Okay, everything was set. His first date was going to be nice, simple, and peaceful. The room was set, just one of the small dorm rooms on the girl's side of the building that had been used as storage for a couch and a T.V. But it wasn't really a storage room, apparently Momo set up a modest - by her standards - movie room for the girls and called it storage because it was just some of her extra stuff.

It was Mina's idea, mostly. The other girls probably helped.

The only downside to all this is was that it meant the girls knew that he had a date. Which meant that he was nervously waiting for Eri to show up while they oh so subtly watched him from the common room.

"Well, who is she Izuku?" Mina asked jumping onto the couch, halfway falling off of it so that her bright pink arms nearly touched the ground. "Come on, you can tell us! Or at least me!"

"Can't you just wait for her to show up?" He half asked, half whined, glancing back at them for a quarter of a second. It was like when a cat only moved when he wasn't looking at them.

"Oh come on, I bet we know her!" Mina tumbled off the couch, walking over to him, a bright cheerful smile on her face as she made a lovey-dovey face in his general direction. Her black and yellow eyes brimming with curiosity. "Oh! Is it Mei from 1-H? She's just your type and she's totally into you!"

That was apparently a different timeline. But they didn't need to know that. Hell, he didn't need to know that.

"It's probably that one lady that showed up in class!" Toru replied, her arms were probably flailing about by how her sleeves moved about. For someone that was invisible she sure did have easy to read body language.

Momo hummed placing a hand on her chin. "I've seen her around a few times, and her little sisters I think. But I don't really recognize her, do you think she's staff? Besides, I think she's too old for Izuku isn't she?"

They were going to flip the fuck out once they realized who he was dating, just like he did when he first realized just who exactly he was dating. He was never going to hear no end of this, was he?

"I still have no idea who they are or why they don't like me!" Ochako slumped into her seat, melting into it her hand was around a still hot cup of tea. "Seriously, every time I see them they glare at me, or delete my number from Izuku's phone."

"That only happened once," He said, instant regret following through. He should have just stayed silent and waited. He still had time Eri was rarely late, she should be here any second now.

"Yea," Mina walked up tapping him on the shoulder. "What gives, why does your girlfriend have a grudge against Ochako?"

"I must admit I'm curious as well," Momo said.

"Nod, nod," Toru agreed. "It's not healthy to date someone that doesn't like one of your friends you know! I lost a friend in middle school because of that."

"It's not like that she-"

Ozone filled the air and Eri appeared in front of him, still wearing her usual sweater, but her hair was different, instead of free-flowing it was tied into a long braid that fell over one of her shoulders, but the starkest change was one that he had seen on her older self, bouncing just over her left eye was that streak of hair dyed a deep shade of red.

She sucked in her lip, smiling at him, her body twisting. "Hi."

"Hi," he responded lamely waving at her. "Your uh hair looks nice."

"Oh, thanks," She ran her hand along the length of her braid, "It took me a while to braid, but if you like it then it was worth the time."

"The touch of red is cute too, it matches your eyes." He saw only her, only the way she blushed and smiled as she pulled at the clump of hair, it stood out all the more somehow complimenting her horn, and just adding that extra bit of color that made her really stand out.

"Oh, that? Well, you said you wanted some way to tell if we were already dating, so I got this died, do you like it?" Her face lit up, waiting for his answer.

It was worth repeating that he thought it was cute. "Yea, I like it a lot, it suits you."

"Ahh! Young love! How romantic!" Mina practically shouted in his ear. He was snapped back into reality realizing that both All four girls were standing next to them, well Ochako stood a bit off to the side. Mina's face and her shoulders slumped "Still though, who would have thought that it'd be Izuku to be the first to get a date."

"Actually, I think that still belongs to Momo," Eri laughed pointing two fingers to the tall dark haired girl. She tapped her cheek her smile twisting into a thoughtful look. "Oh, wait, was that thing between you and Shoto a secret still?"

All eyes were now on Momo, Mina all but glaring at her. "Study sessions huh?"

"Oh, well I that is, I mean, I." Her face grew redder by the second as her arms flailed about dangerously. She stopped, coughing into her hand and looking away, trying to gather what little composure she had left. "Be that as it may, how exactly do you know that? And who are you."

The curiosity was once more on Eri.

"Oh, sorry, have we not met yet?" Eri looked between him and the girls with a bemused smile on her face that was halfway to exasperation. "I could have sworn we have, it's really hard to keep track of stuff like this." She looked at him, nodding towards them. "Have I met them yet?"

"Technically yes," He shrugged.

"I've seen you around campus, a couple of times, that and your sisters," Toru responded. "They are your sisters right?"

Eri laughed. Hard, it was a belly laugh that forced her forward and to clutch her stomach. "No, those are all me. I'm surprised you haven't figured it out. Or that people have managed to keep it a-"

The refrigerator door slammed shut. "She's a time traveler." Came Kaachan's voice from the kitchen. He entered their view sipping from a can of tea and glaring at everybody in the room. "You're not seeing her sisters you're seeing older versions of her that keep showing up to make small annoying changes to our timeline so that something doesn't go terribly wrong."

He chugged the can before crushing it in his hand, tossing it into the bin. "As to why she wants to go out with a loser like Deku-"

"If you keep it up Kaachan-" Eri said placing both hands behind her back. "I'll undo that favor"

Kaachan's face turned into a mask of rage and looked ready to explode. Then it simmered down his frown still there and he glared at Eri for two seconds before looking towards the other girls then towards him, then back to Eri. "Sheesh, I was trying to get them off your back. Have fun on your date."

Without another word, his childhood friend burst through the front door glaring forward with anger-fueled determination.

"Are you really a time traveler?"

"Who do I marry?"

"Can we get the questions for the next exam?"

"Who turns out hotter?"

The girls were swarming her! This was going to ruin their date! He grabbed her hand, pulling her towards him and running down the hallway towards the stairs. "Come on Eri!"

She was laughing every step of the way.

Before they got to the stares he heard Ochako say. "Eri?"

By the third floor, it was apparent that nobody was actually chasing them, and he slowed down still leading Eri by her hand. "Does this count as handholding?"

He didn't look back to see her answer, his cheeks felt so hot that if he dared to look back he'd probably catch fire. Okay, so there were a lot of things that were happening. He was on a date with Eri, he was holding her hand, and by the end of the hour literally, everybody will know that he was dating Eri. And that meant that some people would probably figure out that Eri was actually Eri.

"Yes," she half laughed trying to keep up with him. "Shouldn't we have run out the door though? Unless you're planning on jumping out the window."

Right, she didn't know what their date was. Hell, he barely knew what is date was, but the crazy slightly older Eri said that it was basically her dream date. Made sense considering how she was a time traveler so staying in and not doing anything was probably rare for her.

He stopped at the end of the floor turning into the the girls secret movie room and opening the door for Eri. The title screen for 'The Last Unicorn' illuminated the normally dark room, a comfortable looking couch with more than a few pillows and a couple of blankets tossed haphazardly on it sat right in the middle of the room. A small table filled with snacks such as popcorn and some Samosas that filled the room with a mouthwatering cheese scent.

"Actually, uhh this is our date, A marathon of some of your favorite movies, snacks and uhh cuddling."

"Oh, You do have good taste." She reached over snagging one of the Samosas. She bit into it, pulling on it to two the string the cheese that came through. She hummed wiggling at the taste. "These are so good! How'd you know these were my favorite?" Her eyes snapped to the screen, and she finally let go of his hand. "I haven't seen that in forever!" She grabbed at the stack of movies and raised an eyebrow at him. "You know one of these isn't even out yet right?"

"An older you showed up right after you left and uhh kind of hijacked our date." She began to pout, still happily eating her cheese snack though. "Sorry?"

"Don't apologize," She smiled at him then looked towards the couch. "It's not your fault I can't mind my own damn business." She flopped onto the couch, pushing a bit of hair out of her eyes. "Still even if I do have some good ideas and know what I like even before I actually know what I like, I wanted to see what you'd come up with. Not to put any pressure on you but apparently, you take me on some amazing dates."

"How'd you know that?" he sat next to her, more than a foot between them on the couch. That felt far too far. He needed to remember what older Eri said. That she was just as nervous as he was and that she wanted this probably more than he did judging by how she went out of her way to change a timeline to try and get with him. Or at least she will?

"I asked you," she flipped her braid at him. "You said to tell you that no, time traveling doesn't get any less confusing and that I am indeed crazy." she gave him a full-on cheeser smile. "I like to think I'm worth it though."

"Oh well, uhh, I'll be sure to plan for our next date." He scooted closer than her. Less than the space of a hand was between them now. Okay, she didn't seem bothered by it, that was good. Now for uhh trying to do more. Like. Uhh. He placed his arm on the back of the couch, not touching Eri, but he almost had his arm around her. Yep! That was good enough!

Eri smiled, raising an eyebrow at him as he looked at his arm then back at his hand and finally back to him. Her smile was halfway to a smirk as she scooted closer to him. "Hmm, before you do that, you might want to focus on this date first."

His hand fell onto her shoulder, then slide down her arm and her head fell to his shoulder, leading his hand to her waist. His heart was pounding in his chest, thumping harder and harder ready to explode at any moment. But this also felt nice. "So, umm, I can hold you like this right?"

She nodded, her face burning in the shifting light of the movie title screen. How could she tease him so much while still being shy about something like this? What about weeks ago when they were all but cuddling in the same bed.

"Okay," He said slowly, his arm outstretched to actually start the movie. This was fine. He made his move he was holding Eri like they were a couple. This was a good place to stop. That faint kiss burned in his mind once again. It was hard to focus, his head was filled with her and what her older self had said minutes ago. "I forgot to go on a walk with you and get hot choclate."

"Oh?" Eri replied scooting a bit closer to him, her face was close and her eyes were locked onto his, her favorite movie going unnoticed in the background. "Well, it's a bit late now, to comfortable to move."

Okay, so this wasn't enough. Awkward kissing time. He could do that. He wanted to kiss her and he was naturally awkward so it was win-win. He could do this. "Can." His voice cracked. "Can I kiss you?"

She shuddered her body tensing before her smile relaxed and she nodded. "Yea."

He didn't remember moving his head to hers, he didn't remember how he ended up kissing her with her back against the couch, he didn't remember how they shifted, how she ended up being the one on top kissing him. He didn't even remember the movie. All he remembered was Eri's kisses.

AN: Go check out my Izuku x Itsuka (Kendo) fic! Fist to Fist, Heart to Heart!

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