We continued the dormitory comparison tour, and it seemed the others had decided we were to see into the girls' dormitories as well. Imagine - going into girls' private rooms!
"So, we're here to decide the King of rooms!" said Ashido
"King of rooms?" said Jirou.
"It's fine if we don't do this, really," muttered Ojiro.
But it seemed, after a little more discussion, that we were indeed to go forward with this plan.
"This floor's got Bakugou, Kirishima and Shoji, right?" Uraraka asked.
"Where is Bakugou, by the way?" I asked Kirishima.
"He said, 'This is dumb. I'm going to bed,' Kirishima told us. He is rather antisocial, that Bakugou, I thought to myself. "I'm getting tired, too," added Kirishima.
"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!"
His room had weights and a punching bag, a clock with muscled arms, inspirational posters, and a camo style bedspread. It seemed his prediction was correct, and the girls were not impressed with his room.
"In the "room you wouldn't want your boyfriend to have" rankings, you're second," said Hagakure.
Uraraka, on the other hand...
"It's so macho in here!" she cried out. "I'm getting swole!
Kirishima smiled and gave me 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, who did not seem concerned with his lack of items.
"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 he had done a rather fine job with his interior design.
"How exotic!" cried Ashido,clapping her hands together
"I's lovely!" Uraraka said, putting 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 other girls were all getting really excited about seeing his room. Todoroki himself looked pretty bored. "Let's just get this over with. I'm tired," he said, opening his doorway. Everyone gasped.
It was super traditional Japanese! With tatami mats on the floor, a low chair, a ceiling lamp with a hanging pull cord!
"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, with a total serious face. Like not even sarcastic or anything.
"What's up with this guy?" cried Kaminari.
"He sure is going places," said Hagakure.
"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 room'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."
Uraraka looked excited, and she and the other girls ran forward, eagerly.
"It'd really be better with frosting," sat Sato all apologetically, holding up a really fine looking cake on a plate. "But - want some?"
"YES!" the girls chorused "This is unexpected coming from you!" Kaminari and Mineta were crying out behind them. "No fair!"
It really was an alarmingly good cake.
"Tastyyy!" Uraraka laughed. "So light and fluffy!"
"This blows Sero's surprise right out of the water!" said Ashido.
"What a charming hobby you have, Sato!" said Yaoyorozu. "We'll have to get together to combine your confections with my tea!"
"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 Hagakure.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"Somewhat, yeah," she said, blushing.
"Nothing girly about this room," smirked Kaminari.
"Non, mademoiselle," was Toyama's contribution.
Jirou zapped them both with her headphone jacks. "Moving on. Next!"
"Next is me, hagakure!" said Hagakure. Her room was very pink, traditionally girly, and full of stuffed animals. "Well?!" she asked.
"Oh, oh!" said Kaminari. "Kinda what I'd expect from a girl. Pretty exciting!"
Ashido'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, was Uraraka's "Welcome to my boring room," she said, rubbing her head a bit as everyone saw it. It was really rather simple, just a fan and a tea set and a small fan, and a gravity poster on the wall.
"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.
"Last up is Yaoyorozu!"
"Before we go in…let me say that I miscalculated," said Yaoyorozu. "Compared to all your rooms, which are so unique and original…mine's a bit cramped."
Wow, she'd tried to stuff her whole queen sized bed into the dorm! There was barely room to move among all the books and fancy furniture.
"Huge! But cramped! What happened, Yaoyorozu?"
"This is the same stuff I use back home," she blushed. "But I never expected our rooms here would be quite so small."
What a princess!
Back in the living room, Ashido 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 Ashido. "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!" I reprimanded him.
"Guess we should wait until it's all over," said Midoriya. Todoroki turned to go, and Uraraka went up to him.
"Todoroki, hold on! Deku, you too. And Iida. Also, Kirishima and Yaoyorozu. Can you guys come with me?"
What on earth is this about? The five of us, who went to rescue Bakugou? What on earth...
Uraraka led us outside, to where we saw that Asui was waiting for us on the lawn.
She stood there, looking serious and miserable and like she was trying not to cry. The others all looked so guilty.
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, looking down, mumbled, "Yeah."
"I didn't hold back," said Asui 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 said, "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. Yaoyorozu jumped in as well, crying out "Asui!"
"Asui!" I cried out, then corrected myself. "i mean - Tsuyu!"
"Asu-Tsuyu!" said 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.