A/N: Hello again everyone! Chapter 4 is up and ready for the world to see. It's a bit shorter than usual but the content within is part of the reason. As always, please comment and let me know what you think, good or bad! My exams start next week and I have been a hermit for the past who knows how long. Pray for ya boi. Till next time!

The hustle and bustle in and around Musutafu Station seemed to be present no matter what time of day it was. One could hardly stand still without being engulfed by a sea characters of all kinds, hurrying their way in and out of the station to wherever they were heading to.

Luckily for Momo, she had grown accustomed to making her way through the constant crowds at the train station, so she and Ryuusei had gotten onto the westbound train with relative ease. The pair of teens expertly weaved their way through the moderately filled cars until they found two empty seats across from each other at the back of the train.

It became apparent to Momo very quickly that she may have been more ill-prepared to have casual conversation with Ryuu than she had initially thought. She was unsure if the conversation that started this whole issue in the first place was weighing in the back of her mind, or if she was just nervous about spending the day alone with her totally-not-crush. Either way, it made for an awkwardly silent ride, for her at least. As the train screeched down the tracks towards their destination, Momo spent most of her time staring nervously at her hands folded in her lap, occasionally shooting a glance up at the boy across from her, who was peacefully looking out the window with one earbud in.

Within Momo's mind, an intense struggle was taking place. One part of her was too nervous to say anything, not wanting to bother his seemingly peaceful state or even worse, terrified of saying something that made her look bad again. The other part of her could not stand the awkward silence between herself and the boy across from her. This part was aware of how good of an opportunity this was to get to know Ryuu better before they got to Kabukicho. Eventually, this side prevailed over the other and Momo managed to force out a sentence.

"Ryuu-kun..." Said boy turned his head to meet her eyes and looked on expectantly, "…" Momo panicked in her mind. 'What should I say?! I had not considered what exactly I would say to him when I finally decided to break the silence that had befallen us. Think, Momo! You are a verbose, friendly, charismatic young woman who can have a conversation with anyone she pleases!' After what seemed like an eternity but was only about a second, the gears in Momo's mind clicked and she was ready. "W-What are you listening to?" Totally casual, totally normal conversation.

"Hmm? Oh, it's this rap group called Migos." He replied. So far, so good.

Momo tilted her head thoughtfully, "Migos? What an intriguing name for a group of musicians."

Ryuu chuckled, "Yeah I guess so. A lot of rappers have some unique or weird names. Some have some sort of symbolism to them, some of them just sound cool to the artists I guess. I listen to a ton of music, some people get kinda thrown off by it. I probably have like maybe close to a thousand tracks on my phone. I pretty much am a hoarder at this point, haha." Momo made a mental note in her mind. 'Ryuu-kun loves music very much and is very passionate about it. It is one of his largest interests, it seems.' Ryuu shifted up in his seat and leaned forward slightly, resting his elbows on his thighs. "What kind of music do you like, Momo-chan?"

Momo had an embarrassed grin on her face, "Actually, I do not listen to much music, so I don't really care for any sort of music specifically." She was entirely unprepared for the adorable look that appeared on Ryuu's face as he grew extremely thoughtful. Her cheeks flared up with a shade of pink as he suddenly got out of his seat from across from her and plopped down in the empty seat to her immediate left.

"Momo-chan, this is a very serious situation! Music is the ultimate form of expression. It can stir up complex emotions, give you something abstract to think about, reflect social issues plaguing the world, the possibilities are endless! Music is a huge part of my life and I'm taking it upon myself to open up your ears to the world." Before she could protest in any way, she saw Ryuu pull his phone out his pocket and scroll through what seemed to be an endless database of songs, somehow navigating his way through the mess of characters and lists as if it were second nature.

"Okay, I'm not sure if you'll like the kind of rap music I like. It's probably too vulgar and stuff but I love a ton of different kinds of music, and I got an idea of some you are just gonna love." Ryuu was showing an uncharacteristic giddy side that Momo had not seen before, around any of their classmates. He was usually very cool and different than what she saw now. She couldn't help her lips from upturning at the sight of his obvious excitement.

"Okay, here we go." He held out one of his earbuds to her. "Just close your eyes, let the sound consume you. The only thing you wanna be thinking of is whatever comes from the music. Let it take control and take you on a journey. It sounds kinda weird but just trust me. Okay?" Tentatively nodding, Momo took the bud from Ryuu and fastened it into her ear. She did as she was told and closed her eyes, clearing her mind, exhaling deeply and waiting for the sound to come.

[Stay By Rihanna ft. Mikky Ekko]

All along it was a fever

A cold sweat, hot-headed believer

I threw my hands in the air, said show me something

He said, "If you dare come a little closer"

Round and around and around and around we go

Oh now tell me now tell me now you know

Momo was immediately taken by the gorgeous piano playing that led the song, feeling her heart rate quicken a tad. The raw emotion emanating from it practically assaulted her mind and almost overwhelmed her senses. Then she heard it. A voice, one of pure passion. The soothing sound of her voice threw Momo for a loop. She felt her mind being ejected from her physical state. She was floating, surrounded nothing but the wonderful melody painting a masterpiece of an image in her mind.

Not really sure how to feel about it

Something in the way you move

Makes me feel like I can't live without you

And it takes me all the way

I want you to stay

She felt an intense warmth growing from the pit of her stomach, spreading all throughout her system. It was if she were engulfed in a sea of comfort and fuzziness. As Momo took in the words being sung to her, a vivid picture began taking shape in her mind. She felt more refreshed and invigorated than she ever had before. A hand intertwined with hers in the most intimate of fashions, connecting the hearts and souls of the owners of the appendages. A soft touch, a loving caress that showcased an infinitely strong affection that was all-consuming. Minds, bodies and souls, intertwined as one in absolute and utter harmony. She could see something…or someone…waiting for her. Arms outstretched, waiting for her to take the leap and grab onto what she wanted. What she yearned for deep in her heart. Her heart clenched, chest constricting in what could only be described as a heavenly vice. She could hear it in the back of her mind. A voice, clearly distinguishable from the duet of singers serenading her, calling for her. It was fuzzy at first, almost sounding faded and distant. That voice grew, beginning to drown out the original two, growing more and more. Eventually the two singers' voices died out and all that could be heard was the third voice, trying to reach her. It was all she could hear now, as clear as day.

"-mo-chan? Hello? Earth to Yaoyorozu! You still there?" She felt a slight jolt startle her out of her daze. Slowly opening her eyes, Momo looked to her side to see Ryuu smiling at her proudly, "Pretty great huh?"

All Momo could see was his face. His features burned into her memory down to every last detail. His spiky onyx hair. His shining hazel eyes. The way the muscles in his defined jaw tensed and tightened as he moved his lips. Everything about him, framed perfectly in her vision. It took a moment for Momo to fall from her high and her mind finally cleared up.

"R-Ryuu-kun, that was absolutely amazing…" Momo said wistfully with her hands unconsciously rising to clutch over her still-racing heart. "I had no idea that such raw emotion and passion could be conveyed through music like that…It was…" She had no words to adequately describe what she had just experienced.

Still with the proud smile on his face, Ryuu nodded vigorously, "Yup! I know exactly what you mean. Music…It can take you to places you could never even fathom on your own. It can teach you things that you never would have considered in your wildest dreams. The effects it can have on a person truly are endless."

He shone like a star uttering those words. Momo felt it again, that reassuring warmth overloading her system. He was the key, wasn't he? Aside from the fact that the art itself radiated such a feeling, it was him who was the catalyst for the intense array of emotions that she was experiencing now.

The world seemed to liven up around Momo. It was almost if everything around her had previously been a dull black and white, now exploding with colour and vibrancy. It was him who did this to her right? That put this strain on her heart and made her see an entirely different world than what he had previously thought to have seen completely. She wasn't entirely sure about any of it, too drenched in emotion to think particularly concisely. The only thing she could say for certain and confirm within her own mind...

She would never, ever forget this moment.

The remainder of the train ride felt like an entirely different state of being for Momo as Ryuu took her on a crash course of a plethora of music and artists. She concluded very quickly that she was not a huge fan of some of the rap music that Ryuu seemed to enjoy so much, but of course, she respected his tastes as something that made him, him. Being a romantic at heart and always moved by love stories since she was a child, it wasn't hard for the dark-haired beauty to gravitate towards songs of the romantic variety. She found that the pure feeling in their voices as they sang gave her a bubbly feeling in the pit of her tummy that made her almost squirm in happiness.

And Ryuu did not disappoint in satiating her new-found thirst, creating a playlist with many of the songs she found to enjoy and countless more that he thought she might like as well. It brought a slight tinge to her cheeks as she watched him save it as Momo-chan's Mega Playlist and get the music onto her phone as well. He made her promise to listen to as much as possible and find her own music that spoke to her, she happily agreed to it.

Momo was able to learn quite a bit about his personal interests and was able to share many of hers in return. At first, it seemed like they shared almost nothing in common, which dampened Momo's mood slightly. However, that feeling was quickly erased as Ryuu pointed out that there was nothing impossible about one of them finding one of the other's hobbies interesting and beginning to enjoy it themselves. They had just undergone a prime example of that, after all. Jokes were thrown around that Momo could become a massive sneakerhead like Ryuu, or that Ryuu could take a liking for tea-drinking, causing the pair to fall into a fit of laughter for several enjoyable minutes.

Collecting her bearings and catching her breath from her girlish giggles, Momo took a moment to fully appreciate how things felt. It was as if the empty train car that the two were sitting in was isolated in space and time. Momo never once thought about anything other than what she and Ryuu were talking about, what they were doing, or how happy she felt. It already felt like it was one of the best days that she could remember having, being able to have an unhindered gabfest with someone that she admired so much. In this moment, she didn't feel like Yaoyorozu Momo, heiress to the massive Yaoyorozu corporation, future hero and elite student at the prestigious UA High. No, right now, she just felt like Momo-chan, a teenage girl who wanted to do teenage girl things, listen to music, talk to a cute boy, and live in the moment without a care in the world except for what was making her feel so giddy and tingly inside. Her insecurities, her self-doubts that, while admittedly diminishing over her time and experiences at UA, usually always crept around at the back of her mind. No matter what happened, she could never fully escape the weight of her troubles pushing down on her. That was, before this moment that that is.

Momo could barely fathom it once she really began thinking about it. This boy…this enigma…suddenly appearing in her life no more than a week ago…immediately having an enormous effect on her and many of the things around her. His innate ability to instantly befriend everyone in his class, even somehow getting snippets of confidence out of the usually nervous-wreck Midoriya and relatively friendly interactions from the human-tantrum Bakugo. Just how was it possible? And how he had somehow wedged himself into the centre of her universe…It was honestly beyond her. She hadn't given it much thought until this moment, but once she did it became as clear as day that almost all her thoughts for the past week involved him. Her high first opinion of him, her disastrous words at lunch on that first day, how she was going to get him to forgive her, everything that happened so far on the train. It was baffling for Momo to think about how focused she had been on one person without even noticing it before.

But that was not to say that she regretted it in any way. Well sure she regretted that certain interaction, but you get the idea. Even just now, he had found a way to open her eyes up to view the world around her through an entirely different scope full of so much more brightness and emotions by exposing her to one of his most precious interests. Momo had never developed romantic feelings for anyone before, not to her knowledge at least, so all she could really go off of was the countless romance novels and films that she ingested in her adolescence up to this point. She still could not directly pinpoint exactly how she felt, but she knew there were not ones of a purely platonic nature. The tune and lyrics of the piece Ryuu showed her still resonated clearly in her mind. Whatever was to happen after they got off the train, and moving forward, Momo could live with it so long as to some level, things could stay like they were right now. The inaudible sounds of their mutual enjoyment of each other, of their genuine grins and natural new-found chemistry. That was by far her favourite song.

I want you to stay

Stay

I want you to stay