Standing on the beach in the middle of fall was definitely a weird experience for Jiro. What was weireder was her reason for being here. Midoriya had told her that they were going to meet All Might here to have a talk. What that talk would entail was still a mystery to her. As she waited for her teacher to arrive she couldn't help the awkward aurora that surrounded her and Midoriya. The boy had been quiet on their train ride over, more than usual. She couldn't blame him though, what could he say? Anything of relevance he had to say probably was being withheld until All Might was here and the two weren't really in a position to strike up random small talk at the moment. The tension between them was almost palpable.

"Young Midoriya!" She heard a familiar voice call out from the concrete steps not too far away from them. Jiro turned around to see the former symbol of peace walking towards them, with a more serious expression than what she was used to.

"All Might!" The green haired boy replied. Within a few seconds their teacher was standing mere feet of them, giving Jiro a look that she couldn't read.

"Young Midoriya has already told me about your earlier conversation young Jiro. I expect that you have a lot of questions."

"Yes sensei, I do. But, I don't really know where to begin."

"That's fine, how about we just start from the beginning…."

"No way, are you sure Toru!" Ashido questioned her invisible classmate.

"Yes, Satou told me himself. He saw the two of them leaving together a few hours ago."

"Even if this were true, it sounded like they were just going to go do some studying." Yaoyorozu interjected

"So why not just study here, and why ask Midoriya instead of you Yao-momo?"

"Who knows?"

"I bet they're having a super romantic date right now." Ashido chirped while letting her imagination run wild.

"So let me make sure I got this straight." Jiro sighed as she scratched to her head, trying to process all that she was just told. "Midoriya, you were actually born without a quirk?"

"Yes." The verdant teen answered.

"And while you were in middle school you met All Might and he decided to make you the successor of 'One For All'."

"Right."

"And 'One For All' is a technically a quirk that stockpiles power that gets stronger with each new user."

"Yes."

"And you got this awesome quirk from All Might, who was also born without a quirk."

"Right." The two answered in unison.

"And this quirk was accidently created by the villain that All Might fought in Kamino Ward, 'All For One'. Who has the power to take and give away quirks."

"That's correct, young Jiro."

"Who is also the boss of the guy in charge of the League of Villains, Tomura Shigaraki."

"Yes."

"Wow. Sorry guys, but this is just a lot to take in right now."

"I understand that it can be pretty overwhelming young Jiro, but it is the truth." All Might said as he placed a hand on the girl's shoulder. His expression was still unreadable to her.

"I know, that just doesn't make it any more unbelievable."

"Young Jiro, as you know this is a closely guarded secret." All Might began. "Word of this must not make its way to the public."

"I know, I won't speak a word of this to anyone else. You have my word sensei."

"That's good to hear." Relief washed over the retired hero.

"So, just out of curiosity who else knows about all of this?"

"Other than yourself young Jiro, Gran Torino who was my teacher and friend of my former master, my best friend Tsukauchi who's on the police force, David Shield, Recovery Girl, the principal and…."

"And Kacchan." Midoriya interjected.

"Wait really, Bakugou knows about this?" Jiro was surprised to hear that class 1-A's resident hothead was aware of the situation. From the interactions she witnessed between the two boys, along with Bakugou's ego it was surprising that he would be privileged to such information.

"Yes, he found out not too long ago."

"Are you sure it's okay that he of all people knows?"

"Kacchan may be prideful and arrogant, but he knows how to keep a secret."

"Alright, so what do we do now?"

"Now, the two of you go back home. It's getting rather late and even though it's Saturday you still have a curfew to make."

"Yes sensei." The two bowed.

The train ride back to the dorms was still awkward for the two heroes in training. Jiro was doing her best to process all of the information that she was given earlier and Midoriya was muttering to himself about something that she could not decipher due to how fast he was speaking. This was the first time that the two of them had spent an extended amount of time together and after the events that transpired not to long ago there wasn't really anything to discuss, not in public at least. After letting out a rather exaggerated sigh Jiro decided to take her phone out to play some music, scrolling to the 'Deep Dope' album that was already queued up in her phone. She figured tuning everything out was a better alternative than just sitting in silence. She plugged her left earphonejack into her phone and pressed the play button letting the sounds of her music distract her from everything else.

"T-their new album is pretty great isn't it?" Jiro turned her head to meet the gaze of her green haired classmate. A slight bit of confusion on her face.

"What?"

"The new 'Deep Dope' album, p-personally I think it's one of their best."

"You listen to punk rock?"

"Not a lot to be honest. Kaminari-kun played some for me once and I thought it would be good to workout to."

"I never pegged you for a fan. You seem more like a 'pop' kind of guy."

"I d-don't really have a favorite genre."

"Figures, you seem like one of those kind of guys."

"Was that supposed to be a compliment?" The two laughed as they took a moment to appreciate the humor. Surprisingly enough this small chat lead to a rather delightful conversation for the rest of the ride home. The students spent their time talking about a bunch of different music related topics ranging from new music, bands, instruments among other things. Much to Jiro's surprise Midoriya was a lot more knowledgeable in the subject of music than she had thought. Apparently while researching some new music to listen to he ended up just learning about all different kinds of musical related things. Something so ridiculous fit the green haired boy so well that it made her laugh, causing his face to go completely red.

Before long the train had arrived to their departure point which was only a five minute walk away from the campus. The sun was already beginning to set which caused the two to just realize that they had been gone for almost six hours, between the whirlwind of events that occured today the time just flew by. 'Man, I can't believe that it's already this late.' Jiro thought to herself. Without giving it a second thought the pair began making their way back to their home, Midoriya taking this time to say a few words to the purpled haired girl.

"I appreciate you promising to keep all of this a secret Jiro-san."

"Well, it's the least I could do after putting my nose in your business like that. You don't have to worry though, my lips are sealed."

"Thank you, Jiro-san."

"Midoriya could you please stop being so formal with me."

"Huh?"

"The way I see it, after today we're pretty good friends at the very least. Just call me Kyoka."

"I'm sorry Jiro-san, I-I mean Kyoka. It's a habit I have a hard time breaking."

"It's fine."

"Y-you can just call me I-Izuku then." He blushed as he turned his head away, causing a slight tinge of pink to also show on the girl's face.

Before they knew it the two were only a few steps away from the entrance into their dorm. With how eventful their day was the prospect of getting some rest and laying down was almost too good to be true. Midoriya opened the door and stepped to the side allowing Jiro to enter first, a habit his mom had taught him to from an early age. "There they are!" was all they heard before he saw a flash of pink and felt himself being grabbed from behind and being pulled into the building. Whatever was going on, the green haired boy knew it wasn't going to be good.

To say the last two minutes or so for Jiro and Midoriya were nothing but a blur would be an understatement. She didn't exactly know how it happened, but Jiro found herself tied to chair with what appeared to be Sero's tape wrapped around her body. Taking a second to look around and regain her bearings she saw that Midoriya was in similar predicament, except his entire body was covered in the adhesive substance and he was sprawled out on the sofa to her left. Suddenly a bright light was shining directly down at her face, noticing a pair of floating clothes directing the device.

"Alright you two, cut the shit! We want details and none of us are leaving until we get them." The voice of Mina Ashido yelled as she appeared into Midoriya and Jiro's vision. The both of them taking a moment to look around the room to see that she was accompanied by Momo, Kirishima, Sero, Hagakure and Tsuyu.

"What is going on?" Jiro asked as she tried to undo the tape around her torso, to no avail.

"That's what we want to know." Hagakure responded while moving the light closer to Jiro's face.

"Yeah, you two leave early this afternoon to do who knows what and are just now coming back. Where exactly have you guys been?"

"Midoriya I'm sorry bro. I tried to talk them out of this but they were dead-set on it." Kirishima said as he shuffled his way over to his classmate.

"Can someone explain to me what the hell is going on?" Everyone taking a moment to notice the vein bulging out of Jiro's forehead.

"Don't play dumb Kyoka, we know you two were together this entire afternoon and we want to know why. Were you two out on date?" Ashido grinned as she leaned her face against her friend's.

"W-w-what are y-you guys talking about?" This time it was Midoriya's turn to speak.

"I think you all have the wrong idea."

"So please enlighten us." Hagakure interjected.

"We were just studying, that's it."

"Really?"

"It must have been a pretty intense study session if it lasted almost six hours, gero." Tsuyu stated.

"Is this true Midoriya, is that what you two were doing? Don't bother trying to lie, we all know you're terrible at it."

"Y-yes, all we did was study."

"Well I don't believe you."

"Come on guys, whatever they did this afternoon is their business there's no point in prying if they don't want to tell us." Momo spoke up, doing her best to diffuse the situation. As sigh of relief coming from Midoriya and Jiro as they mentally thanked their academically gifted classmate.

"Ugh no...I want to hear all about it!" Hagakure waved her invisible arms in frustration as her beautifully crafted plan was falling apart.

Deciding that it was his turn to speak up, Kirishima used his quirk to cut the tape around Midoriya's body. He then turned around to look at the rest of his group. "Yao-Momo is right guys. If they don't want to tell us what they were doing today then it's none of our business."

"I agree."

"Okay...fine. But I will get to this bottom of this Kyoka. Anyways... we apologize for tying you guys up."

"Me too." The others bowed in unison as they asked for their friends' forgiveness. Like a moment ago, Kirishima used his quirk to undo the tape that surrounded Jiro.

The group of students gave another bow before returning to their rooms leaving Midoriya and Jiro alone in the common area. As bizarre as the last few minutes were the two couldn't help but laugh at how extreme their classmates could get at times. It was a refreshing turn of events considering the kind of day that the two were having. After a brief chat Jiro decided that it would be good for her and Midoriya to exchange phone numbers. The action to her was no big deal, but was enough for her new friend's face to go pink with blush. Even though she now understood the boy a lot more than she did before today, his bashful and easily embarrassed attitude still annoyed her quite a bit. She sighed internally before waving him goodby as she turned around and made her way up to her room, hoping that once she was up there she would be able to finally get some much needed rest.

'Man, what a day.'