Mineta's Redemption

Chapter One: Rock Bottom

Author's Note: I didn't put as much effort into this story as my last one a couple years ago but I've always wanted to write a story that would make Mineta a more likeable character. He deserves the flak, and yet I find him to be a more interesting character during the times he's not being pervy, so I hope this story succeeds in him becoming more likeable to you at the end of it. This story takes place in the same universe as my last IzuOcha fanfic, so I suggest you read at least Chapter nine of that story for greater context to understand the start of this story here: https://www.wattpad.com/1139359712-izuocha-love-is-the-answer-chapter-nine-the

 (If you haven't already, I'd love for you to go and read the whole thing and give me a few up votes on those chapters too!)

So without further ado, here we go. I hope you like it! And there will be more chapters coming soon!

The end of the class 1A Christmas party had come and gone for him. It was a festive night for most of his classmates and as far as he could tell, everyone was having a good time there.

Except for him.

Even as a young boy in kindergarten, Minoru Mineta has always been attracted to the female body. He especially noticed when his teacher knelt on the floor to help him tie his shoes and her chest just happened to brush him on the arm on accident, and he's been hooked ever since.

For the longest time it never really deterred him to be smacked around by girls for his approach and just looked at it as a challenge, but now that he continues to be thwarted in getting any positive attention from the ladies, and even worse, sees guys in class 1A getting girlfriends who didn't seem to be trying to get one, it made his blood boil!

First he just barely found out that Izuku Midoriya and Ochako Uraraka were dating the day before in their media training. Then at the party he found out that his best friend Kaminari now is dating Kyoka Jiro even though he's almost as perverted as he is! For good measure, even though it's been going on for several months now, he knows of Todoroki dating Momo Yaoyorozu, who he thinks is the hottest girl in the class.

He attempted to stand under the mistletoe for several stretches of the night and not a single girl indulged him in a kiss. He also tried to tell everyone about his favorite hobbies of watching hentai and reading dirty magazines and even attempted to make the argument that these shows contained plenty of romantic moments but just got smacked again.

"Seriously Mineta-chan, if you want to get girls so bad, you should at least change your tactics." Was the only thing going through his head from Tsuyu Asui. She was the one girl in the class that once complimented him for how he fought in the USJ incident and fought alongside him again in the sports tournament. In spite of this, even she seems to only show him hostility these days. Hell, the last thing he did at the Christmas party was try to crack a joke by shouting at Deku and Ochako to get a room when they started kissing under the mistletoe and get promptly smacked down to the ground by Tsu's tongue again.

For good measure, he signed up for an internship under Mt. Lady because of her scantily clad beauty and yet was sorely disappointed to be given lots of menial tasks to perform and came away from that experience scared of women in general more than ever.

He walked back into his dorm room and looked around at all the posters of Midnight and Mt. Lady doing their suggestive poses. This then made him think of all the skin tight body suits the various 1A girls wear and the cleavage that several of them show off, especially Yaoyorozu.

Though the thoughts aroused him as usual, this time it also made him angry. No one was there to hear him because everyone was still downstairs partying, but he started shouting at the top of his lungs with tears of frustration in his eyes while starting to throw random objects around the room that he could get his hands on.

"CHANGE MY @#$^ING TACTICS!? HOW ABOUT EACH OF YOU STOP SHOWING OFF ALL THOSE DAMNED CURVES OF YOURS SO MUCH!! I'M A TEENAGE BOY AND CAN'T HELP MYSELF!!

"YOU EACH WEAR SKIMPY CLOTHING DAMMIT!! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU EXPECT WHEN YOU DO SUCH A THING!? ESPECIALLY YOU MOMO!! YOU SAY YOU NEED YOUR HERO COSTUME TO COVER LESS OF YOUR SKIN TO CREATE THINGS FASTER!? OK FAIR ENOUGH, BUT WHY SHOW OFF SO MUCH CLEAVAGE!? IT AMAZES ME THOSE THINGS DON'T POP OUT EVERY FIVE SECONDS IN YOUR HERO COSTUME!! YOU MIGHT AS WELL JUST HAVE A FULL ON NUDE COSTUME LIKE TORHU!!!"

"DAMN YOU MIDORIYA!! DAMN YOU TODOROKI!! AND ESPECIALLY DAMN YOU KAMINARI!!"

He slumped down at the edge of his bed and began to sob. He knows he's a pervert but he also knows that everyone else thinks about those things at least a little bit every day and can't believe that no one else takes any flak for it.

"Life...truly is unfair." Sincerely helping people in hero work was starting to grow on him, but his main objective for striving to become a hero was to get girls and that desired goal couldn't be going worse for him.

Is acting like I don't care about girls really all I need to do to make them like me more?? It worked for Midoriya and it worked for Todoroki! ...Oh who am I kidding?! I'm also the weakest and ugliest guy in the class. They still won't notice me anyway!

He just crawls into bed and slowly nods off to sleep. He had never felt so depressed and defeated in life. The one thing he desires more than anything has never felt more elusive to him. He had no idea what he was going to do to finally get girls to notice him in a positive light but maybe a good night of sleep might help him regroup and fight for another day.