'Micha, mom and dad home?'
'Sis, they're out. You know they're out. If you're gonna bring him over, get on with it already. You're killin' me here, Pinky.'
Mina made a small growling noise at her phone at the sight of that five letter word that her brother had now basically placed her name with. It was starting to annoy her how frequently he was using it to mess with her. She knew that he was fully aware of what he was doing, and how much she hated him calling her that damn name, but he did it anyway. She hadn't been asking if their parents had been home to have an excuse to get Izuku under a roof without parents around and Micha knew that perfectly well. She'd been hoping to get a lift back home once they were done here. But no, he'd take whatever chance he could get to make her look or feel like an idiot. He really was a massive pain in the neck.
"Um, you okay, Mina?" Hearing Izuku's voice, Mina realized that she'd made that growl out loud, and went a very light shade of lilac. He had given her a look that ranged between being concerned for her, and concerned for himself.
"Oh, y-yeah, I'm fine." Mina quickly assured him, slipping her phone back into her pockets and inspecting the closest DVD available to her. The one she had ended up with was one of those garbage bargain-bin films that sold cheaply so the store could just be rid of the damn things, but she couldn't care less if reading the back of it was going to get her out of the fluster of this little situation.
A few days had passed since their reveal to their classmates, and things had seemed to settle down somewhat afterwards, everything returning to the normal. Certain things had changed though. To give an example, Izuku and Mina had somewhat found their way into one another's friend groups, and almost merged the two in a sense. People they didn't normally associate with too much were now friends due to them spending a fair amount of their time together. Uraraka and Kirishama wouldn't normally interact too much, but since each of them was friends with one of the two, they had wound up talking more frequently than they normally would have. That aside, little to nothing had really changed within Class 1-A.
Today was Friday, the final day that they had of classes throughout the week. Taking advantage of the fact that lessons didn't have to go ahead tomorrow, Mina had dragged Izuku out on a small after school date, if one could really call it that. Really, all they were doing was browsing through a few stores near to where Mina happened to live. Being in their uniforms, they had attracted a fair amount of attention. Many of the locals recognized Mina, of course, since she had lived around here for much of her life, but Izuku's presence seemed to be enough to call attention to the two of them.
Particularly with the fact that Mina made it a point to keep her fingers intertwined with Izuku's, taking the opportunity to etch that heat his hand provided into her memory. She'd felt it before, but being here with him now, just doing these small everyday things with his hand in hers filled her with a sense of peace and warmth. On occasion, she would look at him, often catching him inspecting or reading something completely oblivious to the fact she was watching him, and just smile, and let her cheeks heat up that tiny bit.
If there was one thing that Mina would admit surprised her about Izuku, it was how fond she really was becoming of him. While some might find that sentiment underwhelming, and many would consider it to be a given thing, since they were dating, Mina had felt this fondness deepen over time. Just being around him now had an effect on her, while it hadn't been like that before. Her crush on him had evolved into something far more meaningful.
The pink girl had to let out a small sigh in amusement at how her brain was trying to avoid using the word.
She'd really fallen in love with Izuku. It wasn't just liking him anymore, it wasn't just a crush anymore. She properly fallen in love with him.
Thinking about that brought her back to earlier in the week, when she'd chickened out on kissing him. She'd joked about his paranoia and worry and how she'd give him a 'make-the-boo-boo-better' kiss, only in this case boo-boo being his own damned anxiety, and then realized that actually, he was completely prepared to go through with it. And she had been the one to back out of it, making a few more jokes at his expense. The truth of the matter there was, she was fully aware that she was the one who had chickened out. When she realized that she'd been out-couraged by the single most timid boy she knew in her entire life... That had to say something about her, didn't it?
Granted, the more time they spent together, and the closer they got, the better he became at overcoming his shyness, at least around her... But still.
Mina blushed lightly, stealing another glance at Izuku, who looked at a random jacket on the hangers he'd found, dark pine green in its colour. She couldn't tell if he was seriously bored, or if he was actually incredibly interested in textiles. Actually, scratch that, he was probably just bored out of his mind. Still, Mina felt her heart beat more just by looking at him. Izuku wasn't a bad looking guy by any means, but he wasn't anything eye-candy either. He had a ridiculous set of muscles, but that wasn't really noticeable about 99% of the time. The only other 1% of the time would be those times where she 'accidentally' take note whenever a slight bit of flesh was revealed when his clothes rolled up.
Still, it wasn't those looks that was making Mina blush right now. Judging someone by their looks was something Mina didn't exactly have much right to do, given the fact that she looked like some sort of literal alien. It would be inherently hypocritical. Pink skin, horns, darkened eyes? Her judging someone by their looks would just be unfair. Sure she could identify a good looking guy from three hundred meters off, but that was pretty much the extent of it.
So what was it about seeing Izuku's face right now that was making her blush?
Maybe it was because he seemed to be the exact same way about things, and that just opened a whole new session of fluttering hearts for Mina. Again, pink skin, horns, and black eyes, and Izuku didn't even seem to register it. The world of Quirks being what it was, it sure as hell wasn't uncommon by any means. Everyone in their class had something that made them look inhuman. Hell, even Izuku had his natural black highlights along with his green hair that made him look like a 2D cell-shading artist got bored and scribbled the hair out on a drawing, but even so, it was comparatively… Not even close to Mina's appearance.
And Izuku didn't even seem to care. Probably because it wasn't uncommon anymore. Full body changes to a person because of a Quirk and the bloodline they came from, and the passing down of Quirks via genetics was common now, so society had shifted its focus on image and looks to a more neutral one since before Quirks showed up.
Or maybe she was just overthinking it… but Mina liked to think that Izuku was with her now because he liked her – As in here her, not her appearance. It was one of the very, very, very few insecurities Mina had. Sometimes she would worry about how she appeared. Other times, she just wouldn't care. But she liked that Izuku didn't seem to be prioritizing her looks whatsoever. It was… Comforting, to say the least.
Her hand subconsciously pulled closer towards him, until her arm was leaning onto his bicep, whereupon she wrapped her other arm around it, hugging onto it tightly without any warning. His arm pressed against her chest, which she knew would explicit some reaction from him, but she didn't particularly care are this point. Finally, her head rested upon his shoulder, making sure not to hit him with her horns. He was warm… Really warm.
"Wh - Mina?" Izuku questioned with a scarlet face. He quickly shot his head from side to side, looking to see if anyone was able to see them. A few people were, and a couple even had to hide their amusement from the clearly embarrassed teenage boy.
His girlfriend chuckled at his reaction. She'd done this quite a few times to him, and he never seemed able to relax when it happened. It provided nothing less than humour for Mina, happy she was able to get this sort of response from him. She closed her eyes and rested into him more, letting his warmth wash over her. Were they not stood up in some random store, she would have happily fallen asleep then and there. "Just… Shush, okay? Lemme stay like this? Yeah?"
She didn't get a verbal response, but Izuku didn't push her away, or make any attempts to free himself from the grasp she had one him. She could feel him heating up as his own blush must have set in, which only furthered her enjoyment of the closeness they had. She remained latched to him like this for quite a while afterwards, even when they had left the store, gone into another one, and left that one too. She remained attached to him, and she didn't give a damn who saw her like this.
Mina wasn't something that you saw every day atypically. As established, her Quirk gave her a very unique, unmistakable appearance. Pretty much anyone who saw her recognised her if they saw her again, which came in handy at her regular places of business like cafes and the sort, who immediately knew her regular orders. Izuku on the other hand was so painfully plain he was barely even recognizable. The fact that the two of them were so obviously close must have been a surprise to a few people. A few people who knew Mina went as far as to ask who Izuku was, and displayed a wide variety of surprised reactions when she explained who he was. The vast majority had simply marked him down as a close classmate from Yuuei, not her boyfriend. By about the third time this happened, Izuku had gotten used to it.
It was hard for Mina not to laugh at the shock people seemed to have that she was dating such a plain boy the first few times, but after a while, she saw that Izuku was becoming a little bit depressed about the whole affair. Having a bunch of random people walk up and tell you that you didn't look too impressive would have to get upsetting, even if you didn't know these people and had dealt with that sort of sentiment all your life.
"Hey, Izuku?" Mina suddenly piped up suddenly, rising her head off of his shoulders so he could properly turn his head around. She'd been resting on his shoulder for the better half of maybe twenty minutes, and felt the need to adjust her neck before it got too stiff like that. A small click could be heard the second she brought her neck back up to its normal state as her body realigned itself.
"Oh?" Izuku sounded slightly surprised, like he'd completely forgotten that Mina was even there. Feeling the weight lifted from the joint that connected his arm to his torso, he began to move it in a circular motion to allow blood flow to return to it. "Yes, Mina?"
"I'm kinda bored. You wanna come to my house and hang out there?"
A small pause followed between the two, before Izuku responded with a blush. It took Mina about two seconds to figure out a way to send him into flustered hysterics.
"No, that's not what I'm implying." Mina grinned as she tapped his forehead with her index and middle finger.
Izuku's eyes suddenly shot wide open, and for a brief moment, Mina was convinced that they were about to burst right out of their sockets. His suddenly flailing arms and attempts to cover up his red cheeks were met with just more humour for Mina, especially since he failed so badly at it in his panic. "That wasn't what I was - "
"Sure." Mina's lips grew wider in amusement. To relax him, she lightly punched his shoulder. "Relax, I'm just messing with you." Seeing her quite frankly adorable boyfriend calming down, Mina just had to let out an audible giggle before she continued explaining. "Well, there isn't much to do out here, is there? You're so bored you were looking at textiles for God's sake. There's at least some stuff to do at my place. Besides -"
She hopped up off of the bench with her usual energy present, before spinning on her heels to look back at her still red in the face Izuku, she presented a large, warm smile filed with her affection towards him. It wasn't the type of affection that Mina was going to be good at keeping to herself. She wasn't the best at keeping things to herself at the best of times. The excitable girl wanted to show Izuku off to other people in a certain sense, to show off that this was the person that she was with, that this was the person that she loved.
And on the flip side of that coin, she really just wanted to shut Micha up for once.
" - I think my brother wants to meet you."
Izuku was completely stunned with the sheer size of the house Mina lived in, even just from looking at it from the outside. He and his mother lived in an apartment floor, so he was used to residing in small, rather cramped spaces for long periods of time. He was used to it. Because it was just him and his mother, the place never felt that overcrowded. It was pretty easy to find his own space in the collection of his room, his mother's room, and the living space-kitchen-dining room they had combined into one smaller multi-task room.
Mina on the other hand lived in an actual house, not just a floor in an apartment block that she had to share with about fifty other families and residences. She lived in an actual detached house in a cul-de-sac filled with them, and her house was pretty damn large, even compared to the other buildings on the block.
"Holy..." Izuku just stammered. He'd imagined Mina wasn't exactly poor-off, but he hadn't been expecting what he would consider a freaking mansion. In reality, it was just slightly bigger than the average Japanese home, but average size was enormous compared to Izuku's house. "It's - You live here?!"
"Yeah. I have like, two brothers and a little sister, plus my mom and dad... We kinda had to get a large place." Mina told him, rubbing the back of her neck as through she was slightly embarrassed, like she was justifying why she lived in such a place. "We moved here like, maybe seven years back, when Mara was on the way."
Before Izuku was able to ask any questions about who Mara was, or anything about Mina's family, he was dragged across the pavement to the front door, and practically pulled inside, stopping just short of the elevated wooden floor that covered the foyer. Mina had just kicked off her shoes and let them land wherever the hell they landed, with next to no regard for how untidy it was.
Izuku quickly had to blink, and regain his balance to stop himself from crashing down on the elevated entrance to the rest of the house. Once he had, he quickly took off his boots and placed them as neatly as possible on the mat provided. He didn't take his socks off at all, attempting to be as formal and as polite as he possibly could, to obey the rules of etiquette that ruled Japan just as much as Quirks did.
"Yo, Micha, you still home?!" Mina called up the stairs, with as much cheer as she could manage. Glancing over her shoulder, she saw Izuku still timidly stood in the entrance, not having actually taken the step onto the elevated wooden floor to the house. Excluding his boots, he hadn't dropped off anything else like Mina had, like her bags or her jacket. Instead, he was holding onto them as rigidly as he could possibly manage. She smiled warmly at him. "Don't worry. You're more than welcome here, Izuku."
"A-Are you sure this is okay? I don't want to, y'know, be in the way or anything."
"Wouldn't've brought you here if you were. Chill out and c'mon!" Reaching out, Mina grabbed hold of his hands and pulled him up onto the same level as her.
In doing so, the motion actually caused Izuku to trip up, and nearly collide right into Mina. With her high reflexes, she was able to quickly catch him and push him upright before he ended up falling flat on his face. However, this ended up causing Izuku to be stood face-to-face with his pink-skinned girlfriend, their faces only a few inches away from one another. The only thing stopping them from falling into one another was the fact that their foreheads had blocked the way. Thankfully, the impact hadn't hurt either one of them, and it had wound up being more like a gentle tap.
The only thing that would hurt were their cheeks from the heat they would generate a few seconds later.
It took them both a few seconds to realize what had happened, and they only came to that conclusion once they were both looking into one another's eyes. Black and yellow met white and dark green, and both parties suddenly went a dark shade of colour, Izuku red, and Mina lilac, in their faces. They'd shared close moments before, quite comfortably, but they hadn't ever really been this close, and in this position before.
Mina was suddenly very consciously aware of how close their lips were to each other's, which didn't do anything to relax her increasing blush. It reminded her too much about a few days ago, when they had first come close to kissing, and just thinking about that level of intimacy was sending her heart into overdrive. She was fine with admitting to herself that she loved Izuku, sure... But doing something so close, so personal... It never failed to make her heart race. Judging by how he was shaking, Izuku was experiencing something similar.
Except he wasn't moving. He wasn't flinching, and he wasn't making an effort to move away from her. Not only that, but he wasn't making any effort to look away from her. If anything, he was paying even closer attention to her, like he was tracing every single little detail of her face and etching it into his memory. Her thicker eyelashes, the way her eyes were able to reflect light despite being the colour that absorbs it, and every single line and imperfection that she had up this close.
Before she knew what she was doing, Mina was doing the exact same thing, making mental notes of his freckles, and how far they were spaced apart from every other dot on his face, how his cheeks turned rosy when confronted with this level of closeness, and his lips, slightly apart... Like he wanted to...
Like she wanted to.
"Yeah, I'm here."
Both boyfriend and girlfriend froze, and separated as quickly as they physically could, and snapped to attention, making their bodies as rigid and as still as rock, trying their absolute hardest to wipe the blush from their faces. Silently, Mina cursed Micha for only now opening his damn mouth. Knowing him, he must have been finishing a level on some game or reaching a save point or finishing a match or whatever the hell it was that he did on his damn games before he even bothered to answer.
"O-Oh!"
A series of footsteps came from the landing near the steps on the upper level of the building, indicating that Micha was headed down to greet his younger sibling. Mina hadn't informed him about Izuku coming back home with her, so he didn't know he was here. "You bring someone with you or somethin'? I swear I heard you talking to someone. Unless you've finally lost it."
Once her older sibling came into view, he was finally able to see Izuku. Upon seeing the Yuuei student, Micha stopped dead in his tracks and looked at Izuku like he'd just discovered a living, breathing Neanderthal. At the same time, Izuku was able to get a good look at Micha. Micha was a skinny individual, more bone that he was skin, especially compared to his younger sister, but not to an unhealthy degree. Along with this fact, he had long blonde hair, that covered to tops of his eyes, which he didn't seem to bother brushing, or even washing half the time. His skin was roughly the same shade as Izuku's, perhaps a tone darker.
He couldn't look less like Mina.
"Micha, this is Midoriya Izuku." Mina introduced quickly before Micha wound up thinking that she'd just been followed inside by some robber or some lunatic from the streets. "He's my uh, boyfriend." She added, a bit quieter this time, due to her own embarrassment in admitting this to her elder sibling. It went without saying what he was to her. She'd told Micha about him many times. "M-Midori, this is Micha, my older brother."
"N-Nice to meet you." Izuku managed to stutter out, half expecting Micha to dart down and sucker punch him in the jaw for daring to go anywhere near his little sister.
Instead, Micha quickly made his way down the stairs and made eye contact with Izuku, being roughly the same height as him. Compared to Izuku, he didn't look too strong - In fact, compared to Mina, he didn't look too strong - but he was still capable of emitting a type of intimidation that Izuku hadn't felt before. "So, you're the 'Midori' I've been hearing so much about, eh?... Gotta be honest, you look sorta... Boring."
Izuku couldn't help but sigh with a small chuckle. Of amusement that like everyone else, he made that observation, of sheer relief that he didn't seem to hate him at first glance, he couldn't tell.
"Micha!"
"What? I was expecting someone with bulging muscles or to leave solid gold in his wake the way you talk about him." Micha grinned, knowing fully well that his choice of words was going to cause his sister nothing but embarrassment. He held out his hand for Izuku to shake, with a welcoming smile. "Good to meet you, Midoriya. Mina talks to me about you. A lot. Seriously, you're all she freakin' speaks about."
Izuku blushed, but accepted the handshake all the same.
"N-not true!" Mina quickly denied, making an X shape with her arms, clearly flustered in a way Izuku had never seen her even come close to. There was a bright lilac blush spread across every single exposed cell of her face.
Her plan to shut Micha up had ended up backfiring immensely. In retrospect, she wasn't sure what she should have expected. He was witty in the worst possible way.
"Heh. Sure thing, Pinky." Her brother smirked. "You're in luck. Mom and dad are still out, although I'm watching Mika and Mara. They said they'd be back in like, half an hour, though that was about fifteen minutes ago. So unless you want them to think we're getting robbed or you're doing... Whatever it is you two have planned," his smirk only grew when he saw both their reactions. "Then you might wanna let me send them both a text so they know what to expect, before they see you both making out on the couch."
"Nice of you to retell your experiences with Kiro for us, Micha." Mina responded, still colour in her face, only now she seemed more relaxed, and happy to exchange jabs with her brother. She still remembered how utterly embarrassed her brother was when she came back with her parents after a shopping trip, and he and his girlfriend were far too busy shoving their tongues down one another's throats to notice them for a good few seconds before her father started questioning what was going on. "But I'm thinking that we won't take the same route you two did."
"Ah, behind closed and locked doors then? Smart move, sis."
"We haven't actually kissed yet, if you must know."
"Damn, you move quickly then."
Izuku couldn't help but watch the back and forth banter between the two of them for a few exchanges, before he wound up torn between the options of bursting into hysterics due to the sheer absurdity of it all, or quietly slipping out of the house and calling someone to calm the two of them down. He never had a sibling, younger or older, so he didn't know what this meant, if this was the normal way two similarly aged teenagers who shared blood were supposed to interact, or if they were actually fighting for some reason.
"Hey, Micha, what's taking so -"
From the next room suddenly, popped a smaller young boy, obviously not too old, roughly about six years of age. He looked a lot like Micha, only smaller, and a bit fatter, which actually made him look like he was in good shape for a six year old. The kid had visible yellow eyes, that were a standout from the white sclera, despite being similar colours on the spectrum.
As soon as he laid eyes on Mina and Izuku, he stopped his sentence and looked at the unknown teenage boy like he'd just found a spy in the house. "Who the hell is this?"
"Mara, I keep telling you, stop cursing, at least in front of other people!" Micha said with a raised voice, and lightly hitting his brother on the skull with the side of his hand. "And stop Phasing through stuff!"
"Notice how he didn't tell him to stop cursing altogether. Brother of the year right there." Mina joked to Izuku. "Don't worry about us. This is just how we operate around here. Mara's... Pretty bold, I'll put it like that." Before she allowed Izuku to question what that meant, she knelt down to be level with her youngest brother, and smiled at him. "This is Midoriya, he's my boyfriend."
The final word in that sentence caught Mara's attention, and as opposed to just walking around Micha like anyone else would have done, he instead walked right through his oldest sibling like he wasn't even there at all, to stand just in front of his sister, and get a better look at her boyfriend.
The action alarmed Izuku, until he realised that it must have been Mara's Quirk that let him do that. By the time he had that figured out, the young child was staring at him with a crunched up face.
"...You look plain."
"I've been getting that a lot today." Izuku sighed. "That was a cool Quirk just now."
"He's still getting used to it." Mina said, tapping her youngest brother's forehead in a manner similar to that she did to Izuku. "Still needs to learn not to use his Quirk in public."
"Come on, Mara." Micha told his brother, grabbing him by his collar and dragging him back upstairs. "Let's leave these two to it. Oh, Mina, Mika's in her room, if you wanna let her know who this dude is before she gets freaked out." Ending his sentence, he turned around and gave her a wink.
The chaos over, Izuku had to take a moment to process everything that had happened in the last few minutes. He,d met two of Mina's threw siblings, one of which was one of the most jovial, joking, and banterous people he'd ever met in his life, who's every word seemed to be carefully decided in order to maximise how much he could embarrass Mina. In turn, she would bring up subjects he seemed to prefer to forget about. Then there was the bold younger brother who already used curses, and could apparently phase straight through people and objects like they weren't even there. His head was spinning, and the speed at which this happened wasn't helping in the slightest.
"Sorry, about that." Mina finally broke the silence with an awkward laugh. "My family is kinda... Intense, let's say. They're not bad, but you kinda need to have thick skin around them."
"Apparently I'm universally plain." Izuku said with a disheartened sigh. "I mean I'm used to it, but it does sorta begin to wear me down after so many comments about it."
"Well, I think you're cute." Mina told him with a pretty smile. "That count?"
Yet another blush managed to make its way onto Izuku's face, and he shot his gaze to the floor to hide it. He'd given her the reaction that she'd wanted, although he still couldn't bring himself to look back at her, even with this knowledge in his head. There was a small smile on his face, and a beating in his heart, but his shyness and embarrassment prevented him from sharing these with Mina.
"Come on, Izuku." His girlfriend grabbed hold of his hand and led him upstairs, a spring in her step with every one that she rose on. "Mika's next on the list of people you need to meet. You'll like her."
A few seconds later, he found himself awaiting a response from a brightly decorated door that made it abundantly clear that the person on the other side of this door was, one, definitely and without question Mina's sibling, and two, adored Heroes to death. Pictures of all a great number of them were overlapping and some hanging off. Heroes like All Might, Mt. Lady, and Kamui Woods were just a few of the extremely popular ones. Lesser known Heroes like Hardline, Tsunami and Buzzsaw, and even newspaper clippings of some Vigilantes like Gentle-man, Knuckleduster and Monochrome were there. This person had a love of Heroes and all things that related to the world of Heroics that rivalled Izuku's.
"Go ahead, come in." Came a female voice from the other side of the door, muffled slightly by the wood and draft excluders on the opposing side.
With permission given to them, Mina opened the heavily decorated door and allowed it to swing open, revealing an equally heavily decorated room with posters and figures, and all sorts of memorabilia related to the Hero industry. The paint on the walls, if there was any to begin with, was totally covered, not leaving even a single hint about what colour the room originally was. Excluding these, the room had a beige coloured carpet on the floor, and the room was fairly neatly kept, wall-posters none-withstanding, the only exceptions being some toys and pastimes scattered around, like mobile devices and drawings, thing that could easily be swept up within seconds and thrown into whatever corner that they were originally from.
The girl who inhabited this room was sat on her bed and was messing around with a few bricks of Lego, attempting to stick them together into some sort of shape to add to a village set that was by her feet. Like her brother, she was a darker tone than Izuku, but it was still a regular tone. As well as this, she had the same pink hair Mina had, and the yellow eyes too.
Izuku blinked. Not a single one of her siblings looked a thing like Mina.
No obvious alterations. No huge changes to the body. No inhuman skin tones. Pink hair and yellow eyes, they all shared, but neither of those were uncommon in this world filled with Quirks and superpowers, so they weren't of much note. None of them had the horns that Mina had sticking out of her skull at all times. None of them had the colourful skin shade that Mina's Acid Quirk caused. None of them had the black sclera that somehow reflected light.
Compared to Mina, all her siblings were completely normal.
Without awaiting her sister's acknowledgement, Mina practically skipped her way into the room.
And instantly regretted it.
Sharp pains lodged in the weak, vulnerable part of her foot sent a huge reaction up Mina's legs. She quickly hopped back and onto one foot, grabbing the injured foot with her hands to try and soot the pain. "Ow - Damn it Mika! I keep telling you to not leave your freaking Lego on the floor!"
"Oh, sorry!" Mika apologised with a smile that was way too bright for someone who was sincerely apologising. She seemed to be mocking Mina with this grin, like she had hoped someone would step on what looked like, on closer inspection, a line of small, jagged Lego pieces in front of her door.
"That's it, I'm dissolving these!" Mina responded, reaching down to grab as many of the hated blocks as she could before Mika had a chance to stop her. She was already prepared to create the most effective Hydrochloric Acid that she could secrete to dissolve these horrendous inventions straight out of existence.
As she reached the first block, it suddenly jumped away from her, as did every block around her, and all hovered in the air, before returning to Mika's hand, and then settling all around her.
"Of course." Mina sighed. Mika would user her Quirk to prevent that, and she knew Mina wouldn't go anywhere near her when she was using her Acid Quirk. Her sister may annoy her, but she wasn't prepared to be responsible for making a scar down her face that made her look like Todoroki. She held her head in her hand before she introduced Izuku to her. "Mika, Midoriya. Izuku, Mika. Mika, Izuku here's my boyfriend."
Mika looked at Izuku for a brief second, before her yellow eyes began to sparkle. Instantly she recognised the green haired boy as someone she had made a special note of when she had first seen him on TV. "Woah woah woah, hold up, from the Yuuei Sports Day Festival? The guy who had that super-strength Quirk?" She then looked at Izuku right in the eye, and hovered some of the small blocks around her head, like a halo. "You were the guy who had that fight with the fire-ice guy!"
"H-Huh?" Izuku stammered. He had gotten used to being showered with praise about his match a few days after his match had ended, but he was surprised that someone still remembered exactly who he was so long after the match had ended. "Fire-ice guy... She means Todoroki, doesn't she?"
"She means Todoroki." Mina smiled. "She keeps re-watching it a lot on the internet. She's pretty fond of it."
"You didn't tell me you were dating the green haired dude from that fight!" Mika exclaimed in surprise. Next, she looked at him intensely, like she was examining him. He should have been used to it by now, since about seventeen people had done the exact same thing to him in the last few hours, but Izuku still felt fairly uneasy about being inspected like this. After she had looked at him until she was content, she turned to look at Mina. "He's actually kinda cute in person."
In response, the pink skinned girl jabbed her boyfriend with her elbow and grinned. "Told you so."
Mina's bedroom was something that merely being inside was sending Izuku into a reclusive state by the mere fact he was standing in his girlfriend's freaking bedroom! Just that knowledge was enough to send his knees into quakes and quivers, a blush across his face, and the stammer back into his voice with such a fury it was like the ocean taking revenge on man in the form of a tsunami - Put simply, he was freaking the hell out.
On top of that, just looking at the room was almost like a sensory overload all on its own. Colourful, so bright, Izuku thought if he stared at this room too hard, he was going to go blind. Mina had a lot of posters, not anywhere close to the number Mika had, and they were less focused on Heroes, though a few posters of her favourites were on there, including one of All Might that looked rather old, but they were more orientated around some of the shows or celebrities that she liked.
"Sorry its kind of a mess..." Mina laughed a bit unsurely, bringing her hands together in front of her waist. "I didn't really plan on us winding up here, so I - Uh... Izuku, are you gonna actually come in in room or what?"
True to his awkwardness and his timid nature, Izuku was hesitant on entering the room further than the initial doorframe, clearly shaking out of nervousness and embarrassment. Just the reminder that he had a girlfriend was something that was certain to send him into flustered red shades and fits of pure self-induced humiliation. The idea of doing anything as intimate as kissing her was, while something that he did want to do, left him dark scarlet in his face completely. To be somewhere as personal as her bedroom... Was this even okay?
He'd already been dragged into her house, which he still had some reservations about, and he felt that like he was already being far too honoured as it was. But this... Was it even okay to go into the place that his girlfriend called her home? This was where she retreated whenever she was tired or wanted to be alone. This was where she relaxed, and where she slept. This was where she was the most vulnerable that she ever was.
"Oh for God's sake, Izuku." Mina couldn't help but shake her head and giggle in amusement of what was happening. It didn't take her long to figure out what it was that was leaving him nervous, unwilling to enter the room any more than he already was, residing on the very edge of the room, enough to say he was in the room, but not enough to really be in the room as it were. Like he was stood on the edge of a conversation as opposed to actually being a part of one. "Stop being silly. You know you're fine to be in here."
"I-Is this seriously alright though? I-I mean -"
"It's fine. Seriously. I'm not hiding something in here, and even if I was... I trust you, y'know. Like, I don't, y'know... Wanna hide anything." Her words were repeating, saying things that she'd already said beforehand. She was trying to say something aside from that, something that her own throat was catching before she could say it, but the sentiment was still there. She was being genuine. She trusted Izuku this much. She really did trust him this much.
Heart-warming as her sentiment was, Izuku couldn't find it in himself to put this off any further. Swallowing his nervousness as much as he could manage, he took a few steps further into his girlfriend's bedroom, until he was stood right next to her and her beautiful smile. He was still obviously nervous as all holy hell, but he was managing to return a slightly shakier smile of his own.
Her room was cute, there certainly wasn't any denying that. It had a warm feeling to it, a certain charm that really helped emphasise that energetic yet sweet personality that Mina had. Everything in the room was personalised and seemed accessorised to fit her perfectly. The bookcase that she had that was lined with books that she liked, on which Izuku was able to spy the ones she had bought on their first date, was covered in stickers, post-its, and drawings that the teenage boy assumed had to have come from a three year old Mina. Her bedsheets were a clean white colour, but smaller blankets, pillows and such were a huge plethora of colours and patterns that Izuku could hardly even see the covers underneath them. On the floor, there were some miscellaneous items, like a remote for her television, some of her school books, and slippers, which Mina quickly slipped her feet into.
It was all so very... Ashido Mina.
"It... Really suits you." Was all Izuku could say to compliment the room. He didn't really know what else to say that would count as a compliment.
Mina couldn't help but chuckle at the compliment, before she rested her head on his shoulder and snuggled into the nape of his neck.
"Mina!"
A deeper voice, a voice far deeper than any other individuals that Izuku had heard all day suddenly bellowed throughout the house, sending both him and Mina frozen rigid, until his girlfriend relaxed.
"Yikes. Didn't think dad'd be home so soon. Thought Micha said they'd be another ten."
The Ashido family, Izuku learned, was one that bore nearly no resemblance to Mina whatsoever. None of them had any oddities that Mina had. None at all. Mina was alone in her appearance in the Ashido household, which made her stand out like a fire in a forest.
Both her parents had brown eyes, which none of their children had in common, all of them sharing yellow irises, and very lightly varying shades of light Caucasian. Mina's mother had her pink hair, while her father had the blond hair her brothers had. But that was the end of the similarities. That aside, they all looked as regular humans as humans could be. They looked more like Izuku than they did their own daughter.
They did share a similarity in Quirks though, at least on her mother's side. Mina's mother had a Quirk that allowed her to melt metallic objects by touching them with her bare skin, and the desire to activate the power, whereas her father possessed the ability to grow two large, bulky horns from his forehead, akin to those of a bull. Looking at her, it was easy to see how Mina had gotten her powerful Quirk. And where her bizarre appearance came from. At least where the horns came from, anyway.
And Izuku had learned all of this while sat at a dinner table, a bowl of rice and something else that he had no clue as to what it was shoved into his hands. He hadn't even been in his girlfriend's sight for more than ten seconds before they had invited him to join them for dinner. Apparently Mina got her habit of dragging people along from her mother, since she all but picked up the One For All inheritor and placed him at the dinner table, and basically threw Mina into the seat next to him. For her part, Mina acted like this was normal, and gave Izuku a comforting smile and nod of reassurance.
Izuku also learned about the Quirks of her siblings, and made mental notes to record the information that he had learned. The first one he had learned about was the one that Micha had, Meltdown. It was the one that was as close to Mina's Quirk as the entire family had, if slightly less useful, since he had to touch an object in order for his power to activate.
Mara had a power that was called Phasing. It allowed him to completely pass through people, and anything solid, like it wasn't even there. With proper training and refinement, it would probably be an incredibly strong superpower.
Mika was the last one. It turned out she had demonstrated her Quirk in a very apt way when he had met her. Mika was able to completely control plastic objects at will, bringing them closer to her, further away from her, or altering them into different shapes.
For the part of the individuals, they were a very... Eccentric family. They were nice and polite, of course, but alongside it, they seemed to have some of the most blunt and headstrong personalities of people that he'd ever known in his entire life.
"Hmm? Midoriya, you're not eating. Is it not good?" Mina's mother asked. She showed a concern for him that he couldn't quite place. It was between parental concern that he wasn't eating, or worry that her food was terrible.
He had stopped eating because he was processing exactly what he had been told, and was still in a mild state of shock that he'd been forced into this seat and given food he'd had nearly no interest in eating all in about five seconds. Still, he didn't want to be rude in any way. Quickly, be shook his head to deny this. "N-No, I-it's really nice, t-thank you!" To emphasise the point, he took another mouthful of rice and the sauce provided.
It wasn't good. At all. In fact, it took all of his mental willpower not to throw it back up. He wasn't sure just how someone could manage to make rice taste this poorly, but he didn't want to offend her, so he just grinned and bore it.
"Midoriya, don't lie." Micha commented, pushing his own bowl away in disgust. "This tastes like garbage mixed with Acid."
"No comment." Mina flatly stated.
"You're free to make your own, Micha." Their mother responded with a challenging smile on her face. "If you want to put your money where your mouth is, by all means, get yourself over to the stove."
"Put my money where my mouth is? I'll bet money tastes far better than this. Anyone got some yen too much on?"
"Stop complaining and eat." Their father spoke up next, not caring to mention the fact that he hadn't as much as picked up his fork yet. He loved his wife very much, but he couldn't stand her cooking whatsoever.
"We're seriously gonna poison Mina's boyfriend?" Mara was the one who spoke up next, jabbing at his food with his fork repeatedly. For a six year old, he had a very sarcastic way of talking, which was coupled with his bold personality to make someone Micha would be very proud of when he started throwing his insults and sarcastic remarks around.
True to this notion, the eldest Ashido child laughed at his young sibling's question. "Hah! Even Mara's calling out this stuff! Sorry, Midoriya, you had a nice run, and I bet you're a swell guy, but this stuff is like weed killer if you don't have an immunity to it."
"Money. Mouth. Stove. Food. Micha." Their mother responded curtly and sharply, but there wasn't an edge to any of the words she said, nothing that seriously indicated that there was some sort of malice between the two of them.
After that, they divulged into a series of insults and arguments that to an outsider, in this case Izuku, would seem like genuinely repressed hatred rising to the surface. The Ashido household was filled with the kind of people who would readily mock one another for kicks one moment, and fight to the death for each other the next.
Right now though, they'd engaged into one of those fights where the aim seemed to be to drag one another through the dirt and tear them apart verbally. Since Izuku and his mother shared a very close, very positive relationship, he actually felt genuine concern for the two of them, unaware that this was how they operated.
"Sh-should I go or something?" He whispered to Mina with worry in his voice that he was intruding on a private family matter.
"Nah, don't worry. They're always like this." Mina told him with a kind smile. In doing so, she pushed her own bowl away. Evidently, she lacked an appetite of any description.
Ignoring the mock-fight between his wife and his eldest, Mina's father directed his attention towards Izuku, his Quirk activated, and two thick horns extruding from his forehead. According to him, his Quirk was called Twin Bull. If that was in reference to the idea of the anger of a bull, or a hint at what else his Quirk had in store, Izuku didn't know, but the fact it was activated wasn't exactly filling him with any confidence.
"Midoriya, right?" He asked. Despite the frankly intimidating appearance he had, even without his Quirk, his deep voice, and Izuku's own personal crippling fear of this guy, he was surprisingly friendly and straight forward. Refreshingly so, compared to Mina's siblings. "You take classes with Mina, yes?"
"Y-Yes sir!" Izuku responded instantly and clearly, almost like a solider addressing a superior officer. Mina had to shake her head in either exasperation or denial that this was happening. If it hadn't been abundantly clear from his hesitant movements, his stammer, or his general quietness that he was nervous as all hell, it was now. Painfully so.
To his credit, her father didn't seem to mind. "So you're also aiming to be a Pro-Hero too?"
"Y-Yeah... I've always wanted to be a Hero..."
"Mina's been dead-set on it for a long time now. Beating villains down and saving people with a flash, like from the cartoons, right kid?"
"Xeno-Mistress is gonna blast all of you into oblivion." Quoted Mina with a knowing smile flashed her father's way. Izuku remembered the name Xeno-Mistress from one of the old space Hero cartoons on when he was a kid. Before he learned of his Quirkless nature, he'd watched a lot of them. Thinking about it, it was probably partly responsible for Mina's initial Hero name.
Her father shook his own head this time in amusement, and then turned back to Izuku. "So, how did this little relationship get started then? Mina didn't talk about you until a few weeks ago, and now we can't get her to shut up about you."
"Told you I wasn't lying!" Micha commented with a victorious lopsided smirk, before returning back to his mothers and his fake argument about the quality of the green, bordering blue sauce she had served with the rice.
"God damn it." Izuku's girlfriend lowered her head to slam into the table, which was applauded with laughter from the Ashido family, and even a few claps from the younger siblings.
To attempt to spare her some embarrassment, Izuku retold exactly how he and Mina wound up dating, leaving out whatever details he could so as not to leave her vulnerable to her family's teasing as much as possible, as well as the details with Overgrow and other such legal issues that would cause eyebrows to raise. He told them about how Mina approached him after his fight with Todoroki, and how they had gone on their first real date a short while ago. The boy was intentionally vague, so Mina could interject at any time that she desired. She chose not to.
"I came close to removing Mina from classes after the villain's incident a while back." Her father said with his hands brought together on the table, right hand atop left. Upon hearing this sentence, Mina felt the mood somber up, and glanced at Izuku. No doubt his own family had attempted something similar. "There was a very large part of me that didn't want her attending Yuuei after that mess. A lot of parents must have felt the same way, I'm sure. Mina was the one who convinced me to let her stay. Said All Might fought like hell to keep all of you safe. That true?"
"Yeah..." Izuku remembered the fight between his idol, his mentor, the man who gave him a Quirk of his own, and the Nomu, the artificially created monster that housed multiple Quirks, and was mutated into something horrendously abnormal. How close All Might had come to death... How close they all had been. How useless he had felt in that moment...
"I'm glad." Mina's father said, relief evident in his voice. Evidently, he had suspected that his daughter may have been stretching the truth in some way, which came as a surprise to Izuku. Many people heard All Might had done something Heroic and taken it as face value. Not a lot of people looked any further into it. Still, when someone's daughter is involved in the mix, Izuku supposed he could understand wanting a second opinion from someone who was there at the same time.
"You know I wouldn't lie about that sort of thing, right dad?" The pink girl asked. "This is All Might we're talking about."
"I know. But it still worries me." Her father then grinned at the nervous boy. "And now you're here, because I let her keep attending Yuuei."
For a moment, Izuku was certain that this was going to be the part where Mina's father rammed his horns into his abdomen and made him swear to some sort of satanic ritual to never hurt a hair on his daughters head in his own blood, lest he spontaneously combust. It never came though.
"I'm not sure if Mina's happier about this, or if I am."
It sounded like a sentence of acceptance, of permission almost... But there was a hidden meaning behind it, there had to be. There was something about the way this man said it that made Izuku take a second to pause and think again.
"S'cuse me, Mina's boyfriend-san!" From the end of the table came Mika's voice. She had been very quiet throughout the meal, waiting for the chance to speak. Like everyone else, she had barely even touched her food, and seemed to be avoiding it like so much as catching its scent was going to send her into cardiac arrest.
"Use your words, Mika." Mina told her, like a big sister was supposed to. "Use his name."
"Midoriya-san?" The youngest member of the household proved to be the most polite member of the family, using the proper respectful honorific for the teenager she hadn't met before. "Can I ask you a couple questions about Yuuei, please?"
"Here we go." Mara jabbed his sister with an extended finger. "Going on about the Heroes again." Mika attempted to jab him right back, but her had just phased straight through his body with the activation of her brothers Quirk. Izuku had to question which one of them was the oldest again. Mara acted a lot older, like a sarcastic teenager, while Mika still had trouble pronouncing words and using honorifics - Clearly, Mina had reached a point where she didn't care enough to correct Mara, and Micha was gonna say whatever he liked, honorifics or not. - Yet with it, the youngest Ashido member seemed to be very proactive. Almost like Izuku used to be.
"Didn't you ask me all about Yuuei already, Mika?" Mina asked, rolling her head over to see the younger sibling who controlled plastics.
"I want to hear it from someone else too."
Nodding, Izuku agreed. "I-I'd be happy to answer your questions."
"Oh God." Micha sighed.
Mika proved to be an incredibly curious individual, and asked a large number of inquiries that even a student at the prestigious school struggled to answer. Many of the questions ranged from the Heroes who taught there, to the individual Quirks of their classmates, details about his own Quirk, which he had to lie about, but sated the girl's curiosity all the same, to regular training regimes and the entrance examination. Izuku explained all that he was able to, went into detail where he could, and skimmed on the specifics wherever he could. He kept up with whatever he was asked, and gave responses to whoever asked, Micha and Mara popping in a few asks during the session.
The young Ashido revealed her own aspiration to try to become a Hero using her Quirk when she came of age, which Izuku couldn't help but smile at. He was certain that if she used her Quirk right, she could manage to become a Hero like she wanted. Controlling plastics was a useful ability in modern society, and a Quirkless Izuku would have given anything to have such a Quirk.
As much as Mina appreciated him encouraging her sister, she was starting to become weary of exactly what sorts of questions would be asked if she stuck around Micha and her mother for too long. If she wasn't careful, next thing she knew Micha would end up throwing packets of condoms at her, and so help her God, if he did that, or even asked that, she would dissolve him into literal nothingness. Grabbing her boyfriend's hand, she began to pull him away from the dining table and lead him up the stairs. "Hey mom, me and Izuku are going back upstairs, 'kay?"
"Okay. Bring your garbage down the next time you come down."
Izuku frantically tried to stop Mina from pulling him up the steps. Horrendous as it may be, he didn't want to seem ungrateful and rude about not finishing everything that had been given to him. "B-But I didn't fini -"
"Trust me, Izuku, you don't need to force yourself through that." Mina assured him. She had been fully aware that he was forcing himself to eat the food that he had absolutely not enjoyed in the slightest in an effort to be polite, but she didn't want to see him force himself to do something he didn't want to. "Mom's got a thick skin. She won't be upset with you. I think she liked you, actually."
Once again, Izuku found himself in Mina's room, only this time, he had been seated on her bed, which they used as a substitute for the lack of chairs in the room. The absence of chairs allowed them to sit next to one another, and let Mina rest her body against Izuku's sturdy frame happily and comfortably. The warmth their bodies gave one another provided only more comforting feelings for them both.
"Mom's cooking is disgusting. We all know that. She's been trying these new recipes for a few months now, and well.... She's not really that good at it." Mina told him, resting her head on her new favourite spot, the nape of his neck, once again. It was comfortable and warm, and it didn't collide with her horns, which made it ideal for both of them.
"O-Oh... I - I didn't think it was that bad..."
"C'mon, be honest. It was bad, wasn't it?"
"...I... Didn't like it."
"Right. Because it was bad."
Izuku let out a sigh before he rested her head against Mina's, so close to his. He could catch that scent she had if he focused on it closely enough. He wasn't sure if it was a shampoo at this point, or if it was natural, that her Quirk also had the side effect of giving her a natural fragrance, but he was sure that, beaten only by her beautiful smile and energetic personality, it was one of the things he loved most about his beloved girlfriend.
"Your...Your family is... Interesting." He said, trying to keep the conversation going. Another thing he loved about her, her voice. Ever since he had first started getting to know her and eventually dating her, her voice had begun to sound like a choir whenever he heard it. Right now, he just wanted to hear her soothing voice.
"They're a lively bunch." She sighed fondly. "Sorry if they were kinda... Overwhelming. I know you're kinda shy, but I think they like you. To be honest, I think they're happy you like me even though I look... Odd."
"Huh?"
Mina smiled and snuggled into her boyfriend a bit more, making herself comfortable. Her right arm draped over Izuku's chest until it reached his left shoulder. "I guess they're happy that I got a boyfriend like you even though my Quirk makes me look so different. Like they were worried that I'd end up being lonely..."
"Oh... I... I never thought you looked... Odd. Looking abnormal is normal now."
"Because of our Quirks. Yeah, I know... But still, look at my siblings. They all look like regular people. Being around them reminds me a lot of just how different I look compared to everyone else I suppose. It doesn't usually bother me all that much, but, y'know... Sometimes I worry about it."
Her feelings were valid, Izuku thought to himself. Those sorts of thoughts and worries had to be natural for someone in her position, and the concerns that her family had, though good natured, would only serve to remind Mina of her abnormal appearance. Mina was a girl who didn't particularly care for her outward looks. That much could be figured out from how she would constantly undo her top buttons in her uniform, discard the jacket entirely whenever she got the chance, and would wear ragged and street-faring clothes that often showed off a lot of skin. But after what she'd just told him...
It was the dilemma of being simultaneously proud and almost ashamed of how she looked. Although to imagine Mina looking like anything else than what she was...
Izuku looked down at her, and saw her pink hair and skin. Her horns were also in view, just in front of his neck, a few centimetres away. Given the nature of her genes, and how her father's Quirk had affected her, this was the best that she could do without jabbing him in the jugular vein. Thinking about it, it was possible that this was a reason that she had mentioned she'd become worried about how she stood out. It meant that they had to be more careful when displaying affection like this, or she could accidentally knock out one of his eyes. If that was the case...
"...I'm glad you look like you do."
"What?"
"I... Like you like this, M-Mina... I - I think you're really special. You... You're really pretty. I think your smile is absolutely beautiful... And you're so cute when you're so full of energy... A-And..." He found himself hugging Mina as he spoke. "I l-love that you're so... Comfortable with b-being close to me..." When Mina didn't say anything in response, he continued, trying to rationalise his statements. "I -I was just thinking... I... It was how much you stood out that made me wonder why we hadn't spoken... And after I did... Start l-liking you... I... I'm just really happy that you are the kind of person you are, th-that's all. I never though you looked odd at all... And... I really... I-I don't wish you were any different, in any way at all."
He couldn't see it, but Mina had come very close to the verge of tears from her happiness to hear these things from him. She managed to suppress them from falling, but her grip tightened on Izuku as a direct result. It had been what she'd needed to hear. Exactly what she'd needed to hear.
It had been a silly insecurity, and she'd known that from the start. If Izuku was really that sort of vain or focused on looks like that, then he wouldn't have... He wouldn't have ever agreed to date. She knew that. She knew that about Izuku... Maybe she'd been worn down by the sheer number of people who had pointed out just how different they really were fundamentally speaking. Even her siblings had pointed out just how different they were. But did that honestly matter?
No. It didn't.
Mina knew what it was that she felt towards Izuku, and he'd made it clear that he felt the same way about her. That was all that they needed, wasn't it? All they needed to know. Not what their inhuman traits were. She didn't need to know anything further than the fact that his green hair had black highlights, and he didn't need to know anything further than what he could see about her and her various superhuman looks. Hearing that... Was just the reassurance she had needed.
It was also the shot of courage that she needed to force herself to do something she had wanted to do for a while, but had shied away from due to the aforementioned doubt. Perhaps her hesitation to summon up the bravery to push herself to do this was what had led to those doubts. With them shattered, she felt confident in doing this.
Shaking aside any of that ridiculous doubt, Mina lifted herself up off of Izuku, but she didn't remove her hand from his shoulder. Instead, she let that remain where it was, grip still firmly on there. Her head tilted, and showed off her apparently beautiful smile to him in full. But there was a sparkle in those darkened eyes that he hadn't quite seen before. Something...
"Izuku... Thanks. Really, thank you." She blushed her trademark lilac colour in full. Her voice was soft, dripping with deep gratitude. Her peppy personality had creeped back into her attitude with the words she spoke. "I'm uh... I'd like to do something that's probably gonna be pretty stupid."
"Wait, what're you -" He began to speak, but Izuku was instantly silence by Mina closing the gap between them, until their faces were barely inches away. They were closer than they were in the foyer when they had first entered the building, and this time, it hadn't been accidental either. This had been a fully intended movement, and Mina was being deliberate in her actions. Their eyes watched one another's, Izuku feeling his cheeks burning up while he found himself suddenly lost in the dark voids that were Mina's eyes.
Both of them felt their individual heartbeats increase, although Mina didn't pay it any real mind. She was too far in to back out now, even if she wanted to. A few seconds passed in sullen silence, where everything felt painfully still, like they'd been encased in hot ice. Izuku daren't move for fear of upsetting or interrupting whatever it was that Mina was going to do. Although Mina on the other hand, she ran her hand from his shoulder up his neck and to his cheek, ghosting over him, like he was something fragile.
"I love you." Mina finally said with a smile and blush on her face. "You make me really happy. I really love you."
If Izuku went any more red, he'd end up turning a shade of scarlet that had not yet been discovered by the human colour spectrum. If his heart rate went any faster, he'd probably risk a heart attack. If his eyes went wider, they'd burst right out of his skull. He was certain that he'd misheard for a moment, until he suddenly found himself being leaned into, and, ever so softly, Mina's lips pressing against his own, stealing his first kiss from him, and threatening to send him into a state of shock.
Mina's eyes were closed and she let out a small hum of complete relaxation and enjoyment throughout the kiss in its entirety, which lasted all of about five seconds. Those five seconds however, were one of the most simultaneously tense and pleasant of Izuku's entire life of fifteen years. His entire body was instantly hit with an adrenaline wave that sent his heart into a near catatonic state.
Her lips were so sweet though...
When she finally pulled away and looked back at the green eyes that hadn't shut once throughout the kiss, she wanted to burst into laughter. Her eyes closed alongside her smile, and a small giggle let itself out her mouth.
Izuku shut down, every single skin cell on his body turning a shade of bright red. Such a quick adrenaline release, followed by a sudden drop of the rush, and Izuku just fell backwards onto the bed, steam rising from his skin like he was a frying pan.
"I-Izuku? You alright?!"
"That... You... Didn't... That wasn't.... Fair..." He seemed to be missing out words entirely, and he wasn't able to string together a coherent sentence, his mind muddled and completely in shambles trying to process the circumstances in which his first kiss was taken were under. The more he thought about it, the deeper the red on his face became, and the more white mist rose from his burning cheeks.
Ashido Mina couldn't help but laugh at her awkward boyfriend Midoriya Izuku. She loved this boy to death.