Momo once heard an expression about house guests and fish, that both end up smelling after three days. Well, she had spent only two days living with her classmates, and the smell became comparable to that of a trash can.

"Who in this classroom dares to drink from the carton!?" Iida shouted out, pointing at the dripping orange juice in the fridge. "Pour it into a glass, clean it, and put it into the dishwasher like a civilized human being! Some of us use it as fuel!"

"I'll start once someone actually does the dishes." Sero pointed to the heaping mess that was piling in the sink. "Because I'm not cleaning up someone else's mess."

"Hey, my house has a very strict rule. If you cook, you don't clean up after everyone else." Sato argued back. "Why no one else does so is beyond me!"

Yes, this conversation, and many others, have been going on since early dawn. A half eaten strawberry covered in ants on top of the counter proved to be the straw on the camel's back as everyone got into a full on shouting match. Even she wasn't immune to having complaints, as Denki, for as sweet as he was, had a bad habit of leaving his dirty clothes on the ground.

"Look, I'm sorry, it's just a weekly thing. On Saturday everyone pitches in to clean everything so we can have a lazy sunday! Is that just a me thing, no one else does that?" He asked around. "And if we're all complaining, how about the bathroom! Who doesn't flush!?"

Everyone just glared at Mineta. "Sorry, but that's how my quirk stays effective. It's gross, but necessary."

"Gross but necessary would be animal droppings. Which could be cleaned normally if Koji kept his animals in a cage!" Jiro shouted. "I found a lizard in my shorts yesterday!"

"They all got scared off by Dark Shadow! His late night yelling keeps scaring all the animals awake!"

"What do you suggest I do? Have my room eternally bright to Aoyama levels? I would never be able to sleep!"

"And then he wouldn't get to chat with me! Why don't we complain? Like how Ashido leaves slime spots when she sits on the couch!"

"Hey, it's not as bad as Ochako constantly starting a fight for every bit of loose change that falls on the ground."

"If you want money, rip off my arms first!"

"WHO THE FUCK KEEPS LEAVING THE TV ON AT NIGHT!"

Yes, this had been happening all day. Just a bottle of pent up emotions being let out. The only one who didn't have a complaint was Iruma, who was … where was he? "Hey, does anyone want to help me throw the bed out?" He came down with sleep deprived eyes and spoke lunacy!

"Don't worry, Iruma-kun, just sleep in my room and I'll take care of it for you!"

"Hagakure, we spent a full three hours on that bed, don't toss it out!"

"But sleeping in a bed makes me dream of ghosts!"

"That's probably because Toru snuck into your room to watch you in your sleep." Shoji groaned.

"How else am I supposed to keep him safe!?"

"By waiting in front of his door like a normal human being?" Everyone turned to Todoroki. "She asked, and she's invisible, she can pull it off. While we're on the subject of complaints, who snores so loud that they break the soundproof quality of the rooms we have?"

Everyone kept pointing to each other, but she wisely chose not to say anything, as did Denki and Jiro, because Momo herself was the culprit to that little issue.

Sero stared down at the door. "Remind me again how we got here?"

"Monoma came by, boasted that their dorm was better and more organized, Suzuki complimented it, eventually shouting began somehow, and then Monoma challenged us to a game, calling us chicken if we lost. So Iruma said he was talking with Mei when he was giving stuff up, and now here we are with an experimental 'game' in question." Shoji helpfully summed up the events in question.

"So here's how it works." Hatsumei smiled. "Two doors, two classes. The first to escape the death trap wins."

"You mean escape room right?"

"Isn't that the same thing?" No, no it wasn't.

"I think I've been to one of these things before." Iruma asked. "Except there was this creepy puppet with red spots on its face." That sounded like a copycat serial killer.

"That's who I based this off of! Congratulations on getting a head start." That just made what came up even more horrifying.

"Are we really wanting to do this?" Todoroki asked the same question.

"Oh, is 1-A admitting 1-B is better?" The class looked like it wanted Monoma dead before admitting it was better. And 1-B looked like it wanted Monoma dead for goading this forward.

"Like hell we are! Let's do this, Like men!" Kirishima charged in, Tetsutetsu following suit.

"FOR MANLINESS!" If either of them decided to switch classrooms for a day without telling anybody, he was half certain nobody in either class would notice. Regardless, both classes entered the room, which did like like a torture chamber that he felt a bit sufficated to be in.

"Seriously, how did she change up the room's layout this quickly?" Uraraka asked. "It's like Todoroki and his room. Some things just shouldn't be possible!"

"Anything is possible with hard work." That was Todoroki's only response to that.

"Exactly. Once I had to work double time for renovations. I turned the room for penguins into a room for cacti within an hour." Hatsumei giggled as the madwoman she was.

"So what the fuck is the first clue?" Bakugo took the lead as always.

"Follow the numbers, they won't fail." She turned off as a timer for 5 minutes began, spikes beginning to slowly descend from the ceiling as everyone screamed.

"We're gonna die!" Mineta shouted the obvious.

"Don't worry about it! Each time you find a clue, a new trap will trigger! That way you're forced to figure it out within the five minutes mark! I don't have all day to wait around and watch you people stand still doing nothing!"

"DID YOU HAVE TO USE REAL SPIKES!?" Hagakure screamed at the support student. "Okay, Okay, follow the numbers, what around here shows numbers!?"

"Calendar."

"Clock."

"Books."

"Remote."

Multiple students called out. "Kaminari, toss me the remote!" The boy threw it, but due to the crowd it hit a certain Shishida straight in the head.

"Grrrrr!" Great, the guy was going feral with all the danger going around. "Hggggggghhh!" The remote was in his mouth now, there was much they could do without this turning into a full on fight…

"GRRRRRRRRRRRR!" Except Iruma, who got on all fours and stared at the mutant type like he was prey, a little puppy compared to the vicious wolf of 1-A. Shishida…whimpered. Letting go of the remote and put himself in a corner. Monoma looked halfway between reprimanding his classmate from cowering and running away himself.

"... The remote has a key in the back of it!" Kendo dropped the tension, pulling out a key and handing it over. "Check everywhere else, inside and outside."

"Wait, didn't Hatsumei say a new trap will trigger for every clue we…" Rin didn't have time to finish as he fell through the floor into a seemingly empty abyss. Everyone looked at the hole for five seconds before scrambling even harder for another key. Why was it always them getting into these messes?

"Book, book, book..a math textbook! I found one!" Iruma shouted, getting his key out.

"Well done, my angel, we're close to.." Shiozaki was congratulating him, until the bookcase emptied, closed in and ate the two up, luckily leaving the key behind for them to collect.

"Iruma-kun and Shiozaki are alone …" Hagakure growled. "Find those keys or I will start castrating people." Sero wouldn't take the risk, running to find a key himself.

"And then … the man realized he could never see light again." Aoyama finished, everyone staring in awe. Who knew he could tell a decent scary story.

Too bad none of the girls shivered though, he wanted to do the thing where they screamed in terror and hugged him. So far Momo was the only one, but under the laws of the 'bro code' she was off limits … for now. Jiro was fair game though. Toru was hugging Iruma, although she would do that regardless of the situation.

"For a practitioner of such a bright lifestyle, you tell a suitably dark tale." Tokoyami complimented Aoyama for once, probably the only time the guy would actually do so."

"Oh, you flatter moi, Tokoyami. However, I believe the master of the dark arts should be the one to regale us with such a tale." The boy sparkled.

"Yeah Fumi, scary story." Mina cheered. "You're great at this."

"And you've got that commanding voice." Kaminari added. "You'd be perfect."

"I don't know … I wouldn't be aware of what to-" The boy was cut off as Dark Shadow, slightly bulkier than normal, came out. That's what you got in a candle lit room.

"You should do the one song grandpa told us." It spoke. "The accursed tale."

"That's far too dangerous Dark Shadow. I wouldn't condemn them to such a fate." Oh, a super dark story? Now this was something.

"But it'll be fun, come on. I've been on good behavior so far haven't I? You didn't need to use the flashlight at all so far."

"But you know what happens when it's told after ninety-nine tales have been spoken."

"Ninety nine … tales?" Ochako looked super curious.

"Oh you've gotta tell us now." Kirishima grinned. "Come on, let it be the last story of the night."

"Why not, best for last." Jiro smirked.

The boy stared at them all, muttering in silence before looking back up. "There is a legend up at the very top of a mountain. To honor the light they remove the darkness of their hearts by telling dark stories once a year at candle light. However, they always stop at ninety nine. They are forbidden from ever telling the hundredth story." Alright, the plot was set.

"One day, a blonde woman, a traveler amongst the land, joined the village and partook in their festivities. She was having a grand ole time, so to join in on the fun, she told the hundredth story despite the pleas of protest. When she was done, the candle went out all on its own, and the woman went with it before anyone could even blink."

"So she just vanished? No one saw anything after that?" Tsu spoke up, acting calm other than the slight tremble in her voice.

"A few days later the boy that was there reported seeing the woman, but no one believed him. A week later they found the boy's corpse, hung from the celing of his room by a string of blonde hair, an expression of terror on his face."

Tsu and Mina immediately hid themselves behind Shoji's arms, Ochako joined in on the huddling with Iruma and Toru, which left Jiro…who went for Kaminari as Momo held on to him. DAMN IT! How did three guys in class get double action!?

"Afterwards reports of seeing the woman popped up one at a time, each time they died within a week. The belief was that all the evil unfolded entered the woman's body, making her a demon in human form. Soon all those that had heard her speak the hundredth story soon vanished."

Okay, this was starting to freak him out! Mineta didn't care that there wasn't a lady around, he needed to grab onto something, anything!

"The man who told my grandfather of this story went back to the village, only to find it deserted, all those there killed by a plague. He was horrified, wandering aimlessly until he noticed a single head of blond hair. He screamed at it why she took away his friends and companions." He let the silence hold them. "She turned around and said words that would haunt him for a week to come."

Dark shadow came from behind Tokoyami, acting like a zombie with crooked movement. "Have you a soul to give? I can't feel mine anymore." He spoke in the most twisted and demonic tone he could muster, which was pretty damn good.

"Is … is this true?" Iruma asked slowly, freaked out as everyone else.

"I do not know, what I do know is that he believed it to be, as it is our right to believe. There is a lesson in every story to be had after all." That … was a hopeful way of telling it. "Now let us reti-" Before Tokoyami finished a small gust blew out the candles in the room. Everyone screamed in horror.

Iida had not had the best of days. First he spent his entire time cleaning up the messes everyone made this morning. Then everyone seemed to avoid him. Following that no one would explain what was going on. After all that it ended with Bakugo telling him not to go downstairs, as a shout of 'cake' was heard. So now he sits down, in his bed, wondering where it all went wrong.

To be quite frank with himself, the school year hadn't gone at all as he anticipated it to go. It seemed at every turn, he had proven himself to be in the wrong or unprepared for any situation that came his way. His misjudged Suzuki's character during the entrance exam, he blew his chances at becoming Class President, and he seemed to have inspired his classmates to engage in vigilante acts.

He was a far cry from the model student he envisioned himself to be. In terms of upholding the Iida family name, he seems to have failed at almost every turn.

Still, there was some good that came out of this school year, getting to know and make friends with some truly great and noble people he was proud to work beside. In the end, there was little regret, but was this truly the best route he could've taken? Could've he been better?"

And now the lights were out. Sure, what else could go wrong? "HELP!" He was being sarcastic! He ran out of his room, rushing down the stairs, faster and faster to try and help in any way he could. At the bottom he was greeted with a strange sight. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"

The entire room was decorated in banners, chairs that he had cleaned up, a massive cake, and a small pile of presents. "You wouldn't believe how much work it took to keep this under wraps." Uraraka explained. "We had to make sure all our planning took place when you weren't looking, but you're always looking out for us."

"I had to get Bakubro to help." A kirishima with a very concerned eyepatch spoke up. "I came out mostly fine."

"We couldn't even tell Iruma-kun about it until about an hour ago, because he pretty much talks about everything on his mind." Hagakure patted Suzuki on the head.

"I really hope you didn't hear me shout in surprise about the cake." The boy rubbed the back of his head.

"... No, I was completely taken off guard." He let out a genuine smile. "Thank you all for this, it means a lot." These were his friends, why was he worried?

Suzuki smiled back, before turning to everything. "I still can't believe this is what a birthday is like, it feels so over the top."

"View it as people thanking you for surviving." Todoroki inserted his two cents.

"Really? No one's ever thanked me for just being alive before." Suzuki said, before turning to him and bowing. "Thank you for being born." This day was going to make him cry before it was over.

"Yuwai!" Ojiro heard Koji yell as a small blur of something white and fluffy ran out of his bedroom.

"I thought you got stronger locks on your cages after the snake nearly bit everyone?" Ojiro idly asked, quickly realizing he had become far too used to this sense of insanity.

"He's been planning this escape for a while, he distracted me so that I would purposely forget to lock his cage." The rocky looking student cried out.

"Are you saying that something nearly as smart as Nedzu is now free to run around in our dorm?" Mineta asked with wide eyes. "I need to hide the stash."

"Can't you just use your quirk on him?" Jiro suggested. "Isn't controlling animals your whole thing?"

"Yeah but it feels wrong to use it on anything in my room." The boy twiddled his thumbs. "They were my friends growing up … like family."

"Don't worry, between all of us, I'm pretty sure that rabbit is good as-oh wait, Iruma already has it in a corner." Kaminari pointed to the kid, who was in some sort of staring contest with the little guy.

"Oh, Iruma! Thanks for …" Koji stopped with wide eyes. "He's going to eat him! Quick, someone stop him!"

"I'm on it." Kaminari ran at the boy, trying and failing to tackle Suzuki, but failing. However, the rabbit managed to slip away … running to them with the hungry kid in tow.

"I got him!" Mineta began throwing sticky balls at the feral student. Surprisingly, they hit. "Dude, you're not in the woods anymore! You don't need to hunt rabbits!"

""Grrrrrrrrrr" Was the only response the boy made as he lit up his quirk and pulled himself free, breaking away the carpeting and flooring along with him.

"...I could somehow translate what he was growling…" Koji shivered. "'I'll be sure to share the rabbit stew. I know how to make the meat less gamey.'."

The rabbit itself ran over to Bakugo, jumping up onto his shoulder and shaking. The student blinked before looking at the boy trying to eat it. "... Defend little creatures … free excuse to beat the shit out of Dodger … throw in less idiocy and today may as well be christmas." Now this, this right here was the sign to GTFO.