If there was one thing that could be universally said about the food at the lodgings, it was that it absolutely freaking amazing. Pretty much everyone in the entire dining hall was wolfing it down like they'd gone a full week without any sort of sustenance whatsoever, be the reason that the food was genuinely delicious, because they had just gone the entire day without any real meals, had been pushing themselves to the brink over and over and over again without the forest, or because they were all too exhausted to care what it was that they ate, everyone was stuffing their faces with virtually everything that was within their reach.
And it was all incredible, mouth-watering, and satisfyingly filling dish after dish. Meats, vegetables, breads, fish, fruits, pastas, and all sorts of stuff that was in between. Some of it, none of the students had even heard of.
Not that it was stopping any of them.
Both Izuku and Mina ended up with some orange sort of bread-cake, whatever it was even supposed to be. The best guess they had was that it was some kind of fruit cake without fruit, but even then it tasted and felt more like wheat than confectionery. Neither of them had even seen it before, never mind tasted it, but given their raging hunger, both of them didn't hesitate for even a second to shove them down their throats. They turned out to be extraordinarily tasty - Whatever the hell it even was.
"Mmmm!" The entire table seemed to be making similar noises in response to whatever they'd managed to sink their teeth into, but sat right next to her, Izuku heard Mina's the most loudly. Her face was scrunched up as she chewed on whatever it was that she'd grabbed and stuffed into her mouth. Though it was through some full mouthed mumbling on her part, Izuku did manage to interpret that Mina was saying something about not having a clue what this substance was, but that she wanted to know because it was so enjoyable.
Though he was using the proper utensils himself, Izuku wasn't much better, getting hold of a little bit of absolutely everything within chopstick range - Not within arms range, but within the tiny extra range that the small wooden eating equipment gave him - and shovelling it into his bowl, and then into his open mouth. Having barely eaten all day, everyone was desperate. And the food was delicious. Plus, with all the exercise done... There wasn't a single person who was truly, properly minding their manners, focused more on just cramming it all in their throats.
Conversation did pick up the longer that all the students were there, once they'd acquired their energy back and filled their bellies. Some people slowed down in order to converse with their fellow students, Mina being one of such people, once she'd gotten enough sustenance to stop herself from shaking out of hunger.
"Hey, what's the boys' room like?" She questioned the area of densely packed area of male students. Somehow, things had once again ended up with all the girls in one area of one of the two tables Class 1-A were occupying, while the male students also seemed all grouped up, though exceptions varied dependent on friendships and relationships. Not that things were intended to be like this, they just sort of happened.
If there was one kind of person who was able to make friends with nearly everyone in the class though, regardless of gender, biological or identification, upbringing, spiritual beliefs, even if she had none herself, or anything else for that matter, Mina was one of those types of people. Even before she began to date Izuku, aside from being friends with every single girl in the class, she was also on good terms with the majority of the guys too. No one particularly minded her at all, so she was totally comfortable where she was.
Looking up from his bowl, Kaminari glanced towards the Acid Quirk user, and speaking with a mouthful of rice. His words were muffled and hard to understand, but Mina managed to interpret his intended sentence as, "It's just a big room."
"We've pretty much got enough space to have a straight up manly brawl if we wanted to!" Kirishima informed her, pumping his fist with his right hand as he held his food. His grin showed off the sharp teeth that he must have inherited from his parents Mutations. It showed off that he was actually sort of hoping for such an outcome, as a fan of friendly competition, and from what Mina knew of him, determined to become stronger from the experience.
"Oh cool!" Hagakure commented excitedly. As she spoke, some food could still be seen travelling down her throat, and then disappearing as it passed throat her body. Her Quirk had an effect that certainly made watching her eat a bizarre experience. Mina had seen it many times, but it never ceased to make her pay full attention to the actions that occurred. "We just got a really small room. There's enough space for all of us in there, but there's like, not a lot of room otherwise."
Swallowing the food he had, Izuku popped in a comment of common sense. "I guess it's because there are less girls in our class than guys." He wasn't sure if the same rule applied to those who were in Class 1-B, though that probably was the case. It meant that the Pussycats could use the larger rooms for equipment storage, and other such functions that they would need to help train the students there, with their various Quirks and abilities.
"I wanna see the boy's room!" Mina commented, though she gave Izuku a certain look as she did so. To outsiders, it just looked like a seductive expression - Mina's eyes were half closed, and her pupils were squarely focused on her lover. A soft smile that made her look ten times prettier to the green haired boy made its way onto her lips, and her head tilted slightly to the side. For someone like Mina, who had no problems with expressing herself and how she felt, this wasn't unusual, if slightly inappropriate, for her to do. Izuku knew differently though. He'd seen the look before, and he knew exactly what it meant.
Still quite vivid, were the memories of that night after the Kiyashi ward in his head.
"Lucky curly haired bastard." Growled Mineta, glaring at the taller student like he was trying to kill him with his gaze. Knowing the Pop-Off Quirk user, he probably was going to try later on.
His perverted classmate's comments made Izuku go bright read in the face. He actually chocked on his food for a brief moment in embarrassed, stammered response. As he tried to clear out his windpipe in order to inhale oxygen again as well as in order to speak too, he noticed the smirks of several other classmates towards him. From Kirishima, from Kaminari, and from Sero in particular. They were more people that Mina knew, which just added onto the awkwardness of the situation for the flustered teenager.
It was an odd thought though - Had the two of them never started dating, perhaps they wouldn't all be eating right now, and this conversation wouldn't be happening. It was all just part of dating someone as social and erratic as Mina was, and while Izuku wouldn't prefer it any other way... That didn't change the fact that he was still struggling to breathe right now. He was sputtering, and his girlfriend was trying to help him out there, lightly patting his back to help him get out whatever it was that was cause him problems.
"Careful there, Midoriya." Tsuyu warned, before extending her tongue underneath the table, behind his back, and then harshly slapping the back of his torso - With enough force that id helped to dislodge the coughing boy's throat. After a brief coughing fit from awkward boy, the frog girl carried on with her warning, saying, "You should probably try getting used to those sorts of remarks from people. Especially Mineta."
"Kof... Y-Yeah, good thinking, A-Asui." Nodded Izuku, hitting his chest a few more times, before he was totally fine again. "Th-Thanks, too."
"My name's still Tsuyu."
From across the room, as the table kept up conversing with one another, the Pro's were moving more crates filled with foods from the dining hall to one of the storage rooms, presumably to save the leftovers from making the feast for the next day. One un-introduced member of the group had a Quirk that let their body turn soft, which they were using to drag multiple crates along the ground without having to pick them up, simply using their arms as bags that they dragged along for floor. Pixie-Bob explained to Kirishima and some of the other students on the other table that this was a one-time thing. What this meant for the meals the next day was a mystery, but not one that anyone was too eager to get around to thinking about or providing an answer for.
Two things became apparent as Izuku noticed this event occurring, one that no one else even noticed, or even seemed to care about. The very first thing of note was Bakugou, eating completely on his own, a few seats away from Jirou, Yaoyorozu and Ojirou, all of whom were conversing about something or other. The table that the green haired boy was sat at had filled up, mere moments before the Explosion Quirk user could take a seat, the final one stolen either by Mina or by Todoroki. Either too tired to care, or simply because he felt it too minuscule - Even for him - To get worked up about, the ash blonde haired boy made his way to the other table without a word, and sat far from anyone else. Isolation wasn't something that in itself was uncommon for Bakugou to do...
That aside though... He did usually have a small group of what could charitably be called friends who would interact with him, and eat with him. This time, he was totally on his own, even Kirishima staying away from him. While they had been unpacking, he had seemed particularly pissed off... How bad exactly, Izuku wanted to know, was the war-path that Kacchan was on that even the small number of acquaintances he did seem to have made were steering clear of him tonight?
Secondly, the child Kota had caught Izuku's eyes once again.
By the request of his Aunt, he was moving some crates of food from near the place he'd sat down and stared at all the training Hero students. Izuku's mind returned to the words that the young child had spoken. For a kid, he clearly held some very strong, and totally unfavourable opinions regarding Heroes in society.
Something about the clear anger he felt... It was familiar to Izuku. There was clearly something underlying there, something more to this kid than what he let on.
Given his Quirkless birth, Izuku recognised the jaded attitude Kota expressed, even just through a few of his actions, and the way he spoke to Heroes, and those who trained to be them. He understood it to the other end of the spectrum though. Kota quite clearly showed hate and distain, whereas Izuku had nothing but admiration and respect. But even with it... Born without a Quirk, and told by everyone that he could never follow his dreams of becoming a Hero... Of course he had anger, even hate, towards those that did have powers. Truthfully, not all of it was gone. His classmates were incredible, their skills and strength with their Quirks, as well as how they just seemed to take them for granted.
To so many, Quirks were just an inescapable, irrefutable, and imperative a part of their lives, their world, and their very identities... And out of everyone here, only Izuku really knew what it was like to not have one. To not have any of that. To not belong, to have no individuality, barely any identity of his own other than the worthless nerd who couldn't accept reality. It was all he'd known, and all he'd had, for so, so long...
There was something Izuku always wondered, that he kept to himself, because he wasn't sure how to bring it up to Mina, or All Might, or even with himself, now that he thought about it. A question to which the answer both intrigued and terrified him.
If his class, his friends, all learned about his Quirkless origins... What was it that they'd think?
The Quirkless weren't exactly treated well in society, due to their lack of individuality. Subject to mockery and prejudice... Relegated to roles that weren't entirely favourable or even respected in many cases.
To learn that he was one of those people... What would they think? Or say?
Mina still stayed with him, accepted him, and understood his situation. He'd always adore her for that, if nothing else. But everyone else was a mystery, one that he felt uncomfortable not knowing the answer to. After everything he'd tried to do, how hard he'd worked... Honestly, he doubted that they would do, but if, hypothetically, they decided he didn't deserve any of it simply because he'd been born without a power... He'd be angry, and it would be justifiable, too. Angry was the nicest word for it.
On that level at least, in a roundabout, convoluted way, he felt he could understand the amount of anger the young boy felt. They seemed to be equal to what Izuku had felt for his whole life.
Something he felt that he could at least understand even if he wasn't aware of the specifics of the kid's situation. That in itself was something else that had Izuku's curiosity hostage. Not once had he ever met a kid who disliked Heroes. It was rare to even find a civilian who didn't like Heroes, but while it did exist in adults for various reasons, like disillusion or political reasons, everyone had to at least admire them, and there wasn't a person in the world who didn't grow up looking up to them. That was like a staple to any kid. Seeing people able to use their Quirks, showing off their amazing powers, stopping Villains and rescuing people, it was the worlds new alternative to cartoons and anime. No one hated Heroes as a child.
Except this kid, apparently. So something had happened that had turned this kid to the person he was now. Something that had affected him greatly, something to do with the protectors of cities and citizens...
What was it that made this kid hate Heroes?
"...Hey, Mina?" He whispered towards his girlfriend, grabbing hold of her attention. When the pink girl turned around to look at him, he nodded his head in the direction of the young Kota. He wasn't easy to miss. "Do you... What do you think makes him hate dislike us?"
"Early teen angst?" She suggested with a joking smile, trying to lighten the dim feel of the question. "Honestly though, I haven't got even a slight idea. Kid needs to learn not to just hit people." Muttering as she took a bite out of some of the vegetables in front of her, which broke under her teeth with a satisfyingly loud crunch then turned her head slightly towards him. "You ever find it weird that all the violent stuff happens to you, like... All the time? You're like the unluckiest guy on Earth."
"Kinda wanted to ask about that, actually." This time, with his speech was clear, the Electrification Quirk user stopped chewing on his food for just a few moments in order to question the Strength Enhancement Quirk holder. "What even happened there?"
Shrugging, Izuku answered with the only information he knew, which was extraordinarily little. "Kota just said he can't stand Heroes."
"Kota?"
"That's what Mandalay called him. It's his name."
"Weird kid."
"I... Have another question."
This time, the voice that joined in was from the normally indifferent and quiet Todoroki. Normally, he didn't join in with group conversations such as this, choosing instead just to remain silent. Often times, he would talk when in small groups of people he was friends with, or was comfortable around. Usually, that was limited to the people that knew about his family situation, or had faced a serious threat alongside, or at the very least, those who's skill he respected. Otherwise, he was normally self-reserved, which made his choice to include himself into the conversation amongst those he normally didn't associate himself with a rarity in itself.
Even rarer - His eyes weren't focused on his friend at all. Rather, the person to his side.
"Ashido." The heterochromic eyes that the candidate for Class 1A's strongest student landed on the black eyes of one of the strongest girls in the class. Since this marked one of the few times they had directly interacted, and with how suddenly it had occurred, Mina was caught off guard by his addressing of her.
The pink skinned girl looked back towards Todoroki, making eye contact with him as he did so with her. The cold intimidation that had normally characterized him was gone now, thanks to her boyfriend and his efforts during the Sports Festival. He felt like a new person at times, though familiar all the while. The Acid Quirk user practically never spoke with him.
"Yeah, Todoroki?"
"You and Bakugou seem to be rather hostile towards each other." The Half-Cold-Half-Hot Quirk user commented, using his power to heat up something in the palm of his left hand before taking a bite out of it. "You looked like you were about to have a fight before you came into the building, but you looked like you decided against it. What's the reason for that?"
Mina had to blink a couple of times before she remembered that Todoroki had been next to the loud mouthed Explosion Quirk user during their glaring contest with one another. He would have seen everything extremely clearly.
"W-Wait, what?" Izuku snapped his head towards his girlfriend with his eyes wide open in surprise and shock. Despite being right by her, he had been too busy trying to null the pain in his crotch from Kota to fully comprehend what was going on with Mina in that moment, his somatosensory senses preventing him from using his audible ones to listen to the spiky blond snarl towards her. In short, he'd been right there, but heard nothing at all.
Quickly, Mina dismissed the question, brushing it off as unimportant and uneventful, not wanting Izuku to have to worry about what had happened just a short while ago. "Oh, uh, Bakugou just made some snide comment about Kota hitting Izuku, that's all." It wasn't even a lie, which was why Mina was able to say it so easily. "He just annoyed me, that's all."
"You say something to him?" Kirishima questioned, leaning forward slightly, bringing his elbows onto the table as he did so.
The horned girl shook her head. "Nah, nothing."
"He did seem pretty angry." Hagakure commented, her chopsticks halting just before they reached her unseeable lips. "Well, angrier than usual. I mean, it's pretty impressive to actually seem him more pissed than usual. Not sure if I should be impressed or terrified of you right now, Mina."
"I just looked at him!" A half lie, but it wasn't like she'd looked at him any nastier than he looked at anyone else. He always had a look on his face like he wanted to murder someone.
"Bakugou's pretty erratic though." Kaminari nodded his head a couple of times, apparently agreeing with something Mina had said. "Wouldn't take much of a look to set him off. He's a scary dude."
General consensus was that Bakugou was a terrifying wort of person. His raw aggression, combined with his powerful Quirk and physical strength. On that level, he was a fundamentally scary individual for anyone who had any common sense to avoid danger. An apex predator was a good way of looking at the constantly angry teenager, whom seemed to get worse and worse by the passing week. Now he was just picking fights with whoever seemed to get in his way.
It wasn't unfair to call him what he was - A scumbag, at least in Mina's eyes. The way he acted and treated other people, and believed himself to be above others. Calling him a scumbag was well within reason. Even just decrying him was well within the rights of everyone there who had been wronged by him.
Izuku had more than enough of a right than anyone else to express his anger towards his former childhood friend. To some people at this point, it would seem to be an obligation more than anything. To let people know just the sort of person that Katsuki Bakugou was, so they wouldn't have to put up with him or his crap like he had...
But he didn't. And Mina noticed.
Simple things in life Izuku felt, after all the excitement that had been in his life since he had accepted One For All that had changed his life, were things that had to be appreciated. He didn't care how much of an old man that made him sound, simply because it was true. Having a Quirk, especially in his case, was a privilege, even if the rest of the world saw it as something simple at this point. The truth was, it was something that a minority would never get to experience. He was unbelievably lucky in that respect.
At the same time, other simple pleasures were open to everyone.
Like an open air Hot Spring bathhouse. All he could think in the moment that he saw that he saw what they had at their disposal when it came to bathing was that the Pussycat's had what was probably the best base of operations, ever. Right next to a natural reserve of heat to create something so simply, but absolutely incredible…
For a person who had spent the majority of recent memory stressed, strained, and pushed to the limits of what both his brain and body were capable of, allowing the steaming hot water to cover all of his strained muscles and relax his joints…
Truly, it felt like heaven.
"Aaaaah…." He allowed himself to let out a huge sigh of relaxation, allowing himself to sink right to the bottom of the water. After trekking through that whole Beast's Forest, and then stuffing himself to the brim, there was nothing in this world that he felt would do him more good than this bath.
Judging by how the rest of the males in the class were allowing themselves the same benefits, he wasn't alone in his opinion. While some indulged themselves, like him, others hung around the sides, not quite ready to submerge themselves yet. Overall consensus was that everyone was allowing themselves to enjoy the simple pleasure. Even Bakugou seemed to have calmed himself down enough to just relax for five minutes.
"At least explosion boy's calmed himself down a bit." Joked an individual with ridiculously long red hair. For just a brief, hectic second, Izuku was utterly confused as to who was even talking to him, until he realized it was the classes Hardening Quirk user. It marked the first time he'd ever seen Kirishima with his hair down, the gel he used to keep it spiky just melting away into the water as he soaked. "Didn't think I'd be so happy for one of Aizawa-sensei's 'Logical Ruses'. I'd've hated to have missed this…"
Nodding in agreement, Izuku hummed a small noise with his throat to indicate his understanding of Kirishima's sentence. "They're going to work us hard tomorrow though, aren't they? There's no way that they're going to just let us enjoy all of this without making us work for it…"
"That's just Yuuei for you. I like a challenge."
Not at all surprising, Izuku thought to himself. Kirishima did seem to be that sort of person. Plus, he had second hand knowledge that this was the case. He remembered Mina telling him that she and Kirishima actually both attended the same middle school, like he and Bakugou had. Though that was all she had mentioned. Either nothing had happened of any particular note while they were at school, or his girlfriend just hadn't known him that well during those years. She didn't have any classes with him, she had told him that quite explicitly. Apparently she only knew that he even existed in the last few months, and they were sat by one another during the day they were all at the Entrance Exams.
While the two were on good terms, they weren't exactly close. Izuku didn't even remember the last time the two of them had directly interacted when he himself hadn't been involved. To him, it rose the question as to why she even mentioned it to him in the first place. Perhaps she just saw it as some interesting trivia to share.
The green haired boy shrugged to himself.
He allowed himself another scan of the Onsen, just as he relaxed and allowed his stress to sweat away from his unsubmerged forehead. The majority of the class was now in the springs, totally relaxed and letting themselves enjoy the total ecstasy that came with these sort of traditional bathhouse, the last few members making their way towards the water's surface now, eager to spend an hour or so relaxing and socializing. The more comfortable members of the class abandoned their towels at the water's edge, while others, such as the easily flustered freckled teen, kept his firmly fastened around his waist, even under the water's surface.
Truly, he was thankful for the tourism in Japan in this moment – Foreign visitors from the west had influenced the previously traditional mixed bathing in Hot springs that had ruled over the country for centuries previously. He seriously had no idea how he'd cope if Mina were able to be around him in this current state.
There was no doubt she'd try to mess with him by stealing his towel. He just knew for a fact she'd try. Then again, with how comfortable she was with herself, she was probably totally naked on the other side of the wall…
Crimson made its way onto his face, and he sunk even lower, covering his mouth and nose. Bubbles formed around his head as he blew all of the water away from him, trying to cool down while hiding his blush. He could virtually see Mina trying to flirt and tease him right now. Making her way around him, teasing him about his shyness, playfully reminding him of their various stages of undress, trying to get him to look at her…
His mind ran back to just a few nights prior, when she'd taken his hand, and pressed it against her breast… When he'd tasted her tongue, and flooded with her warmth... His red blush ran rampant all over his upper body. Just the idea of seeing her like that, and her trying that trick again – He didn't put it past her…. Actually, it was more a case of he was convinced that she'd do that.
He shook his head, hard and quickly, trying to get that thought out of his head, though it was stuck there firm. The more he thought about it, the more he could psychologically feel and taste her, only further adding to his blush.
"Dude, you okay?" Kirishima asked, looking at Izuku going redder and redder. He got no reply of course, due to his mouth being beneath the waterline.
"You got the same idea as me, Midoriya?"
Turning around, Izuku noticed that the smallest member of Class 1-A hadn't even ventured towards the Hot Springs since they had opened. While everyone had made a straight line towards the geothermally warmed waters, Mineta had headed straight towards the gender separating wall…
Izuku blinked a couple of times. He knew his friend… And he was unbelievably uncomfortable with him stood where he was. He knew exactly how Mineta thought – Everyone did. He wasn't a difficult person to read. Actually, he was completely one dimensional, so easy to predict if you dangles the promise of naked women in front of him. So if he was stood there… Then his intentions were absolutely clear as day. The fact he was basically drooling as he looked at the wall… Izuku quickly rose to his feet out of reflex, bringing his nasal and oral openings back to the open air.
"You've got a lot more to motivate you than anyone else here, am I right?" Anyone who was listening to him could hear the lust in the Pop-Off Quirk user's voice. He pressed his ear against the wall, and listened for a few seconds. "The food and rooms, that's all whatever…. This, this is what I was looking forward to…"
"M-Mineta, you're not…"
"Yeah… Yeah, they're there…" Giddiness rose as Mineta realized that all of the girls from the class were basically completely naked, barely five meters away from him. "They didn't bother putting the boys and girls in baths at different times… Oh, what a happy mistake…" He turned his head to give Izuku a look, one that was half way between trying to implicate him in his idea, and a look that was pleading for help in whatever depraved plan he had.
It didn't take a genius to figure out that Mineta was talking about peeping on the girls. He had a clear desire to find some way to spy on his female classmates while they were stark naked that it made some students cringe where he lacked the shame. On the other hand, some of the more perverse students in the class, like Kaminari, turned around with a look of excitement and intrigue into whatever it was that the resident class pervert was cooking up. Others looked in disgust.
Flustered, Izuku wasn't sure what the hell to think.
The fact there was a slight appeal to him in what Mineta was implying, because it meant he'd get to see Mina like that… Was disturbing, to say the very least. Constantly, Mina assured him that it was fine to look at her like that, and want to see her that way…. But at the same time, it still felt wrong to him. So to actually want to do that, because, when presented with a slim possibility to do so… He wanted to see her like that…
It was worrying, to say the very least. He wanted to see Mina completely exposed like that, and he couldn't decide if that was messed up or not. He loved her so dearly, and when he thought back to that whole morning after the Kiyashi ward incident… Too embarrassed and awkward to make a move… He had enjoyed it, in hindsight. The memory of it… And he did want to return to it. To be able to do so again.
He'd become slightly more like Mineta in recent days, although thankfully, he wasn't even close to his level. The fact remained though, that Izuku was, for a moment, tempted enough to at last just consider the idea in his head, just to see Mina.
Should he be ashamed of himself for that, or should he and Mina be having a talk?
If he was becoming even slightly anything like the seemingly universally hated purple headed boy, it was probably both.
"Mineta! Cease that immediately!"
The loud, crisp voice of Iida snapped Izuku back to the current situation. Mentally, Izuku thanked every God that ever existed in Japanese history for the Engine Quirk user's strictness and sharp ability to take charge of a situation, as well as his shattering voice that made everyone stop what they were doing to pay attention.
It actually snapped him straight back into reality, and made him blink at his own reflection in the water...
What the hell had he just been thinking, exactly? He actually stunned himself into outright disbelief with his own thoughts. Now that he'd regained all of his common sense, a big part of him felt that he'd betrayed his girlfriend outright, despite the fact he hadn't done anything. He remembered that Mina kept telling him that those sorts of thoughts, feelings, desires, they were all fine with her...
It didn't mean it was alright with him though.
"Such actions are unbefitting students of Yuuei!"
"Don't be such a friggin' prude." Mineta dismissed the strict warning in a disturbingly calm manner, and a waft away with the hand, before turning back towards the only boy in the entire class to have a girlfriend. He had the same evil look on his face when he'd found a peeping hole drilled into the side wall from the boys changing room to the girls'. "Hey, Midoriya, you in? Ashido's right over the wall butt-freaking-naked waiting for you, and a bounty of babes is waiting for me!"
"Dude, you're really crossing a line here..." Kirishima commented towards the small teenager, looking equal parts embarrassed as he did disturbed. He looked like he was like Izuku, having a brief moment of temptation before coming to his senses. "Seriously, what sort of guy even does that?"
"Y-You can't just invade the girls' privacy like that, Mineta!" Izuku said a bit louder than he'd intended, another blush making its way onto his face. "I-I'm not gonna help you peek on the girls! E-Especially not while M-Mina's there!"
"Yo, I don't know, Midoriya..." Wading his way over to the general direction of the group, Kaminari had a particular smile on his face that conveyed a certain amount of excitement as it did perversion too. "I don't think I'd mind getting a look..." Given the role he had along with Mineta to trick all the girls to get into cheerleading costumes back during the Sports Festival, it wasn't all that surprising that he was all for the Pop-Off Quirk users plan to peep on the females of their class.
"You - You do know my girlfriend is on the other side of that wall, right?"
"Don't tell me you've never wanted to see Ashido naked, dude. Said it yourself, she's your girl. Seems pretty normal to me."
"E-E-Even I-if I - Sh - She's still my g-girlfriend! Y-You can't just s-spy on her! Or a-anyone of the girls for that matter!" Mina aside, Uraraka, Tsuyu and more recently, Hagakure, were his friends, and he still hoped to have a good, or at least functional relationship with Yaoyorozu and Kyouka. Even without considering his girlfriend in this equation, he still didn't want his friends privacy violated for his other classmate's pleasure. Or anyone's privacy violated for that reason, for that matter.
With a nod of his head, and more bizarre hand gestures than earlier, Iida spoke up his obvious agreement with Izuku's sentiments, cut and dry and filled with stammers as they were. "Midoriya's correct, of course! As Hero Course students of Yuuei, we have a duty to be upstanding citizens! What you're doing would lower not only yourself, but all of the girls too!"
"You're all a bunch of stiffs." The perverse teenager commented, letting out a small sigh, and closing his eyes. For the briefest of moments, Izuku and Iida looked towards one another, thinking that they might have just managed to talk down the infamous pupil from heading further down this route.
No such luck.
"We have a motto for walls that need to be climbed!" Suddenly drooling as he spoke, and reaching for his head, Mineta utilised his Pop-Off Quirk, slamming many into the wall, and pulling himself up on each of the sticky spheres, like he was a spider of some kind on a rock climbing wall that were used at fairgrounds. Something worrying was the sheer speed at which he could do this - Like he'd been practicing for this sort of scenario. Knowing him, he probably had been. "Plus Ultraaaa!"
In reaction, Izuku immediately climbed out of the Hot Springs water, in an effort to try and stop his classmate before he reached the peak of the wall, not that he had any particular plans to do so, short of using One For All to leap up and grab him back down to the ground. Either way, he couldn't just watch him do this. "Mineta!"
"Do not defile our school motto for such disgusting pursuits!" Iida, Izuku feared, may have had his priorities in the wrong order in this exact scenario.
"Holy crap, he's fast!"
By the time Izuku had readied his body and Quirk to jump up, Mineta was already near the top of the wall, and no one else had a Quirk that was suitable for stopping him from achieving his target, except perhaps for Todoroki, though he'd wind up freezing all of their classmates in the process as he cooled his body down while submerged in water. Sero would have been ideal, but he hadn't even noticed what was going on, and in the time it would take to explain, Mineta would have already gotten what he wanted.
So Izuku had himself ready to jump, until a few seconds later, from atop the wall, the young Kota appeared, scowling right at the teenager whom he towered over.
And with an extended hand, simply pushed him right away from the wall. Clearly too, he wasn't holding back his any of his strength in this action - Mineta was shoved right away from a single one of his Quirk made perches.
"And you call yourself a Hero? Try being a good person before you try anything else."
"Oh you little shiiiiiiiit!"
What the hell Kota was doing apparently in between the walls, Izuku had no idea, but he was grateful for such an occurrence preventing Mineta from going through with his perverse acts on Mina, and the rest of the girls. Still, now the falling teenager himself needed helping before he wound up seriously injured. Switching from leaping up high enough to be higher than him to enough to catch him as he fell, he readied himself to jump.
About a second later though, the situation changed.
As the green haired boy prepared to jump up, he noticed Kota falling down himself, right after Mineta. How or why this had happened was unclear, but Izuku instantly switched his target to the younger child - Not only was Mineta older, and therefore more durable, and capable of putting up with pain, but Iida was also making motions to catch his classmate as he was nearer, whereas Kota had no one else close by to break his fall.
He assessed all of this in under a second, before leaping into the air, grabbing the child, pulling him close to his own body to protect him better, and allowed himself to land, making sure to bend his knees into a squat so he didn't harm the boy.
Sometimes, Izuku really did question the luck and circumstance that seemed to rule over his and Mina's lives at times. It seemed that they were either always ridiculously fortunate, or ridiculously misfortunate. That, or one of them was the reason for a spiral effect.
As it turned out, Kota had fallen off of the wall due to getting a nosebleed from seeing at least one of the girls totally naked and exposed, making no real effort to cover up any features of their bodies - And of course, that girl was Mina.
With the possible exception of Hagakure, who didn't count since she was literally invisible, though even then she was reportedly shy about doing so, Mina was apparently the only person who didn't make any effort to cover herself up whatsoever.
Somehow, it didn't surprise Izuku to hear that.
"Hey, in my defence, I wasn't exactly expecting a kid to just be up there in case Mineta tried to scale the walls." The pink skinned girl joked lightly as she walked alongside her boyfriend. Upon hearing the commotion on the boy's side of the wall, and hearing Izuku say he was going to take Kota to his aunt, Mina left the springs as well, hoping to find out if the child was okay. While she had considered him a brat, she hadn't wished harm on him.
Had being the operative word. The difference between Bakugou and Kota, she felt, aside from age, was the fact that Bakugou had no justification for his actions. Kota at least had a reason for his hatred of Heroes.
Mandalay had explained about the young boys past. His Hero parents, their heroic deaths against a Villain, and how it had affected their son. Heroism was a very romantic profession, with a light shone on it in both the day and night, brightness or darkness, or whatever the circumstance. Natural disasters, stopping crime and saving people, those were the things that were reported. Even people like Stain were revered for the fantastical ideology he upheld regarding Heroes and their place in the world. Not often were straight up tragedies reported. They were, but the world forgot them rather quickly, in favour of more pleasant news. But those tragedies were felt around the nation. People sent flowers, gifts, and letters of condolences to the family of the fallen, telling them how their relatives died a fine death for a Hero.
For a child to hear all of that after losing their parents... Kota's detest towards the profession was completely understandable. Izuku didn't have any anger towards the child in him after hearing that, and Mina couldn't keep hers either.
Izuku couldn't help but think that her giving the boy a thumbs up while totally naked wasn't going to help in that scenario, but Mina was energetic and free spirited. Those sorts of things just didn't occur to her. She was so comfortable with herself that she forgot other people weren't as comfortable as she was. To her, nakedness was no big deal, even if it was to others.
Especially to Izuku.
Both of them had wound up exiting the Hot Springs with only their towels, since the situation did call for it in his case. In Mina's case though, she just wasn't the sort of person to wait around, and had just rushed out and grabbed something to cover herself up. Comfortable in her own skin or not, she was at least socially conscious.
Even then though... Izuku was struggling to speak. He was becoming more and more aware of Mina and her body the longer that they dated, plus, her casual and rather revealing clothing style did nothing to make these observations any less easy to ignore, particularly when in dates or just hanging out. Right now, her hair and body dripping with water and moisture, her skin looking so smooth... Knowing Mina, he was pretty sure that she'd done this one on purpose once they had left the company of the Pussycat Heroes, but the towel around her chest had lowered slightly, exposing more of the tops of her breasts...
All of it just added up to make Izuku feel like he was about to snap out of sheer embarrassment. He just couldn't help it. She was right there... It was nearly impossible not to look at her.
"Seriously Izuku, you're ripped like hell."
Though the same was true for Mina to Izuku. Her line of sight was directing her gaze towards Izuku at all points, though she was very open about her attraction and adoration of him. She made no effort to hide that she was checking out his muscles, having seen them before, yes, but never to quite this openly exposed level. He really was the walking definition of contrast. No one would ever expect someone like him to possess such a practical array.
And here he was. He never showed it off though, ever. Truth be told, Mina wasn't sure if anyone else even knew that he had these. When the two of them were further away from the Pros, and nearing the changing rooms, Mina felt that, even if it was going to make him totally embarrassed and turn him into a stuttering wreck – Not a difficult result to achieve with him – He could use a distraction from the depressing story that was Kota's life. Flirting seemed just as good a distraction as any, and she knew it would get a reaction from him.
"You should show off a little!" She encouraged, flexing her two arms to show off her own muscular arms - For someone her age, body type, and biological gender. Due to these mostly uncontrollable factors, they weren't even close to the levels Izuku had.
They were still enough to make him blush further though.
"C'mon! Strike a pose!"
"N-No, th-thanks."
"You'd look kickass cool though!"
"I-I don't want to."
"Can I touch them then?"
"D-D- Defin - N-No way!"
"Why not?"
"After what we just heard… It seems inappropriate… A-And to be honest, i-it just makes me u-uncomfortable…"
"You sure that's it?" Grinning, Mina took her hand and ran it up and down Izuku's left arm, noting that in spite of his supposed discomfort, he wasn't making any effort to stop this from happening. Deciding to push it further, she quickly pulled him closer so her arms could wrap around his. In doing so, she pulled Izuku's arm against her chest, once again, completely intentionally. She made especially sure to put a flirty spin on her voice, being quieter as she spoke, and more sultry in doing so.
"M-Mina?!"
"Tell you what I think." She whispered into his ear, taking a glance behind her, before returning her attention to her now flustered mess of a boyfriend. No one was around to see or hear, and the corner that they had just turned led to a dead end, the male and female changing rooms at their immediate side. Everyone else had left a while ago, while they had returned to pick up their clothing. There wasn't any risk involved in teasing him like this. "I think that you're just really humble and don't wanna show off. That maybe that's why you get embarrassed so easily... But don't I get to see you? I already said I don't mind you staring at me if you like." Putting special emphasis on the final word in that sentence, almost teasing and reminding him of their conversation just a few days ago, she put on a particularly seductive smile, trying everything to make him stammer and blush like he'd never done before.
"I-I-I'm - I mean - I'm t-trying not t-to s-stare..." Izuku defended, his reasoning being that because he was trying to not stare at his girlfriends body, no matter how tempted he was to do so, Mina couldn't use the same logic to stare at him.
He didn't entirely think it through though, nor did he think about how he had conveyed or phrased it.
Feigning mock offence, Mina retracted her hands from the awkward boy, turned around, and folded her arms in an artificial huff. It took Izuku a second to realise what it was that she was doing, at least on the surface. As he came to terms with what he had just implied, his girlfriend muttered in her fake anger, "Well, aren't you flattering?"
"W-W-Wait, I-I-I d-didn't - I - I don't m-mean that I don't... Don't... Think you're p-pretty. I - I do... Think you're really a-attractive... Extremely attractive... A-And..." Izuku floundered, tripping over his own tongue, until he noticed a small smirk in the corner of his girlfriends mouth, and her shaking shoulders, from her trying to hold back the laughter at his fluster, which she found endless amusement at. "And... You... You're just messing with me, aren't you?"
"You're catching on to my tricks, aren't you?" The pink skinned girl grinned, her smile lopsided to her right cheek as she spun around on her heel to face her boyfriend.
What happened next came along with huge embarrassment, to both parties involved.
Through no fault of her own, but by mere, unfortunate chance, Mina's towel found itself caught on something on the wall she was stood nearest to. What exactly it caught itself on wasn't relevant as Mina's towel was suddenly ripped off of her, due to the force that she used when she was spinning back around. For a few seconds, she didn't realize exactly what had happened, as her eyes sent the signals to her brain. Even when they reached her, she still couldn't quite believe it, so she simply stood there, frozen out of shock.
Which meant that she now stood facing Izuku, completely naked and exposed, making no effort to cover herself up.
Mina's entire skin suddenly turned a dark shade of lilac, for what was probably the very first time in all her time dating Izuku. She was the sort of person who enjoyed pushing things just that little bit more to see what would happen, but she was acutely aware of how far she was willing to go. This had never even crossed her mind - She joked about it, yes, but she wouldn't actually do it like this.
Not that she wasn't willing to do it for Izuku, but -
Normally, Mina wouldn't mind being naked, were she the one in control of when it happened to her. She was comfortable with her body, and didn't mind admitting that she felt, in recent months, that she'd gained a whole new level of confidence in her appearance thanks to dating Izuku, and felt that she had developed into a very attractive figure. And while she might not mind being seen….
This hadn't been planned. It was just bad luck. She had no control over it, and that was what was messing with her right now.
Her entire body and mind froze as she realized what had happened. So crippled with this that she couldn't even move. For the first time in her whole life, she was flustered to the point of absolute silence. "U-Um..."
Izuku on the other hand, saw what had happened to her, seen her entire body, and immediately thew his arms in front of his eyes and face, and turned around so he wouldn't see her anymore, red as bright crimson blood. "O-O-Oh God, M-Mina, I-I didn't - A-Are you - I - I - I - I - Aaahhhh! " He quickly shut his mouth before he said something that he knew for a fact he was going to regret.
He'd seen everything though, in just a few seconds, and now he had a number of brain cells forever devoted to the image of seeing his girlfriend totally naked like that. It only made him go even redder.
"A-Are you o-o-okay?" He stammered, his voice breaking as he did so, sweat running from his forehead like a waterfall, totally flustered by this whole bizarre, comic-trope filled scenario.
"U-Uh, yeah, I-I'm okay." The pink girl stammered equally as bad, now covering her chest with her arms, and kneeling down to reach over to grab the towel. It had gotten caught on a doorknob as it turned out, the one for the male changing room, and fallen just at the foot of the door.
Never had Mina been so embarrassed in her life…. Though the reaction she got from Izuku was…. At least amusing.
"Y-You sure you don't wanna take a look?"
"D-Don't joke around right now, M-Mina! P-Please cover yourself up!"
"It's… It's kind of funny, don't you think?" The Acid Quirk user commented, grabbing hold of the towel, and standing back up, checking behind her again to make sure no one – Particularly Mineta – Had wandered down here and was just peeping at the whole event go down. "Mineta tries to peek at us and fails, you don't even try… A-And you saw me. Kinda ironic, huh?"
"I-I swear I didn't mean to!"
"You… Do know I don't mind, right?" Feeling more and more comfortable as time and talking resumed for her, Mina resumed her normal personality in a manner that was far, far too quick for Izuku's liking. She wasn't the sort of person to allow a few moments of awkwardness, no matter what they were, to keep her down for too long. She adapted quickly, and recovered just as quick.
"Th-That's not the issue here! I-If someone else sees you – "
"You'd be jealous?"
"N-Not the issue!"
"So that's a yes?"
"M-Mina, c-could you please just – "
Feeling much more confident in herself now, Mina cut Izuku right off, deciding to take advantage of both the situation, and her boyfriend's straight up embarrassment. Quickly moving towards him while his back was turned, the girl then wrapped her arms around him from behind, one hand around his chest, and another around his stomach. She'd done this before, sure, but never before had her bare hands touched his bare chest and abs.
Nor had she ever been naked at the time either.
Had Izuku not been red before, he was going into a bright red supernova now. This time, it was his turn to totally freeze up, unsure of what he was supposed to do. His heart rate rapidly increased as he realized what Mina was doing right now. Since he was mostly exposed himself, aside from a towel around the waist, he could feel every single centimetre of Mina's skin against his. Her smaller, but still present abs in her stomach against his back, her thighs, which were making contact with his own legs,… Her breasts, pressed up against his spine.
Breathing increased around the same time as his heart rate did, and his eyes shot wide open the second he realized that a naked girl was hugging him.
That it was Mina who was hugging him while in a state of undress.
"You're pretty warm." The nude girl commented slyly, taking a look at the blush that was spreading more and more and more, at a rate that she didn't even know was humanly possible. Satisfaction made its way throughout her system, proud of the effect she was having on him.
"Wh-Wh-What're you d-doing, M-Mina?!"
"Hugging you. That a problem?"
"Y-You're supposed to be covering yourself up!"
"Hey, you've seen me now. Not much to be embarrassed about anymore." Giggled the teenaged girl, grinning from ear to ear at the amusement that she found in teasing Izuku. If the two of them were totally alone, she'd be completely fine with teasing him like this all day. "What's up? You don't like it"?
Flustered even further, Izuku just decided it smarter to keep himself quiet. Digging his nails into his sides as he tried his best not to move or make any noise whatsoever, he bit his lower lip, just silently praying that she'd let go of him soon.
"I choose to take that silence as a yes." Mina chuckled, planting a kiss on his cheek.
Not ever would Izuku confess – Ever – But the fact was, Mina had pretty much hit the nail on the head with her assumption. As much as he was hoping that she'd let go before he somehow managed to screw this up, as much as he believed if he uttered a word, he'd blurt out something totally ridiculous, and as much as he was trying his best not to reveal it, he was immensely enjoying this intimate moment. Even if it was one of the most inappropriate times to be having such a moment, even if it was accidental in its origins, and even if it was in some way messed up… He was enjoying the moment.
Greatly.
"Screw off, Iida! That little shit wouldn't've even known I was headed up if you had kept your mouth shut!"
Both teenagers sharply jolted at Mineta's voice coming out of absolutely nowhere, and rushed to cover up the pink girl before the lecherous pervert managed to make his way towards them. Where he was, they assumed, was in the male changing room, having been reprimanded by the Class President for his behaviour earlier.
Letting go of her boyfriend as quickly as she'd flung herself onto him, Mina bent down, grabbed her towel, and covered her body up with it, as she was supposed to have done before engaging in that hug with her green haired love. She then moved to open the female changing room, where Mineta would be unlikely to follow – Unless he wanted to face criminal charges on top of everything else, which the entire class was amazed he hadn't already – and winked at Izuku as she opened the door.
"Don't worry, we'll have plenty of chances to do that again when we get back home."
The next day began bright and early. Way, way, way too early for Mina's liking. She let out a loud yawn as she dragged herself along with the rest of her equally tired classmates, into the cold, early morning air. Only the morning people like Fumikage and Todoroki seemed to be totally fine with being up this early. Everyone else still had bed heads, like Uraraka and her one-sided mess of a hairdo, or their eyes closed, like Tsuyu, whom looked totally shattered as they walked. Kaminari hadn't even put his jacket on fully, allowing it to remain unfastened.
As it turned out, not a lot of the class were morning people.
Izuku, Mina noticed, was trying to keep his distance from her, perhaps feeling too awkward from the previous night to look at her right now. Part of her did regret doing what she had done because of this, but she decided to just give him a few hours to get himself readjusted. It wasn't like this was the first time that he'd gone down the whole evasion route before.
Or perhaps… He was contemplating the things he'd heard about Kota last night. He'd grown up in such Hero happy areas that he'd never even really heard of someone hating Heroes as a kid. It seemed to mess with him a bit last night, hence why Mina had gone all flirty and seductive with him, to try and ease his whirring brain. Maybe he'd gone right back to thinking about it when he was supposed to be sleeping.
Maybe he just needed a bit of time to figure that stuff out.
So instead, she focused on what was about to happen right in front of her.
"Morning, everyone."
For all that he slept, Aizawa seemed to be a morning person himself. Either that, or he slept so much at the most random of times that his internal body clock just let him seem wide awake at whatever time he felt like. He sounded a lot peppier than any of the students in that moment, which irritated Mina just a bit.
The students all made their way towards their homeroom teacher, forming a couple of lines, segmented between one another so they all had a good line of sight on the Erasure Hero. Their entire day today would consist of training from the second the sun had risen, to the second it set.
For Mina, remedial classes meant it would be even longer. She wasn't looking forward to that in the slightest. She groaned audibly when she remembered that, and closed her eyes, hoping to ease the sting that came with being forced out of bed so early in the day.
"The real training camp begins today." Aizawa stated, shoving his hands into his pockets and looking down the line at his students. "The goal of this trip is to make each of you emerge stronger, strong enough to take your Provisional Licence Exams, and acquire said licenses."
"Hey, Midoriya?" Mina heard Sero mutter to the academically gifted student next to him. "Remind me what those are again?"
Looking at the Tape Quirk user, Izuku explained in brief. "They're kind of like permits for us to use our Quirks freely. Heroes have Hero Licenses which allow them to use their powers as they see fit. Provisional Licenses let us use our Quirks in the same way, even if we aren't Pro's yet."
"That's correct." Aizawa confirmed, deciding to let the interruption go unhindered this tie, as it saved him having to explain what they were himself. "Since the threat of Villain attacks and the growing hostile threats have been increasing lately, it's been decided that your training would be sped up by a significant portion. The aim of this camp is to make sure that you're all strong and ready to face that danger, wherever it comes. So work hard here today."
The League was the real threat here. They were the reason that the school was even having the training camp here, and not at the original location. Having taken Izuku hostage, Mina knew, the school was now being forced to train their first years to the absolute maximum.
None of them were in a position where, if the League went after them, that they could just run and find a Hero to help them. They needed to be prepared and capable of defending themselves.
She opened her left eye, and felt both her fists clench.
"Alright, to start…. Bakugou, catch."
With a toss, The Erasure Quirk user threw an object that he had pulled out of his pockets towards the Explosion Quirk user, whom caught it within his left hand. The object in question was revealed to be a softball, one that everyone recognised.
"This is from the Strength Trials…" Bakugou muttered to himself, examining the ball in his palm.
At the start of the year, Mina recalled, each and every student had been made to complete a series of trials using their quirks, a test set up by Aizawa instead of them all heading to orientation. It was a choice that meant that Class 1A had been more confused than any other class during the first few weeks when it came to navigation and knowing people outside of their twenty person group. It was when everyone had first gotten to see each other's Quirks.
The last person was supposed to be expelled from the school. That had been Izuku, but it had been revealed to be some sort of logical ruse – The first in a series of which they would come to know their homeroom teacher for being famous for, especially since it was the only time he seemed to smile. Mina herself had placed ninth during that original escapade.
So, was this some sort of redux?
"When the school year first started, you could throw that ball seven hundred and five, point two meters." Recounted the Professional Hero, placing his hands back into his pockets, to pull out the distance counter. "The question is, how much have you improved since then?"
That same sinister grin that Bakugou had whenever he got into a fight made its way onto the blonde boys face as he swung his arm around in a circle to loosen up. Of everyone who had participated in the original test by Aizawa, Bakugou had placed first out of everyone, his powerful and versatile quirk leading him to be one of the strongest in the class, right off the bat. Everyone around him showed a great interest in how much he had improved.
As much as Mina hated Bakugou, she was interested in seeing how far everyone had progressed since the beginning of the year. "This'll be cool!" She commented, a smile on her face as she watched the first person up get ready.
"After everything we've been through, he'll probably be able to blast that thing well over a whole kilometre!"
"Throw that sucker, Bakugou!"
Straining his throwing arm, Bakugou readied himself. "Here we freakin' go…" With almost a perfect pitch, he then tossed it, his Quirk blasting it far away within a matter of seconds, explosions trailing the ball as it went. "Go to hell!"
The blast from his Quirk sent a huge gust of wind behind him, blasting his classmates with warm air, the heat from his Explosions carried on in the wind as he did so. Within a few seconds, the softball seemed to be little more than a speck on the horizon, travelling fast towards the foot of a mountain a large distance away, before becoming even slightly noticeable. As had almost become common expectation, everyone, Mina herself included, could see the sheer power that Bakugou's Quirk had, and how much he seemed to have improved.
When the results came from Aizawa however, it told an entirely different story.
"Seven hundred and nine, point six meters."
Mina actually had to stifle a laugh when she heard the result, covering her mouth quickly before she let it out for all to hear. It seemed like, for the first time, well, ever, Bakugou was the one who had barely made any progress whatsoever – Progress he liked to remind everyone else of every single chance that he got. Progress he boasted about.
Evidentially, it just didn't exist. The irony was amazing.
"Yes, you've all been through a lot over the past few months." Aizawa commented, walking just past Bakugou as he did so. "You've all grown, and there's no question or doubt about that. You've grown your techniques, and your minds, and your bodies a bit – But your Quirks haven't kept up with the rate of growth. Which is why today, you'll all be working on improving your Quirks."
"Improving our Quirks?" Someone questioned from the crowd. So focused was Mina on what Aizawa was saying, she didn't actually catch who had spoken.
With a nod, the scruffy Pro confirmed what he'd said. "That's right. Each of you possesses a different Quirk, with different strengths and weaknesses. Some of you may have Quirks based on activation – You'll be focusing on improving the limits of that activation. Mutation and Transformation types will be focusing on the improvement of their powers in more versatile situations. You'll all be assigned a task, and you'll be working on making your Quirks even more powerful."
Chattering within the group began as they all wondered what sort of tasks they'd all be assigned. Acid was activation based, as was One For All, so Mina guessed that both her and Izuku d be focused on extending the limits…
And the same went for Bakugou.
A fact which caused Mina to smirk to herself.
For the longest time, she'd been meaning to figure out a couple of things regarding Izuku and Bakugou's relationship. Izuku was tight lipped about the subject whenever he was questioned about it, and even when he did reveal some things regarding the pair of them, he didn't have the answers that she was interested in getting.
Like why Bakugou hated him so much?
What was causing such aggression towards Izuku?
What was it that Bakugou even wanted from him?
Why couldn't he just leave things alone between the two of them?
After seeing the video of the two of them fighting All Might together… Seeing the abusive behaviour, still in total bloom, despite the pair of them now being on arguably equal footing… She'd made up her mind.
She planned to interrogate Bakugou, and figure out what the hell his problem was. It was probably stupid, but at this point, she was well beyond the point of caring.
And now, they were going to be given similar tasks in order to improve their Quirks?
That was perfect.