Izuku paused while quickly changing into his costume with speed born of repetition as he heard Kacchan curse while pulling stuff out of his own costume case. "What's wrong?"
Kacchan held up the shirt of his costume. "Some cocky third-rate designer at the support company thought they could change the materials my shirt and pants are made out of and fucking sign the design like it was their own."
Shoto gave a small noise of annoyance as he riffled through his own case. "They messed up some of my requests too."
Hitoshi, pulling on his leather pants, snorted. "Well, that is what the costume check is for. Just let the teachers know about the issues."
Neito looked around the locker room. "Everyone remembers who I am 'switching' them with, right?"
There was a chorus of confirmations around the room. Izuku grinned as he placed his circlet back on. "I'm going to go run ahead to make an entrance. See you all in a bit."
He darted from the room with a wave and flew through the gym doors. "Eraser, quick! Help me get into the rafters!"
Izuku felt a hint of amusement as Shouta didn't even hesitate to comply with the request, creating a way for Izuku to scramble up to the rafters with his capture weapon. Once on the rafter, Izuku untied the capture weapon and dropped the end back down to his oldest brother/youngest uncle.
Izuku spotted the confusion painting the faces of both All Might and Gran Torino as they looked between him and Shouta and had to stifle a laugh. Still, before they could comment on what had just happened, the doors to the gym opened again to reveal the rest of the two classes of Hero students. Izuku watched as All Might plastered on what he now recognized as his fake press smile as they came in while briefly puffing up in his muscle form and flexing slightly."They say the costume makes the man. Look at all of you. Real Heroes in the making."
Izuku scanned the group below him to see how his closest friends and family had their costumes turned out (besides those that he already knew had issues to correct). Eijiro's costume was a clear ode to his favorite classic Pro Hero Crimson Riot, as was Tenya's looking the part of an Iida in his special armored suit designed to protect the wearer from impacts at the high speeds he could reach. Nieto was in a tux which actually made him, on the whole, look even more like his Dad's grandkid than before given his Dad's fondness for wearing suits. Then there was Hitoshi.
Frankly, it looked like he had looted the closets of some members of the UA staff. He had some sort of metal lower face mask sitting mostly hidden in the binds of his own capture weapon sitting around his neck overtop of a cloak similar to that of Snipe but a gray like the capture weapon partially hiding the black leather vest and mess of belts and weapons holsters covering his body. Izuku was honestly uncertain if the mess of black leather was just an ode to Hizashi's costume being largely leather or if he wasn't reading Nemuri's influence on the outfit.
Looking at the rest of the students, Hitoshi was likely the most heavily armed student in either class, even outpacing Izuku who had knives squirreled away all over his body at this point.
He shifted his attention away from the group down below as the classes began discussing errors with their costume orders, to focus on his own next move. He scanned the room to find a way to make a dramatic entrance. He had let his Quirk guide him up here so surely there was a way for him to dramatically come down.
Ah! There at the base of the climbing wall behind the group. A crashmat.
Izuku grinned to himself as he began carefully picking his way over to above it as he waited for the perfect timing to reveal himself. After a few minutes, finally the time arrived as one of the 1-B girls piped up. "Hey, why are there only 18 of you in 1-A?"
Without missing a beat, Hitoshi replied. "19."
She frowned. "No, there are only 18 of you. I counted twice."
Izuku leaned back and let himself fall. After he hit the mat, he immediately sat up. "No 19."
His entrance earned a mix of startled cries of alarm from 1-B and cheers from 1-A. All Might just sighed and gestured at Izuku. "For those of you in 1-B not aware, we have a Vigilante in our midst. Young Midoriya here you might better know as Loki."
Izuku waved at them and climbed out of the crashmat before running back over to Shouta. "That was fun! Hey Eraser, can you help me get back up there again so I can do it again?"
Shouta snorted. "Maybe later, Problem Child. I believe that you have a safety lecture to sit through first."
Izuku made an act of dramatically groaning before returning to the 1-A group. He got several interested and puzzled looks from the students of 1-B. Finally one of them, a guy with some sort of drill motif to his costume, piped up. "Hey, aren't you supposed to be Quirkless or something?"
Izuku immediately looked at him with a feral grin. "Yep! You got a problem with that?"
He waved his arms. "No! No problem! I was just wondering how you passed the entrance exam, what with it being fighting robots and all."
One of the girls from the other class, one that he recognized as the girl who could break apart and remotely control her body parts from the recommendations exam, cut in before he could say something. "He is one of the recommendations students. I wouldn't discredit him for being Quirkless, considering he completely mopped the floor with everyone he ran the practical with. If I hadn't known better, I would have thought he had some sort of speed Quirk."
Izuku's grin turned more genuine towards her. "Oh, a speed Quirk like Iida's would be cool but no, definitely Quirkless. My brief run-in with that All for One guy as well as the fact I got hit with a Quirk erasing bullet and nothing happened sort of proves it without a shadow of a doubt. Still, I will add it to my list of Quirks people think I have that I don't because I am just awesome like that."
Hitoshi snickered. "Yeah, the gods took one look at Izuku when he was being created and decided giving him a Quirk would make him to OP, so made him Quirkless in a desperate attempt to Nerf him. Clearly, it didn't work."
Gran Torino did give him an interested look though. "So what other Quirks have people accused you of having, Kid?"
Izuku began to count them off on his fingers. "Let's see…For a while, Eraser and the detective on my case thought I had some sort of Trouble Magnet Quirk with how good I was at finding it and how often it found me. Overhaul thought I had a knife throwing Quirk. Oh and some of the nurses at the hospital thought I must have a pain-dulling Quirk considering I keep showing up there with major injuries that I don't seem to register but that is not a Quirk, just my stupid high pain tolerance since I sort of have a bad habit of ending up in the middle of things when shit hits the fan."
Shouta snorted. "That is an understatement of the century."
All of the students that hadn't known about the fact he had been on the Raid were now staring at him in open shock. Aoyama looked at him, slightly pale. "Wait, that scream during the fight between All for One and All Might, was that you?"
Izuku winced. "In my defense, getting shot hurts."
Shouta clapped his hands together to snap the classes out of it. "Enough confusing your classmates Loki. Like I said earlier, you all still have your safety briefing."
---MiM-MiM-MiM---
Himiko was pretty sure that the girl with the pink hair from her homeroom was going to practically vibrate through the wall if Power Loader didn't let them into the lab soon. "...which brings me to one last thing. As most of you have noticed by now, we have an extra student in our class who doesn't attend your general studies classes with you. This is Midoriya Himiko and she is going to be the rest of your new best friend. While the rest of you are going into the hardware side of Support creation, she deals in software which is in part what led to her unusual schedule after transferring to here at UA as a sort of Second year. If you need help coding something for your project, you can bother her instead of me."
Himiko felt all twenty pairs of eyes immediately snap to her as she gave an awkward wave. "Yeah, that is true. I'll be happy to help any of you so long as you don't mind helping me out with the physical side of things when I have a project of my own."
Immediately the pink-haired girl was on her. "Deal! You help me with my babies and I am your woman for baby making!"
Himiko flushed at the sudden invasion of her personal space and the phrasing. At least she was more confident than any of her brothers likely would have been that the baby making the girl was referring to was inviting related given actual baby making was not exactly something that two girls together could normally do. "Okay. It's a deal."
---MiM-MiM-MiM---
As the two girls shook on it, Maijima Higari couldn't help but shiver as a feeling of dread passed over him at their alliance. He really hoped it was nothing.
---MiM-MiM-MiM---
Neito was practically in tears at how bored he was by the end of the lecture. Did they really have to go into that much detail about what was and was not okay? Couldn't they have just summed it up as "Don't be an idiot" and "Try not to seriously maim or kill your classmates" and left it at that? They weren't five and struggling to control their Quirks still, they were all just a few years from being legal adults and Pro Heroes.
So you could blame him for giving an exclamation of relief when they were finally released to mess around to test out their costumes with their Quirks and run around the obstacle course. "Finally!"
His uncle Shouta gave him an exasperated look but just shook his head. Gran Torino, however, gave both Izuku and Hitoshi interested looks. "You two want me to set up a target?"
Hitoshi shook his head. "Snipe would have my head if I live fired inside while none of you had ear protection. I'll go down to the shooting range to test out my new setup after class."
Izuku, however, was already pulling knives from all over. "I am never one to pass up extra practice."
Neito made a noise of mock offense. "Izuku you promised that you would let me use my Quirk on you earlier."
That got him a puzzled look from the two teachers not in on the incoming prank as well as 1-B. Izuku, however, made a show of lighting up. "Ooh! Do me and Eraser!"
Neito walked over to quickly Copy Erasure before passing it over to Izuku. Immediately both his uncles changed their posture as Izuku gave a long drawn out sigh of exasperation and Shouta seemed to light up in a way that looked wholly foreign on him. Izuku, doing a hell of an impression of Shouta, flashed Erasure at Neito with obviously no effect. "Really? Me and Loki?"
Shouta laughed, making several people jolt in surprise. "Hey, come on Eraser. Being me for five minutes is not that bad."
Neito saw the moment what was happening clicked for Gran Torino as he burst out in a fit of laughter but he was quickly distracted by Kaminari excitedly grabbing onto his arm. "Hey, you promised you would switch me and Hitoshi earlier!"
Ashido quickly threw herself to drape over him. "Yeah, and me and Kiri!"
Neito rolled his eyes dramatically and held out a hand towards Hitoshi who shook his head. "Hold on, let me disarm myself first. The last thing I want is Denki accidentally shooting someone."
Kaminari made a noise of mock offense. "I would never!"
Hitoshi rolled his eyes and pointedly handed his gun to Izuku who went through the trouble of partially disassembling it to be extra sure it wouldn't go off while he held it.
While that was going on, he copied and passed Acid and Hardening sans One for All between Ashido and Eijiro. "Kirishima" pulled away from him with a frown and patted her chest. "Oh geez this is weird."
"Ashido" gave her a light smack on the shoulder with a blush. "Don't tell me you agreed to switch with me as an excuse to feel me up?"
She recoiled slightly, waving him off. "Oh god no! That would be like the complete opposite of Manly dude! I just didn't think about the whole chest thing! Promise!"
He laughed and waved her off. "I know Kiri, I'm just teasing!"
As Neito "switched" his cousin with his boyfriend, a few from 1-B were looking at him in open curiosity. "You have a body switching Quirk?"
Kamirari, doing a not half bad impression of Hitoshi, shoved his hands in his pockets. "It is one of the things he can do with it, yeah. Only lasts for a few minutes though."
Hitoshi, however, was grinning wildly as he fidgeted with his mask. "Test test test…" He dialed it into Hizashi's voice. "Hey there Listeners! This is Present Mic coming to you live from the UA gym Gamma!"
Kamirai gave him an exasperated look. "Seriously? If you wanted to play with my voice modulator, you could have just asked."
Hitoshi pulled down the mask with a laugh. "Well, I mean there was one other thing I wanted to try." He closed the distance between the two of them and yanked his boyfriend into a kiss.
Izuku flashed Erasure at the two of them. "Knock it off with the PDA. You two are still in class."
Shouta chuckled and patted Izuku on the shoulder. "Aw, don't be mean Eraser. You, All Might and Gran Torino said we had free time right now to test out our stuff. If they want to waste the rest of class being all lovey-dovey then why stop them? It is not like they are bothering anyone."
Izuku sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Two minutes. Two minutes and I can leave."
---MiM-MiM-MiM---
As Shouta walked away from the gym at the end of the class period, he found both Gran Torino and All Might following him, one chuckling like a madman and the other very clearly confused. "That was some damn good acting on your and those kids' parts. How did they get you to agree to play along with their little war of misinformation they have going for them against 1-B?"
Shouta gave the eldest man of their trio an amused look. "Well, given Neito is my nephew, it wasn't exactly hard. Plus the front row seat to watch Kan's class's confusion as the students from mine messed with them was not something I was going to pass up. Still there is a reason only Izuku and I 'switched' bodies. Revealing I know any of the others well enough to pretend to be them would expose the whole secretly related thing to the rest of the class not in the know, my little Vigilante Problem Child was the only option."
Yagi, with a slightly worried look, finally spoke up. "So how did he do that with your Quirks?"
Shouta rolled his eyes. "Copy lets not only Neito make a copy of the Quirk but lets him transfer the copy on if he wants to. There are limits of course. Copy does not play nice with Stockpilers or some mutations which is why he didn't mess with Iida's, Jiro's or Asui's Quirks and why Ashido's copy of Kirishima's Quirk was purely his basic Hardening, not that she would know better."
Yagi seemed a bit relieved at that. "Young Midoriya seemed to take to your Quirk fairly well."
Shouta shrugged. "I mean, it is not like it is the first time Nieto has given it to him. Since Izuku doesn't have a Quirk himself, he has always been happy to volunteer to be Neito's practice test dummy for passing Quirks to since they met about a month ago."
Yagi gave him an interested look. "What is the story behind that anyways."
Shouta offered another shrug. "Hisashi had a daughter close to Inko's age that he was in the dark about. After the whole Dabi thing, all the kids have been sort of keeping an eye out for other surprises like that so when Katsuki met Neito during the entrance exam he was a bit suspicious. Neito does rather strongly resemble Dad albeit with different coloration which given that his mother is the spitting image of Hisashi's late younger brother, that is not overly surprising."
Gran gave him an appraising look. "Can't decide if you want to call him Dad or not?"
Shouta hunched his shoulders to hide his embarrassment in his capture weapon. "You deal with being adopted and raised by your older sister's husband and tell me it isn't confusing what to address him as. Izuku is in a similar boat as me since he can't seem to settle on if he thinks of me as his older brother or youngest uncle from best I can tell for all he and Hitoshi joke about Izuku being his uncle that is two weeks younger than him. Most of our shared siblings have seemed to settle on thinking of me as their brother except for Eri who seems to have defaulted to uncle but I think that only happened because Hizashi insisted she call him uncle."
Gran Torino made a noise of sympathy. "Yeah I imagine that would complicate things. How did the whole adoption thing happen?"
Shouta sighed. "When I was six our parents decided they had had enough of me and Mirai and signed over full custody of the two of us to her. Four years later Inko met Hisashi who when they married formally adopted me as his son. I am convinced that the only reason Mirai escaped Hisashi adopting him too was by that time he was legally an adult and working as your Sidekick Yagi."
Yagi scratched the back of his head. "It is so strange to think all this was happening in Mirai's life during the time I knew him and I had no idea. For the longest time I had no idea that you were the younger brother that he only mentioned a small handful of times. As it was, I only knew about your sister Inko due to her practicing under your old family name. Why is it that you took the name Aizawa instead of Midoriya though if you were going to change it?"
"For one of the same reasons I changed my name in the first place as well as why Inko practices under Sasaki, to keep Villains from targeting her family. If I had taken Midoriya, the link could have eventually been made to them and given that Inko was already pregnant with Izuku at the time I took the entrance exam here at UA, well, I never really considered it a viable option."
As they stepped into the staff room, Shouta immediately couldn't help but flag the despair that Maijima was radiating as he looked up and glared at Shouta. "Your little sister is a menace to society."
Hizashi snickered before piping up. "Apparently she is now best friends with his other Problem Child for the year. They built and programed a knife throwing drone in the open lab today."
Shouta snorted and leveled Maijima. "I mean I did warn you that she got into your class by hacking into UA's security cameras from home right?"
He gave a small noise of despair as he let his head thump down onto his desk. "She also spent like half of the class as Hatsume too to make things extra confusing for me after Hatsume heard what her Quirk was. Do you have any idea how jarring it is to see one of your students stab herself with a knife she made in the leg before passing it over to another to lick clean?"
Kan actually laughed. "Oh, right, you've never had a kid with a blood based Quirk in you class before huh? The Hatsume kid see Recovery Girl after?"
Maijima shook his head. "Not until the lab was over. She refused to leave insisting that the bandages that Midoriya gave her were enough since she had stabbed herself in the right spot to avoid hitting anything important according to Midoriya." He rubbed his face with one hand. "At least Midoriya insisted she give her a piggyback ride to the nurse at the end of the class."
Shouta sighed. "I'll make sure that Himiko brings her blood draw kit to prevent repeat stabbings until the sports festival." He turned to Kan. "I apologize to your class in advance for the inevitable stabbings during that."
Kan actually paled at that. "Oh, shit, I didn't think about that. Yeah I will have to warn my class about that since I am pretty sure none of them are expecting a Support student to come at them armed with a knife."
Gran Torino laughed. "Don't bother. Consider it a good learning experience for them for their future about underestimating their opponents."
---MiM-MiM-MiM---
The next day the students and staff of UA were greeted by the sight of reporters swarming the front entrance of the school demanding to know more about All Might and his new role as a teacher at UA. Shouta watched with a hint of amusement as they were faced with his Problem Children.
Izuku smiled when asked. "Oh, yeah, All Might is one of my teachers. What is he like? Uh, really tall? Oh you mean as a teacher? Well we haven't really had a real class with him yet? It is only the second full day you know? Gotta get through all the new school stuff first. He was pretty nice to everyone during costume checks though?"
Katsuki had rolled his eyes. "You lot are here way too early. We aren't going to really know what he is like in class for like another week or so. Now stop blocking the entrance. You're just a fucking hazard right now."
Shoto had given them a slow blink. "All Might is our teacher? I thought Gran Torino was and he was just the assistant?"
Neito had smiled for the cameras. "Of course he will be a great teacher once he actually gets to do some real teaching this afternoon. UA is the best of the best. There is no way Nedzu would allow a subpar teacher to be hired on his staff."
Tenya gave them all disapproving looks. "I understand that you are just trying to learn more about our teacher but could you be so kind as to step away from the gates? You are preventing everyone from passing through, including those who will not be having him as their teacher from the other departments. I'm sure that if you asked politely that there would be plenty of willing Hero course students that would talk with you. Oh, what do I think of him? I have not had a good enough opportunity to come to a final assessment on the matter so I will have to apologize and say no comment for now."
Beside him, also watching from the shadows just inside the gate, Hizashi snickered beside him. "It is like they are not even trying to interview someone with how they keep picking out the members of the ChaosSquad like that."
Shouta gave him a questioning look. "ChaosSquad?"
Hizashi gave him a sheepish shrug. "You know, like how were were the Rooftop Gang. I thought it was fitting with how everything chaotic recently has originated from their little group."
Shouta snorted. "You mean from Izuku."
"Well he is sort of their de facto leader."
Shouta just shook his head. "Come on, we need to clear a path for the rest of the kids."