Authors Note: Had an idea. It's almost midnight. I should be sleeping. I own nothing.

Dreams and Journals

It was all Monoma's fault really. Well not all of it. The dreams weren't his fault. Ever since she'd gotten One for All Izumi had been having strange dreams. Sometimes it was just pinpricks of light, eight of them dancing around her, all but one of them just out of reach. Other times there were voices but they were talking from the end of an endless tunnel of light. She could never make out what they were saying. It was driving her to frustration. So she had begun writing them all down. She'd read somewhere that keeping a dream journal could help with recurring nightmares and dreams people had a hard time understanding. She'd been wanting to talk to All Might about these dreams, which was the only reason she'd had her journal on her at the time.

She'd been engrossed in one of her textbooks. Kacchan could call her a nerd all he wanted, combat tactics were fascinating and no one was ever going to convince her differently. Classes had ended for the day, she was on her way to All Might's office. She was so deep into the book she hadn't bothered to close her bag properly. She didn't see the foot Monoma stuck out in her path. She fell headlong the contents of her bag going flying, another textbook beaming her straight in the head. Monoma laughed loudly, drawing the attention of everyone else in the hall.

"I thought you Class 1-A heroes were supposed to be the best, not falling all over the halls. He stepped around her as she started pulling herself up rubbing her head where the book had smacked her. She was really hoping Kendo was around but it didn't look like it. The class rep for 1-B seemed to be the only one who could put a stop to Monoma. Then she spotted what he was eyeing as he bent to pick it up. Izumi was really wishing that she wasn't such a dork that she had to label all of her journals. For an instant she thought he had picked up her hero journal but as he let out a laugh she realized it was much worse.

"Who keeps a dream journal?" All the blood drained from her face. No, that journal had sensitive information about her quirk! About what she'd been seeing in her dreams. If he read that the jig was up. She scrambled to her feet and reached to snatch the journal back from him but he was taller than her and dangled the journal out of reach. She couldn't get close to him either, she couldn't risk him trying to copy her quirk, he might accidently kill himself with it. "Oh come on I just wanna see who it is you dream about." His teasing wasn't welcome, more was at stake than any crushes she might have. She felt tears sting her eyes. She couldn't let All Might down like this. She was about to leap at him regardless of his quirk when someone else snatched the journal from Monoma. The sight of blue hair and glasses had never been more welcome.

"This is hardly behavior worthy of a UA hero student!" She could have hugged Iida on the spot. He had no idea what he'd just prevented, nor did she think he would ever know as he knelt to help her gather her things, handing her back her journal as he did. "I will be telling your class representative about this!" Monoma made himself scares at that. Apparently Kendo was a good threat to use against him. Iida dug in his pocket and held out a handkerchief to her. She blinked and shook her head, pulling the one Todoroki had given her out of her pocket.

"Thanks Iida. I really appreciate that. You have no idea." Iida smiled at her.

"It was no trouble. I am curious as to why you brought a dream journal to class." Izumi went bright red.

"I grabbed the wrong one this morning." She hated lying especially to a friend who had just helped her in more ways than he knew but this wasn't really something she could share. He nodded.

"Do try to be more careful Midoriya." She grinned at him as they got her books back into her bag.

"I will, thanks Iida." She waved as she raced away. Once she was sure she was alone she let out a long breath and ran a hand through her hair. That had been far too close. She scurried off to All Might's office.