After Midoriya had revealed his codename, he had taken his seat again in the stunned silence, noting on the way back Uraraka seemed to be radiating a bit more happiness than she had before.

Another ten minutes passed with the class talking amongst themselves while Bakugou kept trying at hero names. All of them got shot down. When they finally gave uo and just had him go by his regular name, Aizawa had stepped up ro hand out sheets to pick their internships.

He made sure they were all aware to pick multiple if they could so that they had a better chance of not having to take a school picked internship. Midoriya's sheet had still been blank by the time class ended.

It's not that he didn't have any ideas for where to intern, more that he had to many. With his power set there was nothing he was more suited to in any of the three major styles of heroics over the rest.

Of course rescuing others was what had always been his want whenever he thought about being a hero in the past but another part of his brainr reminded him his power's could really benefit from a more tactical experience.

He decided he'd do more in-depth research at home when the bell rang and the class began to pack up.

"Hey Deku! Did you pick anything yet?" Uraraka asked as she skipped over to him, trying to sneak a glance at his sheet before he stored it away.

"Not yet, what about you?" He asked, as he put on his backpack while the girl started to punch the air.

"Yeah, I want to go to gunhead's agency!" She exclaimed with a grin, while Midoriya turned to her with a look of surprise. "I know combat isn't really the perfect application for my quirk but I realized during the sports festival how much I need to improve to stand on equal footing as a hero with someone like Bakugou or Todoroki."

"Well, I hope it goes well for you," The greenette laughed, before looking past her. "What about you Iid-… huh."

He had expected Iida to be waiting on them but instead the boy had already disappeared, causing him to frown as he walked to the door, where Hagakure and Jirou were waiting.

"You just missed him. I guess he's more upset than he wants to let on." The invisible girl said, while Jirou frowned and the marked boy reached for the door handle. "I just hope his brother gets better."

"yeah…"

"HAHAHAHA! I AM HERE, IN AN AWKARD POSITION!" A booming voice announced, causing Midoriya to fall over as All Might's muscles form suddenly towered in the door way, leaning over.

"All Might?!" Jirou questioned, clutching her chest from the fright he gave her. "Don't do that!"

"Apolgies young Jirou, I just need to borrow young Midoriya for a moment for something important!" The blonde explained quickly while he seemed to almost be shaking. 'Is…is he ok?' "Come on, young Midoriya!"

"R-right! See you guys soon, I'll try to catch up at the station!"

"I'm going to just cut to the chase. Did you get any internship offers today?" All Might asked in a serious as the two stood in the slightly bathroom, the first place they could afford privacy.

"Yes but just one. Hoenstly I was going to turn it down, because it's almost a little to perfect…." Midoriya explained as he re-adjusted his bag with a frown. "Didn't want to risk walking into a demon den or something."

"F-fair enough. W-well….. You got another offer, one from my old mentor actually. Gran Torino." The pro explained causing the teens eyes to widen as a huge grin burst onto his face.

"Woah, really?!"

The grin died away as his mentor's shaking got worse.

"Y-yup. For him t-to extend this offer… does he think im not good enough, did I do something wrong… too scary, too scary, stop shaking!"

'W..what the hell did this guy do to train All Might?!'

Shaking his head, the pro turned to him with a card in hand, holding it out. "A-anyways it's your choice, m-my boy. He knows about One for All, so he might be able to help you gain more control over your powers." The muscular man said as Midoriya took the card from his hand, while a slightly confused look came onto his face. 'Wait but… isn't there only four-' "It's been a long time since I've seen him so I forget to count him among the people who know."

'Ah… oh yeah, that's right…'

"Um… All Might… speaking of One for All…." The boy began, taking a deep breathe. Explaining this was gonna be hard. "I um…. I met the the previous users."

There was a beat of silence as the man turned to face him, a look incredulity on his face. "You… what?"

"Remember what happened at the sports festival? Well… I dunno, the outsider explained it as One for All and my magic kind of mixing and I guess fusing or something but… When I went to the void, most recently the previous holders were there. Even… even your mentor."

"My master was…" All Might took a deep breathe, before reverting back to his skinny state and walking up to the boy, placing a hand on his shoulders. "Izuku.. promise me you are not pulling my leg. This is not a joking matter."

"I'm not joking, I really did…"

The silence returned and Toshinori started to massage his temples taking that in. "How…."

"I think… I think it's their ghosts." The boy said, following the man out into the open where fortunately no students were present. "I've only seen them once… but… All Might, the first holder wasn't there."

In front of the magic teen, the pro froze up.

"They said I should hear why from you. They wouldn't even look me in the eye when I brought it up."

"My boy…" All Might began, turning and kneeling to be eye level with him. "I…. I can't tell you. Not yet. I promise…. I promise after the internships are over I'll tell you… but I need time to collect my thoughts."

Midoriya was annoyed at that. He was annoyed at how much information always seemed to be kept just out of grasp of him but dangled in front of him like he was a cat chasing some string.

Still, he understood there had to be a reason so he nodded with a sigh. "So how is he supposed to help me with my quirk anyways? I've barely used it."

"Right. Well I'm sending him footage from your original training exercise and some other general footage we managed to collect of you using it. It's not much though so meet me tomorrow after school with recovery girl and we'll see where your at before you leave."

"Yeah, ok."

The next day the students couldn't only speculate why half the front of the forest had become a crater.

That night, after he'd finally been allowed to go home from the extensive testing All Might had put him through, his mother had been kind enough to put on his favourite meal and turn on the tv.

The greenette had been happy to just relax after the long day and unwind. Unfortuantely, the world had other ideas, as the news was the first thing to come up on the TV with a story the boy had really been hoping he wouldn't have to hear.

"Breaking news as well tonight, Hosu General Hospital has been the location of an attack presumed to be by the hero killer, Stain. It's presumed he was trying to attack ingenium who he had previously attacked already, hospitalzing the pro in the first place.

Pro's already on the scene scared off the killer however were unable to pin him down. Those with family in the hospital are advised to be cautious and consider transferring their family if Ingenium isn't removed from the hospital's care soon."

They continued to talk about the attack but Midoriya tuned it out as he reached for his phone, quickly pulling up his contatcs and texting Iida to ask if he was alright.

He didn't get a reply.

When he went to sleep that night, a cold breeze had caused his eyes to snap open and he looked around in surprise as he realized he was in the void. Spefically he was laying face down In the livng room with Nana and the Outsider stood looking down at him.

"You always show up here on your face, kiddo?" The woman asked with a laugh as she helped him up and he grumbled as he patted himself down.

"It's simply a by-product of how he gets here." The Outsider said, walking away. "They've been adjusting on your annoying human timescale, so I couldn't bring you back as soon as I had intended."

"Not of all of those are born gods, you know." Saya called out from her spot playing a game of checkers with Kenji. The Outsider turned to her, with a cold smirk.

"None of us were born gods."

With that he disappeared, leaving them behind. Nana put a hand on the greenette's shoulder while scrutinizing the spot the god had stood at. "He always has to make his entrances and exits dramatic, doesn't he."

"I feel like we all have that problem." Midoriya said with a nervous laugh, scratching his cheek with a finger. The raven haired wman let out a laugh of her own as she guided him to the close by couch and sat him down.

"So, you're going to see Gran Torino?" The woman asked and Midoriya looked up at her in shock while she sat down on the couch, grinning. "We know what's going on outside remember, even if we can't actually do anything while you're there."

"Ah right…. So now I have seven different people watching my every day life." Midoriya deadpanned, as Ruki leaped over the couch and sat on his other side.

"Hey, not like we got anything better to do. We don't exactly get any cable here." The punk like woman said, leaning back into the couch. "So what's the deal? You excited for this? Nervous?"

"Nervous fits pretty well, yeah…" Midoriya nodded as he looked around at them. Kenji nervously dropping into the seat across from him, Saya leaning against said chair. "Have no idea what to expect."

"Hey, you'll do fine sweetie! I'm srue you have nothing to worry about." The white haired woman said with a grin that admiteddly did help the boy feel a little better. "Hey, Nana you must know this Torino guy is like. I mean he was your friend right?"

"Yeah and….. Well he was a joker to say the least. Actually…." Suddenly a slightly mischevious grin came onto her face. "Hey Izuku, how do you feel about doing me a favour?"

"Huh?"

The remaining days until the internships passed quickly enough, and finally in what felt like no time at all the students where filing into the train station with mister Aizawa to leave for their internships.

He gave them all a reminder about how to behave properly, mainly aimed at Ashido and Kaminari before leaving them to do what they had to. Before the greenette left for the train though, he turned his attention to one of his classmates,

"Hey, Iida?" He began as he walked up to the blue haired teen, who had already began to walk away before Midoriya had stopped him. "I know there's probably a lot on your mind right now but… I'm here if you need to talk, ok? We are friends, so you can count on me, right?"

"Yes." Was all the teen said, barely turning to face him as he did so. "Thank you Midoriya."

As he walked away, the marked teen hated how his friends emotions seemed to just get more chaotic despite his calm demeanour. With a sigh the greenette turned to get on the train himself and came face to face with Todoroki.

"You know he's lying about how he feels." It wasn't a question, just an observation. Midoriya nodded with a sigh as the two clambered into the same compartment.

"Yeah, I do… but I have no idea what to do about it…"

While other people's journey's might have taken longer, Izuku was at the building he was looking for in just an hour. It was hardly impressive, worn and run down yet a quick check confirmed it was the right address.

He walked up to the door, and knocked. No answer came and Midoriya deadpanned.

"One of his favourite tricks is playing dead. He'll try to play it off as him being clumsy and falling into a plate with sauce but really he just wants to make an impression."

He opened the door and walked inside, frowing when he saw a old man on the floor exactly as Shimura had described. Midoriya just walked in and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Careful mister Torino, these dry floors are really slippery." He said as straight faced as he could and the man's head shot up, immediately as he turned to face him with an incredulous look.

"You… You're the kid Toshinori sent, right?" He asked, picking himself up and wiping off the sauce. "Did he tell you to say that?"

"Not… not exactly." Midoriya said scratching his head. The old man shook his head head before looking down and noting the boy had his suitcase in his arms.

"That you're costume?" He asked and Midoriya nodded. "Great… who are you again?"

"His forgetfulness is genuine but he tends to play it up a lot to get a rise out of people for his own amusement."

"Midoriya." He just repeated blank faced and the man frowned.

"Man Toshi knows how to pick em." The man grumbled as he took the suitcase from the boy's hand. "Let me see that a moment."

"Uh… ok?"

"While you're at it, why don't you fire a One for All smash at me?" The man asked, riflfing through the suitcase as if looking for something.

"Wait what?! I can't do that!"

"Of course you can, just aim and fire."

"But… My power is insane, it's more destructive than All Might's, I don't think you're body could hold- GUH!" He couldn't finished as he was suddenly kicked in the back of the head, before looking up to see Gran Torino suddenly clinging to the wall.

"Seeing as you won't let me have a little fun, let's get into it. Don't mistake me for some frail old man, I still got my vigor!" The small man laughed, boucnign around faster than Midoriya could keep up with. The world slowed like it always did when Midoriya was about to be hit and for a brief moment he could see the pro coming at him. "Land one hit on me with whatever you can kid! I want to see what you can do!"

Despite himself, Midoriya grinned. Then he got kicked in the face again.