Joe's Note: Still no idea where this is coming from so LOL, let's go folks. I'm thinking... possibly a sleepover? Momo can make everyone what they need for the night, it doesn't matter that nobody packed for it. Sure, it's ruining the economy but it's for love! Or at least dating, since Toru is probably the only one willing to say the L-word to Izuku at this point. Uh, anyways, yeah. More Invisible Touch. Let's see where this goes.
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Still early in April, the sun was already creeping toward the horizon by the time the girls got bored of asking each other questions and finally vacated the Wendy's, much to the relief of the staff who had been eyeballing the octet for taking up multiple tables for two hours at that point. Stretching languidly, Himiko looked around curiously before turning to Izuku. "So, now what?"
That was a very good question. The verdette had already filled nearly a dozen pages with information about his new girlfriends during their time at Wendy's. Nothing much quirk-related or heroic, but all valuable information that he was sure that he'd need at some point in the future. Among other things? Many, many other things, covering the aforementioned pages?
Meeting the six girls' parents would probably be complicated enough, depending on how honest they were, but Tsuyu's family promised to be even more difficult on account of her having two younger siblings who would probably have lots of questions.
Himiko had a cosplay Instagram with three hundred thousand followers, mostly due to her thirst trap postings of Kitagawa Marin cosplaying as various real life heroes and heroines. She had already persuaded Mina to try cosplaying Inui Sajuna, which promised to be... interesting.
Evidently Momo had a private driver with a limousine who was just... lurking in the area in the eventuality that he was needed. A limousine that could fit all of them, meaning they had non-public transportation any day after school to anywhere that the group wanted to go. Momo insisted.
Him and Kyoka had absolutely no common taste in music, owing largely to the fact that he just plain... didn't really listen to music apart from when HMVs starring All Might popped up on YouTube. She'd already declared that she would find a weekend to lug her spare record player over to his house along with some of her vinyls, so evidently that was going to change?
Ochako was probably going to be a regular fixture at his apartment until the girls sorted out whether or not they were going to pool money to rent one of the units in his building. Izuku knew that the moment his mother discovered that a teenage girl was living all alone in the city - and in questionable conditions, to boot - she would insist on him inviting the brunette over at every opportunity.
As discovered earlier that day, Mina and Toru were very good friends - almost more - from junior high school and the pink-skinned girl was ecstatic to be reconnecting. One of the things that Izuku had planned on insisting on was dates between the other girls because he'd read enough harem shonen manga to know that he wanted nothing to do with it. Mina and Toru looked to be working that out on their own, though, so one less thing for him to worry about.
Shaking his head to clear it as Himiko continued to stare at him with bright yellow eyes, Izuku pondered the girl's question. Now what indeed? Before she'd moved in with him, Toru would generally meet up with him after school each day. They'd train, then they'd hang out, and sometimes she'd sleep over at his apartment because she 'lost track of time' and 'it was too late to take the train home'. After the battle trials, Izuku wasn't really in the mood to train today. They'd already hung out. That really just left...
"Sleepover!" Toru thrust her arms into the air, thankfully outlined by several bracelets that she'd reclaimed from their backpack after eating. Bouncing out ahead of the rest of the group, she turned to face them and waved her hands excitedly. "Izu-kun's room isn't that big so we can't permanently move anyone else into it, but the living room is decently sized. We'll have to squish in a bit, but we can probably fit all eight of us on futons. Yaomomo-chan, you know how to make futons, right?"
Momo nodded hesitantly. "I do. And I could probably make pajamas so that we could wear something else and wash our uniforms at Izuku-kun's house. But... I've never been to a sleepover before. I have no idea how to properly behave at one."
Hugging against Momo's side, Mina grinned up at her. "You don't have to be proper! Sleepovers aren't high society events! They're just fun!" Still clinging to Momo's side, the pink-skinned girl grinned at the rest of them. "We can order pizza! And watch anime together! And play games! Truth or Dare would probably be a waste after the last few hours, but we could always play Spin the Bottle."
"You just want to kiss people, kero." Tsuyu brought her finger up to the corner of her mouth as she stared at Mina. "You can start with me if you want. I've never been kissed before, but I'd certainly like to be."
Surprisingly, when bluntly put on the spot like that, Mina blushed a cute shade of purple and brought one hand up to cover her cheek. "You can't just tell me to kiss you, Tsu-chan! That's too forward! We live in a society of rules!"
Tsuyu shrugged and made a cute little hop forward, invading Mina and Momo's personal space. "I tend to say what's on my mind. And I'm a frog with needs. So if you're looking to kiss people tonight, you should start with me."
Continuing to blush, Mina buried her face in a bemused Momo's arm before peering at Tsuyu with one golden eye. "I mean, maybe? I've never been kissed before either. I wouldn't mind you being my first kiss, but I figured we could leave it up to the bottle to decide."
"Fair enough." Backing off a little, Tsuyu tilted her head to the side as something occurred to her. "Can I just spin the bottle first then?"
Blushing almost darkly as Mina - albeit in a more traditionally human color - Ochako reached out to pat Tsuyu on the back. "I mean, someone has to go first and so I guess if you want to volunteer... better you than me. Unless you land on me. In which case I'll be the first one kissed. Eep." Bringing both hands up to her face, the brunette began to slowly float upward off the sidewalk as her quirk activated.
Before she could get too high, Toru reached out and snagged the shorter girl by the waistband of her skirt, letting her float in the air next to her as she brought her other hand up to her mouth and giggled. "Wait, does Izu-kun have more experience than anyone else here? Seriously? That's hilarious."
Izuku crossed his arms over his chest defensively as he stared over at his girlfriend. "Hey! What's that supposed to mean?"
"Okay, so, I love you but... look at you..." Toru gestured to Izuku and then spread her arms as best she could with one hand still wrangling a floating Ochako. "And look at them. You can't tell me that you expected to be the most romantically experienced person in this group. Well, tied with me, but I'm not counting myself at the moment."
While part of him was slightly offended, a far larger part of Izuku recognized the point that she was trying to make. All of his classmates were supremely talented and powerful young women with amazing quirks and great personalities. Well, Himiko admitted to being 'weird' and so did Tsuyu, who was possibly a bit blunter and more forward than entirely socially acceptable... but they were all great girls! And he had more experience than all of them? That seemed so... improbable? "So wait, Tsu-chan, you haven't been kissed? And neither has Mina-chan? Yaomomo-chan? Ochako-chan? Himiko-chan? Kyoka-chan? None of you have been kissed before?"
Having gone ignored for the last few minutes, Kyoka gave a start at being addressed before reaching up to run a hand through her short purple hair with a rueful chuckle. "You're joking, right? I founded the GSA at my old junior high and I still couldn't get anyone to confess to me. It's probably the hair. I was too masculine for boys who like girls and girls who like girls, and too feminine for boys who like boys and girls who did too."
Izuku raised an eyebrow at that, looking over at his new girlfriend thoughtfully. While sure her neatly trimmed fade wasn't traditionally feminine within the bounds of Japanese society, wasn't gendering haircuts sort of... weird? Especially considering the fact that he and Mina had literally the same haircut? Did that mean she had a boy's haircut? Or did he have a girl's haircut? Wait. Toru was taller than him, stronger than him, and had less hair. Was he the feminine one out of the two of them? Trying not to have a crisis over that realization, Izuku decided to focus on Kyoka instead. "Well, uh, I suppose their loss is our gain. If someone had been smart enough to ask you out before you came to UA then we wouldn't be lucky enough to be dating you."
"Yo! Yo! That's my man! Look at him, being all smooth, making Jacks-chan blush like that." Sure enough, Kyoka was blushing darkly and tapping her prehensile earphone jacks together as she stared at Izuku with a shy smile on her face. Izuku hadn't been trying to be 'smooth', just tell the truth. Maybe he should do more of that? "Before this goes any further, we seriously need to make a plan. I'm down for a sleepover if you all are. If not, it's six o'clock and I know that Mina-chan at a minimum needs to get to the train station because she has a long ride home."
Still clinging to Momo, Mina shook her head vehemently. "You're joking, right? I'm absolutely not going to be the first person leaving if there's a possibility for a sleepover. I will sleep on the damn floor before I sleep at home tonight." Pulling out her phone, she began texting rapidly. "Just need to get permission."
Free to move now that Mina's attention was occupied by her phone, Momo wiggled her arm a bit before pulling out her own phone. "I doubt my parents would let me stay over a boy's house, especially if I told them that I was now dating Izuku-kun." After nibbling on her lower lip for a few seconds, she perked up. "I could, however, tell them that I've made friends with a girl in my class who has invited me to stay over her house for the evening. That's technically not a lie."
"That's a great idea!"
The exclamation came from several girls at once as everyone else pulled out their phones and began texting their parents. Ochako continued to hang in the air next to Toru, texting away on a slightly beat up, older model phone as Toru held her in place. Leaning in, Izuku nodded in Ochako's direction. "Should we, uh, do something about that?"
Toru's hair swished softly as she looked back and forth. "That being the floating thing? Nah, it's cute. As long as she releases her quirk before she gets sick and pukes on me, I'll allow it." Peering over at Ochako again, she giggled softly. "If this becomes a habit, though, she's absolutely getting dubbed Kikyu-chan."
Balloon? Izuku could see it. Reaching up, he ran his hand along Toru's arm until he found her invisible hand wrapped in the waistband of Ochako's skirt. Replacing it with his own, he bumped his hip against hers. "Since this was your idea, you get to tell Mom that we're bringing six other girls home for the evening."
"You think she's going to mind? You're joking, right?" Reaching into his pocket, Toru pulled out their phone and unlocked it, quickly switching to the Messages app. "Do you know how ecstatic your mother is going to be to find out that you now have seven girlfriends? Do you know how many people that means she gets to dote on?"
"Uh, eight? Including me."
"Shush, you. You get what I'm saying, though."
He did. This was going to be... interesting. Izuku waited as one by one, the girls announced their success at convincing their parents to let them sleepover at Izuku's house. He found himself wondering how many had admitted to having a boyfriend - or for that matter, six girlfriends - versus how many had decided to take Momo's approach to the situation. The latter was probably for the best. Although why Ochako needed permission, he had no idea. Maybe she was just being polite by keeping her parents in the loop? Shaking his head, he gestured to the train station barely visible in the distance. "Musutafu isn't huge but it's big enough that I don't think I want to walk all the way home. Do we want to take the train or the, uh, Yaoyorousine?"
Momo shot him an odd look at that. "I noticed that Mina-chan referred to my creations codex as the Yaoyorictionary earlier. Is this going to become a pattern? I'm not averse, mind you. It's... somewhat adorable of you all. I'm just curious so that I can start making appropriate references if necessary."
"I've got one for you: Yaoyoroppai!" Toru gestured energetically at Momo's breasts, making the shorter girl blush and bring one hand up to her chest shyly. "No, in all seriousness, we can absolutely make that a thing. Especially if two of us are already on that wavelength and you don't mind. Oh! What about your costume: the... Yaoyoreotard? Wait, no, that sounds borderline offensive. We can workshop it, though."
Snickering softly, Kyoka drew his attention to where she was curling one earphone jack around her finger. "Speaking of workshopping things, can we get the heroics guru over here to help me with my name? Because right now all I have is Earphone Jack. And that's just sort of... lame."
Okay so were they taking the limousine? The train? Was it up to him? After hesitating for a second, Izuku set off in the direction of the train station and the girls quickly fell into place around him. Okay, train station it was. As for Kyoka's question... "I can think of... so many ideas! Heartjack, because your jacks channel your heartbeat. Heartsong, because you're very music-oriented. Songbird, for something still musically-oriented but less obviously playing on your quirk. If you want to be punnier, you could do Jack Sabbath or another name that plays off a famous rock band. Fleetwood Jack. There's like, dozens of rock bands that are just 'the' and a noun. You could be The Jack or The Jacks. Um, if you're comfortable embracing the clear bifauxnen aesthetic that you've got going, could do a portmanteau of Kyoka and ouji and do like... Kyouji? Um, what else? I didn't have a chance to ask, can your body amplify outside sounds? Because then you could do something wild like use a guitar as a support item and call yourself Guitar Hero like those old video games..."
