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The party was Ashido’s idea. Which goes to show that they thought it would be a normal party. They were quite wrong.
She decided that they should all celebrate the end of high school, exams were over, they would graduate in a few weeks, and a lot of them wouldn’t see each other for quite some time, a drastic change from seeing each other every day. The party actually started normally, minus the alcohol, which no one actually knows how Ashido got so much without any issues. They probably shouldn’t be drinking in their dorm, but it wasn’t as if Aizawa didn’t already know about it, and didn’t say anything beyond “don’t destroy the dorm with your partying.”
So, they took that as a go-ahead. Unfortunately, several people couldn’t escape familial or other obligations so the party was reduced to less than a dozen of the students. Ashido, Midoriya, Uraraka, Asui, Todoroki, Sero, Yoayorazu, Kaminari, Kirishima, and Bakugo (to all’s surprise) were all that could go to the party Ashido had set up.
It started like most do, passing around the drinks and getting comfortable for a long night. Most of them knew they’d probably fall asleep in these seats, and sat in a more-or-less circle.
“Alright everyone! Everyone have drinks?” Ashido asked excitedly. Everyone answered in the affirmative “good, so let’s get this party started!” as she started some rock music.
“So since half of us can’t dance worth a damn, I thought we’d start with some karaoke?” she asked the group.
“OOO, OOO, I’ll start!” Uraraka shouted and jumped up excitedly.
Izuku settled down with his drink, he wasn’t sure exactly what It was, but it was alcoholic, and burned going down.
He laughed at Uraraka’s over the top singing, she was throwing herself around the center of the bean bag circle to the beat, singing along well to the song. He felt an eerie chill on the back of his neck, and looked over at Kacchan. If looks could kill, Izuku would be 6 feet under at this point. He should be used to it by this point, yet something about this glare was different…
After the song ended, Uraraka sat down with a gasp of air and a sigh of exhaustion like she just finished a fight. She doesn’t mess around when it comes to karaoke, apparently.
Another song started up, something heavily rock. Kirishima hopped up and started singing without the mic. He was pretty good, but he couldn’t hit a few of the higher notes they did in the song, but after he tried it the first time, which sounded like a nail on chalkboard impression and we all begged him to stop , along a few small explosions, trying to hit that note, he stopped trying for that note and went for a much lower note instead. It still sounded good after that hiccup.
The next song was a pop song with a male singer. Kaminari jumped up and took the mic next. His singing was……bad. Very bad. Izuku was wishing for Kirishima’s high note attempt, because then he’d have a reason to ask him to stop. He couldn’t even follow what the song was supposed to be about because he was focused trying to figure out how to subtly put his hands over his ears. He settled for leaning on the side of the bean bag, covering his one ear while the other hand held his drink. He was glad Kaminari didn’t have a voice enhancing quirk. After less than a minute of the pain, Kacchan passed his patience threshold and started screaming, “SHUT UP PIKACHU YOU’RE GONNA KILL US WITH YOU AWFUL VOICE!!” and set off some small explosions (small for Kacchan anyway). The explosions still sounded better than the singing if Izuku was being honest. Kaminari fumbled with the mic but caught it before it fell.
“Hey! My singing wasn’t that bad! You just have no taste!” No, you are that bad, sorry Kaminari.
“Fat chance Pikachu! I could hear everyone grinding their fucking teeth!” Kacchan growled.
“No way! My singing was alright, wasn’t it, guys?” No one said anything, not wanting to hurt his feelings by telling the truth, or by lying. “guys?”
Ashido piped up hesitantly “Ummm…well, it was, uh…..something.” That’s one word for it.
“It was unlike anything she’s heard before” Uraraka suggested. She’s really pulling her punches today. Oh fine.
“I thought Present Mic dropped in and tried to blow out our eardrums. S-sorry Kaminari.” I stated sympathetically. Everyone just stared at me like I just dropped kicked his puppy. Kaminari just hung his head
“Oh, I guess I should work on my singing voice more, then” Just not here, please.
“Give me that! I’ll show you actual singing and kick all your asses at it!” You don’t actually beat people at singing karaoke, Kacchan. He grabbed the mic from Kaminaris outstretched hand and fiddled with Ashido’s music player until it started ‘Carry on my Wayward Son’, and he started singing along.
He……wow. He can sing. Really, really well! Never mind about not being able to win karaoke, I think Kacchan just won. He might regret that, honestly. Izuku could already see Ashido texting this, possibly sending a brief video of it. Looking back at Kacchan, he noticed he was dancing with the music. Another thing to add to the list of things I didn’t know he could do….
“Deku, did you know Bakugo could sing and dance like that?” Uraraka whispered to him.
“No idea at all, this is news to me”
“He’s really good at it, isn’t he?”
“Yeah, he is….” Izuku’s mind began to wander staring at Kacchan’s dancing. The rippling muscles underneath his pajama clothes, how strong his arms would feel wrapped around-NO.
Shaking himself out of his reverie, he realized that Kacchan had just finished and was chest thumping over his victory “yeah losers!”
“Well since Bakugo won karaoke, let’s move on to the first game of the night-” oh no, not a Mina Ashido game “-Three Vetoes! We each take turns asking something of everyone else, if you don’t want to answer, you use a veto, and take a drink, if you run out of vetoes before the round is over, you have to drink every question even if you answer it!” She finished her explanation. Simple enough “who wants to start?”
“I’ll start!” Sero exclaimed, “what does it feel like to use your quirk?” Huh. Not what I expected, but this could actually be really interesting. Crap I wish I had my notebook with me for this…..
“Seriously?” Ashido asked, probably expecting something a lot more personal. Or dirty, knowing her.
“Yeah, I’ll start. So when my tape comes out, I can really only describe it as a weird tickle-pinch sensation, that feels like its attached to my bone when I attach it to something like when I swing from it.”
“That’s…..kind of interesting.” Yoayorazu muttered, then thought for a moment, then started to get a little flustered. Is she blushing?? “I, um, I guess when I make anything, it kind of feels like….um……uh…..” By the look on her face, she knows exactly how to describe it, she just doesn’t want to say it “..it feels like.. haaaaaah. Itfeelslikeyouletoutafartyoudidn’tknowyouwereholding. There. I’m not saying it again.” Kacchan heard it though, and he was laughing. A lot. Is he even breathing?
“You go, Kaminari” she mumbled
“Uh……yeah. Sure. So, you guys know that if I use too much at once, I fry my brain? Well when I use it without frying, it’s kind of the same, it messes with my focus and makes it hard to concentrate.”
That’s really interesting, I wonder if I can remember to put that into my notes later…..
“That’s pretty cool, Denki! I’ll go next!” Kirishima cheered “So when I harden my skin it’s kinda of like flexing a muscle, but impacts kind of feel like they would on a callous, you feel it, but it doesn’t really hurt, you know?” That is actually super fascinating. If he can tell how hard an enemy hits he can gauge their strength before team members without much actual danger, and give them all a better idea of what they’re dealing with before they fully engage, making it easier to make a decision to engage or draw them away and buy time for reinforcements to arrive. I wonder if he can partially harden his skin to form structures where the hardened skin is interspaced by hardened skin. I wonder if that would require more concentration or effort, how thick is the hardened skin layer- “um, Deku, you’re doing it again.” Uraraka chided. Oh. Crap. My mumbling… “oh. Sorry about that.” I need to stop that. I’ve been getting batter at not doing it but it still happens.
“Does that mean I win, I made Midoriya mumble about it?” Kirishima asked with his bright smile. Please don’t make this a competition, then Kacchan- “Like hell it does! And this isn’t even over yet!” the angry blond raged- too late I guess. “If anyone is gonna make the nerd mumble it’s gonna be me!” Uhhhh….. what? I think the alcohol is getting to Kacchan. By the silence, that statement didn’t make sense to anyone else either. Glad it wasn’t my hearing.
“I just ignite my sweat by heating up my hands, and bam! Explosions!” he simplified loudly. That’s interesting anyway, but that….I already knew that… “what’s wrong, nerd, not good enough to mumble about?” What? Oh. Right…
“It’s just, uh, I already knew that, so….”
“What so I’m boring!?!”
“Nono, just stuff I’ve already analyzed heheh…”
“Fine. How about this; my sweat is naturally volatile, so I always have to be careful, cause I can set off explosions besides in my hand, which is how my grenades work; the sweat itself is what’s explosive, me heating my hands just gives me an easy way to control it. Warm my hands to their ignition point, and boom” he said the last part as if demonstrating, holding his hand out and setting off an explosion as soon as he said ‘boom’.
Now that’s actually a lot more interesting. I mean I knew it was his sweat that was explosive but he seems to be implying it’s not just his hand sweat that can create explosions, which would make his collection system a lot more useful as it’s storing excess sweat for use, while also avoiding an accidental explosion. I wonder how easy it is to ignite the nitroglycerin? How quickly can he actually heat up his hands from normal temperature? I know he can set off multiple explosions in rapid succession so he probably keeps his palms close to ignition temperature during battle so he can easily ignite his sweat. He probably has to drink a lot more water due to fighting with his sweat. I wonder if-
“Ha! I win!” What?
“I don’t think we were actually using Midoriya’s mumbling as a metric for winning here, Bakugo….” Ashido ponders.
“Whatever, Pinky.”
“Ugh. Guess it’s my turn. My acid kinda feels like there’s a bunch of pores, and the acid comes out of that, kinda like a toothpaste tube if you squeeze really hard!” Ashido explained excitedly.
I am wondering exactly how acidic her acid is if I’m being honest. Oh, my turn.
“When I use to use my quirk, it was pretty intense, it felt like I had too much energy but if I moved at all I would explode. It still kinda feels that way if I push too much, you guys saw how often I broke my own limbs pushing myself too hard.” Izuku described One for All (‘Superpower’, as they know it).
“Yeah, that was kinda gross if I’m being honest, Midoriya” Ashido deadpanned bluntly. The chorus of agreements from the circle was not entirely unsurprising, if slightly jarring.
“Yeah, it wasn’t very pleasant at all” Izuku chuckled to himself, “but I don’t regret any of it”
“Not even the scarring?” Kacchan asked, almost cautiously.
“No. What’s done is done, plus, my appearance as a hero isn’t all there is. Besides, most of my scars are covered by my hero suit anyway” He explained.
“I think he meant for you, not what everyone else sees. Only you see all your scars at the end of the day when you look in the mirror” Uraraka explained sympathetically, “or, you know, a lover” she finished with a smirk and an eye waggle. What the hell, Ochako! She’s been doing sort of thing a lot since I told her I wasn’t interested in girls in the middle of second year.
“U-u-uh l-l-lover?! N-no, no! Nothing like that!” Real smooth, self.
“We can come back to that, later. Ochako, your turn!” Ashido says slyly. I do NOT like that look in her eye!
“Oh! Right, so most of you know I get nauseous when I use my power too much, well before I overdo it it’s kind of the same, ‘oh, what did I eat?’ feeling when I’m pushing it, and much milder when I do smaller things. Floating a few things at a time is a lot easier so I can still float a ton of stuff, just not all at once.”
Makes sense, she’s overdone herself a few times over the years, but it isn’t very common anymore. I wonder if that’s due to developing her quirk, or strengthening her stomach? Or both?
“Guess it’s my turn, ribbit” Tsu stated, “since my entire biology is my quirk, I honestly can’t really compare how using my quirk would equate to everyone else. Sorry, ribbit.” That makes sense, she developed her quirk around the age of everyone else, so it’s probably really hard to know anything else.
“What about you, Todoroki?” Izuku asked the Half-and-Half hero-in-training.
“I get cold when I use my ice, and hot when I use my fire. Not much else to it really.” He deadpanned. Well that was anticlimactic. Not surprising though, Todoroki isn’t the type to reveal a lot, even after these years.
“I think the next question is…mine?” Yoayorazu asked, to Ashido’s affirmative, “Then who was your first crush?”
“VETO!” half the group burst and drank the sake. Myself included. Not touching those thoughts.
“Oh. Well then, that just leaves myself, Kaminari, Tsu, Todoroki, and Sero. Well, mine was…… actually, I’m gonna veto as well…” Yoayorazu stuttered and took a drink.
“What? You can’t veto your own….! We’re not drunk enough for this game.” Kaminari complained, “Mine was this pretty girl in my first year of middle school….” He reminisced.
“Teachers don’t count, Pikachu” Kacchan snipped, to everyone’s laughter and Kaminari’s stuttering. Oh my god was it actually his teacher….? I wonder who everyone else’s crushes were?
“My first crush was Ochako, ribbit” Tsu croaked out bluntly, to Uraraka’s bush. Heh. Guess it wasn’t unrequited then.
“Mine was…. ummm. Veto” Todoroki started before muttering out his veto and drinking.
“Well now I feel obligated to use a veto, this is ridiculous” Sero threw in before drinking. Wow, we’re basically adults now and only two of us could even say who our first crushes were. Though I shouldn’t be one to talk though, I couldn’t either. Though none of us saying is probably because the person is in the circle now. Tsu was brave being the only one to actually admit the name. I could never.
“My turn! What’s your proudest moment here at school?” Kaminari asked. That’s a really deep question. “Mine was the Provisional Licensing Exam in first year when I was teamed up with Kirishima and Bakugo!”
“Sorry, but I’m gonna veto this one too, some memories should be held close” Kirishima spoke in a contemplative tone as he drank his sake. I wonder if he gets like that when he’s buzzed, or that’s normal?
“Stay out of my head, extras. Veto” Kacchan dismissed the question and drank his sake. Or finished his sake what the why?
“Boring boys. For me it was taking down my first villain by myself!” Ashido cheered
“I’m gonna pass too, veto.” Izuku said. I am not saying that my proudest moment was beating Kacchan at our third Sports Festival. I like my skin unburned and explosion-free.
“Same. Veto. Keeping that mine.” Uraraka agreed and downed her sake. What is with everyone chugging their sake? That’s strong alcohol!
“Ribbit, probably the first-year internships, or the USJ incident first year. They’re close, ribbit” Tsu pondered for a second, then shrugged, apparently not deciding.
“First Sports festival, my match with Midoriya. You really helped me embrace myself that day, Midoriya” Todorki admitted, “thank you” he said with a grin. How drunk are you, Todoroki?! He doesn’t grin that much when… ever. He’s never grinned like that……. And he’s still grinning. Okay now this is just kind of getting creepy. Someone else talk please.
“I can’t really think of a proudest moment to be honest. I’ll just take a veto.” Sero said and drank.
“Mine was probably our first-year finals” Yoayorazu smiled thoughtfully. She might actually be a bit buzzed….
“Me next! If you would sleep with anyone in this circle, who would it be?” Ashido glared at each of us malevolently. What the heck Ashido?! Did you honestly expect anyone to tell?!?
Naturally, everyone shouted their veto, even Tsu this time. Crap, now I’m out of vetos… and so is Kacchan, and Kirishima. I think? I dunno. This sake is getting to me. Oh, it’s my turn.
“What…. do you think is the coolest quirk of everyone here?” Izuku mumbled out. Did that even make sense? I hope so. “because I think *indecipherable muttering*” Crap why would I ask that? Of course, I think Kacchan’s is the coolest but why I can’t actually say that right now, aagh.
Izuku kinda spaced out for a bit, and came to when water was splashed on his face. Sputtering, he looked up to see Kacchan holding out a partly empty bottle of water.
“Drink up, nerd, party isn’t over yet.” He grumbled out before dropping the bottle on Izuku’s chest and walking away.