12

"I don't believe it," I heard someone in the crowd but Kacchan and I didn't stop, didn't back off, taking turns to drive him back only for him to come back even harder than before. Even with two vs one it was obvious that All Might was more than a match for us but we also couldn't pull ourselves away either.

I could hear us laughing out loud even as we clashed together, I could almost hear our wooden staffs complain from the force but even without us using our quirks, it was freeing.

"Come now Young Bakugo, channel your passion! Izuku, my boy you can go harder than that, one of you should be able to get past me," All Might gave more instructions and we adjusted as advice came and soon enough All Might was being pushed back again. He let us for a while before he resisted again, holding back less than before and again we were being driven back.

I saw an opening but I also saw that he meant for me to but I trust Kacchan so I took it. Swinging upward while he swung from the side, it would have hit me in the head if not for Kacchan blocking it at the last moment and my staff connected with a low thud against his leg.

"HAHAHA, wonderful!" He praised us and for the first time since returning he put his hand on my head and ruffled my hair the way he used to do so very long ago. Not like when he was soothing us before but full of pride. I could see Kacchan's smile practically lighting up the room at the praise but the fact he was ruffling both of our hair like an old habit… it made us forget, for just a moment.

We hugged him. He was caught off guard and his nervous chuckles and laughter only reinforced our desire to save him. No, we must. We have to save All Might. The world just isn't the same without him and I refuse to let anyone take him away from me again.

"Are you two really that happy over a small match?" He asked, a little concerned about our reaction.

"It was fun," I smiled brightly at him and I heard Kacchan chuckling next to me.

"It's hard for us to work on our teamwork like that," his chuckles really are just so warm but both of us let him go and took a step back. After all, it's not actually appropriate to hug in class, at least not during lessons.

"Once a week, we'll be finding other areas for you to train in as well but for the remainder of class I was thinking of wall climbing," he pointed into one of the gyms and we both looked through the window and yes, just yes.

"Oh fuck yeah!" Kacchan grabbed my arm and dragged me towards the door, both of us laughing. Once inside we could still hear All Might so someone must have left the mic on but that's okay. We ran towards the building and saw "start here," spray painted on the wall and started up using our quirks.

"Don't you think you're spoiling them?" Aizawa Sensei asked, reminding me that the mic was on.

"Not at all, they need to practice, after all Bakugo's father mentioned going mountain climbing this weekend," All Might answered while laughing.

"Now I do feel like I'm getting spoiled," Kacchan grinned over at me while already part way up the building.

"This means that once we make it to the top he'll have us do it again without quirks. So, let's race?" I called back to him and he barked a laugh before jumping away from the building and setting off an explosion to propel himself upwards, grabbing a handhold every now and again.

"Cheater!" I called out and let my quirk charge through me and sprinted up the wall and carving new handholds where there used to be none. By the time we reached the top we were laughing and gasping and generally cursing the fact that neither of us could figure out who actually won.

"Boys, I want you to go back to the bottom and do it again, this time no quirks," All Might called over the speaker and we waved to let him know that we heard him before I just jumped off the building.

The air rushing through my hair whistled and I could still feel the electric like charge humming through me before I opened my eyes and I saw the ground coming up fast. I used Float to help slow me down but rolled to help distribute the impact and I used the impact to start running and discharge the excess momentum.

When I came to a stop I turned to find Kacchan still at the top. I waved and called out for him to hurry up and he disappeared for a moment before he ran jumping off like he was diving from the high dive at the pool. His arms outstretched and legs together before spinning, head first. When he was still several meters up he set off explosions to level out and he was much closer to the building, close enough to kick off the building and slow himself down enough to land next to me with only a couple more explosions.

"Nice," I pat his shoulder but he rolled his eyes.

"Not as nice as the swan dive you did, fucking seriously? That's the move you went with?" He frowned, cursing while I shrugged.

"What can I say, it's liberating," I laughed and he slugged my shoulder before grinning at me.

"I'm glad," I heard him whisper before motioning back at the wall and we did a few stretches before making our way up again, taking much longer and going much slower than before.

***

"Summer Sports Festival," Aizawa Sensei announced and there was a lot of cheering and general chaos, including from Kacchan and I. The fact everyone was moving into a dorm system didn't seem to matter anymore.

"Before anyone asks, yes. Bakugo and Yagi will be allowed to participate and no, they will not be disqualified from placing. As you grow older and work hard at your studies there will be many of you that earn your hero licenses before others and it is a standard practice that not everyone participating will be on the same level. You will all just have to work harder to prove yourselves as worthy but if Yagi and Bakugo can't even make it to the finals they will be working as the class custodians for the next two months," he grinned at us but I only frowned at him while Kacchan huffed about him making it unnecessarily difficult.

"Being a hero isn't easy and from the sounds of it you two have yet to grasp that," Aizawa Sensei smirked at us.

"We've been kidnapped, held hostage and nearly died. How haven't we grasped that?" Kacchan asked him while I crossed my arms glaring at our teacher. However what seemed to surprise him the most about that was the fact that we were in complete agreement.

Time seemed to fly and after classes All Might wasn't allowed to train with us until after the sports festival which I think is dumb too. Not that we really needed him to train us, we just simply pushed ourselves to our limit while also playing with Blackwhip. We found out in class that if we don't play with him then he will force himself to come out and he usually latches onto Kacchan.

"Blackwhip, we are in class," Kacchan tried to reason with him while I was barely awake anymore. I could barely do more than smile while Blackwhip tangled around Kacchan like a love sick puppy, the thought of which made me chuckle.

"Deku, you're not helping at the moment," Kacchan huffed but he was smiling too. I swear he adores Blackwhip now that he has become alive like this. Blackwhip was currently holding Kacchan in the air and was snuggling him affectionately and with Kacchan's explosions going off you would think he was mad but they don't seem to actually affect Blackwhip at all unless you count how much more he squeezes and wraps around him.

"Blackwhip, we will play with you when we get back to the dorms. Right now we need to concentrate on class, please?" Kacchan tried again, this time speaking softly. Blackwhip did set him back on the ground but didn't let him go.

"Were you feeling left out?" Kacchan cooed to my quirk and I felt goosebumps rise on the back of my neck. I forced my eyes open to see Kacchan softly petting Blackwhip before nuzzling him and giving him a kiss. Blackwhip let him go and retracted back to me, letting me sit up again, yawning, only to put my head down again.

"Wake up Nerd, we have Midnight next," he warned me but I could only open my eyes blinking at him slowly.

"I'm so tired," I whined, hearing his chuckles after I closed my eyes again. "Blackwhip has been acting spoiled a lot lately," I huffed, less than happy. Whenever he forces his way out like that it feels like it takes five times the energy than usual and it is exhausting.

"Hmm, well we haven't fed him since that one time, maybe he is hungry?" Kacchan suggested and I sat up looking at him confused until I realized what he was talking about.

"You mean…?" I trailed off and he shrugged.

"We won't know until we try it out," I thought about it for a while. The only thing Kacchan could be talking about is that one time in the hotel when he woke up to Blackwhip stimulating him to the point that he said it felt like a blowjob. We never did find a mess even though Kacchan insisted that he came.

Did Blackwhip actually swallow? Can he swallow? Then did he absorb it?

"We'll give it a try after classes," I finally gave in. We have been busy lately, looking for Dabi actually. We had talked with my mom but All Might still doesn't know about how Endeavor abused both his eldest and youngest but Todoroki spends a lot of time at my house now. At first it was a shock for him but today we were going to invite Shinso too.

We'll just have them both meet us a little later than usual I guess.

***

"Oi you with the bags under his eyes. Do you not have any fucking manners?" Kacchan called out while helping me up. We had timed it so that Shinso would run right into me in the halls.

"Right, my apologies," Shinso answered, sounding bored and tired.

"I've seen you around before, you go to the gym for training every so often don't you?" I smiled at him and he slowly nodded his head. "We are going there now, we reserved a studio ahead of time to train for the sports festival, you're welcome to join us?" I smiled even bigger at him.

He frowned confused, "Why would you invite me? You know nothing about me."

"You're Shinso, Hitoshi from the general studies class aren't you? You originally applied for the hero course but the entrance exam was really biased against your amazing quirk. I'm Yagi, Izuku by the way," I answered before holding out my hand to him. "It's a pleasure to meet you! I wasn't expecting to meet you until the sports festival so I'm kind of excited," I chuckled nervously while Kacchan rolled his eyes.

"Come on Deku, they aren't going to hold our studio forever you know," Kacchan huffed but when he tugged on my hand and looked back he frowned. "Well come on Eye Bags, he invited you, didn't he?" Shinso looked at us confused before nodding and following us to the gym. The staff smiled brightly for us but tried to keep Shinso out which really pissed Kacchan off.

"Oi, since when could you determine if and when we could bring someone with us? Your policy specifically states that when a studio is rented that as many as six people may enter at a time. With him it's only three so what is your fucking problem?" Kacchan set off small explosions in his hand while the staff took a step back.

"It's just that he has a villainous quirk so-"

"How exactly is it villainous?" I interrupted, forcing a smile. "He is a student of U.A. Are you saying that U.A. teaches villains now?"

"I would never-"

"Then where is the fucking problem?" Kacchan snapped and they finally gave us our studio room key and we left.

"I'll need to ask All Might if that is even legal for them to do. I'm sure they have to be violating quirk equal rights laws, the fact that they are even slandering U.A. the number one hero school in the world will only make the case more solid," I said loud enough for the staff to hear me.

"Fuck them, All Might will agree and he will take away his recommendation letter for the gym, we'll have to find a new gym but whatever," Kacchan answered just as loudly. Shinso watched us with wide and surprised eyes while the staff were very pale which made Kacchan smile.

"Then again, as his step son I'm sure he would close the fucking place down just for pissing you off," Kacchan cackled while I rolled my eyes.

"Kacchan, he wouldn't be that biased," I crossed my arms even as we walked away.

"Yep, sure. It's not like he named you his successor or anything," Kacchan laughed harder and I hit him in his arm while walking into the studio room, both of us smiling.

I turned back when I noticed Shinso wasn't with us anymore, "Hey come on. Today we are working on footwork but there are plenty of weights in here if you'd like to work out." He froze for a while before finally joining us and I closed the door and shades while Kacchan set up the big screen.

"Why did you invite me even though you already know about my quirk?" He asked slowly and I looked at him confused.

"What does your quirk have to do with anything?" I answered with a question of my own, startling him.

"Oi Nerd, today is Tae Bo so you better be paying attention!" Kacchan called back to us and I smiled even bigger before turning back to Shinso.

"If you like you're welcome to join us but we won't force you or anything. We have this time slot reserved everyday except Thursday for the next month and you can join us whenever you like," I told him before waving and running towards Kacchan and we started the video.

***

It's been a month and Shinso has shown up everyday that he could go to the gym but it's only lunch time and I saw him standing by himself not too far away.

"Shinso!" I called out waving and Kacchan looked up and waved him over when he saw him.

"Why were you just standing there? Lunch is almost half over," I asked him confused, it doesn't look like he has even started eating yet.

"My class decided that they needed another table so…" he trailed off and I understood right away. They have been basically isolating him this whole time but now they weren't even letting him sit down to eat.

"Well sit down then, I'm sure as fuck not going to bite you," Kacchan motioned to the seat across from us and we both saw him eye our classmates who smiled politely.

"Hey, I'm Kaminari, Denki," Kami introduced with a big goofy smile which got the rest of our nearby friends to introduce themselves as well and Shinso sat down after hesitating for a bit longer.

"I'm Shinso, Hitoshi, my quirk is brainwashing," he added quietly which easily got their attention.

"Wow, that sounds so cool! Can you brainwash me? Please?" Kami asked with stars in his eyes and Shinso looked at us for help.

"The fucker asked for it. Make him do a little dance," Kacchan shook his head grinning and Shinso asked Kami what his favorite color was. The fact that Kami actually did a dance with a straight face was really funny and when Shinso released him Kami was still asking to be brainwashed until Kiri showed him the video of him dancing.

"Dude! That is so cool!" Kami sat even closer to Shinso and now he was looking at us and panicking but we were just laughing while eating our lunch.

"Oi, Dunce Face, let Eyebags eat then you can fuck around," Kacchan grumbled and Kami apologized for disturbing him so much.

When he was finished eating I smiled as he talked with our classmates and it wasn't long before he was smiling too. I looked at the clock and frowned.

"You should eat with us everyday. We'll save you a seat," I smiled at him when I turned my attention back to our table.

"Is that really okay?" He asked nervously but I just smiled and answered easily which still shocks him.

"Then I'll see you at the gym later," he smiled before getting up and the warning bell rang making our class groan before we all got up.

"See you tomorrow Dude!" Kami called out the most excited about meeting Shinso. Maybe this time they will start dating before they turn twenty-five, not that I have room to talk.