ONE LAST UPDATE FOR THE DAY… THANK GOODNESS I HAVE NO CLASSES TOMORROW…

IT HELPED ME DURING LONELY NIGHTS

Ochako hummed a tune happily as she sorted through her husband's junk in his closet. Today was one of those days where she just went through Izuku's old hero souvenirs for the sake of nostalgia and hygiene. Of course she did this without him knowing, if he knew he'd stop her because he was over-sentimental about all of his old hero 'merchandise', so Ochako agreed to only never throw away All Might related souvenirs. She rolled her eyes as she picked up an old hero magazine with Shouto on the cover, it was torn so badly that there were only like ten pages left.

"why does he still have this?" she scoffed while throwing it in the 'junk' pile. Most of the things in the junk pile were a bunch of old hero newspapers and magazines, some were old action figures of some old retired heroes, some were old gadgets that Hatsume made which Ochako was more than happy to get rid of.

As she was going through the rest of the junk, making sure to carefully separate the All Might souvenirs, she stumbled across a big leather bag. "What's this? I've never seen this before…" she pulled out the leather bag and opened it.

Ochako had never been more shocked in her life as her eyes landed on the huge, dirty old body pillow that had a nude picture of herself on it. It wasn't completely nude though, it was just her lying down facing upwards, the upper half of her costume was torn with her hand was across her chest. The lower half of her costume was also torn from her knees down to her feet.

"w…what… is this?! Is this me?! When did I? no, I've never taken a picture looking like this before! Was I drunk? Maybe? But I haven't gotten drunk ever since that day Deku became the symbol of peace…Deku…Deku!" she called out.

"coming!" he answered as he quickly dashed to his bedroom. "hey babe, what's wrong?"

"what is…" she bent down to pick up the body pillow. "this! What the heck is this Deku?!" she exclaimed showing him the pillow.

Izuku stood frozen in fear. He still had that thing? He could've sworn he threw it away! How was he going to explain to her that he had a 'phase' he was going throudh?

"care to explain?"

"oh…that…? That's uhhh, something I got a long time ago…" he said scratching his head nervously.

"why do you have something like this? Do you know how this makes me look? And feel? Where did you even get this?"

"uhhh…"

Twenty-one-year-old Izuku smirked as he admired his disguise from in front of a window of a thrift shop. He adjusted the straw hat he was wearing as he did one last double check on his outfit. He wore a shaggy red haired wig, dark rimmed tinted sunglasses, an ugly red and green plaid shirt, navy blue overalls, and big multi-colored cargo boots he Yaoyorozu make for him a long time ago.

Izuku felt ashamed, very ashamed.

Not just because the clothes he was wearing were all from the charity donations from the agency, which he would return of course. But he felt ashamed of what he was about to do.

'This disguise is perfect! It'll be bad if people saw me in here'

He walked to the entrance of the thrift shop and pushed the door open. He made an audible gulp as he closed the door and entered. Nobody was in here, good. The shop usually sold hero merchandise that were mostly used or returned, the hero merchandises weren't anything special, most of them were just magazines, posters and action figures. He had passed the place a few times before but one day when he decided to come and take a look on the inside, something caught his eye.

Izuku walked in further inside, he passed the cashier who seemed like he was half asleep. The man looked scruffy from head to toe, and had some unruly long blonde hair. He waved to Izuku and he responded with a nod.

'Where is it? Where is it?' Izuku thought anxiously. It was so intriguing to him, it so distracting, he couldn't get his mind off of it from the moment he saw it, it was something that he had to buy.

'ah! There it is' his lips suddenly curved into an odd smile.

Izuku felt ashamed, very ashamed.

He handed the cashier a one hundred yen note, and the cashier gave him the Uravity body pillow he so desperately wanted.

"keep this over it" the cashier said handing him a big leather bag.

"we don't want people to know what we're doing here…" he said in a sleepy voice, and Izuku just wondered if he was related to Aizawa.

Izuku nodded. 'that has got to be illegal…how did they even get that picture? Must be someone's quirk…' he thought. Izuku walked out of the shop and looked left and right to see if anyone he knew or recognized was nearby, then he left.

"As a hero, I feel so ashamed, but as a man… I have no regrets!" he whispered to the nude Uravity body pillow lying down next to him, pulling it closer and kissing it.

"…and it helped me during lonely nights…" he mumbled.

Ochako frowned and crossed her arms. "you do know that's technically illegal right? What that shop was selling, and you didn't do anything to stop them! Aren't you a hero?"

"I'm sorry, I let my manly desires get the better of me" he pleaded.

"manly desires…? Wait a minute, don't tell me… you used to jerk off to this pillow Deku?" Ochako asked.

"No! No! I swear! Honest! I never did! I only just…used to…hug it and… kiss it, a lot, I don't do it anymore"

"I kinda find it hard to believe you right now…" Ochako said with a scoff. "well whatever you weirdo! I'm getting rid of this!"

"wait you're gonna throw it away?!" Izuku asked. Ochako glared at him.

"of course! While I am slightly flattered at your affection, I won't have a nude picture of me here in this house without my consent" Ochako walked over to the window and threw the pillow upwards. Izuku wondered when the pillow was going to land, but after about five seconds, he realized that it was already making its way towards space.

"was that really necessary?" he said sticking his head out the window, the pillow was nowhere in sight anymore. If Ochako were still in high school, the pillow would still be floating around the Stratosphere- still visible, but since she had enhanced her quirk in so many ways one could never imagine, she could make objects float a lot faster than before.

"yes, that pillow was very disturbing, even though the picture was fake" she said placing her hands on her hips.

"I'm sorry honey…I should've gotten rid of it sooner"

"it's okay Deku" she kissed his cheek and walked away.

'damn, I need to my private stuff more carefully now…'

END

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