The Day of the Gala
Before brunch, the students took the morning for school work in their rooms while others took the time to sleep in. Other students walked around the garden or did some early training in the hotel gym. As long as they were in the hotel dining room by 11 a.m., they were fine.
The long table had food from different cultures and all the beverages they could think of. "I don't know how we will be able to go back to our cafeteria after this," Kaminari said as he sat down.
"This reminds me of food we eat in my house," Momo said, sitting across from him. Todoroki and Iida, sitting on either side of her, nodded in agreement.
Rich people, Kaminari, Jirou, and Uraraka thought.
The last people to enter the room were Aizawa, Ms. Joke, Present Mic, and Midnight in casual clothes. They sat towards the end of the table. "It's weird to see the teachers dress like normal people," Hagakure said as she took a sip of orange juice.
"Even Present Mic's hair is down," Mina added.
"Yeah, this whole experience is strange," Ojiro said.
About thirty minutes later, Aizawa nodded at Present Mic next to him. The vocal hero stood up. "Listen up future heroes!" he shouted followed by the students covering their ears.
Aizawa rose from his seat. "Thanks Mic. Morning everyone as you know today's the big day. After I'm done talking, you are free to continue eating or prepare yourselves to get ready for tonight. As a reminder, the girls are to report the large conference room on the second floor at 1:30 p.m. to meet the hair and makeup artists. The men can report there at 3 pm if they wish. We will all meet in the large conference room at 6:15 p.m. Am I understood?"
"Yes, sir!" the students replied.
Midnight then jumped up. "Also, hint, hint fellas, you may want to meet your date at their room to walk them down," she said.
"That's a good idea!" Joke added, nudging Aizawa with her elbow.
He rolled his eyes. "You are free to do whatever," he said, sitting down.
At 1:30 pm, the girls, except Hagakure, entered the large conference room which had turned into hair and makeup stations. Seven tables with mirrors stood next to each other and back to back in the middle of the room while the outskirts had seven tall chairs with mirrors and hair products. "This looks amazing!" Momo exclaimed.
"All of this just for us?" Jirou asked.
"The Gala committee makes sure you all have a lavish time while you are here," Midnight explained. "I always wanted to experience it when I was a student. I'm so glad I became a teacher!"
Ms. Joke stood in front of the group of girls. "Now, half of you will get your hair done first while the other half will get their makeup done. You will switch once a seat becomes available. Class 2-A girls, Mei Hatsume and I will be getting our hair done first while the rest of you will be with Midnight in makeup. Sounds good?" she asked.
The girls nodded excitedly as they went to the artist or stylist that was holding their name up with a sign. The stylists quickly introduced themselves, and said their concept for the girl's hair. This was how the make up artists presented themselves as well. After an hour, the girls would switch.
By the time they finished up, some of the boys were entering the room. Kirishima and Kaminari walked in while Mina was about to pass by with Camie. The sturdy hero raised his hand to say hi, but Mina hid behind the glamour girl. "Kirishima, you can't see me yet! It will ruin the whole illusion," she wailed.
"Yeah, that's not cool, Ki-Man," Camie added.
"Oh, sorry! Here I'll close my eyes, so you can walk past," Kirishima replied while putting his eyes up to his face.
Mina peaked around to see him actually doing it. She giggled, "Thanks, Kiri." She faced Kaminari. "I would suggest you do the same as Jirou is finishing up."
"Thanks for the heads up!" he said while copying Kirishima.
The girls laughed and made their way back to their rooms.
A couple hours later, the students began to get dressed. The girls had each other to help one another get dressed except for Camie. She managed to get the dress zipped up halfway, but struggled to get it up the rest of the way. Forget this, I'm getting backup! She picked up her phone and called the first person on speed dial.
"What? It's not time yet," a gruff voice said.
"Bakubro, can you stop by my room? I need help getting my zipper up," she replied.
"Can-can't you get one of the girls to do it?"
"C'mon, they are getting ready themselves. You probably are dressed and all ready to go. Please?"
"I'll be there in second." He hung up.
He was a man of his word, as a few seconds later, a knock came to her door. Camie opened the door and stared at the stranger in front of her. Bakugou wore an all black suit with a dark orange tie. His hair was still messy, but she liked it better that way. "Woah," she said.
"What?" he said as he barged through her.
Mouth hanging open, she closed the door. "You look hot!" she said.
A blush appeared on his face as he looked at her dress and hair tied to a side braid. "You don't look bad yourself," he said, not making eye contact with her.
"Thank you." She turned her back to him. "Now, can you please help me? If I move around too much, it just falls down. Don't want to have a nip slip!"
He didn't say anything as his coarse fingers moved the zipper up. She pulled the dress up a bit and then looked in the mirror, twirling around as Bakugou stared at her in a daze. She caught a glimpse of his empty look in the mirror. "I've never seen you speechless, Bakugou."
The unusually quiet hero walked up to her, and he didn't stop her from wrapping his arms around her waist. "We are going to be the best looking pair in there," he said.
"Ya know it!" She broke apart from him and turned to look into his eyes. "Thank you, for real though, for asking me to this."
Bakugou nodded and went to pick up her purse from the dresser. "We have some time to kill. You probably want pictures, right?"
"And SnapChats and Instagram stories!" He groaned as they left her room.
As it got closer to 6:15, the boys started going to pick up the girls, including the teachers. Present Mic and Aizawa knocked on Ms. Joke and Midnight's room. Midnight opened the door while praising Present Mic's white suit jacket with a dark purple vest and tie. He complimented her dress and her hair, which was curled and placed in a bun with some strains hanging out. She then turned to Aizawa. "Your jaw is going to drop when you see her," she said.
Aizawa, in all black with a gold tie and hair tied back, walked inside the room only to stop at the sight of Emi. She was in a form fitting black dress with long sleeves over hanging her arms that almost reached the ground and a gold belt was tied around her waist. Her make up was simple, and her hair was tied in a curled ponytail. Midnight chuckled as Mic pushed him further into the room.
"Eraser, you look amazing!" Emi said.
"You look beautiful," he replied.
Emi's eyes widened for a second but then she smiled. "Wow, for once, I have nothing funny to follow that. Thank you."
Mic and Midnight stood by the door. "C'mon love birds, we got a gala to do!" Mic exclaimed.
Aizawa rolled his eyes as he placed his arm up for Emi to hold as they made their way to meet the students. "Wait, we should take a photo to send to Eri!" Emi exclaimed.
The erasure hero agreed and gave his phone to Midnight as the smile hero looped her arm with his. A tiny smile crept on Aizawa's face while Emi beamed for the photo. He texted it to Mirio, her babysitter for the night, and they left to wait for the students.
Ojiro and Kirishima met up with each other since Hagakure and Mina were sharing a room. "This is it," Ojiro said.
"Let's do this," Kirishima replied as he knocked on the door.
Hagakure answered the door. "Hi guys! OMG, Ojiro you match me!" Hagakure exclaimed as Ojiro had on his white suit with a light yellow lapel and bowtie.
"You look beautiful, Hagakure!" Ojiro said as he made his way into the room.
Kirishima followed but froze in her spot as he saw Mina in her turquoise gown and curled hair. "Kiri, you look so handsome!" she said as she walked up to him. Kirishima wore a black tuxedo with a pink undershirt and a turquoise tie. "You remind me of Danny Zuko from Grease!"
"You're gorgeous, Ashido," he said.
She smiled and kissed him on the cheek. "Thank you." She turned to face the other couple. "Let's go before Mr. Aizawa yells at us!" The girls put their arms around the boys and left the room.
Midoriya fiddled with his tie as he made his way to Uraraka's room. Okay, I got this. I will not make a fool out of myself in front of the only girl I have had a crush on since last year. "I'm in trouble," he muttered.
"What did you do now, Midoriya?" Tokoyami asked. He was wearing a black suit with a white undershirt and a velvet green cape covered his shoulders.
"Oh, nothing, I like your cape, Tokoyami! It's very you," Midoriya replied.
Tokoyami bowed his head. "Thank you, now, are you ready?"
The green-hair boy gulped. "Ready as I'll ever be."
Tokoyami knocked on the door and heard a "C'mon in!" They entered the space as Uraraka and Tsu were gathering their things to go out. The boys did not move a muscle.
Uraraka's hair was curled with the two long pieces braided around to the back of her head, while Tsu's hair was put up to look like a bow. "You guys look so good!" Uraraka said.
Tsu walked up to Tokoyami. "You look very nice, Tokoyami. I love the cape," she said.
"You are a vision to behold, Tsuyu Asui," he replied. He held up his arm for them to walk out.
Uraraka looked at Midoriya's dark brown suit with a white undershirt and a light pink vest and bowtie. "You look so nice, Deku!" she said then twirled for him. "Do you like my dress?" she asked.
"I-I-I…"
"Deku, are you alright?" She walked closer to him.
He faced away. "I'm fine! You just look so pretty."
She felt her cheeks warm as she glanced at her feet. "Thank you, that's so kind." Then she grabbed her coin purse and took a hold of his arm. "Let's go have fun!" She smiled at him, and he smiled back as they left.
Kaminari knocked on Momo and Jirou's door as Todoroki stood beside him. Jirou opened the door. "Wow, you guys look great!" she said. Kaminari stared at her up and down from her curly hair, dark make up and two piece dress.
"You look so cute, Jirou!" he said.
She blushed as she welcomed them in. "You look great too, Kaminari. Yaoyorozu is almost done." Kaminari wore a dark purple velvet tuxedo jacket with an indigo purple undershirt and black vest, and black trousers.
They entered the room and became fixated on Yaoyorozu. She shined in her red gown with her hair pulled into a bun with her tiara. Jirou grabbed Kaminari's hand and pulled him out of the room while saying, "Try to not get drool on the floor."
When they were alone, Momo stepped up to Todoroki. "That suit looks so handsome on you," she said. Todoroki wore white trousers with a white jacket on top that had gold embroidery sewed along the outline along the bottom to the top. He also had on an undershirt and his hair was swept to the side. The boy stayed silent. "Is something the matter, Todoroki?"
He took her hand and kissed it. "Not at all, Yaoyorozu. Words cannot describe how breathtaking you look." He placed her arm under his. "Are you ready?" She nodded as they left the room.
They entered the large conference room where the others were taking photos and admiring each other's outfits. They walked near the front by Iida and Hatsume. Hatsume was in a royal blue ball down with large rhinestones on her chest, and her hair was tied in a bun with a couple pieces of hair draped to the left side of her face. Iida wore a white tuxedo with a blue vest and bowtie. "Wow, you guys look like royalty," Hatsume said.
"Thank you," Momo replied.
"However, I gotta say we look better as a pair," Hatsume said as she squeezed Iida's arm.
"Hatsume," he groaned.
Todoroki held his hand up. "It's okay, Iida. You two look very good together."
Before more could be said, Present Mic yelled to get their attention. "This is it, students! Get into formation because the gala is about to begin!" he exclaimed.
It's happening! 13 chapters in, and the gala is finally starting!
I just want to say thank you for sticking with me this long, and the rest of the story takes place at the Hero's Gala.
I would love to hear your predictions about what's going to happen. Who will our heroes meet? Will any fights break out? Let me know what you think!