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Aizawa's POV

The meeting with Nezu went a little too well. It was almost like he was already planning on putting a gym by the dorms but now he had a reason to make it bigger. The whole class wouldn't be able to use it at the same time and they would have to wear special wrist bands when they were inside. The bands would keep track of their vitals and if the connection was lost then heros would be summoned. It was basically a fail safe to keep them from going too far while training and in case the League of Villains show up again. If we can't get a signal from their bands then they are probably being attacked like last time, where they blocked the signal to keep us from calling for backup. On the bright side with the bands I wouldn't have to supervise them everytime they wanted to use the gym.

"Can I require my class to wear the bands all the time?" I ask, raising an eyebrow at him. 

"Unfortunately no, that would be a violation of their privacy," Nezu responded. 

"Can they 'choose' to wear them all the time?" I ask next, he knows where I'm going with this. 

"They can keep it on as long as they wish," he answered a smile on his face. I only nodded and turned to leave again. "They must actually want to wear them though and they will not be ready until Monday." He called after me. Crap. Can my problem children last that long?

~~~Wednesday (two days later)~~~

I walked into my class to find not only Midoriya, Bakugo and Kirishima exhausted but several others. The Baku squad, I raise an eyebrow before telling them, "You have to be able pass the rest of the week or it is over." Ironically they each seemed to take it to mean something different if their expressions were anything to go by. The rest of the class just looked confused. Oh well, worse case they get a little stronger quickly and then they go back to their snail pace from before. 

I spent the morning going over 'ethics' and 'morality' . I looked at the class to see my problem students actually studying. I look at Midoriya and Bakugo. Did they actually get the Baku squad to study without me having to threaten to expel them? 

I went from subject to subject and before I knew it it was time for lunch. I didn't have one interruption, not one out of place comment. They were all paying attention, well everyone but Mineta. How was he still in my class again? And how did he rank #9?

"Do not be late coming back from lunch. We will have a guest speaker and you will show proper respect!" I growl at them before zipping myself up in my sleeping bag. 

When the class was finally empty I heard the door to my class open again, "What?" I groan looking out to find All Might standing in the doorway. 

"Oh, I just wanted to find out how they were doing?" He was actually twiddling his fingers together like a young girl. 

"For now on, we can talk after school is over and I will take a nap afterwards, but no I didn't really see any changes. Well except their group seems to have gotten larger. The Baku squad seems to be joining them in their training." 

"Baku squad?" He asked, confused.

"Oh right, well before they each had their own group of friends and they started calling themselves either the Baku squad or the Deku squad. To be fair the Deku squad is typically stronger and smarter than the Baku squad so that is probably why they haven't joined yet." I mumble almost to myself but All Might heard me just fine. 

"I see, so they are stepping into their roles as leaders then." His smile is just too much. 

"Sure, good bye." I turn over to go back to sleep and ignore him again. Why couldn't it be my husband coming to cuddle with me instead of this oaf irritating me?

Kirishima's POV

Jiro is cranking up the music again and our whole class seems to be belting out the lyrics again. This is becoming a daily thing for us but everyone else was avoiding us like the plague. I wonder what happened? I know we are not popular by any means thanks to Bakubro during the sports festival but still. Yesterday at least a few were at least singing along if not swaying to the music from their seats. I looked around and saw Shinso and Tetsutetsu walking over! Am I panicking? Yes I am, and so is Kaminari. He has almost as big of a crush on Shinso as I do on Tetsutetsu. 

"Hey guys, you have been practically partying all week. What happened?" Tetsutetsu asked, looking straight at me. My mouth went dry and I couldn't utter a word. Kaminari came in for the save. 

"Well a few of us came out of the closet while we were at the camp last week. So I guess we are just enjoying each other's company now that we don't have to hide anymore," he laughed smiling at them, his eyes drifting towards Shinso several times before he forced them back to Tetsutetsu. 

"Really who came out?" Tetsutetsu asked and I can't help wondering if he looked excited?

"Well several of us actually," he looked around the table and got a nod from everyone but Deku and Bakugo. "Momo came out as Pan and Todoroki said he was bi. Then there is Kirishima and I who are gay, not for each other though and then the ones that were straight were super supportive. Well everyone but Mineta but everyone tended to avoid him before so not really much changed there." He laughed nervously looking at Shinso again. 

Did I see Shinso smile at him? I do see him take a step closer to my blond friend. "So you're gay?" He asked quietly and Kami nodded, blushing a bit. "What a shock, I figured you would have been into girls in skirts." I hear him tease. 

Kami stopped as if thinking for a second then I saw a sly grin appear on his face, "Maybe if you wear a skirt I would see the appeal?" My eyes almost bulge out of my head. Did he really just say that? And to his crush? It's only been a couple days since we came back to school. It's Wednesday and it was only Monday night that he started training and studying with us.  

Shinso actually laughed and gave Kami a full smile, "I'm not into crossdressing as tempting as that is." Oh my All Might! He IS GAY! And he likes Kaminari too! 

"Go Bro!" I whisper after Shinso left to join his general studies class. I assumed that Tetsutetsu had followed behind back on his way back to class B. "You did it! Oh my freaking All Might! Where did you get the back bone to actually flirt with your crush like that. So manly!" 

"Stop, my head is still spinning, I think I'm about to be sick." He groaned, "I actually did it!" He whispered looking up at me in shock.

"Hey Jiro! Put on something to celebrate!" I called over his shoulder looking at her. She smiled nodding before pointing behind me.

I turn around to see Tetsutetsu still standing there almost awkwardly. I smile trying not to freak out. Kami flirted with his crush AND looked cool doing it, so I should be able to as well right? Right?

"Do you want to join us? There is plenty of room, I motion towards the table and see that Bakubro had managed to move his tray out of the way leaving a seat right next to me. He did it in a way that looked like he was too bothered to actually care but I saw him eyeing my crush. Inspecting him, crap is he judging him? Please pass, please pass!

"Uh maybe next time, I just wanted to say congrats. Most people have to deal with a lot of hate when they come out, it must be nice to be so accepted." He smiled sadly. 

"Oi, Metal extra sit your ass down!" Bakubro growled making a visible shiver run through Tetsutetsu who then sat down quickly in shock. "Damn extra making me get involved, tck." I hear Bakubro grumbling. 

'Can't Stop This Feeling' by Justin Timberlake started playing. I started to relax as we all either sang along or swayed to the music. It wasn't long before I heard Bakubro though. 

"Oi, nerd!" They jumped up and started their dance battle. "You're not cheating this time!" Again it looked like they were going to fight and a bunch of us were laughing as we clapped along. When Atreyu's 'The Theft' song came on we were all watching closely as their smooth voices filled the air. Jiro was playing one without the lyrics so they were singing strictly from memory and just, Damn. If my crush wasn't sitting right next to me I would be swooning. 

"Rip them, now take them as they crush them," Their voices sent shivers through anyone with ears as they threatened each other's very souls. 

"So which one do you like?" Tetsutetsu asked, making me jump a little bit. 

"Oh no, no, no, no, no. I do not have a death wish." I tried to frantically wave him off. 

He smirked at me, "Dude death wish or not you like someone and the way you look at them should be a crime considering how much they hate each other." I stifle the laugh that almost burst out of me. That's right no one outside of our class knows that they are dating. They saw Midoriya kiss Bakubro but they must have seen it as him picking a fight that day considering the way they ran out of here like Bakubro was going to make Midoriya dig his own grave before putting him in it.

"Not them," I shook my head when the next song came on and they continued their 'battle' but I wasn't paying attention to what it was this time. Tetsutetsu was sitting next to me smiling almost sadly. I sigh like he was dragging it out of me. "Look I like someone in class B and only Midoriya and Bakubro know who it is. Please leave it alone. I'm WAY too embarrassed. I have no idea how Kami just started flirting like that without a second thought. I would just die." 

"Well that's not very manly of you is it?" He asked looking straight into my eyes. Did I see hope?

"I don't even know if he's gay! I was thinking that maybe he was a homophobe but he seems to be okay with me so far. What if he hates me?" I groan trying to keep quiet. 

"He already knows you're gay?" Tetsutetsu asked, making me freeze up. I look up at him slowly and see him grin. "So considering only Shinso and I know and he is in class C..." I see his grin grow before he asked, "Is it me?" 

I feel my eyes widen as everything seems to freeze around me. I fucked up! My heart is hammering in my chest as I just look at him frozen in place and I swear I can only hear my heartbeat. It's done, he knows and he is... Smiling? Does that mean..? I swallow and very slowly nod to afraid to look away, to even breathe at this point. 

He leans in and whispers in my ear, "I like you too, but my class isn't so supportive. So I'm sorry." He starts to pull away but I see a hand land on his shoulder and I look up to see Midoriya whisper something in his ear that made his eyes go wide.

"Really?" Tetsutetsu looked back at him and I saw Midoriya nod smiling. 

"What?" I was confused. 

"Oh don't worry about it. Remember we have training tonight so your plans should stick to our rest day, Saturday," Midoriya smiled back at me. What just happened? I think I just died inside. Does he want to be my boyfriend or not?

Deku's POV

"I like you too, but my class isn't so supportive. So I'm sorry." I hear Tetsutetsu whisper in Kirishima's ear. Honestly they are not very quiet. I'm pretty sure that Kacchan heard him too but he was standing right next to me. 

I grabbed Tetsutetsu's shoulder before he could walk away and whisper in his own ear. "Eraserhead says that you can't be a hero if you're not willing to be everyone's hero. So as students we can't be bigots or homophobes." 

"Really?" I see hope rush into his face before nodding smiling back at him. 

"What?" Kiri asked, confused and worried. 

"Oh don't worry about it. Remember we have training tonight so your plans should stick to our rest day, Saturday," I smiled back at him. 

"Okay everybody it's time to head back to class remember Eraserhead said we have a guest speaker and not to be late!" Iida announced and everyone started packing up and we headed back to the classroom. 

Bakugo's POV

The guest speaker was Midnight and the lecture was sex ed and sexual harassment laws. Just great Deku and I just had to listen to this shit the other day. I could feel my face going red as the power point she made was showing images of different positions and all kinds of information on LGBTQ+ and how it was the Hero Association's policy that every hero be inclusive and supportive of both their peers and civilians. 

"Also it is the policy of the Hero Association that those who refuse to abide by these policies will be stripped of their hero licenses and they will be refused access to retake the exam." Midnight finished up by saying that after talking about how babies are made and although men could not give birth they could adopt and so long as they were in a steady relationship they could easily be approved for adoption or that they could hire a surrogate to carry their child for them. 

The class was so silent that we could hear the analog clock on the wall tick from behind her. Suddenly Mineta put his hand in the air and asked, "So if someone doesn't hate them but doesn't support them either can they still be a hero?"

"That is a hard question to answer because in that case they still do not practice tolerance but lets say they didn't give them disgusted looks or other general harassment then it is feasible but if they fail even once to act, then they could face jail time themselves if they could have helped and didn't." Midnight answered. The pervert just nodded sitting back quietly. Now that I think about it the pervert had been really quiet since we came back from camp.

"Speaking of which the same policies apply to other forms of harassment as well. Hero's are supposed to be good role models to the public and making anyone feel like they are less than in any way is not tolerated. This goes for not only their sex but also race and religion!" Midnight started clapping her hands and smiled at everyone now. "Now you just have to take this test showing you know and understand everything that we went over so in the future you can not say that you did not fully understand something that we discussed." 

She pulled out a stack of papers from only God knows where and handed them out. "You must pass this test, you can retake it once if you fail the first time but understand that failing a second time will result in you either being expelled or removed from the hero course." 

Question one had a diagram of a vagina and penis and I almost exploded right there. Forget the sweat on my hands, my head itself almost cracked open. Why? Do they enjoy torturing me?

Once everyone turned in their papers she left to go to class B. It was their turn to deal with the lecture. After hearing what that metal extra said I don't even feel sorry for them...

Deku's POV 

It's been a month since we went to camp and things seem to be going great! I see Shinso and Tetsutetsu in our dorms all the time. Shinso actually just transferred in last week. He just got put into the seat behind me in class and Mineta now sits by the door, at his request. No one seems to know about Kacchan and I outside of our class either. How could they not notice? 

Shinso was well past shocked when he walked into the kitchen one morning to find floating dishes and us cuddling at the table trying to distract each other as we concentrated on our task. We are practically attached at the hip anymore and Shinso found out the hard way that we were quite open about our relationship at least while we were inside the dorms. Kacchan almost fell over laughing when he saw his reaction to our training the first time.

It was nice to have one of my friends included in our training finally, but he had a bit of a shock when he found out how intense our training could get. We all wear our training bands all the time now, those of us that are in the training group. I require it, after what happened at the USJ I wasn't letting our friends get hurt like that again. So they can either wear them all the time or train by themselves.

I shake the thoughts from my head as I finish the training course and return to the rest of the class as they cheer for my new personal best score, making me blush. 

"Okay extras out of the way! Let me show you how it's really done!" Kacchan set off some explosions getting their attention as he made his way to the course and waited for the green light to enter. 

All the training we had been doing was really showing, not just for me and Kacchan either. Kami, Kiri, Jiro, Mina and Sero have excelled and tomorrow we had midterms. I expect them all to do really well, they have been studying every spare moment. It seems that whenever they were not training with us they were studying. They were actually paying attention in class and I think the only down time they allowed themselves was during lunch time when we would all hang out singing and generally goofing off. 

I should keep an eye on them, training and studying are good but they could overexert themselves either physically or by mental exhaustion. 

"So tonight is an early rest day so we can concentrate on midterms but be prepared we will be training on Saturday instead," I warn the Baku squad and Shinso who nodded they seemed even more pumped than before if that's even possible. Shinso already had good grades but he trained hard, it was like he was trying to make up all the time he was in general studies instead of the hero course.

"Congratulations, Kacchan, a new personal best!" I cheered when he came out. I jump and give him a hug making Eraserhead glare at us again. He has gotten used to the random displays of affection in our class but would not tolerate it if it interfered with the class. 

The rest of the class went through the exercise and everyone that has been training with us seemed to have raised their score at least twice as much as everyone else had. By the end of class Iida, Todoroki, Uraraka and Tsu had asked if they could join in on our training. 

"It's really hard and once you join you can't back down no matter what!" I hear Kacchan growl at them, I can see him glaring at them too. I nodded in agreement and they agreed to the terms and we told them our training schedule and how we were taking tonight as our rest day to prepare for midterms tomorrow and that Saturday we were getting an extra intense workout to make up for it. 

"That seems very responsible of you, yes I agree we should all work extra hard to become excellent heros!" Iida congratulated us on our plan. "So long as you push academics and our training for becoming heros I will do whatever kind of training you can come up with for me!" He was practically yelling at this point while his arms kept chopping at the air with his robotic movements. 

"Of course, you're looking at the future number 1 and 2 heros here," Kacchan scoffed at him and I saw Iida smile. I frown a little before plastering a smile back on and pulling Kacchan into a hug as we watched Ojiro take his turn on the course. Maybe I'm getting a little jealous? But I can't help not liking the way Iida was smiling at Kacchan. He is mine and I won't let anyone, male or female, take him from me. 

"Oh and as a rule you have to wear your training bands at all times. 24/7 They are waterproof so you don't even have to take them off in the shower. We won't let you study or train with us if you don't." I say smiling at my friend's from the safety of Kacchan's arms, I couldn't help snuggling into his chest after I was done talking and the world just seemed to end there. 

I feel Kacchan wrap his arms around me as well, holding me tight, I relax into his arms as I watch our remaining classmates finish the course.