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The Successor Ch. 16 (My Hero Academia)
🕑 Added 2022-04-03 15:41:38 +0000 UTCA/N: Karaoke Parlors are probably still hip in the 2100s, right? lol.
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As lunch comes to a close, Izuku makes his decision. He’s at UA because he wants to make connections. He’s chosen to approach these girls because he’s admittedly something of a horndog. Keeping things platonic with either or both of them now would be doing them a disservice, especially since he almost certainly intended for things to get decidedly non-platonic later on.
In the end, it was a simple enough choice. Go big or go home. And if there was one thing Izuku knew how to do, it was go big.
And so, with lunch coming to a close, he stands up from his spot and turns back to face both girls, giving them a big wide grin that they each response to in different ways. Kyoka blushes and glances off to the side, while Mina grins right back at him, almost in challenge. There’s no doubt about it though, they’re both listening closely.
“I had a really good time eating lunch with you guys. I was wondering if you both maybe wanted to hang out after school, all three of us. We could go to an arcade together, or something?”
That gets startled blinks from both of them, with Mina clearing her throat and clarifying.
“You want… to hang out with both of us?”
Deciding he’s gone Quirk-less in this encounter long enough, Izuku activates some of the same social Quirks he used to navigate his interaction with Momo, flashing the two girls in front of him another grin as he nods.
“Yeah! You’re both super cool. I just thought it’d be fun if we could hang out together some more. What do you say?”
Mina glances over at Kyoka, who stiffens and glances back to Mina. A silent conversation takes place between the two girls right then and there, and Izuku is reminded that, despite being friendly with each other, they HAVE only known one another for less than a week. Hm, was he expecting too much, reaching too far, by trying to bag both of them at the same time? No… no, he could pull this off.
He’s prepared for them to decide against it, prepared to coax them around to it and talk them both into it, when they seem to reach a silent understanding without him. Looking back at him, Mina raises an eyebrow questioningly.
“You want… to take us to an arcade?”
Something about her tone… Izuku can’t quite pick it up. Using his Quirks, she sounds slightly confused and slightly derisive. She sounds… weirdly exasperated? Slowly, Izuku nods, trying to see the trap here, trying to figure out the way forward. Alas, even with all his Quirks… he can’t quite navigate this interaction enough to avoid falling flat on his face, it seems.
Mina’s face splits into a big grin, and she lets out a laugh.
“What, have you been living under a rock or something, Izuku? Arcades haven’t been popular for over a century!”
It’s bad enough that Mina is clowning on him, that’s just her personality really, but then Kyoka nods along with her fellow woman and speaks up.
“We’ll go to a Karaoke Parlor. I know of a good one near the school.”
For a moment, Mina looks surprised by Kyoka’s input, but then brightens up quick as a flash and snaps her fingers in the other girl’s direction.
“Now THAT is a good idea! Sound like a plan, Iz-u-ku?”
As she draws out his name teasingly, he can’t help but blush a little. Of course, his social Quirks are telling him to do so, and to just take it on the chin. He might be embarrassed, but a little humbling was good for the holder of both One For All and All For One. And besides… he could still get them both back later. Hmph, arcades might be a dead breed, but he’d made fun memories in a couple growing up. They didn’t have to rag on him like that…
“Sure, sounds great. Meet you both here after school and Kyoka can lead the way?”
Mina enthusiastically nods, while Kyoka ducks her head but also smiles and ultimately nods. With plans made, the three of them hurry back to class. But Izuku can tell, both Mina and Kyoka’s heads are in the cloud already. He’s got them on the hook, the both of them. Now all that’s left is to reel them both in.
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As Mina finishes belting out the final lines of the song, Izuku and Kyoka watch on in amusement from their place on the couch, just a little separate from each other even now. Well, Izuku watches on in amusement. Kyoka’s plugs are twitching and trembling, and she looks like she doesn’t know whether to be mortified or not.
Mina really isn’t the best singer. She’s not the worst either, but that’s mostly because she makes up for being tone deaf with her overall enthusiasm and gumption. Still, as she steps down from the small ‘stage’ in the private room the three of them have booked, she gives a knowing grin and a shrug, before holding out the microphone to Izuku.
“You’re turn, yeah? Show is what you got, Midoriya!”
Izuku raises an eyebrow but takes the mike all the same, though he does glance towards Kyoka as he stands.
“You cool with that? You haven’t gotten to go yet either…”
Kyoka rolls her eyes, though there’s an appreciative little grin on her face. They’d only arrived at the Karaoke Parlor that Kyoka had recommended a short time ago. After getting some drinks (non-alcoholic of course) they’d made their way to their private room, which they currently had all to themselves for the next three hours.
Mina, being Mina, had immediately commandeered the mike and declared she would get the first song. Then, she’d launched into an admittedly wild rendition of said song, acting like she was drunk on life, considering she couldn’t possibly be drunk on anything else. Drunken Karaoke MIGHT have been fun, but they were still a bit too young for that.
“Go ahead, Izuku. I want to hear what you can do.”
Izuku just grins right back at her. Kyoka was starting to finally come out of her shell. That was good, because he didn’t want her to feel like a third wheel or anything like that. Especially since… well, he’d already decided he was pursuing both these girls, hadn’t he? And so, moving over to the machine, Izuku doesn’t hesitate to cue up a love song. There are plenty, but with one of his Intelligence Quirks, he’s able to find one that’s perfect for his purposes. A song that, at its heart, is about a guy with feelings for two girls.
The song might not end with him getting together with both, but that’s because it doesn’t end one way or the other. It’s open-ended, what happens after the song is over. So yeah, perfect for what Izuku is trying to do here. Made all the more perfect, by the Quirks he can cheat with.
Increased lung capacity, perfect control over his vocals, and half a dozen more Quirks all ramp up as Izuku lets the song start and then brings the mike to his lips and begins to… well, croon for lack of a better word. He watches Mina and Kyoka as he sings and knows immediately that he has them both. Kyoka looks floored, sat on the couch as she is, while Mina ends up collapsing back next to her, staring at him wide-eyed and gobsmacked.
Izuku gives it all he’s got, and then some. With the Quirks he has at his disposal, ‘cheating’ on a social interaction like this really is child’s play. Making himself the best singer either of them has ever heard is easy. Hell, if he wanted to, Izuku could very well start a career with his voice, going on to become a popstar. He just… doesn’t want to. He wants what his father wanted for him. The fame and acclaim of being acknowledged as the number one hero… and all the power and influence to change society that came with it.
Still, everyone has to start somewhere, and so here Izuku is, using his ‘dulcet tones’ to seduce two of his classmates, one love song at a time. As the first of said songs finishes up, Izuku feigns ignorance of their reactions and looks at them both with wide, guileless eyes.
“So… how’d I do?”
Mina and Kyoka just stare at him incredulously for a long moment, before he lets the fake expression drop away and grins teasingly.
“That good, huh?”
His reveal that he knows exactly how good he is, goes a long way to breaking the momentary tension, as both girls flush and Mina lets out a bark of laughter. The pink-skinned young woman knows how to take a joke for sure, and what’s a little friendly ribbing between friends, right? Kyoka on the other hand.
“… I’m not sure if I can even follow that up.”
The purple-haired girl looks more put out than Izuku had initially thought she would, but he almost immediately understands why. She was hoping that she would be top dog in this interaction. After all, her Quirk gave her excellent hearing, and a serious ear for sound and how it all came together. She was probably pretty proud of her singing voice, but Izuku had just ruined that for her, hadn’t he?
Or had he? Smirking, Izuku strides forward and holds out a hand to Kyoka, and a hand to Mina. To Kyoka, he just gives a half shrug and grins.
“Then don’t. C’mon, both of you up now.”
Blinking, the two girls take his hands and let him pull them to their feet. Izuku drags them over to the machine and brings up the song selection.
“Why compete, when we can work together instead and have more fun? You choose the next song, Kyoka… and we’ll all sing it together.”
“Ooh, I like that idea!”
Mina is quick to throw her support behind Izuku’s suggestion of course, and with both of them pushing Kyoka onward, she ultimately nods, queueing up a song. Soon enough, the three of them are all singing together in the private room of the Karaoke Parlor. Frankly, the songs don’t actually matter. Their singing capabilities don’t either.
Sure, Mina might be the worst singer of the three of them, but she more than makes up for it with her enthusiasm. And thanks to his Quirks, though he has to be careful not to use any that are too overt or noticeable, Izuku is able to back her up and even support her, helping her modulate her tune more than once. Meanwhile, Kyoka is indeed a great natural singer thanks to her Quirk, just as he’d expected.
The end result? The three of them have a lot of fun together. The songs blend together, as they just get downright silly with it. There’s not a lick of alcohol in sight. It never once enters the equation. But they act like they’re drunk, even as they dance around the small private room and get hot and sweaty as song after song booms through the speakers for them to sing along to.
Izuku doesn’t hesitate to push things to the limit either. He wants one specific thing from this evening… and that’s intimacy with these two girls. He wants to evolve his relationship with both of them to the next level, as quickly as possible. As such, he doesn’t hesitate to go for small, innocuous touches, getting them used to some early public displays of affection.
Mina is all too happy to touch him right back, even if it’s harmless flirting at best and they’re not putting their hands anywhere TOO risqué. Kyoka though, is definitely having a harder time of it at first, blushing up a storm and much more hesitant to reciprocate. But Izuku’s social Quirks tell him he’s definitely building towards something good, so he keeps it up, relying upon those Quirks to help guide him through the social minefield that is the act of courting two girls at the same time, right in front of each other.
He's not sure if he’s going to have to make the first move or not. In a way, he’s made a series of first moves that have led him up to this point. Now, he’s waiting for Mina or Kyoka to do something. Probably Mina though, right? It only makes sense that the pink-skinned young woman would be the one to initiate-
In the midst of his thinking, just as the latest song is coming to an end, Kyoka suddenly leaps at him and wraps her arms around his neck, pulling him into a deep, tongue-filled kiss. Izuku is actually a little surprised in spite of his Quirks all but telling him something was going to happen eventually. He’d made this happen, but he’d got so caught up in his own thoughts that he’d still been slightly taken off guard.
Only slightly though. His hands go to Kyoka’s hips just as she’s self-consciously starting to pull away in mortification and embarrassment, and Izuku makes sure she can tell he’s kissing her back, before he finally lets her go.
Mina, meanwhile, is staring at them both with her jaw dropped and her mouth wide open. Izuku can’t help himself. Grinning cheekily, he steps over to her, places his hands on HER hips, and gives her a tongue-filled kiss too. He makes sure it lasts PRECISELY as long as his kiss with Kyoka did, before pulling back and giving Mina a wink. Then, he looks at both girls.
“I like you both. You’re both really pretty. Do you think… we could have some fun together?”
If he’d asked them this back at lunch time, Izuku knows the answer would have been very different. But now? After an hour of getting high on life? With all the positive endorphins rushing through their bodies, after they’d just danced and sung their hearts out with each other? Mina and Kyoka share another glance, before blushing even harder. Even Mina, so confident and so full of life, is embarrassed and uncertain now. And yet, when they look back to him, they both nod in unison, seemingly in agreement with whatever he wants to do.
But here’s the thing… Izuku could take charge… or he could throw the ball back to them. Ask them to tell him what they want to do, in what order. Or… does he just take control of the situation, and guide them both through what was almost certainly their first times? No matter what, he would rock their worlds. His Quirks and his own experience would make sure of that. But still… how to proceed from here?
Comments
SpiritCrystal
Mic instead of mike? Anyhow, love this.
ShadowMage319
Maybe, I mean Ectoplasm likes karaoke.
