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Izuku declined going out with the group of friends.
The people that were going out were the bakusquad and some of the dekusquad.
They've gotten closer throughout the year so they go out in groups often, but Izuku has been declining recently, saying some excuse that he has homework, or that he's sore from training.
“Do you guys think he's so busy because of a lover?” Mina asks, wiggling her eyebrows through her gossip.
Ochako pauses, “Deku-kun would have told us if he had a significant other. It can't be that. And maybe he is just busy with whatever he says he is.”
“Hm. Well boyfriend then, you think he's so busy because he's on the phone with them or something? Maybe sneaking out ooo!” Mina pushes.
“Guys! It is not appropriate to speculate on our friends' love life!” Iida scolds them while chopping his arm.
“Yeah guys, it's not very manly to make assumptions and pry like that.” Kirishima butts into the conversation which catches the attention of more people.
Katsuki decides it's time to say his part, “Tch. The nerd’s never been interested in relationships, never had a partner and I don't think he wants a partner. Too focused on his training and such.”
“Hmm but you can't deny that he's been making excuses to not hang out with us,” Mina pushes. “Like does he not like us or something?” she says, frown on her face.
“I don't think that's it at all Mina! Deku-kun seems to be making excuses to do something, obviously not the things he's telling us but something else. But what would be so secretive that he has to hide it?”
“That's it! I have an idea!” Mina exclaims with her hands in the air.
Everyone prepares for her idea, knowing her history of ‘great ideas’ in the past.
“Okay. We should pretend we're going out, yaknow? Say we're gonna go to the mall or something, then we let him do his thing of politely declining and making excuses, then we spy on him! See what the big deal is!”
“Mina…that sounds like a horrible idea.” Denki adds, thinking about the repercussions as to if they got caught, losing their trust with their friend.
“But think about it this way, we'll never know what's so important to him that he doesn't spend any of his free time with us anymore. I mean aren't you all feeling a little, i don't know, rejected, and if he's actually doing what he says he is then we could plan more study nights and stuff! I want our friend back.” Mina exclaims with a determined face.
Somehow, her little spiel convinced most of her peers as well, as they are also curious as to what's taking up all his time.
“Alright since all of you are in, minus Todoroki, Bakugou, Tsuyu and Iida, we should plan this for tonight.”
So they started planning, they were going to ask Izuku to hang out, let him use his excuses and decline, then after about 20 minutes, Ochako was going to use her zero gravity to raise them all up to his balcony. They're putting their cards on to him, having balcony curtains that are even just the slightest hint open, and if they see anything inappropriate they are going to go back down and never talk about it again.
It became around evening pretty fast, around 6:30, and the sun was starting to set.
Mina and Denki go up to Izuku in the common room and begin phase 1 of their plan.
“Hey Izuku!” Mina exclaims, which makes him look away from his phone and give her a smile.
“Hey Mina, what's up?”
“Some of us are going to the mall today, and we were wondering if you were able to come!”
Izuku obviously pretends to think for a bit before responding, “Ah. I'm sorry I can't today, I have an assignment for Present Mics class that needs finished tonight.”
He looks a bit guilty, which makes the duo feel a little bad, “No worries! You'll be in our thoughts haha! English is the worst!” Denki responds.
They walk away and look at eachother then the others and nod. Phase 1 complete.
The group pretends to leave, and Izuku goes up to his dorm room.
They're on the ground outside, below his balcony which is three levels up, and some people get doubts.
“Guys should we really be doing this?” Sero says with a nervous smile.
Mina looks up at the balcony for a few seconds then back to the group, “Guys dont worry, seriously if anything invasive is being seen we'll get out of there asap!”
“Yeah that does make sense, I don't want to see anything I shouldn't.” Sero responds, agreeing upon the circumstances.
“You guys ready?” Ochako asks, with her hands out, ready to use her quirk.
Everyone gives thumbs up, and so she uses her quirk on everybody and also herself, all holding onto each other and floating up to the balcony.
They step onto the ledge and hop down once Ochako released her quirk, the curtain and door were about a quarter way open, so they knew they had to be quiet.
They peek in, and Izuku is sitting at his desk, doing his homework like he said, with the lights off except a salt lamp on his bedside and a regular lamp at his desk. The lights put a soft warm glow to his room. There's soft music playing, ‘Body Paint’ by the Arctic Monkeys is playing from his phone on his desk. He's working on his paper, while quietly mouthing the words of the song.
They all feel a bit guilty for accusing him of lying so they collectively decide to leave, but as soon as they were about to step away, Izuku got up from his chair. They didn't want to make any noise so they stayed there, all wondering what Izuku was doing.
They saw Izuku open his door, and peek outside for a second before shutting it and locking it.
The group was getting nervous, not wanting to catch Izuku doing the deed, but in this position they couldn't leave without showing their position.
But Izuku didn't go to the bed. He used float to rise up to the top of the door frame and grab what seemed to be a key.
All of them, intrigued as to what was happening, decided to wait and see where this goes.
“What do you think those keys are for?” Denki whispered as quietly as possible, but nobody answered, not knowing the answer either.
Izuku went back to his desk and bent down to the bottom drawer, which had a lock on it. Every desk in the dorms had a drawer with a lock on it for valuables and such, but nobody really used it, except for maybe Mineta and god knows what he puts in there.
“I forgot our desks had a lock there, I don't use mine, not really anything I need to lock up in there, what about you guys?” Ochako whispered to the others.
“Hm no, I don't think many people do actually, what do you think he's hiding in there?” Kirishima cut in, voice just as quiet.
“I'm not sure, but look, he's about to pull something out.”
Izuku, still mouthing words to his music, calmly pulls out a small box onto his desk. They aren't able to see what else is in there, as the angle isn't quite right.
He sits down and opens the box on his desk, pulling out a jar, a little package, and a small round metal thing.
“Holy shit.” Denki and Sero whisper at the same time, looking close to bursting into laughter.
“What? What is it?” Ochako says, voicing what the other three were thinking as well.
Sero speaks up, “You'll see, I actually kinda want to see this. I guess our cinnamon roll isn't so innocent.”
That confuses them even more and they get back to paying attention.
Izuku opens the little package, and inside are two cigars.
“Why would Izuku be smoking cigars? Aren't they like really gross?” Kirishima says.
“You'll see man” Denki responds, not giving them any answers, curious as to how long it'll take for them to get it.
Izuku grabs one of the cigars and drags a small trash can over to him, and he begins splitting open the cigar, letting the contents fall into the trash can.
This confuses them even more, the confusion obvious on their face.
Izuku, nodding his head while music plays, puts the split open cigar back onto the desk, and grabs the jar and the metal cillindar. He opens the jar, and grabs what's inside.
Finally getting it and realizing what he was pulling out were small nugs of weed, the ones who were confused let out a small whispered, “Ohhhh”
“Yeah. This explains a lot, maybe he didn't want to be around us while he was high.” Kirishima says, still wondering why he would choose smoking weed over hanging out with his friends.
Ochako says something after a bit of silence, “Deku-kun is doing drugs?” the distatement clear on her face.
“Its just weed, and it's just recreational, no like addiction or anything that we know of. Pretty safe.” Sero tries to calm her down.
“But it's still a drug. He shouldn't be doing drugs.”
Everyone seems uncomfortable so they don't say anything and keep watching. Izuku is done grinding up the weed, and he pours it into the wrap of the cigar, spreading a good amount evenly throughout it. He then mouths at the ripped edge of one side, getting it damp, and starts to wrap it.
The group is partially impressed at his wrapping skills, and also partially shocked that someone they thought who was innocent this whole time was actually smoking.
When he's done wrapping the blunt, he grabs a lighter from the box and puts it up to the wet edges, to dry it.
He lights up the end and puffs out smoke a few times then sucks in, proceeding to do the most satisfying looking ghost in Denkis humble opinion.
They've decided that they've seen enough, a little hurt that Izuku would rather smoke weed than hangout with them, but as they start to back away, Mina trips over her own feet and lets out a small squeak.
Izuku perks up at this, looking over to the window and letting out a yell.
They all stare at each other for a couple awkward seconds, and Izuku waves them inside with the blunt still in his hands.
They don't move for a second, then all start to walk in, standing in his room, all with embarrassed looks on their faces.
Izuku looks uncomfortable and so he breaks the silence with an awkward yell, “It's medicinal!”
Nobody says anything so he starts to ramble, “My hands are pretty messed up from when I kept breaking them all the time, like at the sports festival, and so I get a lot of hand pains and they shake a lot so I was prescribed this to help and it also helps with my anxiety, i just didn't want to be around you guys high all the time because i felt like that would be rude so but it’s been colder outside recently so it makes my hands hurt worse so I’m smoking more often and-“
“Izuku!” Mina cuts him off from his rambling. “Its… okay, we're not mad! We just wish you didn't ditch us all the time. I'm we're all so sorry for invading your privacy like this, it won't happen again.” She bows at him, and the rest of the group follow
“Just know we wouldn't mind if you needed to smoke before or when you hang out with us! If it helps you that's all that matters!”
“Yeah man! Your health comes first!!”
“Thanks guys,” Izuku says with a smile and tears in his eyes, “I'll keep that in mind.”
And if the next time they all hangout and Izuku has red squinted eyes, and a resting smile, nobody says anything.