AN: It's about darn time that Kirimina made its way into this story! FINALLY.

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I Feel Something's Different

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Ochako awoke feeling refreshed as if she had slept the whole day yesterday. She wasn't even sure if she had gone to school or even did her homework but was assured by her mother that she did when she got up around midnight to use the bathroom. Her parents were still awake downstairs as she heard murmuring coming from the kitchen.

She didn't know what they were talking about but thanked them for the tea they left for her in her room before going back to sleep. She wasn't going to comment on how the tea had a slightly off-taste but it was probably just her imagining things.

In the morning, Deku profusely apologized, vaguely telling her that something came up and couldn't pick her up for school. She told him not to worry about it as she decided to walk for once.

"Are my eyes deceiving me or is that my Princess?" Ochako hears someone say behind her.

With a piece of buttered toast in her mouth, she felt her mouth go dry and an annoyance tingle her spine. No one has called her 'Princess' since… since…

She quickly twirls around to see pointy fiery red hair, crimson amused eyes, and shimmering fangs. A tall male leaned against an expensive cherry red sports car parallel parked with crossed arms and patiently waiting for her to remember him.

"Kiri?!" Ochako gasps, spitting out her toast as the memories flood back in.

Eijirou Kirishima had been one of her best friends in her childhood and gave her the nickname 'Princess' due to the fact that her closest friends were both purebloods. He moved away a few weeks before Izuku had moved into the apartment complex of the neighborhood.

The Kirishima family is another prominent pureblood family but weren't directly involved in the same businesses as the Bakugou's and Todoroki's. Instead, they operated several hotel chains and nightclubs dealing in the travel and entertainment business.

"The one and only" the red-head grins as he untangles his arms and spreads them wide opened.

Ochako runs back and jumps into his embrace as she squealed. "What are you doing here!" she excitedly asks as she peppers both his cheeks in friendly kisses.

"I moved back, my parents gave me the Tokyo hotel to run" Eijirou informs her as he gently puts her down, "and I'm totally gonna open a nightclub in it!"

Ochako playfully rolls her eyes with an amused shrug of her shoulders, "some things never change"

Every since she could remember, Eijirou already had blueprints setup on his dream hotel. Knowing that someday when he was old enough to, his parents would put him in charge of one of their building's, just not knowing if he'd remain in Japan or move to other parts of Asia. With his own hotel, he could design it in any way which way he so desired.

Naturally, if his animal printed suits, expensive leather shoes, diamond studded wrist watch, and diamond studs in his ears were any indication – he has always been attracted to the glitz and glamor, wanting to own something as flashy as a nightclub someday.

"So why are you by your lonesome? Where's our blond grump?" Eijirou sincerely asks, not having heard from Katsuki in a month since he had emailed him about his initial plans on moving back.

"Oh…" Ochako's quick to frown as she gives him a somber smile, "Katsuki and I aren't really on speaking terms… or rather, I should say we aren't really friends anymore"

This surprises Eijirou as his eyes briefly widened. It was the first time he's hearing this news.

"Yeah" she tells him without much room to continue the conversation. She didn't want to ruin her little reunion with Eijirou by letting her anger boil out. Katsuki was a confusing jerk but also… something felt off. It wasn't just how her morning started with feeling the best she's had in weeks, or Izuku ditching her for other matters, or the fact she didn't even hear Katsuki's limo this morning.

Everything felt off.

Maybe it was just the fact that she hasn't seen Eijirou in years.

It had to be that.

"Oh shoot! I'm gonna be late to meet up with the contractors at the hotel" Eijirou turns his wrist to glance at the time.

Ochako nods, a bit sad to see him go but she needed to get going herself before being late for school. She was about to bow and wish him well when he cleared his throat and spoke up.

"Do ya want me to give you a ride to school, Princess? It'll be my honor" Eijirou kindly offers as he opens the door of his car and waits for her answer.

Ochako nibbles on her bottom lip and decides, why not? Thanking him, she gets into the passenger seat and buckles up as Eijirou jogged to the other side and got in.

"I'd really love for us to catch up later on and if you don't mind, would you care to join me and my beautiful Mina for dinner? Don't worry, I won't invite Katsuki" he gives her a wink before turning on the car.

"Mina?" Ochako questions as she gives him a teasing look, "So the number one pureblood bachelor is taken? You're gonna make both human and vampire females weep"

Eijirou can't help but laugh knowing just how much of a flirt he used to be as a kid, even trying and miserably failing at winning Ochako's heart. He knows that she's only ever had eyes for Katsuki so it was hard for him to learn about their falling out. "Yeah, she tamed me alright. In fact, Mina's starting her first day at Yuuei today. Maybe you two will be classmates?" he optimistically says, not telling her about the fact that he made sure to place Mina into every single of Ochako's classes. As per Katsuki's request.

"And you? Will you be enrolling too?"

"I already graduated. Being homeschooled and all"

"Smarty-pants" she lightly jokes, happy that it felt like no time had gone by between them.

"This beauty also has brains" he laughs in good spirits as he taps the side of his head with an index finger.

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Ochako thanks Eijirou for the ride, feeling a bit bashful at the way the other students stopped and stared like fishes out of water as she got out of the luxury sports car.

"If you haven't met Mina by the end of the day then call me. I'll be picking you both up after school" Eijirou tells her leaning over the passenger seat to talk to her through the opened window.

Ochako nods and assures him that she saved his contact info before he speeds off.

By the time the bell rings for lunch, she makes her way into the cafeteria not really feeling like going off campus for food. Admittedly, she felt weird and out of place with not having Izuku and Shouto there. She couldn't help but feel a bit troubled by their absence, more concerned over Izuku's safety than anything but didn't want to be a nuisance by texting him especially after he just sent her an attached picture message showing her that he too was on a lunch break with Shouto at some fancy European restaurant.

Replying to the message with a simple thumbs-up emoji, she set her phone down on the plastic table and pressed her chopsticks into the raw pieces of tender meat testing how bloody they were. She had ordered a nice steaming bowl of broth mixed with veggies and a side bowl of rice but suddenly lost her appetite for it as her thoughts wandered to the blood oozing out of the meat on her plate. Her eyes were transfixed on the marbled look of the red thinly-sliced pieces as her mouth watered but silently winced when she felt her teeth begin to throb.

It snapped her out of hyper-focusing on her food for whatever strange reason as her ears perked up at the sound of Katsuki growling and yelling for someone to leave him the fuck alone. It's then that she caught the sight of a toffee tan student with brightly dyed, wild pink hair wearing a headband with yellow horns on her head. And she was fearlessly poking Katsuki's cheeks as she laughed and told him he has cute dimples and him yelling back that he doesn't have any damn dimples and that they weren't cute.

There was just something about seeing someone else get under Katsuki's skin but not in the way that Ochako would that felt weird.

"Go fuckin' bug someone else, Alien Freak!" Katsuki barked out as he tried shielding his face away by further slumping down in his seat and covering his head with his arms.

The 'Alien Freak' simply laughed and skipped away as if she hadn't just been disturbing the male. The new student bee-lined towards Ochako's table as the brunette could see what was happening.

The pink-haired girl almost had this whimsical yet mischievous fairy-like aura about herself. Now that she was getting closer, Ochako could see that she was wearing full-black sclera contact lenses making her natural golden irises pop.

"You must be Ochako Uraraka! My Eiji-poo's friend!"

"Oh uh, yes! And you must be Mina?"

"Mina Ashido, at your service!" Mina politely bows before a full grin spreads across her face, "You and I are a lot alike!" she gushes in a giddy-like fashion.

Ochako was glad she wasn't drinking anything otherwise she would've choked and spat it out. She failed to see how they could possibly be anything alike as she tilted her head and curiously asked, "I'm sorry, what?"

"Your teeth are starting to hurt, aren't they?" Mina points to her own pearly whites. No indication of fangs whatsoever. "Avoid cold foods" she advises, glancing down towards the small plate filled with cold raw meat on Ochako's tray.

"Bye now!" Mina turns around and goes off to compliment another female student's pierced ears before running her fingers through the blond male's hair the girl's sitting with; meshing the black lighting bolt streak in the blond's hair before returning to playfully mess with Katsuki.

"What was that about?" Ochako whispers, asking herself as she subconsciously runs the pad of her thumb against the tip of her canines. She thinks that Mina is causing her to have silly thoughts when she looks down at her thumb and sees the tiniest drop of blood pooling out.

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Done! To be continued.

Uh-Oh, Spaghetti-O.

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