Thursday February 13, 2020 8:33 pm

"I said I'm coming, now get your hands off of me!" Bakugo yelled as Uraraka dragged him into the common area with the rest of the class.

"I think that's everyone," Uraraka said as she took her seat on the couch next to Asui.

"Is the whole class meeting here?" Asked Midoriya as he looked around, "Where is Aoyama?"

Yaoyorozu walked to the front of the group, "He went home to spend Valentine's Day with his boyfriend so he won't be a part of this meeting, but it isn't an official class or hero type meeting so we can proceed without him."

"If this isn't an official class meeting then I am not staying here with you nerds," Bakugo stood up to leave and the girls formed a wall in front of him.

"No one is leaving until we explain why we brought you all in here," Asui said shakily. "Ribbit."

"WHAT?!" Bakugo screamed! "Why are you holding us here?! And why are the girls from class 1B here?! This is ridiculous! You better start explaining fast!"

"That's what we are trying to do. Now will you sit down?" Yaoyorozu said as Bakugo took his seat again. "We brought you all here to discuss Valentine's Day. Most of us are single and we girls came up with a fun game we can all play. We made these little voting cards and you can pair everyone up to go on a date for Valentine's Day which I will pay for since this whole thing was my idea. There are obviously more boys than there are girls in our class which is why we invited some of the girls from class 1B to play along with us. There will still be more boys than girls though so some of you may still end up unmatched. If you are in the group of boys that are unmatched, I will pay for you to have a boy's night out so you aren't left out of the fun. Isn't it great?!"

"It sounds pretty girly," Kirishima said immediately and looked to Bakugo who nodded his head in agreement.

"Girly?! This is great! We get to go on dates with the girls!" Mineta screamed with tears in his eyes.

"I know romance is a little girly, but we're all here and we're all friends. Even if you don't want it to be a romantic thing, we can just go out as friends," Ashido chimed in with a smile.

"If we were going to hang out as friends, couldn't we do that as a group? Why do we have to go in boy-girl couples?" Todoroki asked calmly.

Midoriya nodded along before saying, "That's true. If we are doing this because we are all friends, we should all hang out together."

"NO!" All of the girls yelled together.

"Yes we are doing this because we are all friends, but we were talking and none of us girls have ever been on a Valentine's date and we have all been so focused on training we didn't get a chance to go out and find dates. We like and trust you boys and we just wanted a chance to go on a nice date and forget about training for one night," Explained Yaoyorozu.

The boys all got quiet for a moment before Midoriya chimed in again, "Okay, if it will make the girls happy, I say we just do it. Besides, it could be fun. None of us have been on dates during this training either."

"Speak for yourself, Deku," Bakugo said in a low growl.

"We live together, Bakugo," Tokoyami interjected. "We know you haven't been on any dates."

Iida shot straight up in his seat until he was on his feet and waving his arms around wildly, "We'll do it! We would be honored to take the girls out for Valentine's Day!"

"YAY!" The girls all shouted at once.

"Well if everyone agrees, I am going to pass out the voting sheets. Make sure to pair up as many people as you can," Yaoyorozu said as she walked the voting sheets around. "When you're done, fold them up and put them in this box so we can tally them up anonymously."

They all began reading the sheets and make decisions about who should be going out with who. The girls were all excited, but the boys had various reactions from excitement, to nervousness, to determination. Bakugo, Todoroki, and Midoriya ended up not voting for themselves to go on a date with anyone. Bakugo and Todoroki didn't want to participate and Midoriya felt awkward about the whole situation to say the least. A few weeks back, Uraraka told him that she had feelings for him. He told her that he was flattered and had she mentioned it about a year ago he may have agreed to go out, but for all the wrong reasons. Midoriya noticed that he was starting to develop feelings for another one of their classmates – a male classmate – and he may have said yes to cover up his feelings and she deserved to be more than a beard. IT was that day that he came out to his friend and she had been totally supportive ever since. He completed his voting sheet and dropped it into the box before anyone else had finished theirs. The rest of the class didn't take long. Most of the boys finished long before the girls. They didn't seem to take it as seriously as the girls were.

The whole class was done in about fifteen minutes and the girls took about 20 minutes to tally up all of the votes. "And the results are in!" Yelled Yaoyorozu. "I am having the girls line up at the front of the room. I will name off the lucky boy who is going on a date with her and then he will go stand up front with her and the two of you can start working on planning your date for tomorrow. Since they were gracious enough to step in and help us with our numbers, we will be starting with the girls from 1B. Itsuka Kendo will be going out with Mashirao Ojiro. Oh how cute is that? The fist with the tail! I love it!"

Ojiro took his place at the front of the room with Kendo before they decided to go sit at the kitchen table to plan out their date. Yaoyorozu continued reading off the couples, "Next is Ibara Shiozaki who will be going out with Koji Koda." She continued reading off the names until all of the girls were partnered up as follows:

Itsuka Kendo and Mashirao Ojiro

Ibara Shiozaki and Koji Koda

Kinoko Komori and Rikido Sato

Yui Kodai and Hanta Sero

Mina Ashido and Eijiro Kirishima

Tsuyu Asui and Fumikage Tokoyami

Kyoka Jiro and Denki Kaminari

Toru Hagakuri and Mezo Shoji

The only girls left were Uraraka and Yaoyorozu. Midoriya was getting more and more nervous that he would end up on a date with Uraraka and it would be awkward because of their recent confessions. Luckily, her name was read off next, "Ochaco Uraraka and Katsuki Bakugo."

"WHAT?!" They both explained. "People thought we should go on a date together?!"

"Would you two shut up and go plan your date so I can see who I am matched up with?" They both fell silent. "Thank you. And the lucky boy who will be taking me out is Teyna Iida. So that is all of our girls."

Midoriya, Todoroki, and Mineta were left without matches. Midoriya and Todoroki let out a sigh of relief before a blood curdling scream came bursting out of Mineta, "NOOOOOOOOOO! You guys didn't think I should go out with any of the girls? But I love you girls the most! This isn't fair!"

Just as the tears started gushing out of his eyes Yaoyorozu spoke up, "Would you please calm down, we actually had something come up that we didn't know how to address so we wanted to talk to you all about it before we made a decision." Everyone gathered back around to hear the announcement, "Two of the boys were matched up with one another and we wanted to ask you if you would be willing to go on a date or if you would prefer to have the boys' night out."

"I am not going on a date with one of these two! I do not play for that team!" Mineta yelled out with more tears.

"Would you shut up!?" The girls yelled. "It's not you!"

Mineta got quiet and a huge rush of embarrassment became apparent on Midoriya's cheeks. Bakugo could barely contain his laughter as the realization set in that Midoriya was matched up with Todoroki, Deku and Icy Hot? Hahahaha! Are you two losers really going to go on a date? Of course you wouldn't be able to get any of the others to go out with you."

"Bakugo, unless you are suggesting that same sex relationships are somehow not as valid as any other relationship I would shut up. If our friends and classmates Midoriya and Todoroki want to go on a date, let them go on a date!" Iida interjected.

Bakugo didn't stop laughing, "I'm not laughing because they're both boys. I'm laughing because they're both losers!"

"That sounds more accurate," Ashido said with a laugh.

Once Bakugo finally stopped laughing, the room was completely silent until Todoroki spoke, "If we did go on the date, what would Mineta do?"

"About that," Yaoyorozu started. "We called Pony Tsunotori and she said if Mineta was the only one not matched up, she would go on a date with him. She didn't volunteer originally because she wanted to focus on her training, but when we explained the situation she said she would be happy to help if we needed her."

"So the three of us can have a boys night, or we could all go on dates with… someone?" Midoriya asked for clarification.

"YOU HAVE TO GO ON THE DATE, YOU GUYS! I HAVE TO GO ON A DATE WITH A GIRL!" Mineta screamed as he ran over and dropped to his knees in front of Todoroki and Midoriya with tears rushing down his face.

"Will you please stop crying? We will go! Okay? We will go!" Midoriya screamed out without thinking about what he was saying. "That is, of course, if Todoroki agrees as well."

"Midoriya," Todoroki stood up and Midoriya's heat skipped a beat wondering what he was going to say. Todoroki started walking towards his bedroom with his hands in his pockets, "I will pick you up at 5."

"YES!" Mineta screamed.

The room was filled with chatter as everyone started planning their dates. Mineta was jumping around the room screaming about how wonderful it was that he was going to be so close to a girl. Midoriya, on the other hand, was shaking with nerves. What was he going to do? Todoroki was so sure of himself when he said he would pick him up at 5. He didn't seem nervous at all and he didn't tell Midoriya where they were going or what he should wear. Did he already have a plan? Was this going to be a real date at all or were they just going to hang out so Mineta could go on a date? Did Todoroki think they would just be hanging out as friends or did he actually want to go on a date with him?

"Deku," Uraraka said quietly as she snuck away from the group. "Can I tell you a secret?"

"Sure, Uraraka. What's up?" He asked through the nerves.

"I was going to tell the girls to vote for you and Todoroki to go out together because of your crush, but I decided not to go through with it. Everyone voted for you two on their own. Well not everyone, but 14 of us. Isn't that exciting? We all think that you two should go out together!"

Midoriya sat back for a second and thought about it for a moment. That many people voted for them to go out together? What was everyone seeing that he wasn't seeing? Could they tell that he liked Todoroki or did they really think that the two of them had some kind of chemistry? Midoriya got lost in thought until eventually it was time to go to bed and all he dreamed about was his date for the next day.