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Bakugo's POV

I woke up only a little confused before I remember what today is. How was I supposed to know that things would escalate so quickly? Deku is something else. He's smart, he's funny, passionate, he's loving. How could I ever compare to him? Yet here I am holding him in my arms as he sleeps against me. My nerd. I don't know what I did to deserve him but for fucks sake please make sure I keep doing it.

I snuggle into his hair breathing in his sweet scent. 'Zuki, we need to get up." I mouth the words against his neck but don't make a sound knowing that his mind heard me.

"Hmm?" Was all he responded with but he cuddled closer trying to get a few more stolen moments of sleep. Today is Saturday, the day of the class 2A event where we will take on any and all challengers. Which apparently includes pro heroes considering Best Jeanist is on our list. I suppress a shiver thinking about forcing my hair down again and again back during our first year internship. This is still a great way to end the school year though. I mean we have finals in another week but this would be our last big event.

"Come on Zuki, we need to get ready for the trap." I whisper tickling him now getting to hear his sweet giggles finally.We rush through our routine and go to the common room to find our classmates making last minute adjustments.

"We get to see Eri today!" Deku cheered, jumping ahead of me. I can't help smiling as we just grab a piece of toast and an apple before running off to pick up our daughter. It feels like time has sped up to the point of dragging again. I don't even know how that makes sense but it does. Time was going like a whirlwind and I felt like I was drowning in the ocean watching it pass me by in slow motion.

"PAPA, DADDY!" Came our little princess as she slammed into Deku first who was in front of me. Before I even knew what was happening I was grabbed by a fistfull of my costume and the three of us were sobbing, hugging and kissing like we hadn't seen each other in years not 5 days. I was littering our baby girl's face with ticklish kisses before we went inside to have breakfast with our parents and then we took Eri with us back to the dorms. I really don't know how we arrived back so quickly. Eri was telling us story after story of all the things she was able to do with our parents as she sat on my shoulders.

"You sound like you had so much fun without us," I pouted only to get her giggles in return.

"Don't worry Papa I missed you and Daddy more than anything in the world," her giggles rang in the air as we opened the door to the dorms and everyone froze staring at us, well more accurately Eri as she climbed down to stand between Deku and I.

"We're back!" We were practically singing as the three of us called out together. The room erupted into cheers of "Eri!" as everyone came rushing over asking how she was and telling her how much they all missed her and promises of doing better in the future and please tell us you're back for good.

I couldn't help laughing as she lectured them about the "Rules". I didn't even care when I heard a tired sigh from behind me.

"Why are you all always so loud?" I turned around to see Eraserhead entering and at first he only saw the class until Eri screeched out his name running up to him. "Eri? You're back?" He looked up at me and Deku and asked again, "Is she back?" I watched as he held her, cuddling her in his arms and it was visible the amount of stress that just fell off of him as he did it.

"So long as nothing else comes up again. Her adoptive parents have agreed to tell you, not the hero agency, who they are after today's event. Assuming we succeed that is," Deku informed him. Earning slow nods from our teacher.

"I don't exactly agree with it, so you better hope it works," I grumble still putting up a front. "You will have to sign a nondisclosure contract, a gag order." I smiled a little at that but he just agreed quick enough as is, it was kind of disappointing really. I was hoping to rile him up a bit before the fights started.

Aizawa's POV

Thank God! Eri is back and they are going to finally officially tell me who Eri's parents are. I can't help hugging her as I listened to the boys talk. I could really care less about the gag order, at this point I would be willing to sign a contract in my own blood and sell my soul if it meant she was never ripped away from us again.

Of course I know that eventually she will have to start going to school for real and I can only expect to continue to see her so long as Midoriya and Bakugo were in school. But I just don't care.

Plans were finalized and we were all at the stadium, it was agreed that Eri would stay with me and my husband when she wasn't with them. That way they were clinging onto her you would have thought they were her birth parents, not just her caretakers. I shake the thought away I need to focus. Midnight was making the announcements while my husband sat with me in the commentators booth broadcasting. How did I end up here again?

"Attention Ladies and Gentlemen! On behalf of UA High School I welcome you to our first ever Class Challenge!" She was twirling her whip as she sauntered around the stage looking around. "Class 2A has decided to accept all challengers here today, they can be a student in another class or a pro hero even. They have even opened the challenge to civilians so for those of you that have always wondered; what if? Today is your day!" She continued with her annoucements while I just tuned it out. It was time for me to go and get Eri, she wasn't allowed on the field with the other students.

I signaled my husband and he nodded as he cued up some battle music, we never used music during matches before but today is something new. We are even allowing the challengers to make some requests such as Fat Man. We had a banquet of food that was always available to any and all contestants before and after their matches.

The matches were going to be a random lottery, The challengers were lined up and only those that won their fight would be able to pick someone directly to challenge after all the other challengers had a turn. The example would be if Midnight was fighting the students names would shuffle through and one picked at random if she won then she could, after resting, pick a particular student or choose another lottery draw. Simple enough to understand actually and to make sure none of the students were too unlucky once they decided they were too tired, their name would be removed from the lottery.

I finally reach the class in the waiting room just in time for them to be called out to the arena. I smile ready for Eri after she kissed both Midoriya and Bakugo goodbye on the cheek and jumped into my arms. Eri and I arrived back in the commentators box just in time for the top four's announcement. Yes, four not three. Just like with Midoriya and Bakugo who tied for first place, Red and Todoroki tied for second. My students are all sorts of complicated.

I started to pay attention to what was going on again while Hizashi introduced both Endeavor and Eri who would be helping us with the commentary for today's event.

"Hello thank you for having me!" Eri responded super cheerful while Endeavor glared from behind her.

"Why is there a little girl in here?" Endeavor growled still broadcasting to everyone.

"Because she has clearance to be here," Hizashi answered, smiling big for Eri who giggled.

"Moving on, the first match is actually Best Jeanist, the poor guy doesn't even know what he is getting himself into." I groaned rolling my eyes.

We all watched as the challenger walked up to the spinning wheel with each student's hero name on it. He let All Might spin the wheel for him and it landed on Uravity.

Red's POV

I'm so bored! We have had several challengers come and go and absolutely no one has won. We are all sitting in the student seating area waiting, knowing full well that those of us in the top four were not going to get called. The wheel was rigged so that it couldn't stop on any of our names.

The whole class was bored to tears though. Most of our challengers were students from other hero schools and they didn't stand a chance. It was however cute when Eri would contradict everything Endeavor said. He literally couldn't say anything constructive at all. We even had a few people in tears after he got done ripping into their match.

Eri however was like a soothing balm for them. There was one student who had a spider quirk. They literally had four arms and legs that looked exactly like a spiders and they were using some kind of web string thing to try and fight Mineta. He is literally the weakest student in class now but ever since he got his act together he started joining in on our extra training. So even he could now take down most of the students in class B.

"Bro, I'm so bored," I whined. I couldn't even snuggle my boyfriend because he hasn't come out to his dad yet. My eyes lit up and I looked at Deku. 'Deku! Can we challenge people? The line is almost gone now and there is still no sign of League.' I watched as his eyes lit up and he smiled pulling out his phone.

I swear it took literally 2 minutes and he looked back at me smiling before nodding. "Yes!" I cheered getting side looks from our classmates before Deku explained.

"As a reward for not losing a single match the hero association has agreed to allow us to challenge anyone we want. Pros included." This got several of them cheering and we told him who all we wanted to challenge.

"I want Endeavor!" I practically shouted, getting wide eyes from everyone but Deku and Bakubro.

"You've got him, I know you can beat his fucking flaming ass easy." Bakubro held up a hand and I fist bumped it.

"Are you sure? He doesn't go easy no matter who you are," Shoto asked me, he looked so worried. Not because he thought I could lose, he was worried about what would happen and how I would win. I can harden myself but that doesn't make me fireproof.

"He can't say anything about us if I can beat him right?" I smiled at him but he was giving me a nervous smile.

"Red, let me have Endeavor regardless of which of us beat him. It will be a Bakugo. Besides I have my water." I look back at Bakubro.

"But..." I feel a little let down but nodded. He was by far stronger and it only made sense that either Bakubro or Deku should be the ones to fight him. They will be the number 1 and 2 heros after all.

"No, I think it should be Red. It's no question about whether or not we are stronger than him. That is a no brainer. Red needs to see how far he has come and fighting Endeavor is the best way to do that." I looked at Deku in awe. He believed in me that much? He is the best.

"I trust you, just please don't get too burned? I will help to cool you off when you're done." I hear Shoto sigh and I look at him. It is so hard not to kiss him right now. He looked back at me with a sneaky smile before adding, "When you win I'll let you kiss me in front of everyone right on that stage."

I looked back at Deku, "Endeavor is mine!" Several of our classmates laughed and picked out heros of their own. When Mineta came back no one was surprised that he chose Midnight. Deku picked Eraserhead saying he needed a challenge and Bakubro just grinned and said Deku. We all laughed about it but that is really who he wanted to fight.

"Since we are testing limits and all," he shrugged. He did however promise to make sure Deku was all healed after his fight to be fair. I rolled my eyes, he just wanted an excuse to make out with his boyfriend without getting into trouble. Deku sent all of our requests to Nezu and it wasn't long before the matches really began. Did I mention that there was a literal moat around the arena? Or how about the fact that Bakubro has already put enough of his DNA in it to control it? Yeah these fights were going to be intense.