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Mei didn’t expect to see her boyfriend so angry nor did she expect to see him leaving school so early. When she goes to talk to Tenya, he shrugs her off and keeps walking, making her frown. She sighs knowing that she should give him space like he does for her and ask him about it later.
When she gets to the cafeteria she spots Izuku, Shouto, Ochako, Momo and Hanta. She smiles and walks to their table.
“Hey guys!”
She gets a collective greeting back and a middle finger from Hanta before Shouto’s slapping his hand down and glaring at him. Mei grins behind her hand and sits next to Momo.
“Why’re his panties in a twist?”
“Well-”
“BITCHES ALL OF THEM! I SAID TO THEM WE WILL MEET AT OUR TABLE TO TALK ABOUT OUR WEEKEND PLANS AND YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DO MEI? DO YOU KNOW? CAUSE I DON’T THINK YOU DO!”
“Uhm..no..”
“THEY DITCH ME TO BE WITH OTHER PEOPLE!”
Shouto and Momo try to calm the poor boy down while Izuku and Ochako bring Mei over to a more quiet area of the room.
“Hey where’s Tenya? You usually come in with him or Kendo and Kendo’s sick today.”
“That’s what I came to ask you guys! He seemed grumpy when he left the classroom, did anything happen?”
The couple looks at her confused having no memory of their friend being upset.
“He seemed fine in class! Maybe he got a low score on his poem? To be honest it felt kind of less personal towards him, more like something his brother would like.”
As the two girls talk, Izuku quickly realizes two reasons of why Tenya could’ve been upset and they both make his stomach turn. He excuses himself to the bathroom and once he’s out of the cafeteria he makes a run for it to the dorms but skids to a halt when he hears footsteps he recognizes very well. He hides behind a plant outside of Nezu’s office and watches as Aizawa, Tenya and Present Mic walk inside.
“Why am I being punished for being honest to my friend?!”
“Being honest is one thing, being a fucking asshole and being straight up insulting is a whole fucking other! Now go inside!”
It’s one thing for everyone to hear Aizawa curse - to be honest if it wasn’t for Katsuki or Hanta, he would’ve paved the way for everyone in their class to be comfortable cursing - but hearing Mic curse is a whole other. Izuku has to hold in his gasp as he watches the three walk in the office. Once he’s sure they won’t come back out, he sneaks closer to the door and presses his ear against it.
“Mr. Tenya what you did was very much bullying and we don’t allow that here at our school. We know you’re a good student and we know you love your friends but these words you said to her..they just aren’t acceptable.”
“So Katsuki can curse everyone out and insult people like it’s nothing but when I give advice to someone it’s the end of the world?”
“Tenya..”
“No Mr. Aizawa, I’m serious! We are training to be HEROES, nobody is going to want someone to save them if they can’t keep up or even save themselves.”
“What about Fat Gum then huh? What’s your excuse for him?”
“I wasn’t born when he became a hero, I don’t know what he did or went through to get himself to that point nor is it my business.”
“Just like it isn’t your business or concern about Eijirou’s weight?”
A silence spreads throughout the room. Nezu sulks into his chair knowing the other two adults will be better at this. All the poor man wants is peace and he’s not the type to curse somebody out that quick.
“God forbid I want my friend to be healthy, hell her girlfriend can lose a bit too! Her chest is huge and the rest of her might get to that point!”
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..
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“The fuck did you just say?”
“Mr. Aizawa-”
“Repeat what you just said to us. Quickly. Right now.”
“…”
“Exactly what I fucking thought. Nezu, send an email to his parents while I call home, I’M suspending him for two weeks. I don’t care if that’s out of my power or if I’m only allowed to do less than five days, I’m not going to let him spew bullshit out of his mouth. Tenya go to your fucking dorm, Mic come with me.”
Izuku sprints back to behind the plant when everyone walks out. Tenya stomping to his dorm, Mic and Aizawa going to what seems to be the cafeteria to probably find Eijirou and Nezu checking to make sure nobodys coming before he closes and locks the office door.
When the greenette stands up and turns around, he jumps when his best friend is standing there but quickly realizes her face. She doesn’t look like she’s about to cry but there’s a glint in her eyes that give off sadness, guilt, anger and fear.
After the war in their first year, everyone knew Katsuki struggled. She struggled to walk, she struggled to talk, she struggled to use the bathroom by herself and she struggled to eat, though eating was the worst for her.
She would refuse to eat dinner sometimes claiming it made her too nauseous before bed but eventually the nausea turned into not wanting breakfast and suddenly all three meals of the day were gone and suddenly she was back in the hospital because…
..he doesn’t want to think about that image ever again.
Katsuki’s taking this shit hard because she doesn’t want Eijirou to end up like how she did. Sure she’s her girlfriend and she has to protect her but when she has an experience the other might be able to relate to, that makes her feel disgusted with herself.
Izuku knows Katsuki still isn’t happy with her body. She doesn’t like how her body just ignored that she was even that thin at some point. It’s like when she fully recovered her body realized food was amazing and decided to share that throughout every part of her..well every part that would stick out the most.
Every part that would stick out to a MAN the most.
Izuku goes to hug her but she shakes her head and walks away. He grabs his phone and texts Eijirou to be on the lookout for the blonde today.
———
That whole week everyone is acting off. Tenya won’t talking to anyone without snapping, Eijirou hasn’t looked comfortable in her own skin like at all, Katsuki’s looked more pissed than usual and everyone else looks like they’re walking on egg shells. Finally Mei’s had enough and goes to the common area for Class A where she finds Kyouka, Toruu and Ochako.
Toruu looks up from where her head is in Ochako’s lap and smiles prompting the other two to look up as well
“Hey Mei! If you’re looking for Tenya he’s sulking in his room again.”
“Seriously?! It’s like he just hates everything for some reason!”
“Wouldn’t be surprised, he deserves what he got. Serves him fucking right..”
The other two girls stare with wide eyes at Kyouka before she realizes what she said.
“What do you mean it serves him right? What did he do?”
“…”
“Guys..?”
“I think..you’d might wanna sit down. I-it’s nothing to crazy! It’s just..Tenya fucked up like reallyyyyy bad.”
By the end of it, Mei’s sitting across from the three girls with her eyes almost bulging out of their sockets and her jaw wide open. She doesn’t necessarily want to believe her boyfriend’s an asshole but honestly she knows the girls would never lie to her but more importantly, Eijirou herself has no reason to lie.
If it’s about how much meat or protein shakes she had within a week maybe she’d lie about that but this? With how positive she is about people’s bodies she has no reason to make this up.
“If you like need us to leave and take a second we completely understand.”
Mei finally closes her mouth and blinks slowly. She shakes her head before closing and opening her mouth like a fish.
“I just..he…I don’t..we…fuck me dude..”
“If it helps we didn’t know what he was doing until Izuku and Katsu-”
“AND ME!”
The four girls look up to see Hanta in the kitchen holding a bowl of fruit.
“You never said anything!”
“I DID?! I TOLD YOU GUYS AT LUNCH A WHILE BACK THAT HE WAS PROBABLY DOING SOMETHING TO HER AND YOU ALL WENT ‘oh em gee Hanta nooooo, so violent so vulgarrrr oh noooo’ I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED BUT NOBODY CARED SO I GAVE UP!”
He glares at the girls before flicking a watermelon seed at Ochako and walking out of the room.
“Huh..so..he wasn’t mad for no reason earlier.”
“He always has a reason to be mad and it’s so concerning considering how many jokes he makes..”
———
The next day is Saturday so Mei invites some of the boys from Class A to her room (not in that way, don’t get it twisted🙁). She sits on her bed while Izuku, Denki, Shoji, Minoru, Aoyama and Ojiro sit on the floor in front of her bed. She grabs her shoe and slams it down against her mattress.
“Court is now in session. Let’s cut to the chase, why the fuck did none of you stop Tenya from what he was doing?!”
Everyone - minus Izuku because he knew from his eavesdropping and didn’t stop Katsuki when she fought him - starts scrambling for an answer. Mei holds up her shoe and everyone stops talking.
“Minoru. You’re kinda weird, you go first.”
The grape boy makes an offended face but sighs and nods.
“Understandable..anyways I didn’t say anything because have you SEEN the size of your man? I mean come on, the way he did Katsuki in he probably would’ve done to me and even though I’m a guy, I’m not that tall.”
Mei takes out a whiteboard - don’t ask where it came from - and writes down his reason as number one.
She moves through each boy one by one before roping back to Izuku.
“Any words or you’re gonna tell me exactly what you told the girls?”
“I mean..look Mei. I admitted that I would’ve fought him too if it were Eijirou coming to me about it or you or Ochako or anyone! But I wasn’t going to tell someone and then he came after me or-”
“So you were all afraid of losing your friend?”
All of them slowly nod. She sighs heavily and looks at the whiteboard before tapping her nail against it and nodding.
“Alright..well you’re all fucking weak and keeping me with a bad person is fucking humiliating on my end..but this isn’t about me, it’s about Eijirou who got way more affected than I did so excuse me while I go fucking check on her unlike some stupid excuses of people sitting in front of me!”
Mei’s voice rises in pitch as she gets closer to finishing her words. She stands up and opens her door. She grips the handle before turning to them.
“You guys may act so high and mighty or even might just be like that in general..but none of that makes you guys men. Don’t be a boy, be a man.