"Yeah, Mom that's the color Jiki and I picked. I think it suits little BJ just fine don't you?" Oswald asked flipping the camera on his phone so she could see him holding up the Chibi BJ, which now had a shiny silver eyepatch with a rhinestone in the middle of it.
His mom snorted and tried to mask her chuckle.
"That, is certainly quite the fashion statement." his mom conceded trying and failing to hide her snickering.
"Uh huh, thinking about snagging some black and white polish next time to give him a prison jumper." Oswald told her and his mom snorted again.
"You really don't like Best Jeanest do you?" Aunt Trinity commented and Oswald fought back rolling his eyes, even if she couldn't see it his mom would.
Dislike was exactly what he felt towards the blonde hero he interned with.
Oswald wasn't all that jazzed about the hero, felt too Idol-ish for him to take seriously and his double denim everything wasn't his style but whatever, his fiber control would be helpful in learning to control his hair in different ways.
But god damn was the man such a prick.
It was one thing to be a hero who did a lot of reform work with way-ward hero students, but why the hell did he treat all of them and his sidekicks like fucking dolls for him to play dress up with? Cause he sure as hell didn't sign up for any of that shit.
Thankfully he was spared most of it what with having taffy for hair, but it was still creepy as all hell to watch the man fuss over the others, nit picking their hair and clothes.
And Oswald didn't expect to be going out and kicking ass, he was just a year and a month into hero training after all, but the only thing he seemed to do was being paraded about like some pet as the two of them patrolled.
The only upside of the whole thing was learning a couple of tricks and reinforcing Oswald's choice to stay the hell out of limelight heroics.
"He's the number three for a reason but we personally didn't mesh well when I interned for him." Oswald told her, because he wouldn't be so much of an ass as to say the man was completely useless.
BJ donated most of his pay and had pioneered the largest company which sold clothes for mutation quirks, not to mention vocal about reforming the current rehabilitation system for people charged as villains.
Which was pretty dog shit from what Aizawa-Sensei had told them in his classes, since it basically boiled down to pretty much to being stuck in prison if you were eighteen at the time or living a crap job once you got out after doing your time if you were a kid.
So, Oswald couldn't say he really despised the guy, just liked to hate on him for his goofy fashion and weird OCD level nit picking of other people.
"So who do you think you'll go with your internship this time?" Aunt Trinity asked and Oswald sighed.
"I don't know... I didn't get any underground offers last year, probably because of my bubblegum aesthetic and stealing the show with the others. Interning with BJ probably didn't help since I got a lot of attention from walking around with him." Oswald answered a bit morose about it.
"Maybe you could ask your teachers about recommending you to someone?" his mom suggested.
"Maybe... doesn't mean an undergrounder would take me on though." Oswald grumbled looking at the time and sighed.
"Master-Sensei will be up soon and I'm going back to school today, call you back after school?" Oswald told them getting a pair of goodbyes before heading down to the kitchen to get something to eat before they left.
Meeting Master-Sensei on the way and once again questioned how he'd be able to sit through the man's classes and take him seriously after watching him lounge around the house in a cat onesie.
"Morning Oswald-Kun." Master greeted still half asleep.
"Morning Master-Sensei." Oswald replied, waiting for the man to pass him before he brought his phone up to take a picture of the man, planning to send it to the group chat so that he wouldn't be the only one suffering from his teacher's wardrobe choices.
"You post that and I'll ground you, no phone or staying after school for a week." Master-Sensei said without turning around making Oswald jump nearly dropping his phone.
"Okay, sheesh." Oswald responded choosing to save the picture instead, since there was no way he wasn't going to show his friends what Master-Sensei looked like in the cat suit get up.
A couple hours later saw Oswald sitting on Hound Dog's couch "You know, I never thought I'd be glad to see the inside of a shrink's office." Oswald commented off-handedly.
"A sad stigma of therapy," Inu said back "So how has living with Master-Mind been going for you?" Inu asked.
"Pretty good, I mean the cat onesie Sensei wears is weird as hell but I'd rather deal with that then the two perverts and my bio-dad. Not like I'm going to have to deal with coming home and finding him playing strip poker." Oswald answered.
Inu began to grin and tried to hide a chuckle by clearing his throat, though for a pro-hero he sucked at hiding that shit.
"Got my own room and he took me and my friends shopping for decorations a couple days ago. Surprised he'd spend money on me like that since I'm only going to be around for a couple of years until I graduate, but hey it's his money he's burning so who am I to complain right?" Oswald told him.
Inu nodded "Right, Master-Mind did mention that in the break room the day of, how did that go?" Inu inquired.
"You know how you said unexpected triggers can fuck you up because you didn't think that something would affect you? Yeah... turns out I really hate malls now." Oswald admitted and Inu blinked tilting his head. "Oh?" Inu said.
"Like, it wasn't super bad. I felt kind of nauseous about going inside and the air-con kept sending shivers down my spine... metaphorically speaking since I don't have one of those." Oswald confessed, his hair twitching as he did.
"I see, that is to be expected. Did it get worse the longer you were there?" Inu questioned and Oswald shrugged.
"Not really, just a constant pool of dread sort of thing the whole time, we even went by an arcade and it didn't make me bug out more when we were near it." Oswald answered.
"Alright, were you the only one who felt like that?" Inu asked as he wrote something on a paper.
"Well, Haya got the heebie-jeebies from the arcade's games being loud but other than that it was just me and Jiki who were on edge, though Miyake's pretty hard to read if he ain't giving you clues." Oswald told him moving to lean his head on one of his hands.
Inu sighed "Not surprising given his anxiety, did he ever need to take a moment to cool down?" Inu asked and Oswald nodded.
"Yeah, took him off to the side a few times while everyone else was busy, just chilled together in a corner and let him bury his head in my back since my hair could block out more of the light so he was less stimulated." Oswald said waving a hand carelessly.
"That was very nice of you." Inu commented.
"Well of course I'm not going to be a dick to him, tease him maybe but you can do that without being an asshole about it, plus holding his hand really took the edge off being in the mall." Oswald replied.
"Well, I'm glad you were both able to lean on each other to deal with this." Inu said and Oswald had the feeling that Inu was implying something and narrowed his eyes at the man.
However, Oswald decided to not comment about it.
Mainly because he wasn't opposed to being closer with Jiki, he was a cute lil nugget most of the time and would probably look cute even more flustered after being flirted with.
Oswald would need to try that out later.
"Moving on, think we talk about the sports festival? Cause I'm not sure what to do if I get a bunch of limelight offers and no undergrounders again." Oswald asked.
"Yes, if you want to we can." Inu responded.
"Good because frankly I don't think I can stand interning with a limelight-licker again and need some advice for how to get the undergrounders to pay attention to me." Oswald replied.
"Ah... " Inu said blinking "Limelight-Licker, never heard that one before." Inu muttered under his breath "I'm guessing you didn't like working with Best Jeanest." Inu 'guessed' and Oswald rolled his eyes and clapped.
"Observation of the century there Sherlock Bones." Oswald answered before moving to lay down on the couch.
"But yeah, it sucked, I'm sure BJ does good work but we really didn't mesh well, and I'd rather not deal with another limelight-Licker if I could." Oswald told him "However my whole candy thing seems to have trashed that for me, like I know being pastel and an undergrounder is a conflict of interests, but I can be stealthy for fucks sake." Oswald complained.
There was a beat of silence and Oswald sat back up, recognizing the expression on the dog's muzzle.
"Oi, I can." Oswald defended crossing his arms "I'll have you know that I'm sneaky as fuck and would be a great undergrounder." Oswald added when Inu still didn't say anything.
*I'll show that Therapy dog.* Oswald grumbled in his mind as he laid flat under a bush in one of U.A's forest areas.
Because they needed more than one of those for some godforsaken reason...
And he was here since he was still a bit pissed that some people thought he wouldn't be a good underground hero and convinced the rest of his friends to change routine for once and train in a forest.
Which they probably should do more often now that he thought about it... changing up their training grounds once a week would probably be way more helpful.
Hado needed more work with her quirk in tighter spaces, cause she crashed into the trees three times already and it was a good thing she didn't want to go into the underground scene.
Haya was doing market-ably better than Hado was since she was only found by Hado bumping into a tree and knocking her out of it, and he knew Miyake was somewhere around here and probably would have sniffed him out already if he wasn't on the same team as him.
Both teams in their game of hide and seek were down one person each, Miyake had nom-ed on Mirio and Hado got Haya.
And sticking to the plan Oswald slithered across the forest floor and over to a tree to climb up to the canopy, easily moving with the help of his hair acting like tendrils, the cover allowed him to move without being seen, though he had to move slowly to make a minimal amount of noise.
Miyake was probably stalking Hado and he was to get the jump on Jiki, which wasn't all that hard since he just had to keep an ear out for the mumbling and he'd find his way to Jiki.
Something that was made a bit harder being so high up but he was able to find his target and Oswald slunk down to actually be in the canopy to get a better look at where Jiki was beneath him.
Jiki, nervous as always, was constantly turning his head this way and that as he searched for one of them, his ears twitching at the slightest sound.
Grinning Oswald prepared to pounce, regathering his body from how he stretched it out and building up the 'muscle' in his legs to make his jump even more powerful.
Then Oswald leapt crashing directly into Jiki and sending them both tumbling to the ground with a shriek from Jiki.
Before Jiki could get away from him though Oswald quickly got on top of Jiki and pinned his hands "Ha! Got you Jiki, that makes me and Mini-Zilla 2-1." Oswald said grinning only to pause when he didn't get a reaction from Jiki.
Looking down Oswald saw Jiki choking and sputtering half formed syllables with his face nearly as red as the one time he got sun-burnt last summer.
Oswald raised an eye only to realize the position they were both probably wasn't exactly healthy to Jiki's mental constitution.
"Oh, right this... huh." Oswald commented climbing off of Jiki and helping the terribly flustered boy to sit up, at which point Jiki buried his face in his hands to avoid looking at him.
Oswald hummed as he took in Jiki's reaction and decided he kind of liked how red looked on Jiki but could do without the ashamed part and leaned towards Jiki.
"Hey Jiki, you good?" Oswald asked putting a hand on Jiki's shoulder making the other boy jump.
"Y-ye- No!" Jiki squeaked out.
*Well, that was real clear.* Oswald thought and cut straight to the point since he didn't think Jiki's heart could handle either of them dancing around like this.
"Okay, I'm just going to come out and say this. Do you have a crush on me? Cause I am very much down for exploring our relationship beyond friendship." Oswald questioned.
Jiki's eyes nearly popped out of his head as his head snapped around to stare at him completely shocked, his mouth opening and closing for a bit.
Oswald scoffed "Oh come on this can't be that shocking, you're hot and a good guy, why wouldn't I want to take you on a date?" Oswald said giving Jiki an unimpressed look.
Something that didn't help because Jiki began sputtering again and even redder in the face.
Oswald rolled his eyes and leaned forward to press a kiss to Jiki's forehead, since kissing him on the mouth would be a bit too far before getting explicit confirmation that Jiki wanted to try being something more than friends.
Something that was not the right move to make because it was too much for Jiki to handle, cause the next second Jiki fell backwards having fainted from over stimulation.
Launching forward Oswald wrapped his arms around Jiki to keep him from hitting his head on the ground.
Which left him with Jiki passed out in his arms and no clarity on where Jiki wanted to take their relationship.
"Well fuck." Oswald said out loud.
Oswald: *Attempting to cut through the will they or won't they BS for the sake Jiki's heart*
Tamaki: *Faints from being overwhelmed*
Oswald: God damn it…