You're Pretty Dumb For A Smart Guy [KamiDeku]

5.

The opportunity to talk with Kaminari didn't end up coming before the urge to read more of the diary hit Midoriya again so strongly that he almost ripped the book in half as he cracked it open. This time he found himself near one of the newer entrys. Izuku figured that he probably should've been reading it in order, like how you'd normally read a novel but he was slightly impatient and just wanted to find out anything he could, regardless of whether it referenced things he didn't understand.

Hey again,

Ughh, Mina is so intrusive sometimes. Just because you live for gossip, doesn't mean you have to prod so much. Anyway, her nosey ass just figured out about that stupid crush I have on Midoriya. I know I know, I said I'd give it a rest but its h a r d okay? Everytime he looks or talks to me I just fall deeper no matter how hard I try and get out of it, I don't even remember why I have the crush in the first place but now I'm in some shit.

The bakusquad obviously knows about it cause they were there, (the fact Bakugou didn't blow me up right then and there is honestly a miracle) and Mina has no doubt already told the girls and Uraraka is just as much of a blabber mouth as Mina so she's bound to have told others in her group like Iida and Todoroki. Those two guys aren't really well versed in social convention so they'll probably tell Midoriya if they know, God forbid Uraraka skipped that step and just went straight to Midoriya about it, I'll never be able too look him in the eyes again.

Ugh, this is so frustrating, I wish I didnt care about anything so I would've have these problems, these things just make me weaker then I already am...

Now Midoriya... didn't know how to feel. Unpopular to what Kaminari believed, Uraraka was incredibly good at keeping secrets when she wanted to, she just sometimes didn't care enough to keep them to herself which has lead to some people distrusting her. Now, something I feel the necessary to bring up is he had been absorbed into their group of girls as the honorary and soul male member, and in turn he's learned more about his classmates then he ever intended. Despite this, Midoriya had never heard anything about Kaminari... ever now that he thought about it.

Ashido loved talking about all her friends and their secrets but Kaminari was pretty well left alone in most conversations. Aside from talking about a few dumb and embraracing moments he's had that, even if you weren't told about them, you'd probably assume they'd happened at one point anyway. Kirishima was also sort of a gray area for her, but even then, she still disclosed a lot of stuff about her friends except Kaminari, he was virtually untouched.

Midoriya was aware that the girls had a group chat together that he had yet to be added to so if they had ever talked about Kaminari's crush, it would've been in there since he doesn't remember it ever being brought up in their in-person gossip sessions. Now, setting aside that, Izuku wasn't really sure how to feel about Kaminari liking him. He, himself, was gay and pretty open about it which is why he was ever let into the girl's group in the first place, but he honestly never considered Kaminari's as a potential person he should go after.

Obviously, Midoriya never really went after any of his classmates in any meaningful way, he's had little crushes here and there but nothing that didn't go away over time, but Kaminari just seemed... untouchable. Aside from the fact Izuku had assumed Denki was straight, Ashido had effectively (though unintentionally) engrained the thought into his head that Kaminari was on a different level, even above her gossiping, which was incredibly high standard that not even Bakugou could get away with. The fact that Kaminari had been going through Midoriya's head constantly for a week since he found out the journal belonged to him had definitely changed some things.
He felt more real now.

That untouchable and almost fictional version of Kaminari Midoriya's mind had concocted wasn't there anymore and he felt like a real entity now. He now had things like parental issues and inferiority complex that he masked with humor and that felt really real. Midoriya really admired this new Kaminari, despite the fact he hadn't actually changed in any way, just that image in Izuku's mind did, it didn't matter. Kaminari now felt like a real human that Midoriya could potentially grow closer to and...

Izuku very suddenly sat up in his bed, wide eyed and his face slowly heating with a furious blush. The sudden and out of nowhere thought of how attractive Kaminari was made him groan and hold his face in his hands. This his exactly how some of his strongest/longest crushes had started. Thinking about them for one reason, and then accidentally falling for them the more he thought. The last two times it happened was for both Todoroki and Shinsou and the only reason that Midoriya had gotten over them both was because they had ended up getting together and he it felt very wrong to like both people in a relationship. Midoriya had eventually told them both about his feelings (AFTER he had gotten over them) and they were very understanding and they're now his favourite couple, it's freaking adorable okay?

This was going to be different. Izuku knew that Kaminari liked him ('this must be the favouritism his friends were talking about the other day' he thought) and he was available which only fuelled his newly found crush. Midoriya desperately patted his cheeks in a poor attempt to calm his rapidly heating face and flopped back down onto his bed. He lazily reached out and grabbed his phone from his bedside table and tried to find a better way to clear his mind.

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[Active]°MissMina

DekuBaby: Hey Mina?

MissMina: Oh, Hey Izuku! What's up?

DekuBaby: When is our next little gossip session?

MissMina: Two days, Saturday, why?

MissMina: You got something juicy for us?

DekuBaby: I guess you could call it juicy, I was hoping for advice on something

MissMina: Oooooo, like what?

DekuBaby: If I have to wait until Saturday, so do you

MissMina: Awhhhhhhh, no fair

DekuBaby: It's plenty fair, well talk then, k?

MissMina: Ugh, fine

DekuBaby: Talk to you later

MissMina: Ttyl💞

Izuku sighed shutting off his phone and setting it back down on the table next to him. It was roughly nine thirty and even though he had things to do and it was way earlier then he'd normally go to bed, but he knew that he wasn't going to be able to focus on anything else if he stayed awake and opted to sleep his problems away until morning.