Little Acts Of Kindness

1. Giving Gifts

Izuku sat in class, silent as he idly wrote notes on the quirks of his classmates. Their teacher was currently sleeping, looking dead to the world. He heard Iida complain about the unbecoming behaviour of their teacher. Heard the other students speak ill of him. He frowned to himself, uncomfortable with how they seemed to think so little of Aizawa-sensei. Of Eraserhead.

He was a pro hero, he saved the lives of hundreds of people, all while staying out of the spotlight. Did they not know that he worked at night? That last night he had fought and run around the town, stopping thugs from hurting innocents? It was no wonder he chose to sleep while it was the homeroom period; the teacher hadn’t been able to get any sleep last night.

Izuku continued to write his notes, breaking down the quirks of those in his classroom. He couldn’t make up his mind of his homeroom teacher, the man was terrifying, strict, and threatening, but… it was different from his previous teachers. After all, Aizawa-sensei had threatened everyone, not just him. The bell rang and Aizawa got up, within seconds the sleeping bag was hidden away and the man was walking out and Mic-sensei walked in. Izuku saw their lips move slightly, a quick exchange of words that he couldn’t make out.

Mic-sensei greeted them, a bright smile on his face before starting them on their class work. Learning English. Izuku pulled out a different notebook and took notes on the lesson. But, throughout the lesson he couldn’t help keeping track of where Mic-sensei was. A habit from his lessons with his previous English teacher.

Izuku shuddered, pushing away the memories that threatened to overwhelm him. Trying to focus on the assessment quiz the teacher had given.

And so the rest of the daily classes passed. Izuku went home and worked out, continuing the schedule All Might had set out for him. Carefully planning out what to give each of his teachers.

The next day he arrived at the class a minute before the bell rang, earning a reproachful look from Iida. Aizawa-sensei sat at the desk looking less tired than yesterday, but he still held bags under his eyes. Izuku hesitated for a moment before walking up to the desk, the man gave a tired look at him, “G-good m-morning Sensei,” Izuku mumbled out, nervous as he held out his gift. A thermos, filled with coffee.

Aizawa raised an eyebrow, but accepted it with a brief nod, “Good morning to you as well, Midoriya.”

Izuku gave a smile and headed over to his seat. He bit his cheek as his eyes caught on Kacchan who was glaring at him angrily, still mad that stupid useless Deku had managed to get in. And that Izuku now had a quirk.

“Teachers pet,” Kacchan hissed as he passed by.

He itched to take out his notebook and start writing, to escape away from those angry red eyes. They promised pain. After taking his seat he looked and saw Aizawa sipping on the coffee, his lip curled up in a small barely noticeable smile. Izuku counted that as a win. He may be a teacher's pet but, it was the only way to get the teachers to at least ignore him, to grade him fairly.

Bribery. Kacchan had told him once. Izuku supposed it was, but without it, he would be failing classes, all because teachers didn’t like that a quirkless kid was decent at getting the correct answers. They saw him as less than human, but because he was so kind, so helpful, they felt guilty for marking him down on purpose.

So long as it got him fair treatment, Izuku considered it a win. If they didn’t accept his gifts… would they be like his old english teacher and want a different sort of gift? Izuku wasn’t sure he could bring himself to do so if that was the case.

Perhaps UA would be different, but… Izuku didn’t want to risk it, he already barely scraped by with Aizawa-sensei’s logical ruse. The teacher had seemed amused by the end of it though, and hadn’t expelled him. Despite his pathetic showing, one of the other kids, a boy by the name of Mineta hadn’t done much better. That night at home he might have had a minor freakout, because he actually made it through the quirk assessment test.