He spun around and came face to face with the person. A whoosh of air escaped his lungs in a sigh of relief. "As-I mean Tsu! You scared me there."

The frog girl fiddled with her fingers and looked away. "Sorry, ribbit. I was gonna wait until you came to the classroom, but I got impatient."

Izuku waved his hands as if to dismiss something, "I-it's no big deal!" He calmed down once he realized something, "Oh, were you the one that Recovery girl said wanted talk with me?"

"Yup!" She suddenly looked nervous, "Um, shouldn't we talk away from the door? Or do you want Recovery Girl and All Might to hear us?"

His face flushed, "Oh, r-right!" He turned and started walking in the direction of the classroom. Asui followed him.

"So," Asui said quietly, "I haven't told anyone yet."

Izuku nodded, "I figured that was the case once nobody came to arrest me or anything." He felt the color drain from his face, "What about Mineta?! He didn't spill anything, did he?"

Asui laughed. That's right, laughed, before she said anything. "Don't worry, ribbit, I made sure he didn't say anything."

They turned a corner. "How?" He asked incredulously.

She hummed, "I have my ways."

Izuku was suddenly glad she didn't tell him. He wasn't quite sure he wanted to know what kept the little pervert quiet.

Asui stopped in the middle of the hallway, and Izuku turned to look at her in confusion. "Tsu?"

"I won't keep your secret forever, you know." He felt his blood run cold. "As soon as it starts hurting people, I will immediately tell either Mr. Aizawa or All Might. I don't want to stand by and watch as this hurts my friends and classmates when I know something that could stop it."

Izuku looked away, "That's fair. I don't blame you for feeling that way. I would probably do the same if I was in your situation."

She looked at him, "The same goes for you too."

His eyes widened in surprise, "What?"

Asui looked away as if embarrassed, "I can't speak for the others, ribbit, but I don't want you to get hurt. Like I've said before, I know you're a nice person and I know you would gladly let yourself get beaten for the sake of others. That's why if I ever see you come to school injured I'm telling."

Izuku tried protesting but she just ignored him and continued walking. "You can't do that! Anything could happen!"

She still didn't respond and Izuku eventually gave up. They continued in silence until they were close to the classroom. From there Asui started up a random conversation.

"When did you have time to change out of your uniform? Ribbit."

He was slightly thrown off by the sudden change in topic, but he quickly realized what she was doing. She was making conversation about an innocent topic in case there were any students loitering around after school.

Going along with it, he said, "Oh, I changed soon after Recovery Girl healed me. She said something about Midnight wanting to clean the blood stains."

Asui quirked her eyebrow, "Midnight?"

He shrugged. "I don't know. I didn't think Midnight would like doing laundry, but then again, people have liked doing a lot weirder things." They glanced at each other and he knew the exact same thought was going through her head.

Mineta.

It honestly was kind of weird, though. Who just goes around doing other people's laundry?

Beside him, He saw her glance at his clothes. "Did they have your uniform? Or is that an extra one?"

Izuku shrugged. "I'm gonna guess it's my uniform. I doubt they would just give me an extra uniform."

Asui nodded, "Yeah, I guess that makes sense."

They turned into the hallway that their classroom was on and he saw Iida and Uraraka stepping out of the classroom. They were talking to each other and didn't seem to notice them just yet.

A weight instantly rose off his chest at seeing his friends unhurt. He knew Tsukauchi hadn't lied when he told All Might that everyone was okay, but a part of him needed to see it for himself. The League of Villains didn't go easy on anyone, even kids. He would know.

Asui momentarily forgotten, he jogged forward and waved at them. "Hey guys!"

Uraraka instantly brightened at seeing him. "Izuku!" She ran towards him and, unlike Izuku, didn't slow down when she neared him. Crashing into him at full force, Uraraka wrapped her arms around him. He just barely managed to keep them both from falling onto the hard ground.

His arms hovered in the air, unsure of what to with them, before he hesitantly hugged her back. It was awkward, really awkward(he even the 'pat pat' thing), but Uraraka didn't seem to mind.

She pulled back after a minute, and Izuku visibly relaxed. He didn't have much experience with hugs, or touchy-feely things in general, but he would try if it made his friends happy.

"Are you okay? You were covered in blood! Everyone was worried sick!"

He put up his hands, "I'm fine! It looked worse than it was. Really!"

She huffed, "Well then," she punched his arm, "don't ever do that again! What were you thinking! You can't just attack villains like that!"

His hand rubbed his arm. Uraraka really knew how to throw a punch. That had actually hurt. He gave her his most convincing smile. "I'm sorry, I'll try not to."

He could feel eyes burning into his back.

"Hello, Midoriya."

Iida had walked up to them while they had been talking. His arm stiffly held a yellow backpack. "We grabbed your stuff for you."

"Oh," he took the backpack, "thanks Iida!"

Iida nodded sharply in return. "Of course! Anything to help a fellow classmate in need."

Izuku smiled at him. His fellow classmate had a kind heart beyond all of the stiffness. No matter how strict he may seem at times, Izuku knew he did it in everybody's best interest.

Glancing around, he saw no one else in the hallway. "Has everyone else left already?"

Uraraka nodded, "Yeah. Todoroki wanted to stay and see you as well, but he left after getting a phone call. He looked really angry."

"Huh, that's strange."

Uraraka looked up as if thinking of something. "I wonder if everything's okay. We may not be friends or anything, but he seems like a nice person." Her gazed turned back to Izuku, "Well, to you at least."

Izuku was confused. "What do you mean?"

Uraraka looked upset for some reason. "I mean, the way he acts around you. He doesn't even talk to the rest of us, yet he seems perfectly comfortable around you. If I didn't know better, I say he might even like you."

His face immediately burned in embarrassment. He tried to hid his face behind his hands. "W-what?! L-l-like me?!"

Uraraka's eyes narrowed, "If I did know better, I'd think you liked him."

"O-Kay! Well, that's enough of that, don't you think?" Izuku laughed nervously. "Why don't we go home now, yeah?"

Iida nodded, "Yes! It is already dark out, so the sooner we leave, the better."

Relief filled his chest that Iida supported his escape, even if he didn't realize it. In front of him, Uraraka huffed but let the topic go as they started walking.

Izuku stopped as he remembered something. He turned around, "Oh, Ts-" his words abruptly cut off as he realized Asui was gone.

"Izuku?"

He snapped back forward as grinned sheepishly at his friends. "Sorry, I thought I saw something."

Uraraka looked at him in concern. "Are you sure?"

"Yeah."

She still looked concerned, but didn't press him. "If you so..."

They continued on and Uraraka talked about what happened in class when they got back. Apparently they had been left unsupervised for some time, and, as expected, chaos ensued.

Izuku tried to listen to her and give adequate responses, and he did at the beginning, but his thoughts eventually circled went back to Asui. She had been just been behind him, so why did she leave? It didn't make sense, but he had to admit that he was kind of glad that he didn't have to come up with some sort of excuse as to why they were walking together.

They walked together all they way out of Yuuei and they continued down the same path together as they walked home. Izuku didn't mention that he lived in the complete opposite direction.