บท 32: Interlude

As the sun reached high into the sky, it's warm rays of energy shined down onto the back garden of my house. Reclined in my deck chair, I was enjoying the summer heat, at least until my phone started buzzing from a bunch of texts.

Resisting the urge to just switch the damn thing off, I stretch my arm across the nearby table to pick it up and flicking onto the class 1-A group chat.

'Broccoli: Do you guys want to come to the school pool today? Me and Kaminari booked it for some endurance training.'

'Legs: Good work Midoriya, I'm proud of you for suggesting more training, you're an asset to our class. Let up all attend this exercise, we should get in all the training we can in preparation for the summer camp.'

'TailMan: Alright, I'll make sure to be there.'

'Mask: See you guys there.'

'Edge: I shall be attending'

'Bondage: Sure thing dude'

'BlockDome: ...'

'ManlyMan: Sounds like a plan man, I'll try get Bakugo to come as well.'

'SharpButDull: Ok'

'MuscleBoundIdiot: Meet you at the pool!'

'SparklyFucker: *Sparkle Emoji*'

Shaking my head at some of my classmates personalities, I swipe onto a private chat with Kirishima.

'ManlyMan: Hey man wanna meet up and give me a hand with Bakugo, I could use the help'

Finished reading the message, I was about to reply back when a creepy middle aged man looking over my shoulder said "Why don't you go, it's summer and you've hardly done anything apart from lounge around here"

Not agreeing with his claim I retort "I've been out with Ryuko and Nejire a few times-" before getting hit with some logic.

Deadpanning Konro points out "More like they came over, sitting around your house with other people doesn't count as going out"

After hunting down Hatsume, I found out she forgot to make my equipment, to top it off she never had any of those super compressed weights. So after getting Power Loaders assurance that he'll make sure Hatsume gets the work done, I phoned up Ryuko and asked if she had anything similar to the weights.

A few days later she turned up at my house with a excitable Nejire in tow, once she gave me a similar type of compression weights, we just lazed around at my place for the rest of the day. Something which has become increasingly common in days of late.

Entering a staring match with Konro for a few moments I eventually respond, "Why you even here, shouldn't you be at work or something?" who was dressed in shorts and a t-shirt, a stark contrast from his usual kimono.

Cracking open his cold beverage Konro says "I'm taking a break till it's dark, business is pretty slow on days like this anyway, but that's got nothing to do with you going out with your classmates." while passing me a can as well.

Sighing I tell him "I was going to go anyway, swimming sounds good in this weather" as I take a quick swing of my juice.

"Great, just make sure you stay safe Villains are popping up everywhere just now" to which I nodded my head.

Just after the exams finished most of my classmates went out shopping and ended up having a run in with one of the league of villains guys. It was all over the news, so even though I wasn't there, I still found out about it.

UA's warned us to be vigilant while out and about, since this was the second time the League of Villains has came into contact with our class.

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After taking the train into Musutafu, me a Kirishima met up before heading over to Bakugo's house.

"Man Bakugo's got some place" Kirishima stated while gazing upon the Bakugo's house.

It was a a large, single-family detached home with numerous rooms and a front window surrounded by a wall, and with a well-kept garden. Due to the area it was stationed in, a house like this would've got a fair amount of cash.

Ringing the doorbell, we stood waiting for someone to answer, not long after, the faint sounds of someone approaching the opposite of the door were heard. The wooden door swung open to reveal a woman with spiky ash-blonde hair and red eyes; the same aforementioned traits that Bakugo has. Due to her mature but youthful appearance both me and Kirishima instantly thought Bakugo has a sister he wasn't telling anyone about.

With a polite smile she asks "What can I do for you two boys?"

With a small amount of blush marring his cheeks Kirishima replies "Hello ma'am, we're here to see if Bakugo wants to come to the school pool for some endurance training"

The blonde haired woman's eyes lit up at his words as she said "Oh, so you must be my sons classmates, it's good to know there's some people who can put up with his personality. Although I'm glad you swung by, couldn't you have called Bakugo, it would've saved you coming all the way here"

As she spoke I was still focused on the part where she said Bakugo was her son. It's crazy if you compare her looks to what her age should be, maybe she's got a quirk that has something to do with her youthfulness.

Rubbing the back of his head Kirishima replies "I already tried that, he never answered but I didn't want him to be left out so the two of us decided to stop by and ask him in person"

As he finished the lady's eyes sharped as she told us "Wait here for a moment, I'll tell Bakugo to get his stuff ready" before turning away and heading into her house, as she walked away my eyes were drawn to her round bottom that giggled from the confines of her skirt at each step.

Resisting the urge to whistle, I elbow Kirishima and say "Bakugo's mom has got it going on" which broke him out of his momentary stupor.

Averting his eyes he replies "Dude that our classmates mom your talking about" to which I shrugged my shoulders.

As I was about to say something else a roar came from inside the house "Katsuki! Get your swimming stuff packed this instant! Your friends are at the door! Don't make them stand around for longer than they already have!"

"Shut up old hag! I'm not going to the damn pool!" We heard Bakugo yell back.

"I never gave birth to you just so you should talk back to me! Hurry up get your stuff packed and get out!" His mother retorts.

Releasing that whistle I was holding in, I state "I guess that's where Bakugo gets his temper from.

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One Bakugo and an apology from Mitsuki later, and we were at the school pool changing into our swimsuits. Once he was finished Bakugo stormed outside, still angry he went to the resident bully victim Deku to blow off some steam, sadly for him Kirishima managed to hold him back before he could rip somebody's head off.

Looking around I saw all of the males sitting at the side of the pool taking a break, while the girls were messing around in the pool, playing some sort of ball game.

Although Bakugo was held back, he still managed to instigate a race between all of the boys. At this point the girls had left the pool and asked to help out.

With the girls presiding over the competition the boys split into heats to see who could swim the fastest. Seriously, what was wrong with just a bit of swimming, not everything has to be a competition.

The first race had Bakugo in it, and completely disregarding the swimming part of the race used the quirk to boost himself to the other side. To top it off he called it freestyle swimming.

Although no one thought it was fair, it never stopped them from doing the same thing once it was they're turn. Me included.

When my turn came up I just flew myself over before jumping in the other half of the pool for a swim. Might as well, at the rate things are going I wouldn't have even to go for a swim.

Since there was still two heats till I was up again there was plenty of time for me to get a few laps in.

By the time I had done a few lengths of the pool, I heard the splashing of someone jumping in, moments later a girl who had a massive set of eyes emerged from the water with a ribbit.

"What's up Benimaru, haven't seen you since summer started. You been up to much?" she asked in nasally tone.

"Not much really, mostly relaxing. It's not like we'll have much time for it with the summer camp coming up" I replied while pulling myself out the water to sit on the edge of the pool.

Looking up at me with on her head visible she says "Me and some of the other girls were thinking about going out for something to eat once our times up here. Think the boys would want to come"

I didn't even need to think to know the answer to that question, Kaminari especially would jump at the chance to go somewhere with a group of girls.

"Definitely, pretty sure all of them would want to go, bar Bakugo, but he'll come" I said as the last heat ended.

Cupping her larger than normal hands under her chin she wonders "How'd you know that, I'm still surprised he came to the pool instead of just everyone off"

"Let's just say there's someone who can put Bakugo in his place" I told Tsuyu, standing up I reach out to give her a hand out the pool, but after dipping underwater for a moment she leaps out to my side.

Moving over to the starting positions it was me, Deku, Todoroki and Bakugo vying for first place. Looking at each of their faces, I struggled to see why they were taking this so seriously, but each to their own I guess.

Since the three of them were so focused on the race, they failed to notice a tired looking Aizawa appear behind the other. With his eyes glowing all red and menacingly, I already knew all of our quirks were disabled.

So when Ida gave the starting signal, and the three idiots jumped at the pool, I just stood and stifled my laughter when they all splashed into the pool with dumb expressions.

"It's 5 o'clock, that's your time here up" The teacher plainly stated.

One of the students tried to bargain an extra few minutes by saying "Come on Mr. Aizawa, it was just getting to the good part" in a begging tone.

"Did I stutter?" He shot back with a stronger glare, which easily made the students accept their fate.

With Aizawa on our backs everyone got chanced extra fast, and met up just outside the pool building.

This was when Mina called out to the boys and asked "Guys me and the girls are wondering if you want to go and grab something to eat, since it'll probably be the last time we all meet before summer camp"

It never took long for everyone to agree, even Bakugo caved in once Kirishima threatened to tell his mother.

As we all made our way down the bastard of a hill Midoriya creeped up behind me, this continued for the better part of a minute before he finally said "S-Shinmon, I was just wondering, but why are you wearing your Hero costume?" this drew the attention of a couple people to me, basically all the ones who don't know where I live.

Resisting the urge to facepalm, I explain to the curious boy in a matter-of-fact tone "It's not my costume, it's just normal clothes. We're not allow to take our costumes out of UA, so how could I be wearing mine"

Blushing for some reason, Midoriya averts his eyes before apologising for his mistake. Although he's making improvements with his quirk, his mental game still needs a bit of work. At least he can speak to Bakugo without fainting now.

With that, the class headed off to the nearest BBQ place for our last meal together before the summer camp.

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