Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 112 - Fall in and fall away

Iida was going to the mall to buy something, most likely for his Secret Santa giftee, and Midoriya just tagged along, and needed to get some other gifts. He also had to get more food for Reiko and Ryuto anyways. Koda had also joined them, since he wanted to get more snacks for his rabbit.

Midoriya noticed the shop that Yaoyorozu had been talking about, and popped inside, much to the confusion of his two companions, but neither Iida nor Koda commented on it, and just followed him inside.

Noticing their confusion, Midoriya subtly signed that he was getting a gift for someone in the Nighteye Agency, and Koda translated it for Iida. Midoriya quickly picked out several different types of bath salts that he thought Awata might like, and he headed over to the cashier to pay for them.

He remembered that Yaoyorozu had given him some discount vouchers, and pulled them out, though he had absolutely no idea how to use them. Luckily for him, Iida noticed his mild distress, and immediately helped him to settle his purchases, before the teenagers moved on to buy other things. Their next stop had been one of those types of stores that seemed to sell pretty much anything, and it didn't take Iida too long to find what he was looking for; a portable cooking set.

Midoriya deduced that Iida's giftee was most likely Sato, and quickly made a mental note of that; he was actually pretty curious as to who was getting a gift for who. Maybe that was why his classmates seemed way too hyped up over the idea of a Secret Santa.

They visited the pet store and the supermarket, grabbing whatever they needed, including some snacks for Ashido and Kaminari, recalling that they were complaining that they kept running out of chips and other snacks. Midoriya really did have to wonder where all their snacks were going.

The students just happened to walk past a tie shop, and Midoriya decided to pop inside to see if there was anything he could get for Sasaki. Midoriya himself hated ties; he didn't know how to tie them properly, and they always reminded him of that time where he had tried to hang himself. But he'll just suck it up and quickly grab what he needed before getting out of there; it wasn't like he could do anything else.

"Ah... this is a very good shop for getting ties." Iida nodded, looking around, "Is there something you're looking for?"

"... dots..." Midoriya muttered, scanning the store warily, as Iida looked around the shop before smiling, leading Midoriya over to one section of the store, "... plain ties are here... the stripes are over there... Alright, they should be right over here."

Midoriya quickly glanced through all the options; there were a variety of coloured ties hanging off really weird looking racks, and there were also some that were bundled up neatly and placed in boxes. Luckily for him, there was one box that held three ties, in the exact colours that Midoriya was looking for, so he just checked the ties to ensure that there weren't any defects, and just bought it.

"I think that's everything we need..." Iida hummed, pulling out a shopping list from the back of his pocket and ticking off everything that they had bought, "Let's go back to the dorms. The sun's going to set soon and it's going to be dark, especially now that it's winter."

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Midoriya had just finished storing all the food products in the kitchen, and was going to plop himself down in his bean bag when a voice rang out.

"Hey, uh, Midoriya?"

The greenette turned around, confused, as the orange haired class representative from 1-B walked up to him.

"Uh... this may sound weird..." Kendo laughed, "But you remember that thing you did in the Joint Training Session while you were fighting Shinsou?"