A much younger Uraraka sat on the ground, watching some kind of event on a TV with a bunch of kids that looked just as young as her, and judging by their wide smiles, they were just as excited about the event.

"And that concludes the second event of the U.A. Sports Festival! Join us in an hour for the final round!"

Just then, a hand reached for the TV and turned it off, causing the kids to loudly whine. They turned their attention to their teacher: a slender woman with snow white hair.

"I know the sports festival's very exciting, kids, but we need to keep a schedule," the woman said, earning groans of exasperation from the kids. "And, once an hour has passed, we'll tune in for the last festival event, okay?"

The kids cheered wildly, with Uraraka in particular clapping repeatedly anf somehow activating her Quirk, sending her floating in the air until the woman caught her... Upside down.

"I know you're excited, but please keep it down a little, okay," the woman said with a little, concerned smile.

"Sorry, Mrs. Todoroki," Uraraka said, clasping her hands and deactivating her Quirk. "What do we have for today, anyway?"

Mrs. Todoroki smiled as she flipped Uraraka and put her on the ground. "Well, today, we're going to be joined by a new friend! She needed to get something done first, so she'll join us later."

This began murmuring across the classroom.

"We're going to have a new friend?"

"I wonder what she can do!"

"You think she'll play nice?'

"Okay, kids, calm down," Mrs. Todoroki said as she clapped twice. "You'll meet this new friend soon enough, for now, we'll do some push-ups and stretching, then we'll have Quirk practice."

With that said, the children cheered up and ran to an open space to begin their exercises: they all began doing push-ups at their own pace, with Uraraka in particular going beyond... And quickly tiring herself out compared to her classmates.

"Don't go too hard, Uraraka!" Mrs. Todoroki exclaimed. "Do it at your own pace!"

*CREAK*

"I'm assuming everything's right?"

The woman turned to face the unexpected visitor, who was none other than The owner of the nursery facilty: Principal Nezu, who looked exactly the same as he would in a few years time.

"It's rare for you to pay a visit, Mr. Nezu."

"Indeed it is: sadly, with how much attention and care not only both a hero school and a nursery facility need, I've had to focus on one over the other," the white creature spoke, adjusting his tie. "But since today's very important, I think It's crucial that I come see how the Titans are doing."

"Oh, well, they're doing fine," Mrs. Todoroki remarked, eyeing the children as Nezu walked to her side. "I told them to do some exercises, both physical and later, Quirk-oriented."

"Good, good, I was actually hoping you'd give them the exercises," Nezu turned to the door and shouted, "Come in, kid!"

Uraraka dropped chin-first on the ground in exhaustion as a girl entered the room. She wore the same kindergarten uniform as the rest of the students, who paused their exercises to look at her.

"Children, Mrs. Todoroki, this is Yui," Nezu explained as the girl walked to his side. "Sadly, I couldn't find anything about her family, not even a family name, so she'll be living with me until I can find a home for her. In the meantime, she'll study here, so try to get along, okay?"

"Yes, Mr. Nezu!"

"Good, I'll leave Yui to meet her new classmates," the white creature looked down at the girl. "Don't be shy, okay? Nobody's going to hurt you."

"Mhm," was all Yui said in response.

"Great! Have fun!"

The large creature left the facility as Yui walked to her new classmates. She went to Uraraka just as she stood up and took a deep breath.

"Aw man, I went too hard again!" she giggled as she turned to the newcomer. "Hi! I'm Uraraka!"

Uraraka extended her hand forward, but Yui looked at it with confusion, tilting her head as she slowly extended her hand forward as well. Eventually, the girls shook hands, and Uraraka flashed a little smile while Yui kept staring at her with a neutral expression.

"Alright, children, let's move on to the next time exercise," Mrs. Todoroki said, clasping her hands together. "Oh, Yui, sorry for not asking but do you-"

However, when the woman turned to look at Yui, the girl had gone from being next to Uraraka, to sitting in one of the tables, watching the garden through the window.

"Well, guess she won't be joining us. Now, kids, pick a partner and we'll begin a tag exercise."

At this statement, a girl with full lips and boy with a face befitting a teenager paired up, while a silver-haired boy walked to Uraraka and extended his hand forward, blushing a little as he said:

"So, Uraraka, I w-was wondering, if you'd like to, um, uh, be my... Partner, f-for the tag exercise?"

But Uraraka didn't answer. Instead, she stared at Yui, a worried expression on her face. "The new girl doesn't seem to be enjoying herself."

"It's her first day and she doesn't know anybody," a dark-haired Midoriya lookalike expressed. "I think she's just shy."

Uraraka pulled Mrs. Todoroki's dress. "Can I go join Yui, Mrs. Todoroki?"

"Are you sure about that, Uraraka?" Mrs. Todoroki glanced at Yui, who kept staring through the window. "She doesn't seem to be in the mood to see anybody."

Uraraka pulled herself. "Please, Mrs. Todoroki!"

One puppy-dog eyed look later, the woman conceded and let Uraraka hang out with Yui, the girl giggling as she ran to the table. Yui, for the most part, barely noticed her presence.

"Hi again! It's me, Uraraka! We just met today!" Uraraka rested her chin on the table. "Would you like to play?"

Yui avoided Uraraka's gaze and shook her head.

"Well, would you like to do something else?"

Yui shook her head once again, and turned her attention back to the window. Uraraka pouted at this, but chose to focus her energy on something else: drawing. She grabbed a crayon and paper-making sure not to use her Quirk on them by mistake-and began drawing something.

Yui only briefly glanced at Uraraka before turning back to the window.

And then Uraraka shoved her drawing up her face.

"Here! I drew the garden!"

What Uraraka had actually drawn was a large mess of green, along with an array of yellow, orange, red, and purple made to somewhat resemble flowers.

"Uraraka, please don't shove your drawings on people's faces," Mrs. Todoroki said as she walked to the pair and removed the drawing. "I'm sure whatever you drew must be very cute, but Yui shouldn't be forced to see it either."

"But she's only looking at the garden through the window!" Uraraka whined, repeatedly slamming her fists down the table. "I came to play with her and she doesn't even pay me attention!"

Uraraka glared at Yui as she focused on the garden again. "See!?"

"It's her first day, Uraraka, she needs to take things at her own pace," Mrs. Todoroki smiled. "Besides, you'll have more than enough time to get along later."

"Why?"

"Because as soon as the sports festival is over, we'll go on a road trip to I-Island."

All the kids stopped what they were doing and turned to look at the woman, who seemed rather surprised.

"What, didn't I say anything about it?" Mrs. Todoroki gently smacked herself. "My bad!"

And so, just as their teacher said, the children were taken to the mentioned I-Island as soon as the sports festival had concluded. The kids, rowdy as they were, stayed mostly quiet as they looked at the floating island through the plane's windows with excitement.

Then, once they arrived at the airport, they were given a tour through the facility by a giant whale-like man calling himself Gang Orca. So, things were coming along pretty nicely... Until they weren't.

"Go off-track?" Uraraka asked.

"I just saw something really neat a few streets back, and I wanna take a closer look at it," the Midoriya lookalike said. "Besides, Yui said she wants to go see it too."

"Wait,Yui can talk?!" Uraraka exclaimed.

"Yes." was all Yui said in response.

"It's her first day on the nursery facility, we should try to make sure she's comfortable," the lookalike raised an eyebrow. "And what better way to do that than by showing her what she wants to see?"

Uraraka glanced back at the group, which were busy looking at a Godzillo statue. "I don't know, Shindo-"

"Fine, I get it, you'd rather have the new girl on a leash than to give her freedom," Shindo took a deep breath. "We'll be back in an instant, Uraraka, nobody will notice we even left."

Uraraka calmed down a little at that statement, but she still kept caution. Then she looked at Yui, and saw her eyes had turned from neutral to begging, as if she really wanted to go see whatever she saw.

"Alright... Let's do this."

"I'm glad you understood, Uraraka!" Shindo turned to Yui. "Lead the way!"

Yui nodded with excitement and ran off to the thing, Shindo following soon after. Uraraka glanced at the group one more time before she power walked to the duo.

Hopefully they really would be back in an instant.

"Uraraka... Uraraka... hey, Uraraka!"

The girl snapped out of her trance and turned around to see she was currently at the event Kirishima mentioned: next to her was Kirishima, who was looking at her with a raised eyebrow, and on the horizon she saw Kaminari, Hagakure, and some of her other classmates looking at her.

It was the same on the other side, only right next to her was Shiozaki instead. She seemed rather nervous, though given the mood, it was to be expected.

"Sorry, I got on a trance without meaning to," Uraraka sighed. "So, where were we?"

"I suggested you give Shiozaki some encouragement for her first day," Kirishima answered. "You were the first one of us she met, after all."

Uraraka turned to Shiozaki, and put a hand on her shoulder.

"Alright then. So, Shiozaki, I don't know what you're feeling right now, or if you were against the decision to transfer-"

"She was!" one of her classmates said from afar.

"-but I hope that, no matter what, you enjoy your new classroom from now on. We got a whole year ahead of us, so let's work together, alright?"

Shiozaki slowly gained a smile, and silently nodded before she replied:

"Please take good care of me."

"Don't worry, Shiozaki!" Kirishima excitedly said. "We'll all take good care of you!"

Shiozaki rolled her eyes. "I was talking about Uraraka."

The students cracked up, with Shiozaki joining them shortly afterwards.

Maybe this wouldn't be so bad...