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Thank you, my lovely reviewers! I am so happy you enjoy reading this. Pardon spelling errors. I did try Spellcheck.

I own nothing, Rated M for later chapters. GenderbentIZUKU!xKatsuki

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Mineta was getting really used to seeing Izuku and Katsuki every day. Super used to it. Almost to the point of eye-rolling, used to it.

After all, he was the beta in their pack. A fact which still pissed Bakugou off to no end. The blonde often openly glared at him, until Izuku caught sight of it, and gave a low rumble of warning. It was funny to the Beta, actually. When the explosive Omega was no where to be found. And, when he was really close to his Alpha friend.

He had, to his credit, only hid behind the female Alpha, about half a dozen times.

News of their mating had been all over the school. Those in higher grades had found it a little adorable, and more than one senior had ended up with some singed clothing or parts of their hair melted. All with great regard from one irate Omega, who took ever opportunity to call them various sorts of rather clever names.

Well, some of them were clever. Some caused Mineta to blush behind his purple mask at times. Izuku usually reigned the Omega in, but never before Bakugou had a chance to express his 'displeasure'. He'd asked her once why she allowed it.

The Alpha had merely sighed and giving a slight grin.

"How could I ask him to be anything other than who he is?" She retorted in a tired, but candid fashion.

It had caused the Omega to metaphorically gain the hearing of a cave bat, as he whipped his head around, pointed teeth were bared in a snarl.

"The fuck you say?" He growled aggressively.

The Alpha female didn't even blink. Her deep green orbs were fixed on his face, and his expression.

"I said I love you."

The Beta knew better than to say a word, as a shade of red spread over Katsuki's features, and his crimson eyes widened slightly. One heartbeat passed, and then several. The Omega's jaw worked open and no sound came. For about three seconds.

"D-damn right you do," he replied, puffing his chest, and they all pretended that he hadn't stuttered a bit. The sudden murderous rage he had been exuding toward some of the members of Class B, evaporated into nothingness.

Izuku gives a low rumble from her chest, and Mineta is dying on the inside, with the urge to laugh, but he doesn't want to die…so… he is torn. Her green gaze missed nothing, as she snatched him closer. She rubbed her cheek along his. Scent marking for the day.

Sharp eyes watch them, narrowed.

"Oi!" Katsuki growled lowly. "Shitty pervert, you'd better not do anything."

The threat lacked the heat it normally had. Usually, he knew, Katsuki meant his promise of tearing him limb from limb where Izuku was concerned.

It was still odd to Mineta, what other people thought about him, because he would never do anything to hurt Midoryia. She was his friend. He made the careless mistake of rolling his eyes, and a snarl rent the air, as Katsuki started forward.

He got all of three measly steps before Izuku set the Beta down and reached for Bakugou.

The smallest member of the pack would have howled with laughter at how whipped Katsuki was… in some respects. Instantly, his body veered off course and he was wrapping himself around the Alpha, greedily. The Beta watched as the normal marking ritual for Katsuki was longer, and more intimate.

Yet, he didn't mind. Katsuki was a mate. Mineta was a pack mate. They would be treated differently, but Midoriya still cared about the Beta. That was all he needed. He grinned a bit to himself and glanced around to see that the milling student population had dispersed, going back toward their respective classes now that the action had died down.

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"I am telling you," one of the girls chimes in with a voice filled with fury, "It was your Beta."

Mineta steals a peek at his Alpha friend whose body is coiled like a steel spring, ready to pop out at any moment. Her green orbs are clear, but focused, as she started the brown-haired girl down.

"It was not," Izuku said calmly, far more calmly than her scent belied. She was not radiating normal Alpha aggression, but she wasn't backing down either. There was a determined glint in her eyes.

The brown-haired Alpha sneered. Her lips twisted in a snarl as distain seemed to radiate off her in wave.

"He's a pervert."

"Yeah he is," a male voice chimes in. Mineta knows it is their pack omega. Bakugou is all sharp lines, and pointy teeth as his crimson gaze narrows. "But, he ain't a fucking liar."

The Beta stills, as he notices, with a sense of spreading gratitude and a wee bit of humiliation, that his pack is tightening in around him. The hell-spawn Omega is at his back, watching the whole scene unfold. He looks unhappy, Mineta notes briefly, but he can hardly blame the dude.

Izuku is about to get into a fight in the hallway over him.

He really hadn't been the one. He hadn't done anything. For once, he has no idea what the Alpha is ranting about. He had been helping Todoroki in the training area, and the next thing he knew-

"You'd better teach that beta," the brown-haired Alpha commanded heavily, " and that Omega, some damned respect."

Katsuki snarled, Mineta could feel him move-

It was Midoriya who held up a hand, her green eyes never left the other female. Bakugou halted at once, even Mineta -as a Beta- felt his body freeze at the unspoken command.

"They know respect," Izuku said firmly, "they know it has to be earned. And, it is most certainly not given to trash Alpha's like you. Mineta said he didn't do it. I will take his word over yours any day."

The other female launches forward.

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Mineta is still teary eyed, an hour later, when Izuku is forced to run laps for getting into a physical altercation with the other Alpha.

Bakugou is cussing saying how it wasn't Izuku's fault.

They both grin a little, at how easily she won.

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It happens when Mineta is so afraid, that he almost pees his pants. He doesn't though. He is just so scared. His petrified as these villains destroy this sadist's wet dream of a training camp. His eyes are darting, and he's trying to hard not to give his position away. He thinks, thinks mind you, that he saw a classmate somewhere in the underbrush with him, but he doesn't know for sure.

If he leaps out of his hiding place now, they'll find him. Probably kill him. Its most likely, He swallows quietly, hoping against hope that teachers are going to show up. Or Izuku is going to come-

The Beta in him, needs his Alpha friend. She is the one that always changes the tide. She always comes back from the brink of defeat.

He hopes, desperately, that she will come. He must believe she will show.

When she does, she's crashing through the trees on Shoto's back. Mineta gapes, giving a silent gasp, because she so injured. It looks as if someone has taken her body and put it through a blender. The amount of pain she must be in… he believes is staggering.

His fingers reach for her. Reightous fury wells up inside of him. Whoever hurt her, he won't just let them get away with it. It isn't right. It isn't fair. Izuku tries so hard-

His eyes grow wide, as he sees the villains standing there, wicked mouths smiling.

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Some green turtle looking guy is glancing between Izuku, who holds his stare with a determined look of her own, and the most explosive Omega known to mand kind. And, also possibly volcanoes.

"I know you," the turtle wannabe villain states.

His Alpha tenses, but remains poised to attack, even though she is torturously broken. Mineta knows she is the type to beat the guy with her face alone, if she had to.

"You are the one Stain found worthy."

The Beta knows that name. He also remembers that Stain was captured around the time Midoriya was so wounded and…

Oh.

The words he says next, are not what Mineta had been expecting.

"I claim an Omega's right," his gravelly voice carried over.

The Beta's eyes nearly boggled out of his head, and Katsuki's gaze looks like that of a demon.

"I'll kill you," Katsuki replies. Mineta knows he fully intends to carry that out.

"Are you sure you aren't a Villain?" The Turtle spits angrily, "You are scum, and not worthy of a Noble Alpha like this one."

The blonde is shaking, small wisps of smoke dance from his palms. His crimson gaze is brighter than any flame could hope to be.

"You aren't getting anywhere near my Alpha."

It is archaic. A practice from when society first began, Mineta cannot fully remember the history lessons, but he knows that this is about to be a fight to the death. Alpha's were dangerous, and territorial. They fought with everything they had. It was their natures.

Yet, Omegas rarely fought. When they did, it always resulted in death and bloodshed.

The Turtle was trying to usurp Bakygou's place. To take his status as pack Omega. It would force both Izuku and Mineta to recognize him as the only Omega. It would force a bond. One that would not be easily broken. However, Grape Juice the Hero, knows what the villain does not.

Katsuki is not a pack Omega.

He is the Alpha's mate. He is the love of the only true friend Mineta's ever had. For the first time in his few years, the Beta steps forward, without fear. This is more than a nightmare. It is a chance to defend pack and kith. To be what he sometimes failed to be. The brave one.

"I-I.." He internally winces as his voice cracks, "am the pack Beta."

The Turtle appraises him for a moment.

"Aren't you… unworthy of Izuku as well?"

"Fuck you," Katsuki barges in, with a voice like thunder.

Tiny though he may be, the Beta squares his shoulders. His teeth clench and he narrows his gaze.

"I refuse to acknowledge you as pack."

Green skin and dark eyes fill his vision, as a sharpened blade draws closer to him, it is shot to the side and the ensuing explosion leaves no doubt as to who deflected the blow.

"You aren't taking my place. Or my Alpha."

Izuku is watching the exchange, her green gaze travels from Katsuki to the Villain. She was unable to interfere in an Omegan challenge.

"Do you object?" The turtle asks the Alpha clearly.

"I have no need to object," she starts and Katsuki is tense like a coiled wire. "I know my Omega will win."

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The took him. They took Katsuki, and Mineta watches as Midoriya falls apart at the seams. She is furious and unhinged. Power flowing from her broken body like a waterfall. She'll tear herself into pieces to get the Omega back.

He doesn't know if he can calm her.

He doesn't know if calming her is the right thing to do.

So, he waits at her back. For an order. For tears. For anything at all.

Except the feeling of suffocating helplessness that he drowns in.

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Mineta says nothing, as a battle-worn and severely injured 'Deku' refuses to acknowledge her broken limbs. She is walking toward some point in the distance, some place he doesn't understand.

He follows, because he doesn't know what else to do, and he cannot leave her alone.

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Katsuki came to the call of Eijirou. Izuku had been too busy helping them blast through the sky like a giant human torpedo. But she had known, what it would take to get Katsuki to make a split-second decision.

Someone other than her.

Mineta can see that it wounds the Alpha, who feels terrible for having any other emotion that bone-deep relief that Katsuki is safe and whole. It is subtle at first, the distance that starts, and Mineta watches with worry as the tender care Midoryia always took to scent mark the Omega, becomes more detached.

It was akin to watching a fight in slow motion. Izuku never reprimanded Katsuki, nor did she blame him in any way. Something which was eating Bakugou alive from the inside out.

Eijirou is another Alpha. Her Omega had listened to another Alpha over her, and she knew that their bond was simply not as strong as that he possessed for the red-haired male. However, the feelings associated with the bonds were different as well.

Then again, the Beta knows that Bakugou has never said the words 'I love you' back.

Perhaps before this, his friend had been content simply knowing that he cared, but now…now there was doubt growing wild in the spaces where certainty had once been.

The Omega notices it too.

"What the hell is your problem?"

Midoryia is a good Alpha. She is a good person, and they all know it. Yet, there is a sense of loss when she looks at her mate now. Mineta doesn't know how to fix it, but he wants to help. Just for her. His pack leader. His fellow hero. His classmate. His friend.

"Leave her alone, okay?" He interrupts, more tired than timid. He doesn't want to see this. He wants to see the sickening display of them over the moon for each other again.

"Shut the-"

"Why him?" Izuku interrupts, her characteristic thinking face on. It hides the very real concern she feels for what she perceives is a threat to her matehood.

Crimson eyes tear away from sending last rites to the Beta, and they swing to clash with vividly green orbs.

"What?"

"If I had called out to you, you wouldn't have come. You would have stayed and fought."

The lack of his denial is more damning and uncomfortable than Mineta had thought possible.

"I don't understand. He is your friend, when all I wanted… was…" She stops and stares at him for a solid minute, before turning away.

Katsuki doesn't stop her.

Mineta trails after her, wanting to make sure she is okay.

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She reminds them both that she is still very much an Alpha, with Alpha impulses.

The way her body glows, and her eyes seem to haunt the soul with the startling amount of pure intention in them.

Her first at the perfect angle, as she cold-cocks Kirishima in a training exercise. Her blow seeming to penetrate his rock-solid skin.

Her chest is heaving as she turns and catches Mineta's gaze. He knows why she did it. As does Izuku. Heck, even Bakugou knows why.

She couldn't hold it back anymore.

"Ow… that was a good hit!" The male Alpha congratulates as he gets back up.

He is ill prepared for the next blow that knocks him flat on his back.

"Thank you," Izuku comments back, as if they were talking about the weather.

"Deku! Stop-"

There is a brief look of sorrow on her face, as she smashes her fist into him again.

"It didn't mean anything, you shithead!" The Omega shouts at the top of his lungs.

Wounded green eyes, bright with unshed tears turn toward him.

"It meant something to me."

Mineta lets loose a low wine, as he metaphorically watches the air get knocked out of Bakugou.

The Omega, rowdy, loud, reckless, and rude… is silent in the face of her raw anguish.