Chapter 4: V is for Virgin!
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"So, why are you guy's camping together?"
Currently, Ibarra was in Itsuka's tend changing as Itsuka was inside helping her and Izuku was outside of the tent, waiting for them to come out.
Thank god that Ibarra was in the tent because Izuku blushed a little as he thought as to why they had been camping together. He wanted to respond but he knew he would stutter and mess up his explanation.
"We ran into each other and since I know little about camping, Izuku offered to camp with me since he's an apparent pro at this stuff" He heard Itsuka say inside the tent
'Thank you for the save Itsuka, even if you didn't know' Itsuka thought to himself
"Ah, I see," Ibarra replied,
"Why were you camping alone Ibarra?" Itsuka asked her fellow classmate
Ibarra blushed, "I-I thought I could do it on my own... however, it proved to be a lot harder than I expected," She said
"I see, you thought it would be easy" Izuku chimed in, "Which means that this is your first time camping, right?" he asked her
"... Correct" Ibarra said
Itsuka looked at Ibarra with concern, "Ibarra, you could have been hurt or worse, stuck out here alone with no help!" Itsuka said
"I know, I know," Ibarra said with a sigh, "I... I just wanted to try to camp by myself, but look how that ended up" She said with a sad tone
Seeing and hearing the sadness on Ibarra's face made Itsuka feel sorry for the vine-haired girl, She wanted to do something to help her fellow classmate, and that's when it hit her.
"Hey, why don't you join us?" Itsuka asked
Ibarra looked at her class president and close friend with a confused look, "What?" She asked
"You heard me, stay and camp with us," Itsuka told Ibarra with a smile, "I'm sure it's also ok with Izuku, right?" She said as he turned to the entrance of the tent looking at Izuku's outline.
Izuku nodded, "Yeah," He said "I wouldn't want you to get in any more situations like this morning, Ibarra, It's better to be safe than sorry, as they say," He told her
Ibarra, hearing that it was ok, looked at her class president, "Well, if you truly don't mind it, then I would very much like to camp with the two of you" Ibarra said with a soft smile on her face
Itsuka gave Ibarra a quick nod and smiled back at her, "Alright then, Let's get your stuff moved over here" Itsuka said
Ibarra nodded and continued to try herself off and finish changing. After she finished, she and Itsuka left Itsuka's tent, where Izuku still awaited them, and they quickly come up with a plan to get Ibarra's stuff across the stream without getting wet. And once they agreed on it, they headed to Ibarra's camp sight.
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Eventually, they had returned to Izuku and Itsuka's campsite, and currently, Ibarra was getting set up with help from Itsuka. However, they're had been something that had been bugging the vine-haired girl since they had left to go retrieve her things. She had noticed that Itsuka and Izuku were very talkative, and while that wasn't unusual since the two classes have been through a lot, it felt different, like something had been forged between the two that made them more at ease around each other.
Not only were they at ease with the other and quite talkative, she noticed that sometimes when Itsuka wasn't looking, Izuku would steal glances at her, not anything like his fellow classmate, Mineta, but he would sometimes look at her as of she were a statue made of Marbel, at sometimes, she would catch Itsuka looking at Izuku like he did her.
Her gut was telling her that something had indeed happened between the two, and it forced them to get close in a matter of two days. Questions clawed at the back of her mind about what may have happened between the two. She just had to ask.
She looked around only to see that Izuku was nowhere to be seen, and she decided to use his absence to speak to Itsuka in privet.
"Itsuka?" Ibarra called
Itsuka turned her head to look at her friend, "Yeah?"
"May I ask you something?" Ibarra asked her
Itsuka nodded, "Yeah, what's up?" Itsuka replied
"Did... did something happen between you and Izuku?" Ibarra asked
Itsuka froze for a split second, however, she shook her head as he looked at her friend, giving her a smile, trying her best not to show any real reaction, "No, what gave you that idea?" Itsuka asked with a chuckle
"Well... I noticed you both being quite talkative, and at first, I didn't think anything of it, but then I noticed you two stealing glances at each other, and both of you seemed to be very focused on... well, each other" Ibarra said
'Curse you Ibarra and your observation! Thank god Izuku isn't here he'd be fumbling over his words in a situation like this!' Itsuka cried to herself, 'Think! What do I say!?' she thought. Thankfully, she managed to come up with something
"Nothing happened between us, it's just that before we bumped into each other, I learned from Iida and Momo that Izuku was sort of closing himself off from the others again," Itsuka told Ibarra, "So, I've just been talking to him and trying to get him to open up a bit more... even if he's not apart of our class or I really know him all that much... I worry about him... he's been through enough as it is" Itsuka said
Ibarra smiled when she heard Itsuka's response. It was just like Itsuka to worry about others, after all, she was everyone's big sis in 1-B and it seemed her instincts to care for her fellow classmates transferred over to Izuku as well. Itsuka was right, Izuku had been through a lot as it was, and while she could never truly know how he had felt going through all the things he did, she was sure that it had been quite the heavy burden, and she was just thankful that Izuku had people around him who cared for his well being.
"That's good to hear," Ibarra replied "Also, I would have felt bad, if you two were an item and I was getting in the way of you two," Ibarra said
Itsuka chuckled, "No, we're not an Item, Ibarra," Itsuka told her with a smile, 'At least not yet... whoa! Where did that come from?'
Just then, Izuku arrived back with a few good-sized branches for the fire in his arms. Izuku looked at them and smiled, "I got wood for the fire tonight" Izuku said "I was thinking we could make smores, like how they do in America" Izuku said
"Sounds like a plan," Itsuka said with a smile
Izuku walked away and set the wood near the campfire hole. Meanwhile, Itsuka continued to help Ibarra set up her tent and get her situated in the campsite. As a group, they also decided on what they were gonna eat for dinner before making smores. Eventually, after finishing getting Ibarra's stuff set up, they began making their dinner. Ibarra went over to Izuku as he began making starting the fire.
"Izuku, I have to ask, how do you know so much about camping?" Ibarra asked him
"Itsuka knows this, but I use to come camp with my grandparents sometimes during my summer vacation, My grandpa taught me a few things every time we camped," Izuku said with a small smiled
"That must have been very nice for you," Ibarra said
Izuku nodded, "Yeah," He said fondly, "I miss camping with them"
"Have you seen them since attending UA?" Itsuka asked him
Izuku shook his head, "No, after the third year of middle school, they moved all the way to Fukuoka," Izuku said with a smile
"maybe when we return to UA, you should give them all call," Ibarra told him
"Yeah, I'm sure they'd be happy to hear from you," Itsuka said with a smile
Izuku looked at her and smile, "Thanks, you two"
Itsuka smiled and nodded, "No problem," she said
Ibarra smiled at him, "Yes, no problem at all"
With that, Izuku got the fire started and with help from Ibarra, they began cooking. They ate and then began making smores, as they continued to converse. Izuku learned a few new things about Ibarra and he shared a few stories about his camping trips with his grandparents with the two girls. During all this time, Izuku smiled and enjoyed himself, and he looked over to Itsuka and saw her smiling at him, so he smiled back.
For Izuku, this was a night he would always remember. As he made him feel like he was back in the time when he had nothing to worry about as a middle schooler.
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How was today's chapter? what? it can be smutty 24/7, felt like we needed a calm chapter with no smut or lewdness... but we will be getting back to smut and lewd in the next chapter. That is a guarantee!
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed today's chapter and I hope you stick around to see and read the next one!
As always! Thank you for reading!