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It was late at night, getting close to midnight. Normally everyone would be sleeping at this time to wake up early for the next day.
However, that's not the case with a certain school. UA, the infamous school for teens trying to make their lives shine. With music. The school majorly focused on the art of music production and entertainment. Of course, the school holds many regular classes and studies for other forms of art. Yet it’s the music production course that takes in the greatest amount of students yearly. The students make sure that the school lives up to its name by throwing a party and competition once every semester.
Especially one class, Class 1-A.
They are known as the rowdiest bunch of kids who always went all out no matter how many times the staff has told them to take it down a notch. However, it's always in good spirits and with good intentions when the students make their compositions for the competitions. Tonight was no exception. Tonight they were throwing a birthday party for one of their classmates. Now it wasn’t the official big party that they would have at the end of the semester but that didnt mean they weren’t going to go out of their way to stick to tradition and battle it out with other classes in the course.
They were going to go hard!
The way it worked was each class in the music course would choose 5 representatives to represent themselves. The last one standing wins the grand prize of the winning class taking a trip to the Music capital of Japan. The catch was, each class had to pick a representative for the other classes, so of course many would try and choose those they thought wouldn't do any good, which made the event even better. Since you never know if you were picking a bad apple or a golden one. It gave everyone a chance to shine and show what they got.
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Kirishima was walking alongside Denki since everyone from their group ended up going in different directions doing their own thing for the festival/birthday party. "Dude! I know there's a bunch of beats going on tonight, but there’s one that I'm hearing that sounds sick!" Denki exclaimed as he bobbed his head to whatever music he was hearing. Kirishima almost joked about what he said till he actually heard what he was talking about. Not far but not close from where they were, the redhead could hear the loud booming of the bass along with a hyped-up melody playing along with it. "Bro, that does sound sick! Let's go check it out!" Kirishima exclaimed, Denki nodding in agreement as they weaved through the crowd looking for the venue that was playing the catchy tune.
Walking for a few minutes they finally came to what seemed to be the center of the room where there was a large crowd mingling with one another, jumping, dancing, and headbanging just having a blast. In front of the crowd was the DJ booth with someone wearing an orange hoodie as they moved their hands quickly and skillfully across the soundboard. Their body moving to the sound of the music as they made the beat.
Kirishima couldn't tell who it was DJ'ing but he could already tell he liked them just by the way they were making the music. Denki had at some point joined the crowd, finding Shinsou from Class 1-B then proceeded to dance with him.
Kirishima decided he wanted to get a better look at who the person was. So with much effort, some bumping around and feet getting stepped on Kirishima had finally made it through. At some point during his adventure he ended up with two bottles of what he could assume was Soju that someone snuck into the school. Though he wasn't gonna complain about getting his hands on a good drink that he could share.
Walking up the small steps he ended up in front of the person who still hadn't taken notice of him yet. "Hey! I really love your beats man! They're so freaking manly!!" Kirishima yelled over the loudspeakers trying to get the other's attention.
He managed to do so successfully, the other’s head jolted up a little noticing someone in front of them. Turning their head up they pulled back their hood to reveal poofy green-black hair that was shaved at the sides, the left side sporting two shaved lines and on top of their head a pair of big green and purple headphones.
Kirishima was able to get a good look at the other’s defined jawline that bared a thick scar going down from their cheekbone and disappearing past the collar of their shirt. Accompanying the cheekbones was an array of freckles that went across the bridge of their nose.
But what caught Kirishima's eyes the most was the big green emeralds that the other was looking at him with.
'His eyes are beautiful.'
Kirishima took a deep breath as the thought passed before snapping himself out of the daze that he had been in for a few seconds. While he did that the other took off his headphones hanging them on his neck. Pressing a button on the soundboard so that the beat blasting on the speakers would repeat a few times before switching to the drop.
"Sorry! What did you say?!" The other asked also yelling slightly over the music but not as much. Their voice sounded very masculine but not overbearing in the slightest, in fact it had a touch of gentleness in it. Something Kirishima appreciated after being around his friend group with their very loud and obnoxious voices.
It was then that Kirishima realized who he was talking to, Izuku Midoriya, the second-best composer in the school right there with his best friend Bakubro and classmate Todoroki. Also known as the future 1A student to be seeing as Aizawa and Nezu have been in the works of getting rid of Mineta for being....well Mineta. Not to mention Izuku showed immense promise to be part of what others would call ‘Elite’ class.
Izuku tilted his head seeing the other not answering him, waving his hand in front of the redhead’s face brought him back to reality, and look at the greenete in apology. "Sorry! I just couldn't believe I was in front of you for a bit. Congrats on getting noticed by Mr. Aizawa man!" Kirishima tried to cover up his embarrassment with a compliment towards the other which seemed to work since the other beamed happily like a child who got his favorite toy for his birthday.
"Thanks! I know it’s super hard to impress him since he’s really critical, I'm just glad he likes my stuff and I can join 1-A soon. If I'm not mistaken your Eijirou Kirishima right?" Izuku asked making Kiri stand straight with pride, "The one and only, you see any other manly guys like me around here.... Except for Tetsutetsu, he’s real manly" He said scratching his head making Izuku giggle. "No, I don't think I do. It’s great to meet you Kirishima I've heard your beats before and I gotta say your music is really unique in its own way."
Kirishima smiled hearing the compliment back, he didn't get a lot of them in class or from his friend group since everyone in the class was always trying to find ways to improve. It was nice to just hear something good about his work for once instead of hearing what could be better. "Thanks man! It’s not all that though, I’m still trying to make it something only I can create you know" Izuku nodded understanding wholeheartedly what he meant by that. "For sure! But I meant what I said about it being really good. But what were you saying before when you came up?"
This made Kiri morph his face in recognition seeing why he came up to the stand in the first place. "Oh! I was just saying that I thought your beats were fire as hell but I also wanted to ask if you wanted to drink some of this with me when you get the chance" He pulled his hands up showing the bottle of soju he somehow got.
The curly-haired teen looked at his hands after changing the beat on his soundboard making the crowd in front of him headbang hard and cheer loudly. He let his eyes wander across Kirishima really taking the other boy in with his eyes before his whole demeanor changed and the look in his eyes became less innocent and childlike.
With quick movement, he reached his hand out grabbing Kirishima's school pass that he had hanging around his neck, and pulled him close to his face with a small smirk. "Be careful Eijirou-san someone would think that you’re trying to flirt with me."
Kirishima's face was one of confusion when he was pulled in but when he heard Izuku’s words his cheeks flamed red. The cute and equally hot boy in front of him was openly flirting with him and showing a clear interest in him. Staring into his green eyes Kiri swallowed whatever spit was in his dry mouth before speaking.
"Well if you ask me I think it’s you who's flirting with me" He responded managing to sound confident even though he was still blushing because of the other. Izuku let out a small giggle and leaned in even closer to Kiri to where the redhead could nearly feel warm lips hit against his. "Maybe so, guess we’ll find out over some soju. Keep it cold for me please"
With that Izuku pulled away and let go of Kirishima's pass giving him a big smile his child-like attitude coming back. He pulled up his hood once more and got back to making the fresh beats and hyping up the crowd. Kiri was left standing near the front for a few seconds before he finally made his way down going around the crowd heading for where all the drinks were asking one of the kids who were in charge of providing food to keep the bottle chilled and to not let a single person touch it.
He was then met with Denki who walked up to him, hand in hand with Shinsou by his side, "Dude I was looking everywhere for you! Where did you go?!" Denki semi yelled letting go of the other boy’s hand to wrap his arm around his shoulders.
Looking at his friend for a second he smiled big and looked over to where Izuku's stand was in the center.
"I went to see who was making the beat we heard. It was so fucking worth it"