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“You’re not buying anymore candy", Tenko says not taking his eyes off the ramen packet he was examining when he heard the crinkling of what he was sure to be a packet of gummies landing in his cart. “What nooooo Ten you don’t get it I NEED candy to survive!” Toga whined dramatic as usual. Tenko sighs as he puts the ramen in the cart and looks at her, “you’re gonna end up spending all your allowance on candy and then you won’t have any left to hang out with your new friends”, this seemed to work on her as she took a few packets out of their cart and back in their place.

They continue walking through the grocery store while Toga gushes about how excited she is to go to their new school and meet all the new people. They recently had to move here because of their father’s work, Toga is gonna be starting her first year while Tenko his second year of high school. He wasn’t surprised about toga being excited to make new friends being the social butterfly she is, Tenko didn’t have her social skills but he never had a hard time making friends somehow. In fact in his last school he was friends with pretty much half the class. He was worried things won’t be same here though, who knows if people here would be as friendly as they were there. He was taken out of his thoughts by toga waving a hand in front of his face.

“Hello?!? I’m talking to you ten!” He blinks, seems like he zoned out again, “sorry…what were you saying?” “I was asking how I should do my hair, I wanna make a good first impression!”

“I don’t think you need to worry about making a good impression, you’re great at meeting new people”

“You’re not wrong but putting a little extra effort isn’t a bad idea” She says browsing though hair products, her eyes stop at the several boxes of different hair dyes, her eyes lighten up and Tenko knows from that expression that she’s up to no good.

“Tenkoo why don’t we dye your hair!”

“W-what?! Why my hair? I thought we were talking about you here”

“I mean we’ll figure something out for mine at home but come ooonnn it’ll be a nice change! New school new hair!”

“I don’t know toga..” he says looking at the hair dyes, he’s never dyed his hair before, it’s always been the natural black…a change wouldn’t hurt? He looks around at all the colours and decides to buy a pale blue dye, whether he’s gonna use it or not is a problem for later.

“And.. done” Tenko says as he pins the last strand of hair in place. “Do you like it?” He asks toga as she looks at her hair in the mirror, after coming home and putting the groceries in place they had decided to prepare themselves for the day to come tomorrow, they ironed their uniforms, did any prep work they needed to do for their bentos, packed their backpack with new books and notebooks and then went on to do more “fun” preparations. Starting with toga’s hair, she tried to do a few hair styles from the Internet but didn’t like any of them until Tenko offered to help her. Tenko had careful hands and he was surprisingly good at doing intricate hair styles, he and toga had about the same length of hair so it wasn’t hard for him to work on it, he did her hair into a pair of pretty space buns and made it look more messy and chaotic by taking out a few strands carefully, he knew neat hairstyles didn’t suite toga, they just didn’t feel like her. Toga had the biggest smile on her face and that was answer enough.

“This is why you always end up with a harem ..you’re great at everything!” Toga says teasing him. She liked to call his friends his “harem”. Tenko always blushed furiously at this, “toga I don’t have a harem!” He yells at her annoyed. “Not yet” she says with a sly smirk. Tenko decided to not honour her with a response and look away where the box of hair dye catches his eye..

For the first time in while Touya arrives at school earlier than required, it was Shoto’s first day of high school and so he had basically dragged Touya with him so Touya could show him around. They were standing near the huge entry gate of the school where most students met up with their friends before school, he could see a bunch of new faces presumably first years like Shoto and a few familiar ones like the student council nuisance Keigo who was always on Touya's ass about his “code of conduct" and “rebellious nature". He pushed Shoto towards a group of first years telling him to socialize and decides to discreetly stare at Akaguro senpai. Touya had a tiny puppy crush on his senpai ever since he’d seen him on the soccer team with his broad shoulders and strong arms. He was obviously not going to do anything about it really it was more admiration than attraction but he could use the eye candy once in a while. As he’s focused on Akaguro or “stain" senpai he notices that his gaze was focused in the direction of the entry gate. Touya follows his gaze to see that stain wasn’t the only person staring in that direction, Keigo and a few more students were all looking in the same direction. All the gazes were focused on a pair of students walking to school. Both of them were new kids, a short blonde girl with sharp features and yellow cat like eyes was clinging to a tall skinny guy, he was about the same height as Touya, maybe a bit shorter. Touya didn’t have to wonder why so many people were so enchanted by the sight of this guy.

He was already mesmerised at the visual of a person so beautiful, his skin was pale like a porcelain doll, his light blue hair falling to his shoulders and framing his face perfectly, a few of the waves covering his face. He had scars around his eyes, one more prominent than the rest on his right eye. There was a similar scar on left corner of his lips and Touya had a strong urge to kiss it along with his little pointy nose. But above all were his eyes, deep red eyes which could make anyone weak in their knees.

Touya needs to talk to the guy.. needs to know how those eyes are so lively..

Fate must be fucking with Keigo because there is no way in hell that his childhood crush, his gay awakening, the guy who he crushed on for all his elementary school years until he had to move away because of his parents, was here in front of him, walking into his high school looking even more pretty than he remembered. His mind was going a mile a minute, does Tenko even remember him? But above all he was really happy to see his childhood friend. He couldn’t bring himself to approach Tenko at the moment though so he just stared like an idiot.

Tenko felt the stares directed at him as he and toga walked into the school, both of them were new so that was to be expected but he did feel a bit anxious. It was easier to ignore the stares as he just focused on toga who was excitedly rambling about how the school looked, about how his new hair looked and some cute girl she saw while clinging to his arm like she usually does. After the entrance ceremony both of them walked to toga’s class ‘1-A' and then tenko headed off to his own class ‘2-A'. He stood outside for a second took a deep breath and walked in with a small smile.

Touya was sitting on his assigned desk which was luckily right in front of Jin and pretty close to spinner too, at least he'd be able to annoy his friends during classes.

Class was just about to start when the pretty guy from earlier entered the room, he meekly entered greeting his classmates with a small smile and found his assigned seat right beside Touya. Touya must have done something right in life to have such great luck. He realises he’s not that lucky when he realises that half the class seems to be having similar thoughts as him. Keigo who was sitting on the other side of tenko was trying to be attentive to what Aizawa sensei was saying but Touya caught him glancing at tenko during the class. Same could be said about Miruko but she wasn’t even trying to be subtle. Spinner was the subtlest but Dabi could see his friend slightly blushing and looking at tenko sitting right in front of him. Tenko turned out to be a very attentive student , he was writing down every single thing Aizawa would say with a look of clear focus. No one wanted to interrupt him so they were all waiting for lunch to get an opportunity to talk to the bluenette.

But that opportunity was taken away from them by a very chaotic blonde who ran into the class as soon as the lunch bell rang and literally jumped on tenko. “Ten I have so much to tell you!! Let’s go have lunch in the courtyard!”. Tenko struggled to keep his balance as he was dragged out of the class by the little gremlin, “toga slow down-".

Jin, spinner, Touya, Keigo, and Miruko were all left quietly staring at Tenko’s empty seat. All of them wondering the same thing. They all looked at each other and seemed to have a wordless conversation. Somehow all five of them ended up putting their differences aside and now were having lunch together.

“so anyone know who that girl was?” Miruko says opening her bento. All of them look at each other wordlessly.

“wasn’t she the girl who came to school with him? She was pretty clingy in the morning too" Keigo adds.

Touya didn’t pay much attention to the girl in the morning because he was too preoccupied spitting poetry about tenko but now that he thinks about it she was definitely the same girl.

“do you think she’s his...girlfriend?” spinner asks with a light blush. All of them frowned at the possibility.

“you’re telling me the prettiest guy I’ve ever seen is straight?” Touya says sounding extremely offended.

“I don’t think he’s straight... look" Jin points at Tenko’s backpack sitting on his desk, it’s a plain black backpack but it’s embellished by a bunch of pins, there’s some anime, manga and video game pins but amongst them is a rainbow flag and a bisexual flag pin. Their faces light up at seeing the pins.

“Guys the point still stands, she could be his girlfriend” spinner reminds them, “let's see, they both transferred here together, came to school together and now they’re having lunch together, she’s VERY clingy and he seems to be comfortable with that, oh and she calls him ‘ten'" Miruko says counting every point on her fingers.

“I mean maybe they’re best friends? Ten-kun and I used be close too when we were little, these things can be platonic" Keigo says and everyone looks at him shocked.

“wait you know him!?!” they all ask accusingly as if he just murdered their whole family.

“we used to be friends in elementary school but I moved away so I haven’t met him in years" Keigo explains.

“you still get an advantage” Touya huffs.

“Why don’t we go and check on them in the courtyard, maybe we can get some idea about their relationship by seeing how they interact” Jin suggests trying to help this chaotic group of simps stay together. Everyone agrees on the plan and finish their bentos quickly.

“LET’S GO BITCHES" Miruko yells as they all make their way to the courtyard. Magne just watches the whole thing going down while sipping on tea ,perhaps these idiots will make this school year interesting.

The five of them make their way to the courtyard and freeze at seeing the spectacle in front of them, tenko was sitting on a bench in the courtyard with his cute smile and toga was laying on the same bench with her head on Tenko’s lap animatedly talking to him. Both of their bento boxes (which were matching) were sitting near toga’s feet completely empty. Tenko was attentively listening to toga’s rambles and commenting on things here and there. They couldn’t hear what they were talking about but just seeing toga’s head on his lap was enough to put a frown of Touya’s face, along with hawks, Miruko and spinner. While they were drowning in their misery the bell rang announcing the end of lunch break.

They were all in a sour mood in the rest of the classes and and it got so much worse when the classes for the day ended and toga came in again and took tenko with him. They saw both of them leave the school just like they had entered , toga clinging to his arm and them walking together. Both of them were new so they hadn’t joined any clubs yet. But these five still had to go for their club activities after seeing that. Touya thought maybe seeing akaguro senpai would make him feel better as they were both in the soccer team but apparently his puppy crush on his senpai ended the second he laid eyes on tenko. After being done with his club activities he waited outside the school for Shoto. He saw his brother coming out with a group of kids, there was a kid with green hair who kinda looked like a broccoli, then a sweet looking girl with short brown hair and an uptight looking guy with glasses. Well he was happy Shoto had made friends considering his limited social skills. Shoto and Touya walked home as Shoto told him about his friends, he slightly blushed as he talked about the broccoli guy and Touya noted that and locked it in his mind to tease Shoto later.

The next day came and the simps met at school , their mood turned sour again as they saw tenko and toga come to school together again. “I swear to god why is she so clingy?” Touya says with a frown.

“I mean if I was dating him I’d be clingy too" Miruko says shrugging.

Lunch is worse today as toga and tenko decide to have lunch in their class instead of the courtyard, toga sitting on Tenko’s desk and eating from their bentos. “they even have matching bentos" spinner whines while the others are too busy glaring at toga.

The bell rings and Aizawa sensei enters their class. He sees toga still sitting on tenko's desk and sighs, “toga go back to your own class and leave your brother alone for once". The five of them freeze at hearing that as toga apologises to sensei and leaves, Magne sees their faces and starts cackling.

They all look at each other, same thing going through their heads “ SHE’S HIS FUCKING SISTER!” . Aizawa just looks at these idiots confused as to what is happening in his class.

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“and then i asked ochako to get ice cream with me after school tomorrow and she said yes!!” 

“as much as i want to hear all about your new crush, can you tell me all that after you're done chewing?”

“umm let me think about it…..no”

“you're disgusting”

“I love you too tenko , now as i was saying can you believe I'm getting ice cream with the cutest girl in my class?!?” 

toga continued to ramble about her crush on her new friend (with a mouth full of food of course) and tenko tried his best to keep up. after they finished dinner , toga took a break from talking and asked him if he had made any friends yet.

“not really…you know my social skills aren't really great, i don't really know how to make friends so I'm just focusing on my studies” tenko answered while doing the dishes. toga jumped to sit on the counter while he did the dishes “oh come on ten you made tons of friends at our old school, what's stopping you here?”. 

“I'm not good at making the first move, all my friends back there just started talking to me so it was easy” tenko explained as he finished the dishes, “also I am pretty sure it was your turn to do the dishes today”. 

“ten it's easy to make the first move, you just have to find the right opportunity like someone having a similar interest as you or just experiencing something you can relate to, i mean you'll probably be forced to talk to someone at some point anyways for like a group project or something so might as well do it yourself” toga says before leaving the kitchen for their room, completely ignoring tenko's comment about the dishes. “you'll also be forced to do the dishes tomorrow anyways so you might as well do it yourself” tenko yells as he was washing his hands.

even though he didn't admit it to her face, toga did have a point. he really should at least try to make some friends. tenko thought about how he could approach his classmates without seeming weird or desperate until he dozed off to sleep.

Tenko wakes up suddenly as blood curdling screams of people enter his ears. Fire? he sees a house , his house, engulfed in flames, the screams he just heard belonged to the people inside. He was lying in the backyard of the house it seems. he pulled himself up and ran towards the flaming house to save his family. he runs in through the burnt front door and starts feeling lightheaded from the fumes. surrounded by flames he falls to the ground on the brink of passing out, his ears start ringing from the screams of his mother or is it his sister? "I need to save them" is the last thought that goes through his mind before he finally passes out.

tenko wakes up in cold sweat. 'not that dream again' he thinks before he gets out of bed to take a shower. these dreams or let's say nightmares always left him a bit shaken. he doesn't remember much of it after waking up, just flashes of a burning house and a dreadful feeling of loss. nevertheless he had to shake it off and get ready for school.

Touya was at school early for the third day in a row. staring at the entry gate of their school, waiting for a certain blue haired boy (not that he's ever gonna admit that). Keigo was also at school early but that was normal for him. he was bored so naturally he decided to pester touya for not wearing his tie, it was his solemn duty as a student council member of course. "takami if you're here to nag me about my tie I swear I'll strangle you with yours." touya says just as keigo was about to open his mouth.

"I don't think tenko will like your rude behaviour" keigo teases.

touya blushes slightly at tenko's mention but quickly replies , "I'm only rude to shitheads like you so i don't think tenko would mind". 

"are you guys talking about tenko? cus he just entered" miruko says to both of them. they quickly turn to look at the gate and there he is, walking in with his sister again (good thing they know that this time) . Touya stares shamelessly, not even worrying that tenko would notice. It was already a miracle that tenko hadn't noticed all the staring done by his classmates , he was just that oblivious.

"are you ever actually gonna talk to him or just continue staring?" keigo teases again.

"you're one to talk... you literally have the advantage of being his childhood friend but still haven't said a word to him" touya retorts.

keigo glares at him for a second and then says "you know what? I will talk to him" and starts walking over to tenko. touya mentally slaps himself for having indirectly encouraged keigo and watches as the interaction unfolds.

tenko entered the school not feeling the best because of his tough awakening, himiko had noticed that and insisted on sticking to his side instead of joining her friends until classes started. but tenko didn't let her, he didn't want to stop her from socializing. 'I should also try to socialize'  he thinks to himself as he sees his sister talking and laughing with her new friends. her words from last night come to his mind and he decides to finally talk to someone from his class. just as he turns around to see who he should approach he comes faces to face with a blond guy. he recognizes him as one of his classmates, keigo was it? the guy looks surprised , 'was he trying to approach me?' tenko wonders. now that tenko was seeing his face up close, keigo seemed familiar, like he'd seen him before somewhere.

" do I know you?" tenko blurts out accidently.

"uh I'm in your class, keigo takami" keigo offers a handshake with a smile.

tenko realized that keigo had misunderstood his question, "no no I mean I know we're in the same class I just......" tenko's face is getting is a bit red now out of embarrassment thinking about how desperate he must sound right now " you seem familiar? like I've seen you before? like I've known you before?" .

keigo is over the moon just by the fact that tenko kind of recognizes him, "you do! I mean you're right.. we were friends back in preschool until I had to move away because of my dad's job" keigo explains hoping tenko would remember him. tenko's embarrassment goes away after hearing that and he realizes why he doesn't remember keigo properly. some memories of his childhood do come back to him but it's still a bit blurry. just as tenko was about to reply the bell rings signaling the start of classes, "thanks for reminding me keigo, why don't we talk during lunch break?" tenko says signaling to the bell. "yeah sure" keigo replying acting all calm and cool while jumping with excitement on the inside. 

touya watches the entire interaction anxiously, 'wait is tenko blushing? fuck he looks so cute but why is he blushing in front of that shithead?' . he keeps watching them until the bell rings and he realizes they all must go to class now. touya was definitely not the only person who was staring at the boys' interaction. 

"oh no shit!" magne yelled as she accidently spilled ink on her desk barely escaping it getting on her clothes. it continued to drip down but just as it was about to ruin her backpack it's stopped by a handkerchief , tenko's handkerchief, no one had really noticed tenko's quick reflex of getting it out of his pocket and using it to stop the ink from spilling further. he goes on to quickly cleaning up most of the ink spilled on the desk with the same handkerchief before it stains anything. he cleans it up to the best of his ability and then finally looks up to see all eyes on him. his face starts turning red again as he quickly goes back to sit in his place.

"thank you tenko! you saved my favorite bag from getting stained" magne says looking at tenko "quick thinking there" adds jin. tenko just smiles sweetly with his blush and mutters out a "no worries". 

touya had started to realize that tenko didn't just look like a sweetheart, he actually was one inside out. this theory of his was proven more and more as tenko kept on helping his classmates in small ways throughout their classes, whether it be offering spinner a pen when his ran out or assisting jin with a math problem. tenko was becoming even more of a class favorite now and touya could feel his little crush on tenko grow by the second.  

"I'm taking a quiz of the topics I've taught to you guys the last couple days, if you don't pass you're expelled" Mr. Aizawa says after the bell rings for lunch and then proceeds to leave the classroom not paying any mind to the students' complaints.

"man I am not gonna pass that quiz i didn't even make any notes..." jin exclaims anxiously, tenko hears that and hesitates for a second 'will I seem too desperate to help? but helping is a good thing right i should do it' he thinks before he turns to jin "you can borrow my notes, they're pretty detailed so i think you'll be able to pass if you study from them" tenko says with his ever sweet smile.

"thank you tenko you're the best!! unlike some people who like to gatekeep their notes" he taunts while glaring at keigo. 

keigo ignores the taunt and instead simply walks over to tenko with his bento, "tenko come on I'll show you a great spot for lunch in the courtyard" keigo says as he takes him out of the classroom giving one last smirk to the idiots inside who were glaring at his for taking tenko away. 

'that fucking bastard I'm gonna kill him' touya thinks fueled with anger.

"so once again someone has stolen tenko away for lunch and this time we're pretty sure it's not a sibling situation" spinner says as they all gather with their bentos to discuss their favorite topic these days, tenko.

"I'm not too surprised to be honest, we already knew keigo was his childhood friend and we all saw them talking this morning, they're probably catching up and all" miruko explains calmly.

"it's so unfair! why does he get an advantage" jin complains. touya silently agrees with jin but doesn't take part in the conversation, instead he kept thinking about how wonderful tenko was and how could he possibly get rid of his nerves and actually talk to the boy. this has never been an issue for me what is going on just talk to him dammit!!'.

"I feel like you all should be more worried about that quiz, ya can't talk to tenko if you're expelled" magne points out which leads to the group collectively sighing.

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“so…how have you been?”

Keigo asks awkwardly as tenko looks around, observing the spot keigo had brought him to. It was a peaceful part of the courtyard, in the corner under a tree, there were a few bushes of beautiful flowers around. Hearing the question tenko turns his attention to him, “hmm?...well I’ve been good..i did miss you initially when you’d moved though” tenko says with a soft reminiscing smile. He wasn’t lying, tenko had been a very quiet kid early on (he still kind of was but less so). He didn’t remember much of his early childhood; his brain had blocked off those memories because of trauma he’d been told. So he only remembered being in the orphanage shortly before being picked up by his father. It had been difficult for him to go back to school after being adopted, he was very anxious around people, even kids his age. So it was a huge feat that keigo had manage to befriend little tenko and made him feel comfortable. He’d been tenko’s first friend and had helped tenko get adjusted to being around people and making more friends, so by the time keigo had to leave, tenko was sad but atleast he was now less of an anxious mess so he could handle it.  

Keigo finds himself blush a little hearing tenko say that, he was honestly worried tenko had completely forgotten about him. “yeah I..I missed you too, but hey look at my luck I get to hang out with you again!” he says excitedly. Tenko gave him the brightest smile he’d ever seen, almost reminding him of their childhood, and keigo felt like the luckiest man alive to be able to see it.

“so when did you spontaneously get a sister?” keigo joked

“huh? Oh toga, well dad adopted her after you’d left. She was actually- well” tenko hesitated a bit before continuing, wondering how much of it he could reveal “she was a runaway, I ended up seeing her one day at the park and she looked scared. I approached thinking maybe she was lost but when I told her we should go to the police she got even more scared. So I just took her home, kurogiri was shocked at seeing me bring this scared little girl home but he tried his best to make her feel comfortable. Later she opened up to me about her family situation and I understood why she had run away.”

Tenko looked a bit sombre while reminiscing about the time, keigo wanted to hug him but held himself back. “eventually I ended up begging dad to let her stay with us and not give her away to the authorities, I didn’t want her to get stuck in the system of foster care and adoption, I had honestly already made her my sister in my mind. It worked tho “ tenko says smiling.

Keigo smiles back at him “I’m glad it did, you guys seem close and she seems to be happy with you”

Tenko opens his mouth to say something when the bell rings loudly indicating their lunch break was over. “well it was great catching up tenko, let’s get back to class now” keigo says as he gets up from the grass and holds out his hand to tenko. Tenko meekly takes the hand and keigo helps him up.

“ It’s not fair tho you didn’t tell me anything about how you’ve been” tenko pouts as they walk back to their class.

“well I mean not much has happened with me, I just got here and took over the school with my natural charm” keigo jokes and tenko rolls his eyes “mhm suree” he says his voice dripping with sarcasm. “hey I’m not lying I even managed to get myself into the student council” he says proudly.

“very impressive” tenko says chuckling a bit.

Tenko doesn’t notice as usual but a lot of eyes are on him when he and keigo enter the class smiling and giggling. One particular pair of blue eyes were staring daggers at keigo and they got more hostile when keigo noticed the glare and decided to smirk at him like the cocky bastard he was.

After a very chaotic English lesson with mic sensei, the class is greeted by their homeroom teacher.

“I’m assuming you guys have been acquainted with your classmates by now so I need you guys to pick a class representative. The student should be responsible as they’ll have to keep their class in check like making sure everyone hands in their assignment and such. They should also be helpful towards their peers. You all will vote on it now, write the name of the person you want to vote for on a piece of paper and drop it in this box.” Aizawa sensei explains to the class.

Tenko thinks of who to vote for and ends up writing keigo’s name as he didn’t really know anyone else that much and considering he was a student council member as he had so confidently boasted about he must be atleast somewhat responsible.

Aizawa sensei waits as everyone drops in their chit and then opens each of them noting down the number of votes on a notepad. He does seem a bit shocked at the results but only a few people catch onto that considering his eternally tired poker face. “well I’ve got the results and your class representative is Tenko Shigaraki” Aizawa announces to the class looking right at tenko.

The person being addressed is completely red faced and wide eyed, never could he have expected this to happen. it didn’t make sense, he was new and introverted! He hadn’t even properly talked to everyone how the hell did he get enough votes?!?!

“uh sensei are you sure?” tenko asks confused.

“yes. Your classmates have voted for you almost unanimously” Aizawa replies flatly.

Tenko looks around at his classmates like they were crazy, he was looking at them with questioning eyes wondering if this was some kind of prank.

“I mean even though you’re new you’ve been very helpful to a bunch of us” jin says with a shrug.

“and you seem to be very focused during class, so you seem responsible.” Spinner adds

“seems these guys are too sick of me and magne and have been won over by you tenko” keigo remarks with a smirk

“speak for yourself, I TOLD them to not vote for me, I can’t be responsible for these idiots 2 years in a row” magne scolds keigo.

“I mean anyone would be a better rep than birdbrain over there, he would just get a free license to be a pain in the ass” Touya says taunting keigo with a glare.

“language Touya I don’t wanna have to put you in detention this early” Aizawa sensei finally speaks silencing the class. “tenko you’re now responsible for your class so try to keep them in check, I’ll let you know if any duties pop up for you” he explains and then dismisses the students. They all eventually start to leave for either their cleaning duties or club activities.

Tenko was alone in his classroom cleaning the blackboard as his assigned duty for the day. It had been an eventful day for him, starting with the nightmare, then reuniting with keigo and finally being made class rep much to his dismay. It was still shocking to him even after his classmates had explained their reasons. He didn’t know what exactly he was supposed to do being a class rep but he guessed he’d just have to figure it out.

He was now standing on a chair to reach the high parts of the board and as he was lost in his thoughts about all the things that had happened today, he ended up losing his balance while leaning to clean a corner. Before he could realise he had leaned too far, he was already falling. As he was bracing himself for the impact, someone quickly came right in front him. Maybe they were trying to catch him but since he was already falling it got a bit tricky and they ended up losing their balance and going down with him. Tenko only registered this when he felt the impact of the fall, but instead of the cold hard floor he had fallen on something warm and soft. As he lifted his head to see what he had fallen on he realises he had fallen on a person, his classmate actually, he had unruly black hair, sharp blue eyes and quite a lot of piercings. Another thing to note were the scars, this guy had burns on his arms and even his face, tenko felt bad looking at them, they must have been painful. He would wonder more about the guy but he realises the fact that he’s literally laying on top of him and just fucking staring at him so naturally he turns red and quickly get off of the guy muttering a slurry of apologies and hiding his face behind his hands out of embarrassment.

Touya was still pissed. He was pissed at keigo for stealing tenko away but he was also pissed at himself for not having talked to tenko even once. I mean it’s been days but he just can’t bring himself to talk to the guy. This had never been a problem for Touya so it was even more frustrating. I need to talk to him.

He had changed into his gym clothes for soccer practice and was getting a soda from the vending machine. He needed to cool down as the situation was getting him all riled up. He open his can and starts walking to the field. Why am I getting so riled up over this? I mean it’s just a crush  he thinks as he crosses the classrooms to get to the field but as he passes his own he ends up seeing the pretty boy himself, tenko standing on a chair and leaning way more than he should to reach a corner. What happened next was simple, Touya saw tenko about to fall, dropped his soda on the ground and ran inside the class without thinking. He was still a bit late so instead of catching tenko he ended up going down with him. Well he had still broken tenko’s fall but damn he was in pain due to him falling on his ass with extra weight on him. But honestly he couldn’t complain when he got to see tenko laying on top of him and looking at him with curiosity in those bright red eyes (those eyes would be the death of him) and he definitely was not going to complain after he got to see the most adorable sight of tenko blushing profusely while laying on top of him. Touya was willing to fall on his ass a million times if he got to see that view.

“oh my god I’m so sorry I just lost my balance and I don’t even know when you showed up and are you hurt? You must be hurt I literally fell on you that’s a stupid question to ask-“

“TENKO tenko I’m fine don’t worry, I’m seriously not that hurt ” Touya says stopping tenko’s rambling and reassuring him. As cute as tenko’s rambling was he didn’t want to worry the guy.

“are you sure? Maybe I should take you to the nurse just in case-“

“no need I’m genuinely ok it was a short fall” Touya says giving tenko a reassuring smile and tenko finally calms down a bit.

Touya then helps tenko clean the board not wanting the boy to climb on that chair again. Tenko tries to stop him insisting he’s fine and he can do it himself but Touya doesn’t listen.

“thank you… for both saving my fall and helping me clean” tenko says with a soft smile as both of them leave the classroom and Touya is so mesmerized by it that he steps into the spilled soda on the floor without noticing. “fuck!” Touya exclaims seeing his white shoes now in the orange soda puddle. “oh no who dropped this soda here and didn’t even clean it up” tenko says with a frown.

“it was actually me, I dropped it when I ran inside the class to..you know” Touya explains sheepishly and tenko turns red again realising what he had just said “oh oh I’m sorry again you dropped your soda because of me shit I- I’ll get you a new one and I should also clean this up” tenko says as he tries to go grab a mop before he’s stopped by Touya.

“no tenko it’s ok you don’t have to do that. I dropped it I’ll clean it up.” Touya insists

Both of them argue over this until they compromise and just clean it up together. They walk to the closet with the cleaning supplies together while tenko continues to apologize but all touya can really focus on are his beautiful eyes, the adorable mole near his lips, and his unruly but soft looking hair, he wanted to touch it and see if it really was as soft as it looked. Damn, he was really down bad wasn't he? but he didn't like how tenko was still nervous and embarrassed because of the situation. They took the mop from the closet and touya again insisted on carrying it instead of letting tenko do it.

Looking at the mophead and tenko's hair, he got an idea that he was way more proud of than he should've been. Touya holds the mop upside down and looks at tenko “hey tenko, look it’s you” he says chuckling like an idiot over his dumb joke and tenko looks at him first pouting a bit and then chuckling along with Touya. Touya cracks a few more dumb jokes as they clean to make tenko laugh and sees him slowly losing his earlier nervousness and embarrassment. After they’re done Touya sees his phone and realises he had a bunch of texts from his teammates asking him where the hell he was and why was he not at practice, he winces seeing them knowing he was gonna get a scolding but it would be worth it for getting to spend time with tenko, even if they had just mopped up spilled soda together.

“I should go to soccer practice now my teammates are gonna be mad” Touya says waving bye to tenko as he runs to the field bracing himself to hear his team bitching at him.

Tenko watches as Touya leaves the hallway in a hurry. Even though Touya had said it was fine a lot of times already, tenko still felt bad for first falling on touya, making him drop his soda and also making him late for his practice.  But Touya didn’t seem to mind so he calms his overactive mind and decides to check out the noticeboard.

He needed to join a club and so he browses through the posters on the board seeing if anything interested him. He liked that they had an art club but he was also intrigued by the gaming club. He checks the locations for the clubrooms on the poster and goes to check out the gaming one first because that was admittedly something he hadn’t seen before, his old school didn’t have a club for gaming.

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Tenko stands in front of the gaming club room, hesitating for a second before he slowly walks in looking around. There weren’t a lot of people in there admittedly. His eyes land on a familiar face, spinner who sat right behind him in class. Spinner seems to notice his gaze as he looks up from his Gameboy and sees tenko. Spinner was slightly shorter than tenko, he had sharp features, dark skin and purplish-pink hair. Another thing tenko noticed was he had sharp long nails, painted green. As the boy looks at tenko, a slight blush shows up on his cheeks.

“hey tenko, here to check out the club?” spinner says now giving him a welcoming smile.

“yeah, I was surprised to see this school had one. We didn’t have one at my old school” tenko says still looking around.

The room had a few video game posters on the walls, a few tables with PCs that were probably school property considering he’d seen the same ones in the computer lab. A few students were already playing games on them.

“yeah actually this one didn’t either, I actually got this one started just last year” spinner says sheepishly.

Tenko looks at him with wide eyes “really? How’d you manage to convince them? Usually adults and teachers don’t really consider gaming useful in my experience” tenko asks intrigued.

“it wasn’t easy, I mean I had to gather students who would be interested in joining and then I made a whole powerpoint presentation on how gaming is useful in brain development and attracts students towards careers like programming and arts to convince the faculty. Then it took even more convincing to get the school to give us some PCs. It took like half a school year to finally get the club started. But it was worth it, I didn’t feel like any other club felt like me you know? and I didn’t wanna join them, so I started my own. “ spinner explained proudly looking around the room admiring his work.

Tenko listened to the whole thing attentively with bright eyes. “wow spinner, that’s really impressive. I’m glad you got to have your own club and didn’t have to join something that wasn’t you.” Tenko says with a smile.

Spinner blushes even more now at the praise he was receiving. “well so.. do you wanna join? We are kind of low in members as you can see” spinner says looking at the two people playing at the PCs right now, one boy with bright yellow hair and one with black hair, they looked younger than them, probably from toga’s grade.

“is it just you three?” tenko asks following his gaze.

“no, there’s a few more who are attending their other clubs today”

“other clubs?” tenko asks confused

“yeah, everyone can join 2 clubs so they’re not completely limiting themselves to one activity. Not everyone joins 2 but a lot of people do.” Spinner explains

“I see.. well in that case I’d love to join”

Spinner beams with happiness hearing that. I mean it was always great whenever a new person joined but the fact that it was tenko meant he’d get to spend more time with the new guy.

“that’s great! Welcome aboard. What kind of games do you like to play tenko?” spinner asks tenko leading him around the club room, giving him a little tour, showing him the games they had, the ones he loved, introducing him to the other members who as tenko had guessed were younger than them. Tenko was beaming too, he was happy to find friends with similar interests. He talked to spinner enthusiastically about the games he’d been playing recently. Spinner replied with the same amount of excitement, even suggesting tenko to bring his games over next time so they can play them together. They decided to play a few matches of mario cart together and tenko obliterated spinner laughing victoriously everytime he won. Spinner pouted but he was really happy to see tenko outside of his shy and quiet shell he usually was in during class.

Eventually tenko gets a call from toga gushing to him about the ice cream date she’d just had with ochako. “ok ok I’ll be home soon and you can tell me all about it” tenko says before toga could ruin his ears with all the screaming coming from his phone. He thanks spinner for being so welcoming and leaves the room waving goodbye.

As tenko was making his way to out of the school he spots the vending machine and walks over to it to get him something cool to drink. The heat was pretty bad this time of the year and he had to walk all the way home. As he looks into the machine thinking of what he should get, he spots a can of orange soda, reminding him of Touya. He did owe him a soda didn’t he? He thinks for a moment and then gets the can of soda and a chocolate milk.

Touya was in a good mood during practice even though he’d been greeted by his pissed off teammates. He’d take all that scolding a hundred times if it meant he got to hang out with tenko. His frustration over not being able to talk to tenko was gone now and yes he did have to fall on his ass for that to happen but he didn’t mind it all that much. He really was just that down bad. He was really tired now though. The practice had ended now and he was just sitting on the grass for a minute before he had to go to the locker room to change. Just as he was about to get up he notices something. tenko was near the soccer field, looking around , seeming a little lost. Touya stares at tenko , what is he looking for?

His question gets answered real quick as tenko spots him and starts walking towards him. Touya looks around confused as tenko starts walking to him, checking to see if there was anyone behind or around him that tenko might have been looking for. But as he sees he’s the only one there he almost starts to panic internally. Wait, is he here to see me? Was he looking for me? What? Why? Bfreufheurfeifefberuhrfvyjjyihbugvvuijbubj

Touya was malfunctioning by the time tenko reached him with his beautiful smile. “hey touya” tenko greets him and all touya can think about is how nice his name sounds coming from tenko’s mouth. But he shakes it off as he realises he was staring at him and making things awkward. “hi tenko” he says finally.

“you’re done with practice?” tenko asks, trying to make conversation, he was being awfully social today wasn’t he? It was new but tenko didn’t hate it.

“oh yeah, really tired honestly” 

“I hope your teammates weren’t too mad at you because of me?” tenko asks a little concern showing on his face.

“nah they can handle one practice without me. They’re big boys” touya says lying to tenko, he could already see the boy was concerned and didn’t want him to beat himself up over it for no reason.

Tenko chuckles at touya’s comment , “well anyways, I know you told me I don’t need to but I did owe you a soda” tenko says getting the can of orange soda out of his bag and offering it to touya.

Touya looks at it shocked for a second but then slowly takes it from tenko, their fingers brushing just for a second as touya took the can from his hands. But apparently that was enough to get touya blushing. “you really didn’t have to but thanks” touya smiles at tenko.

“you saved me from falling on my face today, this is the least I could do.... I should get back home now, toga will kill me for being late”

“I should also go change. Bye tenko” touya says now getting up from the grass

“bye touya. See you tomorrow” he says as he turns to the exit of the school.

Touya watches him leave with a soft smile. He felt on top of the world as he walked to the locker room. Tenko had came all the way to the field looking for him just to give him a soda. Even more he’d been concerned for touya. Touya had to remind himself that he wasn’t anything special , tenko probably just felt guilty for falling on him. That and tenko was clearly just a wonderful person. Even so he couldn’t help the smile on his face as he reached home. His siblings noticed his change of mood looking at him weird and asking why he was in such a good mood today. He just shrugged and said “no reason”.

Tenko finally reaches home and changes out of his uniform. Himiko pesters him for coming home so late but he mostly just ignores it because he’s tired. After resting for a bit he starts on making dinner for him and toga. Toga follows him to the kitchen and sits on the counter while he cooks, telling him all about her date. He doesn’t talk much, simply asking questions and replies here and there but she doesn’t mind. Himiko , for all her over activeness and clinginess , is still a very understanding person. She knows her brother, she knows it takes him some time to adjust to new things, places, people. So she doesn’t take his silence personally, knowing he’s probably just run of his social battery. Tenko actually doesn’t mind listening to her as he cooks, in a way it’s even comforting to him.

Cooking isn’t something he’s an expert in. He only really started learning to cook recently. Kurogiri, being their caretaker, used to do it for him and later on for him and toga. Their father was a busy man, he had a huge empire to run. He was more present when tenko was younger but later he got more and more busy. Kurogiri didn’t tell him this but tenko knew that overworking himself was taking a toll on their father’s health which was another reason he stayed away. He didn’t want his children to see him in that weakened state. So eventually it was just kurogiri, tenko and toga. But moving here reduced it to just tenko and toga as kurogiri still had some work that he needed to wrap up before joining them.

Tenko didn’t fully understand why they even had to move. Even if their father’s work had shifted it wasn’t like the man lived with them anyways. He practically lived in his office, had a room to sleep there and everything. But his father hadn’t left much room for argument there stating that even if he didn’t stay in the same house with his kids he still needed to atleast be in the same city in case of any emergency. So understanding his situation, he realised that he’d have to take care of himself and his sister atleast until kurogiri got there, which could be months for all they knew. His father did offer to hire a new caretaker or even a cook and cleaner for the some time until kurogiri got there but tenko didn't want any additional new people around him on top of having to adjust to a new city and school. Though he had ended up agreeing to a cleaner who would come in once a week during a the weekend and properly clean the place knowing neither him or his sister were great at cleaning. So tenko had started learning some basic dishes that he and his sister liked to eat from kurogiri before they had moved.

“oh my god it smells so good ten!” himiko says as the delicious smell of her favourite katsu curry fills the kitchen.

Tenko takes 2 plates and serves a portion each on them, handing himiko hers as they walk to the living room in front of the TV. They’d decided to have a movie night tonight because tenko wasn’t that chatty today so they could spend time together without draining tenko. They have their dinner in front of the TV (something kurogiri would have definitely chastised them for but he wasn’t here right now) watching a horror movie.

Horror movies were more himiko’s thing at first but as tenko was made to watch so many of them by her, they had somewhat grown on him and now he tended to share that interest with her. They were watching ‘evil dead’ which had tons of gore and blood, something that toga loved to see. At first tenko had been a bit disturbed by her love for gore but he got used to it eventually. They only take a short break between the movie when toga does the dishes and tenko finally feels up to talking a bit and tells toga a little about his day.

“no way! You really fell on top of him? Like one of those dramas on TV?” toga exclaims loving the ‘juicy gossip’ tenko was giving her.

“yep.. god it was so embarrassing toga! I even made him drop his soda” tenko says hiding his face behind his hands while himiko cackled like a witch.

“aww it’s ok tenko, I doubt he minded considering how he looks at you every morning” toga says patting his shoulder with her hand still wearing the glove for the dishes. Tenko moves away from the hand to protect his precious pjs but also looks at her confused,” what? What do you mean”.

“oh my precious tenko, I’m not really surprised considering I know how oblivious you are to these things. That Todoroki is my friend’s older brother, I’ve seen his staring at you every morning since we got here. Last time I think I almost saw his pupils turn into hearts…so yeah I don’t really think he’d mind his crush falling on him. You probably made his day”

Tenko stares at toga as if she’s the craziest person he’s ever seen but eventually just sighs. It wasn’t the first time toga had claimed that someone had a crush on tenko, she jumped to conclusions very quickly. Tenko just didn’t believe it. I mean, even if Touya had been staring at him staring can mean many things. He might just be staring because I’m new.

“ANYWAYS I also joined a club, the gaming club” tenko changes the topic to his visit to the gaming club and tells toga the story of how spinner got the club to be.

“that’s great! Look at you already making friends and joining clubs. And you were worried about making friends when we got here. It’s been like 4 days and you’ve already made 2 friends, 3 if you count Touya!” toga says proudly as she pats his back now with clean and dry hands, done with the dishes.

Tenko blushes at that but admits maybe he’d worried for nothing. They then get back to the movie laying on the couch. Eventually they just fall asleep on the couch, toga holding onto tenko like he was an oversized teddy bear.

Tenko wakes up next morning to the faint noise of his alarm clock ringing loudly in his bedroom. He lazily gets up and checks his phone for the time. His eyes widen as he realises that they had slept in and were now going to be late. He essentially throws toga off the couch yelling at her to get up and get ready for school. The girl grumbled at her tough awakening but jumps up as she sees the time. The siblings run out of their home soon barely showered and messily dressed, a complete contrast to how they usually showed up to school.

On the other side, tenko’s admirers waited anxiously wondering why their precious tenko had not gotten to school yet.

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Touya was at the school gates again. He didn’t even try to pretend anymore that his reason for suddenly getting to school early nowadays rather than his regular tardiness wasn’t a certain blue haired boy. Touya impatiently taps his foot and checks the time, “where is he? It’s almost time for class”. Along with him, his friends were also there wondering the same thing, “I hope he’s ok” jin says concerned.

“he seemed fine yesterday, it might be his sister though she called him home urgently yesterday so maybe she’s unwell?” spinner wonders. Hearing that keigo , jin and touya look at him shocked, “how do you know that” all three of them say in unison.

Spinner raises his hands feeling the hostility radiating from them, mostly touya and keigo though jin was just curious. “he visited the club yesterday, he was surprised that our school had a gaming club so I ended up telling him how it came to be and he joined. We played some video games together until he got a call from his sister and had to leave” spinner explains blushing a little bit. Touya and keigo were speechless so it was jin who spoke next “is he like a video game nerd like you?”.

“yup, he loves video games as far as I could tell. He wasn’t shy at all while talking about them and he’s very competitive actually. He beat me every single time and didn’t hesitate in celebrating his victory. It was like a complete opposite of how I’ve seen him in class”

Touya is now glaring at spinner out of jealousy, how come he gets to see that side of tenko before me?  And keigo catches onto that glare and can’t help but tease touya over it. ”it seems that both me and spinner got to have some one on one time with tenko yesterday” keigo says trying to torment touya and it worked because touya got defensive and said “shut up birdbrain tenko came looking for me at the soccer field yesterday before going home-“. Touya hadn’t meant to say that, he didn’t want to tell his friends about his interaction with tenko yesterday. It just seemed private. But once he had revealed this the friends were on his ass to know more so he had to explain. “he fell on top of you?” jin says surprised. “yeah…” touya says turning red thinking of the incident. Before his friends could pry into it , the school bell rang and it was time for class. That was when they realised tenko was still not there. “I guess he’s not coming today” jin says shrugging. “he’s  gonna miss Aizawa sensei”s quiz” magne says frowning as they all walked to class. She unlike the others didn’t have a crush on their new classmate but he was a sweet boy so she was a bit concerned. Tenko seemed like someone who cares about their grades. Touya also frowned , I hope he is ok.

The group makes it to class and all settle in their seats, moral being a bit down because of a certain boy’s absence. Aizawa sensei enters the class as usual, looking as tired as ever and starts taking attendance. He calls out their names one by one. “tenko shigaraki” he calls out and looks around noticing the boy wasn’t at his seat. He frowns at that as he hadn’t received any intimation about his absence by the boy or his parent but goes on to the next name. Just as he opens his mouth to call out the next name, the classroom door opens abruptly. The entire class along with their teacher turn to the door.

They all see tenko, looking quite frazzled, panting like he’d been running for a while, hair messy some locks flying away and some sticking to his face due to sweat, tie a little crooked as if it had been put on in a hurry, backpack falling off from on shoulder. He was holding the door for supports and apologising profusely to Aizawa sensei for being late, bowing repeatedly. Aizawa sensei was focused on scolding tenko for his tardiness. Explaining how he was a class rep and it didn’t look good for him to be tardy, about being a good example and all. The students on the other hand couldn’t register a single word that either of them were saying because god tenko was a sight right now. Touya was almost reminded of the day before when tenko had fallen on him, he looked just as frazzled and embarrassed and that beautiful blush was on him again. Keigo was reminded of his childhood days with tenko when they played in the summer and tenko’s hair would be messy just like now, the only difference being it’s longer now and so much more beautiful. Spinner thought about the stark contrast between this tenko and the chaotic victorious one who he had yesterday and rumi was just straight up horny thinking about how she’d love to see tenko all sweaty, blushing and panting in a different context.

Aizawa finally lets him enter the class and sit at his desk and continues roll call. Tenko finally relaxes as he sits, his breath getting more regular but his cheeks were still tinted from embarrassment they were all looking at me. For once tenko had actually noticed the many eyes on him but of course was still oblivious to the intentions behind those eyes. He was just very very embarrassed thinking about how he probably looked like a mess. He didn’t have much time in the morning, he’d just managed to wake up himiko, brush and take the quickest shower of his life, put on his uniform and run. He hadn’t even dried or brushed his hair. He almost wished he had a hair tie so he could make it look less messy by tying it. The lecture goes on and he decides to focus on that instead.

As the lecture comes to an end Aizawa sensei reminds the class that they have a quiz today which will take place after lunch. He then turns to tenko, “meet me in the teacher’s lounge after school” and tenko manages to nod as a reply. He dreads that meeting knowing he’s probably in for more scolding. He gets distracted from his dread from jin’s wailing. The boy is having a crisis over the quiz again. ”didn’t tenko give you his notes to study for it” magne asks jin with a hand on his shoulder seemingly trying to comfort her friend. “he did and they were very detailed but I’m not good at reading and memorising” jin complains draping his body over his desk in a defeated manner. Magne, spinner and touya nod knowing how jin almost always needed someone to study with him to memorise things. “sorry jin we couldn’t help you study this time..” spinner says rubbing his arm, it was unfortunate but all them had been busy this week. Tenko felt bad for him knowing his notes weren’t as useful as he’d thought maybe I could still help.

“we don’t really have much time left but I could teach you at lunch? I needed some revision anyways” tenko says to jin hesitantly. All 4 pairs of eyes turn to him and he blushes nervously at the attention. Did they think he was too desperate? He didn’t have much time to dwell on this thought because jin had left his seat swiftly and was now hugging tenko while spewing a slurry of thank  yous. Tenko was started by the sudden contact and was blushing even more now. Touya would have glared at jin if he didn’t know that this was him being grateful and relieved. He wasn’t trying to hit on tenko he was simply just happy and touched by the fact that tenko had offered to sacrifice his lunch break to help jin pass a quiz.

So it was decided, tenko and jin would study in class during lunch. They had a few more classes and then it was time. Keigo, spinner, and touya went their separate ways during lunch, defeated since they knew neither could spend this precious time with tenko. In the classroom, tenko and magne stayed with jin trying their best to teach him enough to pass.

Touya decided to go to the cafeteria to get something to eat since he’d packed a light lunch today and felt like it wasn’t enough. He spotted his brother with a few of his friends, noting one of them was tenko’s sister and decides to be a menace for a bit. He sneaks up on shoto and swiftly messes his hair up. “hey pipsqueak“ touya says as shoto turns to glare at him. His brother was bad at showing emotions but touya had managed to make him show his annoyance pretty well over the years. Touya noticed that shoto was buying a whole rice bowl, which was basically a meal with rice and chicken katsu and a few accompaniments.

“you’re that hungry after your bento?” touya says shocked.

“it’s not for me” shoto replies simply. Touya raises an eyebrow, “you buying someone lunch? Is it that broccoli kid?” touya says wiggling his eyebrows trying to tease shoto. “no it’s for toga” shoto says defensively while looking away to hide his blush. Touya would have continued to tease shoto if the information hadn’t intrigued him. Didn’t tenko and his sister bring matching bentos to school everyday?

“why are you buying her lunch” touya asks curiously. “she couldn’t get her bento today. She said she and her brother overslept today so her brother didn’t have time to pack their bentos and they both forgot their wallets in a hurry. We were all willing to share our lunch with her but she didn’t want any of us to be hungry because of her so I offered to buy her lunch. She insists she’ll pay me back on Monday but I said she doesn’t need to. I’m using dad’s credit card” shoto explains and grins after the last sentence. Neither of them were a huge fan of their dad so they’d learned to spend his money without worry to annoy him as a petty way of getting back at him. “good on you for helping your friend” touya grins too as he pats shoto on the head. Shoto just looks at him miffed again and then walks back to his friends with the lunch.

As touya watches his brother leave, something registers in his mind. Tenko also didn’t have lunch. So naturally touya buys the same rice bowl shoto had assuming tenko and his sister probably had similar taste along with his own sandwich. Touya thought about tenko fondly as he walked back to his classroom with the food, how tenko had decided to help jin and not even mentioned that he didn’t have lunch today. Tenko seemed to be the kind of person who put others needs over his own. Someone who cared for others more than he cared for himself. It made touya want to be the one who cares for tenko.

He walked into the classroom and saw tenko explaining a complicated topic to jin patiently. It was a topic even touya struggled with but tenko’s explanation was actually really simple to understand. He just watched tenko explain everything to jin and answer all of his questions patiently. Not getting annoyed for even a second if jin asked him to repeat something. He had tied his hair back into a low ponytail so now his face was more clearly visible for touya to admire and gawk at. Tenko had scars, some around his eyes, a few more on his neck and 2 prominent ones on his eye and corner of his mouth. Touya wondered how he got them, it made him feel even more protective of tenko. The neck ones were ones he hadn’t seen earlier as tenko’s hair usually hid them pretty well. They were faded and old but looked concerning.

Magne takes jin’s bento out of his backpack and hands it to him, “you guys should also eat while you study or your brain’s not gonna have enough fuel to run during the quiz. Tenko should I get yours out too?” she asks gesturing to his backpack.

“oh..i couldn’t get mine today. I overslept and didn’t have time” tenko says nervously looking down.

“well you should’ve said so earlier! I’m sure you could get something at the cafeteria” magne scolds tenko like the concerned older sister she is to everyone in their class.

“I know but that would waste too much time and jin needs help….and also I forgot to get my wallet too so it’s fine really I’ll eat as soon as I get home” tenko explains ready to get back to teaching jin who was looking awfully guilty for keeping tenko now. Jin offers his food to tenko but tenko refuses again stating jin needs it for the quiz.

Noticing his cue now touya speaks up “delivery for tenko” he says cheekily as he sets down the rice bowl in front of the boy. Tenko looks at the food shocked and then turns to touya and blushes. “huh? What?.. but.. I didn’t” tenko looks completely confused right now while touya just grins.

“I know you didn’t order it. I saw my brother in the cafeteria and he told me about how your sister also didn’t have lunch so I assumed you’d be the same. Take this as payment for helping our jin study” touya explains with a smile. Magne smirks at touya and jin looks very relieved to see that tenko atleast has food now.

“payment? But I don’t need payment for helping a friend- and I completely forgot about himiko! Did she have something?” tenko asks voice full of concern for his sister.

It warms touya’s heart to see him still worrying for someone else but he also gets it being an older brother. “yes, her friends got her lunch. It’s actually the same thing I’ve gotten for you cus I thought you guys might have similar taste. And if you don’t want to take it as payment take it as a thank you” touya insists again and just as tenko tries to refuse again, his stomach growls as if on cue. All three of them now look at him insistently and he finally caves and starts eating the food but not before stating that he’ll pay touya back.

Touya feels happy seeing tenko devour the entire meal quickly while teaching jin. He just sits there the entire time watching tenko eat and teach. Tenko is too focused on both to really notice. Every second touya spends near tenko he feels his crush grow bigger. Within a week tenko had simply waltzed into his life and stolen his heart. He wondered how long he had until his crush would turn into something more. He was sort of scared to be honest, he’d had crushes before of course but this felt different. Everything was different with tenko but he didn’t know how or why.

Eventually the bell rang and they all prepared themselves for the quiz. Touya did ok enough on the quiz. He had put in just enough effort to pass as he knew failing could have repercussions but he didn’t wanna make the old man too happy so he kept his grades consistent. Good enough to not have to deal with shit from his father but not good enough to make him happy. Jin also seemed relieved so clearly tenko and magne’s hard work had paid off. Touya noticed tenko get a bit tense when Aizawa sensei once again reminded him to meet after class. He understood it, tenko was clearly a good two shoes so getting on a teacher’s bad side was scary. Hell even he would be scared of getting on aizawa’s bad side, he could be scary when he needed to be.

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Tenko was nervous as he walked to the teacher’s lounge. He’d only been here for a week and had already fucked up? He felt like shit. He walks in seeing Aizawa sensei sitting on his desk grading today’s quizzes. He meekly walks over to him and sensei looks up at him. “oh tenko, take a seat” Aizawa sensei says noticing him gesturing to a chair in front of him. The teacher looked as tired as ever with his hair messy and bags under his eyes. There was a half empty cup of coffee on his desk, the cup said ‘no.1 teach’. As sensei now turns and gives his full attention to tenko, tenko braces himself for another round of scolding.

“is everything ok at home?” Aizawa sensei asks tenko with a gentle tone

Tenko looks at the teacher surprised as he notices genuine concern in his eyes. “huh? Uh..well..i mean- yeah of course” tenko replies with confusion. It felt like the question had come out of nowhere.

“are you sure? I noticed your sister was also late today and found out that neither of you brought lunch today. If there’s any problems at home you can share with me tenko. I know you’re new here and you might not trust me. But you’re my student so I want to know if there is something bothering you”  sensei explains with an even but caring tone.

Tenko finds himself blushing slightly at the concern, it was weird having a teacher who barely knew him fretting over him. “I understand your concern sensei…but it’s really nothing. Me and himiko just overslept today and I didn’t have time to make lunch for us” tenko replies with a sheepish smile.

Aizawa sensei raises his eyebrows at the explanation, seemingly not satisfied with the answer. “did neither of your parents wake you up? They could’ve helped you make lunch if you didn’t have time” Aizawa says with a frown.

Tenko looks down now understanding where sensei’s concern was coming from. He was probably assuming tenko had neglectful parents. He knew the answer he was gonna give wouldn’t satisfy his teacher but he didn’t feel like lying to him. “our adoptive father is very busy with work so he’s not home usually and our caretaker hasn’t managed to move here yet. Don’t get them wrong- they offered to appoint someone new to take care of us but I refused. So for now it’s just himiko and me” tenko explains trying to subdue his teacher’s concerns. It didn’t really do much though as sensei continued to frown.

“it’s still not good for 2 kids to be living alone, but I guess I don’t have a say in that.” Aizawa sensei sighs and takes out a piece of paper and notes something down on it. He hands tenko the paper, “this is my personal cell number, if you ever get in trouble contact me”.

Tenko feels a warmth spread through his chest as he takes the paper, just the pure concern had made him feel so…cared for. Something that none of his earlier teachers had cared to do. When tenko was younger, he had teachers who even thought of him as a nuisance as he was an anxious child and struggled with a lot of activities. Later as he grew up teachers saw him as some trophy, the top student, he proved them of their teaching prowess. This was so new, a teacher not thinking of him as a nuisance or a trophy, but simply as a child who needed care.

“thank you sensei” tenko says with a warm smile.

Aizawa sensei grins and ruffles his hair. “you’re a good kid tenko. Don’t make a habit of being late though” he says with a lightly scolding tone.

Tenko blushes as his hair is ruffled. Aizawa sensei then goes on to give him some extra work as a “punishment”. They were simple tasks that he was probably gonna have to do anyways as the class rep, making the updated list of students with their current clubs, distributing assignment sheets to his classmates and some extra homework he didn’t really mind.

As he gets up to leave the teacher’s lounge, he hears a voice. “tenko shigaraki, you’re the latecomer today right?” says midnight sensei, she was the disciplinary head of the school, and seemed to have a little too much fun punishing kids. Before she could reach tenko though, Aizawa sensei gets up and basically shields tenko from the other teacher. “I already dealt with him midnight, he’s my student , you don’t need to worry about him.” he says with his usual tired tone. Midnight sensei jokes about not getting to have any fun but leaves eventually.

Tenko feels some butterflies in his stomach when Aizawa sensei shields him. It was so protective. Aizawa sensei had made tenko feel so safe and cared for. He felt a great amount of admiration towards the teacher now. He’s so cool and so nice.

Aizawa sensei doesn’t really notice tenko’s starstruck look. He just sits back at his desk and resumes grading the quizzes. Tenko snaps out of it and finally walks out of the lounge with his face almost as red as his eyes.

Tenko managed to catch some of his classmates before they headed to their clubs to hand them their weekend assignments as well as note down their names and respective clubs in his notebook to make a list later.That is why he was a bit late showing up to his own club. He was planning on asking spinner where he could find the other classmates because most of them were part of his ragtag friend group. He was in for a surprise because as soon as he entered the gaming club room, he found all the classmates who had been missing.

He hadn’t been here long but based on his conversation with spinner, the gaming club room was never this crowded. He spots quite a few familiar faces. Keigo was sitting in a chair seemingly bored, looking at his phone. Spinner was playing a game against jin and magne was sitting there observing it like it was the best entertainment ever and touya was standing near them with an annoyed look on his face talking to none other than himiko who seemed to be having a great time bothering the older boy. The other boys tenko had seen yesterday were also there minding their own business and playing their games.

Tenko just stands at the door observing it all with wide eyes. Himiko is the first one to notice him and squeal like she hadn’t seen him in years, she skips happily to her brother yapping about how fun his friends were. ‘his friends’ also turn to him and everyone seems more than happy to see him, smiling and greeting him.

Soon enough they’re all sitting in a circle chatting and playing 1 vs 1 mario kart taking turns while the others cheered for the ones playing. While himiko and spinner are having a toe to toe battle, keigo comes to sit next to tenko.

“I don’t remember you being into video games, even though I tried really hard to get you to be” tenko says smirking playfully at him.

Keigo chuckles and raises his hands in surrender, “guilty as charged, but you like it and I thought..well- this way we could spend some time...you know?”

Tenko smiles at him widely and keigo’s heart skips a beat, “awwwww look at you being soft, and you used to call me a sentimental fool” tenko teases him chuckling a bit.

Keigo makes a face and tries to deny the accusation but to no avail as apparently himiko had finished her game beating spinner to everyone’s surprise and had headed to her brother, which led to her also hearing keigo and giggling with her brother. Tenko then goes on to introduce himiko to keigo.

“also why aren’t you with your friends?” tenko asks himiko confused. She seemed to love her new friends, one particular round faced girl more than others so it was surprising that she was here.

“I couldn’t choose a club. I’m still confused so I decided to visit you! You weren’t here yet so I met all your friends, they’re so fun and entertaining!” she explains excitedly.

She was not lying, she’d had so much fun learning that her assumption of tenko gaining yet another harem wasn’t wrong. She knew from what she’d heard from her friends as well as tenko that the gaming club was not usually this crowded. It didn’t take long for her to realise that the extra people here were because of her brother.

She already knew the Todoroki boy was smitten for her brother, then there was keigo who clearly didn’t care for gaming, he hadn’t even paid any attention the clubroom staying on his phone until tenko arrived. Spinner was miffed that his private time with tenko was disturbed and jin and magne were mostly just there because jin was actually a part of the club he just didn’t visit as often and magne knew this was gonna be fun to watch.

Himiko had deduced most of this from just observing and listening as the group wasn’t really quiet when they talked about her brother, it was crazy tenko hadn’t heard them yet. While waiting for tenko she had decided to bother shoto’s older brother for fun.

“I heard you bought my brother lunch. I hope that’s not your idea of a date and you plan on taking him to a real one eventually” she’d said popping up in front of him, no greetings no warning.

Touya had been startled and then had turned bright red, stuttering and trying to deny her accusations. “w-what are you talking about- he was helping my friend study so I decided to help him in return” touya said defensively internally cursing shoto for telling the girl about the lunch.

“mhm sureeeee” she said smirking widely. “oh and thank you for saving my brother from falling, though I doubt anyone could have saved you from falling” she says the last part leaning closer to touya so the others couldn’t hear. Touya was so red the girl almost felt bad for him. almost.

She didn’t tell tenko exactly what had entertained her, knowing her brother probably wouldn’t believe her anyways. She actually liked these people tenko had attracted, they were weird and loud but fun.

Tenko finally got to play and he was on a roll, beating anyone and everyone daring to go against him. he got into his chaotic and competitive demeaner again and this time the group got to see it firsthand.

Keigo was surprised to see that his competitiveness had actually grown over the years. Tenko was like a child having the time of his life. He’d tease his opponent and show off his skills without any shame, even going as far as showing his tongue to spinner like a toddler as he beat the pink haired boy.

After his ruthless annihilation, he passed on his controller to touya, who blushed as their fingers brushed, tenko noticed the pink flush and thought it was kind of cute. He obviously didn’t make the connection of why touya was blushing but he did think it was cute.

Tenko was parched now and wanted something to drink to cool off after the game so he got up to go to the vending machine. Some of his gaming confidence still remained so he didn’t hesitate to loudly ask the group if they wanted anything from the vending machine. He received a bunch of requests and mentally noted them down. Keigo offered to come along with him but tenko was full of energy right now so he was already gone before keigo could follow.

Tenko cools down from his adrenaline high as he walks to the vending machine, relishing in the peace and quiet of the empty hallway for a minute. He didn’t mind the loud environment in the gaming room right now but it was nice to get a small break. He thinks about the group of friends he had apparently gathered and feels a nice warmth in his heart. He knew he enjoyed gaming but he never knew how fun it would be with more friends. Besides gaming, just sitting in a circle, chatting and cheering for his friends was also fun. It’s not like he hadn’t had friends before, but this was different..he didn’t know exactly how but it was.

He reached the vending machine and quickly punched in everything he could remember, his chocolate milk, himiko’s strawberry milk, jin’s ginger ale, magne’s iced tea, keigo’s sparkling water and spinner’s mountain dew that he had not so gracefully yelled for while playing his game against touya.

It was surprising how good of a fight touya was putting up against spinner knowing how experienced spinner was. From what he’d heard from his friends touya wasn’t much of a gamer but he was trying really hard for some reason. Almost like he was trying to impress someone.

Now that he thought of it, touya had been too focused on his game to ask for anything. Tenko’s eyes fall on a can of orange soda sitting in the machine and a smile grows on his face.

By the time tenko got back to the room it was even more chaotic than before. Apparently touya had managed to win against spinner even tho by a very small margin. The friends had gone wild at that, jin and magne patting touya on the back, spinner wailing and accusing touya of cheating while keigo riled him on more and himiko laughed uncontrollably at the whole thing.

Tenko was also shocked that touya had won. Spinner must be having the worst day, losing to tenko, himiko and now touya.

He tries to divert the situation by announcing that he was back with refreshments and handing everyone their drinks. He pats spinner on the back sympathetically while handing him his mountain dew, the pink haired boy just grumbles about ‘bitches barging into his club and ruining his day’.

Now only having his own chocolate milk and touya’s soda, he walks over to touya who was standing by the window now looking at the soccer team practicing in the field.

“a prize for the lucky winner” tenko says startling touya a bit as he hadn’t noticed the blue haired boy approaching him.

He looks at the can of orange soda offered to him and smiles. “you didn’t have to” touya says as he takes the drink offered to him.

“I couldn’t have our champion be the only person without a drink” tenko jokes playfully bumping his shoulder to the black haired boy. He was really brimming with confidence today wasn’t he.

Touya blushes and turns to look out the window again to hide his blush. “you won a lot more than me, how am I the champion” touya asks finally finding his words.

“I won with a lot of experience and practice, you won as a newbie. Come on give yourself some credit you beat the gaming club president” tenko jokes pointing to the still grumbling president.

“hmm I guess I’m the rising star of mario kart then…I might even beat you next time” touya says playfully now looking at tenko and tenko looks back at him with the beautiful competitive glint in his eyes, “now don’t get too ahead of yourself Todoroki” he says with a playful threatening tone.

“touya..call me touya” he says quickly

“ok..touya” tenko says with a soft smile and touya loves how his name sounds from tenko’s mouth. He loves it so much that he has to turn to the window again to hide his blush. The team is done practicing by now and are all leaving for the lockers.

“aren’t you also supposed to be there?” tenko asks curiously.

“I can miss a practice or two considering we are allowed to join 2 clubs and attend them both from time to time” touya explains.

“and why did you decide to join this one? I mean don’t get me wrong you clearly have talent that you just showed us all but something tells me you aren’t really a gamer.” Tenko asks with genuine curiosity. He loved having so many friends in here today and it had been fun but it was still weird knowing most of them had not joined the club before and were here today all of a sudden.

“well..uh- spinner and jin are my buddies and it seemed like fun…you know- a change of pace from practice once in a while” touya explains, you know….like a liar.

Tenko looks at him suspiciously, feeling like that wasn’t the full truth but letting it be. “well I’m glad you guys gave it a chance, it was fun today” tenko says looking at the group now.

Then tenko remembers he was supposed to give them their assignments and note down their clubs so he does just that before everyone gets ready to leave for home now. They all walk to the school gates together before saying their goodbyes and going their own ways home.

Tenko walks home with himiko with a pleased smile on his face until he notices the look she was giving him, it was like she was dying to say something but holding herself back. He sighs knowing exactly what she was gonna say and she takes that as permission to talk.

“you have a harem!”

“NO I DON’T!”