The Hero's Stand

11: Campfire Collection

"Shhhhh! You might wake up Mr Aizawa." Said Ashido as she led the group of girls from Yaoyorozu's tent over to Izuku and Ururaka's tent.

They unzipped the door and found the two of them sleeping sprawled out on the floor next to a knocked-over Monopoly table and a bar of half-melted chocolate. The two of them must have played themselves out and then fallen asleep next to each other. As much as they wanted to let the two sleep peacefully together under the dim light provided by the dying lamp, midnight was fast approaching them. And midnight was the time for girl-talk.

"Awww. Can't we just leave them? They look so cute together." Said one of the girls

"No. Wake up Ururaka but make sure Midoriya doesn't get woken up."

It's a bit too late for that. I thought, trying to feign sleep.

I'll let them go on undisturbed for a bit, but the boys would kill me for missing a chance like this if I went back to sleep. Especially Mineta and Kaminari.

I heard a phone camera go and wondered why they'd take a picture of my tent while one of them silently crept in and stole my chocolate.

Oh you're in for it now. You just sealed your fate.

Ashido climbed in and began shaking Ururaka awake from next to me.

"Come on Ochaco, up you get. Midoriya may be interesting but we've got better things"

Ururaka groaned and I heard the tent floor crinkle as she got to her feet.

"W-what? Why are you girls here? Last thing I remember me and Deku were gonna take a break..."

She looked at me 'sleeping' on the floor and must have figure out what was going on. She followed the girls out after some persuasion and they turned off the lamp, plunging me into darkness. As they were zipping the tent up I used Star Platinum The World to get out of the tent and escape around the back of it by freezing time. Lucky for me we'd fallen asleep with our shoes next to the door and I was able to grab mine on the way out.

I heard them finish zipping up the tent as time unfroze and I followed the path they walked around the tent, making sure to stay out of eye and ear-shot of any normal human. Star Platinum's eyes and ears let me hear and see things several times better than everyone else so I could still sense them. I followed slowly behind them at a slow pace, making sure not to be caught by anyone.

"Here looks good. Can anyone start a fire?" Asked Yaoyorozu

"I can" said Ururaka. "Deku taught me"

She began to make a fire and in two minutes they had a roaring flame in the middle of their circle.

"I doubt Todoroki could do better" said Jiro.

"It's not that good" Said Ururaka "I was just using the tips he taught me a few hours ago."

"I was wondering Ururaka, what's the deal between you and Deku?"

"W-what do you mean?" She stammered

"Oh come on. We've seen the two of you together. We know you like him"

I was taken aback. Ururaka couldn't possibly like me. I was really weird, I muttered all the time and I was really short. They had to be wrong. I could see the visible discomfort in Ururaka's eyes and decided I needed to do something. I stepped out from behind the bushes.

"I thought I heard a weird noise. How long have you been out here for?"

Ururaka jumped.

"Deku? Why are you out here?"