CYA: What Defines A Hero: Bad Path

by lumpeistbark3

this story revolves around the Entirety of Class 1A being isekai'd into the one-punch man world. The story contains light spoilers post-season 6. The story goes up until right after the psycho sister's arc so I guess spoilers for one punch season 3 as well. the alternative path on A03 is to be uploaded later here.

22. Month 2: Week 3: Love Begins To blossom

Yeah... this chapter is bit over the artificial limit of the 30k by 1k oops but I don't know how but in some fashion writing stories where the entire class is together is so much easier than writing chapters with them all apart, likely do to the singular focus of it..as the most difficulty actually have in writing this fic is making each character segment somewhat entertaining and not repetitive or just creating the scenarios to begin with if they don't have a pre-defined plan

The picnic is indeed inspired by the famous picnic picture with all the S-class , fubuki group, garou and the like, just search opm picnic on google and you'll find it. (seriously not being able to post links on here compared to A03 is something.)

Week 2 wrap up:

Ojiro after explaining the situation to bang and bomb both had followed through on his thoughts about going out on patrol occasionally with toru so that the both of them could improve their ranking with the association. They were given two days of the week to go out on their own , although so far they hadn't actually encountered any monsters so far on their one patrol they have undertaken so far but both of them had enjoyed the time together nonetheless. Koda had been making some regular visits to go and see scaledon but after going down further to find the source of a "putrid" smell that aki and torax were picking up.

he came upon the second monster they had encountered that day. The name on the wall was listed as game-berus, koda technically didn't have permission to enter his enclosure but he did so anyways after that is when he put on the gas mask that was stationed on the wall around it. Torax said hesitance upon entering the enclosure not only because of the smell but the creature inside he could feel was dangerous if it was hostile it likely would be able to kill them all if it wanted to, which made koda hesitate for a moment but he still pushed on and thankfully they didn't have to worry to much on that front unlike scaldeon which was basically just in a large cell game-berus was fully contained each of it's limbs looked in extra large bracers along with its head, it could barely move them to look at him as he entered.

The monster wasn't the most excited to see him in fact if it wasn't for the systems in place that was constantly draining the creatures energy he was sure that he would have been fried, electrocuted or whatever the third effect was. Game-berus was a lot more vindictive than scaledon was but koda still managed to gain enough information from the turtle and discussed its origins and how it was flushed down the toilet by its owner which made koda angry and would explain why the turtle seemed to exude such filth from its shell in fact koda wanted to rectify that error by offering to clean the turtle up and hopefully make it's containment a little bit more comfortable at the very least he could help stop it from just living in sludge and filth if only just a little bit and after going over his idea with sitch the man reluctantly agreed to allow him to do so.

Just as agreed upon, momo had gone to train under zombieman in weapon combat in the meantime tokoyami had spent most of his day's with sigismund he was originally surprised by how young the boy was being 14 years old, he could imagine what he was going through being considered a monster which helped the two relate to each other and discuss more often than not he found out that the boy had a total of 7 monsters/voices that would either talk to him while he awake or fully manifest while he was asleep. they all had different personalities and differing temperaments to the boy, the second strongest one was that of a low level demon threat. there was a momentary scuffle between the two but due to the dark environment they were dark shadow was quickly able to restrain the creature, the most fun personality at least for dark shadow was the shadowman while tokoyami couldn't understand it apparently him and dak shadow could understand each other just fine and they would discuss mostly amongst themselves when they can, without informing him of what they were discussing about usually much to his annoyance most times as they would play pranks on him.

Just as Aoyama said the 1A teens were under the obligations of the police force initially this would include small things such as publicities stunts that would look good for the public, the teens would be seen being seen with the police and helping them out around the station. This quickly transitioned into helping them in the field as well, the police would be able to summon some of the teens to help in certain disputes, this ranged from toru helping out with a hostage situation , Ojiro teaching a couple of martial arts drills, and momo helping outfit the police with better equipped weapons so that they could be somewhat more effective against monsters although their standard equipment remained the same, or sato would some time give catering to police themed events that were hosted by the association, and many other projects of similar nature.

This ultimately culminates in the most recent event that will feature all of the hero association's factions and S-class heroes to arrive for a specific event being held called the peace among the blossoms which will formally recognize the cooperation between the police and the hero association.

The Great Race: Class 1A

Today was the day of the event so technically the class could sleep in for the day without much worry. Todoroki has finally fully recovered from his disability allowing him to stay in his normal state just fine as well as use his ice powers without the worry of completely freezing over. The association has also finished construction on working on their extension to their home, it was a similarly sized enclosure to their entire home which gave torax and aki plenty of room to run around and stretch their legs, they can enter their enclosure either from inside the house or outside. the monsters once inside can't leave without one of the teens opening the door for them so they would only usually be in there for the night or if they want to be left alone. Koda would normally go into the enclosure to bring them their food, which luckily for him didn't actually need as much as a normal animal, torax said that they can go multiple days without food and be completely fine and going off their peaceful atmosphere they really didn't burn to much energy to actually require it to much to survive. But Koda still wanted them to eat at least something, he just didn't feel right not feeding them when he and his friends would eat as well.

Koda would usually be alone in this endeavor as everyone else got ready for the day but today he found himself accompanied by mina, toru, Jiro, and kaminari. Jiro and Mina were to be expected, they had helped him a lot when taking care of the monsters and just making sure that he was ok. The other two on the other hand were a mystery and proved to him that something was up which Jiro could sense too.

"What are you three up to now?" Jiro asked, looking at the three people that obviously were discussing and hiding something going by their demeanor as they entered the enclosure.

"Why do you assume that we always have ulterior motives?" kaminari questioned offended

"Because when you three are together nothing good could come of it. " Jiro remarked

"Hurtful! We just want to go see the monsters, come on who wouldn't want to see a super large tiger!" Toru said with enthusiasm .

"Right? You need to relax and have more faith in us." Mina said with a smile.

"Right…" Jiro said still skeptical

" it's ok…if they have anything planned for aki or torax I'm fairly sure it likely won't go as they plan it to." koda remarked as they entered into the inclosure, aki has been learning more from torax as they been away, monsters sometime takes the power of monsters they have eaten which can change their form somewhat but that didn't mean they instantly knew how to use that power, especially for one as young as the bear cub herself so torax was helping her get the hang of it. The enclosure was similar to the one child emperor created with plenty of greenery and trees to give them a natural climate to exist. The enclosure even had a mock winter setting that would match the setting of the place where they came from to remind them of home.

The group had placed the food down and stepped back towards the exit as koda used his anivoice to call the monster over but after several minutes of waiting and nothing coming forwards the group began to be confused but suddenly a shadow appeared above them it was from aki instead of her normal red color the young bear was uniquely green that blend well with her environment, koda was equally surprised before he went to catch the cub that was apparently swinging from the trees using webs that were extending from her mouth. Using his feedback aki had offered hims some of her power so that he was able to handle catching her and as he did so his legs slightly buckled at the weight but he managed, and lifted the cub as it return back to it's natural red color and continued to sniff and slightly nibble at koda's head extensions, given their hardened nature he didn't really feel aki's little bites so it was essentially the only place she could bite him and it be fine which she quickly got use to and began doing but after a moment he put the bear cub down and she went to the food he presented instead.

Torax came out of the woods sometime later an equally green color he offered a small greeting and continued on to the food presented. It wasn't much, mostly just a mixture of deer and lamb meat. They watched the monsters eat for a moment before getting hungry themselves and turning and leaving to get some food. That was until Jiro and Koda saw what was covering the other three individuals; it looked to be some spice-like substances.

"I…is that catnip?" koda questioned confused

"Yes…yes it is." Kaminari said with a smile.

"You guys are idiots. It's a tiger not a cat and a monster at that you can't actually think this would work." Jiro said simply with a deadpan expression.

"Hey it never hurts to try." Toru remarked with a twirl.

"Actually Jiro catnip can work on their wilder counterparts but given torax is a monster and one that is not very fond of physical contact, I doubt this will work very well." koda summarized.

"It never hurts to try." Mina said with a defiant smile as she called for torax and the group of three slowly approached the tiger, the other two just watched on with intrigue on what was going to happen, at first torax simply looked at them and began to walk away which jiro chuckled at but after sniffing some more he turned around and approached the three individuals, he continued towards them and sniff them more closely, the three took the opportunity to rub over the large tiger which it didn't let happen very often mostly finding the contact annoying but koda guessed the smell was affecting him more than he thought it would, obviously koda was slightly worried as some cats have different reaction to catnip and if torax bit them on accident things could quickly spiral out of hand but thankfully things didn't progress that far but it did get out of hand in a different way and one he assumed the three didn't really expect to happen.

After a good five minutes of the tiger rubbing against them, when the group made to leave away from it, it essentially trapped them. first pushing all of them over by increasing its size and webbing them to the ground with spider webs emerging from its mouth leaving them trapped. As the tiger essentially just rolled all over them but given its size the experience wasn't as pleasant as if it was a house cat that did it. So seeing that the three were ok and torax while under side effects said he wouldn't hurt them, Jiro and Koda laughed at their friends' self brought misfortune as they left to go get some breakfast, leaving them to their fate, aki would also join in assuming that torax was simply wrestling with them and jumped on them to which somewhat added to their struggles.

It wasn't until 20 minutes after koda and jiro left the enclosure that the other three emerged from the enclosure to the living room, each of them were a bit charged.

"What happened to you guy's? Ribbit." tsu asked

"The idiots sprinkle catnip on themselves and got what they wanted." Jiro remarked to them.

"So he decided to let you guys go?" koda asked, still chuckling.

"Not…quite." Mina said as she noticeably vibrated, sitting down.

"I had to fry the stuff off us so that he would let us go, which meant they got a little fried in the process." Kaminari said.

"You didn't have to go that far though gosh, I'm still all wobbly." toru said

"Haha , yeah. Always kinda forget you guy's get fried even more than I do, who I use my power.`` Kaminari said with a laugh.

"Is torax ok?" koda asked slightly worried

"I'm completely fine. That smell was very intoxicating" the tiger announced as it entered the living room , making the other three slightly shake.

"Is that why you asked me if I could create catnip?" momo asked, shaking her head in disappointment

"Maybe." Mina said looking away bashfully.

"Sorry about that torax, I thought I was told it was for something different." momo said

"No problem, I enjoyed it. Very rarely can I feel that relaxed very often, ``Torax replied.

The rest of the teens began to eat their breakfast and talk about what they should do for the remainder of their time as they waited for the event to kick off later in the day. And speaking of the event quickly transitioned to the attendance of the event and who was going.

"There, allowing us a +1 is anyone going to bring someone else?" Mineta questioned to the group.

" I'm bringing a friend of mine from the dojo. Her name is Jackie, Mina you will probably like her, she's just like you.`` Toru said excitedly.

"I can't wait to meet her!" Mina said with equal enthusiasm.

" Me, Tokoyami, and Koda's apprentices will already be there so I assume that doesn't count us. Not that I really have anyone anyways." todoroki remarked

"Indeed." tokoyami said in confirmation

"Well for me all of the lightings are gonna be there including volten himself." Kaminari said.

"Well the shining prodigies were already invited and darkshine used his plus one already on bone so I guess I got no one." Kirishima said after thinking for a moment. Uraraka took the moment and elbowed Asui and murmured something in her ear and Jiro caught up on what they were about to do and let out a smile directly at mina.

"Are you sure about that kirishima ribbit?" asui remarked

"Yeah what about the girl you met?" uraraka continued

"Oh mizuki! Right I almost forgot I'm sure with the shining prodigies there and darkshine himself that she would love to come as well, hold on I'll call her see if she isn't busy." kirishima remarked with a large smile and stepping out for a moment in time to not see the venomous glare that mina was tossing towards the two girls who simply laughed but quickly turned into a pinch of anguish as mina splatter a few drop of slightly acidic acid on their cheeks.

"What was that for?" Toru questioned as she turned to see the act.

"Oh nothing ..now I need to go make a call myself I'll be right back." mina said with a clearly forced smile as she left the living room.

"You guys are bad, you know that right?" Jiro said with a chuckle.

"She should be able to handle what she dishes out." Uraraka replied simply with a shrug of her shoulders. Toru would have liked to know more but she was more interested in something else for the moment

"Are you going to invite someone bakugo?" she questioned

"Who the hell would I invite?" bakugo snapped back

"I heard you talking to someone the other day, before you blasted us that is." Toru announced, making everyone look at him.

" you were just hearing things invizibil.'' Bakugo replied simply, keeping all his reactions as tame as possible to play it off.

"I heard something too." ojiro reaffirmed

"Oh wow, her boyfriend agrees with her not a biased take at all.'' Bakugo replied simply causing both individuals to flush in embarrassment and hopefully for his sake transition from this conversation.

"When you all returned, the other day I heard something as well, someone in the dark who I assume is controlling that gray liquid." Todoroki said simply and despite his attempts he couldn't suppress his reaction enough, his eyes noticeably rising in surprise and worry which was caught by the eagled-eyed invisible girl.

"Ahaa so there is someone you're training with during your night time escapades." toru pointed out

"And what if there is? I ain't inviting anybody…so suck it.`` Bakugo said with a middle finger to the crowd.

"Why are you so scared to reveal this mystery person huh? Is there something about him that you find annoying or is it because he's actually a…girl." Toru teased but Bakugo didn't take the bait, only ignoring the comment entirely by putting his headphones on instead.

"Well either way, I wanted to invite one of my teachers but most of them are coming anyway, both stinger and shadow ring so I invited my short term teacher shooter, I still feel bad for abandoning him so quickly." Momo remarked. The attention turning to momo spared bakugo the uneasy flinch he had with the mention of shadow ring coming along and hoped that silver chain didn't come along with her they weren't a faction but he guessed that if the lighting idiots were coming along he didn't know for sure.

"I believe tatsumaki likely invited needle star as she wants him to train me but given that the rest of the fubuki group is going to be there I doubt he will come." uraraka proposed in thought.

"If he was invited by her then I'm fairly sure he will just so he doesn't get flatten for not showing up." ojiro said, earning a few laughs from those that knew and a disgruntled grunt from bakugo.

"Well for me, I wanted to invite food battler futoshi, me, him and pig god have been practicing together recently but apparently he's a part of the C-class heroes alliance so I got no one ." Sato remarked similarly.

The group discussed some more as kirishima and mina made there way back into the room, mina said that she had called her teacher forte and too see if he wanted to come along which he did along with the confirmation of mizuki coming along for kirishima as well, the girl was actually waiting for the call the entire time given that she was told of it by the shining prodigies but given their unofficial status none of them could really invite her on good conscious but she was sure that he would but she didn't want to seem pushy so she didn't outright call him about it, much to mina's slight dismay. The group now just laid around scrolling through the tv waiting for the event to start, obviously bored but mina had the perfect things they could do while they were waiting.

"Guy's how about we finally get that race over with. I'm still curious about who's faster between kaminari, Iida, and maybe even midoriya now who knows." mina suggested

"I'm game." Kaminari immediately responded in confirmation.

"I guess we can see, I'm curious myself how much faster I am…I never had the chance to get myself into full gear before. But where will we hold such a contest, I don't want to do it in the city that could cause a disturbance." Iida instructed.

"Well why not do it outside of this city? There is just a huge desolate wasteland out there after all." Toru announced.

"She does raise a point, you could run out there all along and nothing should be damaged." Momo seconded.

"Well that settles it then, let's go!" Mina announced and they were off.

The class 1A students all left the armored fortress that is A-city out into the desolate wasteland that was A-city, the only thing noticeable than the dirt covered road was only the many highway streets that let outwards towards the other cities. After some minor debate the class had agreed on a set distance of 50 miles the competitors were to run forwards to the line and then run back which meant the total distance was 100 miles which gave Iida plenty of time to accelerate to his maximum speed. momo was used to create the start and end line along with attaching speed monitors along the way along with attaching an item that would ensure that each person in the race can be properly monitored to have passed all speed monitors to ensure a fair race in case of cheaters, which everyone looked towards kaminari as they discussed.

"Oh you guys are bogus, I wouldn't cheat in this." Kaminari said with a mock hurt on his face.

"Yeah , yeah sure you wouldn't chargedolt." Jiro commented as she stood beside him.

"Hey…hey…if I win, scratch that if I come in second place can I get the same reward as before?"

kaminari whispered so only the girl could hear, kaminari and Jiro relationship has been progressing slowly ever since that day out at karaoke, he didn't mind really he would allow her to set the pace of things just so he could show her how devoted he was to this but he would be lying if he didn't want to speed things up just a tad at the very least he wanted it to be public to the class that they were going out.

So far they mostly meet in secrete at night and hang out in each others rooms mostly just talking or sharing music with each other but when it came to intimate actions it wouldn't really go to far beyond hugs or cuddling, kissing was mostly relegated to the forehead or on the cheek nothing like the kiss they shared that night and he did really want that to happen again, anytime he would ask or joke about it, it would mostly lead to her leaving his room or him getting kicked out of hers which he found mostly cute at just how flustered she would get at the prospect even though they did it already.

The girl's face instantly grew red as he expected but she held off on poking him like she usually would do rather that was a sign of how much she's changed or not wanting to draw too much attention to them he didn't know, but given that she covered her face he suspected it was more of the latter case than the former. But to his surprise she actually played back a little bit to his remark saying the same thing she said to him that night about only kissing winners but this time even she had to realize how unfair it was with midoriya on the field and at first she didn't want to hear it that was until bakugo had demanded that midoriya run the course by himself at full speed and full power just to set a benchmark and midoriya agreed charging up to 100% full cowling and running the 100 miles course in nothing but 4 seconds flat which astonished everyone involved and Jiro being the darling she was after seeing that agreed with him that second place was a viable option in this case and kaminari pumped his fist in excitement.

"I wouldn't get so happy yet, you still have Iida to contend with and bakugo but more importantly don't you need a power source to activate that mode of yours? Or are you going to get in trouble again and drain the city's power?" Jiro questioned with her arms crossed. But Kaminari was already a step ahead, he pulled open his jacket and pointed to five capsules he had lined in front of his chest

"Already got the thing for it right here, I remember you told me about that before so I asked drive knight to whip something up for me and here it is, literal lighting in a bottle! Well capsule but never mind that volten dojo is hovering by a perpetual storm so with these I can just make the storm target me and store the lighting bolt in one of these then boom 5 instant lighting god charges." kaminari said, smirking to himself.

"I still don't like the name but at least you won't be getting in trouble so that's a plus , well better get going there sparky they look like they're about to begin." Jiro said as she gestured to the starting line.

"Alright, wish me luck." Kaminari said as he began to walk away and while she didn't verbally say anything she did hold up a discreet thumbs up in his direction, which he must have seen as he turned back around if his widening smile was anything to go by , she never got how from just a look he could make her so flustered its just that smile …always that damned smile but there it was again but she was taken directly out of the moment as a voice was heard from behind her.

"He seems happy, did you give him a pep talk? Maybe a little motivation so that he can do better?" Mina teased as she and toru made their way over to her.

"No, I was just curious how the idiot was going to compete judging by what we just saw midoriya do just now." Jiro attempted to play off hoping that her face had calmed down now from the earlier comment.

"Midoriya said he will just be going 50% so that the race could be a little more fair in that regard." mina remarked

"But that's not what we came over here to talk about, look over there." Toru gestured with her floating sleeve and Jiro looked to where the girl was pointing instantly, spotting what the girls were getting at a little distance away near the street was tokoyami and asui, who were discussing something.

"You should participate in the race to, ribbit." asui remarked

"I doubt I could beat any of them." tokoyami said simply

"Not everything is about winning, you could just see how you compare, you did train under hawks after all so I'm sure you're plenty fast." asui said, tokoyami didn't say anything but he didn't have to as dark shadow emerged from out of him.

"Thank you, you are too kind," dark shadow said before retreating back inside. Tokoyami simply faked a cough as his hair bristled outwards again.

"Be that as it may, I need something to launch off of to really get going." tokoyami said simply

"I'm sure momo could create something for you in that regard. Ribbit." asui said and tokoyami looked at the girl for a moment before relenting and joined up with the other racers.

As said they had to wait a few moments so that she could set up a couple of poles going down the road for Tokoyami to be able to launch off before they continued. He was at a further distance than the other constants due to dark shadows fear of light. Kaminari quickly activated one of his capsules and an explosion of electricity escaped him briefly blinding everyone before he immediately absorbed it transforming into his form. The class was still surprised by the form as he hadn't really shown them much. it was in complete contrast to tokoyami's fallen angel transformation which covered him in darkness with all the preparations set and done. It was time for the race, momo was the referee and it began in 3….2…1 and boom the crew were off in spectacular fashion.

Midoirya and kaminari left in a flash of green and yellow lighting, todoroki bursted through the scene sliding with his ice and propelling himself with his fireside, tokoyami was seen bounding from pole to pole in extended distances as he flew through the air, bakugo in his regular glory left with a bang as he used cluster: explosive speed to launch off with a large cloud of dust, Iida was also gone using his recipero burst turbo to go all out. The winner or winners of the race was a tie between midoriya and Iida both arriving with around 10 seconds but as the speed scans showed, in actuality midoriya just barely edged out Iida by .3 seconds.

which gained some claps from their classmates at Iida violent effort the next on the scene surprised everyone when it was none other than kaminari who finished in 15 seconds which was quickly followed up by bakugo who came in .6 of a second behind then todoroki who came in at 16 seconds flat , kaminari was breathing hard and looked somewhat discouraged that he didn't get the second place he was hoping for but he wasn't a sore loser about it and congratulated those that finished ahead of him. The last to come back was tokoyami who arrived in 18.8 seconds, despite coming in last he didn't really care as it was expected for him.

"While you may have come last, that was still really fast tokoyami. Ribbit." asui said.

"Thank you. I'm surprised at how well I did myself, my training with hawks has definitely improved my capabilities." tokoyami commented simply.

After some time of commenting on the match and how fast everyone was and after some teasing from sero and mineta about bakugo being slower than kaminari, bakugo inevitably snapped and got everyone else to participate in a race to see how so they really were in comparison to him but since he threw them a bone in that they only had to travel a fifth of the distance the first racers had being only 20 miles in total. Everyone else got ready to go before beginning.

"Don't just stare at her, say something." Tokoyami heard dark shadow's inner voice ring out through his head.

"I can't do everything for you, you know." it continued

"I'm not staring at her." tokoyami shot back internally

" yeah and I'm totally not a shadow monster, but you should stop staring , I know what type of guy you are and that position she's in does emphasize your taste but how about just some encouragement to go along with that lust huh?" dark shadow reapplied cheekily

"Asu- Tsu…best of luck to you out there." tokoyami remarked surprising tsu not expecting his encouraging words she turned and smiled in his direction and nodded before preparing herself again luckily the most troublesome of the people who would have heard his comment were further away and the third of the troublemakers was currently discombobulated from his own quirk to listen to anything going on around him.

The rest of the class were preparing themselves on how best they could use their quirks to compete in this race, mineta was allowed to lay down a string of his pop off orbs down the track, meanwhile sero was going to use the poles in the ground that were created for tokoyami to swing from. Momo on the other hand was unique she had separate herself even farther than the rest of her classmates and got on the road instead before creating whatever she was going to however she first thing created was a large curtain to hide herself and then by the time she emerged from said curtain, she exited with a sleek all black motorcycle which their classmates whistled at.

"What are you two going to do for this race? Your quirks don't really lend itself to a contest of speed?" ojiro asked koda and shoji.

"Well not originally but with my awakening I should be able to." koda commented

"I'm not helping." Torax said simply as he lied back.

{aki…do you mind giving me some of your power for a race?} koda asked instead

{sure!} the cub said excitedly before they synchronized.

"As for me normally you would be right but, I guess the tank top is like an ace for me." shoji remarked

"Did they really brainwash you to believe that crap?" bakugo commented beside them.

" There is some truth to it, believe it or not, observe." Shoji said as he looked at the ground for a moment, finding a rock picking it up and then using his tank top throw completely threw the rock in the air with a resounding crack.

"Woah! How does that work?" Midoriya immediately questioned, coming closer and observing Shoji's some more leaving his side next to uraraka which she was slightly mythed about.

"Tank top magic supposedly." Shoji said with a shrug .

"Fascinating." Iida remarked as the three discussed some more of the details while bakugo tried to act like he wasn't curious in the conversation after the display.

"What are you going to do? I doubt even bomb's martials arts would help in something like this would it?" Mina asked toru.

"Nope not martial arts but I got something in mind, Just watch. I thought about it after watching you after all.`` Toru replied, getting her pink friend curious about what she was going to do. Aoyama on the other hand spent most of the preparation time to fill up his suit shooting his navel laser directly into his gauntlet while rolling his shoulder to direct the exports in the back to face the proper direction.

With all of the class preparations out of the way, it was time for the race and Iida was acting as the proctor the race began on 3..2..1. The first obvious front runner was expectedly momo on her motorcycle but given the angle it was fairly hard to see which one between her and the surprising next frontrunner koda on who was exactly in first place and similar even event was in place for second as well between asui and ojiro both of them using their quirks to launch off the ground and into the air again and again. The battle for third place was between four people: aoyama, shoji, uraraka, and kirishima. Interestingly enough uraraka actually shot off to a large lead originally tying with the first place holders but by the time she was able to land and compose herself to shoot off the other way the others had already surpassed her. Jiro, Mina, and Toru were all relatively even as well. Jiro using her arm sound cannons to launch her forwards, meanwhile both mina and toru were skating on the ground, mina using her acid while toru was skating on makeshift light.

Final placements:

Momo: 8 seconds

Koda: 8.3 seconds

Asui: 9 seconds

Ojiro: 10 seconds

Uraraka: 12 seconds

Aoyama: 12 seconds (uraraka ahead by a technicality of her equipment technically being ahead of her and being counted as part of her body to break the tie breaker.)

Shoji: 12.2 seconds

Kirishima: 12.4 seconds

Sato: 13 seconds

Mineta: 15 seconds

Jiro: 16 seconds

Mina: 16.2 seconds

Toru: 16.3 seconds

Sero: 16.5 seconds

Both a recovered kaminari and mineta both mocked sero for coming in last place this mockery was also compounded by the fact that the ghost inside of him also mocked him for coming in last place and used it as more validation for calling his body trash which sero promptly ignored both remarks as best he could anyways. Mina and toru were conversing about how toru managed to glide on light like she was and how it felt to do so with toru giving the girl a demonstration of the fact.

Momo and Jiro were conversing about her new bike and what it's deal was with how fast it was momo surprised the girl with the fact that drive night said that the bike was actually more in the way of training wheels for her it had a auto pilot system that would essentially allow it to drive itself due to how new she was in operating motor vehicles. In fact the true speed of the machine was extremely hampered by numerous safety locks as well, as drive knight said that at its max speed she wouldn't be able to comprehend what was happening around her and she would just disiblitae herself from riding it.

The class was going to originally head back inside to rest out the remainder of their time but torax halted them and offered a challenge instead that they should attempt to run the course again without quirks and see who the fastest was then, mineta was the first to agree to the rule surprising everyone with that but he explained that it was apart of his training that king had him do and it would be the perfect opportunity to get it out of the way before they reach the event and slowly but surely the other agreed to it as well and soon enough the whole class lined up for the race the distance was the same as before 20 miles so the other could see just how much faster they were without quirks.

Shoji casually mentioned that his time would likely be around 37 seconds before taking off his tank top and running bare chested. As the race began the usual suspect really took the lead even without his quirk he was trained in running for most of his life Iida was a shoo in for first place finishing the race in about 31 seconds the next person in the lead was shoji as he said before the race coming in at 37 seconds having close contest with kirishima, bakugo, ojiro, sato and surprisingly uraraka and mina who all actually beat out deku himself which bakugo really lambasted him for.

The rest of the class came in all between the 45 seconds and 47 second mark, the leading players in those instances being kaminari, midoriya, and todoroki. The only outlier being mineta who finished not to far behind at the 49 second mark while sero used it as his opportunity to get back at him he still complimented his small friends efforts saying the fact that he was able to keep up so far was a testament to his hard work given that at least three of his steps were probably the equivalent of one of theirs, Iida corroborated sero's claims and went into an entire lecture about stride length and height relative to the body and a number of other topics going over what happens with runners as they promptly just tuned them out as they continued going back to their home. Bakugo made a complement to the entire class about how they should remember back to their beginnings days of class during the 50 meters test and how they did on that in comparison to what they just gone through but warned them that they shouldn't get complacent that they got so far and should strive to get even better. Surprising everyone into a resounding silence.

The teens spent the rest of the time relaxing as they prepared for the event in the evening before everyone started to head out of the home to the limo outside, momo opted to take her bike instead of riding with them wanting to get more practice with it, Jiro offered to ride with the girl which momo agreed to, but something struck a chord with kaminari as they began to get in mina remarked in how if it wasn't for him she would have definitely been shipping jiro and momo for a class couple and toru took it one step further saying that maybe a romantic bike ride could seal that deal to get to him but he wasn't one to be the jealous type so he laughed it off along with them but there was that single doubt in the back of his mind.

He still didn't know who this girl jiro would have asked out before him was and every time he would brooch the subject she would brush him off which to him may have suggested that it was someone he knew but he would settle for her just being her normal secretive self than anything but as he looked at them ride together and the slight blush on her face as she held onto momo he couldn't help but think mina may have had a point. Those two weren't the only ones skipping out on the limo ride either as koda, aki and the winner of the quirkless race Iida rode on top of torax, some were bumbed out of the fact that, that was the prize but with everything settle the crew was of towards what was hopefully a peaceful time.

Peace among the blossoms: HA factions, Police Force, Class 1A, Extra's , ?, ?, ?

Class 1A were among the first arrivers on the scene of the incident which allowed them to scope out the place, they're were a number of different food stands already set up for the event. 1A were among the first to arrive but they weren't the first, that title was for the C-class hero alliance, after mingle for some time it was actually brought to their attention that it was their responsibility to set everything up in the first place likely due to their low status in the hero association which some were less enthused about then the others in fact most of the alliance could be seen disgruntled by the act especially because their faction the non-killing army also had a majority of its members being apart of C-class , although most of 1A admitted if they were inform then they would have had no problems helping them set everything up and actually said that they would help clean up if the association didn't have it already taken care of.

The only member who didn't complain in the C-class alliance was the hero mumen rider, but despite being the number 1 C-class hero the alliance admitted that he wasn't actually a part of them and was just naturally there to help out his fellow heroes. Iida was completely moved by the hero's dedication to his friendly heroes and the two soon got into a rousing discussion about heroics and how helping out no matter how small can make a difference the two shared many similarities among them. The next group of individuals to show up was more of a sour note for both groups present this group came along with a bunch of the association crew with them and sitch himself, a number of the 1A teens already recognized some of the members and immediately deduced that this was what they called the penal legion that they been hearing rumors about for some time now or seeing in public the 20 of them also recognized them as well creating immediate tension as some of the more lively members went to mix with the heroes, kg scramble went over to pick on sato and asui again, while Iida was harassed by lady death as she was called in the unit the women that was captured in his and flash's raid. She commented of their similar ranks between him being B-rank 72 and her being B-rated 69 which she also made an innuendo of towards the teen much to his discomfort but she wasn't the only one from the raid that greeted him another of their members had greeted him.

She was the grandmother of one of the victims he saved. She was strangely called ugly duckling B-rated 70 and was forced to wear a mask at all times while in public she told him the face mask even being able to open up the mouth area to allow her to eat. Iida immediately went over to stitch to talk about the situation dealing with that specific person and he relayed to him that she was an ugmon, a type of monster that she would naturally repulse those around her if she were to take the mask off and show her face and that especially in this situation with sweet mask going to be present that she should keep that mask on at all times if she doesn't want to make a scene. That cannibal from before was here and only spared a too long glance at uraraka but never approached her if that was due to midoriya being a little bit defensive of her or not she didn't know for sure. Shoji and ojiro were both surprised by the fact that the boxer he captured from before was there as well his fist pulsating immediately giving him away although the man said he held no strong feeling towards shoji and if anything was more interested in koda as he heard that he was being trained by a former coach of his. he was now called machine-gun brawler B-rated rank 100

Ojiro was surprised by the fact that the needle monster from before was their he talked to ojiro and revealed that his name was Billy but his hero name was porcupine man B-rated 90, he wasn't truly interested in the hero gig but it was the only thing he could do so the association could offer his loved ones and mandy visiting hours, which ojiro didn't know what to think from that but wished the man luck in his endeavors regardless. The only other member of the criminal group that bothered to talk to one of them was serial bomber A-rated 12 who by the name as you could guest took interest in bakugo, not only for the teen unique abilities but also because he took the name of one of his former subordinates dynamite man, bakugo didn't care about him or his subordinate and basically ignore the man. Poison's dad was there as well although like his son was mostly chilling by himself under one of the cherry trees , uraraka talked to him briefly founding out his hero name was toxin he was A-rated 10, he was one of the highest rated criminals there the only other four that could rival him were the A-rated 13 criminal " A " and the A-rated 9 criminal " Ryumon " although he stated that there relationship was different front the rest of them and was more of a partnership. mostly thanks for the association getting rid of a lot of his competition. The last one was the A-rated 20 criminal "bull-bull".

The groups managed to get into some semblance of peace after some tense moments mostly brought on by stitch revealing to the heroes present that none of the criminals were allowed to carry weapons to this event which is why they came with so much security originally to especially search them over for weapons before leaving and Iida was able to "scare" off lady death by threatening to reveal to flash that he missed a spot in his purge but they both knew that such a threat was empty but she reveled in that fact that she was able to get him to the point where he would at least say those words and she left him alone but she did say that it was only for the moment though and that she would be back later in the event much to his dismay, mina would have teased him about it but something about the women's teasing of Iida was stranger than what she was used to.

The next group that showed up was darkshine and his shining prodigies along with none other than mizuki herself who immediately wrapped kirishima in a bear hug as thanks for inviting her much to mina's anger which the rest of the girls chuckled at, the class wasn't surprised that people that followed darkshine would also be people that would be just as jacked as he was and those muscles weren't just for show either kirishima would note, most of them were at least B-class level.

The next to arrive and not to be outdone by darkshine was the tank top army, Shoji went over to greet them and introduce him to the rest of his friends that they haven't met already. The next group was the fubuki group which meant tatsumaki wasn't that far behind either and riding along with her well more like being held hostage along with her was none other than needle star who she harshly dropped next to uraraka and after the man caught his bearing he recognized her and uraraka immediately apologized for tatsumaki action in secrete while the small green girl once again lambasted her sister for her group and the rest of them for that matter. Child emperor was the next one to show up with zombieman.

The two martial arts brothers showed up soon after with Jackie and charanko in toe and toru went quickly to work introducing her to everyone and quickly texted the group chat about how Jackie already knew mostly about the truth about them the full truth anyways just not about the black boxes so they can speak semi safely with her. She fit in naturally around with everyone, toru knowing how she acted was curious which guy in the class she would mostly latch on to and after being flat out ignored by bakugo for the most part, she found herself mostly in the company of sero who would roll along with her flirtatious nature while responding in kind with his own.

The next group to show up was the three ninja while they weren't at all specifically a group and it was pure circumstance that they showed up together with flash, shadow ring, and silver chain all arrived much to bakugo's dismay as the arrival of the female ninja almost gave him away that something was up. Momo went to speak with her previous teacher and her clasman who then went to talk to the rest of the class but during the greeting bakugo simply acted as he didn't know the girl which silver chain picked up on and did the same but on her part it was more real as her focus was almost entirely on flash who was also off in the corner examining a tree for something with a flashlight for some strange reason. Iida didn't really bother going to greet the hero, staying more content to just stay in his circle of friends.

The groups all hung around for a moment before asui requested that midoriya, bakugo, and todoroki all stand in front of torax and aki and the only reasoning she gave was that watchdog man was coming and soon after she said that a large gust of wind appeared in front of her and watchdog man was their in a threatening manner while asui tried to calm the dog hero down and explain to the hero that these two were friendly and he shouldn't attack them, and after five minutes of posturing watchdog man relented and went over to lay down on the grass but his body was still tense ready for an attack at any moment, torax despite not being much of a cuddlier rubbed his head along asui head as even he was majorly on edge from the arrival of the dog hero, tokoyami held back dark shadow as he listen to the dark creature jealous ramblings.

The next arrival was none other than sweet mask himself and despite how he looked he didn't seem like he wanted to be in the mood to be happy especially after seeing the criminals but more so after seeing torax and aki, for an experiment asui whispered to torax if he could tell if sweet mask was a monster or not but to her surprise he said that he couldn't he seemed as human as the rest of them albeit with an ominous aura around him anytime they would lock eyes. Surprising Asui somewhat and making her question watchdog man's judgment for a moment.

The next arrival shortly after was metal bat and predictably his plus one was his little sister zenko apparently she was a big sweet mask fan and immediately wanted his autograph when she laid her eyes on him much to her brothers dismay as he wished he inspired that reaction from her instead of the "prissy boy" as he would occasionally call him although he would refrain from upsetting the star until zenko would get her autograph which the superstar was practically delaying for sometime as he was "looking for someone." he would say, the next arrivals were atomic samurai and his disciples followed by drive knight and pig god.

The next group to arrive was king, genos , and his master saitama and despite fubuki's best efforts to again convince saitama to join her group even going as far as showcasing prototype commercial products such as puppet dolls made in their image , to show them their marketability. Asui noticed that watchdog man noticeably relaxed once the three arrived, finally being able to lay down completely and close his eyes which mineta brought up was probably due to how awesome king was. Stitch remarked how with those three out of the way only made room for one last S-class to show up and when he did he surely made an entrance.

Puri-puri prisoner arrived on the scene with a spectacular twirl as he leaped over everyone, his ankle sporting the signature ball and chain of someone who had just left prison, but what truly shocked everyone was what he was wearing or wasn't wearing actually as the man was as naked as the day he was born flashing everyone in the immediate vicinity making a number of the teens shield their eyes away from the man to avoid being flashed and seeing his privates, his joyally mood completely clashed with the reaction from the crowd and while the S-class didn't seem to mind it barring metal bat who was extremely not pleased with his little sister present no greater anger could be felt than from that of sweet mask himself.

the rage and killing intent almost floored midoriya and again just from not expecting such a thing from the man and in the next moment he lashed out striking puri-puri prisoner dead center in the gut sending the man careening into a nearby tree which he immediately followed by lambasting the hero's lack of clothes and the basics of edicate before going on another tangent on how if anything the hero would be more at home with the "undesirables" sweet mask remarked as he gestured towards the other criminals units which none really took offense with, lady death joked and simply responded that "you guys can keep him." garnering some more laughs from the other rated heroes. Puri-puri prisoner was forced to wear a loincloth to cover himself.

After the last of the heroes showed was the lightings, stinger, and forte. Stitch used the opportunity to fully explain the criminal elements in their midst, he explained to the group that the criminals were the newest member of the "earth prophecy defense force" as they may have noted instead of rank they had rating but still held the traditional class labels and that there rating was basically synonymous to their rank structure which meant many of these criminals were tough people, besides the five A-rated criminals the 15 others were B-rated criminals. He then opened up the floor to any questions.

"Sir, is it wise to have this many heroes here? Especially given the times we are in?" tokoyami inquired

"Yes, that may be concerning but that is also what the police wanted. To better their public reception on how effective they can be in dealing with monsters they wanted as many heroes out of the way as possible, with their new shipment of weapons, thank you again neith for your contribution." stitch said.

"The honor is mine." momo replied simply

"The police have organized their own monster fighting force that they want to test their effectiveness out today while you all relax and enjoy the time." Stitch finished off his speech by telling the group that a collision of police will shortly arrive afterwards and once they were there the festivities could begin. The police arrived a couple minutes later in a group of 50 members and it became fairly crowded but manageable. The main areas where most of the S-class heroes hung out were near the lake that the occasional passerby would ride by in boats. Midoriya and uraraka took the opportunity to go on a boat ride together, well more like they were forced to go on a boat ride together by mina and toru.

The two mischievous individuals also managed to convince both Todoroki and Momo to go on a boat ride as well as Kaminari and Jiro on one as well, the only potential or flat out couple to not do anything was Sero and Jackie. The two were just about to push off and enjoy the slow steady stream as Jackie called back out to toru who she implied the invisible girl should take ojiro on it as well, which embarrassed both parties as the girl yelled it like she was already miles away, but the two eventually took their advice and set off themselves leaving only mina by her lonesome, as she stared at the rest of the pairs setting off in their boats she couldn't help but feel…feel. Something? Something that she really couldn't describe like she was envious of them.

she turned around to look for someone to go with but her body already knew who she wanted to go on a boat ride with but as she turned around to look for the teen that feeling that she had only grew, the red teen, kirishima was over with shoji and his squad but what really got under her skin was who was with kirishima..it was that girl again mizuki she thought with an unnatural degree of venom she thought as she smacked herself to get a grip, she didn't even know the girl why was she so against her? Was this what people called intuition? Is there something wrong with this girl that everyone else is not seeing but her, she started to summarize but after looking over at them again and seeing how happy Kirishima looked she didn't think that would be possible and she wasn't some detective of people's character ….she was…she was just….jealous of her? But why? Why? Why was she jealous….uraraka words wrung in her head for a moment about her thoughts about haigme and even melisa ..could that be her, is that her?

"Kirishima! Mina wants to go on a boat ride with you!" Mina was completely shocked as the frog girl yelled for him to come around, she just stared opened mouths at the green girl who smiled at the pink girl.

"You were staring at him this entire time so I assumed that you wanted to do so. Ribbit." asui said simply as she stuck her finger to her chin, Mina saw that along with her was Tokoyami and the new kid as she liked to call him even though she knew his name was sigismund. Her shocked expression turned into one of her usual smirks but before she could react from it, Kirishima appeared in the scene completely whipping her mind off what she was about to say.

'You want to go on a boat ride?' kirishima asked

"Yeah, yeah…it seems like fun but if …you're busy it's fine." Mina began to say.

"Nah actually would you mind if you mizuki joined us she wanted to show me how fast she could paddle one of these things you should join us it's probably gonna be totally awesome." kirishima said with a sharp smile pumping his fist, behind him asui let out an audible chuckle as mina faced morphed into one of noticeable repressed anguish but she still agreed nonetheless as kirishima called mizuki over the three of them got into the boat before heading off.

The next group of three quickly got on the next boat, the boats were fairly advanced they had an option for automatic and manual movement, on automatic the boat would circle the small lake three times before returning to the dock on manual you were technically able to stay as long as you want but when you surpassed an hour on the thing it would just force back into the docks so that people didn't hog the boat for other guest or passengers. Asui, Tokoyami, and Sigismund got on and set the boat to automatic as they enjoyed the sights of the cherry blossoms.

"So sigismund if you don't mind me asking what does it feels like to be a "monster". Ribbit ." asui asked

"It's….it's no problem…I …I don't feel all that different…if anything I kinda like it." he replied

"Oh really? Why?" asui asked curious

"I….well…people won't think I'm crazy anymore." Sigismund said shyly, murmuring. Asui didn't really know what to say to that but to save thd three from the awkward silence dark shadow was there for the rescue.

"You weren't crazy kid, you were just creative. Your creativity just expanded into a more artful form. Better than this guy, he doesn't think about anything but gloomy things." dark shadow remarked earning a couple of chuckles from those in attendance

"I do not." tokoyami said simply

"What do you usually think about tokoyami? ribbit" asui pondered

"...a bunch of things." tokoyami murmured in response

"Such as." asui pressed

"Ugh…fine…gloomy things it is." Tokoyami grumbled in response, earning full blown laughs from everyone.

"It's funny that the shadow monster is more lively than you, completely opposite from mine, he's always serious about everything." sigismund remarked

"Hey shadowman isn't all bad while he's a bit protective he ain't bad holding a conversation with." dark shadow remarked before winking and leaving.

"How is your training going by the way?" asui asked the two

"It's going fine, the monsters that inhabit him all change depending on the day and some are more cooperative than the others." Tokoyami said simply.

"Oh? Are some of them difficult to talk with? Ribbit." asui asked

"Yes but oftentimes it doesn't come to physical confrontation thankfully." tokoyami said.

"Sorry about that by the way, when I'm unconscious my voices and I essentially switch places. I can see what's happening around me but not really do anything about it." sigismund

"Oh that sounds cool like a dream walker." asui remarked

"I can't really see that far just like the surroundings around my body. I can talk to them but for the most part they usually ignore me." sigismund responded

"Yes. For now we are trying to understand the motives of all his personalities so that we can better the relationship they have with him. So far only the shadow creature and fire cat monster really shows interest in protecting him." tokoyami informed

"Honestly Between that tiger and the flame cat, I'm starting to dislike felines in general." dark shadow said as he emerged again and just in time as well as kirishima and mizuki boat sped past them at a blinding pace the whoop from kirishima and miziku only being drowned out by the screams of mina as they past kicking up a lot of water that would have wet them but dark shadow blocked it, tokoyami then heard dark shadow in his mind which told him to "just roll with it" he was a bit surprised when suddenly cherry blossoms started to rain down on them and he was curious what dark shadow had in mind but something deep inside of him said he probably wouldn't like it but dark shadow simply told him to relax.

as he finally was able to see what was happening to the other two in front of him he was surprised to see that asui had a custom made cherry blossom crown on her head, combined with the blossoms flowing down around her the sight made tokoyami slightly gape his mouth, seeing his partner in crime state, Dark shadow didn't leave sigismund out either; he gave the kid a bracelet of cherry blossoms on his right hand. Seeing his partner stunned state, dark shadow left back inside with one final comment.

"Courtesy of himself." he said simply with a wave goodbye. Asui and tokoyami were both fairly stunned from the act, she had a noticeable blush on her face as she felt above her head to touch the crown of blossoms.

"Go on, say something" dark shadow said internally but Tokoyami's voice was dry and he swallowed a lump in his throat before he could say somethin else but asui beat him to it.

"Does…does it look good on me? ribbit" Asui murmured just loud enough for him to hear .

"You…look stunning." Tokoyami said when he finally got enough courage to say something and Asui's face noticeably reddened as she basked in the compliment, sigismund meanwhile look at the bracelet curiously he never really had people other than his family offer him gifts before and now that he was a monster he didn't think he'd ever have people like him but maybe he was wrong. The three members enjoyed the rest of their ride in peace, making little conversation here and there or yelling across the way towards the others ahead of them, meanwhile avoiding getting splashed by the runaway boat that was Kirishima's group.

After all the boating was done the 1A teens spread out over the event , mina deciding she basically had enough with the presence of miziku and kirishima decided to go over towards the dance floor where her teacher was along with a couple of the criminals and convicts she was slightly surprised by the comradery the different groups showed amongst each other despite their differences. Well she figured that was the beautiful thing about music and dance; it always had a way to bring people together.

Midoriya upon returning back to the land was immediately accosted by metal bat the teen a bit bitter about him being given a higher position then him in the S-class, despite midoriya trying to diffuse the situation metal bat wasn't having it ultimately culminating in the the two having an arm wrestling contest which midoriya promptly won at around 60% full cowling although he wouldn't tell the pompadour wearing teen that, the contest of strength drew the attention of another S-class hero as well tank top master who was previously entertaining the B-rated 100 hero lee , he was the boxer that shoji had faced a month ago and he was surprised when he explained his ability and tank master simply stood there and took a barrage of 100 punches with just one hand before lee just decided to call it quits but he did get tank masters respect for his growth and that if things were different he may have made a good tank topper although lee expressed that he wasn't interested in that anymore.

Tank top master was also interested in midoriya wanting to test the boy out himself, the two did an arm wrestling match and just as metal bat before him midoriya was able to win with just 45% and while momentarily demoralized he began to re double his efforts in training taking out a dumbbell out of nowhere and doing standing squats by a tree while reciting that he will prove that tank top power will beat psychic power, machine power, and "mutant power" which is what he dubbed midoriya's powers as. Darkshine being the ever competitive person after his game of jankenpon with puri-puri prisoner decided to sit down and really test midoriya out and this got everyone's attention even sweet mask who was singing something for zenko as midoriya powered up to his 100% form and the the two set down and got to it with mizuki as the proctor, it seemed inconceivable when looking at the physical difference between both individuals any regular onlooker would say that this shouldn't be closed but those that knew were already bracing themselves for what was to come as the battle commence.

the ground under the two immediately started to quake as the two competitor attempted there best to push the other hands down, midoriya wanted to test out his reinforced bones and figured that this was one of the best way and didn't hold back being able to slightly nudge darkshines hand back surprising everyone in the audience and causing darkshine to praise his efforts and redouble some of his own bringing their hands back towards the center the quaking started to increase as each competitor strained against the other and it continued to worsen to the point where people were worried that they should probably stop but luckily a slight creek in midoriya's bones along with a shift in darkshines position allowed the larger hero to win slamming midoriya's hand down on the ground. Everyone was silent for a moment before cheering on the winner and miroidya for giving such a great show for the audience some of the people, police, and criminals even started to look at him differently , uraraka went over to ensure that he was ok and he was although he could still feel some light pain on his arm.

Bakugo silently watched the spectacle unfurl and he wouldn't lie that he was still slightly envious of the gift midoriya had been given in the form of all might quirk and he couldn't help but continuously measure himself in comparison, in only a week he was able to progress fairly quickly he been able to reach a number of 50 according to genos but that still meant that midoriya was still over 40x stronger than him and both genos and the ninja remarked about how that his progress will inevitably start to slow as he nears his peak, but he didn't care about that stuff as long as he kept progressing he would do something about that later. thinking of the ninja he took a cursory glance around the event to see if he could find her, her and the other one were particularly tricky when to spot in the crowded area but he did find a trick to make his task easier he found that the ninja would always have some form of line of sight on flash who was still sitting down by his tree as normal he didn't even think he's moves since he's got there now that he thinks about it but the food tray next to the man begged to differ. But as he scanned the likely spots he couldn't find the ninja at all, that was until her voice rang out right next to him.

"You're searching for someone." the girl inquired as she laid on a tree next to him.

"No and do I know you?" bakugo remarked, suggesting that she just leave him alone.

"I guess not…..but why do you not enjoy the event with your friends?" silver chain questioned

"None of your business, that's why." bakugo said simply.

"...very well.. It's understandable that you don't like such affairs, although leisure is also important in training not only for your body and mind but your spirit as well." silver chain said, bakugo just responded with a shortcut laugh. But that turned into a chill down his spine when he heard the thunder idiot approaching him and he briefly turned to tell silver chain to get lost but the girl was already gone. Kaminari wanted bakugo to come over and meet his teacher and watch him spar a bit with the other lightings, bakugo not seeing anything else to do decided to join him watching the blonde idiot getting his butt kicked will at least be enjoyable.

With darkshines and midoirya's match conclusion out of the way both bang and atomic samurai resumed their go board game, bang was currently in the lead but it was a close game charanko and iaian were both cheering their masters on from the sidelines. Koda was mostly relaxing with torax and aki, there was a brief tense moment when sweet mask came over to inspect them and addressed him personally in keeping them in check, torax despite growing out his claws at the threat made no moves against the hero and soon enough both aoyama and midoriya came over to diffuse the situation before something really could occur, sweet mask didn't know the reason why but one of the criminals through him off more than the others, the one with the mask completely through him off but he didn't really have much reason to doubt the lady from what stitch had told him the older person was a women with just a disconfigured face that wanted to stay hidden which he could respect in some aspects.

Shoji was mostly stuck around either his classmates or the tank tops, currently they were in a massive game of tug of war between their faction and the fubuki group which was mostly started by fubuki herself even though she didn't physically participate in the brawl she was definitely helping her group in some way as he could see a number of them begin glowing but in the end after a grueling struggle the tank tops came out on top which caused her to completely despair again before ordering multiple members of her group to go and get some alcohol so she could forget such a disgrace of a performance, liking the Idea tank top master also ordered tank top vegetarian and philosopher to go get some drinks as well.

The events continued for some time as the heroes , police , continued to mingle with each other things ultimately came to a head when Aoyama nervously approached Jiro, she was with momo, todoroki, and kaminari and toru at the time while the others were elsewhere. Jiro immediately became suspicious about things when aoyama of all people were showing signs of being timid and she could only guess of the reason why and it was as expected really when he revealed to her that she was requested(demanded) to sing by sweet mask on behalf of the association, which she immediately disagreed to but after some convincing she begrudgingly agreed just to return the favor/help the hero association offered them for their time in this new world, but she didn't know what she was going to sing but that was where momo suggested that she sing A Hero To it would go well with who was involved in the crowd with the police and the criminals and kaminari just so happened to have the instrumental for the song so she wouldn't have to worry about singing without the tune which she was part thankful for although everyone could see she was a bit nervous still but as she left with aoyama kaminari had a brilliant idea on what he could do well not him exactly but maybe a certain invisible girl could help him out in this regard at least he hopped she could ojiro had said that she's been getting better at her light bending capabilities and he seen that first had when she raced so hopefully she could fulfill his request.

Kaminari could already tell that Jiro was fairly nervous about going up on stage with such little preparation, she had already performed in front of the school but that was technically in front a bunch of her peers and people that she's seen around the school these guys were mostly complete strangers, she had told him that she had actually performed the song again with her parents in their gig but that was probably like 30-40 people tops this was more like 200+ strangers on top of anyone that maybe filming that could put this online which judging from the camera's out was a likely thing to happen and with their already growing fame plus the teaser that mineta did in the interview. He was sure people would dive at the opportunity to hear what she sounds like. So he wanted to make sure that she did it right, so once he finished setting his phone up on the speakers as Jiro took her position he gave the girl one reassuring thumbs up and she only nodded in return cementing his worry for the girl but he hoped that his plan will cover up her fears as the song started to play and he gave a wink to toru off in the distance and the girl began working her magic.

Jiro stared out into the crowd of people, her nerves already on fire as she was about to sing but just as the song was about to play, suddenly the crowd of people that was in front of her simply just went away, replaced only by a reflection of herself she was shocked for a moment and stuttered as the song play but as she looked suddenly kaminari came out from around the mirror and held a thumbs up to her and despite herself she blushed and smiled as she started to sing.

She knocked it out of the park and once she was done, everyone started to applaud her efforts and praise the girl even sweet mask gave some praise for the girl voice but with equal criticism about her shyness and nerves, he also noted that he knew about the plan that her friends did for her and that she should learn to overcome that stage fright if she wanted to be as "great" a singer as he was one day. Tatsumaki took issue with one line in particular about strength not making a hero a sentiment also echoed by sweet mask as well although uraraka and aoyama both told her to just let them say that.

She simply thanked the man for the advice and continued onwards to her friends.

She thanked toru for the help seeing the girl was fairly tired herself from holding up that type of field for so long but the girl simply pointed to kaminari saying that it was his idea and she should thank him instead. Jiro looked over at the blonde idiot who pretended to be uninterested in the conversation but he was definitely keeping an ear out on everything, Jiro merely sighed and thanked the blonde and he accepted the complement with as much "grace" as she could expect but that didn't stop him from getting a jab to the ear when his boasting went a little to far when he called her "his girl" as a slip up. The event really started to pop off when the fubuki group came back with the alcohol. The woman was still mad about her group losing the tug of war against the tank tops, and immediately partook in the drinks along with many of the other heroes and criminals which made them all even more relaxed and playful fubuki and lily played with the saitama and genos dolls that they made while on the blanket while tank top tiger and tank top blackhole was wrestling against each other and for now tiger had the edge being able to pin black hole in a leg lock.

Pig god and drive knight were sharing a giant bowl of noodles surprising both kaminari and momo that the cyborg was able to eat anything at all, especially since it had to be through the tiny mouth, watchdog man didn't really eat much of anything mostly just laying down strangely close to saitama who he seemed to stick close by to. asui remarked that his "walk" probably only has another hour before he just up and leaves back to Q-city. Zombieman was mostly by himself or with child emperor but strangely seemed to be hiding for the moment and tokoyami came up to approach him about it.

"Why are you hiding?" he asked

"Because tatsumaki and alcohol don't go well together." zombieman said simply but it was too late he could already see that he was starting to glow green and be levitated into the air.

"Why is she not old enough to drink?" tokoyami said but a bit too loudly.

"Tokoyami no!" midoriya yelled suddenly and just like bakugo before him he suddenly found himself face planted into the ground his beak burring itself completely to the hilt. Midoriya, asui, and sigismund immediately went over to check if he was ok, helping him pull himself freed from the ground as he rubbing over it, bakugo laughed at that and as zombieman floated into the air over the lake.

"Look if you're gonna do what I think you are the least you can do is, take my clothes off so they don't get wet." zombieman said simply already resigned to his fate and thankfully the inebriated tatsumaki obliged, stripping the hero bare and completely dunking the hero down head first into the lake, sinking down completely until only his legs were standing up. Out of the water causing the glowing green girl to laugh. His scattered clothing was quickly picked up by Iida and mumen rider.

"Come on, tatsumaki, that was pretty mean." uraraka said disapproving of the action

"Oh shad up…he can regenerate, he'll be fine." tatsumaki dismissed with a hiccup

"Looks like she is somewhat of a light weight as well. Ribbit." asui remarked silently. Bang simply laughed.

"Yes, well, she is like this from time to time." bang remarked

"Are you saying something like this is normal for her?" uraraka asked

"Yes when she is drunk she tends to lose track of her power and if zombieman is around she has a tendency to play a little rough with him," bang joked with a laugh.

"You mean to say she tries to kill him every time she's drunk?" mina asked flabbergasted

"Which makes sense why he would try to hide from her in that case." Tokoyami mumbled as the pain in his beak finally started to wear away.

"I could get some payback." dark shadow said immediately as he came out. But bang, uraraka, midoriya, and even bakugo all advised against it. So the motley crew waited for the green girl to lose interest as the crew began to think of how some of their teachers would act when drunk in some of their younger years especially all might, which led to thinking how midoriya would be like when he was drunk and how he would act with all that power it could be dangerous or if he's like a sappy drunk and be all over uraraka mina noted making both teens blush.

The group waited and for about five minutes as tatsumkai floated away off to go terrorize others people, midoriya used his black whip to wrap around zombieman and pull him up he was bit surprised by how deep he was buried forcing him to exert some extra power into pulling the individual free, but what came out of the water was only most of him the body once he set it down was missing his head, making a lot of the 1A teens to freak out besides a couple that already knew midoriya was on the verge of complete collapse thinking he just killed someone but bang and tokoyami ensure that zombieman was just fine and to show that dark shadow went into the lake himself and search for zombieman's head retrieving it and emerging with zombieman simply looking disinterested and offering his thanks to the two as he put his head back on his body. The veins in his neck slowly but quickly reattached itself to the bodiless head and after five minutes it was as good as new, zombieman cracked his neck for a few moments to test it out. Before standing up and putting his clothes back on thanking both Iida and mumen rider for gathering his things.

Jiro and Kaminari used that event to basically slink off to the side, they were both huddling next to a tree on either side of it indirectly talking to each other.

"Thank you again for that, I didn't think you could come up with such a plan." Jiro quipped

"Hey! Come on, I can have good ideas every now and again." Kaminari defended, and Jiro chuckled.

"I guess you're right about that…. Speaking of which, why do you have the instrumental of that song in the first place?" Jiro questioned and she was surprised by the normal loud and upfront kaminari's tone slightly dropping as he sounded a little nervous dare she say..

"well…I really like the song. Really …I even have a version of you singing in it….the lyrics resonate with me in a way, if I ..ever feel down or need a pick me up I play it and it gives me strength to move forwards despite my shortcomings.`` Kaminari said earnestly. Jiro didn't say anything in reply, her face noticeably flushed and her heart skipped several beats as she curled in on herself to hide her face with her legs. Not hearing a response, Kaminari continued.

"I guess in that sense, it makes sense that you were the cause for me to awaken since you were already inspiring me to do better.( kaminari momentarily chuckled to himself thinking about how that sounded out loud.) which it really confuses me how you can be so brave and shy at the same time? You aren't one to shy away from a fight but still suffer from stage fright? I can't believe it, I'm sure when you get over that you could probably do anything.`` Kaminari said sincerely, every word the blonde idiot said made her reply catch in her throat but she had to admit that he had a point and maybe she can start working on that and she knew the perfect first step in doing so. Cutting him off from just rambling at that point.

"Just come around here." Jiro said her voice was a bit shaky but still held a demanding tone that kaminari would not disobey, he slowly made his way from around the tree to finally look at the girl and using her earphone jacks she gestured for both of them to stand up and without words gestured for him to stand back against the tree.

"Ugh what's…going on jiro?" kaminari said suspiciously

"Just shut up." Jiro said simply.

While those two were preoccupied with each other, once zombieman was fully clothed again he was met with a barrage of questions from the 1A teens revolving around his regeneration and how it works some pondered that if he was like a starfish in that if left alone or separated enough would his body grow a new head or his head grow a new body, zombieman didn't really have the answers to such question never really being separated for that long of a time from his body recovering from a detached arm could take a few minutes so growing a whole new body he speculated could take something like weeks or months and he couldn't imagine being stuck in someplace for that long as it would be a real drag but growing an entirely new head comparatively wouldn't take as long he speculated it would probably take a few hours to a day probably he announced. When questions about how he came to be able to regenerate like that however the discussion basically tailored off as he was mostly being tight lipped about it and basically left the conversation soon after. Tokoyami merely announced that it was a personal question for the man.

Moving over from that however seeing the hero be dunked in the lake made mina think of going to the beach and after some discussion with those around her they all almost unanimously agreed to go.

"Alright, that's almost everyone, so where are Kaminari and Jiro?" mina questioned

"If you're talking about the goth and the electric blonde they 've been locking lips over there for about 2 minutes now." Jackie remarked jerking a thumb over in the two's direction making mina's eye's nearly bulge out of her head at the remark as she looked over and let out a large pitched squeal that drew the attention of the rest of their class and a few extras who followed the girl direction to the duo in the corner leaning against a tree making out. Both mina, toru, and Iida were about to make their way over before each were halted by someone, mina and toru were halted by the other girls and Iida was halted by bakugo of all people shocking everyone with wide eyes.

"Let the idiot have this one." he said simply as their class basically stared on waiting for them to finish.

Kaminari was utterly surprised by the kiss before he slowly melted into it wrapping his arms around her and Jiro reciprocated the gesture even with her ear jacks that wrapped around him. Unlike before which was just a quick passionate kiss this one was a long and drawn out one. His heart rate flew through the roof at the euphoric feeling from the kiss it was like he couldn't get enough of her like he would die without feeling this close and intimate contact, part of him worried about others seeing them but Jiro didn't seem to mind so he quickly threw that thought out and only focused on her in that moment the feel of her lips and her body on his, he could feel the tips of her jacks slightly poking him in the chest and knew that it was her trying to remain calm by listing to his heart beat, she would do that a lot during their little secrete cuddle sessions.

After five minutes of kissing they finally pulled apart both of them panting for breath as they finally allowed themselves to fully breath without each other's lips in the way. Jiro didn't pull back from him however as she buried her face into his chest like he was going to hide her away from the world and if she wanted him to in that moment he would undoubtedly do so. To try and calm her down some more he offered a teasing joke.

"I thought you said you only kiss winners?" Kaminari said with a smile looking down at her..she sighed into his chest before looking up at him.

"You may not have won the race but…you've won... my heart." The girl replied before quickly burring herself back into his chest as kaminari laughed.

"And you call me the corny one?" He quipped

"Just shut up and tell me what the damage looks like?" she murmured simply into his chest and kaminari didn't really need much clarification on that front as he finally took his eyes off the girl and into the crowd and as expected they were found out somewhere in the heat of it and he locked eyes with all of his classmates and some of the other heroes as well.

"It's about what you could expect, the entire class even bakugo , sigismund , toru's friend, and some others but they lost interest fairly quickly after. If you want to…we can get out of here if it's too much." Kaminari said seriously, Jiro took a big inhale and exhaled but shook her head against his chest.

"No, I need to get better with stage fright, remember? But I'll let you know if that changes." Jiro said with one more peck on his cheek, before Mina's voice inevitably rang out, getting out from around the other girls thanks to toru projecting her upwards with light.

"Are you guys done!" she yelled, kaminari gave one more look down at her as she was staring up at him and she gave a hesitant nod.

"Yeah we're done!" Kaminari yelled back and Mina showcasing speed unseen was just there immediately in Jiro's face just as the girl turned around despite trying to put on her regular unamused expression. it was completely juxtaposed to the giant blush on the girl's face. Mina slowly dragged her away to talk to the girls while the guy's all went to jump kaminari for some like sero and mineta literally on kaminari and discuss what the hell just happened and when did this happen. Shoji didn't really join them in their teasing and investigation into his friend's love life, instead he turned back to the tank tops who were still questioning where tank top vegetarian and tank top philosophers were with their alcohol.

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"Agh!" tank top vegetarian said as he was suddenly kicked into an alleyway, dropping all of the beer cases he was carrying as he went flying back. He spat out a drop of blood before sitting up on a knee.

" What's your problem huh? You know I'm an A-class hero right? I'll give you a chance to say why you attacked me." tank vegetarian said as he stood back up against the man he couldn't quite see the man well in the dark alley. His body was blocking the only light source producing an intimidating shadowy figure and only part of his face was revealed. Garou partially was angered that the hero didn't know him. No doubt that old bastard bangs work and trying to keep him in the shadows but something wasn't right here. Was this really an A-class hero?

"Tank top vegetarian , A-class rank 9… you disappoint me is this really all the top 10 of the A-class has to offer." Garou spat out with disdain.

"You get a cheap shot and talk all big? Hurr, I'll show you what happens when you cross heroes!" tank top vegetarian said angered as he rushed towards the man, cocking a right swing but the swig was easily avoided by the person and a hard knee strike completely took vegetarian down for the count before that leg extended completely pushing him back, vegetarian was able to slightly recover before landing but the enemy was on him and had already kicked him in the face before he could react sending again spiraling towards the ground.

"Just like I said diss-" garou remarked as he stopped cold as he quickly dodged out of the way of an object coming from behind him and he turned around to see another tank topper, another A-class.

"Judging by the book I assume your tank top philosopher right? A-class rank 15 " garou remarked with a wicked grin.

"Nice to know my reputation precedes me, but the better question here is what you're doing with my colleague here. He may be a little rough around the edges but I think he's learned his lesson now." tank philosopher tried to dissuade the situation.

"Hah! You're gonna get the same things he's going to." Garou remarked simply, tank philosopher merely sighed.

"I would have hoped to solve this situation peacefully." tank philosopher said simply before charging forwards himself but garou was no fool he could tell what they were up to as he dodged again as the book was thrown back at him from tank top vegetarian but instead of surprising tank philosopher he caught the book in his hands and tried to slam it down on garou's head he was but garou simply used the the high attack as an opening quickly striking the man in the jaw with an attack that made him reel back and stop his attack cold given garou enough time to back kick the approaching vegetarian making the man clutch at his stomach as he to fell backwards from the pain.

philosopher came back at him this time feinting a book throw once, twice, before throwing it on the third time but not at garou himself which confused him for a moment as it bounced off the walls of the alleyway and hit him in the side staggering him and finally allowing vegetarian to land a punch on the guys face but it didn't do much of anything as the criminal countered with a elbow strike to vegetarians face breaking his nose before continuing with a spinning back kick to send the man spiraling towards the ground unmoving by the time philosopher got into range to deliver another attack of his own garou was ready kicking his own book up into the air and kicking it towards the hero, the hero managed to stop the attack after siding back a couple of feet but by the time he turned his eyes back to garou he was upon him kicking the book out of his hands and unleashing a barrage of punches culminating as he snatched the falling book from the air and smashed it down on philosopher head forcing him to the ground with a thud before slamming it into his right arm as he walked past.

"That was a nice little warm up but I can't wait to fight a monster class hero." Garou said before leaving the alley way and continuing forwards but he was suddenly bumped into by someone.

"Watch where you are going." the man said simply and with a heavy threatening undertone. And Garou being slightly disappointed by the two A-class he fought couldn't let the guy slide and for some reason the man looked familiar to him but he couldn't figure out why.

"Oh yeah and what are you going to do if I don't." garou taunted back getting in the man's face threateningly before he could even think of what happened next the surge of bloodlust from the man made his body move on autopilot using the old man's technique but even with that he was barely able to avoid the blade that was just about to slash his throat alone making only a small cut. Now that he could see the man's face he could recognize the purple under the man's eyes and thought back to his supposed debut. it was that guy which meant he was some criminal punk, was he looking for revenge for his friends he beat up? Garou thought as he immediately created space from the guy.

"You are not my target so I will just let you go with a warning to leave now before I kill you." Sonic remarked but Garou saw the threat as a challenge and he was mad that this guy was looking down on him so he struck first just to test him and it was only thanks to the old man that he still had an arm as he deflected the blade but it still cut his arm not deep but enough to draw blood, he quickly was on the defensive as the man went to attack every attack he through was dodge by the man's extreme speed but his attacks were straight forward and predictable always going for a killing blow with every attack but garou managed to stave off death again and again his clothes however were getting torn to shreds as he parried multiple slashes laced his outfit now some drawing blood of blows that landed to close. The fight extended to multiple city blocks before culminating in the advent of an abandoned parking lot; the only thing that saved Garou from being skewered through the eye was an interloper that slammed down in between them. As the dust cleared a long haired dark skin man was there in the center of the three of them.

"Who the hell are you?" garou immediately asked

"I'm just a guy looking for strong dudes and those moves reminded me just the guy I was looking for one of the previous winners of the super fight championships. That was you right?" the dark skinned man said, pointing to garou. Garou racked his mind for what this guy was talking about and remembered that time he beat that wolf mask guy up and took his place.

"What about it?" Garou remarked

"Well I wanted to see if you were joining the tournament this year? I wanted a chance to get a crack at you." the man remarked, smacking a fist into his hands.

" like hell I got time for that, now." garou said simply

"Aww that's a bummer, well we can go right now if you want."

"I'm kind of in the middle of something-" Garou remarked as he looked around to find the ninja he was just fighting.

"I spent enough time warming up with you, I won't waste my time further as my true prize draws near." sonic said up on top of a building before disappearing again

" Well I guess that just leaves you and me, what do you say? The name is Suiryu by the way." the light skinned man said. As he got into a stance, Garou was even more aggravated than before and decided to screw it, maybe beating this guy up would at least alleviate some aggression.

"Sure I got time to beat you to a pulp, remember the name Garou because it's going to be dragged into human history pretty soon as the first human monster." Garou regarded pointing a thumb to himself before he got into a stance but as both opponents charged at each other a sudden dark energy separated in front of them before they could meet.

"Who the hell is it this time?" Garou remarked as he looked up and was stunned to see a hero but not just any hero; an S-class hero he was excited before realizing that this hero was a part of that group

"Get away from him." Midoriya said seriously to suiryu whom simply whistled as he looked at the glowing green boy in the air and then back at garou.

"Dang what did you do to piss an S-class hero off? Especially one of the non killing army at that. Well that sucks I guess you're a criminal huh? Guess we could put our fight on hold for another day , hell if he doesn't catch you then I'm sure the association would offer up a good bounty for you." Suriyu remarked with a chuckle before raising his fingers in a goodbye gesture and walking away. The two waited for the man to vacate the premises before Midoriya powered down and touched the ground. Garou was unamused.

"What are you doing here? Didn't that tape guy give you my message? I said I wouldn't hunt you guys yet unless you attack me first." Garou said, staring down the green haired teen.

" Garou….. why do you hunt heroes?" Midoriya asked simply, he doesn't want to make the same mistakes again, maybe if he could just talk to the person, things wouldn't have to result in fighting, if he could just understand the person and just talk it out nobody enjoys violence just for violence sake.

"Hah! And why the hell would I tell you that, if you aren't here to fight me then just stay out of my way." Garou said before turning his back and walking away. But he stopped as the hero sped around to get in front of him.

"As long as you continue to hunt heroes, I can't let you get away." midoriya said before multiple black whips sprouted from all over his body before he shot them forth garou skillfully dodged each attack but that wasn't midoriya's attention he just wanted to keep the man's attention focused on him so he didn't realize the black whips extending from out of his back and into the ground but garou could see that something was amissed he jumped up and away but it was already to late he was trapped in midoriya's cage of black whips extending out to half the parking lot, garou banged against the black substance before dropping back down to the ground.

"Garou..please just talk to me…if I were any of the other S-class they would have simply beat you up or worse… bang is very much concerned about you." Midoriya tried to persuade the man by mentioning his former master but he immediately regretted it as Garou started to laugh.

"Yeah …right…that old geezer was and probably still is furious with me. The fact that you still haven't called him here yet despite having me trapped almost proves it as well." Garou remarked with his arms crossed, midoriya slightly winced because he was partially correct in that regard although bang didn't have a phone he was still with the rest of his friends which he could call or text to if he could send them his desti….no this place didn't have traditional GPS he had no directions to give them so unless a monster attacked happened nearby then he was completely on his own. Midoriya took a deep breath before exhaling.

"Let's say your right isn't that proof enough that I don't mean you harm?" Midoriya tried to convince and for a moment Garou's face faltered from his cocky grin into an unsatisfied frown as he thought of that but that sadistic grin quickly returned as he got into a fighting stance.

"As I said before I don't have to explain my life to you kid, this is your last warning, get out of my way now or you will be my next hunt." garou remarked, getting into a stance.

"I can't let you go garou , not if you plan to hurt more people." midoriya said defiantly drawing up to 100% full cowling again. Garou reply came in the form of a blitz but midoriya noted how he was slower than bang he could actually perceive him moving toward him but he was still a little too slow to block the strike that was aimed at his forehead but it was than and their he realized the true difference between master and apprentice, garou was nowhere near as strong as bang if that was his full power it barely budged him and to test his theory he let garou wail on him for a moment before pulling back a punch of his own to return but garou immediately backed off. His face was a mix of anger and confusion at how durable the teen was.

"Garou just from that exchange now I can tell that you can't beat me as you are now so you have no chance against people like bang or darkshine. So please just talk to me. I don't want to have to hurt you if I don't have to" midoriya remarked, garou was angered by how much this younger kid was looking down on him and continued to attack the teen in his anger but it all resulted in the same thing happening his attacks having no effect at all but the bright side was that the teen was slow and fought clumsily he couldn't land an attack on him either at least that is what he thought as the teen mysteriously generated a large burst of was able to land an attack on him making him puke up blood as he was sent careening back into a wall of a large building, midoriya quickly dissipated the cage of black whip and transferred into bindings that completely subdued garou's back into the wall.

"You bastard, you were holding back there weren't you?" Garou remarked as he coughed up another pang of blood.

"Fa jin an explosive boost of power and speed." midoriya remarked simply

"Garou you've lost now start talking…what makes me and my friends different from every other hero." Midoriya questioned although he already knew the most likely answer but he wanted to hear it from the man's mouth and through ragged and pained breath Garou finally spoke.

"Do…do you really not know the answer to that?... Your group doesn't kill monsters." Garou remarked simply.

"And why is that so important to you?" midoriya said

"Because I'm going to become an unrivaled monster that will turn this world upside down, heroes killing monsters even though they could have just cause and people supporting them just because their monsters make me sick, it reminds me of so long ago the popular person will always be held on a pedestal despite their wrong doings while the unpopular guy despite his motivations or reasoning will always be held in contempt." Garou said and Midoriya froze for a minute, digesting the last bit of his information and reading in between the lines. Garou always liked monsters as a kid and was discriminated against for it.

"So when you guys showed up I assumed that you guys would understand at least a little bit after all some of those that you call "friends" even look like monsters,(he laughed) I can imagine the whiplash that they went through when they turned out just like the beings they were taught to hate and fear so much. you got off easy in comparison you still pass off as normal just with some cool new power to show for it. Did you ever consider how they felt or were you just swept up in your own power? huh? " Garou said, rolling his shoulders gesturing to the black whip. Midoriya was taken back by what the teen was saying while he was off the mark on the why's he still hit the mark on some things the discrimination against quirkless and to a somewhat similar extent mutant quirks were both problems that were mostly swept under the rug back in their world and that lead to many neglected and unsatisfied people that took up arms against society and midoriya never once took the chance to even discuss the topic with his peers like tokoyami and shoji…he was mostly concerned about himself and one for all vs all for one dynamic…so in a strange way garou was practically right? As midoriya was lost in thought his power began to falter, garou feeling the losing grip of the black material placed both of his palms on the wall he was against.

"The name of that technique of yours was fa jin right? Does it work a little something like this!" garou exclaimed and pushed both of his hands against the wall breaking it completely and leading to a cascading effect up the large building causing the top of it to begin to fall over, midoriya was immediately snapped back to the action as he released his black whip from around garou and focused his entire attention to keeping the building from falling and crushing anyone and saving the people inside, he could only watch in worry as garou began to run away cursing himself for letting his guard down like that. Midoriya refocused his mind as he tried to figure out what to do, the first thing he did was use his danger sense with the extra training from bang he had hoped that he would be able to sense or hear if anyone was inside the piece of the building he was holding up if not he could just toss the rubble into the sky but if so he would need to carefully use his blackwhip to take everyone out safely before discarding of the rubble but before he could get the chance to do such a thing the piece of the building was suddenly blown into smithereens his heart quickened and sank at the thought of what just happened or if there were people inside and he nearly lunged at the metal robot that hover in the air above him it's cannons still trailing exhaust from the missiles it fired but only its voice calmed him down telling him that no life signs were present in the building at the time, leading midoriya to think back to garou and wondering if he knew that as well before he did the attack.

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Uraraka looked to the horizon again as she glanced out into the distant bustling city.

"So the nerd ditched you huh?" the surprising voice from bakugo erupted from behind her, startling the girl.

"What? No, he didn't "ditch" me he just felt something with his danger sense is all, you know him better than anyone he can't take breaks no matter what.`` Uraraka replied simply.

"Tch…. Do you even know where he went?" bakugo responded and if uraraka didn't know any better she would have suggested that bakugo was actually worried about him.

"I'm sure he's fine, you saw how strong he was." uraraka clarified and the expected shout of response was given.

"Who the hell implied that I was worried? I just wanted to know so that I could get in on the action if the idiot gets careless!" bakugo angrily retorted back before moving on from the girl but as he passed he added.

"We aren't in our world anymore, he doesn't sit at the top of the food chain anymore, there could exist monsters out there even stronger than all might was in his prime." bakugo remarked ominously to the girl before moving on. Bakugo had been spending some time experimenting with that VR headset that genos had got him and finding out some of the foes that, that baldy faced and how strong they were completely changed his outlook on certain things revolving around this world they found themselves in. uraraka was a bit shaken by bakugo's remark her confidence slightly shaking in midoriya being fine especially after he's been away for around 30 minutes now but a closing in dot in the distance somewhat squashed her worries.

Although the dot as it got closer proved to be much too large to be midoriya. calling toru over to use her light enhancement: telescope to give her eyes a better zoom in allowed her to see that indeed the dot coming at them in the horizon wasn't midoriya, well it wasn't just midoriya, he was hitching a ride on a large machine. As they got closer they soon got the attention of the others that were busy cleaning up the event. Instead of landing down and consulting her over what happened however, Midoriya only gave her a brief run down before running off towards his teacher.

"Metal knight, it is nice of you to finally show up." sweet mask said simply looking at the giant hulking machine.

"Sweet mask these events are a waste of time, I'm merely here to finish my quota for the association revolving the police." metal knight said simply before lifting his hand and suddenly multiple from over the horizon 50 drones started, hovering above the ground and quickly went to each police officer around the event before barfing out an assault weapon into each of their hands.

"Alphabet commander, these are the laser weapons requested. They should be capable of taking out tiger level threats or weaker demon levels if the weapons firepower is combined." metal knight stated.

"This is a mighty fine weapon, what about ammunition?" the commanded said examining the weapon system

"The weapons feed off an internal electric battery, the necessary charging ports have been sent to each of your buildings scattered around the continent." metal knight said simply.

"Nice, I believe with this our agreement has been completely fulfilled, here to a lasting partnership between our organizations." alphabet commanded said holding out his hand for sitch to shake.

"Yes we thank you for your cooperation in these trying times." Sitch remarked simply shaking the gentlemen's hand before they began to part ways.

Before metal knight could begin to fly off, he was approached by koda who wanted to thank the hero for all he did for him, metal knight wrote it off in the pursuit of research and nothing more but he did give the boy something else, it was large metal seed that he only gave a vague explanation on how it will help him with his equipment before beginning to take off again. He noticed tank top master and his group and remarked that both tank top philosopher and tank top vegetarian were both brought to a local hospital for their injuries and soon after simply left without explaining what had happened to the duo, causing most of the tank tops and shoji to quickly evacuate the premises to find out what had happened to two of their best tank toppers.

After metal knight was clearly gone out of sight and sound, child emperor immediately snatched the seed out of koda's hands with one of his metal claws much to some of the dismay especially Jiro and mina.

he ignored them however as he examined the seed he gave to the teen keeping both girls pinned who tried to get it back with his other robotic claws, after examining it for a couple of minutes he merely let out a disgruntled sound before tossing it back at koda and releasing the two girls he simply said that what he gave koda was a upgrade seed, no doubt for his voice amplifier. Both of the girls questioned why he didn't want to say hello to his former teacher and child emperor said he didn't want anything to do with the man anymore and warned Koda that he shouldn't get too invested in him either before his back pack blades sprung up like a helicopter and flew off. Drive knight echoed the sentiment before turning into a motorcycle hybrid and driving off the mountain before transforming into a plane hybrid and flying off.

Midoriya had made his way over to bang who was hanging around his brother and ojiro the ground overlooking a sparring match between, Jackie and charanko, charanko was winning mostly but a "slip up" from sero caused the match to essentially be canceled early before he could officially win. Midoriya seized the opportunity to ask bang to talk a little away from everyone else, taking the old man off to the side, just as the group noticed that the tank topper was leaving the premises in a hurry.

"Bang….it was garou…he was the one that hurt tank philosopher and vegetarian." midoriya said, surprising the old man as his eye slightly widened in surprise and midoriya for one moment felt his anger and hate leak out as the cherry blossom trees around them noticeable began to flow away as his aura seemingly caused a wind to billow from him before returning back to normal again as he closed his eyes and took a breath.

"Are you positive? You saw him in the act?" bang asked

"No but metal knight found them injured in an alleyway and I fought garou nearby." Midoriya said.

"You fought him? You seem uninjured for your troubles." bang said skeptically looking midoriya over. Midoriya shook his head.

"No he's not as strong as you, he wasn't able to hurt me but he was fast, I was only able to land a lucky hit by catching him off guard." midoriya said simply

"What happened to him?" bang asked

"He got away, he caused part of a building to collapse and I prioritized it over him." Midoriya remarked with a worried expression.

"You seem to want to add more? speak ." bang regards.

"While I guess comparatively garou wasn't that strong I do fear for him and others. For him because if he challenges some of the stronger S-class heroes then they may kill him and something about him was strange, I don't know how but maybe because of my danger sense it seemed that if he was left to his own devices he may end up becoming a huge problem even for you. He was able to replicate one of my moves with only a single display, `` Midoriya said, still unsure of his interaction with the hunter. Bang put a hand on the teens shoulder and offered him a kind smile.

"It truly kind of you to worry for him even though you barely know him but you shouldn't worry about it, things are in place and he will be taken care of, for now we should enjoy the days we have left together." bang said in a vague statement that Midoriya didn't really understand but he didn't question him and simply nodded his head as he felt bang's anger slowly leak out again but as he took his hand off his shoulder the feeling dissipated again as the two went back towards their friends.

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The class 1A teens all took a quick pit stop back to their homes to go pick out their swimwear for their time at the beach. Mina was met with a dilemma on what swimsuit should she wear to the beach, unlucky for her mizuki had caught wind of there plans to go and had decided to just include herself into their plans but there she was again getting all flustered and angry because another girl was going even though she seemed to be alright of a person too good if anything she was basically good and this was compounded in their bodies she had a more muscular body than her, that kiri really seems to like maybe she should work out more or something? I mean it wouldn't hurt right but mina quickly shook her head from those thoughts and looks to her swimsuits she got from that photo op there was a leopard print two piece or the nearly her skin color pink one piece…the pink one would draw more attention obviously as it would practically look like she's wearing nothing but that…that's not what she wants to give off at least not to…everyone…she thought bashfully before just ultimately deciding on just going with the leopard print.

The rest of the class were quicker and were already downstairs waiting, shoji was the last one to be prepared do to him arriving later than the rest, he told the class of his teachers injury to his right arm and midoriya asked for more information on the perpetrator that caused those injuries, just like metal knight told him the person that they described sound exactly like garou and shoji had a similar thought when he heard the description but he didn't tell them the tank tops that is, just in case he was wrong and placed the blame on the wrong person, midoriya breathed a sigh of relief at that and advised shoji to keep it to himself bang still wants to handle the garou threat himself for the time being. Shoji understood and agreed that he wouldn't tell them and let them know if something happened. With that out of the way everyone began to head out to the beach, unlike normally where they would have rides to the place they were trying to go now they had to find their own rides most of the teens with the help of uraraka and deku flew their, momo still had her motorcycle, Iida simply ran, bakugo used his own explosions, koda with the help of torax and aki also ran, kaminari also ran this time with the added benefit of having Jiro on his back, and todoroki used his ice and fire to skate around.

The teens made it to the beach in about 30 minutes before everyone touched down and dusted off into the changing rooms. The beach that they all agreed to meet up at was one in Z-city, the group hurried to the surprisingly almost empty beach before they spotted someone in the distance waving at them it was Jackie which was quickly followed up by mizuki along with her and much to mina's dismay kirishima seemingly brightened up at just seeing the girl yelling his greeting back at the large girl, although mina noted that it likely wasn't do to how she was dressed compared to her hero outfit her bikini wasn't really much of anything different just smaller if her tan lines were anything to go by.

"Oh guys lin lin and the female ninja are here as well! But one kinda disappeared when you all showed up." Mizuki yelled towards the group. Momo immediately felt a pit in her stomach at the remark as she quickly surveyed her surroundings, since the location was a beach it didn't leave the ninja with many options to really attack her from only a few densely sprouted trees lit up the landscape and culminating in a forested area further north up on the a cliff face. She scanned the sky for a moment before suddenly she felt something around her ankle and just as she looked down she was pulled down into the sand the only thing remaining above the ground being her head, surprising the entire class, kaminari was the first to realize and begin to start laughing but before Jiro could jack him for it her attacked missed as he was also dragged to just about head first deep into the sand next which caused both mineta and sero to laugh at him as well just as shadow ring came up from the ground in a billow of sand she was in a two piece bikini but still wore her head gear before taking it off completely revealing her face.

"Was this really necessary." momo remarked as she was just a head on the beach

"It was a test to check on your thinking skills, you had the correct Idea but you were too slow in going over your options." shadow ring remarked simply.

"Why was I included in this?" Kaminari complained also just buried up to his head in the sand.

"While only briefly you were still under my care, so I was curious in how you would react in a similar case along with training under volten and my observation of your abilities in your demonstration I was simply curious to test you." the shadow ring said.

"Man if I were still in my lighting god mode I would have seen that coming." Kaminari said before sero and mineta started to play with him while he's in the ground. Causing others to laugh.

"You really do take expect the unexpected thing to the next level don't you? I can't imagine how uncomfortable it must have felt to dig through all that sand." Toru remarked a bit squeamishly just imagining all the places it could go in such little clothing.

"We are taught to forgo such trivial annoyances to accomplish our mission, and you should always be prepared in case things don't go as you these two are not the only ones that would need to be taught this lesson." shadow ring said ominously, sifting through the eyes of the teens in front of her before briefly locking eyes with bakugo and moving away. Bakugo for his part didn't know what to think of such a comment he originally was sure of himself that the ninja was just elduing to that she knows about him and silver chain but part of him thought that it was a subtle hint of a warning that he was next but he explicitly told her that he didn't want her and him to interact with his class around but what is a threat by someone weaker than you? He couldn't enforce it and it wasn't like he was going to stop his training with her because of it either, so leveraging becoming like the extras in the ground or revealing his training partner that they already had speculations about he decided to screw it.

The class was surprised when seemingly bakugo suddenly jumped back with an explosion and than launched into the air shadow ring merely said fool as she turned back around, just as bakugo went into the air he was dramatically slammed back down into the ground hard creating a cloud of sand that mostly freed kaminari from his bindings due to his proximity to his landing. As the wind and sand settled bakugo was in the middle of a large 5 meter deep crater but the surprising things was above the opening of the crater was several liquid metal knives all pointing down at the blonde as he rubbed the back of his head. The teens attention was averted as a voice called from behind them addressing the scene in front of them.

"I was not going to make any moves against you as per our agreement but your actions just now predicate on thinking I would, so I did. You must get better control of your emotions and not be so easily baited into making a mistake, furthermore I thought I told you your tendency to rush to the air can be used against you if an opponent has studied you enough." a mysterious woman said that suddenly appeared next to shadow ring.

"Yeah, yeah and I thought I told you to can it!" bakugo said as he recovered enough to begin his climb out of the crater the metal knives suspended above the crater gave way to give him some room to get out.

"Woah bakugo you know this chick?" sero remarked in surprise

"Yeah man that's just crazy. Where did you meet her from?" Mineta said also in surprise.

"What are you idiots talking about isn't it obvious that, that's silver chai-" as bakugo eclipsed the crater edge to finally get a good look at the women he to was shocked, the women in front of him going by the eyes were definitely silver chain's he hate to admit it but he would never forget those eyes….but her body? Was unexplainable the muscled arms and legs were fine and fit with what he expected but the large air bags on her chests seemed impossible for the girl he knew.

"Wait, is that really you? Silver chain?" Momo was surprised as well by the girl's figure.

"Yes it is me."

"Bullshit! , you should at least be as scrawny as the other one not packing like that" bakugo regarded despite himself , Iida immediately lambasted him for talking like that to someone but he was a distance away from the knives that still surrounded bakugo's frame.

"Yes, as you can guess these breasts do get in the way of my work, so In my suit I usually use mass-reducing clothing to appear in the state that I do. And for those wondering, 106-70-100. " silver chain said simply. As she used one of her liquid metal clones to appear like how she usually does, the class were stunned by not only the display but also what the women finished with, the girls were all blushing mad and the guys that did know were right there with them.

"Dang girl if you got it, then flaunt it I suppose." Jackie remarked as she got close enough to them to hear the ending.

"Wait, what does the three numbers at the end mean?" todoroki asked and before anyone could say anything mineta spoke in an almost hushed whisper, he was visibly shaking as blood ran down from his nose and he held his arm like he was trying to restrain himself and for the rest of the class they really believed that he was, mineta at a beach was a hazard to be avoided but he was behaving for now but Iida would keep a constant eye on him just in case.

"Bust-waist-hip ….there her …her …measurements." Mineta said with a shaky voice before he collapsed in on himself . he was desperately trying to control himself, this must be a test from the heavens not only does he have his classmates in bathing suits in front of him but now a bomb shell like that as well, this will be his greatest challenge yet he must not submit to any of his normal tendencies but he fears that he will not have the strength to do so for much longer he began to think.

most of the rest of the boy's were also mostly caught in the trance of the figure or the whiplash that the clothing could make, the first to snap out of it was midoriya as he felt his danger sense pang in warning but by the time he realized who it was, she already had a hand on his shoulder he felt all five of the soft pads touch releasing gravity's hold on him.

"What are you looking at deku…."Uraraka said in a somewhat menacing tone while maintaining a large smile on her face.

"What? Me? nothing ..nothing I swea-" midoriya was attempting to defend himself but uraraka wasn't having it and turned her shoulder touch into a throw that launched him high into the air, with the effects of her quirk and her recent training he went fairly far from the angered throw. Concurrently as that interaction, kaminari was the second to come out of it and noticed that Jiro was staring at the newcomer as well and after fully digging himself out and sneak up on the distracted girl he her heard whisper about something that he guess he shouldn't have heard about the newcomer bust being nearly 20 cm larger than momo's which gave him an indication of how large momo was but he stored that for a moment as he did a tiny shock to the girls neck.

"Dang Jiro, at least wait until I'm not around to stare at others." Kaminari remarked with a chuckle, Jiro was going to pluck him but she dropped it.

"Hey can you blame me here? I wouldn't even be mad about you looking." Jiro said as she looked back at her. Kaminari simply laughed.

"Why would I look over there when my eyes are glued right here?" Kaminari said hugging Jiro from behind, the girl noticeably blushed and leaned back into the hug.

"Besides that's an interesting factoid to remember about your friend there Could this mystery girl be closer than I first thought?" Kaminari said with a cheeky grin as he quickly let go of Jiro as she rounded on him in embarrassment but he was already running away as she chased after him determined this time to pluck him thoroughly just as midoriya took off into the sky.

"Wait, how old are you?" Jackie asked

"17" silver chain replied.

"Dang that means you still have room to grow." Jackie remarked astounded, trying and failing to attempt to grab the girl's ample bosom from behind.

"Unfortunately, some believe that I may have Gigantomastia but that is unknown for the time being." silver chain said simply.

" What is that, some big boob syndrome?" sero quipped with a chuckle

"Yes, actually." silver chain said flatly, stopping him cold.

"Oh..umm sorry." Sero said simply.

"Do you have that as well momo?" Todoroki asked curiously. Earning sweeping laughter from everyone still present to hear, as momo massively blushed in embarrassment while covering her chest.

"Ugh..no …no I don't …I'm just developed for …my age." Momo managed to squeak out through her embarrassment, but Mineta was angered by the interaction.

"What! That's all he gets? If I had asked that I would have been attacked! This is that pretty privilege. " mineta said throwing a small tantrum

"The main difference is the intent behind the question, todoroki was asking just to be more informed, you would ask just to ask just to draw emphasis to her chest. Ribbit." tsu defended

"Be that as it may…it is a completely inappropriate question to ask to a fellow classmate." Iida remarked before walking up to Todoroki and doing a single karate chop to the young teens head. Todoroki kept his head lowered as he apologized.

"It's ok todoroki, I know social interactions are still hard for you to completely understand." Momo offered some sympathy.

"Well I can't blame the guy…she flaunts herself off to, especially with that hero costume of yours." Jackie said

"I'm not flaunting, anything." momo defended

"So the boobs window is for?" Jackie questioned

"It's for my quirk of course." Momo said, cheeks flushing still.

"Well wouldn't it just have been to have something like my hero costume? It shows more skin and still doesn't use a boob window." mizuki countered leaving momo mostly stuck, she could tell them about her denied costume but that one was even more revealing than even mizuki's suit along with a boob window.

"I think her hero suit is nice as is." Todoroki said in honest defense but due to the nature of the conversation it was easily misconstrued and caused even more laughter to emerge much to his confusion.

"Just sit this one out todoroki." Iida told him as he bonked him on the head once more but Mina quickly changed the subject after her laughing subsided.

" What is mass-reducing clothing?" mina asked

"Oh I got this one, the shining prodigies use them all the time normally, they were originally built for large weight people similar to that like a girdle or belt from where we are fro-" Kirishima trailed off as he let that slip.

"Go on, she already knows." bakugo chimed in

"Oh alright so yeah, like a girdle or belt but just way more advanced as it can push all sorts of things down like fat, muscle, and even hair. And with no strain on the body either it is like magic honestly if you ask me.`` Kirishima continued.

"I guess that would also explain your long hair, also get this stuff from around me." bakugo said simply looking at the girl's long silver hair going down her back. Silver chain relented releasing bakugo from his cage of spikes, the liquid metal substance going back to actually join along her hair in almost perfect harmony.

"So how do you know her bakugo?" sero asked

"He asked me to train him in return for information about you all." silver chain replied simply.

"Ah that makes sense…..wait." sero said

"Bakugo asked." Kaminari finished as he came back, shaking Jiro off.

"That must have been something." kirishima remarked

"He had challenged me a couple of times prior so I assume that is why." silver chain replied

"Wait so all those times he arrived unconscious when we were training, that was you? I called it!" Toru shouted.

"Yes. although it still does happen from time to time." silver chain said simply

"Wait…. I just realized something are we gonna ignore the fact that bakugo said the words "packing" when talking about her?" kirishima said

"Yes and this conversation is over." bakugo said simply before placing both of his hands on the ground and blowing up the spot they were standing given his angered mood he didn't properly scale the blast and it was larger than he would have intended it to be but he knew that everyone would be alright, sending multiple of his classmates flying into the ocean or some further up the beach. The ninja avoided the attack miraculously unscathed along with kirishima who hardened himself in response to the threat but bakugo ignored them as he went into the ocean to just get away from discussing more.

In the explosion of sand and dust Sero managed to catch Jackie with his tape and reeled her in so that he would take the brunt of the fall.

"Nice catch there super star." she teased rubbing his chin affectionately

"No problem when you hang around him enough you come to expect that sort of reaction." Sero responded.

" So blowing people up is like his normal way of expressing himself? Dang explains why he seems so cranky." Jackie said and sero laughed

"Tell me about it. How about we go and enjoy our time on the beach though." Sero said with a coy smile and Jackie agreed.

Uraraka was blown clear into the air she used her quirk on herself so that she would continuing to fly in the direction of the sea where as she expected midoriya finally returned and caught her while she was in the air, she quickly explained what happened as he noticed a number of his classmates going after bakugo who was now in the ocean seeking some form of retribution although midoriya doubted their luck in that regard even in the water his nitroglycerin sweat would still be pretty handy and he showed that to great affect as he fended off most of their classmates still until they decided to leave him alone, uraraka asked if he could get bakugo back for her in her stead and when he looked hesitant to commit to that knowing how his friend would likely react she put on a fake pouting face still bringing up his reaction to silver chain which convince the boy to do so but to make it look like an accident he "accidentally" landed too close to bakugo when he arrived back down into the sea with everyone else casing a huge solace to wash over the explosive teen but bakugo wasn't one to even let that go if he was fooled at all as he attack midoriya and the two battle in the ocean.

Kirishima went to check if Mina was ok after the blast while Kaminari was blown backwards nearly directly in front of Jiro who stabbed him in the ear for previously. After all that was said and done the class enjoyed the beach in numerous ways while other heroes and random people slowly joined in on the festivities. The tank top girls arrived along with a couple of the guys, half of the shining prodigies arrived but were mostly focused on merely sun tanning the entire time to be more like darkshine, fubuki arrived with lily regrettably for the two tatsumaki showed up as well, genos and saitama arrived but genos left shortly after so he could get his " sea parts" from doctor kuseno, flash arrived as well although he didn't particularly speak to anyone present.

Koda spent most of his time on the beach with aki and torax although both weren't afraid of the water that much and could swim both monsters preferred to stay on land so he opted for making sand castles most of the time . With the arrival of the tank top girl's tank masseuse preoccupied and yoinked shoji away from his usual group to test her theory on his potential massaging skills along with his quirk steadily coaching him on sensitive spots on the human body along with spots that accumulate stress that may need to be released being that his test subjects were other females of the group he felt a little less weird for the circumstance but didn't really know if he would ever actually commit to learning things fully.

Momo was mostly busy with practicing her swordsmanship with the ninja's and lin lin, however she did find it a bit uncomfortable at times as moving around so heavily in compromising clothing was embarrassing for her especially with the beach starting to become more and more populated the more time they spent their but the ninja explained that's exactly what they want her to overcome by practicing that way. Todoroki spent most of his time simply skating on the water with his ice, after being invited to "surf" with some strangers and them explaining what that actually intaled he found it actually easier just to use his power for the sport instead of the traditional board although it did occasionally cause problems with people behind him but he found the event intriguing nonetheless. Iida on the other hand after ensuring that mineta wasn't going to be up to any acts of depravity, didn't know what to really do on the beach, he would occasionally act as a lifeguard in certain aspects and or be the referee in volleyball ball matches that took place ensuring everyone was following the rules of the sport correctly.

With the arrival of more of the shining prodigies the teens got more examples of how the mass reducing clothing work making the muscle bound behemoths look fairly normal in comparison when they had their clothes on. Kirishima and Mizuki who other than would constantly wrestle or compete with each other in various competitions or would practice with the shining prodigies along with ojiro and sato and surprisingly mineta of all people as well who would try to keep up with them. Mina stared at them with somewhat envious eyes. As she tried to get kirishima's attention to play a game of marco polo in the water before completely dropping the subject as he wasn't paying much attention to her.

"You should just go over there and talk to him, you know. Ribbit." Tsu remarked next to the girl.

"I have no idea what you're talking about." mina tried to playoff

"Come on girl you're obviously bugging about him hanging around that mizuki girl but it's just harmless fun, they just have a lot in common." Toru remarked, trying to assure the girl.

"Didn't that monster basically confirm that he liked you as well?" Jackie remarked, swimming up to the girls.

"She does raise a point, the monster is currently two for five, basically three for five if you count toru and ojiro. Ribbit." asui remarked pointing to the invisible girl.

"Hey! ….I see that you and tokoyami are getting closer. Maybe we should say four out of five" Toru said in retort.

"She didn't deny the allegation and actually confirmed it, By the way, Ribbit." asui replied simply.

"Ooh she got you there girl, I did peep you occasionally sending glances his way while he was practicing, especially when some of those girls approached him." Jackie said with a laugh before she was suddenly pushed down into water by a light construct, she emerged around the object for air sending the invisible girl a death glare.

"Surprised to see you leave sero's side." Toru teased the girl back with a smirk

"Well he wanted to be left alone for a bit after that one armed guy talked to him he didn't want to "endanger" me if he got out of control. One of his eyes was red and everything." Jackie said, making all of the girls look over to see Sero who was basically huddling over by himself.

"What happened?" asui asked

"I don't know, he didn't tell me." Jackie said simply with a shrug of the shoulders.

"Well we can focus on that later, how about you talk to bakugo mina? He knows Kirishima probably the best out of everyone on the subject.`` Asui suggested and Mina for a moment thought about it and thought that maybe she's right, Bakugo would likely know if Kirishima had feelings for her and if she can confirm or deny that he does then maybe that would help her set herself straight.

After surveying the area and spotting bakugo she swam over to him, the others quietly trailing along with her until stopping some distance away as bakugo would likely think something was up again. Bakugo gaze was fixed on the sore side of things and any other time mian would have followed his gaze to see if he was looking at silver chain but for now she stopped those thoughts cold.

"Hey bakugo.'' Mina said with more timidry in her voice than he's ever heard from the pink trouble maker .

"What do you want?" bakugo said, simply turning his attention finally away from the shore to look at the girl.

" you know how you and kirishima are close and everything I….I was just wondering if-"

"I'll stop you right there, that's none of my business, ask him yourself…. But I will say, you should watch what you say around others, never know how you can affect them and if I were to guess it definitely did from what I can see." bakugo remarked vaguely as he turned his eyes to look at kirishima and mizuki wrestling again, mina following the line of sight to the event in question but the girl was immediately confused on what the explosive teen was getting at and pressured him for more details but he wasn't giving her anymore and just said that she should figure it out on her own.

Although it only led the pink girl to constantly annoy him by splashing water on his face or threatening to swim over to silver chain and telling her tons of random obviously untrue things. Ultimately bakugo's patience ran out as he caused a massive explosive to fling the pink girl away from him. The problem was that he didn't check who was in the direction of the splash wave from his stunt. Unlucky for him tatsumaki had happened to be floating by on a floaty drinking something that was now completely washed out by the sea water and as expected angering the girl immensely bakugo and many other could only stare and gape at the large tidal wave that eclipsed them in shade fubuki only watch the spectacle with unbelievable embarrassment as the tidal wave came down and everyone began to scramble to evade it.

midoriya and uraraka simply floated up and out of the way, momo was rescued by todoroki skating by with his ice, asui was rescued by tokoyami swooping in and picking her up, mina, toru and jackie weren't completely able to avoid getting caught up just able to avoid the water's main body as with two girls working together to create a platform for them to slide out of the way but bakugo shooting a small Ap-shot before they could fully leave breaking the light construct they were using to escape but avoiding the brunt of the wave mostly. bakugo himself on the other hand could have gotten away if it weren't for the green vixen trapping him their preventing him from leaving and take the full brunt of the wave which would have washed him completely out to sea but he was suddenly blindsided by an equally large wave emerging from behind him striking him in the back. Unbeknownst to everyone else saitama was having a bit of ninja trouble in the back and to get rid of him he made a slight "splash" in the ocean with a single hand, waving the ninja away in a tidal wave of water, bakugo and the ninja actually collided in the center of both waves, both equally as surprised as the other as the water overtook them and washed them out. Bakugo eventually washed up on the beach barfing out a ton of sea water all while internally cursing that small green girl.

"Are you ok?" silver chain's voice rang up from beside him.

"Do…. I goddamn… look ok?" bakugo said before puking up some more water.

"You should try not to anger Tatsumaki, despite her small size she is a very formidable opponent deserving of her position of 2nd rank in the association. " silver chain said.

"Yeah, no shit." bakugo said simply as he tried to get his bearings.

Asui was a bit surprised to see that she was suddenly flying through the air, wrapped around her body was multiple bands of darkness coming out of what she could only guess was dark shadow and her suspicions were correct as she looked up to see tokoyami hovering above her.

"Are you alright?" dark shadow said from above tokoyami.

"Yeah I'm fine, Although I would have been ok anyways given my quirk. Ribbit." asui blurted out before she could stop herself.

"Yes. of course dark shadow simply jumped the gun on things. Well put you down at once." Tokoyami said more towards dark shadow than Asui herself.

"Wait…umm I don't mind really, it's still appreciated and I…like the view from up here." Asui said and tokoyami nodded.

"I see, just tell me when you want to go down then." Tokoyami responded simply as the two continued to fly around the beach instead.

" Hey, how about you hold on to her?" Tokoyami heard dark shadow say internally.

" what!? no what if I drop her…no it's too risky." tokoyami said

"You literally carried hawks in your arms and didn't drop him." dark shadow countered

" two completely different situations. That was completely serious." tokoyami responded

" and asui falling isn't? Look she's not even wearing a two piece so you don't need to worry about feeling or seeing too much anyways."

"..."

"How about I just drop her then?"

"You wouldn't dare!" tokoyami shouted internally.

"Oh would I?" dark shadow teased

And before he could give even more warning to his dark friend tsu remarked about the dark bonds around her were slipping and losing their strength before completely hoisting her up in the air and disappearing entirely, tokoyami reacted quickly and caught asui in his arms as they continued to fly both her and him blushed heavily, tokoyami apologize for that and wrote the event off as dark shadow still not being use to manipulating himself like that while internally yelling at dark shadow for his brass actions and telling the creature that they will discuss what just happened at a later time. Mina, toru and Jackie all got separated as they were caught up on the edges of both waves colliding, sero and ojiro were immediately heading out into the ocean for their respective girls, kirishima didn't even know they were in there other than bakugo who he also went to go check up on a long side silver chain.

Ojiro was shocked when what turned up next to him on the shore wasn't toru but her….her swimsuit at least thankfully only the top part. His body immediately flushed with embarrassment, He stopped the fabric from going back out into the sea using his tail not really wanting to touch it with his hands. Toru's shriek scared him slightly from his thoughts but as he turned to look his vision completely left him.

"Sorry!" ojiro quickly said letting his tail go from the fabric and he assumed the girl would have been in range enough to catch it but she told him to just keep it there. While she made her way over now that she wasn't screaming he could tell that she was still a couple of feet away so he did as he was told and slammed his tail back down on the fabric to keep it there. As he heard the girl slowly slosh her way over.

"You know it's unlike you to be shy? Aren't you normally just naked anyways?" ojiro attempted to joke as he finally felt the girl hand on his tail signaling for him to let go.

"Normally, I'm not covered in water cascading down my body." Toru replied simply and ojiro quickly quieted down at the thought just imagining what that looks like before quickly shaking his head free from those thoughts, his vision slowly returned to him as toru in her full swimsuit appeared in front of him and she was right with the water rolling off her he could see a rough outline of her features like a ghost or mirage.

"That must have been some, hectic water to cause that." ojiro said

"It wasn't the water it was Jackie.'' Toru said a bit mythed before yelling back at the girl who washed up down further from them, unlike them Jackie was actually tending to sero who was wrapped up by his own tape before Jackie used the whirlwind to cut it off allowing him to escape.

"What happened to him?" ojiro asked when he and toru started their way.

"The other being tried to get the drop on tatsumaki while she was distracted and that went as well as I thought it would." Sero said with a laugh as he heard the ghost grumble to himself.

Mina was the only one that didn't have someone traditionally come for her other than torax who flipped the girl over, although it was clear that the girl was just fine just distraught as she looked to the sky and saw uraraka and midoriya playing tag with tokoyami and asui in the air, while todoroki and momo were essentially surfing out at sea the brunette holding onto him as they moved the sea, and then towards Jackie and sero along with toru and ojiro who were steadily approaching before looking past them to kirishima,bakugo, and silver chain. She was briefly brought out of her thoughts as Aki began to lick her face to see if she was ok, she quickly rubbed over the bear cub before pushing her away and getting up to her feet walking over to the others but the girls picked up on her disappointed mood.

"Hey I'm sure he just didn't see you over there, that's why he didn't come." Toru said.

"Yeah and just looking around it seems that monster was basically right. I mean if four out of five predictions were correct I don't think the fifth one would be wrong." Jackie supported. The guys were mostly staying out of it but ojiro was more observant than sero was at the moment who still seemed distracted about what he had discussed with Iaian. He looked over his shoulder and saw Kirishima headed over and told the girls about it.

"Yo bakugo said that, you guys also got caught up in those massive waves you guys ok?" kirishima asked and while the question was towards the group his main focus fell to mina.

"Yeah , yeah we're just fine!' Mina said with her usual enthusiasm completely replacing her mood just prior.

"Ok cool, that looked so awesome to be a part of honestly it was probably an extreme rush." Kirishima remarked childishly with a grin.

"While you are here kirishima, we wanted to see if you wanted to play marco polo with us?" Toru asked, Kirishima hesitated for a moment looking back over to the shining prodigies.

"We could also try to anger tatsumaki again so that she does that massive wave again." ojiro added on and with that kirishima was on board he yelled over that he was leaving and the group of them all left back into the ocean.

Aki was sniffing along the shore line as she picked up a familiar scent but she couldn't place why it was familiar to her until she came upon a washed up kunai on the shore and it all came back to her and took off towards the scent at great speed growling the whole while scaring some of the attendants, torax looked at the spectacle in confusion before he spotted the discarded kunai and let out a loud snarl to get koda's attention fueling him with power and telling him to go stop aki as he was closer than he was and koda didn't hesitate chasing after the bear cub who was running towards the forested area before disappearing inside koda hot on the cub's heels, bakugo seeing the scene knew what that meant and launched off after them as well, Iida thinking something up also joined after them.

The cub entered the forest and weaved through the trees with unnatural grace until the cub came upon a clearing with the man she was looking for her rage boiled as her claws extended out completely, sonic who was driving himself off look at the cub confused for a moment before drawing his blade as it charged him but was halted in it's leap as koda arrived and grabbed her by the scruff of her neck.

{aki stop!}

{Koda he's right there! My father's murder!} the cub said, trying to get free. Koda looked at the man he was soaking wet which meant he was at the beach with them and none of them even realized it.

"So you don't control monsters after all? In that case you better control your pet because I will kill it." sonic said menacingly brandishing multiple shuriken, aki slashed at koda's arm just as the man was about to walk away causing koda to yip in pain and drop the cub which continued to dash at him sonic turned around quick and in a flash, throwing his exploding shuriken again but a blur of white intercepted the attack the four shuriken exploded on torax side and shook the large tiger that grew to half his full size making him roar in pain but still remain standing.

Sonic jumped back as he looked skywards as the trees noticeably shook in time to avoid multiple ap shots shot out by bakugo from the air, and then in the next moment dodged a kick and sidestepped the second one from Iida that zoomed past. Sonic looked at the person again unimpressed.

"Didn't I tell you not to approach me or I will kill you? Perhaps I didn't make myself clear.`` Sonic remarked threateningly before he disappeared from all of their sight but then reappeared in multiple places. 15 shadow burial , bakugo was suddenly knocked out of the air while simultaneously everyone else was blown away.

'This time blood will be shed , those pets of his should serve as a good warning if we ever cross paths again." the afterimage in front of Iida remarked and all of the students could only watch in fear as the man's clones slowly made their way over to koda and the downed monsters unsheathing his katana and about to cut them down but jumping back as something big touched down in front of them, it was midoriya. koda and everyone was relieved but it soon became apparent that despite his power midoriya couldn't catch the ninja merely hitting clear air each time, midoriya wrapped the monster up in his black whip as a precaution forcing sonic to forgo his target but still feeling angry about being cheated out and losing to his rival again in such an embarrassing fashion was going to take it out on the isolated bakugo instead the ninja wasn't going to kill him but just make an example of him but before he could a streak of silver quickly speed his way to fast for him to react to and struck him dead center forcing him to fly backwards, his after images disappearing all over the scene as he spit out blood from his mouth, in a crouched position he glared at the new arrival and sneered.

"You." he remarked angrily before grabbing at a pouch on his chest and deploying a smoke bomb to disguise his retreat.

Bakugo was surprised by the figure in front of him. It was silver chain's clone again but what he just witnessed from it was much more than what he's ever seen displayed from the girl. Just how freaking strong was she? He thought as he got up and shook himself off and went over to check on the others, they had assumed that sonic merely retreated but bakugo told them that silver chain had scared him off as the clone was seen next to him. They all thanked the girl for her help before exiting the forest area with a slightly limping torax trudging along behind them although he assured them that he was fine at least for the moment. Aki was going through a mix of emotions but mostly guilt at not only hurting koda but causing some of the others to get hurt as well, especially torax who she knew from smell alone was a lot more hurt than he was letting on. With the ninja gone they enjoyed the rest of their time at the pool, given what just happened bakugo was more than adamant than ever to see where silver chain's limit lied so after simply asking her to participate in arm wrestling contest bakugo demanded that midoriya come over as well.

Although it wasn't one in the traditional sense as bakugo simply told silver chain to try her best to keep her hands still until midoriya was able to actually push it back and with those stipulations out of the way the matched commenced midoriya steadily raised his percentage of one for all and was surprised when even passed 60% he wasn't able to budge the girls arm but once it got to 70% there was some leeway and when he got to 80% he was finally able to take her down. Bakugo merely grunted in understanding before walking away from the both of them, ojiro already had told him that he was around 10% so going off child emperor's machine that was where bakugo should be around as well he speculated to be around 15% or so, but he didn't want to test that theory he already had had the troublesome duo over his comparisons to the girl, he guess he should say trio now with that other one right along with them.

As the group wined down and was preparing to leave mineta expressed his need to go out and hunt down three monsters for his training for mister king, midoriya was still abet worried about it given that sonic could still be out their but silver chain assured that he would likely rest and not strike again given the blow she hit him with. Mineta's dedication to his training was inspirational to his other classmates who also didn't really hunt monsters that often so that their ranks would be the same but in this sense they all decided to split up with no more than three members.

Sero, mineta, and kaminari made up one group, asui and tokoyami made up another, kirishima, sero, and sato was another, ojiro and toru had already actually planned on doing so from the very beginning already being in their hero costumes about to head out.

"Dang, is your hero costume really Just boots and gloves?" Jackie asked toru

``Yeah well it's the fastest things take off in a pinch and normal clothes ruin the whole invisible thing you know.`` Toru replied ."

"But isn't your hair invisible as well? Seems like an excuse if you ask me but I don't kink shame. exhibitionist" Jackie teased, making ojiro blush heavily as toru rolled her invisible eyes.

"Sero, can you just take her away already?" toru remarked and sero simply laughed

"Yeah I guess, are you sure though I'm still not you know, completely calm down from before." sero said

"A little bit dangerous but baby that's how I want it~" Jackie sang as she half-hugged him.

"Oh my god did you really just use that line in conversation?" Mina said with a chuckle.

"It's catchy! I don't know who Ariana Grande is but she can really sing." Jackie defended earning a couple of laughs from those in the class. Iida and momo permitted them to be able to go but he wanted them all to return to the house by nightfall or at worst 10pm which left the groups five hours to get things done before they had to return. All of them agreed before each heading their separate ways.

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Seeing for the first time: Ojiro, Toru

Both Ojiro and Toru had taken their monster search over to C-city as it was relatively close by since the two of them didn't really have that fast of transportation compared to everyone else they were dropped off on the nearest shelter where they took the train to C-city instead. Unlike ojiro who had already fought a few monsters before and knew what to expect toru was a bit nervous to do so but ojiro assured her that it wasn't to different from fighting villains well depending on the type of monster but he assured that as long as they pick and choose the disaster level they respond to the two should be fine and at best get out with some light damage if that, which he was mostly referring to himself as monsters likely wouldn't even be able to notice toru if he was being honest although the same problem affected him as well as they could trip each other up both being close quarters fighters.

The two got off the train and started to explore the city, they didn't find anything really out of the ordinary as they patrolled some people noticed them and commented on toru's appearance although when some of the guy's got a little too touchy to toru things kinda spiraled out of hand which lead into a minor disturbance which was quickly solved by the people involved being quickly dealt with and thrown and blinded out of the way by toru herself. The duo continued on and learned from that to not really stop for that long to discuss with fans. The next things to two came upon was a line to a large stadium, the signs indicated it was the sign up for the super fight tournament that he heard about from charanko and kaminari, surprisingly they met charanko their who was also signing up for the tournament he was taking ojiro advice to heart about his motivations about practicing martial arts and he wanted to use the super fights tournament to signal boost bangs teachings to the entire world so that he could regain his reputation he had back in the day. Ojiro complimented his friend for the Nobel goal and hoped he would succeed in his endeavor although just looking at some of the participants he didn't know how much of a chance he would honestly have against them if he were to speak honestly but he wouldn't want to bring down his fellow disciples confidence it was still likely shallow and it likely took him a lot of it just to show up here so he didn't want to break it with his words.

The two continued on and helped out around the community as they traveled helping people with finding lost items or picking up trash and things of that nature, before the first actual villains began to show up the first crime they stopped were simple robbers with toru's ability to sneak in and basically delete the group's vision it was an easy clean up after that for the duo being able to beat the blind men mostly without a scratch one of the group more trigger happy members had reacted poorly to his lost of vision opening fire on the path he was watching but thankfully ojiro had fast enough reflexes to raise his tail before the bullets reached him the shots deflecting harmlessly off the metal techsuit the association had given him. Before he rounded on the man knocking him out with a single swipe of his tail to his head it was all over in a matter of five minutes, the two complimented each other and called for the police to come pick them up. Before heading towards the next scene.

This time it was a monster attack the threat level was that of a tiger which was cause for some concern between them on if they should really go to such a threat but they were close by and heard the screams of panic and they both leapt into the fray, the monsters were also similar to something ojiro face last week some cherry monster trees but these were less tree shaped then previously and some possessed humanoid features like mouths but most were just some mixture of plant and other material. The fight lasted fairly long between them, the two were eventually separated during the conflict making the fight even harder toru seeing no other option began to use the whirlwind and quickly deleted all three of her opponents out right as they strayed too close together, she quickly turned her attention to ojiro's group he was currently fighting his last target or what he assumed was his last target as he deflected numerous large splints headed his way but it was only a distraction for the secondary monster behind him readying to skewered him from behind it's hand forming together like a massive Woodend spike.

ojiro managed to successfully redirect one of the tree's strikes back into itself making it stab itself in the face crumpling over but was unaware of the threat behind him. Toru had a flash back to what that being showed her from before about that minotaur and acted as fast as she could and in her haste and angered utilized the whirlwind to her best completely destroying the creature…..but also catching ojiro in the crossfire the circular wind cutting straight through his tech mesh down into bone and blood of his tale completely cutting it off at the tip. Blood sprayed out and completely shook toru as ojiro body finally caught up to the pain as he turned and flopped back on his back and grabbed at his tail stump.

luckily since the tail was mostly just muscle there wasn't that much blood squirting out of the wound but that didn't stop ojiro from being almost in shock first at his tail but than also when he looked at toru , who was equally as stunned both of them locked eyes as toru eyes began to water and her mouth trembled in worry she reached out a hand and due to still being in a fight or flight mode ojiro body responded by deflecting her hand away. This action caused toru unbelievable heartbreak as the tears began to flow from her eyes and after a moment she simply ran away. Ojiro came down from the shock of the event just in time to see her disappear from his eyes again, he tried to call out to her but his voice was cut short by the pain in his tail and whatever did come out she either didn't hear or ignored him.

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Toru didn't know where she was headed and she didn't really care, she just knew that she needed to get away from him…..as she ran she constantly lambasted herself for her dumb move she should have summoned a barrier or something to block the attack maybe it would have held… maybe blinding the creature would have help it altered its path..just anything other than what she did…she knew how dangerous the martial arts was but she still used it so carelessly and now she would have to pay the price, ojiro would undoubtedly hate her his eyes the way he looked at her was nothing short of anything but surprise and betrayal, she cut off the one thing that he probably cares so much about.

Toru ducked into an alley suddenly finding herself out of breath and unable to breath clearly she tried to clear her head but every time she closed her eyes she could only think of that incident playing over and over again in her head, she felt like their were blood on her hand but not just any blood ojiro's blood someone she really cared for but she ended up hurting the most of all. She stayed in that alley for sometime. She could finally start to breathe again after a while but the guilt and sorrow never left her. She swore that she would never use that technique again as she silently cried in the alleyway. Multiple people had passed by and some had even heard her but she kept silent and to herself just so that they would move along.

night soon began to fall and she still stayed in that alley no doubt her friends were going to be worried about her but at that moment she didn't feel like it was warranted for her and they should be more concerned about ojiro so to not have them worry about the wrong person toru was finally about to go back but was surprised when as she was in her thoughts this whole time a person was standing right in front of her but this person was strange in that firstly he was dressed in a sort of clown costume which in the dark and in an alleyway gave off extremely creepy vibes not to mention it's hulking stature she was sure that the clown was just as large as mizuki. But the other thing that completely freaked her out was that she was looking directly at her like she was actually visible and even if she miraculously was the clown had a blindfold over its eyes there was no way it could see her. She very slowly and carefully moved and the clown actually followed her with her head. So she decided to just speak to it.

"Ugh…hello?" Toru said in slight worry.

"Hello. I apologize for the intrusion but I heard someone down here and came to investigate. I'm the A-class hero twin tail " the clown said back, judging by the voice toru realized that this was a girl and she breathed a sigh of release knowing that this was a hero.

"Do you need any assistance? Are you injured?" twin tails asked

"No, no I'm fine." Toru said hesitantly standing up.

"Are you sure you were crying for sometime now." twin tail said, making toru wonder just how long this girl was here.

"No I'm fine, I'm a hero to umm invisible girl I mean spirit of light." Toru corrected herself.

"Oh the non killing army. But are you sure you're ok? Heroes don't normally cry for at least 30 minutes for a time would you like some assistance walking home " the clown girl remarked.

"No I thin-...you know what for sure." Toru said thinking she could use the distraction.

The two walked for sometime towards the station in mostly silence , twin tails had often offered a chance for toru to explain what happened with her and if she could offer some advice from one hero to another but toru mostly sidelined the conversation. Once they got into A-city however and she drew closer to meeting everyone her tune slightly changed and to better help the girl open up twin tail told her an interesting fact about herself, she told toru that she doesn't wear a blindfold because she's blind but because she has a rare condition called Hyperthymesia which allowed her to recall everything in great detail from her memory including sights, sounds, and smells. Toru thought that would be much more of a blessing than a curse but if she could remember everything that clearly then that would also be like remembering what just happened a few hours ago like it was still occurring and quickly forgo the thought, toru finally relented and simply told the her fellow hero that she hurt someone she cares about alot and holds immense guilt over it and as she assumed it was the most generic response to be received back. Although when she mentioned that if she thought it would have been better if she didn't act at all she immediately said no and twin tails assured her that the person would understand from that perspective.

The two made it to her home and twin tails bid her farewell although not without giving toru a peak of her eyes, they were an almost solid red with a clear white center. As toru entered into the house she was immediately rushed by mina and the rest of her classmates checking to see if she was ok, she had been gone two hours past the agreed time, apparently ojiro didn't tell them the whole truth of what happened and simply said that he was injured while fighting monsters instead and told them that toru had continued to fight with other heroes while he was in the hospital…her heart fluttered for a moment thinking that he was still trying to defend her but her brain told her that he most likely wanted to be the first one to yell at her with how angry he must be. Ojiro arrived an hour later and the class was completely surprised by what happened to his tail and wondered what happened although ojiro simply kept what happened vague enough to ward off all their questions but he did ask if toru got back before he did which they confirmed but the girl was nowhere to be found and ojiro could guess why but he played it off as her must being tired so it was best not to disturb her.

Everyone began to call it a day soon after that, going to their rooms even the people that would usually leave were staying in. Mina managed to get out of bakugo. That silver chain said that she wouldn't be meeting him and that he should rest up for their future sessions. After everyone went to bed, Ojiro waited an hour before he would approach Toru's door and knock on it. He had made sure to warn the girl that he was coming and given that his message was read he knew that she was still up. The door slightly tilted open and he was able to finally see the girl and was surprised that she had her makeup and stuff on, allowing him to see her face again. She didn't say any words to him, only opened the door enough for him to step inside, which he did before she closed it. He walked into the room as she remained by the door, her head lowered not meeting his eyes before he could say anything. She started first.

"I….I knew you would be mad…so…so when you inevitably approached me ….I ..I wanted you to actually see me and not seem like you're yelling at empty air. I'm….I'm ready. ``Toru remarked, clasping her hands together still with her head down, she felt ojiro getting closer to her and for a moment she thought that he was going to hit her and she would accept it she was ready, she braced herself when she could feel his breath on her but was surprised when he …..simply hugged her a nice strong hug that she simply didn't know how to react to.

"I'm not mad at you." ojiro said with a calm voice which was immediately contrasted by toru's broken one.

"But….but why I …I hurt you…I freaking cut off your tail because I was careless." toru tears already streaming down her face as she looked at the bandaged tail in question.

"You saved my life, that's all that matters." ojiro replied simply pushing her at arms length for a moment she still wouldn't meet his eyes as she continued to sob.

"But I could have done something different, something that wouldn't have hurt you. I saw the look on your face, the shock of what happened and what I did to you." Toru remarked but Ojiro angled the girl's face upwards so she would finally look him in the eyes.

"And I'm telling you it's ok, we can live in hypotheticals everyday but you still did the right thing. I'm here now because of you and that's all that matters. I was shocked obviously but when I looked at you I wasn't shocked at what you did I was shocked at you. I actually saw you for the very first time and I was stunned, I almost didn't believe it when I smacked your hand away. It was because I thought it was something else but when I realized it was you I regretted what I did." ojiro said earnestly, looking the girl in the eyes, rubbing the tears away with his thumb.

"Be…be that as it may…you're not completely here." Toru said still in a downcasted voice as she ran hand along his tail. Ojiro thought about it for a moment before getting an Idea.

"That may not be entirely true, go sit on the bed alright?" ojiro asked and toru merely obliged.

" You'll be the first person I've ever shown this to other than bang of course" ojiro said, getting into a stance before taking a deep breath using the phantom pain from his tail to fuel the transformation, soon enough behind him sprouted another tail completely like his old one. Toru gasped out loud at the result and ojiro grinned knowing that it worked.

"That's not all. Watch this." ojiro said simply as he unwrapped the bandages around his damaged tail making toru wince and sadden more at how it looked but soon after that tail seemingly disappeared along being absorbed inside of ojiro himself leaving only the normal one out again that he showed in front of him.

"See good as new." ojiro said with a smile, toru was so taken back by everything that she lost her voice but she immediately went up to and hugged the teen still repeatedly saying sorry for what she did.

"As I said, it's ok… I know that you wouldn't do anything to purposely hurt me just like I wouldn't do anything to hurt you because I….because I love you. ``Ojiro said, making the girl look up at him again, the girl was stunned by the confession, her heart tightening itself into a knot while her emotions went on the ultimate high after feeling the ultimate low in her life. The two shared a passionate kiss that swept them from the center of the room into the bed, unlike uraraka who had gotten a larger bed, toru still had the smaller one "forcing" them to cuddle each other to fit completely ojiro's tail wrapping around the girls waist up to behind her head. They broke apart for one moment as ojiro asked.

"Do you love me as well?" he said, trying to lighten the mood a little, which worked as toru let out a small chuckle.

"yes…I love you." Toru said as she continued to kiss the teen, after another moment they ended and spooned with each other on the bed. Ojiro felt a sudden wave of exhaustion hit him at once which he assumed was his body attempting to repair his damaged tail, toru was also hit by a wave of exhaustion but hers brought upon by the emotional roller coaster she had been on all day. The new couple drifted off in a peaceful slumber for the night along with the rest of 1A.

This chapter could have easily been 40k words if wrote out everything that I wanted to, which would have included scenes with the mediocre group, the adventures of the other groups fighting monsters, more sero/Jackie moments, and more fleshed out ojiro/toru at the end as I think it may have been a bit rushed? kinda and fan mail was supposed to be apart of this as well but decided to move it forwards a chapter. this also would have been the last chapter of the year and good send off with a special moment...now year just ends with preparation for the MA raid.

whelp until December everyone and don't forget to keep an eye out on the notes their, oh and don't forget to have a great thanksgiving! or at the very least I hope everyone has a great meal tomorrow.