#the idea is that Akabane and everyone spend the rest of the year trying to guess Asano's favourite pet

[le-panda-chocovore]

"Say" Karma asks with his eternal strawberry milk in hand "are you a cat person or a dog person ?"

Gakushuu doesn't even bother to look at him. It's been month now that Akabane daily hangs around him, starts absurd conversation just for the love of it, and jumps on every single occasion to compete with him. Gakushuu is kinda used to it now, but he has yet developed a skill to fully ignore the boy.

"I'm a cat person myself, you know. I think cats suit you too."

Gakushuu doesn't answer, even if he knows that he eventually will have to. Akabane never gives up with his weird questions. He's only putting things off.

"Well I guess dogs are more convenient to you, since you love giving orders and everything. I mean, you're a leader, you want loyalty, dogs are great with that."

Gakushuu sighs. He's only trying to eat his bento in peace, but peace is a complicated things to reach when Akabane Karma is in your life.

"Are you going to write an essay about wether dogs or cats are more suits to me ?"

"Well I would if you don't answer, I have to make my own conclusion. So, dogs or cats ?"

".... Neither."

Karma rolls his eyes and puts his drink down on Asano's desk. Because of course he was sitting in front of him, he specifically came to disturb Gakushuu during the lunch break. It began a month after the start of the school year. At first it was one day every two weeks, then one per week, then three, then every day. The whole class was also used to it now, the weird rivalry-friendship-flirtous relation they have. Gakushuu still finds that annoying.

"You can't say that ! If you have to choose between a dog or a cat, what would you take ?"

"I don't know. Does it matter? I don't have a preference."

"Of course it matters !! How can you say something so stupid ?! It means everything ! It kinda define your personality but go off I guess !"

As usual, Akabane is dramatic. Gakushuu sighs again. Why such a fuss about a simple question ?

"I have never had a pet." He doesn't even know why he tries to explain himself. Isn't he allowed to just not have a preference? "I don't know what they're like."

"What ? How could you nev- Oh. Yeah. I guess your dad isn't the type to offer you a cat for Christmas."

"No, he really isn't." But the mental image makes him smile. Internally, of course. Can't be seen showing emotions when Akabane's looking.

"Well you don't need to actually have a pet to know which one you prefer. Imagine, a few years in the future, you live in your own apartment and you have a good job and enough money. You can do whatever you want, even adopt a pet. What would you choose then ?"

Asano thinks about it, he even stops eating to visualize the picture. What would he choose, if he can have anything ?

"I don't know."

"Asano."

"What ? I really don't ! Why should I like one better than the other ?"

Abakane seemed genuinely exasperated, he couldn't believe what he heard. How can a person not have a preference! It's a crime ! He should put the strawberry blonde under arrest, but he isn't a cop, and Gakushuu would probably be out in a matter of hours. He's way too perfect to stay in jail.

"Look at that" Karma shows him his phone, "and tell me that does nothing to you !"

It's a picture of a black and white cat stretching. Gakushuu looks unimpressed, which only increases Akabane's outrage. The red-haired boy keeps scrolling his phone to shows pictures and video of cats and kittens, trying to get a reaction from Asano. But the only thing Gakushuu does, beside frowning, is commenting a simple "okay I guess."

"YOU HEARTLESS BASTARD, THE FUCK YOU MEAN 'OKAY I GUESS' ????"

"Don't yell and don't swear."

He realized then that the whole class -more precisely the remaining students who don't eat at the cafeteria- were listening, and now looking at them. Hell he hates when Akabane makes a scene like this.

"Those are the most beautiful and cute and perfect creatures that have ever existed, and you DARE to say that they're only okay ???? What kind of psychopath are you !?"

"It's a pet Akabane. Besides, between us, you're the psycho one."

"A pet- A PET HE SAID. CATS ARE FUCKING GODS AN-"

"Oh my god, shut up, will you ? I didn't said I don't like cats, I just... I don't know."

It's Karma's turn to sigh. The boy is looking at him as if he was an alien inable to communicate with a human language. Gakushuu stares back. He isn't the weird one, he convinces himself, there's no problem in not liking pets.

"So dogs it is then ?"

"Well, uh... Not really. I don't particularly like dogs either."

That's when Ren joined the conversation. He hands his own phone which shows the Instagram page of one of his friend. A girl and her dog running in the snow. It was a pretty cute picture.

"Here, what do you think about it ?" Ren asks with a fake innocentsmile. He is clearly up to something and Asano doesn't like that. He feels like they're making an alliance against him. Akabane lean toward them to see the picture and Asano's reaction.

"Hm" said Gakushuu after looking at the screen for 5 long seconds. Ren laughed, Gakushuu frowns, and Karma protests.

"The FUCK you mean-"

"Stop swearing I said. You're insufferable."

"And you're fucking weird. How can you not react ? Do you have a heart ?"

Asano shrugs. He takes his bento and starts eating again, ignoring the look everyone is giving to him. Honestly, he's kinda satisfied to see the annoying human nuisance sighs. Karma seems desperate and the fact that the roles are reversed is extremely funny to him.

"You cannot not love pets." Karma groans.

"Well, obviously I can."

Ren gets closer with his chair and puts his own food on Asano's desk.

"You're neither a cat or a dog person but there must be a pet you like." He assumes with a thoughtful face.

"What are you doing ?" Gakushuu stares with murderous eyes. His childhood friend laughed it off nervously.

"I'm just curious ! I never got to know your favourite animal, that's all."

"Maybe I don't have one."

"That's sad" points out Akabane. "Or maybe you love hamster but you're ashamed of it."

This time Gakushuu sighs again. He sighs often when Akabane is around, and that means everyday since the beginning of the year.

"Well a little mouse maybe ?"

"No" Asano deadpans.

"Ew" Sakakibara comments.

"They're cute tho," Karma protests. "Wait I'm showing you a picture."

"My sister has an hamster." claims Koyama while handing his own phone.

Asano looks at it but doesn't say anything, fully aware that everyone was waiting for him to react. It's not that he dislikes being when people stares at him, they always do, but he isn't the kind of person who talk about themself. His father always reminds him to give private information carefully because we never know what people might do with that. And, well, he's father is not the best role model, but it's the only one he has.

However, the main problem right know is that Asano really doesn't know what pet he likes. Cats and hamsters and dogs may indeed be cute if you take the definition of the word, he can see that, but he doesn't feel any particular affection toward them by looking at those pictures.

"Well ?" asks Karma, staring at him curiously as if he's trying to read his soul -and he probably is.

"What ?" Asano really has nothing to say, and it shows. "Well, it's alive."

"Gods can you hear yourself ? You're the worst human alive." Karma takes back his strawberry milk and starts drinking obnoxiously.

"We should try mice then" Akira proposes. "You said you'd show a picture Akabane."

The cat lover looks up to him but before he could answer, another students appeared next to Asano's desk. Apparently, their classmates, who listened to the entire conversation since the beginning, took the Virtuosos' intervention as an autorization to join the debate as well. The most brave of them, a blonde girl with round glasses, gives her phone to Asano to show him a picture of three little mice.

"Th-their names are Iku, Aki and Uka" she mumbles.

"Oh. Well... Okay ?"

Akabane slams his drink against the desk.

"That fucking 'okay' again, is that the only word you know ?"

"I don't know what you're expecting from me !!" Gakushuu finally snaps.

"A fucking human reaction ! Is that too much to ask ?? When I look at cats, I'm like 'awwwwwww so cute I want to adopt them and cuddle them and feed them' but YOU don't give a shit about those little fluffy angels and I don't know how you can be so heartless !! Do you ever feel anything ? Are you a robot ?"

"I do feel things, thanks" Asano grunts. "I'm just not a pet person."

"All pets are differents, there's plenty races of cats and dogs. Maybe you could like one." Sakakibara fully ignores the deathly glare Asano has and keeps going. "Like a golden retriever and a bulldog are nothing alike."

After those words, in a matter of three minutes, the whole class gather around the poor student representative to show every pictures of their pets. There are plenty of cats and dogs from all races and age and Asano quickly lose control of the situation (not like he ever had it in the first place). He doesn't know where to look at, he's fully surrounded and is forced to stop eating again.

Despite that, he still doesn't really react to what he sees, and Akabane is know completly convinced that his rival is a future serial killer. Asano tries to reach his bestfriend for help, but Sakakibara is too busy trying to not laugh to hard to do anything. Betrayed by his right hand man, Asano turns toward the other Virtuosis, but they're no help either.

And that is the moment when the teacher comes back to class, only to see his students all gathered around Gakushuu's desk with their phones out.

Gakushuu is of course the first one to notice, and immediately stands up to greet him and to tell everyone to go back to their place. They groan but obey. Except, of course, Akabane.

"What happened here ?" Asks the teacher out of curiosity.

"Asano said he never had a pet before so we're trying to guess what he could like."

Gakushuu glares at Karma, who shrugs with a smile.

"He said he's neither a cat or dog person" Karma continues, "but he must be something."

Asano expected the teacher to dismiss the boy for starting irrelevant conversation, and to remind the class to stay serious about the work and everything. He certainly didn't expected him to hum with an amused smile and to answer "I knew someone once who had a bird pet. Do you like feathers Asano-kun ?"

He really doesn't expect that. What was he even supposed to answer ? And why was the teacher joining the circus ?

"I... Don't think so ? Birds are louds." Gakushuu explains finally, but he doesn't seem really sure about that. Karma notices and grins when he gets up to go back to his own desk.

"I guess they are." The teacher opens his binder to the lesson he prepared. "Well, you guys should talk about this outside of class hours. Let's continue where we stopped..."

Gakushuu is clearly relieved to go back to a serious subject appropriate for school. Little does he know that Akabane has no intention to stop this debate.

[snakeboistan]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHIOTA NAGISA

Thank you, Nagisa, for showing me that being kind and gentle doesn’t mean that you’re weak and also that the parts about you that you hate can be turned into your greatest weapon. You have been a role model for me for the past four years and I strive to be as wise and caring as you. Keep doing what you’re doing, you adorable little assassin, we’re all so very proud of you. 😍😊

Yes, I know that Nagisa’s birthday is during Summer break but shhhhh

(25 unread messages) 

Akabane Karma: Hey there Nagi :) HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLUEBERRY! I can’t believe you are officially older than me. But don’t get your hopes up, just because you’re my elder, doesn’t mean that I will start listening to you. Just to show you how awesome I am, I decided to stay up late so that I can text you exactly at 00:00. But for real, I hope you have an awesome day and I promise to beat up anyone that ruins it for you ;) Nagisa, you are honestly the most amazing person I’ve ever met and you’re seriously like such a sweet and kind and honest and good person and I have no idea how someone as nice and forgiving as you ended up befriending someone as crazy and violent as me. You’re the only person who's never been scared of me and even though you hate violence you still stood by me and never tried to change me and you liked me for me. No one’s ever liked me without expecting me to change and I’ve never felt as comfortable being myself with someone as I have with you. Can’t wait to see you at school today - I got you a present. No I won’t tell you what it is and yes, you’ll definitely love it. See you soon.

Sugino Tomohito: Happy Birthday Nagisa! Hope that you have fun today! I just want to tell you that you are the best best friend that I could ever ask for and I am truly grateful for everything that you have done for me. When I first got kicked down to 3-E and was forced to leave the baseball club, I thought that it was all over but you came along and was the first person to actually sit down and listen to me and you offered to practice baseball with me and honestly, that really made my day. Dude, you are like this amazing blue ball of kindness and like seriously you are brilliant but you don’t nearly give yourself enough credit. I don’t know where you get your low self esteem from or what it is that makes you think that you are worth so little but I promise to remind you that you are cared for every single day until your next birthday and for the rest of your life. Okay, that probably sounded super weird but it’s early and my brain is like 60% baseball memes at this point. At first I hated losing my baseball friends and getting sent to this abandoned building on top of a death mountain but meeting you has made me realise that our crazy assassination classroom™ is the best thing that’s ever happened to me. From the day I’ve met you, you’ve been nothing but loyal and caring. You are the person I can talk and rant to and you’ll never judge me and you always know how to make you smile. And honestly, you are worth 1000 baseball teams. Don’t let your mother get you down. See you in class! Oh, BTW, my little brother says Hi.

Kayano Kaede: HIIIIII NAGISA! HOPE YOU HAVE A HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART! I got you a gift and I hope you like it and no it’s not pudding but you will be getting some cake from that cafe we visited over the weekend. It’s not easy being the new girl and ever since I’ve joined the class, you’ve been nothing but an awesome best friend and you have always been by my side since the day we decided to have matching hairstyles (which might I say looks so much better on you than it does on me - UNFAIR!) I hope the rest of the year is filled with pudding and happiness and sweets and smiles and everything else you love 

Nakamura Rio: Happy birthday to our resident blueberry cinnamon roll! Have a wonderful day ‘Gisa. I’m sure you will when you see what I have in store for you ;). You are seriously the most mature, innocent, pure little bean I have ever met - and definitely the most fun person to play pranks on! Dont worry, as the birthday boy, you shall spend 24 hours completely prank free. Yes, yes I know, I’m the best classmate ever. Dont need to tell me something I already know, sweetie. See you later, my fellow English lover!

Maehara Hiroto: Yo, dude, Happy Birthday! Hope you have fun and enjoy what we’ve got in store for you (no hints!). Like seriously you are legit the most awesome person ever cause you’re so sweet and innocent and can turn into this super awesome secret badass whenever you want to. Youre like the class therapist/medic/person we can always rely on and you never complain when we drive you crazy (cause I know that we do). I’m super proud of you man. Never change Nagisa. See you at school. (BTW - We still up for karaoke next week?)

Isogai Yuuma: Happy birthday Nagisa! Hope you have a wonderful day! I can’t wait to see you in class later. When my siblings found out that it was your birthday, they insisted that they make you a card.You are an irreplaceable member of our class and I’m so happy that you are part of it. Seriously, if it wasn’t for you and your ability to calm people down and talk people out of doing whatever crazy idea they came up with, I’m pretty sure I would’ve lost my mind. You’re always smiling and always participate in class without complaining and you always see the best in everyone. Keep on doing what you do Nagisa, the world could use more people like you. ( Oh and come to the cafe later, I got an iced bun on the house for you)

Fuwa Yuzuki: AAAAAHHHHH HAPPY BIRTHDAY NAGISA! CONGRATULATIONS ON SUCCESSFULLY SURVIVING THIS LONG ON EARTH! OOHH IM SUPER EXCITED FOR YOU TO SEE WHAT I’VE GOT YOU! Thank you for always going along with and listening to my crazy anime/manga rants even when you have no idea whats going on. It’s so much fun hanging out with you cause youre chill and youre always up for anything and apart from Takabayshi you’re the person in the class that get my references the most. Youre an amazing main protagonist and you deserve all of the screentime and lines you get - heck even your own spin-off show. For someone who loves heroes so much, youre doing an amazing job of being one yourself. Youre the best Watson a Sherlock like me could ever ask for and a really good friend for this manga obsessed Otaku! Love you and see you later!

Kataoka Megu: Happy Birthday Nagisa. I hope that you enjoy the rest of the day. As someone whose job is to watch over our … interesting class, having you around makes everyone else bearable. I’m sure that if you aren’t here to keep the peace I would’ve murdered Okajima months ago. You have always been really respectful and kind and I appreciate having someone as hard-working and loyal as you in my class. I always enjoy having our talks about equal rights and you have always been like a little brother to me (honestly, I prefer you over my actual older brother). See you later and please continue to stay the way you are.

Okano Hinata: Hey there Nagisa. Happy Birthday! How’s it going, little dude! Hope you enjoy yourself and have lots of fun today. Thank you for being one of the only boys that I can actually stand. You are such an amazing person to have in the class and you’re amazing at being someone that we can all come to when we’re upset. Plus you let us brush your amazing godly hair (seriously I’m jealous at how nice it is). If any main campus kids try to ruin this special day - come to me and I’ll sort them right out :)

Kurahashi Hinano: HAPPY BIRTHDAY NAGISA! I HOPE YOU HAVE LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF FUN TODAY AND EVERY SINGLE DAY OF YOUR LIFE! CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU SO THAT I CAN GIVE YOU YOUR PRESENT IN PERSON AND THE BIGGEST BIRTHDAY HUG EVER! YOU ARE AN AMAZING PERSON AND I (AND EVERYONE ELSE) LOVE YOU SOO MUCH OKAY I HAVE TO GO NOW BUT BYEEEE 

Kimura Masayoshi: Hey Nagisa! Happy Birthday! Can’t wait to see you at school! 

Mimura Kouki: Happy Birthday Nagisa :) wish you the best :)

Yada Touka: Happy Birthday Nagisa! I hope you have a fun-filled day! You are a really sweet and nice person and I enjoy hanging around with you - especially when you join us girls on our girl trips to the mall. You’re like a little brother to me and I always feel comfortable when I’m with you. Love you and hope you have a nice day <3

Takabayashi Koutarou: Happy Birthday Nagisa. I hope that you enjoy yourself.

Hayami Rinka: Happy Birthday Nagisa

Okajima Taiga: Happy Birthday Nagisa. You are such an incredible person to have in the class. And thank you for always saving me from the girls when they get mad at me. Hope you have fun. I was going to give you some really cool magazines but when the girls figured it out they slapped me and said that they’d tie me up in the middle of the mountain and leave me there if I did so I’m just gonna give you something else that I made (with Sugaya’s help). I’ll show you it at school - I hope you like it.

Kanzaki Yukiko: Happy Birthday Nagisa. I hope you have a nice day and thank you for being such a good and reliable friend. See you at school.

Yoshida Taisei: Happy Birthday Nagisa! I’m so sorry for the grenade incident earlier and I am so happy Koro-Sensei saved you. Also like you are one tough guy, you know that right? Cause what happened with Takaoka, man you couldve beaten any of us up with your eyes closed any time. Stay awesome dude. See you at the mountain

Hara Sumire: Happy Birthday Nagisa. I’ve made some sushi just for you. I hope you like it. As your official unofficial mother, I hope you have fun today and I can’t wait to see you later. 

Sugaya Sosuke: Happy Birthday Nagisa. Thank you for being around and seeing the good in all of us even when we don’t see it ourselves. You always know how to inspire us and you are going to be an awesome grown up when you’re older. You always appreciate everyone and you know exactly how to pick us up when we’re down. I hope you like your present (you’ll get it later)

Okuda Manami: Happy Birthday Nagisa! I hope you have a wonderful day today. I just want to say thank you for being my friend and always encouraging me and helping me. You always know how to cheer me up and include me. See you at school.

Chiba Ryuunosuke: Happy Birthday Nagisa

Hazama Kirara: Happy Birthday fellow literature lover. I really enjoy talking about gothic literature with you - your analysis of themes and context is always very insightful and interesting and I enjoy spending time with you. If you ever need to escape, you can always come to me. PS - my offer to curse your mother is still up.

Muramatsu Takuya: Happy Birthday Nagisa. Hope you have fun. I made you some ramen (don’t worry its not my dad’s recipe so you’ll be good)

Terasaka Ryouma: Sup Shiota, Happy Birthday. I just want to say that I’m really sorry for being an a**hole and treating you like a jerk - especially forcing you to wear that grenade at the beginning of the year. You’re really good at assassination and you’ve got some serious moves. I dont really know what to say but you can always hang out with my gang whenever you want.

[ifyouknowme-stayaway]

Well, here I am and I'm going to make a BNHA AU of Assassination Classroom, mostly because I wanted to explore the idea of Karma on the path of becoming a villain. And yes, this is absolutely because @karma-gay-sa said if I tried it could turn out well. The quirk headcanons I'm using for this belong to @ladysunami, because her Quirk headcanons are amazing and fit it well with what I have planned.

First off, the Quirk Karma has is Damage Reflect, meaning he reflects the direct damage someone does to him

For example, if he was stabbed, the person who stabbed him would get an identical stab wound, but if the stab makes Karma fall off a bridge, the person would not get any bridge-falling-off damage (unless they also fell off the bridge

Unfortunately, he doesn't actually know that it only happens when other people do damage to him

He and everyone else generally just think that it happens

Which leads to him being thought of as bad luck

His parents starting to leave for months at a time starting from when he turns 8 (a.k.a when they decide he's old enough to take care of himself) does not help, because it convinces everyone that they too, are avoiding bad luck a.k.a Karma

When he is 9, people start avoiding him, and he doesn't do anything, trusting that an adult or someone else will help him, and losing that trust soon enough

When he is 11, they start calling him unlucky right to his face, he doesn't do anything, thinking that maybe they are right. He starts intimidating them a little, just to try and get them to back off

When he is 13, some of his classmates take to calling him a villain, but this time he fights back

He's on them before he can even think, his fists flying straight to their jaw

They fight back, of course, and soon he's taken several hits to the face and the stomach

And when the teachers hear about it, he realizes that 11 year old him was stupid to think that they would be on his side

Because they take his classmate's side

"Guess even the teachers know I'm nothing but bad luck," he thinks, even as he tries to defend himself

Afterwards, they sigh and give him a warning, but do nothing to anyone else

He wishes he could say he was surpised

Even if that didn't surprise him, two other people did

A short, blue haired boy, one of his classmates, who looks a little like a snake, come up to him after school

"Hey Akabane, are you okay?"

The genuine concern shocks him, but he warms up to Nagisa soon enough

They become friends

About a week later, a teacher calls on Karma to stay back for a couple minutes, just to talk

And Kensaku (you know, Karma's selfish traitor of a teacher in 2nd year? The one sent him down to E class?) walks him to his office

He tells Karma that he was in the right, and that he will support Karma as long as he's in the right

He tells Karma that he's not unlucky, and that he's very, very, helpful

Karma is happy, of course

Because for the first time, an adult supports him, thinks he's helpful

Hooray for him! He has a new friend and a new trusted adult!

He soon learns about Nagisa's Quirk, Naga which he finds pretty impressive

And he can fight back against all his classmates who tell him he's just trouble

I mean, sure, his classmates very publicly talk about how he's no good

And yeah, a there have been a couple people who have tried to jump him on the street (he ended up beating them up, though he's not sure why they're bleeding when they're the ones trying to get him with the knife)

But he has a friend now, one he can trust never to hurt him

And a teacher who has his back

Ha

Did you really think I'm gonna let this go without more angst? Absolutely not

We of course have the infamous Nagisa-pokes-Karma-in-the-back scene

And Karma is absolutely terrified

He doesn't tell this to Nagisa, but there amount of people trying to sneak up on him and hurt him on the streets have increased

And he's been getting a fair amount of death threats from them as well

It's been making him a little paranoid

More like a very paranoid

So when Nagisa, his most trusted (and only) friend sneak up on him so easily

He suddenly gets the feeling that he will kill him in his sleep

"But it's Nagisa, he wouldn't do that... right?"

He ignores the feeling for a few days, even if the growing feeling of fear and defensiveness is only growing

Then he sees two older guys beating up someone older than him in Kunugigaoka

The guy being beat up seems to have bat ears, which Karma assumes is his Quirk

He can hear them talking as well

"No good" "Stupid" "Cheater" "Useless" "Nothing but trouble"

So many words that have been said against Karma

His mind is calm as he beats up both of the bullies

The bullied guy had apparently gotten a high score in math, his worst subject

His Quirk let him hear very well, and the teacher had decided he had cheated and sent him down to E class

Since then, he had been bullied and talked down to, called a cheater, a liar, an eavesdropper for the crime of having his Quirk

Karma got that story out of him right after asking if he was okay

"Sucks to have your fate decided for you like that, still, don't let them give you lip about it,"

Kensaku takes him to his office just hours later

"Huh? I'm in the right here. What's wrong with saving a bullied student?"

And Kensaku is furious, because this time, Karma didn't just attack some random kids

He fought a hero's kid, and the other was the top honor student from third year

And that hero wants to sue the school because his kid was hurt, even though he was the one bullying others!

As Kensaku reveals his true colors, Karma realizes exactly what he did wrong

Trusting people

He leaves Kensaku trembling on the floor of his trashed office

Later that day, he is the one who picks a fight

But the one he fights isn't some delinquent in an alley

It's a small group of villains

This time, it's a fight that he can't win

And Karma meets their leader

"Hmm, so your name is Karma, then? Quite fitting with your Quirk, isn't it?"

And Karma doesn't understand

The villain leader pushes her sleeve up, revealing a bleeding cut

One of her lackeys push up Karma's sleeve

"I cut you there in the fight, and you were unarmed and no one else went near me, yet I still have this cut. I've heard word of you from others, watched your fights with others, do you really not know your Quirk?"

There's just this moment of realization that the one who figured out his Quirk isn't his friend or a teacher or an adult

It's a villain

With that shock playing to their advantage, the villains find it easy to convert Karma

They don't need to worry about having him cut ties

He doesn't care too much about his parents, since they rarely ever talk anyway

His teacher just betrayed him

As for Nagisa, well, he really does like him, but the idea of him killing him...

It's a selfish feeling, because despite how nice Nagisa is, Karma can't bring himself to trust someone who could hurt him

And after all the times his classmates have called him bad luck for his Quirk, then call him insane for fighting back

Well, there goes the problem of wanting people to like him

The hardest part to change are his morals

Sure, he's okay with hurting people in self-defense, he doesn't mind lying or deceiving others when they deserved it

But hurting them for no reason?

Tricking innocents?

That's not him

He's got his limits of who he's willing to hurt, and it sums up with his name pretty well

Karma hurts those who hurt others, not innocent bystanders

"You've seen what you're 'innocent' classmates do! What makes you think anyone is any better? Not even heroes are innocent, so what makes you think the average civilian is?"

The villain's got a tough thing to crack with his moral code, but his trust in the world is so cracked that it's so easy to shatter

With those words, Karma remembers all the times someone called him bad luck, unlucky, and troublesome when he had done nothing but take a hit from them

All the times someone called him violent, sadistic, and insane, just for defending himself and other innocents

And those were just his classmates! Those were just people his age!

He has a strong moral code to not hurt innocents, but his trust in innocence is about as easily broken as surface tension by a knife

He spends the rest of his second year suspended

He spends the rest of his second year a villain, he calls himself the Red Devil, and the group of villains who converted him cheer

Even when he leaves them, they don't look down on him, or hurt him, or insult him

A villain might disrespect the law, but a villain respects other villains

Unless they're being stupid, in which case you don't

This isn't the case though, since Karma's more or less a genius

And yeah, I guess I could stop here, let canon events (Korosensei and class E) solve this

You can take that road if you like, but if you don't want to, here's another thing I wanted to do

Most AU's I've seen involve 1-A and 3-E being the same age and stuff

Yeah, I'm not doing that

In this AU, let's say that class 1-A is around two years older than Karma

One day, after Karma's third year has started but his suspension hasn't ended, class 1-A (or class 2-A, I guess, but I’ll just keep calling them 1-A) stumbles upon a group of villains while they were restraining

Karma was pretty against that particular group of villains, and they had been restraining him

They also had backup ready to be called at a moments notice

Karma's got a bit of a reputation

He used class 1-A's appearance as a distraction

While most of 1-A deal with the villains, Sero and Kirishima find Karma

The two of them battle, with Karma dodging and counter attacking Kirishima's every move

Karma's a smart opponent, he knows how how to fight and dogde attacks

On the other hand, he's not that dodging a bigger, stronger fighter than him self with more training, and a whole lot of tape flying around

What I'm trying to say is that Sero traps him with tape by his neck, torso, and his legs

Kirishima takes off Karma's mask because reasons, and it's like a fork is stabbing his heart

Repeatedly

Instead of seeing a normal, evil looking adult

He sees a kid a year or two younger than him with the most distrust he has ever seen

"Hey, you okay? I'm a hero, I'm here to help you!" Kirishima says, trying to sound as cheerful and reassuring as he can

Karma doesn't buy it

He remembers the when he got suspended for fighting a hero's kid

Which leaves just one question in his mind

What does he want from me?

Whenever someone helped him, they always had something they wanted, a hidden motive

What does Kirishima want?

What does he gain from helping him?

Is he just using him to look more heroic?

Yeah, that's probably it

His mind is strangely calm as a plan forms in his head

"So you're a hero, right?"

"Yeah! Well, hero in training, at least,"

"So, would a hero risk his mission to save someone?"

"Of course. A hero's a hero, after all,"

Karma slides out a little knife from his right sleeve

Sero and Kirishima tense, waiting for him to strike one of them

Instead, Karma moves to slit his own left wrist

Kirishima grabs his right arm, stopping him from letting the blade cut himself

Karma doesn't stop pushing against Kirishima

To him, it all makes sense, a win-win situation

If he lets go, then Karma will die, and his image as a hero will die with him for letting someone kill themself

If he holds on, then the villain group's backup will come soon enough and Kirishima will have to let go

And if he doesn't, then the villain's backup will kill him because Kirishima wouldn't be able to fight back

But Kirishima doesn't let go

He keeps holding on, talking to Karma, trying to get him to stop

But when Kirishima looks back at Karma's face, it feels like his heart is in his throat

Because Karma doesn't look conflicted, or angry, or sad, or despairing

He's just smiling, as if he's going to laugh

The thing is, Karma's forgotten one thing

Kirishima isn't alone

Kirishima doesn't let go, and he doesn't worry, because he knows his friends will have his back and defend him

It's something that Karma just doesn't get

He's never had any other friends except Nagisa, and even then Karma had been the one defending him

The concept of trusting someone to defend you, to have your back

It's something he's never experienced without there being a hidden motive, one that meant betraying him in moments like these

So Kirishima doesn't let go, and Karma is stuck there until the cops come and he's taken away to a hospital for a check up

Later, Kirishima comes and sees him in his hospital room

He asks Karma why he did that, why he was going to kill himself

"It was no big deal-"

"No. It was. We've questioned the other villains, and they say that they were planning on keeping and hurting you in revenge for some trick you played on them, so don't say you were just keeping me until backup came.”

Karma isn't willing to explain himself yet

Instead, he just asks Kirishima what he wanted

When the answer of "To save you," comes, Karma's sure he's lying

"Why? What do you gain from that?"

"I'm a hero. Saving people is what I do,"

What he means is that he cares about him and genuinely wants to save and help him

What Karma gets from that is that our Kiri is only helping him because of duty

Which makes sense to him

Then, Kirishima, who is pretty worried and concerned about Karma, pulls out a thick-ish book

Apparently, while they had been looking for his identity, thye had gotten access to his school reports

Flipping through it, Kiri reads out loud the part reporting how he had gotten suspended

It talks about the upperclassmen he had beaten up

Nothing about the guy they had beaten up, nothing about their background, no context of the fight

It frames him as someone who picked a fight randomly

Kirishima asks him why he fought two innocent people

"That's not what happened. It says there are two guys beaten up, right? There were three, though I wasn't one of them. The two of them were beating up another upperclassman. I came along and beat them up instead. Do you know why they weren't reported, or why the bullied guy wasn't mentioned?"

Karma's not sure if he's talking because Kirishima's so likable, because he's tired, or because it's just the false report, but he knows he's rambling and being way too honest

" It's because he was in E class. And I've gotten in plenty of other fights before that, but that was the one that sent me to suspension and to E class in a couple days. Wanna know why? Because one of them was the son of a hero, and the other one was a top scoring honor student,"

Kirishima hears all this, sees Karma looking at him looking so frustrated and frantic, and he can tell that it's the truth

"If two people like them - people barely even older or bigger than me - weren't innocent, than what makes you think anyone is? They're not innocents, and really, is anyone really innocent?"

Kirishima's heart breaks a little hearing Karma, someone only a little younger than him, talking so honestly about his completely distrust in people

And it takes a while, but once Karma goes quiet, Kirishima starts talking

Comfortingly, he does his best to restore some sort of trust in humanity to Karma

And he knows that it might not work on this kid, because he's seen how bad people can get firsthand after being a - villain?

Can they really call him that? There weren't many reports about the Red Devil, and the few there were always had someone defending him

Like one case had involved the Red Devil fighting some couple for no reason, but some people said the couple had been yelling at two women to make out and punched them for saying no

Most reports were like that, though no one ever believed the ones defending him

Judging by that, Karma had definitely seen or lived through evidence that a lot of people sucked

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