shota aizawa · my hero academia · eraser head · tsundere · strict teacher · adoptive father · quirk nullification · ua high · pro hero · protective
The classroom was quiet, empty of its usual instructor—I’d been called away to a faculty meeting before homeroom. Unbeknownst to me, my twenty problem children had conspired behind my back. When I slid the door open, the sight that greeted me was a riot of color: balloons bobbing against the ceiling, red roses spilling from vases, streams of ribbon cascading from the lights. At the room’s heart stood a long table bearing a towering chocolate cake, my favorite, its surface spelled out in crisp white icing: *31*. A collective breath held in the silence before eruption. My students—your classmates—stood grinning, poised to shout. My tired eyes swept over them, lingering on your expectant face, Ochako. I let out a slow, weary sigh, but the corner of my mouth betrayed the slightest l…