Suri confronts the lies and half truths spread throughout both classes and tells everyone the truth. But what's going on with Bakugou?

"You what?!"

Yup, that's about how she had expected it to go.

Mina and Tooru had both crowded in on Suri and were looking at her like she had lost her damn mind. Like she had come down with some sort of sickness that made her crazy, or rather crazier than ever anyway. And no, she hadn't come down with any sort of sickness. She simply waved off the looks her girlfriends had given her and looked out over the city lights in the night sky, towards Kamino where the world had changed forever and she repeated herself.

"I'm going to tell everyone. I want them to hear it straight from me, not a secondhand account, not an abridged version. They need to know the truth. So when we can get everyone together, and I mean all of 1-A and 1-B, I want them to listen and make an informed decision on how they feel about me then."

The girls wanted to fight and wanted to argue Suri's idea but, in the end, they couldn't. They wanted to fight; that no one that wasn't close to Suri deserved it. Suri said that wasn't true. They argued that Suri telling everyone was letting the bad guys win, that the distrust is what Gemini wanted. Suri countered with; if Suri hadn't been scared to tell the truth in the first place, the werehyena wouldn't have had that advantage to begin with. Gemini still could have destroyed trust either way, but that didn't matter.

It was her turn to tell the truth and let the cards fall where they may.

Getting everyone together so that Suri could tell the truth; that was a hassle in itself. They had waited until Bakugou had returned home safe and sound after all of the police questioning and then sent out all of the hundreds of texts that it took. Hundreds of texts later that now had Suri standing in front of everyone at Dagobah Beach. It wasn't the fun in the sun kind of day they had had a month ago, instead the tension was high and everyone was on edge.

"Can someone please tell me why we're here with these 1-A idiots? Especially this one?" Monoma sneered, refusing to get comfortable like a lot of the others had, sitting down on the warm sands. Instead he was standing with his arms crossed tight across his chest.

"Because this one saved your life, you ungrateful-"

"Mina, it's okay," Suri sighed, hanging her head as she tried stopping the would be fourth attempted fight since people started arriving.

"Don't listen to Monoma, Kuroyashi," Kendo spoke up, her lips pursed as she glared at Monoma, making sure the blonde copycat felt the weight of her eyes on him. "I will ask, and I think I speak for all of my class, what was so important to get all of our classes together?"

"Because everyone needs to know the truth about me and what I am," Suri stated simply.

"We already know the truth, Kuroyashi," Ojiro spoke up, his arms crossed tight as he looked at her with a cold, hard glare.

"Yeah, IIda told us everything," Mineta added.

"Now, now, Ojiro, Mineta, there is no need for such rudeness," Iida spoke up, pushing up his glasses and giving Suri a sort of apologetic look. Like he hadn't meant for the outcome but it was already too late for that.

"What you know is a secondhand account," Suri shook her head, closing her eyes and trying to be as calm as possible. Rage and getting upset wouldn't help her cause. "What you guys heard wasn't Iida's place to tell anyone. Honestly, I wanna know what was said."

"Why does it matter what was said?" Kaibara asked with an incredulous look.

"Because I want everyone to have an informed opinion about me. Especially with that message everyone got about the UA dorm systems. My family and I are putting off my decision whether I will be joining you in the dorms or if I will continue at UA at all until we're finished here."

That answer shocked several people; Izuku, Mina, and Tooru especially. Suri hadn't told them that little piece of information.

"You what?" Mina screamed, obviously upset from being kept from that.

"Why didn't you say anything?" Tooru added to the screamed frustrations.

"Because I didn't want to ruin it for you two. Mina, I caused you so much stress over the last week from having to run damage control because of me. I'm not going to fuck up your chances for you and Tooru to have fun at school and-"

"You just did!" Tooru screamed, her voice full of distraught pain and anger. Tears were already pouring down her cheeks.

"Tooru," Suri said softly, giving the girl an apologetic look that was basically useless at this point.

"Y-You would really drop out of UA?" Ururaka asked, her eyes wide with shock.

"Yes," Suri said simply, "I would."

Everyone looked at each other, some in shock and disbelief, others trying to decide if she was lying or joking and trying to get some sort of reaction out of them. Several more looks came back to her with upset, even angry eyes. Mina and Tooru being angry at her hurt like hell.

"You would truly remove yourself because of rumors and allegations," Tokoyami asked. He furrowed his brow then and looked down into the sand. "I know the allegations are in regard to your Quirk fully manifesting that night and individuals being scared of such a power. If that's the case, shouldn't I withdraw as well? Even more so because I injured Shoji and attacked several of our classmates?"

"And there's my first lie," Suri sighed, looking down for a moment. She took a deep breath, held it and released it slowly before raising her head to look everyone in the eye. "I'm Quirkless. In fact, I'm not even human."

The crowd fell silent and then a string of disbelief was fired at her as they interrupted with a barrage of questions, bullshits, and straight up being called a liar.

"S-Suri," Pony spoke up cautiously after all of the fury and noise died down. "What are you talking about? We've all watched your Quirk and-"

"It's registered as a Quirk officially but I don't carry any of the normal carrier signs for someone who's born with a superpower. Instead, my DNA carries a dual strain of lycanthropy. What you've seen isn't a Quirk; it's a disease. Which is why everyone had to have a blood test after being exposed to me and my kind."

"What kind of idiots do you take us for?" Monoma spoke up, scowling hard at her.

"C'mon, you can't be serious, Suri," Kirishima half smiled, waiting for the punchline of some joke he was hearing.

"Y-Yeah, I'm having a hard time following," Tokage spoke up, her eyes filled with confusion.

"Which is exactly why I wanted all of you here," Suri smirked and shrugged. She then held out her arm and stared him dead in the eye. "Monoma, do you mind?"

The blonde looked at Suri, met her eyes and stared at her confused for a moment, and then the realization that she was being serious and what she was wanting him to do became clear. That realization made him scoff and then began laughing hysterically. After a long moment he came down from his high and met Suri's eyes again and found she hadn't flinched or moved. She was being absolutely serious.

"And why should I? What does that prove?" He asked with an accusatory smirk.

"I agree. Why should he copy your Quirk?" Rin spoke up.

"Because I've openly made the claim that I'm Quirkless. What does that gain me to say that, when every single one of you has witnessed what I can do? If he can copy my abilities, it proves, outright, that I'm a lying piece of shit and can't be trusted for the rest of what I need to say to everyone."

"Just hurry up and do it, Monoma," Mina barked, still giving Suri harsh eyes.

"Go ahead," Kendo added, giving Monoma a look that was like what an older sibling would give their younger brother to encourage them to do a scary thing.

He scoffed and rolled his eyes, taking his sweet time to make his way through the group towards Suri. He got to the front of the crowd a few feet from Suri and then paused, scowling again before folding his arms tight. Suri just sighed and scanned the crowd.

"Tetsutetsu," she said, spotting the silver hair and the bushy brows of the normally loud and bombastic metal user. "Come restrain me. Will that help put you at ease, Monoma?"

"What?" He asked in his gruff tone, looking shocked and confused that Suri had even asked the question. "Why would I need to do that? You're not gonna hurt him."

"No, I'm not gonna hurt him, you're right. But I'm asking you for one simple reason," Suri held up her left arm, showing the raised tracks of scar tissue along her forearm. "You, Todoroki, and Bakugou are the ones here who could cause injuries to me that not even Recovery Girl or my own healing ability can fix."

"S-Suri," Kirishima said, his voice sounding scared. "What happened to your wrists?"

"Silver infused handcuffs," she said with a fake smile.

It made Iida and Momo flinch and cringe from the sight and realization.

"I… I had no intention of causing you harm, Kuroyashi," Iida admitted sadly.

He saw the wounds that, even after days worth of recovery time, had left ringlets or raised scar tissue and bruising around Suri's wrists. They almost looked mangled, like the metal had cut into her skin, even though Suri hadn't struggled against them at all. He realized with Suri's words that those would be there for the rest of her life and that he had done that.

"I had no idea that they would hurt you! I… Iida told me that you were weak against silver, not… Not that it would do that!" Momo placed her hand over her mouth and her eyes filled with tears as she began to sob. It was only leaning into Jirou by her side that kept her upright and from curling up into a ball in the sand.

"It's okay, Momo," Suri said, still barely smiling. "And Iida, don't beat yourself up. You did what you thought was best given the circumstances. I… don't blame you, honestly."

"But that-"

"It's fine, Kiri," Suri interjected, staring the redhead in the eyes with a look that reaffirmed her words to him.

Tetsutetsu came up to stand in front of Suri and Monoma followed not far behind. She gave the taller metal boy a smile, let it go neutral and then hung her head, surrendering herself over to him. The beast girl offered up both wrists and he gingerly took them, clearly not wanting to be there, but wanting to be supportive all the same. To him, she had never given him a reason to doubt her word and her debasing herself like this made his stomach twist. Monoma pursed his lips and grumbled as he paused and hesitated over Suri's arm, his eyes tracing all of the scarring that drew white and soft pink lines across her dark bronze skin. He then closed his eyes, huffed and quickly smacked his hand against Suri's right wrist and pulled back instantly.

Nothing.

No changes in body, no change in any of his senses. Nothing.

"Try and form claws," Suri said quietly, still hanging her head in surrender.

"I… I can't," Monoma stared at his hand in shock and then quickly smacked her arm again. He hoped for a different result the second time around but still couldn't do anything he had witnessed Suri do. "You're…"

"She's telling the truth," Tetsutetsu spoke for him, his eyes staring directly at Suri with the utter realization that she was, in fact, Quirkless. Which made him question even more because he had watched her, hell, he had fought against her using her abilities.

"That's impossible! Like, dude, we've all watched you do your thing," Kaminari shouted, saying what almost everyone else was wanting to ask.

"What I can do predates Quirks. In fact, a lot of us believe that superhuman abilities and powers have spread the way they have because metaphysical and magical abilities are being streamlined into society. It's why Koda's able to call my other side," she lifted her head and gave a gentle look towards her gentle friend. "His Quirk's origin is very similar to sirens."

"Umm… What are you talking about?" Sero questioned, even more confused now.

"I'm talking about the preternatural and supernatural communities. Magic even. Think about all of your ghost stories and monster movies and tell me something; what creature is called by the full moon and can only be killed by silver and fire?"

The mention of silver potentially being fatal made Tetsutetsu quickly let go of Suri's arm and made Iida and Momo's faces go even more pale.

"Werewolves."

Everyone turned a shocked look of disbelief and terror towards Bakugou who had spoken up from the back of the group. He was scowling down at the ground with his hands deep into his pockets. He turned and glared up towards Suri at the front of the group and she saw something there in his eyes. What it was, she couldn't be sure because it was a look she'd never seen on him before.

"Oh please," Mineta scoffed. "You can't be serious!"

"Shut your damn mouth," Bakugou growled back at him and then turned his glare back towards the beast girl. "And you, Kuroyashi, I believe you. I wouldn't have before but… I do."

Suri's eyes went wide and her mouth dropped open because out of everything she expected today, Bakugou not only being semi calm but understanding as well, was not one of them. He'd even used her name, which was unheard of. It made her not think better of him because he'd already had her respect but it made her think something had happened to him. If something did, it would have been bad. If it had been bad, it might have been something she caused. And if that was the case, she wanted to help him.

"So you're a werewolf? That does seem to fit quite a bit of the abilities you have as well as the form we saw you in the other night. It does make sense to me at least," Yanagai said in her soft monotone voice. It seemed fitting that the ghost themed girl would be the one to make not only the suggestion but the connection as well.

"Partially," Suri answered. "I'm a hybrid between werewolf and wereleopard. There's dozens of different animal strains but that's my particular brand of furry."

"But we already sort of knew that right?" Tsu asked this time, thinking back to all of their conversations in and out of class.

"I've tried to be as open-booked about it as possible without actually coming out and saying it outright. And all of you would find out eventually anyway because... I recently discovered that in our third years, or when we sign with certain agencies, we have classes on my kind. You would have eventually learned about lycanthropes, vampires, and other kinds of fae. If any of you had a blood related Quirk, you would have learned much much sooner and honestly, Shishida, I'm surprised you weren't aware of the communities either."

"Why's that?" Shishida asked curiously. "And are you saying, Mr. Vlad King could corroborate your claims?"

"I am. People who are born with blood related Quirks are highly recommended, if not required, to be trained on use of their Quirks alongside master vampires. In your case Shishida, I think you could have even more control and potential on your beast Quirk learning from members of werewolf packs or even leopard pards. Honestly, your Quirk and my lycanthropy are pretty similar when you really think about it. And I had been under the assumption that people with beast transformation Quirks like yours would be in the know, ya know?"

"Are… Are you listening to yourself?" Ojiro asked, incredulously. "Do you have any idea how ridiculous that all sounds?"

"It's…"

"Not ridiculous at all…"

Everyone's attention turned to Kirishima and Shiozaki, respectively, who had been rather quiet over the past couple minutes. They shared a glance at each other, squeezing their hands together tighter and then Kirishima looked up at Suri. His face was a similar realization as Bakugou's.

"Oh come on, Kirishima, not you too," Mineta groaned.

"Guys, we saw Suri," Kirishima said with direct realization. "Ibara and I," he paused, giving his girlfriend a permissive glance to which she nodded. "We snuck out the night before the attacks and we saw Suri, Mina, Hagakure, Midoriya, and Koda, hiking into the woods. We thought it was just some late night training but…"

"We watched the full moon call to her," Shiozaki spoke up and let her eyes meet Suri's.

Suri's eyes went wide as she stared at her friends, having no idea that they had been there, that they had seen everything. How hadn't she scented them before? Had she really been that careless that night?

"So you knew she turned into that… thing… and you didn't warn us?" Monoma barked.

"The form they saw me take is what I normally turn into on the full moon. The night of the attack was a new form that neither me or Atiena can recall turning into before then," Suri answered, trying to defuse Monoma.

"So you're even more dangerous? Isn't that just great!" Monoma argued.

"Monoma, stop," Kendo scowled.

"So is that what this is then? You're trying to scare us to make you believe you?" Sero asked harshly, referring to Suri's eyes and ears.

"No, Sero, she's not," Mina barked at him. "She…"

"I'm not trying to scare anyone. I'm trying to come clean, I'm trying to repair trust. You were all told things, and I'm trying to get to them but the first thing you all have to understand is that the monsters are real. They all have names, they have lives, and jobs, just like everyone else but they have to hide most of what they are because of this. I am one of the monsters. As much as it hurts Tooru and Mina for me to say that, I am what I am and there's no changing that. There's no more going back for me and if it means I can protect people and be a hero, then I will happily keep sacrificing my humanity. Because that is what this is," Suri's eyes welled up with tears as she spoke, her throat tightening and her voice becoming more strained. She was almost screaming as she cried when she finally pointed to her eyes.

It made everyone go silent again.

"S-Suri," Izuku finally spoke up, his expression somewhere between comforting and determined. "What happened? Why aren't they going back?"

"When a wereanimal stays in their beast form for too long or we shift too many times in rapid succession, it comes with repercussions. We live life walking a tightrope between human and monster as is, but we have a balance. When that balance is on the monster side for extended amounts of time, we don't come back completely human. The eyes are the first to go," Suri explained.

It made Bakugou cringe, then scowl and look back at Suri.

"So she spent too much time in her other form too? Guess that makes sense," he growled, muttering mostly to himself.

"Yeah," Awase furrowed his brow. "Now that you mention it, she does look a lot like that crazy villain that attacked us."

Suri's eyes went wide at the claim and her head dropped. Because in all actuality, he wasn't necessarily wrong. It was made even more apparent by the mix of voices being added into the list of people disapproving of Suri.

"Honestly, I didn't have much of a choice but to stay in beast form for too long," Suri admitted and looked back up to the crowd. "I've known a lot of extremely powerful wereanimals that aren't tied to the full moon. They can go beast whenever or they don't have to go beast mode at all because they're just that powerful in human form. Me… I'm weak. I have to shift every full moon. I'm weak enough that I pass out for hours on end after coming back to being human to the point that until this last week, my record for being asleep was sixteen hours. I didn't have the luxury of sleeping off the metaphysical exhaustion and woke up to train with all of you the next day. It's why I was so beat that day. I was still recovering when the villains attacked. The only reason I was able to survive and protect those of you that were at the campus is because I traded in a part of my humanity and soul to be able to take on a beast form and fight."

"Y-You're soul?" Shiozaki gasped.

"Oh my god," Mina said quietly, tears rolling down her eyes as she stared horrified at Suri. "I-I did that… I cost you your…"

"No, Mina," Suri quickly shook her head. "You didn't do anything wrong. It's something I would have had Koda do anyway. Before Gemini slit my throat and killed me for those few seconds, I was going to have him call Atiena out as a last ditch effort. When I taught him what I did in the clearing, I had always had the intention of having him help me if I needed to ever go that far to save people."

"So you were willingly becoming a Reaver?" Iida asked, his own face lit with shock and disbelief. Like she had said something so offensive.

"What's a Reaver?" Kaminari asked, looking confused as he glanced back and forth between Iida and Suri.

"Yeah, Iida, what is a Reaver," Mina growled, glaring hard at him.

"Okay, stop," Tooru said, standing up and glaring at both Mina and Iida. "I wanna know what happened. Iida, what did you say that made Mina so pissed, and turned everyone against Suri? Better yet, I need to know because I'm getting sick of this bullshit!"

"Iida told everyone what you told us at the hospital in Hosu after our encounter with Stain," Todoroki spoke up from the back of the group. "Many of our classmates began asking about you and Iida tried to answer for you in your stay. Even after Ashido told him not to. I agree that it was logical to explain to everyone about your situation and I sided with Iida at the beginning. Now I'm questioning whether it was the right call after everything that's happened."

"I told you to wait, Iida," Mina said, tears staining her cheeks. "It wasn't fair to let rumors and stories spread when Suri and Tooru were still out cold."

"H-How much… How much of what I said in Hosu did you tell everyone?" Suri closed her eyes, hanging her head.

"He informed us that you had taken a life, Kuroyashi," Tokoyami answered. "He said that he was worried that you had become a Reaver and that we should take precautions so that you didn't take another life. Many here assumed it was the villain that was deceased at the camp. Iida informed them that that was not Hyrum Black and if the man was caused by you that your list had gone up to three."

"T-Three?" Suri stuttered and turned her eyes towards Iida with tears barrelling down her cheeks in hot tracks.

"Ragdoll had been assumed to be one of your victims as well," Shoji answered.

"Yeah, but now we know Ragdoll is alive so Kuroyashi didn't do anything to her, right?" Kaminari asked, shrugging his shoulders. "And if I'm being honest, those of us at the campus saw the fight. She didn't even touch the dude."

"I'm sorry, Kuroyashi," Iida stated sadly. "I never meant for things to get out of hand like they did. I… hope that you can forgive my errors."

"See? Sometimes you learn the hard way you can't change the past," Suri said, wiping the tears from her eyes and cheeks. "Which is why I came here. Why I'm in Japan and in UA; not to change my past, just to make up for it."

She gave him a weak smile and then sighed.

"And to answer the previous question; a Reaver is a wereanimal that gives in completely to their beast side. Either by shifting and never coming back or by the beast inside literally clawing its way out and escaping. The beasts have no sense of humanity or morality so they can go on killing sprees. It's an extremely rare case and only happens once in a lifetime."

"Wait, so at the exams fighting the teachers, you," Ochako asked shakily.

"That was due to Koda's Quirk. He had no idea that wereanimals existed, so why would he know that he could call to my beast? He screamed out in distress, Atiena tried to get out and go help him," Suri shrugged, like that answered everything.

Everyone slowly looked at Koda and he shrunk, hiding himself from the staring eyes, most of which were in wonder and curiosity.

"That's all good and great but we're ignoring the fact we have a murderer in our midst," Monoma shouted and pointed towards Suri. "How can all of you be so calm?"

"Suri," Tsu croaked softly, rubbing Ochako's shoulder to help calm the gravity girl down. "Assuming all of us believe you about being a were… animal… I think it's time we knew about this Hyrum Black. Ribbit."

Oh yeah, this is why everyone was here in the first place right?

Shit.

How had she forgotten? Actually, she hadn't.

Suri mentally groaned, dreading having to remember his face again. She clenched her eyes shut as more tears threatened to escape and make their charge down her cheeks. Her body began shaking as the panic of having to tell forty people all of what happened set in and then the swelling in her throat choked her words. She was in the onset of a breakdown when a warm wind of electric energy rolled over her and poured across her skin.

"Let me handle this," Atiena whispered into Suri's ear softly, letting her big furred arms wrap themselves around her shoulders and pull Suri into her chest.

Her eyes went wide, rolling upwards as she let out a gasp and the slightest of pleasure filled moans as her power sunk into Suri's human body. Atiena took a deep breath and watched as there was an audible gasp from the audience in front of her and she took the moment to look into everyone's eyes and then down at herself. She had done the same shift in human form as she had done back at the camp, making Suri's teenage features become adult as she physically took on what Suri would grow into in her mid twenties. She saw fear in many of their eyes and it wasn't helped by Monoma purposely trying to stir panic.

"She's going to do it! She's going to kill us all," he screamed his fear and began running, barrelling into the crowd. His screams were cut short however when a giant fist smacked him across the back of the neck and he went down cold.

"Thank you... Kendo, was it?" Atiena asked, positioning her expression to neutral but flashing the briefest of satisfactory smirks.

"I am," the orange haired girl answered, her eyes holding a mix of emotions that said she was trying to decipher the entire situation. "And I'm guessing you're Atiena?"

"I am," the beast woman nodded and then looked back over the crowd. "For those of you who haven't heard or haven't yet made the connection, my name is Atiena. I am Suri's inner beast and the source of our shared power."

"H-How did you do that?" Tetsutetsu asked in amazement.

"Truthfully, this is a rather new predicament. The thanks goes to Mina and Koda however, for giving us a boost in power. I think I could get used to having an actual human form," Atiena said, really looking over her human limbs outside of the mind forest for the first time. She then pushed back her own intrigue and looked back up to everyone again and took a deep breath. "I've currently taken the lead and have decided to let Suri's consciousness rest within ourselves. The events of that night are mostly my doing in hindsight anyway so I think it best to not torture my human half with reliving the memories once again."

With a deep breath, Atiena took everyone back in time.

She started with the preface how, over a year ago now, Hyrum had begun making his threats. Told them about the history between Mathias and Hyrum and how they had once been friends up until Mathias became Ulfric. How their relationship became volatile because Hyrum had philosophically disagreed with the change to the old ways. He had hated how soft her dad and Mathias had made the preternatural community in Utah and resented her and her family.

She told them about Lupanars and how they were usually times of celebration, worship, and high spirits. Gave them insight into the usual goings on of the night of the full moon and how it all culminated into friendly challenges to determine one's strength, and then finally giving into the beast and letting them run and hunt wild in the night. It had been Ochako who had remembered Suri's comments about the similarities between the Lupanars and Sports Festival and had laughed a little with how similar it really was. It made her classmates really realize how much of Suri's truth about being a wereanimal had been staring them in the face the entire time. It made them understand that, out of everything, she hadn't lied entirely; only omitted certain things that might have scared them.

And for good reason.

Then she told them about the challenges for Ulfric, the wolf king. She had joked that; even she had made challenges several times a year for a long time now. Then her mood soured as she talked about how the challenges between Mathias and Hyrum had gradually become more and more violent. Told them about how injuries inflicted by other wereanimals never completely healed and got to show off her newest scars courtesy of Gemini. She told them about how Mathias came home with more and more scars facing Hyrum than he ever had in his life.

Then she told them about October and the threats Hyrum started making directed at her.

She told them about how he made the threat that; once her dad and brothers were dead, her and her mothers would be next - but not before he had raped and assaulted her. The threat had made nearly everyone flush with a mix of shock, anger, and disgust. She saw pure rage flash through the eyes of almost all of the girls and several of the guys like Kirishima, Izuku, and, surprisingly, Bakugou. She went on to tell them that neither her dad nor Mathias had taken her seriously when she told them what Hyrum had said to her.

"Why not go to the police? Wouldn't they have done something?" Kaminari asked. When he looked around he saw every girl turn their heads and look away with defeated eyes. He was genuinely concerned about the entire situation and seemed to sympathize with her and the girls when he saw the reactions.

"Welcome to being a girl," Jirou scowled, looking down at her feet.

"I… I don't understand," he said apologetically.

"Unless there's physicality," Atiena answered, "legally, the police and even heroes' hands are tied. You can't file a restraining order or a report in many cases until after you've been physically harmed. And when abuse is reported... It usually puts women in more danger because of the slow reaction and the aggressor becoming more violent. It's why a lot of women stay in abusive relationships and say nothing because sometimes... it's safer than the alternative."

Kaminari looked horrified.

"The other reason we didn't go to the police or another pro hero is because of what we are. Wereanimals, vampires, all of the other monsters like us? Monsters handle their own business."

The electric user let a small, sorrowful expression cross his face. He, and a lot of the other guys really had no idea what it meant to be a woman, let alone one of the monsters.

"We confronted Mathias again that night of our last Lupanar in Utah before the challenge of power for Ulfric was supposed to happen. We told him our concerns, and about the dread we couldn't shake off. I begged him to let me fight Hyrum instead. He laughed if off and reassured me everything was going to be okay. We caved. He was the best big brother in the world and he'd never steered us wrong before so we trusted him. We trusted him and stood in the crowd to watch his fight and he had been amazing to watch. Then he got taken down onto his back," Atiena explained. She took a deep breath again, her voice shaking with anger and unshed tears as her fingers bit into her palms from clenching her fists so tightly. "Hyrum pinned Mathias down by the neck and then he looked at us… and he smiled."

Another shaky breath came out and she closed her eyes. Now came the moment of truth.

"He looked at us as his fingers dug into Mathias' neck and began to rip his throat out. We knew what he was about to do and that we would try to make good on his threats. I would not stand by and watch Mathias or my family die and I wasn't going to let him become Ulfric. So I broke from the crowd and rushed him. He was smiling at us until we were on top of him and his throat was bloody in our hand. Smiled until I had killed him," Atiena spoke quietly, hanging her head, not wanting to see anyone's reaction.

She let out another shaky breath, and justified her actions.

"I saved the lives of my family, and who knows how many pack members that he could have killed. But… that's not how everyone else saw it. They saw me interfering with the match as a weakness on Mathias' part. And me being the scared little girl I was that night, I ran. I ran from everyone and everything as fast as I could. And then I was on a plane here to Japan a couple hours later."

There was a small awkward silence that followed so Atiena decided to bitterly quell any fears that may have risen by being in the presence of a killer.

"When I came to Japan, I came to start over. To get away from my past and make amends by becoming a hero. I want to save people, help turn them away from doing stupid things like I had done. I came to redeem myself. And before anyone says anything, you won't have to worry because I will be facing judgment for my actions. I'm not getting away with murder because you see," she looked up and gave everyone a fake, pitious smile. "On my eighteenth birthday, I will be officially banished from the Aspen Throne Clan and labeled as a Reaver. I will be hunted down and executed for my crimes."

Everyone was silent and wide eyed at that revelation.

"I know I don't have the right to ask, but I want to stay at UA. I want to become a hero with all of you, even if it is for a short time. I want to repair the trust I've broken. So… will you allow me to stay at UA with you?"

Everyone was silent for a long time.

So long that Atiena simply began nodding softly as if silence was their unified denial of her request. That in mind she gave them a weak smile and turned herself to walk away and did her best to try and hide the fresh set of tears that were working up.

"So... that's it? Just forgive and forget?" Sero asked cautiously, being the one brave enough to break the silence.

"What happens if they vote no?" Mina asked with a shaky, hoarse breath.

"I'm not asking you to forget who and what I am or what I've done. I want… what my family hasn't given me; I want forgiveness. To have people hold my hand and say I understand and you're okay, which is stupid, I know. And if the consensus is that I can no longer be trusted around any of you," Atiena paused. She turned away so she didn't have to look into Mina and Tooru's eyes when she said this. "I will return to my home and... ask for the stay of execution to be voided."

"You what?!"

It was more than just Mina and Tooru who screamed that. She couldn't, or didn't, want to see who had said it but she knew there were at least a dozen voices. Everyone erupted in a flurry of offended and incredulous tones.

"Hey, Mohawk! What the hell?" Bakugou shouted over everyone with an angry scowl. "How do we know you won't just run away again huh? Sounds like you're trying to get out easy!"

"Trust me, execution is not the easy route," Suri, now returned to the front of her mind, answered him with a scowl of her own. It made everyone go a little quiet. "Unless you consider being dismembered, set ablaze, then having your ashes spread in different running bodies of water is easy."

That shut everyone up, even Bakugou.

"Like I said," Suri bit back coldly. "Us monsters handle our shit."

"You're not a fucking monster!" Tooru screamed at the top of her lungs, her voice cracking sharply. No one could see it but she was standing, hunched in a furious rage to the point her fingernails almost drew blood from how tight she had her fists clenched. She was shaking in pure anger.

"I'm sorry, Hagakure, but she is," Ojirou answered. "And I think UA needs to know all of this. They wouldn't have let her in if they knew-"

"Actually, we did know."

Everyone froze and slowly turned their attention to the back of the group. The voice that had spoken up belonged to Mr. Aizawa who was standing behind all of them with his hands deep in his pockets and looking as bored and dreary as ever. Though he did seem to be more stressed than usual, which wasn't a surprise given the fall out and media storm that had been dredged up from the latest villain incident.

"Just like the teaching staff knew about me, we've all known about Young Kuroyashi since before she even applied for the entrance exams," All Might said, standing next to Aizawa.

The two of them were in suits, the same ones they had gone to each of their students' homes in when they asked parents to let their kids stay in UA. They were both unkempt, and untucked like they hadn't been sleeping at all for the past few days. And maybe they hadn't. Next to them was Midnight who looked sort of out of place in her white capris and black halter top because it was just so… normal. Next to her was the bulldog of a man, Vlad King, who was in a matching suit as Aizawa and All Might, even in its disheveled nature. He hadn't been sleeping either. But next to him was…

"We had intended on Suri going to UA for a long time. We'd already made arrangements for her to come and take the exams and stay when she inevitably made it in. Her incident simply moved our timetable up," said the tall African American man. Where Vlad was a bulldog in shape and stature, the man next to him was tall and broad with lean and well built muscle just like the namesake of his own beast.

"Dad?" Suri spoke quietly, staring in shock at the group of teachers behind all of them.

"None of you were in any real danger from Kuroyashi," Aizawa continued. "We've always had a series of failsafes and protocols involving our lycanthrope students. The only reason I allowed this little get together to happen is because it was Kuroyashi's responsibility to come forward. Not any of the staff. We try to respect the privacy of our students. So go ahead and do your little voting, just know that the staff always intended Kuroyashi to stay."

"We've had extensive briefings with her family here to decide on a course of action for Young Kuroyashi. And given the recent additional threats of the League," All Might added on. "I trust her to do what's best to help all of you prepare for them."

"With Gemini out there, there might be more rogue lycanthropes that will join her and the League of Villains. You're going to need to know how to combat her and others, and what better way to help prepare than to fight monsters than to have some on hand. So have you little vote against my daughter here," Alpha spoke in his thick, rugged voice as his eyes solely focused on Suri. "But she will be staying."

"No, dad, I won't. This isn't your choice," Suri growled, furrowing her brow. "It's theirs."

With that, Mina stood up, glaring daggers at her girlfriend.

"All in favor of Suri staying with Class 1-A, raise your hand," she spoke in her own venomous tone that said she clearly was not happy with the beast girl.

Out of the thirty nine students, four teachers, and Alpha, thirteen left their hands down. Only thirteen had said no. It made Suri's eyes widen and tears began to flow down her cheeks.

"Looks like you're staying then," Tooru said coldly.

Apparently the girls would be having a long talk after because once it had been settled, everyone started leaving. The teachers remained, as did Alpha, Mina, Tooru, and Izuku but what surprised Suri the most was Bakugou. He stayed put for a long time before nearly everyone had cleared out before he stormed forward. Suri readied herself for a fight but was taken aback when he got close, calmed himself to as calm as she'd ever seen him before and spoke in a low, gritty tone.

"Oi! Kuroyashi, can we talk," he asked, his eyes not focussing on her. Then he finally turned his gaze and let his crimson eyes stare a hole into Suri's soul. "It's about Gemini."