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Outdoor training. Heat. Outdoor hero training. Heat that may as well be from hell. And Aizawa Shouta in charge of it all. Yeah, today was awful. Those were my thoughts as I forced myself to walk to the boys locker room. It took all my willpower not to collapse against Iida and beg him to carry me. Not that he wouldn't have, he would do it without complaining, but he was just as hot and tired. I'm not like that, I'm not like-"Out of my way, Deku!" Kacchan.

My childhood friend/bully brushed past me. I sighed. I never snapped at him. Back then it was the fear that bought my silence. Now? Well, he's been mellowing out and more importantly, today was, to quote Kaminari, flaming crap mixed with garbage for him at least. Evidently some 1B students thought it would be good idea to pass out some photos of Kacchan pre-transition. As in he's a trans guy. Deal with it. Now this was low. I can accept they don't like us, but come on! Joke's on them too, he was more mad about that fact they had gone through his personal stuff than the photos. And maybe 20 people cared. No one that really mattered to Kacchan cared. Everyone in our class already knew, it was obvious to the guys when they saw is binder, and they were all accepting. He acted like it wasn't a big deal, but I could tell he was relieved.

Back to what happened, I decided to take a shower before we headed back to the dorms. So did everyone else. it was eventually down to me, Iida, Kacchan, and Mineta. He was acting weird to say the least, Mineta I mean. Maybe it was the heat getting to his brain, but he was acting... high. Like on crack or something. Anyway after we showered, Kacchan was putting some clean clothes on, when Mineta turned around and gave him a crazed expression. Like Toga Himiko crazy. My only thoughts were 'Oh God'. "Hey, Bakugou." he said. "What?" he snapped. "Why don't'cha take the binder off, huh?" he drawled out. He was crazy. "What the fu-WHAT?! What the hell are you smoking? I'm not taking it off!" he yelled, instinctively covering his chest for protection. "Mineta-kun! that is inappropriate behavior!" Iida yelled. I agreed, obviously, but kept quiet. "C'mon, show me what'cha got there." he said, moving closer. I don't know who I was more scared of or for at that point. And then he lunged.

"Get the hell off of me you little bastard!" he yelled, trying to pry him off as he tried to pull off his chest binder. The scary part was, he was succeeding. I finally got around to moving and tried to help him pull the little pervert off. "Iida, get Aizawa. Now!" I yelled at my friend over Mineta and Kacchan. "Right." he said darting off. Of course in my 5 second interval of distraction, Mineta was even closer to his goal. Damn it all. I went back to helping Kacchan, but it seemed whatever possessed him to act this way wasn't giving up. He was almost there, pulling it over his head, when finally, 2 familliar and at this point comforting cloths wrapped around him and successfully pulling him off and snapping him out of his trance. Or maybe it was the hellish death glare Aizawa gave him, either way, he was off.

"You and I are about to have a little chat." he gowled out, before glancing at the 2 of us, still on the floor. "You two okay?" Dumb question. Kacchan was as good as sexually assulted a minute ago and was currently trying to get his chest binder on right again, and I was breathless, tired, and on the verge of a panic attack. But between my being breathless and Mineta' frantic cries I couldn't put my thoughts into words, so I just gave a dumb nod. He turned heel and walked off, a terrified Mineta still in his grasp. "If he doesn't get expelled I'm getting a lawyer." Kacchan deadpanned as he adjusted the binder. I pulled myself to my feet and offered him a hand up. he took it. We were walking back to the common when he looked over at me. "Hey, thanks." he said. "You're welcome. That was nuts." I said, relieved it was over. "You're still a Deku though." He said. I just rolled my eyes. He'll never change.

THE NEXT MORNING

We were all sitting at our desks waiting for class to start, when Aizawa walked in. I had kinda been wondering about Mineta, but I wasn't to concerned. You'd be amazed at what kinda-maybe I'd-totally-deny-it-if-it-was-brought-up staring at my Icyhot crush can do. Come on, we've all done it. "Just so you know, Mineta Minoru was expelled last night." Aizawa said, cutting off my thoughts. "What for?" Ashido asked. "Does it matter? He gone and he's not coming back. Go ahead and celebrate, I've got to go get the transfer from class 1C." We all cheered. "I wonder who we'll get." "As long as he's not so perverted." "I'm sure he will greatly appreciate being here!" I laughed along with everyone else. We chatted and laughed until Aizawa came back and told us to be quiet. "Anyway here's our new classmate. Say hello to Shinso Hitoshi." He rumbled out. He just waved. Welcome to the family.

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I was walking back to the dorms on Wednesday night after I had to go out for groceries. Just my luck, it started to rain. Because, I have crap luck. I'm now jogging back trying not to get soaked, when I heard something. I could almost barely hear it over the rain, but it was definitely there. I went over to see what it was, and... well, I just couldn't leave her out in the rain. 'Congratulation, Shoto. Now on top of keeping up your grades to please your sociopath father, you have a kitten to take care of. Just great. Damn your love of animals.' Hiding her in my jacket was easy enough, but when I got back to the dorms, the problems just exploded. There was the first problem, making sure no one noticed her. And trust me, someone is bound to notice a rather large lump in my jacket. And sure enough: "Um... Todoroki-kun, what's in your jacket?" Thanks Yaoyorozu, way to blow my cover. Of course it wasn't just her. "Yeah, Icyhot. What's under the jacket huh? Got a bomb or something?" Damn you Bakugou, damn you.

"It's just some personal stuff, alright." I said, silently praying to what god that would listen that they couldn't see or hear my panic. "Ok, whatever. Hey, Midori it's your turn to cook dinner you know." Ashido called out, changing the subject. Oh thank God. Wait... "Isn't it supposed to be my night?" I asked. And it was, I can't really cook though. "Well after the Incident last week with those cookies, it was decided that Izuku-chan would take over your night." Ok that's fair, we were all in the hospital after that. "Don't worry, I offered." Midoriya said, giving me that adorable smile of his. Don't stare, don't stare, I swear to God if you stare. "U-uh, right, thanks. I'll be up in my room." I stuttered out, scrambling back to my room before anyone else asked about the cat.

I slammed the door behind me and let out the breath I was holding. I collapsed onto my bed and took out the kitten. She instantly started exploring her new surroundings, pawing and sniffing everything on my bed. Nothing much, just some pillows and a couple blankets. I grabbed a towel and instantly started drying her off, holding her in my arms. She didn't have a collar so she was probably a stray. Now in the light, I saw that she had pure black fur and green eyes. She was so tiny, a kitten through and through. "You got a name little girl?" I cooed softly, stroking her soft fur.

"Nope, if you could give me one that'd be great."

I vaulted back, my eyes widening in pure shock. "Wh-what the hell?" I whispered. The cat was talking. The cat was talking. "Welp, its official. I've snapped from my old man's abuse and I'm hearing my cat talk." I rambled to myself. It was the only logical conclusion. "Yay, I've been adopted. After you picked me up I fell asleep, so what's your name?" She said, clearly ignoring my ramblings. "Um... Shoto." I said, playing along with my insanity. "Nice to meet ya Shoto. We've already established I'm female, but I was never named, so... you got any ideas? I'd rather not be called be cat for the rest of my life." She said happily. "U-um, w-well I-I guess I could-" before I could finish my shock filled ramblings, my door opened. Oh crap.

"Hey, Todoroki, dinner's ready if your hungry..." Midoriya said, letting himself into my room and instantly noticing my new cat. "U-um, I can explain." "Can you though, Shoto. This looks pretty bad?" She said, giving me the cat equivalent of a smirk, I think. "Shut up." I growled at her, hoping Midoriya wouldn't hear me. Then I noticed his shocked face. "Th-th-the c-cat just spoke. I'm not going crazy hear. It talked. Oh my god, what do I do. How is this possible animals can get quirks how? How?" He rambled. I would later note how cute it was, but now my only thoughts were, 'I'm not crazy. Thank God I'm not crazy.' Now damage control. "Before you say anything else, I just found her tonight, I'm just as lost as you." I said, waving my hands like an idiot. "Well let me explain. I was born about 2 and a half months ago, and I started talking about 3 weeks ago. I've never had a human owner before now, I don't have a name, and my mother abondoned me once I could walk. I was the only one of my litter to survive past 3 weeks." Her voice was stunningly detached. We were both a little surprised. And saddened.

Midoriya's eyes welled up with tears. "You poor thing." He said softly. He shambled over and settled down next to her. The kitten instantly set herself in his lap. He smiled and stroked her fur and oh my God he is so adorable I can't take it. "You said you don't have a name, right?" He said softly. She hummed a confirmation. "Well, how about Ryuko?" I fought down a choke. That was a horrible idea if he meant it the way I thought he did. "Why that name?" She questioned, sounding curious more than anything else. "Well, one thing it can mean is hero, this is mainly a heroics school, me and Shoto are in a hero class. It seems appropriate." He explained, his voice soft and steady. Oh he did mean it differently. Thank goodness. Wait... "You called me Shoto." I noted out loud. Instantly, color slammed onto his freckled cheeks. "O-oh sorry, it just came out that way and oh my gosh if this is weird I can just go-" he rambled.

"Hey-hey, I was just pointing it out. I don't mind at all." He's my crush, of course I don't mind. "Um... can I called you Izuku.? If you don't want me too, that's fine, either way you can totally call me Shoto." Then I was rambling. I'm a massive idiot sometimes, you know. "Are you too mates or something?" The now dubbed Ryuko asked naively. My breath caught in my throat. "W-what?" I rasped out. If Midoriya was red before, it was nothing compared to now. "Whatever. I'm gonna go to sleep. Night." She said, erm, sleepily. She crawled over to a small pillow I had on my bed, curled up, and was out. "What're we gonna do, Shoto?" He asked once we were sure Ryuko was asleep. "We can't exactly hide her forever." He pointed out. "No idea. I guess we'll just cross that bridge when we get to it.”

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Surprisingly enough, it was okay. not like, super okay, but manageable. 2 weeks after i found our new feline companion, we actually fell into a pretty comfortable routine. shed stay in my room in the daytime, I'd fill her bowls up before classes, and act like i didn't have a secret in the form of an almost too small kitten. after classes, Izuku would let himself in to play with her and hang out with me. i knew better than to think that he wanted to hang out with me. Even when we would both just lay on my bed, me reading through a book or looking at my phone, him laying on his stomach looking at stuff on his laptop, the silence too comfortable for me not to hope. Sneaking the cat food was easy enough, if at the cost of the litter box being a nightmare to sneak in. Think a repeat of the first night with her. Yeah. Someone kill me for my poor social skills. I blame my old man. Anyway, the disaster happened on a Monday. the most evil day of the week. Fittingly.

It was a normal Monday night, we were working on homework Midnight-sensei gave us. Well, I was. I swear he got it done before she assigned it by how fast he finished it. Ryuko was curled up against Izuku's side, purring. I was looking through my emails when, out of nowhere she said "Hey, how come you guys aren't mates already." Now I was fine with eternally suffering with my Hanahaki disease, but she just had to say something. I don't know who was blushing first or worse. That was just the beginning too, there was so much worse to come. "Uh-um, w-well why do you- i-i mean what made you-" we both stammered. "Because you both are clearly pining for each other." She deadpanned. "Ya know if you were cats you'd just hook up, non of this dancing around each other nonsense." If it were that simple, i would've done that a ling time ago. A week after the sports festival specifically.

"U-um, i think I'll go get a drink." Izuku mumbled. "Oh okay." I said quietly. He'd never ever ever like me. What made her think Izuku liked me anyway. I was about to ask her that very question, when I saw she wasnt in my room. Oh shoot. I instanlty scrambled out the door to see that she was following Izuku down the hall. He was mumbling to himself god knows what and wasn't paying attention to the feline on his heels. I was about to say something, when Kaminari walked by. And saw Ryuko. Double shoot. "What the- why is there a cat up here?" He asked, pure shock in his voice. Instantly we both went rigid, the color gone from Izuku's face. "What's up? I'm Ryuko, who are you?" Of course she wouldn't have a problem talking. I never told her not to talk around other people so it made sense, but still. Why? Why me? I didn't ask for this.

A choked sound left Kaminari's throat as shock worked it's way onto his features. "U-uh we can explain this." Izuku stuttered out. "Can we though?" Ryuko and I said in unison. It looked pretty bad. Before we could explain this away, he ran off screaming, "Talking cat! Talking cat!" Oh my frig why? Izuku ran off after him, and I just kinda stared. Before I knew I was cracking up. Not because I found this funny, but because it was ridiculous, a talking kitten just told me to ask out my crush in front of him, and now my classmate just saw said kitten. This was insane. I knew this would end badly. After I finished laughing (like a crazy person) I looked down at Ryuko, "C'mon, let's get you introduced to everyone. No point in keeping you a secret." And with that, a talking stray kitten was at our dinner table that night. They instantly demanded an explaination. Aizawa-sensei was there too. Joy.

I sighed and dragged a hand down my face for the second time in two hours. Explaining this to our class mates was a headache wrapped in an annoyance. "So the thing is-" "Shoto found me on the street one night while it was raining, took me home and kept me in his dorm. I would've starved to death if he hadn't since my mother abandoned me, and Izuku and Shoto have been hiding this for 2 weeks. Any questions?" She said, cutting down what I was gonna say to two sentences. It was Kirishima who asked a question. "Are Midoriya and Todoroki dating? I assumed that was why he was in and out of his room, but I wanna know if I was at least partially right." He admitted. Oh how I wished I could say yes. "Nope, but I ship it as much as you. They were made for each other. And Shoto totally has a thing for him in vice versa." I couldn't help but blurt out, "You have no idea how much I want that to be true." Right. In front. Of Izuku. We both went red for the like third time that day. "Now that that's been cleared up, I'll see if I can find a suitable place for her to live. We're only gonna keep her until we find her a good home." He said, walking off. I couldn't help but feel a little grief. I'd gotten so attached to her. Ashido seemed to notice my expression, because she flat out said, "Don't worry guys, the words, 'We'll only keep them till we find them a good home.' basically mean, 'I'm gonna act like we're not keeping them, but we totally are.' Trust me, we have animals." Hopefully that would prove true for Aizawa.

"H-hey, Shoto? I-I know this is coming out of left field, b-but if you don't mind, could we u-um, I mean if you-" "-For God's sake." Bakugou yelled, cutting him off. "Icy hot, you wanna be Deku's boyfriend?" I nodded slowly. "Good. You too, Deku?" He asked roughly. He nodded, faster than I did. "Great. I now pronounce you man and boyfriend, go do whatever. Not like a give a shit." He said sarcastically. We both cracked up, while everyone else said "It's about time."

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It was a Wednesday. About a week after Mineta had been expelled and Shinso replaced him. More specifically, it was Todoroki's birthday. I'm pretty sure he didn't want anything, but I knew it was his birthday. So I bought a card and gave him a couple hundred yen. We're not really friends, at least the same as Ochako-chan and Izuku-chan, but I still thought it would be nice. He was actually pretty shocked. Like, dumbfounded. Still, I smiled and wished him a happy birthday, he said thanks and that was that.

So that day, Todoroki brought in some cookies he made. They were chocolate chip, nothing too hard to make, but looking at them I could tell they were a little burnt. Not like to a crisp or anything, but darker spaces. Aizawa-Sensei let him pass them out with Shinso helping him. When everyone had their cookies, they sat back down and Aizawa-sensei went back to teaching. I went ahead and tried the cookie. It... wasn't very good. I don't mean to be mean, but he really should've gotten help. On top of them being more burnt then I realized, he put in way too much sugar. There was something else, a weird taste that I couldn't quite put my finger on.

I glanced around, and everyone else had a similar reaction, but Todoroki didn't seem to notice. I just thought that would be that and we would go on with our day. I'd be giving him cooking lessons from now on, but that would be it.

And then people started getting sick.

The first was Izuku-chan. He started getting paler, something even I noticed from across the room. He was shivering and just didn't look good. He raised his hand, "Aizawa-sensei?" His voice was really weak. I was worried, and even I was started too feel a little lightheaded. "What?" He demanded without looking over him. "Can I go to the bathroom, I feel like I'm about to be sick." That wasn't good. I noticed Kaminari seemed to look pretty bad too. "Can I go too?" Yep, he was sick, too.

He sighed, "Go quickly." They both nodded and scrambled off. They didn't come back. 10 minutes later and they were still gone.

I wondered if they would be okay, when I started feeling sick too. My quirk can make me swallow things I probably shouldn't be swallowing, but that doesn't make vomiting because I'm just plain sick any better. And I couldn't make to the bathroom either. Good thing the trash can was as close as it was. Before we knew it, half the class was in Recovery Girl's office with vomiting, chills, a fever, stomach ache, and a headache. Well the last one just Aizawa-sensei.

This was a nightmare. But it only got worse. It got to the point where kids started coming who seemed fine, but insisted they felt sick too. It got to the point where to people fainted. We had to the spend the night in quarantine. I'm not joking. It got so bad they finally said, 'Screw it, these kids need a doctor.' So they called an ambulance, ambulances, and took all of us to the hospital.

Not everyone was sick, but when they traced back the cause to Todoroki's cookies, something I couldve told them, it was decided that everyone who ingested them needed to be in quarantine. So, that's everyone in class 1A, Aizawa-sensei, and apparently All Might, who wasn't showing symptoms either and insisted he was fine but it's not like you could tell with him.

Everyone freaked out at that news. They evidently thought they we're all about to die, especially Kaminari and Sero. Shinso, Shoji, and I were probably the only really calm ones. Well, Izuku-chan and Todoroki weren't too bad, since Izuku-chan had long since fallen asleep and Todoroki was busy trying to apologize to everyone. It was funny seeing this normally calm, collected kid freaking out and trying to apologized to everyone for making them so sick. Bakugou wasn't too bad either since he was trying to kill Todoroki for "poisoning him".

At the end of it all, we were let out in the morning and given first period free to recover from this mess. "Now, Todoroki has never been a good cook, but this, this was ridiculous. This can never happen again." Iida said, no one disagreeing with him. "If you want, I can start making dinner in his place." Izuku offered. Thank God too, there was no way I was letting Todoroki anywhere near a stove after this mess, let alone teaching him to cook. We all agreed that was the best option.

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I think it's safe to say, we all mess up from time to time. Whether it's calling our teachers the wrong thing, or calling them mom or dad. Most of class 1A had pretty basic stuff. Accidentally calling 'Dad!' When trying to get attention or when asking a question, nothing to major. But then there are the big ones, the ones that are embarrassing, but make great stories. 

Line breaks are fun to play with but I'm not sure if I should make a standard or not whatevs 

Jirou and Kaminari said it together

   I was messing around with Kaminari in the halls, we listening to music, jumping around, not paying to much attention to anything, when All Might walked by. And I came this close to falling down the stairs. I yelped when I realized how close I was to falling and stumbled back a bit, knocking right into him. Next thing I know we're both on the floor. "Ah! Are you guys okay?" Kaminari cried when we fell. Surprisingly enough, All Might laughed. "We're fine, Young Kaminari, but you two should be more careful. I don't wanna see you get hurt from something like a bad fall." He said as Kaminari helped us up. We both laughed a bit, "Sorry, dad." We said together. "It's fine, just please be more careful. I really don't want to see you hurt." He ruffled our hair and walked off, and we went right back to listening to music, if being a bit more careful. 

"Did we just call him Dad?"

(All Might would later feel the heat slam onto his cheeks when he realizes that, yes they did call him 'dad')

Then Todoroki, Bakugou, and Kirishima said it on purpose 

    It was around 6 at night when our slip up happened. All Might was making dinner for us, ramen, and it seemed to be taking him a while. It would be unmanly not to help him. I know he doesn't want too much help even after his true form and retirement, but we all felt an obligation to pitch in where we could. It just didn't feel right to let him do so much in his state. So could you blame us when we offered to take over for him. Well, me and Bakugou helped. Todoroki sat there and watched because it's the universal decision to never let him near a stove again after the cookie thing. My relatives still think it was Shimoneta that ruined cookies for me. We were chatting and laughing and before we knew it we were done. All Might gave us a smile, "Thanks for helping me, boys. You made it easier on me." "I didn't really do anything, though." Todoroki reminded him. "Ah, you were there. It was nice just having your company." Todoroki smiled. SMILED. I have to admit it was pretty great. "Thanks, Dad." He said, odds are not realizing what he said. "Ay, help me get this shit into some bowls already." "Alright, alright, get some chill already, Katsuki." I said, rolling my eyes. "You gonna help, Dad?" I admit it. I said dad on purpose. "Yep, be right there, My Boy." He said, clearly still not realizing it. "Hurry up old man, we got kids to feed." Katsuki said, just a hint of a joke in his voice. It was pretty nice to hear. We served dinner, and I didn't mention anything.

(As the title suggests, they all knew what they were saying, and as it happens, Katsuki often calls his dad 'Old man'. All Might noticed but didn't care to say anything.)

Izuku's was actually pretty cute, if surprising

    The problem child had fallen asleep in class. Well, more specifically, in study hall. But technicalities aside, he fell asleep. Call me a hypocrite for being bugged by it, but I've expelled kids for less. They didn't have any potential, but still. His head was propped up on his arms, and he was out, and no it wasn't cute. When I realized class was about to end, I walked over and started shaking his shoulder. He turned his face into his arms and mumbled something indecipherable. "Midoriya, wake up. Class is about to end." I said softly. He let out a groan. I shook him just a little harder. "Dad, stop." He groaned out. Everyone froze. "The fuck, Deku?!" Bakugou yelled out. That did it. His head snapped up, "Kacchan?! Don't do that!" He yelped out. "I'm not the one who just called our teacher dad, you shitty Deku!" "What are you talking about?" "It's true, you slept through this entire period, and when he went to wake you up you said and I quote, 'Dad, stop.'" That's when the bell decided to ring. I never understood the saying, 'Saved by the bell.' until that moment. "U-um, sorry about that I didn't realize it was you see ya." He cried, stringing it together into one sentence as he ran out the door. I let out a little chuckle. 

(Later sources, that is All Might and Yamada, would say he was laughing his head off when they walked in. He had a laugh that frightened small children. Yamada found it adorable.)

Line breaks are fun to play with but I'm not sure if I should make a standard or not whatevs 

Now this is something we all do from time to time. It's always funny when it happens. 

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It was December 8 when the first snow hit. During a school day when we all stopped what we were doing to observe. Granted it was light, not half an inch or anything big like that but it was only an inkling of things to come. Not that we knew that.

The first big snow was also during a school day. We had a free day in gym since it was only a couple days until winter break, something I wasn’t looking forward to, since it meant Shoto going back to his house. Anyway, it was gym and Kaminari came yelling to us that “Guys, it’s snowing.” Needless to say, “Let’s go outside c’mon!” All Might’s calling for us to stay inside or at least grab a jacket were ignored by, pretty much everyone. Well, Iida listened, but Uraraka and I were already dragging him out the door with everyone else. What? We wanted to play. Even Kacchan was out the door in a millisecond. We proceeded to spend the next God knows how long messing around in the, already surprisingly deep, snow.

Eventually we were ordered back in by Aizawa-sensei on threat of expulsion, but we had no regrets. It never really stopped snowing though, it didn’t even lighten up. That night, after we ate dinner, we turned on the news to hear about the weather, since we all wanted to know what was up. Answer-

“Well, Kakashi, it looks we’re in for a white Christmas, as a major blizzard is currently going through all of Tokyo. Our meteorologists say the snow fall won’t stop for another 2 days and upward of at least 8 inches are expected. People are urged to stay in, as travel is near impossible with this amount of snow already.” Well, shoot. That meant we weren’t getting home, cars we’re a nope, snow plows are never necessary so no one has one of those, and no metro train is going to drive over frozen tracks and a foot of snow. We were screwed. And I was going to miss Christmas with my mom.

“Remind me to go on a snack run tomorrow, cause we’re gonna need it if we wanna survive.” Sero finally broke the silence after hearing those words. We all nodded. That’s when Shoto walked back in. “Hey guys, what’d I miss?” he asked, seeing our dumbfounded faces. “We’re spending Christmas here, apparently. Snow has cut off all transportation.” “Oh.” I knew he didn’t care. He glanced over at Sato, “Hey, you mind moving, your sitting on my notebook.” He said. “Huh, oh sorry.” He got up and handed him an opened college ruled notebook, with… was that manga?

I was about to say something when my phone rang. It was my mom. “Hey, mom.” “Izuku, did you see the weather? I already did and I’m so sorry, but I can’t risk yours or my safety and –” “Mom.” I tried to cut her off. “No let me finish, I wish you could come home, but its just too much snow.” “Mom, it’s okay. I get it. I’m not going out there in this weather, and I would hate it if you did. Please, just keep yourself warm, I’ll be fine.” I heard a sigh from the other line. “Thank you, sweetheart. I hate this too, but I don’t want you to get hurt or sick. I love you.” “Love you too mom, be safe.”

I hung up and turned around, everyone else was on the phone with their parents, except- “Shinso, aren’t you gonna call your parents?” he glanced up and shook his head. “I doubt my old foster parents would’ve cared.” Oh yeah. It was no secret that he spent a lot of his life in foster care, but what happened to his parents was a mystery. Wait… “Old foster parents?” he smiled a little. “My current foster parents are Aizawa Shota and Yamada Hizashi.”

2 DAYS LATER This was the single hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. Christmas was tomorrow and I had already gotten Iida, Uraraka, Asui, and even Kacchan a gift but still not Shoto. So here I was. Standing in front of Yaoyorozo’s door, prepared to beg her for help. But, social interaction is a nightmare. I raised my hand to knock, when she opened the door, “Oh, Midoriya. Do you need something?” Here was the moment of truth. “I forgot to get a gift for Shoto I need your help!” I blurted out. She blinked. Then someone was laughing behind me. “Y-you forgot to get your own boyfrie-end a gift?!” Jiro wheezed. Okay that was just irritating. “Yes. Now will you please help me?” Yaoyorozu, thankfully, smiled and said, “Yeah, of course. Let’s go in my room, you too, Kyoka.” She said teasingly. Since when were they on a first name basis?

We sat down the her rich girl bed. It was so very soft. “Now, what do you want me to make for him?” I thought for a moment, going over every little thing I knew he could possibly want or need. Then I dawned on me. I already the perfect gift for him. The response came instantly, “I just need wrapping paper.”

TO BE CONTINUED

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Christmas Day

I wake up to pawing at my face. “Izu, Eiji is going around being all loud and stuff and I’m worried Katsu will try to kill him.” Thanks Ryuko, the last thing I need is 30 more minutes of sleep. I sat up and was it still dark out? What time was it? I picked up my phone. “Who in the fuck gets up at 5:30 in the fucking AM on a Sunday, on Christmas, Eijirou?!” Kacchan’s voice echoed through the halls, voicing my thoughts with some added cussing.

CHRISTMAS MORNING (at the proper time of 9:45)

I woke up feeling as good as anyone who stays up until midnight then got woke up at 5:30 would feel, Ryuko curled up at my side. I stumbled out of my room and down into the kitchen, completely ignoring anything in the common room. The kitchen had about 5 other people in it, having already eating or just sleeping in, but I was hungry so I barely noticed them, more intent on fixing myself some instant ramen than anything else.

Once my salty processed noodles were ready, I was cognitive enough to join the conversation with Asui and Uraraka. “So.” Uraraka grinned at me, “What did you get Todoroki, Deku, hmm?” “Not telling.” “Huh?” She looked utterly shocked. “I don’t need you going off and telling him. I want him to be surprised.”

I heard a familiar laugh behind me, “What did you through together last night, then? A crappy drawing of someone D-list hero he’s never heard of?” Jiro walked up from behind me. “None of your business, Rock junky.” Then I realized what I just said.

“Oh, s-sorry.” She cracked up. “Oh that’s how it is then, shortstack.” Shortstack?! “I’m taller than you though.” “Yeah, and with Mineta gone you’re the second shortest boy in the class next to Tokoyami. No offense man.” He shrugged. Oh I saw the game she was playing. And I played right along.

“Well then, it’s a good thing. At least now that little perv is done harassing the girls of this school.” I smirked. “Or do you miss being the only one safe from his pervy mind.” “Oh, at least I didn’t hang out with him half the time. Was it fun being around human garbage? Or do you have more in common with the hentai than you let on?” “Do not lump me in with that crazy future sex offender. He’ll be on record by the time he’s twenty.” We both laughed.

“When did this happen, exactly?” I had to ask. “I don’t really know. You did just admit to my second best friend that you forgot to get your own boyfriend a gift last night. I guess it makes you seem easier to tease. And laugh with, now.” She smiled. “I’m glad, I guess.” I told her.

“Move the fuck over!” We both rolled our eyes at Kacchan’s actions. We didn’t even need to turn around to know he was there. “Why can’t you be nice one day of the year, Bakugou? You can consider it your Christmas gift to all of us.” Asui said. “What the hell is that supposed to mean? Huh Frog Girl!” He screamed. “It means get some Christmas chill for the rest of us Kacchan.” “Yeah, not all of us appreciate it on Christmas ya know.” He looked like he was about to kill us all. Therefore, we’d be fine.

“Whatever. Hey Tokoyami, Shortstack, I did something pretty sweet with my Ukulele, wanna come see. I’ve already showed Momo and Kaminari.” We both nodded. Uraraka seemed interested too. “Can I come up too?” “Sorry, I want to use it for something later and I’d like it to be a surprise. They get Friendship Passtm.” The explanation was enough for her. “Just let me finish my ramen.” I requested. “Kay, we can wait.” My ramen was done and we were leaving, when I heard Kacchan ask, “Since when are they even friends?”

Turns out, it was a new paint job. It looked like she took acrylic paint and painted an almost galaxy looking design on it with stars and everything. Not gonna lie it looked pretty sweet. “Yeah, I wanted to put a cool design on it, but I don’t really know how.” She told us. “I could do an airbrush for you. My mom owns that airbrush place in the mall and she’s showed me how to do it. I’d just need the stencil.” Tokoyami decided to speak. “Really? Dang that’s where my older brother Yamikumo works.” I had to say it. “Oh cool. I’d love to have like a mandala look around the hole, nothing super flashy.”

Then they were talking about different designs, and I was chiming in every now and then. Pretty soon Uraraka was knocking on the door. We set a blanket fort up and we’re gonna watch ‘Home Alone’ if you wanna come down.” We were all down within 2 minutes.

Everyone was in a dogpile in front of the TV, in a rather large blanket fort that managed to fit all of us, including Shoto who had gotten up at about 10AM and was still in his pajamas like the rest if us. We were all there, except “Hey, Shinso. Don’t you wanna watch? It’s a really good movie.” We all wanted him to stay. “Its fine, I’ll just hang out in my room. I don’t want to intrude.” He said it like we didn’t want him there. I was about to say something, when I heard a hiss of “Dark Shadow” and suddenly, the bird looking familiar of Tokoyami shot out and grabbed him, scooping him up, and dragging him back down to the fort, setting set smack dab in the middle next to Tokoyami, who looked kind of embarrassed, but mostly pleased.

We spent the next god knows how long watching movies after movies after movies and eating chips, cookies, candies, and sodas. After a while the Christmas movies got boring so for some reason we watched Star Wars and then just regular TV. We settled on watching a The Last Airbender marathon. I just love how similar Shoto and Zuko are. “Don’t you kids… wanna go play outside or something?” All Might had asked at one point. Kacchan said what we were all thinking. “Fuck that. None of us want to freeze our asses off out there in the snow and we’d have to get dressed for that. And today is the one day a year we can all definitively not do that.” I know I’m staying in my pjs for the rest of the day and so is everyone else. It wasn’t the most ‘Christmasy’ Christmas ever but it was pretty fun.

Around 5 Iida said that we should probably eat a proper meal, so me, Koda, and Uraraka made dinner. It was fried rice with frozen chicken tenders but all things considered it was pretty good. We gave each other any gifts we had gotten and I was especially excited for what I’d given Shoto.

“C’mon, open it. Open it!” I felt like kid on well, Christmas. He ripped open the wrapping paper and was pretty surprised with what he saw. “A sketch book?” I hoped I didn’t just give him something he hated. “Well, I saw you drawing those manga panels on the notebook, and thought you might want a proper sketch book to draw.” He looked shocked, then his face lit up. “Thank you so much! I love it!” Without thinking too much I leaned over planted a kiss on his cheek. The first time I’ve ever kissed him too. He instantly blushed and so did I, but I think it was worse for him. We have been dating for a month now, so PDA is okay as far as I’m concerned.

“Hey guys.” It was Kaminari and Jiro. “We’ve been working on this the past couple days, so gather around and listen to our music.” Okay, let’s see where this leads. She had her galaxy ukulele with her. She strummed a few times to tune it then started to sing;

“Oh I, don’t want a lot for Christmas

There is just one thing I need

I don’t care about the presents

Underneath the Christmas tree

I just want you for my own

More than you could ever know

Make my wish come true”

“I’d never spend my Christmas with you.” Kaminari sang out in response.

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The rest of the night could be summed up of just watching TV and chatting. With the added bonus of seeing Kacchan curled up asleep against Kirishima. Kacchan looked so peaceful and Kirishima looked so embarrassed. We all snapped a picture. What? It was adorable. I don’t remember falling asleep, but I woke up the next morning and most of the class were still there asleep. And Shinso and Tokoyami were curled up together. All in all, one of my more mundane Christmases. And one of my favorites.

(Aizawa saw all of them curled up lying there asleep. He just turned off the lights and let them sleep.)

Chapter Text

It was raining. I loved rain. Obviously we were all inside during the down pour, but I could hear it and I enjoyed it. What I didn’t enjoy was the homework Sensei gave us. Not that I’m not super happy I got into the hero course, the day I was transferred into the hero course felt so surreal he couldn’t speak. Later on I’d find out why a kid was expelled. Yeah, I’m glad I missed that. Then the Cookie Incident happened and I got a real feel for what these kids were like. To be honest, it felt being in a group home again, except the other kids were the same age as me, and actually liked me and accepted me.
They had to, otherwise Todoroki wouldn’t have asked for my opinion on a doujinshi he drew, Iida would’ve helped me with my homework a dozen and a half times, Midoriya wouldn’t call me over to sit with his friends at lunch every day, Aoyama wouldn’t give me little scarves or necklaces to wear, Tokoyami wouldn’t pull me over every time my instinct to withdraw away from everyone kicked in and I was so used to not being wanted (13 years in foster care will do that to you), and Sensei wouldn’t still let me train with him, or live with him.
Anyway, Todoroki and I were sitting on one of the couches, looking over some homework when I noticed something. His lips had a bit of a shine to them, his eyes having subtle colors that made them pop, and I realized it.
“Are you wearing makeup?” Maybe I shouldn’t have said it so loud, but what’re you gonna do? It was said. “Icyhot wears makeup? What the fuck?” Everyone immediately looked directly at us. Thanks Bakugou. He blushed, with a look of ‘Oh my Lord I’ve committed a great shame on my family’ embarrassment. Then to my surprise, “Yep, I showed him how.” Yaoyorozu said proudly. I guess someone expected me to laugh. Instead I smiled shyly.
“Think you could show me sometime?” Needless to say, she looked surprised. Then she grinned. “Of course! I think you might want something similar to what I did with Kyoka-chan, but maybe a bit more subtle.” She had a look of pure joy when I asked. It made me feel good. One more reason to love rainy days

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Okay, if there’s one thing I love, it’s cats. A talking cat? After processing that, no, I haven’t gone crazy, I’m down. Needless to say, I was smitten with little Ryuko. I was laying on the couch with her settled against my neck at 2 am (Damn you, insomnia), when she looked at me, and asked point blank, “Are you like Katsu?” I glanced up.
“Define…” “Where you’re a boy with girl parts. I guess for you it’s a girl with boy parts, so are you?” Oh my Lord. I swear Aoyama has more tact when asking these sorts of questions. But she was also perceptive. “How could you tell?” She hummed. “Well, I can just tell. The same way I knew Izu and Sho-sho liked each other even if they didn’t act like it.” Then she gave me a deadpan look.
“Plus you’re looking at dresses, makeup, and other stuff on your phone that wouldn’t make any type of sense otherwise.” Okay not my best moment. I sighed. “Can you just call me Hiromi?” She purred. “Okay, ‘Romi.” She rested he head on my collar bone and purred once more. I love cats.

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Here I was, sitting on Yaoyorozu’s bed getting my makeup done. I never knew something could be so terrifying and some exciting at the same time. We settled on a, ‘I’m a goth, less is more’ sort of look. Surprisingly easy to pull off. The door was open, so anyone could look in. To my surprise, it was Bakugou who took notice. He poked his head in, and I noted Ryuko on his shoulder. “What are doing?” He wasn’t mocking us, just asking. Yaoyorozu quickly ushered him in. “Oh, Bakugou-san. I need your help. I know you pretty good with hair and I want to give Shinsou-san something more feminine.” This we both jolted at. “Feminine? Why?” I blurted out. She gave me a ‘duh’ look. “Well I figured you’d prefer something like that.” Okay, now I was freaking out. “Yeah, but I’ve never told anyone. Except for… Oh you evil cat.”
I glared at Ryuko. If cats could smirk, she would’ve been. “Well, you never said not to tell anyone, ‘Romi.” I sighed. Outed by a cat, really not one of best moments. Bakugou finally just flopped down next to me. “Okay, what kind ‘a style do you want?” I blushed.
“U-um, something easy. I need to know how to do it.” He grunted. “Oi, Yao-Momo. Keep doing the makeup, I’ll see what I can do with this mane.” He paused for a moment. “Also, just to be the least bit respectful to your gender, what pronouns?” “Female. Ya know, she her.” “Got it. Pass me a few hair ties, Yao-Momo. And a hairbrush. You ain’t gonna scream when I pull your hair, right?” I shook my head. “Okay. Now hold still.” They said in unison.
After about half an hour of being poked, having my hair pulled, and having god knows what put on my face and hair, they were done. I looked at my reflection in the mirror. Bakugou had pulled my hair into a side braid, nothing too hard. Yaoyorozu had put on some lip gloss, some dark mascara, and a bit blush and eye shadow. I looked like a girl. I almost cried.
“Thanks guys. This really means a lot.” I said shakily. “Also, Yaoyorozu. Can I borrow one of your uniforms?” She gave me a blank look. “No. I could make you one that I know would fit, but first,” She grinned. I should’ve known there’d be a catch. “You have to call me Yao-Momo like everyone else, Shinsou-san.” I sighed with relief and smiled. “Definitely, Yao-momo.” The next day I came into class wearing a skirt, kind of messy makeup, and a messy side braid. I looked so silly. They made me feel like the most beautiful girl in the world

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Aizawa cringed as he entered the mall. He didn’t need to do this. Shinsou didn’t want anything. She hadn’t asked for anything. Still, his legs forced him to move towards the store. He entered and walked up to one of the workers. She looked up. “Oh, hello. Anything I can help you with.” No I’m fine. “Erm, yeah. I need um…” Why was this so hard?! “I want to get a dress. For my daughter, I mean.”
Finally! It came out! Wait… did just call her- “Oh yeah sure. What kind of clothes does she like? We have a lot to choose from if you want options.” She went on like that for a while. ‘Note to self. Buy online.’ Aizawa thought to himself.
Still, the shock and joy on his student’s, nah may as well commit to it, his daughter’s face was worth it.