Lovey Class

by Mumei Mu

Izuku can't wait to become a pro hero like his idol and at same time, glad that his childhood friend is in his class...But why is he the only boy in his class! His heart can't take it! Will he survive his all-female class, quirky people, fending some villains off and make it to graduation in one piece? Let's find out in Lovey Class! "Whose idea was it to put him in this class?"

7. The First Year Is Almost Over

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Chapter 7: The First Year Is Almost Over

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The October barely began and a lot of things happened within few days, the intern group with All Might and their teachers attended Nighteye's funeral and it was decided by school and hero office that the internship will be postponed for the time being. Nighteye's office have been taken over by Centipeder, who will look after it with Kaoruko's mother's help. The intern group was told that Eri have finally regain consciousness but her psychological state is still unstable, considering what she have went through and her horn have shrunk to a lump size, which reveal that her quirk originated from the very same horn.

"It's not particularly elegant…" Ectoplasm gestured to the blackboard as the Class 1-A listened, "But calculate the integral of this equation. Whoever has the answer, raise your hand."

'Ectoplasm does occasionally get really into his hobby.' Kyoka nibbled her jack softly.

'Even number one student Yaoyorozu has been stumped, huh/' Habuko glanced at the said student, 'This is real hard question.' She heard a rapid-fire mumble before she look over to see Izuku going over the problem before the bush-haired boy swiftly stand up with raised hand.

"Midoriya!" The math teacher called out.

"107/14!" Izuku answered.

"Wrong!" Ectoplasm said before Momo stood up with raised hand, "Yaoyorozu!"

"It's 107/28!" Momo answered firmly.

"Correct!" The math teacher nodded, "Let's go to the next page, then."

"That was close, huh." Ochaco leaned across her desk to peeked over Izuku's shoulder, "A calculation error?"

"Ugh…" Izuku nodded with a groan.

"Lunch." Ectoplasm said as soon as the bell rang and the students get up.

"Deku-kun, you were ferocious." The gravity girl said.

"Let's go and try beat the lunch rush." Ibara said.

"Yeah, I'm starving." The teenager boy got up with a nod and he walk out with Ochaco, Ibara, Kinoko and Reiko. The latter kinda catch him off guard since he rarely socialize with Reiko.

"Oh, you're joining us?" Ochaco asked the ghost girl with a bright smile.

"Yes." Reiko replied as they make their way to the cafeteria and they get in the line to get their lunches before she look to the teenager boy, "Izuku, if you want to build up more muscles, you should ask Lunch Rush to serve you triple."

"O-Oh, should I?" Izuku looked back with a blink.

"Yes." The ghost girl nodded before she push something into his hand, "And here. You need it."

"H-Huh?" He looked down in his hand to see a big package of protein powder, "O-Oh, um…Thank you, Yan…"

"Reiko." She corrected him before she mumble under her breath, "Or you can call me dear."

"Thank you, R-Reiko." Izuku said, not have heard the last part with a light blush.

"Izuku, how is Kaoruko?" Ibara asked him with some concern, the said girl have been excused from school for few days. "I want to check on her this morning but…" She really doesn't know how to comfort someone in this situation and she doesn't know if she's the right person. "I'm asking you because out of everyone, you're close to her."

"She's s-still upset but little b-better than the other days." He replied.

"I see." The vine-haired girl muttered softly, "Will you let her know that I'm praying for her?"

"I will." Izuku nodded as they receive their lunches from Lunch Rush and they take seats together at table.

"Um, I-I-Izuku, a-are you okay?" Kinoko asked him suddenly and he blinked at her in confusion with others. "I-I mean, you s-s-seem to be p-pretty impatient lately s-s-since…A-After the internship."

"Ah, she's right." Ibara glanced to the greenette, "You have rushed things lately."

"O-Oh, well…" The bush-haired boy flinched slightly, "Yeah…A-All I can say is it's related to the i-internship and…" He looked at his hand, "My quirk…"

"Should it be that you're blaming yourself for what happened to…" Ochaco realized as he nodded slightly, "Oh, Izuku, that wasn't your fault."

"I-I know, but what if I have full control of m-my strength, Sir Nighteye…" Izuku frowned sadly.

"Please don't do these 'what if' things because it won't do you any good." Ibara placed her hand on his shoulder gently, "Doing that will cause nothing but pain."

"She's right." The gravity girl replied, "As horrible as it sound like, there are times where you can't save everyone and he know that it was his…" She exhaled softly as if she can't bring herself to finish it since it's fresh on her mind.

"I get it." He muttered softly, "I know it w-won't do me any good to t-think about it but still…"

"I-Is there anything I…" The mushroom girl reached out to squeeze his hand with a small stutter, "We do to help you?"

"N-No, thank you." Izuku replied with a light blush, "I mean, y-your support are e-enough for me…" He believe it's complicate to share some certain problems with them since they must not understand and he don't want them to worry about him, although it's really nice to know that he have more friends that care about him.

"Well, let us know if you need help anytime." The vine-haired girl said, "No matter what it is." Everyone nodded and Izuku just give them a small smile before they eat the rest of their lunch, chatting a bit in between.

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"K-Kaoruko, it's me, I-Izuku." The greenette boy knocked the door gently as he held a plate of food, "I-I bring you some dinner." The door opened with a slow creak to reveal Kaoruko with little puffy eyes, due to tears and she was wearing a loose blue shirt over jean pant. "H-Here."

"Thank you." Kaoruko received the plate from him before she look up to him, "…Can you come inside?"

"Hai, if t-that's okay with y-you." Izuku entered her bedroom.

"Of course it is because I asked you to." She chuckled lightly, causing him to blush out of embarrassment. The blue-skinned girl sit down in front of a low-table before she pat empty spot next to her, "Can you please sit next to me?"

"Sure…" He sat down next to her and the blunette leaned against his side with her head on his shoulder as she slowly eat her dinner, the greenette put his arm around her shoulders without thinking.

"…How was school today?" Kaoruko asked, taking some comfort in his cuddle.

"It was o-okay, just usual." Izuku replied, "You d-don't really miss a-anything. But everyone m-miss you…They're w-worried about you." She just hummed softly at that, "O-Oh! Ibara said she's p-praying f-for you."

"Tell her I said thank." She pressed herself against his side with a soft sigh and they just sit in comfortable silence as she keeps eating her dinner. They don't say much for the rest of time as he keeps her company until then.

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"Hey, Toru!" Camie held her phone out to the invisible girl in changing room at afternoon the next day, "Do you know what this is?"

"What?" The invisible girl tilted her head.

"Kamui Wood and Edgeshot are forming a team!" The illustrator said.

"Really?" Toru gasped.

"That's the site, Lurkers, right?" Kyoka checked Camie's phone out, "There's been rumors for a long time now. There've been a lot of team ups here recently, huh?"

"When we become pro heroes, let's form a team, tooooo!" Mina become excited, "Ochaco, you'll make me float, okay? And I'll make it rain acid!"

"Isn't that a bit harsh?" Ochaco muttered.

"And I can get a boost from Ibara's vine!" The pink-skinned girl continued.

"What are you talking about?" The said vine-haired girl looked at her.

"Kyoka, Kashiko and Setsuna will do reconnaissance!" Mina grinned, "Team Rainy Day!"

"Woo." The rocker replied flatly with raised fist.

"What about me?" Camie pointed to herself.

"No thanks!" The pinkette smiled bluntly with joking tone.

"So cruel!" The illustrator cried out.

"Teaming up is not just about your quirks." Momo tried to be supportful, "How compatible your personalities are is important, too."

"Yaomomo, that's kinda overkill." Toru sweatdropped at the rich girl, "And I'm pretty sure they were joking around."

"Oh." The creator blushed sheepishly and Camie just slumped on floor with childish pout. The girls exit in time to meet up with Izuku as they head out to a gym building for their training.

"Now for today, let's keep working on improving our super mooooves." Cementoss stand in front of the heroes-in-training, "Previously, I charged you all with a 'two super move minimum'. Those who haven't met this goal yet will focus on development, and those who have will focus on even further improvements." Everyone start to moving around to their spots at safe distance and Izuku walk until he feel a bump on his shoulder before he turn his head to see Katsuki walk ahead.

"Have you gotten any better?" Katsuki grunted, she asked out of curiously to see how far have he get better with his risky quirk.

"A little b-bit." Izuku replied.

"A little bit, huh?!" The explosive girl scoffed, "Didn't you say you were gonna surpass me!?"

"Um…" He blinked owlishly before he look at his hand, thinking about his limit and that he need to master it fully or he will not be able to save anyone else like Sir Nighteye.

"Izuku, can I ask you for help with our training?" The said boy looked back to see Habuko with Kashiko behind her.

"Oh, sure!" Izuku nodded rapidly, "W-What do I have to d-do?"

"We need you to be on move and try to ambush us from any directions." Kashiko explained, "Since both of our quirks have went through awakenings, we need to get more better understanding of our limits and to build our supermoves from there."

"Oh, right!" He remembered that some of his classmates' quirks have been awakened during the camp attack and it occur to him that he never ask them about the changes. "Can I ask you two what changes did your quirks have?"

"My target will stay paralyzed after I break eye contact with them but I don't know how long." Habuko replied, "Also, I want to test one of your theories out, the one with mirrors." She pull handful of small mirrors out from her pouch on belt to show him.

"For me, my quirk now can show me strength and weakness of anyone that show up on my map like Ragdoll." Kashiko bring a holographic map up in 3D, "Along with other things."

"Wow, that's amazing, both of you!" Izuku gasped in awe, "I can't wait to see how they work in action. Let's do it!" He start to help the girls with their quirk trainings, giving them some suggestions while writing everything down in his notebook at furious speed to some girls' amusement.

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"Look, looook!" Mina crackled her hands outwardly as her classmates turned to her after they return to their classroom, "Look over heeeere!" She take a step then flipping up in air with a twist before she land on her hand while holding her legs up with another hand. She finish it off with a spin, "Breaking, breakdance!"

"Dancing is her hobby, huh?" Reiko hummed.

"Mina's c-current body movements take inspiration from dance." Izuku looked through his notebook, "How should I put it? It's a state of movement where your entire body is b-being used."

"Useful." Yui uttered.

"I should try it, too." The bush-haired boy muttered.

"Okay, boy, let's dance!" Mina crossed her arms challengingly.

"Uh, um…" Izuku stuttered, "Yes, ma'am!" He attempted to do a breakdance as the pink-haired girl teach him with a laugh.

"It's great that you've maintained this active hobby during our hero training!" Momo clapped with a bright smile as Kyoka watch the dance, "Such strength!"

"Though, if we're talking about hobbies…" Setsuna slide up to the rocker, "Jiro's pretty impressive!"

"Hey, stop it!" Kyoka squeaked embarrassingly.

"Actually, that room of yours looked like a music store!" The greenette girl flashed her sharp teeth with a grin, "That's beyond hobby, girl!"

"Hey!" The rocker cried, "Enough already, okay?! Don't you guys remember the room king!?"

"Nah, that's gotta be a music pro's room, right?" Setsuna half-teased, "How often do you practice? Do you seriously…!?" A thrusting jack stop a inch before her face, halting her with a yelp.

"I mean it!" Kyoka glared with burning cheeks before she retreat to her desk.

"…Cute." The greenette girl chuckled lightly before Shino enter the room and the students return to their desks as the bell rang.

"We have a culture festival." Shino announced.

"SO SCHOOL LIKE!" Most students cheered.

"Sensei, have there been any info on Eri-chan today?" Tsuyu asked her curiously.

"I'll tell you guys later." The teleph heroine replied, "Let's discuss culture festival first."

"Culture festival!" Most girls were excited about the announcement, "The school-like stuff has come! Let's decide what we're gonna do!"

"Is it really okay for us to be carefree in this situation of time?" Kashiko raised her hand up as everyone turned their heads to her, "People have been talking about 'proliferation of villains' period lately."

"That's an excellent point." Yu nodded her head, "However, U.A. doesn't revolve around the hero department."

"That's right." Shino agreed, "If the athletic festival is sponsored by the hero department, then the culture festival is in the domain of other departments. The level of exposure isn't comparable, but to them, it's an exciting festival. Moreover, the truth of the matter is that there's a considerable number of students who are stressed out from the daily activities of the hero department and its new boarding system."

"That's a fair point…" The map-user girl muttered.

"This year will be different from past years." The homeroom teacher spoke, "Part of the staff will be cut and the culture festival will only occur within the school. As a rule, each class has to pick one program." She smiled, "Today, we'll deciding on that." She waved the class president and vice president up to the front.

"I-I will try my b-best to narrow down ideas smoothly…" Izuku held a printout with Momo next to him, "First, let us pick some possible themes…Those with suggestions, raise your hands!" Almost everyone raise their hands so fast, "Gak! Um…" He looked around before he pick one out. "Um, Tsuyu?"

"Frog music chorus." Tsuyu said and Izuku pick the next person as Momo wrote the suggestions down on blackboard.

"Maid cafe!" Pony pumped her fists eagerly.

"A mochi shop!" Ochaco grinned brightly.

"MURDER-FEST!" Katsuki roared, "LET'S DO DEATH MATCH!"

"Haunted house!" Toru waving her arms.

"Daaanciing!" Mina waved her arms.

"…A short play or something?" Kyoka said.

"Well then, a-a-anything else?" Izuku looked around after some more suggestions, "…I think that covers the suggestions from everyone." He turned to the blackboard with long list of suggestions.

"I'm going to erase all of the ones that are inappropriate or unrealistic and the ones that I don't really understand." Momo heartlessly wiped some suggestions off the board.

"How cruel!" Camie pouted as the creator erased 'Izu-poo's strip dance show' from the blackboard.

"I wasn't asking you to begin with!" The explosive girl grunted when the creator also remove her suggestion.

"Who come up with history idea?" Setsuna asked, "It sound pretty boring." Some girls agreed with her and Kashiko hanged her head, here goes her 'History of BL'.

"We already have so many study hall sessions." Tsuyu said bluntly.

"If only I were useful…" The creator looked ashamed by that and everyone have a long discussion for a while. "We weren't able to narrow it down, huh?" Momo sighed before the class bell rang.

"You can't decide on whatever you want to do?" Shino asked before she give them a smile, "That's okay, you can discuss more after classes. Make a decision by tomorrow morning. In the event that you can't decide…We'll draw random from whatever you guys suggest."

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"Where's the intern group?" Momo asked after she looked up from her laptop, little stressed that she can't find anything to help Izuku for tomorrow. The rest of the teenagers were in the common room.

"Supplementary classes." Ibara replied, "They said they can't really participate in the discussions, so they'll go along with whatever we decide."

"Now that I've tried to settle down and rethink it all…" The creator placed a index finger on her cheek, "Regarding what sensei said about other departments' stress, I think we should come up with a design plan that would assist them in letting off some stream." She nodded to herself, "Students aspiring to be heroes shouldn't have to go through this much stress."

"Well then, what if we did something more festival-like?" Ibara looked over the list with a hum, "Like a maid café, petting zoo…Haunted house?"

"A petting zoo is kinda unsanitary, isn't it?" Kyoka muttered, "We need something to let off some stress."

"How about the short play idea?" Camie asked.

"Everyone getting to dance would be fun." Mina leaned back in sofa.

"Wouldn't dancing be a good idea?" Shoko walked up to the table.

"What an unexpected supporter!" The acid user gasped.

"One second." The dual-quirk user borrowed Momo's laptop, "There was one thing. I forget what it's called…Where everyone get rowdy. Ah, this thing." she show them a video of a music show.

"This cannot be a Todoroki idea!" Camie's eyes popped out, "When did you become a party person, Shoko?!"

"I'm not." Shoko said calmly, "I thought Mina's suggestion was the best. And along those lines…Wouldn't it be best if I suggest a place where everyone could have fun? It's a idea I got from the provisional license training course."

"What kind of training course was she in?" Setsuna asked shakily, for some reason she picture her dancing in a club.

"I see…" Momo muttered.

"I'll only say it once, but wouldn't that be just as stressful as doing the play?" Kinoko gulped.

"I can teach you guys!" Mina gestured to Reiko, "An amateur with awkward moves mastered the steps in one day!"

"Ashido's instructions are the real deal…" Reiko said flatly.

"Hold it, amateurs!" The illustrator snapped her fingers, "Dance is rhythm! In other words, music! The guests will need first-rate music!"

"If we're talking about musiiiiic!" Toru get up to turn to look at Kyoka with everyone.

"Uh, what?!" Kyoka got flustered by the sudden attention.

"A live performance with Jiro-chan's instruments!" The invisible girl hopped.

"Wait a minute!" The punk cried out with her hands up.

"For what?" Toru asked, "Not only are you really good at teaching music, but when we were playing together, it was so much fun!"

"…Ashido, and everyone else, it's not exactly a hobby rooted in heroism, you know?" Kyoka tapped her jacks together, "For me, it really is just a simple hobby…Honestly, it's not something I could be proud enough about to perform…"

"So that was it!" Camie snapped her fingers in realization as the rocker jumped up, "That thing today! It's so lit that you're so good with instruments!" The punk was flustered.

"Right, girl, it's a skill that put smiles on people's faces!" Setsuna agreed, "I think it's perfect for this gig!"

"I understand both of your requests, but it's completely up to Kyoka herself." Momo stepped in between them with raised hands.

"If I don't do it, after this much commotion…" The punk messed with her head with burning cheeks, "It wouldn't be very rock and roll of me, right?"

"…Fuck, how cute can you be!" The greenette teased the flustering punk with a whistle, "You'll make someone fall for you so hard if they see you like that."

"S-S-Shut up!" Kyoka shot her a look with pink blush.

"Then Class A's program iiiiis…" Mina jumped in with a wide grin, "A live performance and dance with party space!"

The intern group return to the dorm almost thirty minutes later and the creator approach Izuku in the kitchen as he take a yogurt out of refrigerator. "Izuku, the class finally decides on what we should do for the culture festival."

"Oh, w-what is it?" Izuku perked up with curious expression.

"A live music performance with dances." Momo answered.

"R-Really?!" The greenette widened his eyes in surprise, "And e-everyone is all for i-it?"

"The majority are." She nodded, "We will discuss about it tomorrow after informing Mandalay-sensei."

"O-Ok, thank you for y-your help." Izuku smiled.

"No, I did nothing to help." Momo sighed softly, "It was the others who come up with this idea…"

"Y-Yes, but you have an f-final say and I trust you enough to m-make decisions." He said, "If you accept t-this program then y-you must have seen some p-positive benefits that must help the s-students relieve their s-s-stress out of this program."

"…You're right…" The creator nodded once with a thoughtful hum before she look at him again with a small tilt of her head, "…About the supplementary classes, how are you handling them?"

"I'm doing great, but there are s-some problems that I c-can't get." Izuku sighed.

"Then would you like me to give you some tutoring?" Momo asked with almost eager tone in her voice.

"Sure, I'll l-like that." He nodded, the creator's tutoring will greatly help him with his homework and get better understanding on some problems like math for example.

"Wonderful, I'll get some tea ready before we start." She chirped happily before she turn to the cupboard, "My mother have send me five boxes of yellow gold tea and I can't wait to try them with you." Izuku have never heard of that tea brand so he look it up behind her back and his jaw just drop at some certain info.

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It was late at night when Izuku come down to the common room to get a glass of water with sleepy eyes and he hear something go bump, startled him enough to jump. "W-Wha…?" The bush-haired boy glanced around until he notice something on the couch and he approach it to get a close look. "…H-Huh? M-Mount Lady?" It was Yu sprawling out across the couch in casual attire and he can smell alcohol on her. "A-A-Are you drunk?!" He hear elevator opening with a ding behind him and he look back to see Kaoruko trudge out sleepy until she notice him from the corner of her eyes.

"Huh, Izuku…?" Kaoruko blinked at him sleepily before she also notice Yu, "Wha…? Mount Lady?!"

"It'ssssss Yu, noooot Mount Laaaady!" The drunk woman slurred her words as she rolled over and she would have fall off the couch if both teenagers haven't catch her in time. "Ooooh…And why aaaare you in my rooooom?"

"I-It's common r-room, Mount…" Izuku stuttered out as the teenagers struggled to get the pro heroine up on her feet.

"Yu!" Yu pressed her hand on the greenette's mouth with a childish pout and flushed face, "Yuuu!"

"Let's take her up to her room." The blue-skinned girl hoisted the woman's arm around her shoulders and the greenette gave her a nod as he tried to support the drunk woman up from other side. It was difficult to get to the elevator because Yu drunkenly kick the air at random, nearly trip them all down from the recoil and keep pulling the teenagers in closer with tight grip. The elevator opens with a ding after a minute, "Finally." The teenagers pull the heroine inside and Kaoruko press a button.

"Izuuuuku, you need toooo stop doing risky thingsssss!" Yu suddenly pulled Izuku close against her chest, causing the poor greenette to stutter out madly with red face. "Yoooou're giving me heart aaaattack or graaaay hair at this raaaaate…"

"S-S-S-Sorry, Mount…" Izuku rasped out.

"Yuuuuu!" She buried the greenette's head in between her chest and the boy flailing his arms around before Kaoruko pry them apart.

"T-T-Thank, Kaoruko." He stuttered out with red face.

"N-No problem." Kaoruko replied as they tried to retain the drunken woman in and the elevator stop at the floor with a ding before they drag her out into the hallway.

"W-Which room is it?" Izuku asked.

"It's one at the end." The bubble girl answered and they reach the door at the end of hallway with some struggles. She fish the key out from Yu then unlock the door to bring her inside.

"Ifffff you promise toooo not do anythiiiiing risky, yoooou can fuck me wheeeeeen you turn eighteeeeen!" Yu looked straight into the greenette's eyes, "Fresh ass fooooor you to smaaaash! I'mmmm a virgin!"

"YUUUUU!" Both blushing teenagers cried out in shock as the said woman collapse on her bed and she yank her shirt off.

"I'LLWAITOUTSIDE!" Izuku swiftly ran out of the room with heavy blush, "LETMEKNOWIFYOUNEEDHELP,KAORUKO!"

"OKAY!" Kaoruko hollered back as she helped the drunken woman change and make sure that she's lying on her side before the bubble girl exit the room to see blushing greenette. "Um, she's sleeping…"

"T-That's good…" He coughed into his fist embarrassingly, "Thank you for y-your help…"

"B-Back at you…" Kaoruko replied with embarrassed blush as they head back to the elevator, "…For everyone's sakes, I hope she don't remember saying that…"

"Me too…" Izuku's blush deepened with a mutter.

Yu will remember everything she did and said by the time she woke up and she'll be so embarrassed that she holed up in her room for whole day.

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The next day in early morning, Izuku walk out of his dorm to meet up with Mirio at the gate but he get an encounter on his way in form of his homeroom teacher. "Good morning, Midoriya." Shino greeted him.

"M-Morning, Mandalay-sensei!" Izuku was very surprised to see her this early in morning.

"Are you on way to see Eri?" She asked.

"Hai, with Mirio." He nodded with a small wave, "I'll be goi…"

"Wait." Shino stopped her student.

"O-Oh, um, yes?" Izuku blinked at her unsurely.

"I want to thank you." She said softly as he blinked puzzlingly, "For saving Kota and caught Muscular…"

"OH!" He jolted up as he waved his hands, "You don't have to! What I did was what anyone would have…"

"I know." Shino suddenly pulled him into a hug, "But still, I want to thank you. Kota is all I get left. Thank you for saving him."

"Y-Y-You're welcome." Izuku replied with a blush, unsure if he should hug back and he never get a chance to think about it as the teleph heroine break apart from him.

"Now you can go." She smiled down at him, "Don't want your senpai to wait up any longer."

"H-Hai." He nodded rapidly before he jog away from her with a wave, "B-Bye, sensei!"

"Bye." Shino waved back with a light chuckle.

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Izuku and Mirio step into a hospital room and they smile widely at the sight of Eri up. "We're sorry we couldn't come see you earlier." Izuku said to her as they approached the bed and she stare at them, Aizawa stand by the doorway in case if he need to use his quirk.

"It's an assortment of fruits!" Mirio lift a basket, "If you like them, then eat on up! Do you have a favorite fruit? Can I guess? It's peaches, isn't it!?" He placed the basket in her hands, "You're kinda peachy, after all!"

"It's apples." Eri said.

"Just like I thought!" The blonde teenager laughed and they sit down on stool chairs before Izuku start to cut the apples in shape of rabbit.

"This whole time, even when I had my fever, I-I was thinking that, even while I was being s-saved…" The little girl spoke slowly before she look up to the greenette, "I didn't know your name. I only knew Lemillion-san, and I wanted to know."

"It's Midoriya Izuku, and my hero name is Deku!" The greenette answered, "Um, Deku is shorter, so it'll probably be easier to remember. Deku it is. My name is Deku."

"Hero name?" She questioned.

"It's kind of like a nickname." Izuku answered.

"Deku-san…" Eri muttered, "Lemillion-san, Deku-san, and…That man with the glasses…Everyone…Got really hurt, all because of me…" The teenagers almost jolt at the mention of Sir Nighteye, they know no one told her about him because she might end up blaming herself. "I'm sorry you all had to experience such painful things all because of me." She looked down, "It's…It's because of me that Lemillion-san, that you lost your powers…"

"Eri-chan." Mirio patted her head, "Nobody thinks you caused them painful things. Everyone's thinking something more like this! It's great that Eri-chan is safe! It's no use apologizing to people that aren't there! Let's take it easy. Everyone fought because they wanted to see your smiling face!" The little girl stared at them for a moment before she try to do something with her face, pressing her cheeks up to the teenagers' confusion.

"I'm sorry…How do you smile again?" The little girl muttered quietly, Izuku realize that she was still trapped in Chisaki's shadow and he want to do something to make her smile until a idea hit him.

"Aizawa-sensei, can't Eri-chan go out for even one single day?" Izuku ran up to the underground hero.

"It's probably not impossible, however…" Aizawa said, "How should I put it? Where she'll be transferred to…"

"Then…" The greenette cut him off, "Can Eri-chan come, too?"

"I see." The scruffy man crossed his arms with an arched eyebrow.

"To the cultural festival!" Izuku said, "Can Eri-chan come, too!?"

"Cultural festival?" Eri turned to the blonde teenager.

"It's a festival put on by our school!" Mirio explained eagerly, "The students set up events and foods for other students to enjoy! And apples! They'll probably even have candy apples!"

"Candy apples?" The little girl asked.

"It's a apple that's sweetened to the point of becoming candy!" The older teenager explained.

"Sweetened…" Eri drooled with shiny eyes.

"Let's talk it over with the principal." Aizawa took his phone out to make a call.

"Well then!" Izuku returned to the girl's side, "Eri-chan…What do you think?"

"I-I've been thinking, ever since I was being saved…" Eri reached out to hold Izuku's jacket, "About the people who saved me…Lemillion-san and everyone else, I want to get to know them more!" She looked up to the greenette.

"I'll tell you about us until you can't take it anymore!" Mirio pumped his fist, "Let's start working to get the go-ahead from the principal! I'm currently on suspension so I can be on constantly supervised date with Eri-chan, right?"

"Date?" The little girl asked.

"A honeymoon couple's outing!" The blonde teenager replied.

"Honeymoon couple's outing?" Eri asked confusingly.

"Senpai, what are you saying?" Izuku looked at him funnily.

"Heh, you heard me." Mirio nudged him with a teasing smirk, "A honeymoon couple's outing between you and your ha…"

"They're not!" The blushing greenette cut him off, "T-They're my classmates and friends!"

"Mm, who happen to be all girls." The blonde teenager snickered and the freshman stuttered heavily as Eri looked between them in confusion.

Aizawa have notice that the little girl seem to lean close to the greenette, even mostly take foods from him as if she feel little comfortable with him. Another thing to make note for his boss.

---

"We have so much to plan!" Mina waved her arms up and down as she walked back to dorm the next day with most of her class, including Kaoruko. The intern group have more supplementary classes.

"Isn't it delightful to think about what it'll be like?" Camie said.

"Yeah." Kyoka replied coolly and Katsuki overheard a conversation between two general students.

"Hey, did you hear?" A teenager boy with elongated chin grunted, "The hero department's class A is doing a live show, apparently. All for us."

'The department of general education…' Katsuki recognized them by the way they behave.

"Such a cocky crew." The general girl scoffed, "Even when they start all the conflict." The comment makes the explosive girl's blood boiled.

---

"The culture festival is just one m-month away!" Momo said to everyone in common room a hour later, "We don't have much time, so today I want to decide on a few things. First music."

"Let's do something groovy!" Mina grinned.

"Well, then shouldn't we do a song that's as well known as possible?" Someone asked.

"One that we can dance to!" Toru pumped her fists.

"If that's the case, we might consider four-on-the-floor." Kyoka loosed her tie, "And club rock in the style of new rave. If we're doing dance music, we really should turning toward EDM…But everyone's set on playing instruments, right?" She glanced around, "Has anyone here ever played bass or drums?" There was a silence, "I figured. First, even though the backbone of the band is the drums, my main instrument is the guitar, so my drumming is, frankly, a work in progress. If I have to teach a beginner drums while I also have to practice, one month is way too tight."

"Ah!" The pink-skinned girl looked to the explosive girl, "That's right. You were forced to go music class a while back, weren't you?"

"Eh?" Katsuki grunted.

"EHHH?!" Kyoka stuttered, "HOW UNEXPECTED!"

"Why don't you try playing the drums?" Camie held the drumsticks up.

"Can't someone else do it?" The violent girl walked away.

"Seems like it's too difficult!" The illustrator pushed her button.

"Eh?" Katsuki played the drum.

"P…Perfect!" The rocker dropped her jaw.

"Amazing!" Mina jumped up and down, "We've got ourselves a talent!"

"So it's decided!" Setsuna grinned, "Katsuki's on drums!"

"EH?!" The explosive girl realized that she have been duped, "I ain't doing any of that pointless shit."

"Katsuki, please!" Kyoka regained her sense, "Or rather…If you do this for me, you'll be a good person!"

"Nothing will come of it." Katsuki said rudely, "You guys are selling this as a stress reliever for other departments, aren't ya? Doing shit like that all in the name of stress relief. What else is it other than self-gratification? People that sicken me…Don't deserve my courtesy."

"Hey, c'mon…" The invisible girl shook her fist, "Talking that way…"

"I'm telling you that what you guys are doing is indulging the enemy." The explosive girl shouted.

"No, but…" Setsuna paused, "Actually…Did we not consider that enough…?"

"Don't speak ill of us if you didn't even participate in the conversation." Shoko narrowed her eyes.

"Isn't it sickening?" Katsuki growled, "We aren't getting smacked down by the villains because we enjoy it!" Everyone paused at that, "Why do we have to concern ourselves with people's feeling? If you're all so intent on pleasing everyone, then just quit! Because I'm gonna fight! It's not about indulgence, it's a battle! If you're on board, then get ready!" She turned to glare at them with slicing gesture, "Everybody in U.A., I'll knock you dead with my sound!"

"The motivation isn't great, but she's gonna do it, all right!" Toru hopped with swinging arms before she jump onto Kyoka's side, "We did it! Right, Kyo-chan?!"

"…I'll do my best." Kyoka smiled.

"Anyone else?" Habuko glanced around.

"Thanks to my etiquette training as a child, I'm quite familiar with the piano…" Momo spoke up, "Would that skill prove useful?"

"Woahh!" Mina thrust her fist up, "Yaomomo's on keyboard, then!"

"Synthesizers are essential to club music." Kyoka replied, "Yaomomo, you'll be a huge help!"

"I'll do my best!" The creator clenched fists closer to her happy face.

"Heyyy, we said girls were gonna dance!" Mina whined, "But that's cute too, so it's okay!"

"Since I'll be doing the bass, we just have guitar and vocals left." The rocker said, "So everyone else will dance?"

"Is this all it usually takes to get a party going?" Itsuka cupped his chin with a hum.

"What about that thing that gets people rowdy?" Shoko said.

"We have to add staging!" The pink-skinned girl spun around.

"Yeah, that." The dual-haired girl nodded.

"Staging?" Some teenagers questioned before the pink-haired girl show them a picture on laptop.

"For example, this!" Mina spoke, "Things like sparklers, streamers, or a disco ball. Anything that's essential to creating the atmosphere is called staging!"

"Let's make it look like a parade!" The invisible girl clapped with some jumps, "One that really involves participation!"

"Did you say we're borrowing the gym?" Kaoruko asked the vice president.

"Yes, Sosaki-sensei has already made the arrangements." Momo nodded.

"So, for example, for example…" The acid user lift her index finger up, "Ocahco will make Shoko and Ibara float, right? Then Ibara will chip away away at Shoko's ice! And then, since Camie will be the disco ball…" The said girl turned to her with raised eyebrow, "Light will flutter all over like stardust! Team snowwoman!"

"Is this that teaming up we talked about before?" Toru asked.

"Honestly I think it's good!" Momo replied, "It's the perfect gimmick to get everyone hyped up!"

"…I'm the disco ball?" Camie uttered. "It's not good. If we're going through with this, we'll need someone running things behind the scenes."

"Heeeey!" Ocahco entered the dorm with the intern group, "Supplementary classes finally finished for today. Now we can fully participate!" They were quickly catch up on everything, "Huh?" She tilted her head, "Jiro, you're not singing?"

"Oh no, we still haven't…" Kyoka said before she get cut off.

"If it's vocals, let us handle it!" Setsuna said, "We'll be a hit!"

"In addition to being the disco ball, I can sing." The illustrator said. After a quick audition, no one pick the volunteers because their singing was…Poor.

"I also think it should be Jiro-chan!" Toru said, "'Cause earlier when she was teaching me in her room, her singing was amazing!"

"Hey…" The rocker looked embarrassed, "Don't make things more complicated." But she was forced to take the microphone.

"It's fine, it's fine." The invisible girl smiled encouraging at the punk.

"To disregard the cries of our souls!" Camie complained with pout, "What kind of people are you? What is this?!"

"I want to hear Jiro sing." Kaoruko smiled lightly, "We're counting on you." The rocker start to sing and the three volunteers were on floor while most of the teenagers cheered for her.

"My ears are in heaven! Such a husky, sexy voice!" The teenagers cheered, "It's unanimous!"

"Okay then, that's that." Kyoka quickly divert the attention to something else with heavy blush, "Now! We need guitarists! Two of them!"

"I want to do iiiit!" Setsuna held her hand up, "Playing an instrument is so cool!"

"Me." Yui raised her hand up.

"I don't care if you want to do it!" Katsuki huffed at them, "Do you have the guts to do get it done!?"

"I do, I do, I really do!" The greenette girl held her hands up with a chuckle.

"Dancing's good with me." Kaoruko scratched her cheek lightly with index finger, "After all, I can't play any of instruments."

"Same here." Kinoko replied.

"Mm, I'll help out with the staging." Yui said flatly with expressionless face and everyone hear someone playing a guitar very well before they look over to see…

"PONY?!" Mina gasped at the said girl as she strummed the guitar, "You play?! Why don't you say anything?!"

"Y-Yeah, that was amazing!" Izuku said in awe, "You never s-say anything about that b-before!"

"Hehe, I okay with it." Pony smiled sheepishly, "But I struck with F…Cord? Ah, Chord!"

"Ah, I'll help you out with that." Kyoka said and the blonde girl beamed at her. The discussion went on for a quite long time until the roles have finally been decided and the now-tired teenagers have no choice but to turn in since it's way too late.

---

"And here we are!" Mirio led Eri to the school with Aizawa on Saturday, "It's okay! Everyone's nice here! Welcome to U.A!" The little girl look up to the giant building in awe, holding her bag. She follow them to a dorm, "Doesn't seem like anyone's noticed yet…" Mirio ducked behind the bush when he see Izuku with Tsuyu and Ochaco, "What sort of sudden entrance will get a laugh out of them?"

"Ah, Togata-senpai!" Izuku spotted him and the blonde teenager just stare before the greenette gasped at the sight of Eri, "Is that…"

"E…?!" Ochaco gasped with Tsuyu.

"Eri-chan!" The greenette said, no one see Mirio thrusting his rear out through the bush.

"Deku-kun…" Eri moved up closer to the said teenager, holding the helm of his shirt.

"What a gweat wittle outfit." Tsuyu cooed over the little girl's appearance.

"Soo cuteeee!" The gravity girl threw her fist up in air.

"We got permission from the principal." Aizawa said as Mirio crawled out dejected for his failure of joke, "Just to make sure she doesn't get shocked or panic, we're bringing her beforehand to get used to the place."

"Oh, the child from the internship!" Itsuka recognized the girl's name before she bend down to smile at her, "I'm Kendo Itsuka, nice to meet you." Eri hide herself behind the greenette's legs.

"you're a shy one, aren't ya?" Mirio laughed.

"Yeah, a shy one." The smiling orangette nodded at that.

"In any case, I'm planning on walking around with U.A. with Eri-chan now." The blonde teenager turned to the bush-haired boy, "Midoriya-kun, how 'bout you come with!?" The greenette turned to the pink-haired girl.

"Well then, let's take a break!" Mina smiled, "Tea time!"

"Sure!" The greenette nodded before he walk off with Eri, Mirio and Aizawa as the little girl take Izuku's hand.

"Today's a day off, but because of the new boarding school model, lot of peoples are continuing with their preparations." Mirio said.

"Well, if it isn't Togata!" A older teenager boy called out to them.

"A kid?!" A teenager boy with horn gasped, "What did you do during your break!? Don't tell me you…"

"Naaaaah, that's his kid." Mirio pointed to Izuku with his thumb.

"Oooh, make senses." The older teenager boy nodded, the Class 1-A is famous for having all-girl class with one only boy beside other things.

"W-W-What?!" Izuku squeaked with widened eyes.

"Okay, putting jokes aside, this year's class A is killing it." The older teenager chuckled as he gave them a flyer, "You better come, too!"

"Amazing." The greenette examined the paper, "What a beautiful flier." The group resumed their walking and the little girl look around at teenagers running around, setting things up. They jumped up at appearing dragon. "Wait…?!" At first, Izuku thought it was one of his relatives making a surprise appearance but it turn out to be a prop.

"'Scuse me…" Tetsutetsu looked over, "Wait, it's Midoriya from Class A!"

"Wait, wait, wait, wha!?" Neito peeked up, "Chitchatting in a place like this? You got that much time on your hands!?"

"Eri-chan, are you okay?" Izuku asked worriedly.

"I thought it was the falling lady." Eri muttered up to him.

"OI, OI!" The copycat laughed, "You ignorin' me?! You think that's okay!? You guys are putting on some kind of live performance, I hear!? I wonder how that'll go! This time I'll tell you straight up! We of Class B are gonna be better than you! Romeo, Juliet, and the prisoner of Azkaban: The return of the kings! Class B's completely original super special fantasy play…"

"Oh, it's a mash up of Romeo and Juliet, Harry Potter, Star War and Lord of Rings?" The greenette said, covering the little girl's ears and turn her away from the laughing copycat.

"…Better get ready!" Neito shouted after a pause, "We're gonna shame you to tears! I'll have handkerchief for you when it happens!" Togaru knocked him out with a wood beam.

"He has more to say every time he speaks!" Izuku said.

"Sorry, Sen's not here, so he went unchecked." Togaru picked the copycat up, dragging him away and the greenette just blinked few times before they resume their walking.

"Sorry for suddenly showing you U.A.'s dark side, Eri-chan." Mirio said to the confusing girl, "Ah, that's right! She's fired up this year for Miss Con."

"Huh?" The greenette blinked with Eri, "…Miss Con?"

---

The group enter the equipment room and Izuku don't know where to look at as Nejire floating in a very tight dress. "Hey, hey, why is Eri-chan and Izu-kun here?" Nejire noticed them as she flew closer to them, "Strange! Why, why? So exiting!"

"Even her quirk is flashy." Izuku blushed while looking at somewhere away from her, "Her…Face, too…And her p-p-p-propopro…"

"Proportions." The blue-haired girl giggled at his reaction.

"We even have senpais like this, huh?" The blushing greenette said.

"That's right, but listen!" Nejire said with index finger up, "Are you listening? Each year, I've never wonnn! There's this amazing girl! The champion of Miss Con! Third year class G support team, the dazzling Zaki Bibimi-san!"

"A-Amazing…" Izuku muttered.

"This year, she's gonna appear in a commercial that'll make her fanbase blow up." Tamaki showed up before he curled up on floor, "To perform in the presence of the public…Just thinking about it…Ow, oww…My stomach start to hurt. Like Yuyu says, the first step is just about making an appearance…" Yuyu looked up at the mention of her name, "But one way or another…It becomes both exciting and terrifying."

"That's why, this year, I'll definitely win!" The blue-haired girl smiled widely, "It's my last one, after all!"

"You can do it!" Mirio nodded.

"Yup, I can't wait for you to see me there." Nejire aimed her smile toward to Izuku but he thought it was toward to Eri and he was little puzzled by his blonde senpai's snickers on the way out.

---

"Next is…" The blonde senior enters a certain room with the group, "The support department! All of the grades hold a technology exhibition together!"

"I know this one!" Izuku said, "They always get media attention every year!"

"That's right!" Mei suddenly pop up over his shoulder, "The cultural festival is the support team's moment to shine!"

"Is that Hatsume…" The greenette turned around to face her and he yelp out at the sight of giant robot behind her.

"My adorable baby, child number two hundred and two!" Mei gestured with her arms.

"You're…" Izuku noticed her appearance, "Really dirty…"

"'Cause getting in the tub is a waste of time!" The pinkette grinned as the boys blinked, "The ideas keep on gushing forth! It's so exciting!" She turned to stroke her robot's leg, "For the hero department, the sports festival was already the second place to garner attention. But! This time, it's us that've been given the opportunity to be the main attraction! A ton of companies will get a careful look at my little child! I better rear him to not be shy!" She turned back to the greenette with a whiplash, "More importantly, how have the iron soles been doing!? If anything else comes up, please let me know, ASAP!"

"Okay, thank you…" The greenette muttered before the robot behind the pinkette explode with smoking.

"Babyyyyyyyy?!" Mei gasped.

"WAH! HASUME, AGAIN!?" The supporters screamed as they run around to put the fire out.

"Hatsume-chan, I'm sorry!" Izuku hurriedly get Eri out of the room with Mirio in tow, "Let's go, Eri-chan!"

---

After some sightseeing, the group stop at the cafeteria and Eri was quietly sipping her juice through straw. "Well, guess that's basically it." Izuku looked to her, "Will you…Be okay with this? What did you think?"

"…I don't really know…" Eri said meekly, "But…So many different people are trying their hardest…So I want to know how it will turn out…" Both teenagers exchange a happy look before they jump up at a voice near them.

"We call that feeling 'Excitement'." They looked over to see Nezu with Midnight, the creature was eating cheese. "Seems like it was worthwhile, don't you think?"

"Principal Nezu!" The greenette gasped, "Midnight-sensei!"

"I'm also excited for the cultural festival!" Nezu clean his mouth with a napkin, "In order to throw the best festival they can, many of the students bring encouragement, excitement…And try to create a good time for everyone!"

"Especially since we've gotten into various issues with police…" Midnight said.

"Watch it, Kayama!" The creature stopped her before he hop off the chair then walk away, "Well! I'll be going now. You all! Enjoy the cultural festival to your heart's content."

"I can't say for sure…" The R-rated heroine picked her food tray up, "But the principla seems to have worked pretty hard. Getting this result after butting heads with a higher up. We've fortified security even more. Then…In the off chance that the alarm sounds…Even if it's a false alarm. We'll immediately suspend activities and evacuate. That was the condition for holding the event."

"That's rough…" Izuku muttered.

"Of course, I prepared very hard on my end so that doesn't happen!" Midnight nodded, "I even dispatched Hound Dog to watch over school premises."

"D-Dispatched!" The greenette boy gulped.

"Oh, yes!" The R-rated heroine remembered something, "Talk of class A's program has even made it to the staff room! Work hard, young ones!"

"We will!" Izuku replied.

"What are you doing?" Eri asked.

"We're doing a dance party with live music!" He answered, "I'll be dancing!" He gave her a big grin, "I'm doing my best so that you can have a fun time, too, Eri-chan. Please come see!" He checked the time, "Sorry! Break time is almost over, so I'll see you later!"

"For your information, I'm looking forward to it, too!" Mirio grinned.

"Deku, you're leaving already?" The little girl asked bit sadly.

"Sorry, I've got practice." Izuku kneeled with a smile.

"On the big day, after Midoriya-kun is done, the three of us should wander around again!" Mirio spun around.

"Deku, Lemillion…" Eri looked up with a tiny wobbly smile, "I'm looking forward to it."

"Yeah, please do." The greenette gave her a smile as he stood up, "Bye, Eri-chan. I'll see you on the big day." They waved to each other as he left the cafeteria and it take him some time to reach the dorm. He barely reach to the doorknob before he hear someone calling him out.

"Heeeey, little bun!" Izuku turned to see Mawata approaching him with a cheery wave.

"E-Eh, Fuwa-senpai?!" He gasped out in surprise, "W-What bring you here?"

"For you." Mawata jabbed thumb at herself with a smirk, "This onee-chan want to take you out for some fun at cultural festival."

"Eh?!" Izuku blinked rapidly with burning cheeks, "L-Like, um, hangout?"

"Yup!" The pinkette popped her lips, Hisashi have ask her to get close to his son to 'protect' him from his classmates with bribery of sponge cakes. Too bad the pro hero have no idea that she have become interested in Izuku since she find him cute, adorable, fluffy and totally her type.

"W-Well, sure." He replied after a minute of thinking, he don't see any harm in hanging out with his senpai and he can ask her what's it like to work under his father along with other things like her quirk and hero stuff.

"Awesome!" Mawata grinned.

"What's going on?" They turned to see Kyoka and some girls peeking out behind the door, they have heard some noise outside and were checking it out of curiosity. "Who's that?" The punk gestured to the pinkette with raised eyebrow.

"That is our senpai f-from Class 2-A, Fuwa Mawata." Izuku gestured to the said teenager.

"And little bun's onee-chan." The pinkette threw her arm around his shoulders with a grin and the girls blinked at that.

"…Excuse me?" Itsuka stared at her funnily with raised eyebrow, "I've never seen you before until now."

"S-She's just calling herself that because s-she's i-interning under my dad." He blushed in embarrassment.

"That's right." Mawata chuckled at the girls as she stroked his hair with her hand to his embarrassment, "I'm just stopping by to ask little bun if he want to hang out with me for a bit during the cultural festival and he said yes." The girls jolt up at that as she gave them a teasing smirk before she mouthed at them while playing with his hair, 'Mine.' She snickered mentally as it seem to lit some fire up under the girls, who gave her an competitive glares.

"Seriously, another one?" Kyoka sighed under her breath with tired expression, "And a second-year senpai at that…"

"Anyway, I gotta go." The pinkette patted the bush-haired boy's back before she walk away from them with a wave, "Later, little bun, see you on this day!"

"L-Later." Izuku waved back before he turn to his friends as they stared at him and it make him nervous for some reasons. "Um…Am I late for practice?"

"No, you just arrive at perfect time." Mina said quickly, "Come on, let's go!" The group head out with the greenette boy in tow.

---

"Izukuuu!" Kyoka called out to the said boy and he look up from his notebook curiously, they were in between their periods.

"Whenever you scribble furiously in your notebook, how do you organize it?" She asked.

Kyoka, you have a hero you admire too!?" He gasped.

"Nope, I just meant…" Kyoka waved it off with her jack, "How you, like, condense your notes, I always try to make the more important points easier to read. But if there's too much to write, I can't really condense it." She gave him her notebook and he look through it.

"A-A-A-Advice to all the members!?" Izuku looked up to her, "You w-w-wrote all this!? Amazing! Everyone will be so happy!"

"I do it just to hear someone say that." The rocker laughed with a faint blush, "I always worry that people will call it a useless hobby…So I sort of go all out."

"N-No, it's not useless, it's amazing!" He shook his head rapidly.

"I know." Kyoka laughed again before she lean forward on his desk, "So…About the notes?"

"O-Oh!" Izuku took his notebook out for comparing, "Can you take a look at these…" He start to explain his method as the punk listen to him with some nods, asking him some questions in between and her cheeks feel little heated for some reason.

---

"Midori…" Mina said sternly with sunglass and black jacket a week later as dancing members stood behind her, not looking at him. "You're fired." She pat the shocked boy's shoulder before she toss her sunglass and jacket off, "By fired, we technically mean an enlistment from the staging team! They needed a hand, apparently!"

"Why…Me…?" Izuku stuttered, "I told…Eri-chan…I'd dance…." They explained to him that Camie need help to hold on a rope while casting lasering disco ball. "So in other words, being fired means getting my stage time shaved off."

"My bad!" Kaoruko scratched her cheek, "Sorry to make you practice for nothing. But can you please do this for us? It'll be good for everyone."

"As long as I have a turn dancing, I wouldn't be lying to Eri-chan…" He muttered before he give them a nod, "If it's for a good cause…Understood!"

"Thank!" The bubble girl smiled.

"Thank you, you're a saint." Ibara said.

"Totes!" Camie beamed at him with thumb up as she bat her eyelash at him flirty, "Can't wait to do stuff with you in back…"

"Camie…" The vine-haired girl shot her a stern look to stop her double entendre.

"Izuku, you sure change from day one in a good way lately." Tsuyu said with index finger on her chin, "You hardly stutter."

"Oh yeah, that's right." Itsuka agreed with the frog girl.

"Heh, yeah, I g-guess so." Izuku scratched his head with a light smile before he notice the time from clock, "Oh, I gotta go!" He gave them a quick wave as he jog out and some girls blink at that.

"Ah right, he have a private training." The orangette recalled, feeling very disappointed mentally because it feel like they have been spending less time together lately due to everything that's going on right now and it make her feel more…

"Oh, did he come up with something new?" Camie tilted her head, "Like new move or something to help with his quirk?" Itsuka simply shrug her shoulders before the girls resume their discussion and light practices.

---

"I'm beat!" Pony stretched her arms out at night.

"Yo, asshole, you're playing too fast!" Katsuki yelled, "Follow me!"

"No, it's because you'll keep improvising on your own, it's messing everything up!" Setsuna huffed.

"Kyoka, you teach just like a professional." Momo smiled at the said girl while making tea, "You got Setsuna, the amateur, to learn the chord progression."

"It wasn't that impressive." Kyoka waved it off until she smell something good, "Hey…Today's tea smells really good…"

"I know, right?!" The creator held a tea box up to her cheek cheerily, "I got it from my mother! It's the phantom black tea, Imperial Golden Tips! Please try it, everyone!"

"I don't quite understand what it is, but thanks as always!"

"I don't quite understand either, but it's so bourgeois!"

"Deku-kun!" Ochaco called out to the greenette, "You're not having any of Yaomomo's tea…?" She screamed out as Izuku swiped rapidly in his phone, mumbling something about All Might and support items. He just found out about it from Toshinori himself when they were having a secret training with his OFA quirk after a meetup with Mei.

"Oh, shoot!" Izuku accidently tap a random video and it show a messy tea cup.

"When and what kind of tea does the listener drink?" The voice spoke.

"A video on black tea?" The gravity girl passed the tea to him, "How timely."

"Ah, thank you!" The greenette take it.

"For me, I always drink before and after work, and I choose the brand based on the amount of work I have." The speaker pick the messy tea up to reveal his face, "This is the premium black tea, Royal Flush. Do you know what this means? That Gentle, the man who can difference, is awesome? The next video coming out…Will be a wake-up call. Not just to listeners but to society as a whole. I sincerely hope that you wait!" The video ended with a woman's squeal.

"So short." Ochaco muttered.

"This person…" Izuku realized.

"Is he famous?" The gravity girl asked, "His like ratio is quite low."

"I'm not very familiar with him either, but…" He muttered, "He's an infamous villain partly due to his troublesome behavior. Though the fact that he's managed to somehow upload videos of himself without getting arrested is impressive. I wonder what he's planning next…"

---

It's the night before the cultural festival and the Class 1-A were doing one last rehearse. "All right, they're closing up soon!" Mina hollered to the dancers and band, "Let's take it from the top! Clap, tap, tap!" The dancers followed the beat, "Clap, tap, tap! Ha! Now, Camie, you're at center. Midori, you're off stage." They obeyed her, "Midori! Your movements are still sluggish, so…" The boy shuffled clumsily, "WAKE UP!"

"I was worried at first about this performance thing since we're all amateurs…" Reiko said, "But now…Both the band and the dance team have come a long way, haven't they? Thanks in no small part to Mind being such a super intense coach."

"I guess when you love something, you give it your all." Kinoko agreed.

"I'm starting to get nervous." Momo gulped.

"Don't do those weird ad-libs in the real performance, ok?" Kyoka told her band to be safe, "One of us might get thrown off by it."

"Just who exactly are you referring to?" Setsuna huffed together with Katsuki.

"You two." Yui deadpanned.

"And then Midori will quickly go from the stage up to the ceiling, set up Camie, and suspend him from a rope!" Mina said as Izuku hoist Camie up, "And then all that's left is…"

"Isn't it!" Hound Dog slammed the door open with growl, "Nine already?! Students are bark bark bark only allowed in here until nine!"

"Yikes, sorry!" The teenagers quickly run back to their dorm, "Going back now!"

---

"I CAN'T SLEEEEEEP!" Setsuna ran around with a loud scream.

"Quiet!" Mina shouted, "Some people are sleeping."

"I wonder if everyone else will enjoy this as much as we hope." Kashiko wondered.

"I don't think you should think about it that way." Kyoka said with her hands tucked under her thighs, "Feeling shy or nervous won't do us any good. We just have to enjoy ourselves once we get on that stage."

"Weren't you the one who was super shy?" Toru teased.

"That was different!" The embarrassed rocker waved it off.

"What you said makes a lot of sense, Kyoka." Izuku said while checking supplies with Camie.

"Yup!" Camie added, "Focusing on others is the best way to help ourselves."

"I see." The greenette noticed the ropes, "The rope is getting frayed."

"We've worn it out from practicing so much." The illustrator said, "It's the proof of our love!"

"Yeah…" Izuku quickly caught himself, "No, this is dangerous! Sorry I didn't notice earlier." He paused, "W-Wait, did you said lo…"

"Why don't you ask Yaomomo to make one?" Camie cut him off.

"Yaomomo already went to sleep!" Mina rejected the idea, "Don't treat her like a tool box!"

"I'll buy one, first thing in the morning." The greenette said, "I have morning training anyway. And incidentally, I also have some other stuff I want to buy."

"Wait, wait, we're on at ten." Setsuna pointed out, "The store opens around nine, doesn't it?"

"The home center that's fifteen minutes from U.A opens at around eight." Kyoka said.

"That's cutting it pretty close." Mina got up, "We better hit the sack soon."

"Well then! We'll probably do this again tomorrow." Camie flashed a thumb-up, "But let's get in an early cheer…Night owl squad!" She pumped his fist up as most teenagers cheered loudly, "Let's do this!"

---

In the early morning, Izuku was running to the entrance after picked up latest supporting gloves from Mei and little did he know is that he'll run into Gentle and his partner on the way.

---

"Let's find our calm and serene composure!" Momo take a deep breath to calm her nerves down as everyone get ready for the show.

"Calm and serene." Pony repeated.

"Hey, Katsuki, put on your t-shirt!" Kyoka called out, "We made it just for the occasion."

"The dancing dress fit perfectly!" Mina posed in the dancer outfit.

"Even though you just touched up one off the rack." Kashiko said.

"Izuku's not here, is he?" Shoko carried a box.

"He went out to buy rope." Camie reminded her.

"What could he be doing out this late?" The dual-haired girl said.

"Shoko!" The pink-skinned girl called out, "Let's do our final dress rehearsal already!"

"What, indeed." The illustrator hummed.

---

"GOOD MOORRNING!" Hizashi shouted into the microphone as the students become exciting listening to the PA, "Hey, guys! All of our preparations have been for this day! Today's a day to set aside your worries and cut loose! Forget about your coursework and go wild! With that, everyone join me in saying…THE U.A CULTURAL FESTIVAL BEGINS NOW!" There was some smoke fireworks going off and the students start to exploring the campus or get ready to work.

---

"Midoriya did what?" Shino asked.

"What was he thinking going out to buy something on his own?" Habuko said worriedly.

"It's starting!" Toru waved her torso around and Eri looked worried at that before she take hold of Mirio's sleeve.

"Is Deku going to dance?" Eri asked.

"Yes, he will!" Mirio led the little girl to join the crowd and they wait until the curtains start to moving, "Look like it's staring!"

"It's here! GO first years!"

"Yaoyorozuuu!" a group chanted the rich girl's name.

Eri-chan, can you see?" The blonde teenager lifted the little girl up on his shoulder for better view.

"Yeah!" Eri's eyes lit up at the sight of Izuku in the lineup. The greenette tried his best to stay calm while not looking at couple scolding glares from few girls who were so worried for him, he barely make it in time.

On the stage, Kyoka take a deep breath as Katsuki bring the drumsticks down to smash the drum set, firing a booming sound that jolt everyone in the audience. The band start to play the music loudly and skillfully as the dancers took off before Kyoka shouted, "THANKS FOR COMING!"

"Oh?!" Someone said in the audience as they watch the impressive perform, "This ain't bad!"

"They're in perfect sync!" Someone else commented on the dancers' steps.

"Here it comes!" Mirio grinned as Izuku tossed Camie up in air, the illusion user fired her quirk up to give a light show to the cheering audience.

"The big stunt's over?!" The blonde teenager gasped, "So short!"

"It's over?" Eri asked.

"But look!" Mirio said as some teenagers on stage use their quirks, "Over there!" Their quirks combine together to create a wild and elegant stage.

"Who want to have some fun?!" Ochaco jumped into the air with Tsuyu's tounge around her torso, "Put your hands up!" She slapped some hands and some people float up in air with safe tape.

"YEAHHHH!" Eri threw her hands up with bright wide grin then point at the show, looking down to Mirio, "YEAHHH!"

'Are you seeing that, Nighteye?' Mirio grinned back with tears, 'Midoriya? Eri is finally smiling!'

---

"I wish I could've seen Class B's play." Toru sighed as she heard some comments from the bypassing students about Class 1-B's show, the musical show have ended a while ago but they have to do the cleanup first before they can go exploring the campus.

"We had no choice." Setsuna shrugged her shoulders, "Gotta do the cleanup properly." They looked over to Izuku looking down slightly with Toshinori at distance, "Is he gettin' scolded?" The teenagers watch on as couple teachers join the group before Hound Dog suddenly toss Izuku over to them. "WHOA!" She yelped out, "It's a flying Midoriya!"

"Ah, here come senpai!" Pony grinned at the sight of blonde teenager with little girl.

"Yoo! Nice job back there!" Mirio waved and Eri ran up to Izuku immediately.

"At first, I was scared because it was so loud, but hten everyone started dancing like 'hop, hop'!" Eri said excitingly to smiling bush-haired boy, "And then the light went flash and Deku disappeared, but…Then everything got cold, like 'fwoosh'!" She lift her hands up above her head, "And then the light was spinning around, and that lady's voice was like 'Waaah' and I…" Her hands went down, "I said 'Waaaah' too!"

"I'm so glad you enjoyed yourself." Izuku laughed with joyous tears.

"Class A!" Someone called out, "Nice work! We had a great time!"

"Alright!" Mina grinned, "Thanks, dudes!"

"We're sorry!" Two general students suddenly shouted out, "We went to watch because we were going to ridicule you guys!" They shuffled off.

"Um, okay?" The pink-skinned girl looked at them oddly and no one notice Katsuki's smug expression.

"So those were the stressed out people Sosaki-sensei was talking about, right?" Kinoko asked, "I guess this means we got through to them, huh?"

"Hurry and clean up the rest of this ice." Ibara said.

"Ah, sorry!" Setsuna said, "Oh, we should go to the Miss Con show after that!"

---

"Kendo!" The announcer said as Itsuka break through several boards with a hand chop, "Her stunning dress is torn as she demonstrates her martial arts! A fusion of strength and beauty! What a wonderful performance!" The orangette leave the stage as the class 1-A were surprised at her entry before another one take her place while riding a giant head vision of herself, "The queen of the beauty contest! A third year from the support department! With her high-level ingenuity, she shows off her face to the crowd! A superb performance indeed!"

"What is that thing supposed to do?" Eri asked on Izuku's shoulder.

"You guess is as good as mine." Mirio said before Nejire appear on the stage and she take off in the sky, dancing a bit to everyone's awe.

"A magical dance in midair!" The announcer shouted over the applauding audience, "I was completely drawn in! And now next up…You can cast your votes here! The results will be announced at five! That concludes our event!" The people start to cast their votes and it will end in Nejire's victory in few hours.

"Tonight's gonna be productive!" Mineta shuffled away with a lewd giggle.

"Class C's ghost labyrinth looks badass!" Camie looked up from the foldable map, "Wanna go?"

"I'm in!" Mina grinned.

"Me too." Reiko said.

"No way." Kyoka shivered, "No. Way!"

"They've got an obstacle course too!" Kaoruko said, "Let's have a little completion!"

"Crepes!" Ochaco singsong.

"Itsuka!" Izuku gasped out as soon as he see the said girl approaching them, "I don/t know you were taking part in Miss Con!"

"I want it to be a surprise." Itsuka smiled, "So what do you think of me up there?

"You were so amazing!" He said.

"Yeah, and really pretty!" The gravity girl added and some girls agreed with positive responses.

"Oh, was I?" The orangette glanced at the greenette with a small lean and his eyes snap away from her with red face, she was still wearing the dress and it give him a accidental glimpser at her cleavage.

"Y-Y-Yeah, you look r-r-really pretty b-beautiful and g-graceful on stage." Izuku stuttered out, never notice a light blush across Itsuka's cheeks with a light smirk. Itsuka did it in hope to get him to notice her more than a friend and she think she have successfully plant a seed in him.

"Are you going around the festival in this getup?" Setsuna asked.

"Nah, I'm gonna change." Itsuka replied.

"We're going to buy some crepes." The greenette boy informed the orangette as Eri hold his hand.

"Get it." The orangette walked away to change her clothings.

"Shall we go now?"' Tsuyu looked down at the little girl.

"Yes, I want to try crepes." Eri looked up with a smile.

---

"What do you think of it?" Itsuka asked the little girl as the small group eats crepes at a wooden table.

"It's yummy!" Eri said bubbly with some creams on her lower face, which Izuku wipe it clean with napkin.

"Hey, there are some games you can play to win prizes." Mirio grinned down at the little girl, "Want to go there?"

"Yeah!" The little girl nodded rapidly and they set out to find some game stalls.

"Deku!" They heard a bark before they look over to see Katsuki stomping toward to them at high speed.

"K-Kacchan?!" Izuku jumped and before everyone know it, the explosive girl shove something into his hands roughly before she stomp away from them.

"I won it but I had this shit so you can have that!" Katsuki disappeared from their sight and Itsuka have noticed with narrowed eyes that her ears were burning red.

"H-Have what…?" The greenette boy looked down at item in his hands with others to see that it's an All Might figurine with one fist up, "Oh wow, I don't have this one! I gotta thank her when I see her again."

"How does she know that you don't have this one?" Tsuyu asked suspiciously.

"Maybe she guessed it?" Izuku replied and they resume their walking to the game stalls.

---

Izuku was enjoying watch the obstacle race between some of his friends and students until he hear a familiar voice, "Ah, little bun, there you are!"

"Fuwa-sen…?" Izuku turned with a startled jump before his face turn red as Mawata stride up to him…In French maid outfit with black stockings. "W-Wha…"

"My class is doing a maid cafe." The snickering pinkette explained simply.

"O-Oh, I-I-I see…" The greenette boy cleared his throat with coughs, trying his best to keep his eyes up.

"You guys mind if I take him off your hands for a bit?" Mawata asked Mirio, Eri, Ochaco and Tsuyu, "I'm taking him to my class."

"Sure, have fun." Mirio chuckled and the pinkette quickly drag the yelping greenette boy away before he or anyone can say anything.

---

"I-I-Is t-t-that h-h-how you d-do with others?" Izuku stuttered nervously with atomic-red blush.

"Nope, just with you." Mawata giggled teasingly as she held a forkful of omelet out to him, "Say ah, my little bun." The pinkette was leaning against his side with one leg across his laps and the greenette's face burn hotter when he hear some amusing chuckles in background, they were sitting in the corner in Mawata's classroom and almost out of slight from everyone but some of her classmates.

"A-A-Ah…" He opened his mouth to take a bite, "I-It's g-g-g-good…" The greenette feel like he has been in here for around twenty minutes, which it was.

"Oh really?" Mawata's grin widened, "I'm glad to hear that because I made it."

"R-Really?" Izuku gasped out.

"Yeah." She confirmed before she lean in to whisper into his ear, "And guess what? You're the only 'customer' I made for." He don't know why but there's something in her tone that make him blush harder.

"Deku, are you in here?" Ochaco called out as soon as she opened the door with a slide with Eri and her friends looking inside.

"I'MHERE!" The blushing greenette swiftly stood up with a bolt, causing Mawata to get off him in process.

"You look like you just got caught in some kind of love affair." Mawata chuckled at his reaction.

"Um, are you done here or should we come back later?" Kaoruko raised her eyebrow slightly at him. The boy also notices that Nejire was with the group, rambling on with endless questions to Tsuyu and couple girls.

"Um…" Izuku looked at the pinkette.

"You can go." The second year teenager wave him off with a chuckle, "Thank for hanging out with me. We should do that more."

"Y-Yeah, w-we should." He nodded as he went to join his friends, "Bye, F-Fuwa-senpai."

"Later, little bun." Mawata waved with a light chuckle.

---

Izuku and the group were wandering around again, visiting some classes until they hear his name called out. "Izu!" They looked over to see Pony waving at them with Habuko and Kashiko near a classroom, "Over here!"

"Oh, Pony, Habuko, Kashiko!" Izuku approached them with Eri and his friends.

"We're going into the ghost labyrinth, do you want to join us?" Kashiko gestured to the Class C's room.

"I'd love to, but…" The greenette boy looked down at Eri worriedly because the little girl look scared by the haunting set of Class C.

"Don't worry, I'll look after her while you go inside." Mirio gave him a thumb up with broad grin, "We'll wait out here."

"You sure?" Izuku asked as the blonde boy nodded, "Thank, Mirio." He turned back to three girls, "Then yes, I'll join you guys."

"I'm coming too!" Nejire hopped over eagerly.

"We'll sit it out." Itsuka waved while the rest of group share same reply, they already have went through it early.

"Let go!" Pony grabbed the greenette's hand to pull him into Class C's maze eagerly with other three girls. The walk was calm for a while as the group make couple turns in the maze until they get jumpscare by a bloody mummied head that break through wooden wall with a loud chomp. Everyone let a bloodcurdling shriek out as they hug each other and Izuku find himself in middle with Nejire in back and Pony in front, Habuko and Kashiko on both sides. The greenette can't help but to blush madly at the feeling of certain assets squishing against his body from all directions and they refuse to let him go as they receive more jumpscare one after one.

Izuku swear he hear many 'lucky bastard', 'die, normies', and similar curses all the way to the end of the maze, his legs did give out for different reason when he get out. After that, the group went on to enjoy the rest of the culture festival.

---

"Thanks a lot for today!" Mirio said as Eri looked down, "It was fun!" The culture festival have come to end twenty minutes ago.

"Yeah…" Eri muttered little sadly.

"Eri, look at me." Izuku kneel down before he pull a candy apple out to her, "Surprise!"

"A candy apple!" The blonde teenager gasped as the greenette gave him another apple, "Were they selling those?! I looked everywhere!"

"After I looked at the program, I thought they might not have any, so when I was out shopping, I bought all the ingredients, which was easy enough, aside from actually making them!" The greenette explained.

"Well, don't worry." Aizawa looked down to the little girl, "You'll meet again soon enough."

"It's even sweeter." Eri smiled happily after taking her first bite of the candy apple.

"I'll make more for you, so you can look forward to that!" Izuku waved to them as they leave and Eri keep glancing over her shoulder to him until they disappear from his sight. The bush-haired boy walks back to the campus, wondering when he'll see her again.

---

"U.A. is in charge of looking after her now." Aizawa gestured to Eri, who was sitting on the sofa in Class 1-A's dorm with Big Three around her and the little girl smiled bright as soon as she see Izuku. Most of teenagers were out for training, studying or personal reasons.

"Talk about seeing each other again soon!" Izuku cried out in pure shock, "What's the full story here?"

"Yay, Eri-chan!" Ochaco smiled down to her.

"Hello there, Eri-chan." Kaoruko smiled softly.

"Excited to be with you all." Eri smiled timidly.

"You remind me of my sister now." Tsuyu peeked over the sofa, "Nice to meet you again."

"She can't be in the hospital forever, that's why." Aizawa drawled before he beckon Izuku out with Mirio and they went outside with Ochaco, Kaoruko and Tsuyu. "It seems like Eri was abandoned by her parents. It also looks like her nearest blood relative, the boss of Eightfold, has been brain-dead for a while. So currently, she has no place to go."

"And also, you may heard this from senseis but, it's regarding her horn, the source of her quirk." Mirio added.

"We heard it had shrunk and everything looked good." The bubble girl said.

"Until it suddenly grew again, albeit only a little." The blonde teenager said.

"So we need to make sure that doesn't happen again?" Ochaco think back to Eri's episode.

"That's the reason her transfer location became U.A. and not a foster home." Aizawa said, "I'll be near here to help out, monitoring her situation and helping her work out a way to accommodate her overwhelming power."

"Aizawa, seems like you're taking on a lot of extra work." The frog girl said.

"That's where I, friend of Eri-chan and student-on-hiatus, come in!" Mirio posed, "While you guys are in classes, I will look after her!" That make the intern group confused by his comment.

"If Eri-chan's heart and body can become stable then maybe…" Tamaki showed up with hand on Mirio's shoulder, "The return of the peerless hero might not be so far away."

"Um, what do you mean by that, while we're in classes?" Izuku asked.

"Here." Aizawa handed him a envelope file.

"What's that?" The greenette opened it to take the papers out before he froze as he read it.

"Congrats, you are now legally Eri's father." The scruffy man clapped nonchalantly, "Don't worry about the costs because U.A. will cover it on your benefit and her room is located on second floor on girls' side, we broke a wall to connect both sides so you and she have easy access."

"W-W-W-W-Wait, wait!" Izuku cried out as the girls looked equally shocked, "How is this possible?! I mean, I'm a high school student! Not to mention, I don't have…"

"Don't question it." Aizawa muttered, "Just accept it and carry on. Also, Eri is more comfortable with you than anyone else and it's agreed that she's better off being with you. The U.A. will do their best to help you out with raising a child." He walk away from them with a wave, "Go back inside. Bye."

"WAIT!" The shocked greenette stuttered, wonder how the hell can it happen to him?!

---

Nezu crackled like a madman as he lean back in his comfy chair, enjoying the show from the monitor on the wall. Kami, he love to fucking with humans and that is the best idea he ever come up with!

---

When the rest of the girls come back to the dorm, they immediately notice Eri sitting next to Izuku on sofa and they were confused when they see that he was staring off with gawked face as the little girl just beamed at them. "What's the matter with Izu-poo?" Camie tilted her head slightly, giving Eri a little wave at same time.

"That." Tsuyu held the papers out to them and the girls leaned forward to take a close look as they read it before almost everyone froze with widened eyes and dropped jaws. "Exactly our reaction when we saw it."

"W-W-Wait, how?!" Setsuna cried out, "How is it allowed?! I mean, we're in high…"

"Aizawa-sensei said not to question, accept it and carry on." The frog girl replied.

"He also said that U.A. will help Izuku raising Eri-chan…" Kaoruko glanced at the still-shocked boy worriedly with small sweatdrop.

"I'm Midoriya Eri!" Eri chirped happily.

"Yes, you are." Ochaco patted the happy girl's head softly before she notice something, "Mina, where are you going?"

"I'm going to get my jacket." Mina said flatly with blank expression as she entered the elevator, "And eat it." The doors closed on her to some girls' confusions.

"…I'm gonna filming her." Kyoka walked to the elevator.

"…G-GAH!" Izuku seem to snapped out from his shock as he start to take his phone out with some scrambles, "I-I-I gotta make s-some calls…" He glanced between the girls and his now-adopted daughter, "C-Can you guys keep eyes on Eri-chan while I…"

"Go on, we get it." Itsuka wondered how his parents will handle the news…While bracing herself for Hisashi's reaction. Most girls were in same boat and the greenette boy thanked them, moving to another place for privacy to make a call. "Eri-chan, do you want to play a game?" She bend down to the little girl's eye level with a light smile.

"Yeah, what game are we playing?" Eri swing her legs up and down excitingly.

"We have some board games so let's go and pick one out." The orangette lead the little girl to the common closet.

With Izuku, he was waiting with his ringing phone until someone finally pick up. "M-Mom?" Izuku muttered.

"Hi, Izuku." Inko's voice spoke, "I'm so glad that you're calling me. How's school?"

"It's going great, um…" Izuku gulped, "Mom, is dad there?"

"No, he went out for one of these fancy meetings, the one that you always watch every year." His mother hummed thoughtfully before her tone become very concerned, "Why? Did something happened?"

"Um, mom, are you sitting down right now?" He asked nervously with sweats.

"Izuku…" Inko's voice breathed out, "Did something bad happen?!"

"N-No, um, it's not b-bad…" Izuku muttered, "I-I think? Um…"

"Then did you get a girlfriend?!" His mother gasped happily, "Who is it? How many…"

"No, no, I don't!" He squeaked with red face, "No, no…Um…I…I somehow have an adopted daughter now." He glanced at the papers in his hand, "And it's all legal." There was a long pause.

"…Say what?" Inko's voice uttered and her son quickly explained everything with some struggles. "…So I have a granddaughter and her name is Eri?"

"Y-Yeah…" Izuku replied nervously.

"…While I'm surprised by this wonderful new, I'm really happy for you and I can't wait to meet her." His mother said with a happy tone in her voice, "I'm going to give your father a call and tell him the news. Izuku, if you need any help with Eri or have any questions, just give me a call anytime."

"I-I-I will." He blinked at her reaction, she seem to take the news pretty well.

"I have to go, a lot of calls to make in your place." Inko's voice said, "Bye, Izuku, love you!"

"L-Love you too, mom." Izuku said before his mother hangs up and he put his phone down with another blink.

"Papa!" The greenette boy jumped at Eri's voice before he turn around to look down at the smiling girl as she ran up to him, "Come play game with us!"

"O-O-Oh, ok." He let the little girl drag him toward to the table where some girls were setting board game up before he realize something, 'Did she just call me…?!' He become more confused when Mina exit the elevator with Kyoka as they head to the kitchen, the former was gnawing on her jacket while the latter recorded it with a amusing smirk. The group play the game for few hours and chat with the little girl until…

"ACHOOO!" Everyone jumped before their heads turn to see Yui rubbing her nose, "Mm."

"Catch a cold?" Ochaco asked with some concern, "Everything alright?"

"No, I'm fine." Yui replied flatly.

"Maybe someone is talking about you?" Toru said, "A fan, maybe. We get a lot of fans after the culture festival."

"True." The gravity girl hummed thoughtfully and the expressionless girl merely shrug her shoulders uncaringly before they hear front door opening, causing everyone to look out at the foyer to see…

"Locking on with sparkling eyes!" Shino grinned.

"Here to lend a helping paw!" Tomoko grinned widely.

"Coming out of nowhere!" Yawara flexed with box in his hands.

"Stingingly cute and catty!" Ryuko posed with her teammates, "We're the Wild Wild Pussycats, off version!" The hero team was in civilian clothing and they were accompanied by Kota in background.

"Pussycats!" Mina ran up to them with some girls, "It's been a while!"

"You all look well, my little kitties!" The former search user grinned widely at the teenagers with her hands up in air.

"I'm sorry, I wasn't able to protect you back then." The flexible man said to the greenette boy.

"It's okay." Izuku waved it off with both hands.

"We're all doing well." Kyoka smiled.

"They brought cat paw buns!" The acid user announced to the teenagers with box above her head as most girls start to chant, "They brought cat paw buns!"

"Kota-kun!" Izuku beamed at the boy, "Long time no see!" He shook the little boy's hands happily, "Thanks for the letter! I've been treasuring it!"

"It's…" Kota looked away bashfully, "Whatever."

"Midoriya, look." Shino pointed at shoes in the foyer with a teasing grin.

"H-Hey, stop it!" The little boy cried out as the greenette boy and some girls noticed red shoes in the foyer.

"He picked it himself." The teleph woman said, "It's gotta be red, he said."

"H-Hey!" Kota waved his arms up and down embarrassingly, "That's not true!"

"Looks like we match now." Izuku chuckled lightly with a grin and the little boy just smile bashfully.

"By the way, who's that?" Yawara gestured to Eri with his head, the little girl have been holding onto the back of Izuku's pant leg the whole time as she hide behind him out of shyness.

"O-Oh, that is Midoriya Eri…" The greenette boy blushed.

"Ooh, your little sister is so cute." Tomoko cooed at the little girl and she was about to say something but…

"N-No, she's my a-adopted daughter." Izuku corrected her and three out of four adults and one little boy just stare at him blankly before their heads turn to Shino, who refuse to meet their eyes with some small sweat beads on her cheek.

"Shino…" Ryuko gave her an funny look, "What the heck is with your class? What have you been teaching…"

"Hey, I was surprised like you are when the staff got this news from Nezu." Shino defended herself.

"Why are you guys here?" Momo asked to change the topic.

"We came to celebrate her reinstatement." The blonde woman gestured to the search user.

"Reinstatement!?" Someone gasped, "Congratulations!"

"Ragdoll, you've returned?" The greenette boy looked at her, "Weren't you on a break from active duty after…"

"I'm not returning!" Tomoko swung her fists up and down, "I'm going to be supporting the three of them as an office lady! Call me the OL cat!"

"Then why rejoin at this time?" The creator asked curiously.

"It'll be broadcasted soon, but this time, in the second half of the year, we were four hundred and eleventh on the JP hero billboard chart." The teleph heroine answered.

"You guys were ranked thirty-second last time." Izuku gasped.

"So you're trying to climb back up the rank?" Ochaco guessed with a small tilt of her head.

"Wrong, meow!" The former search user replied, "We were shocked that, despite being completely inactive, we're still in the triple digits!"

"In terms of approval ratings, we've always stood out." Yawara said.

"It means there are fans who are waiting for us." Ryuko added.

"We can't be complacent with where we are now!" Tomoko bend her upper body sideway with hands above her head.

"Is that so?" The gravity girl blinked.

"Billboard, huh?" Kashiko hummed.

"Oh that's right, the second semester rankings haven't been presented yet." Mina said.

"Probably because so much has happened." Setsuna muttered, "A billboard chart without All Might, huh? Wonder how it'll turn out."

"It'll be on in a bit." Shoko informed them as she turned the television on before she look at the Pussycat team, "Are you going to stay and watch?"

"No, we're just stopping by to say hi." Shino shook her head gently with a light smile as her team and nephew get ready to leave, "See you tomorrow."

"You too." Some girls and Izuku replied as the adults and Kota left.

"What is hero billboard?" Eri looked up to Izuku curiously, "Are you on it?"

"No, I'm, um, not old enough." Izuku chuckled sheepishly as everyone gather in front of the television.

"Oh, but you're going to be on it one day?" The little girl sat at his side.

"Y-Yeah, one day." He gave her a smile before they hear the announcer speaking from the presentation site live in Kamino.

"Number ten, one rank down from nine last time!" The announcer said, "Dragon Hero Ryukyu!"

"Oh, your aunt just drop one rank." Toru said.

"Falling dragon lady is aunt?" Eri looked up with an innocent blink as the announcer continued on with the ranks.

"Yeah, she's my relative." Izuku said.

"That make her your great-aunt." Tsuyu said to the little girl.

"Number seven, a significant leap!" The announcer said, "The up and coming star who won't stop climbing! Kamui Woods!" Some girls spot Mount Lady grumbled in background on television while denying the dating rumor. "Number six, the orthodox man safely keeps his place! The shield hero, Crust! Number five, the determined bunny ranks up! The rabbit hero, Miruko!"

"Oooh, a heroine in top five of JP billboard chart!" Kaoruko whistled as the announcer introduced Edgeshot as number four then absent Best Jeanist as number three, "Don't she debuted a while ago?"

"Yes." Shoko confirmed.

"Number two, he claims to take it easy, but he's quite ferocious!" The announcer said, "With tremendous momentum, he swoops into second place! The winged hero, Hawks! And now! From just the temporary number one hero to his new place today as the genuine number one hero! At last! The flame hero, Endeavor!"

"Hey, Shoko, how does it feel to have your dad as number one hero now?" Mina nudged the said girl teasingly with her elbow as the HPSC president give speech on television.

"Mm…" The dual-haired girl uttered flatly.

"And now, statements from each individual!" The announcer said.

"Thank you very much." Ryuko said to the interviewer, "However, the truth is that I would have like to decline this rank if it was possible. There were more lives that I could have saved. I will continue to strive to be a hero more befitting of my rank." Kaoruko and the intern group become slight sadden by the reminder of the loss.

"I understand, Ryukyu!" Crust cried, "That anguish in your heart! That feeling of self-reproach! We all must rise up to the challenge! Go, Ryukyu! Let's do our best!"

"He's sure loud as always…" Habuko sweatdropped, had seen him on television before.

"Yeah…" Izuku muttered as the heroes gave their statements to the interviewer until…

"Who care about any of that?" Hawks just throw everyone off with his comment, "Let's see…If we're going just by approval ratings, Best Jeanist would be first due to the extra boost of support during his recovery. I would be second, Edgeshot would be third, Endeavour would be fourth and so on. I think approval ratings are the most important metric right now. Is this the time to be clinging to the past? Is it still okay to uphold the status quo? We no longer have a symbol. Why are people who can't even earn a higher rank than me…" He smirked, "Being so tame and subdued on a day that's supposedly deemed a turning point!? Please, speak more like real heroes. That's all from me. So, next in line. With lower approval ratings than me, the number one." He gestured to Endeavor.

"Jeez, how's he gone to follow up after that?" Setsuna muttered.

"Apart from what that novice just tried to stir up…" Endeavor spoke, "There is not much to say. Just watch me." That was just a simple thing to say and everyone in the audience just stare in silence as if they have been stunned.

"Eh, that'll do." The body splitter shrugged her shoulders at that before they jump up at the loud bloodcurdling shriek on the television and the camera swiftly spun around to show Hisashi standing up with phone next to his head, his body tremble violently in shock.

"MY CHINNAMON BUN HAVE WHAT?!" Hisashi screamed with widened eyes, "I'M A GRANDPA?!" He crushed his phone in pieces out of shock, "…WHO CORRUPT AND KNOCK MY CHINNAMON BUN UP?!" He spun to his sidekicks, "BOYS, GET YOUR WEAPONS!"

"OUR LITTLE BOSS IS WHAT?!" One of yakuza-like man cried out before his face twisted into pure rage like his boss, "WHO DARE TO CORRUPT OUR LITTLE BOSS' PURITY!" The draco hero and his sidekicks ran off with roars.

"D-Dad, everyone…" Izuku buried his red face in hands embarrassingly as the girls paled.

"Dad?" Eri looked up to her adopted father in confusion.

"T-The man that just screamed on television is h-his daddy, making him your g-grandpa." Ochaco smiled shakily.

"Oh." Eri blinked.

"Ryukyu, where are you going?" Crust's voice asked as everyone looked back to the television to see the number ten heroine walked away with a smile on her face.

"Helping my big brother." Ryuko just smiled sweetly and some girls feel shivers running down their spines for some reason. Itsuka quickly turn the television off before she turn to the group.

"…I'm going and hide in my room…" Itsuka muttered before she walk away at high speed, following by the rest of sweating girls. They don't want to be present in common room when they show up and their worries were all for nothing because they never reach the U.A., thank to the security and Inko calling her sister-in-law.

---

The next day, most teenagers were relaxing in the common room as some go over their homework and the rest just watch a show. "Hey, where's Eri-chan?" Toru asked Izuku curiously.

"Ah, in her room with Pony." Izuku answered, "They're drawing and watching an anime together."

"Ah, nice." The invisible girl said before the show suddenly cut off by an breaking news of Endeavor fighting a unique Noumu and it's very intense.

"Shoko!" Everyone turned to the said girl worriedly and the dual-haired girl stared at the television with gritted teeth.

"It's pure panic!" Camie said, "This is bad!"

"On the TV…" Izuku got up worried for Shoko as he quickly texted Pony to keep Eri in her room, "Endeavor is…"

"Todoroki!" Shino ran in with Yu, "So you were already watching!"

"You've gotta be kidding…" Shoko stared at the television shakily until a boy on breaking new shout out about Endeavor not giving up. A minute later, the flame hero suddenly tackle the creature on news and it look like he was getting upper hand. "Dad…" She screamed out, "I'M WATCHING!" Her father suddenly destroyed the creature with a ultimate move, Prominence Burn, then crash down on the ground before Endeavor stand up with raising fist. At that, Shoko crouch down with hands on her face as everyone quickly gathered around her in sign of support until they see a familiar person show up on television. "Dabi…" The villain was about to attack Endeavor until Miruko suddenly show up, causing Dabi to disappear via slimy teleportation.

"Todoroki, do you want to go see your father?" Shino asked her, "I'll make some call and find where they'll take your father to…"

"I'd like to go home, if that's okay." The dual-haired girl said, "My siblings…"

"Yes, that's okay." The teleph heroine nodded, "Come on, I'll drive you there."

"Shoko…" Izuku looked worried for her.

"It's okay." Shoko hugged him tightly, "I'll be fine." She break apart to left with his homeroom teacher and some just look on in worry.

"…I'm gonna check on Eri-chan and let Pony know." The greenette boy said to them after a minute of silence, heading to the elevator.

---

Few days later at night, Izuku have a weirdest dream that turn out to be connected to One For All and he get a glimpse of the history before he wake up to find his room messy with some damages. "What…?" Izuku panted heavily, he need to tell Toshinori the first thing in morning.

---

Izuku and Toshinori walk together down the hallway after a discussion about Izuku's dream and One For All until they run into Aizawa and a familiar face. "Oh, looks like you two are getting along well, as always." Aizawa grunted.

"A-Aizawa, you've got it all wrong!" Toshinori flustered, "He was being really pushy, so…"

"Stop acting like you just got caught having an affair." The scruffy man deadpanned, "It's weird."

"Shinso!" Izuku greeted Hitoshi, "You were with Aizawa-sensei back then too, weren't you?"

"Yeah, I guess so." Hitoshi scratched the back of his neck.

"Midoriya, hurry and get suited up." Aizawa said, "You will have a busy day today." The said boy was confused by his comment.

---

The Class 1-A were walking together in their winter hero outfit…Mostly. "I'm so excited!" Toru skipped.

"Hagakure, aren't you cold?" Kyoka asked with hands in her pockets.

"I'm freezing, even if I'm wearing my invisible costume!" The invisible girl shivered.

"That's some willpower." The rocker muttered.

"These are my winter specs!" Mina posed, "Aren't they cool?!"

"Everyone's costumes have changed a lot since when we started school." Kashiko said.

"Yeah, no thank to the pervy designers." Kyoka grunted annoyingly before she glance to some certain girls, "But let's not forget that few out of us have their awakening so that must be the main reason behind the costumes change." Some nodded at that.

"Kacchan changed her costume too." Izuku inputted.

"Haa?!" Katsuki wear a black version of her costume, "If ya got a problem then say it to my face, ya damn nerd!"

"That suit…" The greenette start to mumbling about her winter outfit and cold resistance to protect her quirk.

"Don't flatter me!" She screamed with burning blush.

"Midori, your suit's had the most dramatic change." The pink-skinned girl said to get the said boy's attention.

"Yep, it's really been able to increase what I'm able to do." Izuku nodded, "This glove is amazing! It's actually already the second version. Hatsume even went so far as to match it to my strength level."

"Ah, Hatsume…" Ochaco smiled as she stared off in space before she suddenly punch herself in face, "GO AWAY!"

"Ochaco?!" Kaoruko dropped her jaw at the gravity girl in bewilderment.

"Oy, oy…" The Class 1-A turned to see Neito strolled up to them with his class, "Quite the relaxed vibe coming from you guys. You wouldn't be underestimating us, now would you?"

"Oh, they made it!" Setsuna smirked, "We ain't underestimating you! We're looking forward to it!"

"Is that right?" Neito laughed, "The wave of momentum is definitely moving to our side now. Now, class A! Today…Is the day we settle things between us, don't you think?!" He pulled a paper out of nowhere, "Take a look at this questionnaire! It's from right after the culture festival! Which did you think was better, Class A's concert and Class B's extremely high-quality play? Can you see it?! We won by two votes! You all have been getting all the attention since we started at U.A, but that's all starting to change!" Sen slowly approached him, "And today! A vs. B! Our first ever joint training battle! We're go…" A scarf wrapped around his neck, "GEHHH!"

"Shut up." Aizawa drawled.

"And by the way, I think you misread it." Tsuyu pointed out to the paper, "It said A won by two votes."

"MMMMMMMMMMMMMM!" The copycat's eyes widened in disbelief before his eyes snap down to the paper to see that the frog girl was telling the truth, "MMMMMMMMMMMMMM!"

"I said shut up." The scruffy man deadpanned.

"Oh, Aizawa-sensei!" Izuku gasped at the sudden appearance of the underground hero as Vlad and Shino show up.

"We're going to have a special guest this time." Vlad King said, "Please don't do anything to embarrass yourselves."

"A guest?" Momo tilted her head.

"Is it a girl?" Mineta drooled.

"Let's do our best together!" Tetsutetsu pumped his fist.

"He's trying to transfer into the hero department." Aizawa stepped aside to reveal Hitoshi to some students' surprise, "It's Shinso Hitoshi from the general department's class C."

"So that's what he meant when he said 'well, yeah'!" Izuku said.

"Wait, is that Aizawa's binding cloth?" Hanta pointed out, "I guess the mask is an original, huh?"

"It's good to have you with us, dude!' The steel user said and few were talking about the brainwash quirk.

"Go ahead and greet everyone." Aizawa said to the purple-haired boy.

"I know I've already encountered many of you at the sports festival, but you won't catch me thinking that we're all buddies now that we've exchanged blows." Hitoshi said, "I'm not some good-natured person trying to tout a superficial sense of sportsmanship. The fact of the matter is, I've gotten a late start and I've already been left in the dust by hundred of steps by you all. I'm sorry, but I'm desperate. I will become a great hero, so that I can use my quirk to help others. All of you here today are obstacles that I must overcome. I have no intention of making friends."

"That's quite the glare." Ochaco clapped with everyone else.

"Things are getting tense." Fumikage said.

"It's like I'm looking at earlyroki." Camie said.

"You think?" Shoko asked.

"Yep." The illustrator replied.

"I like this one." Neito rubbed his chin.

"Alright, let's get right down to it then." Shino clapped her hands.

"Combat exercises!" Vlad King announced, "This time around it's a battle between Class A vs. Class B! And the stage will be this section of training field Y! Each side will split up into group of four, and one team from each will battle it out at a time!"

"Four to a team, eh?" Setsuna said, "Sounds fun!"

"Fun." Kinoko repeated.

"Including Shinso, how're they gonna make up with that odd number?" Jurota pointed out.

"Today, Shinso will be participating in two battles." Shino explained, "One on Class A's side and one with class B. In other words out of five matches, two of them will be five vs. four. Trying to integrate Shinso, who has next to no experience, into your team of four will likely be an even bigger disadvantage. It's true that the team of five has the numerical advantage, but they'll still have a handicap."

"The setting for this battle is 'the heroes move to surround the villain group and capture them'!" The blood hero said, "Each team shall perceive the other as the villains! Once either team captures four members of the other, it's their victory!"

"They have been saying that the villains are becoming organized after all." Kinoko said.

"Nice and simple." Tetsutetsu said, "I like it!"

"We're supposed to be heroes, and yet to our opponents, we're villains?!" Tenya had a crisis, "So which is it? What are we?"

"I think it's fine to consider yourself a hero." Momo said.

"In each team's camp, we've installed a wicked cute irredeemable prison." Aizawa looked like he want to die after saying that, "The moment you imprison your opponent in there, they'll be considered captured. Not only do you have to team up with an inexperienced member, but also, even if you're a team of five, you 'll still lose if four of you are captured." Shino pick a white lottery box as Vlad have black lottery box, "Alright then…"

"Time to draw lots." Vlad said as the students draw their balls, "Alright, Shinso, go ahead and draw yours. You'll join the teams of each number you pull." Hitoshi drew the balls, black five and white one.

In the end, teams and match-up were formed. The first match will have Tsuyu, Hitoshi, Camie, Ibara and Kaoruko up against Denki, Jurota, Hiryu and Kosei. The second match will have Momo, Itsuka, Toru and Kinoko facing Yuga, Manga, Shihai and Fumikage. The third match will have Kashiko, Shoko, Yui and Pony fight Tetsutetsu, Juzo, Sen and Togaru. The fourth match has Katsuki, Kyoka, Setsuna and Habuko face Rikido, Kojiro, Tenya and Hanta. The fifth and last match will have Izuku, Ochaco, Reiko and Mina up against Neito, Hitoshi, Mineta, Mezo and Eijiro.

"I know one of ours said some nasty stuff!" Camie said, "But let's try and get along all the same! It's a pleasure workin' with ya, fam!"

"Thank for having me." Hitoshi said flatly.

"You're good!" Neito laughed madly, "Yes, veeerry good! Let us join forces and give that deplorable Class A a nice thrashing!"

"Thank for having me." The purple-haired boy repeated flatly.

"It'll be a rematch for you, huh, Deku?" Ochaco turned to the said teenager.

"Yeah." Izuku took his notebook out of nowhere, "Have you gotten stronger, Shinso? I'm excited to see how you'll come after us!"

'Wait, where did he pull it out from?' All boys and some adults blinked rapidly at the greenette boy's notebook while most girls and Shino seem to be unfazed by the bizarre sight as if they have been used to it.

"You'll start in your own areas." Aizawa spoke up with one odd eye on Izuku, "The time limit is twenty minutes. If you're unable to finish the match in that amount of time, the team with more members remaining wins."

"All Might, Mount Lady and Midnight are here!" Mina spotted the said teachers as they walk up the stairs to join them.

"Without further ado, let the first match start!" Vlad said very eagerly, "Will it be Class A, who has demonstrated remarkable abilities in times of crisis, or Class B, who has been steadily raising their level as a whole? I'm looking forward to finding out!"

"I think you spend too much time with Present Mic." Aizawa deadpanned at the blood hero as the first two teams went to their assigned zones.

"I wonder how it will turn out?" Mina wondered before she glance to Izuku, "Midori, any thoughts?"

"I believe that our class will win this match with right strategy and match-up until it can go other way around." Izuku wrote down in his notebook, "Ibara's vines can counter Kaminari's electricity, Kaoruko may might cover other's scents up with her bubbles if my theory about Shishida is correct and there's Shinso. Although I'm still curious about his mask." He hummed thoughtfully before he start to mumbling rapidly, scribbling away in his notebook.

'Here he goes again.' Most girls just smiled at him with closed eyes and the first match have end in Class A's victory narrowly with only Camie and Kaoruko captured.

"What did you learn from this experience?" Shino asked the students as soon as they returned from the battle zone.

"I regret losing two teammates." Tsuyu said, "I wanted to win without anyone missing. But it turned into pure chaos." Ibara agreed with her by praying.

"I should have dose my teammates with bubbles to cover their scents up." Kaoruko winced.

"I don't keep my guard up when I was at distance from everyone." Camie said.

"I wasn't even able to apply ten percent of what I learned." Hitoshi stretched his scarves out with a grimace, "It's incredibly frustrating."

"If you were able to do everything immediately, you wouldn't be working so hard." Aizawa said to the purple-haired boy, "It took me six years to master the binding cloth. Do not forget the frustration you're feeling as you fight your next battle."

"Yes, sir." The brainwash user replied.

"That was a close one." Setsuna said to some of her classmates as the teachers gave their students some tips and advices and the teams start to discussing their strategies.

The second match have ended within fifteen minutes in Class A's perfect victory, thank to combination of intelligences between Momo and Itsuka. Manga and Fumikage did give them a run for money until Kinoko grow mushrooms inside their throats to Class B's fear and horror, although it was harmless with no side effects in long term once the fungus has been removed.

"That's some pretty extensive destruction." Hitoshi stared at collapsed zone blankly.

"That's just how it is with hero course training." Aizawa deadpanned, "But they did destroy just a little too much."

"Fukidashi!" Vlad King sighed at his sheepish student, "As I'm sure you're already aware, you must keep the damage to the absolute minimum."

"You too, Kendo, Yaoyorozu." Shino said to her students and the creator look little sheepish since she create a large cannon, which was partly responsible for heavy environment damage. Her head turned to the blood hero, "While we move the stage, I suppose we can take a short break." The blood hero nods his head in agreement.

"Man, Class B really is full with tough fighters, huh?" Camie sat down with some of her classmates.

"We could say the same about you." Hanta overheard her.

"Fukidashi, I can't believe you can shoot out such huge projectiles!" Toru said to her former opponent.

"Yeah, but it gives me a wicked sore throat!" Manga rubbed his throat, "It's tough to put up with."

"This goes without saying, but it's not just everyone's quirks that have improved." Izuku have his nose in his notebook as he wrote more, "Their mental growth serves to augment the strengths of their quirks even further."

"You sure are writing a lot." Ochaco peeked at his notebook with a smile, "You've improved a lot too, Deku!"

"I hope that's the case." The greenette boy replied.

"Young Midoriya." Toshinori approached the said boy from behind, "I am quietly here!"

"No, you're not." Reiko said under her breath flatly, the retired hero was anything but quiet.

"A moment, please." The former number one hero beckoned the greenette boy to follow him.

"Well, aren't they close." Mina commented.

"Wonder what he wants to talk to him about?" The gravity girl said curiously.

"Maybe more advices about Izu-poo's quirk?" Camie assumed and Izuku returned to their side almost ten minutes later, just in time for the next match. The third match turn out to be intense that four students were down, both Kashiko and Sen were captured and the result was an draw on Pony's part by distracting Togaru long enough to run the timer out.

"It was so vaaaaague, unfair!" Denki cried in frustration.

"They probably considered this result since 'running and waiting for help' is still regarded as a legitimate action." Jurota said and the teachers move them on to the next match right away as soon as the medic bots escort the exhausted and injured teenagers away from the battlefield.

"Look like Mandalay's best teacher than you are." Aizawa said to Vlad King and the blood hero look like he's going to blow a vein as the fourth match swiftly end in just five minutes, it was a landslide victory of Class A after they capture all boys.

"Please stop poking the bear." Shino sweatdropped at her fellow teachers with a smile before she tell the final set of students to go prepare for the final match of the day.

---

"So Shinso is with them, right?" Mina said as Izuku hopped around for a little warmup, "I'm kinda nervous now. Don't wanna get brainwashed, you know?"

"We just have to try not to get caught in his grasp." Ochaco said, "The opposing team is comprised of members who can attack even if we can't see them with the naked eye and if we do, they have some tough close-combat guys like Shoji and Kirishima." She floated her helmet, "We'll float."

"And melt." Mina produced some acids.

"And fling." Reiko moved the gravity girl's helmet back onto the bruneete's head with her quirk.

"But we're still at a disadvantage." The gravity girl sighed with the pinkette, "We can't just wait before attacking."

"I'll be the scapegoat." Izuku land in front of them.

"How are you feeling?" The pinkette asked worriedly, "You said you thought your quirk was acting strangely…"

"Yeah." The greenette looked at his hand, "There doesn't seem to be anything different, just the same as usual. But…After watching the fourth round, I feel like the opposing team is wary of us. We need to be even more vigilant than ever!"

"It'll be alright, we're counting on you." The ghost girl said.

"It'll be fine." Izuku smiled, "We'll definitely win this." They hear the announcement that the match have begun and they move out. The greenette scouted ahead for his teammates as planned and he was going over the plan in his mind until he hear Ochaco's scream and his head snap toward to see Neito.

"Oh my, I suppose you found me!" Neito smirked smugly, "After seeing what Bakugo is capable of…I would obviously be wary of you as well. When faced with someone as strong and agile as you, being careful…Is what any clever human would do!" He stepped back, "Let's take a step back though. A clever person would also think…That guy over there is strong so we'll just let him move ahead of us three. They'll probably want to get rid of the three of us first!" The greenette stay quiet as he carefully make his way close to the copycat since it's possible that the copycat may have brainwash quirk, "You're trying to distract us so we'll tell you where we're hiding. I'm pretty sure my other comrades have already found the other three on your team. So it's now three against four? Will they even be okay? Shinso's there as well! They won't be able to communicate with each other closely. It seems like you need to rush to their aid now! Oh, but wait…!? What if that 'ahh' just now was Shinso's voice? That means the other three haven't been found yet. That's what you probably thought, right…!? Hahaha, you're stuck, aren't you?" Izuku lunge toward to him, "You won't help your comrades? How heartless of you!" He clapped his hands together, "You know, I talked with Shinso-kun about this. Those who are blessed in this world fall hardest. Tell me this…How can you smile so confidently? Especially since you're the reason for the demise of the symbol of peace!" His comment seem to anger Izuku and the greenette was about to flick his finger until…

Black tendrils explode from Izuku's right arm and they shot outward wildly. 'WHY?! WHAT'S GOING ON!?' The greenette cried mentally, barely hear anything from Neito. 'THIS…UP UNTIL JUST NOW…THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH IT!' He feel the tendrils shifting toward to the copycat, "RUN AWAY!" He warned the copycat as the tendrils flew toward to the target and Neito dove to another pipe, the tendrils latch onto the piles before it yank the greenette through the pipes with loud crash. Izuku held his thrashing arm with tendrils before he notice Shinso from the corner of his eyes, "Shinso…RUN AWAY! I CAN'T…" He groaned out as one of tendrils lash out, "CONTROL THIS POWER! IT'S OVERFLOWING!" More tendrils shot out through the pipes and it flew all over the zone like web, lashing and latch randomly. Before Izuku know it, he flew out high up in air by wild tendrils before he hit a tower on his back. "STOP!" He cried to himself with grunts as the tendrils kept lashing wildly, "STOP THIS!" Izuku have no idea why OFA is acting up like that and he suddenly feel two bodies land on his back, a quick glance reveal Ochaco and Reiko.

"CALM DOWN!" Reiko shouted.

"I CAN'T…" Izuku gritted his teeth in pain, "STOP IT!"

"SHINSO!" Ochaco called out to the said purple-haired boy, "USE YOUR BRAINWASHING TO STOP DEKU!" It's clear as plain as day that the greenette isn't doing it of his own free will.

"MIDORIYAAAA!" Hitoshi shouted with his mask down, "LET'S FIGHT AGAIN!"

"NNNNGGGGHHH!" The greenette opened his mouth, "YEAH!" The tendrils suddenly stay still as the boy's eyes glossed over and the tendrils retract into his arm, vanishing without a trace.

"Izuku." The ghost girl looked at him.

"Deku-kun!" The gravity girl shook him and she pull her hand back for slap until the greenette finally snap out with blinks before she accidentally slap him loudly. "Are you okay!? I hope I didn't hurt you with that slap!"

"O-O-Ochaco, R-R-Reiko!" Izuku glanced between them and his right hand, "Please stay away, it's dangerous!"

"Seems like Shinso's brainwashing was able to calm down your quirk." Ochaco said as they make a safe landing.

"You feeling okay?" Reiko asked him and the boy notice something.

"Guys, you're injured!" The greenette said, "Ahh, what did I do…" Neito suddenly pop up behind him with a swing of his arm and Izuku turn his head with widened eyes.

"Oh!?" Neito grinned wickedly, "But it's not over yet…" Suddenly, pair of shoes slam into side of his head and it send him flying away with some tumbles.

"Mina!" Izuku gasped at the sight of acid user.

"Are you guys okay?" Mina land with a roll, "I don't know what happened but this black things just knock Shoji and little shit out…" She shot the girls an accusing glare, "And I have to haul them to the jail myself. Do you know how heavy Shoji is?! Very heavy!"

"S-Sorry…" Ochaco smiled sheepishly.

"There you guys are!" Eijiro ran out to them, "Are everyone okay?" He asked…While throwing a punch at Mina, who evade it by skating backward on acid.

"The rest are here!" The gravity girl gasped, "On the battlefield!" A scarf flew toward to the back of her head but it was grabbed by Izuku and his eyes meet with Hitoshi's eyes before the purple-haired boy yank him over the edge, sending the greenette to the lower level. "You've lost your power!?" She gasped over the ledge, "Deku-kun is…"

"I might expose everyone to danger again." Izuku got up, "In my current state, I can't use my quirk."

"Then let's retreat for the moment!" Ochaco glanced sideway to see Reiko tied Neito up with ropes with her quirk. "We can regroup!"

"If we retreat, we'll lose." The greenette looked up to his opponent, "While we have Shinso right in front of our eyes, now is our chance to win!"

"But…" The gravity girl realized, "Deku-kun, are you telling me…that you're gonna fight quirkless?!"

"Yes." Izuku said with his eyes stay on Shinso, "Ochaco, go help others. I get that. But first…" He whisper a plan to her.

"…Ok, you better win that!" Ochaco replied as she sneakily pat his back with five fingers before she run to help others, leaving the greenette behind with his opponent. She glance over her shoulder for a moment to see Izuku float up to Shinso's level and she cancel her quirk to give his gravity back.

"I'll get him to the jail!" Reiko called out to the gravity girl as she dragged the copycat away from the battlefield, "Mina need your assist!"

"Got it!" The gravity girl rush over to see Mina launch some acid balls at Eijiro, who duck behind a steel pipe that melt under the acid. The moment Ochaco saw that the harden user don't have his quirk on and was distracted by the acid, she took action by sneaking up and give him a neck chop with enough force to knock him out. "He's down!" She called out to the acid user.

"Wow, you go, girl!" Mina rushed over to see the redhead down and out for count. They quickly tied him up before they carry him across the zone to the jail, tossing him inside. "Alright, let's go and help Mi…" She turned to see something, "Oh, never mind!"

"Huh?" Ochaco looked back to see Izuku bringing Shinso to the jail, "Oh, you did it!"

"Y-Yeah." Izuku panted out with a smile and the ghost girl arrived, she was about to go back them up but it was already over.

---

"Final result, Class A's victory!" Midnight announced with a grin, "Four victory and one draw."

"YEEEEEAH, GIRL POWER!" Toru pumped her fist up.

"There's Izuku." Kaoruko pointed out amusingly.

"GIRL POWER WITH SPECKLE OF STUD!" The invisible girl pumped her fist again, causing some to sweatdrop at her and Class B were kneeling over in dejection.

"In any case, Midoriya…" Aizawa turned to the said boy after talk with Shinso, "What the hell was that?"

"An ebony mass brought forth from within…" Fumikage hummed.

"It kind of went wild but, you got a name for it?" Shihai asked.

"Was it a new move derived from your quirk?" Someone asked, "How does it work?"

"Well, I…" Izuku looked at his flexing hand, "I'm actually not too sure myself. My power overflowed, and I wasn't able to suppress it. It felt like all that I had believed in up until now was stripped away. I myself was scared." He looked up, "But when Ochaco, Reiko and Shinso helped stop me, I realized that it wasn't that. If Shinso wasn't there to use his brainwashing to stop my thoughts, I'm not sure what would have happened. Shinso asked me if it was a bluff but…I legitimately didn't know what was going on…So thank you! To three of you!"

"That's right!" Midnight suddenly jumped in, "The way Shinso took on Midoriya's rampage! And the girls' quick reactions! So amazing! To use one's own body in order to calm one's friend down! Yes! That's right! That's what I love to see! MMMMMM!"

"…I didn't actually do it just because of you, Midoriya." Hitoshi spoke up, "I saw that guys were being attacked by that black thing, and know that our chances of winning would be slim if that thing wasn't stopped. I stopped it because I want to fight you and win. It all happened by chance. I was only thinking of myself…" Aizawa suddenly pulled Hitoshi's scarves to lightly strangle to shut him up.

"VIOLENCE!" Denki cried out, "PTA! PTA!"

"PTA!" Everyone chanted, "PTA!"

"No one was expecting you to go that far." Aizawa released Hitoshi's scarves, "Everyone here has been training hard every day to be a hero that can save someone. Anyone who can get there instantly would be an All Might-level genius. You won't be able to save anyone if you're only thinking of others. You can't help others if you don't have the power to help yourself. With that in mind, your actions were more than enough to pass."

"Shinso, at end, when you led me into a one-on-one, you were trying to fight me with your own specialty, right?" Izuku said, "You were so quick to stop my movements with the pipes, plus the way you used the cloth was so almost identical to Aizawa-sensei! To be honest, in the first match, I thought you were just drawing off the team's power…But in the end, that wasn't all. Your movement and situational analysis skills aren't inferior to anyone else here in the hero department! It was amazing!" He clenched his fist, "If we're going to talk about strength that others can rely on…It's me who's not there yet."

"Indeed." The underground hero grunted.

"We're going to get back to the evaluation now, but probably…" Vlad King looked at his jumpy students, "No, most certainly! Shinso will join the hero department starting his second year. Nobody here better dare take him on half-heartedly!"

"Oooh, is he going to be in our class!" Izuku perked up.

"No, he's going to Class B on Aizawa's request." Shino smiled at her student.

"Wha…" The greenette boy uttered.

"Good, I don't want to deal with the whole harem bullshit." Hitoshi deadpanned.

"I-I-It's not harem!" Izuku cried a river and barely anyone listen to Neito's rambles.

"Young Midoriya." Toshinori whispered to the greenette boy, "Meet me in my office once school is over." He receive a tiny nod from Izuku.

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"Do you think Izuku's quirk is a mutation?" Setsuna asked Itsuka several hours later in common room as both Class A and B students were socializing for a little party…Minus Mineta.

"Maybe?" Itsuka said unsurely, "I mean, he said that he's a late bloomer and it's nothing like his parents'." She think back to their childhood, "Or any of his relatives' that I heard about…"

"It must be a mutation or his quirk went through some awakenings?" Camie said, "Like Setsuna and some girls."

"Ooh, must be." The body splitter hummed thoughtfully, Izuku's quirk has been one of main topics of discussion.

"Hey, I heard you interned with Hawks." Kinoko said to Fumikage, "Do you have picture of him in private?"

"No." The bird-headed boy blinked at her oddly.

"…Say, I gotta ask…" Denki gestured to Eri, who was sitting with Ochaco, Tsuyu, Reiko and Pony. "Who's this girl and why is she here?"

"M-My name is M-Midoriya Eri." The little girl hugged the frog girl's side out of shyness, trying to make herself smaller.

"Oh, I don't know that Midoriya have a…" Tenya adjusted his glasses with a smile and Eri see Izuku enter the dorm before she jump off the couch to run up to him.

"Papa!" Eri hugged Izuku as soon as he get down to her level.

"Hey, Eri-chan, how was your…" Izuku smiled at her.

"…DAUGHTER?!" The speedster's glasses cracked, cutting Izuku off as the greenette boy finally notice that the Class B were present and they gawked at him in pure shock.

"…OH MY GOD!" Denki pointed at Pony, "HE SLEPT WITH TSUN…NO, WAIT…" His pointing finger shift to Reiko, "WITH YAN…NO, WAIT…" His finger shifted again to Kashiko, "WITH SEK…" The girls blushed, "NO, WAIT…"

"NOOOOOOOO!" Sen wailed into his hands, "I WAS TOO LATE TO TURN HIM OVER!"

"HOW SHOULD YOU?!" Tenya cried as the boys start to freak out, "I TRUST YOU TO BE…."

"GUYS, SHE'S HIS ADOPTED DAUGHTER!" Ibara shouted with closed eyes.

"YES, WHAT SHE SAID!" Izuku cried with closed eyes as the confused little girl just hugged his leg, not understanding why everyone were acting silly or shouting.

"Oh, you're all here." A voice drawled and everyone turned around to see Aizawa walk in with flat look, causing the noises to die down immediately.

"Um, Aizawa-sensei, why are you here?" Eijiro was confused by the scruffy teacher's appearance, it would be either Shinso or Ken showing up instead of the scruffy man since they're homeroom teachers.

"I'm here to tell you that most of the League of Villains has been arrested." Aizawa said bluntly before he spun around on his heels, "Bye."

"HOLD ON, WHAT?!" The teenagers cried out before some teenagers quickly ran in front of him to block him off, "YOU CAN'T JUST LEAVE LIKE THAT AFTER TELLING US THAT!"

"Ugh." The scruffy man groaned, why did he draw short straw?!

"You said most of them are arrested, how did that happen?!" Kyoka said, "I mean, after all these things they put us through…"

"It happens by pure coincidence." Aizawa sighed, "The police receive a report that a CRC are having a meeting in a location…"

"CRC?" Denki asked, "What's that?"

"Creature Rejection Cult, it's a hate group who has been involved with hate crimes against mutant-type people from harassing to lynching." Mezo explained and some teenagers grimaced or look horrified by that.

"Right." The scruffy teacher said, "So the police put a raid together with pro heroes and when they get there, they find the CRC members in middle of fight with League of Villains. One of the pro heroes happens to have a quirk-nullification quirk so they were able to arrested most of the League of Villains…"

"Who get away?" Izuku asked.

"Himiko." Aizawa answered.

"Wait, so they caught the ringleader, the one with decay quirk?" Camie widened her eyes with several teenagers.

"About that, he's dead." The scruffy man said to their shock, "When they were processing the villains, one of the CRC members break free and stab Shigaraki in neck, severing few main arteries. He died on spot from heavy blood loss and they were too far to get help." He glanced across the shocked faces of teenagers, "Any questions? No? Ok, bye." Aizawa left the dorm right away, 'Now I need to meet this informant.' This person was going to blow whistle on some kind of hidden organization trying to make a comeback and it involve some lifestyle company, politic party and many more.

With the teenagers, there was nothing but stunned silence until someone breaks it. "…Why does it feel so anticlimax?" Mina muttered.

"Yeah…" Momo agreed, "It feel like many character development and revelations have been removed from that." That does earn few weird looks from other.

"Well, anything can happen in life, even when it throws a curveball." Rikido said.

"Yes, but…" Eijiro pumped his fist, "Now we don't have to worry about League of Villains anymore and just focus on our training like manly men!"

"Right, it's over now." Setsuna's lips twitched upward into a grin, "No more League of Villains out for our life."

"Should we be concerning about this Himiko person?" Denki pointed out.

"I don't think she has any connection other than League of Villains and she'll be on run until then." Tsuyu hummed, "With her quirk and skills, she's more like B-rank and it won't be long until some heroes catch her." Most teenagers slowly discuss about the news, mostly celebrating the fact that they don't have to worry about any threats on their lives and other things.

Izuku don't know what to think or feel about this news until he feel his phone vibrate and he pull it out to see a text from his parents. "Oh." He uttered before he notice Eri looking up to him curiously, "Ah! My parents are coming over in few days to meet you." He never notice the girls freeze up behind him or the boys looking at the girls in confusion.

"Ooh, grandmama and grandpapa are coming?" Eri perked up with various emotions running through her face, mostly nervous because she don't know if Deku's parents will like her or not.

"Yeah." Izuku smiled.

"Hey, let's go back to party!" Toru held the movie cases up, "Movie time!" Everyone agreed for the movie night to take their minds off from the news and enjoy the rest of the day.

The first year is almost over and some wonder what will the rest of their school years turn out onward after this day.

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And that end the seventh chapter of LC! Love it? Hate it?

We just covered the Culture Festival and Joint Training and we just saw some moments between Izuku and some girls along with other things. Not only that, Izuku suddenly get slapped with an adoption paper and become the father of Eri to his and everyone's shock! All thank to Nezu, he sure love to fucking humans up from time to time. But that's not all, near the end of the chapter, the League of Villains are over and just like that?! Wow, that's quite anticlimax like Mina said.

What will the rest of U.A.'s school years turn out for everyone with some changes? What moments will we see next? Let's find out in next chapter!

I think that's all I can say for now…Thank you for your time to read it.

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