He was done faster than she had expected, and Momo had said a small thank you shutting herself in her room soon after that, still flustered by the connotations of her latest train of thought.
She couldn't help imagining all the romantic stories she had read as a kid, ones depicting the older days where romance bloomed between men and women. Something her generation didn't even get to see any more let alone experience it.
But all of those thoughts were unfit for an academic environment. Not like he would even… want that.
right?
She is just pushing her old childish dreams onto him and the real world.
"stop overthinking" she hissed at herself leaning on her door, deciding to start to unpack to clear her head.
He was back at the common room, waiting. Nozomi had messaged him about a secondary move in. and he apparently had more work to do than moving a bed upstairs this time.
A girl walked in unannounced, two-tone hair flowing behind her as she did so "I was told there was someone to help with the move-in?" her hair was white and red, parted right at the middle
"that would be me" he said, getting up and walking towards the girl. Her hair was down to her hips, body rugged but still undeniably attractive. Her eyes were heterochromatic, just like her hair, left an icy blue, right a steely grey.
They looked off.
And it wasn't due to the damage done to her left side.
She looked like she was staring through him rather at him, not even registering his presence in a meaningful way. It was a surprising change to the normal reactions he got to say the least.
"ok my stuff is outside, I'll be at my room 305" she said, voice icy. She then promptly moved upstairs
He moved out seeing a pile of… Tatami?
First, a woman that he could relate with self-confidence issues and now one that looked to have walled herself off from the planet. Both on his floor, both his neighbors.
Nozomi what are you planning?
To her credit by the time he had hauled all of the materials upstairs the girl had managed to strip the room of its flooring. Singed floorboards littered the hallway in front of her room.
"Sorry I'll clean it up after" she mumbled still no emotion in her voice. She looked out of breath and the look in her eyes was slightly strained
Maybe using her quirk hurts her emotionally?
"It's fine I got it" he hummed, dropping the new flooring to the floor and picking up the old floorboards, pushing them to the side.
She was about to pull the stuff in and start constructing that he coughed finally getting some of her attention.
"I- I kinda got some experience in building stuff and construction" he mumbled rubbing the back of his head "I can help you re-floor this place- if you want it"
She looked at him- really looked at him once. It wasn't pity nor was it patronization that came out of his mouth. Just an offer of help from one person to another. Her 'mother' hadn't ever said something like that to her, nor did she allow anyone else to.
"sure," she said, opening the door a little wider for him to get in too.
Anything Endeavor said; she would do all in her power to do the opposite.
Including accepting help.
She had to admit, having someone that actually knew a little about tatami instillation actually helped, and they were done in an hour. "thank you-" she hesitated for a second I never got his name- didn't even ask it did I-
"Midoriya Izuku" he said, seemingly not hurt by the late introduction
"Thank you Midoriya" she said stoically, but the sheer cold of her voice was gone
"We students need to help out each-other, shouldn't we?"
She didn't agree with that. She wasn't here to make friends.
…but that's the way she thinks
She nodded after a little deliberation.
He was kinda confused why she kept stopping and staring for a while. But didn't speak up about it.
Move out day is usually hard for people- and she is probably getting lost in thought he concluded.
"well see you later" he hummed stepping out of the newly refurbished room.
She didn't respond
It was 2 pm. And he was getting kinda hungry,
"time to see how the kitchen works" he hummed to himself, walking out of his room to the kitchen area to find it looking like a warzone.
With Momo in the middle of it whimpering softly
"I- I just tried making rice"
Oh
"L-lets clean this up Yaoyorozu, I'll cook some food for us all" he said walking through spilled water and rice, trying to calm her down slightly. Raising his hand for her to hold.
Still slightly dazed by the mess she had just made she nodded and grabbed his hand, letting him lead her to the couch and give her a towel to wipe off all the water on her.
How did she get it all over her?
"Can you make soba?" both of them flinched
When did she get here?
"Uh- sure? What do you want Yaoyorozu?" he asked getting up and out of her space now that she seemed a little calmer
"Anything really-" she mumbled "I'll have soba too"
He Nodded and looked to the kitchen "I am no lunch-rush, but I'll cook up something good"
Somewhere Inko sneezed
Oh my child is becoming a man
"I think we haven't met yet" Momo said, eyes dragging from the cooking form of Izuku to the mystery girl that just kinda… appeared?
"Shoko" she said simply
"Shoko?" Momo asked head tilting to the side
"Call me Shoko" she repeated
"Nice to meet you Shoko, my name is Yaoyorozu Momo" she introduced herself with trained elegance
She nodded eyes still slightly glazed as she watched Izuku cook
Soba…
Wait… If all women have quirks- and All might was given One for All- shouldn't that mean she has another quirk? Izuku thought suddenly while cooking the soba, head shooting up as the thought passed his head.
He had zoned out. He didn't even know how that thought made its way into his head.
Questions for another time
he drained the noodles in cold water, ready to serve. Seeing that the kitchen and the counter was still unclean due to Momo's little accident he brought the noodles to coffee table of the common room.
Shoko dug in immediately.
He and Momo looked at her for a second
Guess she likes her soba
Saying a small thank you to him Momo followed suit, enjoying the flavor of the noodles.
She could get used to this.
He tasted the noodles. Not bad
After the meal, and the clean-up ,thankfully Momo had helped him out with that, he moved back to his room
'Don't I have anything else to do' he texted Nozomi
The reply was instantaneous
'Nope, the only reason you were here was to help the recommended students move in, the teachers are too busy preparing for the introduction ceremony to relax and need your help'
then why did you reply to me so fast?
He placed his phone on his All might themed charging pad. Rolling to his side.
The girls he had met today were eccentric- but lovable as hell.
He blushed.
He had too many girls like that in his life.
"what am I going to do?"
He woke up with a start, looking at the time
6 pm
He had slept through another 3 hours.
He groggily walked down to the common room
The heterochromatic girl was there, eating some of the Soba he had put in the fridge to eat later.
Their gazes locked
She continued slurping the noodles without breaking eye contact
"I can make more later" he mumbled groggily
She nodded slowly, still slurping
"have you seen Yaoyorozu?" he asked, before she could answer Momo walked out from behind the fridge
"right here- you alright Midoriya?" worry in her eyes
"Yeah" he rubbed his eyes trying to get the sleep outta them "just tired for some reason" he yawned
"well its probably the move in" she said.
He nodded "probably- how are you two?"
"Amazing" Shoko said swallowing all the noodles she had in her mouth finally away from her
"I-" Momo started "I am very excited about all of this, It's so new to me" she admitted getting a little embarrassed about admitting it
"Me too-" Izuku mumbled, "so what do you want for dinner?"
"Soba" Shoko said immediately
"Shoko No" Momo said, sounding slightly maternal
Shoko looked unaffected
"he seems to be getting along with them fine" Nozomi said looking at the common room feed
"why are we watching the new students interact again?" Aizawa huffed
"Cause they are your class, and He is a variable we had never dealt with" Nozomi answered simply
"Ok we both know that is bullshit" Aizawa deadpanned
Nozomi ate another popcorn kernel
"I don't know what you mean Eraser"
This chaotic good shit is getting old she hissed in her head
The next day was the move in for the rest of the class. Izuku hadn't been ordered to help them, so he hadn't set up an alarm to wake himself up. Meaning that his recent narcolepsy caused him to oversleep.
A knock on the door woke him up.
He looked at the clock. Midday.
What the fuck is going on with me right now?
He questioned, getting up to check the door.
Not noticing that he had slept shirtless
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Tooru asked her new, pink skinned friend, Mina. They had gotten along fast after learning they were room-neighbors
"Yeah! Don't you think everyone should meet in the common room?" Mina said with excitement, which was mirrored in her best friend from high school, Kirishima Eiko.
"YEAH!"
The door opened
"Hey, we were calling everyone to the common room to-"
All three of them stopped.
They were face to chest with-
"Yeah?" asked the owner of the chest, still slightly groggy
They all looked up to see his iridescent green hair and emerald eyes
"we-" Tooru babbled, Mina looked frozen and Eiko looked ready to die right there.
He looked down at the three, suddenly realization hit him and looked down to his own body. Blushing a deep red that made him look like a tomato
"Sorry-" he barked slamming the door and running in to change
Eiko shook Mina's shoulder "we- we just"
"oh my god it's a man" the pinkette mumbled still stunned
The redhead looked like she was having the time of her life "do you think he is like in those movies? Chivalrous and stuff?"
Tooru looked at her new friends geeking out over the guy they just met
"wh- what are you on about?"
They both shared a glance
"how many old movies have you seen?"
When Izuku walked back out after finding a shirt and pants the trio was still on his doorway
"s-sorry about that- I hadn't woken up fully yet" he mumbled
"Its no problem" both the pink skinned girl and the redhead announced, eyes sparkling
He gazed at the duo, one muscular to a fault, chiseled to the point that her shoulders looked angular, with a small chest, with red spiky hair and red eyes.
The other pink-skinned and black sclera-d, irises a gold color. Her pink hair in a bushy mess similar to his own with yellow horns sticking out from the mop. She was less muscular with her body having a bit more mass around her chest and thighs.
Why- why does it always have to be beautiful women?
"Uh- nice to meet you, Midoriya Izuku" he introduced himself
"Kirishima Eiko," said the red-head, absolutely beaming.
"Ashido Mina," said the pinkette
"Hakagure Tooru," said the Air?
He did a double take, noticing the floating clothes now. And based on them another curvy, invisible, woman was standing next to Ashido
"s-sorry" he said looking at where he assumed her face was "didn't se-" he noticed the pun that was about to form and coughed in his hand dispelling it
"did you need me for something?"
All three nodded- well he thinks Tooru nodded, its hard to discern without seeing a head
"yeah we were collecting everyone for a dorm meeting- I think you are the last one" Mina said
"Dorm meeting?"
Oh no
His eyes landed on the crowd when the elevator doors opened 16 people looked at the doors as the elevator beeped announcing it had arrived
"YOU"
OH NO
Katsumi seethed and grabbed him by the collar, a hard thing to do when she was so much shorter than him. And pulled him down to her eye level.
"What are you doing here, Deku?"
"I- I got in just like you" he mumbled his brow sweating
The rest of the students started to panic
"Release him at once" exclaimed the interrupter from the orientation she had got in too?
"Midoriya" panicked Momo, not knowing what to do
"Bakugou please" Eiko mumbled stuck inside the elevator as the confrontation was blocking the doors
The machine started to beep as the doors were kept open for too long
"what a mad banquet of darkness" someone mumbled in the crowd
"hey- hey is that a guy?" whispered a small and squeaky voice
"A guy? How did he get in?" someone else mumbled
"wasn't he in our testing center?" asked a tall woman with multiple connected arms
"Y-yeah I think so? I remember seeing him dash in first"
"what are you two talking about" Katsumi hissed pushing Izuku back into the Elevator, it stopped beeping as its doors closed
"well that was something" Mina mumbled
"not the best first-day" Izuku admitted pressing the open door button
"wait you are going back out?" Tooru asked
"I need to explain things to her" he mumbled back, determination in his eyes
Manly Eiko thought a fist over her heart
"So you are telling me that-" she pointed at Izuku who had just walked back into the common room "He, beat up enough villains to make it in?"
"Yes he did," said the glasses-wearing girl. A brown-haired girl was silent during all of this chaos
"Fucking. How. He is just Deku." She seethed
The girl shook her head "I was suspicious at first too- but seeing him in action for a glimpse- He has the body of a hero, even if he doesn't have a quirk, no?"
Katsumi flinched. She had forgotten how much He had changed. She gritted her teeth
"what do you know- who are you anyway?" she hissed
"Iida Tomoyo. A pleasure to meet you" said Tomoyo, reaching her hand out mechanically to shake hers
Katsumi didn't clasp her hand
"from the Iida family? Like Ingenium; Iida family?" he asked with stars in his eyes
Katsumi looked at Izuku, he had gone into hero nerd mode.
She huffed and walked off to her room.
"Yes that's the one," Tomoyo said, chest bubbling in pride "Also- sorry about my rudeness at the test area"
"It's really no pr-"
"wait" they all looked at the source of the voice. Someone short with purple balls forming twin-tails on their head. "are we just gonna"
she was drooling.
"Ignore that such a fine piece of-" she was cut off as a long tongue smacked the side of her face shutting her up.
A girl with large hands ribbited "I am Asui, please call me Tsuyu" she introduced herself
"ni-nice to meet you Asu-" he caught himself "I mean Tsuyu" she ribbited with happiness
He turned back to Tomoyo, eyes glancing over brown, de-gravitized hair
"Oh- sorry Iida can I have a moment?" he walked past Tomoyo to his target
"Told you you'd make it"
She blushed a bit "sorry for not stepping up"
He shook his head "Kacchan can get a little- intense; I understand, though she isn't that bad when you get to know her"
Someone snorted. "that I find hard to believe," said someone with dark purple hair and aux cords hanging in the underside of her ears, body slim and petite. "Kyoka Jirou," she said nodding towards him
"Hey! Midoriya wouldn't lie like that" Ochako defended her friend"-oh Ochako Uraraka"
Jirou nodded in greeting
"What's her deal with you anyway Deku?" the punk girl asked
He flinched a bit
"We were childhood friends- kinda had a falling out" He mumbled
Tomoyo was behind him "don't call him that- didn't you notice that was a derogatory nickname?"
Ochako was the one to be surprised "Eh? Didn't she call him Deku? As in Dekiuru? As in 'you can do it?"
Tomoyo looked at her stunned "I- no not with that tone of voice…" she mumbled and rubbed her chin in thought- maybe?
"you can call me that if you want," he said smiling "I got used to it- plus when you say it like that it sounds sweet"
Tomoyo looked at him stunned "Just like that?"
By that time Momo had managed to walk through the crowd up to them "Midoriya are you alright?"
He nodded "It takes a lot more than that to do me in" he chuckled trying to ease everyone that seemed to worry for him
"what do you mean by that- if you don't mind me asking" Tsuyu croaked, when did she get so close to the group?
"Uh-"
"He defeated a 0 pointer" Ochako said
Everyone stopped
"he what?" they all echoed
"he stopped a 0 pointer from crushing me, and punched its arm off- it was…" she trailed off
"THAT WAS HIM?" asked Jirou eyes widening, Momo looked around "what's a 0 pointer?"
"you mean to say- " Tsuyu ribbited "he punched the arm off of one of those building-sized robots?"
"building-sized?" everyone in test area B looked at Tsuyu
"well wasn't it big?" she croaked face still neutral
"yeah but- wasn't it more like a skyscraper?"
Everyone not in test area B looked confused
"wait- wait" someone with blonde hair, with a black lightning bolt on it, cut in "are we not talking about the giant machine with 2 tank legs that trudged around slowly and destroyed buildings in the area?"
"two legs?" Izuku looked at the girl
" what are you talking about- the 0 pointer had 3 legs and dashed around the area with ease?" Tomoyo mumbled getting more and more confused
"…" Momo looked up in thought "so they had a different 0 pointer in- uh test area B was it?"
"even if that's the case why would they-" Izuku stiffened realization hitting him
"goddammit Nozomi" he mumbled facepalming
"Midoriya?" They all looked at him
"It was me- they changed the test because I was in the test area" he mumbled
"why would they-" Tomoyo questioned
"Why would she- I am certain the principal did this- unsure if it was to force me to show off my quirk- or for something el-" he stopped
Everyone.
Stopped.
"your WHAT?" they all asked in unison, all except Uraraka
"that was fast" Nozomi mumbled looking at the screen
"which part, him admitting having a quirk or the girls deciphering we meddled with the test parameters?" Aizawa huffed in her sleeping bag, not paying attention to what was happening really
"both really" Nozomi chuckled eating more popcorn
He took a seat on a couch as all of his new classmates interrogated him "you have a quirk? I thought you were a- y'know" Eiko mumbled dejected out of her mind
The rest had similar looks of confusion on their faces, except Ochako who had seen and talked to his mom and knew nigh everything about him, Shoko who really didn't care And Momo who was certain he couldn't make that speech if he hadn't been truthful about being a guy
"I- I am a guy- its just apparently I have a quirk" He mumbled looking down
"that doesn't make sense males don't get quirks" Tomoyo said, looking somewhere between apologetic and mad as she realized she had assumed 'her' gender in the orientation, yet 'she' was still lying to them all
"Well I did- I don't know why or how I just did" he huffed, not looking back up
"only one way to prove you aren't lying" said the squeaky voice " show us your-" she was cut off by a tongue slapping her and a hand grabbing her over the head
She floated above everyone knocked out
"I would prefer if you didn't pester the guy that saved my life" Ochako said, smiling. her tone was different than usual, causing everyone to take a step back in fear
Seeing her he got even more apologetic, landing on his knees and getting into a dogeza
"I'm so sorry Uraraka- the mess you got in was all my fault- if I wasn't in the same testing area with you then you wouldn't have-"
"gotten hurt?" she finished for him "Deku, if you hadn't jumped in I would have died. You were the only one there that even attempted that- and from what it sounds like no one else would have done anything if a normal 0 pointer was the one that attacked me"
He still didn't look up
She crouched in front of him "hey chin up. What you did doesn't change. You still saved my life"
Everyone around felt like they were watching something that was supposed to be private
"I was the reason you were caught up in that anyway"
"Deku, did you ask me to enter the Exam?"
"no-"
"did you ask me to be in the same test area as you?"
"…no"
"did you ask the principal to change out the 0 pointers?"
"no"
"then how was any of this your fault?"
He didn't respond, she petted his head causing him to go weightless and float up
"h-hey"
"if you won't get up I'll force you up" she giggled
Momo looked at the scene with a pit in her stomach she couldn't explain. Uraraka and Midoriya looked so close.
Eiko was stunned- such manliness, holding up against a 0 pointer, then apologizing for it, wow.
The rest dropped the topic after that, Uraraka releasing Izuku, who landed gracefully on the floor.
The grape-head, not so much.
The rest of the girls had dispersed to unpack the rest of their stuff, excluding the multi-armed Mai Shoji who had little to unpack and Shoko who already unpacked the day before, both preferred staying in their rooms instead of staying in the common room. Momo, on the other hand, had told him that she had to study.
Izuku, after seeing Jirou struggle carrying the multiple amplifiers, had offered to help her, which she took, and thanks to that they were one of the first to finish.
Now she was sitting by the counter of the kitchen, watching him cook.
"So Green" he looked at Jirou, away from the pan he was cooking in
"You have a quirk, You can cook, like helping people and You look like this?" she said gesturing to his body
"Yeah?" he asked flipping the steak on the pan, the ball-haired girl, Mineta Minerva, and Tsuyu walked out of the elevator
"Are you still single?" she asked teasingly
he coughed dropping the spatula "I- uh" he blushed deeply "yes?" he mumbled softly
"How?" she asked grin still teasing
"doesn't matter calling di-" Minerva was struck by a tongue again.
Thanks Tsuyu
"I- I was busy training to pass the entrance exam" he mumbled looking at the sizzling steak
"so now that's over you are on the prowl?" she asked leaning in a bit, enjoying how red he was getting
"why are you asking me these things Jirou?" he asked back trying to change topics
"she might be interested" Tsuyu croaked
It was Kyoka's turn to turn red "N-no I was just teasing him"
"Oh- well it looks like so many are already that I just assumed it was us all"
Izuku looked ready to go supernova
"w-what are you talking about Tsuyu-" he blustered
She looked at him with a blank expression "don't tell me you aren't seeing it"
He didn't respond, his brain was in full denial, and thanks to Total command, He stopped hearing the rest of the conversation as his ears shut down
"i-is he ignoring you?" Kyoka asked looking at the now catatonic Izuku, who was barely moving now and then to cook the steak on the pan
"I think so" Tsuyu croaked "don't know if his denial is cute or annoying"
"w-why are you so open about this?" Kyoka mumbled blushing a bit, it was definitely cute.
"I just say what comes to mind, can't help it" she ribbited "plus its not like you weren't obvious"
She blushed deeper "I wasn't interested"
"really Jirou?" she ribbited
"shut up" she said looking away
"Can you stop? Whipping me with your tongue?" Minerva hissed, coming out of her daze
"can you stop sexually harassing Midoriya?" Tsuyu asked
"Oh, like you two are any better" Minerva huffed
"I mean, my first words weren't 'show me your genitals'" Jirou defended herself
"no such thing shall be done in here" Tomoyo said walking into the room, she had finally placed all her glasses.
"oh here comes Mrs. Buzzkill" huffed Minerva
"Such words- they do not befit a hero candidate" Tomoyo said, waving her arms in chopping motions
"hush prude, the women are talking" Minerva snapped back
"shut the FUCK Up all of you" announced Katsumi walking to the room. She was hungry
"how vulgar" Tomoyo muttered as Katsumi shoved past them all onto the fridge
Izuku noticed her and his hearing returned "Oh Kacchan- here I made food, spicy like you like it" he passed her a plate with a large steak and some hot sauce with a side of rice.
She glared at him, then the plate
She clicked her tongue but took the plate, going back up the stairs
"not gonna lie I thought that was gonna spiral into a fight" Jirou mumbled, Tsuyu nodded along
"Midoriya, are you cooking for us all?" Tomoyo asked, he nodded
"worked under Lunch-rush for 5 months- I'm not as good as her but Its better than nothing right?"
All 4 girls looked at him
"r-right?" he asked again looking back at them
"you know you didn't have to right?" Tsuyu croaked, her index finger on her chin
"I- yeah I know I didn't have to- I just thought it might-"
"yeah no I'm definitely interested now" she hummed nodding
He tried to ignore the connotations
"So- uh Jirou how do you like your steak?" He said, hoping the conversation would move past this hurdle
"uh- medium well?" she said he nodded continuing to cook the latest one on the pan
"I like my meat raw" Minerva announced in a pervy tone
"desist, please" Tomoyo begged