And we are back with another chapter, and much to my appreciation, the numbers have only increased as another 57 people have listed this story as one of their favorites and another 84 are following it. Since I don't have much else to say, and because I know most of you just want to skip this, I'll end things here. Enjoy.
Chapter 3: When the hell did you become wise?
"Hey, Midoriya." Mineta asked as he walked up to Midoriya and his group. It had been around a day since Pixie-bob had given him his 'test' and the teachers had decided to give them a little reward in the form of training being cut 3 hours early, allowing them time to relax and hang out before the once more had to make their dinner.
"Yeah, is there something I can help you with, Mineta?" Midoriya asked as he turned from the conversation, curious as to why Mineta had sought him out as while he was cordial with the guy, they weren't close by any metric.
"Yeah, but could we talk about it in private." Mineta asked as he pointed towards the woods, which was very weird and set off alarms in all their heads as even Todoroki had enough social awareness to know that there were few things Mineta would want to talk about, none of them good for your chances at improving your social standing.
"Uhm, sure." Midoriya, still, agreed as it wasn't as if he couldn't leave if Mineta tried to talk about something he was comfortable with. However, before he could walk off, Uraraka placed her hand on his shoulder and leaned into his ear.
"Be wary of him, Midoriya." She told him, eyeing Mineta as if he expected something unclothe to occur.
"Hey!" Mineta yelled at him, taking offense to that look. He did have some self-control…most of the time.
"She's right, you have a deplorable record when it comes to living up to the standards we as UA students must uphold!" Iida agreed with her, attracting some attention from others but not much else as most were used to his rather loud reprimands.
"What he said." Todoroki nodded his head while Asui stayed silent.
"Guys, I'm sure it's nothing bad," Midoriya spoke up in Mineta's defense as he turned to the much shorter boy, hoping he wasn't wrong. "Right?"
"If I wanted to talk about rated 18 stuff, Midoriya would be the second last person I would choose." Mineta told them, not even bothering to hide that part of himself, but also giving them a reason to doubt their initial thoughts.
"I'm afraid to ask, but who's the first?" Iida asked him, only for the shorter boy to point towards him.
"You."
"(Kero)Somehow the logic fits." Asui spoke up, agreeing to the statement as it was hard to talk about other topics with Iida around. She likes him as a friend, but there were times when it was like he only knew the rule book.
"Anyway, I'll be back in a bit guys." Seeing no other complaints, Midoriya gave his friends a quick goodbye and with Mineta, walked off. As it was still late afternoon, they had enough light to navigate the woods, which Midoriya noted was a good thing as they seemed to walk quite a distance from the others, almost reaching the main training site before Mineta stopped and took a seat on a tree stump.
"What is it you wanted to talk about, Mineta?" Midoriya asked him, wondering if he wanted advice on his quirk, or maybe something academic. But he wasn't expecting the boy to give him a knowing look before he answered him.
"I know."
"…Excuse me?" Midoriya asked, wondering what the hell he was talking about.
"You know what I mean. I. Know." Mineta leaned in, looking at him with a look in his eyes that Midoriya did not like one bit.
"I have no idea what you are talking about, Mineta." Midoriya once more denied him as he couldn't think of anything he had done in the past that could…warrant…oh no.
"Oh really, you aren't the one thrusting after Pixie-bob something fierce." And what he feared most become a reality as Mineta, Mineta! Of all people seemed to have noticed his weird actions related to one of their teachers.
"Oh-wha-I, I have no i-idea why you think that but I-I can assure you that-" Face red from embarrassment and slight fear, Midoriya tried to deny his claims but having always having been a terrible lair and conversationalist in general to it was painfully clear that he was caught.
"Spare me. I thought there was something weird about you for a while now, but since you always have something unexpected, I didn't care." Mineta told him, silencing him as he listened to how he was made in the first place, who knows, if he plays his cards right, this could be a one-off thing.
"But I never went against my gut and it has never led me wrong," Mineta started but a look from Midoriya had him correct that statement. "Okay, it has a few times BUT it has never been wrong about the thirst of others." Okay, that didn't sound good at all as he didn't think he was over…hold on, what is thirsting
"The thirst?" Midoriya asked him, not sure if that was a good or bad thing but considering the situation, he was betting it was bad.
"The desire and appreciation of the female body, the pursuit of the most basic of pleasures we as mammals all have, a fucking good time with a hot babe." Mineta only proved that statement as while he said that, he motioned the curved form of a woman with his hands. The look in his eyes when he said so made him want to run away and pray away what must be a demon in him if he was anyway similar to that.
"B-Bu-but I'm not a pervert!" Midoriya shot down that claim as he could, but that was when Mineta brought out his most damning piece of evidence.
"He denies it, even though he spent quite a bit of time last night online searching for any pictures he could find on a certain sexy, blonde kitty." Now he felt like the earth should swallow him whole as he recalled that, he had been up late searching for anything that could help him find and identify what and where the mysterious tattoo could be on Pixie-bob's body. He had strayed from his normal search routes pretty early on when those proved fruitless but if someone had just seen what he was doing without context…this was bad.
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"How do you know that?" Midoriya felt like his soul was leaving his body while Mineta looked like he had just won a chess game against a master in only 5 moves.
"First thing, you REALLY need to work on your poker face, ability to lie, and ability to stick to said lie as you folded, fast." Mineta gave him one piece of advice that he silently vowed to follow through. "Second, you passed out with your phone unlocked." He revealed to him how he had seen what he had seen. With that info, Midoriya could think back to how he had fallen asleep without being sure if he had put his phone aside, when he woke up and saw it where he normally left it, he just assumed that he was worrying over nothing but it seems not!
"You mean…everyone knows…?" Did that mean that the others were just acting like everything was normal so that they could catch him unaware later? Were Uraraka and Bakugo planning ways to send him into low orbit? Were they going to tie him down for target practice?! Before his mind could go down that terrible…terrible rabbit hole, Mineta spoke up again.
"No, just me. I woke up to take a leak and noticed the light. I shut off your phone and BTW, you have as terrible password picking skills as your poker face." Mineta told him as he had only seen what he had seen by chance. He normally didn't need to wake up to go take a piss but he had drunk more than he usually did. When he saw what he had seen on the class cinnamon's phone, he felt vindicated that even the purest lamb wished for the forbidden fruit, but he also wasn't a dick so he turned his phone off and put it away.
"You hacked my phone?!" Midoriya yelled out.
"Nope, just guess your password. Come on, making it 'password, swipe left' is dumb as hell." Mineta replied as he had been laughingly easy as he had wanted to be sure that the phone was locked and when it asked for a password, it had put that in as a joke, not expecting that he was right.
'I never needed a strong password before, even my bullies didn't bother with my phone.' Midoriya thought to himself as before UA, the only thing he ever used his phone for was to keep in contact with his mom and check out any new updates on hero forums. Heck, the only contacts he had on it for years for his mother, the Bakugo's and Katsuki himself, though he never dared using that last one on the risk that the blonde bomber would find him and blow up his phone.
"So I gotta know, why the sudden interest? I know for a fact you never even looked at any of the hot babes in our class. Hell, you barely can hold a gaze at Midnight and she's the total package!" Mineta couldn't help but ask as he had watched his classmates and he knew all their preferred tastes from how they eyed and acted around the girls. Kaminari was one of those who didn't know what they liked and tried to be a Casanova…and failed miserably. Bakugo was too self-absorbed to care about girls unless they either fed his ego or pissed him off. Todoroki was the kid that didn't know he was attracted to as he always looked at Yaoyorozu differently while lastly, Iida was the paladin who seemed to want to strike his own hands whenever his gaze lingered on any of the girls.
But Midoriya had been different. Whenever any of the girls caught his attention for one reason or another, he could barely keep eye contact with them, never mind look at their wondrous curves and supple bodies. During their first class with Midnight, he has starred at his desk for the longest time and blushed like a tomato when he so much at looked at her whenever he called his name. Some with the girls as even Jiro managed to get a pretty good reaction out of him. If he didn't know any better, he'll say that UA was the first time he had ever had any positive contact with females outside his family!
"…"
"Speak up, man. I didn't catch that." Mineta asked when Midoriya answered him but spoke so softly, he wasn't even sure if he heard his own words.
"…h" He repeated, and while louder than the last time, he still couldn't make out what the hell he was saying.
"Come on, again, this time without the quiet mumbling." Mineta told him, starting to get annoyed as to this.
"…I...I have a crush on her." Midoriya finally got out, waiting for the teasing to begin but that wasn't so.
"…That's it?" Mineta asked him, having been expecting…more but just a crush?
"Yeah?"
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"Oh my God…you're serious." Mineta looked like he had just realized something so profound, it shattered how he viewed the world which wasn't far off, he had seen a lot of horndogs both at school(He's a teenager, horny boys are very normal) and on the screen(thanks anime perverts) but never, NEVER, had he ever encountered someone that was such as Izuku Midoriya.
"Why wouldn't I be?" And poor Izuku didn't even realize that fact as he just looked confused by that. Didn't everyone try to find out more about their crushes without looking for boobs? What he wasn't expecting was for Mineta to start laughing so hard that he fell off the stump and started rolling around with tears in his eyes.
"Oh my fucking god, you're are just adorable! Your first crush and you're chasing that tail like a madman. I knew you were pure of heart or whatever," He managed to get out through his amusement at Midoriya's expense but it didn't look like he was going to stop anytime soon. "But I never thought you were a damn choir boy."
"That's not funny!" Midoriya defended himself as he didn't need to be laughed at by the biggest joke in their class, yes that is harsh but it was decided via vote and he lost, badly.
"It's hilarious! But, but now I even have more questions," Mineta replied as he finally managed to calm himself down, though he still looked to be in an extremely good mood. "Don't, you and Uraraka already fuck?" He asked as bluntly as one asking for the time would. It took a moment for the question to register in Midoriya's head and several before he could respond, and it was pretty clear at this point how that reaction panned out.
"Mineta!"
"What? It's a serious question. Don't the two of you dump uglies like there is no tomorrow? I mean, I just always assumed that was the real reason you got so good with that broken as fuck quirk of yours, you needed juuuust the right amount of power to rock her world." Mineta didn't seem to see the problem, and while his last comment could very well be seen as private affairs he had no business being in, it wasn't as if his views were unfounded as it this point, much to the ignorance of both Midoriya and Uraraka, it was an open secret that the two were going to end up together if not already being involved.
"I can't believe I'm talking about this, NO! Uraraka and I don't sleep together, what in the heck gave you that idea?" Midoriya yelled back, wondering where the hell he got such a notion in his head. His genuine confusion and annoyance at the question of his relationship status once more shocked the shorter boy, who at this point just decided to expect any and everything from Midoriya as it seemed like he was made of contradictions, surprises, and exceptions.
"You're kidding?" Mineta was starting to wonder as even Bakugo seemed to understand that fact, so why not the person to which the attention is directed.
"I'm being extremely serious here, Mineta." And sure as the grave, he was to which Mineta sobered up as he had a feeling he'll be here a while.
"You mean to tell me you haven't noticed the way she looks at you? The way she looks at other girls that get close to you? The fact that she pulls a 'you' impersonation every time the two of you think you're alone?" Mineta asked, wondering how the fuck the guy that could theorize about quirks all day, every day with little info about the actual quirks and get it right 80% of the time, could be so blind to the affections of a girl.
"She looks at me normally…right?" Midoriya started his response strong, but the look of disbelief on Mineta's face proved enough to put some doubt into him.
"Oh god, I never thought that people can be as dense as anime protagonists, why the hell does lady luck always favor the dumb ones." Mineta mumbled to himself as he slapped his forehead, realizing that he now owed a special someone a lot of money as he had bet that no one living as that dense, not even Todoroki.
"Dude, let me put this as mildly as I can," Mineta started, wanting to be as clear as humanly possible. "She likes you. She really…really likes you. Maybe enough that if you asked, you two could go into the woods and exchange V-cards." He told him as while he was sure as hell that none of the girls were in any way easy, he also knew that crushes, teenage hormones, and level of physical appeal could easily make that more likely to not apply.
"But I don't like her like that. What do I do?" And in hearing this, Midoriya could now see a problem as while he was still sure she would never sleep with him on such a filmy thing, he didn't want to hurt her in any way.
"Hell if I know, I've never been blessed enough to be in your situation. But let's get back to the matter at hand, you're were searching in all the wrong places." Mineta just shrugged his shoulders as this was whole new territory for him and he was man enough to know and admit when he was lost.
"I was?" Midoriya asked, having some whiplash from how the conversation went from one thing back to what it started as.
"Yeah, everyone knows that pros don't do porn, and unlike Midnight and that deceitful, evil tall glass of water, Mt. Lady, no heroine ever lets the camera catch them in shall we say happy fun-time material positions." Mineta was about to start giving him some good suggestions of where he could search to find some quality cosplayers but Midoriya shot that down, hard.
"I wasn't searching for porn!" Midoriya yelled as he couldn't believe it…okay, now that he thought about he could, but he still found it highly insulting both to himself and the women in question that Mineta thought either of them would do such a thing!
"Then what the hell were you searching that you couldn't do in the open? Come now, we're way beyond the point where you can deny it." Mineta asked him as if it was trying to dodge a question with such a clear answer, it wasn't even funny. Now, he knew that Mineta was wrong, but at the same time, he didn't want to tell Mineta of all people the truth, so he had to trend a very fine line.
"I was just looking for some footage of her that's hard to come by, I wasn't looking for anything indecent." Midoriya tried to explain but while that was true, it lacked enough context for it to be reasonably believed.
"Hey, man, you do you. But moving past your porn search," Mineta started, not caring for Midoriya's continued objections. "If you want some footage, just ask her. all you need is to be yourself(even if I'm doubting that last one in your case), and to be bold." He told him, puffing up his chest and looking to all the world like he just won UA sports festival without breaking a sweat.
"Easy for you to say, we don't have a girlfriend." Midoriya muttered to himself as he had heard that said on just about every show he ever watched. "What's so funny?" He asked when Mineta gave him a look that said he just found what he said to be amusing.
"Never make a statement without evidence, boom!" Mineta told him as he reached into his pocket and whipped out his phone. He took only a couple of moments to unlock it and give it to him to see for him. Midoriya was, of course, skeptical of this but went along with it if only to humor him so he took the phone and looked at what he was being shown, and promptly had his mind blown.
"Is that…Tokage's number?" He asked as his eyes widen as he saw, as clear as day, that in Mineta's contacts was the name 'Lizard squeeze Tokage' along with the image of the girl's smirking face, which was clearly a selfie.
"Go on, go to my gallery, see the kind of images I have." Mineta seemed to have more for him, and against his better judgment, he did just that and what he saw was something he never thought he would EVER see. In the few moments he saw the image before he all but threw the phone back at its owner, he saw a raunchy picture of Tokage posing with barely enough clothing to cover up her most private zones on a bed with the caption 'Momma needs her grapes' underneath it.
"What the hell?!" Midoriya yelled at him as he felt blood rushing both to his face and somewhere but that last one would be something he could dent for the rest of his natural-born life.
"She looks amazing, doesn't sh-!" Mineta started to gloat as he put the phone away but he found himself rudely interrupted as he was slammed into a tree but Midoriya, who had Full Cowling and a fierce look to match in his eye.
"How did you get that picture?! I know that you're a pervert, Mineta but there are rules!" Midoriya demanded he told him what sort of depraved, insane, and most likely illegal things he had to do to obtain such an image and let it sink in that he(like most of their class) thought so little of their classmate that he immediately assumed the worst.
"Hey, screw you too, for your information, SHE sent ME the picture, along with several others that are for my eyes only, WILLINGLY and KNOWINGLY." Mineta yelled back as this was just insulting. He may be horny as all hell 95% of the time, but he wasn't a criminal nor a scumbag!
"Impossible." Midoriya somehow managed to pull a perfect Thanos impersonation as he dropped the boy to the ground, the power of One for All disappearing back to where it came.
"Fuck you, what, you think only the dense church boys can get girls?" Mineta told him as he flipped the bird at him before he started to brush off the dust and other dirt off his clothes.
"But…how…HOW?" Midoriya didn't seem to understand as he looked like his brain was malfunctioning as the mere premise that an attractive girl, or any girl really, would do such a thing which got him a hard kick in the shin from the shorter boy who was getting tired of this bullshit.
"We're been dating since the sports festival. Turns out that we have a lot of shared interests." He meant to say that with smugger energy but it came out with a much more irritated tone as if the class's golden boy had this kind of reaction, he now felt like it was a good idea that they kept it secret as he had a feeling any of the others would have beat the crap outta him first, then asked questions.
"For reasons unknown to me, that makes me even more terrified than the thought of you obtaining a compromising image of one of our classmates through less than moral or legal means." Midoriya responded, his face usually stern and scared at the same time.
"Don't get your panties in a twist, it's not like we have done the deed yet…okay, that's wrong, we haven't done the penetrative deed yet, but we have sure as hell had some rated PG 18 stuff together. None of which I'll tell you." Mineta waved him off as his private time was his private time.
"Thank god for that." Midoriya muttered to himself but like with most of what he had muttered, Mineta ignored that.
"Oh yeah, any boy can brag about the size of his junk, but a man knows how to please a woman with nothing but his mouth, hands, and a creative imagination." That part, he couldn't resist as the look he got as a response was so very much worth it.
"And now I have that thought stuck in my head!" Midoriya felt like he needed to bash his head into a rock for the next 20 minutes to have any hopes of forgetting most of this conversation if only to preserve his sanity.
"And because of that, I thought that I could do the heroic thing and came to the aid of my classmate who is so unaware and ignorant to the ways of the fairer sex." Mineta started, rubbing it in that in their class, maybe even grade he had the most hands-on experience with girls as he sat back down on his stump. "So, why don't you tell big daddy Mineta why you want to bone one of the sexy kitties and what troubles you have encountered."
"Please don't ever…ever refer to yourself as 'Big daddy Mineta' again. The sheer mention of it makes me want to smash my head into a wall before letting Bakugo blow up the rest." Midoriya responded, too tired and shocked-overloaded to give more of a reaction before he just decided to hell with it and told that him what had been going on. If worse comes to worst, it's not like anyone would believe him.
(Later)
After quite a bit in the woods, the two boys returned to the main group. When Uraraka and Iida asked him what they talked about, he lied and told them that Mineta just wanted some advice for his quirk and they lost track of time. What happened was that Midoriya took a risk and told him what he was having trouble with. He had a feeling that he would regret telling him of all people but he was desperate as Iida would have had a mental breakdown before scolding him for having such feelings towards an older woman, who also happens to be their teacher. Todoroki would be the same, only he would have no advice he could give.
He would have approached All Might, or Uraraka with this issue and while he would keep it vague as to not alert them to what was going in, All Might told him that he'll be busy for their entire trip and would therefore be out of touch while Uraraka…well, that was a bridge he would cross later. The fact that Mineta gave him solid advice just made things even weirder, more so than the fact that he was dating someone. When the two returned to the group, he noticed that Tokage was looking at Mineta like he was a prime piece of meat(which made him throw up in his mouth a little bit) so at least he had solid proof that she was attracted to him…for whatever reason.
Though unknown to him, Asui kept her gaze on him and followed it towards where he was looking and saw the same thing, and while she rose a brow in surprise at the unexpected sight, she didn't react in any other way, putting that away for another time. This brings us back to real-time.
"Iida, have you ever dated someone?" Asui asked out of nowhere as the students sat and ate their dinner. When the rest of the group heard this, both Midoriya and Uraraka turned into blushing messes while Iida spat out the water he had been drinking.
"Excuse me?!" Iida asked as he coughed out the of the water from his throat while Todoroki continued to ate and watch.
"(Kero)It's an honest question." Asui replied as she had been rather curious about such things since seeing the look Tokage gave Mineta. She wouldn't judge others on their taste but it did spark a flame of jealously in her that he was in a relationship before her.
"No, "Iida started as he calmed himself and used a wipe to clean up his face. "I have never had such a relationship."
"Wait, like never?" Uraraka had calmed down somewhat and was now quite surprised by his answer as while she didn't see him in that light, she figured that someone else had. "Not even a crush?" Iida moved to confirm that thought before he remembered something.
"Well…there was someone, back in junior high," He started as the group, bar Todoroki who wasn't that invested, to begin with, leaned in closer at the admission. "But it was nothing more than a fancy, I was over it in a few weeks." Iida quickly tried to backtrack but it was too late as his cheeks gained a little color which was caught by all of them as Uraraka seemed happy about it.
"It was an upperclassman, wasn't it?" Uraraka asked him, no way Iida wouldn't have made a move, he was too confident and at times, oblivious to not walk up to a girl with those robot arms and try and swoon her to his side. At her statement, Iida was caught on the back foot as he stumbled over his response, wondering if he was that readable to the girl.
"Wha-" However, before he could say anything, Uraraka was already celebrating the fact that she was right while the rest of them let it sink in that Iida, the most rule-abiding student in their year, if not all of UA, had a crush on an older girl! Though, Midoriya's mind jumped to the slim hope that maybe, just maybe he could understand him if this was true, even if the situations were very different.
"I knew it! That's why you didn't try asking them out! Your time would have been cut short when she graduated and you remained behind." Uraraka gushed as she imagined a much smaller Iida watching his crush from a distance, holding onto a box of chocolates and a love note.
"I can assure you that it was nothing more than puppy love! And she was a well-respected member of our student body, it was rather common for the boys to see her as a potential romantic partner!" Iida defended himself as he chopped his hands at her, now very much blushing as he tried to explain away the entire thing but aside from Todoroki, none of them bought it but his choice of words did catch their attention.
"Wait, weren't you a part of the popular kids, Iida? I mean, you do come from money." Midoriya asked as aside from Todoroki and Yaoyorozu, Iida came from the second wealthiest family in their class, proven by the fact he went to a prodigious, and extremely expensive junior high.
"Unfortunately not, I was and am a well-mannered student who respects the rules and our teachers, which wasn't something that made me all that popular with other students who always insisted on dancing on the line." Iida told them as he adjusted his glasses, his response making sense as when they all thought about it, Iida wasn't the most fun to be around and while they had gotten used to it, they had been through dangerous situations that they forged those bonds. Midoriya knew that for a fact as before the USJ, he hadn't talked to Asui. At all, and while she broke the ice and approached him, he would have most likely have been too scared to try and return that.
"Wow, you've been the lawman for a while, haven't you?" Todoroki voiced as while he hadn't had much of social life, he understood some parts of teenage society(His sister left him a book about it which he barely read before Endeavour torched it for being a waste of time).
"Of course! How can one hope to uphold the laws of our society if they can't abide by them?" Iida asked back as he chopped his hands at them, getting some laughs from them.
"(Kero) Well, I had a few crushes, but I never had the time for that since I was in charge of my siblings whenever my parents were busy with work." Asui decided to pick up the torch from there as she thought back to her life, and while she wasn't lying about not having much time for such, it wasn't as if boys were throwing themselves at her either as her mannerisms could be off-putting. There was also the fact that she was often with her friend whose quirk made it easy for people to think nasty things about her, so she didn't feel right in looking for a romantic interest till they sorted that out.
"Well, there was one…but I was too shy to say anything and they moved away." Uraraka spoke up as she blushed at thinking of how she missed out on a boyfriend because she took a part-time job. Sure, here folks didn't like it very much but she was a stubborn girl, just like they raised her. Still, he stung to have to serve the two lovebirds as they happened to choose the restaurant where she worked for their first date. That was a very awkward affair for everyone. 'Keep it together, Ochaco, give keep it in check!'
"What about you two!" Uraraka spoke up, louder than normal as she wanted to stop thinking about that as she turned things to Midoriya and Todoroki. "I mean, didn't you have something like that?" With the spotlight on them, both looked at one another before Midoriya decided to plunge first, it was going to come out sooner or later anyway.
"Well, I did but I kept to myself most of the time." Midoriya started as his social awkwardness didn't help things out, being Bakugo's punching bag made that absolute as pretty much everyone avoided him to not incur his bully's attention.
"You never approached a girl and asked her out?" Asui asked him as she could see why he would have issues with that, but he was still a very sweet guy who she was pretty sure would always put his girlfriend first.
"…I did…once. It didn't end well." Midoriya muttered as he fell into a slight depression as he recalled that in their second year of junior high, he worked up the courage to give this girl he likes some flowers and chocolates, he had left them on her desk and while she had been excited by them, when she found out who they were from, she was decidedly less so. Throwing the half-filled box in his face and told him to keep his quirkless eyes off her. It would have been bad enough if they were alone, but it had to be just before class started where everyone could see. The only silver lining he got from a very bad day was the fact Bakugo left him be, maybe he felt pity for him, he didn't know.
'Yikes.' Seeing the mood turning for the worse, Uraraka sought to distract everyone while Midoriya came down from whatever bad memory he was in. "Todoroki?"
"No." Todoroki responded before he went back to his meal. He looked up and saw three of his friends looking at him, their gazes asking for more, so he gave them just that. "I was always studying or training with my father, didn't have the time to look around." He told them as he had a very organized (controlled) upbringing. Heck, he wanted to take the regular exam for UA but his father didn't care and signed him up for the recommendation exam. "Though I might want a booty call."
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"Todoroki, can you please repeat yourself, I feel like I misheard you." Midoriya, who had just rejoined them in the world of the living asked as he, like the rest of them didn't know how to react to that bold, off-handed statement.
"Did I say something wrong?" Todoroki asked, blinking in surprise at their shocked faces.
"No, no. we just didn't expect you to want such a thing." Iida said as he wiped the steam off his glasses. He didn't see that one coming!
"Wouldn't you guys want one?" Todoroki only made it worse as he asked them yet another shocking question as Asui croaked out a blush, Uraraka accidentally used her quirk on herself and had to be held down by Asui while Midoriya went pure white as his heart skipped a couple of beats.
"Why would you think that?!" Iida asked him as he chopped his hands at him, trying so hard to keep his mind from going to dirty places, he was a rule follower dagnabit and he wasn't going to let temptations take him like it took his friend! Maybe he could get Shiozaki to speak to him, yes, that seemed like a good idea.
"How else would you train?" Todoroki asked, wondering why the hell they all seemed so appalled by it. He would have expected that they'll jump at it. Was it some kind of extreme workout they weren't ready for?
"Todoroki," Midoriya started as he worked to get his heart back into a regular beat. "Before we continue. You do even know what a 'booty call' is?" At his question, it was Todoroki's turn to appear offended by the question.
"A training buddy, someone that you're close to and most likely can stand butt to butt with, watching each other's backs." He told them like it was normal, so confident in himself that they almost didn't see just how mistaken he was. Almost was the keyword.
"That is so very wrong." Uraraka whispered, wondering just how innocent her friend could be.
"(Kero)Where did you even hear that?" Asui asked him, to which he pointed towards another table where a certain blonde sat.
"I heard it from Kaminari, he said he wouldn't mind being Ryukyu's booty call, but when I think about it now I'm confused. Why would she need him to act as her butt?" Todoroki told them before he rethought his understanding and now thinking something completely different.
"Kaminari!" Uraraka yelled, getting everyone's attention as Kaminari nearly fell out of his seat from the shock of his name being called.
"What'd I do?" Kaminari, with food still in his mouth, asked before he swallowed.
"Stop corrupting Todoroki!" Uraraka said as Asui hugged the confused duel-haired boy as if shielding him from the world.
"When did I do that?!" Kaminari yelled back as he didn't even know why they even blaming him, to begin with.
"Todoroki," "A booty call is a type of relationship between two people who don't love each other, but want to…please the other, sexually."
"…They tend to be more a single meet-up or One Night Stand as the two people involved could agree to meet up now and then, sleep together and get back to their lives, no strings attached."
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"Oh?" Finally, it looked like he got it as Todoroki felt his cheeks go red from the newfound knowledge, and also the embarrassment of not knowing something that seems to be common knowledge, so he went back to his food to hide his shame. "I didn't know that."
"It's fine." Iida spoke up, even though the air around their table was now much more uncomfortable, the group didn't speak for some time as they all tried to move on past that little…episode which came to an end when Todoroki coughed to get their attention.
"What do you call it when you have feelings for someone, not just a passing fancy?" He asked them, none of them knew why he was asking but they all assumed he was just being curious as to not make a similar mistake in the future.
"Well, that is an attraction. If you're sure it's not a crush, it could mean that you want to try and date the other person to deepen that bond." Asui said, repeating what her parents had told her about this kind of thing.
"Is that right…?" With that explanation in hand, Todoroki seemed to debate something in his mind before he stood up. "Excuse me." He said to his confused friends as he walked over to a certain table.
"Yaoyorozu?" Todoroki spoke up once he reached his destination, drawing the attention of not just Yaoyorozu, but the rest of the table's occupants who were Jiro, Ashido, and Hagakure.
"Yes, what can I do for you, Todoroki?" Yaoyorozu asked as she turned from their conversation to address him, wondering what he wished to talk about. What he said was something, not a single person present saw coming.
"Will you go out with me?" Todoroki asked her with a straight face.
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"Come again…" Yaoyorozu asked, though her face had taken on a red hue and her voice was a little higher now. It didn't help things that as he had done it right in the middle of dinner, everyone saw it with the group being left speechless as even Bakugo felt his jaw drop at the sight.
"Did…did he just...?" Sato started to ask as his mind, like the rest of them, had to do a hard reboot just to comprehend what was happening.
"Monoma?" Kendo asked her classmate, wondering if he was about to make something of it but the blonde only shook his head, his eyes still wide with disbelief.
"…I got nothing." Monoma replied as he picked up his jaw and put it back into place before he started swallowing flies.
"I didn't know it till speaking with my friends, but the feeling I've been getting whenever I think of you means I have a desire to see if our relationship couldn't be anything more. So I wanted to see if you would want to go out for a couple of dates, real dates. I've been told booty calls are a bad thing." Todoroki explained himself to her, though why he felt the need to add that last part was only known to his friend group where Iida slapped his forehead at that. Yaoyorozu's response was different as her face went bright red before she passed out, falling into Jiro's quick-reacting arms with a smile on her doped-up-looking happy face.
"Yao-momo!" Jiro panicked as she started to lightly smack her cheeks to try and wake up. "What the hell, man?!" She yelled at the confused boy as her cheeks had taken on some color at the boldness of the guy, who looked both confused and saddened by her reaction.
"Oh, she was so repulsed by my request that she passed out. I see that she doesn't feel the same way-" Before he could take it the wrong way, and led the two of them down a road reminiscent of a stock Rom-Com plot, Ashido and Hagakure quickly moved in, grabbing onto his shoulders.
"Oh no, you don't! I never thought this would happen but now that it has, I'm not letting it go!" Ashido cheered as this was what she was waiting for since the trip began, summer love, baby! She had put her money on Uraraka finally working up the nerve to ask out Midoriya but this was even better just because of the surprise of it!
"Don't worry about her, she didn't croak out because she's against it." Hagakure quickly explained to Todoroki and while none of them could see her, they could tell that was just as excited as Ashido if not more so.
"I don't understand." Todoroki's brow creased up as he didn't understand why someone would pass out when something they liked happened. He had never seen that happen before nor had he ever lost consciousness because of good news. Were they just trying to spare his feelings?
"Don't worry about a thing, Todoroki. It's just something some people do, and apparently, Yao-momo is part of that group." Hagakure told him, not wanting this flame to go out now that it was lit. she promised that by the end of their training camp, these two would be their class's poster couple or her name wasn't Toru Hagakure!
"She is?" At that, Ashido's face took on a more 'sinister' smile as she felt like she had the obligation to set things right.
"Trust me, when she wakes up, she'll be just as exciting as you. Let Mama-Mina and Aunti-Toru give you a few tips on women. I have a feeling you're going to need it." Ashido said as they led the very much skeptical and confused Todoroki off into the woods, presumable to give him a crash course on how girls work. They weren't going to leave anything to chance. It was funny how the entire time, the rest of them had only watched on, in confused awe, something both Tiger and Vlad would find when they came to check up on them. The two adults leaving with smiles and laughter at the typical teenage drama that had happened.
(After dinner)
"You wanted to discuss something, Tsu?" Midoriya asked as for what felt like the 100th time, he had been asked away from the rest of them by Asui. The rest of their dinner had come and gone, with Yaoyorozu waking up and nearly passing out again when Jiro told her she wasn't dreaming. When Todoroki had returned, he had acted…off but that was normal after spending like 20 minutes with Ashido and Hagkure as teachers, either way, Yaoyorozu said that she would to date him and just that like, they were the class's first couple.
"Yes. when are you going to tell the others you have a crush on Pixie-bob?" Asui asked him, not pulling her punches as was normal for her.
"Wait, what?!" Midoriya asked her back, wondering why everyone seems to think that(even it was true)
"When are you going to tell them? It's been a while and I'm curious." Asui replied as she had noticed his actions and feelings whenever Pixie-bob was around, and recently how happy he seemed to be whenever he got private training with her.
"How do you even know that?" Midoriya asked as he rubbed his forehead.
"(Kero)You act like my younger brother when he had a crush on his teacher, it was pretty obvious if you've seen it before." Asui replied as she had seen what it looked like when puppy love was left unattended. Sure, he didn't act like a child, but he wasn't experienced in romance at all so the signs were pretty similar.
"Am I that much of an open book?" Midoriya asked her, his face riddled with emotions while Asui only gave him a small smile as she answered him.
"Don't feel bad about it. Lying was never your strong suit or a poker face, or even holding a straight face with girls really." Asui responded as she honestly felt like it was a good trait for a hero to not be able to lie, it showed how much they valued truth.
"I get it. I should never play poker." Midoriya cut her off as she wasn't the first, second, or even tenth person to tell him. It was true, but that didn't make it any less annoying. "Why didn't you say anything?" That was something he was curious about as if she knew, why didn't she speak up, or tell Uraraka? They were closer than they were so it would make sense that if she noticed that her friend's crush had feelings for another, she would tell them so.
"It wasn't my place, though I felt like I should at least help you out." Asui replied, keeping it secret as she was worried about what Uraraka would do with that info. She was pretty sure she wouldn't turn violent, but she was also pretty sure that she wouldn't handle it well and do or say something she'll regret.
"You…you're not going to judge me?" Midoriya asked her as he was expecting a lot from his friends, but this...this wasn't among those possibilities. At the very least, he expected that they would have strong opinions as to why this wasn't a good idea.
"(Kero) Honestly?" Asui asked him back, to which he nodded his head so she gave him the truth. "I would be lying if I said I wasn't. everyone had their own bias and feelings on something. I won't lie, I'm not a fan of the whole older partner thing." She told him. She had never liked couples where one party was significantly older than the other, she didn't think it was alright or that sexy to be frank, so the hot teacher thing never did it for her.
"Oh." Midoriya deflated as perhaps he was hoping for too much there but she wasn't done.
"But that is my own opinion on it, I don't mind if others disagree like you seem to. If you want to give it a shot, go for it. Nothing ventured, nothing gained right?" Asui replied as she was also mature enough not to impose her own beliefs on others if they didn't agree with her. it wasn't like their choices would affect her so why waste the time and energy?
"You have no idea how much that means to me, Tsu. I don't think I can talk to Iida and Todoroki about this so I was stuck between a rock and a hard place." Midoriya told her as it felt…good to tell someone he trusted as a friend about this. It would make conversation a little less tense.
"Well, you have someone now, so what seems to be the problem?" Asui asked him as the two of them sat down where they stood before he explained things to her, and unlike Mineta, he included the whole thing about the tattoo that he had been trying to figure out.
"(Kero)Here's my advice," Asui started after taking some time to think about how best to word this, which was unusual for her but she didn't want her words to be misunderstood. "Be upfront with her."
"That's it?" Midoriya asked, having expected…more out of her.
"What were you expecting, some uplifting speech? Like my parents tell me, just be blunt, honest, and direct, take that last one with room for exceptions of course. If she feels like a potential relationship between you two is worth it, she'll accept and if not, the both of you can move on with your lives." Asui explained as she didn't see the need for this to drag on any longer than it needed. If he found out she wasn't interested, sure he'll be bummed out for a while, but he'll get over it and move on. If she was into it, even better for him.
"You know, if that came from anyone else, I would find that almost insulting." Midoriya started, to which Asui felt the need to make things a little more lighthearted.
"Well, it didn't." Asui said as he patted his head, getting him to smile a bit.
"But you're one of my friends, so I know that you mean well." Midoriya finished before he stopped to think about it for a second before he stood up, a new resolve in him. "It's decided. Tomorrow's the day I tell her, no more excuses, no more pushing it off."
"Good for you, but I think we should head on back before Uraraka and Ashido get any ideas." Asui said as she stood up as well and patted down her shorts to get rid of any dirt. Before she could ask if he knew about Uraraka, he saw her face and got ahead of it.
"Yes, I know she has feelings for me…Mineta informed me." He said though he did feel like an idiot from the last part as Asui just let an eyebrow raise in surprise at his source for what was pretty much a commonly known fact in their class.
"Wow, never thought someone could be as dense as an anime lead in real life." Asui noted as she took the lead as they walked back to camp.
"It wasn't like I was looking for those signs, alright?!" Midoriya defended himself, but that didn't mean much to her.
"So you say." She replied before they fell silent. It didn't take long for them to reach the others as they all were entering the main building to head to their dorms, Mineta spotted them and when he saw Asui was looking away, he gave Tokage a little love tap on her butt which got her to jump slightly from surprise before she noticed who just did that. When she saw her secret lover, she gave him an air kiss which she blew in his direction(He caught it BYW) and bedroom eyes before she walked off, leaving Mineta feeling all the more Chad-like while Midoriya still left like he needed some time to get used to that.
"See you in the morning. There is one last thing I need to do." Midoriya quickly said as he rushed off, leaving Asui wondering what could have flustered him this time before she decided it wasn't worth it and walked in not too far behind him. 'I will figure out that tattoo!' Midoriya thought to himself as he felt like he had an idea of what he was looking for.
(The next day)
"Alright, little kitten. We're are done for the day." Pixie-bob called out to Midoriya as she released her quick, getting rid of both the mud enemies he had been fighting and the altered landscape she created to help him get used to uneven ground and buildings.
"Really?" Midoriya, who was shirtless this time around, asked her as he went over to the side where he had set up a table that had a towel on it.
"Yup! You're making puurfect progress with that new style of yours, you have a name yet?" Pixie-bob replied as she licked her lips at him, he may be young but he knew how to hit the gym! Not built like some muscle-bound idiot, nor was he like a long-distance runner, he had somehow found that perfect spot between muscle bulk and leanness which made her wish he would turn 18 sooner rather than later. Her gaze had an effect on Midoriya meanwhile, getting him to shiver as impure thoughts(Iida's influence) appeared in his mind as he wiped away the sweat and dirt from his body. Now that he had proper(if little)reference, he could tell that she was similarly looking at him to how Tokage looked at Mineta, and he didn't dislike it at all, quite the opposite.
"Not really, I haven't had the time to really think about it." Midoriya replied as he walked up to her, gathering as much of his courage as he could for something he was normally useless at, talking to girls when there was any sort of attraction between them. Hearing his dilemma, Pixie-bob closed her eyes to think about it.
"Hmmmmm…." What she didn't realize was that her 'thinking state' didn't leave her motionless as she swayed side to side, drawing Midoriya's eyes towards her wide, supple hips as they moved, memerizing-"I got it! Shoot style!" Thank god she broke him out of that spell, he didn't need the stress of hiding the universal sigh of male happiness from her atop of everything else.
"Shoot style?" Midoriya repeated, fearing that he may have missed something in his hormonal haze, lucky for him he didn't, but she still explained her reasoning to him.
"Come on, say it with of that passion I know you have, little kitten!" But first, Pixie-bob wanted him to say it with more passion, not as a question but as a statement no-one can deny!
"Shoot style!" Midoriya did exactly that, even if he didn't know why he wasn't about to refuse her that.
"That's it!" Pixie-bob laughed, to which he felt his heart flutter at the sight of her in such a good mood, the fact that it was because of him made the cake his soul was eating all the sweeter.
"But why that as a name?" Midoriya asked her, to which she readily explained.
"Well, when you do your thing, you're like a bullet with how fast you are. Throw in the fact you move around like some action movie superstar and the name fits like a glove!" Pixie-bob explained her reasoning as she visualized him as a human bullet, but with meaty arms and legs, jumping around the whole place as he beat up villains, saved babies, and kissed babies, even if the entire image lost most of its cool appeal by the fact he didn't look as confident as you would expect in any of those situations, more so the baby thing as she pictured he would nearly panic.
"Alright then." Still, as he didn't know that last part, he took the name almost as fast as he took the name of 'Deku' just cause a cute girl that happened to be his friend thought it didn't sound all that bad.
"How about we head on back now, we finished early so we'll be the first ones back at camp." Pixie-bob suggested as she had stopped their training early today seeing how he had progressed faster than planned, which would mean she had some time to relax without the others around.
"Actually!" When Midoriya called out to her, she paused and turned to face the boy who looked like he was about to have an emotional breakdown with how much blood was in his face right now. If she didn't know any better, she would think he was going to confess or something, ha! "Actually, I wanted to answer the quiz you gave me if that is alright with you." Oh, she had forgotten about that, but that he had brought it up…
"Ara-Ara≈, And here I was thinking you forgot all about that." Pixie-bob said as she moved closer, putting some extra sway to her hips, and was pleased by the fact he struggled to tear his eyes away from them to her eyes.
"I would never!" Midoriya said/shouted back, thankful that with all the blood rushing to his face, his flagpole wasn't rising fast so he didn't need to do much to mask it.
"Such a good kitten, you're going to make my blush." Pixie-bob said as she wiggled her body around while holding onto her cheeks, a little color being present on them as she could never get tired by his attraction to her for something else than her ass or tits.
"Come on, don't be shy," Still, he wanted to give her quiz an answer and who was she to deny him that? "What is it, and where do you think it is?" She asked as she took a step back and posed, giving him one last chance to take a look before he answered.
"Its…it's a tattoo of the first hamster you ever owed, of Big Snoop." He replied, getting her to smile.
"Hmm, you're warm, but that's only half the answer." Pixie-bob told him with a smile, impressed that he had gotten that right as he knew she had a butt-load of hamsters growing up. "Where is it?" She asked him as she gave him a wink, which nearly had him blow out steam from his ears and nose as he quickly wiped away the drop of blood from his nose.
"…Inner thigh…I don't know which one." He told her, looking towards the sky as quick as he could before something occurred that he would regret for the rest of his life.
"Hmmmm." Pixie-bob made him squirm as she made a show of her thinking over his answer.
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"Correct! Normally I would fail you, but you couldn't have figured out the leg, which is the left one by the way." She told him as she placed a hand on said thigh, which was covered by her skirt and her tights.
"Oh thank heavens, I was down to just guessing and hoping for the best. I couldn't find any info on it no matter where I looked." Midoriya breathed out a sigh of relief as he had been panicking them he woke up and recalled that he found no new leads to chase.
"It's not like I tell people, only Tiger knows about it and I've sworn him to secrecy." She reminded him as she started to walk off, but once more he stopped her, this time by grabbing her hand into his own, and while he took a moment to appreciate this moment, he also took another to grasp that her hand, though smaller than his and softer, still felt strong and reassuring.
"Pixie-bob. Before anything else, there…there's something else?" Midoriya said as he pulled his hand away before it got weird, just like Mineta had explained to him.
"Well then, don't keep a lady waiting, what is it?" Wondering where he got this boldness stance from, Pixie-bob decided to give him the chance to speak.
"I…"
"Come again, sweetie. I didn't catch that." She asked him to repeat since as quick as it came, that confidence vanished as he mumbled out his response.
"I...u."
"Midoriya, remember what we discussed. If you having confidence issues, go to your happy place and gather yourself." Pixie-bob sighed to herself as she took his hands into her own and while she could tell he was physically strong from how they felt, he needed emotional support right now and she helped him through a quick breathing exercise as he calmed down and collected his thoughts. "Better?"
"Very. Thank you." Even now, she was helping him which just made his heart flutter even more for her, which also gave him the courage to see this through to the end, even if it ended in a way he wouldn't have wanted.
"No problem, my adorable kitten." Pixie-bob replied to him as she let go of him and stepped back, not seeing how his hands took a moment too long to return to his side, almost as if he didn't want her to let go.
"I like you…like…like like you." Midoriya, at long last, managed to say and keep eye contact, even if he left like running off into the woods for say, the next…century or two to calm down. He promised himself he'll see this to the end and nothing short of a villain attack will make him break that vow.
"You have a crush on me?" Pixie-bob asked him, feeling like she'll have to let him down as gently as possible as he wasn't the first younger man to feel like that, shame too as she did think he was a unique one. However, before she could vocalize that, he made his case.
"It's not just a crush. I mean, that was it was when I saw you by accident but it's changed since them!" Midoriya quickly added in as he felt his resolve burn, but not break as those flames, whether from his soul, or the souls of the previous users of OFA giving him a little boost, only strengthen that will by destroying any fears or doubts he had. He needed to say this, he WILL say this!
"Ever since we started training together and learning more about one another, I couldn't stop thinking about how great you are. From how you're always so cheerful, how you always extend a helping hand, how you can manage things so…so well that you make them seem easy! I couldn't stop thinking about your intelligence, your caring nature, your wit, and how I feel every time I see you smile!" Midoriya poured his heart out, letting free all the feelings and emotions he had kept locked away. His words were having a massive effect as Tsuchikawa was made speechless of how…honest he was being, how sincere.
'Oh…' She knew he wasn't like the rest, but she never imagined that how he felt about her, how he saw her would make her feel so…appreciated, not desired but wanted, not for pleasures of the flesh or some hormonal goal but the completion of the soul, as the other half to a puzzle.
"And whenever I saw you smiling, and knew that it was because I was making progress in my training, I couldn't stop, I didn't WANT to stop that feeling the joy that spring up in me. When I was the reason you smiled, it was like starring at the face of an angel, a beautiful blonde angel that I don't feel I'm worthy of but dammit! I still want this to work."
"I want to see you smile, laugh, cheer and enjoy the simple things in life. I want to hold you close as we watch movies together, make jokes with you over a meal we made together, hold your hand in mine as we walk down a beach at high tide." Midoriya didn't know where he was getting this, but within the depths of One for All, his predecessors fed him their warm feelings of being with those they loved, with those that completed them as a way to help him make his case.
"I know…I know that I'm not the most masculine, or boyish guy you're ever made, hell, I doubt I would be at the top of the list of people here at camp. I know that I stumble on my words, stutter like a scared rabbit whenever I'm anxious or scared and that my hero obsession is way off the charts but still…" Midoriya cut himself down as he looked at himself as if he expected more, and while she felt like he was doing himself a disservice, at the same time, hearing him call himself unworthy of her made her want to prove him wrong. That he was perfect just the way he is and no one would tell her otherwise.
What she wasn't expecting was him to grab her hands into his, and tightened his grip, not to the degree that he hurt, but more along the lines of what he was trying to convey. With the two of them so close, he looked into her wide, sapphire eyes, and let her see into his heartfelt, emerald ones. "Still, I want this chance, more than just about anything else in my life. I don't just have a crush on you, what I feel is far stronger than that…and I'm asking if you would go out with me." Midoriya finally asked her, after all that, he made his request to her. to hell with all the bad endings, to hell with his anxiety, he didn't care about any of that.
All he felt at this time was a profound appreciation for the time they had spent together because she gave him something that he would never let go of. These sweet memories, even if the succeeding ones were bitter.
"Oh, you can't just say that! Now you have gone and made blush like a schoolgirl! Besides, why would you want an old maid like me? You have so many younger options." Tsuchikawa asked him as for the first time since her teenage years, she panicked as she didn't know how to react to this! It was like her first date all over again! She was going to turn him down, but after hearing what he felt for her, how he felt about her, she couldn't deny that she felt different about him either. He didn't stand for her downgrading her as he let go of her hands and immediately sieged the taller woman's shoulder to pull her even closer.
"Because they aren't you! And you're not some old maid. You're the most beautiful woman I've ever met. I know that you don't like your age being brought like but you're still very much in the prime of your life. In my opinion, your maturity only adds to your attraction but not in a cute way, more in the same way a queen as that refined beauty." He told her, wanting her to see herself in the same light he saw her. One where she was an angel on earth. Hearing his words, she made her choice, and knowing that Shiretoko's attention would be elsewhere, she decided to act.
Sure, she realized that this was wrong for several reasons, but she couldn't deny that Izuku treated her better than just about every guy, that he made her feel comfortable with herself and not mind her age. He was her little kitten and dammit, she would be the only kitty he would ever have! 'Oh, what the hell!' She thought to herself as her gaze sharpened as a rush of emotions made the choice all too easy to make. To hell with the consequences, she made her claim on him and two others, but it looks like she was going to cash in that claim a little early.
"Wha-!" Midoriya didn't have the time to react before she pounced on him, almost sending him to the floor while she gave him a peck on the cheek, along with a lick that sent his heart rate sky high as her eyes never left his, letting him see that she wasn't any house-cat right now, she was a damn tiger who just got what she wanted-him.
"Calm down, Izuku-kun. We don't want the others to hear us, don't we? Now come along, little kitten." She blew into his ear as she took his hand into hers and led him out of the clearing, but in the opposite direction of the main camp-they would need their privacy and they had, like an hour before anyone got suspicious. Plenty of time for what she intended.
"To where?" Midoriya asked her, not that he thinking about going anywhere else right now. The smile of hungry gaze she gave him only solidified that resolve as while he could tell she was in complete control, he was completely fine with it since he had a pretty good idea that with her in charge, whatever she had planned will be something to remember.
"Well you solved such a difficult quiz, it wouldn't be fair if I didn't reward you for it. A reward that I'm going to make all the sweeter since we're now dating." Tsuchikawa told him as she pulled him further in, the older cat leading the younger and adorable bunny ever further into the woods.
"You mean-" Midoriya felt his eyes widen to the size of dinner plates while she pulled him along, not letting them stop for anything.
"Yes, you just got yourself a cat-girl queen. Don't worry, I'll be gentle with you." She gave him a smile that just screamed she was the top, and that he better get used to the bottom.
"[Gulp]" He didn't have a reply to that, only a dumbstruck-looking smile.
And that is done! Chapter 3 is complete and with how I planned things, half of the story is done. Now, before I started working on this story for real, I did feel like I needed some more info on how anime Rom-Coms work, to better work on the setting and characters. That meant that I finally worked up the effort(I'm lazy, sue me) to watch Kaguya-sama: Love is War seasons 1 and 2 and man, not only did I enjoy watching it, but I used their method of using more comedy than romance as the base for this. Case in point, the fact that Shoto was so clueless, he didn't realize that he had a crush on Momo and only acted when he got some 'advice' from his friends. Another point was the fact that unlike 99% of other authors, not only did I not take the chance to roast Mineta, but I made him a kind of Chad…yes, a Chad since he managed to find someone into the same shit he is in the form of Setsuna Tokage, I won't go into details, I'll let your imaginations run wild only five buzzwords: Sticky balls; unique body positions.
Now, when it comes to the rest, that came more naturally as Asui being the first to pick up on his feelings kinda made sense as she was the first to notice that his quick and combat style was very similar to All Might's. So of course after being a close friend to him for a little while, she could pick up on the fact that he was crushing on somebody hard! It was made even better since by how Midoriya acts, he really would react like a kid about it since we have no info to state he had a crush before UA, mainly because most of the girls he knew wouldn't have given him the time of day and the rest would have been put-off by his relentless drive to do what everyone thought was crazy by becoming a pro-hero with no quirk.
Still, the two of them gave him good advice as Asui told him what every guy learns at the end of the episode, that girls appreciate a guy whose honest and acts like himself over one who tries to lie to appear more appealing. Mineta didn't give him anything bad either outside of helping him to construct how he worded things and want things to avoid and want to focus on. Yes, I know that everyone is different and Tsuchikawa could have very well reacted in the opposite way to Tokage but hey, the guy was trying to help and as a bro, I can't fault a bro for giving advice that has worked for him out the kindness of his heart.
When it to came to Midoriya's confession, I know that it was long but that was the point as we have to remember that this is the same guy that mutters up a storm whenever he sees something new and interesting, all I did was allow him to properly vocalize those feelings, and because Midoriya is much more emotional and intelligent then the standard anime protagonist, his confession was more emotionally invested and detailed. Another thing I want to point out is that Tsuchikawa already felt like he was different and didn't see him like the others, so her decision to try this relationship thing out wasn't one born out of lust, but more because she could tell he was serious about it.
Reviews:
Whitetiger789: Yeah, this is weird as I once tried searching for one when he's just with Ragdoll, couldn't find one aside from a couple of harem ones. It gets annoying.
Guerra Bored: Well…it was on one leg, just not where you thought it was.
Bigfluffy97: Never watched NCIS: But I did watch NCIS: New Orleans from season 3, even if I missed a couple of episodes. I'm getting off track, thanks for that, hope you liked the new chapter.
Erin Tesden: She seems like the kind of girl to do that, and she does show she cares by never going too far and making sure he knows she's just playing around. Iida being the voice of reason, yes. Todoroki being a disaster…I'm not too sure about it. He's more like young Sheldon, without the more…Sheldon parts. Smart but clueless. Envied for his 'status' but also socially isolated.
draculyn28: Thanks.
Reaperofsanity: Usual as in my main story? Or usual as in what is common for this site? Either way, that unusual nature is part of its charm.
Ultimate10: Hope you enjoyed the chapter.
Lexboss: Happy that it pleased.
Cor Aurum: Thanks.
erebus13th: You know, I had a different idea in mind, but your suggestion was even better! Thanks for that.
Mystic: Thanks for that. And I also enjoy stories with longer chapters, but this isn't meant to be a long story, to begin with, so I'm been really hard to limit myself.
Tryndamer95: Thanks.
NightFuryFanfic: Well, the wait is over as the chapter has been delivered. Hope you like it.