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A couple that will go down in legend
Chapter thirty-two: How everyone spent their day
Reiko Yanagi and Pony Tsunotori, both of them girls in U.A. High School's class 1-B, were both sitting at a table in the kitchen area of the class 1-B dorm building one well enough morning. They both felt sore all over after the training exercise their class did with class 1-A the previous day, where the combined fifty students had to go against Pixie-Bob of the Wild, Wild Pussycats in what many of them agreed was a hopeless fight that they teachers seemingly did not want them to have any chance of winning.
As the ghost girl and the half-American girl somewhat stiffly tried to eat what they had gotten for themselves for breakfast, their classmate Setsuna Tokage came walking down the stairs from one of the upper floors of the dorm building. The recommended female student seemed to have something of a spring in her step, despite having been roughed up just as much as Reiko and Pony during the aforementioned training.
Both Reiko and Pony took note of this, took note of how Setsuna seemed like she felt that there was nothing that could go wrong for her today. Curious, Reiko spoke up and got Setsuna's attention. "Well don't you seem chipper this morning, Setsuna."
Having heard someone call out to her, Setsuna turned her attention and spotted her classmates sitting at the one table. She could tell right away that both Reiko and Pony seemed to be in no good shape, so her smile faltered, although it was only by a little. "Heh, well I got a lot of free time today, so I was planning to go see this one movie that's currently in theaters that I've been dying to see."
"My back feels bad," Pony moaned in a pained, complaining tone, sounding sort of like an old woman despite being in her mid-teens. The half-American girl tried to pop something in her back by pressing her right hand against it while Reiko tried cracking her neck a bit to relieve some built-up pain in there. Setsuna's smile faltered a bit more as she saw that her classmates and fellow girls were both still in pain after their thrashing from Pixie-Bob the previous day.
Setsuna let out a resigned sigh as she crossed her arms over her chest. A look of sympathy appeared on the recommended female student's face. "…You two are still in bad shape after our training, if we can call it that, under Pixie-sensei yesterday, aren't you?" Setsuna asked, drawing affirmative, mildly grumpy, responses from both Reiko and Pony. Setsuna looked more guilty as she realized that her talking about how she was going to have a good day, how her acting like there was nothing wrong, may have actually caused the grumpiness in her classmates.
Setsuna rushed over when Reiko, who tried to get up out of her chair, stumbled a bit as she nearly lost balance and fell over onto the floor, due to how much pain she was in. The ghost girl of 1-B was barely able to save herself from the fall, although Setsuna still reached her in time in case she wasn't able to save herself. "Wow, you girls look like you've gotten it almost as bad as Kinoko due to how she was hit by that one earth wave attack."
"Now's *ow* not exactly the time to remind us about how badly Kinoko was hurt when she rushed in to take a hit that would have otherwise hit her crush Kirishima instead," Reiko said as she, realizing that she wasn't exactly in the condition to get up, sat back down in her chair.
Setsuna looked even guiltier that before, but suddenly she perked right up. "Oh, I know what you girls should do!" Both Reiko and Pony turned to look at Setsuna, who now wore something of an amused grin on her face. "Reiko, you mentioning how Kinoko has a crush on Tetsutetsu's bud over in 1-A reminded me that the respective boys in 1-A that have a crush on you and Pony are both in relatively good shape."
Reiko and Pony, their interest piqued by what Setsuna said, slowly nodded in agreement. "Bakugo did look like he knew what doing," Pony commented, still struggling with some of the finer points of the Japanese language but able to get her point across well enough, "He look like he faced similar fight before."
"The same goes for Todoroki, now that you mention it," Reiko said. Looking up at Setsuna, the ghost girl asked, "What's your point?"
"My point," Setsuna explained as she pointed to the sore girls in her class, "Is that you and Pony ought to get Todoroki and Bakugo to help you out today." Seeing the looks of surprise on the respective faces of the two girls, Setsuna merely shook her head. "Oh, come on. Those boys do like you two, and you two have, after all, started dating the respective boys that crush on you. I bet that Todoroki and Bakugo would both be glad to take care of the two of you while you are both hurt, treating you girls like princesses."
Reiko and Pony both lit up red like bright, shiny Christmas ornaments out of embarrassment. Seeing this drew a chuckle out of Setsuna. "I'll go track Todoroki and Bakugo down right now, tell them what's up and see if they're up for tending to you."
"Don't you dare!" Reiko snapped as Setsuna turned around.
The recommended female student was walking straight to the large doors that served as the front doors that led into the main part of the 1-B dorm building, never stopping in her stride on the way. "What's that? I can't here you over in front of the dorm building, which is where I'm about to go." The look of smirking amusement on Setsuna's face was clear as day before she turned her head back around.
"Setsuna!" Reiko cried out, more annoyed and embarrassed than anything else.
Later that morning in town, Izuku Midoriya could be seen getting out of a car in front of a name brand convenience store. Getting out of the driver's seat of said car was Mitsuki Bakugo, the mother of Izuku's classmate Katsuki Bakugo (who Izuku called Kacchan); Mitsuki also just so happened to be the green-eyed boy's girlfriend, as they hooked up shortly after Mitsuki had gotten divorced from her ex-husband Masaru. The relationship between the green-eyed boy and the ashy-haired woman was completely the latter's idea.
What was also Mitsuki's idea was stopping off at this specific convenience store. "It's very simple, sweetness," Mitsuki said as she and Izuku walked up to the front door of the store, "We just hide the snacks we buy here in my purse, I bring my purse in with me into the theater, and bada-bing bada-boom, we don't have to pay overcharged prices for theater snacks."
The green-haired cinnamon roll was still unsure about his older girlfriend's plan to sneak snacks into the theater. As a matter of fact, Izuku remembered once incident where Bakugo and his 'squad' all got in trouble for sneaking outside snacks into the theater, and later got it from Mina that it was Bakugo's idea because the explosive teen said, and Mina quoted him word for word on this one, 'it's like that greedy-ass cartoon crab is running the snacks booth at the theater'.
Still, Izuku did not want to get into an argument with Mitsuki, and it helped that the convenience store that they were going into carried a specific brand of gummy candy that he was rather fond of. As such, he decided to ignore the nagging feeling in the back of his head that this was wrong and just went with it. The nagging feeling, as well as all other thought processes, stopped when Izuku and Mitsuki nearly bumped into a pair of people that were leaving the convenience store at the same moment they were about to enter it.
To Izuku's further surprise, the two people that he and Mitsuki almost crashed into were Artemis Norio, one of the new boys in class 1-B over at U.A. and, to Izuku's even further confusion, Samidare Asui, the ten-year-old younger brother of his classmate Tsuyu. "Oh, you're that green-haired guy that my blonde idiot of a classmate claims is the cause of all woe wrought by you and your buddies in 1-A," the exoskeletoned boy remarked casually.
"Oh, hello Norio," Izuku greeted, "Me and Mitsuki were only here to get some snacks that she says she wants to sneak into the theater."
Nodding in understanding, Artemis remarked, "Indeed. I cannot blame either of you two for doing that." He gestured to Izuku and Mitsuki with a hand that held a small Ziploc bag that held a single but fairly large brownie; his other hand held a thirty-two ounce lidded cup that was transparent, so Izuku and Mitsuki could both see that it held some pastel tan-colored drink of some matter. Looking to Samidare, Izuku saw that he also had the same snack and same drink as the exoskeletoned boy.
Curious, Izuku gestured to Samidare while still facing Artemis. "What are you doing with Tsuyu's little brother?"
"Oh, you mean my main man Samidare here?" Artemis asked casually, "Yeah, I was taking some time to educate him about some of the finer aspects of society, like how this chain of convenience stores has the most amazing horchata as a fountain drink, and how it pairs well with one of the large brownies sold at the registers." Samidare said nothing, although he did nod once in agreement with Artemis.
Izuku was mildly surprised by how one of his schoolmates considered a ten-year-old boy as a best friend, but remembering that a lot of his classmates in 1-A, such as Bakugo and Mina, have a lot of respect for Tsuyu's little brother, he decided not to question it. Mitsuki, on the other hand, arched a wry eyebrow out of confusion as she gestured to Artemis and Samidare with her right hand.
"You're a high schooler, and yet you're best friends with an elementary schooler." Crossing her arms over her chest, Mitsuki asked, "Doesn't that strike you as odd?"
"What would strike me as odd is if I were anything other than classmates with that blonde hysteric holler monkey that's in 1-B with me," Artemis replied, a slight but clear hint of snark in the exoskeletoned boy's tone. Artemis then turned to look at Izuku, a look of knowingness on his face. "Midoriya, dude, back me on this one."
Gulping a bit, Izuku said, "Well, Monoma could stand to ease up a bit on how far he takes the rivalry between our respective classes."
Artemis laughed a bit, clearly amused by how the green-haired cinnamon roll had just agreed with him. After he calmed down from his laughing, Artemis said, "Well it was nice chatting to you. A hell of a lot nicer than it would have been if I were chatting with Monoma instead. But Samidare and I have got to bounce." Samidare, having heard what his friend said, hopped up and down a bit, catching Artemis's attention. The headphones around the sole Asui brother's neck bounced a bit when he hopped.
"Ah ha, ha," Artemis chuckled a bit in knowing amusement, "No, little dude. When I say that 'we have to bounce', it was a way for me to say that we need to get going." Gesturing for the kid to follow him, Artemis took off with Samidare right behind him. After the two of them had left, Izuku and Mitsuki, after exchanging mildly curious looks, turned to face the store and go inside, so as to get the snacks that Mitsuki was going to smuggle into the theaters.
After they left Izuku and Mitsuki at the convenience store, Artemis and Samidare walked along on the sidewalk around a nearby local park. They had since finished their respective brownies, and were now finishing up their drinks. "Mmm," Samidare hummed contently, his tone showing that he liked how his horchata tasted, as he and his best friend walked along.
"You see, man?" the exoskeletoned boy said, having heard the kid's hum of delight, "A lot of folks out there assume that the finer things in life require you to pay big time to have, but in truth some of the finer things cost around two-hundred yen." Artemis nodded once in an assured way, showing that he felt his words were very much valid. "You don't have to be rich like that one girl in your older sister's homeroom class over at-"
"Ah, fancy running into you here at the park, Artemis!" a male voice called out, getting the attention of both Artemis and Samidare. Artemis recognized the voice right away, but he really did not want to have to deal with the owner of said voice.
Sadly enough for Artemis, his classmate Neito Monoma came walking up to him. To the piqued interest of Artemis, Monoma was accompanied by their classmates in 1-B Omono, Akuma, Kurama and Goukazaru, the other new boys in 1-B aside from Artemis himself. With the noted exception of Akuma, all of the boys in the group that came up to the exoskeletoned boy sported a few bandaged injuries, a testament to the joint training that 1-B did with 1-A yesterday.
Monoma gestured to Artemis, getting his focus on him. "There's something that I, as an older member of our class, need to go over with you and the boys here." Monoma arched a wry eyebrow when he suddenly noticed Samidare standing next to Artemis. Nonchalantly, the blonde boy of 1-B pointed to the sole Asui brother while still looking at Artemis. "…Who's the kid?"
"This here is my bud Samidare," Artemis explained, "He and I have been chill since before I was fast-enrolled into U.A."
"You're…friends with a kid?" Goukazaru asked, looking more confused than anything else.
Giving his primate-like classmate a curious look, Artemis replied, "What? You'd rather I be friends with a clown instead?"
Monoma's eyes widened a bit as he heard the exoskeletoned boy's remark. "I wasn't aware that you were friends with any of those cretins in class 1-A, Artemis."
"I wasn't talking about any of them." The dry look of unamusement on Artemis's face, combined with a similar tone of voice, made it clear to all but the painfully oblivious Monoma that Artemis wasn't thinking about any of the students in class 1-B's rival class. The other new boys of the class all recognized the joke, and proceeded to suppress some chuckling.
Monoma, not understanding why his classmates were all chuckling, merely shrugged in an indifferent manner. "We're getting off subject here." Gesturing to Artemis, Monoma continued, "Look, my good man. You and most other may not see it, but those idiots in class 1-A would have long since burned the school down had it not been for the valiant efforts of us in class 1-B to keep things from falling into total anarchy. As such, it is necessary for me to educate you, as well as the other new students in our class, about the danger those idiots could cause if they are left to do as they please."
Artemis sighed in an exasperated tone, gently face palming while Samidare just continued to look up at Monoma while drinking his horchata from the convenience store. "Look, Monoma, I have no idea what it was that crawled up your ass and died, but you're taking your hate-boner for class 1-A way too far here."
Monoma, caught off guard by how Artemis was talking to him, sputtered a bit as he tried to find the right words to say. "I do not have a 'hate-boner', as you put it!"
"With all due respect Monoma, Artemis has a point on how it's a pretty hateful boner," Akuma remarked, prompting Monoma to turn to face him. Some of the other new boys in 1-B snickered as their Satanist classmate agreed with Artemis against Monoma. Putting his hands on his hips, Akuma went on, "But in all seriousness, the people in 1-A aren't all that bad. Hell, I've been friends with Sakaki since we were back at Vulcan, before either of us got into U.A. And that purple-haired guy that Sakaki's got the hots for is a pretty chill dude, not to mention how there are a number of guys in 1-A that I wouldn't mind having the chance to go against in a brawl."
The blonde boy of class 1-B, with a hint of a knowing smirk on his face, turned to properly face Akuma. "…I can only assume that explosive Neanderthal that managed to brainwash Pony into thinking that he's not bad is one of said persons in that hellhole class that you-"
Monoma was cut off midsentence when something hit him in the back of the head; from the feel of it, it was a plastic bottle that was about half full or so. Turning around to see who it was that had assaulted him just now, Monoma saw his and the boys' classmates Pony and Reiko, who were accompanied by Todoroki and (a very pissed-looking) Bakugo. The explosive teen had his right arm raised in a manner that suggested he had just thrown something.
"You want to repeat that, you blonde turd?!" Bakugo bellowed angrily at Monoma, making him go wide-eyed a bit with alarm.
"Yeah, word choice not most wise in the world," Pony scolded as she and Reiko both looked at their hysteric classmate with disapproving looks. The half-American girl pointed an accusing finger at Monoma as she said, "Bakugo not have me brainwashed, that's not his quirk. Say sorry to him right now."
Begrudgingly, Monoma scoffed out an apology to Bakugo, who accepted it only because he was in front of Pony, who was now his girlfriend after so much effort on his (Bakugo's) part to win over her heart. Regardless of the development, Monoma still needed to go over a few things with the new students in 1-B, so Artemis reluctantly took Samidare home after he agreed to meet Monoma and the boys at a nearby pizza parlor. After the two groups left, Bakugo, Todoroki and their respective girlfriends proceeded on their way.
After they ran into Pony and Reiko's classmates in front of the park, the two girls and the boys with them stopped off at a burger place to grab a light lunch together. Bakugo would normally be in no mood to share a meal with 'stupid IcyHot', but decided to put up with it for Pony's sake when she and Reiko both thought that a double-date would be a cute idea. Thus the four of them were seen sitting at the same table in the burger place, enjoying lunch.
"I'm very sorry how Monoma acted," Pony said in an apologetic tone to Bakugo and Todoroki, "I still no idea why he be like that."
Bakugo held up a hand to get Pony to stop, catching her attention. "…It's no big deal, Pony." The explosive teen leaned back in his seat as he said, "If the idiot gets too bad, just do to him what most of us tend to do to Grape Head on the regular basis."
Pony looked at Bakugo with an honestly confused look, while both Todoroki and Reiko looked at him with looks of mild suspicion. "…You know, Pony has yet to kick Mineta in his balls," Reiko began in a curious tone, "But don't you think that a kick from her would hurt him more given that she has hooves rather than actual feet?"
Bakugo, as well as a mildly surprised Todoroki, both stopped short when the ghost girl pointed this little bit out. Slowly, the two boys turned to look at each other, exchanging silent wonder between the two of them. After a few moments, Todoroki said, "That's actually a really good question."
"I say we test the theory out when we get back to U.A.," Bakugo declared, a smirk of mild amusement on his face. Todoroki looked a bit firm with Bakugo, but Reiko looked amused while Pony just looked confused. The half-American girl had no idea what her boyfriend was talking about, but judging by Reiko's reaction, Pony was going to assume that Bakugo had just come up with a really good idea.
Pony would have asked for more clarification, but she was cut off when she, as well as the others at the table with her, heard some girls call out to them. Out of curiosity, the two 1-B girls and two 1-A boys turned to see Uraraka, Mina, Yaoyorozu and Tsuyu come walking over to them. It had been Mina that had called out to the group, and the pink-skinned girl had a clearly amused look on her face when she saw the double date.
"Ooh, is this what I think it is?" An amused smirk came up on Mina's face as she looked fit to rub her hands together in a manner to show that she was liking what she was seeing. "You know, I knew that you two boys would eventually succeed in getting your respective crushes to like you back, but never in my wildest dreams did I consider the possibility that you two would agree to doing a double date!"
"I can see why you'd think that, Mina," Yaoyorozu remarked as she turned to face her classmate, wincing slightly due to still being in a bit of pain from the previous day's sparring under Pixie-Bob, "I mean, Bakugo is one of the boys in question, so your surprise goes without saying."
The explosive teen merely scowled in an annoyed manner as the girls from his and Todoroki's class talked about the double date, which things clearly were. Thankfully for Bakugo, as well as Todoroki to an extent, the girls from 1-B decided to speak up. "You know, Bakugo has smoothed out a lot of his rough edges over time," Reiko remarked, "Sure, he seemed liable to literally rip someone's head off during the beginning of his time at U.A., but he's mellowed out a bit." The ghost girl shot Bakugo a wry, knowing look before turning back to face the 1-A girls. "I'm pretty sure that, if Bakugo was still the same when we all first started at U.A., he wouldn't've succeed in getting Pony to like him back."
Bakugo's eyes widened only a little bit, and no one else noticed it, but it was a sign that he seemed to be afraid of a possibility where Pony wouldn't like him. Thankful that it was now not the case, the explosive teen privately, and silently, resolved to himself to make sure that he did not act in a way that would make the half-American girl change her mind about being in a relationship with him.
He hoped to change the subject, and luckily for him such the opportunity occurred when he saw Yaoyorozu gently press her hand against the side of her neck as if to try and relieve some pressure, saw Tsuyu try to pop her back a bit. Bakugo saw these signs for what they were, signs that the girls in his and Todoroki's class were still reeling a bit from yesterday, when they, the rest of their class and everyone in 1-B had been forced by their respective homeroom teachers to let Pixie-Bob manhandle them. Said signs were also present in Reiko and, to the discomfort of Bakugo, Pony as well.
The explosive teen gestured to the four girls from 1-A, got their attention. "Not that it's any business of mine, but are the four of you okay?"
The four girls all looked a bit surprised that Bakugo, of all people, was inquiring about their wellbeing. It was Mina, who out of the present 1-A girls was on the best terms with Bakugo, who responded first. "We're still hurting from when Pixie-sensei decided to make us experience what living in an earthquake zone is like," the pink-skinned girl remarked, a hint of tired pain coming out from her voice.
"I would still like to know what Aizawa-sensei and Sekijiro-sensei were thinking," Yaoyorozu remarked, sounding a bit suspicious, "Having us only evade and not fight back at all. I'm having trouble trying to think of why we had to do such training."
"Not to mention how we're going to be doing it again as soon as our teachers think we've all recovered enough kero." The other girls, not to mention Bakugo, Todoroki and their respective dates, all paled a bit when Tsuyu pointed out that their first go with the 'special training' under Pixie-Bob was just that; their first go. They were going to be doing it again, much to the dread of not just those present, but others in the 1-A and 1-B classes alike.
Mina held up her hands in a gesture signaling for everyone to hold their horses, lest a bunch of panicked murmuring broke out. "Look, how about instead of panicking now about what's to come in the future, we'll just deal with it when it comes. Sound good?"
The others seemed to agree that worrying about things when they come, instead of getting worked up over said things, was the best course of action in this case. All of the U.A. students there resolved to roll with the punches when and where they crop up. Since the double date that Bakugo, Todoroki and their respective girlfriends was still ongoing, the 1-A girls respectfully got out of their hair, allowing them to continue on in peace.
Uraraka, Tsuyu and Yaoyorozu followed along behind Mina as she led them to this cute little café that served amazing treats, not to mention fine coffee, tea and other such drinks. As a matter of fact, it was the very same café that Mina had previously recommended to Izuku to take Mitsuki out to go to, resulting in a successful date between the green-haired cinnamon roll and the ashy-haired woman.
Mina, as she and the other girls were enjoying their little stop at the café, went on about how not only did her advice succeeded in creating a good time for Izuku and Mitsuki, but it also did well to help other persons who she gave advice to on wooing someone that they had fallen for. At one point as Mina bragged about how she helped Izuku and Mitsuki get closer, it was Tsuyu that had noticed it when Uraraka somewhat forcefully put her mug of coffee down, hard enough to make a noticeable thud sound.
The frog-like girl turned to regard her brunette-haired friend, a hint of sympathy in her otherwise unreadable expression. "I can only assume that you are still jealous that Bakugo's mom managed to get into a relationship with Midoriya before you could?" Yaoyorozu and Mina, the latter of which had stopped talking upon hearing Tsuyu talk just now, both turned to regard Uraraka, who wore a look of simmering annoyance on her face, a look that made it clear the gravity girl was trying to control herself before she exploded.
Uraraka took a breath to calm herself, the let out a resigned sigh. "…I'm sorry, but I just can't help it," Uraraka confessed, having the decency to look at least a little guilty. She gently shook her head, a sign that she was at something of a loss for words. "I mean, I've been there ever since the beginning with Izuku. I've supported him where and when I could. Hell, I even worked with him during the one test where he and I had to face Bakugo and Tenya." She let out a troubled sigh before continuing, "And yet I ended up losing him. And to a woman a little more than twice the age of anyone in our class, no less."
"You know what your problem is?" Uraraka, as well as Mina and Tsuyu, perked up a bit and turned to face Yaoyorozu when she spoke. "You hesitated," the rich girl explained clearly, "You took too long in getting your feelings across, and now someone else swooped in and scooped Midoriya up before you could." Yaoyorozu leaned back in her seat, crossed her arms over her chest as she added, "I, too, know how it feels to hesitate until it's too late, although in my case my hesitation led to me being defeated by Tokoyami during the Sports Festival."
Tsuyu nodded once, acknowledging what her wealthy classmate had said. "Yeah Yaoyorozu, Fumikage and Dark Shadow really got you good kero." The frog girl turned to regard Uraraka, giving her a slightly more sympathetic look. "In a way, Mrs. Bakugo got you good as well Uraraka, by acting while you were still hesitating over what to do. Such is the way things tend to go if you allow them to."
The gravity girl let out a defeated sigh, showing that she knew what her friend had said was true. "…I guess that I don't have anyone to blame but myself," Uraraka admitted, feeling rather down about how things had developed for her. Gently shaking her head, she went on, "If only I didn't-"
"Hey, aren't you some of the girls from 1-A?" a female voice called out, cutting Uraraka off and making her and the others she was with turn to look to see who it was. To their surprise, it was Setsuna Tokage from class 1-B, having just entered the café. "Yeah, it is you girls," Setsuna said when she got close enough to not have to call out, "What brings you girls here?"
"We were just getting a bit of a light lunch out," Yaoyorozu replied, nodding once in a manner to say hello. The wealthy girl gave class 1-B's recommended female student a curious look. "How about you? What brings you in?"
Shrugging indifferently, Setsuna casually replied, "Oh, I was just stopping in for something sweet after I had just come back from watching this one movie that's in theaters. I didn't get any theater snacks since their prices are basically highway robbery. Seriously, it's like that greedy-ass cartoon crab is running the snacks booth at the theater." Having said her piece, Setsuna took her leave from talking to the 1-A girls, went to order a small pie slice and a mocha drink, had her small meal, and then left the café to continue on with her day.
Having had a good enough day out in town, Setsuna eventually returned to U.A. grounds, intending on heading over to the dorms for her class. In a surprise twist, the recommended girl of class 1-B met Izuku and Mitsuki by the front gates that led into the top hero school in Japan. "Oh, hey Midoriya," Setsuna greeted with a casual yet friendly wave, "Weird how we bumped into each other here."
"Yeah, I was just coming back after Mitsuki and I had a date today," Izuku replied, "She was even bringing me back here." The green-eyed boy was still amazed by the fact that he had not only gotten into a romantic relationship with a woman a little more than twice his age, but that said romantic relationship was still ongoing. If you had told an Izuku of the past that he would one day end up in a successful, lasting relationship with a girl, then he would have, with all due respect to you, laughed in your face.
…He also would have panicked if you told him said relationship would have ended up being with the mother of his childhood bully, but that's not here or where.
Mitsuki took her leave, saying that she'd been in Izuku's hair enough for the day. After Mitsuki had left, Izuku went into U.A. grounds, making a beeline for the direction the dorm buildings were in as he followed Setsuna, who took a similar path. They split up to head in two separate directions when Izuku saw Heights Alliance around the corner, and the green-eyed boy soon stepped foot into the common area on the first floor of his class's dorm building.
Walking over to the sofa, Izuku flopped down, a bit drained from his day. He did all manner of date things while out with Mitsuki, and while he had a blast, it was still a bit tiring, especially as he did said things with Mitsuki. That woman has a knack for running folks through the wringer, you know.
END, CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
Author's notes;
I figured a little slice-of-life chapter where multiple mini-plots were all stringed together would make for a decent little break from the story's overall main line, as well as flesh out a few more bits here and there for some of the characters. Anyway, the next chapter will see a number of secrets revealed to the cast at large. It will be a bit of a tense chapter to be sure, and a number of characters will have trouble looking at others the same way.
But it's necessary in order to set up points that are to come later on down the line, as well as help lay the groundwork for a ship that's been hinted at multiple times over the course of the story thus far. Hopefully the bit of drama that will occur won't be too bad for some.