When You Believe

Chapter 20

Izuku and Momo were still reeling from the information that the Principal of UA, the Nezu, wanted to see them. They each made their way to their respective locker rooms, only slightly behind the rest of their classmates. As Izuku was quickly changing, he heard Kaminari's voice.

"What the...?" the electric boy seemed to have found something over where he was changing. It drew the attention of the other boys.

"You okay, Kamibro?" Kirishima asked him. Kaminari seemed to have broken out of whatever trance he was in, as he looked at the others.

"Um, yea..." he replied. "I just found this hole in the wall." He paused as he thought about it's location. "I think it leads to the girls locker room." A light bulb seemed to go off in the rest of the boys' heads, as they looked suspiciously at Kaminari.

"Kaminari, that is highly inappropriate!" Iida quickly interjected, chopping his arms. Kaminari quickly held his hands up.

"Woah, woah," he said, defensively. "I didn't put it there!" He took a moment before sighing. "Yes, it's very tempting, but I wasn't going to look. Even if we have some really good looking babes in the class. I mean, I'm pretty sure Yaoyorozu, Ashido, and Nakagami are spoken for, but you guys have to admit we've got some lookers.

"Shiozaki with her heavenly aura. Uraraka is out of this world." The puns began to elicit groans from his fellow classmates. "Hagakure just lights up a room. Asui can easily leap into your heart. Even Jiro. She may not be the most feminine, but she's definitely rocking, and I can dig that." He then got slightly more serious.

"But I'm not going to take advantage of something some creep did," he continued. "I can report this to Mr. Aizawa so this can be taken care of. If I want the ladies, I just gotta throw out the old Kaminari charm." At this, the other boys rolled their eyes, but they were all proud of their classmate for his restraint.

Once finished changing, they walked out of their locker room...to be met with the glares from the girls. Jiro stepped forward.

"I heard everything that was said, and I just got to say..." she threateningly moved her jacks up to Kaminari, who was about to protest, before the jack was pulled away, and the glares on the girls faces were replaced with smiles. "...Thanks. For not being creeps and pervs." Kaminari sighed in relief before smirking, that transformed into a nervous smile as he rubbed the back of his head.

"I mean, you know," he said. "You can't really get anywhere by being a perv, amiright?" He then tried (and failed) to exude charm. "Anyways, you wanna go get a bite to eat, Jiro?" Once again, he found a jack in his face.

"Don't push your luck," she said, as she started to turn away, before glancing over her shoulder. "But I am hungry, so I guess you could tag along and we can find some good food." Kaminari looked slightly confused, turned to the other guys momentarily (who then gave a gesture of 'why are you looking at us? Go', before he followed behind Jiro.

Everyone took that as their cue to head out. Izuku and Momo let their friends know they had been summoned to talk to Principal Nezu, so they would catch up to them later. As they left, they did overhear Kirishima mention something to Nakagami about how getting food sounded really good, so they decided to make a date of it. That left Mina and Mairu as being left to figure things out.

"Should we join them or go and find our own food?" Mairu suggested, smiling to Mina. Mina smiled back.

"I think we do a lot as a group, so it'd be nice to do our own thing," she replied, before grabbing his hand. "C'mon. I know the perfect place." He shook his head in amusement as he allowed himself to be dragged away by the energetic pink girl.

Meanwhile, Izuku and Momo made the trip to Principal Nezu's office. They were still nervous, though All Might's words had helped some. Of course, he words had created a different issue altogether. But, rather than dwell on it or delay the inevitable, they found themselves at the door to the Principal's Office. They looked at each other briefly before Izuku rose his hand to knock.

The door automatically opened before his fist touched the wood of the door. He drew back his hand, and both he and Momo had been startled, but peaked through as the door opened wide enough to see the Principal sitting at his desk, a small smile on his face.

"Excuse me, Principal Nezu, sir?" Izuku asked hesitantly. Nezu looked up at the two, his grin widening.

"Mr. Midoriya. Miss Yaoyorozu. Please come in." The Principal's voice was chipper as he addressed the two. Taking his words, the two students entered the Principal's Office, the doors automatically closing behind them.

"Welcome," Nezu began. "Am I mouse, a dog, or a bear?"

"You're a stoat..." both Izuku and Momo said together. Nezu paused before a predatory smile crossed his face.

"Oh, I was right to request the two of you," he stated. "Please. Take a seat. We have much to discuss for my two new personal students."

*****

"It's nice to be able to spend some one on one time together, Eiji," Nakagami said as they sat down to their early dinner. Everyone had updated their families on their plans after school, with promises to go into detail about their day when they returned home. Kirishima smiled toothily at his girlfriend's words, before his countenance fell a little.

"Yea," he replied. "I'm really sorry about that Tami..." He was stopped in his sentence by Nakagami placing a finger on his lips.

"You don't need to apologize, babe," she reassured. "I know things have been hectic. Between training for UA, getting into UA, everything going on with Midori..." Kirishima nodded his understanding as he took his girlfriend's hand.

"Well, now that things have calmed down, let's enjoy the afternoon," he said, which Nakagami giggled and agreed with him.

*****

"Stupid Deku," Bakugo growled as he walked the streets heading home. "Stupid hobo." Though he was heading in the general direction of his house, he wasn't exactly thrilled with the thought of getting back so soon. Especially if the old hag were already home, he knew she would start in on him, and he wanted to delay that as much as possible.

He knew he had to get rid of that useless Deku, and then everything would go back to the way it was. When he was top dog, and everyone agreed with how awesome he was. That's all he needed. But, until he figured out how to do it with the Hobo's "third strike", he would have to lay low and refrain from taking Deku out right away. But...he knew it had to be soon.