Chapter 8: Too Cute for Comfort.

It was a calm, and quiet day.

The streets weren't flooded with pedestrians or any kind of crime or natural disaster and not a single police or ambulance siren going off. It was as if the world decided to be less chaotic today, so with the amount of paperwork and grading the teachers had to do today, they decided to let off the students earlier than normal, in their eyes they earned it after being so productive.

With that we pick up with a cheerful Mei Hatsume, who was currently strolling toward the class 1-A dorms, with the teachers being so generous both her and Midoriya decided to spend the day together. It had unfortunately been a while since the two had an opportunity to go out together, the reason for this being how often Mei was busy with her inventions, and Midoriya with hero work and taking care of Eri on again and off again, per his own request having not seen the tyke in what felt like forever, this did not bother them though, as they would always take small moments and opportunities to see the other.

One sweet occasion being when Midoriya was slightly injured during an exercise one day, and he requested Hatsume be there for comfort, if not for Recovery Girl's sweet side, this would not have happened as it was literally only a sore on his back, but the teen had played this off as much worse than it actually was; all in effort just to see her happy go lucky face even once.

'God he's such a sweetheart,' Mei thought smiling, as she entered the front door of the dorms, and waited for the elevator, anxious to go up to see him, she didn't mind ever seeing his dorm mates hanging out in their floor's common area, none of the boys minded seeing her as, despite some teasing, they were happy that Deku was happy, plus the first day she had ever come over she tasered Mineta after he tried to leap at her. This giving them all a good laugh, and proving herself in most of their eyes (except Bakugo), although Iida needed some further convincing (even though Hatsume did apologize to him) considering his previous encounters with the hyper girl, but eventually let up at the request of obviously Midoriya, and surprisingly Uraraka her seeing just how at ease the green bean was around the inventor.

Although Mei had at first harbored some resentment at first for Uraraka, since she broke Midoriya's heart, she had come around after seeing her convince Iida, and the realization that if she didn't choose Tenya, none of this would've happened, so she kinda owed her. Speaking of plot, now the elevator opens!

*Ding*

Hatsume exited the elevator, to the sight of Mina, Kaminari, Kirishima, and Todoroki on the couch, playing a party game on the tv.

"Hey Hatsume," they said in unison, not diverting their eyes from the screen.

(Author: if you've played one of them you would understand)

"Hey guys," she greeted back cheerfully, "Who is winning so far?"

"Todoroki," three of them grumbled in unison.

"Again," Kirishima added.

"What, I played this a lot with my sister," Todoroki replied calmly.

"You played or dominated," Kaminari shot him a look.

"Dominated, I mostly lost to her. If you want, I could call her to come over and play," Shoto suggested.

"NO," the three on the couch cried, fearing the Todoroki bloodline now more than ever.

"Your loss, she's a great challenge," Todoroki continued.

"I don't want a challenge, I want my coins back," Mina groaned, tears in her eyes.

Mei quietly chuckled at this, she always loved getting to see what class 1-A was up to, the goofballs always having something going on, and that made them interesting. But she was here for a single one, so she left them in their game and walked over to Izuku's door.

*Knock Knock*

"Who is it," Midoriya asked behind the door.

"Housekeeping," she replied playfully.

"But we don't have a house keeper."

"I'm new."

"Oh, nice to meet you then, just let me organize my room a bit."

"That's my job though."

"…Oh right," he opened the door smiling, "Well I don't want my girlfriend thinking I'm a mess."

"Says the one dating the mess capital of the world."

"Oh, you know her then, man I feel sorry for you cleaning her room," he giggled.

"Oh shut it," she lightly punched him, before kissing him on the cheek, leaving him with a quivering smile.

"Can you two please be cute somewhere else, you're giving me diabetes," Kaminari complained.

"I believe it's called jealousy," Mina fired at him with a sly grin, causing Kirishima to burst out laughing, and Kaminari just sitting there complaing.

Midoriya and Mei joined Kirishima's laughter, Mina's burns were always a highlight of her being included in anything.

"You ready," Mei asked.

"Yup," he nodded.

"K, let's go," she grinned as she took his hand.

With that the two made their way to the exit of the floor, the sounds of the now three losers screaming in defeat playing them out. The last thing they heard was Todoroki asking-

"So, you guys wanna play Monopoly next?"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

1 Hour Later…

The two were walking down the less than busy street, Mei holding Midoriya's arm, resting her head on his shoulder and closing her eyes, and Izuku resting his head on hers.

"Hey Izuku."

"Yeah Mei?"

"I've been wanting to ask you something?"

"What is it?"

"W-*giggle*-why uh, does your mask have bunny ears?"

"Huh?"

"Your mask, it has bunny ears, why is that?"

"Oh well uh."

"I'm not making fun of you for it, I was just curious."

"Well uh," he blushed, and his lips quivered nervously, "Y-you know how I'm a big fan of All Might?"

"Understatement but yes."

"Well I uh, d-did it because it…looked like his bangs."

"Oh that's so cool!"

"Y-you really think so," he perked up at the compliment.

"Yes, I do, it isn't wrong to appreciate your idol, plus if I'm going to be honest, you look super adorable with them on."

"But still cool right?"

"Oh yes of course…Mighty Man," she giggled.

"…I thought we would never speak of that," he replied embarrassed.

"Oh come on, you were so cute in your little All Might costume."

"So cute that you laughed at it for five whole minutes."

"Hey, you were the one who didn't hide it well enough, you were begging for it," she teased.

"I got distracted."

"By what?"

"You, and what you said," he warmed up again, happily relieving that memory, the mention of this made Mei blush but kept a warm grin at the same time.

"You heard all that huh?"

"Every word," he whispered followed by kissing the top of her head.

"Glad to hear, so anything on the agenda for today?"

"It's a surprise."

"Oooooh, I love it when you surprise me."

"I think you'll like this one more than the last one."

"I don't know, it's hard to top the photo album."

"Oh, I bet you will. Look." Midoriya stopped walking, Mei opened her eyes to the sight of something she always loved: a tool shop, but this one was clearly new, looking just recently opened and it was in fact the truth since the last one went out of business a few months ago, Mei's eyes then glowed so much that they could become suns, as she left her boyfriend's side to walk forward.

"Oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god," her body jumped up and down akin to what a child would do if they were outside a toy store, "I thought they weren't opening for another week?!"

"They weren't, so I decided to help out after school to set the place up quicker, I did it for free but I did make a tiny request that you would be the first inside, thought you would probably enjoy that," he smiled at her absolutely ecstatic state, reminded him of anytime he would meet a hero on duty that was famous. His thought was interrupted, as quick as a bullet Mei jumped on him hugging him tightly and kissing him all over his face.

"You are the best," she squeaked.

Midoriya didn't reply, he just looked into her eyes lovingly, and kissed her back, only breaking it after he realized how badly she wanted to rush into the store.

"Go nuts babe."

"YOU BET!"

With that she rushed inside, Izuku stood there for a bit still smiling.

'She's so adorable when she gets like this, it might take a lot of jumping through hoops, but its always worth it to see her-wait…I just let Hatsume loose in a tool shop…oh no.'

5 Hours Later…Yes, 5 Hours Later.

Midoriya was now holding back his love, dragging her out of the shop, still being starry eyed but flailing her arms and legs, desperately wanting to go back.

"Please please please please please just ten more minutes, I've got the rush of a lifetime, I need that wrench, come on baby I neeeeed it, I'll do anything!"

"I'm sorry dear," he said clearly struggling, "I can't if I let you *grunt* back in you'll *grunt* drive them out of business."

"What's wrong with that there's so much greatness that it can't be contained!"

"They just opened!"

"I don't care it's so beautiful!"

'Oh boy, she's gone nuts, last time she got like this, I had to get a tow truck to get her out of a shop!'

(Author: Don't ask.)

'I need to find a way to get her out of her daze,' Izuku thought, his brain scrambling for a way to calm her down, scanning the area, before realizing what was close by, "Hey Mei!"

"Yes sweetie?!"

"There's a milkshake place near here."

"So!?'

Now for the killing blow.

"They have chocolate."

She stopped on a dime.

"Chocolate?"

"Yes, chocolate."

"…Take me."

"With pleasure," he flipped her from his more restrained holding position and carried her bridal style across the street and toward the chocolate, every once and a while Deku had to turn her head away from the shop before she ripped his arm off trying to get there.

They exited the milkshake place shortly after getting there, Izuku wasn't really in the mood for a shake, so he decided to shell out the extra cash to get her the biggest chocolate shake that he could. One that she was currently sipping on, with such great force that she could be mistaken for a tornado, the two were now walking side by side, since they were a little flustered with doing open romantic acts in public, more specifically Izuku, so they decided to go to a more private-ish place.

Midoriya had bought a hammock while Mei was losing her mind inside the shop, and with the warm weather having taken over, he thought it'd be a good idea to get one for him and Mei to enjoy the beauty of the outside during the spring, something Hatsume previously didn't get to enjoy that much because, to put it simply she loved her 'babies' more than anything.

The two had eventually made it back to the dorm's, and went to the courtyard, Deku set up the hammock after a few minutes of difficulties.

Now the two lay together, looking up at the sky.

"I gotta say, this has been the best day I've had all week," Mei smiled while somehow still having enough milkshake left.

"I'm glad to hear that," Midoriya smiled back, a small chuckle escaping his lips at the sight of her gorging down the treat.

"I'm surprised you were able to set it all up."

"Why is that?"

"Oh, you know, with your absolutely aching back problems," she teased replicating his act of back pain and mimicking his voice, "Oh Recovery Girl, please I may not make it, I need to tell my girlfriend I looooove her!"

"Hey, I do not sound like that," he indulged her, while trying to resist the large laugh he was suppressing.

"Yes, you do."

"Oh really?"

"Yes really."

"Well if you really think that…"

"…Noooooo."

"Then I guess I'll have to…"

"Izuku don't you dear."

"Dooooo."

"I will make your soles explode!"

"…Oh, ok."

"Good," she sighed in relief, "For a second there I thought you were about to tickl-"

"Worth it," he yelled as he preceeded to tickle her.

"AH NO IZUZKU *GIGGLE* S-T-TOP- *GIGGLE* *GIGGLE* *SNORT* I SWEAR I'M GONNA PEE!"

"Who has aching back problems?!"

"HAHAHAHA STILL *SNORT* YOU HAHAHAHAH YOU B-B-BIG HAHAHAAHA DORK!"

"Oh, so I'm a dork now?"

"Y-Y-HAHAH-YES YOU ARE, MIGHTY MAN *SNORT*!"

"Oh, now you've done it!"

Though the laughing was prominent, the real comedy was the two failing to notice the fact that Tokoyami was sitting on a nearby bench.

Alone.

Eating an ice cream.

Feeling suuuuuuuuper awkward, before leaving.

The tickling continued for a little while longer, before the two just collapsed tired out of their minds, taking a breather, before eventually colliding into a soft kiss, then they just laid there in silence, holding each other lovingly.

…

…

…..

Then-

"So, when can we go back to the shop?"

Midoriya let a small, worried "meep!" as he went wide-eyed.

Author's note: Wow...I cannot tell you both how fun, and heartwarming this was to write for guys, the amount of support I've gotten for this has truly changed my life, I mean wow 90...90 favorites at the time that I am writing this, thank all of you, and next chapter will be released whenever I can finish it, I hope you all still love this story as much as I do, and I am happy to bring happiness to this many people and gain more experience in my passion for writing. These stories have helped me through dark times, and has given me so much more confidence in myself than I have ever had.

I have you all to thank and my fiance.

I'm grateful to you all, I hope your days are happy and filled with the greatest of things.

Signing out.