Mina knew what she was doing.

There was absolutely no way that she didn't know what she was doing. She was absolutely doing everything about this intentionally. And she was getting a rise out of it. There really was no other explanation.

And the worst part was it was working, even though he knew exactly what she was doing. And she seemed to know it as well, and she fully intended to take complete advantage, and she would never let him live this down for as long as he lived.

Izuku and Mina sometimes took it in turns to decide what they were going to do for dates. Essentially it was a rotation system, which let them both take the other to places they thought the other would like, to indulge the other, or introduce them to something that they liked that they wanted to share with the other. While it wasn't exactly a perfect system, and had led to a couple of flops, but for the most part, they were both happy with the set up they had.

Of course, that did mean that it was ripe for one to take advantage of if they so desired it. And Mina certainly knew how to take advantage.

"Hey Izu, think fast!" Mina yelled, before skimming her hand over the surface of the water, cupping it as best she could in her hand, and launching it towards her boyfriend.

In the ocean, it wasn't like mobility was exactly the easiest thing in the world, so all Izuku had to offer was to cover his face to try and avoid getting sea water in his eyes as Mina's splash attack. Mina smirked, and she was already making her way around him, looking for the best angle to splash him again without him noticing as he cleared his eyes.

The beach - Of course that was something Mina would suggest.

In fairness to her, it certainly was the weather for it - Lovely, sunny and warm, though Izuku knew damn well that it wasn't because of the weather that she had opted to suggest the pair of them go to the beach. Well, it was a bit.

But the main reason she had was because she wanted to see him flustered as all hell at the sight of her in a swim costume, and to drag him into the ocean to make him even more flustered.

Everything she did was designed to make him blush - The costume itself was about as suggestive as Mina probably felt she could get away with, she acted much more flirty than she normally did, and she didn't waste a second dragging him into the water.

Today was nothing more than an exercise for her in making him blush, and the pair of them knew it.

None of it was to say that he wasn't enjoying himself. Mina had the ability to make just about anything fun. It was just that Izuku knew in the back of his head that she was here solely to fluster him, and that made him conscious of just about everything either of them did.

Izuku wiped the water away from his brow, rubbed his eyes, and opened them again. His eyes stung gently, but he quickly regained his normal vision. He glanced to the left, and then to the right. Mina wasn't anywhere to seen -

And then he had pink hands on his stomach and chest.

"Yo."

"Gaaaah!"

The pink girl had moved around behind him while he'd been clearing the water from his face, and as soon as he had his vision back, she'd pounced on him. How she'd done that while barely making a sound was a mystery in itself . Not one Izuku was all too focused on right now though.

He was far too aware of just where Mina's hands were. And where her body was - Pressing against his back.

"No need to yell, Izu." Mina said, smirking. "You're just gonna call attention to yourself."

She wasn't wrong either. Izuku could not only see the glances of a couple of people who had heard him yelp, but he could feel the looks of others from a distance or out of his line of sight. The few he could see gave him odd looks, but those people stemmed to be giggling and laughing at his awkwardness, and that the young couple in general.

Mina squeezed on Izuku's abs. Once more, he yelped.

"Gah! M - Mina!"

His girlfriend just had the biggest smirk on her face. "Hey, not my fault you're built. C'mon, this is like, the one situation where I get to do this in public - You think I'm not gonna take advantage?"

"I - I know you will - A - Are - B - But, y - You taking advantage i - is kind of the p - problem here!"

"Well considering you're not telling me to stop, I'm guessing it's not that big a problem."

"That - That is n - not correct logic!"

"And yet you still don't tell me to get off."

Izuku groaned, and gently sunk into the water, until it was up to his cheeks, as the water attempted to cool them down for him. He knew exactly what she was doing, and it was still working - How the hell wouldn't it? His half-naked girlfriend clinging onto him and grabbing him and muttering to him things he couldn't even argue - He wasn't sure if he hated or loved it more. And that in itself was even more embarrassing.

She'd caught him in a paradox of fluster, embarrassment, humiliation and awkwardness.

Mina didn't let go the entire time he lowered himself, gently sliding down into the water with him, and letting her body float behind him. Her hands didn't move the entire time. She gently flicked a strand of his hair out of her face, and then rested her head on his shoulders.

"Hey, if it wasn't socially looked down on, I'd be more than fine with you doing the same thing to me."

At that sentence being whispered into his ear, Izuku composure completely lost itself. Bright red in the face and heart battering against his chest, he quickly turned to look at her - Maybe to tell her to stop before he lost all semblances of dignity or... He didn't even really know himself.

His sudden turn was far too fast though, and he lost his balance, and Mina's extra weight didn't help at all.

The pair of them plummeted straight into the water.

It took them both a moment to realize what had happened, and for Mina to realize that she was kind of dragging Izuku under the water and he couldn't move. Once she did, she let go of him, and the pair of them just sort of looked at once another.

From his perspective, Mina was upside down, though it was equally possible that he was the one who was oriented the wrong way. She was looking at him, her cheeks puffed up as she tried to store what little air she had in her mouth. She had attempted to tie her hair back a bit with a hair bobble, before jumping into the water, to try to keep it at least somewhat neat and orderly while she swam - That was gone, probably lost in the sand somewhere.

On his part, Izuku had just sort of floundered around, kicking and punching at the water before he just sort of calmed himself down somehow, and floated about. If he was facing upwards, Mina was blocking the sunlight. He could feel his hand was dug into the sand, which prevented him from just floating away.

For a few seconds, they just looked at one another. Then the absurdity took over.

And they both laughed...

...Forgetting for a moment that they were still underwater.

About five seconds later, both of them were above the water line, coughing and sputtering, and spitting out the salty taste of seawater that had filled their mouths. Their throats had gone dry, and their eyes both stung.

Then they looked at once another.

And then they laughed again.


It's a shorter story, but I don't know if there's a whole lot that can be done with this concept, so I decided not to let it overstay it's welcome. Izumina week has ended up being pretty fun these last two days - More fun than I've had with writing in general. I'm enjoying the challenge.

Tomorrow is Quirk Swap / Couple Cosplay - and I think I've got a fun little idea for this one.

A heads up, because i forgot to mention it in the first chapter - Theres tons of Izumina stuff being reblogged on the MinaDeku Tumblr - I'm reblogging everything sent my way, everything Izumina that comes up, and even going into the lists to find stuff people haven't posted on Tumblr, and linking their work from there - IT's where you'll want to be following from if you're interested in following the week and finding new creators - Plenty of people have been submitting stuff so far :D