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It hadn’t been as much of a struggle to settle into living in the dorms as they had thought. The class had an abundance of Alphas, a handful of Betas and only four Omegas and everyone thought that there would be fighting to establish territories, especially when it came to Katsuki, but surprisingly everyone settled in just fine.
They had quickly established their own schedules, fitting in times for homework, training, and leisure time, but they all had agreed to make and eat dinner together. Besides classes it was really the one time that the entire class was together at one time. Which made it the perfect opportunity to address issues that affected all of them.
“Umm, before everyone disperses there was something that we wanted to ask.” Izuku announced after dinner one night, two weeks after moving in.
“What is it Midoriya?” Sato asked politely.
“W-well. Denki, Ochaco, Kyoka and I were wondering if…..if you guys would mind if we made a communal nest here in the common room?” Izuku asked nervously.
“Does anyone have any objections?” Momo asked. Nobody raised their hands. They were all more than willing to sacrifice a bit of space for the comfort and health of their omegas.
“It looks like you guys are good.” Tenya said after a few seconds.
Ochaco squealed and hugged Kyoka happily while Izuku and Denki beamed at each other.
“Come on Izuku! Let’s go get the blankets!” Denki cried.
Izuku, Denki and Ochaco ran up stairs to get their supplies. Kyoka huffed out a laugh but didn’t get out of her seat to go help.
“What’s wrong ears? Not excited for a cuddle party?” Katsuki asked.
“It’s just not my thing. I might get in it every now and then, but I appreciate my own space more.” She explained.
“Fair enough. Well, we all better go up to our rooms and pick out something for their nest. They’re gonna want all of our scents in it.”
The group headed upstairs to go through their things, except for the people who were on dishwashing duty that night. Katsuki patted Kyoka on the shoulder as he walked past.
The elevator opens and the three omegas came out, their arms overloaded with blankets and pillows. The couch and tables are moved back a few feet so they can set up the nest between the TV and the coffee tables. UA provided extra nesting materials to all omega students and when they had told Aizawa about wanting to set up a communal nest their teacher had been able to get them even more so they didn’t have to dismantle their own nests to make it.
Two nesting pads were pushed together on the floor and pillows lined the outside of it to make an edge. Blankets were layered over the pads, some were layered on the bottom and others would be used as normal blankets. It was large enough that all four of them could be in in comfortably, but still cozy enough to provide that warm nest feeling. As the rest of the class wandered down with their nest gifts they handed them to one of the four omegas, who accepted the clothing and placed it in a special spot around the edge.
Izuku was tucking a pair of Tenya’s sweatpants in when he heard Ochaco shriek. He whipped around and saw her stepping back from Mineta who was holding a pair of underwear out towards her.
“Come on Uraraka! You accepted everyone else’s gifts!” Mineta whined.
“Nobody else tried to give me their underwear! That isn’t going anywhere near our nest!”
Izuku and Denki started towards them when an explosion went off. When the smoke cleared Katsuki was standing in front of Ochaco and the underwear had been exploded into dust.
“You disgusting fuck! Why the hell would you think that they would accept your goddamn underwear!” Katsuki snarled.
“It’s clothing!”
“It’s unsanitary and gross.” Izuku said.
“Congratulations, now we don’t want anything from you. You can keep your stupid scent to yourself.” Denki added.
“But!”
The two of them turned away to keep working on the nest and Tenya pulled Mineta to the side to scold him.
“You alright?” Katsuki asked, turning to face Ochaco.
“I’m fine. Thank you.”
“Tch, it was nothing. Fucker shouldn’t have tried that shit.” Katsuki said before he pulled his long-sleeved shirt off, leaving him in his tank top, and holding it out for her. “Here.”
“Thank you.” She said with a smile, taking the shirt from him.
Once it’s set up the four of them lounge in it for a while, well Kyoka only stayed for a few minutes before leaving. The other three stayed in it until curfew before splitting up to go to bed. The nest ended up being the most used thing in the common room and it was most commonly used after dinner but it wasn’t unusual to see one of the omegas resting it in right after school.
One night it was just Denki in the nest, Ochaco and Izuku had been pulled away for activities with their own squad. He was sore and his back was aching so despite how comfortable the nest was he couldn’t find a comfortable position.
“Den? Everything alright?” Hanta asked from the couch.
“Yeah, I’m just sore and can’t get comfy.”
“Do you want a massage?”
“It’s ok, I’ll be fine.”
Hanta let it drop, not wanting to push Denki. It wasn’t like he could enter the nest anyway. He had gone into Denki’s nest plenty of time, but this was a communal nest and he needed everyone’s permission to go into it. Denki continued to shift around and whimper quietly. Hanta sighed softly before getting up and kneeling next to the nest.
“I’ll be right back.” He said, reaching forwards to scratch at Denki’s head.
“Ok.”
Hanta headed up to Kyoka’s room first, as she would be the easiest to find. Izuku and Ochaco were together, but they could be in any of the Dekusquad’s rooms. He knocked at the door and wasn’t surprised that that Momo was there.
“Sero! What a surprise.” She greeted.
“Hey Yayorozu, is Jiro here?”
“Yes, just a second.” She said before disappearing back into the room. Jiro appeared a few moments later.
“Sero?”
“Hey Jiro. Denki is really sore from training today. I was wondering if it would be alright if I went into the nest to give him a massage?”
“Oh! Ummm, I don’t mind but you’ll have to ask the others.”
“I know, you were just the first one I found. Thanks Jiro.”
“No problem.”
After a bit of searching Hanta found Izuku and Ochaco in Shoto’s room and it was no surprise that Shoto was the one to answer the door.
“Yes?” Shoto asked.
“Hey, is Midoriya and Uraraka here?”
“Yes, come in.”
Hanta smiled thankfully and entered Shoto’s room. Tenya and Tsuyu were seated on the floor, Ochaco cuddled between them, and Izuku was sitting on the bed alone.
“Hey Sero!” Izuku said.
“Hey guys. Listen, Denki is pretty sore after today and he’s hurting. I already asked Jiro, so I was wondering if you two would be okay with me entering the nest so I can give him a massage?” Sero asked. As he talked Shoto came and sat down on the bed next to Izuku.
“Aww that’s so sweet! Of course you can Sero.” Izuku said, a wistful smile on his face.
“I’m fine with it too!” Ochaco chimed in happily.
“Thanks guys!”
Shoto saw him out of the room and Sero hurried back down to the common room. The rest of the bakusquad, minus Bakugo, had gathered and were trying to soothe their omega. Hanta smiled at them and then gently climbed into the nest.
“Come on Den, roll onto your back.” He said, placing a hand on Denki’s shoulder to help roll him over.
“Hanta! You can’t be in here!”
“Shhh, it’s ok. I asked everyone for permission. They all said that it was okay.”
“Oh. You did that for me?”
“Of course I did Denki. I couldn’t just leave you here to suffer.”
“Awwww, Hanta! That’s so cute!” Mina cooed.
Denki blushed and smiled up at Hanta before turning onto his stomach. Hanta straddled his lower back and started the massage, loosening the knots and easing the aches. Denki moaned and melted into the nest. He kept at it until Denki fell asleep and then eased himself out of the nest. He didn’t want to oversaturate it with his scent.
He joined the rest of his packmates and watched their omega sleep. They weren’t an official pack yet, as they hadn’t bonded with each other, but they planned to become official when they graduated. They just had too much to deal with in their last year of school and they didn’t need the added stress of a brand new bond on top of that.
A few weeks later, on a Friday night, the Bakusquad was hanging out in the common room again. This time Katsuki was with them too and they were all relaxing together and playing video games. Katsuki, Hanta and Eijiro were on the couch, Mina was lounging in a chair and Denki was lying in the nest. They had the kitchen light on, but none of the others.
The elevator dinged and Mina leaned her head back to see who had come down. Izuku stumbled out of the elevator, a green rabbit in one arm while his other hand rubbed at his face. He had been out of class that day sick and had even missed dinner with the class, Shoto had brought him a plate but he had barely eaten any of it based off what that had been brought back down.
“Hey Midoribro, what are you doing down here?” Eijiro asked.
“I’m tired.” Izuku whined. He really looked awful and completely exhausted.
“Do you want to go back up to your room and get some sleep?” Hanta asked.
“I can’t!” He said before flopping down into the communal nest and started snuggling into it.
“He want’s all our scents.” Denki explained.
Izuku shivered and started pulling a fluffy blanket over him. Denki abandoned his controller and started to help tuck him in. He bunched the large blanket around Izuku so it was in a little cocoon and Izuku sighed happily when he was done.
“Thanks Denki.” He said, pulling his bunny up towards his face and cuddling it.
“Of course. You get some sleep.” Denki replied.
Izuku hummed and settled down into the blanket. Then suddenly he hiked his leg up and stuck it outside of the blanket so he wouldn’t get too hot before almost immediately falling asleep. Denki laid down and picked up his controller again and then huffed angrily.
“What’s wrong Dunce Face?” Katsuki asked.
“Nothing.” Denki said. Nobody believed him but they didn’t push it, he would tell them eventually. After a few seconds he popped up in the nest and turned to face them.
“Okay, where the hell is his pack? They’re supposed to be taking care of him and here he is all alone!” Denki said, gesturing at Izuku.
“Hun I don’t really think they are a pack, not like us anyway.” Mina said.
“Yeah, Iida and Tsu are always so wrapped up in Uraraka and they don’t seem too interested in Midoriya. Todoroki just seems like he isn’t interested in anything romantic at all.” Kirishima added.
“A few weeks ago, when I went to ask for permission to enter the nest, Iida and Tsu were cuddling with Uraraka while Midoriya was sitting along. Todoroki came and sat next to him, but he didn’t really touch him at all.” Hanta added.
“Well it’s no fucking wonder that he got sick! Those bastards aren’t meeting his needs at all.” Katsuki said angrily.
“They haven’t been giving him any comfort or cuddles at all.” Denki said sadly, looking over to Izuku. He put his controller on the table and scooched over so he could cuddle Izuku through the blankets.
“Just be careful Den, we don’t want you getting sick too.” Mina said.
“I’ll be fine. I just can’t stand that he’s been ignored for so long.”
“We should steal him.” Katsuki said, watching the omegas cuddle and seeing the small smile on Izuku’s face as ne nuzzled into Denki.
“Like bring him into the pack?” Kirishima asked.
“Why not? It’s not like they’re taking care of him. What do you guys think?”
“Yes!!! We need him guys! Look how little and cute he is! He needs us!” Denki said with a bright grin.
“I wouldn’t mind.” Mina replied.
“Me either.” Hanta said.
“Same. Not gonna lie, Midoribro is pretty damn hot.” Kirishima said.
“We’ll ask him when he’s feeling better.” Katsuki said, settling the matter.
After that they go back to playing. Denki stays by Izuku’s side, but grabs his controller again. A little while later the elevator dings again and when Mina looks over she sees that it’s Mineta. She scoffs and turns her attention back to the game.
Mineta walks past them and goes into the bathroom but they don’t really pay him any attention. They pretty much put him out of their mind. A few minutes later the elevator opens again to reveal a frenzied Shoto.
“Have any of you seen Izuku?!” Shoto asked, hurrying across the room.
“Yeah, he’s here bro. He’s in the nest.” Kirishima replied. Shoto went to the nest to see for himself and sighed in relief, kneeling outside of the nest and threading his fingers into Izuku’s hair.
“Oh thank god. I woke up and he was just gone.” Shoto said.
“He came down here about twenty minutes ago saying he couldn’t sleep and then flopped down in the communal nest.” Mina explained.
“I was staying in his room for the night to keep an eye on him, but I guess he needed this more.”
Shoto took a seat in the chair closest to Izuku’s side of the nest and alternated between watching his omega and the TV. Afte the next round Katsuki handed his controller off to Shoto and got up to go to the kitchen. Shoto heard movement down by the nest but brushed it off as one of the omegas moving around.
“Move over Midoriya, you’re hogging all the space!” Mineta said suddenly.
Izuku’s body jerked a few times and the omega whined unhappily as he was woken up and then started crying, overwhelmed by his illness and being so rudely awoken. Everyone bolted up immediately and Denki shrieked when he saw Mineta in the nest, trying to push Izuku over with his foot. Shoto shot up out of his chair and ripped Mineta out of the nest, holding the other boy by the collar of his shirt.
“What the hell do you think you’re doing?!” Shoto snarled, surprising the others. They had never seen him this furious before.
“What are you doing?! Let go of me!” Mineta yelled.
“Let’s take this asshole outside so Deku can get back to sleep. You got him Denki?” Katsuki growled, explosions popping off in his hands.
“Yeah. Kick his ass Katsuki!” Denki said, glaring at Mineta.
Shoto kept a tight grip on his classmate as he, Katsuki, Eijiro and Hanta headed outside. Mina knelt at the edge of the nest and started cooing at Izuku, scratching at his scalp soothingly. Thankfully Izuku was so tired and out of it that it only took them a few minutes to get him settled down and back to sleep.
Denki went over to the side where Mineta had been lying down and pulled the blanket covered in his scent out of the nest, gently easing an edge out from under Izuku’s body. He stalked to the front door and threw the blanket outside. As he was heading back to the nest a loud explosion went off and Denki knew that Katsuki had exploded the blanket. A few minutes later the boys come back inside, without Mineta.
“How’d it go?” Mina asked.
“The fucker almost pissed his pants with all of us yelling at him. Aizawa heard my explosion when I blew the blanket up and came to investigate. He took the ass chewing over and told us to come back inside.”
“Why the hell did he think it was okay to come in our nest?!” Denki asked.
“He’s a dumbass. He saw when Hanta entered it a few weeks go to give you a massage and thought it was free game.” Eijiro explained.
“What? Has he been in here before?!” Denki asked, distress filling his scent. Hanta went over and pulled him into his arms, soothing him.
“No babe, this was the first time.” Hanta said and Denki sighed in relief.
“We should probably call it a night. We can pack cuddle in my room.” Katsuki said, shutting off the game and TV. The others got up and Denki hugged Izuku before leaving the nest. Shoto just settled into the chair, watching where Izuku’s hair peeked up out of the blankets.
“Icy Hot go to bed.” Katsuki said, glaring at him.
“I’ll sleep out here. Just in case Izuku needs anything.”
“Sleep on the couch then dumbass, the chair will ruin your back.”
Shoto nodded in agreement and moved to lay on the couch, watching Izuku until he fell asleep himself.
It took Izuku a few more days to fully recover but on Monday morning he was back to normal. Now that he was feeling better he was furious and Mineta and refused to acknowledge him in any way. Mineta did apologize, but it felt forced and Izuku knew he was only doing it because Aizawa made him, so Izuku didn’t accept it.
Aizawa tells him that Mineta has been reprimanded and formally written up. He is also required to attend sub-gender etiquette classes to teach him why it was wrong to enter the communal nest in the first place, not to mention kicking a sick, sleeping omega.
About a week later he was hanging out with his friends when there was a knock at the door. They were in Ochaco’s room this time but she didn’t get up from her spot on Tenya’s lap to go answer the door so Izuku got up.
“Oh hey! Jus the guy I was looking for.” Denki said brightly as the door opened. “Do you have a minute?”
“Hey Denki! Sure, I’m not really doing anything.”
“Cool, my pack wants to talk to you real quick.”
“Oh, ummmm, okay. Hey guys, I’ll be back in a bit.” Izuku said, calling out to his friends.
Todoroki looked up at him and nodded but the others just waved him off. Izuku shut the door behind him and followed Denki up to Katsuki’s room. When they went in everyone was seated around the room. They had all been talking but when the two omegas came in they stopped abruptly.
“Quit being creepy you jerks!” Denki protested before dropping himself into Mina’s lap.
“Hey guys. Denki said you wanted to talk to me?” Izuku asked nervously.
“Yeah bro, you might want to take a seat.” Eijiro said, patting the bed next to him.
“Okay, what’s going on?”
“I’ll get straight to the point Deku, what do you think about joining our pack?” Katsuki said. He was the head alpha of the pack so he ultimately made the decisions, but not without the input of the rest of his pack.
“Wh-what?!”
“We’ve seen how your pack treats you and we don’t like it Midoriya. We want to treat you right, the way you deserve to be treated.” Hanta said.
“Please Izuku! It would be so great to have another omega in the pack!” Denki said happily.
“Come on Deku, it’s obvious that the only person your pack cares about is Uraraka. Iida and Asui don’t even give you the time of day when she’s around.” Katsuki added.
“We would love to have you in our pack Midoriya. We all want to spoil the heck out of you!” Mina said, hugging Denki tightly.
“It would be nice to be in a real pack. Okay, I’ll join. I have one condition though.” Izuku said, making Denki squeal in excitement.
“What is it?” Eijiro asked.
“Please at least consider extending an offer to Shoto as well. I don’t think his needs are being met either.”
“What needs? He’s so….bland.” Katsuki replied.
“Plus he doesn’t really take care of you that well. I mean, it’s obvious that he cares but he seems a bit stilted when it comes to romance.” Mina added.
“He takes care of me in his own way. I actually think he’s asexual and maybe even aromantic. He never really has in interest in sex and he doesn’t really see the point in most romantic gestures. We tried to have sex once and he got hard, but I could tell that he was really uncomfortable, so I stopped it. He does enjoy cuddling though, but some days it seems like even that is a bit much for him.” Izuku explained.
“I’m assuming that the others don’t really accommodate that?” Hanta asked.
“Not really. Apparently whenever I leave and it’s just the four of them Ochaco always asks him to join in their threesome. When Shoto declines she gets upset and starts trying to coerce him to do it.”
“That’s bullshit.” Katsuki snarled.
“Yeah, it makes him really uncomfortable so he leaves and usually comes and finds me.”
“Alright, we’ll talk to him as a pack and then decide if we think he would be a good fit or not. Go get him Deku.”
“Right now?! Okay!” Izuku said excitedly before jumping up and rushing out of the room to get Shoto.
“How do the rest of you think about him joining us? If any of you are uncomfortable with it have no problem telling him no.” Katsuki said, addressing his pack.
“I’m okay with it.” Denki replied.
“Me too.” Eijiro added.
“Honestly, it sounds like he needs us.” Mina said.
“Yeah, it must be hard to have someone constantly trying to talk him into sex when its not something he wants.” Hanta added.
“Alright then, as long as he doesn’t fuck this up we’ll take him in.” Katsuki said.
It didn’t take long before Izuku came back with Shoto. The omega was huffing in anger while Shoto tried to calm him down, unsuccesfully.
“What happened?” Eijiro asked
“Freaking Ochaco! She threw an absolute fit that I came back to take Sho away. She was insisting that I was interrupting their private time and that Shoto was planning on joining them. Sho said he never agreed to that and I pulled him away before I would say something I’d regret. She literally started crying and demanding that Tenya and Tsu bring Sho back.” Izuku explained.
“Of course she’d be overdramatic.” Mina said, rolling her eyes.
“Yes, it can be quite annoying. Anyway, Izuku said you needed to talk to me about something?” Shoto asked.
“Yeah, take a seat Icy Hot.” Katsuki replied.
Izuku patted the bed next to him and Shoto sat down. He sat close to Izuku, but didn’t touch him until Izuku put a hand on his knee. Shoto moved is hand up to interlace their fingers.
“So, we asked Deku here to join our pack and his one condition is that we consider letting you join as well.”
“I’m already in a pack though.”
“No Sho, we weren’t. That’s not how a pack should act with each other. Packs aren’t all based around one person. Everyone should be treated as an equal and everyone deserves love and affection. Its not fair to lavish one person with attention and then ignore someone else.” Izuku explained.
“Have I mistreated you Izuku?” Shoto asked, his eyes growing wide with concern.
“No, not at all Sho. I just mean that if we were a real pack then Ochaco wouldn’t get all the attention and it would be shared around equally.”
“Oh, I understand.”
“Do you?” Hanta asked, trying to broach the topic tactfully.
“What do you mean?”
“Todoroki, please don’t get offended by this, but do you know what love feels like?” Mina asked.
“I guess. It just feels like everything else.”
“You don’t get any special feelings when you look at Izuku or your siblings?”
“Well, I know that I love them but there really isn’t a feeling that I get when I think about them.”
“You were right Izuku. He is aromantic.” Hanta said.
“Aromantic?”
“It just means that you feel love in a different way. It’s just how you explained, you know you love someone but there isn’t a special feeling that goes along with it.” Izuku explained.
“I see. I didn’t know that was a thing.”
“Do you think you’re asexual too?” Denki asked.
“What’s that?”
“It means that you aren’t interesting in having sex. Like, at all.” Hanta supplied.
“Oh. I…I like sex.”
“Do you really or are you just saying that because someone’s put it in your head that alphas are supposed to like sex?” Katsuki asked.
“I…” Shoto said, looking down at his knees.
“Todoroki, would you like to have sex with me?” Denki asked.
“Well…well I don’t really know you all that well yet.”
“What about Izuku then? Would you like to have sex with him?” Mina asked.
“……..No.” Shoto said quietly, hunching in on himself.
“Hey, it’s alright. You don’t have to be ashamed of that Sho. It’s perfectly fine and normal if you don’t ever want to have sex with anyone. It doesn’t make you defective or a bad alpha or anything like that.” Izuku soothed.
“But Ochaco…”
“I don’t give a fuck what Ochaco says or wants. Its rude of her to not think of your feelings and to keep trying to persuade you to have sex when you clearly don’t want to.”
“Yeah, fuck them. We’re stealing you too. What do you say Icy Hot?” Katsuki asked.
Shoto looked around and saw nothing but acceptance and understanding. Denki raised and hand up to him and Shoto smiled, reaching down to hold his hand as well.
“I accept.”
Fifteen Years Later
Katsuki smirked to himself as he watched his pack play around in the backyard. Izuku was napping in a hammock, heavily pregnant with their fourth child and his second. Eijiro stood close by to keep an eye on him while he played with their one year old. Mina and Hanta were running around the yard with their five and seven year olds. Denki was sitting in Shoto’s lap on the porch, relaxing after the long patrol shift he’d had the day before. Katsuki had always known that stealing Izuku and Shoto away had been a good move, now he couldn’t imagine their lives without them.