RING
Aslight tap on the alarm clock quickly stops the ringing that fills the room. Replacing the sound is that of bristles rubbing against teeth and the opening of a drawer. Always the early bird, Tenya likes to start the day as soon as possible. He sets an alarm for eight in the morning that he always beats by five minutes, by the time he wakes up he quickly puts on his glasses and is in the bathroom brushing his teeth. He walks back into his room at the sound of the ringing letting him know he can officially start his day. He opens his drawer and brushes his hair down, no further than four inches, laying right on top of where his eyebrows rest. He returns the toothbrush and goes to the living area.
From there, he does his daily cleaning routine. He fixes the couch cushions, he wraps up the wires from the game controllers left laying around, folds any leftover blankets, and tidies up any leftover papers that the others may have left overnight from studying. He takes a vacuum out and cleans arounds the carpet in the room, knowing that Uraraka is a light sleeper, whenever he gets around towards the stairs he unplugs the machine and manually picks up the objects so as not to awaken her. At this point usually one of two things happen. Iida is either greeted by a Katsuki on a mission to the restroom, or is greeted by one of his friends.
"Mornin', Iida." The voice of his best friend Midoriya greets, he walks in from his daily morning jog.
And almost like clockwork- right after Midoriya- marching out of his room with malicious intent is Bakugou. He was making a beeline to the bathroom, not even giving a passing glance to the two teens idling in the living room.
"Morning, Bakugou!" Midoriya calls out from his spot in the living area...
… An action that results in Bakugou slamming the bathroom door closed in a rage. Iida and Midoriya exchange a knowing glance before shrugging their aggressive peer's behavior off.
Picking up from where he'd paused, Iida begins to wrap up the vacuum cord as Izuku makes his way to the kitchen, Iida speaks up, deciding to make conversation. "How was your jog? I would imagine it was very invigorating."
"You could say that." Midoriya muses as he walks over to the sink and turns on the water, letting it run, "You should come with me one of these days, Iida."
"I would take you up on that offer my friend, but you know how I feel about your sleep schedule. Quite frankly I'm not sure how you do it."`
Sticking his water bottle under the water, Midoriya chuckles, "Yea, I know. But it's really not all that bad. I've always been a bit of a night owl." He pulls the bottle away and puts his cap back on it. "I only ever really need a few hours of sleep."
"Midoriya, you barely get four hours of sleep on a good day."
"I don't see the issue." He quips, fiddling with his water bottle.
"Don't bother, four eyes." Bakugou states in the doorway of the bathroom with a towel over his head. "Damn nerd has been like that since we were kids, he has too much damn energy."
"I don't see how that makes it any better." Iida continues, concern laced in his voice.
"Never said it was any good, just don't waste your time trying to get him to fix it. If anything I say it's gotten worse now that he has a quirk of his own to obsess over."
This catches Iida's attention as he looks at Midoriya with an eyebrow raised in question. The person in question looks over to Bakugou with a mixed look of confusion, anger, and genuine annoyance. "What do you mean by that?"
"Yeah, Kacchan, what do you mean by that?" Midoriya says slowly through his grit teeth.
Bakugou laughs to himself before walking back into the bathroom "I mean he's always obsessing over you damn extras' quirks. Unless there's something I'm wrong about, Deku?"
"...Nope! That's exactly what he means!" Izuku says in a high pitched voice "Not like I just got my quirk or anything,haha." The stretched and obvious fake laugh doing nothing more than adding to Bakugou's amusement.
"Hm, even if that is the case, I recommend you take the steps necessary to better yourself, my friend. Your knowledge of others is fantastic but it would be beneficial in the future if you took the same interest you have in others in yourself." Iida advised his friend "You're just as special as the rest of us, I see it and so does everyone else. I hope that one day you can see it as well."
Izuku seems genuinely touched, "Wow thanks Iida, I really appreciate you t-"
"THAT WAS SO MANLY!" Kirishima screams, cutting off Midoriya with a loud howl and a face full of tears.
"Ah Kirishima, how are you this morning?" Tenya asks, making his way to the kitchen from the living area.
"I feel pretty great actually, I got to catch up on the sleep I lost the other night. Gotta tell you man, never felt so good to get some quality rest."
Once in the Kitchen, Iida opens up the cabinet closest to the fridge and begins rummaging through for something."Wel, I'm happy to hear that you're so well rested. Especially since it's your day to clean, Kirishima." Iida can hear Kirishima's groan, and he finally finds what he was looking for.
Iida pulls out a box of energy bars, and tosses one to Kirishima who effortlessly catches it. "Thanks, Iida." Kirishima grunts in distaste before ripping up the packing of the bar and taking a bite. "Man what a pain, and on our day off, too."
"No need to worry Kirishima, I handled a lot of it this morning so the work you have to do is minor. Besides, you'll have help from Ashido as well, which should take the both of you an hour." It should take an hour, but that depended on how focused they were.
Iida makes his way to another cabinet, this time the one over the sink, and pulls out another box. He brings the red box over to the coffee maker, changing the filter before measuring out the exact amount of coffee powder.
"Think about this Kirishima, if you and Mina get it off your agenda the minute she wakes up, you can have the whole day to yourselves." Midoriya pointed out in an attempt to cheer him up.
"As if Kirishima and raccoon eyes could focus up enough to do something like that!" Bakugou yells once again stepping out from the bathroom "Raccoon eyes is gonna get distracted again and is gonna find a way to rope Kirishima in it. Dumbass couldn't say no to her if he tried."
Kirishima waves him off with his right hand, a nervous laugh bubbling up from his throat. "I totally can, I just don't like to. Truthfully, I don't like making anyone upset."
Nodding his head furiously, Midoriya chimes in, "Yeah, I agree! Helping someone is way better, plus it's never too much to give a friend a hand."
"You two together are sickening." Katsuki exaggerates loudly before doing an impression of him fake vomiting. "Too much sunshine."
"It's called being nice, you should try it, Bakugou." Uraraka groggily interjects, making her entrance.
Her form was shrouded in an oversized pink T-shirt, emblazoned with her favorite hero thirteen. The shirt comes down to around her knees, leaving the rest of her legs to be covered by long black thigh high socks. On her feet, pink fluffy slippers, and her normally well kept hair is a bit more bed-ridden with strands of her hair all over the place making it seem as if she didn't care enough to fix it.
"What was that Uraraka?!" Bakugou booms at her, causing the half-sleep girl to wince almost painfully at the volume.
Putting two fingers up to her head massaging her temples, she rolls her eyes. "It's too early to deal with you, I at least need my co-"
She is cut off by Iida handing her a cup of coffee before rushing off. "Oh thanks, Iida!" She grins gratefully before the speedster makes his way to the toaster.
"Aye! Don't touch it, four eyes!" Bakugou shouts before marching over to Iida and pushing him away from the toaster. "How many times do I have to tell you not to cook shit unless someone is in here with you."
"So loud." Uraraka groans in annoyance only to be met with a glare from Bakugou who puts some pieces of bread in the toaster for Iida.
The speedster smiles at the blonde brute who scoffs at him. Iida rushes over from the toaster to the table in the center of the kitchen. From there he grabs two apples and makes his way back towards the sink.
"You'd think you'd be used to this by now. It's literally his whole gig." Kirishima jokes, and is met with a low primitive growl from Bakugou.
"I don't care if that's his whole thing. He could give it a rest when people are just waking up." Ochako complains, which is only met with a louder growl from Bakugou. "Oh shut up you talking pomeranian."
"What did you call me round face?" Bakugou challenges, his voice getting impossibly louder.
With a roll of her eyes and a loud sigh, she sits her now empty cup of coffee on the table. Uraraka turns her attention towards Bakugou, she even bats her eyes just a little. "I said, ''Shut up, you talking pomeranian.'" She restates before turning around and giving her attention back to Kirishima and Midoriya.
Kirishima and Midoriya share looks with each other, and then back at Uraraka. Midoriya takes the chance to crack a joke, "I don't know how you can do that and get away with it. If that was me I'd be six feet deep right now."
"At Least you know, you damn nerd!" Bakugo hollers again, obviously not even considering being more quiet.
"Bakugou is a big softie, he wouldn't hurt a fly." The tired girl waves her hand dismissively toward the angry blond, and once again Kirishima and Midoriya share incredulous looks.
"If you say so."
Just then, two more classmates come to join them. Coming down the stairs in record speed is Ashido, and coming from the bathroom with a yawn is Todoroki. And as if on cue, the toast pops up from the toaster and Iida quickly comes to scoop it on a plate.
"Morning everyone!" Ashido shouts, stopping on a dime in front of the kitchen table. " I didn't expect to see you all up already."
"You're always the last one to wake up Mina." Midoriya points out, and the romance junkie just shrugs him off.
"Nonsense and slander, I'm always one of the first people up. You should know this Midori. Besides, not like I could sleep in if I wanted to. Not with the ruckus you all seem to make."
Collectively the six people residing in the kitchen stop what they are doing and look at Mina all at the same time. All sharing the same look of disbelief and astonishment at her words
"The ruckus that WE make?" Uraraka questions incredulously.
"Yes." Mina is firm with this answer, it seems.
Laughing a bit, Kirishima adds "You're… quite the character, Mina."
"What are you talking about?" Mina asks only to be handed a plate by Iida in passing. On the plate is toast covered in a light spread of butter. "Thanks, Iida!" She gleefully shouts before picking up a slice and biting into it.
"What they mean is that you are very overactive and can cause a lot of trouble." Todoroki deadpans, taking a seat at the head of the kitchen table as he usually does.
"Jeez, tell me how you really feel Todoroki." Mina responds in annoyance before taking another loud crunch of her toast.
"Well you do tend to chew very loudly. oh and you-" he quickly gets cut off.
"It was a figure of speech Todoroki!" The acid user shouts interrupting him and causing some laughs from the others.
Slipping and sliding from behind the angry girl, Iida makes his way towards the table. In one quick motion he drops off a plate of cut apples in front of the youngest member of the Todoroki household. Afterwards, he quickly goes back to the kitchen cabinets and pulls out a small pot and continues on his way to the sink.
Picking up one of the slices and tossing it in his mouth like a tic tac; the icy hot user gives a thumbs-up of gratitude."Thank you, Iida."
Descending down the stairs covering her mouth with a yawn, Yaoyorozu sleepy makes her way towards the kitchen with the others, her eyes noticeably making a quick note of Bakugou. He locks eyes with her before looking elsewhere growling in annoyance. The ponytail girl takes a seat at the table across from her horned friend and next to the half and half user.
Moving some strands of her hair behind her ear, a small exhale of breath escapes her mouth.
"I see you all are lively as always." Yaoyorozu started, taking a quick look around the living space. "I'm used to Midoriya and Iida being up so early in the morning but the rest of you it's a shocker."
*SLAM*
"It's our day off, gotta make the most of it!" Mina exclaimed, waving her half eaten toast around in front of her. "Besides. Hard to sleep in with King Explosion Murder over there around."
*SLAM*
Yaoyorozu couldn't help but snicker and smirk after hearing that line, her gaze hasn't returned to Bakugou since coming down stairs but she's all but aware of those glaring red eyes in her direction. "I agree, he does have a tendency to cause quite the commotion, doesn't he?"
Deciding to test her limits, the vice president of class 1A looks over in the direction of Uraraka and stating, "But what is to be expected from someone by the name of 'king explosion murder'?"
*SLAM*
Locking eyes, Uraraka and Yaoyorozu, with no words spoken between the two, instantaneously come to the same idea. "Yeah, what can we do? Some people are just beyond help, I mean really how do you expect to get anything done when a pomeranian is always yelling about something?" A huffed laugh escapes Ochako's mouth after this, she makes eye contact with Bakugou whose temper seems to be at its limits. "I mean, honestly, king explosion murder? Give me a break."
"In our group chat I call him an angry dandelion." Mina eggs on, definitely trying to hold back a laugh.
*SLAM*
Momo puts a hand over her mouth to hide her laughter. She could never understand where Mina gets her childlike urge for reckless abandonment from but she couldn't find it in herself to not say she wasn't enjoying this. "He reminds me of a firework, always so volatile at all times. But seriously, what can you expect from-"
"King explosion murder." The three girls mock in harmony before laughing to their heart's content. Next to the ponytail girl is Todoroki who is trying harder than he would like to admit to stifle laughter from the rage that is obviously boiling on his roommate's face.
Meanwhile, near the bathroom doors and towards the edge of the kitchen, Izuku and Kirishima are both exchanging nervous looks towards Bakugou whose face has flashed between pissed and furious. Uncharastically though, instead of snapping on everyone Katsuki takes a long deep breath, and a slow exhale.
A look not of rage nor frustration but a look of pure resentment. He starts walking towards the table "You know, I'm used to raccoon eyes' stupidity, and at this point I can kinda tolerate Uraraka's annoyance." His voice was clipped, not the same as his usual loud and irritable volume that the household was used to, but the rage he felt and currently still holds is still very much felt. He stopped on the side of the table that Mina was on and slammed his fist into it before locking eyes with Momo. "But you, I've had just about enough of you, and your shit, vice president."
Bakugou's glare was hot and fiery, an obvious attempt to strike fear into the ponytail girl in front of him. Yaoyorozu matched his glare with one of her own, one that was cold and sharp, strong enough to put fear into even the deadliest of villains. Neither seemed willing to budge, looking away meaning defeat in their eyes, nothing seemingly able to stop this eternal contest.
*SLAM*
Except, that.
"Oh for fucks sake!" Bakugou shouts and turns his attention to the source of the sound that broke his concentration. "Four eyes, what the hell are you doing?" Almost on cue the other six residents of the home, has their attention turned towards Iida. … Who is currently running around the kitchen throwing out every box in every cabinet in a haste.
"We're out of tea!"
"What?" Bakugou questions almost in awe at the stupidity of the answer.
"We are out of tea." Iida says slowly, like Bakugou didn't hear him the first time.
Laughing a little bit at his friend, Midoriya decides to intervene before Katsuki pops a blood vessel. "Iida, you mean you tore apart the kitchen... For tea?"
Ignoring the question, Iida paces back and forth through the kitchen none the wiser to the mess he made. "Since moving into the dorms, Yaoyorozu has had tea to start the day. Without it, she is not herself and is usually sluggish. I could run to the 1B dorms to ask for their tea, but that wouldn't be fair to them. I could supplement it with coffee but that's Uraraka's thing and then we would run out of coffee and that would make two people upset instead of to do?" The speedster mumbles to himself, obviously stressed, as the rest of his friends look on in horror.
"Is this what I look like to you guys?" Izuku asks as he struggles to look away from the sight before him.
In an attempt to ease his worries, Ochako chimes in, a cheeky grin on her face, "Nah, you look cuter."
"What?" Midoriya snaps out of his gaze on Iida to look at Uraraka.
"What?" She asks, pretending to be equally as confused.
Cutting in, Iida slaps his forehead with way more force than necessary "I know! I'll ask principal Nezu if I can use some funds for the class for groceries so we can stock up on everything. That way nothing like this can happen again." After coming to this conclusion the class rep zooms by his classmates and is out the door before anyone can stop him.
"What the hell was that?"
"What the hell happened to my life?" Bakugou expresses exhaustion and aggravation ringing throughout his voice.
Currently seven of the current eight residents of the guild are in front of a local market standing around like a bunch of lost children. After Iida rushed out of the dormitory, he was back quickly with a stack of cash and chaotic hair. Almost in an instant he was in his room dressed and nearly out the door if it wasn't for Midoriya and Uraraka stopping him by pure strength. Todoroki froze him in place and Momo made the executive decision to have everyone get dressed to aid Iida before he injured himself or others. Much to Bakugou's annoyance.
Laughing at his friend's misery, Kirishima wraps his arms around Bakugou's neck. "Come on Bakugou man, you live there too. You should get a say in the groceries we buy, don't you think?"
"Why couldn't four eyes just do it all,he's the one that had a panic attack over missing tea. He could've just restocked it all."
"Because if we got something you didn't like you would've thrown a hissy fit." Uraraka chimes in. "Besides, like Kirishima said, you live there, you eat there, and you cook there. The least you could do is help restock the food."
"I only cook so much because four eyes can't be within five feet of a stove." He shouts, gaining a few looks from passerbyers.
With a loud sigh, Momo annoyingly expresses "Why must you always cost such a disruption."
Before he could reply, Iida rushes through the grocery store doors with a shopping cart in hand. "Ok people, thanks to principal Nezu and I was able to get us permission to leave the school on our off day. The mission today is simple, restock on main necessities that we need for the next month.I am talking tea, I am talking bread, I am talking rice, I am-"
"Iida it's just grocery shopping, we've all done it before." Midoriya reminds his friend "No need to make it a big thing."
Sharing the same statement as her friend Yaoyorozu adds "Also, not to rain on your parade or anything, but you do the least amount of cooking in the household."
"I fail to see how that holds any relevance to the current conversation."
Bakugou interrupts with a loud dramatic sigh "Because four eyes, the rest of us cook, we know what we need to buy, we don't need you telling us what to do. Especially since you are banned from the kitchen in the first place, I don't really understand why you dragged us out here to begin with."
Iida looks around his friend group and sees them,more or less, nodding or mumbling in agreement to what the explosive teen has said. Defeated, he sighs "I'm well aware of my lack of contribution in the kitchen which is why all the groceries today will be bought from my pocket and not the school or any of you. It's my way of contributing to the household."
"That's hella manly Iida, but don't you think that's a bit much?" Kirishima asks to which he gets waved off by the speedster.
"Nonsense Kirishima,besides this should be nothing but a drop in the bucket of my family's fortune."
Awkwardly clearing her throat, Yaoyorozu takes a step next to her fellow class rep "Again, not to rain on your parade,or ruin the sentiment Iida, but you are aware that both Todoroki and I are also quite wealthy as well. We are more than happy to help if you want us too.
"I can buy this store if I want too." Todoroki bluntly expresses flashing his debit card to his friends.
"Eat the rich." Uraraka mumbles under her breath.
"What was that?"
"Oh nothing." She lied with a grin to the half and half boy who simply shrugs.
"It's fine Yaoyorozu, and you too Shoto, I may not be as wealthy as the two of you but the Iida family are quite up there in terms of social hierarchy in Japan. Now I think it's best if we all split up. I wrote down some things that I think would be best so we can get this done as quick and efficient as possible." The speedster digs in his pocket and pulls out four slips of paper before handing them out to Kirishima,Uraraka, and Yaoyorozu while also keeping one for himself. "Kirishima and Bakugou, you two will handle meat and and Ashido, you two will handle canned goods and produce. Todoroki and Yaoyorozu, condiments as well as frozen goods. Midoriya and I will handle the rest, sound like a plan?"
The other seven residents of the guild look between themselves and all come to the same conclusion that it is best to go along with the blue haired teen as they have already come this far. "Yeah, it sounds like a plan Iida." Midoriya assured
Mina was certainly a character, that was always the thought that passed through Uraraka's mind whenever she thought of the acid teen. She was unpredictable, a bundle of madness, a bag of chaotic energy that no one could ever control, She was for better or worse Mina Ashido. She was also, beside Tsu, her closest female friend within the class. She enjoyed her company, and Mina could always lift her spirits when she was down, and despite her constant teasing, Ochako knew that the acid girl cared about her.
With all this said, she has no idea how to approach her about the current situation in her mind. Mina read Deku's notebook, Deku wasn't mad she read it, however Deku wont let her read it. He trusted Mina over her, and that idea, that thought, hurt her more than she would like to admit to herself. Last time she checked, she was the green haired boy's best friend, she was the one always beside him, meanwhile she didn't even know they talked!Let alone close enough to keep secrets. Just like with Yaoyorozu,who Uraraka was also totally fine with using her nickname for the boy, he was keeping secrets. So how did she go about asking Mina what happened between the two in such a short period of time.
"Yo Mochi, you're doing alright." Mina asks, snapping her fingers in front of the gravity girl's face.
Snapping back to reality "Oh, yeah sorry, I kinda zoned out there didn't I." She awkwardly scratches the right side of her cheek "I've been doing that a lot lately."
"Don't sweat it, I zone out all the time. During class, when i'm studying, when i'm doing homework -"
"It sounds like you lose focus anytime something involving school happens." Uraraka jokes about as she cuts off her friend.
"Yeah more or less." She confessed, shrugging "So whatcha thinking about!?" getting all up in the mocha haired girls faced. Mina's voice gains some attention from a couple other people in the aisle but they seem to pay her no mind. "Come on, it's been awhile since we had a girl talk."
"I-I, it's not much Mina," Uraraka sighs, taking a small step back from the energetic teen. "It's stupid anyway, no point in talking about it. I'm sure I'll get over it." She attempts to reassure her friend who looks at her puzzled
"Not like I can just tell you I'm jealous." The shorter girl admitted to herself in her thoughts. Disappointed at the lack of gossip Mina turns her attention to some apples next to her leaving Ochako with her intrusive thoughts again.
Uraraka doesn't even know why she cares so much about this. She should be happy that Deku is making more friends, especially more female ones, besides her he can barely be within 5 feet of them without freaking out. Even with her, he struggles from time to should be happy he was hanging with Ashido, the girl could break through anyone's shell, it's what she does. If he's gonna be a top hero he's gonna have to learn to stand out above the crowd.
"You're thinking about Midori aren't you?" Mina asks with an all knowing smile which quickly snaps Uraraka from her thoughts.
Uraraka shot her a look that screamed "how did you know" before mumbling and stuttering off a ton of gibberish. This reaction was exactly what Ashido was hoping for and she couldn't help but laugh.
"So cute" Ashido was a struggle to keep her scream in. Instead, she said "You two are so cute you know that? Always dancing around each other." She moved closer to her friend. "I think it's adorable how the two of you constantly flirt with each other as if everyone can't notice." She leaned on her melodramatically "It pleases my little romantic heart."
Uraraka jerked away, accidentally bumping into a woman behind her. "Sorry!" she squealed out repeatedly bowing to the lady.
At this point Mina couldn't help herself and she burst out laughing at her friend's misery. "You don't need to be so shy about it, it's adorable. You two fit each other perfectly like puzzle pieces." She smashes her hands together and interlocks her fingers, turning around and swooning. "Love is such a wonderful thing."
A flurry of emotions swept across Uraraka's face; she seemed torn between wanting to curse Mina and her entire family lineage for how she is making her feel at this current moment and intense embarrassment at herself for being so easy to read.
"Well to stop the intense stares I've been getting in class. There is nothing going on between me and Midori, he's just my new training partner." She turns back to the girl with a sly grin "Why worried I would take him."
"I'm not worried you would take him."
"Oh, so confident that he's already at you marking your territory."
"She is just so much." Uraraka confessed to herself. "Look even if I had feelings for Deku-."
"HA IF"
"If I had feelings for Deku." The round-faced girl said between closed teeth and frustration. "I'm not worried about you taking him, or anyone else for that matter. I just,-" She stops before releasing a heavy breath and attempting to get her thoughts together. "I just find it strange that he let you read his notebook and not me.?
"That's all?" Mina looks at her bewildered. "You were staring daggers at me in class over a notebook?" She says it as if it's the silliest thing in the world and now the gravity hero starts to feel a bit silly. "Chako it's nothing in there that's super crazy, it's just notes and drawings, he's embarrassed because last time he showed it off people thought it was creepy. He's just really self conscious about it right now. I wasn't even supposed to read it, he left it by mistake one day rushing out of the guild, I picked it up and read it without him knowing forgave me, we are on good terms now, there's nothing to worry about."
Ochako slowly processes this and seems to be ok with the answer, not super pleased with it, but ok. "So you snooped through his belongings without telling him?" She remarks judging the pink skinned girl a bit too harshly.
Mina can't stop herself from smiling "Aw look at you defending your boyfriend's honor." She gushes, causing Ochako's face to burst into flames. "You know I'll tell you this and you can choose to believe me or not, but you can't tell Midori I told you this.'
"Tell me what?"
Ashido clears her throat"The Zero Gravity:Ochako Uravity" her voice in a high pitched nerdy voice in an attempt to make her friend laugh "Has eyes as wonderful as stars." She switched back to her regular voice and watched her friend's face somehow turn even redder. "Or did I make it up? I'll let you choose." She finishes before skipping away leaving Uraraka in the aisle by herself,red in the face, and getting stares from several strangers around her.
"Has eyes as wonderful stares." The girl whispers to herself with a smile on her face "That girl and her teasing is gonna be the death of me."
"Midoriya do we have rice at home? I don't think we have rice at home, I'm gonna grab more rice." Iida concludes easily, making yet another sharp turn down an aisle as his friend fails to keep up with the boy's speed.
This is how it's been since they left the larger group, Iida dragging Midoriya throughout the store at breakneck speed and the shorter teen attempting and failing to keep up. Izuku isn't really sure what has gotten into him but he can tell something is bothering him, and while he doesnt mind being dragged around. At this point he's used to his friends dragging him around. He does want to help his friend through his issue, however-
"Midoriya what type of rice should I grab? Jasmine or short grain? I think we have Jasmine at home but short grain is more versatile. Or do we have short grain at home and it's Jasmine that's more versatile?" Iida asks, going back and forth with himself with two bags of rice in his hands.
The green haired teen looks at his friend with a look of confusion "Iida is just rice, it's all gonna expand when it's cooked anyway." He explains and the Iida not convinced of this and starts to pace back and forth.
"Yes but it's the taste that's different and I'm having trouble remembering if Yaoyorozu liked Jasmine or short probably have a good idea, which one do you think will cause the least amount of issues?" Tenya asks with strain in his voice, his fingers tapping on the bags in a nervous rhythm.
Midoriya watches Iida's anxious behavior and decides that this cant continue. He thought he wasn't good at dealing with people's feelings. But after dealing with Momo and Mina he feels a bit more comfortable in situations like this. He steps over to his friend and gently places a hand on his shoulder. This action causes Iida to stop pacing and look at Midoriya with a mixture of uncertainty and anticipation
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"Hey, Iida. You seem really stressed out about something ever since this morning. Is everything okay?" Midoriya asks, his tone gentle and concerned.
Tenya looks up at his green hair friend, his expression briefly startled before he quickly masks it with a smile. "Oh, Midoriya, there's nothing wrong at all. I'm just... trying to make sure everything is in order. Would hate to grab the wrong thing and make someone upset you know?"
Izuku isn't convinced, and he can sense that there's more to the story. He might be a bit out of his depth here but he can tell something is eating at his friend. "Ok Midoriya gotta try just a little harder." He thinks to himself before giving Iida a concerned look. "Come on, Iida. You can talk to me. We're friends, I can tell when something's bothering you."
Iida hesitates for a moment before his shoulders slump and he lets out a sigh. He puts both bags of rice down on the shelf and leans against it "Alright, fine." He sighs out "It's just... ever since our dorms were attacked, I've been feeling responsible. As the class president, I feel like I should have been able to do more to protect everyone." He explains and this explanation causes Midoriya to look at him confused, not seeing the correlation between what he said and his actions.
"Iida, it wasn't your fault. None of us could have predicted that attack. Putting the blame on yourself for something you cant control isn't really fair to you, or the rest of us." The young hero explains deciding to tackle that issue first before asking about how this relates to the tea situation.
Iida looks back at the shelf of rice. His finger trails the bag of jasmine, his eyes avoiding the look of his classmate. "I know, but I can't help it. I'm the class president, it's my job to protect everyone when we are in the dorms." He explains his voice steady and firm but also a bit unsure of his words and if he should be saying them. "So, I've been trying to make things right in any way I can. I know everything about everyone or at least I believe that to be true. I know what time you are going to get in every morning depending on the day. I know just how crisp Ashido likes her toast,I know Uraraka hates decaf coffee. These things are so minor but they matter to me because as class president I have to make everything is right for everyone. So even something as small as getting the right kind of rice matters." He says poking the bag softly with his index finger.
Izuku takes in all of what he hears from his friend. "Iida, you're doing so much already. Momo told me that you told her to come to me with her friend's problem. You also helped Mina find a way to study…even if it's a bit of a strange method." He says and the speedster chuckles at the comment "But in that same breath, you don't have to be perfect or have all the answers. And you definitely don't need to stress over every little detail. Yaoyorozu isn't gonna hate you over some tea." The bushy hair teen reassured.
"But what if it does and I could fix it." Tenya says and his shorter friend sighs
"Do you really think Yaoyorzu of all people is capable of hating someone? Let alone her partner in class activities,you have to be a really bad person for Yaoyorozu to dislike you." He says
"Or be Bakugo." Iida jokes and Izuku looks at him a bit shocked that he would make a joke like that. Iida manages a small smile and lets out a small sigh of relief, he gazes over the rice and before picking them both up. "I got carried away didn't I?"
Midoriya pats Iida on his back and nods "Just a bit, but it's fine it happens to everyone man." And Iida gives his friend a nod of gratitude before raising the two bags of rice.
"So, Jasmine or Short grain?" Tenya muses an amused look on her face,the young hero in question laughs a bit at his friend
"Jasmine."
Todoroki knows he isnt the best with people, some would even say his social awareness is basically zero. His classmates just call it him being quirky, Fuyumi just says he's just a bit of a loner, Natsuo just call him edgy. Regardless of the fact, he knows he has trouble reading emotions and how people react to the things he says or how things people say can effect someone. But even he knows something is uncharastically odd about, Momo Yaoyorozu.
He would like to believe he had a pretty decent idea of how he pictured Yaoyorozu in his head. She was smart, but a bit ditzy when it came to things regular people did, much like himself. She was desperate to make a name for herself, and any setback ate at her mentally, much like how he used to be before his fight with was resourceful,kind and peaceful company when they were in the common area.
Its saying all of this that he notices a change in her behavior. More so when she is around Bakugo. Now dont get the guy wrong, he isnt the biggest fan of his classmate, but he is one of the icy-hot boys closest friends. While he doesnt think it's his place to say anything, even he can pick up on the treatment she's been giving his rival. The rebuttals, the glares in class when she thinks nobody is looking, the instigating, all of it is unlike the girl he thought he knew. And he would like to know why.
"Todoroki." The girl in question says looking at him with a small smile "Sorry if i'm boring you but we do have to finish our portion of the grocery shopping."
Todoroki nods "Right, sorry Yaoyorozu, I simply got lost in my thoughts." He replies back pushing the cart closer to her as she scans over the list.
"So let's see, We have frozen peas, corn, and broccoli, as well as frozen chopped spinach." She lists off tapping the pen that she created off the piece of paper Iida gave her earlier. "Lets see and we also have garlic croutons along with both italian and salad dressing. Anything else?"
The boy ponder his thoughts for a moment "How about some pills? Maybe that way Iida can take it easy today." She says frankly and Yaoyorozu looks at him a bit and then giggles
"You can be pretty funny when you want to be Todoroki." She says looking back at the list as Shoto looks at her confused
"I was serious" He deadpans "He's probably off his medication and needs some to calm down." He explains matter of factly. Yaoyorozu looks at him perplexed before giggling a bit more and shaking her head
"Such a guy." She mutters out before putting the pen in her pocket in motioning for Todoroki to follow her. "Lets grab some frozen chicken and shrimp and link back up with the others?" She asks and the boy nods
"Mission failed" The youngest Todoroki thinks to himself. Annoyed at himself, he quietly just follows her to the right aisle as she scans the prices of the frozen meat in front of her. He sighs out an irritated breath as he observed her. When did this start to happen, to his knowledge Bakugo and Yaoyorozu didnt interact with each other at all before moving into the guild. So this aggression towards him was something new.
"But what triggered it." The half and half hero says which catches the attention of the girl who has consumed his thoughts
Yaoyorozu leans back from inside the freezer and looks over at her friend. "Triggered what Todoroki?" She asks with concern in her voice "You've been more quiet than normal, everything ok?"
Shoto hums to himself "I'm fine but I should be asking that question to you, is everything fine with you." he inquires and taller girls looks at him confused
"I'm fine, maybe a little chilly." She jokes because of the freezer door still being open "But fine, why do you ask? It's a bit unlike you to be so curious about someone else."
He nods "Most of the time, I feel like its not my place to bother other people when they are going through something. But something been bothering me and it involves you." He revealed "Yaoyorozu, what happened between you and Bakugo?"
At the sound of this question, more so the sound of his name, the taller girl frowns and doesnt even try to hide her displeasure. This action causes shoto to raise an eyebrow at her questionably, he's seen a lot of expressions on his classmate, or roommate, face before but never one of clear dislike. Seeing the look she she is given Momo smiles and tilts her heads "Whatever do you mean Todoroki?"
The boy face wraps to that of a surprised one, he thought he had a pretty good idea of who Yaoyorozu is. None of the things he thought of her was a liar. "You have terrible poker Yaoyorozu." He says bluntly trying to call her bluff
"I know." She sighs out before closing the freezer door. She begins to open her mouth but pauses herself as if too think of something to say. Or rather another lie "I dont like liars, Todoroki, and i dont like bullies." She says simply
"Ok, I dont see how that relates to Bakugo, or how that caused such a drastic change in the relationship between the two of you. You guys didn't have a relationship before the guild, and then one day, you two didnt like each other. It's not my place, but if you wish to tell me maybe I can give you some advice." He reasons
Now its Momo turn to sigh out "It's complicated, he doesn't really even know, it's pretty one sided on my part and i apologize that you've seen me act like that." She admits "But if you knew what I knew, you woul-"
"And what do you know ponytail." She is cut off by the familiar vulgar and rough voice of the person in question. "If you have something to say, say it to my face." He announces with Kirishima standing behind him
Holding in a growl Yaoyorozu breaths in and then out "What are you doing here Bakugo, I thought you was doing meat and dairy." She asks and bakugo points to kirishima who is holding two bins filled with meat.
"We were on our way to get milk and eggs when i just so happened to over hear my name come out of your mouth." He says walking over to her aggressively "So lets finish that conversation from eariler. So like I said earlier, I am sick and tired of your shit, vice president." The two are a few feet part and like eariler Momo doesnt back away from Bakugo's glare matching with her own.
"G-guys" Kirishima stutters trying to intervene "l-lets calm down, nothing unmanly has to happen in this place."
Pushing the cart closer to his friends, Todoroki nods, putting a hand on Yaoyorozu shoulder which seems to break the girl from her staring contest as she looks over at him. "Yaoyorozu, what's bothering you." He says simply
Yaomomo looks at her friend and then back at bakugo as if she wants to tear him apart "Aldrea." Is all that she says before turning and starting to walk away from the group. Which leaves all three men complexed
"Aldrea? My stupid middle school! You've been pissed at me because of that!" He shouts she causes her to stop in her tracks to turn around and glare at him. "What the hell about it, the only people of importance from that school is Me and D-" He stops mid sentence as if he put everything together in a split second. He doesn't say anything but he just looks at Yaoyorozu with a look of distain
"What happened to you in middle school?" Todoroki asks and Bakugo smacks his lips and turns around.
"None of your business Icyhot. Kirishima we're done here."He says walking away from the scene with his usual aggression no where to be found.
"A-alright" Kirishima stutters following behind his friend leaving only Yaoyorozu and Todoroki in the aisle alone.
Todoroki visibly sees Yaoyorozu let out a long annoyed breath of air from her mouth. She walks back over to Todoroki, a bit of red on her face "I'm sorry you had to see that. Probably wasn't lady like." She comments
"It's fine, I wont pry about what all of that was about." He says calmly "However i think I would be a bad friend if i didn't ask you this. Are you ok?" He says simply and Momo laughs a bit to herself
"I'm just fine Todoroki, thank you." She says before walking by him and going back to the frozen meat she was looking at in the cooler. As Todoroki watched her walk away he could only shake his head. He thought he knew all there was to know about her, but it turns out he didn't. She was a liar as well.
"Jeez where are they," Mina complains outside the store with a hand full of groceries in her palms. Surrounding her if everyone all in similar situations as her, well everyone expect Iida and Midoriya."These things are getting heavy."
Snickering at her friends behavior, Kirishima chimes in "You did get an awful lot of stuff Mina. I can carry some of yours if you want me too." He offers
"It's fine Kiri, I can do it, but it would be a lot better if the person whose idea this was would hurry up and get out here."
"Though I well admit." Uraraka injected her bags floating next to her due to her quirk "They are taking awhile in there, Iida split everything up evenly, he shouldn't need to be in there this long. You don't think Iida went overboard do you."
Mina playfully scoffs "Iida go overboard? He would never do something like that."
"He was a bit scattered this morning, knowing him he probably tried to buy out the whole store." Momo adds before shifting her weight to her other foot as the weight of the bags start to get to her
"And knowing Midoriya he probably enabled it." Shoto assumes bluntly knowing how his friend can get. He quietly reaches over to Yaoyorozu and wordless takes some of her bags from her to make things more comfortable for her
Just then the two of them come out of the store with a large amount of bags but not as much as the group was expecting. Midoriya awkwardly laughs seeing the looks on everyone's faces, Iida just bows apologetically
"Sorry for how I acted this morning everyone, that was out of character and unacceptable behavior for a class president. I hope you can forgive me." He says and the rest of the group just look at each other confused.
"You were acting different?" Mina asks "I thought you were still being Iida just a bit more over the top, but you didnt't seem that different to me." She reassures
"Yeah bro, you were a bit more jittery but still your manly class president self to me." Kirishima also says reassuring him
Momo, Todoroki, and Uararaka all nod along to that sentiment "No offense Iida, but you always worry about things like this, if you didn't you wouldn't be Iida" Momo says honestly "It's fine to freak out every once and a while, we all do it, you can too."
Iida looks between his friends a bit surprised at how understanding they all are. He then looks at Midoriya who shrugs "I told you were over reacting." He teased and his friend smiles
"So it seems I did." Iida says standing up straight and then looks over at everyone and realizing someone is missing "Where's Bakugo?" He simply asks before looking at Kirishima.
Kirishima points towards the curb and there the explosive teen sitting on the bus stop bench waiting for the ride back to campus to come. "He's been like that for like 30 minutes now, I've tried to talk to him but he seems lost in thought." Kirishima explains "He keeps saying something about Aldrea," And that name causes Midoriya to stiffen an action that does not go unnotice by the group around him "No idea why."
"Deku? You alright?" Uraraka asks first seeing how he reacted "You kinda stiffened hard when Kirishima said that name. Is that a bad memory or something?"
Midoriya quickly shakes his head trying to calm the nerves of everyone and maybe even himself. "I-i-its the name of the middle school me and Bakugo went to. It just caught me offguard to hear it again. T-thats all." He says and the mocha hair girl doesn't seem all that convinced
"Are you sure? Be-"
"I think we should take Deku's word for it." Yaoyorozu says cutting Uararaka off and causing the attention to be on her "Whatever the past may be for the two of them, i dont think it's our place to pry. Isn't that right Deku?" She says with comforting smile
The boy nods "Yeah, I think so too." He says and Uraraka clearly isnt happy about that answer but doesnt comment on it anymore deciding to just let it be. In the background observing it all is Mina who looks at Midoriya and then at Momo and then at Uraraka and then tilts her head.
"Huh." She thinks to herself
"In that case, lets all head back, we got to put these groceries away. Also, it's my night to cook!" Iida shouts excitedly and the group groans as a collective.
The teens make there way to the bus stop joining bakugo on or around the bench. All having their own conversations or telling jokes, everyone but two. One looks at the other with confusion and timid fear of what was said when he wasn't there. The other one looks back with a look of anger and uncertainty of why he brought up something that he thought they moved past. The two boys who are two sides of the same coin, Izuku and Katsuki.