All I want

"Hey, uh, Izu? A little help here?"

Mina, Izuku had learned over time, was the kind of person who was difficult to predict.

When he was with her, he never knew what to expect. It was honestly one of the reasons that he liked her as much as he did. She was hyperactive as she was energetic, and sometimes that did lead her to bouts of silliness. She was a fun loving person who absolutely took every single opportunity that was presented to her to tease the ever loving hell out of her easily flustered boyfriend. She was quick witted and, in spite of what her grades would suggest to the contrary, she was actually very smart when she put her mind to it.

Along with all of these traits of hers, she was honestly one of the sweetest people Izuku had ever met in his life.

He was never bored when he was with her. Always, there was something new and exciting that got her worked up and enthusiastic. It was like infectious, and just her being the way that she was made Izuku take in his surroundings with more eagerness. This unpredictability, this hyperactivity, made just being with her exciting. It made doing anything with her interesting. For all the fluster and embarrassment that she made him experience - And it was a gargantuan amount - He loved getting to spend time with her. The dorms were, in that respect, one of the best things about Yuuei. He got to live near her. See her every single day. And he loved that.

On top of that, Mina understood the sort of person that he was. She knew that he wasn't the kind of person who could just be social, every second of every day, and that he liked to have some time to himself every now and then. So he could think, study, train, or do whatever it was he need to do. So she would entertain herself. She had plenty of friends to interact with. Kirishima, Uraraka, Tsuyu, they all generally kept her out of trouble.

Today though - First thing in the morning, no less... Was a bit different.

It was Christmas Eve. Different to most days of the year, especially for Japan. A time that was culturally to be spent with loved ones - Particularly significant others. Izuku had a gift lined up for Mina he was certain that she was going to adore. He'd managed to scrape together enough money to import it from the United States.

Even though the thing was practically ancient at this point, he'd somehow managed to find one of the original vintage Alien posters, the ones that were used to advertise the movie when it came out, long before Quirks evolved. Expensive, especially when one considered what he was going for was a highly sought after item for those who were into the retro Sci-fi horror scene like Mina was.

He also had something else for her that he'd had purchased a long time ago when he found it. It made him think of Mina, so he'd just impulsively bought it. It wasn't much of an issue. With the money that he was did receive from internships and odd jobs for his acts of Heroism. This was a few months ago, and he'd been waiting since to present it to her.

... Though right now, she wasn't exactly in much of a position to accept anything. Or do much of anything else, actually.

Izuku just looked at his pink girlfriend, a mixture of both absolute confusion beyond what words could express, confusion at how she had even managed to accomplish this, and amusement at the entire situation. He wasn't alone either in his just downright ajar amazement at what he was looking at.

"Oh, hey, Midoriya. Good, you're here." An outright ear to ear grin was etched onto Kirishima's lips as he turned toward the corridor the green haired boy had just walked out of and frozen in the middle of. His sharpened teeth began to show as he found more and more humor in the situation as it developed.

"Mina... How?... I... How the..." The words just would not come. Exasperation and a need to try to stifle the laughs that were making their way from his chest left him unable to say anything. He wasn't normally one to laugh at someone else's misfortune... But this was just incredible.