Chapter 6
Izuku chuckled as he walked to school with Mina. The girl was quite... cheerful to say the least. She was currently excitedly talking about the latest song that she liked.
"You know I could always teach you how to bust a move!" Mina said looking up to the slightly taller boy.
Izuku shook his head. "No thanks." He said holding up his hands in a sign of surrender. "Loud noises like dance music doesn't mix with my quirk anyway."
Mina pouted and glared up at him. "Curse your cool quirk." She said shaking her fist.
'She called me cool!' Venom gushed almost sounding like it was blushing. 'She's definitely perfect mate material.'
Izuku sighed at his tenant. "Yeah sometimes having a quirk like mine suc-"
The greenette was cut off as a mic was shoved in his face. "Young man!" A reporter said. "What's it like learning from All Might."
Izuku would have answered except Venom decided to take over his head. Venom's head consumed Izuku's and it growled. "Back off you vultures." Before grabbing Mina and dragging her past the school's entrance.
A massive metal gate rose behind them as a reporter tried to enter the school grounds.
Later in the classroom Aizawa was talking to them about the prior day's combat exercise. "Midoriya." He said drawing Izuku's attention. "For someone whose quirk makes them so large you are surprisingly good at stealth... keep up the good work."
'You think he knows that we're a vigilante?'
'...nnnnnooooooo.'
'He totally does, doesn't he?'
'...yeah probably.'
'Shit.'
'Agreed.'
"Now onto home room business." Aizawa said making the students look at him with fear. "I'm sorry for the sudden announcement but..."
The entire class looked at the teacher and had a single thought. 'Is it another brutal pop quiz!?'
Except for Venom. 'It is more fighting!? Can I punch Bakupunk's block off and then eat it!?'
"You're picking a class president."
The class erupted in a chorus of people asking to be made president. Izuku held his head in agony as the room filled with cacophony of student voices.
"I wanna be president!" Kirishima called out.
"I'd like to do it." Jirou said.
"In my administration girls will have to show 30cm of thigh!" Cried a small boy with a quirk that gave him grapelike balls for hair.
"The position was made for me." Said the French accented voice of Aoyama.
"I wanna be leader!" Mina cried out nearly standing on top of her chair.
"Pick me dammit!" Bakugou roared in front of Izuku.
Izuku would have offered himself had he not been cowering in pain.
"Quiet down everyone! Can't you see that your unacceptable level of noise is hurting Midoriya." Iida said standing up and pointing out the blood dripping from Izuku's nose and ears. "Now that I have your attention." Iida calmly began looking down at his classmates who had quieted down once they realized how their noise was effecting their classmate. "Your ambition while showing your want to lead does not equate the ability to lead. Being president requires discipline and the ability to reign in your classmates when they are breaking the sacred rules of our prodigious school." Iida continued drawing and holding the attention of the class. "So for that I propose that we vote for the classmate we think should most likely be the president."
"But we hardly know each other kero." Tsuyu (she threatened to hit Izuku with her tongue the last time he called her Asui) said looking up at the tall boy. "Wouldn't everyone just vote for themselves kero?"
"It makes sense Asu- Tsuyu." Izuku said looking at his blunt classmate. "The person who gets more than one vote will prove that people actually view them as a good leader."
Iida nodded. "Exactly Midoriya." The tall boy looked to Aizawa who was trying to fall asleep. "Will you allow this sensei?"
"I don't care." Aizawa sleepily said.
And so they spent the next few minutes voting.
"How'd I get four votes!?" Izuku cried in surprise looking at the board. His head snapped to look at his small friend group. "Did you guys vote for me?"
Iida, Mina, and Uraraka nodded.
"You seemed the best choice Midoriya." Iida said looking down at his green haired classmate. "You easily led your time to victory."
"I just thought you'd be a good boss." Mina simply said looking down at Izuku as she sat on top of the desk to the right of his. "Like during yesterday."
"You're better a leader than I could be." Uraraka said shrugging.
Izuku sighed and shook his head. "That still doesn't explain the last vote."
"That wasn't you?" Uraraka asked.
"No." Izuku said. "I voted for Iida."
"That'd be me." Jirou said plopping down on top of Izuku's desk. "You totally demolished me and Tsuyu yesterday." She said rubbing the back of her head. "So I thought you'd be a better fit than me."
Izuku shook his head as he stood and moved to the front of the room with his Vice President.
"Such a shame." Yaoyorozu said under her breath as she picked a piece of lint off of her blazer. 'Though he was a good leader yesterday.' She thought looking at Izuku. 'And he's quite cute.'
Izuku rubbed the back of his head. 'I hope I won't mess this up.'
'You probably will.'
'You're not helping.'
'I know and I don't really care.'
Izuku sat down at the lunch table he and his friend group had begun eating at everyday. Mina waved excitedly as he walked over to the table before she patted the seat beside of herself.
He sat down beside the pink skinned girl and only then did he realize that Yaoyorozu and Jirou were sitting there as well.
"What're you two doing here?" Izuku asked looking at the Vice President and Jirou.
"I decided to eat here now so we could get to know each other seeing that we are now working in a partnership for the rest of our time here at U.A." Yaoyorozu said from beside Izuku. "And... you seem fun."
"I'm sitting here because you and Mina seem like fun." Jirou said looking at Izuku from beside Uraraka.
"About being class president." Izuku said rubbing the back of his head. "I don't really think I'm qualified for it."
Venom manifested from Izuku's shoulder. "Agreed little one."
"I think you can." Yaoyorozu sighed from beside him. She laid her hand on her chest as spoke. "While I would have liked to be president you led your team exceptionally well to decimate Jirou and Tsuyu using stealth when most used direct assault." Yaoyorozu said smiling at Izuku. "So due to that I think that you'll be a good president."
"Yeah you and Mina best us so easily that we never saw it coming." Jirou said absentmindedly twirling one of her earphone jacks. "And cause of that I really think you should be in charge."
"What they said." Was Uraraka's simple response.
"Yeah I would have never been able to beat Tsuyu by myself." Mina said smacking Izuku's back. "So I definitely think you should be in charge bossman!"
"What they have all said is quite apt." Iida said looking down at his smaller friend. "You are a good leader using both your strengths and those of your ally to overpower your enemy." He said looking over the top of his glasses. "It's almost as if you've done something like this before..." Iida became quiet for a moment. "But to imply that you had done something as despicable as taking justice in your hands makes me feel disgust towards myself."
The group at the table (excluding Yaoyorozu) looked at Iida.
"Iida." Izuku began. "The way you talk makes you kinda sound like you're-"
Izuku was cut off by Venom creating a new manifestation from his shoulder. "A rich boy!"
Iida coughed. "You could put it like that." He nervously said straightening his tie as he looked away from his classmates. "I am from a renowned hero family."
"Really!?" Mina excitedly asked. "Which one?"
"Yes I'm quite curious as well." Yaoyorozu said looking at Iida.
"C'mon you gotta spill the beans now that you've peaked our interest." Jirou said looking past Uraraka.
Iida sighed as he pushed his glasses up his nose. "If I must." He said sounding slightly embarrassed. "Do you know of the hero known as Ingenium?"
Izuku nodded. "Yeah Ingenium is the hero name passed down a family that collectively have engine quirks." Izuku paused for a moment looking a Iida. "Wait don't tell me that the current Ingenium is-"
"My elder brother!" Iida said a tinge of pride evident in his voice.
Yaoyorozu quirked a brow at Iida. "Wait if Ingenium is your elder brother then why weren't you among the recommended students?" She asked making Iida blush.
"Hehe my brother did ask if I wished to have his recommendation... but I decided against it." Iida said his glasses shining as he smiled. "I wanted to prove that I am worthy of the Iida family name by getting in on my own merit."
Yaoyorozu nodded. "I can understand that." She said looking at the boy. "Wanting to show how worthy you are of the title of hero is a admirable quality."
Izuku opened his mouth to say something but stopped when a alarm roared. His hands slammed to the sides of his clamping of his ears as Venom screamed in agony within his skull.
"Midoriya!" Came the muffled voice of Jirou as she helped Izuku off of the floor. When had he fallen?
Two people helped Izuku into a large crowd.
"What's going on?" Izuku asked his words slurring with his pain. Someone's shoulder rammed into Izuku's back knocking the boy down as they shoved past him.
"Someone has infiltrated the building." Yaoyorozu said wrapping her arms around Izuku's chest to drag up from the ground. Not caring that his head bumped her chest as she tried to save him from being trampled underfoot.
The cacophony of voices combined with the overpowering roar of the alarm made Izuku's head feel like it was going to explode. His head jerked around as Mina stopped him from falling again. In the corner of his eye he could see the reporter from earlier that day harassing Aizawa.
"Wait." Izuku said through the roaring pain in his skull. "Those reporters." He said pointing out of the window.
Apparently he wasn't the only one who noticed since Iida cried out silencing the hall full of students.
"EVERYONE EVERYTHING'S FINE!" The tall boy yelled catching the attention of the students. "It's just the press." He said pointing out of the window. "There is nothing to panic about! This is U.A behave in a way befitting this great institution!"
Izuku sighed in relief and rubbed his head. "Thank you Iida." He whispered.
"We'd like the choose the other student council members." Izuku said holding a ice pack against his head. "But before that I have something important that I'd like to say."
Yaoyorozu looked at him with a confused look. Before shrugging and letting the shorter boy go on.
"I think that." Izuku began. "Iida would be a better fit for class president." He said making the tall boy look at him in surprise. "He managed to calm the entire crowd and keep his cool while I was half conscious with pain. Being able to control people in a crisis like that is a ability that a hero would need." Izuku smiled at his tall friend. "That's why I think Iida is more worthy than me of this role."
"Yeah Iibro totally showed his stuff back in the cafeteria." Kirishima said giving a sharp toothed smile.
"He was like a beacon pointing to the exit." Kaminari said leaning back in his chair.
"He did calm the crowd and stopped them from trampling Midoriya." Yaoyorozu admitted.
"Yeah! He totally saved Midoriya by making everyone quiet!" Mina said practically beaming with excitement.
Iida looked at the students and smiled. "I will accept the position then."
Izuku smiled as his tall friend accepted the job. 'Man I'm glad I got out of that.' He silently sighed in relief.
'I'm just glad we didn't die because of that fucking noise!" Venom growled sounding like it wanted to hit something.
'Agreed.' Was Izuku's simple response as he sat down.