When Midoriya woke up the next day he felt more dead than alive. He groaned as he slowly pushed himself upright and grabbed his phone from his nightstand. Turning it on he noticed he had two new messages. One from Kirishima and one from Kendo, he chose to open Kirishima's message first and safe Kendo's for when he felt like opening his eyes more than halfway again. He quickly scanned the message and a faint smile appeared on his face.
Kirishima: I'm sorry about yesterday man. I thought it would be funny but I realize it went a bit far. I still think Kendo's your girlfriend though.
Midoriya: Don't worry about it, I survived it right? But she is not my girlfriend!
Kirishima: I'm not suddenly going to believe you.
Midoriya shook his head and switched over to his chat with Kendo.
Kendo: Hey I realize we just hung out yesterday but we have a pretty busy time coming up at school with final exams and I was wondering if you wanted to watch that documentary about Crimson Riot today.
Kendo: If you have time ofcourse. I don't want to waste your time.
Midoriya was about to respond when he realized with a shock that he had already given back the dvd to Kirishima. He quickly switched back over to his chat with Kirishima and was relieved to see the boy still online.
Midoriya: Actually…
Kirishima: Actually what? I don't like the sound of that.
Midoriya: If you want to make it up to me please let me borrow the documentary about Crimson Riot again.
Kirishima: Again? You just returned it to me like two days ago. What do you need it for? Want to watch it with your girlfriend?
Midoriya: …
Kirishima: Oh
Kirishima: Say no more, you can come pick it up right now if you want.
Midoriya: Thank you, she's still not my girlfriend though.
He didn't get a response but it wasn't like he really expected one. He quickly got dressed and shot Kendo a message telling her that he would love to watch it with her before heading towards Kirishima's house the second time that weekend. When he got there Kirishima's mother was the one to open the door. "You can just go upstairs, Eijiro is in his room with a friend." She said, smiling at him.
He quickly thanked her and made his way upstairs, when he got to Kirishima's room he pushed open the door and stepped inside. The friend Kirishima's mother had been talking about turned out to be Tetsutetsu. As soon as Midoriya entered the room the two boys stopped talking and greeted him. The greeting seemed almost a bit nervous which surprised Midoriya, he didn't really understand what the two of them had to be nervous about until Tetsutetsu started talking.
"Oh hey Midoriya, it's been a while hasn't it? I heard you have been getting along well with Kendo lately." He said, sounding slightly nervous.
Midoriya eyed both of them suspiciously. "What are you two planning?"
Kirishima was a little too quick with his response. "What do you mean planning? We are not planning anything." He said, shooting Midoriya the worst innocent smile the latter had seen in his life.
"You're going to try to set me up with Kendo aren't you?" Midoriya said like it was already a confirmed fact.
"What?! No! Ofcourse we aren't!" Tetsutetsu said with about the worst poker face one could have.
Midoriya sighed. "Guys I do not need your help, I'm not even sure if I want to be more than just friends with Kendo." He figured a lie couldn't really hurt him at this point.
Tetsutetsu said nothing and Kirishima just nodded and stood up walking over to his desk. He grabbed the dvd from the desk and handed it to Midoriya. "Whatever you say man, I swear we were just trying to help."
Midoriya sighed once again. "Thanks for wanting to help but I do not need help. I'll see you in class."
When Midoriya left the room and shut the door behind him Tetsutetsu immediately turned to Kirishima. "We are still going to set them up right?"
Kirishima flashed him the biggest shit eating grin he could manage. "We totally are."
Kendo was officially two minutes late now and that meant that Midoriya was officially fully panicking. The reasonable part of his brain tried to tell him she probably just got held up on the way or left her house a little later while the unreasonable part of his brain was already convinced she had decided to just not go. Unfortunately for him whenever Midoriya was nervous the unreasonable part of his brain was basically the only part that actually functioned. He didn't even know why he was nervous, it's not like he hadn't just spend time with Kendo yesterday on top of that this wasn't even a date, it was just the two of them watching a documentary together. Midoriya got so lost in his absurd thoughts that he didn't notice the doorbell ringing until he heard his mother open the door. He rushed downstairs but found his mother already talking to Kendo.
"Hello you must be Kendo, Izuku told me you were coming." Inko said, smiling at Kendo.
Kendo smiled and extended her hand. "It's nice to meet you miss Midoriya."
Inko shook her hand. "So are you Izuku's girlfriend?"
Midoriya groaned from his spot on the stairs which made both Kendo and his mother finally notice him standing there. Kendo just laughed. "Midoriya and I are just friends, right Midoriya?"
Midoriya nodded. "I told you she wasn't my girlfriend mom."
"I just wanted to make sure you weren't saying that to get me off your back." Inko said smiling innocently.
Midoriya sighed and motioned for Kendo to follow him upstairs. When they got to his room he gestured to one of the two chairs allowing her to sit down.
"Sorry about my mom, I swear I told her you weren't my girlfriend." He said, sitting down in the chair next to hers.
Kendo laughed a warm laugh. "It's fine, she seems really nice."
"She is the best, a bit obsessed with making sure I take care of myself though." He said chuckling softly.
Kendo smiled as she quickly scanned his bedroom, as she scanned his countless All Might posters, figurines and pictures to be more specific. "You weren't kidding about All Might being your favourite hero." She said, flashing him an even better smile.
"W-well I really look up to him after all." He stuttered. "Oh man I'm a bit embarrassed about you seeing all this, you must think I'm obsessed."
"It suits you. I think it's wonderful you can be such a great fan to a hero you look up to." She said, standing up and walking over to a particular picture that portrayed Midoriya and All Might smiling together. "It must have been a dream come through when he came to teach at UA, did you ask him to take this picture with you?"
Midoriya knew he couldn't tell her the whole truth so he decided to fabricate the most believable lie he could think of. "It was taken before I went to UA, I met him when he was on patrol and asked to take the picture." He did feel bad about lying but most of it was actually the truth and all of it sounded more believable than the actual truth would have sounded. "It's my favourite picture."
"I can see why, it's very nice." Kendo said, placing the picture back onto the desk and sitting back down in her chair. "Are you sure it's alright for you to spend time with me instead of studying for your final exam?"
"I'm pretty confident in my ability to pass the written part. I wonder what they'll make us do for the practical part of the exam." Midoriya said, tapping his chin in thought.
"I asked an upperclassman and he told me they had to show their improvement in skill against robots. You know, like the entrance exam." Kendo said. "Unless they plan on changing it but what are the chances of that happening."
Midoriya thought back to the entrance exam in which he had managed to get a grand total of zero points for actually defeating robots. He was confident he could actually achieve something to be proud of using full cowling this time around. He turned to Kendo. "Thanks for telling me, that puts my mind at ease a bit. Are you ready to start watching?"
Kendo nodded and focused her attention on the screen. For the most part they watched the documentary in silence, Midoriya sometimes made a small comment to which Kendo responded with a small comment of her own.
"That was very interesting, were those interviews ever broadcasted on television or on the internet?" Kendo asked when the documentary ended.
"None of them were ever broadcasted, this limited edition is the only way to watch them. It must have cost Kirishima a fortune to get." Midoriya answered, carefully removing the disk from the dvd player and placing it back inside the case.
Kendo smiled. "Give him my thanks for letting us watch it next time you see him."
"I will tell him we both enjoyed it." Midoriya said, placing the case on his desk next to his schoolbag.
Kendo looked over at the clock. "It's already getting pretty late, I should head home. We have school tomorrow." She said. "We'll need to be well rested if we are going to train again after classes." She added with a smile.
"Ofcourse I'll let you out." Midoriya said, standing up and walking over to the door.
When they got to the door Kendo turned to Midoriya. "Thanks for having me over to watch the documentary. I had a really fun time. See you tomorrow!" She said before walking out of the door and disappearing from sight.
Midoriya stood in the doorway waving until he really couldn't see her anymore. He went over to the living room where his mother was seated on the couch reading a magazine of some sort. As he entered the living room she looked up from her magazine. "How was your date?" She asked, innocent smile present on her face.
Just when he was about to respond he heard his phone chime. He fished it out of his pocket and check his messages.
Kirishima: How is the date going? Or is it already over?
Midoriya suddenly once again felt the urge to slam his face into a wall using more than a safe 5% of One for All.
Now that Kirishima and Tetsutetsu are going to play wingman for Midoriya against his will nothing can go wrong anymore right? I just want to quickly say that some characters will be acting a bit OOC at times, it has already happened and it will happen in the future. It's an intentional choice because I feel like it makes the story more fun to read at times. As always let me know what you think and if you have anything you want these two to do when they are a couple also let me know.
