Wow, in redoing all of this work. I can really see just how far I have really come since I kicked off this project.
Shout out again to Hankflamion18 who suggested a few adjustments to certain scenes in this chapter that did make sense and am grateful as always for the input.
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The Fafnir Knight
Saga I: The Old Guard
Arc I: Origins
Chapter VI: The Exam
"You have your instructions yes?" He heard a raspy voice say over the phone.
"Yeah, hit the place hard while some of the best Pro-Heroes are at UA today."
"Good...my sources say you're one the best at cleaning up filth."
"Well...I might leave a bit dust and ashes not much else."
"Make sure the boss survives, I need him alive to use him for another plan of mine, however the more of his expendables you get rid of, the higher your bounty as promised."
"Done."
"Do this well, and your membership to the league is assured."
"If any civies or pro's get in the way?"
"Avoid both if possible, but the most important thing is that you don't get caught and that you avoid your face getting seen."
"Ashes it is then."
"Heheheheh, you crack me up, you pyro."
He hung up the phone and with a casual flick made it burst into blue flames.
"Heh, I give a whole new meaning to the term burner phones." He said looking at the sheet of paper with the address he's about to strike and the location of the safe house to retreat to when the job is done. Dawn was approaching, he wouldn't need to strike until later in the afternoon once he gotten the sign that the key pro's where gone. He decided to use his time to get his gear ready and rest up.
Izuku woke up bright and early as usual, however today was special as it was the day he had been waiting for. The UA entrance exam, Izuku had been waiting for this day for years and at last it was finally here.
Hopping out of the bed, his left foot was still a little sore from yesterday, but he couldn't help but to be in a good mood. His encounter with Ochako had gone much better than expected and even wound up getting her phone number.
"Izuku are you awake?" he heard his mother call out to him.
"Yeah, I'm gonna hop in the shower."
"Okay, I'll get breakfast started!"
"Thanks!"
Izuku was moving rapidly, test wasn't for another few hours, but when your filled with nervous energy, one tends to go overboard and this is Izuku Midoriya we are talking about. One solid shower and change of clothes later.
Izuku stepped out of his room and into the living room only to be surprised by a number of guests in his home.
While his mother Inko worked in the kitchen making breakfast, Katsuki was sitting at the table waiting for Izuku with a grin on his face as he waited for him; while his mother Mitsuki sat in the living room with Yu and Ryuko.
"Hey! You're all here!" Izuku called out happily.
"Izu! How's my favorite little cousin doing?" said Ryuko getting up and giving Izuku a hug.
"Great, Kyu." Izuku said returning the hug to his cousin who had always been a like an older sister to him.
"Of course we're here Izu. I gotta make sure to wish you luck and make sure this one doesn't kill anyone before the exam. Just make sure you to take over the job when you get to UA" Mitsuki half-way joked pointing at Katsuki.
Making Yu and Ryuko to laugh
"Oh, and Izu honey. Masaru wanted to come, but he wasn't able to get the time off work for it, he wishes you luck too."She finished before giving a hug to Izuku as well.
While normally Katsuki would immediately return fire, he refused to act up in Inko's house out of respect for her, and totally didn't have anything to do with Ryuko being therefore couldn't help wanting just to act just a bit more mature while in her presence yep totally nothing to do with her whats so ever.
"Okay boys, breakfast is ready! Should be enough to get you two through the day." Inko called out with several plates lining up for everyone.
"Thanks mom"
"Thanks Auntie."
Eggs, toast, and a few select cured breakfast meats, Katsuki being Katsuki of course started off with unloading his food with ungodly amounts of hot sauce.
While Izuku not wanting to regret using the restroom later settled with a bit of salt and pepper. As Inko continued serving everyone else breakfast. Mitsuki took the chance to ask a rather curious question for the boy she saw as a second son.
"Soooo...Izu, what have you been up to lately?"
Izuku didn't hear the layer of mischief in Mitsuki's voice.
"Good, Auntie I'm just doing my usual routine of studying and training."
"Oh? Are you sure that is all that you've been doing?"
Izuku paused, now he was suspicious as he began to see the smirk that slowly grew on her and Yu's faces. The same smirk that always warned Izuku.
They are about to tease the hell out of you.
"Yeah...Why?"
"Oh, because I swear, I saw you yesterday with a rather cute girl, having breakfast and having quite a lot of fun, if the laughter from both of you was any indication."
Izuku tried to keep a straight face, but the dark red blush that spread on his face betrayed him.
"Izuku! You have a girlfriend?!" He could hear his mother cry out.
"W-wwa-it"
"Ooohhh, Izu! Naughty boy! Not letting Momma Inko know? What's this mystery girl's name?" Yu finally joined in.
"I-i-it's not like that-ttI menan, ah!" Izuku's stuttering was in full gear now.
"Aw, Kacchan, you know about her?" Ryuko asked.
Katsuki only allowed three people in this world to call him 'Kacchan' The woman who just made him breakfast, his best friend, and the woman had he has had a severe crush on since he was eight.
"I don't know anything. I haven't seen any girls that talk to Izuku at school." He grumbled with a light blush still eating, unable to look at the Dragoon hero in the face. He was getting a bit annoyed with this sudden change, Izuku hadn't mentioned anything about this last night and wasn't denying it either.
He had more an enough reason to be concerned, even if he would never openly admit it.
In the days right after the slime villain attack,several people had caught Izuku's rescue on video and it went viral for almost a month; shit it even spawned a short lived series of memes for a few weeks.
To most at school however, it proved that Izuku wasn't quirkless as many previous thought. However others especially to some girls; now thought that they could strike gold with the nervous boy, because only now did they see his potential as a famous pro-hero and began hitting on him in ways that made Izuku feel really uncomfortable.
Thankfully, many wound up backing off thanks to Katsuki's efforts.
'Damn Skanks'
He wasn't about to let anyone of the people who did been pricks to Izuku for years only now become completely two-faced since they could now get something out of at the very least no one made the connection with Draco Knight much to the relief of both families.
Izuku finally managed to find his voice and managed to squeeze out.
"She's from out of town, I met her yesterday at the beach-"
"Ohhh, The beach. Inko come on. You may have already have future daughter-in-law lined up."
"That is pretty romantic for a first meeting, better him, than this one right?" Yu commented poking at Katsuki taking full advantage of him being far more docile in Inko's apartment.
"Oh, come on. I'm sure even Kacchan will find a girl that will be sweet on him." Ryuko teased.
Inko could only make muttering sounds that mixed somewhere between being joyful and yet fearful that she was gonna to be replaced in her son's life.
"Mom! It's not like that. She's here to take the entrance exam too!"
"Are you sure Izu? I believe, I did see you eating breakfast with the lass." Mitsuki said laughing. "That sounds like a date to me."
"You do work fast Izu." Yu continued.
Inko seemed on the verge of a heart attack. "My baby is growning up." she cried.
Izuku had given up and settled to just finish up his breakfast.
The both boys ate and endured the more teasing until they at last they finished up and got ready to head out. It was almost an hour train ride to get to UA. One more round of hugs and best wishes were given to both boys.
"Izuku, I'm so proud of you and I know your father would be too." Inko had finished with tears of pride in her eyes.
"Thanks mom."
"Katsuki, it's simple. Win and show no mercy." Mitsuki told her son.
"Damn right."
Both boys walked out of the apartment and headed to the train station. It wasn't a long walk, but it gave a chance for the boys to pep talk themselves.
"This is it Izuku. Eleven long ass years, but it's finally time. The start of our debut"
"We still got to pass our test first Kacchan."
"Tch, you make it sound like there's a chance that we'll fail. Get those ideas of failure out of your head and think of victory."
'If only you really knew, my what my idea of victory was.'
"Yeah, you're right."
"You got a handle on your quirk now right? Even after the mutation?"
"Yeah, all the beach training really helped with that." Izuku hated keeping the truth about One for All a secret from his best friend, but he wanted to keep the faith All Might entrusted on him. Maybe in the future, he could ask All Might for permission to let him know.
"So, who was your mystery girl from yesterday?"
"Wah...Not you too...
"Chill out, I'm not gonna tease ya that much, like the Old Bat." he lied with plans to tease him harder later.
"Like I said, back at home. I met her at the beach and found out she is here to take the UA entrance exam. She's from out of town."
"Wonder, why she's here instead of in town where UA is?"
"What do you mean?"
"I'm just saying to keep your guard up. Remember the skanks from earlier this year?"
"Kacchan, she isn't like that. She's really nice."
"If she's taking the exam, then she's competition therefore someone we need to beat."
"Hey!" Called a female voice. One Izuku knew well by now. They saw Ochako, now running up the street to catch up with them as she saw Izuku. Who waved at her, stopping to let her catch up, unlike Katsuki who simply slowed his pace a bit, observing this new development.
Chocolate brown hair and eyes, round face light blush...makeup?
What surprised him was the wide smile on Izuku's face.
'For only knowing her one day, the way you're smiling says a lot Izuku.'
"Morning Midoriya!" he heard her say.
"Morning Uraraka." Izuku answered.
"Oh, hi there, are you Midoriya's friend?" She turned seeing Bakugou.
He turned his head, but continued walking.
"Yeah, Round-Face that's me."
"R-r-round face?" Ochako was stunned, Izuku had talked about his friend being a bit rough around the edges, but didn't see this coming especially how Izuku had talked him up so much.
"Kacchan, don't be rude! I'm sorry about that Uraraka, he's like that with almost everyone." He said sheepishly. "He'll warm up to you in time."
Ochako pouted a bit. Izuku was nice and had expected his friend to be similar. But ultimately chose to believe Izuku.
'I hope this doesn't take too long, a nickname should always be shorter than someone's actual name.'
When the trio arrived to the train station and got on. Katsuki sat the across from the two and continued his observation of the duo who seemed to be having fun chatting up. However it stop when he heard something the put him on edge.
"Is your foot feeling better?"
"Yeah, it's a bit sore, but I can walk around no problem."
"What does she mean by that Izuku? What this about your foot?"
The two turned to Bakugou who had a look that radiated anger.
"Oh, it's nothing too bad, Kacchan. It was an accident and she helped me around most of the day yesterday to make sure it didn't get worse."
"Don't dodge the question."
"When I met Midoriya by the beach, I accidentally surprised him when was getting rid of the trash and he dropped the refrigerator he was lifting on his foot."
Izuku knew what Katsuki was trying to get at and before he could saying Izuku started off.
"Katsuki." Katsuki froze.
"Look, I know what you said earlier, but it isn't like that, she didn't know I was taking the test until after the accident and like I said, she spent most of the day with me to make sure I was okay."
Ochako wasn't sure what they were talking about, but left it alone since the tension between the two was heating up. She didn't want to be the cause of two friends getting into a fight.
Katsuki looked at Izuku and saw the determination in his eyes.
The two rarely really argued or fought, but it was less of a disagreement and more Katsuki just trying to look out for his friend. In the end Katsuki backed off.
"Tch, fine." he finally answered. The tension instantly lifting between the two. Izuku felt relieved.
'He must be crushing hard on her already. As long as she doesn't distract him or get in the way, then I'll leave it be.'
Katsuki had tried to help Izuku out with girls at school, before the slime villain incident, but nothing ever caught on, and yet here he was with a girl and he seemed to be in his the three exited the train and arrived at UA. They couldn't help but feel awestruck to just be there. Each of the trio had their own thoughts as they entered the outer grounds to the tables with their guest passes and paperwork.
'Time to show the world, who's going to be next number one.'
'I am here now, to be a great hero. Dad I hope you're proud.'
'I'm gonna do my best to try and be a great rescue hero.'
"Hey Midoriya, I have to go that table over there." Ochako said pointing over to the table with students from Kansai where gathering. "Good-luck on the exam!"
"Right you too Uraraka!"
As she walked away Katsuki could see the small look of disappointment in his face. Now that she was gone. It was his turn to finally tease his friend with a wide grin opening up.
"Easy, Izuku. I'm sure your girlfriend should be able to pass."
He could see his friends face breakout red with embarrassment.
"Kacchan!"
"What? Have you seen yourself? Damn man. I haven't seen you like this in years. Not since your 'princess' from all the those years ago."
"It's not like that!"
"She's cute though, not my type...too bubbly."
"Because she isn't blond?"
Katsuki froze, caught off guard by Izuku's quick recovery.
"Are you ever gonna confess to Kyu? I mean I know don't you have a chance, but it's better get it done now than later."Katsuki was stunned, he wasn't ready for Izuku's quick comeback or the just how sharp it was, yes he's been nursing a crush on Izuku's cousin for years, but damn for it to be used against him like that.
"Holy shit, what did round-face do to you?"
"Her name is Ochako Uraraka."
"It's round-face to me until she earns it."
"I still win."
"Tch."
As the two gathered their paperwork and first headed out to a classroom to first take the written exam. It pretty easy for Izuku to finish up with some extra time to spare before their allotted time ran out to double-check his answers.
When that was finished, he met up with Katsuki again to an auditorium.
"How did you do?" Izuku asked.
"Heh, easiest shit ever. But now we get into the real deal." Katsuki answered with glee the practical exam was up next. As the students settled into their seats, they could see the Pro-Hero Present Mic at the podium giving a general break down of the exam.
With both Izuku and Katsuki each commenting quietly on the exam breakdown when they realized that they would be in different battle centers.
"You better pass Izuku."
"Same to you Kacchan."
"I HAVE A QUESTION." They both heard a rather loud voice call out. And saw a tall boy with glasses, standing almost perfectly at attention with his inquiry. After a breakdown of the question regarding the Zero Point bot. The boy's attention turned to the duo.
"And you two, with the blond and green hair. You have been talking to each other this whole time. Stop it, you are distracting the rest of us."
"THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY FOUR-EY-"
"Kacchan! I'm sorry about that!" Izuku scrambled to control his friend feeling embarrassed from being called out like that. The crowd around them laughed and some even jeered at the two boys.
With one familiar brunette giggling at the two's antics.
"GOOD LUCK!" They heard Present Mic finish up.
The two friends looked at each other and simply nodded as they headed out to their respective battle centers. Izuku gathered with the crowd, by the giant gates of the battle center and could see several people with all kinds of quirks. Izuku was trying his best to breathe and remain calm. The chill wasn't helping given what he was wearing.
He had changed into his training gear that had the least chance of tearing up. A sleeveless light green shirt, with arm warmers to help cover where his scales will first form at low power, and dark green basketball shorts with red strap-on sandals with holes wide enough to allow his foot claws to move would tearing them apart and able to adjust into without tearing them, if he needed the extra power.
Looking around the crowd, he spotted Ochako much to his surprise and was about to go and talk with her, when he felt a strong grip on his shoulder stop him. The tall boy from earlier who now wearing a blue skin tight body suit, was now staring down at him.
"She appears to be trying to focus on the examination. What are you planning to do distract her?"
"Wait, no! I know her and didn't know that she was here."
"How could that be? We are supposed to be separated by school and region..."
"That's beca-" Izuku didn't get a chance to finish as Present Mic as called out to start the exam.
Izuku turned to see, he was already falling behind.
'Damn it, he distracted me!'
Izuku didn't waste anytime, as he ran he charged his power to fifteen percent, his body shifting into his 'light armor' with only light peach green scales covering his arms and legs as well as gaining a bit more muscle and length, his hands and feet gaining short claws. Green lighting surrounding him.
The Fafnir Knight
Ochako was making quick work of the robots, her years of physical training and the month training program with Gunhead was finally paying off.
One of the one-pointer robots that was lock-on to her was swiftly dealt with by Ochako who simply dodged its swing and pressed her hands against it launching it into the nearby wall with her quirk destroying it.
She ran up to the robot and managed to tear out a piece of it; a mid-sized metal plate that she used to shield ram other bots with help from her quirk.
As other robots tried surrounding her, managed to up keep up by continuing a pattern of dodging, blocking and countering, shifting the weight of the plate making it light enough to carry and adding to it when she slammed it down to a on another fallen bot did prove to be an effective tactic that made short work of the group. However she was caught off guard by a three pointer that got behind her, as she tried to take a moment to catch her breath, when Izuku suddenly appeared lunging that robot before it had a chance to strike; tearing the thing into pieces with a quick swing of his arms.
Izuku continued onward, as he hadn't noticed Ochako standing there in surprise on what she just saw. She knew that he a strength quirk, but she didn't realize that he was that strong or fast.
After a moment she realized that she was getting distracted and needed to keep going herself.
Away from the students, were the judges observing the hopefuls from the various screens.
"Number of solid hopefuls this year."
"Yes, unfortunately still not have many as we would have hoped, a number of candidates had to be rejected due to their psych evaluations in combinations with their quirks."
"And this is the just first year with that new rule."
"Still it does seem like this year's cut should still be solid."
On the screen, they could see Izuku and Ochako both destroying robots left and right.
Katsuki in his battle center blasting away with a the happiest grin on his face.
A black haired boy with golden eyes finishing a pile of bots with the flames coming from his mouth in another.
A blond boy with that seemed to shine shooting a laser from his belly.
Among the judges, were a few special guests.
All Might in skinny form who was going under the alias 'Mr. Yagi' to everyone who didn't know about his secret.
Endeavor and Ryukyu who there representing the top ten as per tradition.
They however all remained silent due to the last guest. Kai Doumeki who was here to oversee the exam as this year's civilian representative thanks to reforms in educational policy.
Much to the delight of everyone else in the room. However what they didn't know is that Kai had another reason for being here. As he had his own candidate here take their exam.
He knew he wasn't openly welcomed here, the gag order may be in place, but top heroes always found a way to learn the truth.
Still Kai took a chance to get a bite and see who could be considered more dangerous to him.
"Interesting." The room got tense. Kai's oily voice catching everyone's attention.
"I see a very familiar name among them. And I'm surprised to see that he made it given prior history."
All Might tensed up, but remained silent. He knew what Kai was trying to do.
"Draco Knight's son is here. If he passes please do make sure to take countermeasures. We don't want a repeat of history now don't we?" He fnished.
Before anyone could comment.
It was Endeavor who spoke up."Kai, if you actually have something worth saying, say it. Otherwise shut up." His voice cold in anger.
Causing the man to look way.
Kai made a mental note to keep a more careful eye on Endeavor, Ryukyu was already under close watch due to her previous history.
'You say that now Endeavor, but you won't be safe if you continue with comments like that.'
The test continued when the final phase kicked off and the Zero Pointer was unleashed at each battle center.
Ochako looked up in shock, she had abandoned her shield earlier.
"Nope! Not dealing with that!" She yelled, beginning to run away from the colossus, until she heard a scream and saw a blond girl with tan skin that had gotten caught under the debris. Ochako knowing that she could help turned quickly back around to help the girl out. She began floating the debris off and started pulling the girl out.
"T-tthank you.." She could hear her say.
"I got you come on!" Ochako said to perk her up.
As the two started to make their escape, they could barely manage to remain ahead of the giant robot that threaten to crush them, but between the nausea from her heavy quirk use and her stamina drained out of her, she knew that they wouldn't be able to outrun the Zero-pointer at this rate.
Finally Ochako decided a new plan.
"Wait what are you doing?!"
"Sorry about this!"
She yelled as her floated her and threw her as hard she could before releasing her. When she did she suddenly collapsed and started throwing up on the ground.
'Oh...no...I can't. Keep going...'
Feeling the robot towering right over her, the fear in heart grew, she wanted to scream but could not find the strength to do so. She pleaded to herself.
'Mom..dad...I'm scared...please anyone help me'
It then that she suddenly blinded by a huge flash light that added a massive gust of wind that rushed away all directions.
"SMASH!" She heard a familiar voice yell out.
Followed by a giant slam and another blinding flash of light. The Zero-pointer was completely destroyed and knocked back, saving Ochako.
She looked up and saw someone falling, someone who appeared familiar her.
It was Izuku only he wasn't moving at all. Ochako realized he must gotten knocked out cold and was now falling to his death.
"Just a little more." Ochako said using very last bit of strength she had getting up and using her quirk on herself. She needed to time it just right.
"No time for second guesses! SHIFT."
Launching herself to catch Izuku in midair, she grabbed and latched on him firmly. She managed to confirmed that he had indeed been knocked out cold from his earlier attack.
Unfortunately for Ochako, the nausea kicked in again as she lost control of her direction when grabbed the boy. Which resulted in them spinning around until she hit the wall of the building on the other side of the street of the battle center knocking her out as well.
Thankfully it wasn't a large distance from the ground, but the two did land rather harshly and despite being knocked out. Ochako's grip on the boy seemed locked, as Recovery girl discovered when she found the two. She tried to have the two pried apart which only resulted in Izuku subconsciously latching on to Ochako instead only making the job much more difficult, much to the laughter of the old pro. She found that Ochako had a mild concussion that thankfully an easy fix with her quirk, while Izuku only had a few scrapes here and there.
'These two sure are luckly to have helped each other like that. I imagine the betting pool this is year is going have weird odds this time around.'
Thank you. My Knight...
Izuku stirred his eyes were heavy and yet he was feeling strangely great lying down on his left side in bed.
'The same dream again?'
He felt completely exhausted and yet he was somehow was feeling very warm and comfortable, a feeling of being strangely safe and surrounded by something that smelled very nice.
'This is new...I don't remember my dreams feeling like this...'
As his body started regaining movement and sensations again, he felt like there was some additional weight on himself...or wrapped around himself tightly? And yet he also seemed to have his arms wrapped around something with similar strength.
'What is this?'
Izuku could feel a very soft sensation on his left hand. Whatever it was was it was warm, soft and firm?
'Okay...this is new...but what is? Thi-'
The weight stirred
"Hmm...I donna wanna ger up..." He heard a similar female voice say, with the accent being a dead give way.
That was enough to jolt Izuku awake as his heavy eyes snapping open. Only to find himself in a very unfamiliar place and holding on to one Ochako Uraraka as if his life depended on it, she however did seemed to doing the same as well.
Izuku . exe has stopped working. As all Izuku could do at this moment was mentally scream.
Thankfully in times such as these a new voice tends to be Izuku's guide to re-adjust his thoughts...fortunately or unfortunately depending on the situation the new voice of reason tends to manifest in the voice of one Katsuki Bakugou.
'Wa..Ho? I need t...damn I gods...I'm losing it...losing it...okay! OKAY! OKAY!
'IZUKU GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER, CALM THE FUCK DOWN AND FIGURE SHIT OUT!'
'Okay...think! What happened and how did I get here like this?...First things first.'
Izuku's eyes darted around trying his best to get his barrings.
A hospital room? No.
A school nurses office? A safe bet judging from all the academic posters that stood alongside medically related ones.
'Okay...nurses office...But this is not my school's nurse's office and Ochako does not go to my school...wait...Uraraka NOT OCHAKO! GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER IZUKU, YOU GOT YOUR BARRINGS, NEXT STEP!'
As Izuku was mentally fighting with himself with Katsuki's voice still trying to server as his guide of reasoning, when Ochako stirred again causing him to stay stock still and realize that his left arm was still numb from being under Ochako's side and his left hand was...
'OH GOD NO...'
On her butt.
'…...'
'…...WELP I'M OUT.'
'Wait! Aren't you supposed to help me?!'
' SHE AIN'T A BLOND...'
'WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING?!'
'TCH, FINE...FIRST, GET YOUR HAND OFF HER ASS, JACKASS!'
'Gah!'
Izuku complied immediately, swiftly moving his hand off her butt and placing it flat against the shared bed. The poor boy was confused and nervous enough,the last thing he needed was to be labeled a pervert by his first friend that wasn't Katsuki. However it seemed the removal of said hand was enough for Ochako to stir awake as well.
'WELP...WE'RE BONED...'
Izuku could see Ochako slowly blinking awake as her own version slowly returned to normal, only to see the eyes of a panicked Izuku Midoriya. Her face told Izuku that she was still processing the information in front of her. When he started to feel something odd as well...on his butt, her hand seemed to have been doing the same thing he had just been doing as well.
'IS SHE GRABBING MY BUTT?!'
'EH, SEEMS FAIR TO ME...DAMN SHE IS REALLY GOING AT IT!'
'YOU'RE NOT HELPING!'
Finally after blinking a more few times, Ochako's face broke into the very essence of the color red after realizing what she was doing and to whom she is doing it to. She let go of him and swiftly backed out the bed only her to float off the edge, her hands covering her eyes.
"Oh, gosh! Ima so sorry! Can't believe wat I was just doin' to ya!" she spoke rapidly. "Especially after savin' me!"
Izuku could only blink at the girl.
'Wait she isn't mad at me? I'm REALLY CONFUSED NOW.'
'WIN! HURRY GO FOR THE KILL AND CALL HER THE PERVERT!'
'SHUT UP, KACCHAN.'
'I AIN'T YOUR KACCHAN, JACKASS. I'M YOU, BUT WITH BALLS!'
In the end all Izuku decided that all he could do was be honest with her.
"Saving you? What do you mean?"
"You don't remember what happened? After taking down that giant robot?!" Ochako looked at him now floating upside down.
"Eh?!"
'Giant robot? What was she talking about?'
'IT HAPPENED AGAIN! YOU MUST HAVE GONE OVER EIGHTY PERCENT AGAIN.'
Izuku froze, that would explain it. It was one of the new drawbacks with the mutation. Dragon Shift and One for All...fused.
His body shifted with One for All's power now.
Which had it's benefits, getting surprised or shocked didn't trigger light shifting anymore, but in exchange for being much stronger it now operated on his time limit so the more power he used the less time he had, and learning that using eighty percent or more made him black-out with short-term memory loss when his armor disappeared.
'It must have gotten bad, If I needed to pull that.'
"Are you okay?" He heard her say. He looked up to see that Ochako was now standing in front of him. Lost in his thoughts he hadn't noticed that she must have calmed down with a pained look of concern on her face. "You really don't remember what happened?"
"Y-y-yeah. It's just a side effect of my quirk, if I go at full power I black out and sometimes I can't remember anything for the last few hours."
"That's pretty scary...especially after what happened."
"Yeah..."
"Again, I'm sorry!" Ochako bowed.
Laughter broke out as the door opened to see a short old lady, followed by Ryuko.
"Finally awake? Good I couldn't pry the two of you apart with a crowbar, so I just settled for nature to take it's course." The Old lady said. Causing the two to go red again.
"Izu, you scared me!" Ryuko said rushing to Izuku's side and giving a big hug to the blushing boy.
Ochako feeling a bit strange seeing this unknown lady hug him.
"Kyu, I'm fine! What are you doing here anyway?"Izuku said trying to push Ryuko off.
"I came to watch! Endeavor and I were here to represent the top ten." she chirped.
Ochako froze. As she looked at the woman a bit more she realized who she was.
"Oh my gosh, your Ryukyu! Ranked nine!"
"Yep!" She said happily "That's me! The Dragoon Hero!" She said with a pose. Causing Izuku to facepalm.
"Wait, how do you know Izuku?" She said not realizing she just addressed him by his first name.
Ryuko however did take notice, and was about to spare her cousin, until she saw that his blush grew even get fiercer.
"Oh this boy? Well you see...Izu here...is my secret lover~" She said with a wink and a peck on the cheek of Izuku's face. Ochako backing off until she fell on the other bed. While Izuku backed off quick enough that he almost fell off his bed.
"Kyu! Don't be gross! She's my cousin!" he screamed desperate that Ochako didn't believe his cousin's antics. As Ryuko began laughed hard seeing the reactions from both kids. There was a lot for Ochako to process right now. Thankfully the old lady, hit Ryuko with her cane to bring some order to the room.
"Ryukyu, stop it, before you kill these two."
Ryuko sighed.
"Fine, Recovery Girl. I'm sorry. But for real, thank you for saving my cousin." Ryuko bowed to Ochako. "I swear, Izu you must shaved a few years off my life; when I saw you drop from that height."
"I know. I'm sorry." Izuku said sheepishly.
"You two should be good to go." Recovery girl said. "I would recommend getting some food would help."
Ryuko gasped as an idea began forming in her head. "That's a great idea Recovery Girl! Izu, about you, Kacchan and I'm sorry, I didn't get your name?"
Ryuko turned to face Ochako.
"Ochako Uraraka!" She said with a bow.
Still in the middle of processing everything, including wanting to ask Ryukyu about Draco Knight send she had been one of his lead side-kicks before his death, but she knew that it wouldn't be right to ask about that as it could be a rather sensitive issue.
"Ah and Occhan here come with me for dinner! There is a really nice place nearby my agency that I've wanted to try out! My treat!"
"IZUKU WHERE THE HELL ARE YO-" Katsuki said slamming the door open seeing, an old lady, Izuku, Round-face and Ryuko, the last person making Katsuki freeze.
"Perfect timing Kacchan! How about dinner on me sound good?" she said with a smile.
Katsuki wasn't ready to hear those words in that order.
'Shit, I am number one already or what?'
"Sounds good to me. Ryukyu." He said with a grin.
"Great, Izu, Occhan get dressed, we'll go out when you're ready!" Ryuko said, pulling out her phone to make a reservation and walking out of the nurse's office.
Katsuki only then realized it wasn't just him going alone with Ryukyu and felt just a bit disappointed, but hey he wasn't about to say no to dinner with Ryukyu, and proceeded to follow her anyway.
Izuku and Ochako sat there trying figuring out everything.
"I'm sorry about that, she can be a bit head strong."Izuku said trying to break the awkward silence.
"No! It's okay! She was actually a bit in endearing in my opinion." Ochako said with a nervous laugh. "Besides, getting to eat with a Pro-Hero in the top ten isn't something one should decline."
"You two might want to hurry up." Recovery Girl said with a chuckle.
"Oh, right!" The two said at the same time, causing Recovery Girl to laugh again.
"Go, on shoo!"
"Thank you for the help." Izuku bowed
"Yes, thank you for taking care of us." Ochako bowed as well.
As both teens walked out. Recovery girl wrote a quick note to herself and it put away in her desk for safe keeping.
"Seems like a solid bet to me." She laughed to herself.
Author's Notes
New scene: Old readers know who that is already and it what it foreshadows, new readers will find out next chapter. This was one of the scenes I debated adding, but sleep deprivation was interfering with my decision making skills at the time.
Another possible version of this chapter, but thankfully I wasn't stupid enough to do it even with my mind plagued with the lack of sleep, was telling the story of this chapter backwards from the scene in the nurse's office and it was basically Izuku having a giant flashback.
Glad I went with a more straight forward approach instead.