This is a non-Canon chapter. Please enjoy. The last work of Op Taipan
It was currently the early evening on a weekday in class 1-A's dorms, Height's alliance. Despite what one would expect, however, the common area of the dorm was practically deserted of any of the students.
While it was a rather peculiar occurrence to have the place so empty at this hour, it was not unheard of. After all, the students of class 1-A still had places to be.
The self-proclaimed 'Bakusquad' (which was ironically, or unironically (depends on who you ask), not named by Bakugou) which consisted of Kirishima, Kaminari, Mina, Sero, and the namesake himself, decided to have a game night in Kaminari's room. Yaoyarozu, Uraraka, Ojiro, Jirou, and Midoriya were currently occupied with their weekly quirkless sparring session. Todoroki was visiting his mom. Iida, Koda, Tokoyami, and Shoji held a study session with a few 1-B students at their dorms; And everyone else was in their rooms.
The only two who were currently in the common area, specifically the kitchen, were the invisible girl, Toru Hagakure, and the resident baker, Rikido Sato.
"Ughhh… Soooooo huungrrryyy…"
Hagakure whined from her slumped position on the kitchen aisle, her invisible stomach rumbling in hunger "Sato-kun, can you make anything to eat, I'm not very good at it…"
A second rumble was heard from Sato's stomach, who was currently looking over the contents of an empty fridge "Sorry Hagakure-san, the fridge's empty… There's nothing to make food with. We'll need to wait till tomorrow morning when they are restocking."
"Ugggghhhhhhhh…" Hagakure let out another whine escape her throat. She couldn't wait until tomorrow! She had to skip her lunch today! She was STARVING!
"There's gotta be something to eat around here!" The invisible girl slammed her fists on the aisle and stood up, "Help me look!"
Being quite hungry himself, Sato joined Hagakure, and the two set out on their quest to find something edible in the kitchen.
Sato opened one of the cabinets and looked inside, "Let's see… some water bottles, Ketchup, mustard, soy sauce… *Sign* nothing."
"Whoa!" On the other side of the kitchen, Hagakure opened a large overhead cabinet and found herself in front of quite the sight. "Sato-kun! Come look! There's so much tea here!"
True to her words, the cabinet housed what could only be described as 'the ultimate tea-making kit'. Boxes upon boxes of teabags, dried leaves, different kinds of sweeteners, and even whole lemons.
"Who do you think these belong to? Yaoyarozu or Midoriya?" Sato asked in curiosity. Those two were the largest tea consumers in the class, and both were quite enthusiastic about the making of it.
Hagakure hummed in thought for a second "Probably Yaomomo… Seeing as Midori views the use of teabags as a crime against humanity."
Sato shivered a bit when Hagakure mentioned that, getting horrific flashbacks to the many times Midoriya and Yaoyorozu waged wars over tea.
"It's just a powder made from dried leaves in a bag! How can that thing compare to the fragrance you get by extracting the flavor out of a fresh herb?!" Midoriya yelled out loud, holding what appeared to be a tea bag in contempt.
"Hmph! I wouldn't expect someone like you to get it." Yaoyorozu shot back at the shorter kid, "But the sophistication and elegance behind these special blends are superior to what you can brew. They were created with science! The blends were designed by dozens of experts to consistently create a top-tier beverage."
Midoriya grew a tick mark on his head, "And what did this 'consistency' give you?" He air-quoted, "That tea has no soul! How can a single, uniform process that's repeated again and again ever hope to capture everything the leaf has to offer? The job of the brewer is to identify the potential of each plant and use what it has to give to the best of its ability. The industrial process in which tea bags are created throws that potential to waste!".
"What kind of a feeble argument is that?" Yaoyorozu retorted, a scowl on her face. "'The tea has no soul?' That's the tea we're talking about, not a person. Cooking and brewing are nothing more than chemistry. The fact is, these blends in the tea bag were designed by teams of chemists and food scientists. The ingredients are already at the pick of where they can be."
"If you're so sure about that… why not take it to the test?" Midoriya gave her a maniacal grin, a raging fire materialized behind him.
"Very well," Thunder and lightning crackled behind Yaoyorozu as she stared the Avatar down, "Let this tea-off be the end of this argument once and for all."
Lightening sparked between the two as they glared at each other, each looking more ready for a fight than a simple brew-off.
To the side, the rest of the class watched in a mix of worry and exasperation.
'Not again…' the friends of the two all groaned together.
"Where getting sidetracked here… Food comes first! Tea later!" Sato shook his head and turned away from the tea- cabinet, fueled by his hunger to find food.
"Right!" And so, the two set out in search of sustenance again. Not long after, both the invisible girl and the sugar-rush user were in front of the last cabinet they didn't check: the snack cabinet.
Both held a somber expression, even if you could only see it on one of them, "That's the last one…" Sato whispered in a heavy tone while Toru was praying beside him for food to be present within the cabinet.
"Here's go nothing* Closing his eyes, Sato yanked at the cabinet's door and opened it forcefully. Once the two took a glimpse at what was inside, hope burned bright in their malnourished souls.
Inside the cabinet, stood a single plastic box. It might've not looked like much, but there was still a chance it held their holy grail. Toru reached inside and pulled the box out, inspecting it with Sato.
'Property of Izuku Midoriya, do not touch
Both of the teens slumped when they were met with those words "WHY MIDORIYAAA! WHY BE SO SELFISH!" Sato was crying in anguish on the floor as his stomach rumbled in agreement with him.
After finally receiving some hope, it was immediately dashed by the cruel, black-lettered message their classmate left.
Hagakure shifted her posture around a bit, the sleeve of her pink shirt resting on top of the box "You know… Midoriya wouldn't know if we took only a little from the box…"
Sato lifted her head and stared at what he assumed was her head with wide eyes "You want to STEAL from Midoriya?!"
As soon as he said that, the large teen felt Toru's hand covering his mouth "Shhh! Not so loud! Besides, it's an emergency! I'm sure he wouldn't mind."
Sato's stomach croaked in agreement, leaving Sato blushing. It seemed the teen was having an internal fight going on, a fight his stomach was quickly winning. "Fine…" He relented "But we're only taking a little bit and we are NOT telling anyone about it!"
Hagakure violently nodded her head in confirmation before placing the box on the kitchen aisle and opening it.
Both the invisible girl and sugar-themed hero raised their eyebrows at what they saw, inside the box were what appeared to be dozens of colorful hard candies. "That's what he wanted to keep for himself? What is he eighty?" The invisible girl sounded disappointed as she picked up a pink-colored candy.
"Well, at least that's something," Sato grumbled as he picked a blue one.
"Bottoms up!"
Both the teens, too hungry to think rationally, bit into the hard candy at the same time.
An audible shattering sound was heard throughout the kitchen.
"Gah!"
"WHAT THE HELL?!" Sato screamed through the hand that covered his mouth, Toru doing the same.
"What is this thing made of?! STONE?!"
Both held their mouths between their hands in pain for a few minutes, silently cursing Izuku's choice of sweets.
After confirming that their teeth hadn't broken (Though how Toru knew was a mystery… Come to think of it, how DID she get dental care?) both teens put the box away and slumped on the couch in defeat.
"We're gonna die of starvation here!" Toru whined in an over-dramatic fashion.
Sato only sweat-dropped "Tomorrow the staff restocks our food anyways, we only need to wait until then."
"But I can't wait for that long!" The invisible girl pouted. Whenever she was hungry, it seemed Hagakure was prone to tantrums.
Sato signed." There's nothing we can do. If it's bothering you, you can go sleep until tomorrow, that way at least you won't feel that hungry…"
The invisible girl perked up. "You know what, Sato-kun? That's not a bad idea!" Getting up, Hagakure made her way to the elevator on the girls' side of the building and called the elevator "Good night!"
"Good night!" Sato waved back "I think I'll call it a day too. Besides, if I get up early, I can make pancakes for breakfast!"
Water seemed to come out of thin air above Toru's shirt, meaning the girl was drooling "You are SO making some for me, Sugar-man!"
A small chuckle made him out of Sato's mouth "You got it, Invisible-girl!"
And so, the two went off the bed in an attempt to survive the night, neither noticing the pieces of candy they stole stuck to their hands.
The sun began to rise on the U.A. grounds.
As per usual, Midoriya, Iida, Yaoyarozu, Bakugou, and Uraraka were already up and about, doing their usual routine. Uraraka was jogging, Iida and Momo ate breakfast while checking each other's homework, Bakugou was making himself a bento for later today, and Izuku already managed to feed Chima.
Most of the class was either still asleep or only just woken up. In particular, Toru Hagakure herself was still soundly sleeping, cuddled between all her stuffed animals on her bed.
Her serenity, however, was soon dissipated once the gentle rays of the morning sun made their way into her room and disturbed her sleep.
"Ugh…" Groaning in annoyance, the girl rolled away in an attempt to hide away from the light. Or as Tokoyami would say: 'Embracing the darkness'.
*Clank! *
However, the girl raised an invisible brow when she felt her hand hit the wall, but instead of a silent tap, a hard clank was heard. Perplexed, Toru groggily opened her eyes and cast a glance at her hand.
"KYYYAAAAAAA!"
The sight that greeted her wasn't one she was expecting. Toru stared in utter shock at her hand that was currently encased in pink crystals!
"W-w-what's going on?!" was all she managed to stutter before her attention was drawn to the door.
"Toru!" A familiar voice yelled from the other side after a series of loud knocks. "Is everything alright there!?" Not even waiting for a response, the door was opened forcefully, and in came Toru's floor-mate, Kyoka Jiro.
"Toru! Are you all right?! What happe-!" Jiro's words stuck to her throat once she too registered what was currently on the girl's left hand. "What the hell is that?!"
"I don't know!" Toru whined as tears were falling out her eyes, though to anyone looking it would appear like water coming out of nowhere. "I just got up and that THING was on my hand!"
"Can you get it off?" Jiro asked her in worry.
The right sleeve of the invisible girl's shirt seemed to clutch at the crystalline structure and pull at it with all the strength possible, "Hi! It won't come off!"
"This is bad…" Jiro muttered in a somber tone "Do you have any idea where it came from?"
Toru only shook her head in denial "No!"
Elsewhere:
"GAhhhhhh!"
A horrifying scream abruptly woke up both Todoroki and Sero from their slumber, Causing Sero to shoot out the tape in alarm and create a spider-nest out of his room.
The less said about what Todoroki did to his room the better.
Both teens rushed out of their rooms and immediately identified the source of the scream to be Sato's. Not wasting any time, the two barged in to find something neither expected.
Their classmate was busy slamming his fist into the wall of his room in panic. While that wasn't so common either, what caught both teens' attention was the blue crystal that enveloped Sato's right hand.
"What the hell is that?!" Sero gaped at the new revelation, causing Sato to stop his panic-smashing and dart his attention to his guests.
"Is that a new quirk or something?" Todoroki asked in a monotonous tone, though he was silently irked to be woken up as he did.
"IS THAT WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE?!" Sato barked in impatience.
Todoroki remained unfazed, " You live with a guy that has four quirks; can breathe ice, fire, and gale-wind; Has a twenty-ton Badger for a pet; And can hop between dimensions on a whim. I'd say that you gaining another quirk is not unheard of in comparison to that."
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"Good point."
"Guys, can we focus?" Surprisingly it was not Sato, but Sero who directed everyone's attention back to the elephant in the room. "What are we gonna do about this?"
Sato signed "I tried breaking it, but the thing won't budge. Any suggestions?"
Sero cupped his chin in thought. "Well, there are stronger people than you in class, no offense."
"Non-taken"
"Anyways, maybe one of them could break it."
Todoroki nodded in approval. "Good idea. I'd like to try myself, but I need more room to work with for that."
Now, having a plan in mind, the trio made their way downstairs to the common room. Unaware that the other one who was suffering from the same situation was on a collision course with them.
*Line Break*
"Good morning!" As soon as the trio made their way into the common room, they were greeted by a cheerful Yaoyarozu Momo, "Did you three sleep well?"
By the time the trio made their way down, most of the class did as well. Save for a few, the entire class was sitting around the common room, eating breakfast, and talking with their classmates.
"We have a problem." Skipping any formalities in a true Todoroki fashion, Shoto stepped aside and revealed Sato's hand from behind him.
Momo's eyes instantly shot-eyed, "What is that?!"
The shout was enough to garner the attention of everyone. In no time at all, all eyes were on Sato's hand.
"I don't know! I just woke up and this THING was on my hand and it won't come off!" Sato explained in a frantic tone, his hands flailing about and almost smacking Sero.
Sero dodged Sato's failing arms as he explained, "We were hoping to get rid of it with your help, Apparently that thing is pretty tough."
Suddenly, a voice yelled out of the blue, "Guys we have an emergency!"
The sound of stomping footpace came from the girls' side stairway. Soon a running and panting Jirou and Hagakure entered the common room as well, getting the attention of the crowd.
One look at the floating pink crystal and the color drained from the students' faces.
"YOU TOO?!"
Pointing at each other with their free hands, both victims stared in bewilderment at the crystals enveloping the other's arms.
"PANDAMIC! WE HAVE A PANDEMIC! BY THE END OF THE DAY WE'LL ALL BE CRYSTAL STATUES!" Mineta won the spotlight when he somehow pulled out a surgical mask out of nowhere and put it on his face.
Ignoring Mineta, Momo glanced at the crystals in thought, "Maybe there's a reason only the two of you have those crystals on your arms. Can you think of something the both of you did? It might help us figure out how to get those things off."
Both Sato and Hagakure stood still as statues as the event of yesterday played in their minds, 'Blue crystals…' the invisible girl stared at the crystals on Sato's hand.
'Pink crystals…' The sugar-rush user looked over the crystalline structure on his classmate's hand 'Don't tell me…'
"MIDORIYA'S CANDIES!" They both shouted in unison.
"Huh?"
The entire class was bewildered by the sudden exclaim that left the victims' mouths, "Izuku's candies?" Jirou asked them.
Seeing how confused his classmates were, Sato decided to elaborate. "Remember when we ran out of food yesterday?" Upon receiving a few nods, he continued. "Well, me and Hagakure were hungry, so we searched the kitchen for anything to eat. But all we found was a box of hard candies that belonged to Midoriya."
One of the students gasped aloud, "Don't tell me you STOLE from your classmate! That is shameful behavior, especially for U.A. students!" No matter what time it is, you could always count on Iida to berate his classmates for breaking the rules.
Before Iida could continue in a rant, he was thankfully cut off by a certain pinkette. "While I agree with Iida that it wasn't cool for you to steal from Midori, how is that connected to those things?" Mina said as she gestured to the crystals on her classmates' hands.
"Like this." Taking the box out of the now full drawer, Sato opened the box up and presented it to the group of students that were currently crowding him and Toru.
"Those candies do look like crystals… I took a pink one and Sato took a blue one… and it was only us two that took them…" Toru explained with a guild-filled voice.
"That does explain a few things…" Momo muttered, "It couldn't be a coincidence that the color of the candy you both took turned out to be the same color as the crystals that are stuck to you."
"If that's the case then we're lucky…" Shoto integrated into the conversation, "If it was Midoriya's candies that did this, he more than likely knows what's going on and how to get rid of those crystals."
Momo held her chin as she nodded, "Good thinking Todoroki-kun. Midoriya-kun would know how to deal with this. Even he's not that careless that he'd bring something like this here without any countermeasures."
"Debatable." Jirou chimed without even missing a second.
Momo gave Jirou a look that said she wasn't helping, before turning back to the class, "Anyway, it seems Midoriya-kun is not here. Does anyone know where he is?"
"He's already gone." Bakugou remarked, still sitting, and eating his breakfast like nothing was wrong, "He went out and won't be back till sundown, family emergency or some shit."
It was for only a moment, but unnoticed by everyone, Bakugou shot a glance at both Jirou and Uraraka. It was a silent message the trio conveyed to each other rather frequently: 'Izuku's on Avatar duty'.
"Wait! Can't you call him for instructions or something?" The sugar-rush user pleaded with the walking dynamite stick, only to have his hopes crushed when the blonde shook his head.
"Ain't happening, diabetes-man." Bakugou said with his phone in hand, "Already tried calling the nerd while you tried playing detective. He's not answering."
Toru stomped her foot on the floor in frustration, "Son of a bitch! What are we supposed to do now?! If Aizawa-sensei sees us like this he'll kill us!"
A sympathetic chill ran down everyone's spine once Toru said that.
"He'll kill you if you're lucky…" Uraraka murmured, quietly, creeping those around her out.
"Dear god!" Bakugou groaned, "What is wrong with you people!? All you need to do is get rid of those crystals! Are you all that pathetic that you need Deku for that?!"
"Now's not the time to take shots at our pride here!" Toru snapped back as she waved her crystal-encased hand frantically, "This is about getting me and Sato free!"
"Wait a moment, Toru!" Yaoyorozu couldn't believe she was doing this, "He has a point."
"HUH?!"
'Finally. Some gears turning.' The blonde nodded, "Are you extra heroes in training or do you just play pretend?" He snarked.
"You two idiots!" He yelled at both of the crystalized teens, causing them to jolt and look at him with fearful eyes, "You done fucked up big time! And now all you do is grovel about how doomed you are. Get over it!"
"And you!" This time, the blonde's glare was directed at the entire class, all of whom flinched under its weight sans Todoroki, Jirou, and Uraraka. "Your classmates are in danger! And what do you do?! You run around here like headless chickens with the only thing you got going is the idea to call Deku!"
He let silence reign in the air for a few moments, letting them take in his message.
The entire class, who until now had stared wide-eyed at the blond, now averted their gaze anywhere else.
"So, tell me, extras." Bakugou said in a normal voice, without screaming, "Are you all gonna run to Deku like a bunch of extras? Or are you gonna act like real heroes for a change?"
There was silence again.
But then.
"HELL YEAH!"
"THAT WAS SO MANLY!"
"Who knew you could be so inspiring? *Kero*"
"HUH?!" Bakugou's small amount of pride in his class was quickly forgotten once he heard that last line. "WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN FROG-FACE?!"
Frog-face merely stared at the blonde with a blank expression, 'And… he's back.'
"So… how are we gonna do this?" Sato questioned his would-be rescuers, "Those crystals are tougher than they look, and they look through as is!"
"Isn't it obvious!?" Bakugou barked with a malicious grin as threatening explosions danced on his palms "One howitzer from me and those stupid rocks will be dust!"
Sato and Toru froze, hearts sinking and fear beginning to consume them. Casting a begging gaze, though only one was visible, they tried their hardest to convey a single message: 'Help us!'
Yaoyoruzo got in between the blonde and the victims, "Let's step back a minute and try something less… destructive."
Bakugou was not happy about someone getting between him and committing murder, "Tch! Whatever!" He scoffed before he grabbed his backpack and started to make his way towards class. "But when you all fail, I'ma blast those rocks as much as I want!"
Toru and Sato breathed in relief "Thanks, Yaomomo!", they then gestured towards the crystals on their hands, "So, who wants to take a shot at these?"
"I'm afraid that we will have to wait!" Iida suddenly stopped everyone once he heard a notification from his phone, "Class starts in ten minutes. We need to go now!"
*Line Break*
For once in his life, Aizawa entered his classroom and was impressed, "Good, you didn't waste time." He remarked, eyes scanning his students, each already seated quietly at their desk.
Something was wrong though. It was almost impossible to pinpoint, but the pro could detect it, nonetheless. The slight twitching of facial features, the beads of sweat on foreheads, the way even Kaminari was sat upright.
His class was scared shitless.
'Have they gotten wind of the pop quiz in the third period?' The teacher asked himself, noticing how it was the less academically gifted half of the class that was more nervous.
Deciding to ignore it, Eraserhead got behind his lectern and began homeroom; it wasn't rational to waste time over simple pre-test fright. "I already got the notice from Nezu about Midoriya being away; I trust you to give him the classwork he'll miss when he comes back."
"Y-yes sensei!" The class chorused, though Aizawa didn't miss the way Hagakure and Sato's voices almost broke.
Recess couldn't come soon enough…
To say that the day had been going perfectly would be a lie.
Though they managed to get into the class safe and sound, that did not spare them the bewildered look Midoriya gave them when he saw them all huddled at the entrance, trying to hide Toru and Sato from his field of vision. Nor did it spare them from Bakugou laughing his ass off until Aizawa entered the class for homeroom.
Luckily, Sato and Toru managed to hide the crystals under their tables from the two for the entire homeroom and first period.
Which now brings us to the present:
" Okay, who's up first?" Yaoyoruzu asked her classmates.
They were currently outside the building, hiding in the bushes on their ten-minute break between the first and second periods.
Sitting in a circle with Sato and Toru in the middle, several hands were raised all at once.
"Why won't I try?!" Mina volunteered "My acid's sure to melt those rocks away!"
"Non mademoiselle!" Aoyama shook his head, sparkles appearing all around it, "The kind of task we are facing requires précision et la grâce, something my naval laser can supply with haste!"
"I'm afraid I wouldn't be of much help…" Tsuyu sighed "My quirk isn't suitable for this kind of job."
"Same…" Uraraka agreed.
"Well, you can probably just float them high and then drop them so that they land on the crystals, right?"
The entire class froze and gazed at Kaminari like he was an idiot.
"THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU DUNCE-FACE, THAT'D KILL THEM!" Bakugou voiced everyone's thoughts out loud as Jiro struck his temple with one of her jacks and sent a pulse through him, knocking the blonde out. "JUST LET ME HOWTIZER THOSE TWO AND CALL IT A DAY!"
'YOU'D KILL THEM TOO IF YOU DID THAT!'
"I think we should start small…" Ojiro chimed in. "It'd be best if we can release Toru-san and Sato-kun without hurting them."
Most students nodded their heads in agreement, "Then why don't you start, Ojiro?" Yaoyorozu suggested, " Try, and see what happens when you attack the crystals with your tail."
Nodding in affirmation, Ojiro stepped into the circle. "Sato-kun?" The taller boy got the message and stretched his arm towards the tailed hero. The blonde wasted no time and jumped into the air, flipping himself to increase his momentum, Ojiro smacked the blue stones with his tail as hard as he could but, unfortunately, didn't leave a scratch.
"Damnit!" He murmured "Nothing?!"
Iida sighed, "It was a good try Ojiro-kun, but it appears more power is necessary."
"Physical strength appears to have little effect on those crystals…" Momo uttered aloud, "That means that Kirishima and Shoji probably wouldn't fare any better…"
Shoji sighed, "I figured the same thing when Ojiro stepped up. Either way, I wouldn't be testing my strength against it."
Kirishima clenched his fists in frustration, "Damn! I feel so useless!"
"Your quirks are merely not suited for the task, that is nothing you should be ashamed of." Yaoyorozu tried to reassure them and got up, "Maybe I can create something that would work."
Rolling her sleeves (Because she needed to for her quirk) the creation user already came up with different appliances to use before she even went to work.
Alas, a hammer; a drill; a machete; and even a freaking laser cutter later saw no change to the crystalline structures. "Well…" Momo stated out loud as she threw the high-tech-and-pricey item over her shoulder to join her ever-increasing amount of broken appliances, "That's all I had."
"You're kidding?! Even Yaomomo is useless here?!" Mineta yelled out loud, causing Yaoyorozu's spirit to plummet and everyone else to cringe at his choice of words.
"Apologize!" Jiro smacked the short pervert over his head while Momo was mopping in the background.
"Also! YOU don't get to call her Yaomomo!" Mina and Toru exclaimed at once.
"It seems more extreme measures are to be taken if we want to accomplish our task…" Iida murmured as he cupped his chin in thought, involuntarily causing the two victims to gulp at what might be thrown at them.
They stayed in silence for a few more moments before Todoroki noticed something, " Hey…" The pepper-mint-haired teen called for his classmates and pointed at Sato and Toru's arms, "Were the crystals this big before?"
Perplexed, everyone looked at the offending objects, and, sure enough, the crystals that once only enveloped the teens' hand now reached halfway up their forearms.
"GAAHHHH!"
"It's getting bigger!" Sato yelled in fear as nervous chatter began to erupt amongst the students, "When the hell did THAT happen?!"
"This is way worse than we thought…" Iida mumbled to himself much like his green-haired classmate "There is a high possibility that the crystals will only grow larger with time. There is no telling what might happen to Sato-kun and Toru-san if we don't get those things off of them."
"What are you all waiting for?!" Toru begged her classmates "Get those things off us!"
*RRRRRIIIIIIIINNNGGGG*
It was just then that the school bell CONVENIENTLY rang across the campus, signaling the end of the break.
"Shit!" Bakugou cursed "We need to head back!"
"Wait! What about the crystals?!" Sato asked in alarm.
"We'll just have to deal with it on lunch break!" Iida yelled from ahead as he had already begun to run back to campus, "For now, we need to go back to class!"
Reluctantly, class 1-A made their way back to class.
*Line Break*
'What the hell?!' Was the thought of all who encountered the group of 1-A students in the halls of U.A.
Said students were all walking together as one, nearly all twenty of the class walked all huddled together, Sato and Toru in the middle, in an effort to hide the colorful crystals from any teacher, student and most importantly: Midoriya.
'This is so embarrassing…' Jiro thought with reddened cheeks. Luckily, she managed to hide herself close to the middle, not wanting to show herself to the other students. She had a reputation to keep, and the fact she and Kaminari rammed into each other every so often wasn't helping.
"Hey! Mirio! Tamaki! Look-look! It's 1-A!". Every heart in the group sank when they heard the enthusiastic voice of one of their senpais and probably the third person they least wanted to see right now other than Midoriya and Aizawa: Nejire Hado.
"What are you all doing huddled up like that! Is it a game? Were you told to do this? Is it a punishment? What did you do? Tell me! Tell me!" The long haired blunette asked endless question as she entered the already violated personal space of her kohai's.
"Being all grouped up like that…" Tamaki Amajiki murmured from his place near Mirio "… How mortifying."
"Hey, 1-A! It's been awhile!" Mirio ignored his friend's usual depression and raised his hand in greeting, "How have you all been?"
"W-we are all doing fine, Mirio-senpai!" Tenya exclaimed from somewhere within the mass of different students, though his usual enthusiasm was held back. "Excuse us, but we really must head to lunch."
Nodding in agreement, the class made their way around the Big 3 and walked further through the hallways, which was rather hard in their current position. "By the way…" Mirio called from behind them and pointed at the huddled group, "Is Midoriya in there somewhere?"
"N-no." Ojiro muttered, "We don't know where he is."
That was a lie. They sent out Uraraka and Tsuyu to keep him company, and more importantly, be aware of where he was at all times, least they run into him by accident.
"Aw, that's a shame." Mirio sighed, "I wanted to ask for another rematch."
"Wait, another RE-match?" Tamaki turned to Mirio from the wall he planted his head in, " How many times have you two sparred?"
Mirio remained silent as he slowly raised one finger after the other. "I'm not sure… I think I stopped counting around fourteen…"
"FOURTEEN?! What the heck!"
"Midoriya never mentioned anything like this…" Iida murmured to himself.
"Really?" Mirio raised a brow, "Guess he likes having himself a secret life, huh? HAHAHAHA!"
While everyone else sweat dropped at the blonde's antics another blonde who knew Midoriya way better only grimaced 'You have no idea…'
"Anyways… we really need to get to lunch now!" Momo apologetically clapped her hands, "It was nice seeing you again!"
With that, the huddled mass of 1-A went on their way, not noticing the light bulb that went above Nejire's head "Hey, isn't the cafeteria the other way around?"
Tamaki and Mirio raised their eyebrows, "You're right… That's weird…"