Chapter Seven: Chaos (Same Hairstylist)

Curls generally fell into two categories: the kind that was manageable and could be kept under control with a little effort, and the kind that was the physical embodiment of chaos itself and would deny and and all attempts to bring it to heel.

Izuku was gifted with the latter of those two options and it had been a huge chore to keep up with for as long as he could remember. Hairstylists struggled to keep his unruly locks under control whenever he went to get them cut and over the years, he'd more or less given up on finding someone who could make his hair look less…well, messy.

That was until he started dating Mina, who had the same chaotic hair and heard Izuku's plight.

"Come give my hairstylist a shot," she suggested with a grin. Her boyfriend's hair was getting kind of long and as the months warmed, it was becoming uncomfortable. "She's really good at getting hair like ours under control!"

Izuku gave her a dubious look. Mind you, he knew that Mina's hair wasn't nearly as choppy as his was after a haircut and he was curious about how the heck her stylist managed to make it look so good right after a haircut. His always looked really ragged for a week or so after it was cut and he had to wait for it to grow some more before it started looking better.

Why not?

Izuku couldn't believe his eyes. Literally could not. Mostly because the odds of Mina's hairstylist being who she was were like one in a million.

Mitsuki Bakugo twirled a pair of scissors around her finger and grinned lopsidedly. "Yo, Mina. Come for a trim?"

"Nah, boyfriend's hair was getting a little too caveman for my liking," she snickered. They'd come to Mitsuki's workplace, a stylist's shop in the mall, to get Izuku's hair cut.

Mitsuki glanced at Izuku and a huge smirk came over her face at the sight of the stunned teenager. "Surprise."

"How- what- when…" Izuku could barely get the words out of his mouth.

Mitsuki cackled and gestured to Mina. "Please, she's been getting her hair cut by me since she was little. Her dad and my husband are friends. Anyways…I've always wanted to have a go at trimming your hair up. Every time Inko brought you over to play when you were little, your hair was such a mess I was tempted to do it there."

She cracked her knuckles and grinned savagely- the origin of Katsuki's own vicious smile. "Now come to the back and let me have at the jungle you've got sitting on your head."

Thirty minutes later and Izuku was even more surprised than he'd been when they met up with Mitsuki. Not only was his hair cut, but it was cut really well. It didn't look choppy at all and it looked even better than when he tried to clean it up himself on an average day.

Mina gave a wolf-whistle as her boyfriend walked out with his hair freshly cut. "Damn, thanks Mitsuki!"

"You have no idea how long I've wanted to style that curly mess he's got," Mitsuki grinned. "You did me a favor."

Izuku glanced at Mitsuki in astonishment. "How'd you get it to look so good? None of the other hairstylists have ever gotten it this way before."

"Well, your average stylist is used to dealing with straight hair most of the time," Mitsuki explained. "But you can't treat curly hair with the same style as straight. It makes the curls work against each other and you just get a bigger mess. You just gotta direct the chaos in the right direction instead of forcing it to go somewhere it doesn't want to. How do you think I raised Katsuki?"

Izuku sweat-dropped. That…actually explained a lot.

Mina nudged her boyfriend and shot him a sly grin. "I'm gonna have to drag you out here every time you need a haircut if this is what I get to see. Boy you look fiiiiiine~"

Izuku's face turned cherry red as Mina and Mitsuki cackled, but even he admitted it was kind of fun.

A/N: Wow, I wrote a chapter that's less than 1,000 words for once, but I couldn't come up with much else for this prompt lol. That's it! IzuMina week 2018 is complete! Now I'm not sure if I'll do another one of these week-long challenges for anything else because this didn't get people as excited as I'd hoped, but it was still fun :) So anyways, I hoped you enjoyed this fun little project of mine and for my big readers, look forward to new chapters of both Challenger and Viridescent coming soon!