Smoke 11

Harry seized the initiative "Right, be honest with me…What did the Heroes do well? What did they fail to do? Who was the MVP of the Heroes?" Uraraka looked at Harry with suspicion, he'd kicked her in the diaphragm and broke her nose! Yet here he was conducting a debrief starting with them.

"Potter, I would say that the Heroes had accurately deduced the modus operandi of the villain team, Midoriya played a good but extremely risky strategy in using himself as bait against Bakugo. However, Uraraka…I'm sorry didn't necessarily contribute much to the initial planning although she did point out the chance that they'd be going into a match with the villains having an upper hand. Midoriya on the other hand, his emotions got the better of him but he did make a very good but flimsy plan allowing Uraraka to try and take the bomb. I would like to say more but I have a feeling that it would become insensitive but for the MVP for the Heroes…probably Uraraka for willingly going into a potentially handicapped situation, I am guessing you were going to try and use your quirk to turn one of them weightless and grab the bomb that way?"

Uraraka nodded, Yaoyorozu paused "Because of that selflessness, I'd say Uraraka is the MVP."

All Might was sweating, young Yaoyorozu was smart! "Now, the villains?"

Surprisingly it was Kirishima who stuck his hand up "Potter was able to manipulate the fight to achieve his own ends, whilst effectively dealing with Iida. I think it was super unmanly, but why the hell did you have to do that?"

Harry smirked at Kirishima but kept silent, meanwhile Ashido spoke up "The villains, did manage to solve their teamwork…although I question the ability of Potter to control Bakugo because it appeared Bakugo walked all over Potter. As for failing to do something…I'm not sure, aside from…taking out their teammate and getting rid of the third man. Although, Potter…were you playing with Uraraka-chan?"

"I was." The silence was deafening.

"Young Potter, please, explain why you decided it was necessary to play with young Uraraka and your…heavy handed beatdown of her." All Might asked, he knew his other protege was capable and he'd demonstrated it.

"If I stopped playing, she'd be dead. I say this not out of arrogance or any sort of ego…I could take on all of you and win."

"That's an…impressive claim of ill omen, Potter." Tokoyami stated.

"Kero, I find that hard to believe, kero. Not saying that I don't believe you, kero, but, I'd want to see some proof kero." Asui croaked.

Harry turned to the frog-themed girl "I like your style." He replied causing her to blush "To question my claims and ask for proof…okay… I'll run it by Aizawa, to make this thing official. I heard the red-clad hero moaning about Aizawa having an 'additional person in his class and calling it favortism'."

"That would be Vlad-King."

Harry groaned "Right, in order to 'claim deniability of favouritism' invite the other class and I'll kick them in as well. Might ACTUALLY be a decent measure."

"Now, I find that hard to believe you could take 40 Hero students." Mineta screeched "You didn't treat the heroes fairly or cleanly."

Harry turned to the purple-clad teen "I was playing a villain, I was tasked to be a villain. I don't give a fuck if you have dick and balls between your legs or not. You step into a villain scenario you are either Hero or Villain, one of you is going down and the other is getting away…we're training to be heroes. Sex, Gender, Sexuality and everything that's important to your identity is secondary; no villain is going to treat you any differently if your woman or man."

Hagakure chimed in "I did think Potter, detonating the bomb was cool trick. Potter, was that intentional? I thought the win conditions for the villains was to stop the heroes."

"It was."

Uraraka spoke "The villains self-destructed, you lost your shit with Bakugo when he blew the wall out of the building…and…in response to Bakugo not fully understanding or deliberately misinterpreting your instructions cause mass collateral damage, jeopardising the safety of the bomb and when I arrived to grab the bomb; you dealt with me and detonated the bomb before vanishing. Flipping the script back to Villains stopping the Heroes by any means necessary."

Harry nodded "I thought there was a reason why you're one of the less irritating members of this class."

Uraraka blushed at that "I still think you're an absolute…I forgot the word but it began with t and was meant as a reference to a woman's parts."

"Twat…yeah, I'd accept that. Good use of the word by the way, although was expecting something much worse."

"Potter-Shonen, you're sure your okay with the nicknames? I mean…" All Might began.

"All Might…I…really couldn't care less. Names are, well, names. I…only care about the actions taken. Now we're wasting time."

Harry's next match surprisingly was with Todoroki and Shouji. Harry had no time to even formulate a plan of action as Todoroki walked right into the building and froze it. Harry was thankful that this was the last match of the day, he was cranky; he wanted a smoke and quite frankly Todoroki pissed him off.

The debriefings had been handled, before, Harry finally spoke "All of you, who, rate Todoroki Shoto for 'how cool he is', 'how powerful his quirk is' and 'how well he handled that scenario'...correct?"

"Are you jealous, Potter-san? Jealous that Todoroki did the exact same thing that…" Yaoyorozu began.

Harry's eyes flashed, flames and smoke burst from him "Never accuse me of jealousy. Yes, well done Todoroki for stopping the bomb…however, he DIDN'T STOP AND THINK! He fucking froze his own comrade in a straight up pique of rage and didn't even tell him to move; then there was the fact that he wasn't constantly checking for developments in the building…What about the device? How the fuck did he know that him freezing out the device would have ensured it's deactivation or forced it to detonate. Inside a bomb is a lot of heat, especially in the circuits…add cold air, cold air rises and then all it takes is for one small drop of water to detonate the bomb."

"I'd like to know…how…you know that." All Might replied.

"My Chemistry/Heroic Support Development Teacher…absolute wanker by the way; kicked his head in…literally before I came here. He's the most pathetic greasy haired and sallow-faced shit on the planet; hates me because my dad hooked up with my mom and my dad bullied him. When, I see him again…I'll finish it."

"You realise that sounds villainous, why can't you avoid him? Or get another teacher to do something."

"Tried that. All the teachers either don't believe me or are sucking or fucking the Headmaster who TRUSTS he's changed. Yeah, I did learn something…underneath the blatant insults and curses towards me. God I'd love to introduce him to my Finisher. So, yeah, Yaoyorozu…your precious Todoroki got everyone killed."

"Like you wouldn't have."

"I was a VILLIAN. Kicking kittens, drinking the blood of babies and doing other things is PART of the DESCRIPTION. Fucking hell, you guys really can't make a convincing argument about what's heroic and villainous when you class everything as one or the other…Look, I'm done. I'm going home and finding solace in the bottom of a six-pack."

All Might nodded and dismissed the class. Harry was the first one into the locker-room, he peeled off his suit and shoved it into his bag as Todoroki entered. "Potter."

"Todoroki." Harry pulled on his shirt and caught the two-toned teen still looking at him "Can I help you with something?"

"I…want to apologise. My behaviour it was, it is, unbecoming…"

"No worries, look, Todoroki…I know this will come across poorly in Japan…but I would rather see you demonstrate the change in behaviour, rather than your oath that you will change."

Todoroki nodded "Understood. You did very well today, and, you surprised me. I've not had anyone react the way you did to my actions ever."

Harry looked at the teen "You wield ice…and…I'm going to guess fire…something shit at home?"

Todoroki nodded "My father, is the Number 2 Hero, in Japan is Endeavour."

Harry nodded "Well, fuck Endeavour, and, fuck your father, it's you whose here. Now, you can either be a half-assed hero who coasts through using his ice until someone dies on your watch and you're effectively shunned from heroics; or, you can use YOUR flames as well as YOUR ice and you can flip Endeavour, the middle finger, off as you climb to greater heights than he ever could."

Todoroki chuckled "Respect and obedience don't come easily does it?"

"Nope. Show me some respect and treat me with respect and it's returned. I'd much rather kick you in the balls and hit you with a brick to even the odds. Anyway, I'm going home and getting drunk."

That day after school, Harry had entered his apartment; knocked on the closest wall to inform Sirius, that he was home. Sirius, had, at some point; stumbled and stuttered as he had asked the single mother out. He plopped his bag down on the kitchen table, before heading to the fridge and getting a beer before he started his homework.

He'd been falling out of sorts since the end of the day. Popping the tab, Harry pulled out his laptop and got to work; when he'd first gotten one, he'd cried in relief. Hogwarts was notoriously resilient against change; they'd only just got something akin to radiators in. They'd been mainly using woodfires.

Harry, quickly finished his homework. His English homework had been a fun; it had been to do a 1500word summary of 'Charles Dickens Tale of Two Cities'; Harry had dutifully done it in English before redoing it in Japanese. This had been an arrangement made between Present Mic and him.

Homework done, and three beers consumed, Harry finally got started on his homework. He put the radio on, when there was a knock on the front door. Harry turned and trudged to it, outside was Kyoka. "You left right after the bell rang…several people wanted to talk to you; Harry…are you stringing me along?"

Harry cocked his head "First of all 'hi', second 'Come in, come in' and thirdly 'Slow down, slow down. Might be good at Japanese, but, you're flustered so I'm lost.'"

Kyoka looked like she was about to combust in rage "Hi. Thanks. What's happening with you? Yaoyorozu, Ashido, Asui, Mezo and Tokoyami wanted to chat with you. I was waiting to walk with you, when, I saw Midoriya talking to you…enhanced hearing, don't lie. On an unrelated note you've seriously rude, to us Japanese, or at least inconsiderate and or dismissive. Then there was my question about you stringing me along."

Harry nodded "Reacted badly to Yaoyorozu's comments, what did they want to talk about? Fair enough…you were meant to. How so? And was the woman blue of hair, stacked in the chest and acted like an utter ditz? Furthermore, was there a redhead with her?"

Kyoka paused, it made sense. Since she'd gotten together with Harry; she'd been talking to Katie more often. It appeared, Harry hadn't been keeping up with the end of his bargain of remaining in contact with her. Katie Bell, evidently liked her Boyfriend or liked him enough to respect his desire to restrict his conversations to just her. Katie had informed her that she enjoyed leaking Harry's activities to Angelina and Alicia whom then began to pass them around the school. "They wanted to know if they were able to talk to you, for advice on the Heroics Essay, Heroes were meant to do a 2000-word essay on another Villain Team and vice versa. Also, I know you didn't mean to but you should have waited for Yaoyorozu to apologise to her formally for what happened to the lesson, and yes…Do you even…" Kyoka began to scream.

Harry silenced her by place a finger on her lips "Do you want a beer?"

"Not before you answer the question."

"It's a question best done with alcohol. It's complicated."

Kyoka's eyes narrowed "You had better be honest about this."

"You willing to listen?"

Kyoka nodded and soon enough she was drinking from an Asahi bottle "Right…I arrived here, towards the end of your middle school year. So I spent most of my time in the Library and Gym, learning my quirk and everything else; anyway, one day I'm eating my lunch in the hall and three second-years join me and quite frankly don't leave me alone. Then they made me an offer 'they tutor me and they train me and in return, I help with their English.' So I agreed, but that small group became the returning Second-Year Gen-Ed, Support and Business students. As for the Red-Head she's, Hado-Sempais's, the Bluennette's, Girlfriend."

"You're right…that is confusing. So are you still willing to help us?"

Harry nodded "I've done it, I'll help…" And that was how Harry spent that evening. It was getting on for eight in the evening before Harry and Kyoka finally got comfortable on the sofa, Harry grabbed two controllers "Ready to get your ass-whooped?"

"Hero Fighter VIII? On."