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Twenty-One
In Which The Girls Go Panty Shopping
Uraraka stood in her room, gazing at her reflection in the small mirror that hung on the back of her bedroom door. She couldn't see all of herself since it was a mirror that was on the small side, but she thought she probably looked cute enough to go out shopping with the girls. Wait…why did she care how she looked? She'd never really put that much thought into looking cute before. She'd always wanted to look presentable, but why now was she preoccupied with being cute? She was just going out with the girls to do some shopping; it wasn't like she was trying to impress anyone.
No, but Deku will likely be in the common room downstairs when you walk through it and you want him to look at you. You want him to think you look cute, a little voice whispered to her that made her blush. She looked away from her reflection and turned away from the mirror. Was that it? She wanted Deku to think she looked cute? When had that happened?
On some level you've always wanted him to think you look cute and you know it, that same little voice supplied. No! No, that wasn't it at all…right? If she was being honest with herself, she didn't really know.
It had been about fifteen minutes since she and the other girls had gotten back to the dormitory. Uraraka would have to go downstairs in just a few minutes to meet up with them. She wasn't sure if Ashido had managed to recruit Jiro, Hagakure, and Yaoyorozu to join them in shopping escapades. It wouldn't be a bad thing if they were there she supposed. The more of them around the less likely anyone would be to focus on any peculiarities they'd seen with her interaction with Deku from the awkward consent thing.
"Okay. Time to go," she murmured to herself as she turned back to her door to leave.
She put on an air of confidence as she left her room and made her way down the stairs, though, in reality her heart was hammering in her chest with excitement. Uraraka did her best to calm herself as she continued her way down the stairs but her anticipation just seemed to grow and grow with each step she took.
Why am I so excited? Is it just because Deku might be downstairs too? No. It isn't that. I'm just excited to go shopping with all the girls and with Hado too, she told herself. No, you aren't. You're excited because you want Deku to be down there and to look at you. That's why you're excited, an internal voice countered.
Ochako stepped out of the stairwell and into the common room. Her gaze swept out over the room before her. She saw Jiro sitting at the dining table with Kaminari and Sero nearby, their faces downturned over opened notebooks. Yaoyorozu was also sitting with them. Apparently, she and Jiro had decided to decline the invitation to shop. Hagakure was nowhere in sight. She thought she could hear Sato and Mineta's voices coming from the kitchen; maybe she was with them? Her gaze swept back over the living room and she spotted the spikey head of Bakugo seated on one of the couches with the equally spikey hair of Kirishima close by. Her heart started to drop when suddenly she spotted a messy, green haired boy seated in one of the easy chairs.
Whether she intended it or not, her feet began moving in that direction.
"Pinch it off nerd, All Might is waiting for more black whip training. Maybe tonight you can actually make it do what you want," Bakugo huffed in an irritable tone.
"From what you've told me, I think you're getting really good with it!" Kirishima said reassuringly.
"Thanks Kirishima! I've been practicing a lot to gain better control over it. Working with Endeavor has really helped, Kacchan too!" Deku replied cheerfully.
Uraraka continued silently behind them, growing ever closer to the trio. She'd have to turn toward the front door shortly. Deku hadn't caught sight of her yet.
"Ready to go shopping girl!?" Exclaimed Ashido, surprising and startling Uraraka into actually squeaking in alarm.
"Eek!"
"Whoops! Didn't mean to scare you!" Ashido said with a laugh.
She looked so causal that Uraraka almost felt jealous. She also just looked cool. She was wearing a bright purple jacket with a golden tank top with tiny blue hearts on it. A black choker with a tiny red heart at the center adorned her neck. She was also wearing a pair of ratty looking jean shorts with black stockings underneath.
"Shouldn't you two idiots be studying instead of wasting time shopping?" Bakugo asked in a snide tone.
"Oh buzz off buzz kill Bakugo," Ashido said and stuck her tongue out at him.
"Fuck off and don't come up with stupid nicknames for me raccoon eyes!" Snapped Bakugo with a serious side eye at the pink haired girl.
"Why not? You come up with nicknames for everyone else. Only fair that you have one too," she countered with an equally as serious side eye.
"Where are you guys going?" Asked a curious Deku. He was looking in their direction, though not at Ashido, his gaze was clearly on Uraraka. Uraraka felt a blush on her cheeks now that she knew his gaze was directed solely at her.
"Weren't you listening, nerd? They're going shopping which means the mall, ugh," Bakugo said with a wrinkled nose. Clearly the mall was a place he didn't care for.
"Want some manly support?" Kirishima added, though the statement seemed rather out of the blue.
Bakugo snorted and slapped Kirishima's shoulder. "What, you need her to shoot you down again? That wasn't obvious enough to you? Pfft, moron."
"Hey, that was stupid mock consent stuff. This has nothing to do with that," Kirishima said in defense, though a slight pink had started to form on his cheeks as if he was perhaps feeling like that had been a real rejection.
Ashido laughed. "No, thanks though."
"Shot down again. Told ya," Bakugo snorted and turned away from Ashido and Uraraka.
"Well just thought I'd ask," Kirishima said with a shrug that was perhaps just a little too nonchalant.
"Good thing she rejected your ass. You suck at school so if anyone should be studying, it should be you," Bakugo said in an extremely harsh tone.
"That's not very nice Kacchan," Deku defended.
"Shudup! Nobody asked you!"
"Well this is a lot of fun, but we've got to get going!" Ashido said with an overly excited grin. She put both her hands on Uraraka's shoulders as if to start steering her in the direction of the door.
As if to punctuate the need to leave, Tsu suddenly appeared behind both of them, her head tilted ever so slightly to the side in question.
"Ribbit? Are the boys coming?" She asked curiously.
"Haha, no! We were just having a little goodbye chat. Come on girls!" Ashido chimed as she grabbed both Uraraka's and Tsu's hands and began tugging them toward the exit.
"Ribbit, bye guys," Tsu croaked.
"See ya boys!"
"Uh," Uraraka muttered, her head now turned sharply in the direction of the trio of boys. Deku was looking at her, his face curious.
"Have fun!" Kirishima called.
"Beat it already," Bakugo muttered under his breath.
"Bye," Deku said softly, his eyes still on Uraraka, his face unreadable aside from an underlying inquisitive expression.
"Deku," Uraraka started, but paused just as Ashido began pulling her through the doorway, "see you later!" The door closed behind them and Uraraka felt her heart sink just a little. What had she even expected from that interaction? Honestly, she didn't know.
After the girls had donned coats and shoes, they stepped outside the dormitory to see an expectant looking Hado waiting outside. When she spotted the three girls a wide grin covered her face. Uraraka wasn't surprised to see that Hado once again seemed to be underdressed for the slightly chilly temperature. She had some sort of trousers that were more akin to capri's since they cut off at her mid-calf. That was paired with what Uraraka thought might be a slightly impractical heel and made her acutely aware of the not so cute sneakers she'd chosen to wear. Aside from the inappropriate for the weather pants, she wore a gray sweater with black lace flowers on it and a robust cardigan like coat. Why did Hado make even impractical attire look good?
"Hey hey ladies! Is this everyone? Are we ready to shop!?" Hado asked excitedly.
"The others declined the invite, but we sure are ready to shop!" Ashido replied, matching Hado's excitement.
Both Hado and Ashido raced forward with Tsu and Uraraka following more slowly behind them.
A short while later, all four girls stood at one of their local shopping centers. Tsu wanted to stop at the food court first to get something to eat since they'd not yet had dinner. Hado wanted to look at any store that sold dresses. Ashido wanted to look at lingerie and Uraraka, well Uraraka wasn't even sure why she'd agreed to go. Shopping required money and while she had some money, frivolous shopping required more money than she had. Or at least, more money than she was willing to spend.
"Ribbit, maybe we should go to the food court first," Tsu suggested. This was the second time she'd made that suggestion, though both Hado and Ashido had ignored her.
"Maybe Tsu is right, we should eat first and then do a little shopping?" Uraraka suggested.
"We can eat later girl! Right now we should go to a lingerie store! I'm totally in need of some new cute panties!" The acid based quirk girl said, clearly excited.
"I wanted to stop at a dress store, but we can divert to a lingerie store. That might be kind of fun!" Hado agreed as she linked arms with Ashido who in turn grabbed onto Tsu's hand who then grabbed Uraraka's hand. Once all girls were linked, the two in front began racing forward toward the intimates store.
Uraraka and Tsu reluctantly followed behind them. Tsu wanted to eat and Uraraka was quickly regretting ever agreeing to come along.
A few hundred paces later and the group of teenage girls stood outside one of the shopping centers only lingerie boutiques. They looked at the mannequins posed in sultry poses in even saucier undergarments displayed in the windows. Ashido was practically beaming. She apparently was quite familiar and fond of these types of stores. Hado just looked like her normal excited self. Tsu looked dubiously at the made to look sexy mannequins, clearly out of her comfort zone. Uraraka just stared at the half naked mannequins and felt a blush cover her cheeks. Looking at them made her start to conjure images of herself in similar lingerie, except in that imagining she wasn't alone, someone was with her, someone with messy green hair was watching her.
"I think we should go eat!" Uraraka abruptly suggested. Her hope was that it would shake her mind from her current train of thinking or at the very least, divert Hado and by extension Ashido to the food court.
"Oh come on! We can do that later. Let's go inside!" Ashido whined and dragged the girls forward.
Moments later they stood in the store full of all things sexy and hot. Everywhere they looked there was a mannequin displaying a lacy bra with an equally lacy matching thong. On the walls were all manner of bras and panties, some could barely be called panties—there was so little fabric! Further into the store were even more naughty selections. Lacy teddies of various designs, silky chemises, essentially see through babydolls, and nightgowns that Uraraka really thought were debatable in terms of actually being something one would wear to bed.
Along with the teddies, chemises, and babydolls there was an assortment of more normal looking panties but also outlandish ones: thongs, hipster panties, boy shorts, cheekies, crotchless panties and G-strings. There was a small rack that had what appeared to be much more practical panties that were high waisted and cotton—otherwise boring in comparison.
Ashido diverted from the group almost immediately. She headed into the middle of the store to look at extremely low rise panties that were admittedly quite cute, adorned with pretty things like hearts, teddy bears, bows, strawberries, cherries, or cheeky little sayings.
Hado went in the direction of some of the more robust looking bras. It looked like a section for more of the full figured women—or at least full figured in the sense that they were blessed with ample cleavage.
Both Tsu and Uraraka stood alone in the store, abandoned by the other girls. This was not the sort of store that either of them had ever really spent much time in. Tsu's personal attire was always quite casual and almost bohemian, meanwhile Uraraka leaned toward practical and efficient. Due to the constraint of finances, she'd never really had the luxury of shopping for cutesy things since that kind of thing tended to be more on the expensive side.
"Ribbit. There are so many different styles. I guess I never really thought much about different types of panties or bras, ribbit," Tsu mused as she looked around the store.
Uraraka opened her mouth to speak but got distracted by a mannequin back nearby where Ashido was. The mannequin was adorned with a matching set of bra and panties. It was a baby pink with a very soft floral undertone to it and a cute little bow where the cups met at the gore. The straps were black which matched a small black stripe on the waist band of the panties. The sides of the panties had a super cute scallop design which really made them pop. She'd never really been attracted to fancy lingerie before but for some reason when she spotted that matching set, she was drawn to it. Her mind started immediately conjuring images of herself wearing it under her school uniform, how it would feel against her fingers. Would it be visible under her white school shirt or invisible?
Of course, that line of thinking inadvertently led her to far less safe thoughts. She started to imagine herself with that matching lingerie set on, gazing at herself in a mirror but then that imagining changed and there was another set of eyes watching her in the mirror; a set of wide, curious green eyes. Despite that thought causing a blush to rise to her cheeks and her attempt to banish it, they continued blazing a trail of teenage desire that she was powerless to stop.
She saw Deku's scarred hands tentatively snake around her waist to meet just below her navel. His head poked around her head to rest in the crook of her neck, his normally wide and bright eyes hooded and sensual—a look completely conjured since she'd never seen that look on his face before! She saw her own cheeks flushed red with embarrassment or perhaps anticipation? She wasn't sure.
"Is this okay?" Imagination Deku whispered sultrily into her neck sending shivers down her spine. Could he actually talk like that? She secretly hoped he could, his voice deeper and filled with desire for her. It wasn't something she'd ever heard from anyone before but as she continued to entertain her made up fantasy, she realized she wanted to hear that from him to her.
Conjured Deku's hands slipped lower, two fingers just brushing over the hem of those adorably cute panties. Her breath caught in her throat as one of those long, dexterous, and crooked fingers slipped just under the waistband of her undies.
"Find something you like?" Came Ashido's voice, completely pulling Uraraka out of her fantasy.
A bright red blush covered her face. She felt as if she'd been caught with her hands down her pants, that thought briefly making her recall when she'd accidentally walked in on Deku in that exact position, which only deepened her blush.
"Hey hey! That looks so cute! Are you gonna get that Uravity? I bet you'd look super cute in it! Do you want to try it on? I wonder if they have it in my size. Though I'm not so into pink, but you would look great in pink!" Hado added, apparently also finding it necessary to probe what Uraraka was doing.
"It's not too much pink, ribbit, just the right amount for you." Tsu appeared behind Uraraka, further surprising her. Had everyone just been around and felt they needed to add in their two cents?!
"Oh my gosh no! I bet that is so expensive, it is cute, but no, I am definitely not getting it," Uraraka explained nervously. She had closed her eyes, her hands were up as if in defense, and she was backing away, desperate to extricate herself from this conversation.
"It'd look really cute on you! It'd be too much pink for me, since I'm well, already pink, but I bet this would look fantastic on you. You could wear it for someone special," Ashido lowered her voice on the last two words and narrowed her eyes suggestively.
"Huh? What!? No!" Exclaimed Ochako in a panic.
"I wonder if I should wear pretty lingerie under my dress when I go to the movies with Amajiki!" Hado mused, mostly to herself.
"Ribbit, sounds like it'd be uncomfortable. If you want to get that Ochako, you'd probably ought to try it on first to make sure its comfy," Tsu observed. Always practical.
"Great idea Froppy! Try it on Uravity! I'll try on what I found with you! Looks like Ashido found something too, we can all try on something!" Hado exclaimed in excitement. Uraraka vaguely noticed a teal-colored satiny bra in her hand.
"I didn't find any—" Tsu began only to be interrupted by Ashido.
"Yes you did. I found it for you," Ashido proudly proclaimed as she held up a pair of green boy shorts with a tiny pink frog face on the front and a frog backside hopping away over the back of the panties.
"Ribbit," Tsu marveled and took the panties from her pink friend. "Okay. I'll try these on."
Shortly later, Uraraka stood in one of the larger dressing rooms staring at her scantily clad body in the mirror. Hado, Ashido, and Tsu were all in the same dressing room with her. Ashido was trying on a pair of purple lacey panties that had a small heart cut out just above the butt crack. Hado was almost popping out of the teal bra she'd found for herself—clearly she'd selected a size too small. Tsu was quietly assessing her posterior with the hopping frog.
Admittedly, they all looked super cute, though Hado looked like she might fit in in on an adult film set considering she was literally spilling out of the cups of her bra. Uraraka was almost saddened that the matching pair of panties and bra were actually quite comfortable and felt exquisite against her skin. She wasn't sure she owned anything this fancy in terms of under garments. Secretly she wished she hadn't tried it on because then she could just write it off as probably not being a comfortable fit…but now she knew that it was comfortable which made it all the more desirable, but the price…
"Guess I need a bigger size," Hado mused to herself as she gently patted her cleavage that was spilling out in incredible amounts.
"That might be a good idea, ribbit," Tsu agreed, her eyes wide as she stared at the older girls ample chest.
"Hey I picked out some pairs for you too, Ochako. Pick whichever one you like the best," Ashido said and held up two pairs of panties for Uraraka to choose from.
Uraraka stared at the panties and cocked her head to one side in question. This was rather odd. She'd clearly found something on her own and didn't need anything additional. Why was Ashido suggesting she choose between two random pairs of panties that she hadn't even picked out herself?
In Ashido's left hand was a pair of orange nylon boy shorts. They were very plain aside from on the backside two catlike eyes with the text, 'I'm watching you', written under them. Uraraka was unimpressed and actually hated the color orange.
The right hand held a pair of emerald green cotton bikini panties. They were also on the plain side except for a very tiny lace trim over the waistband. There were no cute images or text, just a plain and practical pair of panties with a delicate lace detail.
"Why do I have to choose? I didn't even pick these out?" Uraraka asked curiously.
Ashido shrugged playfully. "I just saw them and thought of you so I grabbed them. I guess you could take both of them if you wanted, I just thought you might want to choose one over the other."
Uraraka glanced at the panties again. The brightness of the orange ones hurt her eyes. "I hate the color orange so I'd have to pick the green one. Besides, they seem less tacky."
"What? But they're so boring!" Ashido's face was shocked, clearly she couldn't fathom why Uraraka would choose the planer of the two.
"I like the color green, ribbit," Tsu said as she too looked at the panties.
"Well she's not wearing them for you!" Snapped Ashido.
"Oh are you trying to pick out something naughty so someone will see it? Who? Is it someone you go to school with? Is it that Deku boy?" Hado asked, inserting herself into the conversation. She'd changed out of the teal bra and was no longer spilling out of her clothes.
"What?! No! I'm not picking out underwear so someone can see them! That's stupid! Who would do that? I wouldn't do that!" Uraraka felt her face flush red and abruptly turned away from the three girls staring at her. She needed to get out!
"I don't think that's what this is about, Nejire," said Tsu, coming to her friends rescue.
"Oh…are you wearing them for Tsu?" Hado asked, completely innocently and honestly.
Uraraka whipped around and stared incredulously at the older girl. "No! I'm not wearing them for anyone besides myself!" That's a lie. You want Deku to see your underwear, a nasty little secret voice whispered to her.
"Sheesh, calm down Uraraka," Mina said with a sigh. She dropped both pairs of panties and shrugged at the obviously flustered shorter girl. "I just saw them and thought of you and thought I'd show them to you."
"Ribbit."
"That got heated fast!"
"Tell me about it," Uraraka mumbled as she began taking off the lingerie to put her own clothes back on.
After they'd all changed back into their regular clothes, the girls prepared to check out. Mina had decided to go with the purple panties she'd selected and had also apparently found a saucy looking black bra that she wanted to buy. Tsu had liked Mina's suggested underwear so much that she had chosen to buy it. Hado had opted to not buy the bra—obviously because she barely fit into it—and instead had picked out a pair of periwinkle panties that were eerily similar to her hair color.
Uraraka was empty handed, staring longingly at the pink bra and panties she'd tried on. It was just too much, or rather, she'd be able to afford it, she just couldn't justify spending that kind of money on a frivolous purchase. There were other things that would be far more worth the price tag associated with the lingerie.
"Are you not gonna get it? But it looked so good on you!" Hado asked when she caught Uraraka staring at the pink undergarments and not joining them in the checkout line.
"No…I can't justify spending that much money on clothes," she replied forlornly. "I don't need a new bra or panties really, so I can live without it." Even as the words came out of her mouth, she found them unconvincing. She wanted them.
Uraraka dropped her eyes from the lingerie and started to turn away from it when she suddenly bumped into someone who was standing behind her. She almost knocked foreheads with whoever had quietly snuck up behind her but managed to halt herself just in time.
"Oh! Sorry, I didn't see you ther—" she stopped mid-sentence and gaped at the figure that she'd just bumped into. Stark white ears, sharp red eyes, dark skin, and a predatory smile met her.
It was the number five hero, Mirko!
"Hey there kiddo," Mirko said with a smirk and a nod. Her crimson eyes glanced in the direction that Uraraka had been facing and back again. "Little too pink for my tastes."
Uraraka felt her cheeks blush and opened her mouth to start to say something but was interrupted by both Hado and Ashido's excited voices.
"Oh my gosh oh my gosh! Hey hey! It's the number five hero! Wow!" Hado exclaimed.
"Mirko! Oh my gosh! I've not like ever formally met you, aside from when you were a guest speaker in our class for the sex ed unit," Ashido practically shrieked with excitement.
"Oh wow, she was a guest speaker? We never got that when I had to do that course. Miss Midnight basically taught the whole course and it was actually really funny! Haha, half the boys would leave mid lesson because she was, well you know. Poor Amajiki ended up missing so much of the class because he was sick. Poor guy. I thought he'd die from embarrassment! It was kind of really embarrassing but also pretty funny. They had her stop teaching it by herself after that," rambled Hado enthusiastically.
"Yup. I was there with the number two for the tiny tike's sex class," Mirko said with a smirk. A woman who was nearby and could overhear the conversation shot the number five hero a shocked expression. Uraraka felt herself blush for Mirko. Who knew what that woman actually thought they were talking about.
"Ribbit, you broke Mineta's desk," Tsu added quietly.
"Haha, that I did. Little creeper, isn't he? Guess I kind of ruined that whole lesson, or so the Commission made it out to seem. Well actually, they just bitched at Hawks and not me." Mirko laughed, the carefree laugh of a woman who likely lived every moment to the fullest.
"Hawks was there? Really!?" Hado's voice must've risen an entire octave. Clearly, she was a fan girl.
"Oh yeah. Bird brains was on the scene with me. Commission is chummy with him so he got an earful. Better that way." Mirko looked again at the lingerie that Uraraka had been coveting. "You want that? I probably kind of owe you since I smashed your classmate's desk. I know the chick who owns this place. We go way back, so I can have her swing the stuff you want for on the cheap."
"No way!"
"Ribbit!"
"That's awesome!"
Uraraka looked back at the pretty lingerie and imagined herself in it. Could she really take Mirko up on such a thing? Was that okay? Was it allowed? Was it taking advantage of her or of the shop keeper?
"Are you sure…?" She asked nervously.
"Yeah, don't sweat it kid." Mirko looked at Hado then really looked at her and clucked her tongue. "Given your proportions I'd say you'd benefit from this place that does my costume and a lot of my skivvies. Ladies like us that are well endowed, well we gotta find somebody who can make clothes for us that fit good." She grabbed Hado's hand, pulled out a pen from seemingly thin air, and then jotted down a name and address on the younger girl's hand. "Go see them sometime and they'll hook you up with a sweet set. Tell 'em Mirko sent you, and if anybody gives you shit, well tell them I'll bust their skull."
"Oh wow, really? Gee thanks!" Hado squealed with delight.
"I'll tell the chick at the counter to give you gals the Mirko discount," the rabbit hero said with a wink as she made her way toward the checkout counter.
"She is like so cool. I had no idea! Didn't you do like a team up with her, Ochako?" Ashido asked, beaming.
"She's really intense," Uraraka said quietly recalling the team up mission and Mirko's intensity. She was like an older female version of Bakugo…though apparently kinder.
"Ribbit, you get to get your stuff now, Ochako!" Tsu said excitedly and smiled at Uraraka.
"I do," she agreed and looked up at the number five hero at the checkout stand and smiled.
As she stood in the line for checkout with the other girls, a tiny little part of her wondered if Deku would want to see her fancy new lingerie. A part of her hoped he would.