23: 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛
A/N: I AM HERE!!!! (Late)
"Yoo ladies." Denki said, sitting down. Kira, Jirou and Mina were sitting around the couches. Kira recently had more time to hang around the dorms.
Her uncle suggested after the raid she take things slower at the police station. Not filling up all her time, knowing the mental toll it took on her.
"Sup." Kira tilted her head.
"So which of you guys are gonna represent 1A?" Denki asked, leaning back.
"I'm sorry?" Jirou asked, shuffling papers with music notes. It was all nonsense to Kira, she liked music but had absolutely no musical talent. She couldn't sing in the slightest and the mere concept of instruments made her dizzy.
"You know? The pageant?" Denki asked. "At the festival. They're announcing the nominees tomorrow remember?"
"Uh... Yeah no." Jirou deadpanned. "I barely wanted to take the stage and sing. He convinced me to..."
"OMG I would Looove too." Mina clapped, but then she deflated. "But I'm too busy teaching everyone to dance."
"Oh come on." Denki whined. "Momo says she's in too many study groups and Tsu and Uraraka are still interning at their hero agency!"
Kira looked away. Knowing she'd be the next target.
"What about Hagakure?" Kira asked with a frown.
"She said she's been in pageants before and didn't really like them. Plus she lost, I think it's a sensitive subject." Mina remembered from a previous conversation with the girl, in which she ended up crying.
"Heyyy." Denki poked her. "You can do it! Just yesterday you told me you had an empty schedule! And you have the choreography almost memorized!"
"No way." Kira waved his arms away. "Do I look like a pageant girl?" She asked, pointing at her face. Which had big eye bags as usual, but also some messy makeup.
"You look fine to me." Mina smiled. "You should do it!!"
"No way." Kira scoffed. "Pageants are fine and all, I just don't think it's my thing."
"Uhhhh" Denki groaned. "We're gonna be the only class to not nominate someone. Barely anyone cares and no one is gonna put someone's name in if they don't wanna do it."
"Why are you so invested in this?" Jirou asked him.
"I don't know. I just feel like our class should be represented. Plus it seems fun." Denki shrugged.
"Then nominate Bakugou." Mina snickered, covering her mouth. "I'd love to see that."
"He'd love that." Kira added sarcastically.
Jirou snickered. "Can you imagine Bakugou in a dress?!" She covered her mouth with a snort.
The rest of the girls plus Denki all started to giggle. Only for Bakugou to walk in.
Causing them to giggle more.
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"The shoes are totally rocking Kira. I didn't know they still existed." Jirou mumbled, hugging her music binder.
Kira looked down at her knee high converses. "Oh yeah, they're totally making them again. For the emos."
"Emos like you?" Mina asked, wiggling her eyebrows.
"Yep." Kira nodded. She truly looked like a weird kid from the early 2000s. With her shoes and half her UA school uniform. Only wearing her skirt and white button up. Along with a tie that was just tied in a normal knot, not a Windsor.
Her makeup was just eye liner from yesterday that she forgot to remove. It was hard to get ready to bed when she... Never actually went to sleep.
She stayed up all night last night playing stardew valley.
A crowd of students gathered for a mandatory "meeting" over the festival. Talking about safety, blah blah blah. Schedules, blah blah blah. Who all was coming, Blah blah blah and of course the pageant, blah blah blah.
Needless to say Kira wasn't paying attention.
"The general studies nominees for the first year girls are... Tammy Tanaka. From class 1d!" Midnight said. As each girl was called up the walked onto the stage.
Kira started to get a weird bad feeling in her gut. Like something big and bad was coming.
"Emi Ito from class 1C!" She called out again. Another girl walked on stage, sleek blonde hair and bright blue eyes. She kissed her hand and blew it into the crowd.
"Itsuka Kendo from the hero course." Midnight continued to read from her paper.
And she didn't stop.
Kira slowly turned around, eyes searching until they met Denki's golden eyes. He looked nervous and very giddy.
"AND KIRA KOKOA REPRESENTING CLASS 1A!!!"
Her voice rang through the school field right as Kira sent the harshest glare possible in the boy's direction. He shuddered.
The crowd around her moved slightly so she could walk up. Scattered clapping came from her fellow students. Who seemed to also get nervous.
"Don't be shy! Come on up!" Midnight giggled, putting her hand up.
She should have seen this coming. Really. She should've. She was a MINDREADER after all. Didn't it take three people to nominate someone? They just announced that in the informational section of this meeting.
So who else...
Kira walked up and cut her eyes, first to Todoroki. Who looked... Chill, as always. Then to Tsu who smiled at Kira.
Of course, Denki knew who Kira couldn't read well. He told both of them to vote for her too, Tsu seemed pleased so she likely didn't know Kira hated the idea. Todoroki didn't seem to give a shit. So she didn't know his motives. But he probably just did it because he was asked too by a peer.
The aura around Kira was a dark mad purple. It almost seemed like everyone else could see it too, the classes nervously chattered and glanced up at Kira. Who was starkly different then the smiling girls around her.
"You okay?" Kendo asked with a frown.
"I'm gonna kill him." Kira whispered back. "That bastard."
"I take it you didn't want to be here huh?" Kendo asked with a smile.
"Not really no." Kira ran a hand through her hair. But she had it tied up in about four different tiny hair ties to keep her bangs out of her face. Once again, she wasn't currently dressed to be a beauty queen.
"I'm pretty sure Monoma and his friends only nominated me so that they had more time to terrorize one A." Kendo chuckled. "Idiots, like this would stop me. From keeping you in line."
"That sounds about right. I think this is Denki's idea of a prank." Kira crossed her arms.
"And these are this year's first year contestants!!! Come over during the festival to watch these girls along with the second and third year divisions! To see who wins the three Miss UA spots!"
Midnight announced before moving on too the second years.
Kira and Kendo were permitted to go back down now, Kira sighed.
"Definitely don't think it's gonna be that one girl."
"Ugh one a... Something about them just piss me off so much."
"1A wins everything... Now they send this chick to try and take the pageant too?"
"Isn't that All Might's niece?!"
"That red head chick is cute.
Kira was so annoyed with the entire student body. Recently they'd been pretty bitchy about her class. Normally Kira wasn't one to care... But come on! It's not like they wanted to be attacked by villains! It's not like they wanted bakugou to get fucking kidnapped.
But they all thought her class looked down on them. When in reality a lot of them wished they were them. She'd heard her fellow classmates envy 1B constantly. Wishing they were the hero course class that DIDN'T get targeted by villains.
I mean sure 1B was involved in the summer camp Attack... But everyone knows who the real targets were.
"I might just talk to Midnight about dropping out." Kira admitted to Kendo with a sigh. "Seems like a waste of time to me. At least if you don't enjoy this type of stuff."
"I hope she does. Class 1A..."
Emi Ito was from a general studies class. Standing close beside them. "You probably should drop out now, I mean there's no way you'd win." She said with a small laugh
"I'm sorry?" Kira asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Well your class might outshine ours in every other aspect. But it's because you're all brutes." She shrugged and tossed her hair over her shoulder. The blonde shimmering in the sunlight. Her nose was tilted up and her blue eyes looked down on Kira. Even though they were practically the same height.
"Pageants involve elegance. Which is something I doubt a neanderthal such as yourself can understand."
"H-hey." Kendo said nervously, confused and peeved by the girls remarks. "There's no need for name calling and... Uh. You know, being rude. It's just a friendly competition." She put her hands up and stepped infront of Kira. Trying to keep the peace.
"What's her problem?"
"Friendly?!" She laughed again. "There isn't anything friendly about this. And it's NOT a competition. Because I'm going to win by miles. I've won fifty six pageants in my life. Ever since I could walk-"
"Wow... That sounds sad." Tammy said. Kira flinched slightly, she had forgotten she was there-
Hey wait... That shouldn't be possible. Kira glanced at Tammy Tanaka. Who apparently didn't have thoughts that Kira could read. She was fairly... Plain. Her brown hair tied into two braids. A few freckles across her cheeks and olive green eyes hidden behind some glasses.
"Sounds like your parents kinda forced it on you." She said blatantly.
"They simply ensured my future success in securing the title of Miss universe!" Emi scoffed.
"Right. My bad." Tammy pushed up her glasses. "We'll see you around girls! Good luck!"
Then she was gone. Like just gone. She didn't walk away or anything.
She simply disappeared, not even invisibly. She just... Wasn't there anymore.
"I don't wanna be rude... But she seems... Odd." Kendo thought with a frown. Knowing Kira couldn't hear her.
"Well..." Kira turned to Emi, having a new motivation. Did she want to win? Not really. Did she want to be at Emi? Yes... Yes she did.
"May the best girl win."
A/N: I thought the pageant would be fun for Kira to participate in... So I changed to rules and stuff for the story...
Hado is still in it, but she's competing with the third years. So it's separate.
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