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Tokoyami was with Hawks at a little secluded restaurant, where he wouldn't be recognized.  He felt his phone vibrate in his pocket and  he went to pick it up, "Being on your phone when you are in the presence of the number two hero is insulting." Hawks said dramatically. 

Tokoyami ignored him, he had a text from Tsu.

Tsu: [meme]

Tokoyami felt his cheeks heat up slightly, he typed out a response and put his phone away. He picked at the food on his plate ignoring Hawks stare burning on him. If he ignored him for long enough maybe he'd give up.

"Who were you texting?" Hawks asked after a few beats of silence.  

"Person from class," Tokoyami said, maybe if he was super vague Hawks wouldn't embarrass him should they ever run into each other. 

Hawks was silent for a bit, probably trying to remember someone from the class’s name. “Was it that kid with a bunch of arms? What was his name, Choji? Charles? James?” 

“Shoji?” Tokoyami said, how the fuck did he go from Choji to James? “How the fuck did you from Choji to James?” Hawks just shrugged. “No, it wasn’t Shoji.” He put an emphasis on the name.

“Uh, what about that girl. Tsuyu?” Hawks asked.

“Yeah,” Tokoyami interrupted before Hawks could say another name. “I was texting Tsu.” Hawks had a triumphant smile. 

“You’ve got a crush, my little birdy’s all grown up!” Hawks said, wiping a fake tear. 

What? “Were you naming people you think I have a crush on?”  

“Kinda,” Hawks admited. He didn’t look like he felt bad at all. 

“I don’t have a crush on Shoji, Tsu, or anyone else from my class!” Tokoyami said. 

Then Dark Shadow decided to helpfully appear “Bullshit.” They coughed. 

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Todoroki knocked on the door and a few seconds later it opened to reveal Izuku wearing his All Might pajamas and his hair more messy than usual. He looked cute. “Izuku, I think I’m dying,” Shouto said. 

Izuku eye’s got wide, “What?” He yelled. There was a bang on one of his walls “Sorry, Aoyama!” Izuku opened the door wider and moved to the side. 

Shouto walked into his room and took a seat at the desk chair while Izuku sat across from him on the bed. “Why do you think you’re dying?” Izuku asked. 

“Whenever I’m around, for example, Bakugou I feel a buzzing in my skin and when I see him with Kirishima I feel a pang in my chest. I googled it and it said I was dying.” Shouto explained.

Izuku looked confused, “Shouto, sweetie.” Shouto felt the buzzing under his skin again. “You aren’t dying, you have a crush.” 

Shouto thought about it, “I don’t know what that is, but it didn’t show up on the google search so I think you may be wrong.” Izuku doesn’t know more things than Google. Iida probably does though, maybe he should’ve gone to him. 

“Shouto, you have a crush on Kacchan and you’re jealous of Kirishima,” Izuku said sounding more impatient by the second. 

“Impossible, I’m dying Google said so.” 

“You don’t even know what a crush is!” Izuku yelled, there was another bang, harder than the first. “Sorry! We’re gonna go talk to Iida, okay?” Shouto nodded. 

On their way to Iida’s room, they passed Tokoyami and dark Shadow who seemed to just be getting back from their outing with Hawks. 

Izuku knocked on Iida’s door and kept knocking until Iida opened it. “Izuku, Shouto what brings you two here so late on a school night?” Was 10 pm late on school nights? 

Izuku pulled Shouto into the room, “Tell Iida what you told me.” Shouto didn’t understand what made Izuku so upset. 

He told Iida the same things he told Izuku, “I told him he had a crush, what do you think?” 

“Well, yes Shouto that does in fact sound like you have a crush on Bakugou,” Iida said awkwardly.

“I still don’t know what that is.” 

“A crush is a brief but intense infatuation for someone, especially someone unattainable. When people are in relationships people who would normally not think twice about them suddenly have crushes on them because they cannot have them.” 

Shouto was silent for a moment, “Izuku do you have a crush on Bakugou too?” Izuku went bright red.

“No, I don’t have a crush on Kacchan, why?” Izuku said quickly.

“You’ve been staring at him and Kirishima since they got together. Do you have a crush on Kirishima then?” 

Izuku got impossibly redder, “This was about you!” He squeaked out.

“As lovely as this has been, we should all be heading to bed.” 

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Kaminari and Sero were trying to avoid Tenya, they knew he was gonna lecture them about their grades slipping, it wasn’t even bad. They passed. Kinda.

They ran into him in the common room, they got so distracted by the game Kirishima was playing they didn’t notice until Mina, and Kirishima were looking at him. 

The two of them turned around meting Tenya’s eyes, “I’ve been telling you guys that you need to mke time for studying so that your grades don’t slip.” 

He was about to say something else when Kaminari interrupted “We did study!” He said. 

“If it was you two alone i doubt any studying was going on.” Mina said, the implications making Tenya, Kaminari, and Sero’s faces flush. 

“Mina!” Kaminari whined.

Mina shrugged. “It’s true,” Tenya was getting increasingly uncomfortable, he looked around the room and made eye contact with Kirishima, who looked sympathetic. 

“Where’s your proof?” Okay, really? 

Before it could escalate any further Kirishima interupted “We have a verbal test from Present Mic in a few days.” He said, Kaminari and Sero looked paniced, Tenya almost felt bad. Almost, he’d been telling them to study and had seen Bakugou dong the same. 

Kaminari, Mina, and Sero all rushed up the stairs, Kirishima taking his tme to clean up a bit. “Kirishima,” Tenya said, before he left, “thank you.” 

Kirishima grinned and Tenya thinks his face heated up more, “No problem.” Then he went up the stairs too. 

Tenya turned around to find Momo looking at him, there was something about it that made it see like she knew something he didn’t. “What?” 

She smiled and shook her head, “Nothing. Wanna join us for movies?” 

“That would be nice.”

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The ‘dekusquad’ were hanging out in the common room, a semi-regular occurrence. Izuku was mumbling and kinda freaking everyone out, Iida was talking about the importance of a good night of sleep to Shouto and Hitoshi, Aoyama and Momo were trying different make-up styles, and Tsu was lying down resting their head on Shouto’s lap.

The only difference was that Hitoshi was sitting so close to Ochaco. Now don’t get her wrong, the two were friends, but they weren’t particularly close. This was why him sitting so close that their legs were almost touching was notable.

Maybe Shinsou saw her as a closer friend than she realized. Which was great, the only issue was her massive crush on him, especially because they all knew he had a crush on Sero.

Until they somehow got on the topic of crushes, she was pretty sure it was Aoyama’s fault. Something about Izuku yelling at Shouto the other day.

“Shouto, you’ve got a crush on Bakugou?” Momo asked, the former shrugging in response. “Why didn’t you tell me?”  Hitoshi moved closer, but it was probably to get further from whatever they were doing.

“I’m only sixty-seven percent certain. Iida and Izuku said I did though.” He gestured vaguely towards them. They were both deep shades of red. Ochaco could relate heavily. 

"You have any crushes, ‘Toshi?" Aoyama asked, briefly looking up from where he was doing Momo's eyeliner. 

He sighed heavily and put his arm around the back of the couch by Ochaco's head. “Other than Sero, please,” Momo added quickly. They’d all heard more than a few rants about his crush on Sero. He had this one rant every single time he and Sero trained one on one, or he just saw him shirtless, she’d even heard Tsu quoting parts of it in their sleep. 

Hitoshi sighed even more dramatically, and she could feel the heat radiating from his body. “Hate to break it to you Momo,” he was smirking and not sorry in the slightest, “but Sero was training earlier with Bakugou and he was not wearing a shirt.” This time, it was Momo sighing dramatically.

“Look what you’ve done Aoyama,” Ochaco said, Hitoshi pushed her head with the hand that was behind her head and called her rude.

He put his arm around her and pulled her into him, “And here I was thinking we were friends,” He smelled like coffee and vanilla, not that she was smelling him.

“That was your first mistake,” Tsu said her eyes still closed, voice soft and raspy like she’s on the verge of sleep.

“Yeah Hitoshi, don’t you know I’m only here for the money and free food.” Ochaco joked, her head stil on Hitoshi’s chest.

He let her go a few moments later but his arm was still around, and she was thankful for the opportunity to calm her heart at least a little bit.

He started on his rant about Sero’s abs but his arm stayed around her until they all parted for bed. She couldn’t get the smell of coffee and vanilla out of her head for hours.

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Tsu was making their way towards Mina's room, because she'd just gotten back from the mall, and said she bought an eyeshadow pallet that would go great with Tsu's, everything. They ignored their beating heart.

They got ready to knock on the door when it burst open, Mina smiling brightly. "Tsu!" She grabbed their hand pulling them into the room. "There's this color, and it's like a mix of green and blue, not teal though it's way darker." Mina rambled, as she led Tsu over to her desk chair to sit down, she'd moved it so it's closer to the bed.

Tsu was just nodding her head, more focused on the feeling of Mina's hand in hers. "I know you don't wear a lot of makeup, but I just needed to see this on you! I promise I won't do too much." Mina said, sitting on the bed, in front of Tsu. Makeup on the bed beside her

"I'm fine with it," Tsu said, smiling at her, heart picking up at Mina smiling back.

Mina started explaining what she was doing, she grabbed mascara. "Your eyelashes are already super pretty and long. This'll just extenuante them." She leaned in really close and Tsu was rethinking whether this was actually a good idea.

They felt their face flush at the compliments, many of the girls had said they had really pretty eyelashes and Tsu blushed everytime.

Mina did the rest of Tsu's makeup, throwing in compliments about how pretty she looked with and without makeup. Tsu was sure her face was red, and she couldn't blame it on makeup because Mina hadn't put any blush on, she said Tsu was red enough on her own, which just made her blush more.

"God, you're so pretty." Mina said, sincerely, and Tsu was glad it was over because she wasn't sure she could take any more 'girl friend' compliments like that. Never again.

"You've gotta let me do that again."

"Of course." What could go wrong?