"OKAY class, I'll have your test graded by tomorrow", kayama sensei said as she winked.

hoshimi sighed as she left the class to see shigaraki waiting for her.

"you ready to go see her?", hoshimi asked.

"yep".

hoshimi had told the old woman at the hospital, that she's still interning at, that she'd bring shigaraki over briefly.

shigaraki wasn't sure what to feel. he only agreed because hoshimi asked him to.

"okay, we're here!!", hoshimi said as she walked in and checked both of them in.

hoshimi grabbed her white coat and clipboard. she looked very professional, making shigaraki give her a small smile.

"we're here mrs. shimura!!", hoshimi said as she opened the door.

shigaraki paused for a moment. 'shimura?' it's probably just a coincidence. shimura's a pretty common last name after all.

"this is him! shigaraki tomura", hoshimi introduced, pulling shigaraki inside the room.

"nice to meet you young man. I've heard many things about you", the old woman said.

shigaraki just smiled. "I hope it's all good things".

"definitely not", hoshimi said, as she checked the old woman's cast.

helping her onto the wheelchair, hoshimi rolled her out into the garden, with shigaraki following behind.

»»————-　★　————-««

"hello?", hoshimi answered her phone.

"hoshimi. is shigaraki with you right now?", aizawa asked.

"umm yeah, why—"

"come back to school immediately. principal's office", aizawa commanded, quickly hanging up the phone. 

hoshimi looked at shigaraki.

"is something wrong?", he asked.

"dad told us to go back to school. seemed urgent", hoshimi replied, stepping on the gas and driving back to the university.

hoshimi knocked on the principal's door. principal nezu was also one of her father's close friends, thus, she was less nervous.

"come in!", a mouse like voice said.

hoshimi walked in with shigaraki following behind. they both sat down in front of principal nezu, aizawa, and yamada.

"this doesn't really concern you", aizawa said to hoshimi.

"but—"

"it's fine", nezu said as he waved his hand.

"this conversation will not leave the room", aizawa said, totally serious now.

"mr. shigaraki. are you aware that your essay that you recently submitted is plagiarized?", nezu asked.

hoshimi felt her breath stop. it was one thing to cheat on a test and get caught. but plagiarism was automatic suspension. however since u.a's such a prestigious school, it meant immediate expulsion.

hoshimi looked over at shigaraki, who looked calm.

"no sir. I was not aware", shigaraki replied.

"the essay topic was about world war 2. you chose to specify on the battle of okinawa. however your essay is almost the exact same as this article", yamada said as he handed shigaraki a file of the article and his own essay.

shigaraki quickly skimmed through it. there were indeed many major similarities.

"sir, I did not write this essay", shigaraki boldly proclaimed.

"what do you mean by that mr. shigaraki? is this not the essay you submitted?", nezu asked.

plagiarism was super important to a student's reputation. once you've been blamed for it, it's on your record forever.

"sir, I can show you my computer and let you see the edits that I've made. there's no way that I wrote some of these paragraphs", shigaraki said.

"tomura would never cheat! we almost always do our homework together", hoshimi vouched.

"fine. bring in your computer", aizawa said.

shigaraki quickly scurried away, then coming back with his computer. he set it in front of the three teachers, logging into his account and such.

he then brought up the google doc in which he wrote his essay.

hoshimi waited nervously, hoping that this wouldn't get shigaraki expelled.

"it doesn't show any major changes. it's like you discreetly copy and pasted it, while also typing some of it out", aizawa pointed out.

"and it's under your account too", yamada chimed in.

"but...I...", shigaraki was speechless. had he really been so unobservant of his own essay? there were certain things that he clearly remembered he didn't write. so how did it end up on his paper? how did his essay change without him knowing?

"principal nezu! please give us a few days. I believed tomura, and he would never do something as despicable as this", hoshimi said, standing up.

nezu seemed to hesitate. he looked at the desperate hoshimi and calm shigaraki. he sighed and closed his eyes.

"okay. but only three days", nezu said.

"thank you!!", hoshimi smiled.

"now go away", aizawa said.

hoshimi complied as she walked out of the office with shigaraki.

"it's going to be okay", hoshimi softly said, squeezing shigaraki's hand.

shigaraki just nodded. worst case scenario, he does get expelled. he would just have to find a full time job and start from there.

"lets go find iida. I'm sure he can help!!", hoshimi suggested.

"yeah, let's go do that", shigaraki said as he held onto hoshimi's hand tighter.

it didn't matter as much to him as long as hoshimi could graduate and achieve her dream.

»»————-　★　————-««

"did it work?"

"I'm not sure boss. it seems like miss hoshimi asked for a few days extension", replied kurono.

chisaki sighed. after all the trouble he's gone through to try and get shigaraki expelled.

"why's she getting in the way?", chisaki muttered to himself.

"maybe because that's her boyfriend you're trying to expel", rappa replied, making irinaka elbow the buff man.

chisaki glared at rappa.

"not for long. I'll soon have her all to myself. we're meant to be".