TW for homophobia and the f slur. (Pls don't hate me for who the homophobes are, I just picked random ppl)

!!In this fic, they were friends until they were around 10, and they are in their second year, so class 2a. This is important for the storyline!!

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"Oi Nerd!" Kacchan yelled as soon as he stepped into the bathroom, locking the door behind him. Shit, he must have followed me.

"Kacchan, please, I can't take this right now." I cried, my tears blurring my vision. I slid down the wall, trying desperately to collapse into myself. "If you want to bully me like- like everyone else is I can't- I just can't take this right now. Pl- Please, I don't even care if you want to literally beat me up tomorrow but I can't do this today, please." I stumbled over my words. I sounded pathetic.

"I'm not here to bully you, idiot!" Kacchan yelled at me but in an almost hesitant way like he was trying not to upset me too much. That was weird, he never held back. He never cared if he upset someone. "That floaty bitch is the one who started all of this isn't she?"

"Uh, ye-yeah she is." I was shocked he sounded genuinely concerned, He hadn't shown any type of care towards anyone, at least that I had seen, since we were in elementary school, least of all to me.

"Well!?" he yelled, sounding impatient.

"What?" I flinched, ready for him to hit me.

"Is it true? You're gay?" I immediately looked away, trying my best not to start crying more than I already was.

"You're going to hit me if it is aren't you?" I asked, preparing for the worst, searching his eyes for any sign of betrayal. What if he was faking his concern just to get me to confess? Almost everyone knew already, thanks to Uraraka, but Kacchan was never one for trusting people.

"No, you shitty nerd! Didn't you hear me? I'm not here to bully you! And I'm not fucking homophobic either!"

"Yes," I answered, wiping the tears from my cheeks and neck.

"'Yes' you heard me, or 'yes' it's true?" he asked, rolling his eyes, still sounding impatient.

"It's true," I said, just over a whisper.

If it wasn't for the fact that he just said he wasn't homophobic, I would have expected him to hit me. To humiliate me. To call me disgusting or a freak like anyone else had. To call me a fag and worthless. But he just bent down to a knee in front of me and lifted my chin with his index finger and thumb. "Good," he smiled.

"W-what do you mean good?" I was confused, staring into his fiery eyes, searching for the trick.

He dropped his hand from my chin and stood up. I already missed the feeling of even that small touch. "I mean good. These assholes need to figure out that they can't break us," he replied, pulling me up by one of my arms. I was on my feet faster than I expected, stumbling forward, but Kacchan caught me.

"What do you mean 'us'?" I asked, more confused than ever.

"Gay people, shitty nerd, keep up." He sighed, rolling his eyes again.

"Wait you- you're g-!?" Shock overflowed in my voice. But Kacchan cut me off by slapping his hand over my mouth.

"Oi are you really that much of an idiot?!" he whisper yelled at me, his eyes wide. "People could be listening and I want to come out on my terms, not because some homophobe was listening to us and you don't know how to keep your mouth shut!"

I lightly pushed his hand away "Sorry, Kacchan." I looked down at the floor quickly upon realizing that I could have accidentally outed him and how bad that could be for him. Even though he acted like he didn't care what anybody else thought, some part of him had to. The panic in his eyes when he had the slightest chance of someone finding out he was gay was enough to tell me that.

"Whatever, it won't matter soon anyway." he leaned against the wall, looking tired in a way that could only be compared to Mr. Aizawa.

"You're going to come out? Are you sure that's a good idea? I mean you just saw how people were reacting to me and I know you're super strong and stuff but do you really want to deal with that? It's not fun at all and-" he slapped his hand over my mouth to shut me up again.

"I'm not doing it just to come out, you nerd, I'm going to be getting back at shitty hair." He sounded so tired of me.

"Kirishima? How would you be getting back at him by coming out?" I was lost.

"You know, for a nerd, you're really stupid. He was my boyfriend, and he cheated on me a few months ago, then he blamed it on the fact that I didn't want to come out so he couldn't be with me openly. I immediately broke up with him. Now I'm going to pretend to date you and make him regret everything."

"Oh." Every few seconds this conversation seemed to have a plot twist. "But why would he be upset if he wasn't out either? And he was one of the people calling me disgusting earlier."

"Because he's a hypocrite, and he's weak." Kacchan almost snarled

I ignored what he had just said, finally registering the fact that he said that he was going to pretend to date me. "Wait, you're going to pretend to date me? Why would you do that? everyone knows you hate me?" I could feel a slight blush spread across my cheeks.

"I don't hate you, you just annoy me more than the others," He rolled his eyes at me, "and besides, it would be easy for us to fake, we were best friends. We know each other's favorite colors and birthdays, favorite foods, favorite movies, all kinds of stuff about each other that the others don't."

"You remember all of that stuff about me?" My blush grew stronger, I looked at my knees in an attempt to hide it.

"Of course I do you, idiot, you were always clinging to me. I'm assuming you still remember all of that about me?"

"Yes," I responded, quietly. I looked up again, my blush somewhat under control. "But why should I do that?" I teased a bit, fully knowing I wouldn't pass up a chance to even pretend to date him. Surprisingly Kacchan didn't blast my head off for it.

"You want those idiots to leave you alone?" He stepped closer to me and set off a few tiny explosions "I can make them," he smirked, already knowing he had won.

"Ok," I nodded. "I'll do it. When do we start pretending?"

"Tomorrow, but you need to follow my lead."

"Ok."

"Also, you're a baby" Kacchan smirked at me.

I blinked at him. "What?"

"The only people being assholes to you were the floaty bitch, shitty hair, tail boy, and the grapist. Some of the others were even defending you, like raccoon eyes."

"Are you serious? you heard what they were saying!" I hadn't even allowed myself to hear anyone defending me, I just stopped listening entirely when more people had walked over to see what was happening and I pushed myself away, running into the bathroom.

"Yeah I know, I'm just fucking with you." Kacchan reached a hand out toward me, helping me up. He let out the tiniest explosion possible like he used to do when we were little. At least until he decided I wasn't worth his time anymore.

"Ah! oh not fair!" I shoved him to the side a bit. "Fuck you Kacchan!"

"Well, not if you ask like that." I looked at him in shock as he walked out of the bathroom.

What the hell just happened because that is definitely NOT something he would have responded with before.

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"I want you all to know to know that I am extremely disappointed in your actions yesterday." Mr. Aizawa looked tired as usual, but for once he looked more disappointed and angry than anything. "I don't know how any of you expect to be heroes whenever your actions yesterday were so vile and villainous. Those of you that were bullying and harassing Midoriya yesterday Will be participating in anti-harassment and bullying training. You will also be turning in a written apology. I will be having a conversation with Midoriya in just a moment to find out if there is anyone that I missed when making my list of those students who need to participate in this training." A few of the students looked angry. If looks could kill, I would have died four times already.

Kacchan stood up. "That's right! if anyone has a problem with my boyfriend you have to go through me!" he yelled firing off explosions in both of his hands before turning them into fists. I tried to hold back my blush. Hearing him call me his boyfriend, even if it was fake, was a dream come true.

"Aww, that's so cute!" Mina squealed, clapping her hands excitedly.

"What the fuck I thought you hated him?"

But Kacchan ignored her, his eyes slowly moving to Kirishima. Kirishima stared at him, shock and anger and hurt spreading across his face. He looked like he was going through all the stages of grief and it was kinda funny.

"Don't they hate each other?"

"Eww, you're a faggot too?" Mineta complained loudly.

"WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME YOU LITTLE CREEP!!? I'LL KILL YOU!!!" Kacchan lunged for him before Mr. Aizawa wrapped his scarf around him, holding him back. But he wasn't even looking at Kacchan. He was staring daggers at Mineta.

"Would you like to repeat that Mineta?" Mr. Aizawa said, pure fury in his voice.

Mineta clearly didn't care or was just too stupid to tell that it was a bad idea to actually say it again. "I said-" he began but was cut off by Mr. Aizawa's scarf.

"Detention. And you get to write Mr. Bakugo an apology as well." Everyone in the class was terrified, but I was just happy that he was defending us. "And perhaps I should have phrased my earlier question differently, Mineta." he was slowly walking towards Mineta, who was sweating like crazy. "Would you like to repeat what you just said in front of my husband and I? And perhaps the principal while you're at it."

"You're gay too?"

"You're Married?" Leave it to Kamanari to focus on that instead of the fact that he's gay.

"YOU'RE GAY?!?! Wait who is your husband?" Mina squealed.

Mr. Aizawa looked stunned for a moment that he got worked up enough to come out to our class. "Shit" He let Kacchan and Mineta go and tried to quiet everyone down."Just be quiet for a minute." Mr. Aizawa rubbed both of his eyes with his thumb and pointer finger and walked over to his desk, pulling out his phone.

"These kids were being homophobic again today and I lost it and told them I was married to a man..." There was a pause "No, I haven't told them who I'm married to." Another pause. "Would you mind coming down here with Principal Nezu? These kids need to see that it's more normal than they think for people to be gay," Another brief silence "Ok, thanks, Love."

"No way Mr. Aizawa just called someone 'Love'" Kamanari whispered.

"WE GET TO SEE YOUR HUSBAND?! WAIT DOES THAT MEAN HE WORKS HERE?!"

"Contain yourself, Ashido." Mr. Aizawa deadpanned. A moment later Mr. Nezu and Present Mic walked in, a moment later followed by Hound Dog.

"I hope you don't mind, I brought Hound Dog as well, figured someone might need to be checked up on if there's a bunch of homophobia happening."

"That was a good idea." Mr. Aizawa said, walking over to him, kissing him on the cheek, and standing closer to him than usual. I suspected that Principal Nezu only allowed this display of affection because of the situation we were currently in.

"OH. MY. GOSH."

"Who was this homophobia being directed at?" Principal Nezu asked, his high-pitched voice sounding dangerous.

"Midoriya. However, just a few minutes Mintea began targeting Bakugo as well." Mr. Aizawa replied, leaning against his desk.

"I see, and who were the students harassing him?"

"To my knowledge, it was, Uraraka, Ojiro, and Minata."

"And shitty hair!" Kacchan yelled.

"Language, Bakugo." Aizawa only said anything because the principal and other teachers were there, normally he didn't care one bit. "Is that true Midoriya?" Mr. Aizawa questioned me.

"Yes, sir," I responded, and quickly looked at my desk.

"And have you already set a punishment?" Nezu inquired, his voice still sounding dangerous.

"I have"

"Then I will let you handle this," Principal Nezu said to Mr. Aizawa. "However, if I hear of one more act of discrimination from this class, I will be expelling whoever participates in said acts." And with that, he left the room.

"Midoriya and Bakugo, you will both be required to have a meeting with Hound Dog, as will the four who were bullying you. Mineta, you will be meeting with him once a week for a minimum of a month."

"This is stupid" Minetta groaned.

"Complain again and I will double all of your punishments, Mineta," Mr. Aizawa said, effectively shutting him up.

After the discussion with the class ended, Mr. Aizawa motioned for Kacchan and I to join him in the hallway. I stood up and followed him out of the room. "Thank you, Mr. Aizawa," I said quietly "You really didn't need to do all of that."

"I really did. Those kids can't be heroes if they have so much hate in their hearts," He said in his usual exhausted tone "But I also would never let something like that continue, it simply isn't right. If those assholes in there give you any more trouble, you tell me, alright? That goes for you too Bakugo." he said resting his hand on my shoulder, looking between me and Kacchan.

"Yes sir."

And with that, he walked back into the classroom and stepped into his sleeping bag.

The next day, Mina invited me to a party that Momo was throwing, who was nodding and giving me a thumbs up. "Make sure Bakugo is there, and don't worry, we didn't invite any of the jerks that were bullying you yesterday," she said with a smile. I lost a little control over myself and hugged her. She was tense from shock for a moment but quickly relaxed into the hug.

"Thank you for treating me the same way you always do," I said, a tear escaping one of my eyes.

"Yeah, yeah, see you at the party Brockli man," she said, ruffling my hair. Maybe this wasn't going to be so bad after all.