Alo all! Welcome back to another chapter of "What the hell is wrong with Midoriya this time?"

I kid, but welcome once again to another chapter of 'Bearer of the Light'. I hope you guys enjoy this chapter, as honestly, it was a little hard to write this one... the last couple of days have not been the best and the muse decided to say 'fuck it'.

So a couple of announcements and background stuff before we get to the reviews:

Firstly, this story has hit over 38k views on FFN as of writing this, with almost 550 followers and 400 favorites...(we hit 2.5k views in a single day when chapter 15 was released) and in all honestly, HOLY SHIT! I cannot thank you guys for the support and for giving me the drive to continue writing this story. Not saying I was losing interest... hardly... it's just RL tends to kick people in the balls and prevent things from happening. Still, the support from all of you has been great, and please keep enjoying reading this story as well as leave feedback!

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Now, big announcement, some sad news, and some good news...

The sad news being is that the next chapter is going to take longer than the typical "weekly" schedule I've been keeping myself to. It sucks I know, but read on and the reason makes sense.

The good news, as stated, is that the next chapter IS going to be dealing with the USJ... which means it's gonna be a big one. How big you ask? Well... three chapters worth at the very least. Things are gonna get crazy for Class 1-A and their Cinnamon Roll of Light, and even more, will be revealed. Also I'm having the USJ story beta read by a good buddy of mine, just to make sure it flows well.

Afterward, it's going to be the lead-up to the Sports Festival, but not in two weeks' time... no no... Our favorite students will have two months to prepare, and this would include many specialized chapters focusing on the growing relations within the class (even ones not focusing on Izuku *le gasp*) So yea, be prepared for that.

Also, dunno about you guys, but did anyone hear a "Kweh" just now?... no?... must be my imagination.

Anyway, onto the reviews (FFN)-

Qwho: Nothing but :D

Silvanium: Bits and pieces, you'd think he'd be having more of those, but for some reason, it's all jimmy-jammed... hmm...

and yes, they should be worried :D

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Xero LotCN: No idea ;D, and OFA's changes will make some kind of sense in terms of what it will do for Izuku, but again, won't happen until after the USJ.

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Chapter 16
Pacts and Warning Signs

While most of the residents within the class 1-A dorms couldn't feel it, there was a certain tension in the air once the quirk study session had started that afternoon. Mainly, it wasn't felt until Izuku had come out of the elevator with a few dozen notepads and had sat down with the boys of the class that both Momo and Kyoka would notice the change.

For Momo, it was more confusing than anything else. She would have thought Izuku would sit between the two groups to better explain things within the notes he had made. But she did notice that whenever he looked over to the small gathering of women, Izuku would blush profoundly and go back to speaking with the boys and avoiding looking over at them again for a while.

Perhaps it was from what he wrote within the teal notebook that was causing him to be like this? When Momo had read her updated entry, she blushed at just how honest he was within his notes, praising her quirk and the applications she could do with it, plus even in the ways it could be counteracted, or herself were almost flattering to the heiress.

From time to time, whenever her blushing crush would steal a glance over to their side of the table, Momo would offer a small wave and a gentle smile that he did return with a smile of his own before being pulled back into the conversation amongst the boys.

While Momo seemed to take this sort of reaction in stride as another example of Izuku's usual timidness. The girl sitting beside her did not.

No, Kyoka was frowning at the way Izuku was acting. Could it be his usual timidness? Sure, it was nothing new that Izuku had some issues regarding people and the opposite sex, and given what the girls knew now, it totally made sense. But unlike the beautiful raven-haired woman beside her, Kyoka could also hear his heart beating irregularly at certain times he would look over to their side of the table. When he did, Kyoka could hear the most sickenly sweet and sultry sounding giggle coming out of one Mina Ashido.

Shifting her gaze over to the pink girl, Kyoka could see that Mina just smiled and stared at their mutual green-haired friend, but the look she was giving him was far from innocent. Mina looked at him as a predator would a meal, giving the punk rocker many 'red flags'. Eventually, Kyoka sighed and stood up from her chair, keeping her frown as she felt the gaze of Momo look at her, "Kyoka? Is something the matter?"

Turning to her friend with a gentle but fake smile, Kyoka spoke softly so only Momo could hear, "Yea, I just remembered I had a load of laundry I need to switch over."

Momo nodded and turned back her focus towards Izuku, waving his hands around and apologizing to Koda about something, and the other soft-spoken boy was doing the same while the raven-haired girl giggled at the display. Kyoka had seen this as well and sighed gently, shaking her head with a bit of smirk at the antics as well before turning her attention back to the 'problem' at hand.

A firm hand gripped Mina's shoulder that knocked her out of her 'Midori watching'; she then looked up to see the very knowable frown of her favorite musician looking down at her. Mina silently gulped as the hand on her shoulder tightened slightly, "W-what can I help you with, Kyoka?"

"You wanted to use the washer after I switched over, right? Might as well do that now before you forget." Kyoka said and patted Mina's shoulder as if to tell her to hurry up. Mina sighed and rolled her eyes once the rocker was gone and grumbled under her breath; considering the look in Kyoka's eyes, she was not taking 'no' for an answer.

"What did you do?" Kyoka asked as she leaned against the women's laundry room's closed door, arms crossed and staring down Mina. The latter was resting against one of the washers with an uncharacteristic scowl and her arms resting behind her on the machine.

A few moments of silence went by before the pink girl answered her friend, "I have no idea what you are-" "Bullshit, you don't." Kyoka interrupted with a snarl that made Mina flinch for a moment before pouting and crossing her arms in front of her body, pushing up her chest as she did so.

"I know you're lying, Mina… even if I couldn't hear your heartbeat, I know something happened between you and Izuku that's now made him more a nervous wreck than ever. So I will ask again, What. Did. You. Do?"

Both girls now stared at one another, both unrelenting, until one of them broke and lost their resolve. Of course, it was Mina who did with a heavy sigh and an overdramatic 'fine', rolling her eyes as she pushed off of the washing machine, "Alright so, you know how Mamadoriya asked me to go and make sure Izuku was awake?"

Kyoka nodded, staying quiet to listen to the story, scowl still on her face as Mina continued, "So, I went up to his room, knocked on it a couple times and even called his name out… got no response, and then I realized his door was unlocked, so I went in nice and quiet-"

"Oh god, you didn't." Kyoka's eyes went wide, her cheeks went flush with a pink hue, imagining what was coming up next, but that was dismissed with a 'pfft' coming from the storyteller.

"Nah, I mean, if he WAS still asleep, I'd have crawled in with him and snuggled close. I wouldn't do anything!... but you gotta admit that he was very comfy when we had that huge cuddle pile last week after he told us about… the stuff." Mina spoke in a somber tone, and both girls' expressions fell slightly at the mention of that talk's contents. Still, the pink-haired girl kept spinning her tale, "So, yea… he was up already and taking a shower, and I figured I'd give him a little surprise. So, I climbed up onto his bed, rested myself against the wall, and just waited until he noticed me."

"He DID notice you… right?" Kyoka asked, blinking and the scowl on her face gone now as she listened to Mina's recollection.

"He actually didn't at first, it wasn't until he asked a question out loud, and I answered him did he notice I was there… and GIRL! Let me tell you… Izuku wearing only a towel around his waist… WHEW!" Mina fanned herself as if to sell the point home, which obviously did as Kyoka's face changed to that of a christmas light with how red it was.

"So, I asked him where the notebook for us was, and he stammered out it was on the desk. So I grabbed it and began to read my own entry to save time, you know?" Mina shrugged as Kyoka moved away from the door to listen closer without her friend talking as loud, figuring this was getting to the root of the problem, "And honestly, the things he wrote in there… you can't blame a girl for what I did…"

Kyoka looked at her, seeing the lilac blush on Mina's cheeks slowly forming and the punk rocker put two and two together, sighing and leaning back on her right foot, a hand on her hips, "So, what? Did you kiss him?"

"Oh no, nothing like that… I was teasing a little more… sensually… than I normally would with him. Basically, I pressed my body into his, all the while telling him what I heard in the bathroom and who he was maybe thinking of while he was doing 'that' in there…" Mina said with a purr to her voice as Kyoka's blush returned with a vengeance at the implication.

"After that, I gave him a nip on his earlobe and then started to head to the door, and that's when something magical happened."

"Something 'magical'?"

"Yep!" Mina said with a popping sound on the 'p' for emphasis, her cheeks growing darker in lilac, "Izuku grabbed hold of me from behind, wrapped one arm around my stomach while taking my free hand with his other one… Kyoka, he didn't deny it… at ALL, he mentioned… " Mina was getting a little hot in the collar, fanning herself as Kyoka gulped in anxiousness.

"He mentioned he wasn't just thinking of whoever set him off earlier, he was thinking of all of us… and to drive that point home, he kept talking about me while kissing my neck and shoulder, nipping at my ear! And Kyoka, I practically gave into him! How could I not? he was holding me so tightly against his body, and his hips were right up against my butt! Hell, his 'thing' was in between my cheeks and hoooooly shit… If he hadn't pulled away… I don't think we'd leave that room for a while…"

That little tidbit hung in the air as both of the girls blushed, though Mina was looking down and away, holding her arm with her hand, "S-so… yea… that's what happened…"

At first, Kyoka stared incredulously at Mina, the look in her eyes basically telling the pink girl that she didn't believe a word she had said. Granted, she had a good reason as they were talking about Izuku, the one guy who would stutter and blush at the slightest contact with women while also unknowingly flirting when he was just honest with his feelings.

But Kyoka knew that Mina wasn't lying, given the fact that she could hear her heartbeat, and she knew Mina's pretty well from their close friendship. She was about to ask Mina what he had told her when she realized that the pink girl had said something important, "Hold on, you said 'he wasn't just thinking of whoever set him off'... what the hell is that supposed to mean?"

Mina looked away, finding the ceiling more interesting than looking at her punk rocker friend. She spoke, "Well… going by how honest he usually is… he was thinking about all of us… maybe some of us? I dunno, but I can at least think of four women that come to mind."

"F-f-four?!" Kyoka squeaked, her pupils shrank as the very idea of Izuku thinking about her in that light while her cheeks went rosy. It couldn't have been her, she was petite compared to the rest of the girls, and Kyoka felt she had no sex appeal when she looked at herself and how in the world would-

"OW! What was that for?!" Kyoka exclaimed after getting flicked in the forehead by Mina, who was now frowning and pouting at her.

"None of that, Kyoka Jiro! I told you before, as have Setsuna and Momo, and heck, even Izuku has said you're cute and beautiful! So stop it." The pink girl said with finality in her voice, crossing her arms over her chest, "I may have curves for days, but a lot of people are turned off by the eyes and skin; even my cute horns make them think of me differently!... and let's not get even started when they find out what my quirk is… ugh, assholes." Mina huffed and looked away and had missed the look of sadness her friend gave her.

While it was very accurate that Mina was a social butterfly, often able to befriend people or bring the energy or mood of a room up several notches, Kyoka also knew from their time in middle school that her mutation and her quirk did earn some discrimination and bullying. The punk rocker sighed gently, deciding they needed a change of subject, "So, who WAS the one that 'set him off'?"

"That would have been me probably, kero."

Both Mina and Kyoka whipped their heads towards the now shut door with Tsuyu standing before them; her usually stoic face was present as she walked forward as if she hadn't dropped a bomb like she just did. Kyoka blinked at the frog girl, who was now bent down and pulling things from the washer, "Ts-Tsu…. How much did you hear?"

Tsuyu walked with her wet bedsheets and covers towards the dryer between the two girls, who moved to give her room as she replied, "Since Mina began her story of how she practically threw herself at Izuku, kero, and how he turned the tables on her, where she almost succumbed and broke the pact." Tsuyu turned to look pointedly at Mina, who was whistling and looking away from her friend's cold stare.

"Hold on, Pact? What pact?" Kyoka raised an eyebrow now at both of them, silence filling the room before Tsuyu sighed and finished setting the dryer with her wet laundry inside. Once that was done, Tsuyu looked back to Kyoka.

"Kero, you remember when I basically told my intentions for Izuku back on the first day?" Tsuyu asked as the punk girl nodded her head, arms crossed over her chest as she listened to Tsuyu's explanation, "Well, after what happened last week and after the huge cuddle pile, I realized that I wasn't the only one who was attracted to Izuku. You, Mina, Momo, and myself…"

Kyoka blushed at the mention of her in the grouping but was able to stammer out a question, "W-what? B-but what about Ochako and Toru? T-they have been getting close to Izuku as well."

"Ochako sees Izuku more like a friend, I think… that, and she has been blushing more when she and Kirishima are talking ever since they got paired up at the battle trials, kero." Tsuyu said with a tilt of her head, and her tongue stuck out a little.

"Oh my god, it was so hilarious when Ochako used Kiri to send Mineta flying out of the building." Mina giggled loudly in pure glee, not only from the memory but also the possible ways to hook up the two. She finished and cleared her throat, "And as for Toru, she still finds Izuku a little intimidating… plus she's been fairly chummy with Yuga lately."

"Anyway," Tsuyu interrupted, "Later that night, I had decided that maybe there was a way that everyone can be happy, kero, as it stands, Izuku would be forced to choose one, and that could be disastrous."

"Disastrous, how?"

"Come on, Kyo… you know how Izuku is." Mina said with a soft but sad smile, "He wouldn't want any of us to get hurt, so he probably just won't choose at all…"

Kyoka looked to both Mina and Tsuyu after she had said that, and truth be told, it's precisely what Izuku would do. He'd sacrifice his own happiness just so he wouldn't hurt anyone else's feelings. Tapping her jacks together in thought, Tsuyu caught her attention with a soft kero, "So, I went to Mina and told her my idea that I had, and we've been working out the details and were supposed to be subtle about our attraction towards him." Tsuyu said, looking towards Mina, who stuck her tongue out defiantly at her.

"It's not my fault that he went all 'alpha male' with his flirting! I don't even think Momo or Kyoka would be able to resist him like that!" Mina defended as Kyoka's blush returned full force, tapping her jacks together and trying to keep those thoughts of Izuku manhandling her similar to what he did to Mina out of her mind.

"Honestly, I'm shocked Momo hasn't already claimed Izuku with how defensive she gets when another girl tries to openly flirt with him or just talk with him in general." Tsuyu said while looking between the other two girls.

Kyoka sighed gently and rubbed the bridge of her nose, "Momo reads too many romance novels and thinks that Izuku should be the one to ask her out first, similar to how a knight in shining armor courts a princess."

"I mean… from what Setsuna told us, he literally saved her and Momo from being crushed by a large boulder in his Paladin kit thingy and then offered his hand out to them and asked if they were alright… He literally was her 'knight in shining armor'." Mina continued as Tsuyu nodded gently, thinking of what to do with the heiress now.

"Regardless, the plan was to subtly give him hints of our attraction for him… hugs, chaste kisses on the cheek… things like that. It's obvious that Izuku hasn't had much or ANY positive physical contact outside of his mother; we shouldn't rush things while also having him get used to these sorts of interactions." Tsuyu continued to explain, her finger on her cheek as her vacant-looking eyes looked at Kyoka.

"So, what does this all lead up to? You said that there was a way for all of us to be happy."

"There is, and I've seen it work quite well, kero." Tsuyu said as she straightened up slightly as if to get comfortable for what she was about to say, "It's called a Polyamorous relationship. Basically, it's where a group of people doesn't just date one person, but each other."

Kyoka looked stunned at the frog girl, trying to comprehend how that would exactly work, and was staring out into space as she thought of the other implications that would come about. Tsuyu seeing her friend look more and more confused as the seconds passed, suddenly croaked to get her attention again, "To put it simply, instead of all of us just dating Izuku, we'd all be dating each other equally… well to a degree."

"To a degree?" asked the still, somewhat confused rocker.

"Mina already told me she was bisexual, as were you." Tsuyu bluntly stated, which caused Kyoka to glare at Mina, who was staying quiet and simply waved at her, "But I am straight, so while you both could date one another and have an intimate relationship within the group, kero, when it comes to me, I'd rather be just intimate with Izuku, but wouldn't be adverse to going on 'dates' with either one of you, kero…to help build up that bond, but sex? That would take some getting used to… at least for now."

"Exactly, and we wouldn't force that on you." Mina spoke up, hugging Tsuyu with one arm while looking at Kyoka, smiling brightly, "And if anyone else wants to date either of Izuku or us, then they would need to know we are a package deal." Mina's smile faded slightly into a soft smirk, "And we were going to let you know this sooner than later; in fact, we were going to discuss that later today after the study session… but now is as good a time as any."

Moving her arm from Tsuyu, Mina walked up to Kyoka and gently took her hands into her own, "I'll admit it's different, and I won't lie and say I'm nervous it could all blow up in our faces… but I honestly don't want anyone to get left behind or hurt… "

"The hurt part, especially when it comes to Izuku, he's had it rough for too long, kero." Tsuyu spoke up and walked towards the other two, placing her slightly larger hands on top of theirs, her vacant looking eyes shifting back and forth before looking at Kyoka, "Well, what do you think, Kyoka?"

The punk rocker looked at both the hopeful looks on her friends' faces; well, Tsuyu's had looked somewhat more optimistic than how her usually emotionless face showed. Her dark purple eyes then looked away as she slowly moved her hands out of Mina's and Tsuyu's grip and began to twirl a jack around her finger and began to think to herself.

While the idea of sharing Izuku between the girls was an odd idea of itself to Kyoka, it wasn't uncommon of a relationship as the punk rocker had heard of similar ones before. And it wasn't exclusive to just Izuku, she could possibly date the other girls as well if she so wanted to, and that wasn't a bad thing in its own right… Hell, that fixed one of the significant issues she was having, choosing between Momo and Izuku, but now she could have them both!

"Fine, I'm in." Kyoka stopped playing with her jack and placed a hand on her hip, "But we need to set some ground rules, so we don't take it too far or jump him."

"There are, but we should go over them and revise them later, kero." Tsuyu spoke as she turned and headed towards the door, but turned back to look at her friends/accomplices, "Because I'll be blunt, as I usually am... when I kissed Izuku last night, kero, it took all of my willpower to not push him onto his bed and try to make a couple of 'tadpoles' together."

Seeing the agape mouths and shocked eyes of Mina and Kyoka, Tsuyu gave them a sweet sort of smile like what she just said was completely normal, "Kero, nothing wrong in trying to bring the future a little closer to the present, right? I'm a frog with needs, and one of those needs is the man that tastes like cinnamon." Tsuyu turned away and went through the now open door, leaving the two other girls stunned still.

A few brief moments passed before Mina finally spoke up, "... remind me never to get in her way when that time comes…" and Kyoka slowly nodded before they, too, left the laundry room and headed back to the dining area to continue the quirk study session, all the while thinking one thing.

'Frogs are scary.'

As the three returned to the dining room, they all stopped and were somewhat shocked to see two new additions to the group. The first one was a shorter brown-haired girl who was politely, albeit shyly, speaking with Ochako. There were two interesting things about her.

Her hair looked like that of a mushroom top, and it bopped as she shifted her head slightly; despite it covering her eyes, one could quickly tell where she was generally looking at. It was Tsuyu who noticed from the subtle shifts of her hair that the new girl had kept stealing glances towards Izuku and, with a soft but deep croak in her throat, had a feeling where that was heading.

The new girl's other unique thing was her clothes, as it was a very stylish and frilly dress with soft pastel colors. The style screamed 'lolita', and the way she sat was like that of one of those old porcelain dolls, with her legs gently swaying underneath her and her hands resting in her lap.

The other person, if one could call her that at the moment, was a face that both Mina and Kyoka recognized instantly, where the pink-haired girl began to smile in glee and the punk rocker groaning over the fact she felt another headache starting to come as resting atop of Izuku's fluffy hair was the detached head of Setsuna Tokage.

Izuku was blushing hard as Setsuna kept nuzzling her head against his scalp, like a bird roosting in a messy sort of nest, which also didn't help the fact that since their hair color was almost the same in pigment, that it looked like the freckled boy had long flowing hair instead of his usual mess of curls.

And in Kyoka's opinion, it didn't look half bad.

The other guys tried to hide their snickers when Setsuna shifted her head and covered Izuku's face, which startled him out of his inner thoughts. With a sharp tooth grin, similar to Kirishima's, Setsuna hurtled her head towards the newly arrived trio, lightly jamming her head into Mina's chest, and then looked up, "I was wondering where my teasing buddy went off to!"

"Suna!" Mina exclaimed and snuggled the head, "It's been so long! How's 1-B doing?"

Pulling her face out of Mina's chest again, Setsuna huffed some hair out of her face and smiled widely, "It's going alright… Vlad King is a bit of a stick in the mud, but he's a good teacher. I'd give you all big ol' hugs, but my body is still sore from heroics class yesterday, hence why I'm just a head at the moment." The head spun slightly in Mina's arms to look at Kyoka, "Heya Jacks, keeping cute as per the usual I see!"

Kyoka merely stammered and looked away, tapping said jacks together while she was blushing. Setsuna cackled loudly before shifting her gaze towards Tsuyu, who simply was watching the antics happen before her. The head lifted itself from Mina's grasp and floated in front of the frog girl, "Oh? And who is this new cutie?"

"Tsuyu Asui, but you can call me Tsu, kero."

Setsuna gasped at the response, stars in her eyes before the look of surprise shifted into one that looked much better on a predator finding its next meal, "Oooh, she's adorable! I just wanna eat her up!"

Tsuyu slowly moved behind Mina a little, letting out a squeak of a croak from her throat, "I'd rather not be eaten at all, thank you." as all she said that sent the disembodied head to cackle once again, which was followed by a giggle by Mina.

"So what brings you here, Suna?" Mina asked as the floating head started to calm down.

"Eh, I was hoping to catch green bean to do our usual stuff, but also show one of my new buds around the campus." Setsuna gestured towards the girl in the frilly dress, "I kinda promised her I would and figured, why not go see you guys while doing it and introduce ya to one another."

"And I take it she's already talked to Green, hence why she's sitting so far from him?" Kyoka asked as her jack pointed towards said shy girl giggling along with Ochako and a now bouncing Toru beside the gravity user.

With a shake of her head, Setsuna sighed gently as she continued to look at her friend, "Nah, Kinoko's been avoiding him, and the rest of the boys in general now that I think about it… she does the same in our class as well, so baby steps, like we do with Izuku.'' Once saying that, Setsuna shifted back to the three other girls and froze when she saw their crestfallen looks, "Hey, you three alright?"

The three girls looked between one another, their sullen faces a stark contrast to what Setsuna was used to seeing, which meant something bad had happened. Mina gently wiggled her finger to have the floating head come closer to whisper something when chaos erupted with the sudden appearance of a very loud blonde.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE?!"

Everyone flinched when an irate-looking Bakugo stomped over, his red eyes ablaze from the light above the dining table. The blonde bomber was wearing a simple black tank top with red shorts and black sneakers, a towel hung around his neck with the ends resting against his chest. The air was filled with the slight scent of sweat as it was clear that Bakugo had finished doing his workout.

It was no secret that once his arms were fully healed that he had spent most of the time working out by himself, at least for most of the time. Kirishima and a couple of the other boys had made attempts to be friendly with him, albeit with not much success.

Once Bakugo was close enough, he 'tsked' when he saw a few of his classmates were looking in Izuku's notebooks. His eyes scanned over the others, frowning when he saw the girls' intense glare, internally he wondered what the hell their problem was.

"You think that looking through Deku's notes is going to give you an edge or one-up me? HA! None of you extra's have got what it takes. I'm reaching for the top, and none of you will ever be better than me or my quirk."

He grinned smugly at all the responses he got from the rest of the class, many protests from the guys, and an odd challenge from Kirishima. His sights then went to Izuku, whose eyes had been covered by his curly hair. Good, the nerd may have finally realized his place. With this in mind, Bakugo began to head towards the stairs, the arguments to his claims dying down as he placed his foot on the first step.

"Your quirk isn't all that great."

A deathly silence filled the room as everyone. However, Bakugo slowly turned their heads toward the one who said it, the green-haired boy whose head was still tilted downward and eyes still shadowed by his hair.

"What was that shitty Deku? Got something to say?" Bakugo growled low as he slowly turned around, a hand raised up with a few sparks and pops of tiny explosions going off as a warning to Izuku. However, to the shock of everyone, even Bakugo, the response to the threat was a mere chuckle and shaking of the green-haired boy's head, who slowly got up from his seat and began to walk towards the blonde, his eyes hidden in shadow as he did so.

"You must be more hard of hearing than I assumed, so let me repeat what I said nice and slowly…" Izuku said with a coldness to his voice as he stopped just short of a foot away from Bakugo, who blinked once Izuku's eyes were revealed to him. Red eyes met with the other boy's emerald ones' odd coloration as there was a difference to them. The difference being of a more orangey hue around the edges of his irises and the way he was staring at Bakugo was more calculated, watching every little move he was doing as Izuku continued, "I said your quirk isn't all that great… well in certain aspects."

"Izuku, maybe you should-" Momo had begun to speak up, hoping to prevent a fight that would and more than likely occur. Still, her sentence was cut short from a tilt of Izuku's head, looking back at her with his oddly colored eyes.

A few moments of silence passed before Izuku turned his head back to Bakugo, who was staring at how odd the boy in front of him was acting, "As I was saying... sure, your explosions are great when it comes to fighting, but the other aspects of hero work? Not so much."

Holding up his hand in front of Bakugo, Izuku started to lift each finger up as he spoke, "First, you're limited in terms of rescue, being only to possibly blast apart rubble if the need calls for it, otherwise having explosions go off usually doesn't lend much help in terms of aid."

"Second, you can and have caused a lot of collateral damage to buildings, which can hinder missions then help." Izuku raised his second finger, but his gaze never left the blonde bomber's own as Bakugo was gritting his teeth.

"I could keep going, but honestly, we'd be here for another hour at least… not to mention how easy it is to neutralize your quirk anyway." Izuku stated with a shrug of his shoulders, which made Bakugo snarl even louder.

"Like hell that could ever happen! I'm the strongest in this damn-"

"Your middle of the pack, Bakugo." Izuku interrupted the incoming rant, which caused everyone to gasp at the proclamation. Even some of the students in the living room that had turned their attention that way had ducked behind the couch as if it was a barricade.

Bakugo merely stared in shock at Izuku, who kept staring at him with that same cold and calculating look he had been wearing on his face during this entire conversation, "You're in the middle, Bakugo."

"YOUR LYING, YOU DAMN NERD, I'M THE FUCKING STRONGEST AROUND HERE!"

"Pfft, hardly!" Izuku huffed and crossed his arms over his chest, "Sure, you got the brains, combat practice…" the venom dripping off of the word made Bakugo flinch a little, which most of the class looked on in confusion at not understanding the reason for said venom, only the girls that knew of the two's past would connect the dots for the tone the word 'practice' had as Izuku continued, "... and quirk to be a strong hero, but compared to some of the amazing quirks in our class? You are in the middle… high middle… but still middle."

Then something unexpected happened, an event that many in Class 1-A and one of the quests from 1-B could attest would never happen. Izuku Midoriya got into Katsuki Bakugo's face and spoke in a low tone to him, though loud enough for everyone to hear him, "This isn't Aldera anymore, Bakugo… no one is going to put up with your bullshit anymore or cater to your sensitive ego. So, start acting like the goddamn hero I know you can be and keep up with the rest of us or keep being the way you are… a pomeranian throwing a temper tantrum whose bark is worse than their bite… because frankly, if your strongest attack was that explosion from your gauntlet, well, I'm not impressed."

And with that, Izuku stepped back and turned around, everyone staring as Izuku went back to his seat and opened up one of his notebooks, flipping to a particular page and began to scribble something into it. All eyes slowly looked to Bakugo, who had remained transfixed in his spot for a few moments, staring out into space before snapping out of whatever trance he was in and then looked to see everyone staring at him.

"The fuck you extras looking at?" Bakugo growled before stomping his way up the stairs; the distant slam of a door echoed from the stairwell as everyone turned their gazes towards Izuku, who was still writing.

No one moved for a few moments before Yuga very slowly walked up beside him and nudged his shoulder, "Monsieur Midoriya? Are you alright?"

"Hmm?" Izuku looked up from his work; Yuga and the others that were behind the blonde frenchman could see that Izuku's eyes had returned to their natural emerald color, "I'm fine? Why, what's up?"

The silence was the only answer given as Izuku looked around at his classmates in confusion. Even the girls looked worriedly at him, and he tilted his head again.

"Did I do something wrong?"