I probably should have explained in the prologue that this starts with AoS before the events of IronMan, following the information of what happened with Tony back at MIT and his father. I'm trying to do a more detailed character driven story introducing some ocs and building the plot up through current MCU. Thanks~!

Chapter One (MIt ~ August 1990)

She hated this, among all of the schools she wanted to go to, she was stuck at MIT. Her friends all back at UCLA, but no, her parents wanted her to go to MIT. Why MIT? Because her succeeding there looked good on them. They were Japanese Diplomats, and shallow ones at that, who were concerned a lot with outward appearances. Her successes were a reflection on them, and that was never gonna change. The upside was she was across the nation from them, her home being in San Francisco, and she really only had to give them one terrible call a day to check in. She had just moved into her dorm, picked up her books, and other general supplies and really was just exploring the campus. She smiled as she sat down watching students as she turned on her CD player to Madonna skipping to the song "vogue". She loved Madonna, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, and Heart. Envious of the passion in their voices and their songs about love and having fun. She longed for the latter, but even her fashioned was coordinated by her mother's personal designer. The young woman was small for 18, only four feet ten inches, and a little over a hundred pounds of genius. She had milky skin and stormy blue eyes lined with silver lashes. Her silvery hair cut diagonally across her doll like face, tied with a bow back and cascaded like a silver waterfall down her back. She wore a preppy outfit, consisted of a pink cable knit sweater, and a navy pleated skirt. Her shoes being the sweetest pink mary janes that matched her sweater. Her mother seemed to have some humor in the suggestions, but the young woman could never figure out what.

She looked up at the tree shading her bench and saw a tiny little fur ball in the tree. Standing up to get a closer look, the small little fluff was too tiny to be an adult cat and her heart sank. A kitten would be in trouble staying up there. She placed her book bag down with the CD player, a sticker on the lid of Captain America's shield, and smiled. Her parents would hate her climbing a tree to save a kitten. She thought to herself though, what would captain america do?

Save the cat.

Little did her parents know how rambunctious she actually was. Much of high school was her spent playing sports without her parents knowledge. Saying it was a spelling B, or something of the sort. She placed a sure footed mary jane on a lower branch and started to pull herself up and into the tree. One branch at a time, she climbed til she reached the one with the tiny little fluff. She straddled the branch and adjusted her skirt, she always wore minishorts underneath, and started to crawl out to the little tiny kitten. It looked at her as she crawled out and she realized it wasn't a cat at all. She wasn't sure what it was, but it had the facial features of a cat but long rabbit like ears. It smiled and she squealed losing her balance, and slipping off. She yelled out as she landed on someone soft and warm, and heard another yell of pain by a man, and the laughter coming from behind. She scrambled off and realized she had fallen on someone, "oh my goodness, I'm so sorry….there was kitten in the tree or I thought it was….."

"Cats can get themselves down," groaned the man she fell on as he sat up. He sat up and looked at her with a glare, but under that look she realized he was quite the handsome man. Tan skin, dark hair slicked back and deep dark eyes that just seem to sparkle with intelligence. He wore a shirt with a metal band on it, and jeans with ripped knees, with a backwards ball cap. "And why would you climb up there in a skirt?"

"Tony, of the questions you should be asking, those don't seem like important ones," the man standing answered and she felt her cheeks tinge pink at the tall black man who was dressed sharply. He reached out a hand to help her up, "thankfully, he caught you with his big dumb head."

"Haha," said the man named Tony as the young woman took his friends hand, "real funny, Rhodie."

"Anytime, Stark…"

She turned her eyes to the fallen man and they grew big, "you're Tony Stark?"

"One and only," he answered as he raised up and dusted himself off. He thumbed a finger at his friend, "this the future president of the US, Rhodes…"

"Ignore him," the other man laughed. "He's grouchy when he hasn't had a poptart."

She knew Tony Stark alright. Anthony Edward Stark, son of Howard Stark, the multi billionaire weapons manufacturer that always seemed to be lobby against any anti gun bill that her parents tried to push in Congress. She bowed and blushed, "I am so sorry...I'm Hoshi Nakano. In retrospect that was very stupid of me to climb that high to rescue a kitten…."

"I say," Tony snorted crossing his arms and then smiling, "but even with those shorts you wear, I got to see your cute little…."

"Tony," Rhodes interrupted seeing the small woman turn bright red. Her pale skin easily flushing. "Don't mind him, he's a sleazeball. In fact, he's pervert number one on campus."

"Guilty," Tony answered with a bright grin.

"And, even though he's technically graduated and doesn't have to be here. He likes to hang around and be a general annoyance," Rhodes scolded and the man just shrugged and nodded reluctantly while she giggled. He noticed Tony sulking but the man pointed at her knee, which was bleeding, "Oh Miss Nakano….you're bleeding~!"

"Well, crap," she grumbled looking down at the blood running into her patent shoes. Oh, she would never hear the end of this from her mom if she found out, "please, please, please, don't tell anyone I was climbing in that tree. My mom would have a fit, she would love to just keep me a dollhouse, and knowing that I climbed a tree would just make my life hell…."

"Why did you climb that tree," Tony asked as she limped over to pick up her bag and he saw the familiar red, white, and blue shield icon on her CD player.

"Because that's what Captain America would do," she answered and he rolled his eyes. He saw her limping and came over, scooping her up and putting her on his shoulder making her squeal.

"Come on, we aren't going to let you limp all the way back to commons," Tony said as he walked with her on his shoulder.

She looked at Rhodes, "is he always this demanding?"

"You could say that," Rhodes said as they came to the frat house nearby. It was empty and Tony set her on the couch as he went to go find the med kit. He sat on the couch next to her, and saw the bag was spangled, "big captain america fan huh?"

She blushed, "you could say that... I have a few posters in my dorm."

"Oh goody, another fangirl," Tony said as he came back with the med kit.

"Are you always so salty?"

"When comes that hero, yes."

"Oh," Hoshi said pushing her bag behind her. It wasn't very often she got to meet a billionaire, muchless, Tony Stark. He was on the cover of Time with his robotics. There were a lot of girls who would kill to be in her position. "Im sorry, I didn't mean to ruin your time out with your friend over here….not sure what you guys were up to but….sorry."

"Scolding Tony," Rhodes snorted leaning back as Tony poured some alcohol on some gauze and started to clean her wounds. "Overprotective parents?"

"You could say that," Hoshi answered softly.

"Nakano, that's the name of the anti gun diplomats," Tony answered and Hoshi's eyes grew big. Did he know of her family? Oh, she was going to get in so much trouble. Not only did she climb a tree, but was hanging out with her parents political opposition? Oh, yeah. She was never leaving California again after this semester.

"Hey, I'm not gonna rat you out to your parents, as long as you don't rat me out to mine," Tony smiled holding out a hand and she squinted at him like she was making a deal with a devil. She shook his hand through her cheeks pink with embarrassment, "fine….."

There came a knock on the front door and Rhodes just smirked as he got up to go answer it and Tony put a bandaid on her knee, and said, "you're cute when you blush…."

Her eyes turned bigger and she looked away, did this guy mean that sincerely? She cleared her throat and heard a cough behind her as someone came in the living, "Hoshi, I've been looking for you everywhere?"

She turned and looked at the man Rhodes had just let in and grinned ear to ear nervously, "I was just hanging out with some new friends…"

"You're no good at lying," the man assessed and laughed as he rubbed the back of his head. He was Japanese and tall, and lean. His face was sharp, set with sea green eyes, and framed with wild bright blue hair. However, despite his loud hair, his fashion was slacks and button up shirt. He seemed more conservative that artistic or punkish.

"Who's this," Tony asked, he wondered if her parents had people spying on her at the school. Which was weird, but among rich people, not unheard of.

"Rowen Hashiba," the man answered as Rhodes came in and sat on the arm of the couch. "And you must be Anthony Stark?"

Tony stood and grinned, going over to shake the man's hand, "Hashiba, as in son of Genichirou Hashiba…."

"Yeah….that's him…"

Rhodes looked at Hoshi for clarification, "what in the world?"

"Rowen is equivalent Japan's Stark family playboy," Hoshi answered with a smile as Rowen shook Tony's hand. "Except one family markets world domination…."

Tony looked at her and shrugged as Rowen looked at her, "Hoshi...don't be harsh…"

"Don't tell me what to do~! You're not my boyfriend no matter what my Mom says~!"

Tony snorted, "your mom is weird Hoshi…."

"UGH, tell me about it," Hoshi said hiding her face in the couch cushions and Rhodes rubbed her back.

"Quite honestly, I just go along with it to keep her off your back about marrying someone," Rowen said leaning over the couch as she pouted.

Tony laughed, "so you're not dating?"

"Why would you care, Stark," Rowne asked with a raised brow.

"I don't know, cuz she's cute and it would be shame for her to be with a stiff like you," Tony answered crossing his arms.

Hoshi felt her face flush even brighter and clutched the pillow to her face as she squeeked. Rhodes heard her muffled shock, "Tony, be nice…"

She sat up and looked at the three men, grabbing her bag and started out, "I am not piece of meat. Stop acting like I'm someone for you to fight over~!"

Rowen rolled his eyes and warned Tony as he turned to head out, "not cool to mess with a girl's emotions like that…." He ran out after her, "Hoshi….wait~!"

Rhodes snorted as he sat back against the couch, "did you mean that? Or did you just say that to get a reaction out of her?"

"A bit of both."