So we were still comparing our dorm rooms - still on the boys' side so far, but it seemed as though we girls would have to inevitably share ours too. Oh, dear...I hope they won't be terribly judgmental of my little...problem.
"So, we're here to decide the King of rooms!" said Ashido - and it appeared indeed that we were.
"King of rooms?" said Jirou.
"It's fine if we don't do this, really," muttered Ojiro.
But at this point we had gone to far to turn back, so it seemed we were to continue with this strange choice.
Up to the fourth floor, on the boys' side.
"This floor's got Bakugou, Kirishima and Shoji, right?" Uraraka asked.
"Where is Bakugou, by the way?" Iida asked Kirishima.
"He said, 'This is dumb. I'm going to bed,' Kirishima replied. "I'm getting tired, too," he added.
"Then your room's next, Kirishima!" cried Hagakure. "Let's pick up the pace!"
"Whatever you say," he mumbled. "You girls probably won't get it though. My super manly room!"
He was right, rather; it was far too masculine and filled with workout materials for my taste.
"In the "room you wouldn't want your boyfriend to have" rankings, you're second," snarked Hagakure.
"It's so macho in here!" Uraraka cried out. "I'm getting swole!" Surprising, uraraka!
Kirishima smiled and gave her a thumbs up. "You get it!"
"Next! Shoji!"
"Really, there's nothing interesting," he said, calmly.
Nothing in there at all! Even less furniture, somehow, then there had been when we moved in. Just a desk and a pile of cushions.
Ashido shook her head. "Nothing interesting? More like nothing at all!"
"You have a really simple style," said Todoroki.
"Yeah, ever since I was little, I've never cared much about owning stuff," said Shoji.
"Let's head up! Fifth floor boys are next!"
"We'll start with Sero!"
"We're seriously going to every room?"
We hit the elevators and made it to the top. Hero's room was indeed first, and it was really beautiful! lovely brown bedspreads, a hammock, new drawers, impressive interior design!
"How exotic!" cried Ashido,clapping her hands together
"I's lovely!" Uraraka put her hands together like she did.
"Never guessed you'd be so stylish, Sero!" said Jirou.
"Hey hey hey! Just call me Sero Surprise!" he chuckled out
"Next, next! Todoroki!" called Ashido.
The most capable student in our class, I thought, rather excited at the prospect. Todoroki's dorm room! The other girls looked just as excited as I was.
On the other hand, Todoroki himself looked pretty bored. "Let's just get this over with. I'm tired," he said, opening his doorway. Everyone gasped.
It was very traditional Japanese, with tatami mats on the floor, a low chair, a ceiling lamp with a hanging pull cord. As though he'd remodeled it all in one day.
"It's even been differently built!" we cried out in shock.
"My family home is traditionally Japanese, so I don't like modern flooring," he explained, totally deadpan.
"Who cares why? How'd remodel your room in one day?" cried Kaminari.
"I worked hard," he replied, in complete honesty. Well, anything is possible with enough application!
"What's up with this guy?" cried Kaminari.
"He sure is going places," said Tooru.
"Pretty boys always have tricks up their sleeves," grumbled Sato.
"Next! The last boy is - "
"Me," said Sato. "My room's kind of boring, really." It was - just a normal one, but with some baking supplies on the side table.
"Every rom's pretty much the same after Todoroki's," Kirishima pointed out.
"Something sure smells good, though. What is it?"
"Oh, no!" cried Sato. I was in such a rush that I must've forgotten to finish this! I was baking a chiffon cake! I wanted to share it with everyone."
CAKE! How thrilling!
"It'd really be better with frosting," sat Sato all apologetically, holding up a really summers looking cake on a plate. "But - want some?"
"YES!" i chorused with the other girls. "This is unexpected coming from you!" Kaminari and Mineta were crying out behind us. "No fair!"
It was quite spectacular, good enough to measure up to our chef's!
"Tastyyy!" grinned Uraraka. "So light and fluffy!"
"This blows Sero's surprise right out of the water!" said Mina.
"What a charming hobby you have, Sato!" I cried out. "We'll have to get together to combine your confections with my tea!" We'll have such lovely tea parties now!
"I wasn't ready for this reaction…I only make these things to help train my quirk," said Sato, who had gone really red for some reason.
"Darn. Guess we should've expected something tasty from someone called Sugarcane," grumbled Sero.
"What timing, though," said Kirishima. "These are good."
"That's it for the guys - yum!" said Mina.
"Next up….is…yum - us!" said Tooru.
"I could go all night now, that sugar woke me right up!" said Kaminari.
"We have to head down to the first floor to get to the girls' wing," Ojiro observed.
"Yum - so let's go downstairs."
"Do we have to? yum," muttered Jirou. She'd seemed rather afraid of this all night long...
"We're really seeing everyone's room? Is that ok?"
"Should be ok. Probably."
We'd arrived at Jirou's room. She was actually blushing. "This is really embarrassing," she mumbled as she let us in.
A band room! Musical instruments all over the place, music lines on the bedspread, a bunch of band posters...it was rather interesting, and I looked around as fascinated as a kid in a candy store - such a different sort of place my friend had grown up in.
"There's even more instruments than we thought!" gasped Kaminari.
"You're one rocking girl, Jirou!" cried Hagakure.
"Can you really play all these?" Uraraka asked her, almost jumping.
"Somewhat, yeah," she said, blushing.
"Nothing girly about this room," smirked Kaminari.
"Non, mademoiselle," was Aoyama's contribution.
Jirou zapped them both with her headphone jacks. "Moving on. Next!"
"Next is me, hagakure!" said Tooru. Her room was super cute and full of stuffed animals. "Well?!" she asked.
"Oh, oh!" said Kaminari. "Kinda what I'd expect from a girl. Pretty exciting!"
Mina's was next as we went to the fourth floor. "Ta-dah! Pretty cute, right?" she said. It was full of pinks and reds and a cute bedspread and a hearts carpet.
Next door, Uraraka's . "Welcome to my boring room," she said, as she had moved in very little - only a fan and some small decorations.
"Walking around and seeing all these girls' rooms like it's no big deal…it feels wrong," said Ojiro.
"The forbidden garden," was Tokoyami's response.
"Up next is Asui…hey, where is she anyway?" asked Midoriya.
"Oh, I think TSuyu wasn't feeling well," said Uraraka.
"No reason to bother her, then" said Kaminari. "WE'll check out her room another time.
Finally my turn...
"Last up is Yaoyorozu!"
"Before we go in…let me say that I miscalculated,"I said shyly. "Compared to all your rooms, which are so unique and original…mine's a bit cramped."
I'd brought in my furniture from home, expecting that we'd have ample room for what, to me, had seemed like a very modest amount of items to move in, but which, in comparison with my classmates, now felt rather...over the top.
"Huge! But cramped! What happened, Yaoyorozu?"
"This is the same stuff I use back home," I admitted. "But I never expected our rooms here would be quite so small."
My classmates all looked rather amused, and let it pass.
Back in the living room, Mina was finishing the drawing. "Ok. Has everyone finished voting?! Remember, don't vote for yourself! With Bakugou and Tsu out of the running, the provisional first e ver king of rooms is -with six total votes! The student whose room crushed our expectations with its sweet originality is - Rikido Sato!"
"Hah?" Sato cried.
"By th way, you got every single girl's vote!" added Mina. "The main reason! That yummy cake!"
"What about the room?!" cried the other boys
"No decent would-be hero bribes people!"cried Kaminari and Mineta, both being mad.
"What're you talking about? I'm just honored!" said Sato.
"Are we done here? Can I go to bed now?" asked Todoroki again.
"No! You mustn't forget to brush your teeth first, after eating that cake!" cried Iida.
"Guess we should wait until it's all over," said Midoriya. Todoroki turned to go, but Uraraka called out to him.
"Todoroki, hold on! Deku, you too. And Iida. Also, Kirishima and Yaoyorozu. Can you guys come with me?"
She led us outside, to where Tsu was waiting for us on the lawn.
She stood there, looking serious and miserable and like she was trying not to cry. There was a long silence before she finally spoke.
"I usually don't hold my tongue. But sometimes I find myself at a loss for words. Remember what I said, back at the hospital?"
"If we break the law, then we're no better than the villains"
Midoriya mumbled, "Yeah."
"I didn't hold back," said Tsu slowly. "And the way I said it was kinda harsh."
Uraraka reached out to her and stroked her hair. "Tsuyu," she said quietly.
"So when I heard this morning that you guys went anyway," she said, and her voice was starting to break. "I was really shocked. Shocked about how I tried to stop you. About how worthless I am. All these nasty feelings started to well up in me…I suddenly had no idea what to say. Like there was no way I could go on, chatting as if nothing had happened." She was really and truly crying now. "And it broke my heart. So now…even if I'm still not sure about everything, I had to say something…because I want to be able to hang out with everyone again." She did her best to wipe her eyes.
Uraraka added, "It's not just you, Tsuyu. We were all super uneasy about it. And we all want to start over again. That's why…" I stepped forward and pumped my fist into the air. "That's why we do stuff like the king of rooms. Because we know how everyone's feeling. We're not gonna get mad or anything. WE just want…this is hard to explain, but…we wanna go back to when we could all just smile together!"
Kirishima burst out, "Tsuyu! I'm so sorry! Thanks for opening up!"
He ran forward to give her a hug. I jumped in as well, crying out "Asui!" I had no idea you were feeling this way...I had no notion that what I did would affect you so!
"As!" said Iida, then corrected himself. "i mean - Tsuyu!"
"Asu-Tsuyu!" ssaid MIdoriya.
Todoroki didn't say anything, but he came to her too.
We got in a group hug, and Tsuyu kept crying, but this time like relieved tears. And we were able…like before. Like always. Aiming to be heroes, and pushing each other to succeed, in our everyday lives.