Paladin

Open Debate- Staff Style

Oneshot Summary: Before Chiron was hired, Nezu called a meeting and let the staff have an open debate on why or why not he should hire the man. Of course, it didn't matter— Nezu already had decided at that point. He just wanted to see what would happen.

So I'm getting started on posting these oneshots I made. Sagittarius is coming to a close and Grave Keeper will be starting soon. Paladin, in the meanwhile, will be where oneshots for the Sagittarius series will be posted.

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To say that Aizawa Shouta was excited when he got an email from his boss saying that a surprise meeting was being called would be like saying that the world was better off without Quirks.

Illogical and impossible.

Aizawa hated that he was being dragged out of his apartment at ten o'clock on a weekend just so that Nezu could give them another briefing on how to deal with All Might.

Shuffling into the meeting room with a mug of coffee and a half-eaten protein pouch, Aizawa didn't spare the Principal or All Might— Yagi, Toshinori, he had to remember— a second glance. He sat in silence as the other staff members dragged themselves in. Ishiyama and Thirteen seemed more awake than Kan and Kayama, Yamada looked just as unkempt and tired as he did, the blonde knocking back coffee like it was his lifeline. Snipe and Ectoplasm were just as unhappy, though Ryo didn't seem much different than he normally was. Majima was the last to arrive and Aizawa was pretty sure he just went to sleep in his chair.

No one could tell with his helmet on anyway.

"So why did you call us all here, Nezu?" Kayama asked as everyone settled. The mammalian principal hummed, adjusting some papers before he spoke.

"As I'm sure you're aware, there are going to be some new changes to the staff when the next school year rolls around," he told them and Aizawa sighed internally.

If this was just going to be another meeting about how to keep All Might's secret he was going to nap like Majima, job be damned.

"Aside from All Might, I would like to ask how you all feel about another new hire," Nezu continued and Aizawa's eyes snapped over to the principal, a brow raised. His confusion and shock were mirrored in his coworkers' eyes as they gazed at Nezu.

Nezu only smiled and Yagi seemed to be the only one who wasn't shocked, the skeletal man's face not changing at all to reflect shock or anything else.

Did he already know?

"What do you mean, Principal? I thought that almost everything was finalized for the next year," Thirteen asked, head tilted. Nezu nodded.

"'Almost everything'," he agreed, "But someone last minute sent their application in. In fact, I almost trashed it before I realized who it was."

The principal hit a button before the lights dimmed and the presentation screen lit up. Aizawa shifted as he was handed a stack of papers, taking the first packet on top before handing it off to Yamada.

The screen matched the first page of the packet— an application.

It wasn't the picture of the brown-haired man on the front that caught his attention, but rather the bright red symbol for 'International Hero' that was stamped where the license type would have been written.

"An international hero?" Ryo asked, ears swiveling as Ectoplasm flipped through the packet next to him.

Nezu nodded. "Philyra, Chiron. One of the most well-kept Greek secrets of the Hero World. And one of two International Heroes that Greece can proudly state is their own."