Izuocha's Love Stories

10 - CHEAP LITTLE KEYCHAIN

By Rex101111

Their reactions to hearing they are to share a room are about what you would expect of them.

Izuku has a bit of an emotional roller coaster at first, on one hand, he's going to be sharing a dorm room with a girl for a considerable length of time, and his head just floods with how quickly that could become awkward and all the ways he could embarrass himself. The more he thinks about it the more panicked he grows. The fact that he's never shared a room with anybody before this only compounds the matter.

On the other hand, it wasn't going to be any girl, but Uraraka, one of his best friends, someone who knows him and how...weird he could be, and someone he can actually talk to with some degree of ease, so he figures whatever awkwardness might arise could be smoothed out and laughed off rather easily, heck, it just might be fun! Though...he figures it would still be a little awkward, since while Uraraka is Uraraka, and Uraraka is still a girl...a very pretty girl...with a radiant smile...who probably wears cute pajamas to bed...

All his thoughts of his potentially cute roommate screech to a grinding halt and whatever relief he might have started to feel quickly drains out of him when he remembers the sheer volume of All Might merchandise he brought with him, and he starts to panic all over again when he imagines what kind of reaction Uraraka would have to all of that.

As for Ochako her reaction is rather more...simple. She looks at Izuku from a slight distance, mulling over the fact that she's going to share a room with him for the foreseeable future, her face slowly growing red and her heart thumping loudly in her ears for a reason she's only just started to piece together, and then slowly placing her face in her hands and mutter, very quietly to herself, "Oh... oh no."

They reach their dorm room, hardly exchanging a word on the way, the both of them nervous for their own reasons; they open the door, look at each other...and laugh. Seeing that they were both equally uneasy about this broke some of the tension, and they set off to begin the long and arduous work that is unpacking.

Near the end of the process, Izuku turns to look at Ochako, "Uraraka-san," He says, his back to his last piece of unopened, and rather bulky, luggage, "We're friends right?"

Ochako turns to him, smiling brightly, "Of course we are Deku." She notices how stiffly he's standing, his back straight and his fists clenched at his sides, and she looks at him a bit questioningly, though still smiling "...Why do you ask?"

He looks to the floor, worrying his hands, "Well...I just wanted to ask that...um...well..." He goes on like that for a moment before sighing and turning to face his last bag, "Please don't judge me too harshly Uraraka-san." Finally he unzipped his bag, and slowly reached a hand inside.

Ochako is honestly mostly just confused at this; nothing she knows of Izuku gives her any sort of idea as to what he's expecting to be judged by her for, his use of the word harshly hardly helped her at all either, what was he going to show her that he'd need to visibly gather courage for?

As Izuku continues to gather up the aforementioned courage, Ochako remembers a slightly embarrassing episode that she had earlier in the year. She was walking around the school during lunch break when she heard snickering coming from further down the hallway she was walking in; as she got closer she saw Kaminari and Mineta chatting quietly amongst themselves, bragging about the size of their "stash" back home and how well they've hidden it, only to stop dead in their conversation when they noticed her not three feet away.

When she asked them what they were talking about, they grabbed her by the shoulders, dragged her to the dark corner of the school where they whispering, and got on their knees and begged her not to say a word to any of the teachers and to pretend she heard nothing. She promised, mostly to get them to stop crying as pathetically as they were, but when she asked them again about what they meant by "stash" they only avoided her gaze and muttered in unison, "It's...its private guy stuff y'know?"