Day 7 - Gorillaz

Izuku Midoriya was sitting on the large couch of Heights Alliance's living room. He was relaxed, looking upwards while he heard to his music.

His trance was broken when his earphones started to malfunction. The music started and stopped playing randomly. Between these random surges of interrupted music, sometimes, the sound didn't at all came from the faulty earphones, but from the smartphone's speakers.

He then unplugged the malfunctioning earphone and let out a frustrated sigh.

Only then he noticed he was being observed by a fellow classmate.

Near the kitchen stood Kyoka Jiro, and she looked perplexed at him, as if she saw a ghost or a lightning strike.

The boy turned red, and promptly started apologizing.

"A-Ah, sorry Jiro! My earphones weren't working properly, I'm sorry if I distracted you and…" he started, rushing out an apologie between mumbles

His speech fell on deaf ears, as she didn't believe what she heard.

"Was.. was that Gorillaz?" she asked, she had to be sure she weren't imagining this. Up until now, for several months, no one in her class had shown any interest whatsoever in classical music.

Her question made the verdant haired boy to forget his trouble with the phone.

"..You know Gorillaz?" he asked, honesty and curiosity on his voice.

Ever since he was a kid, the society before quirks always fascinated him. He tried to wonder how was a world full of people just like him. But since those days were long gone, the closest thing he had was the culture of those days. Music, films, art, antiquities and even propaganda. Every chance he had of knowing something new about those times made him happy.

"Of course I do! They're awesome! On Melancholy Hill is a great song!" the girl said excitedly, sitting close to the boy before continuing "But my favourite is Feel Good Inc." the girl happily added

"Mine too! Although mine favourite album as a whole is Plastic Beach. I love classical music, there's so much interesting stuff that sometimes I feel that the new stuff isn't as good as the old ones." he said as he shared his view on contemporary music.

"Don't tell me about it, although guys like Deep Dope do some good stuff" the girl said eagerly

"Yeah but that's more because they're emulating this very retro style of playing, isn't it?" the boy answered

"Huh, never thought of it that way." she said before eagerly questioning the boy again.

"What kind of other things you listen to?" she asked curiously

"All kinds of stuff, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Eminem, Queen, Kiss.. I dunno, it's so much stuff it's hard to remember it all in one go." he said, his shyness vanishing as he eagerly said his personal tastes.

Her eyes twinkled, and bluntly asked.

"Do you mind if I see your playlist?" she eagerly said

"Ah sure, here." he unlocked his phone and clicked on his player app and gave it to the girl.

She couldn't believe her eyes. Although the device had several contemporary songs and artists like Stratozfear and Kreinn, more than three forths of the songs were classical music. Of all the people she met so far, he, the shy hero nerd, had the closest musical taste to hers.

They started sharing their thoughts on the music they enjoyed, why they liked it, the influence of it in on contemporary society. Both forgot all their concerns, problems and worries as their thoughts were said.

They kept talking like that for almost an hour, before they were interrupted.

"Sorry Midoriya! I overslept. Bakugo is already there, so if we get there quickly we won't be too far behind." the red haired teen said before rushing out the front door, eager to get to the gym.

"Sorry, I gotta go, can we continue this talk later, maybe saturday?" the green haired teen said in a rushed manner

"Ah, S-Sure" the girl said, a light tone of pink on her cheeks as she averted his gaze, her earphone jacks twirling.

"Neat! I'll text you later the details, bye!" he said with a bright and warm smile as he rushed out and catched up with Kirishima, both boys resolute in giving their all during workout, not wanting to be left behind.

That smile made her heart skip a beat.

She never had felt this warm and comfortable, yet scary feeling on her chest before.

She then decided to go back to her room, still with the same feeling inside her.

That made her forgot the whole reason she went to the kitchen in the first place.

She only realized she hadn't eaten breakfast hours later, at lunch.

The girl looked at her smartphone's screen when she reached the shopping center.

01:27 PM

The girl gave herself an imaginary high five. She managed to arrive there on time. Only rarely she managed to do things at the time scheduled, but there she was.

She felt insecurity boil inside her chest. This was the first time she was going out on a date with someone. She didn't want to screw things up.

As she walked the mall, looking for the meeting spot, her insecurity started to whisper in the back of her head.

'Is this even a date? He probably doesn't even acknowledges you as a girl. Look at how he talked to you that day and how he talk with Uraraka or Asui. He probably thinks of you like a dude. Does it ev..'

The annoying little voice stopped when she saw the boy once more.

Unlike how he was when they talked together, he looked very nervous. His foot was tapping quickly the floor as if that would make time run faster. He was sweating and had the same panicked face he had at the times she saw him speaking with another girl.

Yet there he was, just like that, without talking to anyone.

'Is.. Is he like that because of me?' she asked herself, the same feeling her chest had when she saw his sunny smile returned once more.

She smiled at the sight of the mumbling mess he was right now.

She then steeled her feelings and the little insecure voice inside her mind vanished. The girl sat on the bench the boy was sitting, unbeknownst to him, before finally cutting him off in the middle of his ramblings.

"You know, if you keep this up your brain might overload." with a grin on her face.

A/N: Hello, my dear reader. Thank you for your time. It has been a great week. I appreciate all of you for the support during this enterprise.

As a selfish desire, I would like to request reviews of the entire series as a whole. During this week I experimented with a non-linear way of telling their story. I would like to know if it was good or not, if it made sense and etc. Any opinions and constructive criticism are very welcome.

Since I started I had the plot of this chapter in mind. This fiction started with the tale of how Izuku fell in love with Kyoka. So it was only natural that it ended with the other way around.

A shout out to IncognitoShadow. It has been a hell of a ride my man. Cheers mate.

Once again, thank you all for everything so far.

Until we meet again, farewell.

Sincerily,

TakatoMakino