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Izuku Midoriya practically fainted on his bad after coming back from his latest training session. He had been training harder and longer to master his new Shoot Style technique and to incorporate punches in his technique to throw off opponents like he had done to Katsuki Bakugo during their fight.
He was tired, a bit stressed out, and his friends were worried about him, especially his best friend and new girlfriend, Ochako Uraraka. He knew they worried about him, and he wanted to tell them what was wrong, but he just couldn't. Midoriya was chosen by the former Symbol of Peace All Might himself, and had to train so he could become the next Symbol of Peace in order to give the entire world a safe state of mind.
He really wished that he could tell his friends, his mother and Uraraka about his relationship with All Might, but he knew that that would put them in danger. All Might's arch nemesis, All for One, had been out and about not too long ago, and the thought of All for One coming after anyone he cared about made him sick to his stomach.
Midoriya sighed before getting up, and changing into a plain white T-shirt and blue boxers. After brushing his teeth, he went into his bed and stuck a hand under his pillow. When he got his hand out, a picture of himself and Uraraka was in his hand. In the picture, he and Uraraka were sitting at a restaurant, drinking a milkshake with two straws on the same cup.
Midoriya blushed slightly looking at the photo. Katsuki Bakugo and Mei Hatsume happened to see them in the store, and Hatsume had taken a picture of the two of them. When Midoriya found out, he confronted Hatsume about it and she gave him the photo. Midoriya had to admit that despite it being taken without his permission, it was a cute photo of the two of them together.
But this photo also gave him motivation. With the increase in villain activity, the school had them do much more training than usual, giving Midoriya and Uraraka hardly any time to spend together. The photo, in his eyes, represented what could be if he achieved the same level of peace for the world that All Might had once done. It sounded like a Herculean task, and in fact it was, but looking that the smiling faces of he and Uraraka like they didn't have a care in the world, was something that was worth every sore muscle, every early morning training session, every spine chilling feeling he had when faced with villains, and everything else that came with it.
Midoriya smiled at the picture one more time before he put it back under his pillow and tucked himself into bed to get some sleep before his 5AM training session.
'Thanks for giving me this strength, Ochako,' Midoriya thought before he drifted off to sleep.
