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It seemed like just another ordinary day for the famous Class 3-A of U.A. High School, the top hero academy in Japan. Aizawa, zipped up in his usual yellow sleeping bag, sat at his desk and watched as his twenty students silently worked on their assignments. Life had been going well for them lately - with All for One, Shigaraki, and the rest of the Paranormal Liberation Front defeated once and for all, the amount of villain attacks on the school had decreased substantially, and Class 3-A seemed destined to continue learning and eventually become one of the greatest group of heroes the world had ever seen. But for now, things were calm, quiet, and peaceful, just like a normal high school should be.
Until that peace was broken without warning when Mina Ashido put down her pencil, stood up at her desk, and screamed.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! I CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE!”
Aizawa jumped so badly at the sudden shout that he toppled over out of his desk and slammed (rather painfully) onto the floor face first.
Wiggling out of his sleeping bag, he stood up and was internally grateful none of his students seemed to notice, as they had all been similarly startled by Ashido and were now staring at her in shock. Ashido had her hands clenched into fists and was breathing heavily, looking like someone had just insulted her grandmother to her face.
"Mina, are you okay?!" Hagakure asked, standing up at her own desk. "What's wrong?"
"Why the hell are you fucking yelling in the middle of class?!" Bakugou demanded.
"BECAUSE I'M SICK OF THIS!" Ashido yelled, throwing her arms out wildly. "ALL OF THIS IS BULLSHIT!"
Aizawa came around his desk to stand in front of Ashido, holding his hands up as if he was approaching a wild animal. “Ashido, what do you mean, ‘you’re sick of this’? Are you saying you’re sick of being in the hero course?”
There were some gasps. “Mina, don’t tell me you don’t wanna be in the hero class anymore?!” Kirishima begged, tears in his eyes.
"No, of course that's not what I mean!" Ashido snapped. "I am talking about-about-THIS!"
With that, she began gesturing to...pretty much the entire classroom.
Now, everyone's concern began to shift into confusion. "I don't understand," Iida said, standing up and making his usual chopping motions. "What exactly do you mean by 'this', Ashido?"
"I AM TALKING ABOUT THE UNENDING, SUFFOCATING SEXUAL TENSION THAT IS PERMEATING EVERY INCH OF OUR LIVES!"
Utter silence. Aizawa felt his left eye twitch.
"...Excuse me?"
Ashido turned to her teacher, all sanity gone from her eyes. "Aizawa-sensei, I am talking about the fact that I am constantly surrounded by the sexiest heroes-in-training that Japan has ever seen! Not only do I have to resist the urge to rip my clothes off and throw myself to the ground like a sacrificial lamb in every single class, but we LIVE together! Do you know what it's like to be forced to live under the same roof as a bunch of hot people?! DO YOU, SENSEI?!"
"...What?"
”Look at them all! LOOK AT THEM ALL!” Ashido turned to her stunned classmates. “Uraraka is the cutest fucking cinnamon roll ever, Hagakure is somehow sexier invisible than most VISIBLE people, Jirou is so cool and badass and PRETTY, Asui is the most beautiful frog I’ve ever seen AND I HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT YOUR TONGUE SO MUCH IT’S NOT EVEN FUNNY, Aoyama is too fabulous for me to function properly, Kouda is sunshine and everything good in this world incarnate, Todoroki could burn me alive and I would thank him, Kaminari is a literal electric BABE, I want Kirishima to BITE MY NECK EIJI YOUR TEETH ARE SO SEXY, I would die for Midoriya to even just kiss me on the cheek, Sero awakens SO MANY bondage fantasies within me, Satou is so big and strong and beautiful, Bakugou is literally so hot he EXPLODES THINGS, Tokoyami is basically two boyfriends in one dark and delicious package, Shouji has SIX ARMS AND THEY’RE ALL RIPPED GOD JUST CRUSH ME, Ojiro is so handsome and badass and his tail is SO FLUFFY, Yaoyorozu is literally GOD HERSELF, Iida is so charming and hot and smart-”
"AND SHINSOU!" Ashido pointed at the young man in question with both hands. "LOOK AT SHINSOU! LOOK AT EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM!!"
"...Thanks?" Shinsou said unsurely.
"You are welcome, you gorgeous purple gremlin," Ashido whispered.
Everyone else was either hiding their giant blushes in their hands or staring at Ashido in open-mouth shock. Aizawa, meanwhile, was considering whether he should jump out the window or just slam his head into the wall a few dozen times.
"Ashido," he said in a warning tone, hoping to cut off her ranting before Midoriya passed out (wow he wasn't sure he'd ever seen him look that red before and that was saying something).
The horned girl ignored him, however. "BUT THE THING IS, IT'S NOT JUST THAT EVERYONE IS HOT! OH, THAT'S NOT ENOUGH TORMENT! Everyone is so...so...so...Nice! And cool! And powerful! And smart! Like, not only am I constantly fantasizing about what everyone looks like naked, I HAVE ACTUAL FEELINGS TOO?! THAT'S NOT FAIR, UNIVERSE! NOT FUCKING FAIR! HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME WANT TO HOLD HANDS AND CUDDLE AND GO ON DATES WITH NINETEEN OTHER PEOPLE! I HAVE ENOUGH PROBLEMS AS IT IS! I BURNED A HOLE IN THE COMMON ROOM TABLE BECAUSE I FELL ASLEEP AND DROOLED ACID ON IT, GODDAMMIT! I DON'T NEED NINETEEN CRUSHES AT THE EXACT SAME TIME!"
"Wait, what did you do to the common room table?!"
"NOT THE TIME IIDA!" Ashido yelled.
"No, it really isn't Ashido!" Aizawa cried. "Sit the fuck down!"
"I CAN'T, SENSEI! We need to do something about this NOW, because I swear to All Might himself if I do not make out with someone soon I am going to set this school on fire!"
"...That's kinda hot,"
"SHINSOU HITOSHI I DO NOT NEED THIS RIGHT NOW-"
"ENOUGH!" Aizawa boomed, causing everyone to go silent and turn to face the front of the room. "Ashido, sit down NOW,"
Once the pink-skinned girl had done so, Aizawa sighed and rubbed his eyes in frustration. Fucking hell, my student just had a mental breakdown over how hot her classmates are. What the hell even is my life?
"...Ashido," he started. "I understand that, as a teenager, matters like feelings and attraction can be overwhelming and confusing, especially in an environment as stressful as this. I get it, I really do. But this kind of outburst in the middle of class was completely inappropriate and disruptive. If you truly needed to speak with your classmates about something like this, you should have done so in private. Do you understand?"
Ashido looked down at her desk. "...Yes, I do sensei. I'm sorry for freaking out like that," she replied softly.
Now that she had calmed down, it was clear the girl was deeply embarrassed by her own outburst. Looking across the room, he could see that all of his students were sporting matching embarrassed and uncomfortable looks on their faces. Even Todoroki, the most stoic of them, was completely red-faced.
However, he also quickly realized that some strange unidentified emotion was clearly at war with their other feelings, because everyone was shooting each other looks of...
...Hope?
Oh dear God, what the hell. Letting out a deep sigh, Aizawa decided there was no hope of getting everyone back on track with their school work...
"However, since the subject has been brought up," Aizawa continued, causing the class to sit up at attention. He just hoped he would actually be able to finish this goddamn sentence without losing the will to live entirely. "Do any of you...have similar feelings to what Ashido just described?"
Everyone stared at him, seemingly shocked he would even ask such a thing to them. Aizawa was honestly a bit shocked at himself, but if this turned out to be a problem affecting all of his problem children (no he hadn't adopted all of them in his own mind no matter what Hizashi liked to say), then it would have to be addressed sooner or later. He was also genuinely curious.
After a few moments of silence, Ojiro took a deep breath and raised his hand. "I-I do," he stuttered, blushing when everyone else in class turned to look at him. Gulping, he continued speaking.
"Before I came to U.A., I never really had any...meaningful relationships with my peers. But here...we all went through so much together so fast, I couldn't help but begin to feel strongly for all of you. This class basically became my family. And...I've realized, over the time we've known each other, just how much I care about you all. I'm not entirely sure just how deep my feelings go, but...if any of you asked me out on a date, I don't think I'd say no. To any of you,"
Behind him, Kaminari made a happy noise. Ojiro turned to look at the blonde, and saw him smiling widely. "Dude, I feel exactly the same!" he said, looking around to each of his classmates. "I mean, I always wondered, you know, which of us would end up getting together. I mean, what were the odds of every person in class being bi or pansexual? But, like, over the last two years, I've had crushes on pretty much everyone - I've just never had the nerve to ask anyone out!"
"God, yes!" Uraraka suddenly exclaimed. She looked as if a heavy weight had just been taken off her shoulders. "I've wanted to ask all of you out at one point or another! Like multiple times! But I could never bring myself to do it, not just because I was worried about what would happen if I dated one of my friends and it didn't work out, but because...Because I didn't just want ONE of you!"
"I wanted all of you," Shouji spoke up next. Everyone could tell he was red under his mask, but his voice stayed strong. "And I never said anything because I was ashamed of it. I felt like I was being selfish, wanting more than one person to hold close to my heart,"
"So did I," Todoroki admitted quietly. He was staring down at his hands. "Considering the way I grew up...feelings were already so confusing. When I started to have romantic thoughts about one of my classmates, I had enough trouble dealing with that. But then I opened myself up more, and let each of you into my life...and then I was suddenly thinking those kinds of thoughts about…everyone. I didn't understand what was happening to me, I thought something was wrong with me, feeling the way I do for so many different people,"
"That's not selfish at all guys! And there's nothing wrong with it!" Jirou exclaimed. "It's called being polyamorous! Which apparently we all are, somehow, because...Shit, I've thought about what kissing each of you would be like more times than I can count!"
"You guys don't know how many times I've baked something to try to confess my feelings to someone, only to chicken out and throw it away," Satou confessed with a shaky laugh.
"That's not as sad as how many trees I've probably killed trying to write each of you love poems to confess my own attraction," Tokoyami said.
Dark Shadow popped up. "He pines so much after all of you it's pathetic!"
"SILENCE DARK SHADOW!"
"Oh come on, Fumi, it's okay! Apparently everyone in the class has been pining just as pathetically!"
"Hey, shut the fuck up you stupid shadow!" Bakugou erupted, shaking his fist at the sentient quirk. "Nothing I do is pathetic!"
"You do realize that you basically just admitted to being as big of a pining mess as the rest of us, right Bakugou?" Sero couldn't help but giggle.
"FUCK YOU!"
"Wait, so...do you have feelings for the rest of the class too Kacchan?" Midoriya asked.
Bakugou froze, and then looked at Midoriya with a frown when he saw the hopeful expression in his childhood friends eyes. Aizawa held his breath, ready to intervene if necessary.
However, his worry turned out to be unneeded, because Bakugou simply scoffed and looked at his classmates with a sneer that not a single one of them bought for a second. "I guess...if I had to choose a group of idiots to...have stupid fucking feelings for...there would be WORSE options than you losers,"
"DUDE!" Kirishima launched out of his seat and grabbed Bakugou in a hug. "THAT WAS BASICALLY A MARRIAGE PROPOSAL COMING FROM YOU!"
"GET THE FUCK OFF OF ME SHITTY HAIR OR I WON'T DATE YOU AT ALL!"
Kirishima let go with a laugh and sat back down at his seat. "Seriously, though, guys...I can't tell you how relieved I am! I thought I was the only one who had crushes on literally the entire class! You're all just so awesome! And MANLY! I couldn't help but feel something for all of you!"
"You know, this isn't really much of a surprise," Asui said, tapping her finger to her cheek in thought. Aizawa begged to fucking differ but remained silent so she could speak. "Traumatic or life-changing events tend to lead to strong bonds being formed, and we all went through quite a lot of those together. Not to mention that we have all been living together for almost two and a half years. It's not unreasonable that we would develop romantic feelings for each other, ribbit,”
“But…” Iida spoke up, sounding stunned. “Do all of us truly have feelings for...everyone else in class?! Because I am truly astounded if that is the case!”
"...I’m not," Shinsou spoke up. "When I transferred to the hero course, you guys were pretty much the first people in my life to fully accept me, no matter the Quirk I had. I fell hard. I just thought I was gonna have to suck it up and act like I wasn't head over heels for my entire class until we graduated, unless I somehow managed to grow a spine and ask someone out,"
"Well, I've always known I was too fabulous to let just one person have me all to themselves," Aoyama said, striking a pose. However, he then relaxed into a more normal posture, giving everyone a sincere smile, not showing off in the slightest. "And I must say, nothing would make me happier than to call any one of you mon amor,"
"Oh my gosh, is this actually happening?" Hagakure was almost vibrating with excitement. "Are we all seriously on the same page here? Because I'm like, seriously at least half in love with all of you!"
"How can you be half in love with someone?" Bakugou asked. For once, his voice lacked the usual bite. Instead, he looked a little overwhelmed. Aizawa couldn't blame him.
"I think what she means is that, even though none of us have ever spoken our feelings aloud until now," Yaoyorozu said, smiling wider than any of them had ever seen. "I genuinely can't imagine my life without any of you. And I think each of us feels exactly the same,"
The sound of sniffling brought everyone's attention to Ashido, who was wiping at the tears running down her cheeks. "Ashido?" Midoriya asked.
"Y-You g-guys..." Ashido sobbed, looking up at the class and beaming. "I-I was just v-venting! I was j-just s-sad b-because I thought t-that no one e-else would s-share the same f-feelings as me! I n-never in a million years thought t-that a-all of you would feel the same as I d-do!" She let another sob, this time mixed with a laugh. "I'm s-so HAPPY right n-now!"
A tapping noise caused Ashido to look over to Kouda. The boy smiled softly and signed something to her. Are you crying because it hurt when you fell out of Heaven?
Ashido and half of the class burst out into laughter. "O-Oh my gosh, K-Kouda!" Ashido giggled helplessly. "I didn't even know you knew any cheesy pick-up lines!"
"Aw, no fair!" Sero whined. "I want Kouda to sign stupid pick-up lines to me!"
With that, everyone broke down into laughter. Aizawa watched as all of the tension from Ashido's outburst faded, and a general feeling of giddiness and relief was swept through his students. Who apparently were now all dating each other, or at the very least wanted to.
Oh great, now I'm going to be forever known as the teacher who's class formed a polyamorous cult. Hizashi will never let this go.
"WAIT, EVERYONE!"
Aizawa and the class turned to Iida, who had stood up at his desk. "While I am unbelievably happy that we all share the same affections for one another, we still should not jump into something like a twenty-way relationship without at least considering the consequences!"
"Dude, what consequences?" Kaminari asked. "We all just admitted we all like each other, why don't we all just call each other boyfriends and girlfriends and be done with it?"
"What I mean, Denki," Iida continued, pushing up his glasses and not noticing Kaminari's surprised blush upon hearing Iida use his given name. "Is whether we truly think such a relationship would last,"
"Come on, Tenya, don't be such a sourpuss!" Hagakure said, jumping up out of her seat to turn to the class representative. "After everything else we've been up against, being in a polyamorous relationship should be a cinch!"
"Wait, so are we calling each other by our first names now?" Todoroki asked.
"I mean, at this point why not?" Shinsou replied.
Todoroki hummed. "I suppose you're right...Hitoshi," He blinked. "I like this,"
"I don't mean to be a 'sourpuss', as you say Tooru," Iida continued. "But think about it. Being in a relationship with one person is already difficult. Imagine how much harder it would be to date nineteen people. Besides, even though I feel a great deal of affection for all of you, it cannot be ignored that some of us know others better than the rest. Some of us have stronger bonds than with others. What if we entered into this kind of relationship, and something negative occurred that caused it to fall apart?”
Iida’s face became forlorn. “To be truthful, I don't know if I could bear it if I lost even a single one of you as a friend,"
The class fell silent as they contemplated Iida's words. As excited as they had been to hear everyone sharing the same feelings about one another...he had a point. This was dangerous territory, with the potential to become something amazing...or rip their tight knit family apart if something went wrong.
"Well, maybe we shouldn't start off with all twenty of us dating at once?"
The class looked to Midoriya, who was staring off with a contemplative look on his face. "Tenya's right. I mean, for example, no matter how strong of feelings I have for both of them, I still know Ochako better than I know Rikidou. It would be heartbreaking if we attempted to all date, only to discover that some of us don't have as great of a connection as we thought, causing repercussions for the group as a whole,"
The green-haired boy turned to everyone else. "So what if we do...a test run?"
"A test run? What do you mean?" Jirou asked.
"Well, before we make anything official, we should all at least go on one real date with each other," Midoriya explained. "To see if there's anything there,"
"Ah, I see!" Shouji exclaimed. "So we can use these dates to individually determine which members of the class we share true romantic feelings with, and which members we may be better remaining friends with,"
"What a brilliant idea, Izuku!" Iida agreed. The rest of the class made similar noises of agreement and excitement.
"Oh, I have so many amazing date ideas!" Hagakure cried. "I am going to blow all of your minds!"
"Yeah, except there's one problem you idiots," Bakugou interrupted, scowling. "How the fuck are we all supposed to go on nineteen different dates? I mean, even if we all got permission to leave campus every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night, it's still going to take us at least seven weeks to get through every single person. That sounds like just enough time for some people to start having second thoughts,"
The class all collectively frowned again - once again, a valid point. Aizawa, really regretting every decision he had ever made up to this point, cleared his throat to get their attention once more. "Even though I really, really shouldn't be doing this, for the sake of making sure that this romantic drama stops interrupting your studies as quickly as possible..."
Aizawa sighed. "I will speak to Principal Nedzu and the other teachers about possibly giving you guys a week or two off so that you have plenty of time to do your...test run dates,"
The class gasped. "Aizawa-sensei, are you sure?" Yaoyorozu asked. "We don't want to completely disrupt you and the other teachers' curriculums!"
"Speak for yourself, two weeks off from school just to go on dates?! Awesome!" Kaminari yelled, looking like he just won the lottery. Ojiro smacked him in the face with his tail. "OW! HEY, WE'RE PRETTY MUCH BOYFRIENDS NOW, YOU HAVE TO BE SWEET TO ME!"
"Trust me, Yaoyorozu," Aizawa replied, ignoring Kaminari's antics. "The idea of this makes me want to stick my head into boiling water,"
He paused. "...However, I know that this will weigh heavily on all of you until it is resolved, and I suppose I care more about your emotional wellbeing than I do a few missed homework assignments,"
Everyone smiled in excited disbelief - was this actually about to happen?
Todoroki stood up, and surprised everyone by bowing deeply towards their teacher.
"...Thank you for being so supportive of us, Sensei," Todoroki said. "I know this must seem very strange to you,"
Following his lead, the rest of the class also stood up and bowed. "Thank you, Aizawa-sensei!"
Aizawa did not get choked up, shut the fuck up universe. "Of course," was what he said aloud. "Now, we're going to spend the rest of the class sitting in silence so I can try and take a nap and figure out how the hell I'm going to explain this to the rest of the teachers,"
Everyone nodded and sat back down, and Aizawa quickly zipped himself back up into his sleeping bag.
"Oh, and Ashido? Detention for a week,"
"You know what? Worth it,"
_
It wasn't until Friday night that the class got any news about whether Aizawa's offer was accepted. For the few days leading up to that moment, everyone of Class 3-A existed in what seemed like a fugue state. They tried to go on as normal, but everyone knew that there was something new in the air - a romantic tension that had previously existed under the belief that each individual member was the only one feeling it. But now they all could feel it, and Ashido was right.
It was suffocating.
Luckily, tonight their suffering was finally brought to an end. Everyone was in the dorm's common room, all going about their business and ignoring various urges to hold hands or cuddle or, most daringly, sneak off to a dark corner of the room to make out. Then, everyone looked up when they heard Uraraka let out a squeal.
"Aizawa-sensei just sent me a message!" She cried, holding up her cellphone. "Principal Nedzu gave us the okay to take two weeks off to go on our dates!"
"Holy shit, I did not think that would actually happen!" Shinsou said while everyone else cheered. "Are we sure that's allowed?"
"Who cares!" Ashido cried, launching herself across the couch to land in Shinsou's lap and give him a hug, leaving the purple-haired boy blushing furiously. "Now we can finally get somewhere with our love lives! Ooh, I'm so excited! I can't wait to go on a date with each of you!"
"Speaking of which," Satou said. "Has anyone decided how exactly we're going to decide who we're going on dates with first?"
"Already ahead of you!"
Yaoyorozu set down her laptop and smiled at everyone. "I decided the best way for us to go about deciding our dates was to input all of our names into an online randomizer and split us up into 10 pairings. That way we don't have to worry about hurting anyone's feelings by choosing who we want to go out with first. And then once we've all gone on our dates, I've set the randomizer up so that it can make 10 new pairings without accidentally repeating the same couple twice!"
"That's a great idea Yaomomo!" Midoriya beamed at the taller girl, causing her to blush and giggle. "That will make figuring all of this out a lot less complicated,"
"Well, what are we waiting for?" Hagakure cheered. "Hit that randomize button Momo!"
"Ooh, wait wait wait, I have another idea!" Kaminari said, waving his hand excitedly to get everyone's attention. "When that list splits us up into pairs, whoever's name is first in each pairing should be the one who plans the date! Nothing's more awkward than trying to decide who should be the one to plan everything out! If we do it like that, at least some of the pressure is off!"
"Huh, that's a smart idea Denki," Jirou commented, slyly grinning over at the electric blonde. Kaminari smiled back at her, pleased at the compliment.
"Indeed! Are we all in agreement? Whoever's name is listed first in each pairing shall be in charge of planning the date?" Iida said.
Everyone nodded. "Very well!" Yaoyorozu hovered her finger over the keyboard. "Three, two, one - randomized dating!"
It only took a second for the online randomizer to create a list of 10 pairings, and Yaoyorozu cleared her throat, the rest of her classmates giving her their full attention.
"Okay, so here are the results! Look's like we've got..."
"Kyouka and Ochako,"
"Kouji and Yuuga,"
"Rikidou and Hitoshi,"
"Katsuki and Denki,"
"Mezou and Tenya,"
"Eijirou and Izuku,"
"Tooru and Mashirao,"
"Shouto and Hanta,"
"Tsuyu and Mina,"
"And finally myself and Fumikage!"
Yaoyorozu finished reading off her list. She glanced over at Tokoyami, who was sitting only a few seats away from her. He looked back at her and attempted to look cool, desperately trying to hide just how excited he was to go on a date with her - which was kind of ruined by Dark Shadow bursting out and giving her finger-guns. Yaoyorozu blushed and laughed as Tokoyami started trying to force Dark Shadow back into his body. And my name came up first, so I have to plan the date. Hmm, I better start thinking of a date idea that both me and Fumikage will enjoy...
"OH THANK GOD," Kaminari cried, slumping in his seat. "I am so glad I don't have to plan the date, I had zero ideas!"
"Oi, what the fuck Pikachu?" Bakugou yelled.
"I'm sorry, I'm still kind of processing this whole thing!" Kaminari yelled back.
"WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M GONNA TAKE YOU ON THE BEST FUCKING DATE OF YOUR LIFE!" Bakugou screamed, pounding his hand into his fist. "PREPARE TO GET WOO'ED, MOTHERFUCKER!"
"Please don't woo him too much, he has eighteen more dates to go on after this," Jirou joked, tapping her chin thoughtfully as she tried to think about what to do with Uraraka. All around the room, those whose names had come up first were all deep in thought and sharing shy glances with those they would be going out with.
"Oh my God, I think it finally just hit me," Sero said, looking dizzy. "I'm going on 19 different dates with each of my classmates. Holy shit, what the hell did we get ourselves into?"
"Something incredible, darling!" Aoyama cheered.
The rest of the class couldn't help but cheer along with him.
Let the dating begin!