┌─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ───┐

summary: the holidays are
approaching fast and it's up
to Eri and Tomomi ( with the
help of Aizawa ) to decorate
the massive tree they've
acquired
└─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ───┘

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It was the first day of winter and the snow fell gracefully over the city of Musutafu. Also, it was the weekend so many students of UA decided to visit home for the two day break.

Everyone except Tomomi, who decided to stay in the dorms instead of going home with Shoto the night before. And with a reason.

Recently, Tomomi and Enji got into a heated argument about why she should do the hero internship with him. Seeing as Shoto was going to do it with Midoriya and Bakugou.

But considering the plethora of things she's been through, she didn't want to worry about that yet. It wasn't mandatory nor was it that important. She wanted to worry about therapy and her volunteer job at the Kidnergarten class she goes to first.

For that, she refused to talk to him or even see him. So Shoto understood why she declined to go home with him.

So here she was. All alone in the dorms, just putting her energy in finishing with the decorations in the common room. The only thing that needed to be done was the tree. The rest of the common room was decked out in holiday decorations from three days prior.

She also had to make holiday cookies for the holiday grams the cheerleading team were handing out before their winter game.

( for those who can't see the media, here's what Tomomi is wearing )

Tomomi stood in the kitchen, unpacking some ornaments and other tree decor that the girls bought yesterday and was deciding on how she was going to get to the top of the tree.

Bakugou and Kirishima were in charge of getting the tree this year and they got a pretty tall tree. Which was a problem for the short cryomancer.

"I wonder if we still have that ladder in the storage room..." she mumbled to herself.

"Big sister!" A tiny and adorable voice interrupted her thoughts.

Tomomi looked down to see Eri standing on the tips of her toes, hands holding the edge of the kitchen island.

She was wearing something similar to her attire. Red and white christmas sweater, red holiday socks and she was wearing a Santa hat that looked a little too big on her. Whereas, Tomomi just had a big red bow pulling back the front of her hair.

She nearly forgot that Eri was also here. She usually is whenever Aizawa would make rounds in their dormitory. Which means she broke away from him.

"Hello, Eri." Tomomi greeted, picking her up and placing her on the tall stool she was standing next to. "What brings you here?"

"Mr. Aizawa told me I could come see you," she explained swinging her tiny legs back and forwards. "He's walking around with Mr. Mike right now."

"Well, since you're here," Tomomi said, circling an arm around her. "You wanna help me bake some holiday cookies? I think Mr. Aizawa would appreciate it."

Eri's bright red eyes sparkled when she heard the word "cookie". And for a sugar addict like her, plus she would be baking with her big sister ( mom ), she got excited.

"Yeah yeah!"

Tomomi chuckled a little, petting her hair a little. "Well, let's get started."

Commencing the five hour long bake off. The two began making gingerbread cookies, sugar cookies and even parts of a gingerbread house all morning together.

She helped Eri use the cookie cutters while she worried about the oven and heavy jobs.

Tomomi played Christmas music, allowing them to sing along together and laugh.

Eri poked white icing onto Tomomi's nose at some point in all of the baking. Tomomi laughed wholeheartedly as she did the same thing but with red icing.

After a while, Aizawa entered the Class 1-A dorms, looking for Eri, when he heard Christmas music playing in the speakers and smelt the smell of baked goods filling his nose, he immediately went to the kitchen. Following the sounds of giggling girls.

When he entered, he was faced with a heartwarming sight.

Tomomi and Eri were giggling while making holiday baggies with one holiday cookie, one candy cane and one small greeting card in all of them. The baggie was cellophane and printed with little white snowflakes.

Aizawa couldn't help but smile a little at the two. The two girls he has grown to care for like they were his own daughters. He felt like a dad, in that moment.

And the holiday season helped with that feeling.

"Ah, Mr. Aizawa!" Tomomi announced, noticing his presence. "You're here!"

"Yeah, I was wondering where Eri wandered off to or if she found you okay." He answered, walking into the kitchen island, looking at all of the baked goods. "You two have been busy, huh?"

"Yeah, we made cookies!" Eri squealed gleefully, holding up a gingerbread man that looked eerily like him. "We made you! Look!"

Aizawa looked at the cookie replica of himself. It was so cute, he almost let out a laugh. It looked like him. His floating hair, the scarf and the permanent scowl on his face.

"Do you like it?"

"...... I love it." He said, staring at the cookie blankly before looking back up. "Is this what you two have been doing all morning?"

"Yeah," Tomomi confirmed, setting aside a newly put together holiday bag. "Most of these are for the holiday grams and the rest are just for Eri and I. We're having a movie night after we decorate the tree."

"Will you decorate with us?" Eri asked, dawning a puppy dog look in her eyes. "Please?"

Aizawa looked back at Tomomi, who smiled at him knowingly. She knew he couldn't say no to her. So she already knew the answer.

He sighed inaudibly. Man, did this kid have him around her tiny fingers.

It took them an hour to finish the tree decorating. Solely because it was so tall. Aizawa used his scarf to hold Eri up so that she could place the star on top.

He also held Tomomi up so that she could place ornaments near the top.

At some point, Eri found extra silver tinsels and began wrapping them around her neck. She began acting like Aizawa, mimicking his quirk and the frown on his face and everything.

Tomomi laughed as she began taking photos and videos of her to send to the groupchat.

Aizawa discreetly took a few pictures of the two playing and saved it for himself. But that's neither here nor there.

Soon, the girls began wrapping him in the tinsel.

"I think Mr. Aizawa is a tree." Tomomi teased, flashing Eri a mischievous smile. "And we should decorate him."

"I think so, too." Eri giggled out, holding up ornaments.

Aizawa grumbled. "No."

"Come on." Tomomi persuaded. "You already have tinsel around you. Might as well have a few ornaments."

"Do it and I'll give you detention for the rest of the ye-"

( five minutes later )

Shota Aizawa was a sucker. He fell for the puppy dog eyes and now, he's covered in tinsel and had two ornaments hanging off his scarf.

And while the girls were having a joyous time laughing at his expense, Aizawa wondered to himself. How did his life suddenly turn out like this? How the hell did he let this happen? And was Home Depo hiring?

It wasn't too late to quit his job, right?

After the tree fiasco, the night began to fall. The stars were out and the snow still fell.

After Tomomi gathered a tray of cookies and hot cocoa, she played a holiday animated movie for her and Eri. They convinced Aizawa to join them in their movie night

Seeing as he had nothing else to do, he sat with them on the couch, a brown bitter blanket covered their legs as the tray of holiday cookies and three mugs of cocoa sat in front of them on the coffee table.

The tv played the Rudolph Christmas special first. Aizawa held Eri on his lap while Tomomi sat next to him, leaning on his shoulder.

He quickly got comfortable and watched the movie with them.

Sometime around the fifth movie, Eri fell asleep in his lap. Her legs slung over his lap and her head rested on his chest as she snores lightly.

Tomomi fell asleep the exact same time with her head on Aizawa's shoulder.

The teacher, almost sleep, noticed the slumbering girls around him. He looked at Eri and then at Tomomi through his tired eyes.

He looked at the tv for a brief moment. How The Grinch Stole Christmas was playing.

He sighed, pulling the blanket over Eri and Tomomi, he wrapped his free arm around the sleeping teenager and just decided to get comfortable there.

But just before he could fall asleep, Present Mic walked through the doors of their dormitory.

He was going to loudly announce himself but he quickly saw the state that Aizawa was in and just smiled as he looked at the sleeping girls.

Aizawa looked at Mic and gave him a very small grin.

"Fun day?" Mic whispered, pointing at the sleeping bunch.

Aizawa chuckled a little, too tired to give him a sarcastic retort.

"Happy Holidays, Mic."