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In all honesty, this field trip wasn’t planned.
In fact, if you asked Izuku, he’d tell you that it was an emergency.
It was Kaminari and Ashido that triggered it. They were among the portion of the class that was sitting in the common room after classes that Friday, everybody thoroughly exhausted and ready for an easy weekend. Izuku had been down there as well, writing notes on today’s training and only vaguely listening to the conversations that filtered through the air around him before he felt a prod to his shoulder, jerking him out of his thoughts.
Izuku looked up to his right, where Todoroki was sitting next to him and pulling his hand back from where he’d poked him. “Midoriya, what’s ice cream?” he asked, face blank as usual.
Izuku blinked in surprise. He couldn’t have heard that right. “What?”
“What’s ice cream?” Todoroki repeated, and nope, he heard right. “Kaminari and Ashido were talking about going somewhere to eat some.” He pointed over at the aforementioned duo, who were both staring at Todoroki with wide eyes, the shock on their faces probably mirrored on Izuku’s. “Is it a food?”
Izuku nodded numbly, brain still trying to catch up to the fact that Todoroki didn’t know what ice cream was. “Y-Yeah, it’s a kind of dessert. It’s really good to have during the summer.”
Todoroki hummed and nodded. “That would explain why I haven’t heard of it. My father always kept me on a strict diet growing up, so I didn’t get to have many sweets.”
Well that wasn’t going to do. Why Izuku mentally plotted how to egg the number one hero’s agency without getting caught, he set his notebook on the side table before standing, pulling Todoroki up with him with a grin. “Well, good thing Endeavor isn’t here right now.”
Mr. Aizawa was surprised to see Izuku and Todoroki outside his room in the teachers’ dorm a few minutes later, especially when they weren’t there to report an injury within the class. Izuku quickly pleaded his case, Todoroki standing next to him and watching on in confusion, and perhaps it was the circumstances that made Aizawa forgo the requirement that requests to leave campus needed to be submitted sooner than the day before.
After getting all the details, Aizawa signed the paperwork, made some calls, and that was how the next day, Class 1-A had an entire ice cream shop in Musutafu booked out for them for the afternoon.
It was chaos, all of their classmates spread out among the tables of the small shop, loudly enjoying their treats, and even the quieter (Kouda, Shoji, and Tokoyami) and more antisocial (Bakugou) of the class was breaking out of their shells to have fun.
Izuku and Todoroki were the last to get their ice cream, the latter staring at the array of ice cream flavors behind the glass with wide eyes. He almost looked overwhelmed.
“Do you need help picking, Todoroki?” Izuku asked.
Todoroki pursed his lips before nodding. “That might be helpful…what would you recommend?”
“Well, since it’s your first time having ice cream, it might be better to start with one of the basic flavors.” Izuku pointed to some of the flavors behind the glass. “Vanilla’s a classic, and there’s also chocolate and strawberry. If you want more variety though you could try salted caramel, or even rocky road- oh wait, are you allergic to nuts? Actually, you might not be able to have ice cream at all, you might be lactose intolerant-“
“What’s that one?” Todoroki cut into Izuku’s rant, pointing at a green ice cream with black specks in it.
“Oh! That’s mint chocolate chip. That one’s pretty good too!”
Todoroki stared at it. “Could I try that one?”
“Sure!” Izuku got the attention of the waitress behind the counter, and he ordered a mint chocolate cone for Todoroki, getting a cookie dough waffle bowl for himself.
The waitress handed the cone to Todoroki, and he stared at it in awe as he held it in his right hand. “How do I eat it?”
“You lick it,” Izuku answered, digging into his own bowl. “Careful not to bite it or eat too fast, you could get brain freeze.”
Todoroki hummed, studying the cone a moment longer before sticking his tongue out the slightest bit, and he brought the cone to his mouth, the ice cream scoop just barely touching the tip of his tongue. His eyes widened, and he took an even bigger lick, humming in appreciation with a small uptick of his lips. For Todoroki though, he may as well have been beaming.
“So what do you think?” Izuku asked with a wide grin of his own as he looked up at his friend.
“It’s really good.” Todoroki licked his cone again before turning to look back at the other flavors behind the glass. “Could we try the other flavors?”
“That might not be a good idea, too much ice cream could affect our hero training…but we could come back another time!”
Todoroki nodded. “I’d like that.” He continued eating his cone as he walked to the table Iida, Uraraka, and Tsuyu were already sitting at, Izuku trailing behind.
After that, Izuku made a point to bring Todoroki back each weekend to try a new ice cream flavor.