Sexual Education and The Aftermath

by sarenelsoria

Every two years students from first and second year are gathered in the e teachers then explain about sexual education and give e reason its done every other year is that it is by far the most disruptive lesson ever taught at udents struggle with their orientation teachers struggle to maintain control but everything changes when its Class 1A's turn

4. Chapter 4

Chapter Four

An alarm woke him the next morning and he groaned, Iida was still asleep, clearly he'd been exhausted from the night before. He turned off the alarm and stared at the sleeping man, he couldn't believe he'd spent the night with a man. He was disgusting, disgusting, disgusting! Iida had needed someone to be with him and for once he'd been less of a coward than the rest of his class. Of course he was also stuck to Iida and that would be embarrassing. That showed him to comfort someone, he managed to turn off Iida's alarm. He doubted Iida would wake up now, he knew how exhausting crying like that could be. He hadn't realized how badly his words would hurt Iida, he was just like his fathers and brothers, a perverted man who hurt others for fun. His family had made him into them, he was depraved like they were. He sobbed as well breaking down again, he was pathetic, and he was so pathetic. He had to pull himself together, who cared what people said, his classmates would be in trouble, that couldn't happen.

Kaminari would tease him the least about this, he decided. He went to Kirishima's room and banged on the door until Kaminari opened it and stared at him.

"I need you to wake up the other students, if you mention this to anyone it wouldn't be manly."

"Dude, what the fuck?" Kaminari demanded and Mineta sighed.

"I don't owe you an explanation, he got stuck to my quirk, I did what you all said I should have done and I apologized. He wasn't exactly in the best state of mind so I comforted him, if you say anything about this...Just don't tell anyone about this, its embarrassing for both of us."

"Can you like free yourself man?" Kaminari asked.

"I can pluck off the balls but it will take time, you need to wake our class. If you have the time to explain to Thirteen what happened, you should. I have a feeling that I'm going to get an earful from them as well." He said and Kaminari stared at him in shock. "I'm going back to Iida's room." He added and left pulling Iida with him. He knew he looked absolutely ridiculous, he was lucky that no one else had been responsible enough to set their alarm. He crawled back into Iida's bed and started removing his balls, it was a slow process, but he finally managed to free himself and frowned at Iida's chest, which was now covered in his balls, which would now stick to everything. He put down a layer of tissues on top of them to prevent Iida from sticking to the bed, or wall or him, before adding more layers until the patch of sticky balls was covered. He then settled with Iida's legs on his lap and sat against a wall. He remembered how panicked he'd been that first time, that first time he'd been as badly hurt as Iida had been, it got easier with each time, that sort of pain. Still it always hurt so deeply, to the point where he lived with it now, where he woke being unable to breath because of the pain. Sometimes it was so bad that all he wanted to do was curl up into a ball and cry and never come out.

He heard someone knocking on the door. "Its unlocked." Mineta said and Thirteen came into the room and stared at Iida and Mineta.

"Kaminari told me a very disturbing reason as to why you aren't in lessons today. Did you call Iida a pervert, abhorrent, disgusting and gay?" Ze asked.

"Yes I did, I didn't realize what I was saying was wrong, until after I said it alright?" Mineta said. "I didn't even get why they were so upset, until I heard Iida and realized how badly I hurt him."

"You do realize that you hurt him badly with your words, that it's not okay to say those sorts of things about people?" Ze asked Mineta who stared at her.

"I do now, I was taught to act a certain way around others, I didn't get why we acted one way at school and another way at home."

"You acted differently at home?"

"If I wasn't how I was supposed to be, I'd be corrected." Mineta said and Ze looked at him.

"And what form would these corrections take?"

"My father would beat me, my brothers would insult and beat me, and then my father would insult me some more. My mothers and sisters sometimes joined in, until I learned my lesson and corrected my behavior." Mineta said and Ze looked shocked.

"Do you know that what your family did isn't normal?"

"I know not everyone is beaten like I was, from the way the others talk. I've never been around kids my age all that much, my father didn't encourage us to socialize." Mineta said.

"Because the way he was raising you, would have gotten him arrested. How bad were the beatings?" Ze asked and Mineta shrugged.

"It depended on how badly I needed to be corrected, once I played dress up with one of my sisters, I nearly died." Mineta said and Ze stared at him. "It wasn't her fault, she encouraged me, but I put her princess dress on, that was not to be tolerated, I was three. I never wore a dress again, until yesterday and then they started pushing me, I pushed back."

"Do you want to wear dresses?" Ze asked him and he started to cry. "Its alright, if you want to wear a dress you can wear a dress, that's why I have them in my closet." Ze said and he cried harder, as ze held him. "Its okay, you were brave to tell me what you did." Ze said as he sobbed, Iida woke and started sobbing as well and ze held out her hands. "Its okay kids, it will be okay, you can talk to me anytime you want. Though I think its best that Mineta sees me for his sessions for the next week, if you want to talk too Iida you can. I am here for both of you, for all my students, its okay, just breathe." She said and held both of them to her.

"I'm gonna stick." Mineta protested.

"Then stick, you can unstick yourself from me after you stop crying." Ze said and held them, they both cried for a long time. "Now do you want to talk alone Mineta, do you mind if Iida's here." She asked after they had been quiet for some time.

"Just don't push me, I can't be pushed now." Mineta said and Ze nodded. "I don't mind, Iida you won't tell."

"I won't if you won't." Iida said. "I need to talk too, I don't think I'd be able to train today."

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said what I did." Mineta said and wiped his eyes.

"Its alright, I did insult you at was clearly a vulnerable moment." Iida said. "I don't deny that your words hurt me, but I would not be a hero if I could not recover from being hurt." He added and Mineta nodded.

"Alright, so what do you want to know?" He asked Thirteen.

"Who you are, who you are, not who your family corrected you to be. I want you to act like who you are and the others will too, I want to know the real you."

"I don't even know who that is, I know I'm perverted, that I like boys." Mineta said and they both stared at him in shock.

"That's not perverted, that's who you're attracted to Mineta." Ze said. "Looking at people and touching them without consent is perverted, liking boys isn't perverted."

"Its not?" Mineta asked.

"You like who you like Mineta, it can't be changed or beaten out of you, its part of who you are." Thirteen said. "What else?"

"Sometimes I don't feel right, I've wanted to cut myself down there, it doesn't feel right." Mineta said.

"What's wrong about it?"

"Everything I don't know if I wish I was a girl or not, but it feels wrong." Mineta said. "When I touch myself I feel wrong."

"How do you feel wrong Mineta?"

"I don't know!" Mineta cried. "I just do."

"I see would you like ze pronouns like me? Or would you prefer she?" Ze asked and he cried. "She looked so pretty in that kimono, or ze looked so pretty in that kimono? Which do you prefer?" Ze asked and Mineta continued to sob.

"At least I know I'm a man and I'm gay, its just everyone knowing that's making me upset. Mineta its okay to not know who you are, that is what we are here to discover together. Who we are as heroes and as people. You aren't any less than you were, if you feel you aren't a man. You shouldn't be hurting yourself though." Iida said and Mineta continued to sob, clutching onto Thirteen. "You were very kind to help me last night, I was not in the right frame of mind, can I help you in some way?"

"Hug me?" Mineta asked and Iida did, Mineta cried until he couldn't cry anymore. "I don't know which one I like better, Ze for now and I'll see how I feel."

"Alright, we will use ze when we talk about you for now, you can change your pronouns at any time you want." Thirteen said and smiled at Mineta. "You can be anyone you want, no one will comment on it, or they will have to talk to me." Ze said. "Do you want to wear that dress, just in my office? Iida won't judge you will you Iida?"

"No I won't if Mineta wants to wear a dress, ze can, and it is no one's business but ze's how ze dresses." Iida said and Thirteen nodded.

"Exactly, come on kids, lets go to my office, and if you want to wear something in my closet you can and I'll make you some tea." Ze said and they both nodded.

"I should look appropriate, my uniform is dirty and wrinkled, and this is unacceptable to me."

"Everyone is in classes Iida, if it really bothers you, you can change." Thirteen said. "I'm going with Mineta to my office, you can go to my office as well as you like, or if you would rather stay here, you can do that too."

"I will join you after I have made myself presentable." Iida said and Thirteen nodded.

"Do you wish to take a shower and change first as well Mineta?" Thirteen asked and Mineta nodded. "All right then, sometimes feeling clean helps, but don't clean your skin too hard Mineta and don't hurt yourself."

"I haven't done it in a while, my Father caught me doing it once..." Mineta shuddered. "I don't do it, it doesn't mean that I don't want to, I can't stop wanting to."

"Maybe if you live like you are meant to live, you won't feel that way anymore. I don't want to push anything on you, you do what you feel comfortable with Mineta." Thirteen said. "As long as you don't make others uncomfortable, you have the right to be who you are." Ze said and smiled at Mineta. "I'll see you in my office."

"Alright." Mineta said and walked to zis room to get zis body wash and uniform. Ze then walked to the showers and got undressed, washing zis body and drying off before putting on zis uniform and waiting for Iida to be done. Most people took longer in the shower than Mineta, they had to wash their hair and that seemed to take a very long time. He waited until Iida came out of the shower and got dressed. "Are you ready?" Mineta asked and Iida nodded.

"I believe that I am now presentable, we may leave." Iida said and Mineta nodded, they walked together back to the office.

"I brought this back." Mineta said holding out the kimono. "I didn't know how to wash it."

"You wash it like other clothes, you can keep that if you want, I can always get a new kimono, if it makes you happy keep it." Thirteen said and Mineta nodded.

"Thank you." He said and walked into the closet, pulling on the dress ze had felt beautiful in the day before. Ze took a deep breath, before he walked out of the closet and smiled shyly at Iida and Thirteen. Iida stared at him in surprise.

"I think you look different in that Mineta, I don't know why, but it's a good different." Iida said. "You look more vibrant and confident."

"Thank you." Mineta said and settled zimself in the chair. "I don't really want to talk about my family, or how they corrected me, can you respect that?"

"I can, however I will be calling social services and getting your brothers and sisters removed from that house." Thirteen said and Mineta nodded.

"I guess that was what Father was afraid of, will you help my mothers too, and they had to take more medicine." He said.

"Medicine?" Thirteen asked.

"We were all given medicine by Father, medicine to make us sleep at night, the girls got more medicine though. I think he was drugging us, so he could more easily control us." Mineta said and Thirteen nodded.

"I see, I will add that to the report, is there anything else I should know."

"There's a reason I've never touched anyone, I think of anyone in the class I have the most sexual experience." Mineta said and Thirteen stared at him in shock.

"Did you want to be touched like that?"

"It was something I had to do, or Father would hurt me and he would hurt my brothers and sisters, we all had to do it. Father liked to watch us have sex with our sisters when we were old enough. I didn't want to do it, but I had to, or else Father would beat me." Mineta said and shuddered. "They were nice to me, as I did it, so nice, even though they didn't want it any more than I did. I think they knew I didn't want to do it, not like some of my brothers who loved doing it. I signed up for the program to get out of that house, I told everyone that I wanted to be a hero, because I wanted lots of girls, but the truth is I wanted to be a hero to get out of that house." He shuddered again and took several breaths, trying to keep his breathing even.

"You will never have to go back there again, your siblings will be placed in protective custody and you can either live at the school or go home with one of your classmates during the summer and winter breaks." Ze said and laid a gentle hand on Mineta. "You never have to go back there again."

"Thank you." Mineta said. "Do I have to talk about it?"

"No, but what do you like to do?"

"I like drawing, I have some sketch books that I draw what I like in, I keep those secret, the other sketch books I put in public but not my secret sketchbooks."

"What are in your secret sketchbooks?"

"People I see on the street, mountains, city skylines, whatever I like. The sketchbooks I keep out are less...They are the sort of sketchbooks my father would expect me to draw." Ze said and Thirteen nodded.

"Do you want to keep them, or do you want to burn them? Sometimes after working through things and discovering what they are and aren't, some students find it cleansing to burn parts of their past." Thirteen said.

"I'd like to burn them, I don't want to look at them again." Mineta said and ze nodded.

"Are they at your Father's house?" Thirteen asked and Mineta nodded. "I'll ask the police to get them for you, though they may have to look at them."

"I had to draw them, otherwise Father wouldn't let me draw." Mineta said.

"I see, these sketchbooks, are they of other students?"

"No not of them, I can imagine people without having to...I wouldn't do that. I'd prefer it if you didn't look, but if you feel it will help do so." Mineta said.

"Will you share your other sketchbooks with me?" Thirteen asked and Mineta nodded. "Would you like to draw something now?" Ze asked and Mineta nodded again, Thirteen got out a sketchbook and a large container of art supplies. "Draw whatever you like, in whatever medium you like, this paper is watercolor paper, so it can get wet. Have you used watercolor before?"

"In school, sometimes in art class we'd paint with water colors, I always liked that." Mineta said and smiled. "I'll draw my mountain." He said.

"These are watercolor pencils, these are regular colored pencils and these are paints, both acrylic and watercolor." Ze said and smiled. "I like working with watercolor pencil best, the way the colors change when dipped in water is pleasing to me somehow."

"I'll try it then, thank you." Mineta said.

"Would you like to draw as well Iida?"

"I'm not particularly good at drawing, I'm mostly concentrating on not panicking." Iida replied.

"Drawing distracts you from your troubles, or at least its always distracted me." Mineta said and opened the sketchbook to a blank page, he drew the mountain first and the trees on it, knowing where each one belonged. He drew the shrine that went on top of the mountain and the space where the sun should be, before he drew each of the trees. He then went back over his drawing with the watercolor pencil, coloring it in and shading each of the trees just so. It took up most of the morning before he was done and sat back looking at his drawing.

"That is very beautiful and lifelike, I don't think either of you had breakfast, I'll make a call to Lunch Rush and we can eat in here together." She said and both boys nodded. "You don't have to talk if you don't want to." She added.

"I'd rather not." Mineta said and smiled softly, before he started drawing Iida who sat across from him.

"It takes you so long to add tiny little details." Iida said and Mineta smiled.

"Its the little details that matter, the way your hair parts, just so is hard to draw, so is your expression, you always are so serious and its hard to convey that in a drawing." Mineta said, ze continued to draw, focusing on zis work until he had finished the sketch and used watercolors to fill it in.

"How did you get to be so talented at drawing?"

"Its always something I've liked to do." Mineta said and smiled. "Sometimes I draw clothing too. I created the design for my hero costume, very little clothing actually would have worked with my quirk in the middle of a conflict." Ze said and shrugged. Someone entered with several sandwiches, which Thirteen took from them.

"Thank you, you can return to the kitchen now." She said and the person nodded.

"You're welcome." They said and left. Mineta waited to feel panic and realized that ze didn't feel any, somehow for the first time in as long as he could remember ze felt calm.

Mineta took a sandwich and ate it, as he drew the basket the sandwiches had come in, he'd always liked the shape of picnic baskets, the way they curved upwards and the handle stood up just so. After ze was finished with the basket, ze added a handle and a blanket, as well as small blades of glass. He then used the watercolor pencil to color in the drawing.

"That's a very good drawing of a basket, what are you going to draw now?" Thirteen asked and Mineta frowned, what did ze want to draw next? Ze considered a moment, before ze drew himself from memory. It was a picture of zim in zis hero costume, ze then drew a picture of zim wearing the kimono, trying to make the way the fabric flowed just right was a challenge. Ze ate another sandwich while ze looked at the picture, ze liked the way it looked, the way the kimono flowed on him. Next Ze drew a picture of zim wearing the blue dress ze had on, he couldn't get the color quite right, but he liked the way it looked on zim.

"You are very talented." Iida said and Mineta smiled.

"Thank you, who should I draw next?"

"Ashido would be hardest, but so would Tokoyami."

"I've actually drawn them before in other sketchbooks, admittedly getting the feathers just right was a challenge. Ashido's eyes and hair were the most challenging for me, when I drew her. I like drawing Asui, she's fun to draw." He said and smiled. "I'll draw her in her hero costume, on a Lilly pad." He added and Iida laughed.

"I doubt she'd fit on a lily pad."

"You never know, there might be a garden type quirk that grows...I'm going to draw lily pad girl." Mineta said happily, before ze started drawing, ze made a girl with green skin and pink hair that looked vaguely like a water lily, she was standing on a water lily, her finger trailing into the water, a lily pad growing out from her hand, as hundreds of lilies surrounded her, on one Asui was crouched in that way she sometimes crouched when she thought no one was looking, she was looking out at the horizon, about to leap to the next pad. ze drew laughter in her eyes and the way her tongue kind of came out at an angle when she was happy and forgot to be self-conscious.

"I can't believe you just made this person up on the spot." Iida said and Mineta smiled.

"I like drawing people with odd quirks, I actually filled up one of my sketchbooks back in my room with drawings of people with different quirks. Some I saw on the street, others I made up." He said and shrugged. "I like to challenge myself sometimes by drawing different people. I sit in the cafeteria and look at the students in other classes and I watch them as they walk by. I draw them later from memory."

"That's really cool." Iida said and Mineta smiled.

"Would it be alright if I tried some of the makeup you have?" Mineta asked and Thirteen nodded.

"If you like, do you know how to apply it?"

"I used to help my sisters with their makeup, it was our secret." Mineta replied and smiled. "I know how to apply it." He added.

"Then feel free." Thirteen said.

"Thank you." Mineta said, before going into the other room. Ze tried the eye shadow first, making his eyes look smoky, before ze put on eyeliner and lipstick. Ze then parted his hair and used the ribbons to tie it back. Ze stared in the mirror and smiled, ze liked how ze looked, ze was really pretty. Ze made boobs from her quirk. It actually felt right, she stepped outside the closet and Iida's mouth actually dropped open.

"Mineta?" He asked and Mineta smiled softly. "Wow you look beautiful."

"Thank you." Mineta said and smiled. "I think I'd rather go by she, right now."

"That's fine, it makes sense that it will take you a while to decide what you are comfortable with." Iida said. "I really like your makeup."

"Thank you." Mineta said and smiled, sitting down and smoothing out her dress, she liked this dress, it made her feel pretty. "What should I draw now?"

"Draw whatever you like, why are you asking me?" Iida asked and Mineta shrugged.

"Because your there and I'm here and I don't want to think right now." Mineta said. "Drawing helps me not think, but if I think about drawing, then I'll be thinking and I don't want to think."

"Then don't why don't you draw Midoria, can you think of how his freckles look?"

"Yeah actually I can, I've done several sketches of Midoria before and it took me forever to get his freckles right." Mineta said and smiled as she drew Midoria from memory, Midoria always had such kind eyes, but there was this determined tilt to his mouth as well. She smiled when he finished drawing Midoria.

"That's really beautiful, you captured his essence somehow." Iida said and Mineta smiled pleased.

"Thank you." She said as she flipped the page, she drew a giant cake and Sato standing in front of it, writing Sugar Rush across it sideways, she then colored it in.

"That cake is massive." Iida said and smiled. "You did a good job with him, too, though I've never seen a cake that big."

"Poetic license." Mineta said with a grin.

"Fair enough, how about Aoyoma?" Iida asked.

"He'd actually be a challenge, how do you want me to draw him?" Mineta asked.

"What do you mean, its just Aoyoma."

"There's the way he wants to be seen, the way he sometimes looks and the way he actually is. Aoyoma is hiding himself, either pretending to be someone he isn't, or trying to be something he wants to be. If you look at him at just the right time, you can see what I mean, he gets all thoughtful, or sad or, I don't know Aoyoma like and it doesn't match what he's trying to make us see him as."

"That's pretty common for kids your age, how about you draw him how you see him." Thirteen said and Mineta shook back her hair.

"I'm not sure I could do that, I have very mixed feelings about Aoyoma and I don't know how I see him really." Mineta said. "Everyone I was drawing before are simple, they act as they are, but I've yet to draw a good picture of Koda, Hagakure or Aoyoma. Its hard to capture what you don't see, Koda is so shy that he doesn't really show much personality afraid others will judge him for it I think. Aoyoma acts differently than he feels and so it's challenging and Hagakure is literally invisible with a personality to match her quirk. She hardly ever speaks in class and I'm never able to see her expression, so I don't know hardly anything about her. It's easier if I actually know who the person is to some degree, for whatever reason be it quirks or confidence, all three are hiding." He said and Thirteen nodded.

"That is very astute for someone your age." Thirteen said. "You clearly closely observe your classmates, why is that?"

"Because...I don't know...they are my classmates and I get to spend time with them, so why not actually try to draw them the way they are?" He asked and Thirteen and Iida looked surprised. "As much as they show who they are, I'll try but don't expect it to come out as good as the others." He said and started drawing, he decided that he'd do three drawings this time, all three were of a boy at the same desk, but each had slight differences. In one the boy was shining brightly, light pouring off of him, a confident smile on his face. In the other the same boy was much dimmer, but still had a slight glow to him, there was a far off expression in his eyes, in the third the same boy was laughing with Mineta and several other classmates gathered around him, his arms looked like he was about to move, as he told some story.

"Aoyoma, as he wants others to see him, Aoyoma as he is sometimes and Aoyoma as he wants to be." Mineta said and both Iida and Thirteen stared at his drawing. "Its not very good, because I couldn't get it quite right."

"Sweetheart, this is amazing." Thirteen said and Mineta smiled.

"You really think so?"

"You have a special talent, a gift to see what others don't. If you gain confidence in yourself and your abilities, you could be a great hero." Thirteen said and Mineta felt his face heat up.

"Thank you." Mineta said shyly, no one had said that to her before, not one of his teachers. To hear such praise from anyone, made her feel such a confusing mixture of emotions.

"You should show this to Aoyoma and ask him about the three boys you see when you look at him." Iida said and Mineta shook his head.

"I couldn't it would embarrass him." Mineta said.

"You don't have to do it in front of everyone, but looking at this, I knew instantly it was true, you captured parts of him that I didn't see." Iida said and adjusted his glasses. "You are very perceptive Mineta."

"Thank you, what time is it?"

"You have enough time to draw one more picture if you want, pick any classmate you want." Thirteen said. "And do the same exercise for them."

"Okay." Mineta said. "The difference isn't so great for most of the others though."

"Then choose one that you can do, but is a challenge."

She drew Koda next, having him sit at his desk, a slight smile on his face, he looked confident and capable. The next drawing was of Koda sitting cross-legged on the floor, holding a stuffed bunny rabbit and smiling up at someone who wasn't seen. The third picture was the same as the first. "Koda struggles with confidence and is unsure of his own capabilities, he is very sweet and caring towards animals but gets flustered around people." She said.

"That is most definitely our classmate, do Midoria next."

"I've already drawn Midoria, I'll draw Todoroki." Mineta said and smiled. He drew Todoroki with silver hair, a confident expression and an ice ball in hand. The next drawing looked like Todoroki was caught between anger and tears. The third was of the same boy from the same picture. "Todoroki hates his quirk, I think what he wants most is just to have ice powers, sometimes he gets this look and tries to hide it."

"You really think that he wants others to see him this way and this is who he wants to be?"

"Right now yes, its possible he'll come to accept his flames, but for now this boy, this stranger is who Todoroki most wishes to be. I can understand the desire to not be yourself, to deny parts of yourself, but I don't understand why he would want to be like this, but he does."

"Can I keep this and show it to Todoroki when he comes to see me next week?" Thirteen asked and Mineta nodded.

"I don't want to give it to him, I like my eyebrows where they are, thank you very much." Mineta said and Iida laughed.

"You should indeed be careful Thirteen, sometimes Todoroki looses control of his fire side when something upsets him." Iida said.

"I doubt that anything he did would be able to hurt my space suit, it is flame resistant, now do you want to go get something to eat?" Ze asked. "You can wear the dress or your uniform Mineta, but we're done for the day."

"I'll wear the dress." Mineta said and smiled brightly. "Thank you Thirteen."

"Of course, tomorrow bring your sketch books and you can draw some more." Thirteen said and Mineta nodded, they walked from the room together and back to the dining halls. Several people stared at Mineta and she blushed slightly, before she sat down at the table.

"It has taken great courage for Mineta to show herself today, do not make jokes, or hurt her, she has been through a trying time and we don't want to repeat yesterday." Iida said and Mineta started eating.

"I like your makeup Mineta, could you maybe do makeup with me sometime?" Asui asked and Mineta smiled.

"Of course Asui, I can show you a sketch of what I'd do and then teach you how to do it. Its okay if you don't want me to touch you." Mineta said.

"I don't mind it if you touch me, as long as you aren't being a pervert, I like this Mineta a lot better."

"I don't even know who I am Asui, but thank you." Mineta said and stated to eat the salmon, green beans and potatoes she'd gotten from the cafeteria delicately. "We can do it on the weekend, how is training going."

"Be glad you are missing it, its brutal." Kaminari said.

"I want to be with the rest of you, but I'm going through some things. Todoroki want to start a club, its called our fathers are assholes, but we don't have to talk about them if we don't want to. We can just talk."

"I'd join that club." Midoria said and everyone stared at him. "My Dad works overseas, I hardly ever see him, though he does take me to amusement parks and things when I do see him, that doesn't mean he isn't an ass for not being with our family. He could most likely find work here, if he set his mind to it, but instead he sends money back to me and my mom and I don't even know him anymore."

"My old man isn't great either, all he does is nag me and tell me to do shit, or tell me how to act. My old lady acts like I do and tells me to act contrary to how I am, it's annoying as fuck." Bakugo said and several people laughed.

"I think that's just typical parent stuff Bakugo, what they are going through is different. If you want to talk about it Mineta we'll listen and if you never want to talk about it, its okay too." Kirishima said. "No matter what, don't let anyone ever tell you that you can't be who you are, that's not ma- that's not cool dude." He said and Mineta laughed.

"Did you seriously almost tell someone who's trying to decide if their assigned gender fits them, that they aren't manly?" Mineta asked and several people laughed. "Well I can agree with you their Kirishima, I'm not very manly right now, but I feel right for the first time in a long time."

"That's what's most important, that you feel right, who cares what other people think, you gotta be you." Kirishima said. "Being who you are, regardless of what others think is just as an important part of being a hero, as actually saving people."

"Man were you just deep Kirishima, I didn't know you had it in you." Kaminari teased and everyone laughed including Kirishima, but his was a bit more forced and awkward then the others.

"Can you do my makeup too?" Hagakure asked suddenly. "I think you would actually be able to, I'd like to see how I looked."

"I'd have to do most of it by feel." Mineta said. "And we'd need a whole lot of flesh paint, but I don't see why not. I'll ask Thirteen about it tomorrow, ze have a lot of makeup, I hope ze don't mind if you use it too." She said and smiled brightly. "I might want to get my own clothes, when I have enough money, will you go with me?"

"We'd love to go shopping with you, its okay if you can't buy anything right now, sometimes its just fun to try on dresses." Asui said.

"I don't know quite how to handle this, who are you? You aren't the person I know, being a girl is one thing, but you haven't made one pervy comment."

"That was an act, it was expected that I act a certain way at home, but I never have to go back there again, so I can act how I want to. I don't really know who I am, so I don't know how to portray that." She said and smiled sweetly. "I know I like drawing and all of you, I know I want to be a hero, even though I'm out of the situation I was in. Other then that your guess is as good as mine, but whoever I am, I won't pretend to be someone else I can tell you that much." She said and smiled.

"You are beautiful mon cher." Aoyoma said and smiled at Mineta. "Don't loose that light that shines inside your eyes now." He said and Mineta started crying. "Mineta its okay, what did I say to make you cry?" Aoyoma asked and Mineta continued crying. "Here cher, dry your eyes, you do not wish to smudge your makeup do you?" Aoyoma said and handed Mineta a handkerchief. Mineta took it and continued to cry and dab at her eyes, until she managed to get a hold of herself.

"What you said was very sweet, it made me very happy, I'm sorry about your handkerchief, I'll draw something for you to make up for messing it up." Mineta said.

"I would like to see you draw, you said you like it?"

"Mineta is very talented, she draws very beautifully." Iida said and smiled at Mineta. "She did some very realistic drawings."

"If you like you can see my sketchbooks, there isn't anything in there that's...well typical of who I was trying to be." Mineta said and smiled.

"I'd like that." Aoyoma said.

"I want to see!" Asui said.

"Me too."

"I think everyone wants to see your sketchbooks Mineta." Midoria said and smiled. "Please share them with us, if you feel comfortable."

"I will." Mineta said and smiled at Midoria, she finished eating and the others did as well. She then went to her room and got out several of her sketchbooks taking them to the common area. "Some of these are unfinished." She said and everyone stared at the sketchbooks.

"These are so lifelike Mineta, I wish I could draw like you." Midoria said and laughed at one of the pages. "Where did you see all these people?"

"The one you have is of random people I like to draw, I think I gave Ojiro my landscapes and Asui has the one where I drew different pictures of our class. Oh and Todoroki is just holding the one I have for when I want to doodle."

"These are doodles?" Todoroki asked. "I thought they were deliberate abstract works, though well rendered they confused me." He said and Mineta laughed. "What is the point of this one, it makes me happy for some reason?"

"Oh I was trying to convey feeling and motions in that part, I think that one is joy actually." Mineta said and shrugged. "Sometimes I don't understand my feelings and thinking of how they would look on paper helped me to better understand them."

"I see." Todoroki said and gasped, closing the book hastily.

"I have the same visceral reaction when I look at that one, its called perversion." Mineta said.

"This is how you see perversion, this is how you see yourself?" Todoroki said and Mineta shrugged.

"It was how I saw myself, I don't know how I see myself now. I'm trying to get from that to something normal, I forgot those were in there. Its okay, it's just how I perceive emotions, but it is rather personal, please don't comment on that section of my journal if you want to see it." He said and got out another sketchbook, doing several sketches of how Ojiro's tail moved as he sat on one of the several beanbags.

"Where are these of?" Ojiro asked. "I recognize the hot spring and the training camp and the school, but the rest of these..."

"Random places around Japan I want to go someday, I think I made a bulleted list in the back of the book." Mineta said. "I've always liked shrines and drawing shrines."

"These are very well drawn, particularly for being in only pencil."

"It was already pressing my luck to ask my father for sketchbooks, I didn't want to risk asking him for something as expensive as art supplies." Mineta said. "Most kids our age like to drink, if you can give me money for the supplies I can make rice wine and buy some art supplies with what's left."

"That behavior is unbecoming of a hero in training."

"We've nearly died several times, if anyone deserves to loosen up and have some fun its us. You can really make rice wine Mineta?" Kaminari asked

"I can, please don't ask for the details of why I know how to make it."

"We can do that, I don't mind giving you some money for what you need, I've never tried rice wine before, or gotten drunk."

"You will clean up after yourself if you throw up in the common area." Iida said.

"I'm not going to puke like some chump." Kaminari said and several people laughed.

"I have a feeling you will." Kirishima said.

"Here take this and get what you need." Todoroki said and smiled. "I would like to try rice wine as well, I have been allowed several forms of alcohol at formal functions, but I have never tried rice wine.

"Especially homebrew, its different than the store bought stuff, I'll need to use the oven though."

"I can just get my cupcakes from the cafeteria for a few days." Sato said and Mineta nodded, he took the money and went a general store, he had more than enough to get what he needed and was able to buy a pack of watercolor pencils, watercolors and some brushes as well. He then walked back to the dorms and cooked the rice, before adding the rice ball and putting it a large covered pot that he then put into the oven. After that he went to bed.

The next three days passed quickly, though it was clear that Iida wasn't getting much sleep, Mineta heard him have nightmares several times, he'd cry out for Midoria, Todoroki, or his brother. Or sometimes it was Bakugo's name he'd call, what Mineta had done had really upset him and the punishing pace of the workouts wasn't helping. Something needed to be done, Iida needed to sleep and while Mineta had sleeping pills, he didn't know how to ask Iida if he wanted to take one. What if Iida said no, he'd keep them both awake again.

Instead Mineta knocked on Iida's door after dinner. "Come in." Iida said and Mineta walked into Iida's room. "I want to watch some TV with you." Mineta said.

"I'm too tired."

"Please stay up, just for one show, I really like this one series, its this old mecha anime." Mineta said and Iida smiled.

"Alright one episode."

"Here you have been training hard haven't you?" Mineta asked and set down the bottle he'd been drinking from on the desk adding the quickly dissolving sleeping tablet to the other drink, he was glad that his father's perverted teachings actually would be good for something. "I like to drink these after a long workout, they help rehydrate you." He said and took his own drink and gulped it down, he was glad when Iida copied him a moment later, within five minutes of Mineta turning on the anime, Iida was fast asleep and snoring loudly.

"You shouldn't push yourself so hard." Mineta told the sleeping boy. "Its hurting you, if you keep having these nightmares, I'm going to tell Thirteen about them, so you better stop." He added and closed his eyes, to be convincing, he'd have to pretend to have fallen asleep as well, he pushed Iida down gently so the boy lay on his side, the computer still balanced on his lap, Mineta then took another of the sleeping pills and moved his body so it would fall on top of Iida's right before he fell into the dark dreamless sleep the pills provided.