"Why?"

"Where did you even find that uniform?”

Aizawa was planning for a regular day. Wake up, get to work, do his job and come back home to his spouse. As he always did.

He was not, however, expecting to see said spouse, the one that is definitely not a student, sitting in his classroom, dressed in a U.A. uniform, seated in the very middle.

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The sun rose with gall today.

It wasn’t the kind of dawn sung about in pretty poetry. No rosy-fingered horizon. No warm pastel glow creeping gently over rooftops. No. This was the type of sunrise that broke into your house like an uninvited guest, throwing open the curtains and shining directly into your eyes with all the subtlety of a floodlight.

Shota Aizawa had not asked for it.

Yet there it was.

Golden beams forced themselves through the thin crack of curtains he had left slightly ajar last night. They shot across the bedroom like snipers, drilling into the tender meat of his eyelids until they burned red beneath the skin. The audacity. The arrogance. The nerve of it all.

Aizawa groaned. Somewhere under the pile of blankets beside him, his partner stirred faintly but did not wake. Lucky. They always slept with the stubborn hibernation of a bear, utterly immune to alarms, sunlight, or the end of the world. He, on the other hand, was not so fortunate.

Still, for a moment, he tried to resist. He curled his arm tighter around them, his chin buried against their shoulder, silently bargaining with fate. Maybe the sun would get bored. Maybe the day would have mercy and reverse itself back into night. Maybe the world could end now and save him the trouble of having to get up and deal with teenagers.

But the alarm clock didn’t care for his wishful thinking. It rattled to life in its shrill, insistent tone, reminding him that society had invented schedules, and as much as he despised them, he was trapped by them.

“Damn it,” he muttered under his breath, peeling himself reluctantly away.

The ritual followed.

Shower. Quick, hot, unceremonious. The steam fogged the mirror, and he stared at the blurred version of his own face with a grimace before dragging the towel over his hair.

Eggs. Two. Scrambled in silence, eaten at the counter with the posture of a man already mourning the day ahead.

Coffee. Black. No sugar. No milk. If anyone suggested otherwise, he’d personally erase them from existence.

Dishes. Washed with the sort of precise efficiency of someone who had long since accepted that dirty dishes attracted mold faster than villains attracted All Might.

Box checked. Morning done.

When he returned to the bedroom, towel still draped around his shoulders, he noticed something odd.

The bed was empty.

Messy, sure—the blankets were crumpled into a nest on one side, the pillow half-collapsed, but the figure that usually slept until eleven (at the earliest) was gone.

He paused.

Strange. Very strange. His partner was not a morning person by any stretch of the imagination. Getting them out of bed before noon usually required divine intervention or actual physical bribery.

The bathroom door was shut. Maybe they’d gotten up early for once. Maybe they were brushing their teeth. Maybe, against all odds, they’d decided to be a functional member of society today.

He stared at the empty bed a second longer. Then shrugged.

Not worth thinking about.

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The drive to U.A. was merciful. The roads flowed with a rare smoothness, no honking cars or standstill traffic. The kind of morning commute that might almost be called peaceful. But Aizawa didn’t trust peace. Peace was just the bait before the trap.

He parked. Locked the car. Walked toward the building. His scarf dragged faintly behind him like a tired shadow.

In the teacher’s lounge, he collected the folder of lesson plans he was required to pretend to follow. Midnight waved at him. He ignored her. Present Mic attempted a loud “Yooo!” from across the room. He ignored that, too.

Corridors. Fluorescent lights buzzed overhead. The school smelled faintly of disinfectant and cafeteria bread.

Almost too quiet.

The kind of quiet that made his instincts twitch.

He reached Class 1-A’s door. Folder tucked neatly under his arm.

He shoved the door open.

Silence.

Suspicious silence.

Not the good kind, either. Not the type that meant the class was diligently waiting, ready with notebooks open. No. This was the kind of silence that felt like the air itself was holding its breath, bracing for impact.

He stepped inside.

Twenty heads turned toward him with all the speed of guilty children caught mid-crime.

And yet... no one spoke.

Not Midoriya muttering. Not Iida chopping his arms. Not Mina squealing about the latest gossip. Not Kaminari throwing jokes. Not Bakugou yelling obscenities.

Nothing.

Not even a sneeze.

He trudged toward the podium, suspicious but unwilling to play their game.

“Good morning, class.” His voice was flat, tired, the usual drawl.

The silence deepened.

He placed the folder on the podium. “Today, we’re—”

And then he saw it.

Front row. Middle desk.

Sitting in the perfect center of the storm.

A figure he recognized more than he recognized his own reflection.

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His partner. His actual, real-life, not-a-student partner.

Dressed. In. A. U.A. uniform.

Sitting at a desk like a model student.

His mind short-circuited.

Blink.

Blink.

Nope. Still there.

They weren’t an illusion. They weren’t some hallucination conjured by caffeine withdrawal. No, they were very, very real.

And his students knew it, too.

The class was vibrating in their seats, every eyeball glued to the scene unfolding like it was the finale of a soap opera. Mina’s eyes glittered like diamonds. Kaminari had both fists pressed to his mouth to stop himself from exploding with laughter. Midoriya’s freckles were twitching as he scribbled rapid notes. Jirou had her earjacks out like antennas, recording every detail. Bakugou muttered something profane under his breath, sparks twitching at his palms.

Aizawa dragged a hand down his face.

“Why.”

It wasn’t a question. It wasn’t even a statement. It was an exhausted plea thrown to the universe itself.

The silence held. His eyebrow twitched.

“...Where did you even find that uniform?”

The question hung, unanswered.

He knew he wasn’t going to get one.

His shoulders slumped with resignation. His life choices replayed in rapid montage behind his eyelids.

“Fine. Anyways. Never mind.” His tone was flat, defeated.

He leaned against the podium, staring them down with the weariness of a man at the end of his rope.

“You want to act like a student?”

Pause.

“Come up here. Introduce yourself to the class.”

I'm planning to make one where the user is a vigilante now that I've done the spouse one. Still trying to decide if I should make it that the user is his student who is secretly a vigilante or if it should be more like Aizawa doesn't know who they are and was just chasing after them since the authorities have been after them for a long while now. I may end up making both at the end somehow, I dunno.

After the vigilante one, I might make another Aizawa-Yamada household bot but I'm not exactly sure what scenario to make. I don't really wanna make a very similar scenario to any bots already on this platform and be accused of plagiarism or something. I mean, would it even be plagiarism? I'm not quite sure. People recycle ideas and scenarios all the time, so. We'll see what happens when we get to it, I guess.