u/Sad-Pomegranate-5072

There’s a lot to be said about a romantic partner who you can get close to physically
without there being sexual implications. 

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Shoto overhears his classsmates talking about girls a lot. They talk about their sizes, their looks, and it makes him wonder if he isn’t normal like the rest of them. He’s attracted to girls, yes, but when it comes down to it he doesn’t get as excited as others seem to. 

When Momo had to make capture tape during their exams together, he felt embarrassed and turned the other way. He never felt compelled to turn back around. Then again, Momo wasn’t his girlfriend. But when Shoto is actually with his girlfriend, he doesn’t feel that too much either.

When Shiozaki asked him to help her get dressed for one of their Christmas parties, he didn’t feel so flustered then like he did with Momo. He helped her decorate her vines with ornaments, and helped her zip up the dress in the back.

He never wanted to look away from her for even a second, but he doesn’t think he felt the same as some of his classmates might’ve in the same position. Mineta is the first that comes to mind and his hopeless efforts to touch all the girls’… everything. 

When he finished tying the ribbon around her neck, she had gifted him with a soft kiss on the lips and gentle hand escorting him to his closet. Ibara did spend the next hour and a half picking out a matching Christmas outfit, but he considered that part of his reward for his efforts too. 

Shoto snaps out of his train of thought when Denki slams him fist on his desk.

“I’m not even joking! We were sleeping side-by-side! I could feel her breathe on me! Dude, it was so cute!” He squeals. 

“Stop bragging scum!” Mineta yells at him.

Sero snickers. “I’m not sure if that’s really brag worthy though. I mean, Jirou fell asleep on you during the bus back from the waterpark. At that point I’m sure she was too tired to even register it was you she was sleeping against.” 

“Come on man don’t ruin this for me!”

Shoto thinks back to Ibara again. They’ve slept together before (not the sex kind). He likes to watch her cut her hair before bed. Sometimes Ibara wants to brush his hair before they lay down together, and when they do, he’ll look into her pitch-black eyes and hold her hand. 

Her breathing is usually slow and steady, and so, so warm. Shoto has come to dislike things on the hotter side, but when she embraces him he can’t help but crave the heat. 

When they wake up Ibara might be sleeping on top of him. He tries not to wake her up until the alarm forces them both out of bed. When she wakes up she’ll pull herself upright while still on top of him. Shoto might pull her back down if he’s feeling a little clingy, but mostly he’ll just watch and feel.

Feel her legs clasp around his waist as she stretches. Observe the vines strewn across her face, mimicking what bed head probably is for those with plant-type quirks. She’ll eventually get up and start getting dressed in the bathroom, and he’ll start doing the same in the room. When she’s done she’ll invite him to join her morning prayers, and they’ll head out together if he agrees to tag along.

And then there was their water park field trip! Admittedly he felt flustered, extremely so. How could he not? Her swimsuit was very fitting, and the flower clip she used to keep her vines out of face made her look breathtaking.

She stuck to his right side whenever they were together, since she didn’t want to overheat. That’s a thing he soon learned about plant-type quirks— emitters and mutants alike become dehydrated very easily. 

A lot of her skin pressed against his as she clung onto his arm. His arm made contact with her chest several times too. He noticed all the touching, and she did too judging by the way she would quickly fix her position, but it wasn’t just the stray points of contact that make his face feel hot.

The way she laughed when the wave pool would mess up her hair, the droplets that would glisten on her skin reflecting the sunlight… and when they’d sit together at the edge of the pool and she’d splash him a little just to see his reaction…!

“Yo’ ‘Roki, you look a little feverish.” Sero says as he feels his forehead. Shoto smacks his hand away and stands up. 

“I’m good.” He says. And he is good. Hopefully. He shouldn’t let these thoughts get too far, so he decides to walk back to the dormitory since classes are done.

That was his plan at least, until he saw it was raining pretty hard outside. ‘I guess that’s why everyone was still inside the classroom…’ He thinks to himself.

He’s about to turn back around when he sees Ibara in the distance running through the rain with a potted plant in her arms. She’s running without any cover too! This prompts him to start running after her.

He hastily uses his ice to catch up to her and almost slips, but he’s able to hop off his ice path and reach her. They both smile when they start running side-by-side, but don’t say anything until Ibara opens up a shed full of lavender plants. She places the pot down and rearranges them all. 

“This downpour came in the blink of an eye, and after a week of straight sun too…” She says as she squeezes the water out of her shirt.

“These are the lavender plants you and Shishida were growing together.” Shoto comments when he turns the shed light on.

“Mhm, they’re plants that could die if given too much water, so I ran to try and get them all out of the rain as soon as I could. I’ve been praying for rain today actually, I just didn’t think it’d be thi- this… soo- achoo!” She sneezes on Shoto who frankly isn’t even disgusted, just surprised.

“I’m so- achoo! Sorry!” Ibara covers her nose as she begins to look for a tissue. Shoto decides to take off his shirt and offer it to her while heating himself up with his left side.

“Aw, Shoto, I can’t-“ He holds his shirt to her nose when she starts sneezing even harder. “…Thank you very much.”

He takes a peek outside. It doesn’t look like it’ll stop raining any time soon, so they can have some alone time if they wish.

“Where is Shishida?” Shoto asks. He wonders if he made her retrieve the plants by herself.

“He’s visiting family, I believe. Riding on his back would’ve made the trips back and forth easier, I admit.” She sighs as she takes a seat on the floor. He takes a seat next to her and presses his left side against her. She sneezes into his shirt once more and starts to shiver. 

“Please, excuse me,” Ibara says as begins to shift around.

“For what-?”

She sits herself on his lap hugs him tight, pressing her face against his. She takes a deep breath in and out and nuzzles against him. Her vines aren’t even pricking him this time!

Shoto doesn’t know what to do, so he opts for holding her even tighter. This seems to be the right choice.

“You’re very warm.” She smiles.

“…Thanks. You’re very pretty.” He responds.

“…you as well.”

They stay embraced until they can hear the rain stop. Their position is pretty comfortable and both of them are reluctant to move, but alas, they can’t stay there forever. Their classmates might go looking for them soon.

This is immediately proven true as someone slams the door wide open. The couple slowly turn their heads to find Monoma looking as if he’s a raging bull ready to attack. Ashido and Kirishima stand behind him aghast.

Shoto clears his throat. “…You’re wet. You should probably dry off soon.” He tells Monoma.

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“You little class-A weasel!” Monoma pounces, but his path blocked by a quick shield of vines. Ibara quickly pushes off of Shoto, grabs his hand, and runs out of the shed while Monoma untangles himself from her vines.

“Yooo my man Todoroki got it good! So manly dude!” Kirishima praises as he closes the door to prevent the blond entity inside from coming out for the sake of peace. 

“Shiozaki! I didn’t take you for someone so bold!” Mina gasps. “All alone in the rain…!”

Ibara blushes profusely. “We weren’t engaging in any debauched behaviour! Certainly not on campus-” 

“Oh!????”

“-and not until marriage!!!”

Shoto is pretty embarrassed himself, but the intense scratching from inside the shed is making him a little anxious.

“I think we should run.” He tells Ibara. 

“Yeah! You two run, we’ll wrangle him up for ya!” Kirishima announces. 

“Have fun..!” Mina waves them goodbye as they race towards the dormitory together, shoving Monoma through the window he was trying to crawl out from.

They can’t help but laugh when they trip over each other and slip on the wet grass, just like they can’t help but hold each other so close and feel so warm inside.

Shoto’s still unsure if he fully grasps what his classmates talk about. Looks can play a part of an attraction, sure, but he’s spent less time pondering her outside when all he can think about when he’s with Ibara is… Ibara. 

He’d much rather chase her in the rain and hold her in his sleep than trick her into a wearing a cheerleading outfit, that he can say without a doubt.

Momo gestures to her bookshelf to a rather detailed figurine of Izuku performing Gearshift. The disappearing effect was nearly perfect.

Kyoka glances to the left. ”Curious how you point to the figure with a whole body pillow on your bed.”

“He’s chilling, don’t bother him.” Momo says.

Both girls stare at the body pillow for a bit. Jirou is about to open her mouth before Midoriya walks in to the room.

“I left my water bottle here!” He panics as he quickly runs in to grab his belongings and quickly runs out.

”He knows?”

“Of course he does. Oh! And I also made a figure of you!”

Momo crawls around her rather large bed and pulls out a little figure of Jirou doing a little punk pose.

“Why do you have this?” Jirou asks.

Momo shrugs. ”I have figures of everyone.”

”???”

“Mostly Deku, though.“

”Alright, I’m going to leave now. See you later, Yaomomo.” Jirou waves her friend goodbye and leaves. She’s unsure if she would really ever understand the rich.

this is just a collection of things I’d like to add to my barely drafted OFA!Ibara fic if I ever get around to posting it. feel free to add stuff too if you want

—- #1

Midoriya floats with Shiozaki as she walks back home from the hospital. It took some time to calm her down when she first appeared covered in smoke around her hospital bed, but he eventually explained what he could to her… but that wasn’t a whole lot.

”Your house is pretty far from the city.” Izuku comments. She’s been walking for a while now. Do her parents live overseas like his dad does? Is that why they didn’t pick her up after the whole USJ fight?

Now that he thinks about it… he’s going to see her room! He can’t walk, er, float into a girl‘s room! It’s fine, he can’t just go back into her mind when they’re close! Is that better or worse?

“Yes, but the walk builds up strength in my legs. I can’t complain too much anyways, the walks to and fro calm me down.”

Midoriya watches as Ibara walks down a path leading to a decently big building. He reads the next to the path and floats back to Ibara’s side.

”Why are we at an orphanage?” Izuku asks her. He turns to his side to see that her face is a little flushed. She opens the door and looks up at him.

“Because I live here.” She answers. She closes the door in his face. He floats there like an idiot before racing back to Ibara’s side and issuing profuse apologies.

—-#2

“Upon immediately activating OFA, she was able to activate Black Whip.” Banjo says as he passes an imaginary Cheeto to the 9th, Midoriya Izuku. Least he could do for the kid, he died too young.

”Is it the singularity point?” Yoichi asked. “Now that we’ve reached 10 users, this could be extremely dangerous.

”Maybe, but she also just strikes me as a pretty angry kid.” Shimura says.

”Angry? I didn’t get that from her at all. She’s really nice, actually. Kind, even.” Midoriya tells her, remembering his blunder from earlier that week. Shiozaki made sure he knew that she wasn’t holding it against him. (Even if he still felt like trash.)

”You can be both.” Shimura counters.

——- #3

“Hey Shiozaki-“

Ibara lifts her hand up just in time for Black Whip to strike the ceiling of the classroom.

“May I help you, Awase?” Ibara asks her classmate.

“…Didn’t you have a whole revelation the other day about how those things are powered by anger?” He asks her.

”May I help you Awase?” She asks again.

—-#4

”You’ve gotta try and store that power inside, and instead of letting it all go out at once.” All Might tells her. He feels as though his butt-clenching advice from when Young Midoriya was still alive wasn’t cutting it.

”Yeah! Try visualizing it! Like…. an egg in a microwave.” Izuku tells her.

Ibara raises an eyebrow. “I’ll try.”

And she did try. And she landed herself in Recovery Girl’s office for the 3rd time that month.

A smack on the head and a raspberry flavored candy later she was up again and dragging herself back to the training grounds.

Shiozaki looks up at the sky and tries to figure out what she was doing wrong. Maybe she just couldn’t relate to an egg. What does she like?

”I’ve always wanted to drive a car.” She admits out loud. She imagine a speedometer and syncs the thought with One For All. She could barely reach 5 mph at her power level right now. She wonders if she can push to 10 if she tried hard enough.

—-#5

”I don’t think I’m fit to become a combat hero.” Ibara says, lounging in Togake’s dorm room.

“Yeah, you’ve always struck me as a capture or rescue hero honestly. Then you got some weird ass super strength. What’s up with that anyways?” Setsuna asks.

“I’m not inclined to answer that right now.” Ibara sighs. “I just don’t enjoy punching people.”

Setsuna gives her a look.

“…I don’t enjoy needless violence.” Ibara corrects.

That’s what she loved about her quirk before she received One For all. She didn’t need to fight and it kept her from moving so she most likely wouldn’t be put in a position where she’d need to.

Is there a way to use such life changing strength in a way that doesn’t cause bodily harm?

—-#6

”And so we meet again!” Kaminari shouts at her. “Hate to break it to ya, but you’re gonna have to-!”

Before he can finish his speech, Ibara shoots a stronger punch on his direction that she’s normally do. The shockwaves from her punch blow the poor boy up and away.

She won’t admit it, but it’s fun to send people flying without even having to hit them. Still, she’d prefer to use her vines this match, so she needs to continue looking for a vantage point.

—-#7

Ibara speeds through the city in her new hero costume. Well, she calls it new but she’s had it for a while at this point. There had been so many designs changes to this point that she was half expecting to get kicked out of UA simply for that.

She imagines the speedometer again. 55 mph… 65mph… she needs to imagine a bigger one at this rate.

Upon reaching the building where civilians were trapped, she runs inside and retrieves all of them at remarkable speeds.

“Just like All Might!” Midoriya squeals at her side, remembering that video from so long ago.

”You mustn’t let All Might become an idol, Midoriya.” Ibara chides him. She understands his excitement, though. All Might seemed so far away from her when she was younger. She remember watching the news when her dad was asleep, and her mother was cooking breakfast.

The TV was almost mute because they couldn’t risk waking her father up, but she didn’t need sound to see what All Might was doing.

But still, everyone treated him like he was a god back then. He isn’t. He’s just another person at the end of the day. He had burdens and pains and flaws he accidentally passed onto her.

That’s alright though, for she does have her God with her.

Ibara prays a silent prayer to the Lord and keeps running. She’ll race where He needs her to be, and the rain won’t let up for a while.

—-#8

”Tsunotori, please stop eating my vines.” Ibara says.

”But you said they were edible?”

”That was not an invitation.”

Bakugo threw away the last bottle he had left. It was just enough to get him to full health, but it was the last one he had.

’I’m such an idiot. I should’ve fought for the revive card instead of running earlier.’ He thinks to himself. There was only one team left to fight, yes, but there’s no telling how many people were still left alive.

Bakugo’s team were all killed when that Monoma happened to have Momo’s gamma and completely blew up building they’re were hiding in. When Bakugo shot his alpha at him to try and scare him off long enough to help his downed teammates, he used his Special Action just in time to eat his attacks with his original gamma.

At least he knows that freak won’t have anymore cannons, since he KO’d that Momo who happened to be the last of her team before Monoma found them healing.

Bakugo slaps both of his cheeks to clear his mind. Even if he stands there alone he cannot let this be the end. He was a rapid, and he was fast. He could search all the layers of the storm while still having some health with his kind of speed.

He looks up to the left and sees his cheer count sky rocket. Rapid Bakugo gives his teammates a thumbs up and activates his last quirk card— a strike card— lvl. 6.

He Special Actions out of the circle and runs up the stairs. He holds his breath through the storm, and grabs at the railings for support.

His health is dwindling, and he’s nowhere near the top floor. For crying out loud— he’s Dynamight! He’s faster than the storm!

Bakugo reaches the top and sees a figure shedding blue heals for what they assumed would be a healing battle. They were wrong.

Bakugo is almost out of health. He knows that he’ll have to play this smart in order to win, and he’s ready.

”Eat my nitro!” He yells as he activates his beta and flies towards his opponent.

That moment flies by too quickly, yet just slow enough to see who it was. He was quickly greeted by a familiar face, and an agitating cackle.

Bakugo meets Monoma’s gaze midair prepared to end it once and for all, but he isn’t the one who smirks.

“Try this on for size!” Monoma laughs as he activates his gamma, swallowing Bakugo’s last ditch beta.

Bakugo flies past Monoma and uses some sparks to turn around a full 180 degrees in the blink of an eye. And just before he succumbs to the gas..!

”Plus Ultra!” Bakugo betas once more in Monoma’s direction and into the circle, 15 health before his demise. Before Monoma can try anything, he quickly Special Actions into the air and out of his reach.

’While his gamma is on cool down,’ Bakugo thinks as he activates his gamma and begins crashing down. ‘I’ll destroy his health first before the storm closes in on us both!’

Bakugo reels back his arms and then extends them towards the ground. Just as he’s about to reach his foe, Monoma sinks into the ground right before his eyes.

”Ah.. shit.”

Using Mirio’s beta he stole from an earlier fight, Monoma jumps up from the ground, colliding with Bakugo’s gamma. The impact sends them both flying from the already tiny circle, but only one of them has the means to survive.

Bakugo flops to the ground and begins crawling towards the circle, the area closing just out of his reach until it’s no more.

He watches as Monoma activates a green quirk card and drinks a mini heal while he walks towards him.

The Phantom Thief stands over Dynamight with a haughty grin.

”Better luck next time.” Monoma says, before unleashing Bakugo’s own gamma in his face and ending the match.

“There’s a green card in the storm.” 

Ibara and Momo look to where Dabi was pointing. There was in fact a green alpha quirk card in the storm. The supports look up at the timer. Around 30 seconds until the storm moves.

“It’s always 30 seconds.” Momo comments.

“It is.” Ibara agrees. The pair look over to Dabi and ask,

“Can you go get it?”

“Can you go get it?”

“Why me?” He asks. He points to Ibara. “You’ve got a 400 hp total. Get off your ass and fetch for yourself.”

“Wait! But I want it!” Momo displays her move levels for her teammates. “My alpha is already lvl.9, so I can actually use for emergency healing.”

Ibara shakes her head. “But my alpha isn’t levelled up yet. Lvl.8, see?” She displays her own levels. “So shouldn’t I have the card?”

“One level won’t make a difference, Shiozaki.” 

“When that difference is 4 rounds to 5, I beg to differ.”

“15 seconds left.” Dabi interrupts the two supports.

“Can you make the choice for us?” Momo asks him. 

“Absolutely not. If I go out there and pick up that card I’m keeping it for myself.” Dabi tells them, popping a blue card he saved earlier to run up the side of the building and away.

Momo and Ibara look back at the card and to each other. “Please?” Momo asks.

Ibara sighs and walks up the building with Wall Runner much like a moody teen would, who was trying to make it look like they weren’t too upset, but in fact were. “Do as you wish.”

“Thank you!”

Momo dashes into the storm with her beta, and thankfully makes it back with a sizeable amount of health left. She reorganizes her bag and uses her special actions.

A team heal, 2 greens, 1 blue and…!

“Lord forgive me, but I am thinking about withholding an instant revive.” Ibara prays as she strangles a rapid Mirio with her gamma.

Ching! A level up sound rings through her mind… but she didn’t pick up any level up cards- ah.

All 3 of her moves levelled up, but no announcement rang through the map signalling that someone had found Kota. As she looks down in thought, she sees a waving shadow. Ibara turns around behind her and sees Momo waving an empty team enhancement kit.

Ibara waves back. She mouths thank you to her friend.

Momo strikes a super hero like pose and giggles, before unceremoniously getting sniped by a Lady Nagant’s Special Action.

It’s a good thing Ibara has 5 alphas to use to reach their rather busted foe.