"A phone call is here! A phone call is here! A phone call is-"
Part of him was grateful that someone was giving him a break from all of this acting, it was so stressful trying to keep up his All Might appearance for so long, especially in front of cameras. Why did he agree to do all of the hero course acceptance letters again? But he was also annoyed that he would have to redo the shoot. Again.
"Sorry sorry," He waved towards an amused looking Nezu and moved off the stage for a moment. "I am answering the-"
"Where the fuck are you?" The voice sounded familiar, mostly in the tone, it wasn't angry, just demanding and sassy. Hadn't he met someone like that recently? A female.
"Uhh, who is this? And how did you-"
"This is Moe." Oh, the fiery-haired girl that overheard his conversation with Young Midoriya multiple times. "And Nezu gave me your number."
Damn rat. Toshinori gave Nezu a stern glare. Nezu just waved.
"Ahh Moe, what can I do for you I'm-"
"Why aren't you out here training Deku?"
Why did she keep interrupting him? "Oh well, I'm rather busy and it'll be a month before the semester starts and-"
"You are aware that his arms explode when he uses his quirk right? That kind of seems like something that might need to be ironed out before the semester starts right? Like that's kind of vital. So again where the fuck are you?"
Why the hell was she so scary? "Look, Miss Bakugo, I'm rather busy at the moment and a bit of-"
"Gah! Fine, I'll do it myself. It's not like you even gave good advice. Clench his butt cheeks and scream justice? Really? Well if you want to join us we'll be at that beach trying not to make Deku's limbs explode!"
She hung up on him.
Izuku really had someone terrifying looking out for him, didn't he? Also he was fairly certain that phone call did more damage to his pride than the fact that he'd be having to retire soon.
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Moe was kind of terrifying when she was mad. Especially the way her hair went from being made of fire to being something like an inferno. It was also terrifying how she casually called All Might and started yelling at him. Most people wouldn't think that yelling at All Might was a good idea.
She had showed up to his house early in the morning and dragged him out of bed to go back to training. Logically it made sense, as even though the entrance exam was over, he still have a lot of work to do. He had kind of hoped for a day or two off to just relax and stress about everything that happened, though.
But Moe said no, his limbs were exploding and that was kind of an important thing to resolve as soon as possible. Which again made sense. So now here he was on the beach that he was sick of seeing, watching Moe tie her hair up into a ponytail with one hand while she continued to dial on her phone like a pro.
Today she was wearing a brown shirt that said "Thicker than a Snicker" and once again he found himself agreeing with her choice of clothing. She had on a pair of booty shorts that were probably shorter than the boxers he was wearing and flaming leggings that were snug on her. Needless to say that was about all the motivation he needed to get out of bed, get dressed and come to his personal hell again.
Really, he had no idea what Moe had planned for him.
Moe looked at her phone one last time and put it into her bag.
"Alright, so, All Might's busy." She put on the fakest smile she could, her hair starting to flare up again. Moe sighed and calmed herself by jumping in place and stretching slightly. She was bouncy. After a brief stretch she smiled at him, hands on her hips. "But the good news is that they should be here soon."
"They?" Izuku asked trying not to stare at any part of Moe for too long. Even looking at her eyes too long made him feel like he was being teased in some new and exciting way. "Who's they?"
"My lunatic classmates. Specifically the guys I went with into the top four of the sports festival last year." Moe gave him a thumbs up pose and swelled with pride. "They call us the Elite Four!"
"Like Pokemon?"
Her pride vanished in an instant, her shoulders slumped and she kicked at the sand. "Dammit, now we need to think of a new name. Gah." Moe grabbed at her hair and leaned over. "I knew I shouldn't have let Nejire pick the name!"
"Is Nejire one of the Elite Four?" Izuku asked smiling.
Moe glared at him, killing his smile in cold blood. "Don't call us that anymore. You ruined it for me."
"Sorry!" He jumped back.
She smiled at him, "Oh my, oh my, Deku, are you afraid of little old me?" She moved forward and cupped his cheek, "It makes me so happy that I can still make you jump even though you now have All Might's quirk, I wonder how long I'll be able to tease you so easily."
For the rest of his life if he was lucky. "I umm, well, I umm,"
She stepped back laughing, "Chill Deku, chill, who knows maybe your arms explode because you're so high strung a breeze could set you off."
And whose fault was that? Okay, maybe a bit of it was his, but there was only so much teasing he could take!
"So umm, who are the other umm, your friends?" He managed to ask, his face already feeling hotter than it would have during a workout. She had been so close then! And how were her hands so smooth? Why was she so pretty and active so early in the morning? Did she not sleep or anything?
"Oh, right well besides me, there's Tamaki Amajiki, he's kind of like you in that he's nervous, starts to sweat if you make eye contact for more than a few minutes, and is just a nice guy. His quirk is awesome and I think you'd have a field day talking his ear off." Moe counted down on her fingers. "Nejire Hado is one of my best friends at U.A. She asks a lot of questions, and acts like a bit of an air head but she's actually pretty smart. And lastly there's-"
"Power!" A large, blonde, muscular man without a shirt jumped off of the sidewalk and tumbled onto the beach, the motion hardly slowing him down. Sand went flying with every step he took. The blond came to a sliding stop next to Moe and saluted her. "Moe! I am here as requested."
"What happened to your shirt?" Moe looked up and down at the man a single eyebrow raised at him.
"Ahh, uhh, that's a good question." The blond laughed loudly. "Ahh I know! There was an old lady crossing the street and I-"
"Is this a set up to a lame joke?"
"Well I wouldn't say its lame."
Moe sighed and moved over to her bag where she pulled out a grey shirt. "You're lucky I keep a spare for you."
Was this Moe's boyfriend? How was he supposed to compete with that? The guy was tall! Muscular! Good looking! And could actually talk to her so easily!
"Anyway's Deku, this is Mirio Togata, he's probably the strongest person in my class, and the guy that could kick All Might's sorry ass." Moe slapped Mirio on the back as the man put on his shirt. "Mirio, this is Deku, wait, err, this is Izuku Midoriya, you should probably call him that."
"Right." Mirio said as he put on Moe's shirt. The grey shirt was easily large enough to fit him, but it had pink text on it that said "These Thighs don't Lie." If Mirio cared or even noticed he didn't even blink. "Nice to meet you Izuku, I suppose you're the interesting person that Nejire has been pestering Moe about?"
Moe rolled her eyes.
"I umm maybe?" He looked at Moe. "Am I?"
"Yep, Deku here is a late bloomer and his quirk has finally started to work properly." Moe placed a hand on her hip and gestured towards Izuku while looking up at Mirio. "He already passed the entrance exam but not only does he have no idea how to fight, but when he uses his quirk his arms explode."
"That sounds painful."
Izuku nodded. "It only hurts until I pass out."
"But that's not actually his quirk. Its uhh." Moe scratched her head some of the flames flickering up into the sky. "Hmm, Izuku you're good at quirk analysis and stuff, what would you say your quirk is."
Crap! How was he supposed to explain All Might's quirk? Why was she putting this on him? "Well, I, umm, it's kind of like there's all this power inside of my body, but when I use it my arm kind of breaks because there's so much of it."
"Hmm," Mirio nodded and grabbed onto his chin, eyes closed and he nodded a few times at whatever thoughts came into his head. "So it's a bit like the exact opposite of Nejire's problem."
"Oh! You're right, I didn't think it like that." Moe slapped Mirio on the shoulder and turned to Izuku with an excited look on her face, mouth open showing off her two sharp fangs. She held that pose for a second before turning back to Mirio. "Wait, how's that supposed to help?"
"It's not, it was just an observation." Mirio turned to look at Moe. "Remember how Nejire was during our first year? She didn't have enough energy and any time she used her quirk she'd pass out. She fixed it by increasing her energy, but for Izuku we have a case where there's too much energy."
"That's literally what he just said." Moe face palmed. "Deku! You're a nerd, have you tried to analyze the fuck out of your own quirk yet?"
"Analyze?" Mirio asked.
"Yeah, he's really smart with quirks and stuff, I owe his brain for some of the stuff that I can do." Moe stood proudly with her chest out and shoulders back.
Izuku stared at them. Moe had a point, he had spent so much time analyzing All Might's quirk, countless hours of his nights were spent watching old footage trying to get an exact measurement of All Might's quirk, trying to guess what exactly it was. But he hadn't done that since he had found out the truth about All Might's quirk. Now that it was his quirk there was more that he knew about it.
So wait, if his quirk had to much energy stored so that going all out would make it so that he could break an arm, then he needed to work on lowering the amount of energy that he could draw. But how did he do that? All he knew about how to use it was there was a feeling, when he had to act that made him use it. So far it hadn't been voluntary.
He also used it in one massive burst, pushing everything out all at once. He looked towards the beach, a rocky out cropping was being slammed by a rough wave, the water crashing into it and then channeling back out to sea. That was it! When he used One for All during the exam it was like a tidal wave of power washing through his body and overpowering him making his bones break and his skin bruise.
He needed it to be like a stream. A constant flow.
But how?
"Does he always do that?" Mirio asked.
"What? Mumble? Yeah, it's how I found out he has a crush on me."
Izuku looked up at the smiling Moe and blinked slowly. "I confessed like that?"
"Nah, but now you did."
Oh god, he wanted to die, maybe if he used One for All in his brain, his head would explode!
AN: AraAraAraAraAra