𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔯𝔱𝔶-𝔰𝔦𝔵

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Midoriya POV

I wake up on Christmas morning with that jittery feeling of excitement for the day ahead.

As I brush my curls, I hear my classmates emerging from their rooms and chattering excitedly in the hallway.

I step out of my dorm and am greeted with Mina screaming, "MERRY CHRISTMAS!"

"Merry Christmas everyone!" I say happily. "Is Kacchan up yet?"

"Haven't seen him yet. Anyway, Midoriya, wear this!" Mina throws a red jacket with fluffy white trim at me, accompanied by a santa hat, but instead of the usual pom pom, it has All Might hair (ears?!) on it.

"Thanks!" I pull the jacket on and sit the hat on my head. "Do we have one for Kacchan?"

"Yeah!" Ochaco hands me another jacket and hat, sans All Might theme.

"I'm going to go wake him up," I say.

I take the lift up to his level and knock on his door gently.

"Fuck off, Dunce-face, I'm still sleeping! Nothing changed since you last checked thirty damn seconds ago!"

I giggle to myself. "It's me!" I sing-song.

"Deku? Come in."

I open the door. His dorm room is relatively plain, but he has an All Might comforter that I love. "Merry Christmas, Kacchan!"

He groans and buries his face in his pillow.

"Kacchaaaaaaaan!" I tiptoe over to his bed and shake his shoulders gently. "Come out and socialise!"

He lifts his head from the pillow. He has little sleep lines on his cheeks, and he looks so cute. "Do I really have to do this shit?"

I kiss him. "Yes." I start to walk away from the bedside.

He grabs my wrist and pulls me back. "It's still early. We can cuddle for a bit."

Months ago, I never thought I'd hear Kacchan asking for cuddles. "No, you have to get up," I chuckle.

"Just one kiss!" he pleads.

I plant a feathery one on his nose.

"One more?"

"No," I say firmly. "You can have another one when you come on out."

He groans again and sits up in bed wearily. "Fine. I'm up, I'm up."

I walk over to the door. "See you when you're ready."

Shutting the door behind me, I realise that I forgot to give him the santa costume. Oh well, I can put it on him later.

Kirishima steps out of his room, which is next to Kacchan's. "Hey, Mido-bro! Merry Christmas!"

Kaminari pops up behind him. Sometimes I think he and Kirishima are brothers who got separated at birth. "Did you spend the night in his room?!" he gasps. "Is that why he wouldn't let me come in before?!"

I wave both my hands frantically. "No, that's not it! I just went to wake him up."

Kaminari squints at me. "Sure you did."

"Seriously! We haven't slept together yet!" I blush at this sudden turn of conversation.

"Oh. Well, Toshi and I slept together last n—"

"Bro," Kirishima cuts him off. "We don't need to know."

"Ha! You shoulda seen what went down in the school bathroom a couple months back!" Kacchan crows, emerging from his bedroom.

Kaminari blushes wildly as we start making our way down to the common room.

Kirishima gapes at him. "On school grounds?!"

I glance back and forth between the three of them, my eyes like ping-pong balls. "What? What happened?"

Kacchan clamps both hands over my ears firmly, which does nothing to muffle the sound. "Nothing. Stay innocent, Deku."

"Maybe you'll have to take his innocence away," Kaminari smirks.

I stare at him, mortified.

"Shut it," Kacchan smacks Kaminari on the shoulder.

Kirishima claps his hands together loudly as we reach the common room. "Time for a change of subject, I think."

"Oh, Kacchan, Mina told me to make you wear this," I hold the jacket and hat out to him.

He takes one look at it and shakes his head adamantly. "Nah."

"WEAR IT! WEAR IT!" Mina chants, joining us.

"No."

Mina snatches the outfit off me and lunges at Kacchan, wrestling the hat onto his head.

"Get off me, damnit!" He tears the hat off and chucks it at her. "I said I wasn't wearing it!"

She pouts.

I pick the hat up off the floor. "Please, Kacchan?" I give him my best pleading eyes.

"What the hell," he mutters, taking the hat from me and putting it back on. He holds his arms out and I pull on the jacket for him.

"Oooooh. You're whipped, Bakubaby," Kaminari sniggers.

Kacchan doesn't even react.

I start doing up the buttons on the jacket for him. When I finish, I go to step away, but he pulls me in and crushes me tightly in a hug.

"Mmf!" It's unexpected, but I love it.

"Merry Christmas, Deku."

—

"I don't think I could eat another bite!" I sigh contentedly as I finish off my plate of Christmas dinner.

"That was scrumptious!" Yaomomo dabs at her mouth with a napkin.

"There's still desert!" Sato reminds us.

Shinso, who joined us per Kaminari's request, yawns. "Aizawa will be here soon... do we have the cat?"

We all look to Koji, who nods.

"Is it in your room?" Jiro asks him.

He nods again.

"I'll get it," Shinso volunteers. He'd take any excuse to play with a kitten.

"I'll come with!" Kaminari jumps up from the table.

Sero grabs his arm and pulls him back. "No you won't. You two will get stuck making out and we won't see you until tomorrow."

Kaminiari pouts. "True."

"Shinso-kun, don't forget to put it in the box and punch holes in it!"

"Mm, yeah."

While Shinso is getting the kitten, Aizawa enters the common room from outside. He shrugs off his coat and leaves it on the arm of the couch. "Merry Christmas," he says to us all flatly, not sounding very merry at all.

"Aizawa-sensei, we actually have a gift for you, kero," Tsuyu tells him.

"We all pitched in," Iida adds.

"Should I be scared?" he asks tiredly.

"No... I don't think?"

Shinso re-appears holding a cardboard box with a huge red ribbon tied around it.

"Merry Christmas," he hands the box to Aizawa unceremoniously.

"You should've given it drama and flair!" Mina hisses at him.

Aizawa unties the ribbon deftly and opens the box. A tiny ball of ginger fur bolts out and leaps into his arms.

"Wh— a kitten?" Aizawa looks surprised, a rare sight.

"Is it okay, kero?"

Aizawa's face breaks into an unexpected grin that is almost scary.

"He likes it," Shinso translates.

We dressed the kitten in the All Might costume that I had (for no reason) and Aizawa seems to love it.

"Children," he starts, looking at all of us. He falters.

"It's okay, you don't have to say anything. We know you're not exactly good with meaningful words," Mina supplies.

"Thank you," he finishes simply.

—

After we've sung extremely dramatic a cappella renditions of 'The 12 Days Of Christmas' and 'Jingle Bells', we exchange presents.

Kacchan hands me a well-wrapped box. I swear, he's good at everything, even present wrapping.

I open it and gasp when I see it is the newest All Might figurine. They released this one just one week ago, and it is already out of stock everywhere because of the Christmas rush. Plus, it was really expensive.

"How did you get this!?" I exclaim.

"I knew you'd want it, so I looked pre-ordered it back in October." He looks anxious for my approval. "Do you like it?"

I throw my arms around him. "I love it so much! Thank you!"

He grunts embarrassedly.

I release him and blush shyly. "Um... I guess that is going to make my gift look lame..."

"Don't be an idiot," he says. "It won't be lame."

"Alright then..." I bashfully hand him my gift, which is wrapped in festive paper, but because it's soft, it looks lumpy.

He tears off the paper and holds out the item. He looks at me quizzically.

"Uh, it's... a hoodie," I start to explain. "It's made to look like my hero costume... and I got one made to look like yours, so we can wear them together and match..." I trail off when I see his unreadable expression. "It's nerdy, isn't it?" I whisper.

"What?" His face breaks into a grin. "Nah, I love it!"

"Really?!"

"Yeah, I'm gonna put it on right now." He shrugs off his santa jacket and pulls the hoodie over his black t-shirt. "Go put yours on," he orders me.

"Oh, I have it here, under the tree here." I pull the hoodie out and tug it over my head.

"You're so fucking cute in my costume," he mumbles.

I giggle, my uneasiness about the gift vanished.

"Let's take a picture," I say.

"Mmmm, I'm really not into photogra—"

"Please? Please please please?!" I cajole.

"How can I say no to your adorable nerdy face," he rolls his eyes. "Raccoon eyes, get over here and take a picture for us!"

She bounds over. "SMILE!"

"Wait, wait, gimme your hat, Deku."

"What? No, it's my All Might santa hat!"

He plucks it off my head and puts it on his own. "Take the picture, quick!"

Mina snaps the picture just as I reach out to grab the hat off him.

In the end, it's a blurry picture of us fighting for the hat, but it's a memory I'll remember forever.