Fridays were supposed to be fun, exciting and the perfect time for her to relax. She didn't have training, her two friends were busy with family stuff and by some miracle she only had an hour or so of homework, which left her in the rare state of having absolutely nothing to do. Guilt, as opportunistic as ever, saw fit to fill that void.

She knew what she said was the truth. But she didn't have to tell him that. She didn't have to state it. He knew better than anybody. All she did was kick him while he was down. He was sure that there was something he could do at U.A. They even had a business and general courses as well, sure those courses were for people that wanted a license to use their quirk, but there had to be something for him.

"Gah," She scratched at the side of her head trying to get this annoying thought out of there. She didn't have a way to talk to Izuku until training on Saturday. She'd apologize to him them. It was that simple. And Tokyo was a big city there was just no way she was going to randomly bump into him just by wandering around.

Slapping her cheeks she put on a smile and took a deep breath. There was nothing she could do right now so she might as well just try to enjoy herself. With being bored. "Where am I anyways?"

A busy market street stretched out in front of her, she'd been to it a few times with her friends, there really wasn't a lot interesting there. "Maybe some coffee?"

She could also go window shopping and stare at some leather jackets for when she got her motorcycle license. Just a few more years. And convincing her father to let her get one but that shouldn't be a big problem if she got good grades and got into U.A.

The sidewalk shook under her feet as thunder roared past her, stunning her for a second before she turned towards its source. Smoke rose into the clear blue sky, it's base dyed orange by flames. Another explosion went off, this one nearly sending her to the ground.

Panic spread like wildfire. People ran from the explosion while others - heroes mostly - ran towards it. She wasn't a hero, not yet, she shouldn't be rushing towards danger she might only make things worse. She should just let the professionals handle it

But, then she'd miss out on a chance to watch some pros at work! Or maybe there was something she could do!

She followed the crowd towards the explosion.

A crowd gathered at the entrance a few pro heroes and police officers were blocking civilian entry. She recognized a few of them with the likes of Mt. Lady looming in the distance unable to enter the narrow shopping district and Kamui woods attempting to rescue people from the fire, and even Death Arms fighting against what appeared to be liquid sewage that was going wild.

The sludge whirled back, she saw a face and an eye somewhere in that mass of goo. That wasn't just somebody's quirk. That was somebody. The idea of having a quirk that would turn her into a living pile of sludge made her queasy. No wonder the guy was a villain.

"It's no good!" She heard a hero say, it was impossible to tell which one as the whole line of them retreated back. "I can't seem to get a grip and he's taken a student with a powerful quirk hostage, the explosions make it difficult to even get to him."

There was a student somewhere inside of that? Another set of explosions went off this time blasting away part of the sludge and for an instant, she saw the hand of the boy that was trapped inside of there. What on earth was happening? How was he struggling so much? When the heroes said he had a strong quirk they weren't kidding.

"Still, there has to be something they can do right?" She asked herself, looking for another hero or something. Everybody was just standing around watching this go on. What were they waiting for?

"Hey, isn't that the villain All Might dealt with earlier?" Someone from the crowd said just loud enough for everyone to hear.

"Did he escape? Where's All Might?"

"All Might's here? Why isn't here dealing with this?"

"I hope he show's up soon, no matter how strong that kids quirk is he's been going at it for a while. He has to be tired."

"Where's All Might?"

She bit her lip standing on her tippy toes to try and look over the crowd of people. None of them looked like heroes. Not even remotely close. There was a skinny blond man next to her that was looking like he might have a heart attack, his face was twisted into a scowl of pain and anger.

"Hey, are you alright?" She took a step closer to him, the last thing this situation needed was someone else needing a hospital trip.

"Oh, I'm fine, thank you." The smile he put on lasted for a few seconds before he glared back at the situation. "Just frustrated that I can't do anything to help is all."

Maybe he was a retired hero like her father was. He'd get furious that he wouldn't be able to save anybody. That might be why he was so diligent about teaching people martial arts. "Don't-"

"Idiot! Stop!" Renewed panic brought out from the crowd. "You'll die!"

The crowd was in the way, she saw Death Arms trying to grab at something, she saw the slime monster, the student trapped inside of it. And then, between the two sides, mixed in the flames and smoke she saw Izuku sprinting towards the danger.

"Izuku!" She turned, pushing her way through the crowd. That stupid. Idiotic. Giant pig-headed moron! What the hell did he think he was doing? She broke through the crowd and kept going heading right towards Izuku. If she got there in time she might be able to save him. Stop him from hurting himself or just making things worse. He was going to get hurt. Or worse. "Get back here!"

A strong arm blocked her from moving forward, nearly knocking her to the ground, before she was grabbed and pushed back into the crowd. "Don't be stupid! We don't need anybody else getting hurt!"

"Then stop him!" She pushed his hand back pointing towards Izuku. The villain was ready to strike at Izuku it's sludge spiraling upwards and drawn back like a whip. From the destruction around them, there was little hope in Izuku surviving a blow like that. "He'll die!"

"I know," Death Arms growled. "But that doesn't mean you have to."

Izuku tossed his bag at the monster, by some miracle hitting it in the face and stunning it so that it's attack missed dropping back down into the whirling ball of sludge. That would have been his chance to escape. But Izuku that stupid idiot. Charged forward grappling at the slime to try and get the student still trapped inside of the creature.

"I don't know why!" she heard his voice carry through the destruction. "My legs moved on their own!"

Ahh, so that's what her father had meant about him. Hopelessly heroic.

"You looked like you were asking for help." Izuku was pushed back by the slime and it wound up another attack.

The slime swung its massive jagged tooth maw opening up to shout. "Stop it! Stop getting in my way!"

"Does he have a damn death wish! He'll die for nothing!" Death Arms and Kamui woods and the other heroes all tried to move forward - desperate to save Izuku's life. But it was too late. A blow like that.

She turned away, unable to watch him. Then she saw him. It was for less than a second, faster than a flash of light. But the wind that followed guided her back towards the action. Smoke covered the area.

"The lesson I left you with! I should practice what I preach!" It was a voice that everybody recognized and everybody looked up in speechless awe at the number one pro hero. All Might, he had Izuku by the arm, the other student as well. "A pro should always be ready to risk his life!"

"Detroit Smash!" She saw the punch, how it moved, the raw strength behind it. Then she felt it. The force of it was enough to kick up a vacuum sending her hair and skirt flying. Something wet fell on her face, at first she was worried it was that sludge monster.

Then reality kicked in and she saw the clouds come flying in. With a single punch, All Might had changed the weather. Guess that was why he was the number one hero.

And Izuku was on the ground, looking completely out of it.

She took a step forward and stepped on a notebook. It was blue and looked like it was burned, water damaged, and that it had been through a lot. It was titled "Hero Analysis for the Future by Izuku Midoriya no 13." This was one of the notebooks he mentioned last night.

With the heroes on crowd control and the ambulances arriving she wouldn't be able to get to Izuku anytime soon. But at least he was safe now.

Thumbing open the notebook she saw that it was filled with detailed notes on Pro Heroes and their quirks, from Kaumi woods to Mt. Lady, even a few that she hadn't even known about. There were a few on some students, and then she got near the center, and found herself.

Izuku wasn't an amazing artist but he certainly had a cute style. She was drawn in her training gi, complete with a crane pose. Despite only seeing her use her quirk a few times he had some good notes on it, combined with thoughts about how she could use it in combination with martial arts in ways she didn't think of.

He was rather good at this. "Maybe this is something he can do at U.A?"

Flipping to the last page she saw it was an autograph of All Might. That was neat, at least he wouldn't have to ask him for his autograph after being saved by him.

She needed a pen or something.

XXXX

"You must be out of your mind!" Dearth Arms all but screamed at him the other heroes were also glaring at him. "There was absolutely no need for you to put yourself in danger! You could have made things much much worse! If All Might hadn't of shown up then-"

He nodded, trying his best to not break out into tears, well, any more tears. There was a good chance that he didn't have much crying left in him for today. Oh, who was he kidding, Kaachan was right and he was nothing but a cry-baby. Even today, all he did was cry and make things worse for everybody.

"What were you trying to even-"

"At least he was doing something!" A voice he recognized tore him from his inner thoughts and pushed back Death Arms scalding. He looked up and saw Itsuka in her school uniform. She looked weird in a skirt. "You guys just stood there and waited for someone else to show up."

"What?" Death Arms reeled back looking like Itsuka had just slapped him across the face. "Listen I know that you were worried about your friend, and we wanted to help the other kid, but there was just nothing that we could do without putting more lives in danger."

Itsuka stood between them, her arms crossed, the notebook that Kaachan had ruined today was in her hand. "Then back off, he's just some kid, don't take out your own useless out on him."

"Itsuka," He said forcing a smile onto his face and looking up at her. "It's fine, I know he's right, I really shouldn't have gone out there."

"Oh, I know, I just wanted to yell at you instead of him.," She turned to him, a great big smile on her face before she bopped him on the head with his notebook. "You dropped this by the way."

He grabbed the notebook holding it to his chest and staring at Itsuka's feet. She was right about yesterday. All Might had confirmed that. "Thanks, I didn't know I dropped it."

She grabbed him by the wrist, pulling him to his feet. There was something off about the whole thing, and he was forced to actually look at Itsuka, her lips were twisted into a half frown while her green eyes bore into him. He wasn't good at reading emotions and even less so when it came to girls.

She was probably furious at him. They were friends, weren't they? He thought they were, but maybe she's just annoyed he did something stupid. Just like All Might must be. He needed to apologize to both of them.

"I want to say I'm sorry." Itsuka let out a long breath, one hand running through her long orange hair. She looked away from him and tried to smile.

"Huh? What? Why are you apologizing?"

She shrugged gesturing to the scene around them. "Last night, I said that you wouldn't get into U.A. without a quirk."

Oh, right. "Well you're not wrong," he lowered his head, clutching his notebook to his chest. It hurt. The truth really hurt. It took all of his strength to not hold onto the dream of becoming a hero that saved people. Apparently, he still had tears left to cry. "All Might even told me I should give up on becoming a hero."

"I don't think you have a choice in the matter." Kendo turned to the side, both hands behind her back. "I mean you knew that you couldn't do anything this time, but you still had to do something right?"

"Yea but-" Why was she trying to support him, he nearly died, and he could have caused other too! And this whole thing was his fault to begin with if he hadn't have grabbed onto All Mights legs then maybe this wouldn't have happened. It could have gone so much worse. Especially with All Might's time limit.

"Look, I don't want to see you get hurt either." She pressed a finger into his journal. "But, I think that this is something you could do. So I think you should try to get into U.A. besides they have a general course, I'm sure you could fit in there if you want to get a job working with heroes so they can save people better right?"

It wasn't the same. But, maybe she had a point. But it wasn't the same. "Thank's Itsuka, But, I think I need some time to think." There was no point in getting his hopes up that could just make things worse later. "I'll see you later."

"You're coming to training tomorrow right?"

He didn't know. Maybe it was time to start dreaming of a more realistic future. One where he got an office job and tried to stay away from heroes, even if he knew he wouldn't be happy with it. And tricking himself into thinking that he was doing something special by studying martial arts. Even if he wasn't good at it.

"I think I might take a day off." He laughed holding up his arm. "I'm a bit sore after everything that's happened today." It wasn't a lie. But it wasn't the whole truth. Far from it.

"Oh," She frowned, "It's been fun having you around, so I hope you make it." She tossed her long orange ponytail over her shoulder. "Well, I'll see you later Izuku, I should go let my dad know I didn't do anything stupid." She waved to him, placing her hands in her pockets and headed off. She turned, walking backward and smiling at him again. "Oh, and check my page in your notebook!"

She saw his notes on her? Oh no, what did that mean? Did she think he was a creep for drawing her? Was she weirded out by him? Did he see his notes? Of course, she saw his notes. Did he get something wrong? He barely managed to wave goodbye back to her before his panic was showing.

Death Arms walked up behind him and patted him on the back. The adult smiled down at him and rubbed his nose. "Look, kid, she seems like a nice girl, but next time try not to do something so stupid just to impress a girl."

It probably wasn't a good idea to tell him that he didn't even know she was around. Instead, he nodded opening up his notebook to her page. Everything looked the same save for a bit of sidewise writing. It was a small pouting face with Itsuka's sideways ponytail next to a phone number and a "Text me!"

He blinked, rereading those two numbers, and making sure that all the numbers were there. They were.

"Well, I guessed it worked." Death Arms slapped him on the back once more. "Way to go kid you got her number. Now don't do anything stupid again."

Somehow despite everything that had happened today getting Itsuka's number was a highlight of it.

That was until on his way home All Might found him again and told him he could become a hero and that he could be the next vessel of One for All.

AN: I debated doing this with a quirkless Izuku, but it just didn't feel right. Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed this! Next chapter is a training Montage! *Blasts Eye of the Tiger*

I can't wait to get started on next chapter. I hope you all enjoyed this retelling of this story part, it largely stayed the same but I think I made it my own. I shouldn't have to do this frequently but a few scenes I'll go through. I'm also going to try and make this fic a bit longer than my other stories. (Hopefully) so anyways until next time!