Hero of the Dark Skies

by MosesArk Reborn2000

When Young Midoriya is left with the heart breaking news that he will never develop his own quirk, does he give into despair and chase after heroes? No, he strives to become a hero just like All Might and he knows just what to do to even the odds against those with quirks-he builds it, that's how. Quirkless Izuku, More confident Izuku, DC & Marvel influence

35. Prep for Finals, Dinner Date

We are back with another chapter, which I'm happy to announce I planned to be long, around 13K as there are things that happened in this chapter that don't occur on cannon, most notable, the mysterious dinner date that Izuku's father was invited to back during the sports festival which you have to admit, you all probably thought I forgot about. As for why it's taking place later than previously stated, that will be addressed in the chapter.

As you might have guessed from the chapter name, we'll only get the explanation for how their finals will be carried out in this chapter, which you might have guessed will be conducted differently to cannon due to them being a man down, and before you all ask-Shinso isn't in the hero course yet, when he'll transfer will be discussed by the teachers in this chapter.

bauers374: Thanks….I think, to be frank, I don't watch Rick and Morty since I already have a large list of things I watch, can't fit in much more series. When I saw your joke, I have to admit, I laughed a bit.

NinjaFang1331: Thanks, I had been wanting to put that joke in for a while now.

jdrussom66: Two of those suggestions I was already aware of, the first one, on the other hand, I have no clue what that is, never watched Infinite Stratos.

GunBlade2020: Well they play rounds of Uno, as soon as the first person losses all their cards, they stop, update the scores, which are then kept by a rotating roaster of boys and then they leave. This one game has been going on since just before the Sports Festival.

Blaze1992: The real question is….why not? But seriously, it was done for comedic relief and to show that they're still teenagers, they do dumb things sometimes.

Tacktician: Yeah, that was surprising to me as well but then everyone does rely on their quirk to an insane degree. So much so that if they had to go up against Eraserhead, they'll lose. But then I thought back to a Youtube video that broke down the customs and support gear for the My Hero cast and, and from that, the only ones in 1-A who have a utility belt of any kind is Todoroki(Who mainly carries first aid supplies; Midoriya(Unknown at this time as we never seen him use them or take anything out of them, at least as far as season 4 goes); Kaminari(Which he got in season 3 to store his disks for his support gear as far as I can tell); Jiro(Who has some sort of bag attack to her belt that fixed….to her back area, similar to those tools bags ninjas have in Naruto); Sato(Who uses it to carry sugar packers as far as we know) and Bakugo(Who you mentioned)Mineta's diaper looks…IDK what they were thinking when the support company made that.

D3lph0xL0v3r: Well, girls can be just as perverse as boys and if anyone was to start it, it would be either Ashido or Tokage (as I've made her the class prev for 1-B). The boys would never play strip poker, I have never been in a group where we stripped our clothes for anything. As far as we know, Hagakure holds up a deck of UNO cards in the Two Heroes Movie, which takes place on I-Island so I'm counting that as cannon.

I thought about the girls ratting the boys out for playing UNO but decided otherwise as that would be a bitch move… (Also they'll need to provide proof to this which is them peeping on the boys). Sero got his just deserts, I saw one land caught cheating at Monopoly during a school camping trip…we showed no mercy(having African teachers also helped as when he snitched on us, the teachers told him he shouldn't have cheated in the first play, we got away scot-free.)

Sadly, Metalhead won't make an appearance this time around but rest assured, I do have plans for when he does appear-I-island arc! Since as All Might successor, of course, he'll be invited.

Shin: To be honest, I didn't even know I was pulling a first at all, sure I wanted to go against the grain but I thought someone would have beat me to it by now. As for more mature scenes of either gender's changing room…I have nothing planned for that but I can think about it.

Adypoker: We are all entitled to our opinions, that being said, I feel like I should list the reasons why things went down the way they did anyway. Yes, he's seen combat and is trained in martial arts but Tetsutetsu is still a guy who can harden his body to the point that he could survive a 0-pointer falling on him with no damage at all, only coming out pissed that it fell on him and potential anyone else, Midoriya is also a cautious fighter and wouldn't just rush because he has better training. Tetsutetsu, in canon is known for his strength, yes, but please remember this is fanfiction so you can expect that some characters will be different from the source material. And since TT was a candidate for OFA, I did feel like I owed him a good showing.

For the nerf, I can only think of one incident up till that point when he took actual damage and that was when the Nomu got that hit in. Remember that he was wearing armor that was rated to take one or two blows from All Might, this time he wasn't and if Tetsutetsu is as strong as Kirishima, he could easily kill a man with a single strike if he wanted to.

bastidaswilliam2005: Your suggestions for villains aren't bad but I feel like someone like Bulma would be in support as she's an inventor first and foremost. Though she would be a good paring for Bakugo since she could tame and later have children with Vegeta (an actual villain) so someone like Katsuki shouldn't be too hard for her character.

gamergek33: Thanks for the compliment, it was a fun scene to add. It's nice to hear that how I brought in Shinso seemed real, I was hoping for that when I wrote it. Though for a while, he'll be present but not in the hero course, when he'll officially join will be brought up in this chapter so you'll get your answer.

Guest: Thank you, it was one my of favourite cartoons growing up, even now if I rerun shows up or something, I'll toss aside the books, take a sick day off online classes and watch some good old CNKND(Code Name: Kids Next Door).

Amit Raj Singh: Well remember what he has accomplished up till this point. He scored the highest on the hero entrance exam, beat Bakugo in their combat training trail, was elected class rep rather than Bakugo, was the one chosen to give the speech to kick start the Sports festival and he came first place in the first event. So yeah, he doesn't have much reason to be that pissed about Bakugo winning this time round as he has won a few times already.

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Chapter 34: Prep for Finals, Dinner Date

"Thank you for your wait, we are back on from commercial break!" The talk show presenter said to the studio audience, who in response clapped and whistled to show their appreciation. "And today's topic will surely be an interesting one. That topic being Is sexiness necessary for hero work?" He stated to them with a knowing look in his eye to which the audience ate up.

"To answer that question, we have two pro hero guests with us today. So why don't we give them a warm welcome!" The presenter announced as he gestured towards the side where two well-known pros were walking onto the stage. "Introducing first, she's the rookie that debuted only last year but is quickly piling up the success, Mt. Lady!" The young blonde waved to the crowd. "And along with her, the seasoned mistress fighting for good and currently a teacher at the premier hero school of UA, Midnight!" Midnight, in turn, posed for them as the male sections cheered louder than before. "Let me be the first to thank you and welcome the two of you to the show." The presenter stated as he gave them both welcoming handshakes.

"Happy to be here." Midnight replied when he shook her hand.

"Same here gotta say, I was really excited bout my first televised appearance." Yu responded as she gave him a little wink that left him with a small blush.

"Don't worry, with your skills, this will be one of many, please, take your seats." The presenter coughed into his hand as he gestured towards the two seats to his side, with the other two taking up for his two other guests.

"Let's get down the business, shall we? We'll start with you Midnight." He suggested as he turned his attention to the Rated-R pro. At the same time, the screen behind them turned on and switched to show a younger Midnight wearing a….questionable get-up as a hero costume. "When you first debuted on the hero scene, your costume was so scandalous that it caused a stir among the public, eventually leading to the 'Regulations for Exposed Skin in Costumes' bill being submitted to the national diet, which was later passed into law. It's safe to say that you're known as a veteran pro that has left her mark on the country." He stated as such a law made it that all costumes had to be reviewed by a government agent assigned to support companies, if they didn't meet their new expectations, they were to be redone.

"It's still pretty bad these days. Hence why I went for the pull body costume you see now, among other things." Mt. Lady gave her two cents to the discussion as Midnight nodded her head before she spoke up.

"Presently, I got for the ultra-thin style in my hero costume. Many make the argument that it's due to the nature of your quirks and how some styles of clothing may get in the way of them. I'm of that opinion. It's not a matter of whether or not sexiness is necessary but more of what's more than the result of what's necessarily being seen as sexiness." Midnight explained as she held a bit of her costume's sleeve with her two fingers, showing how weak the fabric was. It was also a well-known fact what and how her quirk worked which was the reason she never faced any serious repercussions for the older costume.

"Sure, that's sure is one way of explaining yourself." Mt. Lady snickered as she looked the other way, grabbing Midnight's attention in a bad way.

"The hell is that supposed to mean? Trying to pick a fight you can't win?" Midnight asked her, a dangerous glint to her eye as she turned to the blonde, who rose both had hands in defense, though her smile made her look all the more guilty.

"Who me? Of course not! It's just-you're really amazing!" Mt. Lady explained herself, sounding somewhat concerned before she said something that threw her defense out the window. "For someone of your age."

"What's my age have to do with this? Are you trying to show that your only good quality is running that mouth of yours? Even though you're barely out of your training bra!" Midnight yelled back at her, now solely pissed at this trump. She was 18 at heart dammit!

"Hey! I'm just saying that when the older generation tries too hard, it makes things hopeless for us younger heroes! Sides, we don't need you throwing out your back!" Mt. Lady didn't back down, rather she stood up as well despite the efforts of the host to calm the two down.

"Why you little-!" Midnight all but growled as she jumped the women, starting a catfight that would be talked about for a while afterward.

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(Later that day – Mt. Lady's apartment complex)

"Only you would get into a catfight on national television." Midoriya deadpanned as he sat on Yu's couch, with the woman herself on the floor next to it as Izuku messaged some kinks out of her shoulders.

"She started it." Yu pouted as the two of them watched a rerun of her earlier TV appearance. As the sun had set a while ago, they had already opted for him to spend the night, and having planned this, he brought along a fresh change of clothes for school the next.

"After he egged her on, don't think I didn't see that." Izuku mock scolded her with a small smile on his face, enjoying the image of the presenter trying and failing to restore some order as the two went at it.

"Well I showed her, didn't I?" Yu argued for herself before she winced the boy found a particularly hard knot in her back.

"You screwed up her costume, which allowed her to knock out everyone in the studio by mistake. That was just embarrassing for the both of you." Izuku told her as the scene played out on the television, it was funny to watch….but he had a feeling that Midnight would take it out on them the next day.

"Says you, It's blowing up online. People like seeing these kinds of things." Yu snickered as she showed him her phone and even off of her personal and hero account, you could see the positive reviews their little spat got. It was in the top ten trendings already.

"For the beautiful women tearing each other's clothes off?" Izuku asked, feeling a flare of jealously at that point, only to be knocked out of it when Yu pocked his knee.

"Not the comedic relief. Though that's sure is a factor." She granted him that. "People look up to us, so when they see everything is fine and we can take time off to relax and goof around, it puts them at ease." She explained to him, showing off that side of her, the one that went through hero school and was a former sidekick to Jeanist. Even he forget that fact that times.

"Besides, you're the one that went up against a serial killer on live television. You have any idea how worried I was, you idiot?" Yu turned to face him with a wicked glare that had him thankful they were in her home, if they were out, she was liable to go big and crush him.

"Yu, you know I didn't want to fight him." Izuku said calmly as he bent over and gave her a peck on the lips as he said this.

"You're a selfless idiot." Yu corrected with an adorable pout, deciding to give him a break seeing how she had heard from his folks how they chewed him out already.

"That sounds more like me."

"Izu-kun, I'm proud of you." Yu said as she crawled onto his lap and taking a seat facing him.

"Yeah, well getting my ass kicked isn't the best experience." Midoriya stated as he looked away, no matter how much time passed, he could still feel how terrified he was, laying there…completely at Stain's mercy.

"Hehehe, that isn't what I'm proud of." Yu brought him back to earth as she took his face into her hands and directed him to look at her. "You stood your ground against an opponent you couldn't beat alone, all to save someone else, if that isn't the actions of a true hero, I don't know what is."

"Thanks, Yu. Really, thank you." Midoriya whispered to her as he reached up with his own hands and placed them over Yu's, which were still holding his head.

"You can thank me by keeping the massage going." Yu teased him with a little chuckle, not noticing that his hands moved till it was too late.

"Oh? You mean this?" Midoriya asked as his hands reached down and took both her butt cheeks into his hands, squeezing them for good measure which got him a surprised and slightly aroused moan.

"Why you little-Oh God." Yu tried to fight back but dammit, he knew what to do with those hands to turn her to putty.

"I know every weak point you have, why don't I explore them?" Midoriya asked her with a cat-like grin as one hand left her bot and moved up her back, dancing his fingers over her spine, all while not even reaching into her clothes.

'Two can play at that game.' She thought to herself as she came up with a counter to his magic hands. "And yet, you leave your biggest wide…open." She started as she leaned in as if to kiss him before she used the distraction to reach down between them to touch his not so little Midoriya through his pants. "Oh my, you're really excited, aren't you?" She whispered hotly to him as she could feel it through his pants and boxers, he was very, very happy about this.

"What you expect, with you, I don't think I'll ever get used to this." He shot back honestly, feeling his desires rising as they went on screwing around.

"Lucky for you," Yu started as she quickly and effortlessly took off her jacket, leaving her in a sleeveless shirt. "We have our whole lives together. So,"

"Why don't we take this as a chance to….get closer?" She whispered into his ear, enjoying how his breath hitched and his member twitched ever so slightly.

'Resist Izuku! Resist her sweet temptations!' He tried to fight them off, but his hormones were a powerful foe and they wished to be let loose.

"The condoms are in the bedroom." And that did him in.

"Fuck it!" Midoriya cursed as he moved his hands back to her ass and this time, gripped onto it as he stood up, carrying Yu along with him as she laughed, wrapping her legs around his midsection before they engaged in a hot make-out session to her bedroom.

They would be busy for a while.

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(Some days later – UA at lunchtime)

"Alright, that's it for class, there's only one more week before finals so I hope you all have been studying." Aizawa said as he organized his papers off the desk and looked at every student present, including Shinso. The lunch bell ringing in the background. "As I'm sure you all already know, there will be a physical portion to your exam along with the written one. I can't give you the details of the physical portion other than encouraging you to keep up for training." He finished his 'words of encouragement as he reached the door and slid it open, before stepping out. The class took a couple of seconds, waiting to make sure he was gone before they burst.

"I haven't studied at all!" Both Kaminari and Ashido cried, though while Ashido, who had scored the third lowest in the class didn't look too bothered by this, Kaminari, who scored the second-lowest, looked like he was about to pull his hair out.

"Dammit! With the sports festival and internships, I completely forget!" Kaminari moaned, trying to think of a way that he'll be able to pass the finals, dammit, he worked his ass off to get into UA, pushing his grades higher than he had ever scored before, he couldn't let that all slip just because he didn't study!

"Things indeed appear grim, but for those of us who were prepared for such events, we'll come out of this even stronger." Tokoyami stated as he walked right on past them, he had nothing to worry about seeing how in the mid-terms, he scored the 7th highest in the class.

"How'd you perform so well?" Shinso asked him as the boy walked right on past him. Shinso wasn't that worried about his finals since he scored 4th in his class. He may have lacked physical training up till recently but he did push himself academically to help raise his chances of a transfer.

"I joined a study group." Tokoyami answered as he kept his stride towards his friends.

"Midterms weren't too bad since it was close to the start of the year, so we didn't cover much but with finals, we're gonna have a hard time." Sato, who had placed 12th in the mid-terms, said to Koda, who had scored 11th, the two large boys discussing how they planned to boost their grades.

"The only real tough part will be the physical portion." Mineta spoke up from his desk, the picture of smug, and why shouldn't he be when he scored 8th in the whole class.

"The fuck?!" Kaminari yelled, surprised that their resident pervert had done so damn well.

"I thought you were one of us!" Ashido now felt ashamed of herself, as she expecting Mineta to be in their group but it seems she was wrong.

"Guys like you are only funny if they're dumb…! Where's the demand for your kind?!" Kaminari demanded, wanting to struggle with the purple-balled kid he called his friend.

"The world." Mineta answered though they weren't too sure he was screwing with them or being honest.

"Why are you two so worked up? If we do our study hard and do our best, there shouldn't be an issue." Midoriya walked up to them, looking expected of them as he gave them a smirk and a wave. "We all want to go on the summer training camp, right?"

"Honestly, the materials are not that hard if you pay attention in class." Todoroki said as he walked up to them as well, standing next to the Midoriya as Tokoyami merely nodded his head.

"Easy for you to say, you tied for first in the class!" Ashido accused him as Midoriya had tied for first overall in the class with Yaoyorozu. Todoroki didn't do too badly either and had placed 3rd in the class.

"You must watch your words, they can kill a man." Kaminari said as he gripped at his chest as if feeling actual pain when confronted with the reality of the difference in their academic performance.

"If you need assistance with the study material, I'll be more than happy to assist you." Yaoyorozu offered from her seat, sitting pretty at her shared top spot of the class.

"You're an angel, Yao-momo!" Both Kaminari and Ashido cheered for her, feeling like they were saved.

"If you have the time while helping them, would you mind assisting me as well? I'm having some issues with quadratic functions." Jiro, who placed 5th, walked over. She wasn't too concerned about failing but UA was all about pushing yourself after all.

"Oh?" Yaoyorozu sounded, not expecting this. And to add to this, Sero approached and clap his hands as he bowed slightly to her.

"Sorry but I can't resist, I need some help with classical Japanese, you scared high on that, right?" Sero, who not only scored 15th but also still wore some Band-Aids from his….punishment, asked.

"Huh?" Oh, she didn't see this coming at all. Did this mean, and they kept on coming as Ojiro walked over.

"I need help in a couple of subjects if that not going to bother you, that is." He asked, even though he scored 6th in the class.

"Please help us!" All three bowed to her, to which she looked like a little girl on Christmas morning.

"Everyone…." She whispered, delighted at this turn of events as she jumped to her feet. "Of course I will."

"Yes, thank you!" They all cheered as Yaoyorozu excitedly started to go over all that needed to be done.

"We can hold a study session over the weekend at my family's residence." Yaoyorozu offered as her family had a large house, they could spare some room for them and she got to bring home friends!

"Seriously? Sweet, I can't wait to see your house!" Ashido jumped in, excited to see where Yaoyorozu called home.

"Oh, I must inform mother and have her open up the hall for us to use!" Yaoyorozu looked like she was planning her birthday with how happy she was, not picking up in the fact the other five paused when her words registered.

"Hall?" They all thought to themselves.

"What kind of tea do you prefer, everyone?" Yaoyorozu asked, already making a list of sweets they might be able to serve.

"Tea?" Okay, that one wasn't too odd but most didn't have that many types to choose from, though they got the impression she had far more than she knew what to do with.

"My family and I always drink Harrods's or Wedgwood but I'm sure my father collections will have something for everyone!" And they were right, not that Yaoyorozu noticed. "Rest assured, that I will do my best to help you all improve!"

"It's like she casually slapped me in the face with the difference in how we were born…." Kaminari said as he and the other four stood in a daze as they were bombarded with Yaoyorozu's upbeat, friendly nature.

"But her optimism and bounciness are so cute and contagious, that I don't mind it…" Jiro finished the thought as, despite Yaoyorozu flashing her rich upbringing, she didn't mind at all.

"I don't think I'll mind having some of, what was it again? Harry's?" Kaminari asked her, still on his cloud high.

"Harrods! Oh, I'm sure you'll love it!" Yaoyorozu told them, shining like a sun as she went over the details of their study session, even giving them her residence location which to some of them, they recalled was in the most upscale part of town.

"They sure have their priorities." Kirishima, who as placed 13th, said as he stood right to Bakugo's desk.

"Can it! I don't need them to help us, I'll pound the info right the skull if I have to!" Bakugo screamed/promised him, as he had scored 2nd in the class.

"Right, then I'm in your care." Kirishima joked as he answered with a smile. Meanwhile, while the rest of the class either panicked or made plans, Aoyama was a chill as a cucumber.

"Everyone's panicking but don't they realize that's it's a bit late for that?" Aoyama said to himself as Shoji walked on by, the masked boy having placed 9th, spoke up.

"Shouldn't you try cramming as well?" Shoji asked as Aoyama didn't have that much to brag about, seeing how he placed 16th place. And clearly, his words stung as Aoyama turned around to give him his version of a glare.

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(Later – Cafeteria)

"Man, this practical has been on my mind for a while now." Midoriya said as he picked at his katsudon. "The worst part is that we don't even know what it is, so we can't prepare all that much." At present, the class had left for the cafeteria and split into their smaller groups, with the table Midoriya was seated at having Tokoyami, Uraraka, Todoroki, Hagakure, and Asui.

"Do you believe that the physical portion may be a difficult challenge?" Tokoyami asked as he ate one of his apple pie slices.

"I don't think so….but knowing Aizawa-sensei, I wouldn't past them." Midoriya replied as he had tried and failed in getting into the man's head in the past, so he couldn't predict which way things will go.

"(Kero) The written portion will be made up of everything we went over in class, so it shouldn't be too hard." Asui, who had placed 4th in the class, croaked as she broke some bread before turning to look over to Uraraka. "How's Iida been managing?"

"We're planning on having a study session at Midoriya's so that Iida can catch up with the material. Just cause he isn't here with us, doesn't mean he had to fall behind." Uraraka, who placed 10th, replied, sounding quite pleased about as Midoriya had taken the time to not just agree to help her with her studies but also visit Iida and make sure he stayed kept up to date with the material, though he was bummed to find out that regardless of his score, he was automatically placed at the bottom of the class due to his legal woes.

"Oh, that's sweet of you guys." Hagakure, who had scored 14th, said as she moved side to side, presumable in excitement.

"Well, Midoriya's been helping Tokoyami and me with studying for a while now so it's not much of a change." Uraraka revealed, blushing when she recalled how she would struggle to retain her grade point average. "My grades weren't much to brag about before."

"For reals?" Hagakure asked as she turned to face the two boys. "That's great, can I join in? I really wanna ace the finals."

"The more the merrier, I'll have to tell my mom though." Midoriya answered, not minding the company.

"Why? Don't tell me you have a hall too!" Hagakure asked him, wondering if he was swimming in money to.

"What? No!" Midoriya denied as he waved his hands at her. "My folks just get excited when I have friends over, so she'll probably go overboard with the snacks."

"Does this happen often?" Asui asked, pausing her meal to speak.

"Well before I met Tokoyami, the last friend I had over was Bakugo…when I was 4." And with that statement, the entire table paused as they took that in. If he was telling the truth, that would mean he hadn't had a friend over in over a decade! Though Tokoyami knew or at least, expected Mt. Lady had frequented his home that was still just one person.

"That's terrible! How can you not have friends over for so long?" Uraraka asked him, wondering how she turned out so normal when he didn't have any friends to visit. She would have lost it if she was alone for even just a month back in middle school.

"Being quirkless didn't help. Most little shits wouldn't come near me once they found out. After I started working towards my goal of being a hero, I didn't find myself with a lot of time to entertain friends, I had to work harder than most to be here." Midoriya told them as he could recall as yes, others never approached him but he in turn never approached others, seeing such things as wastes of time when he could be in the lab or nose in a book. He came back to the conversation when Monoma knocked his tray over his head. "And speaking of little shits." He said as he messaged the side of his head. He was not in the mood for a dose of a smug asshole.

"Oh sorry about that, your head is so big, I accidentally hit it." Monoma, who had aimed to hit Midoriya over his head, replied with a thinly veiled insult as he stood with his food tray.

"At least my head filled with actual intelligence, yours got that big from an inflated ego." Midoriya shot back, more than ready to roast this fool till he up and left them alone.

"Now, now, there's no need for insults." Monoma responded, sounding like he was hurt though from how his smug grin grew, he was more from it.

"And yet, you came all the way here to be annoying, that's a case of the pot calling the kettle black if I saw one." Asui stated as she took a bite of her meal.

"Why have you come to our table? What's your purpose here?" Tokoyami spoke up, wishing this farce would just end so that they may return to enjoying their meal.

"I heard that you guys faced off against the hero killer and lost." Monoma stated as he saw a small flinch from Midoriya and Todoroki, both now openly glaring at him.

"Harsh dude, would you have done better?" Hagakure spoke up, feeling the need to come to her classmate's defense against this guy.

"I just wanted to see if you learned not to always be in the spotlight. The world isn't like the sports festival after all." Monoma stated as he let his eyes wander over their table. Which at this point, they had enough of.

"One, you're a bitch." Midoriya started, not caring for his surprised and insulted gawk, he was taking a page out of Bakugo's handbook on social etiquette. "Second, you're a whiny bitch," That one was because it felt like it, and made Monoma even angrier but unlike others, he didn't have a quirk he could copy if a fight broke out. So if he did decide to throw the first punch, he was more than willing to send him to the nurse's office. "Thirdly, if you have all this to say to us, why don't you say it to Kendo as well, I mean, she was there with us, or is my memory off, Todoroki."

"No, she was there. Maybe he already brought this up with her." Todoroki replied, not enjoying that he was being dragged into this.

"But he lacks a large bump on his head, so I would wager no." Midoriya picked it up from there as he turned to Monoma with a smug grin, as the blonde now looked like he wanted to burn him with his thinly hidden glare alone, but before that could happen.

"Hey Monoma, is it true you cry yourself to sleep?" Someone in the crowd asked.

"Where would you-!" Monoma didn't have a chance as his retort was cut short when he fell into a motionless trance, the person that trapped him stepping out of the crowd with their food, revealing themselves to be a certain brain-washer.

"That'll keep him for a while." Shinso said with a sigh as Kendo, who had been following along to break up the fight, nodded her head in thanks to him.

"Thanks, Shinso, Monoma can be a real handful." Kendo said as she stepped forward.

"Well it's not like he doesn't make it difficult, the guy loves the sound of his own voice." Shinso replied, having enjoyed trapping this guy as he was really…really annoying at times. Kendo merely signed as she handed him her tray for him to hold for her.

"Come on." Not missing a beat, kendo chopped the back of Monoma's neck, knocking him free of Shinso's control but also dazing him enough that he fell to his knees, she was kind enough to grab his tray before it fell through. "Let's head to our table where we can have a nice chat about manners."

"Kendo, Shinso?" Uraraka spoke up, surprised that they showed up as well.

"Sup." Shinso greeted them, having come to a somewhat friendly relationship with most of the 1-A over his time with them, though he found himself closer to Uraraka, Midoriya, and Shoji than others.

"Sorry about Monoma, he's well….Monoma." Kendo apologized for her classmate as she held him up by the collar so that he wouldn't kiss the floor.

"No problem, we have our very own ass in the form of Bakugo." Hagakure replied as she looked down at the guy, it looked like a sack of potatoes being carried like that. "And if he asks, don't tell him I said that."

"Sure." Kendo laughed as she replied. "So, you guys know anything about the practical part of the exam?"

"Not a clue." Todoroki spoke up as he went back to his cold soba.

"Well, an upperclassmen friend of mine told me that it's mostly robots like the entrance exam." Kendo stated as she turned to get ready to leave.

"Wait, for real?" Uraraka nearly jumped out of her seat.

"Oh thank goodness, that doesn't seem too hard." Hagakure seemed relieved at that.

"Yeah, apparently, they will only be the 3 pointers and some new 4 pointers. He said that they're fast but they don't punch much of a ranged attack." Kendo informed them, having spoken to her older student here that happened to be her neighbor.

"This sounds like cheating." Tokoyami spoke up.

"It's not cheating, it's scoping the assignment ahead of time." Midoriya defended their actions, though he sounded like he cheated in the past with that ready-to-go defense they knew to be false.

"Why you tell that, Kendo? It was foolish to give up our information advantage over 1-A." Monoma asked as he struggled to try to get back up to his feet.

"Dude, I don't even know where to begin with you. Just about everything you say is about upstaging 1-A. Is it like a kink of yours or something?" Shinso asked him with a raised brow, seemingly very curious about this.

"I don't have such a kin-!" Monoma started to defend himself but found him knocked out by a well-placed chop to the head, courtesy of Kendo.

"Shinso, please stop that, you're not helping." Kendo asked of him as she started to drag Monoma back to whatever table they had picked for themselves, with a bored-looking Shinso following behind with both their trays.

"Hey, I was just enjoying myself, no harm done." He replied as they walked on-off, leaving the 1-A students with a….unusual impression of the dynamic of their sister class.

"Man, those two act like a married couple or siblings." Asui gave her opinion as they left.

"With a troubled kid or crazy younger brother." Midoriya added in, not knowing how to react to that.

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(Later – In 1-A homeroom)

"That's great!" Both Kaminari and Ashido cheered. As their lunch period had ended, they had all returned to class where they had decided to pass on the info from Kendo to the rest of them.

"If it's just some bots, then we have a chance." Kaminari added in, feeling like he was on top of the world.

"Oh Yeah! One less obstacle from summer camp!" And Ashido agreed with she could already see all the fun stuff they'll be able to do on camp.

"Oh yeah, you guys have trouble controlling your quirks against people, right?" Shoji spoke up, recalling that these two, in particular, had a hard time living targets.

"Yeah, but with robots, I can let loose!" Kaminari confirmed as he started to cheer.

"It'll be a cinch for me since I don't have to worry bout hurting anyone!" Ashido joined in, now pacified in the knowledge that she won't have to worry about hurting anyone.

"And with some help studying from Yaoyorozu, you'll be set for finals!" Sero joined in, rather excited at the prospect of all of them passing.

"We're definitely going on the summer camp now!" All three cheered before Yaoyorozu spoke up.

"Oh, I wanted to inform you all that our plans will have a slight change." The rather well-off heiress spoke up.

"Change? Did something come up?" Jiro asked her.

"Oh yes, I remembered that my family is hosting a small dinner this Saturday, so we can still study from the morning but mother said we will have to be finished by around 5pm so that there's time to prepare." Yaoyorozu informed them, having recalled this info during lunch.

"That's fine, if you show up in the morning, that'll give up plenty of time to go over what we need." Ojiro stated it wasn't that big of a problem.

"And it's not like we won't study until then anyway, no sweat Yaoyorozu." Sero gave her a thumbs-up.

"Thank you for understanding. Honestly, we were supposed to have this dinner a while ago but father had to leave the country on some emergency business and only recently returned." She explained as this was something that should have occurred earlier.

'That's a coincidence.' Midoriya thought to himself as he heard that last part. 'Probably nothing.'

"What does it matter if they're people or scrap metal? You still have to beat them in the end, don't you?" Bakugo asked, interrupting the flow of the conversation as he stood up from his desk.

"I don't have a fucking clue what you idiots are going on about this shit being a cinch." He insulted the two of them, who took offense.

"Hey!" Ashido yelled back at him.

"Who are you calling idiot!" Kaminari pointed at him with an upset frown.

"Shut it!" Bakugo yelled back, shutting the two of them down. "If you need to control your quirk then control it! We don't have time for people who can't even control their powers!" He partially yelled at the two of them before he turned his attention to another member of their class.

"Todoroki." Bakugo spoke up, catching all their attention at this.

"Did he just?" Sato started to ask.

"Use his actual name? Yeah, I think he did." Hagakure finished, having never heard him use their actual names. They weren't sure if it was because he was just rude or he didn't remember them.

"I haven't forgotten our match at the festival, and lately, you have been rubbing me the wrong way." Bakugo stated as he pointed to the duel-haired boy from across the room. "One way or another, we'll settle this, once and for all."

"You too, Deku!" He turned his gaze towards Midoriya who looked surprised and slightly annoyed by this before Bakugo stepped out and slam the door shut.

"It's been a while since he's been this intense. Wonder what's up with him?" Kirishima spoke up, having no clue what was that all about.

"Impatience perhaps?" Tokoyami suggested.

"No….It didn't feel that way to me." Midoriya spoke up, having detected something….off about that little declaration.

"Midoriya?" Uraraka spoke up.

"Either way, we have some finals to study for." Midoriya didn't answer, choosing to instead focus on other matters.

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(That Saturday – Outside Midoriya's apartment complex)

"So, this is it?" Hagakure spoke up as she and Uraraka stood outside Midoriya's apartment complex, it was still pretty early in the morning, being only 10 but they had agreed to start early to get as much of the study material covered as they could. The invisible girl was wearing some grey Capri pants, black tube socks around shin-length, and sneakers. On her top, she wore a form-fitting sleeved shirt with kitten motifs all over the thing. Uraraka was simple white pants, some sandals, and a pink shirt.

"Yes, we normally study at the library near here but this time, he said we should study at his place." Uraraka explained as she pointed down the way in the direction of the local library.

"You mean you've never been here before?" Hagakure questioned her, having thought that to be the case. "Oh, I would have guessed that not the case." She finished with a teasing tone which Uraraka caught.

"W-w-What does that mean?" Uraraka blushed as she questioned that.

"Oh nothing, oh look!" Hagakure changed the topic as she pointed down the way where Asui, Todoroki, Tokoyami, and Iida were approaching them. Todoroki was dressed in a pair of blue jeans and sneakers along with a white undershirt and blue opened button shirt. He also had a carry bag with him. Iida was dressed in a fashion that they would expect from him with some brown slacks held up by a black belt with a white button-up dress shirt tucked into them. Asui stuck out the most as she was wearing clothing that seemed to be geared to keeping her warm. That clothing was a pair of boots, black tights under a shin-length yellow dress with a sleeved green shirt underneath. Tokoyami wore a pair of faded black jeans with a chain sticking out of the pocket, black sneakers, and a grey shirt under a dark red jacket.

"(Kero) Hey guys, I hope we're not late." Asui spoke up as they reached the other two.

"Right on time, we were about the head up ourselves." Uraraka spoke as she pointed towards the apartments.

"Right, then we should start heading there." Iida spoke up with his usual hand motions as he gestured towards the building, getting some laughs from the group.

"Good to see that you're in good spirits, Iida." Hagakure chuckled, somewhat relieved to see that Iida hadn't let this whole mess get to him nearly as much as she feared.

"Thank you," The tall speedster replied before he paused, looking less energetic but still hopeful. "It was….an eye-opening experience, but it let me see what I'm aiming for much clearer than before."

"Even the darkest night can be pierced through by a single light." Tokoyami nodded his head in agreement.

"Which unit was it again?" Todoroki spoke up for the first time, having been roped into this by Uraraka, still, he was looking forward to this. He couldn't remember the last time he had studied with friends instead of by his lonesome, actually, this was the first time.

"Second building, 4th door from the stairs, 3rd floor." Tokoyami replied as he started to lead them up the stairs. "I have paid a few visits in the past." He answered the unspoken question.

"Oh yeah, I sometimes forget you guys knew each other before attending UA." Uraraka replied as they climbed the stairs.

"That's not accurate. We did meet before the start of the school year but it was a chance encounter, nothing more." He corrected her, as he and Midoriya didn't attend the same schools up till UA.

"Then you met his parents?" Iida asked as they reached the 2nd flight of stairs.

"Only his mother, his father tends to be gone on extended work-related travels." Tokoyami replied, having never had the honor of meeting Hisashi, he knew what the man looked like from the pictures around their living room but that was it.

"So, what's she like? Mama Midoriya?" Hagakure asked as they reached the floor and turned towards his door. Her question being a valid one but not one Tokoyami knew how to answer.

"She's…eccentric, but not in the way that her son is. Though he did gain the trait from here, among many things." He chose to say before he reached for the door and gave a firm but polite couple of knocks.

KNOCK! KNOCK!

"I'll get it, mom, it's probably them." They all heard Izuku say through the door. After that, they had only wait a couple of moments for the door to be unlocked and pulled open to allow them entry into the apartment.

"Hey guys, thanks for coming." Midoriya said as he stood up the doorway to allow them entry. He wasn't wearing anything special, just a pair of dark blue pants and a grey shirt which read 'I don't need to a say much' in kanji.

"We all said we'll be here of course we'll show up." Asui said as they all entered and quickly removed their footwear before putting on some slippers they found at the door or just going in their socks.

"So you say." Midoriya answered as he led them into his living room, which they had to admit, looked very homely with all the family pictures and rewards that his father had hanging around. They could even see some from Izuku and his mother. "Guys this is my mother, mom, these are some of my classmates." Izuku introduced them to his mother who smiled at the group.

"Wow, Tokoyami was right, he does share a lot with his mom." Hagakure whispered to Asui as the two of them looked a lot alike.

"No kidding, it's like he's a carbon copy of her but a boy." Asui agreed with her, also speaking softly but they were still heard by the mother/son duo.

"Don't remind me." Izuku muttered to himself before he felt his mother pinching his side. "Ow!"

"And what does that mean, young man?" Inko asked of him with a raised brow, awaiting his answer.

"You know what I mean, I look like a girl mom, kinda hard to be taken seriously when you look like a cupcake mascot." Izuku replied as he gestured to his face, despite the fact he'll be 16 in a couple of months, he still had his rather girly babyface.

"It's better than your father, you'll be stuck with his plain face. At least now, you're my adorable little baby!" Inko didn't seem to care as she scooped him up into a hug, showing off her strength as she easily lifted the boy off the floor into her mother-style bear hug.

"Mom!" Izuku didn't look like he was enjoying this based on the blush he was sporting.

"(Kero) I see where he gets his personality from." Asui stated, louder than before as she saw no need to hide her opinions.

"You have no idea." Tokoyami spoke up, sounding like this was nothing but they wouldn't put it past them.

"Oh, where are my manners, welcome! My name is Inko." Inko said as she put her son down and greeted the group of teens. Oh, it was so refreshing for her boy to bring home friends! She was starting to lose hope.

"The pleasure is all mine mam, I am Tenya Iida." Iida stepped forward and gave her a firm handshake, caught off guard by her rather strong grip.

"Oh yes, I recall you from the news, it's good to see you're alright. I hope you sort out this legal trouble of yours soon." Inko asked him, showing worry for him that made him feel….good inside, he supposed that a mother's love would always feel like this.

"Thank you, I should be cleared soon enough." Iida replied, having seen that he should be clear to re-join the hero course just after finals.

"Toru Hagakure." Hagakure was next as she bounced forward. Her optimism getting a small chuckle from the older women.

"Oh, you're right Izuku, she is cute for an invisible girl." Inko replied to her, her words leaving them either blushing or confused as her son looked like he turned into a strawberry at his mother just saying stuff like that.

'He thinks I'm cute?" Hagakure was in the same predicament as him but being invisible, no one could tell.

'He thinks she's cute?' The rest of them wondered as they didn't know this. Not to say, Hagakure was pretty in her way but how could you know that when you barely know her?

"O-o-Ochaco Uraraka!" Uraraka, who still had a bit of blush from that little reveal spoke up next. And immediately regretted it. 'Crap that was terrible!'

"It's a pleasure, but you don't need to be nervous dear, I don't bite." Inko calmed her down, not offended or anything by her rather poor introduction.

"Y-yes, mam." Uraraka worked through it and gave the mother and firm shake of the head.

"Shoto Todoroki." Todoroki introduced himself to the mother he had met at the hospital.

"Oh yes, I remember you from the hospital." Inko replied as she went all mother hen on him as well, something he was not used to since his mother had been away from home since he was 6. "I hope you're healing alright."

"That you for your concern, and yes, I've healed back to normal." Todoroki replied, weirdly as he held up his arm for her to see that his wounds had held.

"Tsuyu Asui. (Kero)It's a pleasure." Asui spoke up as she stepped forward and gave the woman a handshake, but Inko went in for more and pulled her into a hug as well, getting a surprised croak from the girl.

"Oh dear, the pleasure is all mine. You have wonderful eyes." Inko complimented her as she put the girl down.

"I do?" Asui asked, finding that statement to be out of nowhere.

"Oh yes, I can see they're full of intelligence and curiosity but also maturity, do you have younger siblings?" Inko inquired of her, once more catching not just her but all of them off guard.

"Yes I do, a younger brother and sister. How you guess that?" Asui asked, she never told Midoriya or…anyone that. It never came up in conversation before.

"You can tell a lot from a person's eyes dear, they don't call them the window to the soul for nothing." Inko replied with a cheeky smile.

"And you've already met Tokoyami." Izuku gestured towards his friend who stepped forward and did a small bow to her.

"Indeed I have, how is your sister doing?" Inko asked of him, having heard through her son that Miyako was still in the hospital.

"Better, she was discharged earlier this week." Tokoyami replied, showing a smile at the news of his sister being back home again.

"Oh, that's wonderful news. I baked an apple pie just for her, would you mind taking it to her when you leave?" Inko requested of him as they all now noted the sweet smell of a freshly baked treat coming in from the kitchen.

"Not at all, I'll be sure to tell her who baked her such a treat." Tokoyami replied, his sister prefers grapes but she would still love the treat since she had a bit of a sweet tooth.

"Speaking of treats," Inko stated as if she just remembered something before she dashed off into the kitchen, leaving her son behind to sigh as he could only guess what she was after.

"Oh no, mom! We don't need that….much." Whatever he wanted to say came to a halt as Inko returned with a stupidly big tray of treats such as a bowl of chocolate-covered raisins, potato chips, cookies, some pancakes, and drinks. How she could fit all of it into that one tray would remain a mystery as she then passed into her son's hands, making it so that he had to balance all this food. There were even two homemade pizzas in there! Like they didn't even begin to understand how all that was still on the tray and not mixing.

"Don't be silly, I know how much you snack when you work, you will all need to keep your energy up. Finals are important." Inko waved off his concerns as she pushed him towards the hall leading to his lab. She had already placed drinks and cups down there for them.

"Yes mom, come on-we're not studying in the living room." Izuku said as while carrying this large load of food, he led them away from the living room so that his mother can get back to her crime shows.

"Then where? Your bedroom?" Tokoyami asked as he stepped forward to assist in carrying some of the food.

"Oh God no, not enough space, no we're studying in my lab." Izuku laughed him off as he thanked him and gave him the two pizzas to hold, luckily they each had their plates.

"Say again?" Hagakure spoke up at that apart. "Midoriya, this isn't the largest apartment, how do you have a lab?"

"Get in the elevator, and you'll see." Izuku smiled as he gestured towards the door which looked like a shoe closet. It would take some prodding but they soon all used it.

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(Later – In said lab)

"This is like one of the coolest things I've ever seen." Uraraka spoke up as they all sat in already prepared chairs in the lab. Like no joke, they thought he was screwing with them when he said 'get in the elevator' but after Todoroki went in and didn't come out, they all decided to see where this went. And they were far from disappointed as not even Tokoyami had ever seen this place.

"So this whole place." Iida spoke up as he looked around and saw how spacious the area was, he could even make out glass display cases which each had an Mk of his wing-packs along with armor, and despite most of them being badly damaged or all but destroyed, he was still impressed by each of them.

"Was once the apartment under us, it was vacant so we rented it as well and got an agreement done with the landlord to customize it." Izuku, who was seated in the largest chair right in front of the main computer, revealed to them.

"That must have cost a pretty penny." Asui guessed as she took her seat.

"Oh it did but I was making good money selling my gear to small-time support agencies and the bank approved the loan, another few months and we would have paid it back plus the interest." Midoriya replied to her, impressing them even more that he was already nearly done paying for this.

"Impressive." Todoroki spoke up, having not known that one could produce gear and then sell it themselves without a license, which was half true, you didn't need a license to produce them but you did need one to sell and distribute them, which he obtained in his 1st year of middle school. Honestly, it wasn't that hard.

"(Kero) Your mother sure is something." Asui noted as they all thought back to their first encounter with her, after that they could see where her son gets his traits from.

"Tell me something I don't know. If Bakugo takes after his mother then so do I." Midoriya grumbled as he leaned back into his chair.

"Wait, you mean he's like his mom?" Uraraka asked, trying to imagine an older, girl version of Katsuki but failing.

"Well not really, I mean he gets his looks and some of his attitude but Aunt Mitsuki has manners…most of the time." Midoriya answered as to when he thought about it, the only real difference was that Aunt Mitsuki didn't walk around thinking she was the second coming of Jesus and played volleyball to help release her fiery temper in a non-violent way.

Maybe he should try and get Katsuki to do the same, they'll rock at mother/son competitions!

"I'm not sure I want to touch that topic." Todoroki spoke up, looking as uncomfortable as he sounded.

"Agreed. I was meaning to ask Midoriya?" Iida said as he turned his attention to their host. "But where is your father? Is he in town?"

"Yes, but he stepped out to get out dry cleaning." Midoriya replied as she shook his head and pulled out his study material.

"Dry cleaning? You have an event coming up?" Uraraka asked him.

"Yeah, we got this dinner date later today but my folks won't tell me who we're seeing or where we're going. Only that I need to dress my best." Midoriya revealed to them as he then clapped his hands together. "But anyway, we didn't come here to discuss my home life, we have some things to cover, which begs the point, what's your worst subjects?"

"Modern Literature." Asui spoke up, having scored 69% for it on their mid-terms.

"Math." Tokoyami wasn't ashamed to admit that he scored only 61% for the subject in the mid-terms.

"English." Iida spoke up rather bashfully, despite the language being the most spoken in the world, he could never grasps some aspects of it, leading to his sentences coming off as odd or grammatically incorrect, still, he worked hard and scored a respectable 65% for in on the mid-terms.

"Japanese History." Todoroki spoke up, having only scored 69% for it but since his old man never saw his report cards, his sister was the one to encourage him to take this chance to try and improve. But she was a teacher so it was to be expected of her.

"Japanese Hero Law and regulation." Hagakure rose a shy hand as she had found the study material challenging. She barely passed their mid-terms with 51%.

"Traditional Japanese." Uraraka was just as shy with her reveal. She grew up with loving but simple parents, if she didn't watch herself, she would speak like a country girl so something like traditional Japanese which was super formal was a whole new thing to her. Which showed seeing how her last grade for it was 52%

"Modern Art" Unlike some of them, Midoriya didn't seem to care for his less than promising grades, having scored only 51% on the mid-terms.

"Wait, really?" Hagakure asked, she would have thought he would ace everything.

"Yeah, I just don't….get modern art, like how the hell does a banana ducked taped to the wall count as art? That's just stupid." Midoriya shrugged his shoulders as even a kid in kindergarten, he could never understand some forms of act, like portraits and landscaping he got, he would even say he enjoyed sculptures but most 'modern art' he would classify as garbage.

"I don't get it either." Todoroki spoke up, though it wasn't too surprising that Shoto didn't get art, the guy didn't get a lot of things.

"What about the apple nailed to the tree? That one was bizarre." Uraraka added in with a barely suppressed laugh, recalling how she saw the news story about it some time ago.

"Didn't that piece sell for quite the amount?" Asui asked, having heard about it through her father grumbling about 'how no-one had any taste in art'.

"Some idiot paid like 300k for it, how the heck do you have that kind of money lying around if you think something like that is art?" Midoriya asked as he couldn't fathom as you could make enough money to have 300k US dollars to burn and yet, think buying something like that was a good idea.

"Don't know. Why don't we start with Modern Art then? I'm sure I can help you with that?" Hagakure suggested.

"That's fine, then we can move on to English, I happen to speak it fluently, so I can help you guys understand a thing or two." Midoriya said as he puffed out his chest, saying the last parts of his sentence in English to emphasize the point.

"Then afterward, perhaps we can partake in Traditional Japanese? It happens to be my best subject." Tokoyami joined in with a small smile as Uraraka looked like she hit the gold mine and thanked him profusely for his offer. He had liked dramatics and history to a degree ever since he was young to the degree that he ever scored over than 70% for Traditional Japanese or 60% in history.

"Let's get to it than!" Uraraka cheered as they went to work studying, snacking, or brainstorming.

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(Later in the evening – On the road)

"Where are we going?" Izuku asked from the backseat of the family car. It had been a few hours since his study session with his friends ended and currently, it was evening. They were driving along a road that he had never been on before, hell based on what he saw outside the window, this was a part of town he had never had cause to venture into.

"Oh hush you, we're nearly there." Inko told her son as she made sure her make-up was alright in the mirror. She may have not put on much more than some lip gloss but she wanted to be sure. As her son and husband, she was dressed to the tie in one of her best light and dark green evening dresses, heeled shoes, and a light jacket.

"I still don't see why we all have to come." Izuku muttered to himself as he looked down at the dark brown pin-stripe suit he had been told to wear. He even had to comb his unruly hair which took 20 whole minutes and wear a different pair of shoes than his regular red kicks, as he found himself wearing a pair of polished brown leather shoes.

"Because we were all invited, it'll be rude to just decline for no reason." Hisashi spoke up from the driver's seat as they approached the gated property. Like his son, he was dressed in a dark brown suit but as this was one he had to wear more often than not, it fit his body better and along with it, he wore a vest underneath the jacket and a black overcoat.

"Yeah, yeah." Izuku surrendered as he focused on the extremely long fence that even with the street lights on, he could barely make out the end no matter which way he looked. There seemed to be some kind of nameplate next to the main gate but he couldn't make it out. They didn't have to wait long before a person stepped out of the property and approached them.

"Welcome, are you the Midoriya's?" The clear gate guard greeted them as he asked for confirmation.

"Yes we are, here are our invites." Hisashi replied as he handed the man the three invites that he had been given. He looked them over for a couple of seconds before confirming there were real before taking out a walkie-talkie and cleared them with whoever was still on the other side.

"Enjoy your stay." The guard said as the gate opened fully, allowing them to drive up the driveway, past the masterfully cared-for gardens and what he assumed were small fish pools towards the main house.

"Damn, didn't think they'll….have a…gatemen….Shit, that's big." Izuku said as they came to a stop outside the main…..building, which had no business being a house! The thing was a four-story mansion. The effect that must have gone into building it as well as the materials themselves spoke volumes to the owner's wealth as Izuku could say that the stonework around each visible window must have taken hours if not a couple of days each.

"You can say that again." Hisashi breathed as he opened the car door for his wife and took her hand into his own as he and the rest of them walked up the stairs to the main door that looked to cost as much as his bed three times over.

"Hisashi….you didn't tell us they had this kind of money." Inko asked as she tried to grasp at the wealth of their dinner host.

"To be fair, I didn't know either." Hisashi said as he gave the door a firm but polite knock to announce that they had arrived.

"Remember Izuku, your best behavior." Inko told their son before he could say something smart.

"You got it." Lucky for them, even he couldn't find anything to say about this. With that, the door was opened by what looked to be a butler who quickly bowed to them as he greeted them before he stepped aside to allow them access.

"Announcing Hisashi, Inko and Izuku Midoriya." The butler announced with a loud but fitting voice to the rest of the house. After that, it didn't take long for someone to walk into the foyer from one of the side doors.

"Oh excellent, you finally made it." The man said as he walked up to them, all smiles. Like Hisashi, he wore a suit but his was black and grey and designed and produced at a high price tag. He had short, combed, and gelled black hair as well as warm, friendly-looking black eyes. "Welcome to my lovely home." He said as he stuck his hand out to him his father a handshake.

'More like a mansion.' Hisashi thought to himself but was wise enough to not say aloud as he reached out to precipitate the gesture. "Thank you for having us, this is my wife, Inko," He said as he gave the firm a firm handshake as he introduced the rest of them. "And our son, Izuku."

"Thank you for hosting us." Inko stated with a small curtsy to their host.

"Pleasure to meet you sir." Izuku followed suit with a small bow, noted that the man they were speaking with was a tall one, easily standing taller them him by maybe 12cm or so.

"Please, it was no trouble, I am Miki Yaoyorozu. CEO of Infinity Enterprises." Miki introduced him as he gave each of them a handshake, stopping at Izuku.

"Hold on, Yaoyorozu?" Izuku paused, not releasing his hand as the name registered in his mind.

"Izuku." Inko moved to correct him but paused when their host merely laughed it off.

"Don't be bothered by him, I can see he didn't know who I was. Yes, my boy, I'm Momo's father. It's a pleasure to meet one of her classmates." Miki stated as Izuku finally broke his hold and stepped back.

"T-The pleasure's all mine sir." Izuku replied as he bowed again. Now that he knew that piece of information, he could see a bit of Momo in her father.

"Why don't we meet the rest of the family, yes?" Miki suggested as he started to walk off, leading them down a path towards…somewhere.

"Of course, lead the way." Hisashi said as he and his wife and child followed after him. They walked for a bit in somewhat comfortable silence before they reached a large looking door which he opened, showing them into a large hall with a table large enough for 20 people! Seated at said table, was two women, one of whom Izuku recognized instantly, despite the fact she wasn't in her usual clothing.

"And this is my own lovely family." Miki said as he walked over and hugged his wife before turning to face them.

"Welcome to our home." Both women said at the same time before Momo noticed a familiar face standing right there.

"Midoriya?" Momo asked, confused that he was present….and in a tacky-looking suit.

"Hello Yaoyorozu, I wasn't expecting to see you tonight." Izuku waved at her with a small blush and stutter as he was still getting used to all this. Like he knew she was loaded but not this loaded.

"This is my beautiful daughter, Momo." Miki introduced as he gave his daughter a peck on the cheek, getting an embarrassing yelp from the blushing girl. "And the queen of this house and life of my life, Airi." He finished as she held onto his wife, which looked like an older version of Momo with some changes. Those changes being that she had much shinier silver hair that seemed to be her natural color rather than a result of age. She wore a black evening dress that complimented her womanly curves and rather….large chest with a pair of high heels. Momo was wearing a much more conservative red evening dress that still managed to capture her natural beauty and charm. She, unlike her mother, wore less extreme heels footwear which left her toes bare.

"There's no need for flattery, love." Airi laughed with a musical tone as she directed their attention back to the matter at hand. "Since there's still sometime before dinner is served, why don't we get to know each other?"

"That's a great idea, I can already tell my boy is itching to find out about your quirks." Hisashi picked it up from there, his comment leaving Izuku with an angered but bashful looking redness to his cheeks as he looked away to salvage some of his pride.

"So we've been told. Why don't we head to the gazebo?" Miki suggested as it was a cool night. They could have a nice cup of tea while they wait for the main course. With that suggestion, the two groups moved out of the hall and walked out towards a large and wonderfully designed gazebo. Sure it was a bit chilly but it seemed like no one was bothered by it.

"Mom, do we live in poverty?" Izuku whispered to his mother as they moved along.

"No, why?" Inko asked him as she noted that he was looking around and all the sculptures and other garden pieces, most of which looked to cost more than her monthly paycheck.

"Because compared to them, we might as well be swimming in government grants and 2nd hand clothing." He replied as he couldn't even begin to imagine the tens of thousands that must have gone into just filling the already expensive to maintain garden with such magnificent pieces of art that by all rights, belonged in an art show or something.

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(Later)

"So, since you're our guests, why don't you start with the questions?" Airi spoke as she took a sip of their freshly prepared tea. At present, they were all in a well-lit gazebo, watching the evening lights in the sky.

"If you're sure." Inko started, not wanting to be rude but with a smile of approval from her fellow mother, she went on. "Well, I supposed the first question would be how you came to run such a successful business?"

"It's a family one, it was started by my grandfather who then passed it to my mother and eventually, to me." Miki answered, sure he did his part in raising the company name but it was well established before he was even born. He then turned his gaze to Hisashi with a curious smirk on his face. "My turn, how did you came to become a zoologist?"

"It was my second passion growing up, the first being heroes. When I realized that I wasn't suited for hero work, I opted to become a scientist. Which was a great move since that's how I met my wife." Hisashi said as he could admit to wanting to be a hero but he gave up on that dream and pursued another field. One that he didn't regret doing.

"I work in the management section of a local animal sanctuary. Hisashi had to complete some fieldwork to finish a course and I was volunteering there at the time." Inko added in for a detail as she spent her days making sure that the animals and workers were well stocked and cared for.

"And was it love at first sight?" Miki asked, curious about this but instead, he got a chuckle out of Inko as she thought back to those days.

"Oh heavens no, we barely interacted with one another and whenever we did, I froze up. I was never the most confident teenager." Inko said as she could recall how hard it was to even approach Hisashi, if not for Mitsuki all but forcing her, she might have never worked up the courage.

"What about you?" Hisashi asked of them.

"We met when we were kids. His mother believed that he should socialize with kids his age regardless of their social background. He met me the day we both got pushed into the mud after a childish fight." Airi told the, thinking back that warm summer's day so many years ago when they first met.

"They were making fun of your quirk, I couldn't just sit there and let it happen." Miki retorted, showing off that he wasn't afraid to jump in and help, only for his wife to chuckle at his expense.

"And then my knight in shining armor got pushed into the mud with me." Airi softly laughed at his expense as she recalled how this unknown boy wearing expensive clothes came to her aid but since he had no fighting experience whatsoever, he soon joined her in the mud.

"Well, at least you had a friend in the mud with you." Miki laughed along with her, recalling how his mother nearly had a heart attack when she came to fetch him and found him rolling in the mid with some girl. Sure she wanted him to mingle with other kids but that wasn't what she had in mind.

"Oh yes, and by the time we're in high school, separate schools mind you, I went to public, and he went to private, we have fallen in love." Airi finished that tale as they had grown from childhood friends to lovers and eventually, they married.

"That sounds wonderful." Inko said, picturing the image in her head.

"It was, definitely worth the hour-long train trip to see one another." Miki said with a laugh which soon all the adults joined in on.

"Mr. and Mrs. Yaoyorozu, if I may, what are your quirks?" Izuku spoke up for the first time since they say down. He didn't get all this adult humor and sort to change it to a topic which he did.

"I was waiting for that one," Miki said as he finished off that little laugh. He then held up one hand. "My quirk is 'Pyro-Creation' I can start small fires anywhere within a range of 25m of myself. When I do, I have the snap my fingers like so." He then snapped his fingers and from it, a small lightning bolt-like shot flew off and strike a tree in the distance. Causing a small fire on impact. "The strength of the fire is fuelled by my energy so if I'm weak and hungry, it can barely make a spark, and I can do so when my fingers are wet." He added in as his quirk shared that part with his daughter, which meant that they could both put away quite the large meal.

"My quirk is called 'Ultimate Spear'. I can rearrange the cells of my fingers into a hard diamond-like structure and grow them into a spear-like growth that can extend up to 20m if I push it. They can cut through flesh and fine just fine but I do find trouble with some metals." Airi started when she saw that it was her chance to speak, unlike her husband, she didn't damage anything but merely allowed her fingers to grow and harden into their claw-like form before they went back to normal.

"And from that combinations, my quirk of creation was formed, the arrangement of cells from my mother and the creation aspect from my father." Momo stated from her seat next to her father, making a small Barbie-like doll out of the palm of her hand.

"My, that seems to be quite the abilities." Inko praised them for their unique quirks, having never seen such a fire-based quirk.

"Indeed, and what are your quirks?" Miki asked as he turned the focus back to them.

"My own is called 'Fire-breathe, pretty self-explanatory. I can't breathe large fires but I can keep myself warm with it." Hisashi said as he could never make large sums of fire like most fire-based heroes and villains but it was definitely enough to perform a good show.

"I have a minor telekinesis type quirk. I can lift and attract objects up to around 60kg towards myself but I can't move them away from myself." Inko explained her ability, telekinesis was a common quirk but it's varied greatly from person to person with the more commonly understood variation of the ability being extremely rare.

"Oh Momo, why don't you show your classmate around the gardens? I sure you can fill in any questions he might have." Her father spoke up, noting that the teens had been largely silent and wish to discuss things more at their speed.

"Of course, Mido-I mean, Izuku if you would follow me." Momo, seeing what her father was doing, agreed with him as she stood up and walked over to Izuku to which he got up as well and they both walked off into the garden together.

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(Later – in the gardens)

"I got to admit, I was not expecting…." Midoriya started as the two simply just walked around the place and talked. He had taken to removing his jacket and loosening his tie, leaving himself only in his yellow dress shirt. "This."

"I know, our home here is a bit large." Yaoyorozu agreed with him as she knew that her house was on the larger side of this neighborhood. She knew that Todoroki didn't stay too far from here but the two had never really made anything out of that. At present, she was wearing Midoriya's jacket to keep the chill back as they two entered a hedge maze.

"Your home here? Like in town here?" Midoriya asked, having picked up on that little world play to which she nodded her head, confused why he would bring that up. "Yaoyorozu, how many homes does your family have?"

At that, the girl had to stop and think for a second before giving him an answer, a sign that it wasn't just the one. "About 9, we have 2 in the US and a summer home in Venice." She said as she counted all the homes that they owned, even the summer home in Florida and the winter home in Montana.

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"Midoriya!" Yaoyorozu yelped as Izuku fall to the floor, clutching at his heart while crying comedic tears of sorrow.

"The sheer weight of your money bags is crushing me." Midoriya coughed out as he could almost feel the weight of this girl's privilege crushing him underfoot.

The worst part is that she didn't even realize it!

"It's not that much," Yaoyorozu said before she took a moment to think about it"…Is it?"

"Yaoyorozu, most people have only one home and this," Midoriya informed her as he got back up and dusted himself off, it wouldn't do for his folks to see him dirty. "Is like 20 people homes combined. Like seriously, how much do your parents give you as an allowance? I get 12,500 yen a month."

"I…don't think I should say." Now that she thought about it, she didn't feel a bit hesitant to say.

"What is it, like 30,000 Yen?" He asked her, thinking of a large number. But she shook her head so he guessed again. "35K?"

"…175K…" Yaoyorozu corrected him as they both kept on walking in a dead silence after that.

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"You know, I should have seen that coming." Midoriya breathed through his nose as he processed that insane amount for an allowance.

"Sorry."

"You have nothing to apologize for, so you're parents make serious dough, it's not like you, and forgive me for this, are a total bitch about it." Midoriya waved her off, telling her his honest opinion of the topic.

"Excuse me?" And clearly, she took offense, even though he said he didn't think she was a total bitch.

"Like, you're one of the most down-to-earth people I know, a bit clueless sometimes when you unknowingly flash what social class you were born into but you're still a good person." Midoriya explained with a small smile as he looked up to the stars.

"When have I flashed my money?" Yaoyorozu asked him, crossing her arms expectantly.

"Remember when you were discussing your study plans with Sero, Jiro, and accompany?" He brought up her earlier group discussion from class when she nodded her head, he continued. "Most people don't have halls." Like no joke, if that study session had been at anyone else's house, chances are they would have just used the living room or something.

"But then why didn't they say anything?" Yaoyorozu questioned him, now feeling self-conscious about her ideal, though she wasn't helping her cases as she was pulling off an adorable pout, which just made him laugh at her.

"Because it's part of your charm and we know that you're not doing it to drag or anything like that. Like for real, whenever do say stuff like that, it's always with that sweet, bouncy, friendly face you have. How can people not think it adorable?" He explained as he gestured towards her still pouting face. "But now I can see that you get your looks from your mom so…"

"I hope you're not making a pass at my mother." Yaoyorozu deadpanned, he wouldn't be the first.

"And risk your ire? Please I'll like to live, thank you very much." He countered, waving off her accusation before he turned his attention to the hedges around them. "But your family does have a wonderful garden."

"Then you, I help around whenever there is time. I spent a good time of my childhood in balls and dinners so being out in nature, it's relaxing." Yaoyorozu replied as they turned a corner. She enjoyed spending time in the garden rather than inside.

"I know what you mean. Out here, it feels….like we're free." Midoriya wholeheartedly agreed with her, having loved to venture to the park near his home whenever he had the time. "But I gotta know, why hero work?"

"Pardon?" Yaoyorozu asked, that was an odd change of tone.

"Both your parents aren't heroes, so what drove you to want to become one?" That was something that had been on his mind for a while now, the reasons his classmates chose to train to become heroes.

"Well, it's a bit embarrassing for me to talk about." Yaoyorozu said bashfully as she looked to the side.

"Can't be a bigger shock than your allowance amount, lay it on me." Midoriya joked as he eased the tension of the question.

"When I was little, 6 maybe 7, my parents took me to this charity event for some disaster victims down south." Yaoyorozu started to explain as she recalled touching down at the local airport and seeing how everything was messed up and damaged.

"You mean what that really big storm hit?" Midoriya asked, recalling that a really big cyclone had struck the southern islands some years back and messed things up. "I heard it was pretty bad."

"It was, so many people lost their homes, livelihood, and loved ones. I stuck with my mother for most of the trip but found myself separated from her and soon, lost." Yaoyorozu chuckled at that part, having only gotten lost because she got too curious and wondered off when they weren't looking.

"I walked around for what felt like hours before I was picked up by a kind family. They thought I had lost my parents and made sure I was safe. Imagine their surprise when they got me back to the main relief sight and they saw my parents, worried sick." That was the funny part, looking back on it as they were dressed in dirty clothing while hers only had smudges here and there.

'I think they were more shocked about how much money they must have.' Midoriya thought to himself as he could only imagine the type of clothing they must have been wearing, sure not evening wear but do doubt they had something with that showed off that money. But he kept that thought to himself. "That was rather kind of them."

"It was. They had lost all they owned and had 3 other kids but they still took in another one because it was the right thing to do. For 6 hours, they treated me like one of their own, their son even gave me a Matryoshka doll because he thought I would enjoy it, I still have that same doll" Yaoyorozu revealed, that gift is the source of her fascination with the little Russian dolls, to the point that she worked for a while afterward until she was able to create a perfect one with another inside.

"They had so little….but they were still willing to help me, feed me, make sure I was warm and happy, it was eye-opening." She went on as she looked ahead, though he could see that she was looking towards the past. "All my life, I was never lacking anything, even my parents made time for me growing up so I wasn't raised by the maids or anything like that. I was blessed but after that. I wanted to help others, as much as I could." She told him, showing off her how drive to become the best heroine she could be, something that he could respect and admire. "I'm still working towards one day inheriting the family company but as a pro hero, I can go out and help more people in the field. And one day, if we ever meet again, I'll thank that family for what they did." In the end there, she felt Midoriya place a hand on her shoulder.

"Momo, my respect for you has gone up 10,000,000,000 percent. That is one of the noblest of drives I have ever heard. I'm sure that you'll reach your goal one day." He cheered her on, deciding at that moment that he'll always be in her corner, no matter what.

"Thanks, I've only ever told Jiro and Asui this. What about you, why do you want to become a hero instead of an accountant like your mother or a zoologist like your father?" She asked of him, wishing to get his backstory now.

"Well, I guess it was because of All Might. From the moment I saw him saving the day, defeating any evil, all with a smile on his face as he protected people. I wanted to be just like that. You know that Bakugo and I used to be friends?" Okay, that part was surprising as she couldn't recall ever seeing the two act…well they couldn't stand each other since school started. Sure they displayed the ability to work together but that was in a life or death situation. "Our mothers knew each other since high school so it was kinda fate that we'll meet as little kids. When his quirk came in, he got bratty and arrogant, he would always pick fights to show that he was the best, and then there was me, quirkless but every time, I would protect other kids from him." He explained to her with a chuckle as he combed his hand through his now messed up hair, he didn't even know why he bothered trying to comb it.

"That was very brave for you." Yaoyorozu told him, this time being the one to place a hand on his shoulder.

"That didn't save my ass every time I got beat but thanks. One of those times I did that, I wondered to myself: What the heck am I doing? Why am I letting myself get beat up for someone I don't know? But then I looked down to the kid and then I saw it." He explained to her, not that ashamed that he thought about running as he was like 5. "He was just as scared as I was but more than that, he had…this look in his eye that spoke of the hope he had that someone came to his aid." He said as he looked down at his hands, hands that were covered with scars from all the years of building, exercising, and hurting himself along the way.

Like when he first burned his hand using a blow torch, that was an interesting day seeing how his mother forbade him from using it beforehand. Oh, the ass whooping he got for that, admittedly stupid move

"It was then that I knew what I wanted. Sure I wanted to get a quirk as strong as All Might's and ran around as the best pro ever but more than that…I wanted to be able to protect people…and bring them hope. Then I saw that Steller's Eagle and it gave the inspiration that carried me up till now." He finished as he flexed his arm at her, proud of how far he had come since that day, and he still had plenty of room to grow even better.

"It's a great goal you know, to become a symbol of hope." Yaoyorozu told him with a fond smile, having had her thoughts on the boy but after hearing that, she had no more doubts about him.

"A symbol of hope? Yeah, I suppose I am." Midoriya said aloud, having never really put that much thought into it, only focusing on the goal itself and not what would come with it, after he realized that, he started to laugh. "Hey, if you like, I can help you with that."

"With my goal?" She asked him, was he suggesting they train together?

"Yeah, I noticed that your costume is well….oh screw it." He tried to be subtle but gave up midway. "Your costume is the most revealing one in class next to Midnight's OG. If you will let me, I can take a crack at it and see if I can't make one that covers more skin, if nothing else, it'll be a hell of a lot better than what you have in the winter or during night patrols." He offered after being as blunt as he could be.

"It's not like I want to show off so much skin but my quirk needs open skin for me to create what I wish." Yaoyorozu told him, upset about that little detail to her quirk.

"…I don't think that's true." Midoriya paused when he heard that, thinking it over in his head for a minute.

"How so, I have tried with clothing on to….disastrous results." Yaoyorozu said as every time she tried to make use of it through clothing, she needed to buy new clothing.

"Your hair." Midoriya pointed to the top of her head.

"My hair? I've never made something out of my head before." She told him, having never seen the need to do so.

"No, but unless you shave every part of your body, every damn week. You still have body hair and yet, that doesn't seem to interfere with your quirk at all. So try it, create something from your head." Midoriya explained, pointing one something she had never considered before.

'Why not, it's not like I have much to lose.' She thought it over and saw that she had nothing to lose, the worse that would happen would be she'll mess up her hair, but mother had taught ways to fix it whenever she was in a jam years ago. "Aright." She agreed to his request as she activated her quirk but rather than her chest or arms like normal, she focused on creating something out of the top of her head. It took longer than normal and the area was bathed in the light by-product of her quirk use but eventually, sitting on the top of her head, was a little Matryoshka doll that resembled their teacher, Aizawa in cat form.

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"I did it." She whispered to herself, the gravity of her deed hadn't caught up to her as she could feel it there, it wasn't attached to her, but it was there! Seeing that she was in a shock of some kind, Midoriya moved in and reached up to pick the doll off her hand, and despite not being a expert in all things Russian dolls, he would say that it was a perfect example, hell when he opened it, he saw that there was another one inside that was even smaller-as it should be.

"I was right-!" Midoriya began to speak but he found that impossible when Yaoyorozu grabbed onto him and in an action that was completely out of character for her, she kissed him on the cheek in joy and she crushed him in a hug as she hopped up and down in happiness at this.

"I did it!" She cheered as she jumped up and down like a small child on Christmas day, still holding onto the shorter boy like he was some kind of large teddy bear, which was getting to him as he didn't think she was this strong!

"Yes, yes you did and I'm super happy for you but can you please put me down? You're making me feel shorter than I am." Midoriya asked of her as he worked through the red to his cheeks from the kiss and the hug. His request catching up with the taller girl who sheepishly put him down.

"Oh, sorry about that." She apologized as he waved it off and handed her the doll. "So what do I do with this?"

"Well if we can harvest enough of your hair, then I can get to work seeing if I can't make an effective cloth material for a hero costume. We don't have to worry too much about strength seeing how a single strand of human hair can hold up to 100g so we'll focus more on durability, breathability, how comfortable we can make it without sacrifices integrity." Midoriya explained as they both pictured him shaving her hair, making it into a fabric, getting Aoyama(he seems like he would know the skill) to give his creative input on design before finally giving her the brand new costume, though she was still bald in the thought, something they both wordlessly agreed was something they should avoid.

"Maybe we should try to make it work like regular fabric as hair gets oily." She added in as they both knew that oily hair was not the best thing, so having a costume that could fall to the same issue was undesirable.

"Good point, we don't need you running around in something like that so hygiene will also need to be factor." Midoriya nodded to her, making a mental checklist of all they'll need for this to work.

"Thank you for this Midoriya, really I mean that." He found his thoughts interrupted by the girl he was speaking with. Causing him to blush a bit at the praise.

"Happy to help, remember? Future symbol of hope over here. How else are you going to stand with me as the symbol of benevolence?" He asked/teased her with a smile as they turned around to leave the maze, dinner would be ready soon and they wish to be late.

"Benevolence?" Yaoyorozu inquired with a small smile, getting the reference.

"It's that or compassion and if I might say, benevolence sounds cooler. Don't you want to help as many people as you can? To make good on the kindness shown to you all those years ago?" He asked her with his usual smirk, the conversation becoming light-hearted and friendly.

"I don't know if I can…." Yaoyorozu wasn't sure that she'll grow into that.

"Hey, we're in the hero course at UA high, we don't know the meaning of 'hard' or 'limits', you're one of the most capable students in our year, you'll become that symbol before you know it." Midoriya encouraged her with complete honesty in his words, he truly believed in what he preached.

"You have a way with words, you know. It's a mystery why you're still single according to Ashido." Yaoyorozu chuckled into her hand as she had been part of more than one conversation where boys came up, Uraraka always froze when Midoriya was mentioned and an air of…..jealousy whenever Ashido commented on him. Truth be told, she wasn't attracted to the boys in their class, she never really had that moment and she looked at a boy they studied with and thought 'I have a crush' but looking at Midoriya now, she could say that could very well change.

After all, he did remind her of a stuffed green bear she still had somewhere in her room. Both were fluffy, having felt his hair when she picked him up, it was soft.

"Who said I'm single?" Midoriya counted, catching her off guard before he turned around and said something else. "Besides, there is another reason, a more selfish reason I'm helping you."

"You're in a relationship?" She asked him. How did he keep it a secret from Ashido and Hagakure? Those two already knew a lot about their classmates via gossip and 'quiet investigating', Momo called it spying.

"Oh yeah, this amazing blonde that I would fight the world for." Midoriya told her, leaving it at that as there were a ton of blonde their age in the city alone.

"And what was that selfish reason for helping me?" Yaoyorozu asked, recalling he said that he had a selfish reason to help.

"I just want to see the look on Mineta's face when he realizes I took away his fan service." Midoriya said as they both laughed out loud at the thought. They didn't know it coming into this but this dinner thing was a really good idea. Since they got a new friend out of it.

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(UA High – Written Finals Exam: Day 3)

"Pencils down! Time's up." Aizawa announced to the class. The clock behind him having finished the countdown for their allotted time to complete the last of their written exams. "The last person in each row, collect the answer sheets and bring them to the front."

"Thanks, Yao-momo, that study session really helped!" Both Ashido and Kaminari jumped Yaoyorozu as she collected the answer sheets of the people in her row.

"I didn't leave anything blank this time." Kaminari said, which for him, was an improvement as he had studied really hard for this.

"Get back to your seats or I'll reduce your scores by 20%!"

"Yes sensei!" Both of them squeaked like scared mice as they found themselves back in their chairs, not willing to test if Aizawa was willing to carry out that threat, they didn't have the grades to avoid such a thing!

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(The next day – Practical Exam Area: Centre Plaza)

"Now that you're all here, we can begin explaining how the practical exams will work." Aizawa announced as he along with most of the first-year teaching staff had gathered, same as the students who now all donned in their hero costumes. "Of course, regardless of how you did on the written portion, if you fail here you still fail and if you want to go on the training camp, I suggest you don't make any stupid mistakes." He made sure to remind them.

"Hey, isn't it strange that there are so many teachers?" Jiro pointed as it seemed kinda…odd that they were all here.

"Yeah no kidding, if you don't count Vlad King and Recovery Girl, then they'll all here." Ojiro agreed with her.

"I expect that all of you gathered information about the finals ahead of time and have a good idea of what to expect, or am I wrong?" Aizawa asked them.

"We're fighting robots just like the entrance exams, right? Bring them on!" Kaminari answered for the class.

"Summer camp here we come! Fireworks, curry, and tests of courage!" Ashido added in, feeling like she could conquer the world.

"How unfortunate!" A voice spoke up, one coming from the underground hero but one, his lips never moved and two, that voice was far too pitched to be his.

From the folds of his capture gear, the culprit popped out, showing themselves to be their principal. "Due to reasons that I won't tell you, the exams will be graded and conducted in a different manner starting today!" He explained as he used the capture weapon as a rope to climb down to the floor.

"Principal Nezu?" Some of the students uttered in surprise.

"Are will they be different?" Todoroki asked, not at all affected by their principal's entrance.

"What I want to know is how he fit under Aizawa-sensei's bandages and we didn't notice, he isn't that small." Midoriya questioned as he took on a thinking pose as he tried to solve this problem.

"All excellent questions but now isn't the time to answer them!" Nezu shut them all down with his famous cheer. "From now on, rather than seeing how well you can bust up some robots, we are going to be testing you in a person-to-person scenario and judge how you perform under the stress of an actual fight against a pro!" He said as he gestured to the gathering of pros.

"Wait, a pro, does that mean?" Midoriya immediately realized where this was going.

"Correct Midoriya, if I had a cookie, I'll give you one." Nezu taunted, ignoring the slight chuckles from the rest of the students at the young man's expense and said young man muttering about sicking a tamed lion on him. "You will be separated and matched up against one of us!"

"Against…the teachers?" Uraraka asked as she looked towards them and saw that some of the teachers were looking back at them and giving them grins or smirks that now felt….menacing.

"In addition, the groups that you will be separated into have already been decided, as well as which one of us that group will go up against." Aizawa took it from there again. "These groups were decided based on my decision after I took into account several factors, such as fighting style, grades, and interpersonal relationships."

"But let's not forget one last thing, if you guys think we're making this tough enough, then you're forgetting about our new faculty member!" Present Mic reminded them of the one person they wished had called in sick or something.

"You can't possibly mean-!" Sero tried to speak but a booming laugh from above caught him dead in his tracks.

"Yes!" All Might laughed as he came down from above, landing right in front of them in a crouch, then standing back up to his fell height. "I…will be that obstacle!"

"All Might! You got to be shitting me!" Mineta cried and for once, no one told him to man up, feeling like they wanted to cry as well.

"You mean that some of us will have to go up against him?!" Kirishima asked as he pointed towards the symbol of peace and the world's strongest hero.

"Not only him…." Aizawa wasn't in the mood to be merciful as he told them that with his smile that could scare babies a smile away. Don't know how but that wasn't how he should smile if he wanted people to be calm.

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(A few days ago – UA faculty board-room)

"Hmmm, things are progressing in a direction that troubles me. With the connection between the League of Villains and Stain, villain all over the country might very well be reinvigorated." Nezu, who sat at the head of the boardroom table mused aloud.

"Of course, it would be a better option to stop this before it begins but that might not be an option anymore." Snipe spoke up from his seat at the table. His side having himself, Power Loader, Cementoss, and Midnight. The other side of the table seated All Might (in his civilian form), Ectoplasm, Present Mic, and Thirteen.

"There's also the fact that as a school, we can't afford to rush headlong in without absolute certainty, something we don't have at this time." Snipe brought to the table. "Also, if you take into account how the expected fights between heroes and villains will only intensify with such factors of the League and Stain's ideals, then having students fight against robots as an examination method has become obsolete."

"We originally started using robots in exams such as the entrance to avoid complaints from both students and parents due to injuries, which though has been successful but I do understand where you're coming from. We need to change with the times otherwise we risk teaching our students, the future generation-outdated and inefficient hero practices." Power Loader spoke up, having been the one that supervised the 2nd and 3rd years as they created each of those robots and though they were purposely made from 2nd rate materials and programed and armed to be a match for teens with little to no real combat training, even if they changed that, it might not be the best way of doing things anymore.

"But we can't just change the exam format on a whim, there are procedures we have to abide by." Midnight reminded them, as, like any other educational institution, they had to work by a rule book and though hero schools such a UA could get away with taking severe liberties to many of those same rules, they were some that they couldn't go against.

"I understand your logic in wishing to change the exam but having students take on a teacher in teams of two…isn't that a bit much? For the 2nd and 3rd years, of course, but these students lack both sufficient training and experience in the field for something like this." Cementoss voiced his opinion against this.

"It does seem like a bit much, especially since we need to consider the course transfer of Hitoshi Shinso." Thirteen agreed with them as she brought the file they had on Shinso. The boy had shown great promise as of late but how would he fair against actual teachers with less than no training compared to the other hero students?

"If we win too easily, how are we to properly grade them?" Present Mic picked another flaw in Aizawa's plans. The two homeroom teachers of Eraser and Vlad being seated as Nezu's left and right sides.

"We of course have thought of that and will give ourselves disadvantages so that the students have fairly good chances of getting past us and passing." Snipe answered their concerns, having no desire to mope the floor with the students.

"As for Hitoshi Shinso, he won't be taking this exam but he will be observing it. Depending on how he performs during the summer camp training trip, then he'll be moved into the hero course by the beginning of next semester." All Might stated as that was their decision based on the boy's progress, rather than throwing him in now with no training and expecting him to somehow pass the finals, he'll instead join the class after he joins them on some summer training to make up for his disadvantage.

"The question is whose class will he be moved to? Both hero classes have 20 already." Ectoplasm poke up as this was quite an unusual situation. Normally by now someone would have been dropped from the hero course into another course or left the school. Looks like both Vlad and Eraser had some tough kids this time around as not one had been expelled or requested a course transfer.

"That is a matter we can discuss in detail another day, Nezu, your thoughts." Aizawa turned the conversation back to the matter of hand.

"Of course I believe that we should change the practical exam. What we should be concerned about, on the other hand, is what we should do to keep our students out of danger. The answer is a simple one: What we must do is have the students themselves become stronger, and what better way for them to grow than have them overcome difficult challenges?" Nezu presented his solution to them.

"I agree." Vlad spoke up.

"I have no complaints." Midnight agreed with them.

"Then, to determine the teams. Let's start with Yaoyorozu. She's an all-rounder and has been making improvements to how she handles herself in a fight and is academically brilliant. Mineta has shown some promise during the term but he has shown a somewhat cowardly approach to problems and is distracted easily." Which was putting it lightly as the little prev lost focus at the first sight of anything female, he already had failed a couple of exercises because of that. "They will be paired together against Midnight. I wish to see how well Yaoyorozu can cope with a badly paired partner as well as if Mineta can keep his head on straight against an attractive somewhat scantily clad woman."

"I accept that logic, though if you want to compliment me Shota, you don't need to be discrete about it." Midnight teased her old friend, getting a small laugh out of Present Mic and a tired sigh from Vlad.

"Moving on!" Eraser cut her off before she could go on. "Todoroki. He's generally performing well but he has a habit of trying to force his way through every situation by overwhelming his opponent with his quirk. Uraraka on the other hand tries to get in quick and use her quirk to end things with one fell swoop." He explained the two combat styles of the students in question. "I will erase both their quirks and engage them on close quarters, where I hold the advantage. I wish to see how well they can cope and work together in such a situation where they cannot use their quirks."

"No objections." They all agreed with his assessment.

"With Midoriya's group, I'll leave that to you, All Might." He turned his attention towards the blonde hero. "When I paired them together, I didn't do so by looking at their grades but rather," He started as he looked the man in the eye to get his point across. "How random the group is, and how poor their overall team chemistry is. I get that you like Midoriya for some reason so if you wish to help him, then do it but taking this seriously."

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(Back to present)

'You'll have assistance from a volunteer but that's it.' All Might recalled as he was told that he would have a different kind of group than the rest so he'll be getting assistance. 'You have been paying attention, Aizawa.' He thought to himself as he looked over the terrified students, though he couldn't blame them.

"And now, we'll announce the teams and teachers you'll be up against!" Nezu started as Eraser started to rat out the pairing for their match-ups.

"First match-up: Kirishima and Sato, your opponent will be," He looked to the side where a certain pale but likable pro stepped forward. "Cementoss." The two boys gave their opponent a solid look. They were ready to fight.

"Second match-up: Ojiro and Tokoyami, you will face off against," This time, it was the trench-coat-wearing pro that stepped forward. "Ectoplasm." Both didn't even flinch, prepared to do their best.

"Third match-up: Uraraka, Todoroki, you're up against," Eraser gave the two students a creepy grin as he held up his capture tape. "Me."

"Fourth match-up: Yaoyorozu and Mineta, you'll foe will be," And much to Yaoyorozu's dismay and Mineta's pleasure, the rated-R heroine stepped forward. "Midnight."

"Fifth match-up: Kaminari and Aoyama, you'll have to defeat," The two blondes of different shades looked down at where their teacher pointed. "The principal himself."

"Sixth match-up: Jiro and Koda, prepare your ears as your proctor will be," The quiet giant shook a bit as their loud and bombastic teacher stepped forward. "Present Mic."

"Seventh math-up: Shoji and Hagakure, your skills will be put to the test by," This time, their teacher merely bowed his cowboy-styled hat towards them. "Snipe."

"For the eighth and final match:" Now it seemed like Aizawa was excited as he looked at the final five students who have yet to be called. "Midoriya; Asui; Ashido; Sero; Bakugo. You all drew the short straw as you will have to contend with not just All Might but a third-year hero student."

"Wait, what!" Ashido cried.

"How the hell are we going to survive this?" Sero asked with a shaky smile under his helmet. This was too much, were they being punished or something?

"Your time limit is 30 minutes. The objective is for either one member of the 7 teams to escape the test zone or place these handcuffs on your proctor. They don't need to be completely locked in, just putting one end on them will do." Nezu ignored that question as he explained the rules of the exam.

"For the last group, your rules will be different. For the five of you, either three need to escape or you take down instructors via knock-out, submission, or cuffing them. Like with the others, all you need to do is get one end of the cuffs on for them to be considered captured and out of the fight!" Nezu turned his attention to the five now standing by themselves.

"So it's run or fight if you boil it down." Kaminari said after he thought about it.

"But isn't it a bad thing to run from a fight?" Ashido asked though she was hoping for that option as soon as they could. No way they going to fight All Might.

"Not at all, pros may need to be able to risk their lives to save others but that's different than suicidal tactics. More often than you realize, there is a more suitable pro in the area that may be called upon if someone could get to them and tell them of the situation." Nezu responded, still smiling like he was in the best mood of his life.

"This will be very different than your combat training as unlike them," Present Mic said to them. "You'll be up against opponent waaaaay better than you!"

"Somehow, I'm having a hard time imagining that." Jiro counted him without missing a beat.

"Dummy! What don't you watch your mouth! You hear?" Present Mic yelled at her.

"This time around, your test will be conducted a manner more akin to a real-world situation, so please, treat us as villains as that's the role we shall play." Thirteen told them.

"In the real world, if you came across a villain that you think you can take on, that's all fine and good but," Snipe started.

"If you find yourself against an opponent where the gap between your abilities is so great that you cannot hope to win, then it would better to fall back and try and find help." Eraser finished off the explanation before he turned his gaze towards two students in particular. "Todoroki, Midoriya, you two of all your classmates should know that lesson well." The two froze at that, recalling what he was referring to.

"But don't worry too much, we had the support course whip up something just for this occasion." All Might started as he showed them something. That something happened to be metallic-looking bands.

"Ultra-compressed weights," He said as the teachers all started to place some of these weights on them. With some like Power loader wearing only 2, Nezu wearing one large one around his waist like a belt and All Might wearing two on each limb, double the normal number as the rest simply wore one per limb. "We're put on about half our body weight so that we'll be slower than normal, they'll also drag us down and eat up our stamina. It's to give you young heroes in training a handicap." All Might explained as he finished fastening the last one in place. "Damn, that's heavier than I thought it would be."

"Where did you get those?" Kirishima asked, wishing to get some for his workout regime.

"Oh, there was a competition amongst the 1st year support students to decide whose design would be used. And young Mei won said contest so these weights you see here of her brainchildren." Power Loader explained to them.

"Grease-monkey?!" Midoriya responded, his mind jumping that that pink-haired devil.

"You're wearing those so we'll consider fighting you rather than the running? Don't underestimate us." Bakugo told them, not growling like he used to but nonetheless, pissed.

In response, All Might only gave out a slow, menacing sounding laugh to that. "I wonder…." The number one started as he stared them down, his electric blue eyes glowing. "Who's underestimating who?"

"As for your question of how to pass. Figure it out," Eraser told as he turned to face the building they were going to enter. "You may come out now." In response to his words, the doors opened up and from them, someone walked up to them with a jump in their step.

"What the…" Midoriya started as, like himself, the rest of the class tracked this new opponent as they approached. She looked like she was older but not by much, maybe a couple of years. She was a girl of fair-skinned with not a blemish in sight and average height, being taller than Ashido but shorter than Midoriya. Her upper eyelashes were long and thick but somehow suited her. Her eyes were w wide, curious royal blue shade while her pupils were white, something that Midoriya hadn't seen that many times before.

Her hair was periwinkle in color and was long, reaching her knees long and somehow twisted around itself at her waist and curved inwards around her legs. Midoriya could only imagine the pain it must be to style that in the mornings. She has side-swept bangs, tucked behind her ears on the right and hanging just over her eyes on the left, and two short clumps of hair on either side of her face, curved towards her face on the right and behind it, under her ear, on the left. Which combined with her mature and extremely attractive figure, made her quite the looker, though Izuku would personally say she was more on the cuter side than the sexy side.

The unknown also had her hero costume which royal blue skin-tight bodysuit with a high black collar, pale mint green markings covering her torso from over her shoulders to between her legs, an assessment he felt bad for making as that required him to look at her crotch. Moving on, framed with turquoise and a matching stripe of the same two colors around both her upper arms.

On her feet, she wore a pair of knee-high boots, a thinning flap buttoned on each thigh for some reason, with turquoise spirals around her ankles, matching the thicker ones above her yellow gauntlets and wrist-guards. She also had a black strap around the top of each thigh, two small satchels attached, and two spiraling horns of hair protruding from behind her ears which Izuku couldn't make heads or tails about but seeing how every hero's costume complimented their quirk, fighting style or both, he could only guess it had something to do with that.

"I wouldn't underestimate her if I was you. She and two other 3rd years stand at the top of not just the hero course here at UA but they represented the very pinnacle of what this school was created to farm and nurture." Eraser told them as he could see more than a few of the boys and a girl or two gawking at the new arrival "She not only has literal years over you in terms of experience both in the classroom and out in the field but she is one of the three that had grown to surpass their classmates in every imaginable way." At that introduction, they listened closely as this girl was introduced as a hero student!

"Everyone, allow me to introduce Nejire Hado: 3rd-year hero student and a member of the Big Three." Eraser finished as he gestured towards the ever-smiling, ever inquisitive ball of energy known by her chosen hero name of Nejire-Chan.

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And the chapter is done! That shit was long as I planned for 13K but found myself writing a chapter over 19K words in length, like….damn I need to control myself. The first part was more showing the two of them in their downtime, just enjoying each other's company, etc., there was a lemon scene I wanted to write but then I decided otherwise for two reasons, the first being that I had no inspiration to write one as I didn't want to just write out a sex scene between two lust-crazed animals but more along the lines of a romantic pursuit that showcased how much they love each other and how comfortable they are around the other because of it. The second being that I found that the chapter was already projected to go over the word limit I set as is and opted not to out one.

With the whole mid-terms and their placements, I didn't change a lot of who placed where other than Izuku's friend group as I recall then I had that one really smart friend in high school, I always asked for help or for us to form study groups, which is the main reason I got through high school with above-average grades. Uraraka and Tokoyami would do the same or at the very least, someone as noble if not wisecracking as Izuku would offer if when picked up on them struggling with any of the material. The cafeteria scene was a fun one to the right as I was able to invite Hagakure as a possible friend to him, which can lead anywhere at this time since I'm only planned up till season 4, just shy of the raid on Overhaul's base of operations. It was also a fun way of bringing in more Shinso moments as it would make sense that though he's in 1-A, he would also mingle with 1-B, or at the very least, members of 1-B, those being Kendo or Tetsutetsu would invite him over.

With the whole dinner thing, I suspect that a lot of you picked up on that mid-way through the chapter when Momo says that they are expecting dinner dates, which isn't canon but if you didn't, I hope you enjoyed the surprise.

With the study group thing, I hope that I nailed it with both their interactions and clothing styles as I had to look at what they wear as regular clothing both on seen and on the wiki to make sure what I gave them all would fit, outside the people that I've made changes to. The idea of the study group itself comes from another story I read 'Emerald Forest' and I thought, why not? They are high schoolers under their costumes. Inko on the other hand was a blast to write as I enjoy breathing life into her in this take of her. She's his loving mother and like heroes like the Flash and Batman can tell you, cherish your mother. The subjects themselves may not be their cannon worst but in this take they are, and before you start to wonder how they got those grades with where they were placed, please remember those are their worst subjects. Yaoyorozu also had one that bad but for now, I'll keep it to my chest what that subject is.

With the dinner thing, I hope that I dressed them how they would appear as I've already stated that the Midoriya aren't trend-setters by any account and this should reflect in their clothing. If I didn't, please tell me in a review or PM. Yes, I gave Yaoyorozu's parents names and quirks, I had been planning on this for a while and while tempted to name them Roy and Riza like another author had done, both names aren't Japanese and since Momo is fully Japanese and from a well off, established family, it would not make a lot of sense for her parents to have foreign names.

Rather her father's name is Miki to play debut to Roy(Shin-ichiro Miki voices him in brotherhood) as he's one of my favorite characters in all of fiction and her mother's quirk pays homage to Lust, the ultimate spear and sin of Lust embodied in FMA Brotherhood. One of anime's most deadly and clever female villains. Momo's mother's name, on the other hand, can be interpreted as 'Loving Pear' as to keep the flow with names as Momo's name can be read as 'peach' or 'hundred', which could refer to her sweet personality and her quirk ability to create a lot of things. As states in the earlier chapter, Momo's creation is a result of her father's ability to create sparks and her mother's quirk to extend and harden her fingers. Momo has a form of alchemic styled quirk due to having the Flame Alchemist and Philosopher's stone fuelled homunculus as parents.
Momo's surname Yaoyorozu is an idiomatic expression that translates to "a great/uncountable number", hence why the family company is called 'Infinity'. I didn't make them pros since if they were, we would have heard about it by now if from no one but Izuku since he would recognize her name like he did Todoroki. SO there are just very wealthy businesspeople instead.

The garden scene was hard to come up with but I love how it turned out. I got to give them a setting where they could bond and grow closer and no, Momo hasn't fallen head over heels for him, she's simply showing interest since if people can pair her with Shoto when they have like one interaction with each other, the finals than I can set up things like that too. Where this will go I don't know, maybe romantic feelings will develop as the story progresses, maybe they won't. I'm still in debate with my friends and brother, who help me come up with stuff and jokes to use, to see if the harem thing will be worth it down the line as that would require both Izuku and Yu to be more…open to the idea, something that goes against some parts of the personalities, not core tenets like not liking the thought of killing but still tenants none the less. To change them would be a big thing and would need to be done right.

I was also able to give Momo a good backstory as I am curious about the reasons why each of them even wants to become heroes, like we know some but not others so maybe as the story goes, I'll dive into their characters and see if they have a good motivation I can use and if not, I can create one as I did for Momo. I hope that you enjoyed the banter but I was being serious about her becoming a symbol as All Might has done a great job being the symbol of peace but we saw how large the gap between him and Endeavour, the number two was when he was still active. Even Endeavour knows that he can never replace the guy and though he will do his best to protect and serve, as we all saw when he went up against that High-End Nomu, there's only so much he can do. So what I want is for certain members of the cast to become their symbols, pillars of the community so instead of one like All Might, you have multiple akin to the Justice League or the Avengers.

For all you Shinso fans, it has been confirmed. Season 3 will be the season that Shinso is fully introduced as a cast member but of which class? Leave your picks and reasons as to why he should go to 1-A or 1-B in the reviews or even better, PM me so that we can start a good conversation about it.

For the finals, some of the fights may be different but don't expect me to cover all of them in detail, I only plan on doing so with 3 or 4 of them. Of those, you can bet that I will have fun with the All Might and Nejire-Chan vs Bakugo, Asui, Sero, Midoriya, and Ashido in a 5 on 2 handicap match…..the only question is….who's the real handicapped ones(And no, don't take the wrong way) I had wanted to use Hado because Mirio seems a bit overplayed and obvious and though Tamaki is a capable hero….there's no way in hell he'll agree to this, not with prodding from his friends or Fatgum.

Anyway, that's the chapter, until next time, and thanks for reading!