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Katsuki Bakugou stood with his arms crossed, spiky blonde hair glowing red in the beach sunset behind him and a sneer on his face, surveying this year’s crop of frat boy wannabes. It was a large group, unsurprisingly, considering UA or Upsilon Alpha was the most desirable fraternity on campus to pledge to. Next to him, the chapter’s President, Iida, adjusted his glasses and made his usual chopping motion toward the mostly frightened-looking freshmen. Further down the beach, master of the barbecue Sato was getting the burgers and dogs ready and spreading out salads and condiments on the table next to them. His girlfriend Jirou was setting up sound equipment next to him. She always was the DJ for their functions.
“Welcome Potential New Members! Thank you for joining us at UA’s first recruitment event: the Alumni Beach Barbecue! Here you will meet a few of our most illustrious alumni and learn all about what makes us the number one fraternity on campus, and in the world!”
The rushees started whispering excitedly to one another. Katsuki noticed one particularly nerdy-looking one that seemed to be mumbling to himself while gesturing wildly with his hands. The fuck? He had messy-looking green hair falling into bright green eyes, a stupid T-shirt that actually said “T-shirt” on it and ridiculous red sneakers. There was something seriously annoying about him, yet Katsuki couldn’t take his eyes off him.
Katsuki interrupted Iida’s monologue about how UA had the highest GPA on campus and performed the most acts of community service and pointed to said nerd.
“Oi, what are you supposed to be? Some kind of fuckin’ green bean?” Katsuki grinned and the snickers around the boy caused two pink circles to appear on chubby freckled cheeks. Iida glared disapprovingly.
“I-I’m Izuku Midoriya, s-sir!” the kid stammered, looking helplessly around him. Most of the others cast their eyes away from him, not wanting to draw Katsuki’s attention to themselves instead.
“Hah? Did you say your name was Deku?” smirked Katsuki, elbowing his buddy Kirishima, next to him. The little green blob’s cheeks grew even pinker. He pulled at his T-shirt collar nervously and Katsuki noticed slender freckled collarbones peeking out of the neckline. Why was this bean so skinny and what the hell was he doing pledging a frat? He looked like he should be getting ready for a Comic-Con or some shit. Not that Katsuki himself wasn’t a bit of a superhero fanboy, but he wouldn’t let any of the extras in his frat know about that!
“Katsuki, enough!” trumpeted Iida and chopped his big hand toward him. “And that reminds me!” he announced loudly, as usual as though he was about to give some kind of shitty Ted Talk. “UA has a strictly no hazing policy! You will be safe with us! There will be no humiliation or paddling!”
“Unless you ask us nicely!” snorted dumbass Kaminari, high-fiving equally idiotic Sero and then attempting to smack his ass. Sero snapped his arm out and grabbed Kaminari by the wrist, and they started to roughhouse on the ground next to Iida, getting sand all over themselves like the idiots that they were. Katsuki rolled his crimson eyes and glanced over at the green bean, Deku or whatever his name was, who made eye contact with Katsuki and turned even more red if that was possible. Interesting.
Kirishima suddenly stepped forward, gently nudging Iida out of the way. He was VP of recruitment and Katsuki was sure he was worried Tenya was going to bore the students to death with his monologue before they even decided to pledge. “Hey, hey, hey everyone; I’m Eijiro Kirishima, why don’t the rest of you introduce yourselves and we can get this party started!” He grinned his sharp teeth at them, his friendly and relaxed demeanour put them more at ease than stiff Iida, or Katsuki assumes, himself. He knows he intimidates people and he likes it that way. It shouldn’t be too easy for these brats to join UA. Just because they couldn’t be hazed anymore according to the laws of their fraternity head office didn’t mean he couldn’t mess with them a little.
Kirishima pointed at a sandy-haired rather boring-looking guy in the front. “We’ll start with you. What’s your name and what’s your game?” Kirishima grinned at Katsuki, who snorted and again rolled his eyes. Shitty Hair was so corny sometimes. Katsuki couldn’t believe he had worn his crocs to a rush event. Actually, he could believe it, this was Kirishima after all.
“I’m Mashirao Ojiro, I’m actually here on a karate scholarship.” smiled the kid.
“Karate scholarship, how manly!” shouted Kirishima, clapping the startled kid on the back. Katsuki was hoping it would result in him pulling a karate move on Kirishima and taking him down but no such luck. The poor guy smiled painfully and rubbed his back a little. Kirishima’s hands were as solid as rocks and could inflict more damage than he intended sometimes.
“Now, who else do we have?” Shitty Hair smiled brightly at the group, running his hands through his spiked bright red hair.
A constipated-looking blonde standing next to Deku raised his hand. “Neito Monoma here. I’m Upsilon Alpha legacy, son of Foxley Monoma, one of your more generous alumni.” he simpered in a grating tone that caused Katsuki to clench his fists in annoyance. That was unfortunate, barring any extreme events, they would be more or less forced to accept this loser. Kirishima smiled politely but seemed less enthusiastic than he had with the previous candidate. No doubt, this kid looked like a pain in the ass as he stood there smirking with his stupid Draco Malfoy face.
“Ah yes, indeed.” nodded Iida, perhaps trying to make up for the lack of enthusiasm. “Certainly a generous alumnus. We appreciate the donation of our chapter house library. On that note, are there any more legacy amongst us?”
A very odd-looking yet somehow not unattractive, kid, with glossy red and white hair and heterochromatic eyes, one of which was framed by a red scar, limply raised his hand and said in a monotone “Shoto Todoroki. My dad is Enji Todoroki.” He certainly didn’t seem to be bragging like the other brat had, which didn’t surprise Katsuki, having met Todoroki Sr. at alumni events before and knowing him to be a complete asshole, even if he was well-known, appearing frequently on the news.
“W-wow!” gasped the green bean out of nowhere, his mouth forming a little o shape. Katsuki tried not to notice his cherry red plump lips and sparkling green eyes. What a nerd, getting excited about shitty Enji Todoroki? “F-Fire Commissioner Todoroki is your dad? Wow, th-that’s so c-cool.” Katsuki snorted, he didn’t really see what was so cool about that blathering old fart who always seemed to be screaming on tv. The half and half kid nodded weakly at Deku, without a smile; clearly, he didn’t seem to share Deku’s excitement. There was a brief awkward pause and Deku kicked at the sand, looking embarrassed at his outburst. Without thinking it through, Katsuki stepped forward and poked the bean roughly in the stomach. He was surprised to feel tightness there, he thought it would be soft, befitting a nerd like Deku. Katsuki got ready to blow his mind. He certainly wasn’t trying to draw attention away from the nerd’s shameful fanboy behaviour.
“Hey shitty nerd, you think that’s cool? Guess who’s coming tonight, hah? Toshinori Yagi!” Izuku looked like he might be about to have an honest to God heart attack as he grasped his chest with two hands and actually staggered backwards dramatically. “A-all Might? Is coming h-here to-tonight?” he squeaked as his emerald eyes widened and he continued making little excited sounds. Katsuki smirked at him. It was pretty easy to fluster this nerd. He wasn’t sure why he enjoyed the idiot’s ridiculous squealing and chirping so much. He was like a nerdy green hamster. Katsuki had a feeling the nerd was an All-Might movie fan, and probably his whole reason for wanting to join UA was because of Mr. Yagi. (Of course, Katsuki would never, ever tell the nerd or anyone else that he had chosen this school, and this fraternity for the very same reason. It was his secret to bring to his death bed.)
“All Might is his character you nerd, and yes he is coming tonight, so try not to do anything stupid and embarrass us in front of him!”
Katsuki snorted and roughly messed up the idiot’s fluffy green curls, which felt impossibly soft under his hand. Deku let out a little giggle.
“I-I won’t, I p-promise.” stammered Deku, his green eyes sparkling, hands clutched to his chest and giggling away like an idiot. Somehow Katsuki had a feeling that Deku wouldn’t be able to keep that promise. He looked like a complete disaster waiting to happen. Katsuki decided he better stay extra close to this stupid nerd, and make sure he didn’t drown himself in the ocean in front of one of the world’s most famous action movie stars. It was purely for safety reasons, obviously.