Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 136 - It's uncontrollable

Shinsou yawned, and opened his eyes, before he blinked, trying to figure out what was going on.

He had apparently fallen asleep in the common room, oddly enough, and even though it was winter, it was actually pretty comfortable in the bean bag.

It was nice and warm, and he didn't feel like getting up. He shifted his head slightly, and looked down, noticing that Midoriya slightly curled up, lying on his chest. He could feel Midoriya's slow, even breaths, and he noticed that Reiko and Ryuto were also sleeping on the boy. Given that the smaller boy was somehow really warm, like a hot water bottle, or a heater, or an electric blanket, it was no wonder, though.

It definitely wasn't a quirk, though, so maybe it was just something that developed because his father had a fire breathing quirk, assuming that the sources that people posted on the forums were accurate.

"Well, you're finally awake." Monoma snickered, exiting the kitchen with a plate of toast.

Shinsou raised an eyebrow, "Don't you have a toaster in your own dorms?"

Monoma shrugged, "Everyone's waiting for toast. And if no one's using it here, why not? Plus, we ran out of butter."

The lavender haired boy rolled his eyes as Monoma settled down on the couch, and rested his legs on the low table in the common room, before he started snacking on his toast.

"Don't leave crumbs. Tenya would have an aneurysm if you did that." Shinsou commented, as Monoma laughed, before he looked around, "Speaking of which... where is everyone else?"

"No idea." Shinsou reached out for his phone, and after a minute or two of blindly searching around with his hand, he found his mobile device. He brought it up to his face, and flicked it on, noting the time, "Er... No idea, really. Most of them would already be up by now."

"Well, speaking of Iida..." Monoma chuckled, as the blue haired boy made his way out the hallway into the common room.

"Yes, did you call me?" Iida immediately whirled around at the mention of his name, but Monoma just waved his hand, "Nah. not really."

"Ah, okay! But if you need any help, feel free to call me!" Iida smiled, before he went to the kitchen for some cereal. After Iida came down for breakfast, it wasn't too long before the rest of the class also exited their rooms and made their way down to the common room.

Despite the loud racket that they were making, chatting about something or another, or switching on the television to keep up with the news, Midoriya remained fast asleep. Even Reiko and Ryuto had woken up at this point, and Uraraka had set out the usual fresh food that Midoriya kept for them as she fed Kinu.

There was another thing Shinsou also realized. With his baggy clothes, a cold, hard, emotionless expression on his face, and always being tense and on guard, the greenette appeared to be intimidating, and rightly so; the boy had suffered already so much shit in his life, from the death of his parents, to a toxic and unsupportive school system.

Midoriya had never really had a chance to let his guard down, and Shinsou never did notice before how small Midoriya actually was, though, but maybe that was because the boy was a good ten centimeters shorter than him and was curled up slightly by using his chest as a pillow.

"I've honestly never seen him sleep that much." Kaminari commented, tapping away at something on his Switch, as Shinsou just shrugged in response.

"It's not like you can focus on anything, with that short attention span." Monoma snorter, "That's why we're so much better than you!"

"Monoma, relax." Kendo rolled her eyes, as Kirishima and Bakugou returned to the dorms after taking Kacchan out for a walk.

"But we're better than them." Monoma huffed childishly, and Bakugou roared, "You are not better than me, fucking Copy Cat!"