Shiozaki

A/N: I rewrote this interaction about eight times and I'm still not happy with it. Apologies to anyone who likes Shiozaki and doesn't like the direction this has gone, but I struggled to come up with a good way to reconcile how I'd already written her, how she is in the canon, and her NOT causing major problems going forward.

Deku's eyes flickered open. She felt...exhausted, and sore, but not too bad all things considered. She groaned.A sudden strangled cry startled her, and she looked over to see Shiozaki fidgetting with her hands and blushing.

"S-Shiozaki...you...I um...Have you been waiting here?"

"You! You...tainted me! And I....I'm dirty now." Her eyes were watering. "Why? Why did..." The last part was whispered. "...why did I like it?"

Deku winced. This might get messy. "Look, I...I didn't mean for that to happen."

"That's...no...you must have! You....tempted me."

"I..." Deku thought over how much to admit. "My quirk did, but my costume is designed to help prevent that. I can't control it. At least not...that aspect of it. Not completely anyway. It's not your fault...and I tried to make sure no one saw what you were doing."

"I...I still sinned...I...I can't get married now."

Deku shifted nervously. "I..."

"Wait...We can get married!"

"W-what?!"

"You were a guy right? You just look like that because of your quirk? That's what the sinfully violent one said."

"Well yes, but..."

"Then we have to get married!"

"I barely even know you! And well...I'm already dating someone."

Shiozaki looked crushed for a moment, but then it shifted to determination. "Then I'll just have to convince you. Abandon this sinful life and marry me instead!"

Deku was lost for words.

"I...I'll let you rest for now, but you'll see eventually."

And then she turned and walked out.

It was about half an hour of being checked out by Recovery girl later when her next visitors arrived. She'd suffered a mild concussion, and broken an arm, but other than that it was mostly scrapes and bruises. Recovery girl did a good job and she'd mostly just needed to rest. The tournament had long since wrapped up and Shiozaki had been released only a short while before she'd woken up.

After a brief checkup she was released, so she started to head home.

"Deku!" Two familiar voices said in unison. She turned and was caught in a hug by Tsuyu, followed by Ochaco. Both girls released after a few moments and stepped back.

"Oh! Hey, You waited this late?"

"We wanted to be sure you were ok, kero."

Uraraka nodded.

"Well, thank you...I'm doing fine. Recovery Girl healed me up and I just needed to get some rest."

"Good." Uraraka smiled. And then her expression shifted and she punched Deku on the shoulder.

"Ow, hey!"

"That's for whatever that was with Shiozaki!" Uraraka glared. "I can't believe you pulled that, especially in public! The audience may not have known what was going on but we know how your quirk works! "

"It wasn't...I didn't do it on purpose!"

"Are you saying she started it, kero?" Tsuyu had a finger to the side of her mouth.

"Mostly. I...I found out that when I...well I tried to paralyze her. And apparently when I do that it also contains a lot of my pheromones, and I...I don't think she had much experience with those kinds of intense feelings. She was losing it, and her vines were...the only way I could think to prevent her from embarrassing both of us, or worse, was to push back the same way."

There was a pause. "I'm sorry..." Ochaco looked embarrassed.

"It's okay...You know I don't want to **** this. I wasn't going to...try to seduce anyone unless it was life and ****, much less follow through. And I did. Even though I didn't see a better option, I still...I should have been more careful."

Deku sighed. "And there's more...She uh...She came to my room, she was there when I woke up." Deku hesitated. "She's convinced that because we um...did that, because we...in her words...sinned, we have to get married now, and wants to convince me to pick her."

"WHAT?!" Ochaco screeched. Even Tsuyu's face betrayed annoyance at that.

"C-calm down, Uraraka-chan. It's not like I'm going to do it...and its not really fair to get upset with her given what my quirk did. What I did..."

Deku was suddenly enveloped in another hug. "If you didn't know, then I don't see what you could have done differently. I guess you need to learn more about your quirk so it doesn't happen again?"

"But..." Deku started to counter.

"Oh! Hey, Tsuyu, give him the thing!"

"Right, kero. I was asked to give you this..." Tsuyu held out a silver medal. "You placed second! Bakugo and Mina both got third. You did really good."

Deku took it and held it up to look at. "Wow...I'll be honest, the fight slipped my mind with all this with Shiozaki...Recovery girl told me what happened, but...well...anyway, I'm glad he finally used his real power, at least..." She hesitated again. "Did either of you hear from Iida?"

Tsuyu shook her head, and Uraraka frowned. "No, not yet. I know he went to the hospital to see his brother."

"We'll check in with him in the morning then...it's late. I'll see you tomorrow after we've all rested."

A/N: Well, finally. Lots of dialogue, not much of note, but I eventually just had to push through, I'd rather get this done and move on to more interesting things than spend another multiple weeks trying to find time and motivation to perfect this.