Chapter 63
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST I'll Become a Hero]
In the women's bunker, a scream was heard outside. "Did you hear something just now?" Toru asked the other 1-A girls.
"Sounded like a boy screaming, maybe?" Kyouka answered.
"Some of the boys were fighting at dinner, weren't they? With class 1-B I mean." Tsuyu remembered some of the more hot headed boys getting into a verbal argument over what meat they get to put in the nikujaga stew that they will make tomorrow. They were mainly fighting for the pork.
"Idiots." Jiro also remembered that. "But no. This scream sounded like Mineta?"
"Yeugh." Mina replied with disgust. "He got punished, right? Aside from Sora dragging him off before we could get him? I hope they really threw a book at him."
"Seriously." Ochako agreed.
"That boy will never learn, until he actually gets hurt in the process, I fear." Momo noted.
"I should have just stabbed his eye immediately when I called out the hole." Kyouka commented.
"I don't think Mineta will ever truly change." Asui said. "He's been hurt plenty of times and it never deterred him."
"You...may be right..." Yaoyorozu admitted. "Even so. This particular offence that was attempted was directed at the girls of another class. It's shameful that a fellow member of Class 1-A would do such a thing."
The girls then heard a knock on the door and another female voice. "It's Kendo. Can we come in?"
The 1-A girls glanced at each other, unsure of how to react to that, but after a few seconds of thought, Momo replied "By all means." And opened the door for them.
Itsuka came in, with Ibara, Reiko and Yui behind her. The Class 1-B rep then gave Yaoyorozu a bag. "As thanks for earlier."
"Thanks for what?" Momo questioned.
"What's this about?" Mina wondered as she took a peek in the bag to see various packaged cookies, chocolates and some candy bars. "Sweets!?"
"Sorry. It's just kind of a mishmash of whatever we had on hand." Kendo stated. "Tokage, Komori and Tsunotori should be giving some to Sora right now."
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST We are Fu#kin Super Star]
In the Men's bunker, Sora was abruptly woken up by the sound of the 1-A room door slamming open, startling him and making him summon the Kingdom Key out of instinct. Neito Monama of 1-B exclaimed "Coming iiiiin!" As he and the other 1-B boys entered the 1-A room.
"Well, look who it is." Ejiro said with a competitive look on his face.
"We've kept you waiting, but this is going down now!" Neito said with a cocky look on his face.
"Huh?...Did I miss something?" Sora asked out loud.
"Did you forget, Sora?" Tenya questioned his half asleep classmate.
"Forget what?" The Keyblade wielder asked.
"The fight for the right to have pork in our nikujaga!" Denki reminded him.
"Fight? Pork...what!?" Sora was incredibly confused. He did not remember anything of the sort.
"It happened while he had our curry." Izuku explained the situation to his tired friend. "Class 1-A and 1-B debated on who would get to put pork in the nikujaga instead of beef."
"...Still not ringing any bells." Sora told his friend.
"You were busy giving away your curry to the other students." Shoto told him. "You probably didn't notice the argument."
"Why are we fighting for pork in our stew though?" The Keyblade wielder questioned the point.
"Because Monoma poked the bear that is Bakugo." Mezo told him.
Sora sighed in both annoyance and disappointment. He was annoyed, because he was trying to sleep early, so that he can be fully energized for tomorrow's intense training regiment. And he was disappointed, because fighting over food, was just dumb to him. "But why a fight?!"
"Less, fight. More competition." Mashirao corrected. "We agreed on a five versus five arm wrestling match."
Sora blinked a few times and then got up. "Okay. I'm clearly not going to get any sleep here while this is going on." He then decided to walk out of the room. "I'll be right back." He told them.
"OOOOOOOOH!" Neito took advantage of this moment. "One of your prodigy students, and your head chef no less, has walked out on you. Could it be that he already knows who's going to win and is preparing to give his talents over to us, already?"
Sora stopped in his tracks when he heard that. "What did you just say?"
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH! They didn't tell you!?" Monoma was very much enjoying this. "The winner not only gets the pork. But they also get to have you cook it for them."
Sora looked back towards his class and saw Kirishima and Kaminari have some guilty expressions on their faces. "Seriously?!" The Keyblade wielder spoke up. "You didn't even tell me this was happening, and you made me the prize?!"
"Your cooking's really good, and you did offer it last time!" Denki tried to defend his actions.
"When you ask me to!" Sora emphasized the word ask in that sentence.
"We figured we'd win anyway, and we also thought you heard us while you were serving your curry!" Ejiro tried to salvage this.
Sora then loudly groaned And turned to his left to see...three girls from class 1-B in front of him?
[Silence]
About five seconds prior to 1-B's boys barging into 1-A's room The front door to the Men's bunker opened quietly and in came Setsuna, Kinoko and Pony, who had the bag of sweets for Sora with them. They then heard a door slam open and people talking down the hall on the right side, so they followed the noise. The trio turned the corner to see Sora next to the 1-B boys outside of 1-A's room, groaning at something that was said to him before turning and facing the pair.
"Huh?" The Keyblade wielder was very confused.
"Courtesy of Kendo." Tokage told him as he gave him the bag.
"Please accept this." Tsunotori requested.
"...What?" Sora was now even more confused. He then looked in the bag and saw the assortment of sweets inside it. "What?!...I mean, this is really nice and all, but...why?"
"For grabbing that purple pervert and dragging him away from us while we bathed." Komori explained.
"This is thanks for Minoru?" Sora repeated. "Um...ok? I'm fine with just a verbal thank you, or a text or note. You don't need to give me this."
"We want to though." Tokage told him.
"Please." Pony urged him.
Sora sighed and replied, "Okay. I'll accept it."
"Yay!" Kinoko responded.
"But take something out of it for each of you." The Keyblade wielder instructed.
"You sure?" The three girls asked.
"Yes." Sora replied. The girls then each grabbed one thing out of the bag and took their leave. While giving him the sweets was one reason why they were here. Vlad King had also called them over so he could review their training. Sora meanwhile turned back around and saw the 1-B boys look at him. "What?"
"Why do you get sweets?" Togaru asked.
"I stopped Minoru from peeping on them." Sora answered.
"Mineta tried to peep on them!?" Yosetsu repeated.
"Where's that little shit?!" Tetsutetsu demanded to know.
"My guess, he's being mauled by Tiger. Anyways..." The Keyblade wielder told them as he took a cookie out of the bag and began to eat it. "Don't you guys have my cooking your pork to fight over?"
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST Unwind]
Back with the girls, "To what do we owe the honor?" The class 1-A deputy asked. "If you're referring to the incident with Mineta, then think nothing of it. In fact, we should be apologizing to you for the appalling behavior of our classmate." She gave the bag back to the one who gave it to her.
"Don't sweat it." Itsuka replied. "All's well that ends well, right?"
"Besides." Reiko spoke up. "We only caught him in the act because you girls warned us to start with."
"Mhm." Yui nodded.
"Please accept our gratitude." Ibara said. "And also know that this is on behalf of Tokage, Komori and Tsunotori. They would have liked to thank you all in person too. But they were summoned by Mr. Kan to review today's training session. After they deliver the sweets to Sora, they'll report to him."
"It meant alot to us, so, here." Kendo pushed the bag back to Momo, who was still uncertain about accepting the gift.
Mina however was not, and she took it. "Thanks a lot!"
"Really now, Ashido..." Yaoyorozu started.
"Come on, Yaomomo." Kyouka butted in. "They prepared this for us. Let's not be rude."
"Yeah. We can't just refuse a gilt, flat out." Tsuyu agreed.
Momo was still uncertain. "But what we did was only natural."
Then Toru had an idea. "How about we all eat this stuff together?"
"A slumber party!" Mina exclaimed. "Since we're all here anyway."
"Yes!" Ochako agreed with that. "A chance like this doesn't come around too often."
"Sure...Slumber party." Jiro was fine with it.
"Can we really?" Itsuka asked.
"Why the heck not?" Tsu replied. "Pretty sure the boys are all hanging out too."
"Mhm." Kodai hummed.
"All agreed then?" Yaoyorozu asked.
"Yeah. Let's do it." Kendo said.
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST Bright and Cheerfully]
The girls then immediately got to work. Spreading out the sweets in the middle of the room, purchasing soft drinks at the nearby vending machine, rolling out the floor mattresses so everyone could sit on them, and then the 1-A girls adding some treats of their own to the pile of sweets in the middle. After they finished the setup for their slumber party, they all had cups of whatever beverage they chose and raised them for a toast.
Momo, with slightly flushed cheeks, admitted to the group "To tell the truth, this is my very first slumber party. Could someone explain how this is meant to go?"
Ashido then gave an explanation to her rich classmate of the basics. "Well, you get a bunch of girls together, stuff your faces, and sit around, chatting about whatever."
"Naw." Hagakure spoke up. "Every good slumber party...demands talk about 'amore'." That comment made the energy in the room shoot up a little.
"Yes!" Mina agreed. "The perfect slumber party topic!"
"Yikes! Haha..." Uraraka replied.
"A conversation about love then?" Asui simplified for those who did not immediately know the definition of amore.
"Really…?" Jiro was not not interested in this topic.
Itsuka forced a smile on her face, replying "So that's what we're talking about, huh?"
"L-Love?" Yaoyorozu was flustered. "Before marriage though?"
"I must agree." Shiozaki sided with her. "Marriage is a promise made before God..."
"A-more?" Yanagi repeated. "A-more of what?"
"Nuh-uh." Kodai shook her head at Reiko.
[Silence]
As the oh so necessary topic of love was brought up to discussion, Toru then asked out loud. "So, who's got a boyfriend?" There was no answer. "Huh? Nobody?...Really?"
All of the girls nodded their heads. None of them had any romantic relationships to speak of, which made a small sense of gloom descend over the room. "Well, not like there was time for it during the end of middle school, what with cramming for the exams." Kendo pointed out. "And we haven't exactly had the luxury since starting U.A. either." Most of the girls nodded at that.
"Arg! But romance!" Ashido was not going to let chance slip by. "I wanna hear something to tug at my heartstrings! How about crushes? Any of you gals crushing on someone?"
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST Among Kosei]
"Crushes, huh..." Ochako thought for a moment, then an image of someone came into her mind, which somewhat flustered her.
Asui noticed. "What's wrong Ochako?"
Hagakure also noticed. "Ah! I know that look! There's definitely someone you're into."
"N-No way! Sure isn't! Me? Naww..." Uraraka frantically denied.
"You're not helping your case, girl." Toru told her.
"Who is it? Who is it?" The acidic girl wanted to know. "We'll keep it a secret, between us girls."
Both of them drew closer to Ochako as she kept denying the claims. "No. You see. My thing's not like that."
"Your 'thing' huh? What thing is that?" the invisible girl interrogated her.
"Just spit it out already." The pink skinned girl demanded. "You're totally in love with someone, right?"
"Seriously! It's not like that!" Uraraka exclaimed as she pushed the two back, accidentally activating her Zero Gravity quirk on them, and making them float up.
"Huh?" Toru was startled.
"Ahh!" Mina was also startled.
"Sorry!" Ochako immediately released her quirk, letting the two love addicts drop and hit the floor. "Like I said. That's not it! It's just been a while since I got together with girls to chat about junk like this, so...I got my blood pumping, I guess?"
"Been a while, huh? That's it?" Kyouka shortened it.
As Ashido and Hagakure readjusted themselves, Uraraka fell backwards onto her mattress. "Everything okay, Ochako?" Tsuyu asked. "You suddenly look exhausted."
"Just trying to stop my heart from pounding." She answered.
"Do you need a doctor?" Itsuka suggested. "That could be a sign of something worse."
"I wish a doctor could cure what I've got." Uraraka replied.
"How awful, that the body would react in such a way, to the topic of love." Ibara commented. "Could the Lord truly have been so cruel while creating us?"
"See? This is why us girls gotta open up about romance, every so often." Toru doubled down on her claim. "So let's hear it. Any actual crushes?"
Once again, nobody answered. Then Reiko suggested "We could always talk about literally anything else."
"Ugh! But my heartstrings are still begging for some tugging!" Ashido responded. "I can't help being a girlie girl."
It was once again silent, then the invisible girl of this group had an idea. "Why don't we get our fill with...uh...you know! Hypotheticals!"
"How, exactly?" Asui asked.
"This might not end well." Yanagi muttered.
"What I'm trying to say is...use our imaginations!" Hagakure explained. "Fantasize! Like, is there any boy in class 1-A or1-B you'd wanna date? That sort of thing."
"That could work." Ashido agreed with that.
"Choosing a single boy though...I don't know..." Momo was a bit conflicted.
"Slumber parties are all about the easy, breezy chatting, though." Kendo spoke up. "Just another way for us to communicate about anything we want."
"I suppose so..." Yaoyorozu agreed. "Every experience can be a valuable lesson, somehow."
[Play KH3 OST 2.9 -cutscene-]
"Oh and by the way, Sora counts as cheating for this." Mina immediately added that rule.
"Huh?" Toru replied.
"What?" Tsuyu responded.
"Excuse me?" Momo questioned.
"Um..." Ochako was a bit confused.
"Wow." Kyouka was honestly not too shocked at that.
"Why?" Itsuka asked.
"Because he's the 'best boy' of our class." Ashido titled him.
"Best boy?" Jiro repeated. "I don't know about that."
"Don't lie!" Mina argued. "I saw how all of you looked at him back at the pool. You were all ogling him, just like me! Momo even pointed out his hot bod!"
"I pointed out that he was exposing his scars!" Yaoyorozu exclaimed.
"Oh, yeah?" Ashido didn't drop it. "Then what about when you let Sora sleep on your shoulder on the bus trip? Huh?"
"H-He was tired and needed the rest." Momo defended his case. "Besides, I can't even think about being with him."
"Oh? And why's that? He's always super nice, he's strong, he looks great, the whole package." Hagakure listed off his traits.
"Because he already has someone!" Yaororozu yelled out.
That actually surprised everyone in the room. "Sora already has a girlfriend?" Mina said.
"What? No. I didn't say..." Momo got interrupted.
"You said he already has someone." Toru repeated what she said.
"I didn't mean it like that!" Yaoyorozu exclaimed.
"Then what did you mean?" Ochako asked, wondering what else she could have meant by that.
"He...I...He told me his crush." Momo admitted.
"He did?!" Hagakure was surprised.
"Who? WHO!? Is it one of us? I wanna know!" Ashido pleaded.
"I-It's really not my place to say." said Yaoyorozu.
"You can't just drop a bomb like that and then leave us all hanging!" Toru told her.
"I really don't think..." Momo couldn't finish.
"You tell us something like that and we're going to want to know the rest." Mina added.
"UGH!" Itsuka spoke up in the class 1-A deputy's place. "If you want to know so much, then call him and ask!"
That made most of the girls look towards her. "You want us to dial him up and ask who his crush is?" The invisible girl repeated.
"If that's what it takes for us to move on from this, then yes." Kendo answered.
While some of the girls were uncertain of this, Ashido was already on her phone and dialing up his number, but then the girls heard a knock on the door to the room and heard a voice. "Hey. It's Sora."
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST Dogimagi]
About five minutes prior to this, Sora was inside the 1-A room of the men's bunker, eating a candy bar that was in the now empty bag of sweets. To his right was Midoriya, who had a granola bar, and to his left was Todoroki who had a Manju that he heated up with his left side. The three of them were watching as the members of Class 1-A and 1-B were picking their five competitors. "How long do you think this is gonna take?" The Keyblade wielder asked.
"I don't know." Izuku answered. "There are a lot of factors in this that are being taken into consideration. The arm wrestling will have no quirks involved, so basically anyone can compete. But people with physical strength based quirks will still probably make up most of the members, and probably Kacchan."
"Because he was provoked into challenging 1-B for the pork." Sora remembered Shoji's comment on that. "Still though. If you guys were planning this, then why didn't you plan it during the bath in the hot springs? At least then, you could have just gotten right to it. I mean, we're out of sweets now."
"You shared them with the others." Shoto pointed out. "If you didn't, you'd probably still have more than two thirds of the sweets to eat yourself."
"I already told you at the Sports festival that I'm not the kind of guy to just get stuff for me." The Keyblade wielder reminded him.
"This was given to you by the girls from 1-B though." Midoriya stated. "It was meant for you."
"I'm still gonna share any gift given to me if I can." Sora told the two.
"We are aware of that." Todoroki replied.
[Silence]
Tenya, who had just finished a monaka that was in his hands then spoke up, as a table was set up. "It's time to begin the arm wrestling."
"Finally." Sora commented.
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST Damn Cowardly School]
Iida then announced the teams. "Representing Class 1-A. Mashirao Ojiro, Mezo Shoji, Koji Koda, Ejiro Kirishima, and Katsuki Bakugo." The five 1-A arm wrestlers stepped up. "Representing Class 1-B. Nirengeki Shoda, Juzo Honenuki, Jurota Shishida, Yosetsu Awase, and Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu." The five 1-B arm wrestlers stepped up.
Both teams prioritized power and grip strength, but Katsuki noticed that a certain student wasn't participating. "All that talk talk talk, and you ain't even gonna fight?" He looked at Neito.
"Do I look like a muscled brute to you?" Monoma spat back. "No. I will play the role of strategist."
While Izuku was surprised at Neito talking to Bakugo like that, Shoto yawned and soon Sora did the same. They were both drowsy and honestly just wanted to sleep. But there was no way that they were going to be able to with all this noise.
"Tch. Let's just get this over with." The explosive student said.
"For once, I agree with Short Fuse." Sora quietly commented.
[Silence]
"Wait...I feel like we're forgetting something." Tenya then looked at the clock and noticed the time. "Of course! It's nearly time for the supplemental lessons!"
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST An Abdominal Investigation]
Rikido, Ejiro, Denki, and Hanta groaned. "But I don't wanna." Kaminari whined.
"No choice, Kaminari." Sero told him. "Let's get this over with."
"Alright. We'll give it our all!" Sato half cheered. He didn't want to go, but he wasn't going to complain about it either.
Sora stood up and said. "I'm going with you." Which surprised and confused the boys. "I need to ask Mr. Aizawa something anyway."
As the first three boys left, Sora waited for the fourth. Kirishima then tried to reassure his team that they wouldn't be missing a member. "I'll uh...find a chance to sneak back here and compete!"
"Kirishima! Your supplemental lessons are not to be shirked!" Tenya berated.
"I'll just say I gotta take a whiz at some point. I'll be fine!" Ejiro told him before he left.
"What's this now?" Monoma spoke up. "The mighty Class 1-A has some failures after all? AND your team has lost a member? You might as well surrender now and be done with it!"
Before any of Class 1-A could really soak in that insult, Sora reminded everyone. "Didn't you fail your test too?"
"Ngh!" Neito slightly flinched. This was one of the few moments that he would have actually preferred being chopped in the back of the neck by Kendo. But she wasn't here.
"Come on." The Keyblade wielder signaled for the 1-B student to follow them out. "If their lessons start now, then yours probably does too."
The six of them left and they made their way to the classroom that was set up in the main cabin of the campgrounds. While Aizawa was expecting five of his students to show up, one of them was not there, instead replaced by another. "You're not doing Ashido's lessons for her." he immediately assumed.
"Huh?" Sora replied, initially confused, but then he realized that a certain pink skinned student wasn't here yet. "Oh. Oh no. I wasn't coming to take Mina's lessons. I came to ask you something."
"Make it fast." The 1-A homeroom teacher told him.
"Well. Some of the girls from 1-B gave me a bag full of sweets." The Keyblade wielder explained. "I finished them up and I was wondering if I could go return the bag to them."
"Inform Ashido that she's late for her supplemental lessons while you're there." Aizawa granted permission, only due to the fact that Sora would also be able to retrieve the absent girl.
"Oh. Sure. Ok." Sora accepted that extra condition. After all, it wouldn't be too much of a hassle. Then after that, the arm wrestling matches should be over and then he can finally go back to sleep.
He then went inside the women's bunker and made his way through it, until he heard some chatter. He couldn't make out what it was, but he didn't really want to know anyway. Girl talk is girl talk. He's just going to give the bag back to one of the 1-B girls, grab Mina and go. He knocked on the door and said "Hey. It's Sora."
[Silence]
Inside the room, all of the girls were actually startled. Not because there was a boy in the women's bunker, but that it was specifically Sora, and while they were talking about him no less. "Um...yes?" Ochako spoke up.
"Is Mina in there? Also, have you seen any of the girls from 1-B?" Sora asked from the other side of the door.
Ashido immediately got up from her spot and went to the door. She opened it up for him and said "You called?"
The tired looking Sora replied to her. "Yeah. You're late for your extra classes."
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST Deku's Shock]
Her pink face went pale before she looked at the clock and realized what time it was. "NOOOOOOOO! I was just about to get some lovey dovey stuff to keep me going during those!" She then remembered who she was talking to. "Wait! You're here! You can help me with that!" She leaned closer to his face.
Sora instinctively and quickly stepped back, almost fully alert when he heard that and then saw Mina leaning towards his face. "WHOA! WHOA! What?!"
"You should probably word that better, Ashido." Tsu could already see that Sora's lack of context made him think of something way different than what Mina actually meant.
"Oh. Oops." The acidic girl just realized how that sounded out of context.
[Silence]
"Okay...what's going on?" The Keyblade wielder questioned, even more lost than he already was before.
[Play KH1 OST It Began With A Letter]
Mina then gave context. "We're having a slumber party, and we started talking about lovey dovey stuff. You know, boyfriends, crushes, that sort of stuff."
"Okay..." Sora understood.
"So during that, Toru came up with the idea that we should fantasize about us being with whoever we see as boyfriend material. But I added a rule that said that being with you counted as cheating, because let's be honest, all of us want you." She continued.
"Huh?" The Keyblade wielder looked at her in a way that said 'please tell me you're joking'. "All of you want...I...no...no way. There's...I...just...no." He flat out rejected that.
"Ashido!" Momo exclaimed. "Don't just say something like that!"
"You're gonna give him the wrong idea!" Jiro agreed with Yaoyorozu.
The 1-B girls just watched this happen in front of them and sighed.
"I ain't afraid to admit that he'd be a great boyfriend." Mina stated with pride. "Anyway. When Momo tried to argue against it, she then told us that you apparently had a crush on someone."
"Okay. I think I see where this is going now." Sora could finally understand the situation. "If I tell you my crush, will you go to your lessons?"
Ashido sighed before begrudgingly saying "Yes."
"Her name is Kairi. She's my childhood friend." Sora then pulled out his gummiphone and found a picture of her and him on the islands and showed it to her. "That's the last picture we took together before I came here."
[Play KH2.5 Remix OST Kairi]
The pink skinned girl looked at the photo and was actually mesmerized at how beautiful it was. It showed Kairi in the forefront of the picture, while Sora was next to her, but further from the camera. Her hair looked like Ochako's except red in color, and her bangs went down just a little further, stopping just above her blue eyes. She wore a pink and black dress that had a hood on it as well. She also wore a necklace with a silver bead on it. That was all that could be seen of her in the photo.
"Haaaaaaaa...she's so pretty." Mina complimented. "No wonder you have a crush on her."
"Her looks weren't what made me like her." Sora said. "We just...got along really well and like being around each other."
"Awww that's so cute." Ashido cooed, getting butterflies in her stomach.
"Don't you have lessons to go do?" The Keyblade wielder. Although she really didn't want to, Mina did as Sora said and left to go do her supplementary classes. As she left the room, Sora then noticed the 1-B girls in the room. "Oh hey. I was looking for you too."
"Why? We don't have extra classes." Kendo replied.
"To give this back." Sora showed her the bag.
"The sweets are meant for you, Sora." Itsuka told him.
"I already had the sweets." he informed her. "I'm giving you back your bag."
"Oh." Kendo was honestly surprised that he would return the bag to her. "I mean...you didn't have to do that."
"Yeah, but I wanted to." The Keyblade wielder said in a genuine manner.
Itsuka, as well as the other 1-B girls present, had smiled at that comment as they began to see why Ashido would say that Sora would be a good option. "Thanks." The Class 1-B rep said.
"So, should I put it somewhere in the 1-B room, or..." Sora didn't know where to place it.
"Just give it to me and I'll put it away later." Kendo told him.
The Keyblade wielder looked at the 1-A girls, seeing if he actually had permission to enter their room, to which they gestured for him to come in. The boy then did so and gave Itsuka the bag. As he was about to leave though… "Wait. Don't we get to see her too?" Hagakure spoke up.
"Huh?" Sora turned around to look at her.
"It's not fair that only Ashido got to see your crush." Toru stated.
"Wait. You're curious too?" The Keyblade wielder questioned.
"So am I." Uraraka stated. "You told me about Kairi, but you never showed me a picture of her."
"I am also curious about how she looks." Momo said. "I'd like to see the face of the one who gave you that good luck charm you keep on your person."
After some more requests from the girls, Sora gave in. "Alright. Here." He showed the girls the same picture.
"Wow." Uraraka reacted positively. "She's pretty."
"She does have looks going for her." Kyouka commented. "I'd probably wear that dress too, if the colors were inverted."
"She looks rather sweet." Yaoyorozu said. "And you seem to be very happy to be with her in that photo as well."
"She's so cuuuute!" Hagakure complimented.
"She kind of looks like Ochako." Asui compared her.
"Huh?" Uraraka didn't immediately see it.
"Now that you mention it, yeah." Itsuka agreed. "Change the hair and eyes to brown and it looks almost exactly like her."
"Uh-huh." Yui nodded in agreement.
"I can faintly see it." Reiko also agreed.
"Agreed." Ibara said.
"Huh...wow...I can actually see it now." Ochako said, now picturing herself and Kairi next to each other and seeing how similar they actually looked.
[Silence]
Sora then put his gummiphone away and said. "Anything else?"
The girls then noticed how tired he looked. "Why do you look so tired?"
Sora, who at this point just wanted to leave and go back to the men's bunker to try and sleep, explained his situation. "After dealing with Minoru, I tried to go to sleep early, so I can be fully energized for training tomorrow. That apparently wasn't going to happen though, as I was woken up by Class 1-B barging into the 1-A room and talking about some sort of Arm Wrestling contest with Class 1-A. Then apparently the prize is going to be me cooking pork nikujaga for the winning class tomorrow, even though I had no idea that was a thing. Then I get the sweets bag from Setsuna, Pony and that other girl. She never told me her name. Then when I finished eating the sweets, the guys finally managed to make their teams, only for the supplemental lessons to start and Ejiro, one of the team members, had to leave to go do them. I then asked Aizawa if I could return the bag, and he said I could, and that I'll have to get Mina while I'm at it. And now I'm here."
The girls needed a moment to take that all in. "Wait." Itsuka realized something. " So you're going to be on the move for the entire day tomorrow and you're not going to be able to get any sleep, because the boys are too loud?"
"That, and it'll probably take them a while to not only add a new team member, but to also then have them all arm wrestle." Sora confirmed, before he began to look drowsy. "I just want to sleep. I'll probably just sleep outside if that's what it takes for me to get up early enough to prepare myself for tomorrow."
[Play KH 358/2 Days OST Dearly Beloved]
The girls all looked at each other before Toru suggested something "Do you want to sleep here?"
"Very funny." The boy took that as a bad joke.
"No. Seriously." Asui agreed with her. "You need some shut eye. Ribbit."
"In the 'women's' cabin." Sora reminded them. "I'm pretty sure that the Pussycats would kill me if I slept here."
"We can vouch for you." Ochako stated.
"Indeed. Besides, you have proven yourself to be disinterested in lustful decision making." Momo added.
"But, what about this...I'm gonna guess it's a slumber party?" Sora questioned. "I don't think me being here was part of any of your ideas, and usually a girls slumber party doesn't invite boys into the mix."
"God has invited many to rest by his side, no matter the age or gender." Ibara spoke up. "We, his children, can do the same act of kindness."
"But..." The Keyblade wielder tried to debate but was cut off.
"Dude. Just rest." Jiro told him as she had slotted one of her Earphone Jacks into his left ear and softly let the sound of her heartbeat transmit through the earphones and gently into Sora's ear. "We'll make sure you don't get in trouble."
The boy tried to keep himself awake to protest, but the soothing sound that was being transmitted to him took full effect and he was soon out like a light. He fell backwards onto the floor mattress that Mina had originally sat on, and the girls temporarily paused their slumber party to make sure that their male friend was comfortably tucked in and a small distance away from the other mattresses.
As the 1-B girls watched how the 1-A girls carefully treated him as he slept, Kendo commented once more. "I'm starting to understand why Ashido banned Sora from our hypothetical boyfriend options." Before the girls could go back to that subject though, the 1-B rep asked something. "But yeah. How are you exactly going to convince the Pussycats for him to stay here?"
"We'll figure something out." Yaoyorozu answered.
As Sora slept peacefully, the girls went back to their previous topic of potential boyfriends, excluding Sora. The discussion soon changed to swapping genders between the classmates, then about the boy's quirks and who's they would want to try out.
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST Cavalry Battle]
Meanwhile in the men's bunker. The arm wrestling competition went down, with the results coming down to a tie, with Nirengeki and Jurota winning two while Mezo and Ejiro won the other two. As he and Neito had managed to sneak back there in time. When Katsuki went up against Tetsutetsu however, Monoma softened the area under Bakugo during the match by copying Honenuki's quirk before fleeing the scene.
After that interruption, the group changed the game to a team based pillow fight, since Katsuki was more than willing to throw something at the 1-B students for cheating in his match. Though it was less of a pillow fight and more of a pillow dodge ball game, as the pillows were just being thrown towards the opponents at every chance they could be, with very few instances of getting up close and personal. This also ended in a tie.
Bakugo and Tetsutetsu then had a solo match against each other and it got to the point where both spectators from 1-B and 1-A were 'accidentally' using their quirks against the opponent of their classmate. Like Solid air platforms and ground softening with welded pillows for 1-B students, going against dark shadow catching and hogging pillows and tentacles swinging more pillows everywhere while a naval laser shot at any coming for 1-A students. Then of course Neito managed to sneak back in and use Aizawa's quirk to really do some damage.
Things got so intense that the noise could actually be heard from outside the bunker and inside some of the other buildings, including the women's bunker, who wasted no time making sure that Sora wouldn't wake up from this insane nonsense by having Kyouka keep the soothing sound of her heartbeat is both of the boy's ears until the noise eventually stopped.
Then it was heard at the main cabin, where the supplemental lessons were taking place, which prompted both homeroom teachers to leave and investigate the sudden commotion, only to end up walking in on a mountain of welded pillows falling on top of them, which understandably angered them to the point that they made it so that neither class could have any meat whatsoever in their nikujaga tomorrow. They also threatened to deny plants in the stew too if they did anything else other than immediately go to their designated sleeping areas and do just that.
[Silence]
The boys complied, most of them feeling somewhat ashamed of what they did, while others silently wanted to go again, either because it was fun, or because they think that the battle was unfinished and want to finish it.
Meanwhile with the girls, they had decided that they ought to do the same thing that their male friend in the room was doing and get some sleep. The 1-B girls silently thanked the 1-A girls for the slumber party before leaving to go back to their assigned sleeping area. As the 1-A girls were about to each sleep in their own floor mattress, they soon realized something. Since they made Sora sleep here, there's one less floor mattress for everyone here.
Before this could become a problem however, Tsuyu offered to double up with someone and let Mina sleep in her spot when she gets back. Ochako was willing to double up with the frog girl and the two got under the same blanket on top of the same floor mattress. And just like that, the second night of training camp ended.
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST Vanguard Action Squad -Darkness-]
In the darkness of the night, out on the cliffside, Himiko Toga, who recently arrived at the meet up point, was putting on some gear made for her, looking unpleased with the design. "I do not like this." She grumbled. "It's so not cute!"
"They were engineered from the Black Market, from what I hear." Mustard spoke up as he checked on his equipment. "You should be worried that they work, not that they look pretty."
"Ugh. I'm just saying they could be a little more stylish. Is that too much to ask?" Himiko complained.
"Hi Darlings~" A voice came from behind them, as Magne had just arrived. "Sorry to keep you waiting."
Moonfish showed up almost at the same time as he repeated to himself. "Get to work...Get to work..." He sported a new look, wearing a black colored full body straightjacket that covered everything except his mouth, which was held open by metal clamps that were on his head and body.
Muscular had arrived as well, wearing a dark grey cloak and a white mask. He didn't say much and just waited for the go ahead to attack. Eight Villains stood atop the cliffside and looked down upon the children of heroism, as they slept. Cozy, comfortable, contempt with the society that they live in.
"That makes eight of us." Dabi counted.
"I don't care. Just let me loose." Muscular said as he trembled with anticipation. "I'm too pumped up to stand by."
"Shut up, you one track minded berserker." The Figure ordered. "We wait. There's still three people that we are expecting, before we introduce ourselves."
"The League Of Villains made a mistake going after them with a bunch of thugs at the U.S.J." Dabi took over. "Better to use a small group of elites."
"While the large group of cannon fodder acts as a backup for those golden eggs of the group." The Figure added.
"The first thing we have to do is take away their sense of peace..." Dabi once again spoke up. "...and show them that their lives rest in our hands."
The eight of them continued to watch from afar, waiting for the final three members of the attack force to arrive. If it's been like it was for the first two instances, then the last three will arrive by tomorrow night. Then, and only then, will it be time to strike.
And that covers School Briefs Volume two. I combined the slumber party chapter, as well as the boys night time battles chapter into one, mainly because they take place at almost the same time in the book. Aside from that, School Briefs Volume two is finished. I'm not covering the chapter of Tenya waking up in the middle of the night and tucking everyone in their blankets. It's honestly not important and I would have only added it in if Sora was sleeping in the room with them. Speaking of that. Sora's sleeping in the girls' room. Why? Because he's dealt with enough of the boys' crap tonight and honestly doesn't deserve to be scolded for being a part of something that he didn't even know was going to happen. Also, while I originally had the idea of Sora coming back during the pillow war, I decided to scrap it, because I feel like the girls would make sure that he actually gets some sleep, via having him stay with them, also I wanted to move on from this chapter, as I wanted to finish up night two of camp. Now that night two is finished. All that is left to cover of the training camp ark is day three, and night three. Day three will be covered in one chapter, but night three will take a while. You all know what happens on night three. Hope you enjoyed this chapter and until I decide to upload again. ;)