DISCLAIMER: All official characters and everything else from the world of Boku no Hero Academia belongs solely to Kōhei Horikoshi. The school called Hamada Institute is drawn inspiration from Big Hero 6 (thus don't own any references from said series). I do not own anything at all here, except for any original characters. (´・ω・`)

AUTHOR'S NOTE: What if Aizawa's threat was real? I was inspired by the story called "Sleeper Hit", except in this fic the canon story has diverged with Izuku no longer a UA student and Ochako willingly leaving UA to join the boy who saved her life back in February.

Izuku Midoriya stared in shock at the shown list. His name was ranked twenty, under some kid named Mineta. Shouta Aizawa glances at the students before his eyes locked onto Midoriya.

"Midoriya, you're expelled."

Tense silence from everyone else. They couldn't believe that their teacher's threat was real. All eyes now focus on the greenette, though Izuku was downcast, trying hard not to cry. He never saw the look of superiority basking Bakugo's face, who is sneering at his ex-childhood friend.

Izuku fled, his shattered will and pride giving way to silent tears.

"Okay, everyone, change back to your uniforms and return to class. Your class schedules and school syllabus will be waiting inside your desks-"

"How could you?"

Aizawa stared at the person who cut him off.

Her brown eyes were hardened, etched into a glare at the man who singlehandedly destroyed someone's dreams.

"He was trying his hardest!" she yelled.

"He wasn't cut out for the course. He ranked dead last and I don't make idle threats. Whoever was bottom of the test is out."

Ochako Uraraka was mad.

"Midoriya saved my life during the entrance exams punching the zero pointer in the fucking face before it could crush me! And after he got accepted by this school you're kicking him to the curb like garage?" Her fists were trembling. "If that's how this school operates, then I want no part of it!" she yells at the man, rage fully evident in her voice. "Not if it throws away MY savior out its doors!"

She storms off in a hurry in a haze of angry tears, ignoring everyone. Izuku Midoriya did not deserve that kind of cruel unfair treatment. And she wasn't going to stick around if her hero couldn't.

Izuku was depressed.

He worked hard for ten months to strengthen his body. From a skinny kid to a kid with a light muscular form, a chiseled chest and toned abdomen. All of that hard work, to properly inherit All Might's quirk One For All, and now here he was slowly trudging down the walkway towards the front gates.

Expelled. On the first day of school and only half the day went by.

"Kacchan... no... Bakugo is likely crowing about how worthless me got kicked out of U.A. and enjoying my misery..."

He sniffled, wiping away his tears. He could only imagine how devastated mom will get once she finds out. What about his mentor All Might? How long will it be until he finds a high school to get into?

He was looking forward to working hard towards his dream of becoming a hero. He was looking forward to making friends with everyone in Class A, maybe even getting to know that cute girl he saved and in turn saved him. But now he would never get to live his dream.

"Wait! Wait for me!"

Izuku stopped and turned around. The cute girl was panting as she finally caught up. She was a bit out of breath.

"It's you... the cute girl..."

Ochako blushed hearing him refer to her as cute.

"Sorry... but I'm leaving with you."

He blinked. "What?"

She looks to him.

"You saved me that day during the entrance exam, like a true hero. And then UA throws you out the front doors on your first day. I call bullshit. You didn't deserve such unfair cruelty. So if they don't want you in the end, they don't deserve me as a student."

Izuku was very much surprised.

"You shouldn't ruin your academic career because of me," he tried to explain.

Ochako slaps her hands onto his shoulders but kept her index fingers raised.

"I know that you worked hard to make it to UA, and now that you finally got here they kick you out. That is not fair. That is not heroic in any way." She had tears forming. "I was really looking forward to being friends with my savior..."

"You think I'm... your savior?" asks Izuku.

She reached up with one hand and brushed away his tears with a finger. "Not think. You are and forever will be my savior. And I want to be your best friend."

Izuku was emotional.

"T-t-thanks... u-until now... you'll have been my only friend."

Ochako was surprised. "Your only friend? Why? You look and sound so friendly!"

"I... I was bullied a lot because back then I was believed to be quirkless. I once had a childhood friend, but he started bullying me once his explosion quirk emerged."

Ochako quickly connected the dots.

"Bakugo has an explosion quirk. He bullied you?"

Izuku nodded sadly.

Ochako growled. "That shitty asshat..."

Izuku was surprised by her sentence, but oddly he felt like the choice words suited the ash blond teen. Izuku and Ochako both crossed past the open front gates and officially stepped outside the school's campus grounds. They begin walking away from a school they no longer belong to.

"Oh, your finger doesn't look broken anymore."

Izuku brought up the finger he used earlier during the ball toss to throw the ball as far as he could using One For All.

"Recovery Girl healed it when I bumped into her on my way to class to get my bag." He sighs. "I would have a lot of work to do to have control on my quirk, only now that will never happen since our former teacher expelled me."

"It still is unfair that man did what he did," says Ochako. "I was watching you and I could tell that you were trying your absolute hardest. You shouldn't be ashamed, though. You gave it one hundred percent."

She tried her best to attempt cheering him up. And seeing a faint smile cross his face made her smile.

Izuku also was blushing lightly. "Thank you for your honest words."

Ochako then bopped a closed fist down onto her open palm. "Shoot! I never officially introduced myself, huh?"

Izuku laughed a bit. Ochako giggled herself.

"My name is Ochako Uraraka. Call me Ochako."

Izuku smiles. "Izuku Midoriya. You can use my first name, Ochako."

"Okay, Izuku." Ochako smiles back.

Both blushed again. Hearing their first names spoken by the other felt nice...

As they walk past an outdoor café, the two teens are unaware that the four adults sitting together were the pro hero team known as the Wild Wild Pussycats. They would have been recognized if they weren't in civilian clothing. They eavesdropped when Ochako stops and suddenly says, "You know what, Izu? Fuck UA High and fuck Shouta Aizawa!"

She has a fire in her eyes as she stares down her new best friend.

"UA had a chance and they blew it. Aizawa unjustifiably killed your dream and lost me as a hardworking student kicking out my savior. There are other hero schools we can attend together. We can succeed at a different school and rub our success in their face when we become pros."

Izuku nodded.

"You're right. I worked hard just to get to where I am and they lost booting me out the building. It's Izuku Midoriya and Ochako Uraraka versus the world, if need be. We can try getting into Ketsubutsu Academy, Shiketsu, or even Hamada Institute. And if that don't work..."

Ochako knew what he was thinking of. "We could hold off the normal high school until all other options are exhausted."

"Well, we could become vigilantes but going through other school listings is first to do."

She was glad Izuku agreed with her, though being a vigilante sounded weird. They start walking again.

"Now what, Izu? We would be eating lunch right now."

"We could go to my house. Since I no longer have a school to go to, I have to break the news to mom. And you have your parents to notify..."

She grimaced. "I know they will not be happy but once I explain they'll understand." Ochako gave a nod of her head. "Okay, lets plan our next move at your house."

"Just a word of warning: mom is emotional sometimes. Especially once she sees I bring a friend over."

"My mom is the same sometimes," says Ochako as she giggled.

They turn the corner and disappear. The off-duty four person hero team look to each other.

"I want to help them, somehow. They sound like turning to vigilantism would be a last resort if they can't find a different school than UA, and they are too young to get into scuffles with the law if they do become vigilantes," says Shino.

Her three friends readily agreed. The woman was really good with remembering names. Izuku Midoriya and Ochako Uraraka. Shino was wondering what Shouta did that two kids were no longer in school...

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"Trust me, that is a worthy goal. You love your parents a lot that you want the best for them. I can easily support that."

"Thanks, Izu."

After a train ride, the two teens were walking up to an apartment complex.

"Well, this is where I live," Izuku announced.

Ochako follows Izuku as they climb the stairwell. He stops in front of his apartment door. He took a deep breath, and calmly exhales.

"I'm nervous and very worried."

"I'm here with you." Ochako offers a comforting smile to the green-haired teen. "Don't worry."

Izuku twists the knob and opens the door. They enter the apartment. Shoes are left by the shoe cubby and two teens walk further into the home in their socks. They can hear two women in the living room in light conversation. His mom and auntie Mitsuki.

As he walks into the living room, he says, "I'm home, mom."

This surprised the two women as Izuku emerged into the room, followed by a brown-haired girl his age.

"Izuku! Honey, what are you doing home so early? And who is this?"

Ochako gently nudged Izuku.

"Your mom is beautiful, Izu," she complimented.

Izuku blushed, smiling. Inko smiled having heard the flattering complement. Ochako gave a gentle bow.

"Sorry for the intrusion. My name's Ochako Uraraka. I'm Izuku's friend."

"Well, looks like Izuku made a friend and she's a cute girl," Mitsuki teased. "I like it."

The teens blushed.

"Back to my earlier question: what are you doing home early?" Inko asks her son.

The teens glanced at each other.

"Mom..." Izuku sighed. His voice slightly trembled. "I was expelled from school."

Inko and Mitsuki both couldn't believe what they heard.

"You what?" Inko whispered.

The tears formed, as Izuku recalled those damning words that killed his dream. Ochako spoke up.

"Izu did his absolute best when our former homeroom teacher surprised us with a quirk assessment test at the start of school. But he threw down an ultimatum: the student who ranked last in the test is expelled from school."

The tears fall as Izuku took over the explanation.

"I tried my very best, mom, even with how weak I was with my quirk I got just two months ago." His voice was broken. "B-but I was ranked last and I was kicked out of UA."

It hit him. He broke down and started crying as he collapsed to his knees. Ochako fell down next to him to throw her arms around the boy, hugging him, comforting him. Inko was devastated. Mitsuki looked pissed off.

"Those fuckers!" the mother of Katsuki Bakugo shouted.

"Izuku!" Inko gets off the sofa and onto her knees, also hugging her distraught broken son.

Izuku cried harder, throwing his arms around both women. The sorrow and pain in the young man's voice was evident. He was hurting. Both Ochako and Inko felt their hearts ache hearing his sorrowful cries.

"Back in February during the entrance exams, he saved me from getting seriously hurt. I was looking forward to learning his name, hoping we would be classmates, and be his best friend. But when he got expelled, I got so angry and I no longer wanted to stay in a school that would accept him only to throw him out on the first day. So I left UA with him."

Inko was touched that someone as kind as this girl would willingly hurt her academics just to stay with her son. She definitely approved her son's new friend.

"Thank you for staying loyal to my darling son," Inko thanked the girl.

"He's my savior," says Ochako with a smile. "I will never leave him."

Izuku was calming down now. His sobs became sniffles. His eyes were red and puffy from crying and his nose a bit runny.

"Honey, go freshen yourself up in the bathroom." A soft growl is heard. Izuku blushed; it was his stomach. "I'll make us lunch. Ochako, stay with my son please."

"Of course, Mrs. Midoriya."

Inko smiles. "Call me mama Inko. I very much approve you being with Izuku."

The brunette blushes brightly.

Izuku was helped up and he left the room with Ochako to head to the bathroom to wash his face. Mitsuki looks to her friend.

"You heard what he said earlier? He said he had a quirk for two months."

Inko nodded. She thought she just heard him say he had a quirk but hearing her friend confirm it made her wonder if what he has been doing most of last year had something to do with this mystery quirk he now has.

"We can ask later. Would you be kind and keep an eye on the two?"

Mitsuki smirks. "Sure thing, Inko."

Ochako quietly held a fluffy white hand towel as Izuku refreshed himself using the sink. She did not mind hearing him clear out his sinuses, or the slight mess made washing his face. When he was done and the faucet turned off, he started blushing when Ochako took it upon herself to gently dry his face off with the towel. Izuku sighs as he takes the towel from her.

"Are you feeling any better?"

"I am feeling better having let out all that pent-up pain," he answers.

"It is okay to cry, Izuku. When you feel sad, you can cry. I won't see it as being weak if you do. It makes you human."

Izuku felt his heart beat a bit fast hearing her words. He was smiling again. And seeing him smile made Ochako feel good inside. The two teens exit the bathroom.

"So, you want to call your parents, Ochako?" Izuku asked his friend as they enter the living room.

They sit down together on the love seat, as Ochako rummages in her book bag and pulls out her cell phone. It was a flip model cell phone, a bit out of date.

"Crap, my phone is about out of juice," she mutters aloud, seeing the battery was down to five percent. "And my charger is at the apartment my parents got me to stay in during my... studying at UA."

She faltered a bit, before reminding herself that she chose to walk out from that school when Izuku was unjustly expelled.

Izuku held his phone in his hand.

"What's the number?" he asked.

Mitsuki was in the room watching the kids interact together. They had met briefly during the entrance exams and today were classmates even if it would only be a day due to unfortunate circumstances. Total strangers and yet they were already close and very friendly, no use of honorifics, calling each other by their first names, even nicknames. She wondered what Izu-kun did to earn the girl's friendship with such close familiar intimacy? It had to be more than Izuku being heroic.

"It's ringing, Ocha..."

Izuku had it put on speaker mode. After five rings, the other end picks up.

"Moshi moshi?"

"Hi, mom. It's me," Ochako speaks up.

"Ochako! Honey, I almost didn't answer the phone since its an unknown number."

"I'm using my friend's phone because mine is about dead and needs to be charged," she answers.

Izuku speaks up politely.

"Good afternoon, Mrs. Uraraka. My name's Izuku Midoriya. I'm Ochako's friend and its my phone she's using."

"Hello, dear. I'm happy to hear my daughter has already started making new friends," said Ochako's mom. "So, considering the time, it's lunch at school so that's the only reason you're calling, right?"

Izuku and Ochako grimaced a bit. This was going to be tough.

"Mom... I need you to listen to everything I say before you speak, please? It's very important."

Mrs. Uraraka hums softly. "Okay, sweetie. What is it?"

Ochako dove into the story regarding herself, Izuku, the school and how their homeroom teacher on the first day expelled Izuku, a boy who had at the entrance exams saved her from being crushed, and how she was very mad the school would accept such a promising student only to throw him out on the first day. Finally, ending the story with how she willingly decided to leave the very school she herself worked hard to make it into, just so she could stay with a boy who she really wanted to get to know, befriend, and more.

"Ochako... I... I can't say that I approve, but your father and I have taught you to always follow your instinct. If you felt that your actions were worth it, your father and I will support you. It seems that you think very highly of this boy."

"Mom, I almost died at the entrance exams," she finally said. "If Izuku didn't step in... I likely wouldn't be here today."

Mitsuki was shocked hearing this. So was the brunette's mother over the phone.

Ochako gazes to Izuku with a smile.

"He saved me. Then I saved him. If UA didn't want him after the first day, they don't deserve me. I will never abandon him."

Izuku was sniffling again, tears leaking.

"Ochako-chan..."

Ochako hugs him tightly, as Izuku choked on a sob. It was a happy one, though. He was genuinely touched by Ochako's sheer kindness.

"Where are you, honey?" Mrs. Uraraka finally asked after a minute of silence.

"I'm at the Midoriya residence. Why?"

"I'll tell your father and we'll come see you right away. Can you give us the address?"

Izuku wiped his tears away.

"I'll send the details in a text, Mrs. Uraraka," said Izuku.

"Dear, call me Nanako. And we'll be there soon, Ochako, okay?"

"Yes, mom."

"I love you, honey."

"Love you too, mom."

And the phone disconnects.

"I wonder what I ever did to find such an amazing person like you," mutters Izuku.

"You saved someone who was in need of help, like a true hero," she answers.

She then boldly gives him a kiss on the cheek. Inko had walked into the living room with a plate full of sandwiches and thus saw the kiss her son received on the cheek. Izuku blushed brightly. Mitsuki giggled at the sight. Inko was appearing emotionally happy seeing her son receive a kiss from a pretty girl. And Ochako was blushing after the kiss she gave Izuku on the cheek.

"I brought sandwiches," Inko announces herself, setting the plate down on the coffee table.

The teens were shy now as they each took a ham and cheese sandwich and started eating in silence. The two women watch in amusement.

It's a start... but it won't be a long story.

However, do expect MANY changes now that Class 1-A no longer has BOTH Izuku and Ochako.