After relaxing for a while, Hayato got up and told Recovery Girl that he was okay and that he could go home. He also told her to tell Izuku and All Might that he was fine. Recovery Girl gently smiled and nodded in agreement to his request.
After saying thanks, Hayato left the infirmary. When he was on his way out of the gate, he saw Kendo and Toga. When he got closer he surprisingly saw Todoroki. Before Hayato could really compute this, he saw that Kendo was glaring at him while pouting; She seemed like she was sulking.
Kendo was heaven compared to what Toga was doing. She was much more vocal and physical about her anger, "You idiot, were you born without a brain? Does your quirk make it so your brain was replaced by muscle or something?!" her usual bright and sweet voice was replaced by one of anger and derision. She kept cursing Hayato for being a brainless idiot and kept hitting his chest.
This wasn't the "cute anime girl from some harem anime" kind of chest hitting. No, it was "World Heavyweight Championship" kind of hitting. Luckily, Hayato was sturdier than most and was largely unaffected.
All Hayato could do was let her go on at him. She seemed to be mad about Hayato putting himself at risk against the Nomu. He couldn't exactly blame her, he'd be mad if she or any of the others tried to fight that Nomu. Because of this, Hayato let her vent.
When she was calming down, Hayato smiled at her and put his hand on Toga's head, like you would do to a cat, and spoke to her in a gentle voice "I'm okay, Toga, you don't have to go worrying about me, okay? I wouldn't have gone into that fight if I didn't know I would win." his attempts seemed to placate Toga quite a bit. But now he had to deal with 2 pouting girls, who occasionally started glaring at him.
'Note to self: Never let Toga find out that I had zero percent confidence in winning that fight. Ever.'
Making that mental promise, Hayato heard Kendo speak "To make it up to us, you need to spend your day off with us tomorrow. We can invite others, but we all need to hang out." Hayato's eye started twitching at what Kendo just said. She sounded so sure in her self that she was the one who'd been wronged.
'I was the one at risk, you know? I never put you two in any risk, so why does it seem like I've done something bad?!'
As he mentally lamented, he remembered who else was here. Looking over to where Todoroki was, Hayato saw that she had a small smile on her face but as soon as she saw Hayato looking she tried to suppress it. Unluckily for her, she failed in doing so and only made her smile bigger.
"Sorry about these two, Todoroki-san, they're a bit mad at me right now." Hayato showed Todoroki a wry smile and apologized to Todoroki for showing off the same kind of drama as some kind of soap opera. Todoroki had an understanding expression on her face and she motioned for Hayato not apologize.
"Don't worry about it, Tagami-san, I'm just here to see how you're doing and to thank you for protecting the class like you did. Seeing as you're okay, I'll skip right to the thanks." Her voice was calm and slightly cold, but it wasn't meant to deter people, it was just how she was. Todoroki bowed slightly to Hayato "Thank you, for what you did."
Hayato and the other two looked at her in shock. They didn't know why she took the initiative to thank Hayato, mainly because she didn't seem like she'd do that. They all soon got over their shock and chalked this up as another reason why not to judge a book by it's cover.
Hayato told Todoroki she didn't need to thank him, he just did what he had to do. Todoroki only smiled at this and didn't say anything.
"Oh, Todoroko-san, do you want to come out with us tomorrow? It'd be fun!" When Toga talked to Todoroki she showed an attitude which was a complete opposite to what she'd been showing Hayato since she met him outside of school.
"Hmmm, I'll have to see If I'm free...I might have to do some personal errands to do but I'll give you my number so you can contact me and I'll get back to you, okay Toga-san?" Todoroki had a complicated expression for a second but it quickly disappeared and she gave Toga her phone number. Hayato noticed it but knew it was his business, so he didn't bring up the weird expression.
They all decided to walk to the station together. Todoroki lived close enough to the school, so she split off from the group and walked home. As Todoroki waved goodbye, the trio waved back and carried on walking, Hayato gave his number to Toga and Kendo and spoke to them about what they should do tomorrow.
Kendo suggested they should go to some kind of park and relax, Toga and Hayato agreed with her but Hayato suggested they should go to his and have lunch first before heading to the park. When asked if that would be all right, Hayato laughingly explained to the two that his mom was used to cooking massive portions of food because of him and his dad's appetite. When they got to the train station, Hayato told Toga to make a group chat with all of them in it. He gave her Izuku's number and she already had Todoroki's, Kendo's and Ochaco's, so she made the group chat.
When he looked in the group chat, he saw his nickname and he couldn't help but feel his eye aggressively twitching. If he didn't have such control over his strength, he would have probably destroyed his phone. The nickname was:
Muscle Brain Idiot
That wasn't the worst part when he looked at Kendo and Toga's nicknames he nearly burst a blood vessel in his eye:
Hayato's Best friend (Kendo)
Hayato's Number #1 Fan (Toga)
'Yeah, you guys really are showing it...!'
As he looked up from his phone he saw Toga and Kendo getting on their train pulling faces at him.
If it weren't illegal to use quirks in public and the fact that he'd get really hungry, he'd charged over there in [Oni Mode] and get on their train just to spite them. Hayato shook his head and couldn't stop a smile from spreading across his face; He had some good (weird) friends.
Hayato soon got on his own train and arrived at his station. He got off and looked around to see if anyone was around. When he knew the coast was clear, he activated his quirk and ran home. Before he knew it he was home.
When he entered the door of his house, his mom shot out of the living room and towards him. She looked incredibly worried and she kept checking all over his body for anything that was wrong. At this moment she was the very personification of maternal instinct.
"Are you okay, Hayato? Are you hurt? Do you want Mommy to help you upstairs to your room? Is there anything you need?" Getting barraged with questions, Hayato just smiled at her and told her he was fine. This did little to placate her worry but she stopped doing a full body search on him at least. Hayato heard some heavy footsteps and then saw his dad.
His dad was shaking from what Hayato assumed was anger. He was partly right.
"Are you okay, my son?! Do you need anything!?" His dad had run up to him and put his hands on Hayato's shoulders. Upon closer inspection, Hayato saw the worry and redness in his dad's eyes and even though he wasn't being very vocal about, he could feel the anger radiating off of him.
"Mom, Dad, I'm fine, don't worry!" Hayato spoke to them in a reassuring voice and brought them both into a hug. They both returned his hug and his mom even started crying a bit.
'I must have worried them...what a bad son I am to worry his parents this much...I need to get stronger to avoid this happening again, otherwise, how could I consider myself a filial son?'
Hayato and his parents soon broke up their hug after Hayato's stomach started rumbling, which earned him a laughter-filled gaze from his mom and a loud booming laugh from his dad; Now they truly knew their son was okay because he still had his appetite.
While his Mom went to make them all something to eat, Hayato went into the living room while his dad went to help his mom. He looked at his phone and saw that there'd been some new messages.
Hayato's Bestfriend: So what do you all think of the idea?
Midoriya Izuku: I'll come, it sounds like I'll be able to relax if we do your plan Kendo-san. I can get there for 11 am like you said.
Todoroki Shoka: I'm free tomorrow so I can come. I can get there at 11 am as well. Like Midoriya-san also said, it should be very relaxing. I just need Tagami-kun's house address now.
Ochaco Uraraka: I'll come! It'll be fun! (๑>ᴗ<๑)
Seeing that everyone was able to come, Hayato was quite excited for tomorrow. He hadn't really ever done any hangouts like this, it was usually just him and Deku playing video games in his room and sometimes going to the park.
Hayato quickly sent a message to the group/
Muscle Brain Idiot: ...I'm not incredibly happy with my nickname...Oh and here's my address, Todoroki-san ---> (xxxx-xxx-xxxx-xx)
Ochaco Uraraka: At least you got a nickname!（πーπ）
Muscle Brain Idiot changed Ochaco Uraraka's Nickname to "Barf"
Muscle Brain Idiot: There you go, you've got a nickname now （＾ｖ＾）
Barf: That's not nice, that's not very nice at all! (╥_╥)
Todoroki Shoka: What lovely nicknames you two have. Thank you, Tagami-kun.
After sending a few more messages to the chat, Hayato got up and walked to the kitchen and asked his parents if he could have some friends round for lunch. Unsurprisingly his parents said yes, they were even excited that their son seemed to have more friends then in Middle School where he only ever had Izuku around.
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Soon after Hayato sorted all that out, the food was ready and he and his parent's started digging into the mountain of food before them.
After finishing the meal and feeling full, Hayato bid his parent's goodnight and went to bed. He slept like a baby and woke up to his mom banging on his door at 9:30 am.
He got up and put some jogging bottoms on, not bothering to put a top on. It was his own house, he didn't really need to be wary of walking around with his upper body showing. He walked to his bathroom and brushed his teeth and washed his face before he went downstairs and had breakfast.
His dad had already gone, he had some work to sort out at his Hero Agency so he wouldn't be back for the entire day.
After finishing his breakfast, Hayato grabbed a big towel from the freshly washed and dried stuff and went to have a shower. He spent about 15 minutes showering and just relaxing. The physical strain from the fight yesterday was non-existent but the mental strain was still present, so he chose to relax by letting the warm water wash away his stress.
Hayato dried his hair with a hairdryer because if he used a towel it'd get stuck on his horns. And after that, dried his body. He put on a white t-shirt and some black tracksuit bottoms. He checked the time and saw that it was 10:10 am and he had plenty of time so he went downstairs and watched some tv.
When it was 10:50 am, Hayato went and brushed his teeth again and he put some socks on. Soon after he was done, Hayato heard a knock on his door.
Before he got there his mom was answering the door. Looking past her he saw that it was Toga, who had a big smile on her face. "Hello, I'm Toga Himiko, one of Tagami's friends!" her enthusiasm and sweet tone seemed to daze his mom for a bit, so he came up beside his mom and motioned for Toga to come into the house.
His mom soon snapped out of it and went back to the kitchen, while Toga and Hayato went into the living room.
"Wooow! Look at the size of this living room! I knew your house was gonna be big just from seeing the front when I was walking over but this is something else." Toga's voice and tone were just full of awe. Hayato just shrugged his shoulders, his parents were pro-heroes so his house was bound to be massive. Hayato seemed to forget that Toga didn't know this.
Hayato and Toga sat on the sofa next to each watching Tv and talking about random stuff. This was one of the reasons Hayato warmed up to her as a friend despite knowing what she was like in the show; She was incredibly easy to talk to. Mainly because she could spew out an endless fountain of topics.
For example, Hayato and Toga had talked about what kind of carpets are the best to walk on and feel, what pizza is the best kind of pizza and what would be their dream holiday. And this was within the last 10 minutes. That's not to say that each of the conversations was dry and died, no, they were vibrant and they came to a conclusion on all the subjects.
Mainly because their interests and likes were quite aligned. She liked fluffy carpets and so did Hayato, they both thought BBQ Texas Pizza was God's gift to mankind and they both wanted to visit Italy. Hayato thought that it was either Toga was pretending to like the same things as him, or he may have found some specifically bred to be his friend but either way, he didn't care, he enjoyed her company.
There was another knock at the door, which interrupted their current discussion about how good a Tv show they directed would be.
Hayato got up and went to answer the door. It was Ochaco and Izuku. Ochaco had a duffel bag with her, which she mentioned in the chat earlier, she brought some stuff so they'd have something to do later at the park.
Soon after, Kendo and Todoroki arrived,
They were all sitting in the living room, talking until Izuku mentioned something to the group.
"Hacchan, show the others the training room!" Izuku looked at Hayato with shining eyes. Hayato couldn't help but drag his hand over his face, he should never have shown a hero fanatic like Izuku his dad's training room.
Hayato stood up and motioned for everyone to follow him and follow him they did, they were all incredibly curious.
Hayato took them down into the basement and turned the lights on. What was shown was a big room with lots of high tech weight machines and some more normal weights on the ground. Everyone looked at the room and then looked at Hayato with expectation in his or her eyes.
"...*sigh* You guys can play around on the stuff, just don't break it or hurt yourself." Hayato resigned himself and let the others play around on the machines. Kendo morphed her arms into their battle versions and started lifting weights. Well, she tried to anyway.
"Woah--!" When she started trying to lift them, she couldn't. Her shocked face made Hayato smirk as she tried her best to lift the weight. Seeing his smirk, Kendo seemed to have steam coming out of her face.
"Are you looking down on me, Tagami? How about you come and lift this, huh?!" Kendo, in her anger at being looked down on, didn't realize that physical strength was Hayato's forte. Hayato walked up to the weight and put his hand on it "Okay, watch this."
After speaking, Hayato picked the weight up with ease. He looked at Kendo with a smug smile on his face. The others who were watching were laughing or trying to stifle their laughter.
After this little 'contest' they all messed around with the weights and Hayato helped them with the which weights they could lift; Pretty much the lightest ones. After they had enough time to sate their curiosity with the training room, they had all worked up an appetite.
Lucky for them, Hayato's mom had cooked them some food. They had a buffet and all ate as much as they could.
"We're gonna head out now then, Mom. See you later." Hayato said goodbye to his mom and walked outside with the others.
4 hours later~
"Man, I am beat. Hacchan, why'd you try so hard in that game of catch? You threw the ball a little too hard don't you think?" Izuku whined towards Hayato and Toga, while he and Ochaco lay on the floor out of breath. They'd just had a game of catch where if your opponent can't catch the ball or drops in, then you get a point. Eager to impress, Hayato didn't exactly hold back anything during the game.
"You're just a sore loser Midoriya, Tagami won, that's all he did." Toga came to Hayato's defense and stuck her tongue out at Izuku.
Leaving Toga and Izuku to argue, Hayato went over to the duffel bag Ochaco brought and took out a can of coke. Feeling how it was quite warm, Hayato frowned but soon an idea appeared in his head. "Hey, Todoroki-san, can you cool this can of coke down, please?" Hayato spoke to her with an almost begging tone; He was really thirsty.
"Sure, Tagami-kun." She took the can off of him and had a mischievous glint in her eye. Hayato couldn't stop her before she activated her quick "No, stop--!" The can was covered in ice before he could do anything, Hayato could only let his shoulders slump down as Todoroki passed him the block of ice containing his can. "Whoops, sorry Tagami-kun, I may have used too much of my power." She sounded like she was trying to be serious, but Hayato could see the tug at her lips which showed him she was suppressing a smile, he could also hear Toga and Kendo stifling their laughter behind him.
Hayato took the block of ice and broke it, revealing the can. Hayato looked at the can with pity and simply put it back in the bag and picked out a new one.
After this, all of them decided to leave, they'd relaxed and had quite a lot of fun, so their goal for coming here was complete.
Hayato got home and watched Tv with his Mom for a while. When asked how his day out was from his mom, he described what happened to her and spoke to her about how they all decided to do it again sometime in the future. He also had to put up with his Mom's teasing about how many of his friends are pretty girls.
After having a quick bit of food, Hayato went to relax in his room. He listened to some music while thinking about how to make his quirk better.
He looked at the horns on his head and thought about the names for the hormones they released. Hayato didn't entirely come up with their names, they actually came to him, like he was remembering what they were called. He put it down as something to do with his quirk and how he was still awakening its full potential. Hayato thought that this was weird because it meant that the letters could mean things.
Thinking this, Hayato put the letters in a line, in his head, in the order of when the horns appeared. What he got was O, which was first, R, which was second and finally, B. ORB. Hayato suddenly had an idea. He followed the hormones from the horns to where they went.
He used to think that they went from the horns to their specific part, like how O went to his muscles and tendons, R went to his organs and blood and B went to his bones and skin. But following the hormones, his new control and ability to follow the energy inside of himself, he saw that the hormones went from the horns to the place where his energy was stored. Looking at it, it didn't look like a simple energy storing place. It looked like an organ.
It seemed that the energy storage, which Hayato had decided to now call his Orb, was an organ that pumped the mixture of the hormones around his body, constantly nourishing it and supplying it with energy. Hayato was surprised by his discovery. His newfound organ seemed to have 10 pathways, 4 were currently being used. They were the pathways connected to his horns and his stomach.
It seemed that the energy in his Orb was a mixture of the Hormones and the energy he got from his food. Hayato followed his other pathways and saw that there was a pathway to each of his limbs, a pathway to his heart and one to his brain. This discovery made Hayato surprised, he knew how he would get stronger in the future; He'd work on opening these pathways.
Hayato slowly drifted off to sleep because he was unknowingly holding in a lot of stress about the fact he wasn't stronger. The fact that the Nomu could beat him down so much had put a lot of mental strain on Hayato but this discovery of how he could get stronger had lifted this strain and the fatigue had flooded into Hayato and sent him off to sleep.
Which was a good thing regardless of how early he had slept, he'd need the energy for school tomorrow.
. . . . . . . . .
In the morning, Hayato woke up and looked around in a daze. When he saw the date and time, he felt shocked that he'd slept so much but also thankful.
He did his morning routine and got dressed for school. He set off and met Izuku and they both got on the train. They soon arrived at U.A and got to class.
When Hayato was sitting down with his head on the desk with his eyes closed, he felt a karate chop on the back of his neck. Hayato grunted and tilted his head to see who it was. Unsurprisingly, it was Kendo. "What do you want, Kendo?" Hayato's voice was tired as he spoke. It was weird that he was so tired despite him sleeping so much yesterday but he didn't care, he knew there was nothing wrong with his body and he was just trying to catch up on sleep from the past few days.
"Did you watch the news yesterday? They were going on about all of us." Kendo didn't explain why she hit him but seemed disappointed that it didn't knock him out or something.
"No, I slept most of yesterday." Hayato replied as he rolled his head back over so he could close his eyes, it felt like he was about to enter hibernation or something. Kendo seemed angry at Hayato's lack of enthusiasm and sat down in her seat behind Hayato. Toga soon came in and sat next to Hayato, she kept poking him but Hayato would react; He was incredibly low on energy.
Seeing that Hayato wasn't going to be talking, Toga turned to the annoyed Kendo and asked her about who would be their teacher today and before Kendo could answer, the classroom door slid open.
In came the mummified Aizawa-sensei. He shuffled his way into the classroom "Morning class." His usual worn out voice came out quite muffled when he spoke through all the bandages on his face. Luckily, he didn't have any bandages covering his eyes.
To show that he was listening, Hayato propped his head up onto one of his hands while leaning his elbow onto the table. "My wellbeing is irrelevant. What's more important is that your fight isn't over." At Aizawa-sensei's serious tone, everyone perked up and looked at him with solemn expressions. The majority of the class started murmuring about how they might have to fight Villains again.
"The U.A Sports Festival is about to start." Aizawa-sensei's deadpan tone put everyone's worrying to bed but everyone still yelled: "WHY WOULD YOU SCARE US LIKE THAT?!".
After that little episode of class anger, everyone started getting excited by the thought of the Sports Festival being near.
The U.A Sports Festival was pretty much the Quirk Olympics and everyone watched it, it was a brilliant chance to get noticed and possibly scouted by a top class Heroes, seeing as they always tuned in to watch it as it always brought the best out of students and showed off their potential.
"As you all say, if you want to go pro, this is the tournament you want to show off in and show others what you've got to become a pro. This event could open a path for you, that's why it matters so much. One chance a year, 3 chances in a lifetime. No aspiring hero can afford to miss this festival." As he spoke, Aizawa-sensei seemed to instill passion into every student in the classroom as they all had fire in their eyes. Even the incredibly tired Hayato had a blazing inferno going off in his eyes.
How could he give up such a good chance to show off what it is that he has to become a hero?
Before everything could get hectic, Aizawa-sensei spoke again. "And that means that you better not slack off on your training!" he dropped his usual worn out voice and spoke with a strong and stern voice to make sure everyone got the message.
And they did, as they yelled in unison "YES SIR!".
Hayato let a smile spread on his tired face, this festival was gonna be interesting.