Point Based Dating

Favorite Place Quest Part 7: Tsu

    No one needed a recap of Sero's evening with Bakugou. They had gotten all the details from the very angry Pikachu that had been raging the whole evening. They had also made a mental note to never watch a movie without Kaminari.

    Bakugou spent the better part of the next day threatening Kaminari with spoilers. However, lunch time he went into planning mode with Aoyama and Mineta. Yesterday they had consulted a wheel app. It worked fine but caused a lot of unneeded stress. So today they were rolling a 10 sided die that they borrowed from Monoma that the b student had actually made. They spent the beginning of lunch assigning the last nine numbers, leaving the remaining space as a reroll. One roll later and Bakugou had his answer.

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    "Tsu." Bakugou announces once they all enter the dorms.

    He actually likes the idea of spending the evening with her. She was pretty chill, and she's not scared to speak her mind. Out of everyone who signed the paper she was one of the few that didn't immediately fill him with fear of how they would act.

    He starts to transfer the points, taking time to do a quick calculation and prediction of how this task will end. Some are close to being eliminated. This task may just determine how long they can stay. Everyone had a rocky start. The start really is what hurt them. Still, they're doing alright. He's probably concerned over nothing.

    "Hey Bakugou, Tsu is ready." Aoyama says.

    "Ok. I'll be down in a moment. Thank you." Bakugou says.

    He hears the door click shut and puts the notebooks up. It doesn't take long for him to switch into a shirt and jeans. He didn't figure Tsu would take him anywhere fancy so this was alright. He seems to be correct about the not fancy bit. Tsu herself was wearing a hoodie and jeans.

    They make their way to the bus stop where Mr. Driver was waiting. He greets Bakugou as normal and they exchange their usual, take me wherever she goes, bit. Bakugou takes Tsu to the same seat he always sits in.

    "You two seem close, kero." Tsu says.

    "He's driven every time I've done this. I swear I've heard him ask to take a shift over for someone once. I think he is invested in my life." Bakugou says.

    "That's . . . interesting." Tsu says.

    "I like it." Bakugou says. "It's a constant. I like patterns. This challenge, it doesn't have many patterns to it. I have no idea where everyone is going to take me. I can make a guess based on what little I know about each of you, but I do know one thing. He will be driving."

    "So it brings you comfort. It eases some of the nerves you must have. No one has thought of how nervous you must be even though you're the one stepping out of your comfort zone to satisfy everyone's curiousity of what it would be like to go out with you, kero. We've all been too concerned about our nervousness of how you will think of us."

    "It's fine. I have had another constant in all of this. Twinkle Toes and Blue Balls have been helping me. They find ways to keep this all random, and they also give me someone to talk to about the contest after the dates. While I calculate the points for the dates they'll listen to me give my side. Who knew those two would become my closest companions in this competition?"

    "It's good you have someone."

    "Hey! You two. This your stop?" Tsu looks out the window, knowing the driver was speaking to them. It was. "Enjoy your date." He says as they exit the bus.

    "Thank you." Bakugou says.

    "I'll be back in time to get you back to the school for curfew." The driver says.

    Bakugou looks up at the large building to see where they were at. A very fitting place for the girl to like, given the whole aesthetic she has adopted due to her quirk. They go inside and pay for their entry.

    "So where to first, Froggy?" Bakugou asks, letting her lead the way.

    "Well, since this is supposed to be a favorites thing I think we should visit my favorite exhibit first." She says, already heading that way.

    On their way, Bakugou looks at the other exhibits. Even at a glance he can see why she likes this place so much. It's very interesting. However, this part isn't her favorite.

    "Here we go." She says while crossing into another room. "The jellyfish exhibit."

    In the room there was a wall full of other creatures, but what she was interested in were the cylindrical tanks that had differe jellyfish floating around in them. Each tank had a standing plaque that informed the viewer of which species they were looking at. She immediately goes over to the tank containing some crown jellyfish.

    "They just float there, occasionally going up or down. They don't have a care in the world." She says.

    "I wanna poke it." Bakugou suddenly says. Tsu looks at him horrified and confused. Surely Bakugou knows that poking a jellyfish is a bad idea. "What? I'm not going to. It just looks like a button."

    Tsu looks at the jellyfish he was pointing at then starts laughing. It did look like a button. His joke, it wasn't something she had expected. He then points to another tank.

    "That's just floating spaghetti." She laughs harder. This is definitely not the outcome she figured she would have after showing him her favorite place. He had quite the imagination, that's for sure.

    They spent the rest of their visit of the aquarium imagining the creatures as other things. It's not at all how they had planned the date, but it was plenty fun. They even visited the gift shop. Not to buy anything. Everything had been way too overpriced. Instead they basically insulted the merchandise. The guy at the register didn't care for that at all and ended up chasing them out, which was fine since they had to go meet the bus. This evening was just what both of them had needed. Especially since training was exhausting earlier.

    The driver got them to campus just in time for curfew. Bakugou and Tsu thanks them, and Bakugou tells him that he would be back tomorrow. After that they make their way back to the dorms.