{Not my art or submitted art at the top}

"I was supposed to kill him. I was supposed to completely destroy him without any mercy..." an angry voice stated.

"So why..." he grumbled.

"Why..." he gritted between his teeth.

Bakugo looked up to the sky and sent explosions upward in anger, "So why the hell am I on the same team as Deku!?!" he shouted to the world.

Izuku was comedically blue and sweatdropped with a blank face, "Well, I'm sorry you couldn't kill me Kacchan..."

The two opposite students ironically stood on the same side of a handmade volleyball court, made on the large dirt area they were at. The area had been swept up so that there were visible sharp lines on the ground to make the court dimensions. And the volleyball net itself had been created by Momo's quirk, but the metal poles holding up the net had been grabbed from the camp storage room. However, since everyone wanted to play together and there would be more than six members on each team, the class had increased the scale of the court in order to be able to fit everyone into one game.

Class A and two of the Big Three stood within the court, separated into two large teams.

One team consisted of Izuku, Bakugo, Kirishima, Mineta, Sato, Kaminari, Momo, Jiro, Shoji, Koda, and Nejire.

The other team included Ochako, Tsu, Mina, Toru, Todoroki, Iida, Tokoyami, Sero, Aoyama, Ojiro, and Mirio.

There were only two people who weren't joining them was Shinso who was training with Aizawa, and Tamaki, who was sitting underneath a tree with a flip-a-score scoreboard in front of him.

"Ooooi! Tamaki, you sure you don't wanna join us?" Nejire called to her moody friend.

"No thank you... If I joined, then the teams would be uneven, so it's better for me to be right here instead." Tamaki said with his eyelids half-closed.

Nejire pouted, "You're just saying that so you don't play!"

"Seems like he's quite a handful for being one of the Big Three..." Izuku thought awkwardly.

Bakugo pointed to Ochako on the other team, "Oi! Round face! Trade places with me!"

"Eh? Me?" Ochako uttered out. As glad as she would be to trade places to be on the same team as Izuku, there was a problem.

"Aw come on Bakugo, don't be like that! We've already picked the teams at random so there wouldn't have been a point if you suddenly switch now. Plus I'm here already so isn't that good?" Kirishima said as he pat Bakugo on the back.

"I don't wanna be on the same team as that nerd!" Bakugo cried out.

Ochako sighed in disappointment.

Izuku ignored his explosive bully's tantrum and turned to Momo with a smile, "Thank you for creating the net Momo, I know that it must've been a bit of trouble to use your quirk after having already used it so much today."

"If I know that my classmates are able to rely on me, then of course, I would surely do it!" Momo said with a bubbly smile and pump up attitude.

Izuku let out a chuckle, "She always gets so happy to be relied on."

"Oh, Izuku, how are you feeling?" she suddenly asked, sounding more concerned.

Izuku titled his head in puzzlement, "Eh? I'm feeling pretty fine, why?"

Momo took a step forward to him, "Really? You're fine despite being battered by Enso since the morning?"

Izuku gave her a reassuring smile as he rotated his right arm to show that he was fine, "I'm all right Momo, honest."

Momo reached out and took Izuku's arm, feeling upon with her hands.

Izuku was surprised by her sudden action and flinched while lightly blushed.

Momo didn't notice his blush and simply focused on his arm, pressing on different areas to see if she got a reaction from him. "Hm, your muscles don't seem to be sore and you can move around just fine despite having taken quite a beating. You really are durable."

"Th-Thank you?" Izuku said with an awkward smile as he just waited for her to let go.

Momo pulled down the right sleeve of Izuku's arm and felt upon the bare muscles of his arm, examining the scars on it.

"So durable... yet so fragile with himself..." she thought with a hint of sadness. She slightly pressed her hands on his arm and couldn't help but be entranced, "He... really is well built... I wonder how his chest is compared to his arms?"

"Um, Momo?"

Momo snapped back to reality and realized that her head had gotten rather close to Izuku's arm. She immediately sprung back with her face reddening up, "I-I see you're perfectly fine! Let's do our best to win this game then! I'll position myself over there!" she the hurriedly walked off, leaving Izuku blinking in confusion.

"What was that?... I rarely hear her stutter at all."

Before he had a chance to think too much of it, his eyes caught of Jiro twirling her earlobes with a depressing look.

His good nature instinctively went over to her, "Something wrong Jirou?"

"Hm? Oh, well..." Jirou glanced over at the other team. "I've never really been that good at sports, so I think I may slow you guys down..."

Izuku chuckled, "Don't say that. You'll be great! In fact, I think you have a better advantage than some of our classmates."

"Oh? How so?" Jirou asked him to clarify.

Izuku happily let his nerd side kick in, "Well, learning how to play instruments actually helps improve reaction time! That's why Enso wanted me to learn how to play a few of them! And you Jirou know how to play so many of them, even if it is only the basics! I have no doubt that your reaction time will help you react to the ball faster!"

Jirou couldn't help but form a smile on her face, "Geez, even when you're reassuring me, you're still nerding out Deku."

Izuku chuckled, "But it seems like the only way for me to tell you how amazing you are is by letting my nerd side kick in."

Jirou felt her cheeks warm up and she looked away, muttering "Baka..."

"Hm?" Izuku tilted his head in confusion as he heard that last part, also wondering why he saw a tint of red in her cheeks.

"Her and Momo are both acting weird... I wonder what it is-"

Izuku interrupted his thoughts as he remembered the previous day.

"It's not just Ochako-chan and I... So you need to think more about these things..."

Izuku recalled those words from Tsu and his head immediately turned red with smoke erupting from the top like a volcano.

"A-A-Are they two of the girls that Tsu said l-l-like me?" he frantically wondered, focusing his gaze down with his hands atop of his head. "Th-This isn't good, I'm gonna be more self-conscious about girls now!"

On the other side of the net, Mina grinned as she saw Izuku's red and embarrassed face. "Awww, look how adorable he is, getting flustered like that."

"But aren't you gonna ask why he's suddenly like that?" Hakagure asked with a question mark over her head.

The smile was wiped off of Mina's face, "Don't tell me..." her eyes skimmed over to Jiro and Momo, both of whom, were stealing glances at Izuku with blushes on her face.

"Looks like I may have to step up my game a bit." she then stated as she put on some sunglasses.

Hagakure sweatdropped, "Where did you even get those?"

Meanwhile, Ochako rushed over to Tsu with a bright smile, "We're on the same team Tsu! Isn't that great?"

"Yeah..." Tsu muttered, then gazing over at Izuku's panicked and red face. "Maybe I shouldn't have told him that last part yesterday..."

Ochako caught Tsu out of it, tilting her head in dismay, "Tsu?"

Tsu let out a surprised croak and turned her head, "Yes, Ochako-chan?"

"Is something wrong? You look like you were lost in your head."

"Don't worry Ochako-chan, I'm alright. I was just thinking about something I may have forgotten. But right now let's do our best, ribbit."

Ochako raised her fists into the air with a smile, "Yeah!"

"Deku! Stop standing around and get your ass in the middle! Use your stupid pet to get the ball if it goes higher than your short self can reach! Don't you dare slow my ass down!" Bakugo shouted as he pointed at Izuku.

Izuku flinched, snapping out of his panicked thoughts on girls, "R-Right!"

"Who's he calling stupid?!" Ikari snapped with the irritation being clearly heard in Izuku's head.

"I think he's saying that because he doesn't know what nickname to give you..." Izuku sighed.

Everyone got into their different positions as Mirio held up the ball in his palm. "Alright! Our team will be serving first! Let's all have a fun game everybody!" he shouted.

"Yeah!" shouted the class.

"Wait!!"

Everyone turned their heads to Mineta, who had his hand raised with a rather calm look on his face. "I have a question!"

"If you want us to wear stupid volleyball uniforms, then I suggest you shut your mouth." Mina glared.

Mineta was quiet for a brief moment before saying, "I have a different question!"

"He was thinking about it..." the class all thought with disappointed sweatdrops.

"Will we be allowed to use our quirks?"

"Oh, that's actually a good question. I didn't think he had those." Sero said, sounding impressed.

Mirio laughed, "Of course! That's why I wanted us to play in the first place! Go wild and see what you can come up so you can show us all about your quirks!"

"Oh boy!" Nejire exclaimed, excited that she'd be able to get a closer look at the students and their quirks.

A murderous red aura came within a specific person, and everyone flinched as they looked to find Bakugo with an evil grin on his face. "You're gonna regret saying that Tintin."

"Bakugo! At least try to remember names!" Iida shouted from the other team as he did karate chop motions.

"Dark Shadow, aid me!" Tokoyami called from the opposite team. On cue, Dark shadow emerged over him with his arms out and ready.

"Hell yeah! Let's do this Ikari!"

Ikari then emerged from the other team behind Izuku and stretched up as well, "Right with you Dark Shadow! This going to be an epic fight!"

"Not a fight..." Izuku mumbled.

Nejire scooted right behind Izuku with stars in her eyes as she looked up at Ikari and Dark Shadow.

"Amazing! It's like you both have the same quirk!"

Izuku turned to her with a smile, "Oh, even though they may look similar, they are very different. I'm sure Dark Shadow could be stronger than Ikari in the dark."

"Serving!" Mirio interrupted, getting everyone's attention from the back of the court on his team. He tossed the ball into the air and pulled his right arm back. He then swung it forward with a "Hyah!" sound and slammed his palm right into the ball, sending it across the net.

Bakugo immediately blasted into the air and got into the trajectory of the ball, his right arm already being brought forward.

"DIE!" An explosion came from his palm and send the ball down to the other team.

Izuku and Ikari both had blank looks on their face as they repeated, "Die?" "Die?"

The ball literally blasted to the top right corner of the court, where Toru and Sero were both positioned to defend. However, because of the frightening speeds of the ball, they both yelled and jumped out of the way of its path, letting it crash into the ground with a big explosion of dirt being created in the process.

Once getting back up, Sero looked rather angry, "Oi! What the hell Bakugo?! At least show some restraint!"

Bakugo just grinned, "Not my fault you can't take it, Flat Face!"

"He doesn't know the definition of restraint..." Ikari commented in disappointment.

"What was that demon boy!?!" Bakugo shouted.

"Oh look, now he came up with a nickname for you." Izuku noted.

"What was that Deku!? I'll fight you!" Bakugo threatened.

A menacing purple aura then came from Ochako as she performed a serious stance, "Looks like we're gonna have to go all out." she said in a menacing tone.

"That's more like it!" Mirio said as he gave a big thumbs up.

"I'm suddenly scared by how this is gonna escalate..." Izuku shivered.

"Score... 1-0..." Tamaki muttered, lazily flipping one of the scorecards.

"Keep it moving! Kirishima, you serve!" Bakugo instructed.

"Alright!" Kirishima shouted as he went to the back and got passed the ball. He threw it up and then sent it flying over the net with a hard smack.

The ball headed straight for Ochako, who immediately jumped up and used her fingertips to set the ball upward, activating her quirk in the process.

"Tokoyami! Get Dark Shadow up there!" Ochako called out to him as the ball went higher and higher.

"Go Dark Shadow!" Tokoyami shouted, his companion immediately stretching upward to reach the ball.

"I got it!" Dark Shadowed called out.

Ochako pressed her fingertips together. "Release!"

The ball then regained its gravitational pull and fell down to Dark Shadow who was just coming up.

"Booyah!" Dark Shadow slammed the ball down to the other team.

"Naive!" Momo shouted as she dove forward and used her fist to knock the ball upward.

"Nice save!" Kaminari shouted as he jumped up and set the ball up with his fingertips. "Midoriya!"

"On it!" Izuku watched the ball fly through the air for a moment. Worrying that Bakuog might try to steal his chance, he activated One For All and launched into the air, pulling his arm back to strike.

Once reaching up to the ball, he focused more power into his palm as he swung it forward yelling "SMASH!" The force of his quirk blasted the ball downward at a similar speed that Bakugo's explosion had when he blew up the ball.

"They won't be able to save it!" he thought with confidence.

"Not this time!" Mirio immediately detected the ball's path and stepped in, crossing his arms in front of himself in a ready position. The ball came down and slammed right into him, the force of which actually pushed him back a few inches on the ground. But then he suddenly shoved his arms up and sent the ball upward for his teammates, yelling "Power!"

"He blocked it!?!" Izuku thought, completely stunned.

"I got it!" Sero shot his tape to the pole of the net and pulled himself off the ground and towards it. Upon getting close, he used his feet to land onto the pole and jump up higher in the air with his tape retracting back, his palm ready to slam the ball.

"Don't think so flat face!" Bakugo shouted as he suddenly appeared right in front of Sero, his palms igniting Sero in an explosion.

"Gak!?!" Sero was blasted back and tumbled onto the ground before stopping with swirly eyes.

Still in the air, Bakugo blasted up to the ball and slammed his palm right into it once more and blew it downward.

Mina grinned as the ball came in her direction, getting into a ready position with her legs spaced out and forearms together. However, instead of heading to her forearms as she planned, the ball suddenly curved to the left.

"Shoot! I'm gonna miss it!"

On reflex, she stuck out her leg and the ball slammed on it, bouncing upward over her.

Everyone sweatdropped to see her kick it, including Mina herself.

However, instead of stopping the play, Toru rushed over to the ball as it was still in the air.

"Leave it to me!" She jumped rather high to reach the ball and with sudden grace, she swung her leg and propelled the ball to the left towards another teammate. "Go Todoroki!"

"She played on it!?" Izuku thought, completely white and with an agape mouth of shock.

"Right." Instead of questioning it, Todoroki went right with it. He jumped backwards into the air and performed a bicycle kick, majestically kicking the ball downward with perfection.

"Even Todoroki!?!"

Todoroki purposely kicked the ball towards the edge of the court of the other team, making it hard for them to be able to save it. But Kaminari dove for the ball and managed to hit it upward with his fist.

"Yeah!" he shouted with a satisfied smile to knock the ball up.

A whistle suddenly blew out.

Mina held the whistle in her hand as she pointed at Kaminari, "Handball."

"EH!?" Kaminari yelled out in confusion.

Toru held up a card, "Yellow card."

"This isn't soccer you two!!!" Kirishima shouted to them.

"Score... 1-1..." Tamaki grumbled.

"Even him!?"

"No, he just hit it out." Tamaki said as he pointed at the out-of-bounds volleyball Kaminari thought he saved.

"But they kicked the damn ball!!" Bakugo shouted.

"And you blasted one of their teammates, which you should actually be receiving a penalty for." Tamaki sighed.

Bakugo flinched at that retort before then clenching his fists and turning his back to Tamaki in anger. "Tsk!"

Mirio began laughing at the classes' actions and stuck both of his arms upward, "Interesting! Let's do this then! From here on out, kick the ball, blast the ball, use your quirks anyway you can to send it flying! Just make sure you don't grab it with your hands or quirk, that it doesn't touch the ground, and..." he glanced at Bakugo "...you don't purposely inflict harm to others! Other than that, anything goes!"

"This isn't even volleyball anymore!" Izuku shouted.

Bakugo just grinned with his palms exploding, "Serve the damn ball!"

"Oh, I give up." Izuku facepalmed with a sigh.

"Let's fight on partner!" Ikari encouraged.

Koda was the next one to serve the ball. He shyly held it in his hands before closing his eyes and tossing it up in the air. Surprisingly, he was able to land a hit on the ball and serve it to the other team.

Tsu jumped after the ball and shot her tongue out towards it, using her tongue to slam the ball to the left toward Iida.

"Iida-chan!" she yelled as she passed it over to him.

"Yes!" Iida took a running start before using the force of his engines to jump high in the air, aiming his leg at the ball coming towards him.

"Recipro burst!" His engines blasted blue flames out, adding more to his momentum as he swung his leg with such force on the ball that he made a small shockwave, sending it back at vanishing speeds.

Nejire was the one to demonstrate her power this time by raising her hands up at the ball coming down. She suddenly released a sudden shockwave of her own that had enough force to stop the ball and propel it upward.

"Nani!? She deflected it!?" Iida yelled in his head.

Nejire smiled as she then pointed her palms down at the ground this time, using her quick once more to create an explosive shockwave that sent her flying up into the air. As the ball was beginning to fall back down, she aimed both of her palms downward in front of her and waited for it to get directly in front of her.

"Uh oh, I don't think any of you guys wanna be hit by that." Mirio laughed as he prepared for the worst.

Once the ball fell into her path, Nejire let loose an even more powerful wave from her palms.

"Wring Wave!" she shouted.

The intense blast from her quirk turned the ball into a dangerous projectile as it was propelled downward. Nearly no one even saw the ball move until it had already exploded right onto the ground. Many of the other team were sent ragdolling into the air yelling with big clouds of dirt spreading around them.

"Such power..." Todoroki thought, stunned to see the force of her attack.

When the dust cleared up, Toru, Mina, and Ojiro were all laying on the ground with swirls in their eyes.

Nejire landed on the group and was partly surprised by what she had done.

"Whoops."

"2-1... And if any of you are gonna argue that she inflicted harm to her opponents, she didn't technically inflict harm on purpose." Tamaki said.

Rather than worry about his unconscious friends, Izuku's nerd side kicked in, "Oh wow! Is that her quirk?! It's just like Kacchan's quirk in the way that she can create powerful blasts as an offense or for movement! But I can see the difference between the two as Kacchan uses explosions based on his nitroglycerin sweat while Nejire uses an invisible kind of force! I wonder what kind of force Nejire actually uses for her quirk and how is it fueled to mumble mumble mumble mumble..."

Ikari went to Izuku's side and tapped him on the head, "Partner, you're doing the thingy again..."

"Mumble mumble mumble mumble..."

"Oh boy, he's out of it."

Upon landing, Nejire heard the mumbling green nerd and turned back at him curiously.

She picked up a few words out of his ramblings and went over to him with a smile, "Do you like looking at other people's quirks too?"

"Eh?!" Izuku snapped out of his thoughts and realized that Nejire was standing right next to him now. "Ah, w-well... Yeah, I've always been interested in quirks. Looking at how they work, writing them down, and as you saw, I-I get a little deep into thought about them..."

"I think it's a lot more than a 'little' partner." Ikari corrected.

"I love looking at quirks too! It's amazing how many different types there are!"

"Yeah, there are so many cool ones!" Izuku smiled, forgetting how nervous he was.

"Do you think my quirk is cool?" Nejire asked as she pointed at herself.

"Of course! To be able to create sudden shockwaves like that! It's amazing!" Izuku responded with no hesitation at all, even getting close to Nejire with an awestruck smile.

Nejire was actually caught off guard by boy's praising, blinking repeatedly and developing a shade of red in her cheeks, but she quickly regained her composure and smiled again.

"Good to know there's someone who likes quirks as much as I do!"

"Oi! DEKU! Quit flirting and get your ass back!" Bakugo shouted to him in irritation.

"A-Ah! Sorry Kacchan!" Izuku quickly apologized, not even picking up the first part of Bakugo's insult, nor noticing the jealous looks he got from others.

He turned to Nejire one last time, "Maybe we could talk about quirks later?" Izuku offered.

"Sure! I wanna know more about you as well!"

"A-About me? I-I guess that would be okay..." Izuku murmured.

Izuku went back near the middle and saw Dark Shadow representing Tokoyami for serving the ball.

"Serve Dark Shadow!" Tokoyami instructed.

"Serves up!" Dark Shadow tossed the ball upward and slammed it across.

Ikari stretched above Izuku energetically and thumped the ball back."Right back at ya!"

Mirio took the initiative and jumped up to slam the ball.

At the same time, Mineta threw two balls of his hair onto the floor and used them as a trampoline to launch himself into the air, planning to block the ball's path when Mirio hit it.

However, Mirio wasn't expecting him to be there and of course, slammed the ball as hard as he could, shouting "Power!" one more.

The ball was launched for about three feet before bludgeoning itself onto Mineta's face.

BAM!

"GAK!!" Mineta found himself spiraling through the air over his teammates with blood coming from his nose.

"Ah." was all that came out of Mirio at the realization of what happened.

"Mineta!?" Izuku jumped and caught the boy in his arms, then landing near the edge of the court and laying him onto the ground, "Are you alright?!"

Mineta's eyes were white as more blood came running down his nose. "M-Midoriya..." he weakly called, slowly raised a shaken arm up and grabbing Izuku by the collar of his shirt. "Take... c-care of th-the boobs for me..."

Izuku blinked twice as he took in his words. "Come again?"

Mineta then passed out, his body turning completely white like his eyes with a soul leaving his body.

Izuku blinked for a few moments before simply lifting up Mineta again and placing him outside of the court this time.

"Why does he even bother speaking if those are the only things he says?"

"You know... A part of me kind of wants to think he's dead." Ikar said, his head appearing next to Izuku's and staring at the unconscious boy.

"Ikari, the next time you say something like that about a classmate, you'll be grounded."

"How do you even plan to ground me?"

"You won't be allowed to play with Dark Shadow."

Ikari flinched, before then looking down in depressing defeat. "Fine..."

Izuku turned back to his class to let them know of Mineta's condition, only to find out that they had actually continued playing, completely focused on not letting the ball fall.

"They could at least worry a little..." he sweatdropped.

"I don't think they want to."

"What are you doing?" A cold voice then wrang out.

Izuku and Ikari both looked turned their heads to the forest and saw Enso just exiting it and walking towards them.

"Enso!" Ikari cheered.

"Enso, you're back!" Izuku said in a glad tone as well. "We're all playing volleyball right now. You want to join?"

"No, we need to talk." Enso responded, not wasting any time.

Izuku's smile turned to a look of worry as he could tell that Enso had to tell him something serious. Although his cold look was the same as always, there was a noticeable difference in his tone when he spoke. Izuku put a serious expression and nodded, "Alright... Just give me a moment."

Enso nodded and headed towards the camp building, planning to wait for Izuku right inside.

"Did something happen between him and Ragdoll?" Ikari whispered to him.

On cue, Izuku caught sight of Ragdoll emerging from the forest now in a bubbly excitement. She immediately ran over to Pixie-bob waving her gloved hand to her to get her attention.

"Ryuko! I have something to tell you!" she called out to her fellow pussycat.

Pixie-bob was watching over a few Class-B students before turning her head and furrowing her brow in a look of annoyance to see her energetic teammate look so cheerful after coming back from a session with Enso.

"I think something did happen..." Izuku thought.

He then remembered Mandalay's words.

"You don't really know Ragdoll that well. She's pretty good at getting into people's heads and can understand them very well, even more than they may understand about themselves sometimes. There are times where she can be a little overwhelming, I wonder if Ureshi can deal with someone like her?"

"What do you think partner?" Ikari asked him.

Izuku just shrugged, "Who knows what happened? Maybe that's what Enso wants us to talk to us about."

He then went over to his friends and waved at them.

"I'll be right back, I have something to talk about with Enso!"

"Aw, okay. Be sure to come back!" Nejire answered.

"We don't need your weak ass anyway Deku!" Bakugo snapped at him.

Everyone sweatdropped.

"How vulgar..." Momo mumbled in disappointment. She then turned to Izuku with a smile, "Come back soon."

"I will." Izuku nodded with a smile.

"I'll be back buddy!" Ikari called out to Dark Shadow.

"Okay!" Dark Shadow responded with a thumbs up.

Meanwhile, Ragdoll was rather bouncy from excitement as she spoke to her fellow pussycat.

"Hey Ryuko! You won't believe what happened!" she exclaimed.

"What did you do?" Pixie-bob immediately interrogated her with her arms crossed.

Ragdoll just laughed at her reaction, "Hahaha! Now, now Ryuko, why do you have to make it sound like I did something bad? All I did was help Enso remember something that he didn't even know before! Aren't I amazing?"

Pixie-bob's eye twitched in irritation when she said his name, "Hey, why are you already calling him by his first name?!" she irked.

Ragdoll wrapped an arm around Pixie-bob's shoulder, "You know, he was the one who wanted me to call him by his first name. Besides..." She then leaned her head closer to Pixie-bob's ear with a smug grin, "Don't you call him by his first name as well?"

Pixie-bob flinched with shock, "H-How did you know!?"

Ragdoll laughed with comical tears spewing out, "Hahahahaha! I didn't know! I just tested your reaction to find out! I see you've already tried to make a move on him!

A vein of anger emerged on Pixie-bob, "You devious little snake!"

Ragdoll's laughing then died down as she held up a hand to halt Pixie-bob before she could act out in any way. "Look, I know you're feeling a little bitter because I'm around the guy your thirsty for, but you gotta hear this!"

"Stop saying additional unnecessary things and just tell me already!" Pixie-bob snapped, holding herself back from ripping Ragdoll to shreds.

Ragdoll looked left and right to see if there was anyone that would overhear their conversation. Seeing the coast was clear, she motioned Pixie-bob closer, to which she complied and leaned in. Ragdoll then went near her ear and whispered to her.

"Enso knows about the cabin."

Ragdoll's eyes widened in shock, "Huh!? But I thought you said no one but us, Midnight, and another girl knew about it!?"

"Shhhhh!" Ragdoll shushed her, "I thought that too. But here's the thing, he didn't even seem to know about it himself until I actually did a session with him to help his memory!"

"What do you mean he didn't know about it himself?" Pixie-bob asked her, more confused than before.

"Listen! I had him do a little exercise where he closed his eyes and focused, but once he woke up he immediately followed the river to the cabin without even saying anything to me!"

Pixie-bob blinked as she took in this newfound information, "So does that mean he's actually been here before?"

Ragdoll shrugged, "Well, I didn't really get anything out of him about his past. If anything, he was the one asking questions to me about the camp, as if he was the one trying to organize his own past. You know how we thought that he might have been purposely hiding his past? Now I'm beginning to think that he really didn't remember much about himself, not all of it at least, but I still know he has some things hidden. He did say that he'll be coming back for another session tomorrow though, so maybe I can get more answers by then."

Pixie-bob looked down in serious thought.

"When we gathered up to look at the information of the students attending the camp, he was the only one we barely got any info on..."

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~{Three Months Before The Training Camp}~

"So when is Eraserhead gonna bring his class to our camp?" Pixie-bob asked Mandalay.

Mandalay smiled, "They'll be coming a little after summer break begins."

Ragdoll jumped up in excitement, "Oh boy! I can't wait to meet them all!"

"Hmph, I wonder if they'll be able to handle what I've got in store," Tiger said as he cracked his knuckles.

The Pussycats were within their office at the forest camp building, organizing files and examing the information Aizawa and Vlad had sent them of their students. They looked over the general information of the students as well as information about their quirks as well in order to determine what exercises they would have them do.

However, when Pixie-bob got to Enso's information, she stared at it with a look of suspicion. There was barely any information about him filled out on the sheet as only his name, a photo of himself, and his current address was on it. Attached to his sheet was a letter from Aizawa directed to the Pussycats.

Pixie-bob read the note and found that Aizawa was informing the Pussycats that Enso Ureshi was a special case among the students. He didn't have to go through any special exercises as instead, he would be training another student, Izuku Midoirya. It was stated that Nezu himself was responsible for Enso and was the one that requested for him to train Izuku during the camp, surprising Pixie-bob slightly. It also explained that the lack of information about Enso was because he had a case of amnesia when 'heroes found him in a lab', so it was believed that he had amnesia due to whatever experiments the people of the lab did. In addition, they weren't able to pinpoint who he was by records or missing person cases as he didn't look like anyone that went missing nor had any particular features that they could use to connect to anyone else.

Pixie-bob then looked up, "Hey Ragdoll... Did you look up information about this one student, Enso Ureshi?"

Hearing that name, the only movement that occurred were Pixie-bob's teammates glancing at her.

"Enso Ureshi? Wasn't that the kid who got second in the sports festival?" Mandalay asked.

"Yeah, thats him! And as for my answer Ryuko... Nope! I didn't find anything about him." Ragdoll smiled.

Now that was a shocker.

"Nothing at all?" Mandalay asked in a surprised tone.

"I even called Eraser right after I found nothing and asked about him! But he said that Nezu was the one that told him that he was special among the students. That was all I got."

Pixie-bob walked over to the group and showed them the note from Aizawa. "This has Aizawa explaining a part of Ureshi's situation."

They all read the note, but immediately after, Tiger scoffed, "You expect me to believe that load of garbage? Like hell he has amnesia! Those eyes of his don't tell the same story! I know that look anywhere, those eyes are of someone who's experienced. He's seen things, he knows things, he's done things."

"In addition to that, he seems to be obsessed with another student, Izuku Midoirya. We saw him interacting with him the most during the sports festival. This letter from Aizawa even says that the guy is supposed to 'train' Midoriya during the camp. That seems pretty suspicious for someone who has amnesia." Pixie-bob added, tapping the letter in her hand to point it out.

"I think so too, there's clearly more to him, but that makes me more curious about what I could find out!" Ragdoll expressed in excitement.

"Hmph, knowing Aizawa even he must have his own suspicions about the student, but he got his instructions from Nezu, and we all know how dangerous it would be to go up against that rat. There must be a bigger reason for Nezu to keep such a potentially dangerous person in U.A."

"There's one more thing that Eraser did mention during our call. He said that he overheard Ureshi claim that he's actually older than the students of his class."

"See? How would the kid know that he's older than the others if he has memory loss?" Tiger asked, slamming the table he was at in anger.

"Now, now Tiger. If Nezu trusts him, then I'm sure that's a good enough reason for us to trust him." Ragdoll said as she pat Tiger on the head.

Tiger grumbled for a moment before looking back to his documents.

"Hold on, are we actually gonna allow him here?" Pixie-bob asked in surprise.

Mandalay smiled, "Yes. After all, Nezu seems to trust him, so in turn, Aizawa trusts him, so we should too. Or do you suggest we try to take this up with Nezu?"

Ragdoll pictured Nezu maniacally laughing with multiple lightning striking behind him.

"I'll pass..." Pixie-bob shook.

"Well, as long as he's here, if he ends up doing something serious, then I'll take him down myself." Tiger said with a scary aura.

"I'll count on you then." Mandalay chuckled.

Pixie-bob gazed back to the image of Enso and actually took note of his facial features, "You know... Maybe he just looks suspicious. He could be quite the charming guy if I get to know him."

She then formed a desirable grin.

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~{Back To Present}~

"Helloooo! You alright there Ryuko?" Ragdoll tapped her.

Pixie-bob shook thoughts out of her head, "Yeah, can you tell me any more about him as you learn?"

Ragdoll rubbed the back of her head, "Well I told him I wouldn't be telling anyone what he tells me. Maybe just try talking to him about it yourself. Just don't try lusting after him at the same time." she joked.

Pixie-bob flinched, but Ragdoll then happily skipped away to watch the students play volleyball together.

Pixie-bob shook off Ragdoll's words and instead focused once more in her thoughts. "He claimed to be older than the students and knew the location of the cabin? Just who is he?"

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"You think you were originally from this world!?!" Izuku shouted.

"You don't have to shout that loud..." Enso told him.

Enso and Izuku were currently within the boy's room of the cabin sitting atop of the laid out sleeping bags. The very first thing Enso told him was how he believed to have originated from their current world, the theory of which, was formed by the memory he was able to recall with Ragdoll.

"Y-You actually believe y-you may be from here?" Izuku asked again, his voice calming down but still full of disbelief.

Ikari emerged behind Izuku and went in front of Enso, "You think you found your home!?"

Enso shook his head side to side. "I didn't necessary 'find' my home. But I do believe that I'm from this world. More specifically, I believe that I've been to this camp before as there is some evidence pointing that out. It'll take a bit of explaining though, so bear with me and keep quiet."

"Okay..." Izuku crossed his legs while sitting on the ground, he and Ikari being very attentive to Enso.

"Do we need popcorn?"

"Quiet Ikari." Izuku blatantly told him.

Enso sat down in a comfortable position as well, "So... It started with my internship. I think it did anyway..."

And so, Enso told Izuku about every single interaction he had with Midnight and Mount Lady. He started with his internship with Kamui, where he said he met Mount Lady and ended up offending her charm, but after a run-in with a human trafficking organization, she came to respect him and even gave him her number. Next, he told him that after they had gotten back to school, Midnight made an attempt to seduce Enso but he just brushed her off, offending her charm as he did with Mount Lady. But then after the final exams, Midnight made yet another attempt to seduce him which somehow ended up in him agreeing to go on a date with her. He informed him that the date didn't go well due to the two of them encountering Mount Lady, then leading to a scene between her and Midnight in the restaurant. After he had knocked them out and ran with them out of the place, he brought them over to U.A where he saw a more emotional side of Mount Lady with Midnight.

A few days later, Enso visited (more like broke into) Midnight's residence and was able to see her memories in order to find out why Midnight and Mount Lady were on bad terms, which he discovered was because of a childhood friend they had named Hiro, who they had lost in an accident involving a laboratory. From there, Enso hadn't thought about them all the way to camp, but then Ragdoll acted as a psychiatrist for him and triggered that memory of Hiro walking with a young Mount Lady and Midnight down the river. This memory appeared to be a continuation of a previous memory Enso had seen in Midnight. And so, Enso concluded that because he didn't look into Midnight's memory when he saw that last vision, then that could mean that memory was his own, making him believe that he is Hiro.

The more Izuku and Ikari listened to Enso, the more their eyes widened by the learning exactly what Enso had been through. By the time Enso finished speaking, Izuku and Ikari were both itching to ask something.

"Midnight asked you to have sex!? "Midnight wanted to have babies with you!?" They both asked at the same time.

"Why are those the first questions you both have?" Enso sweatdropped.

Izuku scratched the back of his head in embarrassment. "S-Sorry... I just could believe that a teacher tried to seduce a student like that in U.A..."

"I just wanna know why is that woman so thirsty?!" Ikari snapped.

"I won't explain exactly why she desires me because it's... complicated." Enso answered, not wishing to expose Midnight right there.

"Okay, moving on from that, what are you gonna do now Enso?" Izuku interjected.

Enso's gazed down and rubbed his chin with a finger, "Hm... As of now, I'm planning on having future meetups with Ragdoll to see if I could remember anything else." he then looked back up to Izuku. "However, I know that the next time I meet up with her she'll most likely interrogate me about my past. She mentioned that she had been trying to research information about me ever since the sports festival, but found nothing. For reasons you know..."

Izuku became worried, "I-I read all about the pussycat's career, Ragdoll excels at finding information on people, whether it's finding out locations and weak points with her quirk or using computers to find hidden or general information on people she's tasked to find info on. There's never been anyone that she's failed to find information about for the pussycats! If she wasn't able to find anything on you, then she'll definitely know that there's something up! Isn't that bad!? If she told the other pussycats about it then no doubt they'll be cautious of you! Mumble mumble mumble..."

Izuku continued to frantically mumble out loud as Enso and Ikari both stared at him.

Enso then flicked Izuku on the nose.

"Ow!"

"I know this may seem troublesome, which is why I wished to discuss it with you before I go back to her tomorrow. On one hand, I may be able to remember more about myself if I inform her of my situation, but on the other, I'd be exposing secrets that may make her rethink her opinion of me, if not just think that I'm dangerous entirely. Who knows where that can lead."

"What if she promises not to tell anyone?" Ikari asked.

"She did promise that the information she learns would be confidential, but I don't know if it'll stay that way the more she learns. What do you think Izuku?"

"Um, well... Can I ask something first?"

"Sure."

"How did you end up having a session with Ragdoll in the first place?"

"She claimed that she wished to be friends with me and was very interested in me because she wasn't able to find any information about me."

"Okay, I get the 'not able to find information' part, but she wants to be his 'friend'' just because of that?" Izuku sweatdropped.

He then looked down in thought for a moment before stating what was in his mind, "I-I mean, now that I heard that... This is just my opinion, but I think you should tell her."

"Oh? This is a surprise coming from you Izuku. For what reason do you think I should tell her?" Enso asked.

Izuku looked up to him with a nervous smile, "Well, I've studied Ragdoll as I did to all the other heroes I admired. Based on her personality, I don't think anything too bad will happen if you tell her, especially since she's trying to be your 'friend' I guess. And also..."

Izuku got quiet, his head looking off to the side.

"Also?" Enso asked, raising an eyebrow.

"W-Well... This may be a little selfish of me, but I kind of want you to tell her so that if she does end up helping you discover that you belong here, then that means you would have no other reason to leave to another world anymore... right? You could stay here and we could be heroes together... we could stay as friends..."

"Yeah! Best friends forever!" Ikari cheered.

Enso stared at Izuku in silence. The long pause and the look Enso was giving him couldn't help but make Izuku feel uncomfortable and slightly shaking as he thought that he said something wrong.

"S-Sorry! I should be more worried about what'll happen if you tell Ragdoll e-everything right!?" Izuku apologized.

Enso sighed and stood back up, "You idiot."

Izuku flinched, "S-Sorry..."

"We're already friends."

"Eh?" Izuku looked up and saw Enso offering his hand to him.

"If I really am from here and do remember that, then you're right. I would have no reason to leave. But even if I did have to leave, it wouldn't change the fact that we would still be friends."

Stars formed in Izuku's eyes as he took Enso's hand and was pulled to his feet. Both firmly grasping the others' hand to get a feel of each other's feelings. Ikari awkwardly looked left and right at the odd sight in front of him.

Izuku shook Enso's hand with a precious smile, "Thank you!"

"You really are still a kid." Enso thought, seeing how much Izuku was shining.

Ikari turned from Enso to Izuku, then back to Enso. "Um... But what now?"

Enso let go of Izuku's hand and once more said his thoughts out loud, "Well... I suppose for now we just continue doing what we were doing for camp. I just found it necessary to report this new information to Izuku and get his opinion on it."

"Yeah... Thank you for telling me." Izuku thanked him.

"Let's get back now. I take it that you were playing volleyball with your classmates?"

"Yeah! I should be getting back!" Izuku uttered out.

"Let's play with our friends! Join us Enso!" Ikari said happily.

"...I guess I should." Enso muttered.

They made their way back to the volleyball field, with Mirio just finishing a spike and landing another point.

"Yo Midoriya you're finally back and with Enso this time! What took you so long?" Mirio waved.

"Because Mineta was knocked out and you left, our team had two people gone! So we had to get Ojiro from the other team to make it even!" Kaminari snapped.

"S-Sorry..." Izuku apologized.

"Deku! Get your ass on the other team so I can beat you!" Bakugo shouted.

"E-Eh?! B-But I wasn't on that team before." Izuku argued.

"He's right. Enso, come to our team and Midoirya can go back on his original team to make it even!" Mirio grinned.

"Okay." Enso responded as he walked over.

"He agreed to play so easily?!" the class thought.

"Crap, Enso is on the other team." Kaminari shivered.

"Beating him will be even better!" Bakugo grinned.

"This is gonna be difficult..." Izuku sighed. His gaze partially went on Bakugo, "It's kind of weird how Kacchan can actually tolerate me on his team as we play, even if he really, REALLY wanted me to be on the other team. I guess he's learned somewhat about working on the same team from the final exam?"

"Let's start!" Sato tossed the ball up and served it across.

However, it had just barely gotten across to the other team before someone looked to have teleported in its path and slammed it back downward.

"That must be Enso..." Izuku knew.

The ball headed near Jirou, who noticed it coming down despite its incredible speed. In a split second, she stepped in its path and put both of her arms in front of her, shielding herself as the ball slammed into her arms and bounce off with enough force to send her off her feet.

"Ah!" Jirou nearly fell on her back until someone caught her from behind.

She looked up to find Momo smiling down at her.

"Amazing Jirou! You saved the ball despite how sudden it moved!" she praised.

Jirou felt a tint of red form in her cheeks as she stood back up. "I-It was nothing..."

"Oh! Your arms are red!" Momo then pointed out in concern.

Jirou glanced at the red marks on her arms, indicating where the ball had impacted her. She then gave Momo a reassuring smile. "I'll be fine, it's just from the ball. It only stung for a moment, thank you though Yaoyorozu."

Jirou then saw Enso eyeing her with his hand slightly steaming, "I'm impressed. You managed to react fast enough to indicate the ball's path and save it."

"You hit that!?"

"Yes. I did."

Jirou turned and saw Izuku saving the ball as the other team hit it down, then sending it up for Bakugo to explode back.

"Heh, I guess Deku was right..."

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~{Dinner}~

"Man, can you believe that the teachers called us back when the score was tied?" Sero complained as he walked in disappointment.

"It was so cool though, I can't believe we didn't get to finish it..." Mina sighed.

Shoji looked down at her, "Perhaps we can settle it tomorrow with the next point?"

"I doubt the teachers will give us another free day in a row." Todoroki shot down the possibility.

"Hey now calm down Bakugo, it was a great game!" Kirishima tried to reassure a very pissed off explosive boy.

"God damn it! Why is it that things are never settled!?!" Bakugo shrieked.

"You're all complaining... But remind me why do I have to be the one to carry Mineta?" Izuku asked as he carried the still unconscious purple-haired boy in his arms.

"Because you're probably the only one in the class that would care enough to pick him up." Enso answered.

"How cruel!"

The students gathered around the picnic tables and grills just outside the camp building. Nearly all of Class A was exhausted with visible red marks on their arms and faces from the impacts that the surprisingly durable volleyball made on them. Class B looked to be in better condition than class A and most of them were even talking rather energetically, showing that they didn't do anything that extreme in their free time.

Izuku spotted Kendo stretching her arms and walked over to her, still carrying Mineta in his arms.

"Hey, Kendo." he called to her with a smile.

Kendo turned back and gave him a gleaming smile in return. "Hey Midoirya! How was-" she then noticed Mineta in his arms. "What happened to him?"

"One of the Big Three slammed the ball right onto his face. Anyway, what did your class do during the free time they had? I didn't really see you guys around."

Kendo looked up with her hands on her hips as she recalled what her class did, "Well, when Monoma saw you guys playing volleyball, he went on a whole speech on how we should be 'training to massacre Class A'. I thought about knocking him out, but he actually offered a few good ideas for us to do, even if his intentions weren't pure..."

"You didn't wanna join our class for volleyball?" Izuku asked.

"My class wanted to do their own little thing around the forest. I personally would've loved to join you guys, but I had to stay and watch over Monoma to make sure he didn't try to get our class to do anything malicious."

Izuku chuckled, "You always have your hands full don't you?"

"Sadly..." Kendo sighed. "I never have any time to spend with you..." she then mumbled.

"Hm? I didn't hear that last part?"

Kendo turned red and quickly thought of something, "I-I said that our class was thinking of going swimming!"

Mineta immediately woke up in Izuku's arms, "Swimming! That means... swimsuits!" he shouted with widened eyes and drool beginning to formulate.

Izuku and Kendo both had eyes of disappointment looking down at Mineta, before Izuku finally decided to just drop him onto the ground.

"Ack!"

He then walked with Kendo towards the tables with raw food on them, leaving the short student behind.

"Why do I bother sometimes?" Izuku facepalmed in disappointment.

"Well, in the end, he's still your classmate, so you at least care somewhat for him." Kendo suggested.

"I suppose so." Izuku admitted.

He then caught sight of Shinso actually hopping towards the group, unable to walk as his entire body was wrapped in scarves.

"Seems Aizawa isn't giving him much of a break..."

Kendo noticed this as well and pointed it out, "What happened to Shinso?"

"He was training with Aizawa. I guess he left him a little tied up."

"I don't know if he meant that as a joke or in a literal sense." Kendo wondered.

Ragdoll and Pixie-bob emerged from the tables of food grinning, with Ragdoll energetically waving her left paw up and down to motion the students closer.

"Now remember what I said yesterday?! 'Today's the only day we'll be doing stuff for you!'?" Pixie-bob asked with a grin.

"Well today's the next day, so you'll be making your own food now!" Ragdoll added in. She then used her paws to present the main thing the students would be making. "Curry!"

Everyone sounded rather disappointed to hear that they would be making their own food, sighing as they slouched over and muttered, "Yes sir..."

Ragdoll began laughing abnormally as she repeatedly stomped her foot on the ground and pointed at the students.

"What, you all really thought we would continue spoiling you kittens with food?! You thought! But just because you're hungry doesn't mean you should rush your cooking and make any old sloppy cat food!"

Enso immediately stepped forward, his dagger spinning like a propeller in his hand and his eyes flashing.

"Let's do this."

"Scary!" the class thought.

"I've never seen Enso get this way before... is food his triggering point?" Aizawa thought with a look of surprise.

"Izuku, Todoroki, Iida, Shinso. Come with me. It would be a disgrace for us if we can't make high-quality food." Enso instructed them.

Iida adjusted his glasses, "Yes. Part of rescuing someone is filling the stomachs and spirits of those exhausted during a disaster... Let's make the world's most delicious curry everyone!"

"Okay..." everyone else sweatdropped.

"Does he actually need out help?" Todoroki turned to Shinso.

Shinso grinned, "Maybe it's our reward for deciding to train under him. I'm not complaining if I can eat some good food."

"I guess so."

"...Hey, can you help me out of these?" Shinso asked, using his eyes to point Todoroki to the scarves wrapped around him.

"Oh."

Meanwhile, Nejire felt her excitement growing, "Can we join in making food too?" she asked Aizawa and the other teachers near him.

"Of course. We planned on making you three join these students instead of slacking off and making the teachers cook for you." Tiger stated.

"Hold on, my quirk actually depends on food." Tamaki told him.

Aizawa nodded, "I've already took that into account and will provide you with your necessary meal."

"His quirk involves food?" Izuku thought curiously. "Come to think of it, I've only seen Nejire's quirk today. I didn't see Mirio's or Amajiki's..."

"Let's start cooking!" Nejire shouted, completely pumped up.

~{Sometime later}~

"How the hell did you BURN sauce when nearly everyone else hasn't even started cooking yet!?!" Kaminari shouted.

Nejire awkwardly smiled in embarrassment next to a cloud of smoke, "I did?"

"Oh wow, I forgot how bad and unpredictable her cooking was!" Mirio laughed next to her.

"Did you forget how I ended in that hospital one time? She did more damage to me than any villain did..." Tamaki shivered in fear.

"I didn't think one of the Big Three could be this much of an airhead!" Kaminari thought as he turned blue with shock.

Kendo was peeling potatoes and caught sight of Iida setting up stations, Shinso going to Aizawa to ask him something, Todoroki starting the fires and Enso picking up produce with Izuku.

"Wow, they look pretty serious about this."

Momo was chopping up vegetables next to Kendo when she heard her, then glancing over and listening with a peaked curiosity.

"The quality of these vegetables aren't really the best, but I can work with this." Enso said as he peeled carrots.

"Can't you at least act more grateful?" Izuku sighed as he peeled the potatoes.

"The fires are up at a high setting." Todoroki mentioned to Enso as he fueled the grills.

"Aizawa lent me two pans from the pussycat's kitchen." Shinso grinned as he came back holding two medium-sized black pans.

"Put them on two of the grills to warm up." Izuku instructed him.

"I have set up the cutting boards and have assembled the kitchen utensils we need!" Iida shouted with a hand up.

"Stop shouting Iida." Enso responded.

"Aren't they getting a little too serious over this?" Sero asked Mina.

"But don't you think they look cool doing it!" Mina grinned.

"How do you even look cool when cooking?" Sero questioned.

"Just look how manly they look doing it!" Kirishima said with comedic tears.

"You too!?"

Todoroki was constantly checking the fire to be perfect, Enso and Izuku were now chopping the vegetables in equal bits and passing them, Iida was receiving the vegetables and mixing them in a pan to cook them evenly, and Shinso was making a sauce that Enso instructed him to make.

Pixie-bob was sitting on a bench with her head planted in her hands, watching Enso with a loving gaze as her tail swayed side to side. "He looks like such a great chef... I wouldn't mind eating his food any day..."

Ragdoll caught sight of Pixie-bob's gaze and starting laughing.

Ochako was standing by her grill when she saw Izuku cooking with Enso. The fire behind her then flared up amusingly as her determination did as well."I gotta show Deku my cooking skills!"

"Help me Tsu!" She told her friend.

"She's getting pretty into it too." Tsu thought.

It didn't take long for everyone else to notice others stepping up their game and, not wanting their curry to lack in quality, stepped up their own game as well, energetically cutting up more vegetables and their fires flaring up more.

"What the hell? I know that Midoirya can be an influence on the class, but Enso too? And for cooking at that?" Aizawa sweatdropped.

Ragdoll started laughing maniacally at the fires blazing up, the orange light of which seemed to shine on her in a menacing fashion. "AHAHAHA!! That's the spirit! Cook faster! Work harder!"

"You know you look kind of scary right now..." Mandalay said from behind.

Soon group by group were finishing their dishes, many of them rather eager to eat and even rushing some parts of their cooking in the process. It had turned fully nighttime now, indicated by the bright stars shining above and the lanterns now fully light up for the students. By now, there was a small crowd watching eagerly as Enso's curry was being made.

"And using the same pan you cooked the meat, cook sliced onions until they turn brown around the edges. Then you mix the curry paste in there to release all the intense flavors." Izuku explained with a smile.

"Oh wow, all I did was throw everything together." Kirishima said aloud as he watched them cook. Unconsciously eating spoonfuls of his own curry without even noticing the flavor.

Monoma glared at them from afar, "Look at them! They believe that they can produce the most glorious meal from simply knowing what to do!"

"Is that not how it works?" Kendo asked, completely confused by her classmate's words.

"Of course not! It takes feeling! Emotions! A well-fit meal has to be shown to have been filled with emotion for the consumer to feel the effects!"

"I guess I can kind of see where you're going with this... but they all seem to be really enjoying cooking. So isn't that enough emotion?"

"A much as I don't wish to admit it, a few of them are cooking with feeling... But look there!" he said, pointing dramatically.

Kendo looked over to where he was pointing at and saw Enso and Todoroki next to each other with their backs facing her direction.

"Those two are too cold (pun intended) for any of their food to be filled with love!"

Kendo raised an eyebrow, "Really? I think they look pretty happy."

"Happy!? How in the world could... they..." Monoma then saw Todoroki and Enso both turning to each other, making his eyes widen at what he saw.

Despite having his usual cold gaze, there was something... different about Enso's aura. There wasn't the normal sense of intimidation that people usually felt when looking at him, in fact, it felt as it had changed into a calmer and more safer aroma as he shook his head in approval to something Todoroki did. Todoroki then took a sniff of the sizzling food within his pan and his facial muscles formed in a small, but rare and precious smile on his face.

"Wh-What is this power!?" Monoma asked in disbelief, his eyes looking as if they were sizzling from the brightness.

Kendo started laughing at his reaction, then turning back to Enso and Todoroki with a smile of her own.

"After mixing the paste and onions together, you put the meat in and mix." Enso mixed the formula for a few moments before then lifting up the pan and placing his batch of curry on his plate.

"And there you go." Enso finished it up, removing himself to have the others get a view.

Claps and cheers wrang out from their classes as they were dazzled by the food.

Everyone suddenly lifted their plates up, whether already filled with their own curry or not.

"Help us sensei!" they cried out in hope.

Enso stared at them, "I suppose I could..." he turned to Izuku, "You can have my plate if you wish, I'll make more for myself later."

"Eh? Okay then." Izuku said, surprised to hear Enso easily agree to help everyone else.

"He's being more interactive with everyone. He's warming up to them." Izuku smiled.

"I wonder if it's because he thinks he's from here. So he's trying to make more friends to be with when he stays!" Ikari theorized.

"Hey Ureshi!" Nejire called to him.

"Just refer to me as Enso." he told her.

"Teach me how to cook as well!" Nejire asked of him.

"After seeing what you've done before, I believe my life would be vulnerable if I tried teaching you."

"He's still too blunt and rude though..." Izuku sweatdropped.

Izuku served himself a plate of curry and watched Enso head from station to station, whether it was for offering advice to people or to taste testing food.

A few minutes later, everyone was sitting down and energetically eating with stars in their eyes.

"This is so good I feel like my mouth is gonna melt!" Kirishima shouted as he stuffed his face.

"Don't eat so fast like that! It's rude! Appreciate the flavor!" Iida shouted to the class.

"They took way too long to make just dinner..." Aizawa commented as he watched the students from a far.

Mandalay emerged next to him and smiled, "Well, a lot of them wanted to redo the food they made. Can you really blame them after the presentation they had? Let them enjoy what they can, it'll be some of the only enjoyable moments they'll have here after all."

Aizawa just sighed in return, watching his students continue to eat.

"Yao-momo, you eat a lot, huh?" Mina mentioned at one point.

Momo cleared her throat and kept a composed posture, "My quirk turns lipids into various atoms to create things, so the more I eat, the more I can make."

Ikari was next to Izuku and overheard, "Oh! So it's like pooping out stuff then!"

Momo then crouched alone in a spotlight surrounded by darkness.

"Apologize Ikari!" "Apologize to her!" Izuku and Jirou both shouted, getting up in Ikari's face.

"I-um, ah, I'm sorry!" Ikari shouted, timidly retreating back into Izuku.

Nejire stepped into the lonely spotlight and crouched down to Momo with bright eyes, "You use your lipids to make things!?"

"Eh?" Momo looked up in surprise by Nejire's sudden appearance. "Yes... I can make non-living items as long as I know the components of the item I'm making and have enough lipids to make it. It does take me longer periods of time and I would need to expose more skin to make larger objects though..."

"Wow! You made so many things in the sports festival! So that must mean you're really smart to know every single material in the items you made! You're so cool Yaoyorozu!"

The lonely spotlight Momo was in then spread out to add the rest of the light to her world, stars sparkling around her and forming a bright smile from the praise of being called 'cool'.

She stood back to her feet and bowed down to Nejire. "Thank you!"

"Hm?" Nejire tilted her head with a question mark.

"You really can't help but feel happy around her..." Izuku chuckled, then gazing at everyone else eating happily.

However, a specific person caught his eye, making Izuku's smile fade away into a look of concern. He witnessed Kota glaring at everyone from afar in the darkness, nearly looking like a shadow.

He watched the boy walk away and follow a path into the forest by himself, ignoring the calls for dinner by Mandalay.

Izuku set his plate down on the table. "Kota..."

"You gonna go talk to him partner?" Ikari asked him within his head.

Izuku looked down at the thought of going after him, then forming a serious look and picking up a plate as he followed Kota.

Enso caught sight of this as he finished with another plate, eyes squinting.

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~{On The Clifftop}~

Kota sat alone on a rocky stump in front of his cave, which he considered his secret hideout, and glared at the faint light that was where everyone was eating. The sounds of crickets echoed around him, the gentle breeze grazed him, and the small number of insects that were around him ignored his presence as they rushed between the cracks in the ground.

Kota looked down into his lap, completely ignoring the sound of his stomach grumbling.

"Heroes... Villains... All they do is fight using their stupid quirks. They're that desperate to show off to the world... It's sick." He thought as his stomach grumbled once more.

He then heard some footsteps and a voice, "You're hungry, aren't you?"

Kota snapped his head to the right and clenched his teeth as he saw Izuku walking towards him with a plate of curry in his hands.

"I can hear your stomach. You can eat this curry if you'd like." Izuku offered, giving him a sad smile.

Kota shot to his feet, "You...! How did you find this place!?"

"Ah, sorry... I followed your footsteps..." Izuku confessed, stopping a few feet away from the boy and looking down at him. "I just thought you might want to eat something..."

"Tsk! I'm fine. I don't need any food." Kota scowled. "I told you, didn't I? I don't intend to hang out with you, so get out of my secret hideout!"

"Secret hideout?" Izuku repeated as he glanced at the cave.

Kota then looked down at the ground, his cap shadowing his angry eyes. "Getting into trying to improve your quirk. It's gross..."

Izuku felt shocked, "Gross?"

"You want to show off your power that badly?" he gritted between his teeth.

"That's what he thinks we're doing?" Izuku thought, furrowing his brow in anger for a moment. Yet he decided not to confront him on that and sighed, then moving on to what else he came for.

"Your parents... Could they be the water heroes, Water Hose? The ones who had the water quirks?"

Kota's eyes grew with shock, but right after, he immediately felt his anger boiling up once more.

He turned to him in fury, "Did Mandalay tell you!?" he demanded to know.

"Ah, no! Well..." Feeling guilty, Izuku then bowed. "I'm sorry! I did end up overhearing a part of it... I just connected the dots with what I knew." he looked up again and turned his head, admiring the landscape with a sad look, "It was an unfortunate incident I remember. I can't even imagine what you've been through after you heard about it..."

Kota's fists shook as he turned his back to Izuku, "Shut up..."

"Hm?" Izuku turned back to him.

"Everyone's crazy... Calling each other stupid names like 'hero' and 'villain'... Killing each other with their quirks. Talking, training, using their quirks to show off how strong they are... That's how you get killed... It's so stupid."

Izuku's eyes widened, "It's not just heroes... Kota hates quirks and the whole concept of the superhuman society we live in. He only thinks about the negative influence quirks have had. The heroes that wish to use their quirks for the popularity and money... the villains that hurt others due to their selfish needs. But... it seems the part he hates the most, is how they can get themselves killed from fighting each other... Just like his parents."

He looked down, "Shigaraki and Stain both have a similar mindset... But Stain believes that the heroes that only work for selfish reasons are society's problem while Shigaraki just seems to hate All Might and society as a whole. He hates the whole concept of heroes in the first place and wishes to get rid of them to show people that there is no peace..."

"What is it? If there's nothing else, then go away!" Kota shouted.

Izuku looked at him in determination to say something, but just as he was about to speak, someone else did for him.

"You think my partner only wants to get stronger and fight villains to show off?!"

Izuku and Kota were both equally surprised to see Ikari zoom over and stopped right in front of Kota, his red eyes flaring more intimately than usual.

"Ah!" Kota stumbled backward and fell on his behind, scooting back in a fit of fear from Ikari's anger.

"Ikari!" Izuku called to him.

Ikari placed a finger on Kota's chest, making the boy tense up as he stared into his eyes.

"Now you listen here brat! I'm not going to say that everything you said is wrong, but that doesn't mean it's right either! My partner doesn't want to show off his power at all! He doesn't want to fight villains for the sake of money or being popular! All he wants to do is save everyone with a bright smile! Being with him for so long, I know that better than anyone else!"

Kota was completely intimidated, his eyes widening in fear as Ikari's appearance shadowed him.

"Ikari! That's enough! Come back!" Izuku shouted once more.

Ikari looked back to his partner and squinted his eyes, then turning to Kota and calming saying one last thing.

"My partner would risk his life to save anyone, even you Kota. Just know that he's that type of hero, that he's that type of person..." Ikari then retracted back to Izuku and disappeared.

Izuku saw Kota shakingly getting back to his feet, "I'm sorry that he scared you! I'll leave now... But let me just say one last thing."

Izuku took a deep breath before speaking, "I know that there are many different ways to think about quirks, heroes, and villains, but if you choose to constantly reject the idea of them in our society, then your life will end up just being even more painful than it has been now..."

"Just shut up!" Kota shouted, trying not to tear up.

"Sorry. I'll just leave the curry here..." Izuku said in defeat before placing the curry down and walking away.

Kota watched him leave in the distance, before looking down. "Shut up... all of you..." he mumbled.

"Are you really going to remain with that childish thinking?" another voice rang.

"Huh!?" Kota eyes shot up to see someone staring down at him. He froze in fear as he saw someone sitting atop of his cave. The moonlight shined behind the person, making him a dark silhouette in Kota's eyes, but despite this, his intimidating red eyes shined brightly down at him in a cold stare.

"Wh-Who...?!" was all Kota could muster in fear as he backed up.

The person got to his feet and kept staring down at Kota, before then jumping down and landing right into the moonlight, revealing the person to be Enso.

Seeing that it was a student he recognized, Kota got angry once more, even if he was slightly intimidated by Enso's red eyes and cold stare.

"Wh-What are you doing here too!?! Can't you all just leave me alone!?" he shouted, trying to make himself sound angrier.

Enso didn't listen as he sat down on one of the rocky stumps across from Kota.

Kota felt angrier now, "Didn't you hear me!? I said, to... get..."

Kota's speech died down and his eyes dilated in fear as he saw Enso holding a sharp dagger in his hands. Enso gazed at his dagger and wiped it down it with a handkerchief he pulled from his pocket, then letting it shine in the moonlight to see how clean it was.

"Wait a minute. He can't be..." Kota took another step back.

Enso then looked up at Kota, his gaze making the boy's spine feel cold.

"Sit down Kota. Let's talk."