Age 10

"Hmm your rod is too small for this"

Joshua sensei had apparently suddenly mastered Japanese or he'd been doing this to Izuku for shits and giggles all this time. At the moment he was supposed to start his training in the third and final martial art he was supposed to master until he enters U.A in 6 years(or atleast hoped to).

Gatka, a style originated in India in the 15th century and revived in the 19th century was one his sensei was an amateur at best, but was adamant in teaching Izuku, it was apparently "unpredictable".

His rod, which had seemed huge when he was small, after his recent growth spurt it seemed rather small in his hands now. He was a measly 5 foot now, but he was already above Elaina and didn't let her forget about it every single encounter.

He was zoning out while his sensei tried to circumference this problem, again thinking about a certain white-haired witch. Out of the corner of his eyes Joshua noticed a most peculiar sight. Izuku's quirk was now the approximate size of the wooden stick he had brought to demonstrate his newly learned basics of 'Gatka'.

"Hey Izuku, since when can you do that?"

Izuku, with a small blush and a lopsided smile on his face was busy thinking about Elaina's ponytail (he's ten). His sensei's prompt surprised him out of his reverie and got a major blush realising his chain of thought. Then he focused on his sensei's statement and focused on his quirk.

It was as if a new world was opened to him. Overly sensitive his rod had already been, now he could feel the whole thing calling to him, telling him to expand. And expand he did. His rod extended, not only in length but in width as well, soon it was as big and thick as a pillar.

He realised his downfall too late. The huge pillar obviously made it much harder to control. The pillar dropped to the ground in a huge thunk. And so Izuku Midoriya fainted for the first time as result of quirk overuse.

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When he came to Izuku found his mother at the seat in the dojo infirmary, he felt parched and asked for a drink. After some water he asked," Due to rapid increase of quirk usage your energy levels dropped instantly and thus you fainted" the dojo doctor explained and pointed to the IV drip in Izuku's hand.

"I'm sorry for the trouble" said Inko, the literal angel. Then she looked at Izuku with the same angelic eyes," How do you feel zuku?"

"Really weird" This was the first time he had woken up to this much feedback. He could still totally feel his rod in its enlarged size lying on his sensei's room in the dojo. He could feel the floor beneath the huge pillar, the air coming in through the window, even his sensei's presence in the room could be felt.

What shocked Izuku the most was that he could still feel it. He had never really tested his range per se but had just assumed it depended on proximity. But right now, he could feel no difference in the way he felt his rod, he expected a lack in stimuli provided to him, but there was none.

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Finally recovered Izuku was excited to test out his new-found powers, and what place better than the dojo itself. He went out to the training field with his mother and sensei in tow.

He found that decreasing the size and length came to him as instinctually as increasing it had been. That had been a lifesaver because he didn't know what he would say if he was asked what he was thinking about when his discovered his new ability.

So, with a blush on his face, Izuku decided to first check his quirk's range. The rod shot off toward towards the sky at the highest speed he could accelerate at the moment and unlike always he didn't stop at a limit he had set for himself. He felt the rod slowly get colder but didn't feel his connection faltering, now that it was back to its original size of 2 meters he could easily manipulate it.

Feeling bored with the absence of change he brought it back. His mother said," How far did you take it zuku?". He replied," Really far, cant even see it as a dot anymore. Feels like the range is nothing Ill have to be concerned of."

After a few more tests that the author wants to keep secret they headed home.

On the way back Inko breathed a sigh," So your quirk is a lot more than we bet on."." Sure is, I cant wait to tell Elaina about the new branches of my quirk"

He grew a little quiet," Mom can I tell you something?". "Of course, dear". "I think I have a crush on Elaina". To his disbelief his mother giggled. " I noticed dear" "You did? Why didn't you tell me?"

His mother just stared at him until he understood." Well anyway, what I was saying was that lately I was feeling that my quirk wasn't enough to be on Elaina's level and I'd just drag her down with me, Elaina's just so amazing, she can already use 'A' level spells you know, but she ends up on my shoulders after her explosion spell(comment if you get it). But you know her mother told me that she is the only kid in the family to have attained the ability for an A ranked spell at only 10 years of age -"

And so the rest of the way home was spent by Izuku just praising his crush, Inko secretly recorded all of it, couldn't let up on her deal with the white haired mother next door. The 'deal' was an agreement set by the two mothers to record their son/daughter being adorable towards the other. Recently the other mother had stopped replying to Inko but she had just assumed that Victorica was busy

When Izuku finally found Elaina in the hallways, she looked like she had finished a major crying session. Immediately he forgot all he wanted to say to her and started trying to console her. Seeing him she just started crying harder now straight up bawling in his arms.

Panicking he looked to his mother for help but found her in deep conversation with Victoria, who finally notisced his plight and took Elaina from his arms. "Sorry to spring this on you Izuku-chan but me and Elaina will be moving out tomorrow."

First, Izuku heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that atleast it wasn't something major. Then it hit him in full force and he realised how much of his day was spent with Elaina. He walked to school with her, ate lunch with her, walked back with her and hung out with her when he was tired after his training. They spent so much time together they were more together than apart. They had sleepovers, had very deep inside jokes and were undoubtedly each other's best friends.

And this friend of his, whom he had accepted as his crush would just be going away forever. To say he burst out crying would be an understatement. "You're leaving?" he bawled. "Not b ch-choice" Elaina choked out, glaring at her mother.

Victorica looked horrified at the glare she was receiving from her daughter, "Well its not like we're leaving the country, we can visit and you can call each other. This isn't the 19th century." "Its not the same" both said together, but the atmosphere was lighter now and Inko decided it was time to intervene, "How about we treat Elaina to some ice cream as a going away present Izuku?" Izuku nodded.

Elaina glowered up for a second at the word ice cream but again fell into her mood when she remembered what all she would be missing from here. Tamaki, the few friends she had in the swim club, Nejire-senpai, and her crush/best friend/ first friend. Her mood was improved a bit when Izuku suggested they have a sleepover for her last day here.

And was it just her or was Izuku's rod longer?

So I'm making Elaina scarce for a non existent amount of time as I'm starting the entrance exam next chapter. Why am I doing this seemingly pointless thing, well the answer will reveal itself. As Izuku has no insecurity problems and new circumstances and a quirk he can make friends with any of the characters before school. Im thinking kaminari, so tell me if you guys have a problems with it.

Thank you for reading and review please.