Chapter 67: The Culture Festival Part 2

Summary:

A nice date.

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

"So where to first Izuku?" Momo asked as she held his hand while they walked down the halls, other students were busying themselves as they walked around the duo.

"Hmm, we can visit 1-C's haunted house whenever, want to go check out the play 1-B is doing? I saw the name and it made me spit out the soda I was drinking."

"Hmm, what is it?" Momo opened the culture festival guide and sputtered in a very undignified manner when she saw it. "Oh it's going to be so bad, what made them think they could get away with this?"

Izuku liked it when Momo was smiling, it always brightened his day. "Yeah "Romeo, Juliet, and the Prisoner of Azkaban: The Return of the Kings" legitimately sounds like the worst thing I've ever heard of and its beautiful. Oooh I just got an idea, we should make a class bad movie night. Have you ever seen "The Room?"

Momo briefly looked away in thought. "Nope can't say that I have Izuku. What's it about?"

"A girl cheating on a guy, I think? Honestly so much happens in that movie I can't give you a legitimate answer. Also, that settles it we are making bad movie night a thing, I've even got a second movie already lined up." Izuku's nose started bleeding which to be fair, he had overused the quirk, so he wasn't surprised.

Noticing her boyfriend wincing as he grabbed his head. "Hmph, I know you did it to save them and I'm glad you did Izu but please take better care of yourself." She gently started wiping his nose with her free hand.

"I know Mo, I know, and thank you." He smiled at her. Though internally he was worried beyond belief, his body might actually be breaking down at this point. The taunt All for One sent him rang in his ears as Izuku felt his right hand creak. Seriously Izuku was debating just cutting the thing off and letting Minor Regeneration grow a new hand, though he knew no one would be happy if he did that. Why isn't Overhaul fixing it correctly? What was the quirk stealer missing?

"Seems it's stopped, how many times did you use it Izuku and don't lie to me." Momo pouted.

"Just five, I only went over by one. In my defense I really did try to not overdo it but they kept ignoring my warnings to surrender and I didn't want to hurt them, especially after learning Gentle's tragic backstory." Izuku chuckled. "Huh I just realized, ... Mo, where's your tragic backstory?"

"Huh?" The heiress asked.

"Well it seems like everyone we know has some tragic horrible past that led them to here. Gentle couldn't achieve his dreams, I was quirkless for the longest time and my dad's a villain, Tsu had no friends, Uraraka's family is near destitute, Shinsou was treated like a villain, Todoroki is ... well Todoroki, Toshinori was quirkless and lost his master, and Hagakure was kidnapped by villains. I don't know I just thought it was kind of interesting that nearly everyone in heroics is here because well, something bad happened to us and we want to make sure it doesn't happen to someone else." Izuku thought aloud.

The thought did make Momo a little sad, he was right, her and Iida had both been born with silver spoons in their mouths and never really suffered, although Iida did almost lose his brother. Momo though, ... nothing, it made everything feel a little less earned.

Noticing the sad expression. "Momo, if anything it's a compliment."

"What? How?! The worst thing that happened to me growing up was a bit of loneliness and being ogled at for my mature body. I mean sure people faked being my friend so I'd make them stuff but that's nothing compared to what everyone else has gone through." Momo's expression darkened further.

"Mo, it means you didn't need a push, a reason to help others. You naturally wanted to do it, you just wanted to be a good person. You were given everything you could possibly want and you turned it down just so you could help people. Honestly Mo I don't think you realize how special you or your quirk are. I'm glad your the one who has it, I doubt many others would be as selfless with it as you are." Izuku saw the girl start sucking in tears at the praise and hugged her. "Seriously Mo, you're amazing, you're one of the greatest people I;ve had the pleasure of getting to know, the greatest actually."

"Izuuuu stop I don't w-wanna c-cry out here." Momo weakly let out as she returned the hug.

"Sorry but I love you to much not to spoil you." Izuku whispered in her ear.

The couple was being given a wide berth by the students walking through the halls and the pair could hear some hushed whispering. "Maybe your right, let's get going I want to see the utter travesty that is 1-B's play."

A nod and the two were off.


"MY NAME IS ROMEO! YOU! GHOST OF AZKABAN, COUNT PARIS! RETURN JULIET TO ME!" Monoma shouted.

Izuku started snickering in his seat, Mo was also trying to keep her giggles under control but failing just as much. They started getting weird stares from the people around them but managed to quiet down with they started getting ssshed.

Izuku whispered to Momo very quietly. "Oh my god, this is the worst thing I've ever seen, please, please tell me your recording this."

The girl nodded. "I put a camera on Ivory, she's recording it from the rafters."

"You are literally the best, I cannot WAIT to shit talk this with 1-A. What the hell made them think they could pull this off? And why is there a subplot from Rapunzel in here?" Izuku snickered at the Heiress.

"Romeo ... you heard about your father from Gandalf, right?" Ironx4 asked, he was dressed in a black dark hoodie, that Izuku guessed was supposed to be intimidating. "That he was the king of Gondor? That was a lie, I AM YOUR FATHER!"

Monoma's shock stricken face dropped his sword screaming at the declaration.

"I'm more confused about the part with star wars, I thought it was going to be bad at like 4 movies, and why is Monoma dressed like Frodo Baggins?" Momo snickered back.

"Probably the same decision making process that led to them making Kodai Juliet, I don't think I've ever seen the girl make a facial expression before."

"It's better than making Shoda who I'm guessing is Sam Wise? I think?" Momo guessed.

Another ssh caused them to quiet down and return to watching the butchering of movies that was 1-B's play.

The play wasn't much longer after that, just a final confrontation between the two villains and the end of the movie after Count Paris chopped off Romeo's hand. Izuku and Momo were laughing the whole way out. "That was so refreshing, man we really haven't had a chance to go on a date lately, so this is ... nice." Izuku commented.

"Ahem, and we've got a lot more of it to go. I recommend this personally." Momo pointed to an item on the guide sheet."

Izuku took one look at the thing and smirked. "Our little heiress has truly been corrupted by this commoner swine hasn't she?"

She just gave him a light slug to the shoulder. "I will hit you harder next time." She giggled.


Izuku watched as Momo got her face painted, she wanted to look like a cat for Eri and Izuku couldn't help but smile at the thought. He ended up joining her and getting a unicorn drawn on his face, was it masculine, absolutely not. Would he care if anyone said anything? Also absolutely not.

"Awww Izu you look so cute." Momo rubbed his cheeks for a second.

"You too Mo, you ready for this?" The girls response was to grab his arm and lean into him causing him to blush a little.

Izuku stepped into the haunted house and noticed Momo began to shiver uncontrollably. "I didn't know you didn't like scary stuff."

"I-it's n-not t-that b-big of a d-deal." Momo stuttered out.

Izuku gave her a reassuring squeeze trying to put down his own fear. "It's okay I got you." The quirk stealer could just activate Dark Vision or Thermal but that felt like it would ruin the experience a bit, and Izuku wanted to have fun with this.

The first thing the pair heard as the walked the dark corridor was the sound of what felt like metal on chalkboard, the groaning screeching sound made Momo's teeth grind against each other. A small red light flickered in the musty looking hallway, it gave barely any illumination. A sudden screeching noise caused Momo to nearly jump into Izuku's arms, this was followed by what sounded like bat's flying overhead, away from whatever was at the end of this hallway.

Momo suddenly stopped forcing Izuku to stop as well. "H-a h-a, they r-really w-went a-all o-out."

"Heheheheh, did you want to play with me?" A sudden child like girl's voice rang throughout the room.

"EEP!" Momo jumped once again at the sudden sound.

Izuku jolted a bit as he tried to find the source of the sound.

"Ring-a-ring-a-roses,

Momo was basically vibrating in Izuku's arm at this point but he had to be the rock and urge them forward through this. It was his idea after all.

A pocket full of posies,

"I-Izuku m-maybe w-we should j-just head b-back." The heiress weakly stuttered out.

"If your really uncomfortable we can just leave Momo, s-sorry I didn't know you hated these that mu-." Izuku weakly added but was cut off as the voice continued.

A-tishoo! A-tishoo!

"Izukuuuuuuu." The girl whined as the voice got closer.

The boy whirled about as the figure started sounding like it was coming from behind them, as he turned he saw the first glimpse of what appeared to be a little girl in a white dress covered in blood.

We all fall down!"

With that Momo turned and saw the figure and started screaming before she ran out of the horror show, Izuku was after her in seconds. They heard the voice asking them to play with her as they ran but neither stopped until they were out of class 1-C. "Huff - Huff, okay didn't think I'd be getting in cardio today." The quirk giver joked.

Momo's body was just pale and trying to regain her breathing as they exited into the bright light. "Izu, let's not do that again."

"Sorry Mo I didn't know you didn't like scary stuff or I wouldn't have taken you in there with me."

"No no it's fine I-Izu, you looked so happy when you saw it and you really wanted us to do a Haunted House for our classes event, I didn't want to ruin that for you. ... Guess I kind of did anyway though." Momo looked down and to the side, pouting.

The girl was pulled from her shock when a pair of lips made their way to her face, she quickly leaned into it once the surprise wore off. This continued until Izuku broke off the kiss a few seconds later. "Mo you didn't ruin anything, I had fun okay?"

Momo just nodded and accepted that. "Thanks Zu, I k-kind of enjoyed it too."

"I'm glad." Izuku smiled back. "So what's next? I'm getting kind of hungry myself, maybe we can find Eri or someone and get lunch. All these food stalls have been making me hungry, especially that Takoyaki stand we passed earlier."

"I suppose I could go for a light snack, I did have to use my quirk at the concert after all. It sucks that I can't just not use fat storage or people would get suspicious." Momo whined.

"Well on the bright side you only have to use a bit so it gives the illusion that your quirk costs lipids. One for All really is amazing, ... but you're more amazing."

"Stooppppp, your being so mushy today."

A light peck to her mouth and Izuku grabbed her hand as they walked. "It's true though, but fair enough I'll stop teasing you."


The two spent the rest of the day running about and enjoying everything the festival had to offer. As Izuku settled into his bed an alert from his phone made him groan. "FIRST HERO BILLBOARD WITHOUT ALL MIGHT? WILL ENDEAVOUR BE THE NEXT NUMBER 1?".

"Ugh of course he's going to be, not that he deserves it."

"Hmm?" Momo tilted her head.

"The Hero Billboard, it's tomorrow, and you know who is going to be number 1. Makes me sick, like the thought of my father somehow earning the number 1 hero spot."

"Well despite how awful of a person he is, he does do good work Izu."

"I knowwwwwwwww." Izuku continued to whine. "I just can't stand the idea."

"Don't think about it to hard Izu, just let the man do his job and ignore him. At least he stopped messing with his family."

"I'm waiting for the day you take the spot from him, like you have no idea. I'm going to shove it in his face so badly, I just hope you can do it before he retires. I don't want him to just lose the spot, I want it forcefully taken from him." Izuku smiled darkly at the thought.

"Izu..."

"You know Todoroki would agree with me."

"Yeah ... I know. I'll do my best." Momo gave him a hug. "Now let's go to sleep."

"Got it." Izuku turned and hit the lamp.


Sir Nighteye stood in front of his mirror, his quirk activated as he stared into his own eyes. "But how? It shouldn't be ... it shouldn't be possible. I should've died there, I've never seen this far before, but this vision, this new vision. I ca- I can't let it happen. I have to tell him, I have to break my rule. I can't let this come to pass, I refuse." Nighteye made up his mind then and there, he would change this future, he had too.

Notes:

I love all of you! :D Also sorry it's a bit shorter than the usual one, been kinda busy and wished i'd just attached this to the last chapter ngl.

Current Quirk List
Izuku Midoriya: Kuroe, Breath of Life, Tempo, Ultra Sight, Muscle Augmentation (Renamed to Muscular), Warp Gate, Galeforce, Quirk Enhancer, Confession, Overhaul, Minor Regeneration, Elasticity, Zero Gravity
Bakugo Katsuki: Explosion, Pyrokinesis
Tenya Iida: Engine, Air Step
Jirou Kyoka: Earphone Jack
Koji Koda: Animal Speak, Voice Throwing.
Mina Ashido: Acid, Liquid Manipulation
Sero Hanta: Tape, Minor Fire Resistance, Fire Breath
Yuga Aoyama: Navel Laser, Photokinesis
Kirishima Ejiro: Hardening, Shunpo
Yaoyorozu Momo: One for All, Creation, Blackwhip
Shinsou Hitoshi: Thunderclap, Brainwashing
Denki Kaminari: Electrification, Lightning Rod
All For One: Unknown
Eri: Rewind
Nedzu: High Specs, Silence
Uraraka: Air Cannon
Mirio: Permeation
Sato: Sugar Rush
Eraserhead: Erasure, Super Strength
Setsuna Tokage: Lizard Tail Splitter, Vitality Stealing
Kinoko Komori: Mushroom, Float
Jurota Shishida: Beast, Mute
Manami Aiba: -None-
Danjuro Tobita: -None-
Arakiel: Spider
Quirk Bank: Molecular Manipulation, Love, Paralysis, Bad Luck