14Hello, everyone. I just wanted to thank you for checking out my story, it's the first that I've done for My Hero Academia and I hope you like it.
Disclaimer: I do not own My Hero Academia or any of the characters.
Midoriya struggled to fall asleep that night in the dorms, despite being sure that his intense training would tire his body out.
Midoriya groaned in frustration, planting his face into the pillow to try and drift off to sleep.
Still wide awake, he continuously mumbled about how his lack of sleep would impact his performance in the following days, as well as his classwork.
"Quiet, Deku!" Bakugo shouted.
Midoriya quickly went silent, slightly blushing from the embarrassment of having been heard.
"I have to get that under control." Midoriya whispered.
Midoriya sighed, slowly getting out of his bed.
"Maybe a full stomach will help." Midoriya whispered.
As Midoriya walked out of his room, he shivered from the cold temperature, suddenly remembering that the heater was still out of order.
"I hope Asui is okay." Midoriya whispered, in concern over his classmate.
Unknown to Midoriya, Tsuyu was in her room, covered from head to toe in order to keep warm.
"I told you to call me, Tsu." Tsuyu faintly said, in her sleep.
Midoriya made his way down to the bottom floor and headed for the kitchen.
To his surprise, he could see someone already there, rummaging through the fridge as the light slightly illuminated the area.
"Hello?" Midoriya called out to them.
The person quickly jolted up in surprise, hitting her head on the top shelf of the fridge.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." Midoriya apologized.
The girl winced in pain, rubbing the back of her head out of reflex.
"It's alright." She said.
Midoriya recognized that voice immediately.
"Ashido?" Midoriya said.
The girl in question turned around to look at him, showing a trademark smirk.
"Hi, Midori." Mina whispered.
Mina opened up the bottle in her hand and took a sip before looking at him again.
"I didn't take you for a night person." Mina said.
"I'm not actually, I just couldn't get any sleep." Midoriya said, nervously.
"I know what you mean, this new dorm is cool and all, but I do kind of miss sleeping at home." Mina admitted.
Midoriya knew that feeling but after the various incidents and conflicts they had been through basically back to back, the dorm almost seemed ideal to him as he knew it was for the best.
"The heater being broken doesn't exactly help either." Mina whispered, with a chuckle.
"Yeah." Midoriya said, simply.
"It kind of makes me wish I had Todoroki's quirk." Midoriya half joked.
Midoriya mentally cringed, disliking his terrible sense of humor.
"I know, right?" Mina agreed.
"Well, that could've gone worse." Midoriya thought, in relief.
Midoriya, realizing that the fridge was still open, quickly grabbed some leftover dessert and shut it.
"I'll probably have to run this off later, but it's worth it." Midoriya thought.
"Cake for a midnight snack?" Mina asked, in amusement.
"You'd better be careful or you'll lose that perfect figure of yours." Mina teased him.
Midoriya blushed in embarrassed from Mina's remark.
"Perfect?" Midoriya uttered.
Mina held back her giggling and placed her arm around him, leaving her hand on his shoulder.
"I'm just messing with you, trust me, I know you train harder than anyone else here." Mina said.
"That doesn't take back the perfect remark though." Midoriya thought.
"I wouldn't say that, everyone here gives it their all." Midoriya said.
"True, but for some reason with you, it feels like every time you're out there in a battle, you immediately go above and beyond." Mina said.
"All of us are striving to be plus ultra, but you… you already are." Mina told him.
Midoriya hid his eyes behind his hair, not daring to look Mina in the eye as she praised him, as he couldn't even begin to find the words to respond.
"Not that I don't enjoy seeing you embarrassed, but I think I'm gonna turn in for the night." Mina said.
As Mina yawned and was making her way towards the elevator, she stopped, turned around and grinned as she wanted to get one more reaction out of him.
Mina stepped towards him and quickly kissed him on the cheek, causing Midoriya to freeze up in shock.
"You had a little bit of cake frosting on your cheek and I couldn't resist, that cake is just too sweet." Mina said, with a teasing tone in her voice.
Midoriya still just stood there, not even mumbling incoherently like usual.
"Maybe you wish it was Ochaco who did it?" Mina questioned, with a smirk.
Still no reaction.
"Anyone in there?" Mina asked, as she waved her hand in front of Midoriya's face.
"I think I broke him." Mina thought.
Mina heard rustling from outside, realizing that she should be in bed, she made a dash for the elevator.
"I'm sure he'll be alright." Mina thought.
As the door to the dorms opened, in walked Aizawa, checking on reports of a commotion he had received.
Aizawa sighed in annoyance as he saw Midoriya standing in the middle of the kitchen.
"Midoriya, it's late and you've clearly caused a disturbance for others, I advise you to return to your room immediately." Aizawa sternly told him.
Midoriya remained unfazed, still not moving an inch.
"Midoriya?" Aizawa said.
Walking around him, Aizawa saw the shocked expression frozen on Midoriya's face.
Aizawa looked at him in confusion before analyzing the room.
"No signs of intruders and it doesn't seem to be the effect of a quirk." Aizawa said.
Aizawa sighed once more.
"I'll call Midnight up to put him to sleep, maybe that will snap him out of it." Aizawa thought.
With that the dorm doors closed once more, leaving a shocked Midoriya standing there, finally uttering one word.
"Mina." Midoriya whispered.
