A Ray of Hope for Tenya Iida

His Letter

(TW: mentions of death, light swearing, guilt, and anxiety from a social situation.)

Sero's pov: We'd spent all of yesterday helping Denki feel better, and today, breakfast was already ready by the time everyone walked out. We were able to focus more on helping Denki out today, but Midoriya seemed like this wasn't the only thing he was thinking of. Come to think of it, Todoroki, Uraraka, and Tsu were also distracted, as well as Aoyama. We didn't need to think of it too hard though, things were already stressful enough. Iida wasn't at breakfast today, but he probably ate early and then left to be the first one in class like always. Speaking of Iida, we'd all discussed how we felt about it yesterday and we decided that we weren't really mad at him for that since his brother died, but we also decided that it's not an excuse and his apology needed to happen soon. A delivery person walked in, with clearance from UA. Everyone looked at him. 

"Package for Denki Kaminari." He held out a clipboard. Denki looked confused. 

"I didn't order anything though." He looked very confused. 

"It's a gift, sir, please sign here so I can have clearance to leave." He looked like he didn't like being in a room with overpowered teenagers. I couldn't help but laugh a little at that, it made sense though. Denki sighed and signed the paper, then took the box. He opened it up and removed a nice pair of black jeans and some fingerless leather gloves, as well as a sheet of paper. He looked happy to have the stuff. 

"Awwww, which one of you got this for me?" He smiled at all of us. Everyone mumbled how it wasn't them, which sparked a bit of confusion. That is, until Denki read the paper. "Oh, it's from Iida."

"Dude, read it out loud! We wanna know what he said!" I was curious and bored, and we needed to know that he apologized, so maybe this was it?

"Alright? It says here: My dear friend Denki, I sincerely apologize for my actions last night, and I apologize for everything I said. I meant nothing I said, but that's no excuse for saying what I did. You deserve your spot in UA and have earned it more times than I can count in the effort you put into class every day, and you're a wonderful person to have around. Everyone is proud to know you, and I'm sure your parents are very proud of you as well." Denki was beaming. "Wow! I didn't know he was gonna say that; that's really nice!" 

"What else does it say? There's more than that!" The entire paper was full, after all. 

"Ok, ok, I'll keep reading." Denki laughed a bit. "I'm making hamburgers today for dinner and shall give you a bit of cash to spend on whatever you like either today or tomorrow so that you can pick out what you want rather than me choosing anything else. I hope you enjoy the clothing I bought you, I noticed you enjoy more of an alternative clothing style after looking at your hero costume. You wear your costume proudly, and for good reason. One day, you'll be a wonderful hero, I'm sure the name Chargebolt will be all over the news." Denki felt so flattered. "I'm so excited for dinner!"

"What else, Dunceface? Get to the damn point." Bakugou grumbled. Even he was having the slightest bit of restraint today, but not much.

"I hope to see that news one day, I'm sure it'll be very exciting for you to be able to celebrate that with everyone. Speaking of hero work, I feel that I no longer..." Denki's smile faltered. 

"No longer what, Denki?" Midoriya sounded concerned and worried.

"I feel that I no longer deserve my spot in the hero course after causing all of you that amount of pain, dishonoring the name of UA, and dishonoring my family's name. After today's lesson, I'll be resigning from UA and joining a more suitable school for other people such as myself. I'll be joining the #1 reform school in Japan in order to redeem myself and gain better control of myself and my actions. I'll be giving my spot in 1A to Shinsou since he's worked so hard to join this class. Don't worry, I'll say my farewells to all of you before I go and will be leaving whatever I can to give to all of you. Please welcome Shinsou with open arms and treat him as any other classmate." Denki looked sad. "Don't tell Aizawa-sensei or my family that I'm resigning and changing schools, they'll know on their own time. I'll return during the weekends to tidy everything up."

"Dude..." Kirishima was practically speechless. I didn't know what to say either. I mean, what're you supposed to say when your perfectionist classmate says he doesn't deserve to be in his class or in his family and signs up for a reform school?

Aizawa's pov: Iida was in the classroom early as usual, so I went ahead and sat down beside him.

"Ah, sensei, do you need something?" He looked a little disheveled.

"We... need to talk about your outburst from yesterday, ok?" His face faltered.

"Of course." He lowered his head in shame. 

"You said things that you regret, and I know you do, but you still can't say things like that. Denki was really upset yesterday, and so was everyone else in the class. You can't just yell like that at everyone and never apologize to them." I didn't want to be having this talk with him, I knew he was having a difficult time and being reminded of this was the last thing he wanted to be doing, but since I was his homeroom teacher and he was right here, I was responsible for handling this. 

"I understand, I've already given an apology to Denki, and I'll be apologizing to the others after classes are over. I've also arranged multiple things to make it up to them."

"Alright, just keep in mind that you don't have to wear yourself down just because you want people to know you really mean it. Making things up to people and punishing yourself for making a mistake are two very different things, trust me." With that, I sat down in my seat. He seemed to be thinking about something completely different, but I'd done my job. I wasn't able to help him if he didn't want it. He started doing the assignment early, he must've grabbed it off of my desk. The other students walked in after a while, they all looked really upset, especially Denki. They all started walking towards him. He looked really stressed and his eyes kept darting from person to person. I silently moved my hand to my scarf in case I needed to move any of them away from him and hoped that I wouldn't have to do anything. I really did care, even though all I said about my job to them was that I don't get paid enough for this.