Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 30 - When you left me alone

The second they had headed back to the changing rooms, Ashido immediately latched herself onto Yaoyorozu, "Oh my god, I heard that the grape shit tried to touch you! Are you okay?"

"Uh... who?" Kendo asked, and Hagakure whirled around, "Ah, Mineta Minoru. He's a major pervert. We keep trying to chase him away, but nothing we do manage to get him to stop."

"Ah, I'm fine. He didn't do anything, really." Yaoyorozu replied, "Midoriya stopped him before he could do anything."

"Wasn't Midoriya like, all the way on the other side of the field, though?" Uraraka scratched her head, as she changed into her UA uniform.

"Yeah. I have no idea how he knew about it. I only noticed it because I saw Midoriya walking towards Yaoyorozu." Jiro admitted. Her hearing was sharp, sharper than most of her peers, and she had no idea how she didn't notice Mineta creeping towards her friend.

"But Midoriya is like, scary observant." Hagakure piped up, "It's awesome! He somehow knew where I was the entire time he was looking at me!"

"But... you're invisible..." Kodai pointed out.

"Exactly! I have no idea how he managed to see me, and I have a feeling he was scrutinising me!" Hagakure waved her arms about.

"So! Spill! How did Midoriya kick Mineta's butt?" Ashido grinned excitedly.

"Nothing at all." Yaoyorozu replied, before looking at her female peers. She waved her hands in front of her frantically, "No, seriously! Midoriya just stood there and looked at him!"

"Maybe we'll ask Shoji... he was also there..." Hagakure hummed.

"No, Yaomomo isn't lying. I saw it. He legitimately just stared at Mineta." Jiro commented.

"Midoriya's pretty awesome, ain't he?" Ashido grinned, "I bet he's going to be really good friends with everyone!"

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Iida turned back from his conversation with Uraraka, finding Todoroki walking some distance behind them, slowly, almost like he was lost in thought. Iida gave Uraraka a signal to stop talking, before he sneakily pointed at Todoroki.

Uraraka immediately understood what Iida wanted to do, and she smiled at him, "So, see you tomorrow then!"

Iida waited for Todoroki to slowly catch up, before he asked, "You doing okay?"

"After the Sports Festival, I told Midoriya that I wanted him to succeed, to get into the Hero Course, so that I could crush him under my foot. And despite everything I've done to him... he was still willing to help me out. He's already helped me so many times... and I feel that... It's not right. Whatever I told him before."

"How has he helped you? Besides from... Stain, obviously." Iida asked.

"He..." Todoroki paused, unsure of whether to continue, "Family problems. No one outside my family knows about it... but Midoriya... somehow knew. He told Nezu, and he's currently compiling a case about it. After I told him about the matter... that was after I told him I wanted to crush him... he redirected me to Nezu. There's actually a chance that this matter could be solved after so many years. He's saved us from Stain, and he's saved us when those villains decided to attack the USJ."

"So... you kinda feel bad for what you told him. Maybe you should go and apologise to him?" Iida deduced, though it wasn't too hard to do so once all the facts were on the table.

"Yeah, but I'm not sure how to do so, or how he'll take it. He didn't even seem to take Aizawa-sensei's compliment regarding his work well." Todoroki sighed.