My Hero Academia: Relationship Pool

Chapter 53

"Ow." I sighed as I barely had the energy, or air in my lungs, to yell it out loud. I lost count how many times I had been thrown to the ground by Ojiro.

"Are you alright?" He asked as he leaned over me.

"It's not fair." I whined, and he helped me up. Again. "You're an expert in martial arts, and I'm not."

"That's the whole reason we were paired together." Ojiro told me, and he walked with me over to the bench to get some water. "Mr. Aizawa wants us to challenge the things we're not good at."

"I also think he's still trying to punish me for the classroom incident." I sighed and sat down with a water bottle to my face.

"Probably." He laughed and sat with me. We sat in silence as we drank some water and watched the rest of the class working on what they lacked.

"Can I ask a question?" He asked, kind of suddenly. Like he had to ask before he changed his mind.

"Sure." I answered him.

"A girl question?" He specified.

"Then definitely." I asked and turned more towards him.

"How would you approach someone with a compliment, when you can't see the person?" He asked me, and his cheeks were a bit pink. Bit he was confident about his question, not wanting to shy away from it.

"So you like Hagakure." I asked, wanting to make sure we were talking about the same person. In case I couldn't see someone else that he was talking about.

"Yeah." He said and got a little embarrassed this time at hearing her name. "Is that weird?"

"Are you asking cause you can't see her?" I asked, and he hesitated before nodding with a little shrug. "Not at all. She's still a girl, just not one that you can see."

"That's why I don't know how to compliment her." He said.

"Well, there's other ways to compliment someone." I said, and he looked at me with a look, saying he knew that. "What do you like about her? Obviously, it's not her dashing good looks."

"I don't know." He said and shrugged. "Whenever I'm around her, I just have this sense of serenity. She makes me laugh with even her stupidist jokes. And she just has this energy about her."

"Wow." I said, and he looked at me. "You really, really like her."

"Yeah." Ojiro said and rubbed the back of his head. "I just don't know how to approach her about it. It's hard to read body language and facial expressions when you can't see anything except their clothes."

"Well, maybe just be straightforward." I suggested. If you can't read what kind of response you'd get from someone, sometimes just being straight up and saying exactly what you feel is the best option."

"Yeah, maybe." He said, and we watched as Hagakure and Aoyama were practice fighting. Well, Aoyama was swinging around trying to find Hagakure, and no one could see her outside of an occasional light refraction. "I don't know what I'd say though."

"Just tell her what you told me." I said. "That you really enjoy her energy, and want to spend more time with her outside of class."

"Yeah. It sounds great when you say it." Ojiro laughed. "I don't know much about romance."

"It's not as hard as everyone makes it out to be." I told him. "Just show you care. What do you know she likes?"

"I know she likes sweets, and plushies." He answered.

"Then maybe take her to a bakery and shopping." I suggested. "I know she enjoys shopping. You could buy her a cute plushy."

"Yeah, that sounds like a great date." He told me. "I think I'll go ask her now, before I get too nervous."