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"So after three successful albums, Jenga's Gone released 'Mank'em Pay'; it was highly experimental was not very well liked by critics or fans at the time...", Kyouka explained as she passed the headphones over to Momo, "Recently, people have been kinder to it, but it's still not really considered their best work. But everyone pretty much agrees this is one of their top tracks in their entire career."
Momo took the headphones, finding Kyouka's musical history lessons always quite interesting to learn about, while at the same time, she could open up her horizons from her very limited taste in bands. She shared one of the buds with Toru, another regular in this little group that often hung out at Kyouka's dorm room to study/listen to music/mess around with all the instruments. Rounding up the group was Mina, but she wasn't really interested in Kyouka's taste in old bands her dad would like, so she spent most of her time reading a magazine or browsing her phone; her presence was still appreciated, as the pink girl always held a contagious positivity and energy.
"Hey, Ashido?", Kyouka decided to ask, "You sure you don't wanna give it a try-"
"Did you guys know Midori ain't a virgin?"
Mina's casual question struck the air like a sledgehammer on a sheet glass.
"...W-W-WHAT!?"
"O-Oh my, Ashido-!"
"What the heck!?", Toru practically jumped over to where Mina lay on the floor, a jolt of electricity powering up her curiosity for gossip, "Whoa, whoa! Where did you hear that, Mina!?"
Kyouka let out a grunt, trying to ignore the redness gathered on her cheeks, "Y-You're just saying weird stuff to get us to-"
"He told me.", Mina answered very casually. "I mean, I figured it out first, then I asked, and he told me."
Toru let out a faint squeak, already bouncing in place with the expectation of hearing more. "Well? Well!? That can't be end of it! Midoriya-kun has a girlfriend, so who's-"
"He doesn't have a girlfriend.", Mina answered again. "Apparently, it's a 'friends with benefits' kinda deal?"
Another squeal of shock left Toru, but Kyouka just groaned. "OK, n-now I know you're full of it, Ashido! Th-There's no way Midoriya, of all people, would ever get into something l-...like that, let alone admit to it!"
"Well he did, and he also did! So, nyeh!", the pink girl stuck her tongue out to Kyouka.
"It... does seem a bit hard to believe for Midoriya-kun...", Momo repeated, but a bit uncertain of herself.
"How did you even find this out anyway? Tell us the juicy deets!", Toru insisted.
"Well, there ain't too much to tell...", Mina sat up, crossing her arms and legs like an old man ready to tell a story to his eager grandchildren, "I've been hanging out with Setsuna from Class B, and that girl's a class-A flirt. And maybe I've been learning a thing or two, y'know, just for a bit of fun, and I figured I'd just mess with Midori a little bit."
"That's a terrible thing to do!", Kyouka made her disapproval clear.
"So I go to Midori's room to ask if I could copy some of his notes.", Mina made her ignoring of Kyouka clear, "And then he said 'sure, come on in', with a big smile on his face!"
"..."
There as a pause, the three girls staring at Mina a bit confused.
"...Midoriya let a girl into his room!", she clarified for them. "Like, happily! No blushing or anything!"
Toru pounded a fist on the ground as the point became clear to her, "That is suspicious!"
"H-How is that suspicious!?", Kyouka again tried to act as the voice of reason, "We've all been inside Midoriya's room before at least once! S-So what if he's just used to that!?"
Mina nodded, "I thought of that too, at first, but things only got weirder from there! So I start with the simple stuff, y'know? A light hand-brush over his arm, leaning in just a bit too close to his face, suggestive phrasing as I asked questions about his notes; the normal stuff."
"Absolutely none of that is normal", Kyouka grumbled again, despite knowing she'd be ignored again.
"And he didn't react?", Momo answered out of pure curiosity, which caught Kyouka by surprise.
Mina shook her head, "He kinda did, he still blushed a little, but that was it! He was just laughing along and not freaking out or anything! Even when I had-", she pointed at herself, "These all squished up against his arm, he was cool as a cucumber!"
"Suspicious!", Toru again shouted, "Everyone knows boobs are Midoriya-kun's weakness! He'd definitely freak out from something like that!"
"...Midoriya-kun's weakness...", Momo mindlessly mumbled to herself.
"Absolutely! So really, there was only one possible conclusion!", Mina huffed.
Kyouka rolled her eyes, asking as flatly as humanly possible, "He was abducted by aliens and replaced by a Pod Midoriya?"
"Two possible conclusions!", Mina corrected herself, and ignored Kyouka's lengthy sigh. "But the likeliest one is: someone has made Midori-kun intimately aware of the female body, increasing his mental resistance to it!"
"That makes perfect sense!", Toru nodded.
"...weakness...", Momo again repeated, seemingly distracting herself from the conversation.
"So that's when I confronted him about it! He denied it at first, so I did the only logical things to get to the truth..."
"Oh for- Please don't tell me you-"
"I lifted up my shirt and showed him my boobs.", Mina finished her thought.
Kyouka was silent for a moment. "...well, that's... technically better than what I thought you might've done..."
"And? And? How did he react!?", Toru again hopped in place.
Mina crossed her arms, "He just turned his head away and raised his hand to block the sight. He was just, y'know, being normal about it! It's so weird!"
"That seals it!", Toru slammed another fist on the floor, "To think Midoriya-kun would have that kind of side tucked away! It's like they say, right? It's always the quiet ones?"
Kyouka slowly rubbed the bridge of her nose, seeing Mina be so sure of herself, Toru only get more excited about this, and Momo looking... a bit distracted still, for some reason. She didn't exactly want to linger on this subject any longer, but at the same time, she wanted to get that smug grin of Mina's face. "...maybe he's gay?"
"...eh?", the other three girls both turned to her.
"I mean... it'd fit, right?", Kyouka shrugged. "Maybe he's just come to realize what he's actually attracted to, so your body just doesn't do anything for him, and he's just... being Midoriya, and being a gentleman about it."
Mina blinked, bringing a hand to her chin in thought. "I hadn't considered that possibility, I'll admit...". Kyouka allowed a small smirk to cross her lips, before Mina added, "But nah, it's very unlikely Midori's gay."
Kyouka slightly raised an eyebrow. "And you can be so sure of that because...?"
"Because we had sex."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"Y-YOU WHAT!?"
"MINA WHAT THE HECK!?"
"...oh my..."
Mina blinked, tilting her head slightly. "What? I was faced with this brand new Midori; how could I resist? If he already had one friend with benefits, then what's the difference in having two of them, right? And let me tell ya, the way Midori touches a woman tells my gut he's very much attracted to them."
"Wh- Bu- That-", Kyouka could barely comprehend the Mina Logic on display right now. "You had se-!? MIDORIYA!? What the hell is wrong with you!?"
Mina swung her arms down while keeping her hands a fair distance apart, "Like a horse!"
"THAT IS NOT AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION I ASKED, YOU DEMON!", Kyouka shrieked, feeling her face ready to burst into flames.
Toru practically teleported to Mina side, shaking her shoulder with the repeated request/demand of "Detailsdetailsdetailsdetailsdetailsnow!!"
"Well, y'see-"
"No!", Kyouka immediately interrupted Mina before she could begin, "Th-That enough out of you! I-I did not invite you over so you could talk about- a-about this stuff! Midoriya's... b-business is his own! I-I'm not gonna let you just air out for everyone to see! N-Not in my room!"
Mina pouted. "Fiiiiine, Miss Spoils-All-The-Fun...", she turned to Toru, "I'll tell ya all about it in my room! Let's go!". Both Mina and Toru stood up, nearly rushing right out the door before Kyouka could give them another earful about not dropping the topic.
But frankly, she was so mentally exhausted already, she probably couldn't even do that. She just slumped with a lengthy sigh. "I can't believe those two sometimes...", then looked aside at Momo, the only person there she trusted to be a voice of reason next to her. "You OK there, Yaomomo?"
"-?", Momo jolted a bit, snapped out of whatever might've been confusing her. "Huh? O-Oh, yes, I'm sorry! Ashido and Hagakure-san can be... hard to keep up with..."
"That's putting it way mildly...", she grunted, wondering just how the hell this night got so weird so quickly.