The Bookstore

Chapter 14

"Midoriya why the hell do you keep staring at the manga section? Do your work!" Nishimoto says as he wipes down the nearby bookshelf.

Izuku glares over at him, "Because I'm hoping that those little brats over there aren't gonna take the last couple volumes of the new manga we got today," he says eyeing that one teenager with the horns on his hat.

"Well it's not my fault that you have to wait until your shift is over until you check out your precious book," Nishimoto says with a hint of sarcasm.

"It only happened once!" Izuku cries.

"I'm sorry that you decided to get lost in your book right when Mr Grumpy decided to walk by," He says throwing the dirty rag away, "Plus you should be grateful, at least he didn't fire you."

Izuku rolls his eyes, "It was still kinda funny though, the look on your face when he tapped on your shoulder. The look of horror." Nishimoto says laughing slightly.

"Ugh, it's not like I could hear him coming?" He says checking the time and walking over to the other side of the bookshelf.

When Izuku realized that he only had about 10 minutes until his shift was over he slightly cheered to himself.

"Can you go over to the cash register and ring up that one kid? No one is over there right now," Nishimoto calls, Izuku nods and walks over to Mr. I-like-reading-explicit-content.

"Good afternoon," Izuku greets the kid, the kid puts his books on the counter and Izuku starts checking them out.

When he was finishing up a girl with light blue hair ran up next to the kid, "Kota wait! Can you buy this book for me? Ive been waiting a month for it."

When she put the book on the counter Izuku felt his eye twitch.

That little shit.

Izuku slowly scanned the book with a fake smile, he tried his best not to lose his shit and just grab the book and run out of there.

But no, Izuku was a man, he cant fight a teenage girls for a book.

He watched as the two of them leave with big smiles on their faces.

As soon as they were outside Izuku groaned

Nishimoto went over to pat him on the back.

"WHYYYY I WAS SO CLOSE," Izuku whined putting his head on the counter, "I HAD LIKE 3 MINUTES LEFT AND SHE HAD TO BUY IT. THIS ISN'T FAIR!" Izuku cries into his arms.

Nishimoto just stood there with Izuku in his arms.

"Here," he says nudging something into his arms, Izuku looked down to see a book.

"I knew you were going to lose your shit over this like every other month so I kept one in the back," He said as Izuku grabs the book, "Nishi?"

Oh god he only calls me that when he's going to lose his mind over something I did.

"THANK YOU SO MUCH NISHI, I LOVE YOU," Izuku says grabbing onto him and screaming into his arms.

"Now get out, your shift is over and you're scaring the customers," Nishimoto says pushing him off.

Izuku nodded and paid for the book and walked over to the door after waving bye to his coworkers.

He was walking out when he noticed Kirishima walking up to him, "Hey Kirishima!" He says waving at the other man.

Kirishima smiles at him, "Hey Izuku," he says waving, "I was out patrolling and I wanted to stop by here to invite you to a hangout I'm having with a couple of my friends tomorrow."