Power Quaking - Chapter 8.2

The ringing alarm from her flip phone woke Ochako at flat on six in the morning. The rosy cheeked girl awoke with a groan, her eyes feeling heavy.

Her tummy rumbled with desire for sustenance, but she ignored it. She was tempted to lay there for a bit until she fully awoke.

But a small happy sounding yip forced her to roll over in her bed and peer down. There, sitting up in a small clothing basket was her newest roommate.

Mochi.

Kano in the end had no issue with letting her name the dog after her favourite food, and had left the puppy with her last night after they'd drove down to the vet down the road with the cute little puppy.

He'd left her to it around eight pm last night and returned home. But considering they had a half day yesterday…he was there for quite a while.

It was weird having a boy in her house for so long. But at the same time, he was…kind of easy to deal with? So it hadn't really been a bother.

Though he needed to stop flashing his money or else he was going to give her a heart attack. She'd went to the bathroom to change out of her uniform, only to come back to find him telling her he'd ordered them some food from a take away place.

He'd ordered a massive pizza, alongside a kebab because of course he'd get one, and a 'munchie box' which was apparently just a massive buffet like box of different types of food from the take away place.

That boy could seriously eat.

What was with him and all the non Japanese food though?

Shaking her head, she got up out of her bed, ignoring the cold wood floor as she crouched down to pet Mochi, "Hiya boy, how are ya?" she beamed at the little puppy who in return excitedly tried to nip at her fingers.

But since she was wearing her sleeping gloves to stop her quirk from being activated during the night when she was asleep, she couldn't feel it at all.

"Nice try." she teased, wiggling her gloved finger with his tiny jaw wrapped around it.

At Kano's advice last night, she'd put a little blanket inside her washing basket and had Mochi sleep in it during the night just so he didn't go wandering around and hurt himself.

Picking the little pup up, she plopped him down on the wooden floor and let him have a wander around, watching with an amused smile as he stumbled his way around happily.

While he did that, she went and poured herself a glass of water. She'd make some coffee to wake herself up, but she didn't drink coffee. Coffee was way too expensive for her to just casually have for drinking!

After downing the glass of water, she went and brushed her teeth and washed her face in the bathroom before going on to fix her bed and get ready for the day.

She quickly tried running a brush through her messy bed hair, but it didn't really do much. Her hair had always been weird and there wasn't much she could do about it. She'd been pretty self conscious about it growing up actually, it wasn't like the luscious bouncy long hair other girls tended to have, but just a weirdly messy and misshapen bob with odd bangs that hung to her chin!

'Oh well.' she shrugged. She might have been able to do something about it if she went to a salon or something or had some really expensive hair care products, but she'd never waste money on something so silly.

"Now, what to do about you little man?" Ochako mused, turning her attention to Mochi who was currently in the process of gnawing at one of the toys Kano bought him yesterday, a long knotted rope thing.

Should she feed him?

'No wait.' she paused and shook her head. Didn't Kano tell her feeding a dog then walking them could give them bloat or something like that, which could get really bad if not paid attention to?

Alright, walk first then!

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Luckily for Ochako, by the vets estimation Mochi was estimated to be between two and three months old and already had some basic house training. Enough to know at least that doing the toilet in the house, was bad and only to do it if he couldn't hold it, and that was what the mats bought and laid down by Kano as well had been for.

But Mochi such a smart boy and hadn't done it in the house at all, and waited until she took him a little walk in his cute little harness and retractable leash around the block.

He was such a cute curious little guy as well! Stopping to sniff at everything they passed by from a lamppost to a stone to a bit of grass! 'He's so adorable!' Ochako squealed internally as she led him back up to her apartment.

Once back inside she took his harness and leash off, before beginning to set out his breakfast. Multiple bowls, four for food and one for water.

They weren't sure what food he would prefer so Kano being Kano…had bought a lot. As in, three different of dog food, in five different flavours. In Jelly, in gravy and in loaf.

And that wasn't counting the dry food, or the bunch of different treats Kano had gotten the little puppy.

As she set the literal five bowls down for the little puppy, she couldn't help but shake her head at the ludicrousness of it all. 'This puppy is gonna be eating better than me!' she pouted inwardly.

Man being a dog sure was easy!

Well as long as you had a doting owner like Kano at least. "I pity the girl that marries that guy." she laughed to herself, especially if they had a daughter in the future.

The first boy that showed any interest in her, was going to get threatened with having an earthquake shoved down his throat.

Well she supposed there was a lot worse things to have in a guy than him being incredibly doting despite being an overly muscular macho man behemoth.

"Right!" Ochako shook her head and put that out of mind for the moment and bounced to her feet as Mochi began sniffing around the food, "Time to get some morning exercises in!" she cheered pumping her fist into the air.

Nothing intensive, just some basic stretches to get nice and limber for later! She didn't want to get her uniform all sweaty after all!

Washing clothes cost money after all!

Luckily she hadn't put her leggings on yet though!

She definitely would be though. Especially since she knew that pervert Mineta was going to be around, she wasn't going to give that little weirdo even the slightest chance of perving on her, even if he was far more likely to try and perv on some of the other girls in her class, like that Yaoyorozu girl or the pink skinned girl, Mina, they were way prettier than her after all.

She probably didn't have to worry too much after Kano had threatening to smoosh him with his quirk, but one couldn't be too careful around creepy little perverts like that.

And so while Mochi was testing out the food she'd put down for him, Ochako got down to some basic exercises, stretching out her legs and arms and such before doing some calf raises and squats and then through a few other calisthenics.

Nothing too extensive and not even that many of them, because she wasn't sure how intense today was going to be at U.A and as such couldn't afford to tire herself out, but it got the blood pumping a bit

She usually went out jogging in the mornings as well, had made it an ingrained habit while getting ready for the U.A entrance exam, but yeah she didn't want to tire herself out at all, she needed to apply herself at one hundred twenty percent during her classes!

Just as she was finishing up, there was a knock at her door, making Ochako blink, "Eh?" she cocked her head to the side in confusion.

That couldn't be Kano already…surely not? It was only seven thirty in the morning!

But as he seemed to have a habit of doing, Kano defied her expectations…and it was him.

"…Why are you here so early?" she asked when she opened the door and found him standing on the other side already dressed in his U.A uniform, blazer and all, though like yesterday he'd foregone the tie and left his top couple of buttons undone, "And what the heck is that?"

The class number one had a box that looked like a pizza box almost held in one hand above his shoulder, "It's breakfast, what else Mochi Girl?" he grinned at her boyishly, "It's a fry up, I know this place not far from here, some guy who used to live in Scotland in his youth and came back to open a restaurant here, he makes British food, real good stuff, really filling!"

"…What is with you and the non Japanese food?" she snorted, "Are you some kind of foreigner food otaku or something?"

He gaped at her, "Me…an otaku?" he repeated slowly, "Do…I look like an otaku?" he asked her disbelievingly, and lifted his other arm to curl his bicep.

"Having big muscles doesn't at all disqualify you from being an otaku Kano-kun, that's just a good disguise," Ochako rolled her eyes, "Besides, you forget that I follow your Wetube account now and I saw a ton of videos of you playing video games and a lot of them were foreign too."

"I like video games, and Japanese games suck for the most!" he pouted at her, "Foreign stuff just tends to be more dense in calories and I need a lot more than usual because of my body and stuff."

"If you say so," Ochako shrugged, it did smell good she had to admit. But, she frowned, "You're not trying to butter me up or something are you?"

She felt kind of sleazy asking such a thing when he really had been nothing but nice to her. But, between him flirting with her the first time they met, calling her cute, flashing his money and the like and well the comments Mineta made, it could make a girl wonder.

She might have been poor, but she wasn't some charity case. If nothing else, she had pride in that and would draw the law in the sand early and make it known she wasn't some shallow girl that would do anything for money.

"What are you talking about?" Kano's face screwed up in confusion, giving her an odd look, "Butter you up for what? If it's about Mochi, this isn't a bribe to take care of him or anything, I just figured you might have found yourself a little busier than usual with him around and not gotten to have breakfast yet so I figured I'd bring it in with me and we can both eat at the same time."

He then raised an eyebrow at her, "…Unless you want me to bribe you to take care of him?" he asked, still looking utterly confused.

She felt her cheeks heat up, "No, no no! Nothing like that!" she quickly sputtered out, waving her arms quickly to keep his attention off of her face, "It just felt a bit weird cuz you were flashing about a lot of money with buying stuff for mochi and then that big food delivery last night and now this."

"Oh…" Kano blinked, before shrugging, "Nah nah, nothing like that. I just wanted to make sure Mochi would have everything he needs and make taking care of him easier for you since he'd be staying with you and I couldn't be around constantly. And I like I said, I eat a lot and I wasn't exactly gonna order a ton of food for myself and get none for you, that's just rude and being a greedy dick."

She felt so embarrassed right now. He was just a good natured idiot, at least to anyone who wasn't named Bakugou.

"Right…cool…cool…" Ochako replied, before coughing, "Right anyway, come on in and see Mochi!" she hurriedly waved him inside and changed the topic.

God she was such an idiot sometimes.