Izuku awoke to the sound of his mother knocking at his door.

"Izuku! A cute girl's here to see you!" Inko shouted from the other side of the door.

That got Izuku up. What time was it? Did he oversleep? He didn't think Mina would come early!

Izuku looked at the clock and found out it was indeed noon. Throwing on a T-shirt and pants, he rushed out to meet his new friend.

"There you are. Jeez, were you expecting me to come in the evening, sleeping cutie?" Mina asked with a teasing grin on her face

"Ha ha ha. Sooo funny" he said in a sarcastic tone of voice.

"How did you meet my son? I don't think you told me last night," Inko commented with a tilted head.

"Oh, he saved me yesterday! He turned into a dragon and blocked a blast from that explodey kid," Mina explained with a smile.

Izuku winced as Mina explained it. He knew that his mother knew what Mina meant by explodey kid. But then a question popped into his mind.

"Just what were you doing there, anyways? You didn't even go to our school."

"Oh, someone said that they wanted to meet me at that park. But when I got there, mister explodey palms came up to me and exploded my face, saying I needed to learn my place," Mina said, her expression conveying how confused she was that she was suddenly attacked.

"I didn't really have time to activate my quirk and even then, I could barely concentrate," Mina finished.

"Well, Izuku, why don't you do what you two had planned. I'm going to make a phone call while you do that," Inko said.

Izuku's mother seemed to have an odd look when she left the living room. He didn't have time to think about it as Mina grabbed his wrist and eagerly tugged on him.

"C'mon! Let's get to the back yard! I've been excited to see what you'll be doing with your training!" Mina said excitedly.

Izuku was pulled outside and just stood there afterwards with Mina looking at him.

"Well?" she asked.

"Oh right!"

Izuku tried recalling that feeling, closing his eyes to think.

Once he found it again, he pulled. The second he did that, he collapsed onto his arms and knees and his dragon body took form from his human body. He opened his eyes again and they remained green, but the pupils were slits.

"Woah... " Mina muttered.

"what?" Izuku asked.

"I still can't get over how cool you look," Mina said, smiling.

Mina didn't know how a green dragon can turn into a tomato, but Izuku was giving it his all trying. She found it funny. She started giggling as the blushing didn't stop.

Izuku enjoyed Mina's laughter. It was music to his ears. He found himself slightly smiling as he changed back to his human form. He then joined in laughing.

Izuku and Mina then began training their quirks, with Mina mainly focus on controlling it while Izuku was focusing on transforming as much as he could.

All Mina could do was create acid from her palms and her body in general she tried controlling the acids pH levels. At the end of the day she could get the acid to a pH level equal to baking soda.

Izuku was able to use his wings and tail a bit better at the end of the day. He tried flying which was a colossal failure. He'd probably have to keep trying to fly in order to get better.

Izuku and Mina reenter the house after a long day of training. The smell of his mother's cooking flooded their nostrils. Inko noticed the two entering the kitchen.

"Hello you too. How was training?" Inko asked curiously.

"It was good. I got better control over my dragon mode," Izuku said before glancing at Mina.

"I didn't do much improvement. I just was able to control my acid a little better." Mina said, her shoulders drooping.

"We just started. We'll start improving more as we keep going!" Izuku said encouragingly.

"Oh, so there's going to be a next time?" Mina said teasingly.

"Obviously!"

Mina started giggling. He fake pouted at Mina's teasing, causing her giggling to turn into full on laughter.

Izuku relented and joined in on the laughter.

"I'm glad you two are in such a good mood. Mina, would you like to stay for dinner?" Inko asked, breaking up the laughter.

"Oh! Can I?" Mina asked. "The smell of your cooking has me starving!"

"Of course!" Inko said with a bright smile.

'This girl is gonna be so good for Izuku.' Inko thought to herself, her motherly senses telling her that Mina was a good person.

Mina hopped up in celebration.

"Yes!" Mina shouted.

Izuku chuckled at her reaction. As the pink-haired girl realized what she did, she gained a light blush and looked away shyly.

The dinner was one of animated nature, Mina taking center stage on telling the Midoriyas about herself.

Her parents had acidic quirks just like her, her mother having the traits of a salamander and her father having a similar quirk to her by being able to emit water from the palms of his hands, but not a strong jet instead more like a hose.

She didn't really get into detail on her home life, just focusing on herself and her quirk. Izuku sensed there might be something sensitive there, but he didn't want to pry. Neither did his mother.

As dinner ended, Mina took it as her queue to leave. Izuku walked with her to the door.

"So, how was your day with me hanging around while you practiced your quirk?" Mina asked.

"I enjoyed it. I never thought I'd enjoy spending time with someone as much as I did with you," Izuku said with a smile.

"Well, how about we practice our quirks again tomorrow? I think I've improved way more in a day with you than I did the past couple of years," Mina said with a smile.

"Yeah! Since I've gotten my body down, we can just focus on you, maybe trying to bring out acid from other parts of your body like your feet or your forearm, or maybe we could try ...," Izuku started a mutter storm as he thought about what could help improve her quirk.

Mina found it kind of cute listening to the green haired boy mutter theories and questions about her quirk. She smiled softly, listening to him as he went on and on. Suddenly he stopped and he shook his head.

"Sorry. I can't help but mutter sometimes" Izuku said in an amused tone while chuckling

"No, no. It's fine. It helps you think. I don't mind it," Mina said with a kind smile.

"Really?"

"Yeah. And whoever doesn't like it can shove it, because without your muttering, you aren't you," Mina said with a kind smile.

"Well, I can't keep standing here talking to you, despite how nice that would be. I'll see you tomorrow. Be sure to be awake when I get there next time," Mina said with a smile as she started to leave.

"Yeah, I'll be awake," Izuku said, waving goodbye.

When Mina was out of sight, he closed the door and was met with a smiling mother.

"So when were you going to tell me Katsuki was starting to bully people?" Inko asked with an eerily kind smile.

"I-it never really mattered before..." Izuku tried to play it off, because he knew that when his mother was mad she could be able to fight All Might at full strength.

His mother wasn't having any of it.

"I was on the phone with Mitsuki earlier and she didn't know about Katsuki at all. Moreover, the school didn't know either," Inko said, a knife starting to float in the background.

Izuku decided the truth would be better than trying to deny it.

"The school doesn't want to tarnish Bakugo's 'perfect record' because they think he'll become a hero and doesn't want to get on his bad side," Izuku explained.

"And you didn't tell me this why?"

"I found myself agreeing with him. That i was meant to be a villain.," Izuku said, his head down.

Izuku was promptly brought into the warm embrace of his mother.

"You aren't a villain. And even when you use your quirk, you weren't a villain either," Inko said.

"When Bakugo raised his hand at her, I felt this primal urge. To protect. I jumped in front and when he used his explosion, I involuntarily turned into a dragon," Izuku explained.

"I'm tired. I'm going to head to bed," Izuku said tiredly.

Inko released her son from her embrace and let him walk to his room. He wrote down a few things about his quirk. The new entries were:

I can fly with my wings but it requires practice.

Haven't been able to breathe fire or any other thing in dragon mode. Possibly need to practice more to use it.

Izuku then promptly went to sleep. He found himself looking forward to the next day and he understood why. He was actually spending time with a friend.

Izuku woke up early this time and got ready before Mina showed up to his house. It was nearing noon time before she showed up. She wore a maroon red tank top with jean shorts. Along with her smile when Izuku first greeted her at the door, her look was enough to make him blush.

'She's cute!' Izuku thought. He then did a double take with his thoughts.

'Cute? Where did that come from?' He thought.

"So are you going to invite me in or are we going to do training in the front yard?" Mina teased, noticing the blush on his face.

"Oh! Right!" Izuku said, moving to the side of the doorway.

"Come in m'lady" he said exageratingly while bowing.

"Thank you kind sir." She says imitating him.

Mina giggles as she walked in.

After a short lunch, they went out into the backyard to start practicing again.

"Alright," Izuku started, taking out a notebook.

"What we should start with is trying to emit acid from different parts of your body," Izuku said, reading the information in his notebook.

"What's that?" Mina asked.

"Oh, I write down notes about quirks and this one's about yours. Is that okay?" Izuku asked.

"Oh cool! Sure, I'm fine with that! It can help us improve our quirks!" Mina said with a bright smile.

"So, from different parts of my body, right?" Mina asked.

"Oh! Yeah."

"Alright, then back up. I don't want to accidentally hit you if this works," Mina said.

Once Izuku was far enough away, she attempted to shoot acid from her entire forearms at first. She grunted with effort but still couldn't form acid. Izuku saw her failure and decides to try something.

"What does it feel when you create acid from your hands?" Izuku asked.

"I feel this vibration or tingly feeling as my acid comes out of my hands"

"Well, maybe try to take that feeling and focus it on your forearms?" Izuku suggested before stepping back away again.

Mina tried it again, remembering that feeling she gets when a part of her creates. Trying to replicate it in her forearms.

While watching, Izuku could see sweat form on the girl's forehead as she tries to emit acid from a part of her.

Suddenly, her arms were covered in a grey looking goop.

"Woah..." Izuku muttered.

"I... I did it!" Mina said in amazement.

Mina was panting heavily and could barely keep her acid consistently flowing. She decided to let go of it, giving Izuku a shaky thumbs up before falling onto her butt. She had a perpetual smile on her face.

Izuku smiled, happy that his friend was able to improve her quirk like she did. He went to sit beside her, furiously writing in his notebook.

Mina giggled at her friend's nerdiness. She watched Izuku scribble down more notes about her. She noticed a sketch of herself in there. She will have to tease him about that later. At the moment, she was tired.

The rest of the day was relaxing for the two of them as they just hung out with each other for the rest of the day. It was nice for Izuku. He never really hung out with anyone after Bakugo got how he was.

The next day came and Izuku dreaded it. Bakugo was sure to try and 'put him back in his place' when he sees him. He wasn't exactly scared but nonetheless, he definitely was't going to enjoy it.

When Izuku was even more worried when Bakugo didn't even talk to him once during class. It was like everyone ignored him. While he was thankful for the decrease in harassment, he knew Bakugo was saving up for something. And he was worried for what it was.

After school, Izuku was stopped from leaving the school grounds by his resident tormentor. He was expecting it to happen.

"Hey Deku. So you think just because you can turn into a lizard you're better than me?!?! You looking down on me Deku?!?!?!"

"Bakugo... I don't think I'm better than you... I know I am"

"Bullshit!" Bakugo spat.

Izuku having gotten over most of his quirk's insecurities with Mina's help and having gained much more confidence than he already possesed. Said this,

"Oh! So you wanna go explosion bitch?!"

" The fuck you just say to me Deku?!"

"It's bad enough you looked down on me all these years! But you have a villain's quirk as well!

Mina, after packing up her things, left her school and decided to take a train to Izuku's school. She didn't know why, but she had a bad feeling about something. She decided to act on said feeling as she neared her friend's school gates.

"-ullshit!"

She heard the familiar voice of the explodey palms yell at someone. Curiosity getting the better of her, she noticed Izuku the center of the blonde boy's attention. And Izuku did not look good.

"It's bad enough you looked down on me all these years! What's worse is that you have a villainous quirk!"

Mina's eyes widened before narrowing in anger.

"No it's not!"

"Don't make me laugh! Who's the villain in all those fantasy stories? Dragons! Just face it! You can't become a hero! You're too much of a villain!"

"So what?! At least I act like a hero unlike you, Mr. Egotistical hand-grenade!"

"Hey!"

Bakugo turned towards the voice and was met with an acid(harmless)-covered punch, knocking him away.

"Mina?!" Izuku shouted in surprise.

Mina grabs Izuku's hand, smiling at him.

"Let's head home, yeah?" Mina said, pulling him.

The pair left a fuming Bakugo behind, cursing and swearing he'll put them in their place as they ran away from the school.

Arriving at Izuku's home, he bent over, placing his hands on his knees and sucking in as much air as he could.

"You need to work out more if that got you winded," Mina commented with her usual teasing smile.

"Trust me, It's stamina I really need to work on. Also,thanks for that a few more seconds there and I would have embeded him in a wall"

"I wouldn't want my friend and training buddy to get in trouble" Mina said with a smile.

"Also, we're adding endurance training to our quirk training hangouts.You can barely run 150 meters without getting winded ." Mina said with a giggle.

"I guess you're right," Izuku said, chuckling.

"Well, now that we're here. Wanna get to work?"

Izuku took a moment before responding.

"Sure!"