(A/N) Hi everyone! I'm back with another chapter. Sorry for the wait. Had to buy my TP before it was all gone. Chapters from here on out will get out sooner and be more fun. Hope you all enjoy it ;)
Once she entered Yaoyorozu saw all that the concert had to offer its attendees and saw that it was more like a carnival than a concert. There were stands selling snack foods, little games to play like whack-a-mole or "test-your-strength" with a big mallet, or stands to try and catch pet goldfish.
She was so engrossed at all the sights she was surprised that a cute couple that was walking alongside her and Kaminari was watching them. Yaoyorozu made eye contact with the girlfriend and the girl didn't look away. She just looked back, smiling happily while hugging her boyfriend's arm. Yaoyorozu was confused by this. Why would a random girl be staring at her and Kaminari while she clung to her boyfriend's arm? It took her a second to realize that the couple staring at her and Kaminari was her and Kaminari. She finally realized this when she noticed that the "couple" was their reflection on a window of a restaurant. She blushed from embarrassment and looked at their reflection in the window again. She thought that they looked kinda cute together, causing her blush to deepen, finally letting go of Kaminari's arm to hold her face.
"Hey would you look at that!" Kaminari said loudly pointing to a stand of plush toys. They were of various things, mostly animals. Kaminari had walked over to one of the plushies that was in the shape of a giant bunch of purple grapes.
"Look," Kaminari said while holding up the grape plushie. Yaoyorozu looked at the toy in his hands not knowing what he was getting at.
Not answering her, he took the toy and out it horizontally on his head. "I'm Minoru!" He said while striking Mineta's thumbs up pose when he does something perverted successfully. This caused Yaoyorozu's face to fault.
"That's nice" was all she said in a flat tone.
"Oh come on don't be that way Yao-momo!" Kaminari said happily, trying to get her into the mood and taking the plushie off his head. Looking around he found something. "Here look."
Looking up at him she saw he had another plushie but this time it was of giant over-sized phone plugs. Before she could ask what he was getting at he had placed them around her next and the jack-end of it around her shoulder.
"Look at that. You're Jirou!" Kaminari took his phone out and took a picture. He turns his phone to show her. Yaoyorozu saw her surprised expression in the picture and thought she only barely looked like her best friend but she did let out a small laugh.
"That's better!" Kaminari said and threw his head back for a laugh.
Thinking of the hearing hero put her back into a good mood too. "I know they gave us some… trouble last night and this morning but I wish they were here." Yaoyorozu said with a small sigh while putting the plushie back in the bin.
"Yeah about that," Kaminari said with his head turned away, but Yaoyorozu could still see the sly smirk on his face, causing her to wonder. "Want to get them back for that?" Kaminari's face had a sinister smile on it.
"I don't like that look on your face Kaminari; and what do you mean?" Yaoyorozu said, taking a small, hesitant step back.
"A prank. Want to play a prank on them Yao-momo?" Kaminari's sinister smile didn't waiver.
"What kind of prank? I've never done one before so I'm not sure. Please stop smiling like that Kaminari. It's scaring me."
"Oh, sorry." Kaminari said in his usual tone and his face turning back to normal so quickly it took Yaoyorozu a second to gather herself.
"Better?"
"Better, now tell me what you're thinking."
"Well my idea is we play a prank on them for causing us so much trouble. What do you say?"
What kind of prank Kaminari? I don't want to hurt anyone… or trick them into doing or wearing anything." Yaoyorozu added the last bit as memories of Kaminari's and Mineta's last prank on her and the other girls at the sports festival came to mind. The two boys had tricked them into wearing cheerleader uniforms. It no longer bothered her, but the memory did still linger.
"I didn't mean anything like that," Kaminari said while waiving his hands and shaking his head back-and-forth. "I was thinking we go to a photo-booth and take some suggestive pictures together to mess with them." Kaminari said as he pointed to a photo-booth behind him with his thumb.
"Su-suggestive pictures?" Yaoyorozu's face reddened at the words, and unease coming over her.
"Don't worry! Nothing like that. I meant some pretend couple-like things make it look like we're a couple and leaving them in places we know they'll find them but not anyone else."
"Oh." Was all Yaoyorozu said. She was relieved that he didn't mean anything perverted, and the idea did some like fun.
"Yeah, nothing Minoru-like, just some good harmless, but annoying, fun. I figure you know Jirou as well as I know him, so it'll be easy to think of where they'd go and leaving the pictures for them to find. What do you say Yao-momo?"
Yaoyorozu thought about it for a minute. She liked Jirou, truly but she was still annoyed at her behavior from last night onward, so the idea of "messing" with her sounded like fun. Plus it would have the added bonus of causing some light-hearted torment on Mineta and the thought of him being in any kind of disarray was too good an opportunity to pass up.
"You know what Kaminari? That does sound like fun. No one is getting hurt, and it'll only be those two that see so why not? Let's get them!" Yaoyorozu said with her hands in fists and smiling with excitement. She will be pulling her first-ever prank. What a happy day!
"YES! Way to go Yao-momo!" Kaminari shouted happily, with a big smile. He reached forward and grabbed her hand; practically dragging her to the photo-booth in his excitement.
When they got to the machine Kaminari bent down to see how much money it took. "Oh sweet it only takes a dollar for four pictures."
Yaoyorozu reached for her purse to get a dollar for the machine but Kaminari had already put his dollar in and got into the machine, beckoning her to join him, padding the seat next to him.
Once she got into the machine Yaoyorozu immediately noticed how cramped it was. She and Kaminari had barely any space separating them. She was beginning to regret this decision.
"OK Yao-momo what do you want to do?" Kaminari speaking jogged her out of her thoughts.
"Uuh? I don't know. I didn't think this far ahead heh, heh," Yaoyorozu let out a small, nervous laugh, feeling a little embarrassed at not knowing what do to next. It was an odd feeling for her. Not having her actions planned ahead.
"OK no problem we can do it. I haven't pressed the start button and the timer says we have three minutes to decide on our poses." Kaminari said nonchalantly. He was far more used to these things than she was.
"OK real quick Yao-momo let's go over some poses we can do. Only have three minutes to come up with four poses to prank our friends with."
"Four poses we know they'll believe," Yaoyorozu specified just so she could feel like she was contributing. Prank wouldn't work if it didn't fool them right?
"Yeah right, good thinking." Kaminari agreed looking down with his chin in his hand, clearly thinking himself.
While he was thinking Yaoyorozu started thinking too. What kind of poses should they take? A beeping sound causing them to look up and they saw that their timer was almost done. They had ten seconds before the machine started taking pictures.
"Aw shoot we took too long!" Kaminari shouted in annoyance. "Let's just wing it and see if we can come up with anything."
"I'm sure we can. It can't be that hard," Yaoyorozu said reassuringly.
They were wrong. The four pictures were terrible. The first one was of them just sitting there. In the second one they had dumb looks on their faces. Eyes staring straight ahead and Kaminari's mouth just slightly hanging open. Third was of them moving so their picture was blurred. The fourth they both had their eyes closed.
Looking them over both Kaminari and Yaoyorozu shook their heads. "That was a disaster" Kaminari said throwing them into the trash.
"Not a single good one," Yaoyorozu added.
"OK let's try that again but first we come up with some ideas. Have any?" Kaminari said shaking off their first failed attempt.
Thinking Yaoyorozu came up with an idea. "We could just sit closely together. With your hand on my shoulder?" She wasn't entirely sure so her suggestion came out more like a question.
"Yeah that can work but it's kinda bland. How about that and a couple of us hugging? You OK with that?" Kaminari turned to look at her during that part, his face showing curiosity.
"Hugging like how?" Yaoyorozu kept her face straight but wanted Kaminari to be clear first. She knew her friend wouldn't try anything with her but she wanted to know what he was planning so as to go along or stop it.
"You know, like a 'normal' hug," Kaminari tried to explain but was having a hard time. "Like, you know, yesterday… when Midnight caught us." Kaminari turned away, blushed at the mention of their teacher.
"Yes, I suppose that would help." Yaoyorozu agreed, turning away, also blushing at the memory.
"That and maybe one of your back to my chest with my arms around you, like from that 'Titantic' movie," Kaminari suggested. "But with your arms closer together and maybe your hands on my arms. Just in case Jirou or Minoru have seen it."
"Those are good ideas Kaminari. Oh and maybe one of us forehead-to-forehead. Looking at each other. I'm sure that would get them." Yaoyorozu came up with the suggestion on the spot. Thinking about how much it would annoy the diminutive boy made her very happy.
"Hey great thinking Yao-momo! That'll get to Jirou alright. It might even be a bit funny since you're taller than me." Kaminari agreed enthusiastically with a big smile on. He laughed a little bit at the height difference.
Only when he mentioned it did Yaoyorozu realize she was a little bit taller than the blond boy. She shuffled a little uncomfortable at it. She knew it was silly but she was always somewhat embarrassed at her size. Even with heroines like Mt. Lady and the dragon hero, Ryukyu out there she still felt somewhat odd about it. The two heroines actual heights were closer to what normal women were didn't help. Being a 5'8" girl was not normal and she didn't know why she was so tall but it made her feel self-cautious sometimes. The only woman that can pull off being this tall was the one teacher Yaoyorozu didn't want to talk to. After today and yesterday she did not want to ask the 5'9" Midnight for tips.
"And that makes four pictures! OK you ready to do this right Yao-momo?" Kaminari asked already holding the door open for her.
"Oh yes thank you Kaminari." Yaoyorozu hastily got in as Kaminari put the money into the machine again and took his seat next to her.
This time Kaminari didn't waste any time and pressed the button and while the timer started to count down from ten, he moved close to Yaoyorozu and put his arm around her with his hand resting lightly on her shoulder, pulling her closer to him.
When she was close he whispered, "After this one let's do the one where your back is to my chest OK?"
"OK, and then we do the forehead-to-forehead."
"Got it."
With that agreement the timer finished and the first picture was taken without issue. When they got to the back-to-chest they had a miscue with her arms out and his hands hitting the side of the machine.
"Crap! We lost one." Kaminari said in a whisper-shout.
"Kaminari, language." Yaoyorozu chastised him, looking back.
"Fine, sorry, let's try again quickly. Put your arms together on your chest."
Doing as he instructed Yaoyorozu did so, and then she felt his arms circle torso, right below her own arms, and pull her into his chest. Once again Yaoyorozu felt how strong his arms were. She also felt how solid and comfortable his chest was.
"Hmm this is nice," Yaoyorozu thought to herself, closing her eyes, but then opened them again at the thought. "Why do I keep thinking this?!" she mentally scolded herself.
Luckily for her Kaminari didn't seem to notice. He was still thinking about how to pull the prank off successfully. "OK that was a good one Yao-momo. Let's do the forehead one before the timer runs out." He said this quietly for some reason. Barely above a whisper.
Remaining silent Yaoyorozu nodded and moved to sit up, planning to turn around. Unfortunately Kaminari had forgotten to remove his arms so when she tried to turn she ended up having less room than she anticipated and moved her head to face Kaminari at the same time he turned to look at her. This caused their cheeks and the corners of their mouths to slightly touch.
They froze for a moment as what happened sunk in and in that moment the timer went off and took the picture, causing the two to shout and back away.
"Ahh! I'm so sorry Yao-momo! I didn't mean to hang on I swear!" Kaminari pleaded as he backed into the side of the machine to get as far away from her as he could.
"Oh my goodness I-I, I don't know what just happened!" Yaoyorozu said, her face going redder than her costume and she clasped her face again, looking down at her feet from her seat.
I'm sorry. I swear I didn't mean to do that." Kaminari said again, this time more subdued and collected.
"I know Kaminari I know! I… let's just pretend it didn't happen." Yaoyorozu said still not looking up. She was embarrassed but knew it was an accident and nothing had actually happened. Kaminari knew too, so why were they so embarrassed by it?
"Let's check the pictures. Maybe that can help us forget." She suggested getting up from her seat to exit the booth, starting to sound like her usual self again.
"O-ok if you say so." Kaminari said as he followed her. He didn't sound so sure but was happy and thankful she knew it was an accident. He didn't want the rest of the trip to be awkward or for her or want to leave early.
Looking at the pictures they found them to be the exact opposite of their first attempt. The first one did look bland like Kaminari said it would, but it was a "good" kind of bland. The two of them just sitting them happily was innocent enough to work. The second was their failed one and it just had their arms out. Their faces were completely obscured. The third one was great. They looked like a couple just relaxing together. With Yaoyorozu's eyes closed she looked so content. Kaminari's more genuine smile made him looks like a caring boyfriend, holding his sleeping girlfriend.
It was the fourth picture that was both the best of the bunch and the most real. The camera had captured the moment of their cheeks and lips touching and before they had realized what had happened so their faces still had that happy and content looks. Kaminari's lidded eyes looking at her with her eyes closed and the rose color of her cheeks made them look not only like a couple but one of those couples on a book cover. They looked in love.
"Wow," They both said in unison. They weren't expecting the final picture to come out that good.
"We lucked out the machine got this before we reacted huh?" Kaminari said to Yaoyorozu, not taking his eyes off the picture.
"Yes we did. Although I think it came out too good."Yaoyorozu agreed in awe.
"How do you mean?" Kaminari asked, looking at her this time, face clearly confused.
"I mean I don't think Kyoka would buy this. Mineta sure, but I just don't see her falling for this." Yaoyorozu said to Kaminari, taking her eyes off the picture too.
"Hmm," Kaminari made a sound and face Yaoyorozu wasn't sure if he liked what she said or not but she didn't mean to offend him.
"Yeah probably not. That and I don't know if we want anyone to see that picture. I mean you just know they're going to go on and on about it even more than last night." Kaminari both conceded her point and made one of his own.
"Oh shoot you're right! I guess that means we'll have to use the first and third one. Will they be enough?" Yaoyorozu asked her more experienced prank-oriented friend.
"Oh sure they will! You take the first one for Jirou as she'll be more likely to believe that one. I'll take the third for Minoru. I bet all the balls on his head will pop off at once when he sees it!" Kaminari clenched his fist and pulled his elbows down at the thought, breaking into a huge smile.
Yaoyorozu had a small smile of her own at the thought. Seeing all of the small boy's "balls" explode off his head at once would be amusing. More importantly the shock of their accidental "kiss" had worn off and now the two of them were back to normal. This made the young girl happier than anything.
Their good moment was interrupted by the sound of Kaminari's stomach growling.
"You're hungry again? We had breakfast not too long ago?" Yaoyorozu said as she put the pictures into her purse. She was shocked at hearing her friend be hungry again.
"I'm a teenage guy Yao-momo! I need my protein and I just remembered I need to conquer the 'Mega-Ultra-Supreme-Jumbo Burger!" Kaminari said this while closing his eyes and wagging his finger at her in a smug manner causing her to roll her eyes.
"Ugh I can't believe you still want to eat that… abomination" She refused to call it food in any manner.
"I do and I'm hungry so what do you say? Want to watch me win the contest and win us a prize?" Kaminari said, opening his eyes and striking a pose with an even smugger expression.
"I'd roll my eyes but I'm afraid they'd get stuck in my head," Yaoyorozu told him, with a smile.
"I'm not hearing a 'no."
Sighing she took a deep breath before replying. "OK but promise me one thing Kaminari. Promise you won't force yourself to finish if you get full."
"Promise now let's go!" Kaminari said before turning around beckoning her to follow him with his arm over his head.
Letting out s small laugh Yaoyorozu followed him to the restaurant.
