18
Main floor duet
Izuku laid on the bed for a good half hour, staring at the message he had typed. His eyes were dropping. A half-lidded drowse, his thumb slipped and hit send.
His eye glazed over at the vibration of the click. "Huh?... Fuck!" He clutched his phone. "Eh, I mean... N-No." Jirou was influencing his vocabulary. "I really hit send."
He was wide awake for the next ten minutes. Maybe she fell asleep. He hoped.
9 minutes and 36 seconds in, his phone vibrated.
He tapped the notification with the midnight anxiety he had. He read the text message.
He groaned, dropping his head face first in the pillow.
'I don't know what's worse, how long it took for her to reply, or that it was only a smiley face, two thumbs up, and a heart emoji.' Trying to sleep.
"...Fuck."
Before the dorms.
"Dude, I'm telling you, I still got a shot!" Kaminari shoved Kirishima. He simply laughed and told him to stay positive, but the joking pessimism was there.
After the dorms.
"Dude, I'm telling you guys this concert is going to be awesome!" Shoving Deku, and Kirishima. Izuku ruffled the back of his hair, with a nervous laugh of agreement. Kirishima gave a manly acknowledge meant.
Before the dorms.
"Man, I can never show my face to Deku or Jirou again, I feel like such a hopeless idiot." She sulked to Iida across the table. Iida comforted her with his professional mannerisms.
After the dorms.
"It sure is!" Uraraka agreed and then turned to Jirou. "Hey, Jirou can we go play some instruments in your room again?" Jirou nodded her head, twiddling her earphone with her finger, saying sure.
They were all chilling in the middle of the co-ed area. They had bought tickets to a concert. It was a few days away. Izuku and Jirou flashed a smile to each other. Everything was back to normal for everyone.
Almost everyone. Izuku turned his attention to Momo. She was nodding along to the conversation, she felt his eyes on her. She smiled at him with closed eyes, never meeting his, before opening them, and going back to the conversation. They both acted normal, and never really talked about it, but they knew. They knew.
Quiet moments between them were awkward and strained. Neither of them acknowledged the change in dynamic, but neither of them wanted to stay like this.
Momo kept her eyes focused on the moving lips in the conversation, but internally she was zoned out.
Izuku glanced down at his hands over his lap, he clenched them shut, closing his eyes.
They both had the same thought. 'We're friends, so why are we like this..?'
An earphone tickled his neck. "Hey, what's wrong?" She whispered. Jirou was sitting next to Midoriya and noticed his unusual solemn expression.
Izuku shivered at the feel of her quirk. He stuttered in surprise. "N-Nothing, I just hope we don't get in trouble."
Kyouka shrugged. "As long as we're back by curfew, then it's all good. You're always so uptight dude, lighten up." She nonchalantly scolded him.
He had a nervous grin, tapping his shorts with a beat of his hands. "I guess so, huh? And you're always so aloof and chill."
"Don't say no cheesy shit, like opposites attract." She smirked at his loss of words.
"H-How did you know?"
She nudged him with her elbow. "I can read you like your notebook."
He clamped his mouth with his hand. "Like asking without permission?"
She gasped. "H-Hey, fuck you, I apologized."
Izuku laughed at his victory. She shoved him and then jumped on him, putting him in a headlock. "Yeah, keep laughing! I'ma rip out those pages in your head."
"Kyouka!" He laughed in protest.
"I got your back, Jirou!" Mina jumped on them.
"No, what are you doing?!" Izuku's protest began to grow worried.
"Hey, no fair, Midoriya needs our back." Kaminari and Kirishima were about to jump in, too.
"N-No wait, guys, we were just joking-! Ackhh!"
"Please no fighting in the dorms!" Iida ordered. Momo was the only one besides him in agreement.
"In that case!" Tooru attacked, dragging Ojiro with her. "Sorry, Midoriya." He mumbled.
"No please!" More piled on. "Hmp! Need... Air..."
Before long everyone got in a dogpile above Midoriya and Jirou. 'What's the point? How do you decide a winner?' Were Izuku's last thoughts as darkness began to take him.
"This got carried away too fast." Jirou gritted her teeth. "Who's hand is that?!"
Izuku's eyes shot open. 'I can't let them crush Kyouka. This is a hero's too right? Protecting a women's dignity! Full cowling!'
A crackle of lighting. Everyone gulped and glanced at each other, they all felt a sudden rush in resistance below them. In a blast, they were all thrown off as Izuku freed himself, hugging Kyouka. She had her arms around his neck. Izuku's feet touched the ceiling, he was upside down staring at the mess of people sprawled out. He could already see the culprit. 'When did Mineta sneak in there?' He held Kyouka tight around her waist and upper back. "Are you okay?"
"Y-Yeah, thanks." Her lips were parted as she stared at his heroic face. 'He's always so different when he's serious, It's exciting to see, and at the same time I feel safe.'
He flipped upright, Jirou yelped in surprise but acted like she didn't after the land, even as Midoriya apologized. She barked that she wasn't scared.
Izuku apologized again with a sweatdrop. "Sorry, I just assumed because I heard-"
"You didn't hear anything, and stop apologizing so much, didn't I already tell you, you shouldn't."
"Y-Yeah sorry."
"What did I just say."
"Sorry." But he grew a simple smile.
Her eye twitched along with a headphone. "Now your just trying to piss me off."
"Yeah... Sorry." His smile grew into a full-blown grin as he noticed Kyouka trying to suppress a smirk.
"Izuku, dummy." She crossed her arms and turned her head to the side to hide her smirk.
"That was no fair Midoriya, we didn't use our quirks!" Mina stood up, along with the rest, who were agreeing with her.
"What? But you guys were crushing us?"
Jirou sighed and kind of had to agree with everyone else. "They have a point Izuku." She had her earphones out ready to spring at their enemy. "Let's get them."
"What? Why does it always get competitive with everyone." He sighed when he saw Bakugou and Todoroki join the fray. 'Kacchan has a six sense for these things, and I think Todoroki is only going along with it to be polite, like the king of rooms event we had...'
Iida and Momo were the only two trying to regain any order.
"It's a free for all right?! Die, fuckers!" Kacchan attacked everyone and started the hailstorm of quirks.
"Revelry in the dark."
Uraraka cringed. 'He said it again.' She heard a flick. The lights were off. Uraraka froze in understanding fear. 'Revelry in the dark!'
Acid. Fire and ice. Explosion. Gravity. A spectacular naval laser from Aoyama. Purple balls. A furry tail stopping the perverted kid. "Full cowling, five percent!" An earphone jack. Momo actually began to create child-proof insulation around the walls and objects. Iida was directing the flow of traffic, if they wouldn't follow the rules, then they would at least break them in a civilized manner! A hard fist. Finally, a human stun gun, electrifying everyone. They all shook before falling down.
Kaminari stood as the winner with a thumbs up daze.
"Like hell, he's the winner!" Bakugou shoved him down claiming victory.
Izuku sat up holding his head. Everything was all over the place, mentally and physically. Everyone else was getting back up.
Except...
His eyes widened. "No!" He scurried to the body. "It can't be!" He shook and shook. "Come on, come on!"
"Oh no..." Momo covered her mouth with a hand.
"Dude..." Kirishima tried to see clearly bit could tell who it was.
"I bet you would have been a great hero..." Izuku cried.
Jirou stood besides Izuku as he tried to wake up Mineta. "He was a pervert, but kind of funny... I guess." Not really.
"That's cruel, Kyouka." He rubbed his eyes with his arm but his lips were curving at her dry insult.
A faint struggle. "...Mid.. iya."
Midoriya's eyes grew with hope. "Mineta, it's me." He held him in his arms staring down at his fallen friend.
"Can I (cough) ask (cough, cough) something?"
"Anything..." He replied with teary eyes.
"Can you use Jirou's headphones in a sexual way..?"
"Just go die already!" Jirou spat out.
"Actually Mineta-"
"Don't answer him!" She stabbed her headphones into the both of them.
"But it was his dying wish." Izuku was down.
For the first time, Momo wanted to know the answer to one of Mineta's lewd ideas. Her cheeks heated up and she slapped them with her hands to calm down.
Everyone began to slowly give up on the impromptu fight. Kacchan faced all around for anyone willing to go on, but they all just went back to chilling how they were, except Mineta. He was left on the floor.
"I'm beat." Kyouka sighed. Izuku agreed, leaning back on the chair with his arms dangling behind it. Kyouka was laying on his lap. Both with a tired expression. Ojiro and Tooru were in a similar situation, except she was using his tail as a pillow.
Aizawa had called all four of them into the teacher's office. He found about Midoriya and Jirou because of the shirt he was wearing. Tooru and Ojiro wasn't difficult either, there was left off strains of fur on her, easily noticeable, given her invisible body. He gave them an automatic lecture about public display of affection on school grounds, hinting for them, that it was acceptable as long as it was off school premise.
He also punished them with extra hero behavior training... Let's leave it at that.
"So how was that extra training guys?" Uraraka asked all for of them.
Exasperated, Tooru sighed out. "We walked so many elderly folk across the street."
Jirou cringed. "So many whining kids, a few I can handle, but... Oh, God!"
"It's over, it's over, guys..." Ojiro agreed with them.
Uraraka hopped back. 'Deku hasn't said anything, probably because he has nothing nice to say! It must have been horrible.'
"I'm going to bed." Tooru complained. More walking. Ojiro agreed. Uraraka accompanied her, actually helping her on more occasion than one.
Leaving, Izuku and Kyouka. She sat up, leaning back on the couch with her thighs tucked to his side, facing him. She hummed a tune.
"Today was fun." He mumbled with a tired breath. "Teaming up with you, I mean." It meant a lot to me.
"Yeah, it was." She poked his chest. "Ne, Izuku?"
"Hm?" He shifted his laid back head to her direction. His hand rose and absently played with her earphone.
"You're hot when you're brave." She straight up told him.
"Eh? K-Kyouka!"
She teasingly rolled her eyes. "It's been awhile since you got nervous around me, huh?" She scooted closer to him, smugly.
"I m-mean I usually am, I just try to hide it."
"Ooh, really?" Her amused half-lidded eyes inquired. Her earphone tickled his tinted cheek.
He fought back a shiver. She giggled seeing his willpower. She tackled him into a hug and they fell back on the couch, his head rested on the armrest. Both paused their playful argument.
A tender note to the moment between them.
A loving stare in the quiet melody.
Lyrical lips playing a kiss. Passionate breaths whispering a symphony of sentiment.
Kyouka's eyes fluttered open and she pulled away, staring down at her boyfriend.
Izuku shifted comfortably, his fingers tenderly held her waist and released the grip, staring up at his girlfriend.
"Are you excited for the concert."
"I hope they play some of their old stuff too, not just their new album, although it's good too."
"Yeah, it's gonna be fun."
