Inverted and switched

Chapter 19

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I wanted to give this a title so bad, but I didn't give any of the other chapters a title so I figured it would be weird if I gave this chapter one. The title was going to be 'Cause and Effect'
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Everyone sat at the table, eating the food that the school provided. Bakugou usually cooked dinner, leaving satou with dessert. But bakugou wasn't here to cook, and no one else felt like cooking either.

Izuku looked over at his squad to see them chatting with katsuki. He felt joulousy form and twist in his gut, but he pushed it away the best he could.

"So, um. Are we still going to the mall tomorrow?" Izuku asked his squad with a hopeful smile. Every Saturday they ventured to the mall, sometimes they went to a hero store, sometimes they went to the book store, and other times they would just relax in the little coffee shop that was hidden in the corner of the mall.

But, his squad looked at him with suprised eyes, only for it to turn into sadness. "Sorry deku... I forgot about our plans... we were going to take bakugou to the library." Ururaka admitted, scratching the back of her head.

"Oh..." Izuku said, looking down and pushing back tears that had began to form.

"We are very sorry. We should have told you, I am dissapointed in myself for not making sure you knew" Iida spoke, Tsuyu and todoroki nodding with.

"Your not too upset, right? Kero" Tsuyu asked, tilting to her head to the side.

"N-no! It's fine! I-I understand" Izuku stuttered over his words, looking away.

Of course. His squad was already replacing him. Why wouldn't they? Perhaps he wasn't good enough for his squad, perhaps he did something that messed everything up. Maybe it was his fault...

"Midoriya. Are you ok? Your crying" todoroki's calm but concerned tone broke his thoughts. He hadn't even realized he was crying.

Quickly wiping them away, "y-yea! Of course! Wh-why wouldn't I be! I'm just going to g-go back to m-m-my room." He bowed as he excused himself, quickly rushing out of the room and into his own, shutting the door and cursing up on his bed.

A knock sounded at his door, and he glanced up to see his squad opening the door and walking in.

"Apologies for not waiting your permission, but we figured it would be best to come in." Iida informed.

"Oh... yea, sure. Um... s-sorry. I'm ove-over reacting, aren-aren't I?" He sniffled.

His squad walked over and sat on the bed, Iida rubbing his back gently.

"No, Kero, we're sorry Midoriya. It's our fault. We didn't realize we've been ignoring your feelings. We promise to make up for it" Tsuyu spoke calmly.

Izuku shook his head, tears spilling faster now. "No no! I understand! Re-really! Bakugou has been taking up all your time, and you've been acting like a hero would! He-he's not familiar with this world yet and your just trying to make him feel welcomed! Honestly I should be trying to help you guys!"

Ururaka grabbed his hand, meeting his eyes. "But we're your friends, and we haven't been acting like very good ones these past few days. This isn't your fault. It's ours."

Izuku was about to respond, but he couldn't get anything out but a loud sob. His friends pulled him into a hug, a soft, warm, loving hug.

"How about this. We'll cancel our plans with bakugou and we'll all go to the mall instead, just like we originally planned"

"Y-you don't ha-"

"Yes, Izuku, we do. Please let us make it up to you"

Then, Izuku gave in, he gave a shaky nod, melting into the hug. "Ok. Ok I give in..." he said, a weak smile strengthening on his face.

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Earlier that week
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It was the end of school, Aizawa asked both kaminari and kirishima to stay after class. So that where they were now.

"Both of your grades have dropped significantly. Any more and you'll be failing. And your grades were just starting to look up. Why?" Aizawa asked, making kaminari and kirishima flinch.

"We're sorry Aizawa! Really! It's just... bakugou has started to tutor kaminari and me and... well, without him we're having trouble" kaminari admitted.

Suprisingly, the ash-blond had found a way to make the words connect and flow for kaminari, he had found away to make learning easy. But... now he couldn't remember how.

Aizawa sighed. "Fine. I'll assign you both a tutor, I expect both of your grades to raised for that?" He grumbled.

The two nodded and left the classroom. But they knew that without their bakugou, there grades are doomed.

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It was safe to say the switch of katsuki affected everyone in many different ways. Everyone wanted their katsuki to return, even if he was obnoxious and loud, they missed him. More than they could ever express.

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As everyone was walking through the halls, the lights flickered. On and off, on and off. And suddenly, it was happening again.

The transparent version of their inverted selves appeared all across the dorms. Except this time, it was a girl screaming bloody-murder before passing out and falling to the ground, leaving the transparent class to dissapear.

But katsuki, still stuck in this hero world, would never forget the look ok his opposites face when he appeared and dissapeared. Full blown anger and hatred, it scared him so much. He knew this probably meant that someone else had been switched again, but who?