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This is a part 2 to my original post, where izuku dropped the face of the earth for 7 years and randomly showed up at U.A at 25 years old to teach.
This post is gonna be a long one.

Original post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BokunoheroFanfiction/s/sBMUGAr1Lz

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Out of all the things one can expect at U.A academy, a group of 9 of the most famous and competent heroes of the modern age storming through the school after classes have ended for the day is surprisingly low on the list.

Several students jump at the chance to get autographs or to speak to their favorite heroes from the legendary class 1-A, they immediately backtrack upon looking at their faces and realizing that now is absolutely not the time.

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Toshinori had just been finishing the last of the days paperwork as vice principal when 9 of his former students barge through the door to his office, it doesn’t take genius to realize why they are here and for all that toshinori loves izuku like a son, he wholeheartedly deserves this. “He’s in class 1-A” simple and to the point, all 9 of his former students are gone before he could even say another word.

Toshinori wonders if they might be able to get the truth out of izuku, even he doesn’t know where he’s been all these years.

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Izuku noticed them immediately of course, hard not to with his senses and even if he hadn’t,
- sometimes he’s so engrossed in something that the rest of the world melts away - Izanami, his zanpakutou, his oldest friend would gently cuff him across the head to get his attention.
He doesn’t blink or startle when they door to the classroom slams open, he looks up from the papers he was grading to the - shock, relief, anger, so many different emotions burn in the hearts of these people in front him - faces of Creati, Uravity, Shoto, Ingenium, Dynamight, Earphone jack, Chargebolt, Pinky and Red riot staring at him.

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Ochaco almost didn’t believe it at first, she thought she misheard the bright eyed first year in front of her. “I’m sorry, who did you say your homeroom teacher was?” Ochaco asks the intern standing before her.

“it’s Deku ma’am, or Midoriya sensei i guess” the intern replies lackadaisically, unaware that that single sentence had completely tilted ochaco’s world, after a couple phone calls she and everyone else who could make it went straight to U.A.

Which leads to now, she’s stands speechless because in front of her sits Midoriya izuku, his hair is white now, a stark snow white that brings all the attention to his eyes, what little bay fat was still left on his cheeks by the time he graduated U.A is gone now. He looks all grown up, he looks beauti-

“DEKU!!”

Bakugo katsuki stomps up to the teachers desk and picks the man up by the hem of his overcoat bringing them face to face, “Where the fuck have you been!!?”, his immediate action shocks the rest of them out of their reverie and they all pool into the classroom and ask the same question, Yaoyorozu being the ever sensible one closes the door and gracefully seats herself on one of the students desk, she hasn’t said anything yet, she simply stares at him with a calculating gaze as if asking ‘is that really midoriya?’

The man in question hasn’t so much as flinched after being picked up and yelled at point blank “Kachan, you guys. How have you guys been?”

“Don’t ‘Hi, How have you been’ me Deku, WHERE THE FUCK HAVE YOU BEEN THE PAST SEVEN FUCKING YEARS!!?”

Iida grabs bakugo at the wrists and gently coaxes him into sitting on a desk - read: pulls him back and slams him down gently onto a desk - “I understand we all have questions but let’s all calm down first and foremost and ask our questions in an orderly manner” Iida lets his class president voice bleed into his speech “and i hope our dear missing friend here can answer them” Iida pointedly looks at izuku when he says that, bakugo is this close to foaming at the mouth

“De- Izuku nobody has heard or seen from you since we graduated U.A, not me, not all might and not even your mother. Where have you been? How long have you been back? Why didn’t you tell us you came back?” The questions flow out of ochaco like water out of a dam and she barely stops herself from walking up to him and shaking him.

Izuku for his part looks incredibly calm among the sea of yelling that just occurred, he tilts his head and his green eyes look over every one of them, he’s happy to see them but he seems reluctant to speak.

“I can’t tell you where i’ve been, i’ve only been back for six months and i didn’t tell anyone but all might and my mother because i have no answer to you all” he says solemnly “cutting you all out of my life was a painful and dickish move but it was a necessary one, barging back into your lives after all these years and not being able to tell where I’ve been or what happened to me is an even more disrespectful, downright horrible act.”

“You all deserve better then that, better then me”
“But why?!” Kirishima yells out from the back “why can’t you tell us?” Kaminari chimes in, and soon the rest of them share their own similar questions.

“Legally I can’t tell you, it’s classified” Midoriya says as he turns and starts packing his back, patiently putting essays back into their files to be graded later. The man is in no hurry, “Classified?! What kind of bullshit black ops fuckery did you do deku?!” Bakugo manages to control his temper enough to talk, maybe it’s the honesty in his old friend’s eyes or the ease in which he moves, he doesn’t know what it is that calms him down.

“Seven years worth of black ops fuckery kachan.” Izuku says with a rueful smile

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I know that’s a disappointing place to end it but i genuinely don’t know what to do after this, i have a plot forming around Izuku’s time in W.h.a sector 0 and all but i genuinely don’t how to tackle the issue with his friends from U.a. The fact of the matter is that Izuku can’t, he can’t tell them about a single thing that happened not only for their safety but also its straight up illegal to do so, and while izuku could cash in his many favors and let his friends in on every single international secret he’s privy too, he won’t. He was captain of squad 13 and has saved the world enough times to know that some things should stay hidden.

Any help on how to move on from here would be appreciated, i’ll try to answer every comment i can.
Thank you for reading.

What if izuku stopped talking to his entire class after he got out of high school, no explanation, no goodbye. He simply just vanishes and isn’t seen or heard from for 7 years, by which time it’s discovered that he very recently started teaching at u.a that very same year.

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Izuku remembers walking this path towards U.A just over a decade ago, a bright eyed teenager finally beginning their hero academia. With his fresh U.A uniform, an inherited quirk and a deeply buried self hatred he trudged his way to school with that garish yellow backpack.

He’s 25 now, as quirkless as the day he was born. He’s looks indistinguishable from the average Japanese salary man, maybe a little taller than average. But for all his unique features -snow white hair, freckles and scars, bright knowing green eyes- he is unremarkable in demeanor, and therefore he makes his walk to work in peace.

He’s lucky toshinori still has a soft spot in his heart for all of izuku’s bullshit 7 years later, izuku doesn’t know how else he would have spent his retirement.

He could have played every pre-quirk Video game,read every book he’s been putting off reading these past 7 years and he still would have been bored out of his mind.

Teaching is good for him, something productive and relaxing to spend his days doing. He’s fought enough, killed enough, saved the world enough for one lifetime. If another threat to humanity or the world’s safety arises then izuku’s body will of course move on its own to go deal with it, he’d probably be back by lunch the same day.

Izuku is the strongest human being that will ever live and he’s content to spend the rest of his days living actual meaningful, peaceful days. He misses his friends, but izuku knows he doesn’t deserve to be in their lives anymore, he left them without a goodbye or a reason and it would be selfish and disrespectful to barge back into their lives.

The gates of U.A loom in front of him and izuku slows down to grab his key card, he has a pep in his step today, excited about what he’s going to teach the batch of first years entrusted in his care.

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The idea of class 1a forgetting about izuku is ridiculous, izuku leaving his friends to go save the world isn’t because it’s already happened once and an izuku who just lost his quirk would be desperate to get into heroism again, even if it means working for what’s a mix between the Scp foundation and the gotei 13.

This is a little idea i had that’s taking root in my mind, i might write but it’s going to take so long, thank you for reading and have a good day