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i. "How is he not dead?!"
Uraraka would like to say that in her past few months of being at UA, she has gotten to know her classmates pretty well.
For example, she knows that Mina and Kaminari have dyslexia and ADHD which is why they have a hard time learning certain subjects. She knows that there are a surprising amount of people in her class who play musical instruments. Shinsou and Tokoyami have insomnia as a side-effect of their quirks, and there is a whole group of people in her class that just have regular insomnia, who sometimes meet up in the kitchen to have late-night discussions over coffee.
So yes, Uraraka would say she knows a bit about all of her classmates.
Except one.
There is just one student that Uraraka can not, for the life of her, understand.
And she isn't the only one.
It was a regular homeroom for Class 1-A. Some people were sitting on desks talking to each other, some were sleeping, and some were doing late homework or assignments.
When Yamazawa walked into class he found Mina and Hagakure whispering frantically with a group of their classmates.
"Hey guys, what's going on?" Yamazawa asked as he set his bag down at his desk.
"Yamababe!" Mina exclaimed loudly, hopping over to his desk, "You know how the last time the class went to the mall we were approached by villains?"
"...I think I heard about that." Yamazawa deadpanned, being the one who was held hostage by the Leader of the League.
"Oh right, sorry..." Mina winced, "Anyway! We wanted to try hanging out as a class again, maybe at the arcade or something? But Sensei's asleep so we can't ask him."
Yamazawa raised an unimpressed eyebrow, "Why don't you just wake him up?" several classmates gasped at the suggestion.
"Oh mon Dieu! Monsieur, do you have a deathwish?!"
"Why would you say something so scary?!"
"I do not believe that would be a wise thing to do Yamazawa-Kun!"
"Like seriously guys I'm gonna have nightmares about this! Sero, feel my arms! Those are literal goosebumps! Can you feel them?!"
"Holy crap dude, yeah I can feel them!"
"Shut up dumbasses!!"
Yamazawa rolled his eyes, walking up to the teacher's desk where Aizawa-Sensei was laying in a sleeping bag.
The class waited with bated breath of what their classmate was about to do, and what the consequences of his actions would be.
The class's eyes widened as Yamazawa squatted down and started poking their teacher's face.
Aizawa opened his eyes with a glare, quirk activated, "What."
Yamazawa smiled, amused, jerking his head at the rest of the class who were behind him, "The class wanted to know if they could stage a hangout off-campus. We need a teacher's permission and supervision. "
Aizawa fixed his glare to point at the rest of the class who were looking stiff as boards with wide eyes. He blinked and sighed heavily before looking back at Yamazawa. "Fine. But I'm making 'Zashi chaperone."
"Thanks Dad~!" Yamazawa sang, ruffling their teacher's hair, who just grumbled as he closed his eyes, before turning around to the class. "He said it's okay."
"How are you not dead?!"
"That was so manly!!"
"Our class president is so brave!"
"Thank you for your service, kind sir!"
"Seriously! Why aren't you expelled?!"
Uraraka was incredibly confused but she was just happy that she would get to hang out with her friends, so who was she to complain about things that didn't make sense?
ii. "But Daaadddd", "No, Problem Child"
Jirou Kyouka has excellent hearing.
Anyone could probably guess that based on her quirk.
But what a lot of people don't think about is that having exceptional hearing can be really damaging for a sleep schedule.
Especially for a light sleeper.
So yes, maybe Kyouka sometimes lets herself indulge in caffeine.
But it's nowhere near the amount of Izuku Yamazawa.
It was about 20 minutes before homeroom and there were only a few kids in class already.
It was relatively quiet chatter until Yamazawa walks in and, like most Wednesdays, set a coffee down on Aizawa and his cousin Shinsou's desk before going to his own.
"Thank you problem child" the teacher grumbled, taking a sip.
"Thank you, Izu." Shinsou said before spitting it out, "WHAT THE FUCK IZUKU!"
"What?" Yamazawa asked, wiping coffee off his face.
"Is this just a cup full of espresso?!" Shinsou yelled, causing Aizawa to look up with a raised eyebrow.
"Aww man, did I give you mine? Sorry about that." Yamazawa tried to reach for the cup but Aizawa-Sensei intercepted and raised it high in the air.
"No."
"Wha- but daaaadddddd"
"No Problem Child, this is too much caffeine for you."
"You're one to talk." Yamazawa huffed, "You only ever drink coffee!"
"Which is why if I'm saying it's too much, it's too much."
Yamazawa glared as he handed his glasses to Shinsou who took them with a sigh. Almost immediately he tried to jump onto their teacher. Aizawa dodged out of the way, still keeping a firm hold on the cup. Yamazawa kicked his shins and then launched himself at the pro-heroes legs.
They kept going on like that until more people came in and started questioning what was going on.
"I think... Aizawa is trying to stop Yamazawa from drinking too much caffeine..?" Jirou responded.
"Woah isn't that kind of hypocritical of you Sensei?" Kaminari asked, causing Yamazawa to shout "Thank you Denki!" before going back to fighting the teacher.
"Get down!" Aizawa shouted to the people by the front of the room before throwing a large cup of espresso over their heads, which landed perfectly in the trash.
"MY ESPRESSO?!!" Yamazawa cried.
Everyone was completely silent wondering what just happened.
That silence was broken by a war cry sounding out of Yamazawa right before he grabbed Eraserhead's capture scarf and wrapped it around it's owner.
The rest of homeroom was spent trying to get Yamazawa off of their teacher until someone had to bring in Midnight to knock him out.
iii. "You don't need to lie..."
Iida was walking out of school with Uraraka, Hitoshi, and Izuku before Uraraka asked a question.
"So do you guys want to go to the mall or something this weekend?"
"I apologize Uraraka-San but I'm going to a Hero Gala with my family on Saturday and it's out of town so we won't be back until Sunday!"
Uraraka giggled at his formal way of speaking, "It's fine Iida. What about you Yama-Kun?"
"Ah. Uh.. I also am going to the Hero Gala this weekend. Sorry Uraraka-San ." Izuku said awkwardly in a monotone voice but you could see the warmness in his eyes.
"Oh.. I understand." Uraraka said sadly.
"Are you okay Uraraka?" Hitoshi asked, noticing her reaction.
"It's just..." Uraraka shook her head before looking up at Izuku with a sad smile, "I hope you have fun this weekend, but you know you don't have to lie about where you're going right?"
"But Ura-" Izuku started
"It's fine!" she said waving her hand, "I'll see you guys on Monday."
...
"I'll see you at the Gala on Saturday, Izuku-Kun..."
"...See you there Tenya."
iiii. "SparkNotes"
It was nearing exams and Denki needed to get some studying in if he could ever hope to pass.
When he walked into the school library at lunch, it was relatively empty except for a few stray students.
He started walking around looking for a place to sit when he spotted the Class Representative, Izuku Yamazawa.
"Is this seat taken?" Denki asked, leaning over the chair next to him.
"Hm? Oh no, it's not." Yamazawa said looking back at his books.
"Cool," Denki said, plopping down into one of the seats. "What are you studying for?"
"English... I'm not very good at it." He said, fixing his glasses with a sheepish smile.
Denki smirked. He knew Yamazawa was lying. He sounded just as fluent as Present Mic during their English class! He definitely did not need any help.
He hoped he was reading this right.
"I'm not very good at math so how about whoever does worse on the practice test this Friday has to pay at the cafe for our next study date?" he said in English.
"T-that." Yamazawa blushed slightly, betraying his usual bored expression, "Okay."
Denki smiled, "Now can you help me with math? I wasn't lying about sucking at it.." he said, rubbing his neck sheepishly.
"Sure." Yamazawa chuckled, getting closer to Denki so they were touching arms.
This is nice.
+1 "Shouto Todoroki: Conspiracy Theorist"
It was a Saturday night and Todoroki had asked all of Class 1-A, Aizawa-Sensei, and Yamada-Sensei to meet in the common room so he could tell them all something.
"I thinkkkkk we're all here. What did you want to talk about, little listener?" Yamada-Sensei asked, doing a headcount before sitting on the couch between Aizawa-Sensei — who was on the very left end of the couch — and Yamazawa who was sitting with Shinsou and Kaminari.
hmm... interesting
Todoroki narrowed his eyes in suspicion before turning his attention to the rest of the class. "I've called you all here to give you a short presentation on something that I think will help you all not be confused anymore."
"...What are we confused about Todoroki-Kun?"
"It is very admirable of you to go out of your way to help your classmates!"
"Hah? What am I confused about you half-n-half bastard?!"
"Bakugou calm down, I think it's super manly of Todobro to help us."
"Quiet." Aizawa-Sensei glared with his quirk activated, "Let's get this over with quickly."
"Thank you, Yamaz- I mean Aizawa-Sensei." Todoroki had a small smug smirk when he saw the way his teacher's left eye twitched, "The subject that we are all confused about, to answer your question Bakugou, is Izuku Yamazawa."
Yamazawa raised an eyebrow at Todoroki before kindly asking, "Why would I be a confusing subject?" getting only unimpressed stares as an answer.
"I'll show you." Todoroki proceeded to click the remote that he was holding which caused a slideshow to appear behind him, "Izuku Yamazawa is the secret love child of pro heroes Eraserhead and Present Mic and I'm going to tell you why... With a surprise at the end of another hidden member of their family. Please listen quietly so I can get through this."
"Exhibit A. Names and Appearances." Todoroki said clicking a button, "Present Mic's last name is 'Yamada', Eraserhead's last name is 'Aizawa'. If you mix those together, what do you get? Yamazawa."
A couple of dramatic gasps sounded from around the room.
Todoroki put his hand up to silence them before continuing. "I know." he said solemnly, "But that's not all. If you look at these two pictures of our teachers." the next slide played and showed a blurry photo of a glaring Aizawa sitting at his desk, which looked like it was taken from behind a corner, and Yamada-Sensei taking a selfie, smiling widely while Todoroki stared at the camera blankly. "And then look over at our classmate here," heads turned to Yamazawa who rolled his eyes at them, "you can see the definite similarities. Black curly hair, green eyes, glasses, pale skin, tall, and I don't think we should even have to mention his quirk, but I will for those of you who don't see the connection."
Todoroki clicked on the next slide that said "Yamazawa Quirks."
"Um, Todoroki? Sorry to interrupt but why does it say 'quirks' plural?"
"I'll get to that." A slide showed up that was a screenshot of Yamazawa at the sports festival yelling at him, "Izuku Yamazawa's quirk allows him to make anything in his line of sight come off as silent. Or, in other words, erases sound."
Another round of gasps.
"Yamazawa is the perfect mix of Present Mic and Eraserhead's quirks... But he's not the only one. Shinsou Hitoshi..!"
"What." said an unimpressed voice.
"Could you please tell the class what your quirk is?"
A loud sigh could be heard before, "Voice-activated mind control."
"So, in other words, a voiced-based quirk that can stop people from doing things?"
"...Yes?"
Gasps. All around.
"You've mentioned that you and Yamazawa are cousins correct?"
"Yes."
"Are you sure that's not just a cover-up for you both being Aizawa-Sensei and Yamada-Sensei's secret love children? How else would you get those quirks?"
"I'm pretty sure I would know if Izuku was my brother but sure, I'll humor you. My father is Izuku's uncle, his quirk is no sleep, hence the insomnia and eyebags, and my mother has a form of persuasion."
Todoroki narrows his eyes, "Okay... keep your secrets. But you won't be able to for long." another slide showed up with big bold letters that said 'SMILES', "We all know that Shinsou and Yamazawa both have a coffee addiction along with Aizawa so I'm not going to get into that, instead I'll move on to this."
A slide appears of all the Yamazawa's plus Shinsou smiling. "Everyone knows that Present Mic has a big smile on his face a lot of the time. But I have gotten a photo of a more genuine and small smile, along with one of Aizawa, and if you look at them, they look just like the smiles that both Yamazawa children have.... but there is also a different type of smile the Yamazawa children have.."
The class collectively shivers.
"The cold and sadistic smirk that almost always guarantees that you will regret whatever you just tried." Todoroki turns towards the class with a disappointed expression, "Unfortunately, but also gratefully, I have yet to see Present Mic use an evil smirk but both children's smirks look exactly like their father's."
"Todoroki, is this going to be over soon?" Yamazawa asks with a bored tone.
"I have one last point and then you can have a game night or whatever normal families do." Todoroki pointedly ignores the worried glances his teachers and classmates give him and instead clicks the final slide that causes Aizawa, Yamazawa, and Shinsou to collectively snort.
'Loud Blondes.'
"...First of all, don't act like we all didn't just notice that reaction." Todoroki said squinting his eyes, while his classmates nod along, before turning to the screen, "As you all know, Present Mic and Eraserhead are in a relationship and have been for some time no- yes Jirou what is it?"
"Uhh so you've made some surprisingly good points," some people nod in agreeance, "but what do you mean 'as you all know'? I didn't even think Yamada and Aizawa-Sensei talked outside of school."
"Yeah I mean, we all heard how they interacted at the sports festival." Uraraka chimes in, causing some mumbles of agreement.
Todoroki blinked, "...You heard how they interacted at the Sports Festival and don't think they're in love?" he asked, glancing between his teachers before looking at his classmates, then back to his teachers with a look that said 'Are you hearing this right now?'
"Uh yeah, dude."
Todoroki's eyebrows furrow in confusion, "...Anyways, where was I?" he said looking back at the screen, "Oh right. Loud blondes. Okay so besides our teachers' obvious love, we also recently found out that Yamazawa and Kaminari are seeing each other-"
"Oh right! Congratulations by the way!"
"Yeah, congrats!"
"I'm happy for you two."
"Yes, yes we are all very glad you two found yourselves happy with each other but that doesn't change the fact that both Present Mic and Kaminari are, no offense, loud blondes."
"Hey!" squawks the two blondes.
Todoroki gave them a look that said 'see', causing the blondes to sink back into the couch.
"Uh...I'm not dating a loud blonde." Shinsou said which caused his 'cousin' to look at him with an incredulous look.
"Don't act like we all haven't seen the way you interact with Monoma from 1-B." Yamazawa said, causing Shinsou to make a 'tch' sound and blush.
"Thank you for proving my point, and showing us your brotherly teasing, Yamazawa." Todoroki said before turning to face the class, "My presentation is complete. I hope you all aren't confused anymore."
The class was silent for a moment before voicing their opinions.
"...Todoroki that was.. surprisingly convincing."
"Yeah totally! I mean I didn't notice before but now that you mention it... I can totally see it!"
"Todoroki-Kun! It was not okay for you to investigate our friends and teachers' lives outside of school!"
"...You're just saying that because the Yamazawa parents and your brother are high school friends. You obviously knew about this."
Iida sputters before the class agrees.
"That's right! You three are childhood friends so you totally would have known!"
"Vice rep! How could you just watch and listen to us talk about how confused we were! At least Todoroki told us when he got enough evidence!"
"Wait, the Yamazawa's have been awfully quiet. What do you all have to say for yourselves?"
"I thought you knew," Yamazawa shrugs, "I didn't really think we tried to hide it. So congratz I guess Todoroki for figuring it out..? Oh! But Hito really is just my cousin."
Todoroki could live with only being half right.
...
Maybe now his classmates will listen to his theory of the Villain Dabi being his dead brother...