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CHAPTER 9
Deals, Agreements, and Promises
CURRENT OPERATION: SILENCING THE PHANTOM MAIDEN
OFFICIALLY STARTED AT 7:45 PM
OPERATION HAVE BEEN GOING ON FOR 50 MINUTES
TIME DURATION: 1 HOUR 10 MINUTES TILL GIRL'S STUDY GROUP IN MOMO'S ROOM
CURRENT STATUS: IN-PROGRESS
OBJECTIVE 1
STALL URARAKA - COMPLETED!
OBJECTIVE 2
DISTRACT TSUYU - IN PROCESS
OBJECTIVE 3
CONVINCE HAGAKURE TO KEEP A SECRET - IN PROCESS
1-A Height Alliance - 4th Flour, Ashido's Room - 8:50 PM
1 HOUR 10 MINUTES TILL GIRL'S STUDY GROUP IN MOMO'S ROOM
With the door to Ashido's room busting open the two girls that escaped from the kitchen entered, both being covered with white powder.
Judging from the expression Ashido was wearing on her face she was so done with today, in fact she've been done with today since she woke up.
Walking behind Ashido, Hagakure was doing her best dusting off all the rough powder off her body to no avail "Ugh! Who dumped all that sugar into the bush!? Now it's in my hair!" She whined.
Ashido didn't face her friend as she had a very guilty look telling him "Yeah,...must've been someone trying to pull off a stupid prank." (Best just to go with it) She thought being grateful that while Hagakure isn't a stupid she can miss some obvious stuff at times.
Hagakure continued to complain "I hate this, it's so coarse, rough, irritating, and it's getting everywhere."
Ahsido only nodded to her friend's complaint as she was more surprised she could convince Hagakure to sneak out of the window so fast when it was suggested. They climbed out that window so fast she didn't even think whoever entered the kitchen even knew they were there, despite them causing a bit of noise when Hagakure accidentally slipped while climbing down causing both girls to fall into the sugar coated bushes. It wasn't a fun time explaining to everyone they walked by why they were covered in white dust.
Though people seeing them then would be of little concern for her, what she was concerned about is why didn't Deku text her about Tsuyu's current status. She only made the compulsive decisions to flee through the window out of fear that the person entering the kitchen might've been her, if she had a better understanding of where the Frog Hero was she might've reconsidered the option to just regularly taking the conversation out to the halls if it was someone that wasn't Uraraka, Sato, or Tsuyu.
Taking out her phone Ashido wanted to take this moment of peace to message Midoriya herself for an update, this only lead to complete and utter surprise that her phone was out of battery.
The utter look of regret and shock was plastered onto her face that she even cracked a tiny smile as if she didn't believe this reality.
(Did I really forget to charge my phone! Oh my god what is wrong with me!? How long ago did it run out? Crap Deku possibly did message me that Tsuyu might be coming and I would've completely missed it. I am such a terrible partner in this!) She thought to herself, reminding herself why she's even in this situation because of her own stupidity. Not wanting to waste anymore time to talk down on herself she turned to her friend and said "So hey, about what we were talking about before."
"Can it wait till we was this stuff off of us first?" Hagakure told her, having given up on trying to remove the sweet substance of her body by hand.
Pondering if she should go along with the request, she reminded herself how they still had over an hour left to finish the operation. With Hagakure out of the kitchen they shouldn't need to worry about time restraints as long as she gets it done before the study session, in the meantime she can charge her phone and be able to text Deku afterwards.
A hot shower didn't sound so bad at the moment anyways considering the day she's been having. She also hated the feeling when something gets stuck in her hair, it was already hard enough to wash it with her horns getting in the way.
Walking over to where she kept her phone charger she plugged in her phone thinking to herself (A 5 minutes break wouldn't hurt right?)
"Come on, a quick bath won't hurt." Hagakure repeated, doing what Ashido assumed to be gesturing her arms to get them both pumped up.
Giving her a genuinely happy smile Ashido told her friend "Yeah, I guess you're right."
Gathering her bath materials they walked out of Ashido's room, Ashido's attention was captured when she looked back to see Hagakure walking in the opposite direction she was. "Hey, where you going?" She called out "This floor's shower is this way. I know it's much smaller than the main one but I don't think it'll matter if it's just the two of us."
"Oh I just wanted to stop by my room and grab my shampoo." Hagakure told her
Waving a hand over signaling her to come over Ashido replied "Don't worry about it, I'll just lend you mine."
"I also wanted to get a change of clothes." Hagakure added to her previous statement.
"I'll just lend you mine." Ashido repeated, turning and walking toward the 4th Floor's shower room. Lending possends like clothes and cosmetics weren't uncommon for the girls to do, lucky for them most of the girls excluding Momo were relatively the same size because there is only a few centimeters of a difference between their height. She herself had borrowed many of Uraraka's clothes since she was the closest to her size. She also borrowed things like Momo's Bra once, even though she had to use a little bit of padding to make it fit, Tsuyu's Skirts, Hagakure's socks, and Jirou's…soap. None of the girls would find it weird.
Hagakure understood this as well as she didn't hesitate to casually agree following behind Ashido. Beside it would be troublesome if Hagakure ran into someone on the way there so it'll be best to just keep her in sight.
(5 Minutes) Ashido repeated to herself so she could keep track (15 at most)
1-A Height Alliance - 4th Floor, Girl's Shower Room - 9:25 PM
35 MINUTES TILL GIRL'S STUDY GROUP IN MOMO'S ROOM
"Hmm hm hmm hm hmmmhmmmmm What a wonderful world~" Ashido hummed to herself, she was enjoying the nice shower as she washed off the soap from her body. (Was I supposed to be doing something?) she wondered to herself before continuing to wash herself. Free of all stress she continued to hum herself a tune before the realization hit her (Oh wait!)
Turning to Hagakure who was next to her bathing as well she said "Hey Hagakure."
"Hmm?" She answered stopping in the middle of cleaning out her hair.
"Back to what we were talking about in the kitchen." Ashido brought up "It'll be super duper chill if you don't tell anyone about what you saw going on in my room."
"Yeah sure of course." Hagakure almost immediately replied.
"Wait what?" A dumbstruck Ashido mumbled under her breath, this was an extremely surprising thing to hear.
This all played out very differently in her head.
OPERATION: SILENCING THE PHANTOM MAIDEN
CURRENT STATUS: COMPLETED?
(It was that easy!? You know now that I think about it I probably would've just ask regularly to begin with, I really feel like I just overly complicated a simple action that could've been done in about 10 minutes. Man I'm just off my game today.) She thought to herself. She's been having a lot of issues overthinking things for a while now and it truly shined its head when a simple 10 minute task takes over an hour to still do.
Was the trust in her friendship with Hagakure really that low?
Hagakure spoke up "You know, you're really lucky Ashido."
The words caught Ashido's attention again, looking confused as to what she meant by the statement.
"To be in that position back there, you two was so close it must've felt nice." Hagakure continued shifting in her seat toward Ashido "I never expected you to be someone that dominate."
Ashido couldn't help but feel a bit embarrassed by that comment, especially since that has a much deeper meaning that Hagakure have no idea about. Avoiding eye contact with her she stammered to say "I mean, I guess but it's not like I'm that demanding just that Deku was really passive."
"Liiiiiiiiiiar~!" Hagakure exclaimed seductively into Ashido's ear, her hands slid up the pink girl's thighs all the way to her waist. "You were practically in full command of that situation."
The soft touch on her legs cause Ashido's legs to shutters, she tries to speak "H-hey"
Before Ashido could express discomfort Hagakure had thrust herself upon her, pressing the Pink female's back against the shower room floor. Invisible still soapy hands were planted at each side of the floor by Ashido's head, she could see the water coming from the shower head trailing around the outline of a hand.
"You were completely on him like this." Hagakure claims, illustrating her point by pressing her body hard against her friend's.
"Ok ok, I get it!" Ashido announced to her, letting her know she proved her point and can get off.
"Hey, you were about to take Midoriya's shirt before you noticed me right?" Hagakure said, recalling how it was obvious what was going to happen if Hagakure didn't accidentally bump into the door alerting them "You wouldn't have stopped with just his shirt would ya." she continued moving her hand down to massage Ashido's waistline stealing a moan from Ashido.
Ashido's face grew red from her friend's touch as she asks "What do you mean?"
With Hagakure's hands sliding up from Ashido's waistline and slowly to her stomach, giving it a coating of soap she says "You would've went even further and taken off your own."
The Invisible girl's hands were currently like a serpent, slowly slithering up the young Pink girl's body. Using the slippery surface caused by the soap to easily squirm over the smooth skin it's on. Hagakure took a minute to watch the water traveling down the length of her arms onto her friend's body, her nice silk body before trailing off the sides to reach the ground. Within that moment a stillness of the moment occurred, giving Ashido some time to grasp the situation. Although Ashido couldn't look back at Hagakure but she could feel it just through her hand motions, they were moving as if they're grasping at an ancient artifact, something the wielder wants to explore greatly but knows it needs to be handled with care not to bruise and ruin it's beauty.
The tense silence broke with Hagakure in a joyous voice pronouncing "He would've been able to see the graceful view that I'm seeing right now."
"A-alright alright I get it." Ashido stammered, turning away blushing at her friends comment.
"What do you have to be so embarrassed about?" Hagakure asked bring up her fingertips to dabble the tiny pool of water that laid on Ashido bare nipple "You got these nice pair of boobs on you, Midoriya wouldn't be able to take his eyes off of them." She teased as her fingertips began swirling in a circular motion against the much darker shade of pink skin, getting the dark rosy taut covered with the white soap, and stealing another quiet moan from the body it was attached to. "You should be grateful to have people admire them!"
Her hands mimicking the tone shift of her voice ferociously groped Ashido's ravishingly looking breast, squeezing them in her grip with each individual finger shifting at their own pace. Unable to contain her inner feeling Ashido let out an echoing moan, she couldn't help it against the pleasure being sent through her chest. Hagakure's finger moved with a mastery technique, they were practically treating her bosoms as if they were mochi, turning them tender and heated from the friction.
(Why is this feeling so good?) Ashido wondered, she knew she shouldn't feel good yet here she was rubbing her thighs together in anticipation for more. The heat emitting from her currently getting man-handled boobs especially got to Ashido, it caused the skin on her breast to be given a shade of red. Her face slowly turned to one of displeasures from the searing pain.
Seeing this Hagakure decided to simmer down the inflammation feeling by using ice stone of a soap bar to glaze down Ashido's jugs before lathering it up to create a soapy coating. While it surprisingly work with the burning heat problem, that didn't stop Hagakure from continuing to have her merry good time with embarassed girl's assets.
Wanting to stop her before she got too lost in her sexual desires, Ashido used her hands to grab Hagakure's wrist, using her natural above average strength to pray them off of her. It was truly an action done begrudgingly and she fully regretted cutting it off early but she needed it to be done. She wasn't sure she was comfortable with the situation, Hagakure was her friend as well as it wasn't like this isn't joked about scene happening about a dozen times by everyone, including both the boys and the girls. But seeing her like this right now, it just felt off…...plus Ashido was completely into guys if that obvious enough by what started this conversation.
That was why it was a pretty strange feeling when Hagakure almost instantly reaction to Ashido pulling her hands off with enacting a kiss with her.
This caught Ashido by surprise so much that she practically lost all the tension she held in her body, letting Hagakure gave some control again, and slip one of her hands out of Ashido's grip.
(W-w-wow wow wow, what is happening today!?) Ashido screamed in her mind
The kiss lasted for about 10 seconds before Hagakure break it off herself.
"You kissed Midoriya just like that right?" Hagakure asked her classmates "On second thought, I think there was more tongue involved." Her one free hand slide back down to wrap itself around Ashido's waist. "Yeah, yeah almost, he was also holding you like this right?" she continued, gliding her fingers again across her featureless skin. "I can't blame him, so lucky so lucky."
What worried Ashido, beside literally everything else, was when that hand started to trail down lower and lower. Getting extremely close in range of her crotch, which she can't not leave had a yearning itch for a fraction of the attention her upper body had gotten.
(No no no no no!) Ashido panicked to herself, if she went to that zone who knows what'll happen! It could set off her Quirk Lust and god forbid what'll happen if Deku is in public. She urgently moved her hand to try to stop Hagakure again.
Yet this time Hagakure just mumbled something to herself "How lucky it is to get something to show." before she pulled her arm back to herself.
Ashido could feel the other arm losing all resistance in that one as well and had let go of it, allowing Hagakure to fully move off of her body. It was an unbearable presence that quickly filled the room as it went back to the only sound being heard in the room was the running water.
At least seemingly only Ashido felt that way, because Hagakure had just went back to washing her own hair casually as if nothing was wrong. Ashido just stared at her with the biggest confused eyes ever looking at all sides of the room.
Seeing her friend's 'odd' movements Hagakure stopped washing herself to turn to her "You better hurry up or else we'll be super late to the girl's study session." she told her before calmly going back to her routine as if nothing happened.
The baffled Ashido didn't really know how to react and somewhat feared wanting to. Though she did eventually decide to cleanse her body of the lubritive substance that was put on her body by the person next to her one thought linger in her mind. (What the actual hell just happen!?)
Actually linger is a massive understatement to what the thought was in her mind.
1-A Height Alliance - 4th Flour, Ashido's Room - 9:45 PM
15 MINUTES TILL GIRL'S STUDY GROUP IN MOMO'S ROOM
(Seriously what is fricking going?) Ashido still wondered as she reentered her room with Hagakure.
The invisible girl just pounce around happily making her way toward Ashido's drawers, looking back she asked "Hey, mind if I just pick out the clothes I'll borrow?"
Ashido didn't say anything as she was befuddled to come with words at the moment, only answering her friend by nodding at her.
"Thanks~!" Hagakure cheered as she searched through Ashido's drawer to find a set of clothes she'll want to wear "You always got the hottest looking clothes."
"..." Ashido stayed silent staring out into space, contemplating if she should bring up the series of events that went down in the shower room (Are we just gonna act like what happened back there didn't happen? You basically went crazy back there looking like a mad woman coming onto me and now we're gonna act like everything is normal…..Oh my god is this how Deku felt?)
The self awareness of the situation was really hitting her hard.
"I was wondering though, why do you want to keep Midoriya's and yours relationship such a secret?" Hagakure asked after having found a set of undergardnet with a pair of Raw-Edge jean shorts.
"Huh?" Ashido went being snapped out of her thoughts "Oh well, it's just not that serious."
It wasn't impossible to tell since she had no visible face to see but telling by her tiny cackle Hagakure probably had a sly smirk on her. With the sound of footprints approaching Ashido, Hagakure taunted "Not that serious? That's strange I remember you calling him Deku in the showers, isn't that the cute nickname Uraraka calls him. That sounds pretty serious, I bet he calls you Mina in private."
Ashido could feel the blush coming back to her face realizing she had another slip of the tongue, back up a bit she replied "What no not at all."
"It's some kind of secret love relationship isn't it?" Hagakure continue to interrogate her, getting real close to her face.
Feeling her breath, still hot from the steamy shower prickled Ashido's skin. Nervous about having a repeat of before Ashido couldn't help but break from the confrontation, rushing to her own drawer she started getting dressed with an anxious face.
"Aha I was right!" Hagakure exclaimed happily, judging by how the right side of her bra was folding forward she was probably pointing at her pink friend "No wonder he accepted giving you the package I gave him so easily."
"Noooo~!" Ashido yelled to the person before her. She needed to think of a good excuse to convince her why what happened happen without it being concluded that it was a relationship or mentioning Quirk Lust. Not like she was object to the idea of dating but Midoriya's feelings needed to be considered here. (Thinking back I probably should've planned this out way before.) She thought, quickly shaking it away. She waited till she finish getting dressed in a pink gym top and green sports sweatshorts to think of a response. Turning back to her smug classmate waiting for an answer she states "It's just a deal we have, that we're allowed to try out things on each other like kissing cause we're both inexperience in those things and were nervous about them."
"Is that so, being inexperience?" Hagakure mumbled "Wait a minute, you mentioned that you dated boys before."
"But that was like middle school level of dating, not much action happened there you basically just hung around each other and hold hands at best." Ashido tells her, for once in the longest while she could respond to a question honestly without having to worry about keeping up with a lie. "We both know that some people will want more then that at some point don't wanna mess it up."
Hagakure nodded, at least that's what one would assume she be doing, as if she was actually understanding the decision "I guess that makes sense, probably not that serious then if it's just that." she says to herself going back to finish dressing up, searching for a good top to wear.
Ashido quietly under her breath let out a sigh of relief that it was believed with no other queries to bombard her with.
Then Hagakure dropped a bomb of a question "Then I don't think you'll mind if I borrow him sometimes right?"
The question hit Ashido so hard that she accidentally hit her lost her balance and hit her head on the nearest wall "What!?" her red face shouted out
"You ok?" Hagakure asked looking back at her "You seemed to hit your head pretty hard."
Rubbing the spot on her head with she hurt herself she told her "Don't worry about that right now, what did you mean !?"
Shrugging before going back to searching for a shirt Hagakure reillustrate her comment "I mean it's basically a friends with benefits type of relationship right? If that's the case that means you ain't dating him and he's open to sharing intimacy action with another with no commitment. I don't think he'll mind a little extra practice for the same reason you're doing it."
Ashido was left speechless as she just stared at her friend, realizing what she just gotten him into. The thoughts of him doing what they did with someone else put a feeling of jealousy in her stomach she tried to hold down.
Finally finding a shirt she found fitting and putting it on she turns back to Ashido and said "Oh sorry, I'm not asking you to set it up for me. I was planning on asking him myself later."
Quickly thinking up of something Ashido replies "Well um, yeah about that. It won't work. Midoriya is real private about this and probably will flat out reject it."
Taking a seat on the bed Hagakure told her classmates "Oh ok you can just put in a good work for me."
(Eh?) Was the thing that immediately went through Ashido's mind
"I mean he'll probably be open to it if you tell him I'm interested. If there are issues with time slots I can just sometimes drop by in the middle of you guys meet-up." Hagakure continued "I mean if what you two are doing really don't mean much, I don't think you two will mind if once in a while a third party get involved to change the pace." Hagakure continued to say "Oh don't worry if secrecy is an issue I promise on my life I won't even speak to you guys about it outside the dorm room itself, just text me when and I'll let you know if I want to stop by."
There was an elaborate excuse Ashido could make that might be able to shut this down, but instead a devilish thought occurs to her. If she agreed to it, it'll be a great excuse to make Midoriya spend more time with her to talk and she can fulfill some of her desire.
(I mean it's not a completely selfish thought, it's to achieve the iron curtain secrecy that we wanted that just so happens to end with me getting some benefits. Plus what better way to keep Hagakure silent then getting her in on it as well so she'll be extra careful. It'll just be hell explaining to him how to come to be.) Ashido dislussionary thought to herself. Just thinking about it almost made her drool, but then she remembered that there was another living being in the room.
"Sure yeah I'll let him know and update you on it later." Ashido told Hagakure
Hopping off the bed Hagakure cheered "Great, now let's go we're going to be late to the study session."
(Sorry Midoriya, I'll just make it up to you later.) Ashido told herself as she follow Hagakure out the door.
1-A Height Alliance - 6th Flour, Media Center - 9:10 PM
50 MINUTES TILL GIRL'S STUDY GROUP IN MOMO'S ROOM
After having drag Tsuyu all the way over here Izuku took a moment to breath. Well He quickly eye'd the smaller lab room, that place that started this madness and shivered.
Having to shake off this feeling he turned back to Tsuyu opening up the conversation by saying "Ok so, about your-" he had to take a moment to gulp down a wad of saliva "interest."
"Imouto Kero!" Tsuyu explained "It was a imouto game you saw!"
Blinking slowly Midoriya responds "Right, about that-"
"I know what you're thinking but the girl on the box art is over 18 and they aren't blood related!" A flustered Tsuyu claimed to Midoriya "So it's totally fine -ribbit ribbit!"
A very wide eyed Midoriya commented out loud "You sound like you're defending your case in court!"
Tsuyu looked shocked at first before settling back down "Sorry."
(Oh man, I didn't think it was this bad. This is the second time I witness Tsuyu be so insecure about something.) Midoriya thought "So how long ago did this hobby of yours start?"
Tsuyu looked around to make sure she was no one around to hear her, which she probably should've done before, regardless after assuring herself she told him "It started a few months ago before we moved into the dorms, I was just walking around a video shop to rent a movie for my little siblings to watch since my parents was gonna be gone for the night. One of them liked action adventure while the other liked comedy so while trying to find a good movie with both, I just found happen to pass by one of the Imouto computer games. One of the customers must've been lazy and put the game he didn't want to play in the wrong place. I wasn't sure why but I just ended up renting it on a whim. Next thing I knew I went back to rent another one and another one until I basically finish the niche collection that shop had."
"Did you find another place to buy more?" Midoriya asked her
Tsuyu looked at him with her eyes of hers "I think that question is overly obvious."
Realizing the unnecessarily of his actions Midoriya rubbed the back of his head apologizing to her,
"But I'm not addicted." Tsuyu claimed "I'm just really interested in it, it's like your admiration in Heros!"
Without reacting Tsuyu already had regrets about that comment as they both knew that Midoriya had an ungodly obsession with heroes especially with All Might.
"J-just don't tell anyone please -ribbit!" Tsuyu spoke up again, Midoriya was especially surprised to see that Tsuyu's cheek started becoming red.
Considering the amount of secrets Midoriya have had to hold since he got to UA honestly one more wouldn't kill him. This one was actually one of the easiest because there was no way would Midoriya ever bring this conversation up to anyone ever.
""Yeah, of course. My lips are sealed." Midoriya told her "I honestly don't mind those types of games, I just wanted to know if you were ok."
"R-really?" Tsuyu asked, her eyes seemed surprised by his reaction.
Nodding his head Midoriya assured her "I mean don't tell anyone this but I'm sort of a complete fanatic about Heros and their Quirks."
"That's not even close to being a secret." Tsuyu ruthlessly says.
"I...was going to say how I use to keep a very nerdy notebook with a bunch of data about them." Midoriya continued to say after taking a moment to take in her harsh comment.
"That isn't too farfetch considering how you always mumble so loudly whenever you see an interesting Quirk." Tsuyu commented again "To a creepy extent."
"Yeah..., people in middle school use to call me a Hero stalker for that." Midoriya replies scratching the back of his head nervously "Even though I was just slightly more obsess with Heroes then every other kid my age."
"With heros like Midnight, Mt. Lady, or Miruko running around hearing how someone would want to collect as much information about them into a private book does sound pretty stalkerish."
Hearing the word gave him a sharp chill making him quickly defend himself stammering "Yeah I know but it was just a fun hobby of mine since I didn't have much friends, people just kept misunderstanding it as a fixation to find out literally everything about a hero!"
"That sounds very infuriating to deal with." Tsuyu "Though to be honest if I would've saw how obsessed you were back then without getting use to your antics I would've thought the same thing."
"I'm slowly coming to terms with that as well." Midoriya mumbles to himself, feeling embarrassed as he regrets a lot of his actions as a kid. It were revelations like those that makes him not hold much of a grudge against his bullies from the past.
Putting a finger to her cheek Tsuyu wondered out loud to herself "Though if you were a bit younger it would be kinda cute to see you chasing around Heroes trying to find out everything about them."
For concerns about where those thoughts might be going considering the recent information he found out about her, he wanted to make sure certain ideas didn't cross someone's mind "But enough about my past... and somewhat present weird hobbies... are you doing better?" Midoriya ask her to get back on track.
Tsuyu didn't respond at first, instead she just placed a hand on her chest for a bit looking surprised as she felt her own heartbeat. It was normally beating like nothing was wrong. Looking back to the waiting Emerald boy she replied to her "You know surprisingly I thought one of my darkest secrets being exposed would be much more dramatic. But just confessing to you, kinda makes me feel a bit better."
"Well that's great to hear." Midoriya replied happy that his friend was doing ok and the issue didn't get any worse like lead to an intense make-out session.
Tsuyu took a moment to look at her watch before saying "Great I think I missed helping Hagakure with her cooking lesson."
"Sorry about that." Midoriya apologize to her again, feeling bad that he just purposely sabotage someone else's plan for a mostly selfish reason.
"It's fine, partly my own fault for spending so much time running away." She says heading back to the elevator "I'm just going to my room to uh rest up for a few minutes."
Midoriya couldn't help but smile for he caught Tsuyu quickly glancing at the box of...interesting content in her hand. It was as obvious as his admiration for All Might that she was just going to go to her room to play the game she got. He'll usually call out such obvious lies but out of respect of having a hobby he usually can't be open about decided to let her have her moment, optioning to join her in the elevator.
"What floor are you going to?" Tsuyu asked him after already pressing the button that'll lead them to the 5th floor
"First." Midoriya replied to her taking out his phone
With two yellow glowing lights on the control panel the elevator began moving.
He quickly text Ashido an update that Tsuyu will no longer be going to the kitchen and that he'll be on standby if something else was needed.
It was a silent ride and neither of the two dared to sneak a look at the other despite the conversation that happened between them ending on relatively good terms. If the green hair kid had to guess why the sudden silence, he would place his bets on the fact that they both know Tsuyu is addicted to Imouto games for reason probably too personal for her to want to share for now. It was understandable since that is the kind of hobbies most people will keep secret because they'll feel too embarrassed to ever discuss it to someone they know in real life, mostly out of the fear that people around them won't understand their interest and will find them creepy or weird.
Finally breaking the stalemate of the unspoken game of 'Don't look at each other' Midoriya took a quick peek at Tsuyu. She still had the game hidden and protected in her arm but she looked a lot less desperate to hide it, she was back to being the usual calm and mostly singular face looking Frog Hero Midoriya knew before.
(I guess what she needed was someone who'll know about her hobby but won't judge her for it, for now anyways.) Midoriya thought to himself as he continued to check on her.
His actions wasn't hard to do since Midoriya's mind was more focus on all the madness that was happening over the last two days then freaking out over her choice of hobby. That isn't to say he didn't care, he did truly care if Tsuyu was alright. After his experience with his pink classmate's mental breakdown in front of him, he had some concerns when he heard from Ashido that Tsuyu was feeling some similar things about something she never mentioned. But seeing as she seems well put together or at least isn't in any immediate danger of a mental breakdown because of those feelings, that means he can hold off with dealing with her till after he finish getting out of his current predicament.
Feeling the movement in the small space coming to a stop and a light tone 'ding!' that echoed throughout their ears, the elevator door slid open. Tsuyu turned toward her classmate to give him a sorta head nudge of adieu before stepping out of the elevator. Watching her walk off Midoriya felt like he should say something to assure his classmate that they were still good and he actually meant what he said before about not judging her.
After thinking it over Midoriya press his hand against the outring of the elevator to prevent the door from closing as he called out "Hey Tsu, I'm totally fine with your attraction to little sisters!"
….
Wait.
That sounded so much better in the boys head.
It was probably didn't make it better that he said that comment a lot louder then he intended too. He was pretty much in full regret mode as soon as the words left his mouth.
That's why when Tsuyu's quickly turned around with a red flustered face and slapped him across the face with her long tongue he completely understood why. He even felt like he desired it.
Holding his aching cheek he slowly retract his arms to allow the door to start closing, having an awkward 2 seconds of making eye contact with a unnerved Tsuyu before the metal curtain closed them off from each other.
Letting out a sigh of exhaustion he laid back against the metallic wall behind him, he had quite a restless day but it did feel worth it to him if it meant his fellow heroes and friends would be able to succeed as well. He just wished that he could make some of it easier by not being such a tool when it comes to pure social situations, maybe then he could avoid a lot of these ridiculous situations he somehow finds himself in. It had only been two days since he even heard about Quirk Lust, he already had his perspective of two of his classmates flipped on its head, discover a whole new concept he have to look out for during his hero training, have a lot of questions for All Might the next time they meet, and found himself in half a dozen situations he never would've thought he'll be in.
He wondered, if he was really going to go through with this will his days always be this eventful? It's just the first time they're doing this and he already feel like he just did a mission on hard mode. Maybe if next time things were a bit more planned and he was more prepared this would've been a lot easier. It will still be pretty time consuming on top of his already busy schedule.
(While I guess it ain't so bad, I am slowly understanding my classmates on a deeper level everyday…...sometimes in ways I wouldn't expect but who said life was fair and equal.) Midoriya thought to himself cracking a tiny smile (I just need to take it day by day.)
With Tsuyu announcing that she was going back to her room that mean Midoriya no longer had a reason to distract her anymore then he had, he just have to wait till Ashido texted him back to know if she was successful or not in her part. While he waited for the results the boy figured why not take care of some other business as well. First thing he wanted to do was talk to the front desk about the auto lock system with the doors, he just wanted to be clear with the actual system to avoid a mistake like today, and then after grab a light meal to snack on.
With the familiar feeling of the room coming to stop followed by a ding noise Deku straighten up to get ready to exit. He took out his phone one last time to make sure he didn't miss any messages, with the door opening Midoriya began to step out only to stop when he saw the shadow of someone looming over his phone screen.
Quickly looking up he was almost jumped out of his skin when a physically drained Uraraka stumbling toward him.
"Uraraka!" Deku screamed seeing his friend who has a secret crush on him looking like the raisin version of a coconut. It was almost as if she had her life force sucked out of her by some demon, like a strange combination of lady facial expression with younger but it still had Uraraka putting her smile.
"Oh Deku, is that you?" Uraraka called out like an old person
"What happened to you!?" Deku yelled out again (This couldn't be the work of a Villain's Quirk?) he wondered.
With a sweet smile despite looking like someone who'll put their age between 15-50 Uraraka responded "Oh I'm fine, just a little wobbly." She tried to take a forward for and almost fell over, only being caught by a panicking Deku who held her. She was really too wobbly to walk properly. "Just a little juice in my stomach will set me straight." she wizzed, looking like she might just faint in Deku's arms right there.
(Oh my goodness she feels as light as a feather.) Midoriya thought to him, pulling one of her arms over his shoulders to support her up easier "O-ok I'll just take you to the second floor lobby, they'll have something you can drink just hang on!" he told her as if she was a dying victim in the middle of a battlefield.
"Tha~nks Deku, you're the be~st." Uraraka mumbled while she was slumped over Deku's shoulder.
Quickly mashing the elevator button Izuku urgently rushed the weary Ochako to the second floor. Entering into the lobby area he was surprised to see it was completely empty, he shrugged off the thought entering the unfamiliar situation to lead Uraraka to one of the larger couches.
After lowering her down onto the comfort of the cushions, he assured her his return before rushing toward the fridge to find her something to get in her stomach. It was fortunate that there were multiple options to choose from but it'll soon work against him as his uncertainties of what she'll want made him indecisive.
Luckily he realized she was barely 15 feet away from him so he just asked her "Anything in particular you want!?"
Lifting up a feeble arm up to make it visible from behind the couch she was resting on, the faint Uraraka called back "Anything really will do, something simple would be great I'm just so famish."
(Something simple.) Midoriya repeated back to himself continuing to search the fridge. By something simple she probably mean something that won't need to be warmed up or have any other culinary touches to enjoy, but seeing as how drain she is he gotta make sure it's something that'll really nourish her. The best option available seemed to be fruit and something to hydrate her.
Grabbing an apple and a juicebox the boy rushed back to his starving friend, setting the juice box on the side table next to the couch he presented the apple to her like a sacrificial good to a goddess.
A grateful Uraraka used both her hands to claim her apple, in the transaction her pink padded fingertips softly graze the back of Midoriya's hand. They were just as strange but soft to feel as he always remembered it. "You're a life sa~vior." Uraraka weakly says as she goes to munch the apple. Disappointment swiftly filled the girl when she realized her bite didn't have enough strength to break the skin of the apple, she was drained of strength.
A onlooking Deku looked worried when he saw this "Can you really not bite through that?" he exclaimed
This didn't deter Uravity from quelling her hunger, she stared down the apple with a frustrated scowl, determination in her to eat every last bite of it. Stretching her jaw wide open she placed the apple along the alignment of her bottom teeth before biting into the apple again, again, and again. With each chomp was filled with the brunette's fighting spirit backing it up, but the darn resilient shell of the fruit repelled her every time.
Holding back his laughter Izuku watched this honestly great mix of comedic and adorable attempt being done in front of him. While he'll usually be would be worried if someone lacked the strength to bite into an apple but just Uraraka's pure attitude to the situation makes the whole thing feel light hearted then what it actually is. Seeing this girl those puffy dimpled cheeks of her's expand while she shoot daggers with her beautiful brown eyes at an apple was a sight that'll make even Katsuki loosen up. Eventually Midoriya did stand to get a knife, precious entertainment aside she does need to eat.
"I'll just cut it into pieces." Midoriya insisted as he took the apple out of Uraraka's hand
With a stunned face the tired girl whined "Nooo~" flailing her arms in a futile attempt to retrieve the apple.
This earned a confused look from the green haired boy, wondering if he did anything wrong.
"I don't wanna give up just yet." the brunette continued
Letting out a sigh of relief Midoriya replied to her "You can have all the challenge you want after you can properly eat something." then resume his task of peeling followed by slicing the apple into digestible pieces. He was more surprise she could still pull off this gag in her condition.
Placing her hands down on her lap, a pouty Uraraka quietly mumbles "Ok….."
Setting down the plate of 8 apple slices, Midoriya returned to the fridge and retrieved a jar of Peanut Butter. "Try it with Peanut Butter, it'll make it taste better." He said walking to her, being met with another scene of Uraraka struggling to properly insert a straw into the juicebox.
"Peanut Butter with apple slices? That's a weird combination." Ochako commented
"N-no it's not." Deku replied, taking the juice box from the objecting exhausted girl who futilely tried to get it back out of guilt. "My mom does it all the time, she says all woman likes to put peanut butter on things like celery and other healthy options to make them taste better. Try it."
Taking one of the apples slices the brunettes nicely tells him, "I think I'll just leave you with your strange taste."
As the boy questioned if he was told a niche acquired taste or an excuse from his mom to justify an unhealthy option, Uraraka went for a round 2 in devouring her snack. With another chomp she bit into the crescent cut fruit, this time her teeth actually did make a dent on the exposed inners of the apple, but a dent was the best she could do. No matter how much effort she put behind her gnawing she couldn't completely sink her teeth through the crunchy apple.
"Why can't I eat you!?" She yelled at it with a look of someone on the verge of crying.
After properly inserting a straw into the juice Izuku stood up and went back to the fridge saying "I'll just get a softer fruit, just try nibbling on it."
A moping Uraraka silently nibbles against the edges of the apple, having to admit defeat against her powerful foe. Coming back to his waiting classmate, Deku handed her an already peeled banana to her.
"So what happened to you?" asked Midoriya, he was curious to what caused her to be left in such a state.
Sitting down with her on the couch he patiently waited for an answer, watching as Uraraka slowly took her time to devour the banana in front of him with a few bites, it was a surprising she didn't choke. Feeling more energized as the nutrients course through her body Uraraka explained to Midoriya the torture she went through restudying the Hero's Law books with Iida, throughout it Midoriya avoided eye contact out of the guilt that loomed at the back of his mind. As the conversation dragged on the two enjoyed the taste of juicy apple as they chuckled over how overly strict and formal their class representative can be.
Reaching the end of the story she stretched out her limbs like a lazy cat stretching out on a couch, her face finally looking back to it's normal puffy round face. The only thing that remained from her previous look was the heavy eyelid look her eyes gave off. "I guess it wasn't that bad, it was kinda my fault for not eating anything after lunch. Probably would've had a lot more energy if I had something to munch on." she says.
Midoriya who was enjoying another peanut butter dipped apple slice just nodded as he listened to her talk.
Soon her head began to droop back against the couch as she says "I knew it was a bad idea to rely on eating what Hagakure was going to make was a bad idea, I just didn't expect to get held back by a Iida."
Guilt
Trying to move past the culpability that was knocking at the back of his mind Midoriya stammered "W-well you can j-just take this as a…learning experience to do better...right." He tried to chuckle off his nervousness, avoiding eye contact again by turning his head to the opposite side of the room.
As he had his head turned, he suddenly felt something soft being planted onto his shoulder. This feeling froze Midoriya's body stiff, unsure if he should make any sudden movements.
"You say that yet you know it's partly your fault right?" He heard his female classmate mumble, her voice seemed to indicate that she had gotten a lot closer to the boy "You should've told me you weren't coming to study with me and Iida so I can make a good excuse to leave earlier."
"S-sorry." Midoriya shutter to say, multiple different fears began to bubble in his mind.
"You gotta make it up to me." She muttered in such a tone that it felt like the words practically whispered directly into his ear.
This feeling caused Midoriya body to shiver down to the bone (Is she? Oh please I hope it's not what I think it is.) He thought to himself, memories of the bombastic Pink bombshell filled his mind.
Is this gonna be a repeat?
He didn't want it to be a repeat, it could easily cause a lot issues then what is already brewing.
He quickly turns back toward his friends and announcing out "Uraraka I don't think we should do…...this?"
His voice quickly died down when he no longer saw anything on his shoulder, the soft feeling had disappeared, reappearing on his lap instead. With his fear level reaching his absolute peak he looked down to see a closed eyes Uraraka resting her head on his lap.
"Let me…..rest for a bit…..until 10pm." Uraraka says
"Wha- wha- wha- wha-" Went the bumbling Midoriya seeing this revelation.
"Until 10 pm." She repeated herself in a much quieter voice, getting comfortable in her position "Be...here...to….zzzzzz."
(She fell asleep!?) Midoriya screamed in his mind, looking down at his now napping classmate.
A panicking Midoriya did his best to keep his legs from squirming around too much in order to avoid waking her up. While being an unexpected surprise that he was glad completely subvert his expectation of what was anticipated, he didn't want to be rude and wake her up over it. Considering the fact that she practically fainted mid-sentence from the toll of her activities because of his interference, he felt like the best he could do to make it up was let her sleep. He didn't mind nursing her while she was exhausted like she was, he just wished that 'letting her rest' was less physical or at least a warning was given.
His heart softed up as he took another look at the sleeping girl in front of him, she looked so peaceful as she slept. Her brown hair was loose, probably lost it structure and straightness from the training she's been keeping secret along with the extra long study session with Iida, her strands were scattered across Midoriya's lap leading down to the couch. Despite the messy hair her skin was still silky smooth, especially around her face giving her that round face appearance most people know her by.
With Midoriya's body fully calming down he cracks a smile looking at her "Sorry I caused you so much trouble, I had to help out our friends." he quietly says to her.
Letting out a sigh he leaned back on the couch looking up at the ceiling taking in the silence of the room. Looking back to Uraraka he couldn't help feeling compelled to pet her hair, just seeing her with her eyes closed sleeping like a baby in his lap gave him a million thoughts all saying to pet her like a cat.
His hand slowly rises to his side, reaching over his friend's head. Before it lowered down it paused, floating over the girl's head as if it was hesitant to want to disrupt the slumbering beauty. Before the boy even knew it, he hand had lowered by itself lightly touching the brunette's hair, caressing it softly, and slowly making her hair look neater. Once the hair is brushed into a neat bundle of strands he couldn't help take a moment to just feel the softness of the hair. Each individual strand felt like silk threads that were woven together to create a high quality bed sheet of hair that accompanied Uraraka's face. The fragrant scent her hair contained filled the air around him, giving him a pleasant smell of freshness, he couldn't tell the specific kind of smell.
Trailing down a stray hair string with his finger, he came across the soft puffy cheek of the coconut hair shape girl. They were just as pink as ever, he always liked how the dibbles add to her facial features, it gave her a much more comforting appearance just looking at her. So much so that he traces the outline of the pink circle with his fingertips, a tingling feeling shot through his hand doing this, they felt so nice. Pushing his luck even more Midoriya decided to even poke her cheek as well, experiencing the full fluffiness of her body as he felt the light repulsion her cheek gave his finger with every tiny poke. It was something he felt he could've done all day.
That wouldn't happen as after a few minutes of this the sleeping beauty began to shuffle causing Midoriya to hold his breath, luckily she only shifted her sleeping position just a bit while giving a tiny moan before her body went stationary again. Letting himself tense down again he chuckled silently to himself over his actions, it would've been embarrassing if Uraraka woke up seeing him play with her face like he did.
It felt strange since he's usually was someone who would freak out over that thought even after it was avoided.
But right now he just felt so relaxed.
He has no idea how much time he spent like this, he stopped keeping track of time a while ago because the entire situation just felt too peaceful to worry about that, sitting down was peaceful, eating apple slices was peaceful, watching Uraraka sleep was peaceful, playing with her hair was peaceful, poking her cheek felt peaceful, it all felt just so peaceful. Or it was better to say that Uraraka presence there made everything feel peaceful.
It was great as it gave Midoriya a much desired movement of stillness where he didn't have to worry about something going wrong and could actually spend the time being at ease.
It was something he wished would last a lot longer than it usually does.
"Midoriya what are you doing?" Came an icy mono-tone voice that sent chills down Midoriya's spine, the source of it seem
Snapping his head toward the direction it came from Midoriya spotted his dispassionate temperate friend Shouto Todoroki. Stuck between wanting to jump out of his seat or shouting some excuse to quickly explain the situation, Izuku choose the third option of using his own willpower to hold down his leg preventing them from jerking upward waking Uraraka, and biting down on his own hand so he wouldn't scream out.
While it would've been a strange sight for the on-looker at least he would've prevented himself from causing ruckus.
Walking close the Icy-Hot user was able to get a glance of the situation, slowly hovering his eyes from his green hair friend weird facial expression down to the sleeping Uraraka that nesting in his lap.
"Wasn't it only yesterday that you agreed to let her see you train and now you're sleeping together?" Todoroki bluntly say looking back at Midoriya with his heterochromia eyes
Midoriya bite harder into his hand to muffle his screams, his heart wanted to jump out his body with the power of a crashing meteorite, his willpower couldn't stop his leg from slightly bucking shaking the resting head of the brunette in his jagged movement caused the body of Uraraka to shifting in place again, Midoriya's body froze again not daring to move a muscle as he watches the girl's reaction, her body gently turned toward Izuku's before settling again. Slowly lowering his legs back down to the ground along with taking away his bite mark hand from mouth he let out a huge sigh of relief.
Looking back at Todoroki who obviously doesn't realize he almost gave someone a heart attack Izuku says to him in a whispering voice "I-it's not like that at all! She was just tired after studying with Iida and suddenly fall asleep on me." He could feel his face become more flustered as he finished speaking, those words Todoroki said filled his mind with some not so pleasant memories.
Todoroki calmly blinks as he takes a look at the two again before asking "Yes, she's sleeping on you and you looked like you were half awake as well. Doesn't that mean you two were sleeping with each other?"
"NO-" Midoriya's red face quickly yelled before covering his mouth, he looked down again to check to see if he woke up Uraraka but she seemed to still be sound asleep. (Where in the world did he hear that term be used here.) he wondered. Facing Todoroki again he continue to say much quieter "That's not how that term works, that means something entirely different."
"Ah." responded the unenthusiastic half-red head as if he finally realized he must've said something off, he looks down a bit plainly says "Sorry for the misuse of the term, what would you call what you're doing then?"
Scratching the back of his head Midoriya thought of a way to put it that'll make it sound like nothing was going on yet be simple enough that even Todoroki could understand it.
"Friendly comfort?" Midoriya spoke slowly leaving a very questioning tone at the end as he watch to see if his classmate will accept that kind of answer.
It was a tense stare off
Todoroki stared into Midoriya's eyes
Midoriya tried to return the same tenacity as Todoroki but truly couldn't and often ended up looking toward the ground to take a break from the eye contact. Each time he looked back up Todoroki was still looking at him.
Feeling pressured to add something to his case he quickly continued to say "It really helps when someone close to you like a friend or family member isn't feeling well or themselves."
This statement didn't change Todoroki's stoic face, he still stared at the very nervous green hair boy.
(Man, I wish I was a lot better at lying and keeping secrets.) He thought to himself, he gave his cold staring friend a warm smile to accompany his believability. Just like the book his mom gave him, people trust someone who is smiling.
After what felt like hours Todoroki finally broke from his timeless silence "I see, glad to hear it.' before walking to the fridge to get something.
With the half-icy boy back turned Midoriya dropped his smile to recovery how somehow once again he got through with his terrible lying skills. He really needs to get better at this considering the situations he's getting into.
He was also curious to why Todoroki was here, he hadn't noticed it before but Todoroki was still in his school uniform, shouldn't he have changed by now?
"Um Todoroki, I hope you don't mind me asking but why are you still in your school clothes? It's way past the afternoon." Midoriya questioned.
Walking away from the fridge with an apple Todoroki calmly replies "I was help Momo get a lot of work done, apparently Vice-Class President and Class President both have specific duties that'll be assigned solely to them. I guess she got overwhelmed with hers."
"Momo was behind on class work?" Izuku stated surprise, it was pretty unusual thing to hear "Any specific reason how or why?"
Todoroki shrugged his shoulders as he says "I don't know, she didn't really say or let me know. I just assisted her do and deliver more of the general things she was behind on. I know she come back before me because I offered to drop off the last stack of papers since she looked worn, not sure where she went."
"She probably went to her room to prepare for some girl's study session they host nearly every weekday." Midoriya told him, quickly regretting it as he figured he might get questioned why he knows that much specific detail.
Lucky for him his classmate didn't seem to notice or care as he replies "I guess that makes sense, I'm going to head to my room to lay down."
I held up my plate that had a decent amount of peanut butter on it and told him "You want some peanut butter for your apple, I'm almost done here."
Todoroki didn't move as he looks at the broccoli hair teen before stating very coldly "No sorry I don't like weird food."
(It's not weird!) Midoriya shouted in his head about to stand up but stopped when he remembers who was relaxing on his lap at the moment.
"Anyways if you need anything you know where to find me." Todoroki told him before walking off.
Giving him a wave goodbye Izuku then took out his phone to check for messages. Once again he was worried when he says that he still had no new messages and it was 10:01pm.
…
(It's past 10!?) Midoriya repeated in his mind.
How much time has passed? Was he so distracted taking the sight of Uraraka's adorably cute body napping on his lap that he completely lost track of time!? How long was he playing with her hair and poking her cheek?
(I must've looked like a creep doing what I did for so long, thank god Todoroki came by or who knows what I might've done to her) thought Midoriya as he continue to rag on himself.
He stopped when he realized that it was probably best that he woke Uraraka up now before anyone else walks by and he has an actual heart attack.
(She did say to let her sleep till 10) Midoriya told himself as he lay his hand on her soft shoulder to lightly shake her awake "I-it's time to wake up."
With an angelic sound coming from the brunette she slowly raised her head from his lap and looked at him with a dazed look as if she was a baby that didn't know where she was. It took her a couple of seconds to truly wake up, signalled by how she jumped off the couch landing on her feet like a cat. Both occupants in that room quickly turned red-face as they looked at each other. Midoriya as usually immediately looked downwards away to hide his embarrassment for he knew Uraraka probably shared a few of his thoughts of what the situation looked like, but Uraraka didn't look away. Despite her own unnerve feelings she still face her broccoli looking friend, bending down a bit to get on eye level with him since he was still sitting down, grabbing Midoriya's attention back up to her.
"Sorry for dozing off on you like that." she apologized giving a slight head tilt along with a very uplifting smile "But thanks for being staying that way for me, I feel refreshed now."
Quickly looking back down to the floor the Emerald hair boy couldn't stand to look at that goddess smile his classmate had on for more then a few seconds at a time, that smile shine down a holy light disintegrating all forms of stress he was currently feeling. It instead filled him with a flustered feeling with how stunning she looked at the moment and a relaxing mellow flow flowing through his body. It was too much to accept it so open-handedly knowing how many secrets he was specifically keeping from almost exclusively her. Not to mention how much he was fiddling with her while she wasn't coincess.
Eventually he managed to gather up enough determination to look her in the eye again to say to her "Oh it's no problem I wanted some rest anyways before I train for the day." he tells her "Also, it's a little bit past 10." He reminded her, knowing she'll remember about the Girl's Study Session and would stop killing him with kindness with that smile.
Shooting back up straight Uraraka clap her hands against her puffy cheek with a gasping expression "Oh I almost forgot I gotta go take care of something, I'll have to catch you later." she states as she begins walking away to the elevator waving goodbye. As she entered into the mobile metalbox her head popped back out from around the corner "Oh and don't forget, you still promised me one viewing session of you training." she mutters quietly before disappearing behind the wall.
As he watched her go off into whatever is waiting for her in Momo's room, Midoriya was just sitting on the couch, smiling to himself. It took a moment for he himself to realize he was smiling so happily that day, it would make sense, Uraraka was always someone whose sweetness would give even the most persistent person's sweet tooth satisfaction. It made him wonder if he should've taken the chance he had then to talk to her about her feelings toward him, would he be about to pull it off without making it obvious that someone told him, or was it needed to confront her. What the hell would he say back to her anyways, he hasn't really thought about how he felt back as well. Things seems to be progressing pretty fine between the two of them without any issues, if a relationship was desired on her part there probably would've been more of a push then there was with her. Ashido should know more about this, he could probably ask her for some inside information on what Uraraka's crush on him is.
He wouldn't waste too much time thinking about it, he already had so much to handle at the moment that something like this that was devolving with no issues for once without much effort to plan shouldn't be tainted by overthinking it. So to him this was basically his greatest ribial in life.
Getting up Deku took the stairs to his room, he looked at his phone one last time and sighed seeing it was in the same state it was before (Well I guess it's fine, Tsuyu and Uraraka were successfully kept away from Hagakure for the entirety of the operation. As long as Ashido can get her part done there's nothing to worry about.) Despite this mental resolve he was still extremely worried.
Regardless he figured he wouldn't get any kind of answer till after the study session and decided to spend the time doing his training, ironically on schedule.
1-A Height Alliance - 5th Flour, Momo's Room - 10:10 PM
With Uraraka entering the room there was a split second of silence as all the girls turn toward her. Everyone was there, Tsuyu, Jiro, Hagakure, Ashido, and of course Momo herself.
"Well about time you showed up, you're late." Jiro called out to her
Uraraka stepped into the room so she could close the door behind her, turning back to her friends apologetically telling them "Sorry, I got a little preoccupied with something."
"You're not that late." Tsuyu replied to her, she was doing something on her phone which was being held close to her.
Shifting around the other girls Momo walked up to brunette who just entered the room "Don't worry yourself about it, we don't have anything important to do today anyways." She told her
"We barely ever do anything important here." Jiro grumbles, taking out a piece of berry burst bubble gum.
"Why are you like this tonight? It's like you want to start a fight." Hagakure comments toward her gothic friend "Also that's your 4th piece, let me get one."
Taking out a piece and lobbing it to the transparent beggar the unenthusiastic girl expressed herself "I know, I know, it's just a distraction to take away how cramp this room can feel. Seriously why do we sometimes do our 'study sessions' here when there's no room. No offense Momo but this room is making me claustrophobic."
"It's fine, my fault for putting off remodeling my room for so long." Momo sighed to herself, the comment itself didn't really bother her at all. Aside from the fact that it came from Jiro who have a habit of being a bit cynical with her interactions with others, multiple memories of the struggles she goes through in the morning to get dress resurfaced. The little pockets of spaces between all her monstrous sized furniture was already like moving through a tunneled cave for the girl's average sized friends, imagine what it feels like for her highly 'developed' body to squeeze on through it every morning while being half awake. The multiple red spots by her knee will be a testament to that.
"We're only here when it's your turn to host so take your time." Ashido reassured the girl
"Whenever that's available." Hagakure offhandedly added, moving a pile of papers that was on the bed a bit more to the side to make more room.
With her onyx eyes looking at the ground Momo sighed again as she scoots through the multiple 3 feet stacks of paper that littered her room's floor over toward the bed saying "Let me move around some papers to make more room for you to sit Uraraka."
Quickly following behind Uraraka went to assist Momo with the quick rearrange of her class vice-president papers.
"I don't mind sitting down on one of the chairs." Tsuyu said gettings off the bed to lend a hand as well to move things.
Uraraka modestly denied accepting the help for she didn't want Tsuyu to move from her comfortable spots for her but the frog hero hard insisted on it. Once everything was settled the girls were all able to sit down in a position they all felt relaxed in. Momo being kind to her guests also took a chair seat in front of her giant bookshelf, Tsuyu took her chair seat on the opposite side of Momo mostly being on her phone which she was holding tightly close as if she didn't want anyone to see what was on the screen, Jiro decided to have the most interesting seat by laying down on the desk with a pillow on her phone seemingly uninterested in the current conversation but she did take a few glances at the group once in a while, Uraraka, Ashido, and Hagakure in that order were all on the bed.
Hopping right back to their earlier conversation Uraraka says "I'm surprised you're so busy when you're only the Vice-president."
"I was actually wondering the same thing." Tsuyu added, putting her phone down for a moment "Shouldn't Iida be the one swamped with work?"
With a third sigh Momo scratch the back of her neck before replying "Well I have to do all the paperwork for things relating directly to our class as well as some of the communication with other courses and Iida have to take care of all the work that represents the class to the rest of the school along with its faculty members. I'm honestly surprised he can keep up with all the work so consistently."
"You know, I wouldn't mind once in a while doing some of those papers with you if they get too much." Tsuyu offered
Uraraka popped up on the bed excitedly "That's smart, we'll definitely shred through all of them if all of us help you out."
"It'll at least give us purpose for these study sessions." Hagakure added
Nodding in agreement Ashido happily say "Yeah it'll be great! Even though we have no idea how anything you do works we'll give it everything we got!"
"I'm pretty sure that's just you who's that clueless." Jiro states as she continued messing with her phone "But….I guess when I have time to kill I can lend a hand." She mumbled as she stopped her fiddling with her phone before going back to her business.
Looking up in joy at her classmates Momo smiled brightly, yet she still told them "That's means a lot but honestly there's no need to worry, I'm only swamped because of the amount of upcoming events that's apparently happening soon. I just wish I knew the full details of it but I'm mostly just doing pre-preparations for them and it involves a lot of reading."
"You sure you don't want our help?" Uraraka ask tiling her head toward Momo slightly worried
"We legit don't mind putting in some time to ease your load." Ashido said in a similar tone Uraraka had.
Nodding her head Momo told them "Yeah I'm sure. I just need one weekend to catch up and it'll be fine from there."
"Then maybe remodel your room -ribbit." Tsuyu suggested to her "Be sure to get help with at least that, no doubt that'll be a lengthy process to get done."
"Maybe you can ask Todoroki for help, he's apparently great at craftwork." Hagakure suggested as well, though the tone in her voice insinuated that there was another intent with that comment.
While it didn't seem like most of the other girls picked up on the intent of the comment….except maybe Tsuyu, Momo certainly did as a slight blush cam across from her face. "N-no I wouldn't want to bother him with... giving me ...his hands- helping hands!" she blurts out the last part. Quickly wanting to change the subject before one of the girls caught on to her stammering she said "Oh Tsuyu why was Midoriya searching all over the school for you?"
Jiro stopped texting on her phone as she listened in.
"What do you mean?" Tsuyu states quickly looking back down to her phone, it was hard to tell because of how her facial expression barely changes but a good eyes would tell that currently her eyes were wider than they usually were.
Ashido eyes were just as big which she hid by pretending the need to scratch the back of her head and avoid all eye contact. Especially with Hagakure who was curious to her reaction.
"On my way back I bumped in Kaminari and he was talking about how Deku asked him where Tsuyu was. He said he looked desperate as if he already search half the school for you." Momo told.
Uraraka's head slowly turned toward the frog classmate with an invested look in her eyes.
"Oh -kero...that. He just wanted to ask me a quick question." Tsuyu calmly replied.
"What kind of question would Deku want to ask to look around the entire school for? Couldn't he have just message you on SmashTweets or HerosComics." The invisible girl questioned innocently.
Being slightly pushed against the wall with the questions Tsuyu responded quickly "Heroes kero." she was almost on the edge of breaking a sweat.
"Heroes?" Uraraka repeated back to her, a smile on her face "Really? Interesting."
(What did you two talk about, you were only supposed to distract her?) Ashido wondered, what could they have possibly had talk about that even Tsuyu didn't want to speak about.
Before the interrogation could continue there was a knock at the door. By knock, it was actually Bakugo kicking open the door. His red eyes quickly scanned the room around him, noticing how messy and crowded it is.
"You still haven't fix your room, what the hell is wrong with you! You want to live in a pig stock ponytail?" Bakugo shout at the owner of the room, whose hair was actually out of it's usually ponytail and was casually flowing downwards.
"Wait this isn't the first time you've been here?" Jiro muttered to herself looking up at the new intruder of the room.
Standing up from her seat Momo replied to the rude incomer "Bakugo what do you want this time, I'm in the middle of something."
Popping out from behind the rage filled boy came a more friendly face with red hair. "We made cake."
Stepping into view was the tall and muscular Sato with a tray filled with cake pieces "We had some leftovers to give out."
"Well actually Bakugo got real picky about how the cake structure should be so we ended up making a bunch of cakes and we had enough leftovers to give to everyone." Kirishima commented rubbed the back of his head.
"Oi, fuck off shitty hair! I'm not wasting a single ounce of my perfect frosting on some second grade piece of shit!" Bakugo yelled at him, one of his hands sparkling reminding him of his earlier threat.
Still keeping his smile Kirishima said "Aw come on man we use it on some of the other ones anyways."
"Only cause you did it when my back was turned!" Bakugo continued to yell
Between the banter the two was having a thought came across Ashido's mind (You know this is actually a good time to text Midoriya and let him know everything is ok- OH MY GOD I LEFT MY PHONE IN MY ROOM WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME!)
After a few more threats Sato began passing out a slice of cake to all the girls, very much to all their delights. Their mouths were already watering from looking at it, remembering the first cake they ate from Sato now enhanced with supposive 'perfect frosting'. Uraraka could barely wait to dig in as this was her only lasting thought of willpower that never broke through the hell she suffered with Iida.
But then right as they all were about to dig in with their forks Bakugo piped up "Hold up!"
Usually all the girls would ignore the ash hair boy to indulge themselves into the masterpiece in front of them, but this time they stopped. He did help make the cake as well, did he might have something else to add to the already perfect being? Impossible.
They were right to assume that as Bakugo stomped his way into the room and swiped the plates of Hagakure and Tsuyu away from them. "You two don't get any, you skipped out on helping you don't get shit" He declared.
"WHAT!" Shouted Hagakure stood up on the bed, trying to point "That's not fair!"
"Too bad, next time keep your promises." Bakugo states as he began walking toward the door
It was a cruel fate, but none of the cake wielding girls wanted to speak up out of fear of their privilege being taken away as well. Right before Bakugo left the room he stopped when he felt a slimy rope wrapped around his leg.
"You're not walking out this room with my cake." Tsuyu declared, her face looking quite serious for once.
"You wanna die Bug Eyes?" Bakugo spat through gritting teeth looking back at her, he was about to snap.
"A god tier cake like that is worth the risk!" Hagakure declared stepping forward on the bed as if she was preparing to jump from there onto Bakugo for it.
What followed was an extremely long yelling match of threats being flung between the three of them, or at least it started off that way. But eventually the other girls joined in, after finishing their own slices, and chaos ensues. This event brought the attention of Aiziwa to the dorms to see what all the yelling was about only to be offered a slice of cake by both Kirishima and Sato to not get mad, which surprisingly he took and just order to make sure it ended quickly.
Knowing that Bakugo would never back down a confrontation that the girls were giving the two knew that one of them had to break it up. Kirishima decided he'll take one for the team and purposely taunted Bakugo by mentioning how he wanted to train with Deku one day to spice things up. He didn't even need to stay to know his reaction as before Bakugo rage filled eyes even look back Kirishima was already running down the halls, quickly getting chased by the explosive 'hero' from behind. Luckily he was so distracted with going to kill Kirishima that he forgot all the cake.
Bowing in apology Sato left the rest of tray filled with cake in Momo's room before heading off as well. It was definitely a hard fought battle, one that some of them didn't think they'll make it out alive, but at last a woman's desire for sweets won out at the end of the day. They enjoyed their spoils that night, chatting happily as they enjoyed the pieces of glory they were given not caring about calories. To their surprise Aizawa even come back to the room, not to yell but to take another two slices of cake for himself. No one stopped him.
Before they knew it, it was midnight meaning it was curfew time and they couldn't be loud anymore. Not even bribing Aizawa with more cake now would get them out of trouble if they cause another commotion so they decided to have the 'Study Session' end on schedule.
With all the girls heading their own eventually it lead to Ashido and Uraraka both walking down the 4th floor hallway together. Ashido was reminiscing about what a good time it was despite them almost getting killed by Bakugo, but Uraraka had something else in mind.
"Ashido." Uraraka says in a much less happy tone then she was before.
This caught Ashido's attention as she didn't see what was with the tone shift coming off from such a happy experience.
"You think Deku is secretly being with Tsuyu?" She asked, her head was held look with her hair covering her eyes.
The pink alien could only stare in confusion, only stopping when she needed to blink before responding "Where's that coming from?"
"She's hiding why Deku was trying so hard to meet her in person." Urakara stated, slowly raising her head. Her eyes resurface from before her hair, showing her pupil to have shrink but looking shark and focus as ever. Despite her smiling her facial structure showed a much sinister expression on her. Her eyebrows slowly lowers themselves over her eyes as she glares forward making her have an even sharper look than before and her breathing got really intense. With the teeth pressuring grin on her face she asked again "You think Tsuyu is having some kind of secret love relationship with My Deku?"
Ashido could only stare on, slightly terrified. Scratch that she was massively terrified to the point she took a small side-step away from her to put more distance between them before she spoke "Nooooo, I don't think so. Tsuyu is totally not De- Midoriya's! She's not Midoriya's type, I bet he was just trying to tell her something private between them. You know how people usually go to Tsuyu for advice for stuff right?"
She was gonna try her best to keep Uraraka calm. Luckily it works as the intense breathing went down and the sinister aura she was giving off calmed down. Ashido could actually breath a sigh of relief.
"Right, right of course Tsuyu wouldn't do something like that. She's a good friend." Uraraka told herself "Just like you right? You wouldn't do that to me right?" that deadly aura to bubble back.
"Nope never!" Ashido quickly says in fear of her life.
"Good good. Oops I think we just walk by your door." Uraraka cheerfully say pointing behind me "guess I'll be seeing you tomorrow, sleep well."
Walking her skip down the hall towards her room but she quickly stopped and turned around. For a moment Ashido feared that today was the day she was gonna die but instead Uraraka just called out "Oh and by the way, I made a lot of progress today as well."
Then with a wave she was gone to her room as well.
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A perplex Ashido just walked back to her room, entering into her room she dive bombed onto her bed. She was exhausted yet her legs and arms were still in great shape to run a 10k marathon. She reached over to grab her phone to quickly text Midoriya a text message.
Mina: Hey, everything worked out 12:16AM
Placing the phone back where it was on her bed, she got herself prepared to go to bed. Once she was ready she looked out her window staring at the night sky.
The recent operation she performed with Midoriya was basically a coin flip of an execution, it felt like a stroke of extreme luck saved them. That wasn't even putting all the accounts of her being a bad teammate, her job was to cover for Midoriya's lack of social skills and make sure he doesn't over analyze a situation. Not only had she done exactly that but she also been terrible with keeping good communication between the two during this whole thing. She was even more disappointed in herself that she didn't trust her friendship with Hagakure enough to just regularly ask her to not say anything, despite the salacious occurrences that ensued on both their 's not even mentioning the absolute 180 change from guilty fear to complete terror vibe she got from Uraraka.
So many issues, so little time to solve them all. At least solve it in a somewhat salvageable situation for her.
Her thoughts was then interrupted when her door was opened, a familiar male light tone voice followed soon "Ashido why didn't you text m- Wagh!"
Ashido smiled hearing his voice, knowing how he can act when confronted with certain things he should've knocked. If he did he would've avoid walking in on a peculiar sight of her in her white panties laying down on her bed.
Without even looking back Ashido could just tell how red his face was. Turning her head toward him she gave a wink "Hey~, Mission Accomplished." She teased him, sticking her tongue out afterwards.
It was an uplifting sight seeing him bamble for some words before immediately retreating out of her room with "I'll just see you tomorrow." before he closed her door.
"It's a promise then." Ashido joked, knowing she won't be able to avoid his questions tomorrow. But it didn't matter to her, he's not Iida so he won't have to worry about getting a long lecture about coordination.
Giggling to herself Ashido rested her head on her pillow, her yellow eyes slowly close as she prepared to enter her slumber, at least she'll enter this sleep with a happy smile. If she was really lucky she can ride that state in the morning as well.
***END OF CHAPTER 9***
TO BE CONTINUED.
((Oh god this is the fucking longest chapter I've written so far and I want to die, but E3 kept my both motivated and distracted. Thanks for reading, be sure to check out the youtube version of this series to help support the series, channel name is the same here 'Hero DarkyDark'. Also I got a Discord chat, so if you wanna chat or hang out with the community consider joining, code for it is /XunT8bu. Leave a review and tell me what you think.)))
