AH!" Said Aoyama.

"Merciless," said Tokoyami."

"You were never gonna go with mine!" Said Bakugou.

"Get rid of the hometown presentation, too boring!"

"That's for sure."

"That's fine, the other ideas seem fun."

"Yeah."

"Majority rules!" Sighed Iida, looking all down.

"And we're always having study parties!"

Yaoyorozu looked away, blushing. "I was only trying to be helpful"

"Couldn't we combine all the food options into one?"

"Soba and crepes don't exactly go together."

"Like I'm saying, crepes just don't mix with Asian food!"

"Better just do the haunted house, then!"

"Silence, silence!" Yelled Iida.

"So much for maintaining order," sighed Yaoyorozu.

And the bell rang.

"Hoo boy, what a sloppy meeting," said Aizawa. "Better decide by tomorrow morning though. Because otherwise, we're doing a regular class open house."

That evening, me, Deku, Tsu and Kirishima went to our remedial classes and told our classmates we'd be good with whatever they came up with. It was kind of a bummer to be shut out of the planning, but hey, that's the way it was!

Sensei got up in front of us to prepare for our remedial courses, which had been particularly grueling - hard work on top of hard work on top of already hard work! It was hard to ever feel rested.

Sensei of course though was working even harder. He mumbled slowly, "I have some news for the work study students who were at the Shie Hasaiikai raid. More specifically, it's about Eri."

We all looked up, and I tried not to panic. Eri!? Is she ok!?

"She's asked to see 'Deku' and Lemillion."

"Eri said that she wants to see Midoriya?" asked Tsu, putting her finger to her lip.

"Yes. Both Midoriya and Togata. It's the first request she's made since being admitted."

I shared a look with Deku, and back at Tsu and Kirishima. They all shrugged. I guess Eri did get to know Deku best, so it makes sense she'd ask for him. I hoped she was ok. After all she'd been through!

Deku and Togata were set to go visit her the next morning. When we got back to class we learned they'd decided we were doing a live concert with Jirou's instruments so everyone could dance and have fun.

"We must do what we can to ease our classmates' trouble, particularly given our own role in causing said stress!" said Iida while explaining it to us. I could feel that spasm of guilt when he referenced what we all never wanted to think about - but hey, he was right.

"How'd it go with Eri?" I asked Deku before remedial lessons the next day.

"She's feeling kind of down...really having trouble smiling. So I've asked Sensei if she can come to the School Festival!"

"The festival?" said Tsu.

"Yeah! That way she can learn what it means to have fun and laugh again!"

It was a bit of a strange idea...but honestly, I totally thought it could work!