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“Alright, everybody, drink up!” Denki raised his glass up high and the others followed his lead with a cheer. Even though they booked a private room, the room was still filled with chatter. It had been sometime since the class came together. There was always someone who couldn’t come, so when their schedules finally lined up they couldn’t possibly pass up the chance for a reunion.
Sero put his glass back down after gulping down his water. “How’s teacher life treating you, Midoriya?”
Izuku wiped his mouth with the back of his closed hand and put down his drink with a smile. “I thought I wouldn’t be able to keep their behaviors in check, but turns out they listen to me better than I expected!”
Ochako hummed. “I heard you’re teaching Kota now!”
Bakugou scoffed. “Yeah, right. Little brat glares at me more than he listens to the lectures.” He leaned back in his chair.
“If you didn’t come so often it wouldn’t be such a reoccurring problem…” Izuku mumbled.
Bakugou turned his head to Izuku in disbelief.
Izuku just raised an accusatory brow.
“Oh!” Mina interrupted. “Wasn’t there picture of you spotted on the window of the UA school building?”
Jirou bursted into laugher. “No way.”
Denki’s face almost lit up. “Show it to me right now.”
Bakugou’s face warmed up as he glared at Mina. “I will kill all of you.”
Mina, who was already scrolling on her phone with a smile, dropped her phone on the table and put her hands up. “Okay, okay! Let’s not do that.”
Bakugou huffed.
“If you wanna see it search ‘Bakugou third floor UA building,’” she whispered quickly.
Bakugou snapped his head to Mina, but she was looking around the room while whistling.
“Noted!” Denki said after he jotted it down in his notes app and put the phone back down.
Sero laughed. “How often does he come by?”
“Once too often,” Todoroki chimed in before taking a gulp of his drink.
“And how’d you know that?!” Bakugou leaned forward to look past Izuku.
“I read the news everyday. I see one of this pretty much once every week,” Todoroki said a matter-of-factually as he put his drink back down.
Bakugou flinched.
Izuku smiled awkwardly in between them. “Kacc-” He shook his head. “I mean, Katsuki helps me out a lot, so I’m not complaining at all! And the class loves him anyway, so it’s not a real problem.”
Silence filled the room.
Hagakure let out a noise and slapped her mouth to silence it.
Izuku only blinked in confusion as he looked around to all the blank and shocked faces. “What?”
He looked to his right to see Katsuki’s horrified face.
“I think that’s the first time I’ve ever heard Izuku call Bakugou by his real name,” Tokoyami was the first one to interrupt the silence.
Mineta sat straighter so all of his face appeared above the table. “Does this mean I have a cha-”
Shouji pushed his head back down.
Izuku chuckled awkwardly as he continued looked at all of their faces. “I- It’s just— We’re adults now, so I thought it’d be weird to call Kacc-” He shook his head again. “Kat-su-ki, by the nickname I chose when we were 5!”
Izuku heard a gagging sound next to him.
Another shaky scream could be heard, but this time it was Aoyama’s.
Izuku scratched his neck. “It sounds too childish anyway, I don’t want to embarrass you, Ka- Katsuki,” He looked to Bakugou again whose face hasn’t changed.
The entire room waited for his response, the silence engulfing it once again.
“I have to use the bathroom,” Katsuki said and scrambled away.
Izuku reached for him, but he slipped out of his hand. “Wai- Kacchan-!” He called out for him. “I mean-! Ugh, this is hard…”
“I think you broke him,” Denki said.
Mineta raised his face above the table. “Gang, be honest, do I have a chance-”
The silence broke as everyone groaned.
“Oh my God,” Momo said.
“Please read the room,” Iida scolded.
“Shut up, Mineta!” Everyone else exclaimed.