Izuku paused, a feeling of confusion ran through them as they heard someone walk past their room. A glance towards their alarm clock to find that it was nearly 2:15 in the morning, no one else should be awake, had a frown on their face. They bookmarked their book, which Kacchan was going to immediately know Izuku read through the night and scold them, probably around lunch time, and reached towards their nightstand for their phone.
They had a message to their insomniac's group chat, something they only very recently became a member of, sent within moments.
Which Izuku found interesting, the insomniac's group chat that is. There were times that Izuku absolutely didn't understand his fellow insomniacs; Jiro, Denki, Sero, Aoyama, Tokoyami, and Ojiro, and on the rare occasion, Todoroki happened to also appear to send a message. They'd get confused, mainly because there was the off chance that Izuku had fallen asleep earlier and had simply woken up throughout the night and was absolutely baffled at how Denki had managed to scare himself into Kirishima or Sero's room.
There was no reason that Denki had needed to watch Gremlin's, yet that was the movie Denki had decided on one random Wednesday night, or Thursday morning technically. Nevermind following it up by a zombie movie apparently. And then when something fell off his nightstand, he freaked out and ran to Kirishima's room, who wasn't there, so Denki went to Sero's. At least, that's what Izuku gathered from the conversation the following day.
It had only been Ginger, a kitten that Denki had hidden in his room, knocking something off of his desk.
Izuku shook their head as they got back a negative from Denki, Jiro, and Todoroki. Izuku frowned. Even more so when Tokoyami also confirmed that he was in his room, and that Shoji was with him. Apparently Shoji was going to be added to the group chat here soon, and Tokoyami was telling their friend about it.
"Well, Kacchan always said I'd be the white girl in a horror movie." Izuku muttered, laughing when Jiro sent an out of context and random keyboard smash followed by an "Izu No!". "Izuku yes, thank you very much." Izuku muttered, yawning as they pushed themself out of bed. They grabbed their sweatshirt that was hanging on the back of their chair and pulled it on as they moved to the door.
Their phone, vibrating at random times now that the group chat was particularly active, was very quickly deposited in their pocket as they slipped from their room and started making their way down the hall. The elevator was in use, going down, so Izuku would either have to wait for it to come back up, or they were going to have to use the stairs.
Izuku hummed as they pulled their phone back out, a curious glancing check, as they waited. Jiro was playfully annoyed in Izuku's description of themself, though was also convinced that in a horror movie, Izuku was one hundred percent dying first… or the killer apparently.
The group chat was a mass of the insomniacs deciding in what order their classmates would die depending on who the killer was. Izuku snorted when they saw that it was predicted that Izuku would kill either Iida or Kacchan first. Izuku got a reminder soon after by Jiro that to use the elevator they actually had to click the down button.
Izuku flushed as they quickly hit the button and continued their wait. They ignored Jiro's laughing emoji's that came soon after. It wasn't a long wait, so Izuku pocketed their phone once more and quickly hit the button for the ground floor. They wondered if Aizawa would be awake at this time, maybe at the end of his patrol? In the middle of? Or was this one of the rare nights their classes homeroom teacher had stayed in.
Izuku hummed as they reached the common floor, stepping out and immediately spotting the light that flooded from the kitchen. Izuku moved to walk in that direction, a curious tilt to their head.
"Problem Child." Izuku yelped, spinning around to find that, either Aizawa just got back or he'd been here to check on the dorms to make sure everyone was still inside the building. Izuku heard someone drop something from the kitchen, and soon after Shinso appeared in the doorway with wide eyes.
Well, that answered who had walked past Izuku's room.
Izuku's phone, which previously had been continuously vibrating, silenced. Izuku was so snitching on them if they got in trouble for being awake. Aizawa raised an eyebrow, and Izuku smiled at him innocently.
"I just wanted to know who walked past my room." Izuku told him, "and I found that it was Shinso, so I'm going back to bed, you know?" They turned to go back towards the elevator, but they were very quickly stopped once more.
"Problem Child."
"Yes?" Izuku turned and smiled at Aizawa, knowing full well that their homeroom teacher did not believe a word that had just left Izuku's mouth. There was another raised eyebrow. "Honest! I just wanted to know who walked by my room!"
"And how would you know someone had walked past your room?" Izuku had half a mind to say that Shinso was not as quiet as he thought he was, but Shinso really had been pretty quiet and they'd only heard it because they'd been reading. Any sort of noise in their room would have covered Shinso's steps in entirety.
Not even Jiro had heard Shinso's footsteps.
"I happened to have woken up… recently." Izuku shrugged. They noticed that Shinso had moved back into the kitchen, and Izuku made a slight face before looking back at Aizawa with a smile.
"Uh huh…" Aizawa glanced towards the kitchen before sighing. "How many of you guys want a quick snack?" Izuku's phone started vibrating again and Izuku made a face as they pulled their phone out to check.
Jiro, Tokoyami, Shoji, and Denki all wanted a snack. Todoroki was offering to come down with the group because he was thirsty anyways. Izuku nodded as they looked back up at Aizawa.
"Most of them? Or, at least the ones awake. Jiro, Tokoyami, Shoji, and Denki. Todoroki says that he's just thirsty right now." Izuku wondered if Shinso had Insomnia too, maybe they could vouch for their newest classmate to join the group. That is, if a pattern is spotted. Izuku had no doubts that Shinso was good at hiding that sort of thing.
"Alright, in the kitchen." Aizawa nodded, and Izuku followed after him, fiddling with their phone. They'd never really run into their teacher during the night, not unless something happened and most of the class happened to be awake or wake up; like when someone thought it'd be funny to pull the fire alarm of the 1-A dorms, their class had very little sleep that night.
Or when someone had been 'missing' and the teachers had to search every dorm and the entirety of the grounds before making an official missing persons report. The second year had been found, smoking on the rooftop of the School itself.
But Izuku hadn't been in the common room during the night. In fact, Todoroki had bought a mini fridge for most of the Insomniacs group for them to store drinks just so that they didn't have to go to the common room.
"Careful," Izuku blinked as a fidget toy was pressed into their hands. Aizawa hadn't even looked at them when he'd passed Izuku the fidget, and Shinso was looking at Izuku curiously from where he was sitting at the table. There was a glass of water in front of him and he looked exhausted, more so than normal.
They sent a message to the group chat, inquiring about their thoughts of adding Shinso. Afterwards they pocketed their phone and focused on the fidget as the elevator dinged, and the small group made their way to the kitchen, all looking curious and hesitant.
"Sit down, I'll make something small, maybe it'll help you all get some sleep tonight." Aizawa offered. Izuku moved to go sit at the table, offering a smile when Todoroki followed without them having to call the stoic boy over.
"If it does, please tell us what you did?" Denki asked, moving to sit on the other side of Izuku. Izuku spotted the pink bracelet and smiled at Denki as she leaned against Izuku, drowning in her own oversized sweatshirt and wrapping her arms around Izuku's shoulders.
"I can do that, yes." Aizawa nodded, not even turning to look at the group as he moved around the kitchen. Jiro and Tokoyami pulled Shoji to sit closer to Shinso, who was watching them all carefully, hesitantly. Izuku wondered, briefly, why that may be. They didn't get to think too long on it as Denki had her phone in her hands, and Izuku's attention was locked into the game that she had started playing.
Did they know what the game was? No, Izuku had just about no clue about what the game was, but there were a lot of random light flashes and it looked like some kind of beat game, and vaguely, Izuku realized they could hear music coming from somewhere. Earbuds, perhaps? It would make sense that Denki had bluetooth earbuds on her, especially if the game had some kind of music to it.
Izuku glanced briefly towards Todoroki, who was watching Denki and Izuku with an expression of something there, there and gone as soon as Todoroki saw them watching. Izuku, who'd moved to leaning back against Denki's chest so she could play her game more comfortably, reached out and for Todoroki's hand. There was a small smile on the dual haired boy's face, and Izuku smiled back.