"Ah...isn't this nice, Izu?"

As they spoke, the two of them were relaxing on top of a blanket Mina had set up for a spontaneous picnic at Kota's "secret base."

"Yeah. I still can't believe they're letting us stay out here for free."

"I mean, you did save Kota's life. That's not exactly a debt you can work off."

"True."

Mina chuckled as she dug into the lunch that she had prepared, while Izuku simply sat down on the blanket, reflecting as he observed the after-effects of the attack on the camp months prior.

"Man...this year has been insane, huh?"

"I'll say!" Mina replied, laughing. "I just got back my score for the math final. You know what it said?"

"What?" Izuku replied, cracking a smile.

"B. Plus," she replied, with all the seriousness of someone who had witnessed the impossible. Izuku laughed out loud.

"That is surprising!" he replied, before realization struck. "Wait...does that mean-?"

"Yes! With everything else, I'm officially ranked fifthteenth in the class! Ha ha!"

Izuku laughed as well, before getting up and hugging his girlfriend. "Mina, that's amazing!"

"I know! And you wanna know the best part?"

"What?"

"Mineta...was sixteenth." Izuku fought to contain his incredulous laughter while Mina jumped up and down in excitement. "Whoo! Ha ha! Take that, you tiny little pervert! YEAH!" Izuku chuckled as his girlfriend's enthusiasm scared off some of the nearby birds.

"I'm really proud of you, Mina," he said earnestly, a slight smile settling onto his features.

"Aww, thanks, Izu! I couldn't have done it without you!" Mina replied cheerfully before sitting next to him on the blanket. The two ate for a moment as they looked up at the calm spring weather.

"Hey, Izu?" she asked, sounding...pensive. Izuku's attention was piqued immediately.

"Mhm?" he asked in between mouthfuls, still looking up at the sky as Mina leaned onto his shoulder. Mina seemed to take a second to gather her thoughts before she continued.

"So...sorry if this makes things weird, I know we haven't been going out all that long and, you know, I'm still kind of sorting everything out and I don't really have precedent to go on, but..."

Izuku simply kept eating, not wishing to rush his girlfriend into saying whatever she was trying to say. Although, he did note how her evident hesitation was very...not Mina-like. Mina coughed before finishing her statement.

"I think that...I'm in love with you."

"HRK!" Izuku gasped suddenly as he swallowed his latest bite wrong, a piece of food getting stuck in his throat.

"IZU!" Mina cried out in panic before she quickly positioned herself behind him as he continued choking. With a few quick motions, she had managed to dislodge the piece of food from his throat, and he spit it out so violently that it flew off of the canyon and down somewhere into the forest below. Izuku coughed a couple times as Mina went into a full on panic.

"Oh my God Izu I'm so sorry I knew it was too soon I didn't even think I'm such an idiot please don't be mad I didn't want to make things weird and now things are totally going to be weird and you literally almost died you probably hate my guts right now I-!"

She stopped as Izuku swiftly put a finger over her lips, still not able to form a coherent sentence. After a few seconds, as his throat cleared, he said, "Hey, hey. It's okay. It just...caught me a little by surprise, that's all." After a moment, however, he chuckled.

"What?"

"Well, on the bright side, it did confirm that all of this isn't some crazy dream I've been having ever since that...latest incident."

Mina nodded grimly. "Nah, nah, this is real, last I checked."

Izuku smiled. "Good. Because, well...same."

Mina cocked her head in confusion before understanding dawned, and her cheeks turned to lilac. "W-wait a second. You-?" She asked, pointing at Izuku, to which he nodded happily. "So...you do, and..." Her expression became slightly angry as she considered what he had said. "'Same?!'"

Izuku burst into laughter as Mina continued, legitimately angry. "You're in love with me! As much as I'm in love with you! A-and all you can say to make it clear to me is 'same?!' T-that has got to be the single lamest way that I have ever heard anyone confess to somebody else! Like, what the hell?!"

Izuku calmed down, taking a few deep breaths before responding. "Okay, okay, fine, look." Like that, his expression shifted into his best approximation of an actor in a cheesy romantic comedy, with an impression to match. He extended out a hand towards her dramatically. "Mina, my darling, you are the light of my life. My love for you defies all mortal comprehension! I-it is a burning blue flame of passion, the likes of which will never fade, even in death! Why, I would battle a thousand men if it meant that I could spend one more moment in your tender embrace! You-"

By this point, Mina had doubled over laughing at Izuku's overly dramatic confession, before pulling him onto the ground. "Just shut up, you big dork!" she got out in the middle of her laughing fit, while Izuku lay collapsed in a heap next to her, both of them laughing at the sheer absurdity of the situation. When they had finally calmed down, they both smiled, staring into each other's eyes before Izuku began to tear up.

"Awww, Izuuu," Mina said comfortingly, holding him closer as he fought back the tears. Izuku laughed slightly in spite of it all.

"Sorry, it's just...I don't think I've ever felt happier than I do right now," He said earnestly, causing Mina to smile in turn.

"You know what? ...Same," she replied, causing Izuku to laugh along with her as the two settled into a cuddle over the blanket, looking up at the clear blue sky with the knowledge that, no matter what the future may hold, they would have each other.


And Day 7 is done! The prompt here was "Camping," but I decided to play around with it a bit. Hope you guys have enjoyed this collection of short fics, and feel free to check out some of my other work if you'd like! In the meantime, thank you all for reading, have yourselves a fantastic night, and take care.