BEEP, BEEP, BEE. SLAM.

"I can't believe I forgot to turn my alarm off on my only day off," Midoriya sighed as he stared at his alarm clock and its big red font showing 6:30.

For as long as he could remember Midoriya has always been unable to fall back asleep after being awoken in the morning, so deciding to not even bother he sat up and began his morning routine.

Starting off with some light stretching to try and shake off the morning stiffness Midoriya then threw on an old UA hoodie from his days in high school and went off for his morning run.

Ever since Iida had convinced him to join the track team his freshman year, he had always made an effort to run as often as he could.

The routine had its ups and downs through college but since graduating he had been good about getting in at least a few miles every morning.

The cold bit at his exposed legs as he started but quickly faded as he started to work a sweat, his headphone wire bobbed in rhythm as he picked up his pace following his usual route.

The streets were deserted as he made another turn onto the main street, during the week he would usually see some of earlier opening shopkeepers getting their places open and would greet them but with-it being Sunday Izuku had the sidewalk basically to himself.

This allowed him to focus less on where he was going and to get lost in his music.

He made another turn and was coming up toward the shop. The big PLUS ULTRA sign was dimed and Izuku began thinking of what to put in their hiring ad. It wouldn't be any more then a part time gig and they couldn't pay a ton, but it was a total blast and he wanted to try and express that in said ad.

Izuku was about to make another turn when suddenly he slammed into a smaller figure and fell hard into the snow behind him.

He looked up to see a bundled-up girl on the ground across from him. She took one of her ear buds out and looked at him in total surprise.

Midoriya shot up and immediately reached out to help her up taking his own headphones off.

"Oh god I'm so sorry I was totally lost in my own head and wasn't looking where I was going at all, are you okay?" Midoriya shot out and he frantically fumbled his hands about.

The girl looked up at him and grabbed his exposed hand with one of her mitten covered ones and giggled.

"Ya I'm good, and I wasn't looking either so it's my bad too, sorry about that."

The girl was dressed much more appropriately for the weather, a fluffy pink coat with matching pink mittens and a black hat. She also had on a pair of black jeans and boots.

"I didn't think anyone else would be out on the streets this early so I was lost in my head too, I get some people like to run early in the morning, but to be at it before 7 on a Sunday you must be really dedicated," she laughed again and brushed off her back.

"I actually forgot to shut off my alarm last night and figured since I was up anyway I mind as well get it out of the way, if I had it my way I would still be peacefully asleep in my warm bed" Midoriya replied " But what are you doing up and about so early?"

" I actually have a job interview the next town over at a coffee shop, I just moved down here with my friend and i'm looking for something to try and earn a couple bucks, but it's hard to find jobs this time of year you know" the girl replied and she fumbled her finger " I would love to find something closer to our apartment but a lot of the stores around here are small businesses and I haven't seen any job postings from them.

This had to be destiny, Midoriya thought to himself

"If say, a local shop on this very street were hiring right now, would you be interested?" Midoriya said with a big smile

The girl was absolutely shocked at this. "Is there one? I thought I checked all the local ads online! How did I miss one? Where?"

She got closer with each question causing Izuku to blush and step back, he had never been super comfortable with girls and while he had gotten over his fear of talking to them long ago, having one inches from his face still made him nervous.

The brown-haired girl noticed how close she got and took a step back as well looking away

"Sorry but could you tell me more?"

"I'll do you one better; I can get you an interview with one of the owners right now"

Her jaw hung open at that.

"What do you mean right now? All the shops around here are closed on Sundays for the most part, aren't they?" she asked more confused.

Midoriya laughed and motioned her to follow.

"It's really close and I happen to know them very well." he said with another laugh.

They walked back down the street he had just ran down and stopped in front of the comic shop.

"Is this the place?" she turned and asked with a big smile

"I worked in the bookstore at my college the last two years and loved it!"

This was getting way to perfect.

Midoriya told her to wait here and he would be right back with one of the owners. He walked over to the side of the building toward the back door and unlocked it with his key. He quickly made his way to his corner of the back room and opened up a drawer with an emergency set of clothes in it. A pair of jeans and a white tee shirt. They all kept a few outfits here just in case, he grabbed an old green plaid long sleeve off his chair and made his way to the front of the store, turning on the lights and opening the front door.

The girl looked up and reached peak confusion as Izuku burst out laughing, with her joining along soon after.

"I should have known you were talking about yourself!" she said between laughs. "It was all just so convenient."

" I should have told you at first but I remembered the spare clothes I had here and couldn't pass up the joke, and the fact you didn't get mad about it shows very well on your chances of getting the job" Izuku said with a few more chuckles mixed in.

He locked the door behind them and led her into the back toward one of the booths and had her sit across from her.

"This place is so cute," she said with another bright smile, "I could have definitely seen myself spending a ton of my free time in high school here."

"That was our goal, we wanted it to be more than a quick in and out place, but now it's time for the interview, are you ready?"

The girl straighten up at that, "Yes bring it on" she suddenly had a serious look in her eyes

Alright first, this is a small operation, you would actually be the first new person we would bring on, so there would be an adjustment period sorting out hours and such but that also means things would be very flexible. You mentioned that you were looking for extra cash but i just wanted to make it clear this wouldn't be a full time job, at least not out the gat and wanted to make sure that works for you," Izuku wasn't used to using his "owner voice" with someone physically there, usually only using it on the phone for orders and such, but he wanted to seem at least somewhat professional.

"Yes that works perfect for me!" the girl said with a grin

"Perfect, my second question was gonna be about whether you had experience or not but you answered that already so onto my final and most important questions." he said this as serious as he could, trying to convey their importance

"First. What's your name and second when can you start?

They both burst out into another fit of laughter at that, it had just dawned to both that they never got the others name.

"My name is Ochako Uraraka and I could start as early as tomorrow if needed"

"My name is Izuku Midoriya and welcome to Plus Ultra Comics!" He reached out to shake her hand with a big smile, beaming about how he had just stumbled across someone who just seemed perfect and how easy it had been.

It was at that moment the front door opened and a tall man with glasses and short, straight black hair walked in wearing a blue apron. Iida looked up at the two and began to smirk.

"You should have texted me if you were going to use the place for a date, I would have come later."