#ymba

mina pulls the blankets up to her chin to see if she can annoy jirou enough to kick her out of bed so she doesn't end up all over her after falling asleep. This plan doesn't work as jirou tugs the blanket back and rests her head on mina's shoulder. her brain starts to scream 'girl! girl! girl!'.

neither girl moves for the rest of the movie and when mina goes to turn it off quiet snores fill the room. mina's torn between recording this and waking jirou up but in the end jirou decides for her as she tugs mina closer to her. she tries to stay awake for a while and inch away from jirou but it's late and she's tired and it doesn't take long for her to fall asleep in jirou's arms.

the next morning mina wakes up to jirou poking her side, redfaced. mina blinks, then she realizes she's using jirou's stomach for a pillow. fuck. it takes her another second to remember that sitting still doesn't equal being invisible and she sits up. jirou nods at her but doesn't move. is this the type of situation where they are supposed to get out of bed now?

mina rolls of the bed in a heap because she's not good with weird tension she doesn't understand. jirou leans over the bed to check on her and mina smiles up at her, she gets a laugh for that and then jirou throws a pillow at her, "get up, i'm not carrying you to class."

it takes them a little longer to actually get moving but eventually they get there. the weirdness between them goes away, which, thank fuck. mina needs a really close friend who doesn't let her blow up stuff. she's hanging off jirou as they walk into breakfast. sero winks at her from where he takes his daily blurry photo of mina being useless around the girl she likes. she swats at him until jirou shoves her onto the bench.

mina peers closely at jirou. she's as sleepy as she always is in the morning so mina puts food on her place and makes sure she doesn't choke or anything.

sero is spoon feeding iida, iida's trying not to blush but it's hard when your boyf is feeding you and a purple haired cat boy is sleeping on your lap. mina's starting to think shinsou and jirou are related because they're both purplish and always sleepy. sero sticks his tongue out at mina when he sees the face she's pulling and mina hmphs and turns back to jirou. jirou's napping on the table.

mina really needs to stop having movie marathons with jirou on school nights. especially since jirou insists on waking up at 7 am with her, most of their class is still sleeping or recovering from whatever game night was going on the night before.

kids eventually trickle in and jirou starts to wake up after bakugo blows up his breakfast on a dare. mina pats jirou's head as an glares at bakugo. she's probably really intimidating but mina's lesbian brain only registers 'hot girl.' it's fine though because mina's used to being reduced to a dumbass around jirou.

once jirou's awake she takes one look at mina's non uniform shoes and grabs her by the hand to drag her back to their dorm. "jirou, c'mon, i'm just going to change into my hero costume or our gym uniform anyways."

jirou turned around and hmed at her, "how do you think aizawas gonna react to you wearing denim flip flops and socks."

"but aizawa will probably be already sleeping," mina protested. the look she got made her reach for the nearest solid thing to hide behind. sero wriggles out of her grip and jumps into iida's arms.

jirou takes her hand back and mina goes with her, slightly less resistant. mina pulls out loafers under jirou's gaze and they walk to homeroom.

mina hooks their arms together and tilts her head towards jirou's to try and hear what she's listening to. jirou may be physically awake but she isn't talkative until homeroom's almost over. she doesn't understand how jirou manages to sleep through aizawas lectures or mina being mina.

jirou acknowledges mina's interest in whatever she's blasting into her ears by giving her one of the earbuds. it's some english song. mina's doing pretty good in english because present mic is helping her out after class (her parents are dying) so she understands most of it. it's something about wanting to be more than friends? mina focuses, "don't wanna be your friend. wanna something something lose your something."

mina shrugs internally. (she doesn't want to move too much because jirou's started to lean on her) she can ask jirou about the song later.

they trip into homeroom as jirou seems to have fallen asleep on mina's shoulder so she helps her into her seat and heads over to hers. jirou slumps on to her desk and mina takes a picture with the phone that technically shouldn't be in her hand at the moment but is. aizawa's probably giving her a look from under his desk.

class is halfway through when aizawa catches her, sero and kirishima's passing notes. she and sero are ganging up on kirishima because he still hasn't asked bakugo out yet. aizawa doesn't read it aloud to the class but he does pass it to bakugo. mina smothers her laugh into her arm as kirishima's quirk activates and his hand gets stuck in his hair. bakugo slowly turns in his seat to look at kirishima, getting a good look of kirishima being an idiot.

class doesn't end in one piece but when things start to go blasty iida scoops sero up in his arms and mina jumps on his back and let's him vroom them out of the room. "whooooo!!!!!!" sero and her yell as they go.

the only person injured is dark shadow, mina doesn't know how a shadow gets injured or how it even got out of tokoyami's insides. she's not sure she wants to know. sero and iida leave her with the rest of 1a as they head off to find shinsou and mina slides next to jirou. class 1a has a sort of break because the room's on fire so they're waiting in the hallway.

"hey," jirou says. "did you get detention for jumping on iida?"

mina tries to lean back onto the wall in a cool-like position. she almost falls. "nah, if i did iida would try to take detention as well and i don't know if that's legal."

jirou laughs even though mina's a dumbass and her laugh is so good mina almost falls again. jirou reaches over to stabilize her and winks once she's gotten her footing. mina opens her mouth to say something most likely stupid when she hears music from jirou's earbuds.

"hey, you were playing that earlier," mina moves closer to try and hear. for some reason jirou's cheeks are red. "what song is that?"

jirou swallows, "it's. uh it's called i wanna be your girlfriend."

mina's brain disconnects, "oh? that's nice."

jirou nods slowly, "yes. it is."

"i like it."

"me too."

the girls stand there in the hallway staring at each other. mina thinks she should do something but she's not sure what. it's not like jirou wants to be her girlfriend, that's just the name of the song.

jirou nods again, maybe there's something wrong with her neck-"i've been listening to it for a reason," she says. she must be getting really close with yao-momo, mina thinks.

"i like you," jirou tells her. she's playing with her earphone's so she must be worrie-

mina blinks. "me? are you sure?" there's a groan somewhere in the background and a noise that sounds like bakugo's face hitting his palm.

jirou's almost as pink as her at this point, " yeah idiot. i like you. i wanna be your girlfriend and stuff."

mina doesn't completely know what's going on but she crashes into jirou and hugs her tight as she can. jirou laughs as mina picks her up and spins around and holy fuck mina's so ducking happy. jirou taps on her shoulder to be let down and mina puts her back on the ground, gently as she can.

the two girls share a stupid smile as they stand in front of each other. "kiss!!" hagakure tells them. mina winces as she remembers their class is in the hall with them. jirou flops under mina's arm and rudely gestures to their class.

they stay close together for the rest of the day. sero keeps making kissy faces, thankfully bakugo and kirishima are too busy figuring out feelings to make fun of mina's feelings. when curfew starts mina and jirou pass by aizawa holding hands.

mina's pretty sure they're breaking a rule dating and rooming. that's pretty cool. when she tells that to jirou jirou laughs and kisses her cheek.

they aren't doing anything different than before as they put in kiki's delivery service. mina's determined to make sure she and jirou finish all the ghibli movies.

when they're about to climb into bed mina stops, "are we sharing a bed?"

jirou pauses, "which one?" the girls stare at each other. it takes them a little longer and a google search to decide to push the beds together. mina folds herself into jirou's arms, it feels like the safest place in the world. jirou presses a kid to the top of her head, "night."

she jumps down onto the ground next to tsuyu with the bottle of yellow nail polish, tsuyu gives her a look, "ashido how many colours have you tried out?"

"this will be the last one, please?" mina pouts, hopefully her black eyes didn't take away from the effect. tsuyu shrugs and takes one of mina's hands in hers.

the lounge has started to quiet down, shinsou is napping on iida's lap while sero does iida's nails. mina's impressed by sero's restraint in his use of nail paint-shinsou turns in his sleep to reveal whiskers and words on his nails. probably something sappy or a meme.

mina turns back to tsuyu, she's almost finished mina's right hand. "hey, thanks by the way."

tsu looks up, "you can thank me by painting my nails pink."

mina lights up, "i love pink!" tsu laughs at her, but in like a friendly way mina beams back at her. she hasn't talked much with tsuyu before so this is nice. she wants to be as close as she can with everyone in her class.

tsuyu finishes her nails and mina takes tsu's hands in return. she had the pink bottle in her pocket so they don't have to go searching through the messy lounge filled with spilled polish and sleepy teens. mina's careful with tsuyu's nails, her hands are bigger than mina's. she thinks tsuyu probably gives really good hugs.

there's background noise from bakugo and kirishima's weird flirting and jirou and tokoyami's competition which fills the pauses in tsuyu and mina's little conversations. mina asks tsu about her favourite shows and stuff and tsuyu tells her about the times her little brother sprained his tongue.

eventually mina finishes, "do you like it?" tsuyu lifts her nails up and inspects them, mina had to restart twice when she got distracted and tsuyu didn't complain much.

"i like it," tsuyu decides with a smile. "alright, ribbit, should we start cleaning up?"

mina looks around the living room. jirou and tokoyami have finally finished their competition, sero, shinsou and iida are all asleep, and bakugo and kirishima are watching something on kiri's phone that seems to require a lot of yelling on bakugo's part.

she turns back to tsuyu, "can we do it later?" later will probably be in ten minutes when dark shadow gets bored and starts bothering tokoyami but ten minutes is better than now.

tsuyu shrugs, "as long as you clean the carpet of the nail polish stains, sure." mina agrees, her plan to clean the carpet is to piss bakugo off so he blows it up.

that isn't information tsuyu needs to know so mina stretches her arms out before leaning in close to tsu, "let's play a game!"

"sure, with everyone or just us?" tsuyu asks. she seems relaxed and mina gets a weird feeling in her stomach when she looks at her smile.

"just us," mina says. "let's play something simple." mina falls back onto the floor and stares up at the ceiling. she sees tsu join her from the side of her eye.

tsuyu let's out a happy little crown, "truth or dare, maybe?"

mina nods before she remembers they're both lying on the floor, "sounds good. truth or dare?"

"truth," tsuyu decides after a pause. mina takes a second to think about what she already knows about tsuyu and goes with a simple question.

"was tokoyami telling the truth when he said he saw you with your hair out of a bow?"

tsuyu laughs, "my hair has been out of a bow before, ribbit, but tokoyami's never seen it." mina smiles at the sound of tsuyu's laughter, she sounds a bit like a frog and it's kinda really cute.

"okay," tsuyu says. "truth or dare?"

mina doesn't pause, she's taken dare every time ever since sero used his truth to ask if she'd ever burnt off her eyebrows with her acid and proceeded to find pictures of said incident, "dare!"

"i dare you to clean up the lounge by yourself," tsuyu says. mina sits the fuck up and looks over to see tsuyu smiling with her eyes closed. "you have to, it's the rules."

mina groans and gets off her ass, sticking her tongue at tsuyu as she passes. it takes her forever and she has to keel saying no when jirou and iida offer to help, her bros just watch her and drag her.

tsuyu is still lying back where she was when mina started her dare. "my turn!" mina announces as she flops next to tsu. "truth or dare?"

"truth," tsuyu says. mina doesn't have a question prepared. she wants to ask tsu on a date because this has been fun and she's always been impulsive but.

but she doesn't think tsu will say yes. "were you born looking like a tadpole?"

sero and kirishima "oooo" in the background.

tsuyu turns red, she sits up and opens her eyes and gives mina a dirty look that makes her laugh, "maybe."

kendou smiles at mina as she rushes into the back to put away her stuff and mina swoons onto the counter. kirishima shoots her a look as bakugo pulls him away.

"sorry i'm so late," kendou says after mina peels herself off the class covering the ice cream. she's pretty sure kendou thinks she was looking at the ice cream so she's in the clear. mina needs to get better at detecting when kendou walks out of the backroom, kendou has seen way more than a crush mina's never going to act on ever should see.

mina shrugs it off."it's chill-," kendou groans at the pun and mina ignores her complaints. "kirishima and bakugo came in to bother me but other than that it's been a slow day."

kendou nods and starts serving herself an ice cream cone, "have you had your free sample yet?"

mina isn't sure what kendou just said because she's licking her ice cream cone but mina shakes her head in case it was a question. kendou reaches waves a hand in front of her face, "ashido, is something wrong?"

it's a simple question, it's a reasonable question. it's a question mina should be able to answer. mina doesn't answer the question because she just noticed that kendou has a new bracelet and it's really pretty, "kendou!!!!"

"yes, ashido?" is the worried response. kendou's only been working with her for a month so she doesn't completely understand mina's thought process.

mina and kendou have been working at yueei's ice cream shop because neither of them can afford boarding and kendou didn't want to take the free ride. mina fucked up her free board application by talking about how much midoriya needed it and she could figure something out. sero and kaminari were still teasing her about it, thankfully bakugo didn't know who got the free board instead of her.

mina plays with the little charms on kendou's bracelet, she's got something for all the yueei teachers, "kendou did you make this or buy it and how much do I have to pay to get my hands on one of these."

kendou sighs. she turns mina back towards the cash where a group of girls have made their flavour decision, "i'll make you one if you cover a shift for me, cool?"

mina grins, "fuck yeah!"

"no swearing in the shop."

the girls finish their order and are replaced with a smirking sero holding iida's hand. he's all smug about his new boyfriend even though mina's the one who set them up on a date. sero claims that telling iida sero's failing his classes and needs iida to tutor him doesn't count as setting him up on a date but sero's opinion isn't always right.

sero does a weird eye move from mina to kendou, "have you asked her out yet?"

iida's eyebrows fly up, "do you have a romantic interest in kendou?"

"yeah," mina says. "she's smart, pretty and stronk."

iida pauses, "stronk?" sero smiles up at his boyf and slings an arm around him in one of sero's weird half hugs.

"just ignore her tenya, mina doesn't know how to speak japanese." sero winks at her as mina sticks her tongue out and iida laughs at their exchange. mina loves her friends boyfriends.

then an arm finds its way around mina's shoulders and she turns to see kendou really really close to her. mina loves her inability to blush, it's a real aid to her useless lesbianism.

"hey class 1a president," kendou greets iida.

iida nods back, "hello class 1b president." the responsible dorks share a smile and sero waggles his eyebrows at mina again, he thinks that kendou likes her back. mina knows sero doesn't know shit.

kendou takes sero and iida's orders instead of bothering them like a responsible employee and iida and sero flash her thumbs up when kendou turns around. maybe it wouldn't be a completely awful idea to ask her crush out for once.

it takes two weeks for mina to get her courage together and she makes her move as they close up shop. "hey, kendou?" mina asks as she puts the ice cream in storage.

"mhm?" kendou's wiping down the counter but she looks up for a moment to show she's listening.

this is mina's chance. she's been spending her time carefully putting together the way she's going to ask out kendou. she clears her throat, "i'm gay for you."

it comes out better than expected.

kendou stops cleaning and puts her rag to the side. shit. "ashido," kendou starts at the same time mina's self confidence ends. "i like you too-"

"what." mina squints at kendou to see if she's joking. she doesn't seem to be.

kendou blushes a bit and mina is going to scream, "i like you too but, um. class 1b made a pact to not date anyone in class 1a.”

mina locks up the door to the ice cream freezer, takes off her apron, grabs her bag and walks up to kendou to look her straight (heh) in the eye. then she backs the fuck off, "that's kinda stupid but i don't have room to talk, so can we agree to not bring this up ever again?"

"did you quit? you're not doing anything," hagakure tries to taunt, which is actually really cute mina loves it when girls try to bait her into doing something stupid because she always ends up falling apart and making the girl laugh.

somehow mina gets a semblance of her shit together and throws acid at where hagakure's voice came from, hagakure shrieks but tall the acid is on the ground. mina slides in closer and throws it again, it takes a few more tosses before she has hagakure's location and she grabs onto her hands.

mina let's herself grin, "gotcha."

aizawa let's the two head off to change because they were the last set to go. midoriya, yaoyorozu and iida trail behind them.

mina jumps onto a line in the dirt and tightrope walks across it. hagakure laughs, "so you're used to the circus act thing?"

"give it a try," mina says. she reaches out and grabs hagakure's hand and tugs her onto the line. "you need to teeter for the full effect."

hagakure stops and mina almost crashes into her before she realizes there are no foot prints ahead. "what's the point of teetering if no one can see me?"

mina pauses, she supposes some of the other usj students around them have noticed mina's little performance but she never really thought about it, "fun. It makes it feel more life or death."

"life or death?" hagakure sounds a little outraged and mina would be turning pink now if she wasn't already.

maybe life or death isn't something the rest of the class besides bakusquad puts in their games. "i like games with a bit of an edge," she tells hagakure.

hagakure doesn't say anything else until they get into the changeroom, "hey ashido?"

mina nods. she's lost one of her shoes so she's looking through the lockers and hagakure is helping her.

"i like the edge to your games, it's cute."

mina tries to pull her head out of her locker and her horns get stuck, it's probably for the best. hagakure doesn't need to see the stupid look she gets on her face every time she gets a stupid crush.

hagakure must see what's happens as mina hears a noise of concern and then hagakure's hands are on her shoulders as hagakure tries to get a good look at what's wrong.

yaoyorozu smiles when she sits down, "so did you have any ideas on what video you wanted to translate?"

"shrek," mina says, like a dumbass.

"all of it?" yaoyorozu asks.

"yes," mina says, like a dumbass who can't remember the last time a pretty girl went along with her stupid plans.

yaoyorozu nods and takes her jacket off, "lets watch it and go through it now then."

it takes her a moment to process what's going on but somehow she ends up sitting next to yaoyorozu and watching shrek on a computer yaoyorozu created.

she leans into yaoyorozu's side without noticing and when yaoyorozu doesn't say anything she stays there. they translate the movie as they watch, mina's pretty decent at english because present mic is her favourite teacher. kirishima says it's because of the time he taught them weird sayings while holding the t-pose.

it's actually because mina grew up listening to his radio shows, her parents have played them on the radio all the way back to his college day show. mina is never telling anyone that.

yaoyorozu nudges her, "why are sero and kaminari giving us weird looks."

"sero and kaminari are just bitter they didn't think of shrek, i bet their translating something boring," mina says. they're most likely translating one of the avenger movies because they're predictable.

yaoyorozu accepts mina's answer. they continue translating until they reach the time limit present mic gave for the videos or movies the class is translating.

yaoyorozu starts to put on her jacket and she's about to leave, mina, a simple lesbian, is in the midst of working up the nerve to ask yaoyorozu out so she scribbles a donkey on a piece of paper and shoves it towards yaoyorozu.

"i challenge you to a shrek doodle-off." yaoyorozu looks down at the shitty donkey and up into mina's eyes.

there's a pause. weaker beings would call it awkward silence, mina calls it friendship-in-development silence. yaoyorozu breaks it when she sticks out her hand to shake on it.

mina takes it and the girls share a look before they sit down with their pens, paper and awful imagination.

the game turns into who can draw the ugliest shrek which eventually turns into making each other into shreks. mina laughs and almost falls out of her chair as yaoyorozu asks her if she prefers a green version of herself with ogre ears instead of horns or a pink version of shrek.

yaoyorozu pulls her back and mina stays in her arms for maybe too long. mina doesn't really care, yaoyorozu feels warm and safe. then yaoyorozu pushes her off gently, "oh i've got to go, jirou and i are going out after school."

"oh," mina smiles at yaoyorozu. "have fun!" she wants for yaoyorozu to grab her blazer and leave and then mina trudged over to bakugo where he's working with hagakure and she collapses into him.

bakugo glares down at her head, "fuck off black eyes. you're going to get in trouble, we're trying to fucking work here."

hagakure gets up from next to bakugo with a bounce in her step, "no we aren't! i'm done!" hakagure waves at mina and mina waves back as hagakure walks over to present mic with their work.

mina turns back to bakugo's scowling face and beams up to him, being near bakugo almost always makes her feel better. kirishima has similar feelings but sero and kaminari think she needs help.