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I don't know man, I was just curious of the odds in what would happen had deku and ochako are somehow ended up roommates at the dorm., but I have zero imagination, so uh, what do you think would happen???

this got away from me and turned into a huge fanfic oh god why

Oh man! Talk about a call back, I just remembered the time back when the dorms were first announced and just about everyone in the fandom talked about who would be who’s roommate and what nonsense they would get into, before it was reveled that every kid would have their own room instead of rooming together, thus shattering all our hopes, dreams, and most importantly, our fanfics. Ahhh, good times.

As for those two being roommates, I kinda doubt the school would allow two, possibly hormonal, teenagers to live in the same room for a significant amount of time, for obvious reasons, and since there are an even number of both girls (6) and boys (14) in the class, they wouldn’t need too…

But if they DID:

IZUOCHA ROOMMATE AU GO!

Their reactions to hearing they are to share a room are about what youwould expect of them.

Izuku has a bit of an emotional roller coaster at first, on one handhe’s going to be sharing a dorm room with a girl for a considerablelength of time, and his head just floods with how quickly that could becomeawkward and all the ways he could embarrass himself. The more he thinks aboutit the more panicked he grows. The fact that he’s never shared a room with anybodybefore this only compounds the matter.

Onthe other hand, it wasn’t going to be any girl, but Uraraka, one of hisbest friends, someone who knows him and how…weird he could be, and someone hecan actually talk to with some degree of ease, so he figures whateverawkwardness might arise could be smoothed out and laughed off rather easily,heck, it just might be fun! Though…he figures it would still be a littleawkward, since while Uraraka is Uraraka, Uraraka is still a girl…a verypretty girl…with a radiant smile…who probably wears cute pajamas to bed…

All his thoughts of his potentially cuteroommate screech to a grinding halt and whatever relief he might have startedto feel quickly drains out of him when he remembers the sheer volume of AllMight merchandise he brought with him, and he starts to panic all overagain when he imagines what kind of reaction Uraraka would have to all of that.

Asfor Ochako her reaction is rather more…simple. She looks at Izuku from a slightdistance, mulling over the fact that she’s going to share a room with him forthe foreseeable future, her face slowly growing red and her heart thumpingloudly in her ears for a reason she’s only just started to piece together, andthen slowly placing her face in her hands and mutter, very quietly to herself, “Oh…oh no.”

They reach their dorm room, hardly exchanginga word on the way, the both of them nervous for their own reasons; they openthe door, look at each other…and laugh. Seeing that they were both equallyuneasy about this broke some of the tension, and they set off to begin the longand arduous work that is unpacking.

Near the end of the process, Izuku turns to look at Ochako,“Uraraka-san,” He says, his back to his last piece of unopened, andrather bulky, luggage, “We’re friends right?”

Ochakoturns to him, smiling brightly, “Of course we are Deku.” She noticeshow stiffly he’s standing, his back straight and his fists clenched at hissides, and she looks at him a bit questioningly, though still smiling “…Whydo you ask?”

He looks to the floor, worrying his hands, “Well…I just wanted toask that…um…well…” He goes on like that for a moment before sighing andturning to face his last bag, “Please don’t judge me too harshlyUraraka-san.” Finally he unzipped his bag, and slowly reached a handinside.

Ochako is honestly mostly just confused at this; nothing she knows ofIzuku gives her any sort of idea as to what he’s expecting to be judged by herfor, his use of the word harshly hardly helped her at all either, whatwas he going to show her that he’d need to visibly gather courage for?

As Izuku continues to gather up the aforementioned courage, Ochakoremembers a slightly embarrassing episode that she had earlier in the year. Shewas walking around the school during lunch break when she heard snickeringcoming from further down the hallway she was walking in; as she got closer shesaw Kaminari and Mineta chatting quietly amongst themselves, bragging about thesize of their “stash” back home and how well they’ve hidden it, only to stopdead in their conversation when they noticed her not three feet away.

When she asked them what they were talking about, they grabbed her bythe shoulders, dragged her to the dark corner of the school where theywhispering, and got on their knees and begged her not to say a word toany of the teachers and to pretend she heard nothing. She promised, mostly toget them to stop crying as pathetically as they were, but when she asked themagain about what they meant by “stash” they only avoided her gaze and mutteredin unison, “It’s…its private guy stuff y’know?”

That response answered absolutely nothing, of course, but she sawthat she wouldn’t get anything out of them anyway so she dropped it…deciding toask the girls in class instead, knowing the guys in the class would eitheravoid her in much the same way, have no clue, or, in Bakugou’s case, not give aenough of a damn to give her a serious answer.

Momo was just as clueless as she was, and her only contribution to theinvestigation was a guess that was a bit…naïve, “Maybe they were talking abouttheir stash of…study equipment?”

Tooru wasn’t much better, though this time because apparently she knew exactlywhat Ochako was talking about, but the only help she got was a giggle and arather coy, “Why don’t you try asking a few other people? ~”

She caught Tsuyu and Kyouka together, and their responses were the firstreal clue to the answer she was looking for. Kyouka looked rather unsettled, ablush staining her face before she muttered, “Kaminari”, darkly underher breath and turning to stomp away while continuing to mutter, presumably tofind the very same electricity user. Ochako doesn’t want to remember what shedid to him later that same week.

Tsuyu, on the other hand, while looking just as unsettled, simplycleared her throat and, with a much more subdued blush, croaked, “You probablydon’t want to know Ochako-chan.”

Her last option was Mina, who finally put an end to her quandary with acheeky grin, and blunt answer that proved Tsuyu’s guess all too true, “Their‘stash’? Oh yeah! They were probably talking about porn.”

Remembering that answer snapped Ochako straight back to realityjust in time to see Izuku finally begin to take his hand out of the bag. A needto yell at him to keep whatever it is he wants to show her inside the bag and amorbid curiosity to see it (she could practically hear Mina giggle in her ear: whatdo you think his taste are like?) fill up her gut and redden her face asshe watches, her conflicting emotions transfixing her gaze, as Izuku slowlyreveals…

…An All Might action figure, dressed in his famous silver age custom andplaced in his signature pose with its chest puffed out and its fists on itships, and placed it on a table in front of him. Ochako instantly relaxes,letting out a shaky and breath laugh as her full face blush fades to a slightpink tinge on her cheeks, mostly out of a little bit of shame due to thinkingIzuku would be the kind of guy to bring out something like that to adorm, she should have guessed it would be something like this that he wasscared to show her.

She still wasn’t completely sure why he was this scared ofshowing her though; having something like that is nothing to be ashamedof…honestly she was starting to find this whole situation a bit cute…

She opens her mouth to say that Izuku shouldn’t worry about it, butshe’s interrupted when Izuku pulls out another All Might figure, this onedressed in the yellow suit she saw the man wear a few times around school (shedidn’t know people made ones like that), and then another, and another, andanother.

And soon the whole table and a sizable portion of the wall is covered inevery kind of All Might merchandise she can imagine, from All Might figures toAll Might posters to an All Might lamp, it appears that if there existeda kind of All Might memorabilia, then Izuku made it his mission to own it.

Looking at the frankly staggering amount of stuff that Izukusomehow managed to stuff into that bag and place in his half of the room,Ochako finally understood exactly why Izuku was so skittish about showing herall this.

Speaking of Izuku, he finally turned back to look at her, his face redwith nervousness and worrying his hands again, “So…” He choked out at last,“…what do you think?”

She continues to observe his collection, letting herself soak in everydetail and the sheer volume of admiration one person can have for another allat once amazes and doesn’t surprise her in the least, considering who’s standingbefore her, and a smile grows on her face with every object she sees, untilfinally she looks at Izuku with a smile stretched from ear to ear and cheekstinged pink, and exclaims with every bit of affection she can muster, “Justwhat I expected out a geek’s room!”

Izuku’s face fills with embarrassment, falling to his hands and knees,surprising Ochako and breaking her out of her reverie as Izuku pitifullymutters in almost comical despair, “Right, of course, just as expected from ageek…”

“Wait nonono!” Ochako flails a bit, falling to her knees in front ofDeku, worry etched on every inch of her face, “I meant that as a good thing! Agood thing!”

Izuku lifts his face, a bit of the despair leaving his face, “…really?”

“Yeah really!” She springs herself up right, grabbing his hand to bringhim along with her, and gestured to the collection, “I mean, look at all this!”She laughs and picks up the first figure and holds it up to him, “You have alot of admiration for All Might! And you got all this stuff because of that!”She turns the figure in her hands for a moment, before gently setting back down where Izuku put it, “You look up tosomeone and what they represent, you want to be like them, and you want peopleto know it…”

Izuku looks at her, his heart swelling with something he can’t quite puthis finger on, a blush staining his face, “Uraraka-san…”

She looks up so their eyes meet, a soft smile on her face, “Being soproud of your admiration of someone…of what they stand for…putting all of it ondisplay and trusting someone else with it…” She fidgets with the tips of herfingers, her nervousness rising and her face heating up for a reason shedoesn’t want to think about, instead she just smiles wider at him, “I thinkit’s really cool, Deku.”

The only thing Izuku can think to do is stare at her wide-eyed, openingand closing his mouth wordlessly, trying to convey something before he chuckleslightly and matches her smile with one of this own, “Thank you Uraraka-san.”

They stand like that for a while, smiling brightly at each other, theworld a hundred miles away…at least until they notice how close they arefor the first time and taking a step back from each other, each of them lettingout a nervous laugh and looking away, both of their faces glowing bright red.

Ochako looks at the collection again, and laughs again, trying to easethe tension, “You know…to be honest I’m actually kinda jealous.”

Izuku looks up in surprise, “Really?” He follows her gaze to hiscollection and laughs a little despite himself, “Jealous? Of all this stuff?”

She laughs right back at him, giving his forearm a light punch, “Yeah!Of course I am!” She gestures at the merchandise, “I mean look at all ofit! Having so much of this stuff is really cool!” She places a hand onone of the figures, her voice taking on a more wistful tone and the edges ofher mouth tilting up, “I could never have this much stuff or even a little ofit…” Her hand falls from the figure to hang at her side, her smile not quitereaching her eyes, “…It would have been too expensive.”

Izuku’s expression falls, remembering her parent’s situation,“Uraraka-san…”

Ochako whirls to face him, her smile stretching further than it did amoment before, almost as if in response to his tone, “But hey! It wasn’t allbad!” She clasps her fingers behind her back and looks at the celling, “Lots ofkids in my elementary and middle schools brought some of their cooler stuff toshare, so it’s not like I never got the chance to at least play with that stufffor a while,” She sweeps a hand in the direction of the collection that startedthis whole mess, “And now, I have a roomie with the best All Mightcollection ever!” She flashes the brightest smile he’s seen her wear for awhile, but it still doesn’t quite reach her eyes, “So it’s fine! Really! It’s awesome!”

Izuku had a nagging feeling, but decided not to prod, so he just smiled,“Right.” He looked at Ochako again, something still feeling off, “Uraraka-san,”He started, Ochako looking at him oddly, “You sure you never had any hero stuffas a kid? Even something small?”

Ochako kept staring at him for a moment before averting her eyes to thefloor and rubbing the back of her head, “…well, there was that one time…” Shelooked at him with a quiet little smile, “I was about…six I think? My folks andI went to a 100 yen store to do some last minute weekend shopping, when I sawthis really cute All Might keychain…” She let out a sad chuckle, “It was justhis face dangling from a little silver ring, ya know, cheap, but it looked cuteto me so…I kinda begged my dad to buy it.”

She looked down again, fidgeting with her fingers again, ”And he did…onour way back home a thunderstorm started up, a bad one, pouring rainn’everything…” She sighed wistfully, “I was holding the keychain in my hand‘cause I was so excited to have it, but a thunder clap spooked me and I droppedit…rain carried it to a sewer drain and…” She shrugged her shoulders, “That wasthat.” She let out a laugh that was just on the edge of bitter, “Really bummedme out, let me tell ya…”

Izuku had a feeling that ‘bummed out’ was a bit of an understatement.

“I didn’t ask my folks for anything like that afterwards…” The smilecompletely slipped off her face, “Didn’t want them to waste money on somethingwe didn’t need, y’know?”

Izuku felt a bit helpless, his friend slipped more and more into asomber tone as she told that story, until she finally just stared at the floor,her face sullen looking as if she’s holding back tears. He was kicking himselffor getting her to tell a story that obviously still hurt a bit to remember,and seeing her like that made him mentally scramble for a way to cheer her up,but try as he might he came up blank.

“Oh geez…” Ochako started laughing mirthlessly out of nowhere,kicking Izuku out of his mental ditch, “I just noticed my accent slippedout again, I hate it when that happens,” She rubbed the back of her head,still not meeting Izuku’s eyes, “Makes me sound stupid…”

“No it doesn’t!”

Ochako looked up at the sudden exclamation, finally meeting Izuku’seyes, and saw something she hadn’t seen before; he was angry, truly andhonestly mad that she would think that way about herself, fists clenched andleaning over in her direction, the sheer shock knocked some life into hercheeks as she stares at him, “Huh?”

A second passed and Izuku’s mind caught up with his words, causing himto blush and straighten his back, looking away with a sputter, “I mean…um…Idon’t think Uraraka-san’s accent sounds stupid…” He found the mostinteresting spot on the wall to his right and kept his eyes there, blushing upto his ears, “I actually think it sounds kind of…” His voice loweredand lowered with every word until it was almost level with the floor, butsomehow she still heard him say the last one, “…cute.”

A thousand things popped and rattled around Ochako’s chest, knockingagainst each other and causing an unearthly racket, they were causing so muchnoise in her chest that some of the blood that ought to be there fled up to herface to escape it. And now Ochako had a feeling that if she didn’t end thisconversation right now she would do something she would (probably)regret.

“Oh hey!” She exclaimed out of nowhere, startling Izuku out ofhis intense wall staring, “I still have stuff to unpack!” She pointedat the two puny pieces of luggage that were still unopened, “I better takecare of that quick!” With that she hurried over to her side of the room,making a point of not looking at her friend for fear that he’d see how brightlyred her face was glowing at this point.

Izuku watches as she rushes offto her bags with a blush of his own, rubbing his head in embarrassment,honestly, of all the ways he thought he could make living with a girl awkward,he didn’t think calling the girl cute would be one of them.

Seeing her frantically fumble around with the zippers of her last twobags only made him feel worse, he pulled at his lower lip as he thought of someway to lessen the sudden tension in the air. He thought and thought until hishead started to hurt, when suddenly something occurred to him, with a rush hewent back to some of his luggage, looking for something.

Just as Uraraka was beginning to tire of fighting the bags, and rightbefore she started to consider just getting Mina to melt the zippers off, sheheard Deku calling her, “Uraraka-san!”

“Huh?”

“Catch!”

She turned around just in time to see him toss something her way, hereyes widened in surprise as she managed to just barely catch it with a yelp;she gave Izuku a reprimanding look, “Deku! A warning would be nice!” Deku inresponse only grinned at her, “What did you even give…me…” She opened her handand saw a keychain, All Might’s grinning face hanging off a simple silver ring,it looked a bit old, the ring had a few stains of rust on it, but looking at itconjured memories of a long gone rainy day with her parents.

“It’s the one from your story right?”

She looked up at him, eyes astonished and mouth hanging open, “W-why…”Her eyes sank back down to stare at the keychain, her cheeks warm and tearspricking her eyes, “Why would you…”

Izuku’s expression fell a little, “I’ve had that keychain for a longtime, and since you’ve lost yours a long time ago, and I’ve got like…three moreof those back home…” He worries his hands nervously, “I thought you should haveit.”

“D-Deku…you really don’t have to-”

“I want to,” He said with conviction, his eyes apologetic, “I made yousad by asking that question, so I wanted to make it up to you.” He gave her ablindingly bright smile, “Consider it an apology gift.”

Ochako looks at him, at his bright smile and lets the kindness of hiswords wash over her, looks down at her hand and the small, simple, cheapkeychain laying in her palm, she holds it close to her heart as she takes a fewsmall strides to stand in front of him, her eyes meeting his, “Thank you Deku.”

Izuku laughs a little, his cheeks a little red, “It’s no problem Ura-“

Before he could finish, and before she can stop herself, Ochako gets onher tiptoes and plants a short, soft kiss on his right cheek, her warm breathelightly caressing his face, before she’s back on the ground with a facesplitting smile, “No, really, thank you so much Deku.”

A beat of silence fills the room as what Ochako just did sinks inproperly for both of them, their faces running the gamut of shock, disbelief,confusion, before finally settling on a shade of red that is probably more thana little impossible achieve.

The both of them stand there with their mouths hanging open beforeOchako snaps her jaw closed, shacking Izuku awake.

“U-Uraraka-san-“

“OH!”

“Wh-“

“I JUST REMEMBERED!”

“What did you-“

“TSUYU ASKED ME TO HELP WITH SOMETHING!”

“Huh?-“

“I BETTER GET GOING.”

“Hold on a-“

“SEE YOU LATER DEKU!”

“Uraraka-san wait-“ Before he could fully get his bearings and finishhis sentence, Ochako flees the room in record speed, holding her face in herhands and leaving him alone in the room.

As the sounds of her footsteps peter out, Izuku puts a hand to hischeek, the feeling of Ochako’s small, soft lips forever imprinted in his mind;he mindlessly walks over to his bed and falls backwards onto it, his hand stillon his cheek.

As he numbly looks up at the ceiling, a grin spreads across his cheeksunbidden, “Okay…” He mutters to himself, “Maybe sharing a room with a girl won’tbe so bad…” A moment later his mind catches up with his mouth again, and hisface burns anew, and he covers it with a pillow hoping against hope the ground swallowshim whole before his big mouth inevitably says something like that in front ofsomeone else, especially Uraraka.

Downstairs in the common room, Ochako does much the same on a couch, wallowingin despair over her lack of self-control and wondering when her life became ateenage romantic comedy…all the while still holding on to that cheap All Mightkeychain…

#my hero academia #midoriya izuku #uraraka ochako #izuocha #long post #stuff rex wrote #answers #HOLY SHIT THIS TOOK A WHILE #AND FINALLY AFTER GOD KNOWS HOW LONG IVE MADE AN ACTUALLY CONTRIBUTION TO THE FANDOM #HALLELUJAH #cheap little keychain

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