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“Akio!”

A voice shouted out behind the lilac haired girl; her waist length curly hair being thrown behind her as she turned to greet her cotton candy haired friend. A bright smile graced red lips as she answered,

“Hey Mina! What’s up?”

The girl ran up looping her arm through Akio’s as she responded,

“The squad is meeting up in the common room after classes are over to plan what we’re doing this weekend. Most of us don’t have any homework, it’s damn near a miracle!”

With that she thrusted her fist into the air smiling and laughing at the aspect of having a relaxing weekend with her boyfriend and all their friends. Akio ruffled her friend’s pink curls before saying.

“It definitely sounds like a plan you can count on me being there love.”

Mina giggled as she pulled Akio closer before saying,

“And your infatuated crushes will be coming with us this weekend as well~”

Akio blushed before slapping a hand over her mouth before hissing,

“Mina would you keep it down! I know I’m a tad bit obvious, but I don’t want the whole school to know I like them both. You and I already have enough girls gunning for us and Jirou since we’re the only girls in the squad. I really don’t want to give them any more reasons to try and come after us.”

Mina pulled her hand away before saying,

“Yeah right! Akio your quirk is one of the most badass ones out there! None of the girls here would be in their right mind to try and come after any of us, and you know the boys have no problem stepping in to defend us. Remember the last time someone tried to mess with you when Bakugou and Kirishima were around?”

Aiko rolled her as she smiled lightly remembering when some girls had tried to back her into a corner in one of the stairwells the first few weeks of school. They tried to threaten her saying that if she didn’t stop hanging out with the two boys then they’d have to give her a reason to stay away. Akio was fully ready to kick these prissy little girls’ asses but before she even had time to reach into her bag to grab her channelers an explosion rocked the floor that they were standing on. The girls turning to see the two boys standing there with scowls on their faces, Kirishima had walked through the group of five girls to walk up to Akio. As soon as his back was turned to the group of girls, he smiled at her before taking her hand asking if she was alright. Akio smiled as she blushed before nodding, Kirishima gently pulled her over to stand between him and Bakugou. Who was frowning ferociously at the group before loudly threatening them all harm if they ever even thought about trying to mess with Akio again. Throwing in the insult that her quirk was much more badass then any of theirs anyways, with that he threw an arm around Akio’s shoulder to pull her into his side as they walked away grabbing onto Kirishima’s hand as well to drag him along only to then pull him into his empty side smirking as the three walked away. Akio laughing and thanking the boys for pulling her out before things got too ugly.

Remembering that day made Akio’s heart ache a bit, she really had fallen hard for the boys and she knew it too. She began to twist a bit of her hair as she started to get in her head thinking that maybe this wasn’t such a good idea. That was before Mina pulled her out of her head by saying,

“Earth to Akio! Don’t you dare talk yourself out of coming this weekend, you know it’ll be so much fun and a few minutes ago you couldn’t wait to come out with us!”

Akio smiled at her friend thankfully before the girls walked into their classroom, the room was empty save for a few people and the Bakusquad. Akio giggled quietly remembering how viciously Bakugou had reacted when Kaminari had chosen the name for the group chat between himself, Bakugou, Kirishima, Mina, Hanta, Jirou, Shinsou, and Akio. She walked over to her desk which had been put next to Bakugou which is how she got her introductions to the Bakusquad, she put her bag down and joined their group at Kirishima’s desk. She walked over and ruffled Kiri’s hair gently as he smiled up at her with his ‘love-me-tender’ eyes looked back up at her. She almost melted, wanting to lean in and give him a sweet kiss on the cheek. He looked up at her saying,

“Good morning Akio! Did Mina already talk to you about after school?”

She smiled sweetly at him before nodding saying,

“Don’t worry sweetie Mina already talked me into it, I can’t wait I’m excited to see what we’ll be doing this weekend!”

The two lapsed into a comfortable conversation with the rest of the group, Akio not noticing the slight blush that dusted Kirishima’s cheeks at being called sweetie. She sat on Kirishima’s desk with his hand settled a little bit behind her to make sure she didn’t fall off the desk or that Mineta wouldn’t try and pull up her skirt. They began brainstorming plans for the weekend, Mina sat on Hanta’s desk as the two linked their hands together on the desk. They always made it to class early so they could talk, especially on Monday’s when they had to catch up on what happened on the weekends, they were away from each other. A few minutes later Bakugou strolled into the room smirking as he walked over to his group of friends, his heart did a bit of a double take as he saw Kirishima and Akio laughing heartily at a joke that Hanta had made. He frowned and looked over to the wall away from them, a light blush dusking his cheeks,

“The two of them are going to be the literal damn death of me, what right do they have to look so fucking cute?!”

Bakugou collected himself quickly, there was no way he could let them know how he felt. He had one focus and that was becoming the number one hero, he couldn’t afford to have two distractions but maybe just maybe. His thoughts trailed off as a voice pulled him out of his head,

“Yo Bakugou you trying to take down that wall just by staring at it? I thought your quirk was blasting not telekinesis?”

Bakugou glared over at Kaminari before shouting,

“Shut the fuck up discount Pikachu! I’ll blast you through that wall if you say another fucking word!”

The group laughed as Denki shrank back in his seat relying on Jirou to be his protector as she sat on his desk, Bakugou silently walked over to stand by Kirishima’s desk to listen to the group making plans for the weekend not noticing the Cheshire grins gracing Kirishima and Akio’s faces. All the sudden he was pulled forward and enveloped in two pairs of arms as two voices rang out saying,

“Bakugou sandwich!”

Kirishima was still seated as he pulled the explosive blonde down a bit while Akio shifted herself, so her legs were against Kirishima’s right arm as she hugged Bakugou her face slotted into his neck smiling and laughing. Bakugou stood in shock for a second before trying to lightly push the pair’s hold off of him not really actually trying.

“The fuck are you two doing? Get off of me!”

The group watched as Bakugou tried to get out of the grip the two currently had on him, Mina noticed that he wasn’t actually trying to do anything at all. He was trying to hide the blush that was dusting his cheeks as Kirishima hardened his face when Bakugou let off a blast in his direction. The two finally let him go and he backed up a bit muttering about how he was going to get the two back for the stunt they’d pulled. The duo laughed as he resumed his spot leaning between the two asking what they were talking about. Akio turning her head to answer him saying,

“We’re talking about plans for the weekend firecracker, hopefully you’ll be joining us?”

He huffed before replying,

“I’m not doing anything lame or anything that fucking Pikachu suggests.”

That prompted Kaminari to make an offended noise from where he was currently wrapped up in Shinsou’s arms as his boyfriend have him a kiss on top of his head. The rest of the class began filing in and everyone took their seats before Aizawa walked in with his sleeping bag hung over his shoulder. He announced that the group would be doing hero training today and to go ahead and put their costumes on and meet him at the pe grounds. The class all rushed to get their costumes out and head towards the locker rooms, making small conversations as they all walked. Bakugou watched as Kio talked to Deku and IcyHot as the three made their way down the hall. An irritated scowl graced his features as Deku animatedly talked to Kio about ways that she could improve her energy attacks. Bakugou remember the first day that Kio had come to UA.

“Everyone we have a new student joining us today, most of you probably know her if you follow pro heroing in America.”

Deku immediately got a huge smile on his face and started practically jumping in his seat as he already knew who Aizawa was talking about.

‘Of course, he followed pro heroing in America, fuckin nerd.’

Bakugou thought as he watched Aizawa in the front of the room,

“Everyone please meet Akio Kanamori, more widely known as Reverb the #1 pro hero in America. She’ll be joining 2-A.”

The whole class looked with wide eyes as a beautiful girl with long lilac hair walked in, her blue and red eyes shone as she smiled at the class warmly.

“Hello everyone, it’s very nice to meet you all and please call me Akio it’s what I’m used to.”

Bakugou had to admit she was absolutely gorgeous, shapely hips were accented by the school issued skirt that she was wearing. A dark purple bag was strung across her body as she waved at the class. Everyone greeted her with a cheery “Welcome to UA!” as she giggled at their shared response. Aizawa told her to sit at the desk next to Bakugou, two more desks had been added as Shinsou sat in the very front next to Hagakure. Akio had taken to talking to Bakuogu, which acted as incentive for the Bakusquad to come over and talk to her which acted as her introduction to the Bakusquad. As time went on the group grew on Akio more and more as did Bakugou and Kirishima. The three of them now practically inseparable, even if it was Kirishima and Akio dragging him along while he quietly grumped behind them but secretly loving it.

They finally reached the locker rooms, everyone changing as they went. Bakugou had kept his hero costume the same, favoring his grenade blasters and orange x that donned his black suit. Kirishima had changed his costume to a black long sleeve crop top that was cut off just below his collarbones to show off his pecs. He still kept his signature pants and red gears that donned his shoulders, today his hair was pulled into a ponytail that rested on the nape of his neck. He’d grown out his hair since their first year at UA, keeping the signature red color. Bakugou had kept his spiky puffball hair but had taken to an undercut which helped him look a little more grown and edgy as Jirou had referred to it.

They finished getting dressed and walked over to the pe grounds, Kio waving at them as they entered the area. She stood tall in her platform black thigh high boots; everyone had assumed that fighting in them would put her at a disadvantage. They were dead wrong; Akio had told her friends about how her mother had fought in shoes like hers and she was determined to have Akio do the same, so she learned from a very young age how to walk and fight in the teetering heels. Black high waisted shorts accented her hips and legs as they stopped about five inches above her boots, a black quarter sleeve crop top held against her muscular arms and chest. Over that was a harness which held her channelers, the two retractable swords strapped on either side of her chest. Everyone knew that when the swords came out, she meant business, her father had trained her to use them to send either large sweeping blasts or pinpointed ones towards her opponents. Everyone lined up as Aizawa took his place in front of the line of students,

“Today we will be doing sparring, one on one pairs. You may only fight once or you may fight many times, it all depends on what I want to see.”

Iida’s hand immediately shot into the air, Aizawa acknowledged him to ask his question.

“What exactly are you looking for today Mr. Aizawa?”

To that Mr. Aizawa smirked before answering,

“You’ll have to figure that out, won’t you? The first pair to go up against one another will be Kanamori and Midoriya take your places in the center of the field. I brought you out here today so you could go all out without being confined. I won’t be calling ready, everything from the start to the finish of the might will be up to you. If you’re not ready to give up, then don’t.”

The class watched as the two made their way to the separate parts of the field, both taking their stances. Deku got down into a crouch waiting for Akio to get over to hers, as she did, Akio brought out her swords repeatedly striking on against the other until she had a slight purple glow about her. Completely charged up she motioned for Midoriya to come closer as he charged over towards her. Right as he got in front of her she used the air current he had created to gracefully turn rolling along his side. As she got to his back, the class watched as she sent a harsh elbow into his back and hooking her foot about his ankle to send him towards the dirt. He caught himself in a roll before righting himself to backflip over her, her eyes following his movements. As his feet were about to hit the ground, she sent a blast of energy sweeping towards his feet with her channelers, hopefully forcing him to land face first in the ground. As the blast threw off his balance, he put his hands down to throw himself backwards away from her to be able to take time to figure out his next move.

‘She’s trying to keep her attacks constant so I can never have a chance to catch myself. I need to start making my movements unpredictable to keep her from being able to make her next move’

As his feet planted on the ground, he sent a punch at the air to use it to force her back, she put up her swords to act as a barrier as she was shot back several feet. He sped towards her using One for All to boost his speed, he swung a right hook towards her shoulder to try and knock her off balance. As it connected to her shoulder, he watched her skin glow as she absorbed the shock as it rippled through her body. She rolled towards the side letting out a pained sound which had the whole class stepping towards the fight. Midoriya immediately stopped asking,

“Akio! Are you alright?”

With shaky legs Akio stood again before saying,

“This is the power that you keep inside you all the time?”

Her channelers had been tucked into their holder as she threw her arms out to the side, purplish white lightning began crackling around her. Almost the exact same as Midoriya’s own green lightning, she smirked as she said.

“Now I guess were quite evenly matched.”

Izuku’s eyes widened as he took her in,

‘She was able to absorb One for All! How on earth was she able to do that? Monoma had tried once on a dare and he’d been sent to Recovery Girl for a week trying to heal himself from the power he took in. I’m only using One for All at 5% so if I increase my usage, I can beat her, she doesn’t know how to use it.’

The two threw themselves towards each other, catching one another in the middle, from there it was a battle of brute strength. Or so Izuku thought, as he was so focused on overpowering her and watching where their hands were interlocked. He hadn’t noticed her leg until in connected to his stomach, she used the opportunity given by throwing herself backwards so she could throw him over her. As his back connected with the ground, he let out a pained grunt, his eyes closing before he felt a weight on top of him. Akio had sat straddled on his chest with a sword at his throat, the other pointed in the top of his chest. Her right leg was stretched out using her heel to pin his wrist to the ground while her left knee dug into his bicep to keep him from raising his left arm. The toe of her boot digging into his ribs from where she was perched on top of him. She gave him a friendly smile before saying,

“So Deku, how’re you going to get out of this one?”

Midoriya considered her options but any of them would’ve involved him either getting stabbed in the chest or his throat being slit open. He tried to kick his legs up to try and grab her with them to throw her off, but she simply took the sword from his throat to block his legs with the flat of her blade. He huffed a bit before saying,

“You’ve got me pinned; I give.”

She sheathed her channelers before climbing off his chest to give him a hand up, the class roared with cheers and applause. The two walked back to the group before standing in front of the group, Aizawa looked to the class before saying.

“Why was Kanamori the winner of this fight?”

Iida’s hand shot up with Aizawa inclining his head to which Iida sharply answered,

“Akio always kept Midoriya from being able to plan his next move, she constantly kept him off balance to keep him from making a plan. When she had him pinned, she was sure to keep her wits about her therefore acknowledging that Midoriya’s legs would be his next move and was sure that she could counter it.”

Midoriya rubbed the back of his neck before looking through the class and noticing the death glare Kacchan was giving him, if looks could kill. He’d be nothing but a burnt pile of ashes on the ground, he looked over to Akio. She smiled at him with a wink before mouthing,

“Don’t worry about him.”

He nodded to her while Aizawa corrected their fight explaining that they both fought well and smartly giving their opponents. Making a quick note to Akio that it was dangerous for her to absorb Midoriya’s quirk even when he himself was still learning to control it. She took the feedback, the two bowed to him before returning to their places in line. Midoriya in between Todoroki and Iida while Akio went to stand between Bakugou and Kirishima, he pulled her into a side hug saying how great she did. Kaminari reached around Bakugou to give her a fist bump as Bakugou growled at him, Akio bumped Bakugou’s shoulder before quietly saying.

“Stop giving Izuku death glares I’m fine I promise.”

Her focus back on the two in front of her as Todoroki and Mina went to the field to begin their sparring. Bakugou’s thoughts swirled in his mind,

‘As if he could ever get on her fucking level, she’s been the number one pro hero before for fucks sake. I’m not worried about her getting hurt.’

He was angrier over the fact that the girl he had a crush on was sitting on top of Deku, in all honesty he would’ve loved to have been in his place. Akio had taken to resting on whoever was around her at the current time, so she had rested her arm against his left shoulder and had her head pillowed on her arm. The amount on energy that she’d taken from Izuku taking a toll on her as she let the energy drain from her, Bakugou saw the light glow from her skin as the energy that was previously held in her ribs escape. Even in her heels she still wasn’t all that tall, most of the boys in the class had growth spurts during their first year and with them being three fourths of the way done with their second year they’d had plenty of time to grow. Bakugou now stood at 6’2 with Kirishima being 5’11, Akio was a tad bit shorter than Kirishima in her heels. When she was barefoot, she probably stood at 5’5 which was absolutely adorable not that Bakugou would ever admit to thinking that. As the class went throughout their sparring some ending expectedly others had grown and were now becoming forces to be reckoned with. Aizawa called out,

“Kanamori and Todoroki you’re up next, that will be the last match for today. After that clean up and head back to the classroom, your next class is with Present Mic.”

Akio made her was from in between Kirishima and Bakugou saying,

“Wish me luck.”

Kirishima called out after her.

“You don’t need luck, you’ll be great!”

Bakugou scoffed before yelling out,

“Kick IcyHot’s ass Kio!”

The two made their way out onto the field to battle with their fight beginning, the two were quite evenly matched. They had received similar training, although while Todoroki’s came from his father. Akio’s came from her mother, no one knew at UA except for Aizawa. Akio hadn’t told anyone about her abusive upbringing from her mother and the horrors of it, she wasn’t ready to tell her friends yet. Aizawa had found out by finding her crying on the stairs late one night between the fifth floor and the roof.

Akio’s muffled sobs rang quietly through the stairway, one of her hands covered her mouth while the other was wound into her lilac hair. She had just gotten off the phone with her mother before she had walked to the stairs,

“What do you mean you haven’t been working towards a pro hero yet?!”

Akio pulled her ear away from the phone to get away from her mother’s yelling,

“Mom I’m focusing on my studies a- “

“I don’t want to hear another damn excuse; you were already the number one her in America! What means you can’t do it over there!? You’re fucking useless Akio, god I wish I never had you sometimes. All you ever do is disappoint me; you’ve never once given me a reason to be proud of you. If it wasn’t for your father, I would’ve sold you to the government years ago. The only reason I keep you is, so I have a legacy whenever I’m gone, childbirth is useless and put me out of commission and that’s the only reason I’m not doing it again. I sent you to Japan so I could have the number one hero spot back here. You’ve only ever gotten in my way and good god, maybe it’ll be best if you rot away in that school there. You can be number one hero there and you will! Do you know how good it would look for me if I was the number one hero and my offspring was the number one hero in Japan? I would be admired even more than I am now! I’m not going to let you waste the training I gave to you for the last fourteen years of your life go to waste! You become useful or maybe I just won’t have a reason to keep you around anymore. You remember what you are don’t you? You’re a monster, you can’t be capable of love or emotions. You’re not the same as other people, so why should they treat you like one? You parade around with this mask and people applaud it, but you know what you’re capable of. You could shatter the world, no one would consider that a person let alone a human being. You’re only good for destruction and death. You know that, you know you’re a monster.”

With that the call ended, the silence was deafening. Akio felt her shoulders begin to shake before she even realized that the tears were falling. She had woken up at one am for her mother to scream at her about how worthless she was once again. Sometimes Akio wondered how her father did it, but he was forced to. His family had sold him off to be married to her mother for his quirk, he could absorb energy and her mother could create it. So, when Akio quirk was diagnosed her mother was ecstatic, she had created the perfect offspring. From there it was grueling training day into day out, her mother kept doctors and people with healing quirks on sight so as she broke her daughter. The doctors could fix her, she never had a day off. Lilith Kanamori was a monster, but her army of lawyers made sure no one ever knew, all of her staff signed Non-Disclosure agreements before they were even allowed for an interview for the position they were being hired for. Her Uncle FatGum and Uncle Toshi were the only people who really knew the extent of the horrors that she’d been through.

As Akio sat on the steps quietly crying, she heard movement from in front of her. She quickly brought her hand up an energy blast ready to go from whatever threat was about to come at her. Any time she had cried her mother was there to beat the weakness out of her, every time before her had entered her mind as her head flew up. Mr. Aizawa’s hair floated up around him as he eliminated her quirk, the ball of energy quickly fading away. Akio took a shaky breath, the buzzing in her ribs finally going away for a minute. It was always there, the constant feeling of the energy beneath her skin. She had learned to live with it, but having it go away for even just the slightest amount of time. It made her feel human again. As Aizawa blinked again she felt the buzz return to her ribs as she let out a shaky sob. He reached out to put a hand on her shoulder, as he did, she began to break down. Her resolve of never crying in front of anyone breaking down as the man in front of her took her into a hug. She grabbed tightly onto the back of his black sweater as she cried, sixteen years of pain coming out as Mr. Aizawa hugged her. Once she got through the shuttering sobs she spoke quietly,

“She doesn’t want me, I’m only a disappointment to her. I’m a tool to continue her legacy and make her look good. To her I’m a monster, I don’t deserve love. I don’t deserve the people here they actually treat me like I’m a person.”

Aizawa was quiet as his grip on Akio’s shoulder tightened, how could someone actually say that to someone they’d given birth to. He pulled her away from him to look her in the eyes, cloudy blue and red eyes stared back at him.

“Akio you are not a monster. You are a person and a wonderful person at that, your mother completely missed out on the amazing person you’ve become. You’re an outstanding student and one of the best heroes I’ve ever had the honor of training. If all she can see is what she’s told herself to see, then she has missed out on the most wonderful person that I’ve ever met in my life.”

Akio began to cry again as he hugged her, the two had talked for hours after that. Mr. Aizawa finally understood why she flinched at someone who moved to quickly towards her, why she trained as hard as she did. Little did either of them know that someone had been on the staircase who’d heard what Akio had said before quietly making his way back down the stairs.

She had told him everything as she felt he was someone she could trust, only Mr. Aizawa, her Uncle Toshi, and her Uncle FatGum. Both were old friends of her family, Uncle FatGum was a friend of her fathers and All Might had met her mother in his time in America. He stayed in touch to try and protect Akio the best he could. When her mother had talked about sending her to UA, Toshi was more than happy to act as her guardian while she stayed in Japan.

The two students went blow for blow as everyone watched from the sidelines, as Akio flipped in the air to avoid being hit by the flames that came from Todoroki’s left side. As she did Mineta’s voice rang from the line of students,

“C’mon Todoroki you can beat someone who’s own mother doesn’t want them!”

In that moment Akio froze, hearing the voice ring across the field had rendered her immobile. Someone knew, probably the one person she didn’t want to know most. She stumbled as she hit the ground before Todoroki sent a blast of ice her way not noticing that she had completely fallen out of focus until it was too late. The blast of ice sent her flying back into the wooden doors of the gym, the harsh sound of wood cracking as her body was thrown though it echoed across the field. Everyone had screamed out her name or screamed loudly as her body went flying, the entire class ran over. Bakugou blasting his way over there the quickest, Kirishima running as fast as his legs could carry him. The two were throwing away chunks of ice and pieces of wood as the uncovered Akio’s body, she was out cold with scrapes and bruised forming where the arms of her suit had been cut. She hadn’t absorbed any of the impact, she had taken every bit of it. Aizawa had wrapped up Mineta in his scarf glowering at him before saying,

“You’re going to go to Principal Nezu’s office and you’re going to wait for me, we are going to have a talk about this.”

With that he unwrapped Mineta as he ran away as fast as his legs could carry him, getting away before any of his classmates could notice. Bakugou and Kirishima would kill him if they were given the chance, he didn’t want to give them that chance. He was more concerned about saving his own skin at the moment to care what had happened to Akio.

Bakugou had picked up Akio’s upper half and was trying to wake her, Kirishima was holding her head in his lap as he too tried to wake her.

“Akio! Fucking damnit wake up please!”

“Akio c’mon please we need you to wake up we need to be sure you’re okay.”

Mr. Aizawa walked through the crowd of his students before Todoroki grabbed his wrist,

“I’m sorry I didn’t, I didn’t mean for-”

Mr. Aizawa put his hand on Todoroki’s shoulder before saying,

“Todoroki it’s okay you didn’t mean to hurt her; she was unfocused because of something Mineta said. You were in the middle of sparring and it was high energy, you couldn’t have known that it was going to happen.”

Bakugou was too focused on waking Akio to even say anything to Todoroki, something that surprised Midoriya more than anything. Him and Kirishima’s sole focus was on waking Akio and making sure she was okay. Mr. Aizawa went over to the other side of Akio kneeling with the boys that were currently holding her, he reached out to feel her pulse which was still going steady. Her breathing was a bit more uneven as she probably had a few broken ribs from being thrown through the doors. He went to pick her up as Kirishima put a hardened arm in front of him and Bakugou pulled Akio’s body closer to him with a growl. Mr. Aizawa quickly eliminated both their quirks before saying,

“I need to take her to Recovery Girl to check on her, you both need to calm down. If she stays here, we risk her having internal bleeding and we can’t wait around to see if that’s the case or not.”

Kaminari put his hand on Kirishima’s shoulder to try and coax him into giving Akio to Mr. Aizawa. Todoroki, Midoriya, Shouji, Sero, and Iida pulled Bakugou back before he had a chance to react and he fought them as Mr. Aizawa picked up Akio’s limp body before saying,

“Everyone go clean up and head back to class, I’ll come let you know how she’s doing once Recovery Girl has had a chance to look her over. She’ll be okay, but you all need to focus on your next class. If anyone decides to disobey that, you’ll all be getting a pop quiz next class and a weeks’ worth of detention with me.”

The class watched their teacher walk away from them with their friend in his arms, Bakugou’s echoes followed him as he shouted at his classmates to let him go. Kirishima finally stopped watching his teacher walk away to go over and calm Bakugou down. If anyone could do it, it would be Kirishima, the boy let go of Bakugou to let Kirishima pull him into a hug and speak to him quietly. The class watched as Bakugou slowly began to calm down as Kirishima let his head rest on Bakugou’s shoulder. He pulled back and grabbed Bakugou’s wrist to pull him towards the locker rooms, the rest of their class following.

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Fuzzy pain was spread throughout Akio’s back and ribs, as she slowly clawed her ways towards consciousness, she felt the warmth of a thick blanket over her. Shifting her weight forward to sit up sharp pain in her ribs and spine made her eyes shoot open. A gasp forced its way up her throat as she quickly laid back down, a small soft pair of hands guiding her back down onto her pillows. Akio looked over to see Recovery Girl’s smiling face looking down at her,

“Easy dearie, you’re going to hurt yourself worse if you try anything strenuous.”

Akio’s hand went up to rub her eyes before remembering the lashes on her eyes and the liner that she’d put on this morning. She put her hand down to lay it in Recovery Girl’s smaller one,

“What happened? I feel like I got run over by a truck and then they put it in reverse to run me over another time.”

It was then that Aizawa spoke from the chair he had been previously napping in,

“You and Todoroki were sparring before Mineta said something that threw you off balance, you didn’t dodge one of his ice blasts in time. It threw you back into the doors of the gym which you were thrown through, you didn’t absorb any of it. You took getting thrown through a door full on.”

Akio allowed Recovery Girl to sit her up as she clambered onto a chair to give Akio a kiss on the forehead, as she felt the pain in her back and ribs begin to ease, she let out a heavy sigh. She looked back over to Aizawa as Recovery Girl looked at the bandages that were covering her scratches from the pieces of wood had given her seeing that they had reduced to little scars or had completely faded.

“How long have I been asleep?”

Aizawa nodded to the window where the sun was setting, beautiful oranges, purples mixed together in the sky as the last rays of sun painted the ceiling in the infirmary.

“The whole class wanted to be in here to check on you, but I sent them back to the dorms and told them you’d be back soon after you woke up. They had questions but I didn’t answer them, I figured you’d want to do that.”

Aizawa watched as a flicker of terror overcame Akio’s face at the thought of telling her friends about everything that had happened to her, he quickly added.

“But you don’t have to tell them yet, not if you’re not ready. Akio they all care about you and you know they won’t make you talk about it if you don’t want to.”

With that note she visibly calmed down, Akio closed her eyes for a moment to pull her lilac locks into a large twisted bun on her head. Recovery Girl’s eyes met Aizawa’s as she quirked an eyebrow, he shook his head, the smallest tell of a frown on his lips. As Akio opened her eyes again Aizawa spoke,

“Ashido dropped off some clothes so you wouldn’t have to walk back in your hero costume, go ahead and get changed before we walk back to the Heights. I’ll be waiting outside; take your time Akio those injuries are serious.”

He set a bright pink duffle bag down gently on the bed before walking towards the door and shutting it behind him with a click. Recovery Girl walked over from where she had been sitting in her chair to pull the privacy curtain around her to allow Akio to get dressed. Akio smiled at the older lady gratefully before reaching into the bag to fish out what Mina had brought for her, as her hands grabbed onto her very well-loved black vans. She then pulled out a pair of socks and black Nike running shorts before she grabbed a t-shirt and a jacket. Neither of which looked familiar, Akio shrugged thinking.

‘Maybe Mina threw in her clothes because she couldn’t get into my room.’

She began pulling off her costume making small pained noises as her top pulled against her back. After being able to get her costume off, she pulled the t-shirt over her had grateful that the fabric was loose and not constricting against her ribs. It was comfortable and well worn, the red fabric had dulled with many washes. Akio then leaned against the bed to pull her shorts on, after almost slipping on the floor Recovery Girl’s voice rang through the curtain.

“Are you doing alright dearie? Do you need any help?”

“No ma’am I’m alright, I just slipped a little bit. I’m almost done and then I’ll be out of your hair, thank you for healing me, I’m very grateful.”

“Oh dearie it is my job after all, if you want to talk about people being in my hair you should talk about the boys that were sitting in the hall for three hours before Aizawa told them to go back to the dorms. The red-haired boy with the shark’s teeth and the one with the terrible temper.”

Akio had grown silent after hearing that, Bakugou and Kirishima had been waiting for three hours just to make sure she was alright? A small smile graced her lips along with a blush over her freckled cheeks. With that she pulled on the black zip up hoodie, both the jacket and the shirt were noticeably big on her. The shirt settled past her shorts on the middle of her thigh and the jacket was a slight bit longer than that. After settling back on the bed, she slipped on the socks and slip on her shoes before stuffing her channelers and costume in her bag. She pulled the curtain back with the bag on her shoulders with a smile, Recovery Girl smiled back and gave her a quick hug before telling her to come back on Saturday and Sunday so she could check on her injuries. Akio thanked her again before walking out the door to see Aizawa getting up from his chair so the two could begin their walk back to Heights Alliance. The two walked in the dimming light of the sun before Aizawa spoke up,

“Principal Nezu and I spoke with Mineta following what happened on the PE field today, along with many of the ladies in your class who he’s harassed. I’ve spoken with him in the past about having him expelled but without evidence we couldn’t do anything. But this time around all the girls were happy to show any evidence that they had which unfortunately was a lot. After reviewing everything, Principal Nezu agreed that it would be for the best interest of our female students that Mineta be removed from UA. I haven’t told the rest of the class yet, but I imagine they’ll want to have a celebration whenever I do.”

Akio laughed at that before grabbing her sides, her ribs still ached as most of them were still sprained. Recovery Girl was only able to fix her broken ribs with how little energy Akio had after waking up. Aizawa rested his hand on her shoulder making sure she was alright before the two resumed their walk. With that Aizawa began speaking again,

“The class was very concerned about you, a lot of them asked what Mineta meant whenever he said what he did. I told them that I would allow you to bring it up to them, but to not question you about it. That you’d tell them when you’re ready.”

Akio looked to Aizawa gratefully before saying,

“I was just caught completely off guard by it, the only people who know about everything is you, me, All Might, and FatGum along with my parents of course. I can only guess that he overheard you and I talking the night I was in the stairwell. I hadn’t told anyone about it before and the fact that he knew, and he was one of the people I didn’t want to know most. I don’t think I could handle it if even one of them thought of me as a monster, I love and respect them all so much. It would be very hard for them to think of me in that respect.”

Aizawa stopped the two of them a little ways down from the doors before turning her to look at him before saying,

“Akio all of the students here view you in the same way I do, you even have respect from Bakugou and from what I’ve seen in the past two years that’s something that’s very hard to come by. A lot of people’s quirks in 1-A are deadly and without control they could do serious damage just like yours can. I highly doubt that they’ll think any less of you if you do decide to tell them, but this is your choice and if you’re not ready to tell them then you be no means have to. Also, you have some visitors when you get into the dorms.”

With that the two walked towards the entrance of Heights Alliance, Aizawa stopping to open the door for Akio as she walked inside. She walked into the room and slipped her shoes off and put on her slippers before walking towards the common room, as she rounded the corner Momo’s eyes caught hers as Akio noticed all of 2-A and a few people from 2-B gathered on the couches and floor. With that she also noticed her Uncle Toshi and Uncle FatGum sitting with the teenagers, Momo then stood saying,

“Akio! Are you okay? We were all so terribly worried.”

The rest of the group had noticed that Akio and Aizawa had entered the common room and began getting up to run over to her, her Uncle FatGum made it to her first swooping in the pull her into a big hug.

“My little niece! Toshi called me and told me what happened, and I came to check on you!”

Akio’s reply came muffled as she was pressed into his chest, he pull her back in his hands, so her feet dangled a few feet off the ground. She laughed before saying again,

“I’m alright Uncle Toyo, I promise. My ribs and back still hurt since Recovery Girl wasn’t able to fully heal them with how much energy I’d already los- “

“Oh my gosh! And I just picked you up and crushed you! I’m so sorry my little niece!”

Akio patted his right arm before saying,

“Uncle Toyo it’s really alright, I’ve been through worse and this is nothing compared to any of that.”

FatGum looked at her a bit sadly before seeing Toshinori at his side waiting for FatGum to set her down, with that he moved to gently set her down on the ground before Toshinori pulled her into a hug. He spoke quiet English to her saying,

“I know you already told him you’re alright but how’re you doing mentally? Aizawa told me what happened and what young Mineta had said, I know that undoubtedly shook you a bit.”

She pulled away a bit before replying,

“I’ll be alright I promise Uncle Toshi, and he’s gone now. It’s more so telling everyone else that’ll be a bit harder but for now let me tell them I’m okay.”

Toshinori let her go as FatGum moved so the rest of the classes could see her, Todoroki was the first to walk up to her bowing before saying.

“Akio I’m so sorry for hurting you, I know it was in sparring, but I should’ve noticed that you had gotten distracted.”

Akio leaned down to where Todoroki’s head was to pull him back up with a hand on his shoulder saying,

“Todoroki it’s okay I promise, we were sparring and in that you have to react quickly. We were in the heat of the moment and I don’t hold you accountable for my injuries at all. If anything, it’s my fault for getting distracted and allowing myself to be caught defenseless.”

Todoroki went to argue with her, but she held her hand up before shaking her head at him with a smile. As he stepped back Kirishima rushed up to her pulling her into the gentlest hug that he could without crushing her. She hugged him back while putting her head on his shoulder, she rubbed the top of his back with one of her hands as the other balled into the shirt he was wearing.

“Akio you scared the living daylights out of me, Bakugou and I were so worried when we couldn’t wake you up. I was scared that we’d los- “

“Kiri it’s okay, I’m here now and I’m fine. Recovery Girl has me coming in tomorrow and Sunday to check on my ribs and my back, I’m going to be fine and back to myself soon.”

She ran her hand through his hair to calm him as the redhead leaned down a bit more to give her a little squeeze before pulling back. Akio had looked over his shoulder to see Bakugou stand a small ways behind Kirishima, he glared at the floor like it had personally wrong him and he was going to blast it to hell for that. With that she didn’t notice how Kirishima had looked at the shirt she was wearing and blushed, his bottom lip was pulled by his sharp teeth as he moved out of the way for Akio to walk up to Bakugou.

“I know it was pretty weak of me to get thrown through those doors without absorbing it, but will you look at me firecracker?”

Bakugou’s eyes shot up to meet her as he quickly pulled her into a hug saying,

“You’re not fucking weak Kio; you’re standing here after being thrown through a damn door and that’s not fucking weak to me you got that?”

Akio let the shock of being pulled into a hug subside as she smiled into his shoulder nodding her head,

“Thanks Firecracker.”

With that he pulled away and the girls of Class 2-A pulled her into a big group hug all firing off questions asking if she was in pain or if she needed anything at all. With all the commotion Akio didn’t notice Bakugou’s eyes go wide then glare at the ground as a blush similar to Kirishima’s dusted his cheeks as he took in her jacket. Mina noticed from where the girls still had Akio pulled into a group hug, she made eye contact with the two boys and wiggled her eyebrows as Akio pulled away to look at Mina saying.

“Thank you for bringing me the clothes Mina, I definitely didn’t want to walk back to the dorms in those heels. I’ll return the clothes to you as soon as I wash them.”

Mina grinned like a Cheshire Cat before saying,

“You’ll just have to give me back the shorts and the socks, you’ll have to give the t-shirt back to Kirishima and the jacket back to Bakugou.”

It was in that moment that Akio finally took a second to look down at the clothes she was wearing and really took them in. The soft and worn dark red shirt she was wearing had the emblem of Crimson Riot on it and the jacket had a tell-tale skull on the front of it. She blushed heavily before turning to the two bowing to say,

“I’m so sorry you guys I didn’t realize these were yours I’ll have them back to you later tonight!”

Kirishima rubbed his neck and squished his eyes closed before bashfully saying,

“I-it’s no rush at all, you can hold onto it for a bit if you need to. I’m not dying to wear it anytime soon so you can hold onto it until you’ve got time to wash it.”

Bakugou continued glaring at the ground as he let out a grunt before saying,

“Fucking same here Kio, just don’t get anything on it or I’ll get you for it.”

Akio smiled warmly at the two boys, a blush still playing on her freckled cheeks as her attention was turned to a teary eyed Izuku and Shouji along with Tokoyami who all took turns asking how she was doing. Akio hugged Izuku reassuring him that she was there, and she was alright, she held the hand extended to her by Shouji as she knew he wasn’t a huge fan of hugs and only gave them out once in a blue moon. Dark Shadow came from Tokoyami to nuzzle at her cheek as she petted him, and she smiled and nodded to Tokoyami who did the same in return with a smile making a comment about how he was glad that she didn’t succumb to the darkness. Shouji translated saying that he was glad that she was okay. Bakugou and Kirishima both looked to her with a fond smile until they caught each other’s eyes and Kirishima looked to the ground bashfully while Bakugou glared in the other direction. Tetsutetsu and Kendo came up to her enveloping her in a hug as Tetsutetsu said,

“We’re really glad you’re okay Kio, Kirishima here was about to wear a line in the carpet from how much he was pacing, and we thought Bakugou was going to level the building when Aizawa told him he had to wait here.”

Akio laughed at that to which she said,

“Well it’s definitely a good thing that I’m alright then isn’t it?”

Kendo nodded while Tetsutetsu released her from the side hug he’d pulled her into. After the rest of the class had been reassured that she’d make a full recovery they all sat down to enjoy the dinner that FatGum had brought them. After pleasant conversations and a fair well and goodnight from FatGum and Toshinori, the group retreated to the couches in the common room. Kendo and Tetsutetsu wished the group a good night as they went to return to the 2-B dorms, the door shutting behind them. Aizawa retreated to his room telling the group to get him only if it was absolutely necessary but before he did, he called everyone’s attention to him.

“As you’re all aware, Akio’s injuries today resulted from Mineta saying something to her during training.”

As he spoke the first sentence Akio’s eyes were cast down towards the floor, Kirishima rubbed her arm in a supporting manner while the arm Bakugou had over the back of the couch curled around her shoulders protectively.

“After speaking with Principal Nezu it became obvious that Mineta was doing more harm than good in the hero program here and that anywhere he was going to go that he would be a problem there. So, after the girls provided us with evidence that proved the harassment claims the ladies of 2-A had made we came together on the decision that it would be best to remove him from UA. He cleared out his dorm today and will not be returning, I want to apologize to the ladies in the class that I couldn’t have done anything sooner.”

With that the class erupted in cheers, Iida making a comment that this wasn’t appropriate behavior before a small smile pulled at his lips. Finally, glad that he and the rest of the boys in Class 2-A wouldn’t have to constantly thwart his attempts at harassment and assault towards the girls in 2-A. With that Aizawa said goodnight to the group of teenagers before closing the door to the teacher’s quarters. The group decided that in celebration of Akio’s recovery and Mineta’s expulsion, they would have a dorm game night. Sero, Kaminari, Kirishima, Bakugou, Midoriya, Todoroki, Mina, Shinsou, and Jirou had taken to playing Mario Kart with loud jeers and cursing coming from the group. The cursing mainly came from Bakugou as expected. Sato, Koda, Ojiro, and Hagakure were in the kitchen as Sato began baking some treats for the class. Uraraka, Tsuyu, Akio, Momo, Aoyama, Iida, Shouji, and Tokoyami sat in a circle a little bit away from the loud group at the TV to play Uno. It was very rare that the entire class joined in for their game night but tonight was a special occasion.

“Akio, Kirishima and Bakugou were really worried about you when you wouldn’t wake up. Kaminari had to pull Kirishima back and a few of the guys had to force Bakugou to give you to Aizawa to take you to Recovery Girl.”

Uraraka said as she put down a blue two to which her girlfriend next to her put down a green two making the group groan at the change of colors. Tsuyu looked to her before saying,

“Uraraka’s right ribbit, the two of them were really worried. More so than the rest of the class, of course we were all extremely concerned ribbit.”

Akio looked over to where the two boys were sitting in front of the TV, Bakugou was racing against Sero with the rest of the group cheering them on. Kirishima was next to Bakugou commenting on how well he was doing, Kaminari was excitedly cheering from where he was seated in his boyfriend’s lap. How Shinsou was dozing with all the noise around them was beyond Kio, he was leaned against Kaminari’s back with his arms wrapped loosely around his waist. She smiled at the group before letting out a soft,

“Uh-ha, yeah.”

The group smiled as Momo put down another green card saying,

“You know one might say that the two might have a crush on you too.”

Kio’s head whipped over to where the long haired ravenette sat next to her looking at her wildly,

“Momo I highly doubt that, they’re well they’re them and I’m me.”

With that she looked down at the pile in front of them placing down a draw four card and changing the color to red as Iida looked through his cards furiously before drawing four. He looked over to Akio and put a hand on her shoulder, he looked at Akio surprising her by softly speaking in favor of his normal loud declarative voice saying,

“Well who you are is an amazing person Akio and they’d be extremely lucky to have you. If they don’t feel the same way, then they’re at a complete loss and everyone here would agree with me.”

All the group nodded while some expressed verbal agreement, Aoyama spoke up from where he was sitting next to Iida.

“Oui mon amore, you’re stunning and an amazing hero! Any gentleman lucky enough to court you would surely have the world in their hands. You’re the sweetest person here next to Midoriya and we’ve all noticed the way those two look at you.”

Akio raised a brow before saying,

“How they look at me?”

Dark Shadow came from Tokoyami’s shoulder as he loudly said,

“You mean those two hopeless idiots?”

Tokoyami loudly exclaimed for Dark Shadow to quite down, thankfully the group by the TV was too invested in their race to hear what Dark Shadow had said. The group playing Uno all let out a collective sigh of relief, before then continuing to play their game. Shouji then spoke up quietly gathering the attention of the group saying,

“They look at you like you’re their world Akio, I know because I remember having the same look whenever I look at Fumikage.”

Everyone could see Tokoyami’s blush through his feathers as Dark Shadow appeared to coo at him softly and nuzzled Shouji’s cheek, to which one of Shouji’s hands patted Dark Shadow’s head while another rested on Tokoyami’s knee. Akio let out a distressed noise as she hid behind her cards, the group laughed and Momo nudged her shoulder in favor of her ribs. It was then that Bakuogu’s voice rang through the living area,

“Kio those extra’s aren’t bothering you, are they?”

Kirishima’s head popped from behind him asking,

“Are you okay? Your ribs aren’t hurting, or anything are they?”

With quick reassurance that she wasn’t hurting and that no one was bothering her the two went back to their game as Kirishima began his race against Todoroki. Bakugou gave a lingering glare at the group before looking back to where Kirishima was currently getting beat. He then yelled that Kirishima better win, Akio laughed at the two’s antics before returning to the game. The group continued on with their game with some exclamations when a draw two then turned into a draw six and it seemed like everyone had a draw two or draw four and kept piling on until somehow it got to a draw 32. Akio started to get nervous as Uraraka set down another draw two and looked to Tsuyu hoping that her girlfriend had a card to add on and wouldn’t be forced to take the 34 cards. Tsuyu smiled at her happily before putting down a draw four. It was at that point that Akio started murmuring,

“No, no, no, no, please no.”

She looked at Momo with a pleading glance, her murmuring at drawn the attention of the group playing Mario Kart. Who all looked over, Bakugou standing as he’d heard her declarations of “no’s” Kirishima doing the same. Akio looked at Momo saying,

“Momo please I beg of you please for the love of everything tell me that you don’t have another addition card I do not want to have to pick up 40 cards please!”

Momo looked extremely conflicted before she sat down a draw four card, Akio then buried her face in her hands. She was about to win and now she’d have to draw 42 cards! The group laughed as Iida sympathetically patted her shoulder while Momo’s exclamations of “I’m so sorry Kio I had to!” As Akio went to draw her cards Bakugou laid down on his chest in the space in between Momo and Akio as he picked up 7 cards and then an additional 42. He slammed down a change the color before saying,

“Change the fucking color to red, if you don’t have a red Kio, I’m going to kill you.”

No one had to know that Bakugou had already looked at the last card she’d been holding to her chest before he’d taken his place on the floor next to her. Akio slapped down her red card before shouting with a huge grin on her face as the rest of the group exclaimed that it wasn’t fair and that Bakugou couldn’t do that. To that he all flipped them the bird raising his right arm, as he did that Akio rolled into his arms so that he was on his back and she was halfway on his chest with her hips still rest on the floor. Bakugou looked shocked at what Kio had done but before he could do anything Kio was off his chest as she sat back up and Kirishima picked her up in a bridal carry. He paraded her around the room with the group of people playing Mario Kart shouting for her victory, Todoroki smiled and Midoriya cheered with the group despite the glares from the Dekusquad. Bakugou had lifted himself onto his elbows as she laughed and gave a slight smirk to where Kirishima was twirling Akio around in his arms. Momo had ceased her shouting in favor of looking at Bakugou before saying,

“You should tell Kirishima and Akio how you feel.”

Bakugou glared at her before looking off to say,

“I don’t know what you’re talking about ponytail.”

Jirou had sat behind her girlfriend and had wrapped her arms around Momo’s shapely waist before saying,

“Bakugou you’re all kinds of obvious, do you know how hard you were blushing whenever you saw her in your jacket? Or how you looked when Kirishima and you met eyes? You’re all in denial that the others are better than they are.”

Bakugou glared at the couple next to him before saying,

“Those two are literally the fucking sun incarnate! I don’t…”

He trailed off before he finished leaving Jirou and Momo to look at him expectedly before he angrily rolled up off his arms to walk over to the kitchen where Sato was finishing baking all his treats. He picked up a cookie and chomped on it angrily as the end of his sentence played in his mind,

‘I don’t want to drag them down with my attitude, I don’t want to dull their sunshine.’

It was then that Mina shouted that all the groups should come together to eat their desserts and play truth or dare, the groups all settled themselves on the floor or the couches as everyone delved into the large pile of sweets on the table in front of them. Shinsou had been woken up by the shouting and was now trying to fall back asleep with Kaminari back in his lap where he was talking to Sero who had an arm wrapped around Mina’s shoulders. Uraraka and Tsuyu sat on the floor in front of them so they’d be able to snack freely. In another one of the armchairs, Sato, Koda, and Tokoyami sat while Shouji sat on the arm of the chair to give the other three some space. Jirou and Momo sat in front of them with Iida talking to Momo about finalizing their plans for the class’ trip to the Karaoke Bar with Present Mic, Midnight, and Ectoplasm the next day. Ojiro and Hagakure sat next to Iida on the floor talking adamantly about a show they both were watching at the time. Midoriya sat on the arm rest of the largest couch with one of Todoroki’s arms behind him not close enough to touch but close enough to see that the bicolored boy was having a gay panic over if he should wrap it around Izuku’s waist or not. Next to Todoroki sat Bakugou who’s arm was wrapped over the back of the couch and laid lightly on Kirishima’s shoulder as Akio sat in between them talking to Shouji and Tokoyami about how the latest chapter of the book they were reading had taken a complete turn after one of the main characters had been murdered. Kirishima watched Akio with a fond look in his eyes as every once in a while, Akio would turn to him to make comments about the book to which he nodded and smiled as he took in her excited hand motions and bright smile. It was then that Mina declared that she’d start the game off,

“Tokoyami truth or dare?”

Tokoyami pondered a bit before saying,

“Truth”

Mina giggled as she said,

“Has Dark Shadow ever accidentally came out while you and Shouji were having fun?”

To that the group laughed loudly, Tokoyami blushed darkly as Shouji looked away from the group already regretting his decision to join the group in their game. Dark Shadow materialized at his mention saying,

“YES! I vowed to never come out unannounced after that.”

This prompted the group to laugh ever harder as even Shouji let out a soft chuckle while Tokoyami glared at him. The game went on with some hilarious dares and truths, Izuku had to eat a spoonful of Bakugou’s hot sauce to which he asked Todoroki to freeze his tongue after because it was so spicy. Tsuyu dared Akio to take off her makeup as no one in the class had seen her without the long false lashes over the delicately applied eyeshadow or dark red lipstick. Akio had gotten up from her seat in between Bakugou and Kirishima to go up to her dorm room, the group made conversation as they waited for her to come back down. A few moments later the elevator dinged, and the group all turned to see Akio who had traded her shorts for black leggings that turned to mesh right under her knees. She had kept Kirishima’s shirt on as well as Bakugou’s jacket, her lilac hair had been released from its bun and her wild curls splayed over her shoulders. she had her hands over her face as she walked out before peeking a blue eyes out and said,

“Are you sure you guys want to see this; I assure you it’s not pretty.”

The classes chorus of reassurance prompted her to remove her hands from her face, as she did a series of wolf whistles and cat calls made her put her hands back over her face as she yelled for her friends to stop. Kirishima who had been eating a piece of Sato’s cake choked a bit as he saw Akio brush a strand of hair away from her face. He beat his chest a bit trying to get himself under control as he though,

‘She’s even more gorgeous without makeup, how on earth did I manage to fall for her even more.’

He stared at the ground for a second before calling above the whistles,

“Kio you look so beautiful!”

This prompted Akio to look at the ground bashfully before taking her seat in between the two boys, Bakugou kept casting looks over to her as she pulled her hair from behind her to let it cascade over her left shoulder. He leaned over to say,

“You know Kirishima and these extras are definitely right, you should go natural more often.”

Akio smiled at him as Kirishima nodded next to them agreeing with Bakugou’s statement. The game had resumed as did the chaos, Momo was dared to play a round of Seven Minutes of Heaven with Jirou to which she blushed and began stuttering about how that wasn’t very proper as her role of Vice Class President. Jirou pulled her into the small janitor’s closet and they emerged the seven minutes later and Momo looked quite happy. Mina had questioned what had happened in there to make Momo so happy after being so opposed in the first place. Momo happily replied that Jirou had played her music from a new band she thought Momo might like and the two had talked about the band. Mina looked a bit disappointed in the answer before Jirou said declaratively,

“I will never ask or force Momo into something she doesn’t want to do so I did something we’d both enjoy.”

The game continued on with Sero getting dared to give Mina a lap dance which she giggled all the way through a Sero gave the most comical lap dance that anyone had ever seen. A few more turns and then it was then Aoyama’s turn, he turned to Bakugou saying,

“Bakugou truth or dare.”

Bakugou gave a triumphant smirk before saying,

“I’m not going to back down from a challenge when I see one, dare!”

With that a few explosions popped off from his hand that wasn’t on the back of the couch resting on the back on Kirishima’s neck. Aoyama giggled before saying,

“I dare you to have Kirishima and Akio sit on your lap for the rest of the game.”

Bakugou glared at the young Frenchman while the explosions from his hand popped off more frequently, Kirishima and Akio met eyes before Akio spoke up,

“Bakugou you don’t have to do the dare it’s okay, we don’t want to make you uncomfortable.”

It was then that Kirishima spoke up to join Akio,

“Yeah man it’s totally okay, it’s always manly to back down from a dare if you’re not comfortable. Besides, I know Kio barely weights anything but I’m not exactly light.”

As Kirishima said the words ‘back down’ the light in Bakugou’s eyes seemed to flare, he stood from the couch quickly, it was at the point that the group thought they would see him storm out in normal Bakugou fashion. To everyone’s surprise he pulled the two up from where they were sitting on the couch over to the unoccupied space on the floor. He sat down with his back leaned against the entertainment center and his legs splayed out as he reached a hand out to Akio as what Jirou said earlier flashed in his mind,

‘I’ll never ask or force Momo into something that she doesn’t want to do.’

Bakugou quickly said,

“Only if you both want to, if you don’t, I won’t force you and I’ll pick truth.”

Everyone balked at that a bit, Bakugou was willing to back down from a challenge if it meant that Kirishima and Akio would be comfortable. The two smiled before Kirishima exclaimed,

“That’s so manly Bakubro! Consent is always manly.”

He looked towards the ceiling with a proud look, Akio laughed at Kirishima’s antics as she took Bakugou’s hand and sat down to settle against his back. He held her hair out of the way and pulled it over to the side so it wouldn’t get caught in between the two of them. She took a similar position to Bakugou and patted the floor in front of her gesturing for Kirishima to sit down in front of her. He got down on the floor and slouched against Akio so that his head was resting on her stomach. Her left leg was splayed out to the side and her right leg was hooked over Kirishima’s shoulder and his hand rested on her shin. Bakugou set her hair down so it rested over her left shoulder and trailed down end on Kirishima’s left shoulder and he wrapped his arms around Akio’s waist. Bakugou glared up at Aoyama saying,

“Is this adequate enough you sparkly motherfucker?”

Aoyama giggled with a reply of “Oui”, as the group continued on with their game the trio on the floor grew more comfortable. Kirishima had started braiding the end of Akio’s hair as it rested on his left shoulder from where Bakugou had set it once the three had gotten comfortable. As the night grew on more yawns could be heard from the group as the time crept towards midnight, it was then that Uraraka suggested that all watch a movie to wind down from their games. Bakugou, Kirishima, and Akio had gotten up to go lay against the couch, it had surprised Kirishima and Akio when the group had began to go and get blankets and pillows. He had gone up to his room and came back with a small mat for the three to lay on, he threw it down and put a blanket over his legs and looked expectantly at the two before Akio and Kirishima looked to one another and smiled. Instead of resuming their earlier position the two of them both laid down in between Bakugou’s legs with their heads pillowed on his chest. Kirishima had wrapped his arm around Bakugou’s waist so he could put his head on his shoulder and Akio could take up most of the expanse of his chest. The living room had grown cold throughout the night, so she cuddled into Kirishima’s chest as she laid back against Bakugou’s, the movie they watched played on the TV. As it grew later and later the two laying on Bakugou’s chest had fallen asleep as Kirishima’s soft snores echoed against Bakugou’s neck. Akio’s slightly uneven breathing against his chest had alarmed them at first but after waking her back up she assured them that it would be normal till her ribs were fully healed. As Bakugou’s thoughts finally calmed and his eyes began to close he felt his phone buzz from where it sat next to him on the mat. He took his right hand from where it had been rubbing circles on Kirishima’s back to pick it up. He glared at the brightness of the screen before being able to focus on what the new group chat, he’d been added to said.

The Bakushimako chat

Racoon eyes: You know you look awful comfortable with those two on your chest

Dunce face: Yeah, I don’t think I’ve ever seen you this calm Bakubro

Eyebags: Kaminari has a point

He glared up at the group sitting on the couch to his right, the group laughed quietly as explosions popped from the hand that he’d lifted from where it had been laying on Akio’s left hip. The slight popping had caused the two laying on his chest to stir Kirishima picking his head up and Akio burrowed further into their chest. After glaring at the group on the couch for making him wake the two up. He resumed rubbing circles on Kirishima’s back and gently running his left hand up and down Akio’s arm. After lightly shushing the two murmuring a quiet, “It’s okay, go back to sleep.” After being sure the two were comfortable and back into their deep sleep Bakugou looked back over to the couch motioning a slicing motion over his throat. Sero had been looking at the chat over Mina’s shoulder and simply given Bakugou a thumbs up as he gestured to the two currently sleeping on his chest,

King Explosion Murder: If you motherfuckers wake them up, you’re all dead.

Racoon eyes: Oh, please there’s no way you’re going to move those two, we’re safe at least until they wake up.

With that he threw is phone down on the floor before giving them one last glare and closing his eyes, enjoying the comfortable weight on his chest and side. The three of them cuddled together was like a furnace, Kirishima was always warm due to his muscle mass and the energy that constantly ran under Akio’s skin kept her warm as well. As Bakugou reveled in their warmth his mind wandered back to his earlier thought of what Momo and Jirou had said, the two of them really thought that he was too good for them? He was a loud and abrasive boy who was terrible at dealing with his emotions and constantly pushed people away. But Akio and Kirishima never let him push them away, they were like little urchins but in the best way. As he opened his eyes emerging from his thoughts, he took in the two sleeping on his chest hoping that maybe they could do it again. It was no secret that Akio was touch starved, she accepted every hug, hand hold, and platonic kiss from the class minus Mineta of course. So, when Mina had brought it up one night when the group was hanging out when Akio had gone out with All Might for the two of them to have dinner one night. The group had all agreed that as long as she was comfortable with it, they’d show her the love that she deserved.