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Ochako knocks on Mina's door, hears a Mina noise that vaguely sounds like "Come in," and goes in.
As she steps into the room it occurs to her that the noise wasn't, in fact, a "Come in."
Ochako blinks. "Uh."
Mina is sitting on the floor with her boys. Her hair is pushed back with a fluffy headband and she has eye masks on. As do all of her boys. Kirishima has a matching headband, too.
Bakugou is fast asleep.
"I didn't mean to... interrupt," Ochako says, unsure if she actually interrupted.
"It's alright," Mina smiles. She isn't being quiet, but she's not raising her voice. "Did you need something?"
"I was gonna ask for that sweater I lent you? The pink one? You said I could come by and take it today..."
"Oh, right! Hold on."
It takes a moment for Mina to stand up and make her way over. She had a bunch of nail polish bottles in her lap, and she has to tip-toe around a veritable mess across her floor. She takes the sweater out of her closet and hands it over.
"There you go, all clean like I promised! Thanks again."
"Yeah, no problem," Ochako says. She puts it on right away. "Do I wanna ask about this setup here or...?"
"We're having a spa night!" Kirishima beams.
"A spa night."
"Well, it's supposed to be a spa day," Mina explains with a vague gesture. She starts on the treacherous path back to her previous spot. "But with school and work studies, we only have the nights to work with."
"It's a fun time," Sero shrugs. He's sitting with his back to the side of the bed, and his shoulder is decorated by Bakugou's slack hand. "You can join, if you want. Right guys?"
"Yeah! Join us, Uraraka, it's super manly!"
"Not gonna say no to your company," Kaminari says with a wink. His hair is clipped out of his face with even more clips than he usually wears.
"Find a seat!"
Ochako looks around. She takes one of Mina's floor pillows and clears out a spot by the low table.
She sits.
"Let me take a gander at your lovely round face," Mina says. She chinhands at her table and just looks at Ochako for a minute. "Alright, let's get the eyebags to start with. Here's some masks for you. It says ten minutes on the thing but you can leave them longer if you want."
Ochako carefully opens the packet and looks inside. "How long have you guys had yours on for?"
"Like two minutes. We did hair before."
Ochako looks at their hair. "Should I... do mine?"
"Oh, let me!" Kaminari goes. He scoots around and starts picking clips out of a box on the table.
Ochako lets him. He looks like he knows what he's doing, always wearing those clips himself.
"I can get those if you want," Mina offers, gesturing at the open pack in Ochako's hands.
"Please," Ochako nods. "I don't really do this kind of thing myself."
"That's what I'm here for!" Mina grins. She applies the eye masks just under Ochako's eyes, while Kaminari gets her hair out of her face.
"All done! Now we wait. We're gonna do nails."
"I picked one," Sero says, holding out a black bottle. "I can do Katsuki's and mine, we'll match."
"I want to do a little lightning bolt on mine," Kaminari says.
"Black and white like your costume, right?" Mina guesses, grabbing a handful of bottles and bringing them up to the table. "Here, start on the base coat and I'll do the design for you. Ochako?"
"Pink, I think," Ochako says. "Maybe one will be white, with the dots."
"Iconic," Mina nods. "Here, base coat for you too. Ei, you wanna attempt your own?"
"I'll give it one more shot," Kirishima shrugs. He, of course, picks red nail polish.
For a few minutes they all sit with their heads bowed over their nails, working as best as each of them can. Sero is careful as he paints Bakugou's hand so as to not wake him, and he doesn't attempt to reach across the bed for the other one.
Mina has a little spray that dries the polish really fast, so Kirishima and Bakugou both get their nails done before the eye masks are even off.
"Alright, time!" Mina calls. "Everyone take off your masks. There's gonna be a little product left behind, just rub it in. Gently, Ei." She demonstrates as she gives the instructions.
She stands up and leans over her bed. She removes Bakugou's eye masks and rubs away the product on his face. He barely stirs.
"Nice," she mutters under her breath. She turns around. "Next, we've got face masks! I'm just gonna put some moisturizer on our boy here, I don't want to wake him up. Pick whichever you like, I have like four different kinds."
None of them know what any of these are, so they pick at random. Kaminari picks the same one as Ochako, and when Mina joins them, she picks the same one that Sero picked. This prompts Kirishima to switch his choice to that one.
Ochako giggles. "Peer pressured?"
"I just trust Mina's judgment more," Kirishima argues. "She knows her stuff!"
"I do know my stuff! Here, put a little on your hand and just go at it," she says, doing so herself first and then offering some to Kirishima and Sero.
Ochako and Kaminari's one is a light, minty green color and smells like tea, while the other one is a dark charcoal gray and looks like it dries as it's applied.
"You want a thin coat," Mina says halfway through applying her mask. She looks incredibly silly. "And try not to move your face, once it dries it will crack at the smallest thing."
Despite the warning, Ochako doesn't feel her mask drying much at all. She's pretty sure it remains a cream the whole time.
Mina finishes her nails third, just a simple green with a glittery topcoat. Sero does his nails without a base or top so he finishes right after her and there's polish smudged all over his fingers.
Ochako finishes her nails just as Mina starts on Kaminari's.
"This is nice," she admits.
"Isn't it?" Sero grins. "I really thought you'd be doing this kind of thing for girl night."
"We do hair mostly," Ochako says. "Nails are gonna get ruined right away in training. We could probably do the masks, but they're expensive, aren't they?"
"I have a friend that gets me discounts," Mina says, expertly giving a non-answer.
"No there's no way you just do hair for girl nights," Kaminari protests. "That's gotta get real boring real fast after the fifth time."
"We watch movies, or sit in the bath. We cook for each other sometimes, if we have time for it."
"One time Tsuyu made this really yummy meal! Noodle soup with tsuyu sauce, it was so funny, but then you eat it and it's so tasty? And she had some killer onigiri on the side. And like a bajillion veggies in the salad, hoo boy," Mina says. She smiles just remembering it.
To be fair, Ochako is salivating at the memory alone. "It was sooo good. It took her a good while to make it, we tried to help her where we could but she was just so dang efficient with it! It was great."
"Well now I'm hungry," Kirishima pouts. "Hey, how about I make some miso for everyone after this?"
"If Katsuki's gonna be mobile, sure," Sero nods. He absentmindedly kisses the back of Bakugou's hand.
"I can move him," Kirishima promises.
"He got a fucking concussion today, let him sleep off the healing."
"He needs good food to heal fast!"
"We had dinner already."
"We're growing teenagers and hardworking hero students," Kirishima argues. "A second dinner is the bare minimum."
"So long as you're cooking," Ochako shrugs.
Honestly, the dorms saved her a lot of hassle. The rent she was paying before to live near the school wasn't a lot, and her parents were willing to cover it, but she knows their pockets are shallow. She never wanted to burden them, she wants to help them!
So she was really happy to not pay rent anymore, or train fare to travel to and from the school every day.
UA isn't making them pay for housing. They installed the dorms as a way to take responsibility, they'd never ask the students to pay for them.
So Ochako is happy.
This part, the fact that sometimes she even gets to eat for free, that's just the cherry on top.
She's already making money at her work study. Things are going well.
"Alright, now we wash the masks off!" Mina declares. "Ei, you first, you're cracked to hell and back."
They each take their turn cleaning up in Mina's bathroom. When Sero gets up, Bakugou finally rouses, but only long enough to roll over and go back to sleep.
"Last one," Mina says. "Everyone gets some hand cream. Only on the back of the hands. Line up, do as I do."
She squeezes out just a dollop of cream on the back of her hand and uses the back of her other hand to rub it in. She goes down the line and distributes some to all of them.
Sero somehow manages to mess up his (dried? And yet?) nails even more.
"All done," Mina declares. "Should we wake Katsuki up now or after the miso is done?"
"Aw he loves cooking, we gotta wake him up. I'll go," Kirishima volunteers. Brave soul.
He sits on Mina's bed and shakes Bakugou's shoulder. With a soft voice, he goes "Katsuki..."
A mumble.
"Yeah wake up. We're gonna go downstairs and eat."
Bakugou rolls over to look at him "Eat what...?"
"I'm making miso soup."
"Mm." Bakugou sits up. "What the shit is on my face?"
"Moisturizer."
Bakugou rubs a finger along his jaw, then rubs his thumb on his finger. "Fine." He looks at his hand. "And this?"
"We match!" Sero goes, holding out his own hand to show his nails.
"We kind of match," Kaminari adds. "I've got lightning bolts on mine."
Bakugou just blinks, still drowsy. "...Yeah I don't care, actually. You said food?"
"Yeah, come on, up you go."
Ochako hastily removes Mina's clips from her hair. She watches the five of them file out of the room, Mina hanging by the door to wait for her.
"Thanks, this was fun," Ochako tells her.
Mina grins. "It was fun to have you!"
"But I didn't do anything. And I kinda crashed your date."
"You said it was fun. That's all that matters!"
Ochako smiles. She gives her a quick hug. "Thanks, Mina."
Mina hugs her back and closes the door behind them. "No problem. Now let's eat!"
"Yeah. Let's go."