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A couple that will go down in legend

Chapter twenty-six: Detective Mina is on the case!

The girls of U.A. High School's class 1-A were hanging out in the common area of the Heights Alliance dorm building located on U.A. grounds one well enough afternoon after classes were all done for the day. The girls of Shota Aizawa's homeroom class were talking about a number of topics, one of which being the recently completed emergency round of internships that were done as part of the HPSC's decision to go ahead with trying to increase the number of available heroes on deck, pro, in-training or otherwise, in response to a number of recent events.

"So Uraraka, Tsuyu, Eunice," Yaoyorozu began as she turned her attention to the three girls she was addressing. She waited to continue until all three of them had turned to face her. "I heard from some of the boys that you all interned under Ryukyu again during the emergency round of internships, although for Eunice it was her first time working under Ryukyu."

Uraraka and Tsuyu both nodded once in confirmation, although Eunice just continued to look at her wealthy classmate. Uraraka gestured to Yaoyorozu before she began to speak. "Yeah, she was a bit upset that Nejire-sempai wasn't available." The gravity girl gave a modest shrug. "I think she just wanted to have all three of us together again."

"Anything interesting happen while you three were interning under her?" Kyoka asked as she and some of the other girls, like Sakaki and Hatsume, leaned a bit closer to the three interns of the Dragoon Hero.

"Oh yes." Tsuyu nodded once before she proceeded to explain. "While the three of us were on patrol with Ryukyu, we ran into some fellow with a generic speed quirk. Judging by how he was dressed as well as some people shouting that he had run from a fight that involved a villain, we were led by Ryukyu in subduing and apprehending the shady character kero." The frog girl gestured over to Eunice before adding, "Eunice's quirk made capturing the man a breeze, so she deserves a lot of the credit."

The green-haired girl gave a bit of a scared yelp as she scrunched up, seemingly embarrassed that people wanted to say that she did a good job. Some of the other girls were a bit amused by how modest Eunice was being, and Mina assured her that there was nothing wrong with receiving credit that was rightfully earned. Eunice relaxed a bit, allowing the noise-canceling headphones she wore around her neck to slide back down along her collar bone.

After Eunice relaxed, Uraraka and Tsuyu both turned to face Yaoyorozu, with Uraraka taking the initiative to ask her about her time during the emergency round of internships. "So Yaoyorozu, how were things for you? I heard that you and Itsuka were employed again under the same pro hero, just like when you both worked under Uwabami."

"Yes, but this time Itsuka and I worked for Edgeshot instead of Uwabami," the rich girl explained. She crossed her arms over her chest, a look of curious contemplation on her face, as she thought about the matter. "…As it turns out, Uwabami got into a bit of hot water with some of the other pro heroes due to what she did while Itsuka and I were working for her as interns, given the only hero-related thing we did under her was one patrol, and only then it was because Itsuka and I had more or less complained about doing absolutely nothing hero-related."

"Oh, I remember seeing that commercial that the two of you did with her," Hagakure remarked, "You both looked really pretty."

Yaoyorozu blushed a bit at the sincere praise from her invisible classmate. "…Yes, well, as nice of a job as Itsuka and I did staring in background bits in Uwabami's commercial, given that said commercial work took up well over ninety-five percent of the time that Itsuka and I had with her for our internship under her, some of the other pro heroes were a mite upset with her." A look of concern flashed across Yaoyorozu's face. "I even heard that Uwabami might even be blacklisted from getting to employ students from hero high schools as interns for a while because of it."

"Hey Uraraka, Tsuyu, Eunice, there's something that I want to know," Mina began, getting the three girls she spoke to all to turn and face her. "What did you three and Ryukyu do with the guy that you captured?"

"Oh, Ryukyu learned that the generic speed quirk guy was connected to the case that Izuku, Todoroki and Bakugo were doing with Todoroki's dad," Uraraka explained, "Said case happened at one of the many businesses that Yaoyorozu's dad owns."

The rich girl nodded once in confirmation, showing that she knew what the gravity girl was talking about. "Yes, Itsuka and I picked up a bit of info on that while we assisted Edgeshot with getting some bank robbers we stopped and captured loaded into the back of an armored police van." Yaoyorozu gestured to all of the other girls, to get their attention. "Two low-level villains that were affiliated with the League of Villains for quite some time had been working as accountants at my father's business in question. They were fudging numbers for quite some time, and all money that they didn't report was being secretly funneled to the cause of the villains. The boys and Endeavor even caught those two undercover villains talking to a notable villain known as Mr. Compress."

"I know the rest kero," Tsuyu remarked, "The three villains all escaped, but the girls and I ran into and caught the generic speed quirk guy, while his generic strength quirk fellow ran into and was captured by Kirishima and Kinoko while they were-"

The frog girl was cut off midsentence when Yaoyorozu and Hagakure both waived their hands in front of themselves in a gesture signaling for Tsuyu to stop. She saw this and, after thinking about it for a moment, quickly put two and two together. "…Fat Gum ended up bringing the guy he caught with his interns over to the Endeavor agency, similar to what Ryukyu did with the guy that the lot of us captured." Tsuyu's tone had a noticeable hint of knowing dryness to it, dryness that suggested that she was a bit unamused.

Uraraka also noticed the odd behavior of Yaoyorozu and Hagakure, and she herself put two and two together. The gravity girl let out a resigned sigh as she reached forward to grab a can of soda from the spread that the girls all had on the coffee table. "Yaoyorozu, Hagakure, the two of you are irrationally afraid of Kinoko. She is not, as the both of you have put it more than once, 'going to finish the job'."

Uraraka grabbed a can of Moonberry Cola, the glint of a bulky men's class ring on her right index finger shining a bit when she grabbed the soda can. The ring was gold, and set with a red stone. Yaoyorozu noticed this, and was surprised that Uraraka, known to be from a lower income family even with the boost they have received as of late thanks to the commercial that everyone did to help Uraraka's parents draw attention to their construction company, owned such a ring. The gravity girl leaned back in her seat once she had her drink in hand. "The two of you really need to cut that poor girl a break."

"Hey Uraraka, where did that come from?" Yaoyorozu asked, pointing to the ring that Uraraka had on. Uraraka took a second to connect the rich girl's line of sight, realized that she was asking about the ring that she (Uraraka) wore. The once poor girl gave a bit of a resigned smile as she began to explain the story behind her ring.

"This is a men's class ring that used to belong to my late grandfather from my father's side of the family. It's literally the only thing of his that I have." Uraraka sat her Moonberry Cola down on the coffee table before she covered her right hand with her left, concealing the men's class ring on her right index finger. "It…it means a lot to me, so I am by no means ever going to part with it under any circumstances. Even when my family still struggled a lot, and pawning this would have brought in a fair bit of money, I still wouldn't have done so."

The other girls that were with Uraraka all smiled a bit in understanding, appreciating that their gravity controlling friend cared so much for the legacy of her late paternal grandfather. Mina even reached over with her left arm and drew Uraraka into a hug. "Ah, come here, you." The pink-skinned girl gave a fairly squeezing hug to Uraraka. "Who would have guessed it that you were such a sweetheart to your family?"

With the exception of Eunice who seemed a tad uncomfortable with the prospect of physical contact with others, all of the 1-A girls joined in a group hug that saw Uraraka in the middle. She had no idea what to say to all of the sympathy that her fellow female students were showing her, so she instead merely blushed a bit in embarrassment.


The following day at U.A., the girls of 1-A and 1-B were all in one of the tennis courts located on U.A. school grounds. With Sekijiro acting as coach for the girls while Aizawa acted as coach for the boys of 1-A and 1-B in the tennis court located right next to the one the girls were all in, it was decided that some physical entertainment in the form of playing tennis was necessary to help with de-stressing the students, who had fought in a monster attack on the city, had to fight a large group of men that attacked U.A. during a recent school festival, and had just gotten back from an emergency round of internships. The reason why they were playing tennis is because it was Nezu's idea (he likes tennis, and wanted to extend his joy for the game to others).

"Well on the plus side," Hagakure began as she stood next to Mina on their team, "Since none of the boys from either 1-A or 1-B are in this court, that means that we don't have to deal with Mineta trying to sneak a look up any of our skirts."

Mina nodded in agreement, happy that she, as well as all of the other girls, were away from the infamous pervert. Mina's nodding was interrupted by Yaoyorozu, who spoke up on her right while Hagakure was on her (Mina's) left. "But on the negative side, we're here in the same court as all of the girls from 1-B, which unfortunately included that creep Komori." The sweatband around Hagakure's invisible head went up and down, a sign that Hagakure was agreeing with her wealthy classmate.

The pink-skinned girl let out a resigned, mildly exasperated sigh. "Girls, for the last time, Kinoko is not aiming to finish you two, Tokoyami and Aoyama off. Can't the two of you get-"

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"

Mina was cut off midsentence when she, as well as all the girls and Sekijiro, all heard that pained scream coming from the tennis court where the boys and Aizawa were at. Said scream, which sounded like it came from Mineta, was followed by a number of boys all laughing hysterically. The girls and Sekijiro all turned around to look to see what happened, and what they saw was the infamous pervert of 1-A, on his knees and the left side of his face with his butt sticking up in the air, covering his holy land with both hands.

"Hey, Aizawa!" Sekijiro barked, prompting the underground hero to turn to face his co-worker. Aizawa walked over to the tall fence wall that separated the two tennis courts so he could be within talking distance of Sekijiro. "What the hell happened?"

"When Kaminari hit a tennis ball with his racket, the tennis ball ended up bouncing off of the ground and in a direction that made it fly right into Mineta's testicles pretty damn hard." Aizawa stepped to the side so that Sekijiro could see the downed Mineta, as well as some of the boys that were in 1-A and 1-B point and laugh at Mineta's suffering, with Bakugo being the most prime example; Dark Shadow even came out of Tokoyami just to point and laugh at Mineta, even though Tokoyami himself wasn't part of mocking the short-statured teen. Turning his attention back to Sekijiro, Aizawa went on in an indifferent tone, "It was a clear cut accident, so I'm not going to scold Kaminari over it other than to gently remind him to be more careful next time with his aim."

"Why scold Kaminari period, Aizawa-sensei?" Both the homeroom teachers for 1-A and 1-B turned to see Kyoka, accompanied by Mina, Itsuka and Kinoko, walk over to talk to the teachers, with Kyoka being the one that had spoken. "This is Mineta we're talking about. Chances are that the pervert had it coming." Mina and Itsuka nodded in agreement, but Kinoko was distracted by something that she was looking at over in the tennis court that the boys were in.

The underground hero let out a mildly resigned sigh in response. "…Given Mineta's history, I can't honestly blame you girls for holding your schoolmate in such contempt. But could you all at least try to show him some compassion, at least when we have visitors to the school and we don't want said visitors to see any of you showing a lack of empathy to your fellow students?" The girls, again aside from the distracted Kinoko, all nodded in agreement. Aizawa noticed that the mushroom girl was distracted, so he tried getting her attention. "Can you at least agree to show Mineta some tolerance during certain events, Komori?"

"…Beautiful crimson spikes…" the mushroom girl muttered to herself in a distracted tone.

"Komori!" Kinoko was startled by Aizawa's snapping to get her to attention. When she turned to face the underground hero, he said, "Can you agree to tolerate Mineta when the other teachers and I need you to?"

Kinoko, looking a bit flustered, blushed a bit due to being caught so unawares. "Oh, umm, yes, I can do that no problem."

Aizawa accepted Kinoko's answer as good enough before he crossed his arms over his chest, letting out a resigned breath. "Unfortunately, we're going to have to end the tennis playing here early, due to Mineta's injury." Aizawa turned his attention to Sekijiro, who nodded in agreement before he turned around to have all the girls head back in to change out of the PE uniforms and back into regular school uniforms. The girls were a bit annoyed, and some outright complained that they had to stop just for Mineta.


Inside of the girls' locker room which Nemuri was supervising, the girls were all wearing their uniforms aside from their blazer jackets by the time they had started putting stuff away in their lockers. Mina was telling the other girls about how Sero had somehow managed to record a video clip of Kaminari hitting the tennis ball with his racket and sending that tennis ball right into Mineta's hidden treasure, and that Sero sent copies of the video clip to Mina herself as well as everyone else in the Baku-squad.

"Don't worry girls," Mina said with an amused smirk, "I'll show it to all of you later today during lunch, which by the way I heard that Lunch Rush is planning to-"

"Where is it?" the pink-skinned girl stopped midsentence when she and some of the other girls heard Uraraka ask where something was aloud, her tone in something of a panic. Turning around to see, Mina, as well as Kyoka, Pony and Reiko, all saw the gravity girl search her locker for some manner of object of hers. "Where is it?" Uraraka said aloud again, sounding like she was about to go into something of a panic.

Mina, concerned for her classmate and friend, turned to properly face her before she asked, "Hey Uraraka, what's going on?"

Temporarily, Uraraka turned back around to face her schoolmates. The gravity girl's expression dropped a bit, a clear sign that she was troubled. "…My late grandfather's class ring. I took it off and put it in my locker before we went out to the tennis courts, but it's no longer in there."

"Your special ring is missing?" Kyoka asked in a concerned tone, alarmed to hear that something that had such important sentimental value to Uraraka was now missing in action.

Seeing the worried look on Uraraka's face, Mina felt herself suddenly filled with determination. With a fire burning within her, the pink-skinned girl said, "Don't you worry, girl!" Uraraka, as well as Kyoka, Pony and Reiko, all turned to look at the pink-skinned girl. "Your special ring will be found in next to flat! Do you want to know why?" Pointing straight up to the ceiling in the locker room, Mina declared her answer.

"Because I, the great Detective Mina, am on the case!"


Later that day after classes were done for the day, the girls of class 1-A were all gathered in the common area of Heights Alliance. Mina, curiously enough, was dressed up in a costume that made one think of classic detectives from late 1800s England; she even had a classic smoking pipe, albeit a toy one that was bright pink and had a yellow mouthpiece, also it blew bubbles although it had no bubble formula in it right now. The 1-A girls all looked at their classmate with looks of mild confusion.

Mina pretended to take a drag from her toy smoking pipe, pretended to let out a puff of smoke, then turned to face her fellow girls. "Now then. I suppose you all are wondering why I had called all of you here today."

"You're…investigating the case of Uraraka's missing ring kero?" Mina nodded once in confirmation to Tsuyu's mildly confused question, confusion that stemmed from the whole getup that Mina had going on at the moment.

Mina paced back and forth in front of the group of other 1-A girls as she explained to them what was on her mind. "You see, given how careful our classmate Uraraka is, especially with things that are of notable value, there is no way she would have misplaced the ring. Therefore, there is only one possible explanation for what had happened." Mina stopped mid-pace, standing there in silence in front of the other girls.

Suddenly, Mina spun around before pointing her toy pipe's mouthpiece at the girls. "There is a thief among our number, and said thief stole Uraraka's special ring!" This made the 1-A girls all gasp in shock while Mina calmly put the mouthpiece of her toy pipe in her mouth, and once more pretended to take a drag from it before pretending to blow another puff into the air. After that, she gave the group of girls a serious look.

"Now then," Mina began, "We all know for a fact, due to how tightly Nemuri-sensei runs who goes in and out of the locker rooms, that the theoretical thief has to be a girl, as the theft took place in the girls' locker room. Additionally, the only girls that had used the girls' locker room in that timeframe are all of us in 1-A, all of the girls in 1-B, and Nemuri-sensei herself. As a final point, Nemuri-sensei has no idea about the ring, so she's eliminated as a suspect."

Yaoyorozu, with a curious look on her face, raised a hand. "Wouldn't that also eliminate all of the girls in 1-B as suspects as well, given that they weren't there when Uraraka explained why her ring meant so much to her?"

"Actually," Uraraka began, "I also told the story to all of the girls in 1-B when Mina, Tsuyu, Habuko and I ran into all seven of them in the library earlier this morning before first period." The gravity girl had the decency to look a bit embarrassed. "…So they all know, too."

"Thus they are all suspect," Mina declared, "But don't worry. I got some of the boys looking into the matter for me."

"Hmm, I don't see any sort of ring that looks like it could be Round Face's ring if what Mina told me about what it looks like is correct," Bakugo said aloud but mostly to himself as he, with Izuku and Todoroki, were all searching Kinoko's dorm room. Bakugo was searching by himself, ignorant to all of the Kirishima merchandise that was in the mushroom girl's dorm room; it was very much similar to how Izuku had a lot of All Might merch in his dorm room.

Unlike their explosive classmate, Izuku and Todoroki were not ignorant to the fact that Kinoko had apparently ordered one of each item from the Kirishima merchandise section of the Fat Gum agency merchandise catalogue. Bakguo, in his somewhat distracted searching, found a keepsake box that blatantly had an image of Kirishima's face on it, but it was as if it didn't even phase the explosive teen as he opened the keepsake box to look through it.

While Bakguo was searching, Itsuka, who stood with an embarrassed Kinoko behind her, got the attention of the surprised Izuku and Todoroki. "Do not mention this…" the class 1-B rep said to the two boys, her tone mildly threatening, "…To anyone." Both Izuku and Todoroki nodded in agreement while Bakugo, who had still yet to realize that there was a whole bunch of Kirishima merchandise all over Kinoko's dorm room, gave a mildly frustrated growl since he was coming up dry on his search.

Over in the common area of Heights Alliance, Mina gestured to the other girls in her class. "There is no need to worry, since I got enough of the lads to help me with searching the dorm rooms of the class 1-B girls. For now, we will search the girls' dorm rooms here." Pointing her toy smoking pipe's mouthpiece in the direction of the staircase, the pink-skinned girl declared, "We shall begin with Tsuyu's room!"

"My room kero?" Tsuyu said, sounding surprised.


The girls were a bit surprised to see how tame Tsuyu's dorm room was in comparison to some of the other dorm rooms that were seen when the contest was held back when everyone had first moved into Heights Alliance. It looked somewhat similar to Hagakure's bedroom, but all of the pink was replaced with green, any stuffed animals were replaced with frog plushies of a similar size, and there lily pad designs where Hagakure had hearts, roses, stars and cherry designs.

"This…" Mina said slowly as she, followed by Tsuyu and Uraraka, walked into the frog girl's dorm room. The pink-skinned girl looked around a bit, momentarily distracted by what she was seeing. "…I expected a small pond with lily pads."

Tsuyu, her expression unreadable, crossed her arms over her chest. "Well I'm sorry to disappoint you, mina." If it wasn't for Tsuyu's tone being similarly hard to read as well, then Mina would have been able to pick up on how her comment mildly offended the frog girl.

Mina gave a brisk shake of her head, to refocus herself. "Enough of that business, time to search for Uraraka's missing special ring!" The first thing that Mina did was go over to Tsuyu's dresser, where a green keepsake box sat on top. The pink-skinned girl opened the keepsake box and began to gently go through it. She found a few simple pieces of jewelry, like plain band rings, and one crafted beaded bracelet that had a clear Native American air to it.

But other than that, all that was in the keepsake box were a dark green hair scrunchy, a photo of Tsuyu with her younger siblings, a keychain attached to a keyring that had two small keys on it, and a small handful of yen coins that couldn't have added up to more than seven-hundred and fifty yen. A more thorough search of the room revealed that, aside from having a noticeable frog theme, Tsuyu was no different than most other girls her age. Similarly, Tsuyu's room held no sign of Uraraka's missing ring.

Mina let out a resigned sigh before she turned to face the girls in the room with her. "Tsuyu, you're off the hook," Mina stated. Pointing towards the door leading out of Tsuyu's dorm room, the pink-skinned girl declared, "Next up is Habuko's room!"


Part of why Mina wanted to start with Tsuyu's room is because Tsuyu, as well as Bakugo and Mineta, did not have their rooms showcased to the rest of 1-A yet, not that Mina and the other girls were exactly in any sort of hurry to see the dorm where the infamous pervert resided. One other reason that Mina wanted to start with Tsuyu was because Habuko, along with Hatsume and Eunice, all occupied rooms on the fifth floor, with Habuko being next door to Tsuyu; as such, this filled up all the rooms on the top floor. The only new girl in 1-A that was not in a fifth floor room was Sakaki, as she was on the second floor in the dorm room across from Aoyama's.

Mina, followed by Uraraka and Habuko, went into the snake girl's dorm room; it was very similar to Tsuyu's, but all of the frog stuff was swapped out for snake stuff, and the green was replaced with a sort of tannish brown that one would see on some species of snakes. Overall, it didn't really stick out compared to the more elaborate rooms some of the other 1-A students had at Heights Alliance.

Mina, with her self-professed 'world class detective skills' that she clarified had the 'skills' spelled with a 'z' at the end instead of an 's', searched Habuko's dorm room for any sign of the missing ring that Uraraka had inherited from her late paternal grandfather. The pink-skinned detective declared that nothing would stop her or hold her back until she had uncovered the truth, then she got right to work looking through Habuko's dorm room.

Nothing of interest came up during the search, aside from a few small ends Mina found in the top drawer of Habuko's desk, but that held nothing aside from a zipped-up pencil case (that Mina also looked through but it was empty), a photo of Habuko and Tsuyu when they were in middle school, and what looked to be a Mineta-shaped voodoo doll that had X's for eyes. There were also half a dozen pins sticking out of the groin area of the voodoo doll.

Mina closed the drawer of Habuko's desk that she was looking through before turning to face the girls. Mina gave a shrug as she faced her classmates. "…Yeah, Habuko's off the hook. I didn't find Uraraka's ring, nor did I find anything that would make anyone question anything." Mina tapped her right fist into the palm of her left hand before she said, "We're going to be swinging by Eunice's room next."


Eunice's room looked similarly as girly as Hagaure's, but the girliness factor was toned down a bit. There were no designs on the pink curtains, the small table between the bed and the dresser, the bed sheet set on the bed, or anywhere else in the room. The desk also looked a bit less ornate, there was a waist high bookshelf in front of the head of the bed instead of a table with a lamp on it, and there was only a keepsake box, a small row of some more books, and an extra pair of noise-canceling headphones on top of Eunice's dresser. There were also no stuffed animals or anything like that on Eunice's bed.

"Huh," Mina remarked aloud as she gently brushed the prints of her left hand fingers over the extra pair of noise-canceling headphones that were on top of Eunice's dresser, after having searched the keepsake box and found nothing that would lend anything in any direction in the search for Uraraka's missing ring, "You seem to have an affinity for blocking out noise."

"Loud noises, or too many noises at once, tend to distress me," Eunice explained, a mildly flustered look on her face.

"Oh, that's right!" Mina and Eunice both turned to look at Uraraka, who looked like she had remembered something. The gravity girl turned to face the green-haired girl, a look of wonder on her face. "You mentioned back when you, Tsuyu and I went to that place in town with Ryukyu that helped with teaching and caring for autistic children that you're autistic yourself, right?"

Eunice nodded once in the affirmative as she gently brushed the right ear pad of the noise-canceling headphones she wore around her neck with her right fingertips. "Some of the kids there had headphones just like what I have, so you asked me about it. In fact, I went to that place when I was younger until I sort of graduated from there."

"Well whereas she has pairs of special headphones," Mina remarked to the girls as she turned to face them, "Something Eunice doesn't have is Uraraka's ring." There was a look of wonder on the pink-skinned detective's face. "…What I did find signs of were how Eunice must be pretty damn loaded. Not Yaoyorozu level, but still pretty damn high up there."

"My previous home, where I lived with my birth mom, was pretty low income," Eunice explained, "Then my mom became really scary, then I was rescued from my previous home, and now my quirk tutor Mr. Raioh is my foster dad. Mr. Raioh is much nicer to me than my mom was when I was still living with her."

Both Mina and Uraraka looked at their autistic classmate with wide-eyed looks of mild unsettlement, surprised to have learned that Eunice had seemingly had a bit of a rough life before she was taken in by the chief of the HPSC's advisory panel. Mina even looked like she wanted to give Eunice a hug, but refrained from doing so as she forced a cough so she could try to refocus her thoughts on the investigation.

Mina, with some renewed vigor, pointed towards Eunice's dorm room door. "Either way, Eunice is off the hook. Anyway, our next stop shall take us to Hatsume's room!"


Both Mina and Uraraka expected the eccentric pink-haired inventor's room to basically be another Development Studio. And while there was a worktable next to the foot end of Hatsume's bed that had a small contraption of some kind the size of a toaster on it, disassembled and ready to be put together, Hatsume's dorm room looked pretty average compared to the dorm rooms of other class 1-A students.

There was a dresser against the left hand wall, a desk next to that so that the desk was between the dresser and the sliding glass door that led to the veranda, there was a coffee brewer, plus a pack of coffee filters, a canister of coffee grounds, some coffee mugs, a sealed container of sugar and a bottle of powdered coffee creamer on top of Hatsume's dresser, a few books plus some sort of invention the size of a loaf of bread on the bookshelf above the dresser, and that was about it.

"You…" Mina said as Hatsume and Uraraka followed her into the former's dorm room, her eyes drifting over to the coffee making supplies. "…Seem to have a thing for coffee, Hatsume."

Hatsume, with a look of amused pride on her face, declared, "The last time I got sleep was back on Thursday." Uraraka's expression lit up with surprised, mildly confused concern as she turned to face the eccentric pink-haired girl while she pointed out to her that today's Wednesday.

After a quick few minutes of searching, Mina came up empty on Uraraka's missing ring, so Hatsume was let off the hook for that. Something that she was not left off the hook for was the need for her to catch some shut-eye, so after Mina and Uraraka collected all of Hatsume's coffee making supplies with the promise to return it all later, Mina ordered Hatsume to get some sleep. The two girls stood outside of the closed door that led into Hatsume's dorm room, with Mina very confident that she got all of Hatsume's coffee making supplies.

"You forget that I searched the whole of the room," was Mina's reply when Uraraka asked her how she could be so sure they got all of Hatsume's coffee making supplies. The two girls, after reaching the ground floor of Height's Alliance, went to set all of the stuff that they confiscated from Hatsume on the island table in the kitchen area before Mina gestured for Uraraka to follow her back up to the second floor to check out Sakaki's dorm room.


As it turned out, Sakaki chose the second floor dorm room across from Aoyama's because it put her next door to Shinso's dorm room, which was across from Izuku's dorm room. Uraraka and Sakaki stood by as Mina searched the fat cat girl's room. It was decorated in a manner similar to that of Hagakure's room, but a lot plainer and with a lack of stuffed animals. There was also a mini fridge in Sakaki's room, and next to that a cabinet loaded with various snacks, such as chip bags and individually wrapped snack cakes. The mini fridge, when searched, held a number of bottles of soda and some candies, mostly chocolate bars.

Mina searched a keepsake box she spotted on top of Sakaki's dresser, but it contained nothing more than a small handful of yen (a little more than what Tsuyu had), a strip of photos from a photo booth that Sakaki went to with Shinso, and a dark blue hair scrunchy. Additional searching of the room as a whole yielded no signs of Uraraka's special ring.

The pink-skinned detective let out a resigned sigh as she turned to face Uraraka and Sakaki, mostly the former. "…Well, after I searched all of the girls' rooms thus far, I found bupkus."

"What about the girls' rooms that weren't searched here in the dorm building?" Sakaki asked, a look of curiosity on her face.

Mina, with a confident look on her face, replied, "I have some of the boys searching those rooms, much like how I have some boys searching the dorm rooms over at the 1-B dorm building." She crossed her arms over her chest, a look of confidence on her face. "Never let it be said that I leave any stone unturned." Mina saw the worried looks on the faces of both Uraraka and Sakaki, then realized what was on their minds. "Relax, Mineta is not part of the boys' search team." Uraraka and Sakaki both let out relieved sighs.

Over in Mina's dorm room, Sero, Kaminari and Kirishima were searching around for signs of Uraraka's ring. "I still can't believe that we're searching Mina's dorm room for Uraraka's missing ring," Sero remarked, sounding a bit amazed that he was even in a girl's dorm room at all. The tape dispensing hero-in-training turned to regard his fellow Baku-squad members. "What do you guys think?"

"Ehh, Mina's more like a sister to me, so I don't feel as bothered," Kirishima remarked as he lifted up the pillows on Mina's bed to look under them, finding nothing. After setting the pillows down, the hardening quirk boy let out a resigned sigh, prompting both Sero and Kaminari to turn to face him. "…Bakugo and Todoroki are both pretty lucky when it comes to getting girls to like them, since we heard that they both successfully got together with their respective crushes before this whole search thing started up. And Izuku has been dating Bakugo's mom since before the tournament we had against Vulcan High."

Sero and Kaminari both saw the troubled look on Kirishima's face, the resigned sense of hopelessness in his tone. Kaminari walked up to Kirishima, laid a hand on his right shoulder. Kirishima looked up from the floor and came face to face with Kaminari, seeing the look of understanding sympathy in the electric quirk boy's eyes. "You wonder when it will be your turn to find a girl that likes you."

As Kirishima's eyes returned to looking down at the floor, Kaminari patted him on the shoulder that he had his hand on. "No need to worry about it, dude," Kaminari reassured his red-haired friend, "I am certain that, in time, you will find a girl that will be open to the idea of being in a relationship with you."

"Yeah, man," Sero said as he got on board with Kaminari trying to reassure Kirishima, "I mean, one of the things you've work on in your efforts to become manly is to become as much of a gentleman as you could, and if there's one thing that girls like, it when they see a guy who is a gentleman." The tape dispensing hero-in-training gave Kirishima a double thumbs up. "You'll get a girl's eye one of these days, dude."

Kirishima was touched by the support and reassurance that his friends were showing him. "Aww, come here, bros," Kirishima said as he threw his left arm around Sero and his right around Kaminari before drawing them both into a group bro-hug. Sero and Kaminari, both of them bros themselves, returned the bro-hug to their red-haired friend.


After all of the searching was taken care of, the students of 1-A and 1-B all met in the first floor common area of the 1-B dorm building. "Well this was a bust!" Mina, who changed back into a regular outfit by this point, declared as she threw her arms into the air. Huffing in an annoyed tone, she crossed her arms over her chest, fuming a bit. "We searched the dorm rooms of every girl we know of, and we came up empty!"

"I understand how you feel, Pinky," Bakugo said from where he stood, his arms crossed over his chest. "Deku, Half-n-half, Kirishima and I found nothing in the mushroom girl's room."

Kirishima, along with Sero and Kaminari, all looked at their group's leader with mildly confused looks, as did Mina who decided to take the initiative. "Umm, Bakugo, I didn't put Kirishima in your search group."

"Really?" Bakugo replied, a similarly confused and mildly curious look on his face, "Huh." The explosive teen gave an indifferent shrug of his shoulders. "I could have sworn that Kirishima was part of my search group." Bakugo continued to ponder the point with a curious and somewhat confused look on his face as both Izuku and Todoroki, feeling the ready to pounce at a moment's notice glare of Itsuka on them, nervously kept their respective mouths shut.

As all of the 1-A and 1-B students pondered what could have happened, Nemuri walked in. "Hey Uraraka," the eighteen only hero said, a look of firm seriousness on her face, "When are you going to call off this joke you're leading both your class and the kids in 1-B on?"

Everyone turned to look at their math teacher with confused looks, with Uraraka being the most confused of all. "Joke? What are you talking about, Nemuri-sensei?"

"I saw you head into the locker room at around ten-thirty this morning," Nemuri explained, "While everyone was playing tennis."

"Wait, wait, wait!" Mina's exclamations got everyone to turn to face her. Looking at Nemuri, the pink-skinned girl said, "That's impossible. Uraraka left the girls' locker room with me and the others at ten-ten. She was with me the entire time outside, and we didn't go back inside until sometime around ten-forty-five, when we had to pack it in early due to Mineta taking a tennis ball right to his tennis balls." Some of the boys chuckled at Mina's crack at the infamous pervert having the most unfortunate luck when it came to his hidden treasure getting struck a lot.

Nemuri, with a curious look on her face, crossed her arms over her chest. "…Well I distinctly remember seeing Uraraka go into the girls' locker room at ten-thirty, so unless Uraraka has an evil twin or something along those lines, I don't know what else to tell you."

With that, Nemuri left her students be, a lot of them wondering just what could have happened to result in the theft of Uraraka's special ring. According to the eighteen only hero, Uraraka herself had taken the ring, but Mina's vouching for Uraraka, as well as a number of other witnesses, were able to verify that there was no way that the gravity girl could have been the one that had stolen her own ring. The students of 1-A and 1-B all began to ponder this newest layer to what has become one of the biggest mysteries that they've dealt with to date.


Uraraka could be seen walking along alone in a somewhat shady part of town. She entered an alleyway as he skin began to turn gray and gloppy, falling off of her form in blobs that made disgusting splats on the ground. By the time all of that was done and over with, Uraraka was no more, replaced with Himiko Toga, the villain that can transform into other by using blood. The psychotic schoolgirl reached into a pocket, fished out a ring.

Uraraka's special ring.

The psychotic schoolgirl grinned in psychotic amusement as the gleam of the gravity girl's ring shone with what little light made its way into that alleyway. Toga chuckled a bit as she slipped the special ring back into the one pocket of her cardigan that she was wearing. Toga, due to how her uniquely disturbed mind worked, saw Uraraka as one of her close friends, and as such, she had a desire to be more like Uraraka.

Toga, normally, would do this by taking a bit of Uraraka's blood and, using that with her quirk, turn into Uraraka temporarily so she could live as her. But the psychotic schoolgirl was running low on how much of Uraraka's blood she had left, and Toga had been told by her fellow villains Dabi and Spinner that she needed to conserve what little of Uraraka's blood that she had left; the three of them recently were given a job by the benefactor that secretly provided funds to both the villains and the benefactor's personal mercenary force that has tried to, but so far failed, to kill the gravity girl.

Said job would require Toga to be able to transform into Uraraka, and she needed to be able to maintain that transformation for as long as possible. The psychotic schoolgirl figured that, with what she had left after turning into Uraraka temporarily to sneak onto U.A. grounds and steal her special ring, she had enough of Uraraka's blood to stay transformed as her for a solid thirty minutes or so. After that, Toga would be unable to turn into Uraraka due to not having any of Uraraka's blood to fuel the transformation.

Toga entered a somewhat shady bar whose entrance was located in the alleyway she wandered into. Entering the establishment, Toga soon spotted Dabi and Spinner occupying a booth located close to the bar counter. Her fellow villains waived her over, and it was Spinner who noted the look of amusement on Toga's face. "…I assume that you just killed someone." The remark from the lizard man was dry, carrying a hint of knowingness.

To the mildly piqued surprise of Spinner and Dabi, Toga gently shook her head. "Nope, I went to grab this from Gravity Girl at U.A. while no one was looking!" Toga reached into her cardigan's one pocket and fished out Uraraka's special ring. "This belongs to her, and it's very special to her. She's very special to me, so if I have something special of hers, it's like she's constantly by my side!" Toga closed her hands around the ring, gave off a happy, content hum.

Dabi and Spinner both turned to look at each other, with Dabi pointing his right index finger at the right side of his head while twirling said index finger around, drawing an unspoken nod of agreement out of Spinner. The two villains turned to face the lone female member of their trio, who was distracted by her prize so she didn't see Dabi and Spinner mock her. In fact, Toga was so distracted by having Uraraka's special ring that Spinner had to pat her on the right shoulder (she sat next to Spinner in the booth) to get her attention.

Toga turned to regard the lizard man, who gave her a serious look before he spoke. "Well since you were able to get back to us no problem, I suppose you braving the risk of sneaking onto U.A. grounds was nothing to big to worry about. Just don't try it again unless we're working as a group and we have a game plan for a mission." Spinner then crossed his arms over his chest as he added, "Also, I hope you still have enough of that girl's blood for the job that the three of us here have to do."

Being reminded of the job that she had to do with Spinner and Dabi made the psychotic schoolgirl pout a bit in a manner that showed she was not happy or amused with the matter. "I still don't like what we have to do for that job, though."

"I agree," Spinner said, a hint of resignation in his tone as he nodded once in agreement, "The nature of the work we have to do for that job does not line up with the ideology of Stain at all."

"Totally," Dabi remarked, picking up his glass of cola and taking a sip from it before setting it back down and continuing. "What we have to do for this job is nothing that I'd do willingly." The blue flame villain let out a resigned sigh as he leaned back in his seat, throwing his head back to look up at the ceiling as he added, "But given that one of our primary sources of income had just be cut off, we don't exactly have any choice in the matter."

Spinner and Toga both nodded in agreement to the point that Dabi had just made, with Toga still looking a bit troubled by whatever it was about the nature of the job she and the boys had to do, and Spinner simply picking up his mug of root beer and draining it dry before setting it back down with a slight but noticeable thump. Dabi, with a bit of a sigh, reached into the right pocket on the jacket he wore.

Taking out a folded-up sheet of paper, Dabi unfolded it, revealing that it was actually two sheets aligned together before being folded up. The blue flame villain sat aside one sheet of paper, which looked like it was a printed map of a neighborhood somewhere, to the side as he took the other sheet of paper, which had a written list of instructions, and sat that in the middle of the table in the booth he occupied with Spinner and Toga.

"Okay, you two. Here's step one of what we have to do."

END, CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

Author's notes;

Well then, this has been the first chapter of the 'Extra arc'. It serves as the arc between the previous arc and the next one, which will play a big role for the narrative of 'A couple that will go down in legend' as a whole. But don't let all of this fool you into thinking this arc isn't all that important; on the contrary, a number of things will happen here that will play slight but notable roles in future happenings in this story.

I just figured that some time needed to be taken to flesh out some characters a bit more, which is part of why I'm doing the 'Extra arc'. The new students in 1-A and 1-B will see some love here and there, as will the villains. As a side note, although the villains have seen some action before, they will see a bit more prominence here in the current arc. As a matter of fact, the next chapter will revolve primarily around Dabi, Spinner and Toga, who have quickly become my favorites of the League/Front. The Asuis will also feature to an extent.