truth only hurts when you want to believe a lie

is this a joke

"So this is the famous UA high." Shigaraki stood with his fellow villains outside the school, staring up at the building. He scoffed, shaking his head. "Not impressed."

Izuku rolled his eyes. "No need to lie, Tomura."

"I'm not lying, you bastard."

Izuku smirked at his brother, Shigaraki opening his mouth to snap once more when Dabi slapped them both on the back of the head. They scowled at him but the flame user ignored their anger, instead dragging them to the school with Toga following along, a snicker coming out of her mouth.

The quartet found their way to 1-A - Shigaraki was in their class despite being older, the school wanting to keep them together as it would be easier to keep tabs on them - and took their seats, being among the first few there, as usual. The rest of the class slowly trickled in a few minutes later, Uraraka and Kaminari following their routine of approaching the reforming villains.

The two hero course students smiled at the quartet, getting two grins, a knowing smirk, and a scowl in return. They stopped in front of the four friends, Uraraka giving them a small wave. "Hi." Three of the four replied, one a lot more enthusiastically than the rest. "Toga, I missed you this morning. I thought we were going to walk together?"

Toga's cheeks reddened as her friends 'ooh'ed at her, Dabi whistling. She elbowed him in the ribs, promptly ending his whistling as he grunted in pain. Toga gave Uraraka an apologetic smile. "Sorry, Uraraka, Rabid wanted us to all be there for Tomura's first day of school."

"Hey, don't blame this on me!" Izuku whined. "It's not my fault you were nervous to hang out with Uraraka."

"Rabid!"

"Why are you nervous to hang out with me?" Uraraka's face became crestfallen as she looked at the blonde. "Did I do something to you? Did I do something wrong?"

Toga glared at Izuku, who tried to hide the amused grin on his face with a very poor excuse for a guilty look. Glaring harder for a second, Toga relaxed her face before turning to Uraraka. "No, you didn't do anything wrong."

"But you did do something to her heart." Dabi snickered when both Toga's and Uraraka's faces flushed impossibly red.

The blonde pushed her chair back and stood up, avoiding everyone's eyes. "Uraraka, can I talk to you? In the hall?"

Uraraka nodded, also avoiding everyone's eyes as she followed Toga into the hallway.

"Damn, guess I owe Monoma now." Shinso complained from his desk, already pulling his phone out to text the blond about the events of the morning. "I thought for sure Kaminari and Rabid would get together first."

"Excuse the fuck out of you. I like to take things slow, thank you very much." Izuku huffed, crossing his arms over his chest.

"Oh, sorry. My bad. Didn't realize kissing someone you'd known for a week and - I'm paraphrasing here - saying you'd go down only for them was taking it slow." Shinso drawled, texting away with a smirk as Izuku turned red.

"You said what?" Shigaraki turned to his brother in shock.

"Oh please, I've said worse. Why are you so surprised?" Izuku mumbled, avoiding eye contact.

"Maybe because you've never actually had feelings for the people you've flirted with before, not like this time?" Dabi hummed, patting Shigaraki on the back when he let out a strangled cough.

"Dabi!" Izuku hissed at his friend, his eyes promising pain before he relaxed his face and turned to Kaminari. "I'm sorry you had to be involved in their idiocy, please don't take them seriously."