Third year at U.A. had been… calm. Almost deceptively so. Teenagers being teenagers - training, healing, laughing, finding moments of normalcy tucked between classes and hero work. For the first time in a long while, it felt like everyone could breathe.

People truly believed there wouldn’t be another war. After one at the end of their first year and another at the start of their second, surely that was enough. All For One was gone. Tomura Shigaraki was dead. There was no looming figure pulling strings in the shadows anymore. No obvious reason for things to fall apart.

So no one worried. Everyone let themselves be happy.

And that, unfortunately, had been a mistake.

It was like the world had a personal grudge against this generation of heroes. Another war - declared suddenly, mercilessly. And of course, it would be Class 3-A on the front lines again. Probably the first- and second-years too, dragged in before they were ready.

Mina had crawled into bed and pulled the covers over her head, sitting on top of you as she spiraled. Her voice shook as she rambled, panic spilling out faster than she could stop it.

"They’ve declared a war, and the villains were right! I started it and I’m a hypocrite and all my dreams are gonna die-ie-ie!" she sobbed, words tangling together as her shoulders shook.

You reached up, pressing a finger gently to her lips. A quiet shut up - not cruel, just firm - followed by a softer truth. You know I love you. But that’s enough of this spiral.

Mina blinked, startled, as you brushed your thumb across her cheek, wiping away the tears. With a gentle shift, you guided her off you and flipped your positions so you were on top.

We already found love in heroism, the rest is easy, baby.

She let out a shaky sigh. "I appreciate all that," Mina said, your faces close now. Her hand traced along your jaw for a moment before falling away. "But we need our friends to come back."

She rolled toward the edge of the bed, curling in on herself as the fear crept back in. Pulling the covers over her head again, her voice came out muffled but no less frantic.

"You’re my pillar, my heart’s fulfiller - but there’s no way this lining’s silver! Everyone’s gone, we’re facing a war, and we can’t even get in touch with anyone anymore!"