The Emerald Phoenix

by Primordial Vortex

For his entire life, Izuku wanted nothing more than to be a hero. Hearing his Idol say he couldn't do it without a Quirk almost broke him. Yet when put into a situation where even other heroes were almost helpless bystanders, he didn't hesitate. And in doing so, he finally awoke what he had longed for. Quirk!Izuku Harem

9. Discoveries

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Okay, so something I should probably mention right now: Some of you expressed concern over Momo's health due to the revelations in the manga regarding One For All. Let me go ahead and put that fear to bed.

I began planning and writing this fic LONG before that reveal appeared in the manga, so it WILL NOT affect this fic in any way. Furthermore, it will not affect ANY fic I write for My Hero Academia unless it is not actually relevant to the plot of the fic. This is because that was a fucking STUPID reveal done both for pointless drama and to make Izuku's Quirklessness look more special than it already is. If anything, this reveal TOOK AWAY some of the specialness of Izuku's character because it retroactively made him one of the ONLY options instead of the best option. If the point was to make sure that Izuku would be the last wielder (…Or as a setup for something that would make me combust in sheer rage the way Sanji does in One Piece), Horikoshi easily could have accomplished the same thing by just having had One For All hit singularity, making it too dangerous to actually pass on.

So, fuck it. It's going into the woodchipper, just like an unfortunately increasing number of bits of canon from the past two-ish years in Horikoshi's rush to the finish. I've basically lost interest in the manga and haven't actually read a chapter in months. That just makes me sad, man.

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Chapter IX: Discoveries

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Mina couldn't help but gulp. The nineteen students of class 1-A were waiting patiently in their homeroom. They'd finished all of their morning classes a while ago and were now waiting in dread for their heroics period for the day. Normally this would mean All Might, but today was different. Today, their new Teaching Assistant would be introduced to them, and with the way Aizawa-sensei had looked when they were picking their Hero names, they were kind of petrified. Most of them had barely even commented on Izuku's still-missing flame arm.

Would their senpai be super scary? Would they be able to expel them like Aizawa-sensei? Would sensei even bother getting out of his sleeping bag to save them?

Before they could psyche themselves out even more, the door slammed open, making them stiffen up in terror.

And then a beautiful girl with periwinkle hair hopped in, a bright, beaming smile on her face. "Hiiii!" She waved at them excitedly, "Nice to meet you all! I'm Nejire!"

'OH MY GOD! SHE'S ADORABLE!' The class collectively performed a spit-take at the totally disarming introduction.

"Huh? What's with that reaction?" She giggled, "That's really weird, you know!" Her eyes widened, "Wow! Your skin is pink!" She gasped, and in the blink of an eye, she was next to Mina and poking her horns, "That's so cool! Your eyes are super pretty too!"

"Ah~" Mina jumped in surprise, "S-Senpai…" Her cheeks turned a light lilac.

"Oh?" Nejire stopped poking her horns, moving over to Shōji, "Hmm, why are you wearing a mask? You're not sick, are you? Or is it a fashion statement?"

Shōji looked a little bashful, "Well, when I was young-"

But Nejire proved her attention span to be that of a squirrel's, jumping over to Tsuyu, "Wow, you're really cute as well! Are you more of a tree frog or a toad, Asui-chan?" She asked, proving that she had indeed seen all of their profiles, or at least their pictures.

"Kero, thank you senpai. You're really pretty too." Tsu replied, though didn't bother going further since she could tell Nejire was going to bounce away.

Which was correct, "Wow, so you're Midoriya-kun! That fire arm looks really cool! Why do you have an arm made of fire? Is it training?" She poked it, "Ahn~" She let out a surprised little squeak mixed with a moan, "Wow, that feels really good! That's so cool! Your Quirk is really cool! Where's your real arm, though?" She poked it again, a light blush on her face. This was mirrored on Izuku as well as some of his surrounding classmates.

"W-well, I-"

Nejire backed away. Her arms were crossed behind her back, and she floated easily back to the front of the class with a light glimmer of gold around her ankles, "This class has such cool Quirks! I bet you're all really awesome too! I can't wait to get to know you all!"

Momo let out a little giggle, "Us as well, Nejire-senpai!"

"Will you get on with it already, Hadō?" Aizawa sat up, glaring at the girl with his eyes glowing red and his hair floating above his head.

"Aww, don't be such a stick in the mud, sensei." Nejire waved him off without a care, making the class goggle.

"Oh my god!" Kaminari whispered, "She has bigger balls than us guys!"

Kyōka blushed, her jacks wriggling in her embarrassment and stabbing into his neck, "Idiot! Keep stupid thoughts to yourself!"

Aizawa dropped back into his sleeping bag and out of sight, but no amount of whispering could have hidden the exasperated, "Why couldn't you have given me Togata or Amajiki?!"

Nejire pouted, "Jeez, don't be mean, sensei!" Aizawa didn't respond, "Mouuuu~" She continued pouting, making the class fall in love with her, "Anyway, I'd like to see how good you all are!" She turned that frown upside down with a wide smile, "So put on those Gym Uniforms and meet down in Gym Gamma!" And with that, she floated again, and left the room.

"G-Gym Gamma?" Sero stuttered, "Oh hell, she's not going to fight us, is she?"

Izuku and Momo had already stood, "I think that's a bit obvious, Sero-kun." Izuku mumbled as he passed the boy, "Well, let's go. Enjoy your nap, Aizawa-sensei."

…

"You all made it!" Nejire beamed, waving rapidly as they all entered. She was also in the gym uniform, so it was all even in every respect as she wasn't wearing her costume.

Well… 'even…'

'So cute!' The thought flitted across many minds in the gym, "How are we doing this, senpai? One-on-one matches?"

"Ahahaha!" Nejire giggled, "You're so funny, Midoriya-kun! That wouldn't be fair at all and would take way too long!" She beamed at them, arms still crossed behind her back, "It's all of you vs me." And something about that final word had a dark, dangerous intonation that Nejire definitely didn't put there herself.

"Ehhh?!" Mount Katsuki immediately ignited, "You looking down on us?!" he snarled, explosions crackling along his palms.

"Looking down?" Nejire blinked, a clueless look on her face, "But most of you are taller than me?" She tilted her head to the side, befuddled.

Katsuki's eye started to twitch, and he stuck his arm behind him. An explosion ignited, sending him rocketing towards their senpai. A green glow surrounded the rest of the class, preventing the boom from hurting any of them, "For Pete's sake, Kacchan…" Izuku mumbled, enforcing his will on his shield. Clearly the anger management and counseling he'd been forced to start taking by Aizawa hadn't had much of an effect yet. He was still too prone to getting ticked off by imagined slights.

"Thanks, Green." Kyōka muttered to him, an extra glow around her ears protecting her hearing. She had been expecting it and had already regulated her own hearing, but it was the thought that counted.

"Wow, you're pretty eager!" Nejire giggled, bending backward at the knees, and letting Katsuki (and his explosion) sail harmlessly over her. A light glow of her Quirk appeared behind her back, keeping her from falling down entirely. She righted herself and turned in the air, watching as Katsuki skid on the ground and launched himself back towards her, "I hadn't even said go yet!"

"Shut up and fight!" Katsuki roared, jumping high in the air with his right arm crackling above him. He impacted the ground as Nejire floated back, a colossal wall of fire engulfing the blonde along with a blast that sent dust flying everywhere.

"Mou~ You're mean! That's really rude, you know!" Nejire responded as the rest of the class watched and prepared.

Well, almost all of them. A giant wall of ice rushed towards her, making her turn her head and lift her arm. It started glowing gold, and energy started to spin around the limb, intensifying in speed rapidly. A double helix of power shot from her arm, a cheerful, "Nejire Wave!" escaping her. The massive attack which had impressed and terrified a majority of the class was obliterated in an instant. The glacier shattered into a thousand pieces, while Nejire's attack continued plowing towards Todoroki. The heterochromic boy's eyes widened and he braced himself, before a green glow engulfed him and yanked him out of the way of the attack.

"I gotcha!" Izuku muttered, before blinking as Todoroki glared at him.

"I don't need help!" The twin-toned boy growled, standing up and glaring at Nejire.

"…You're welcome." Izuku took a deep breath, while all of the girls glared at the boy.

"That was really cool! The attitude not so much!" Nejire beamed, before whirling around and slapping an AP Shot from Katsuki away.

"Why you-" Katsuki choked as Nejire blurred from sight, appearing right in front of him. That wide, happy smile on her face seemed more mocking to the blonde than anything, but that was just his personality and inferiority complex speaking. He reacted quickly, throwing his right arm out and blasting her.

But she only dodged that as well, "You have really good reflexes!" She praised him from behind. She reached out to poke his back, but Katsuki ignited the sweat on his feet, tearing through his gym shoes and rocketing into the air.

He looked down, trying to spot their opponent, 'This fucking happy bitch is so fast! Is it a speed Quirk? No, it ca-' His eyes bulged, and he whirled around in midair, only to be met by a glowing finger about to touch his nose.

"Boop!" Nejire giggled, poking the explosive blonde.

'You've got to be fucki-' The glow intensified, blasting Katsuki back as if he had been shot out of a cannon. He crashed into one of the concrete pillars, embedding himself into it with a hacking gasp for air. He didn't move, a wide-eyed look of utter shock and disbelief apparent on his face as he gaped at the pretty airhead. He then peeled off the wall and landed in a heap on the floor. He didn't get up.

'Oh…' The class collectively thought, 'We're going to die.'

Nejire floated there, giggling, "Well, blondie got a head start, but aren't the rest of you supposed to be having fun too?" FUN?! "Come on! If you get one good hit, you win, you know~!" She blinked, "Oh, and you probably shouldn't all group up like that. Just saying!" She pointed an arm at them, with her helical bits of energy starting to spin once more.

"Scatter!" Momo yelled, and they all leapt away from each other. A large blast of Nejire's Wave Motion carved itself into the ground, throwing up a cloud of dirt.

Todoroki ran just out of range, before stomping and sending another glacier at her. "Hmm, you're a bit of a one-trick pony, aren't you?" Nejire asked no one in particular, this time flying towards the approaching ice with her arm extended. Wave Motion spiraled around her limb intensely, "Nejire Drill!" The energy exploded, and the ice glowed gold from within as she traveled through it. She burst out in front of Todoroki, who was gaping in utter shock at what she had done to his attack. "You have fire too, don't you? Where's the fire? Aren't you getting really cold? I can see ice on you, you know!" She pestered him, rather than pressing her advantage.

Todoroki's teeth ground, "Did sensei put you up to this?!" He asked angrily, reaching for her to turn her into a popsicle.

"Huh? What are you talking about?" Nejire asked, grabbing his arm without a care. His ice failed to penetrate the energy surrounding her, "I just thought your Quirk was super cool! Fire and ice are really cool, you know! Why are you only using ice? That's boring, you know."

"I'll never use his fire!" Todoroki did something he had rarely done. He closed his left fist and tried to punch her.

But she proved deceptively powerful for such a waif. She caught his punch with a frown, "His fire? That's really weird, you know." She dragged him forward and forced all of the air in his lungs out with a brutal knee. It was sure to bruise, "There's no one here but us. It's your Quirk, silly." She let go of his left and turned around, throwing him over her shoulder and slamming him into the ground.

She stood straight and blinked again when she was engulfed in glowing green tape. Her arms were tightly wrapped close to her body, "Huh? WEEEEEEE!" She whooped in glee as she started getting dragged across the gym, "Tape? That's really cool! You're like a discount Spider-Man!"

"Ack! So mean, senpai!" Sero slumped, even as he continued dragging her in.

"Oh, did I say something rude? My bad!" She casually ripped through both the tape and Izuku's psychic power and slid to a stop. Her left hand grabbed the tape while her right was rubbing behind her head. Her eyes were closed, and she was sheepishly apologizing, "Sorry!" She yanked on the tape, and Sero screamed as he went flying.

"Dude, that's so not fair! How are you that strong?! You don't look any more muscular than me!" Mina yelled as she skated at Nejire, a light coating of acid around her arms. She flung the globs of diluted acid at their senpai, who dodged. "Oh, and that attack name was all wrong, Senpai! You have to yell 'Giga Drill Breaker' next time!" Mina continued to slide as she tried to sweep Nejire's feet.

The bluenette floated up to avoid her, "Oooh, that's really cute! I like it! Thank you, Mina-chan!" She ducked, landing back on the ground to avoid a laser coming from behind and what looked like a Destructo Disk from above. "Huh? Which one of you did that cool attack?" Something felt off, so she jumped back.

"Woah, you're like, totally awesome, senpai!" Camie faded into view, pouting, "You dodged my kick without even trying."

"Oh, your Quirk is Illusion! I remember!" Nejire exclaimed excitedly, "That was a cool trick with the energy disk!" She totally ignored the complaining praise. "You shouldn't give up the advantage just because the first one missed, though!"

"You're like, totally right, fam." Camie agreed, before she smirked, "Also, gotcha!"

Nejire's eyes widened as she felt an extremely strong set of arms grab onto her. Or rather, two sets. "Wow, you're strong!" She praised Shōji, "And really nice plan! You tricked me good!" And then Shōji's eyes bulged as she started glowing gold, and he started straining to try to keep a hold of her. But it was totally futile. She wrenched his arms open and then threw him at Camie. "You two totally get a win today! Congrats! If you had been Villains I could have lost with a lethal attack!"

The girl let out an 'oof' as Shōji barreled into her, letting out a groan and holding her ribs as he hurried off, "T-that's bullshit, senpai…" She wheezed, holding her ribs. "I repeat Mina's question, how the eff are you so strong, fam?"

Nejire giggled, and flexed, revealing that her tiny frame was actually hiding some muscle, "Ahahaha! You don't become best friends with Togata-kun without some POWERRRR!" She replied cheerfully, "Sides, the stronger I am, the stronger my Quirk gets! When I first got into U.A. I couldn't even fly for more than a couple of minutes. I'd get super exhausted!"

"Oh, is it stamina based?" Izuku appeared in front of her, his tie in 'blunt' mode. He slashed at her, and she blocked with her arm engulfed in Wave Motion. The two started to dance, with him swiping at her, and her smile getting increasingly wide as he dodged her attacks too. The rest of the class watched in a little awe as Izuku revealed how much faster he'd gotten. "Or is it based on your muscle power?"

"A little bit of both!" Nejire chirped cheerfully, "I have so many questions, Midoriya-kun! Is it true that you're a psychic?" She unleashed a blast at him, and beamed as he blocked and dispersed her attack, "Wow! You're really strong!"

"Can you control the spirals?" Izuku asked curiously as he charged forward and kicked her. She surprised him by tanking it without even a wince and then reaching out with a charged finger. Her attack splashed on his new psychic barrier harmlessly. Izuku backed away and reset himself from his failed kick as she lashed out with one of her own: a roundhouse aiming to knock his block off. He ducked under it and punched at her.

"Yes I can!" She said cheerfully, flying back with a rapid motion and then back-handspringing away from him, "It was super hard to do, you know!" She replied cheerfully, "Back when I was really young, my waves were super spread out."

"Do not forget about us!" Tokoyami glared seriously, with Dark Shadow attacking Nejire. "We shall engulf you in the shadows!" The look was marred by the fact that he was hiding in a tent Momo had popped out of her back. (She was much more comfortable removing her shirt for a little while with Mineta gone. She didn't show off her new ability to Create via One For All yet.) Tokoyami hiding in the dark had increased Dark Shadow's power.

Nejire apologized to the sentient Quirk, "Sorry, Dark Shadow." She threw an arm out and her Quirk blasted it, shrinking it down with a groan from the light. The shadow ran away and hid with Tokoyami, "Bad matchup. It happens." She nodded at him apologetically. And then she crossed her arms and braced herself as an enormous gale hit her. She grunted lightly for the first time all day as the wind tried to blow her into the wall and pancake her like she had Katsuki.

"Wahahaha! Now THIS is a hot-blooded battle! Continue teaching us, please and thank you!"

Nejire giggled, "That's some wind, Yoarashi-kun!" The glow around her intensified, and she relaxed as her Quirk started cutting through his winds. She wagged her finger playfully at him, "You'll have to try harder than that if you want to blow me away though!" That same finger glowed to the point it looked like a laser as she moved it into the path of Izuku's tie and blocked his slash, "Mou~ you guys are really too great! I'm actually having to try here! That's so surprising!" She beamed at Izuku, drawing a blush, "Hey, your cheeks are red! You're not forcing yourself too hard, are you?"

Mina let out a laugh, Camie's arm over her shoulder as she helped the groaning girl stand, "She's as clueless as Midori is…"

Camie giggled, before groaning and holding her ribs. Shōji glanced apologetically at her. She murmured back, "She seems like the life of the party, for sure."

Momo frowned a little, "They…do seem like two peas in a pod, don't they? Only she's super extroverted while he's introverted."

"Yup. She's adorable too." Mina answered, with the other two agreeing readily. Nejire seemed like the type that you physically could never hate.

And then Kōda got in on the action. A few birds started dive-bombing Nejire after getting into the gym, and she seemed very reluctant to hurt them, merely dodging their attacks, "Mou~! No fair! I can't hurt these cute little ones!" And then the squirrels started swiping at her as well, and she simply floated up. But then she let out a little squeal, and raced forward. She scooped up a super fluffy white rabbit, "It's so CUUUUUUTE!" She squealed, hugging it gently and cuddling it, the match all but forgotten, "I'll name you Mr. Snuggles, and I'll love you forever!"

Kyōka groaned, "Now I can't attack! I wouldn't want to hurt it either!"

"Oh right, we're sparring!" Nejire seemed to remember. She vanished and appeared in front of Kōda, who jumped and started visibly sweating, "Here Kōda-kun. Take care of Mr. Snuggles for me!" She gently dropped the bunny in the large boy's arms. Kōda could only nod in terror.

And then she nyoomed off towards Izuku again, "Oh right! So, what else can you do! The sword tie is SUPER cool! I love it!" She said, blasting him point blank with her Quirk. Izuku teleported and appeared behind her, thrusting his palm forward and thrusting at her back with a Force Push. She dodged as well, the glow around her increasing in intensity! "Your Quirk could not be cooler, Midoriya-kun! You can teleport too?! What else can you do? I wanna know more!"

"Mine?" Izuku looked just as excited, "Your Quirk is amazing too! You can increase your speed and strength by a bunch from what I can see, and you can even protect yourself like my barriers I think! Your Quirk is super versatile!" He thrust his hand forward again, and she met him with her own hand. Green and Gold mixed and then exploded with a loud bang, sending the two of them flying away from each other. "What are the waves made of? Also, how concentrated can you make them? I saw you drill through Todoroki-kun's ice really easily earlier! Also, how fast can you fly?"

Nejire started blushing brightly as she listened to his motor mouthing, "Huh… is that what that feels like?" She asked the air, before clapping her hands to her ears with a groan of pain.

"Finally!" Kyōka said as she got away from everyone else. She could blast their senpai with her directional speakers. It didn't keep Nejire down for long. Despite the attack bypassing her defenses, she had the wherewithal to find the girl and point her middle and pointer fingers at her. Her aim was a bit shaky, and her face was scrunched up, but she still managed to fire… The golden beam of energy was a straight shot with a helix of energy surrounding it. Kyōka cut off her sound with a wide-eyed look of shock and dove out of the way. "Dude!" She sputtered, "Was that a Special Beam Cannon?! Your Quirk is bullshit!"

Nejire shook her head, "Mine? Yours is way too cool! My Quirk couldn't do anything!" She said, "That's another win! Please don't blast me again. Owieeee!" She rubbed her throbbing ears futilely. "I've seen quite a bit, so time to end this!" She said, dropping her hands and floating into the air.

"Momo, let's do it!" Izuku said. Momo nodded, despite the smirks directed at the two. "Now!" He threw his hand forward, and it glowed green.

Nejire gasped in shock as she froze, the green surrounding her erasing her own golden glow, "Ah! I can't move!"

Momo bent her knees and dug into One For All, the red lightning surrounding her. The rest of the students performed spit takes in shock as their vice president did something entirely new. Momo launched herself forward, a set of Capture Tape coming out of her arm. She raced towards Nejire, who was struggling to break free.

And then a smile appeared on their senpai's face, "Wow, I can see why the teachers were praising you so much!" The green glow around her shattered, replaced with her own gold. But it was different than before. Now, spiraling energy crackled around her entire body, intensely. Her hair curled itself, forming spirals near the tips and floating of their own accord, "I can't believe you forced me to use Version 2!" She disappeared from sight, and Momo hacked as Nejire elbowed her so hard her forward momentum changed entirely into sideways momentum. She crashed into Inasa, knocking the boy out of the sky. And then she was in front of Izuku, who teleported away and into the air. But before he had even reformed entirely, Nejire's fist was in his gut, folding him in half. His barrier protected him, but not enough. The spiraling energy ripped at his uniform and forced him to fly into the ceiling.

"…"

"Oh crap!" Nejire panicked, the glow shrinking down as she caught the falling Izuku, "Are you okay!? I went too overboard! I'm so sorry!"

Izuku let out a shaky cough, "You pack a PUNCH, senpai…"

"Ah!" Nejire sighed in relief as she cradled him, "You're okay! I'm so glad!" They dropped down to the ground, "We're done, everyone! You can calm down now!" She called out, setting Izuku down. He stood with some difficulty, clutching his gut. A quick flash of fire on his abdomen and he was right as rain again, and he quickly moved over to Camie and healed her too. The girl let out a bit of a lewd-sounding moan of relief as the pain vanished, "Wow! You can heal too!?" Nejire squeed and started floating around the quartet, "That's so cooooool! And your fire is just so pretty!"

Izuku blushed, scratching the back of his head, "Yeah, I c-could always heal myself, but I just learned I could heal others too. It's a lot more tiring." He pressed his flame hand to Momo next. She sighed in relief.

Nejire was clenching her fists in front of her chest and wiggling in excitement, "I have SO many questions! Your Quirks are all just so stinking awesome! I really can't wait to get to know you all better!" And she was most definitely beaming at Izuku as she said this, drawing another blush.

Kaminari groaned to Sero and mumbled quietly, "Like, I know the Prez is awesome an' all, but can he leave some girls for the rest of us schmucks?" Kyōka's jacks immediately found their mark, drawing a yelp.

Everyone else turned to her quizzically, and she only responded with a twitching eyebrow.

Nejire shrugged, "Anyway, I have a good idea of your strengths now, so I'll be providing All Might-sensei and Aizawa-sensei with some ideas for training. We have one month to make you guys the best dang first years in U.A.'s history you know!" She threw her hand up, pointing to the sky, "Plus Ultra!"

"PLUS ULTRA!" The class cheered back, before being dismissed.

Momo smiled, "Well, shall we go to the loc-" Two hands plopped onto her shoulders, and her own face was framed by Mina and Camie's, whose smiles both looked a little scary. They even had maliciously glowing auras and everything! "Eeep!"

"Not so fast, Yaomomo!" Mina said, her voice low.

"Yeah fam, like, you ain't getting out of this that easy!" Camie mirrored her pink sister.

Momo started to sweat, "W-What?"

"What was with that red lightning!?" Mina exploded, waving her arms up and down at her sides.

"Oh?" Nejire quirked her head to the side, "Was that something new?"

"Yes!" Camie cocked her hip, "Like, totally fresh. Ain't ever seen it before! Yaomomo just pulled a whole ass new ability out! So spill, fam!"

"W-well, my Quirk evolved during the USJ." Momo replied, hoping they'd buy it.

Mina and Camie stared at her flatly, "Fam, if that was the case, you'd have done it DURING the fight! And you didn't use it at all during rescue training!"

Momo started to sweat harder. "I-I was trying to keep it a surprise?" Crap! Why was this so hard? She had given plenty of canned responses for her parents' company before and she was excellent at that! She was old hat at this! So why was lying to her friends so difficult? 'Izu, help!' She unintentionally made things worse by glancing at Izuku.

"Ohoho!" Mina gave an ojou-sama laugh, "What's this?"

Izuku then dug a bit deeper, "W-What Momo meant to say was, yes, her Quirk did evolve." He started off badly, "Her lipids go a LOT farther now. Takes less of them, you know?" he picked up steam, "A-And then we did some experiments for my theories on her Quirk, and it turned out they were true! She doesn't convert lipids into matter. She's like one of those Matter Replicators from Sci-fi!"

Nejire looked close to snapping and starting to poke and prod the taller girl. 'First names, huh? She even looked to him for help. Are they dating? Mou, he was really cute and cool too…'

Mina and Camie looked at one another, before turning to stare at Momo and Izuku, "Sus."

"W-What do you mean?" The two stammered in sync. "It's true! That's how my/her Quirk works!"

"Oh, we totally believe Izuku figured something out, but you two suck at lying." Mina said.

Nejire giggled, "Yup, I've known them for a few minutes, and I could tell that." She laughed heartily.

Twin arrows struck Izuku and Momo. It wasn't even like they intended on keeping it secret forever. Momo said she and Izuku needed to build a foundation and that meant others being part of it. The only issue was the timing. It was way too soon to be blowing that secret. And there was a reason All Might hadn't considered Mina as strongly as others despite her being a candidate. She needed to mature a bit more and tone down the gossip.

Still, Momo felt awful. She probably wouldn't last too long before coming clean, especially with lying to friends evidently being a big weakness of hers. Mina and Camie seemed to sense that the two of them were actually getting a bit distressed, because their faces softened. Mina glomped Momo in a hug, "Hey, it's okay if you can't tell us right now. But you will one day, yeah?" She snuggled into Momo's bosom, making Momo flush bright red.

She hugged her friend back, "S-Sorry, Mina-chan." She whispered. She wrapped her arms around the pink girl as well.

Izuku flushed as Camie hugged him as well, "Yeah, it's cool fam. It's not your fault you like, totally suck at lying." She smirked evilly at him.

"C-Camie!" Izuku protested feebly. His face went atomic red as the girl snuggled into the crook of his neck.

Nejire blinked as she looked at the hugging duos, and glanced between them in confusion, 'Did I get that wrong?' She glanced at Izuku, 'Hmmmmm. My senses are tingling.' She then remembered something, "Oh right!" She hopped, drawing their attention, "Midoriya-kun, if you can heal why do you still have the cool flame arm? Is it not strong enough?" She frowned, remembering the videos she'd watched on the class. She hadn't remembered it earlier because she was just SOOOOOO excited to meet and talk with everyone, but Izuku had regrown his leg during the fight with the Nōmu. So why didn't he for his arm?

"Ah…" Izuku rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, "Basically, because I spent so long unable to use my Quirk, my body got used to not having an arm." he frowned, "If I had been able to heal it immediately, there would have been no problem. But because I got so exhausted from fighting it, I basically went into 'safe mode' as soon as it was gone."

Nejire looked crestfallen, "Wait, does that mean it's gone for good? Oh no!"

Momo answered, "Well, we're hopeful he will be able to heal it eventually. We're not sure if it will work, but we think that maybe if he learns anatomy, he may be able to direct the flames instead of leaving them to work autonomously."

"Oh!" Nejire smiled, "Here's hoping that works!" She turned back to Izuku, "I'm rooting for you, Midoriya-kun! But why did you use that attack in the first place? Wasn't it really, really dangerous?"

Izuku gaped for a split second, "Wha- Senpai, I had to! We had no idea when the teachers would be back, and I couldn't let it hurt my friends!"

"But didn't your file say you have some mental powers as well? Like telepathy? That dumb brute looked pretty stupid. Why didn't you just, like, mind crush it or something?" Nejire asked innocently.

Izuku opened his mouth with his finger raised. And then it curled down and his mouth clicked shut. The four girls focused on him, "W-Well I don't know if that's something I can actually do… and I don't think I'm too eager to try. How would I even practice?! If I use it on a Villain and it works I could turn them into a vegetable! That would be awful! I didn't even think to try something like that! It just feels wrong! Villainous!"

"That's no good, Midoriya-kun!" Nejire chided him with an unhappy frown on her face, "Heroes have to use EVERY tool in their belt!" She put her fists on her hips, "I get that it seems wrong, and I totally get it being an invasion of privacy. I can understand why you would just not like using it, especially on friends. But if you HAD tried it and it worked, you could maybe have stopped that dumb Nōmu in its tracks! You wouldn't have had to sacrifice your arm, and Momo-chan wouldn't have needed to exhaust herself. Heck, if you just read the Villains minds, you could have maybe picked out their entire plan from the leaders' heads or even just made them all confused with different orders. Heck, maybe you could have commanded the Nōmu to attack the other Villains! You have to use ALL of your Quirk! No Quirk is villainous. If you just ignore it because you're being a dummy, you won't be able to use it when you need it." She stopped, before considering, "Though… Yeah, I can see why something like a Mind Crush would be hard to practice. No room for error."

Izuku simply stared at her, shocked. Momo swallowed, before steeling herself, "Izuku." His eyes snapped to hers at the call, "You will practice your telepathy with me whenever you want. As long as you don't abuse it, I won't ever get mad."

"Yup, Same here!" Mina crossed her arms and stared him down.

"Mood." Camie nodded.

Nejire smiled, "See, you've got such great friends! Now you start using it, and do me too!"

And the atmosphere was totally lost as Mina and Camie did spit-takes, "That's what she said!" The two burst into giggles, along with Nejire who did her best lewd face, which got all of them laughing. Except Izuku and Momo. Their faces just flamed red.

Momo caught his eye as the other three made friends, and gave him a pointed look. He hesitantly reached out mentally, touching her mind. He was almost overwhelmed by the sheer amount of affection he could feel radiating from her. 'I-is this okay?'

'Always.' Momo replied warmly, before her face got just a bit hotter. She pictured herself leaning over and pecking his cheek.

Izuku rocked on his heels as he almost spontaneously combusted. She just smiled beatifically at him, and neither noticed the three other girls looking at them with interest. Izuku swallowed heavily, before hesitantly sending Momo an image of him pecking her back. She blushed happily and beamed at him.

"Ohohohoho!" Mina's ojou-sama laugh came back, "Did we just have a secret exchange, hmmm?" She threw her arm around Momo's neck, "What was that about, Yaomomo?" She then whispered in her ear, "Is someone jumping the gun a bit?"

An uncharacteristic smirk rose on Momo's face, "Wouldn't you like to know, Mina dearest." Mina and Camie pouted and needled her as the girls made their way back to the lockers, but Momo's lips were sealed tight, and nothing could remove the happy smile from her face.

-]|[-

Because of their discussion, Nejire, Momo, Mina, and Camie had been the last ones to the locker room. Due to this, they were also the last ones in the room now. And Nejire's curiosity was burning, "So…" She led casually as she slipped her bra back on, "What's up with you girls and Midoriya-kun?"

"Eh? What do you mean, Senpai?" Mina asked, a small smile starting to form.

"I thought he and Yaomomo-chan were dating." Nejire said bluntly before she giggled, "She looked to him for help when she was failing at lying."

"Nejire-senpai!" Momo whined, a cloud over her head. She almost fell over, the sudden arrow striking her such that she stepped on her panties instead of into them.

Nejire giggled along with the other two, before she tapped just under her lip with her index finger, "But then I got confused when Camie-chan got all huggy and Yaomomo-chan didn't get mad." She pulled her skirt up. "So, what gives?"

"I love him." Momo said bluntly, a small smile on her face. She said it as though she were doing nothing more than talking about the weather.

"Pffft!" Mina and Camie sputtered while Nejire also smiled widely. The totally blunt statement surprised the two other girls, since they hadn't expected it from Momo of all people. "Woah, woah, woah!" Mina dropped her bra in shock, "Where did this come from, Yaomomo?!"

"Yeah, fam…" Camie reached down to grab her fallen skirt, "I mean, we all knew we liked him a lot too, Yaomomo, but love?"

Momo slipped her shirt on and started buttoning it up, "Yes." She said, not looking at either of the two as she made herself presentable, "I was already more serious than I let on during our talk, but what happened a few days later cemented it."

"Wow, Yaomomo pulling a fast one!" Mina laughed, "I like it!"

Nejire was bouncing energetically, "I love it! But why didn't you get mad, then?" A lightbulb went off behind her eyes, "Ooooh, is it because you're poly? Or planning on it?"

Mina giggled cheerfully, "I've had a little crush on Midori since, like, the second day of class. He started off super awesome despite how nervous he was, and every day he just kept getting more and more awesome. The USJ was kinda it for me. And I knew that, at the very least, Yaomomo felt the same, and Camie and Setsuna-chan were maybes. He DID save all of us, after all. Plus, I'm bi and actually only dated a few of my middle school besties before, so the idea of fighting my friends over a boy just seemed kinda stupid. I thought being with all my besties would be a lot of fun, so we talked it out and decided to at least give it a try. We're planning to ask him out right before we go to I-Island in two weeks."

"Oooh!" Nejire started to float in her excitement, "Is that the day that is supposed to be super warm?"

"Yup!" Camie finished putting her leggings on, "We're going to go to Dagobah Beach!"

Nejire dropped to the floor, "Dag- Isn't that a landfill? I flew around there two years ago, and it was awful!"

The three girls gave her evil smirks, "Not anymore!" Mina crowed.

Momo sounded so proud as she said her next words, "Izu cleaned ALL of it while training for U.A. Almost completely by himself."

Nejire's jaw dropped, "No way!"

"Like, totally legit, fam." Camie confirmed, "Inasa-kun told us all about it. He helped a little bit, but it was, like, 90% Zuku."

Nejire's jaw clicked shut, "Kay, can, like, totally see why you girls are so into him." She blushed, "That's so AWESOME!"

"Ohohoho, is our senpai interested in a poly relationship too?" Mina asked, half-teasing, half-serious. Nejire was gorgeous, after all, and she was totally into her.

"My aunt is in one! She's married to her two best friends." Nejire replied gleefully, "And since mom was always working, they took care of me when I was really young. So, for me it was always a kinda normal thing. They were always so happy with each other, so I always kinda hoped to have something like that too."

"Well, it certainly wasn't what I had envisioned for my future," Momo tittered, "Or at least none of my romance books ever had a relationship like it. I knew they existed and were legal, but my parents were always just my parents. I always assumed and planned for a relationship like they had." She smiled in sardonic amusement, "But I hadn't exactly planned on getting into a fight for my life in the first week of school either." All four of the younger girls looked uncomfortable, despite putting on strong faces, "At the very least, I do appreciate the female form as well." She blushed a little as her traitorous eyes dipped to Nejire's cleavage. Nejire smiled brightly when she caught it and Momo blushed harder, "I'm not sold on the idea but am willing to give it a chance."

Nejire beamed, "That's so cool! I actually tried it out before, but it didn't work out…" her smile turned into a sad pout.

Camie blinked, "Wow, seriously? Can't say I expected that, fam. Like, what happened?"

Nejire drooped a little, "Well, it was kind of just a bad idea for us. Poly relationships are pretty difficult to pull off to begin with, so if everyone isn't on board, then it's just a bad idea." She sighed in a bit of melancholy. Something that definitely didn't fit her. "We ended up breaking up to not ruin our friendships. A true poly relationship where everyone is with each other is really hard to start because everyone has to be on board. Togata-kun was a bit weirded out by it, but went in with an open mind. There really wasn't an issue from his end. But Yuyu-chan didn't actually want to share no matter how much she said she agreed. She really just wanted to date me, and only gave the poly thing a try because I wanted to give it a try. I don't think she even likes boys! So, she was super clingy with me, and all but ignored Togata-kun whenever we went on dates. I got a little mad at her for that. I would have been fine with it if she'd been upfront about not wanting to do it, but instead, she lied and made herself uncomfortable when she never needed to. That's not how a relationship should be, so I broke it off before it could ruin our friendships. It was just better that way."

"Yikes!" Camie frowned, "That sucks! Totally wouldn't want that."

"Yeah." Mina pouted, "I really hope that doesn't happen with us…"

"One of the reasons we decided to wait for a little bit." Momo murmured.

Camie nodded, "After Nejire-chan-senpai's story, I really think we should like, maybe try going on some dates and see if this is actually something that could work, ya know?"

Nejire squealed, "That is now my new name, and you have to call me it!" She told them, wiggling excitedly. "And honestly, you definitely have to do that. I'm surprised you haven't already. It would be pretty dumb to just jump right in and then figure out it totally doesn't work. Plus, from what it sounds like, Midoriya-kun doesn't even know yet?" She gave them a questioning stare, and grimaced when they hesitantly nodded, "Yeah, no, BAD idea. That's totally not fair to Midoriya-kun."

They looked at each other, having not considered that. "Agreed." Momo said after a few moments.

"Wow, I'm REALLY glad you brought this up, senpai." Mina said, "Thanks!"

"You're welcome!" Nejire beamed, "I suggest you start doing that before you have the big day. At least one date each, and at least one with each other as well. Gotta figure out if that will work out too, right?"

"Yes." Momo agreed, "Even if I do think I appreciate the female form, that could just be bi-curiosity. Maybe I'll find out I don't actually like girls as much as I think I do?" She tilted her head, "You know a lot about this, senpai. Is there anything else we should know?"

Nejire smiled, "Sure! There are different types of polycules, you know?"

Mina frowned, "There are? I don't know much about them. Like I said, I just thought everyone was cute and awesome."

Nejire nodded, taking the senpai role seriously even in this, "So, the type my aunt is in is focused on her. Her husbands both were best friends, but neither of them are bi. So, they just remained best friends with each other, but are romantically involved with my aunt."

"Ooooh." Mina and Camie listened carefully.

Momo was smiling a little, "That sounds rather like our hypothetical one."

Nejire shook her head, "With Mina-chan interested in you girls as well, it would be different. I'll leave that type for last. Anyway, so that's type one. It can kinda grow larger, but the larger it gets the more unmanageable it gets. Jealousy can start to creep in if the person the polycule is centered on can't give everyone enough attention. Basically, the smaller the number the easier it is to keep the relationship going, up until you just get to a regular mono relationship. It's definitely best to do it between friends, because let's be real… relationships between just two people fail often enough because of normal relationship baggage. Throw five more people in? Yeah, not very likely to work." The three girls nodded resolutely, "The next type is definitely the hardest to pull off. Basically, it's almost like a swinger's relationship. Person A is with person B. Person B is with Person C. Person A is not with Person C, but is with Person D as well, who is the only one with Person E. Etc. Really, not sure if it actually counts as a polycule. Kinda seems more like an excuse to not commit."

"Ew." Camie wrinkled her nose, "Like, fuck that."

"While I wouldn't put it quite so crudely," Momo made a face too, "Indeed."

"C'mon, Momo!" Mina laughed, "You know you want to! Say it! Say it!" Camie laughed and joined in, with Nejire joining in with a delighted laugh.

Momo slowly reddened at the cheering from her friends and finally squeaked, "Okay, okay!" She clapped her hands to her face, before mumbling, "Fuck that!"

"YEAAAAAH!" The three girls cheered explosively as Momo steamed.

Nejire giggled delightedly, "Anyway, like I said, that one is the HARDEST to pull off. It's VERY hard to keep people from becoming jealous. I can't actually think of a successful one that was actually a legit relationship and not people just fooling around and claiming otherwise."

"Yeah no, I'm def out if that starts happening. Total yuck." Camie said, her nose still wrinkled.

"Yeah, that definitely sounds more 'sex cult' than polycule." Mina nodded, frowning just as badly.

Nejire and Momo nodded, "Definitely not." Nejire continued, "And the last, well, relevant one is probably the hardest to set up, but the easiest to keep going. Basically, everyone in the group is romantically involved with everyone else in the relationship. Or at least intimately involved. Also, best to do it between good friends." She sighed sadly, "That was what I had been hoping for with Togata-kun and Yuyu-chan."

"Hmmm…" Camie hummed, glancing at Mina and Momo, "You sounded like Zuku caught your eye earlier. You interested, fam?"

"I certainly wouldn't mind giving it another try! Better than trying a dating app." Nejire giggled, "At least I know you all are awesome and heroic since you're classmates here. You have NO idea how bad my one attempt with a dating app went. Do you think, uhhh, Setsuna-chan? Would she mind?" She asked curiously. "I don't want to step on any toes, obviously."

"Like, only if we don't give her the first date with Zuku." Camie giggled, "She'd def want first crack, since we've all known him longer than her. And you're definitely telling us that story!"

"I'm fine with that." Mina said as Momo nodded, "And that's definitely not a perfect measuring stick. We had one of our classmates get expelled because he was a perverted asswipe."

"Mina!" Momo chided, though she was having trouble keeping from smirking just a tiny bit.

Nejire vehemently shook her head at telling the story. "No way!" The blue fairy said, "It was awful! Ugh! I don't even wanna remember it!" She grumbled. The other girls giggled a little at the reaction, but patted her on the shoulder in commiseration. "And yeah, I saw that in the files. Honestly, surprised Aizawa-sensei kept him as long as he did."

"He really shouldn't have." Mina said, bluntly. "With how much of a hardass sensei appears to be, he really gave that creep more chances than he deserved. During our Battle Trials he ignored an easy takedown on Camie-chan's partner to try to grope her." Nejire grimaced, but her attention was caught by Camie.

"Know all about shitty dates, fam." Camie crossed her arms as she focused on the first statement, "Kinda swore off dating till high school because of it. Dude was super cute but damn if he didn't end up an ass. Boys in my school were just big toddlers and totally needed to grow up."

"It happens. Unfortunately." Nejire was back to smiling, and hooked her arm around Camie's shoulder.

"We should definitely get on the group chat tonight to make plans then. And rules, obviously." Momo turned, "Even with what you told us, I'm surprised you're so eager to jump into this, Senpai." She said, carefully.

Nejire let out a sigh, "To be honest? I've been feeling kinda lonely and burnt out for a while, so I'm kinda eager for some fun! Hero work keeps you busy." Her smile dropped and she stared at them seriously, "It's a dangerous job, and you really don't know if today might be your last. Something you guys experienced way too soon." She frowned momentarily as the younger girls shuddered. Nejire took a deep breath and smiled, "I can already tell you guys are all awesome and I'd love to get to know you better! If I get some cute girlfriends and a boyfriend out of it, all the better! If not? Then at least some new besties, right?" She said cheerfully.

Mina glanced at Momo and Camie. They seemed agreeable, so Mina grinned broadly at their senpai, "Welcome to the Midoricult, senpai!"

Momo facepalmed, "Can you not call it that, Mina?"

Nejire and the other two burst into giggles.

-]|[-

"Found her!" Izuku declared telepathically, opening his eyes. "She's in the factory building just northwest of Momo's position."

"Gotta say, Green, this 'new you' is awesome." Kyōka smirked, "Who lit a fire up your butt and got you using this? Now we can coordinate, and no one can overhear us."

"It was Nejire-senpai." Momo replied, "But this isn't the time, Kyōka-chan. Everyone, converge on the building. Izu, is anyone else in there?"

"Thirteen is holding three hostages, and has weakened the support struts on the catwalks. If we try to come in from the roof, they'll break away and alert her."

"Got it!" Momo was rushing there and had already started creating items to aid them. Kyōka and Izuku landed next to her, and she was enveloped in green as well. The trio landed on the roof and Kyōka immediately plugged in, closing her eyes. Izuku sank deeper into his telepathy with a small grunt of struggle, and all three were able to 'see' what Kyōka's echolocation was mapping. "Your Quirk is so amazing, Izu." Momo declared, "Three 'claymore' substitutes, one for each of the windows. Designed to emit sparks and flashbang when they go off. "

"Can you move them with your jacks, Jirō-chan? My control isn't back to normal yet." Izuku grumbled a bit at that.

"Yup." Kyōka slipped her jacks into the new weapons Momo had made for her: Vibro Blades. Her jacks started pumping into them and the impossibly sharp blades easily pierced the glass of the windows and she cut a circle. Momo had attached a tiny suction cup to the glass and pulled it away, revealing a perfectly circular hole. Kyōka's jacks slipped through, carefully lifting the claymore, and bringing it to the hole, where Momo swiftly disarmed it.

Izuku then used the tool that Momo had created (a fiber optic cable with a camera) to look inside. "Drat!" He cursed, "The hinges are rusted to hell. I don't think even some WD40 from Momo would help keep the noise down." The other two cursed as well.

But then a lightbulb lit up over Kyōka's head. She plugged in again, "Okay, she's kinda close to that back wall. Either Green and I or Yaomomo and I could be a distraction up here, while the other bursts in from the back."

"I'll do it. Izu, can I get a lift?" Momo was immediately engulfed in green and enjoyed her flight to the back of the building, where she quickly popped her top open, and spewed a breaching charge from her chest. She affixed it to the wall, fixed her top, and called out, "Ready!"

Immediately, Izuku and Kyōka broke open the windows, creating a load of noise. "Ha!" Thirteen crowed, "You've fallen for my trap!" She whirled towards them, and blinked in shock when the catwalks were engulfed in green and prevented from falling down, "Curses!" She then pointed a finger at her first hostage: Tokoyami. "Don't move a muscle, or he gets it!" Izuku and Kyōka cursed, putting their hands up. "Good! Drop your weapons and jacks where I can see them!" They did as she said, Izuku's tie falling from his hands, and Kyōka putting her jacks up as well. "Foolish little Heroes." Thirteen laughed 'evilly,' before pointing her finger at them, "It is my vic-"

It was over in seconds. Momo (having been watching carefully through Izuku's eyes) detonated the blast charge as she was again engulfed in lightning. She sped through the hole as Thirteen flinched and was on her in seconds. She quickly popped some cuffs out of her wrist and clapped them on Thirteen's wrist, before she was swiftly threw the teacher down with an "Oof!"

"Target secured!" Momo declared.

Thirteen grumbled, "Okay, new rule, if Midoriya and Yaoyorozu get paired up in class by random lot again, they have to reroll."

…

Nejire was literally rolling on the floor laughing and All Might was sweating a little, "I hate to say it, but I think I agree with Thirteen. You two are overpowered together." He laughed lightheartedly.

Mina cackled along with Camie, "Cinnamon Rolls OP, pls nerf!"

Izuku and Momo were pouting even as they blushed, "But we work really well together." Momo poked her fingertips together.

"Yes, which is why you should practice with others in the class." Nejire finally got her breath back, though she still spasmed a little bit with giggles, "Even if you form an agency together, you'll still have moments when you need to work with others. Even Miruko works with others, no matter how much she grumbles about team-ups. She works with Ryūkyū fairly often."

"What she said." All Might deadpanned, letting out a little laugh, "Good work everyone! Nejire-chan here will be remaining to supervise training. You all may remain for the next couple hours, or go home now, if you wish."

"Yay!" Nejire cheered, and in the blink of an eye, she had Izuku's hand in hers, "Come on Zuzu! I want to spar in the air!"

"WAH!" Izuku was yoinked cartoonishly off his feet, flailing behind Nejire, "N-Nejire-senpai!"

"I said supervise!" All Might yelled at their backs. "Why do I bother?" He asked rhetorically, leaving along with Thirteen.

Mina snorted, "It's a good thing she's so cute, otherwise I'd be a bit jealous." She whispered to Momo.

The heiress's reply was cut off, "Oi, Windbag. Let's fucking go." Katsuki spoke up, glaring at Inasa.

Inasa slowly smirked, "Sure thing, Nitrogremlin."

Katsuki snarled, and the two of them raced off. Immediately, the sounds of loud explosions started making them wince, and the surrounding area to quake.

"Yaoyorozu." Todoroki stepped forward.

Momo's expression went flat, "Try to do something other than glaciers this time, Todoroki-kun." The heiress was still quite upset about the last time they had been forced to spar together. Todoroki's already flat expression went even flatter.

"Looks like everyone's pairing up. Let's go, Camie-chan." Mina declared. The two of them could spar Quirkless. She'd been quite surprised to find another in the class skilled in capoeira.

…

BANG

Momo's cannon fired off, blasting apart the rushing wave of ice.

Todoroki glared, "You've improved." He noted, firing off another wave of ice at her.

Momo sighed, cloaking herself in One For All and leaping into the air, evading the wave, 'Yes, I have. But you haven't.' She didn't say it out loud. She landed on the ice pillar and her boots formed into a snowboard. She slid down the ice as she Created another rocket launcher, leaping up to avoid more ice and firing. The blasts knocked Todoroki around as her snowboard and rocket launcher were absorbed back into her body. A hang glider appeared instead, and she landed softly while Todoroki snarled in anger.

'I just keep falling behind!' He thought to himself. Ever since the USJ incident, that had been the feeling permeating him. He didn't have proof, but he was pretty sure that the teachers were purposefully pitting him against only the strongest students in the class. Something he both appreciated and disdained. Appreciated because he could go all out against most of them, and disdained because what once had been fairly simple victories had turned into slugfests. He didn't feel like he was improving, whereas everyone around him was.

The last time he had faced Yaoyorozu, he had trapped her inside one of his glaciers. Something she would have had no chance to escape from on the first day of class. And yet, she had simply coated herself in that strange lightning and flexed off his ice. Granted, she had broken several bones doing so and lost the match, requiring medical attention from Midoriya, but she had done it, nonetheless.

He didn't believe for a second that her Quirk had simply evolved, or that Midoriya had figured out something about her Quirk she never had. New discoveries and adjustments to someone's Quirk mechanics were never so drastic. It was as though she was using an entirely different Quirk.

And this time she was giving him as good as she got. His smoking and slightly burned clothes were a testament to that. He saw red, and this time the biggest glacier yet sprang out in front of him, aimed directly at her.

"I knew it." Momo let out a sigh as One For All's lightning converged in front of her, forming what looked like a cross between a flamethrower and a flak cannon. She had learned her lesson well from the USJ, and a massive shield made out of transparent aluminum with a coating of aerogel protected her. A massive gout of flame erupted in front of her at several thousands of degrees. It met the approaching ice with a hiss of steam as it bore a hole through the ice. She didn't even feel mild warmth from the inferno before her.

She cut off the spray, seeing a perfectly smooth hole in the ice, and a dumbfounded Todoroki at the other end. She blitzed through the opening, her speed making the flames flicker as she rushed past them. Todoroki tried to ice her again, but it was slower and smaller. She easily leapt over it, smashing her foot into his chest, and knocking him down. She landed and let out a sigh, unhappy despite her victory. "Look at you." She said, not bothering to offer him a hand. She knew he wouldn't take it.

"What was that?" Todoroki got to his feet, frustration burning in his face.

"You have fire and yet you're just letting yourself turn into an icicle." Momo said, and immediately Todoroki got angry, "Mina-chan would never have suggested Frozone for you if she knew beforehand that you had been such a fool during the Incident. Tōru-chan only told us after. I'm surprised Miss Midnight approved it."

"Is there a point to this?" He glared at her.

"How are any of us supposed to feel good about winning when all you do is sit there and insult everyone giving it their all?" She glared back.

"You don't know anything." He spat, turning, and walking away.

"You say you want to be the Number One without using your whole Quirk?" Momo asked his retreating back, "Newsflash Todoroki-kun. You're just as bad as Bakugō-san and his angry yelling and bullying. No one in their right mind would give someone like you a high rank."

"I WILL be the best Hero!" He whirled back, clenching his fists in anger.

"No, Izuku will." She said it so matter-of-factly that Todoroki was momentarily knocked from his anger, "You'll never even break the top ten with your attitude. Inevitably your ice is not going to be enough, and you're going to let someone die to continue throwing your tantrum. You don't want to be a Hero. You just want to prove your father wrong about… whatever your issue is with him. But you never will. You're no different than him." She walked away from him, going back to her friends. "No one needs a Hero who runs off spite."

He stared at her back, dumbfounded.

That… that wasn't true. It couldn't be… right? He DID want to be a Hero, and everything he'd done had been to get away from his father. So why did people compare him to his father, no matter what he did?

The turmoil ate away at him, before he forced through it. No. None of them knew. None of them knew anything. And yet her words had produced that same nagging feelings Aizawa-sensei's ultimatum had… and they weren't going away. Without knowing anything about his situation, she'd cut deeper than anyone else ever had.

-]|[-

Izuku fought to keep from hyperventilating. He was going on a date! A date with a REALLY hot girl! SHE HAD ASKED HIM OUT!

"Calm down, Izuku." Inko told him, though secretly she was only so calm because she'd taken medicine. ONE of them needed to be. "Everything is going to go fine! Deep breaths!" Izuku did as told, taking a long, deep breath, holding it in for a few seconds, before exhaling, "See, that's better, isn't it? Remember, she asked you out, so she already likes you, right? Everything will go fine! Just be yourself!"

"R-Right!" Izuku said, clapping his hands to his cheeks. Honestly, the date request had caught him completely by surprise. He had been hoping that he hadn't been imagining the interest Momo had been showing, but it hadn't been the heiress to ask him out. It had been Setsuna! He was almost disappointed by that, because maybe he'd been totally reading her wrong?

He'd said yes to Setsuna, more out of surprise than anything, even if he probably would have said yes anyway. She was cute, hot, and intelligent as well! She was a lovely young woman! Honestly, he was more confused by what she saw in him. Old habits died hard. And when he said yes, he had almost been expecting Momo to get angry or jealous. She'd been very affectionate with him since the USJ and One For All's transference. But she hadn't been. Her eyes had narrowed a little, but her smile had been genuine. Or at least he thought it had been.

His mom poked him, "What's this? I thought her name was Setsuna? Who is Momo?"

"Uhhh, another of my friends." Izuku said.

"Probably best not to mutter about other girls during a date, I-zu-ku." Inko said sternly, "I didn't raise a playboy either!"

"R-Right!" Izuku panicked at the second statement, "I-I'm not! No way!"

"Good." She pecked him on the forehead, "Go get her, my little Phoenix." Izuku flushed red and ran out of the apartment before teleporting away in a flash of green. She held it in for a few seconds before squealing, "My little boy, finally becoming a man!" She fell onto the couch with a happy exclamation.

…

"H-Hey Setsuna!" Izuku smiled at his date. She looked wonderful, wearing a snuggly fit turtleneck sweater dress that reached down to her thighs, a belt wrapped around her midsection, and a pearl necklace.

"Heya, Zuzu." She and Nejire had unknowingly landed on the same nickname for him, "Hope you like dinosaurs!" She flashed her sharp teeth at him.

"Of course, I do!" Izuku immediately lit up, "Who wouldn't think they were cool?"

Setsuna's smile widened, "Knew it! We're going to the museum! Been there?"

He shook his head, "Not this new one. Went to the rebuilt one in Katsuyama when I was younger though."

"This one is even better!" She was trying to play it cool, but she grabbed his hand in obvious eagerness and pulled him along, "Let's go! I heard they managed to dig up a new rex!" As they walked, Setsuna asked something that had been on her mind since the day of that dreaded dual-class trip, "I hope you don't mind me asking, but how come you were so shy and stuttery during….err… the incident before things got started?"

Izuku missed a step but quickly recovered, "I, err…"

"You don't have to answer if you don't want to." She reassured him, hoping she hadn't just stepped on a land mine, "I was just really curious. You totally changed when the battle started, and you've been a lot livelier in general since then."

He sighed, "It's because I was bullied a lot when I was younger."

Cue spit take, "Wait, what?!" She blurted, "How?! You're so strong and have such a cool Quirk!"

He smiled sardonically, "Yeah, well… that's new." She stared at him in incomprehension, "I was misdiagnosed as Quirkless by some hack of a doctor. I've actually only been using my Quirk since last year near the start of the first semester. And, well…"

"Kids are jackasses?" She hissed, scowling, "We had one Quirkless student in our class as well, and about half of the class treated her like dirt." She smiled viciously, "Wish you had been in my school, Zuzu. Then I would have had two people to get my shapely ass suspended over."

"Suspended?!" He blurted, his eyes wide, "But didn't you get in on recommendation? And Scholastic Recommendation as well!?"

"Yuuuup." She popped her lips with the 'p,' before returning a wide smirk, "They brought it up during the interviews for U.A. of course. 'Even if you are a straight A+ student, why should we consider you if you have 19 suspensions on your record?' Was what principal Nezu asked me."

"NINETEEN?!" He blurted, eyes nearly popping out.

She giggled, "Nezu quickly changed his tune when I told him all nineteen were for getting into fights defending one of my classmates from bullies over something she couldn't control. He rather hates them, doesn't he?"

Izuku smiled, "Yeah, I think I would have liked going to your school too." She beamed at him.

…

"I wonder if these are the real fossils or if they made casts?" Izuku asked, marveling at the triceratops.

"I think they're real. This was a pretty expensive Museum." Setsuna wondered the same, "But I know real fossils can actually be pretty fragile."

They continued walking, having thankfully picked a fairly slow part of the day for their trip, "I wonder what they really looked like?" Izuku asked suddenly.

"What do you mean?" She turned to him curiously.

"Well, remember back before the glowing baby, we thought that they were reptilian? Like lizards?" Izuku started, and her eyes widened in realization.

"Ah, and then some of them were found with quills and what could have been feathers?" Setsuna continued the thought.

"Exactly!" Izuku said, and they came upon the newest exhibit: the T-Rex. "It's so huge!"

"That's what she said." Setsuna joked, striking like a whip. Izuku sputtered in shock, making her laugh, "Too easy, Zuzu." She eyed it, "No way this thing was just a scavenger." She muttered, frowning.

"It was really silly that a hypothesis like that became a theory for a while." He agreed, "I mean… look at it!"

"With those teeth and what they estimated as its bite force? 30,300 kg per square cm? No way this thing wasn't a hunter." She grinned.

Izuku had a thought, "Hey, imagine if they had Quirks!" Setsuna first blanched and then started laughing with him, "Fire Breathing T-rex says, 'screw you!'"

"Oh man, and if it had any organs that let it do that, they wouldn't be preserved, and we'd never know!" She exclaimed. She side-eyed him and her grin widened again, "What do you think? Have something in that psychic bag of tricks to show us for sure?"

Izuku opened his mouth to deny her with some disappointment before it clicked shut and he inclined his head.

Her eyes widened and she started to whisper, "No way, do you?"

"I don't… know." He said slowly, "But psychometry is a psychic power in the comics, and I've recreated a few abilities from them. I wouldn't even know where to start, but… d-do you think I could?"

She almost started to vibrate in excitement, "Only one way to find out!"

"I'd have to touch it, though." Izuku put a damper on her excitement, "And at minimum, it would have to be real."

She swallowed, "I really hope we don't get banned for this." She hugged him and slipped her arm under his jacket and around his waist. He startled and she hissed, "Hug me back and try mind-linking me. Maybe you can try with me touching it."

Izuku sank into her mind and immediately made her aware of his presence. She detached one of her fingers and surreptitiously controlled it into the exhibit. She touched the femur as gently as she could, but after a minute or two, Izuku murmured, "Fake." He could tell immediately once he seemed to focus his power the right way. They both got a flash of the construction process via his power.

"Holy crap, it works!" Setsuna said in amazement, "That would be SO useful solving crimes! You'd be the world's greatest detective!" She then made his concentration drop with a sputter, "Doo doot doot doot doot Inspector Gadget!" She relaxed in his embrace, smiles on both their faces as their laughter died down.

As he wrapped his arm around her, she touched the tail next, "Fake too." This time it was much quicker.

"Drat. Dumb casts. You're totally ruining our plan." She pouted, and then touched the skull. Hopefully that or at least one of the darn teeth was actually a real fossil.

She got her wish.

The king charged forward, its steps shaking the land. It had been at least two moons since it had last had a meal, and it was more than ready for meat. It got unlucky as its loud footsteps spooked the meals. They started running away, faster than it could realistically catch.

It paid them no mind. They would have been mouthfuls at best. Not nearly enough to slake its hunger. It had a bigger prize in mind.

The beast was shorter and squatter than it. It could most certainly not run from the king, and so after a foolish, failed attempt at doing so, it squared up and bellowed a challenge, its rock-hard tail ready to swing. The king knew well that the club was a mighty weapon; one that had felled its brother long ago. The king was older, and wiser.

The king would not lose.

The king continued its charge, making a good target of itself. The prey bellowed and swung its tail, but the king stomped short and backed out of the way rapidly. The attack missed, but it would not make the same mistake its brother had. The club came back around, and the king had its moment. The club missed it by a quill and then the king lunged, throwing its body at the prey, and lifting it off its legs with the impact.

The animal cried out as it rapidly tried to find its footing. The king was patient, backing away and dodging another swipe from the tail. The prey was unbalanced, and the king lifted its leg, stomping down on the appendage with all of its weight. The bony armor protected it, but not enough. The deadly weapon was immobilized, and then the king dipped low, snapping viciously onto the hind leg of the beast. A crack rang out as the enemy's leg broke. It tore its head back, further breaking the limb and making the prey cry out in agony. It let go, confident that it could no longer put its weight on that leg, and that the club would no longer be a danger from the beast's injury.

The King bashed into it and rolled it over, cutting off its desperate cry with its teeth around its soft, squishy neck. Another crack rang out, and the animal went slack with a rattling breath. The king released its prize, and roared out its victory. It was a call every single being around knew to avoid.

Izuku and Setsuna nearly fell to their knees, gasping for breath. His arm slipped around her waist to hold her up as their knees wobbled and they barely stayed upright. Their breaths came in gasps as Setsuna started to desperately giggle, "It-" She swallowed and turned amazed eyes to Izuku, "It sounded way cooler than the movies." There was a note of hysteria in her voice.

"Scavenger." Izuku managed to scoff in between the gasping laughs.

She turned around and threw her arms around his neck, squeezing as tight as she could.

…

The rest of the day had been amazing. The first one had definitely generated the worst post-reaction, because they'd been unprepared for it actually working so well. The two had spent the rest of the day running around the museum in giddy excitement, learning about some of their favorite animals from sources far better than any textbook. They discovered that the T. Rex indeed had some feathers, but only on its head and running down its spine like plumage. They also discovered how heavily muscled it was. They saw a mighty Triceratops that had racked up a scary number of gores against the Kings. And a pack of Raptors that had terrorized the lands. Even the glorious flights across oceans as the Pterosaurs.

But all good things had to come to an end, and closing time marked the end of this adventure. Izuku walked Setsuna home, marveling at her rather upscale house. It certainly wasn't Momo's manor, but he was pretty sure it put even Bakugō's house to shame. "I- I had a great time, Set." She wanted a pet name from him, so he obliged with something simple.

Setsuna grinned toothily, "Boy, you couldn't possibly have set a better mark for a first date." Her grin widened, and she threw her arms around his neck. She was so glad she had decided to at least give this poly thing a try. Her lips found his, and his eyes widened, before snapping shut and hugging her back. Two more semi-loud smooches rang out, before she backed away, smiling even wider as she took in his shocked, bright-red face.

"W-Wow." He mumbled, steaming.

She giggled in delight, "Oh, it was just three, little smooches. Dork." She grinned wickedly, pulling him back in and giving him a proper kiss, pressing up into him. She was quite proud of her technique, and looking at his near-catatonic look when she pulled away gave her a little thrill. At least her gyaru days in middle school had been good for something. "Now that one is a wow." She giggled as he mumbled unintelligibly. "But time to call it a night. I had fun, Zuzu. Definitely want to go again!"

He snapped out of it, "Amazing." He mumbled, before asking her, "D-Does this mean that we're-"

"Ahp ahp ahp!" She placed her fingertip on his lips, shutting him up, "Let's save that question for later, shall we?"

Izuku blinked in shock, "Uhm?"

"Don't worry." She knew he'd probably be in his own head if she just left it at that, "You'll know the answer to that question by the end of next week. Okay?"

Izuku swallowed, "Okay."

She smiled, and pecked him one last time, "Oh, and have fun tomorrow! I know I will!"

"T-Tomorrow?" Izuku blinked, "What's tomorrow?"

She looked like that cat that had caught the canary, "Oh, your date with Mina-chan, of course!"

Izuku dot exe has crashed. Reboot? "Bwuh?!"

"Ahahaha!" Setsuna giggled in delight at his face, "Yup, and mine with Camie-chan. We've got a busy week ahead of us, mister, so go get some rest!" She pecked him one last time as he continued to goggle. "Good night!" She said cheerfully.

Dazed, Izuku returned it before she shut the door, and he stood there for a second, before turning and teleporting away. "Izuku?" Inko jumped up, smiling brightly before taking in his face once the glow from his arrival had died down, "How did it go?"

Izuku slumped into his sofa, "It… it went great?"

"…" Inko stared at him in worry, "Was that a question or an answer?"

"It definitely went great!" Izuku said, shaking himself, "We had a lot of fun! And-" He blushed, "She even kissed me when I walked her home!"

Inko squealed, "Oh, that's wonderful, baby!" She shook her fists in front of her chest in excitement, "Does that mean you're dating now?" She asked eagerly.

"T-That's what I asked…" He said, still looking gobsmacked, "Or at least I tried to. But she stopped me and told me that we both had another date tomorrow."

"T-That's good, isn't it?" Inko asked, smile slipping a bit.

"I… think?" Izuku said, before looking at the TV, before staring at the floor with his chin in one of his hands, "But she said she was going on a date with Camie-chan… and then told me to have fun on my date with Mina-chan!" He finally blurted out in total confusion. "What does that mean?!" His mom didn't say anything for a few seconds, "Mom?"

He turned, and then blanched. Inko had a very un-Inko-like smile on her face, and her eyes were glowing like Izuku's did when Phoenix Force was at max power. She then started to giggle somewhat ominously.

A cold sweat dripped down Izuku's back.

-]|[-

" Y!" Mina crowed, throwing herself out of her desk and punching towards the sky the second after the final bell rang. She hurried over to Izuku, "Are you ready for today, Midori? Did you bring your comfy clothes, like I asked?"

He blushed a bit from how close she got, "Y-yeah, I did!" He hefted his bag, "Y-You still haven't told me what we're doing."

She grinned, "We're going to dance."

"Welp, it was a nice life." Izuku deadpanned, and turned to Inasa. Mina blinked in confusion, "Please tell mom I love her in advance. Cuz Mina-chan's going to kill me for crushing her feet."

Mina burst out laughing, followed by half of the class, "Nope! I have something else in mind! Let's go!" She grabbed his hand, and they tore out of the room, Izuku nearly stumbling and falling on his face from the speed she was moving at.

…

"Uhhh…" Izuku was now wearing shorts and a tee, and he was blushing at Mina wearing sweatpants and a belly-baring sports bra. She had brought him to her home, figuring that he'd be a bit too nervous if she took him straight to a studio instead. "So, what are we going to be doing?"

"This way!" Mina said cheerfully, opening a door and turning on the lights.

"Woah!" Izuku's eyes bulged, "It's like you have a dance studio in your house!" The entire back wall was mirrored, which he guessed was to allow them to see themselves as they moved.

"Yup!" Mina laughed, hands behind her head, "It's my favorite room in the house!" She hopped up and down, "Yeah, yeah, yeah! Check it out!" She started to A Step, before she did a Cheat Gainer and landed on her left hand, the other holding her left shoe; a picture-perfect L-kick. Not that Izuku knew what any of those moves were called. She then allowed herself to dip and started windmilling around before she raised herself onto her hands without skipping a beat and started to hit a perfect airflare. As Izuku stared with wide eyes, she finished off with a 2000 and spun on her palm a few times before dropping her feet and standing upright.

"That was amazing!" Izuku grinned excitedly, "But I hope you don't expect me to do any of that!" He told her, half in amusement and half in dread.

"Why not?" She grinned teasingly, "You already know how to fight and move, dontcha?"

"Not like that!" He laughed back at her.

"Yeah, we'll have to work up to it. But don't you worry. I gotchu, Midori." She grinned, "We'll start you off slower with some basics along with some choreography, though I think you could get things going pretty quick if I know you half as well as I think I do." He blushed at her belief in him, "So!" She walked over to the sound system and synced her phone, "Repeat, aaaand! Random!"

She tossed the phone and ran back to the center of the room, "Oooh, haven't done this one in a while!" She grinned as an English song came on. "Watch me, Midori. I like this one and while it's not easy, it's simpler than a lot of the other choreographies I know! Just watch me the first time and then we'll break it down into parts." She started moving her feet and legs, smiling from his eyes glued on her, "Watch the feet. Right now, I'm just doing whatever I feel like. Feel the beat!" He was indeed bobbing his head a bit to it, "And now it starts!" She said, as her last few steps took her backwards and now she took three steps forward, before turning right, jumping, and landing with one leg a bit forward and finishing the turn left. She rolled her hips and kept tapping her feet, throwing in some leg pivots that made her pants move in kinda/sorta mesmerizing ways. She was even bringing her feet together, dipping slightly, and then rapidly opening and closing her legs without her feet coming apart.

"Woah…" Izuku watched, engrossed as she moved through the roughly 45-second choreography flawlessly.

She grinned as she came to a stop, "So, what do you think?"

"I loved the dance!" He blushed, before chuckling a little, "Song wasn't my favorite."

"Mooooood!" Mina laughed as well, "It's kinda catchy even if you don't want it to be! Ready to give it a go?"

He smirked lightly, "Shouldn't you be teaching me basics first?"

"Meh, you're awesome enough to get it! Don't try to escape, mister!" Mina waggled her finger at him.

"I'm not!" He laughed at her reaction, "But you know… I'm curious. Turn around." She did so and he got behind her to the left, "You girls keep telling me to be better with my powers. I wonder if this will work. May I?"

"Will what?" She asked and nodded to his question, and then gasped as her golden eyes started glowing an emerald green, "They're so pretty, but they totally don't match my skin." She giggled.

"Ooof, this is taking some effort. I wonder if it will work. Can you do the dance again?" He asked, and she obliged, starting with her free dance that wasn't part of the choreography.

And her eyes popped open, "!" She continued dancing, watching as Izuku mimicked her every move and muscle twitch perfectly, "Midori you cheater!" She started to laugh, "See, you can totally do it! You just need to not be cheating!"

"I had to see if my body would actually move like this, you know? I could have sworn I had two left feet!" Izuku was grinning in elation, totally weirded out by his body moving without him directing it but happy he was making her happy. "This is fun!"

The two ran through the choreography, though really it was just Mina. "That was so cool!" She barreled into him once it ended, and he released the mind link. She was trying to hug the stuffing out of him.

"Ack! Mina! Air!" Izuku hugged her back anyway. "Shall we try for real this time?"

"Mhm!" Mina nodded, "Okay, face the mirror and follow me. Right now, you're just going to learn the individual pieces, so we'll break it down into segments. If you have any trouble, we'll go over it until you don't! Don't worry about matching my speed. That's something that takes practice together."

"Sounds good! Let's do it!" Izuku eagerly tried to follow as she led him through the first steps.

…

About five hours later, Izuku felt exhausted in a way that only hard training usually left him. "Oh man…"

Mina looked pretty tired herself, though she was much fresher than him since she knew what she was doing, "You did so well!" She cheered as she glomped him, "I can't believe we've gotten through a full half of it already! I was expecting maybe a quarter at best! Those weren't all easy moves!"

"Do you think the mind link puppeteering had a hand in it?" He hugged her back, blushing. She may not have been as tired as he was, but her skin was definitely moist from all the sweat.

"I don't think so?" She asked more than said. "I mean, you only did it once at the beginning. Maybe you just got some natural talent? You did better than Momo did yesterday!"

He stumbled a bit, "Oh? You had Momo here yesterday?" His interest was piqued, and to be honest he felt a little sus himself now.

Mina grinned, "Yup! She was my date yesterday. She had fun learning a different dance!" Izuku blinked at having his slight suspicion confirmed. Mina leered, "Did you have fun with Set yesterday?" She leaned in.

"…" He squinted a bit, "Yes? We had a lot of fun."

"Good." Mina said decisively, her smirk widening, "And tomorrow you're with Camie-chan and I'm with Nejire-chan-senpai."

"I am?" Izuku blinked, "Uhh… Mina? What's going on?" he asked, feeling a little weird about it.

"All will be explained soon, mwahahahah!" Mina laughed adorably evilly. He sweatdropped, and she stopped and continued to grin excitedly, "So, did you have fun?"

"Of course!" He decided to put it past him for now. Clearly the girls were up to something, and frankly they were confusing him about it. He'd just focus on having fun, like they apparently were. "I had a blast today! Too bad I need to go home now."

"Which makes me SUPER happy, by the by." She hugged him tightly again, "That you like dancing with me, not that you have to go home. That part sucks." She giggled, drawing a laugh from him too. "But before you go…" She trailed off, her hands finding purchase on his hair.

"Mph!" Izuku's eyes widened as she kissed him, going straight for some tongue unlike Set's first kiss yesterday. He closed his eyes and hesitantly kissed back, not really knowing what he was doing. She pressed tighter into him, making him moan a little bit, before she backed away. Both of them were panting lightly, but she gave him a massive smile and buried her face into his neck.

"I could get used to this." She mumbled, smiling as he hugged her tighter.

-]|[-

Izuku was surprised that the chosen locale for his outing with Camie was a skatepark. He'd half expected her to just take him home so they could play video games all day. "Oof!" He jerked forward a little bit as someone jumped on his back. "C-Camie-chan?"

"Hey faaam!" Her face was really close to his, but after Mina and Setsuna he finally failed to blush from just that, "You ever heard of updog?"

Izuku had been waiting for this moment his entire life, "Not much, how about you?"

She gasped, scandalized, "Did you just anti my joke?!"

Izuku started to laugh, "You have NO idea how long I've been wanting to do that." She returned his giggles and got off his back.

"You ready to skate?" He turned around and took her in. He really hadn't expected her in an outfit like this. Said outfit being a more comfortable-looking Jotaro cosplay, unless he very much missed his guess.

He chuckled nervously, "Kinda feel out of place." He was just wearing his 'pants' shirt and some shorts.

"Nah fam!" She laughed, "You can wear what ya like, if that's what you're worried about." She took his hand and led him into the skatepark, "You ever skated before?"

"Uhhh, I did some rollerblading." He replied, "It's something, right?"

"Yup!" She grinned, "Skating is different, obv, but at least you have some experience." Her grin turned into a smirk, "And with how fast your learning curve apparently is," Oh yes, Mina had crowed about their date last night after he'd left, "I def expect to see you pick up a couple easy tricks!" They reached the place where Camie had left her stuff. She had another board waiting for her, "Think you need the protective stuff, or your rad Quirk got you handled if you fall?"

Izuku scratched his chin, "I think I can just use a small barrier if we start doing anything dangerous."

"Kay!" She said cheerfully, "So let's start off with that basic ass ollie then." She dropped her board and got on it, "Here." She easily performed the trick, while Izuku watched closely, "Simple, yeah? All ya do is have your back foot on the tail, and your front foot in the middle. Crouch, and then jump with the front foot first. Then the back foot. Then slide the front foot forward and land. Ez." She showed him the steps slowly as she explained. "Give it a try! And just make sure not ta land in the middle of the board, or ya might break it."

Izuku chuckled internally. His lesson with Mina had detoured quite often with her needing to show him basic steps and moves in her excitement to dance with him. Camie probably had the better teaching method, even if he'd succeeded a bit with the dancing. He stepped onto his own board, and actually got the front to hop. "Ah…?"

"Ya didn't jump with the back foot." Camie grinned, "Great first try tho!"

"Hmm…" Izuku got back on and tried again. This time he totally failed, and just jumped off the board.

Camie started to giggle, "Front first, then quickly back." She instructed, "Ya did both at the same time, that time."

Izuku pouted, "This is harder than I thought. Can I try the mind link?"

"Nope! No cheating!" Camie smirked at him, "At least not for this one."

In the end, it took another ten minutes before he got a really good one, and another twenty before he was getting them consistently. "This is fun!" He grinned after landing another one.

"Awesome faaaaaam!" She clapped excitedly, "Told ya you'd get it!" Her smile turned evil, "Now do it while moving."

"…Ehhhh?!" Izuku looked a little afraid, "So soon?!"

"Yuuup!" She dropped her board and got on it, "Skate around and practice!" She started rolling forward, "And if you're feelin ballsy, try this!" She sped up with a few kicks and then ollied onto a rail and grinded it down.

Izuku's jaw dropped a bit at the sheer ease she did that with. He gulped, "You know what? Plus Ultra." He mumbled, before he took a few practice runs and managed to get a decent ollie while moving. He also managed to figure out turning and directing the board fairly easily. He then sped up and made for the rail.

Camie blanched and made to shout that she had been joking and that he should at least put on a helmet, but was too late. Izuku ollied onto the rail and actually did grind for a second or two before he lost his balance and fell off the board, "Oh, fuck!" She screamed and jumped off the board to run to him.

But she just sighed in relief as he started to glow green and just halted in midair before he could crack his head open on the rail. "…" He even had prevented the skateboard from flying off.

"Jeez, don't scare me like that, Zuku!" She crashed into him when he was upright again. "I was kidding! I didn't even teach ya to grind yet!" She hugged the stuffing out of him.

He giggled a little nervously, his heart still pounding, "Plus Ultra?" He asked sheepishly, "I managed to get on it and then realized I had no exit strategy."

She sputtered and started to laugh, "At least your Quirk saved ya. Damn, I'm totally jelly again." She mumbled into his collar. "Good for more?"

"Yeah, let's have fun!" He replied.

…

They spent about three hours at the skatepark, before they decided to go home. "Ma makes some killer grub and I asked her ta make a bit extra. She works nights." Camie explained as she turned her key and they walked in.

As expected, her mother was gone, and Izuku immediately went bloodhound with the smell, "…She made katsudon?!"

"Smells like it. Ya like?" Camie grinned at the excitement.

"I love katsudon! It's my favorite." He squinted, "Did you know or…?"

"Nah fam, I love it too. Not my favorite but I love it." Camie declared as they dropped their stuff off and made for the kitchen to eat.

"It's really good!" Izuku declared, a happy smile on his face.

"The best you've had?" Camie asked playfully.

Izuku gulped a little, and Plus Ultra'd, "Mom's is better. Maybe you can try it some time?"

A grin of delight rose on her face, "I'd like that!" they quickly finished their plates, "Now!" She declared, "Time ta finally kick your butt at something!" She yanked out Mario Kart 27.

Izuku's eyes started to gleam competitively as they made for her room.

…

"What was that about kicking my butt?" He asked playfully as he crossed the finish line in the third race. They had traded first and second place in the first two races of this grand prix, and after four grand prix they were tied 2-2 for victories. Unfortunately for Camie, she'd gotten STUPIDLY unlucky, and the AI had nailed her with a blue shell on the last lap. She'd still been in the lead, but then got hit with a red shell. And then another red shell. And then Izuku had run her over with Star Power. And then as the cherry on the shit cake, she'd barely been moving again when the last place AI had nailed everyone but Izuku with a lightning bolt. She'd dropped from first to seventh in about a ten-second sequence.

"Oh, come on! That was bullshit, Zuku!" Camie pouted.

"Don't make the rules, Camie-chan!" He replied, smirking playfully at her.

She scowled, but then brightened up. It was time to level the playing field. She got up and stretched, feeling her back pop. She smirked, "You're right! Time to get serious!"

"Oh?" Izuku asked, wondering if a JoJo reference would fit here.

"Yup." She started walking to him.

Yup. Jojo reference, "Oho? You're approaching me? Instead of running away, you're coming right to me?"

Camie's eyes lit up, "I can't beat the shit out of you without coming closer."

"Ho, ho! Then come as close as you'd like!" Wait? Why did he say that? He'd fallen for her trap!

"That's the plan!" She plopped herself down behind him. Her legs were locked around him, and she was leaning on him and pressing her breasts into his back. "This is much comfier, I~zu~ku." She breathed into his ear as she hugged him from behind.

Izuku blushed a solid red, "C-Cheater…"

"That's not nice." She replied playfully, "I'm just getting comfy. And now my secret weapon!" She chose the map: the remake of the Wii Rainbow Road.

"You really love your Rainbow Roads, don't you?" Izuku muttered.

"I love how pretty they are." Camie giggled, "Time to win!" She had her arms around him as she got her controller ready.

Izuku mistimed the starting rev due to the distraction, and so he only got a tiny boost instead of a big one. At least he hadn't blown his engine up! Camie raced past him, but he quickly caught up with a well-timed mushroom from a crate. "Crap!" She scowled as a random, bouncing Green Shell nailed her and Izuku shot past.

She was still in second place when lap two started, and she broke out the big guns. She shortcut every jump she could and caught up to Izuku. They were neck and neck when they crossed the finish line on lap two. But that wasn't good enough. She was too far behind in points to win if he took second place. She slowly smirked, and then on a critical part of the map, she leaned forward and kissed his neck. He stiffened immediately, jerking his joystick slightly and missing the perfect line. She then bit his earlobe gently, and he spasmed so hard he fell off the road.

She grinned in victory as she crossed the line, and a few seconds later he crossed in eighth. That meant she won the match and their five-game tiebreaker by one whole point! "Woohooo!" She cheered, throwing her fists into the air.

"Cheater…" Izuku was still blushing hard.

"I don't know what you mean. Did I do something?" She teased him, "How did I distract you, hmmm?" She teasingly trailed a finger down his chest, secretly hoping he'd take the initiative and kiss her. He was still too shy for that though.

So, she did.

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"ZUZU!" Nejire cheered as he met her outside of U.A. She was wearing comfy and warm clothes, as she'd told him to wear as well. She had yoga pants on, along with a cute little jacket over her shirt.

"Hello, senpai." Izuku greeted her, wondering what in the world his life had turned into. He'd been on three separate dates with three different girls in successive days, and now was on a fourth as well.

"Mou… I told you to call me 'chan,' Zuzu." She pouted at him.

He blushed a little. She was so CUTE! "S-Sorry, Nejire-chan. What are we doing today?"

She grinned happily, "I have my license, which means I'm allowed to use my Quirk in public and authorize others to do so as well, even if it's only the provisional one."

Izuku's eyes lit up, "Oooh, sounds like whatever we're doing is going to be awesome."

"Hehehe!" She smiled, "You're one of the few people I could ever do this with! Let's FLY, Zuzu!"

"Fly?" he repeated, looking excited. He did always enjoy that!

"Yup!" She seized his hand, "Let's go!" She took off into the air, laughing gaily with him following behind her.

They went higher than Izuku had ever gone before, "Does your Quirk allow you to go higher?" He asked as he realized the cities were shrinking in the distance. "The air is going to thin out."

She laughed as they started to just float there. "It helps, but once we get high enough my Quirk can't keep up." She pouted sadly. Even just this high up, the air had started thinning.

"Hmmm… I wonder…" Izuku mumbled, his green glow intensifying.

"Oh!" Nejire gasped, as her breathing became easier, and her ears popped just slightly. "What did you do?" She shook in excited glee.

"I started using my power to bring more air to us. I'm kinda compressing it around us." Izuku grinned, "Surprised it worked so well!"

"That's AWESOME!" She shouted, before whipping out her phone. She rapidly typed into it.

"What are you doing?" Izuku asked curiously, surprised. None of the other girls had used their phones much if at all during their dates.

"Checking the SR71 Blackbird's record!" Nejire chirped gleefully.

Izuku started to pale, "Uhh, Nejire-chan… we're not going t-"

"It's almost 26000 meters!" She replied, "We can totally beat that, Zuzu!" She grabbed him and they started flying up.

"Waaah! SENPAI!" Izuku squealed as the two glowing (one green, one gold) rockets shot into the air at the fastest speed he'd ever gone at. He really started having to concentrate hard to keep the air breathable, "S-senpai!" He gasped, realizing she was starting to pant as well. Not to mention the cold and their clothes were kinda wet. They were starting to freeze. "I can't keep up with the air!" He shouted at her.

She pouted sadly as she realized she was starting to gasp for breath, and the two slowed down before reversing back down. "Awwww… we didn't make it." The altimeter on her phone showed only 18000m.

He took some deep breaths, "M-Maybe with our costumes on?" He couldn't say no to that face.

She lit up, "Yeah!" She then started to tap her chin, "Maybe with some mods? I'm all wet from that cloud we went through." She started to shiver as the adrenaline started to die and she realized how cold she was, "Brrr, okay, maybe that was a bad idea. I got too excited." She pouted at the realization. "MY HAIR!" She realized suddenly. The tips of her hair were frozen.

Izuku didn't want their date to end on a bad note. Maybe he could do something about it? He focused, imagining the little drops of water coming loose from their skin, hair, and clothes.

"Eep!" Nejire yelped as she felt herself start to vibrate. And she was definitely too cold to even think of enjoying it!

The ice melted from the vibrations he induced, and then all of it tore out of their clothes, collecting into a small ball of water. They were now totally dry, even if they were both still a bit cold.

"Oh my GOSH!" Nejire squealed, shaking her fists in front of her in complete and utter excitement, "Your Quirk is so COOL!" She glomped him, "It just keeps getting cooler every time I see it!"

Izuku giggled nervously, "Uh, yeah, I'm still kind of discovering new things because…"

"Ah, the Quirkless thing? Set and Momo told me about it." She frowned, and hugged him tighter, "I hate people like that. There's never a reason to be so mean! Jerks!"

But Izuku was focused on the other thing, "Uhhh… senpai? Not that I haven't loved these dates, but…"

Nejire pretended not to hear him, "No moping or grumping!" She said more to herself than to him, "Today is for fun!" She poked him, "Tag! You're it!" She blasted off, far faster than she had been going previously.

"…" Izuku floated there, watching her shrink, "Am I going to get an answer at some point? She totally dodged that." He muttered, before tucking in and shooting off after her. He put a smile on his face, "Time to really fly!" He yelled, before he picked up speed. She grinned as he started catching her in a straight line, and quickly veered off, flying lower. "Gotcha!" he tapped her and veered away. He mind-linked her, 'How much more juice do you have?'

'Teehee, you haven't seen anything yet!' She told him. He smirked, before kicking it into a higher gear.

The two continued to fly while mentally chatting with each other. He learned she loved jasmine tea and lilies, while she learned how extensive his note-taking was when she mentioned that she interned with Ryūkyū and was regaled with all of his thoughts and ideas on the Dragon Hero's Quirk.

In return, she told him of some of the cases she'd worked on with Ryūkyū. He'd almost fallen out of the sky when she blushed brightly and told him of her very first day of her first internship. It had involved capturing a Villain whose Quirk dissolved certain types of materials.

…

One of which just happened to be a major component of her first Hero suit.

"Oh man, that must have been awful!" Izuku cringed, and felt bad for laughing.

Nejire giggled good-naturedly, "Yeah, it was pretty bad. Luckily my hair was super long, so I just wrapped it around me before anyone saw anything!" She started to giggle, "Of course, that did help me become a little less shy. According to Ryūkyū, unless your costume is built like a tank you can expect to have at least one wardrobe malfunction throughout your career, if not at least once a year. A few weeks later we fought someone with a shockwave Quirk, and it blew Ryūkyū's costume clean off."

"Can confirm." Izuku deadpanned whilst blushing at the thought of the naked Dragoon Hero, remembering the state his costume had been in before his Inferno Overdrive.

The two entered the city, and they were weaving in and out between the buildings as he tried to evade her. But she was far more experienced in an urban setting, and managed to trick him into thinking she was following, when in reality she had gone even faster and wrapped around the high-rise. She glomped him from behind, "Ehehehe! I win!" She pulled out her phone, "Mou, where did the time go? It's getting pretty late." Somehow, they'd already been flying around for two hours. It had seemed like nothing! "Okay Zuzu, new game!" She grinned as she nuzzled into him from behind, drawing a fresh blush from the verdette. "I'll give you a ten second head start, and then I'm coming after you. If you evade me for five minutes, you win and get a prize~!" Izuku immediately went sus, after the last three days. "If I catch you, then I win and I get the prize. Kay?"

Izuku agreed, and jet off. The two entered a forested area, and Izuku was surprisingly good at evading the branches and trees. About three minutes passed as they were weaving through the trees.

And then Nejire revealed for the first time just how fast she was the second they came into a clearing. There was a tiny lake, and some nice rocks which could possibly have been great for sunbathing. She started to crackle with power as she went into V2 and immediately broke the sound barrier, catching up to him in an instant.

Izuku yelped in shock and whirled around. "Gotcha~" She grinned at him playfully.

"Holy crap! Was that the sound barrier breaking?!"

"Yup!" Nejire replied, before leering. She led him to those big boulders and had him sit, "And now… time for my prize!"

Izuku sweat a little at the look on her face, "S-Senpai?"

She plopped onto his lap as his blush exploded, pushing him to lay down and getting on top of him. And then her lips were on his, and he forgot even his name for a few minutes.

When he finally came to, she was happily cuddling with him. He blushed and started to stammer, "Uhm… Nejire-chan?"

"Hmm?" She looked a little sleepy. She pecked him on the chin.

"What would have been my prize?" He asked, blushing a little harder.

She laughed, sounding almost musical, "Silly Zuzu, that was a 'heads I win, tails you lose.'" She leered at him, "In fact…" She kissed him again.

-]|[-

Seeing as today was Sunday, it was the first day of the week where he was going on a date (Man, that still just didn't feel right to internalize…) where he also didn't have to worry about school taking up half of it.

Despite the four preceding and (evidently) successful outings, he still woke up feeling incredibly jittery. He definitely liked Mina, Camie, Setsuna, and Nejire. How could he not? They were bubbly, had giant hearts, and were amazingly fun to hang out with. And that wasn't even getting into how beautiful they were. He felt amazing being able to just go on a successful date with one of them, despite the weird feelings he kept getting every time one date ended and they told him he was going on a date with someone else the next day. He really just wasn't sure what was going on now. He really had no prior experiences with girls at all. All that said…

He knew he had something special with Momo. She was just… amazing. Just as heroic, incredibly beautiful, and shared many of his own interests. She had made him feel welcomed and had indulged his weird analysis habits from day one. And though they'd only known each other for a short time, he really felt they had grown a strong connection through their trials.

He had an amazing time with the other girls, but he was really hoping this one went just as well. He had not put on anything special, by Momo's own request. Just a comfortable shirt and some basketball shorts. He really wondered what she had in store for him. With a deep, (attempted) calming breath, he twitched and vanished from his apartment.

When he reappeared, it was in front of her front door, and he nervously knocked. Having known he was coming from a text just a few minutes prior, Momo opened the door. His breath caught, "H-hey, Momo!" he managed to squeak out.

She bit back a smirk, so glad she had asked the other girls for advice on some more casual clothes for inside the home. Her spaghetti tank top left nothing to the imagination and even showed off a bit of her navel. The booty shorts were a bit…much, but hey, Izuku's eyes were glued to her. "Izu!" She wrapped him up in a hug, which thankfully he returned instead of shorting out like he most certainly would have months ago. "How was your morning?"

"Pretty quiet." He admitted. He'd just done his set of exercises, lifted his weights, ran his morning marathon, and then flexed his powers by levitating cars around. Just the light stuff. (He was not aware, but several other students of U.A. immediately felt their ears start burning.) "Yours?"

"Still haven't figured out that lightsaber Mina wanted me to make." She let out a twinkling laugh, grabbing his hand and leading him into the manor.

"You'll definitely get it!" He laughed right back at her. "What's the plan for today?"

She led him into a room in particular, "We're going out for dinner." She replied, a secret smile on her face. Dinner and a dance. With how well Mina had said (well, more crowed) that his dancing lessons went, she was quite eager to experience something a little similar with him. After all, while Momo had never learned choreography, that didn't mean she hadn't learned many, many dances.

He blinked, "Dinner?" It was barely twelve, "So are we just hanging out until then?"

Momo giggled, "After this!" With a snap of her fingers, her family's tailor and cordwainer on retainer entered.

"Uhhhh?" Izuku blinked owlishly.

She smirked at the look, "Time to get you measured!" She laughed at the idea of high-class wear being made literally the same day without her retainer's talents. Such a thing would have been utterly impossible before Quirks. She had also warned her retainers ahead of time that this was likely totally new for Izuku. She smiled at him, "I'll give you some privacy. Go ahead and ask them any questions you wish, Izu. I know you'll probably be curious!"

"Uhmm… okay." Izuku said, as Momo left.

The tailor stepped forward, snapping her tape measure out, "Please strip, Midoriya-sama."

Izuku squawked.

…

After a whirlwind of measurements that had definitely left Izuku blushing, he was ushered out of the room so they could work. Momo giggled when she saw his face, "Have fun?"

"I-Is it like that every time?" He asked a bit piteously, and she took mercy on him.

"Not really. Once they have your measurements, they can take more minor ones for adjustments." She knew that well, having needed fifteen new dresses made in the span of eight months when she had been thirteen. Sometimes she hated her boobs.

Times like this where Izuku's eyes clearly dipped to them?

Oh yes, she liked them fine. She took his hand, "And now we have several hours to spend together, and I know just how we can do it."

Izuku bit back a gasp as she led him to her room. "…It's bigger than my entire apartment…" He wasn't sure why he was surprised, but there it was.

"…It's not that excessive, is it? Mother and Father's room is far bigger…" She blushed as he turned a scrutinizing eye to her.

"…Momo if this was a swimming pool it'd be half a regulation Olympic one." He deadpanned, and she blushed hotly.

"It's not that big!" She whined with a flushed face, before pulling him to her bed.

And now he was practically iridescent as he realized where she was leading him, "S-So, what are we-"

She turned him around, before pushing him to sit on it. Her face was just as hot as his as she straddled his lap and her hand found purchase in his hair. He could hardly believe it as she gave him a very needy kiss for the first time. Izuku immediately melted, and it took him a moment before he was able to pierce through his shock and pull her closer.

Both of them were still very inexperienced. Izuku had gotten the most practice with Nejire, who had patiently taught him some things. Momo had wanted him to be her first kiss, and so had not done anything with anyone else.

It was definitely clumsy, and after getting over the shock, Izuku reached up to gently hold the back of her neck and take some control of the kiss. He used what Nejire had taught him and deepened it, drawing a pleased moan from the excited girl in his lap.

He fell back, laying down and pulling her with him. He wasn't sure how long they spent like that, simply exploring each other and their own passion, but when they finally pulled back, their breaths came hot and heavy. "I've been wanting to do that for weeks." She finally managed to say.

"Almost since we met." He managed to croak out, "S-Since maybe the Battle Trials…"

She smiled, dipping down, and giving him another, much gentler kiss. He started playing with her hair as she laid down on his chest, "Budge us up." He quirked an eyebrow at her, and she pointed at the other end of the bed where the pillows were. They both glowed green and floated over, plopping down on her pillows.

"This bed is magic…" Izuku moaned, for more reasons than one. It took them metaphorically beating him over the head about it (via their oh-so-kissable lips) but he knew he had crushes of varying intensities on all of the girls he'd been with this week. Momo's was the one he knew he had before it all started. He turned slightly to her, smiling as he saw she was as well. He asked the question he'd posed after every time one of them had kissed him, "Uhm, does this mean we're-"

And for the fifth time, he was stopped from asking as she gently placed a finger on his lips, "I know you must be dying of curiosity over the past week's… events." She said, "You'll get your answer to that question soon. Just a little more time, okay Izu?"

He stared at her, seeing nothing but reassuring affection from her, "Okay." He said quietly. She leaned forward and claimed his lips again.

It was brief, and she pulled away. She grinned in a vaguely Mina-like manner, and turned around. Well, more like she had to roll three times to reach the other end of the bed, and they had been in the middle! He had no idea what size this thing pretended to be. All he knew was it was the most comfortable bed in existence. She grabbed something, and rolled right back into his arms, molding herself to him. He pulled her close, marveling at how right it felt.

And then his eyes widened as the bed vibrated slightly, a whirring coming from underneath. Then they bugged out as a massive 64k TV rose out in front on mechanical arms, positioning itself in the optimal viewing position. "You've got to be kidding me!"

Momo burst out into laughter as it turned on. "We've been talking about this for a while, haven't we?" She asked playfully.

Izuku's face lit up as the audible sound of flipping pages started sounding from the speakers in the room, accompanied by the comics on the screen. A desert scene opened up, with some vehicles traveling on it. And then it flashed to an American Humvee as the song Back in Black started jamming, "YES!"

This day seemed like it could only go up.

Stonks!

…

'Oh my god!' Izuku screamed mentally as he took himself in on the gigantic mirror provided. He was fairly sure he was currently wearing more than some people made in a year. Black, handmade leather shoes, with a black suit over a black dress shirt and a green vest and tie that matched his hair color.

He… he wasn't even aware he could actually look this good. He hardly recognized himself! His one set of formal clothes at home had been that maroon pinstripe suit!

"You certainly look amazing, Midoriya-sama!" Hikari, the tailor, exclaimed to him, a wide smile on her face.

Izuku flushed, "Th-thank you, Hikari-san." He was fairly certain he would never get used to being called 'sama.'

Ever.

"Well, let's not keep the lady waiting! Ohohoho." Hikari was quite eager to see his reaction to Momo. Judging from his reaction to just her compliment, it was bound to be good.

They made their way to the main hall, where Momo was waiting. Izuku would have been done first, but his suit needed some minor, last-minute adjustments. Hikari now knew for sure how to make suits for him, and so future ones would be faster and more accurate… provided he didn't grow too much.

Izuku stepped into the hall and every single atom in his body locked up. He wasn't even breathing. Momo was in a deep red dress that hugged her figure tightly. It flowed open in a wide V to a few inchesabove her belly button, revealing a lack of bra. She was also wearing matching red low-heels, just visible below the dress, which went to her calves with a longer flare in the back. Her hair was out of its trademark style. She'd parted it down the middle and flipped it, hiding her right ear while exposing the left one. Instead of her normally straight hair, it was instead falling in soft curls over her right shoulder and down her back.

She also missed a step when she looked at him, 'Oh myyyyyy…' Oh yes, mama liked. She quickly recovered despite the sudden dryness in her throat and walked over. She smiled in amusement, "Breathe, Izu…" She said, playfully, putting her hands on his cheek.

"G-Goddess. Radiant." Izuku finally managed to get two words out, making Momo blush. She smiled, and the spell was broken as her lips started to shine with her Quirk. She pulled her lipstick back in, leaving her lips bare, before kissing him gently.

She smiled as he grabbed her and tried to deepen it again, before pulling away, "Ah, ah, ah." She wagged her finger playfully, "We don't want to be late, do we?"

Yes. Yes, he definitely wanted to be late. "R-Right." She smiled, before her lips shone, and the pretty red lipstick made its return. He quirked his head to the left, "…On a scale of 1-10, how jealous do other girls get that you can do that?"

Momo let out a surprised giggle, "Yes."

…

It had certainly been the fanciest dinner he'd ever been to, but surprisingly it didn't seem to be an actual high society event. Momo had smiled when he mentioned this, stating that she had a feeling he would have been a bit more uncomfortable if she had done that. She then leaned in conspiratorially and whispered that she rather disliked high society events unless she planned them, since they often had really weird food. It had made him chuckle with her, remembering her mentioning that the day All Might had given her One For All.

But sooner than expected, it seemed that the dinner ended. He expressed his surprise, "Oh, I thought it would be longer?"

She smiled, standing from her chair, "Surprise…" She teased him, holding out her hand for him to take. He did so, still a little clueless. "Take off the coat… leave the vest, I think." Still clueless, he did so and placed them on the back of his chair.

They came down from their little balcony cove, and Izuku's eyes widened as he realized some of the tables down below had been cleared out for a… "Oh no." He deadpanned, "Momo whyyyy…"

Momo laughed, "Come now, Izu. Mina told me you did really well."

"Yeah, after several hours of practice!" He did definitely have a bit of a whiny tone, "I don't know any dances like these!" He really didn't want to embarrass her!

She smirked, "Luckily, you can cheat." She smirked, "Link up with me."

"Oh." Izuku smiled in relief as he did so. 'Thanks, Momo.'

'Of course! The waltz is pretty simple.' She told him, 'Literally just a 1-2-3 for the steps.' She showedhim as they got close. 'And with how quickly you learn, this shouldn't take long at all.' She smiled playfully at him, which he returned.

The music was appropriate for waltzing, and they started slow. With their link, Izuku quickly picked it up, as did their speed and fluidity. All the while, they smiled, staring into each other's eyes, and mentally conversing as he got more comfortable. Others had joined them on the floor, and with the simplicity of the dance, Izuku's natural rapid learning aptitude, and his link with Momo, it was difficult to tell that this was the first time he'd ever done this.

And as the music changed and became more upbeat and less formal, Izuku totally forgot about being nervous and just started enjoying the night with his beautiful date. Momo definitely enjoyed herself, and vowed to dance more with her beau and (girl?)friends.

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Today was the day!

Izuku woke up, feeling beyond excited. The first truly HOT day of the year! Summer was on the approach! And he was going to a beach party with his friends, before hopping on a plane and heading towards I-Island with them! The I-Expo was this year, which was the only reason that U.A. had allowed them to go. You couldn't well miss such an important Semi-Decennial event. It only happened once every five years, and showcased upgrades to every bit of tech imaginable! Medical Advancements, Support and Costume Advancements, Materials Sciences, Robotics… It was essentially a dream for Hero and Support Course students who could afford tickets and passage to be able to go. And he was going!

It almost felt like a dream.

"Morning mom!" He gave the petite verdette a peck on the cheek.

"Someone sounds excited!" Inko had to fight to keep from letting tears pour down her face. Despite everything; despite losing his arm and being unable to regenerate it; despite the sheer terror he had to have experienced all those weeks ago…

Her boy had never looked happier.

"Of course!" Izuku said, "Beach party! I-Island! I'm all but freaking out!" He grabbed his breakfast and started eating it rapidly.

"Slow down, my little Eon!" Inko chided playfully, "You don't want to choke on such a big day!"

Izuku's face erupted in a blush as his mom used his Hero name for the first time, "MOOOOM!" He whined, getting a laugh from Inko.

"Oh, and make sure you use protection." She said, getting her own joy out of teasing her son, "I don't want to be a grandma yet."

"PFFFFTTTT" Izuku sputtered and sprayed out some of his breakfast, "MOM!" He yelled, scandalized.

"Oh please, you're staying at a girl's house tonight." Inko waved him off.

"SHE OWNS THE PLANE WE'RE USING!" Izuku protested in panic.

"And you're teenagers. I know what teenagers do. Source: Was a teenager." Inko waved off his protest. Izuku merely sat there, steaming so much Inko could have cooked bacon on his head.

…

With a flash of light, Izuku appeared with all of his luggage at Momo's front door. He knocked, trying to keep his smile from becoming wooden as his mom's words echoed in his head. The door opened, and Izuku smiled brightly, "Hey Momooooo-" He nearly keeled over and died on the spot. Momo was always gorgeous, but seeing her wearing an emerald tube topwith the straps of her bikini peeking outand black booty shorts had Izuku short-circuiting. 'I'm going to die!' He wailed in his own head.

Momo was also blushing brightly, but strode forward with determination and pulled her love into a warm embrace. "Good morning, Izu." She murmured into his ear, before stealing another kiss from him. Izuku immediately kissed her back, well used to the girls stealing kisses by now.

"Y-Y-You l-l-l-look amazing!" He managed to get out once they broke apart.

She smiled, "And you're looking so handsome too…" They both blushed harder, "Come in." She grabbed his hand and didn't let go as she dragged him inside, his luggage following. "Here, this is your room for tonight." She opened a door, and again, Izuku almost died on the spot.

"It's bigger than my apartment." He squeaked out as his luggage floated in. He didn't know why he was so shocked. Her room was bigger. He'd already been inside that one! Maybe he just hadn't expected a guest room to be on the same tier.

Momo let out a little giggle, 'You better get used to it, love…' She thought to herself. She wasn't sure if she hoped he was using his telepathy or not at that moment. Seeing as how he didn't faint, she figured not.

The two made their way downstairs, and entered her sitting room. Izuku stopped cold and made a sound only audible to canines.

Mina, Camie, Nejire, and Setsuna had slept over Momo's house last night as well, in preparation for today and their trip. Setsuna especially had used every chance she had to hang out with the other girls and Izuku outside of class, seeing as how they were in differentclasses. They'd mostly talked online on discord, seeing as how Togata Mirio left 1-B even more exhausted than Nejire did. If that were even possible.

Oh, and clearly, they were trying to kill him because they all were in matching outfits. Matching Momo specifically. Mina in all black, Camie, Setsuna, and Nejire matching Momo exactly. They must have had Momo make them, with Mina only not going with green because it likely would have clashed with her skin.

"Midori!" Mina dove gleefully for him, wrapping him up in a tight hug while he spun her around to keep his balance. "Oooh, this is going to be SO much fun!"

"Hey fam!" Camie hugged him too, giving him a quick smooch on the cheek as well. Setsuna quickly followed, leaving Izuku almost catatonic as she rubbed his muscles.

He was so frazzled he barely reacted as Nejire nyoomed into him with a 'Zuzuuuuu!'

"Hehehe, I think we broke him." Mina giggled.

"I thought that came later?" Setsuna had a mocking smirk on her face.

"Down girl." Momo deadpanned, face only slightly flushed. Nejire had successfully defused Izuku, and now was speaking animatedly with him regarding the Quirk of a Villain she had fought while on patrol with Ryūkyū a few days ago. She got a ping on her phone, and let out a smile, "We're ready, everyone! The limo is outside, packed and waiting."

"Wooo!" Mina cheered, jumping up and down and making Izuku's eyes glue to her chest, "Let's go, everyone!"

-]|[-

"Wow, you really cleaned ALL of this?!" Setsuna asked incredulously.

"It's so beautiful!" Nejire was almost crying as she took in the sight.

Izuku rubbed the back of his head bashfully, "I mean… Inasa helped…"

"Wahaha!" Speak of the devil, and he shall appear, "All you, my man! I barely did anything!"

"Inasa!" Izuku clapped hands with his best friend. Honestly, he'd been with the girls so often it had been a while since he hung out with him.

"Can't wait for volleyball!" Inasa declared, "You got the net?"

"Packed and ready for deployment!" Momo answered proudly. "Oh, how are you doing, Kendō-san?"

"Heya, Yaomomo!" Itsuka waved back from her spot next to Inasa.

Izuku stared at his friend, who started to flush just a tiny bit. A slow smirk rose on Izuku's face.

Kirishima arrived, with a surprise. They all gaped as Bakugō strode close, "Heh, hope you extras are ready to lose."

'How the heck did Kirishima convince Kacchan to come?!' Izuku asked himself incredulously.

"Tch." Camie, Setsuna, and Mina all made a displeased noise. 'He better not ruin today with his stupid ego!' Mina declared fiercely in her head, glaring at the one who had treated her soon-to-be boyfriend so cruelly. She was beyond shocked that Kirishima of all people was giving him a chance. She really hoped her old bestie and Horn Buddy didn't get burned because of it.

They gradually started filing onto the beach, setting up their own little areas, though they were all relatively close. The beach started to fill up with students, though not all of them came. Tokoyami didn't bother, and neither did Kuroiro from 1-B, likely for similar reasons. Though the 1-B student would have been extremely disappointed if he had known that his crush had decided to come after all. Similarly, Yanagi stayed home, and Kamakiri was even more antisocial than Katsuki. Todoroki was the same (no matter how much his elder sister begged him to go and make some friends) and unfortunately, Tsu had to take care of her siblings and couldn't come. Ochako had decided to keep the cute frog company and had gone over to the Asui household.

After a while, it became clear that the rest were either late or not coming, so they made good on setting up the volleyball area. With some surreptitious nervous glancing around (Nejire: Chill, Zuzu! I have my provisional license and I'm supervising. No one is getting in trouble!), Izuku quickly grasped the posts and drove them deep into the sands with his power. Setting up the rest was easy.

Though volleyball only came later, "Alright, lotion time! No one wants to get sunburned!" Setsuna cheered, "Good thing Yaomomo also brought this huge privacy thingy!" Indeed, there was what looked vaguely like a small castle set up in the sands, also courtesy of Izuku's psychic power.

"Ah!" Izuku blushed a little, "Okay girls, I'll see you when you're don-"

"And where do you think you're going, Mister?" Mina latched onto one arm.

"E-Eh?" Izuku stammered a bit, eyes wide.

"You got work to do, Zuzu." Nejire was beaming as the two dragged Izuku backwards towards the 'castle,' Momo, Camie, and Setsuna following, smirks on their faces.

Kaminari was almost sobbing next to Tsuburaba, "That lucky bastard…"

Ibara (who was dressed the most conservatively of all the girls, with a sundress over a full swimsuit) was praying, making Yui look at her with some mild confusion. She pulled out her phone and texted her friend, Girl, chill. It's not like they're going to do anything where we can all hear them. Whereas she was very quiet and subdued in person, in text and on forums was an entirely different story.

Ibara startled at the vibration, and quickly read the text. Her eyes went wide, and her cheeks flushed, "Y-YUI!"

Kinoko was laughing, "Holy shitake, what kind of game does Midoriya-kun have?"

Inside, Izuku's face was on fire as they finally let go. There were a bunch of inflatable rafts/beds as well as benches all around the area, and the top was wide open. Once the sun started rising a bit more in a few hours, they could all tan in private. Setsuna was grinning like a madwoman as she and Camie tugged insistently at his white 'Pants' shirt, "Off." They demanded.

Izuku's face was on fire as he grabbed the hem and forced it over his head.

Momo let out a little whimper.

"Holy cow, Midori." Mina flexed, showing off her taut back muscles and biceps, "And I thought I was fit!"

Izuku sheepishly rubbed the back of his head, "W-well this place was a dump just over a year ago." He mumbled a bit timidly. "Plus, with my Quirk, I could fit in multiple workouts a day. Rest days aren't needed when I can just regenerate to fix the microtears in my muscles."

'It's not fair! He's almost as muscly as Mirio but he's so cute too!' Nejire hadn't blinked since he'd taken off his shirt. She was even drooling a tiny little bit, "Hey Zuzu, how tall are you going to get?"

Izuku opened his mouth, before closing it, "You know, I'm not sure? I'm already taller than mom, and I don't remember my father."

"Ah." Nejire wobbled a bit, feeling bad about bringing up what was probably a painful subject by mistake. "Sorry for bringing it up." She mumbled.

"It's fine. I mean, it kinda sucks I've never really met him, but at the same time you don't really miss what was never there." That was a lie. He didn't really have a dad to miss, but he missed out on having a dad. Although, All Might had been acting a bit dad-ish for the time he'd known him.

"Dad walked out on Mom. Probably the best thing he ever did for us. Better your way." Camie commiserated with him, rubbing his shoulder gently. She pulled him into a hug, bringing his flush right back. But he hugged the fawn-haired girl as well.

"Sorry, Camie-chan." Izuku squeezed her lightly.

"It's coo'." Camie smirked, before pecking him on the cheek, "NOW!" She pulled away and gave him a shove. He tripped a bit and landed on the bench, "Time to start the fun!" She cheered, reaching up and pulling her tube top off with one motion.

Izuku's blush surpassed atomic red and went straight to supernova, 'B-B-Boobs!' Camie's perfect breasts were framed beautifully by her light purple bikini, and it was pretty damn tiny. Far tinier than Izuku had been expecting, 'They're going to fall out if she jumps!' He thought in mild panic. They wouldn't, but Izuku didn't know that.

The girls sniggered as they all pulled their tops off, and Izuku was not aware of how he was still conscious. Was this what Zen felt like? Had he fallen into heaven while he wasn't paying attention?

A spurting noise rang out. Momo came to stand in front of him, her bright red bikini standing sharply on her pale, beautiful skin. Hers definitely had more material than Camie's but was no less alluring, "Wouldn't want you to get a sunburn, would we?" She asked silkily, as she carefully started applying sunscreen to his face.

"Yeah," Mina's hands started applying lotion to his back as well, "We want tanned Midori, not crispy and lobster Midori."

A fleeting thought flew through Izuku's mind. He could just heal himself if for some unfathomable reason he was actually capable of getting sunburned through his inherently fire-resistant flesh. He could also do the same for the girls. These thoughts were promptly put through a mental shredder as he melted under their ministrations. Setsuna was licking her lips as she carefully rubbed lotion onto his shoulders and his left arm. Nejire didn't have access to anything, and so settled for hugging his flaming arm. Between her breasts. Which were even a bit bigger than Momo's. 'Did I die?' He asked himself for the fifth time, wondering if he was just shorting out or if this was the best dream ever.

"All done!" Momo smiled, letting her hands linger on his chin. He focused on her, "Do my back, Izu?"

"S-Sure." He squeaked, several octaves higher than normal. She grabbed his hand and led him over to one of the other benches, which she laid down on. The inflatable raft squeaked a bit as she got comfortable, and Izuku's hands were shaking just a bit as he squeezed the lotion onto his hand. He stopped idly, "Huh, wonder if my arm will make it evaporate quicker?" He idly tested it, finding that his blue healing flames had no effect. 'Here I go…' he placed his hands on her back, luxuriating in just how soft her skin was. He'd never given a massage before, so he hoped her blanket permission was still in effect. "Does this feel good, Momo?" He did his best with rubbing her down, focusing on where he felt tiny knots.

"Yessssss…." Momo moaned at his touch. He blushed even harder. He had no idea that his flames felt any special way. He wondered why it was that only the girls experienced it. All Might hadn't, the one time he tried healing the man's side. As expected, it hadn't done much. He shook his head. Screw thinking about All Might right now. His left hand ignited with some flames as well, and he continued working, occasionally grabbing more lotion. He went lower, rubbing the lotion into her shoulder blades and near her spine. Her bikini was in the way, so he made to dodge around it and just go to her lower back. Momo was having none of it.

She reached behind her and untied her bikini, throwing the straps to the sides before relaxing again. Izuku remained frozen for a minute, before she made a noise and he hurried back to work. He worked his way down her back until he got to her bikini. 'She… she wants me to do it, right?' he bit his lip, before letting his hands slide down her sides as well.

She spasmed a little, and it was only their light mind link that told him he hadn't overstepped. A slightly delighted smile rose as he realized… Momo's sides were ticklish in a certain spot. His hands ghosted up and down, and every time his fingers brushed the spot she spasmed a little, biting her lip, "Izuuuuu-" She moaned, "M-My lower half too." She pleaded, and his nova blush came right back.

He started low, using their link to find out exactly the right pressures and spots for a good massage. He committed them to memory, hoping beyond hope this wouldn't be the only time he'd get to do this for her. He must have transmitted it, because he heard her voice in his head, "I want it every day, Izu…" She mewled under his touch, "Your hands are magic."

Izuku's face was probably purple by now as he got to her thighs. He now understood the internet and their obsession with 'thicc' thighs. By the time he was done, Momo was a pile of goo. "O-Okay, done." He said, hoping she would correct him.

She started getting up on her elbows, and turned to look at him. Her face was on fire and her eyes were lidded as they locked eyes, "Y-You missed a spot." And then proving that she must have been heavily influenced by her new friends, she wiggled her butt for him. "You don't want me to burn, do you Izu?" He gulped heavily at her throaty, very much appreciative tone, before starting to apply lotion as well as she settled down. He massaged her firmly, not knowing how it was he hadn't spontaneously combusted yet. He even gave her a very deliberate grope, squeezing harder than he needed too and slightly spreading her cheeks.

He almost expected some anger, and yet their link told him the exact opposite. Momo decided then and there that she liked his hands on her butt and wanted more, "Mmm, harder Izuuuuu-" She mewled, and he obeyed. His fingers sank into her soft cheeks as he rubbed in the motion he could feel she loved. He kept at it for a few minutes, before backing away.

"H-How was that?" He asked her as he tied her bikini back up.

She mewled a little in frustration as she turned onto her back and started applying lotion to her front, "It was perfect." She said, while thinking, "Why did we do this in public?! I want more!"

"Me next! Me next!" Mina cried, squeezing her thighs together. That had been so damn hot to watch. Izuku took a large gulp of water to cool down. He then looked at the bottle in his hand dubiously before he turned it upside down and dumped it all on his head. While he was distracted, all the girls licked their lips, seeing the water beading and running down his skin. He walked over to Mina. She hadn't even bothered with the bikini strap, and was already bare up top. Her bottom was a lot tinier than Momo's too, though it wasn't a thong. It also rode up far higher on her hips, held by some frilly strings.

He poured the lotion onto his hands, and got to work. The second he touched her skin, she mewled, both from the cold shock and from his flames. She melted under his ministrations, just as her Quirk did to other objects, "Midoriiiiiii…" She nearly slurred his nickname.

As for Izuku, he was marveling at the difference from Momo. Momo was fit. He knew she was fit. But she didn't feel like it. everything about her was just soft. With Mina, he could feel her muscles with every movement of his hand. She was so fit and toned, and yet her skin was silky smooth! She was also apparently very stressed, because he needed to use a lot more pressure than he had with Momo to work the knots out. He had immediately linked up with Mina, and could feel every bit of her appreciation as he worked his way down her back. He again skipped down to her feet, giving her a foot massage, which had her squirming on her little raft.

She was also extremely ticklish. A lot more ticklish. It seemed like every minute he was finding a new spot to tease her. "Momo was soooooo right…" She mewled as he started working on her thighs. "Your hands are magiiiiiic."

And then he got to her butt, and he marveled at her firm, bouncy cheeks. They were still oh so soft, but pliable. Mina smirked as he gave her a firm squeeze like Momo, "You like?" She lifted her hips a little, spreading her legs a little bit more. Then she moved, making her cheeks clap together lightly.

'Di-Did she?!' He gazed at her ass as if he'd find god there, "Did you just twerk for me?"

Mina let out a little fake gasp, "My, my, I didn't think you knew what twerking was, Midori? Maybe you're not as innocent as we thought?"

He mimicked a steam engine, but he was emboldened. He was dense, and he was shocked that any girl would think of him like that, but he wasn't an idiot. He'd kissed all five of these girls over the past week, and now Mina and Momo had both all but put his hands on their butts themselves. They wanted him to touch them, "I-I have a pulse!"

"Oh?" Mina licked her lips, "Then maybe a little private show later, huh Mi-Do-Ri~?"

That did it. He hurried off to Camie, steaming as Mina cackled and started doing her front. Camie's bikini bottom rode high on her hips like Mina's though hers didn't have any ties like the pinkette's. But the backing? Oh, it most certainly exposed a bit more for his gaze. Hers was the closest to a thong, though there was a lot more material than one. Camie fell somewhere in between Mina and Momo. She was softer than the super athletic break dancer, but not quite as soft as Momo. She felt nice and supple. "Mmmmm…" She moaned appreciatively as he massaged her, "I'm soooo glad I chose U.A. and not Shiketsu."

Izuku blinked, "Huh, didn't know you considered not coming here." She started working on her legs and feet.

"Yeah…" She breathed softly, "Was closer to home."

"Inasa and I almost went there." He admitted, and all of them stiffened in shock. Izuku noticed, and his low-level telepathy caught feelings of shock and dislike from all of them. He dipped his head, trying not to smile at the feeling of sheer possessiveness he could feel. As if they were horrified at the idea of having never met him. It almost brought him to tears, "You didn't remember?" He asked, "Inasa mentioned it a while ago."

"Ah!" Momo piped up, "It was right before the break-in, wasn't it? Admittedly the thought was chased right out of my head."

He finished up with Camie's butt (So nice and pliable. He really could squeeze them all day.) and moved onto Setsuna. The other verdette was giving him a sharky smirk, and licked her lips as she got on her belly for him, "I could do with a good massage, Zu, so make sure you go deep." Izuku flushed, but obliged. He connected with her as he had done with the others, and immediately blushed at the slightly lewd images she was very obviously sending him. Her smirk widened as he worked quickly.

He wasn't sure why he was surprised, but she felt as athletic as Mina did. Her body was also running much hotter to his touch than the other girls, and he felt some concern, "Are you okay, Set? You feel a lot warmer than the other girls?"

"Oh, so are you saying I'm the hottest?" She turned her head to stare at him, smirking wide.

"Set!" Izuku protested, though he was smiling slightly despite it.

She giggled, "Yeah, my body naturally runs hotter. Not entirely sure why. Maybe my Quirk thinks I should be cold blooded, so my body was like 'nah.'"

The two continued chatting as Izuku worked, and he was surprised when she made no further attempt to tease him. She didn't even twerk for him like he half expected her to. She and Mina were kindred spirits, after all.

He really should have known she was just biding her time. "Okay, all done."

"Thanks Zu," She smirked, and he backed away, "Hmm, actually?" And then before his awed eyes, she disassembled and reassembled on her back, "I'm feeling a bit lazy, Zu. Do my front too."

Mina cursed quietly, "I should have thought of that!" She kicked herself.

Izuku gulped heavily, and resumed work, much faster than previously. Setsuna pouted, "Mou, it isn't a race, Zuzu." Her hands popped off and grabbed his, bringing them to her left thigh, "I told you to go deep…" Her voice was husky as they stared at each other. Despite her confidence and unshaken tone, she was just as bright red as he was. And he could feel how internally embarrassed she was. Which was a good thing because it gave him a bit more confidence. He wished he had her confidence.

He got down to work, squeezing and massaging her thighs, getting dangerously close to areas he felt he really shouldn't touch, and yet he never once got a feeling of discomfort from her. He skipped over to her tummy, deciding to do a bit of teasing of his own. He felt disappointment from her, and it was his turn to smirk a little as she pouted. He rubbed the lotion onto the rest of her torso, before backing away.

Her competitive and teasing nature was about to have her doing something that was probably ill advised. Her face was bright red, right to the tips of her ears, but she smiled anyway, "Hmmm, you know, I don't really like tan lines." She teasingly hooked a finger into the front straps of her top, "Ow!" She yelped as Momo bonked her on the head with a padded stick.

"That's enough out of you." Momo looked entirely too amused as Izuku steamed.

Setsuna stared at her in disbelief as Izuku hurried to Nejire, "D-Did you just Bonk me?" She asked incredulously.

"She got put in Horny Jail!" Camie and Mina burst into laughter. Even Setsuna couldn't help but start laughing.

Nejire was bouncing as Izuku hurried over to her, "Yay! My turn, my turn!" His attention was drawn irrevocably to her bouncing breasts. But she hurried to grab his hand and drag him to her massage area, "Come on, Zuku! I want it too!" She jumped, landing on her knees on the inflatable lightly with a quick application of her Quirk.

And then instead of laying down, she turned around slightly and shot him a look. If his shorts hadn't already been tight, they immediately would have become so. She turned back and slowly leaned forwards as she arched her back. Her feet came off the plastic, leaving only her knees and hands on it as she slowly laid down. But not before she wiggled her hips for him, making that glorious butt sway.

Everyone had a breaking point. Seeing happy, bubbly, cute-as-a-button 'girl-next-door' Nejire Hadō shaking her ass for him snapped his self-control like a thin string. His hand came up without direction from his brain and a loud SMACK rang through the 'castle' as he spanked her, "Ahn~" Nejire let out a surprised, but pleased squeak as she dropped fully onto the table.

"…" The other girls blinked in shock.

"Drat." Mina mumbled again.

"Looks like Nejire wins." Setsuna chortled.

"….We were having a competition?" Momo asked in confusion, "I suppose that makes sense. I definitely feel like I lost."

Camie pouted, "She got to go last. It's not a real win."

"Ah! S-Sorry, Neji-" Izuku let out a horrified wheeze when his brain reengaged.

"Squeeze harder, Zukuuu." Izuku then realized he was still squeezing her cheek, and let go, "Mouuuu, that's the opposite of what I said." She pouted.

'This is my life now, I guess.' Izuku had absolutely no complaints, and the happy vibes coming through their link had him starting with her pillowy buns. He watched in awe as his fingers sunk right into her cheeks. Nejire was a very expressive girl and made very appreciative moans with every squeeze and pressing motion with his thumbs dangerously close to her asshole, even if she was still fully covered by her bottoms. 'I could take a nap on them!' That thought led him to thinking some dirty thoughts of his own, involving his face rather than his hands.

He accidentally transmitted it to Nejire, who for once stayed quiet and merely smirked, saving it for later, 'Good to know.'

Izuku marveled at her body in total awe. He had NO idea how someone he knew for a fact could bench-press every other person in the room could be so damn soft. He noticed her left cheek was a little red from his spank, so he hesitantly raised his flame hand and gave her a matching one on the right. He watched as she jiggled from the sharp smack. She yelped again, and happily wiggled her hips for him. The red vanished as his flames went to work. His mouth was as dry as the sands beneath them as he made quick work of rubbing her down. "I'm keeping you." Nejire mumbled when he finished, more jelly than girl.

"O-okay, all done. I'm going to just godunkmyselfinthewaterkthanksbye." Izuku rushed out of the castle.

There was a beat, before Setsuna clapped her hands to her face, "I can't believe I did that!" She was blushing hard as she rolled from side to side on her 'table'.

Mina started to laugh along with Camie, "Girl, I can't believe we did that."

Nejire merely giggled, "That was so much fun! I can't wait until he actually snaps."

"S-Senpai please." Momo wailed behind her hands. Nejire giggled, rubbing her hands together 'evilly.' It was far too adorable for anyone to take it seriously.

…

Izuku was having trouble looking at any of them in the eye as they all came out. That gradually went away as they all started joining him in the water, and the two classes started to mingle. The boys started a swimming competition, swimming out to the buoys and back. Well, everyone except Kaminari. The poor kid was water retardant and could not step into the water. He was sulking on the bank, up until Tsuburaba took pity and went to go chat with him. Katsuki had to be reminded that just because he could explode didn't mean he could go out any further. He was wet and his explosions were less effective, so it was too much of a risk.

He answered this bout of logic by grabbing Kirishima and yeeting him at Tetsutetsu. This started a class brawl in the ocean, with the boys all starting to wrestle and throw each other. If asked, Izuku would deny throwing Katsuki a bit harder than he should have when the boy had crashed into him to his dying breath.

The girls mingled, chatting, and splashing each other. Well, that and grilling the five girls about what had taken them so long and what had Izuku racing out of there and causing a literal burst of steam when he had dunked himself. "That would be telling, fam." Camie merely smirked at the rest of them.

"Hey, hey!" Kinoko had a wide smirk on her face, "Sexiest guy in our classes. Go."

"Kinoko." Ibara looked to the sky for help.

"That's my name!" Kinoko cheered, "C'mon Ibara-chan, surely someone in our classes has caught your eye."

Ibara huffed, her cheeks red, "Very well. If you must know, I find Iida-san… appealing to look at." She crossed herself immediately upon saying so as the other girls cheered.

"Iida-kun?" Mina glanced over at Iida trying to wrangle the boys and failing, before getting picked up by Tetsutetsu and getting tossed. She shrugged, "Yeah, I guess he's kinda hot, but he radiates enough dad energy for an entire apartment complex." She mimicked his robotic chopping, giggling.

"If that's your thing though, you do you babe." Camie gave her a thumbs-up as Ibara flushed harder.

Itsuka was twirling her ponytail a little shyly, "Inasa is pretty cute, I guess." She mumbled bashfully.

Tōru was just a floating bikini sitting on her towel, "Man, Todoroki-kun is BY FAR the hottest-" The five girls that were with Izuku in the tent had the most blatant "doubt" looks ever recorded on their faces, "Oh hush." Tōru huffed, "You girls claimed him, so he's excluded. Still don't know what you're playing at with him. He can't date all of you, right?"

"Fucking watch him." Mina mumbled, though it was lost in the rumble of the ocean.

"ANYWAY~" Tōru continued, "He's SUPER hot but he's a dummy!" She waved her arms around, making it look like her bikini top was just moving up and down, "I wanna help him but I just don't know what's wrong."

Momo grimaced, "Yes, that one is a bit of a powder keg, isn't he?" She sighed, "I just don't know what to do to help him. All I know is that it has something to do with Endeavor."

Itsuka paled, "Uhh, when you say, 'something to do with Endeavor,' do you mean like… daddy issues? Constantly being compared to him? Not being able to make his own name? Or…"

"No." Momo said grimly, "His Quirk is Half Cold, Half Hot… but if it's a fight, he never uses his fire."

"Yeah…" Tōru had the same tone, "Even during… that…" The girls all grimaced, "He was losing a fight and actively making the Villains stronger and still wouldn't use it."

"…Fuck." The normally quiet Yui said her first word in a while, earning a rebuke from Ibara.

"No, no, she's got a point." Setsuna deadpanned, dragging her hand through her hair, "Okay, thoughts for another day." She said, firmly, "He's not even here so nothing we can do."

"Right." Pony nodded, "Who you think, Kin-chan?" She smiled at the mushroom-loving girl. "Tetsu and red hair cute."

Kinoko tapped her chin, "Not sure. Midoriya is hot, but that's a bit too much heat for me." She nodded her head towards Momo and the other four, drawing some giggles. "Lightning boy is pretty cute, and so is the redhead over there. Awase and Kaibara are pretty cute too. Blasty would be hot, but damn if his personality isn't a sewer."

"Midoriya." Yui said, before taking a sip of her drink and falling silent.

"Ohoho." Mina and Setsuna's senses tingled, but Momo jerked her hand and whapped them with newspaper, "Down."

The other girls started to giggle, though they stopped when some of the guys started coming over, "Hi girls. Not going to join us in the water? It's really warm." Izuku took a water from the cooler and began to drink.

"Unf." Kinoko huffed under her breath, her eyes glued to him. The dripping water was certainly an effect. Inasa dropped down next to him, and Itsuka went pretty red.

Setsuna jerked as her phone vibrated, and took a look at it. She then burst out laughing as she showed the rest of her quintet Yui's text. Camie, Mina, and Nejire burst into giggles and Momo blushed bright red.

"You know what?" Momo stood, "Some water sounds absolutely lovely right about now." She calmly speed-walked over to the beach.

"Was it something I said?" Izuku blinked, confused.

"Nope!" Camie jumped to her feet and grabbed his arm, "Come on, fam!" She started pulling him back towards the water. Setsuna, Nejire, and Mina eagerly followed.

"Ack!" Momo gasped as Camie hit her with a big splash, "So much for keeping my hair dry." She pouted, before letting out a little smirk. A quick spark of red crackled on her hand before she slapped the water, kicking up a five-foot wave that crashed on a bug-eyed Camie and hit the other four with collateral damage.

"What was that, Yaomomo?" Setsuna sputtered, brushing the water away.

Momo blinked, "Oh, did I not tell you, Setsuna-chan?" She then spent a few minutes explaining her Quirk evolution and Izuku's discoveries.

When she finished, Setsuna tilted her head. Off her shoulders. It then floated upside-down as she stared at the heiress, "Okay, you're from like a bigwig family and I know you've done some press releases for them." Momo paled, hoping what came next wasn't coming, "Why are you so bad at lying?"

Momo slouched, crouching down, and drawing sad circles in the water as everyone but Izuku burst out laughing. He patted the heiress on the shoulder in solidarity.

"Oh, so it wasn't just me?" Setsuna giggled a little sheepishly.

"Nah fam. She tried the same with us and was even worse at it." Camie giggled.

"Heck, I had known her for like less than an hour and I could tell." Nejire giggled delightedly.

"Is it bad, Yaomomo?" Mina asked, concerned at their (girl)friend having to (fail to) lie to them.

"No, nothing like that." Momo said, before wincing, "It's just…" She struggled to find words, "It's a lot. I definitely can't say anything more here. Please drop it." The girls nodded, and then Momo pointed at Setsuna, making her eyes widen again, "And I'll have you know I can lie perfectly well!" She continued pointing imperiously for a second, before lamely dropping her hand and slumping, "Just not to my closest friends, apparently."

"Awwww!" The rest of them glomped her. Momo giggled, even as they squished up against each other and Izuku.

Setsuna giggled, "Okay, I know just what the doctor ordered!" She then split up into pieces and reassembled herself on Momo's shoulders. The strong young woman didn't flinch, even if she did blush. "Chicken!"

"Yes!" Nejire cheered, jumping clean out of the water and landing on Izuku's shoulders. He blushed hot as she very intentionally pressed herself tight against the back of his neck, "Onward, my noble steed!"

"Midori-lobster is back!" Mina cheered, before yelping as Camie ducked underneath her in the water and picked her up. "Wooooo!"

"No Quirks!" Momo was blushing too, but kept her head on straight.

"Of course!" The others sounded affronted.

"Just had to make sure!" Momo giggled, before she made a coin, "Heads or Tails?"

"Tails!" Mina called, and upon winning, decided she wanted to go against Nejire first.

"Yay! Let's win this, Zuzu!" Izuku charged forward at her command, and the two girls playfully started to wrestle in the air.

"Oh crap!" Mina cried out, as Nejire effortlessly outmuscled them, "How'd I forget how strong Nejire-chan was?!" She yelled as she windmilled her arms, before having to take a breath as Camie tipped and they went into the water. "Boooo!" She leapt up giving them a thumbs up.

"Zuku and Nejire-chan-senpai is too OP fam!" Camie burst out of the water, her long fawn hair slick against her.

Izuku and Nejire laughed at the reaction.

"Our turn now!" Setsuna cheered because she and Momo had a plan. Well, she had a plan, and Momo was blushing at it but going along with it. "Oof, you weren't kidding!" She struggled with Nejire for a second, but Momo was a much stronger horse than Camie was.

"What now, Setsu-chan?" Nejire grinned at her 'enemy.'

"We fight smarter!" Setsuna grinned right back, exposing her sharp, pointy teeth.

Momo stepped forward and pecked Izuku on the lips. The distraction was enough for her to get her leg behind his and for Setsuna to push back.

"Wah!" Nejire and Izuku both yelled as they fell back and into the water.

"YEAHHHH!" Setsuna roared in victory, "We are the CHAMPIONS!" she punched towards the sky with two fists. Momo was laughing beneath her as Izuku and Nejire came up, sputtering.

"YEET!" Mina threw Camie at them, and the tower collapsed with an indignant squawk from Momo and Setsuna.

When they all came up, all of them were laughing.

…

"Okay, time to make teams!" Momo called out, "and by RNG," She held up her phone, "Our captains are…" She pointed, "Yoarashi-kun and… Kirishima-kun!"

"FUCK!" Katsuki roared, eyes pulsing in anger. He should be Captain! Kirishima clapped him on the shoulder, telling him not to worry about it.

Itsuka snorted, glad Monoma hadn't come. He would have no doubt been annoying them all, claiming that the selections were rigged. She spoke up, "Kirishima-kun, heads or tails?"

"Tails!" Kiri shot her a thumbs up.

"Damn it! You always call heads!" Katsuki snarled, and was proven right.

"Yoarashi-kun chooses first!" Itsuka smiled at the tall boy.

"Alright!" Inasa fist-pumped, "Gotta be my man Izuku!" Izuku smiled, elated at having been picked first for the first time in his life. He fist-bumped his best friend with a grin. He totally ignored Katsuki boiling.

Kirishima took pity on the blonde, "Bakubro, get over here!"

"Oh, bother." Momo grumbled to herself, now that Izuku and Katsuki were on opposite teams.

"Yaoyorozu!" Inasa called, leading Itsuka to pout.

"Mina!" Kirishima waved the pink girl over, before Katsuki could tell him to grab 'the blue pixie.'

"Kendō!" Itsuka ran over to stand with them.

"Senpai!" Kirishima waved Nejire over, and she pouted at having been separated from Izuku and the girls. She knew it was probably going to happen with such a large selection, but had been hoping otherwise. Oh well.

In the end, the teams were: Inasa, Izuku, Momo, Itsuka, Yui, Awase, Nirengeki and Camie; along with Kirishima, Katsuki, Mina, Nejire, Setsuna, Kaminari, Tetsutetsu, and Ibara. The rest had either elected not to play or had decided to sit out and wait to play the next set, since with eight players, things were already pretty crowded. Momo quickly made safer tops for all the girls, since none of them wanted any slips.

As the teams came together to figure out the order and the first server, Inasa deadpanned at Izuku, "So, how much on Bakago using his Quirk if you're in front of him, my man."

"No bet." Izuku, Momo, and Camie had the most deadpan voices in existence.

"What's his deal with you anyway?" Awase asked, frowning, "Setsuna mentioned him and you not really getting along."

Camie was the one who responded, "You ever watch that really old show Spongebob?"

Awase blinked, "…Yes? It's a classic." Yui nodded rapidly.

"Remember that episode where they had to paint Mr. Krabs' house and they had the giant bubble?" Everyone nodded, "That bubble was Nitrogremlin's head, and Patrick was the entire rest of the school."

Everyone sputtered and started cackling. Even Momo snorted in a very unladylike manner and put her hands on her knees to hold herself up.

"Guys, I don't think his head can get much bigger!" Awase snarked.

"NONSENSE!" The rest of them yelled, and started laughing anew.

Eventually, they wiped their tears, and the game began. "LET'S FUCKING GO!" Kaminari cheered as he served it.

AND… everything went wrong immediately, as both Kirishima and Katsuki went for the ball and ran into each other. "DAMN IT!" Katsuki roared as the ball touched the sand.

"Welp, this is going to go well." Setsuna snarked. She grabbed the ball and tossed it to Mina, who served it cleanly. Inasa grinned as he bumped it to the side. Momo volleyed it to Camie, and she jumped high and spiked it.

This time wasn't an easy score, as Nejire easily dove for it and knocked it back into the air. Kirishima volleyed it and this time Katsuki nailed it with a spike that went just a bit too fast for Nirengeki and hit the sand.

On and on the game went. They had set a pretty high score limit since they had so many players. The match went back and forth, with both sides trading blows and occasionally getting two or even three points ahead, before the other team caught up. And then, the exact moment half of them had been anticipating came to life.

"FUCKING DIE, DEKU!" Katsuki roared from the air, arm reared back and crackling with explosions. His palm smacked the volleyball with a loud bang, and the ball shot far faster than it had any right to right at Izuku.

"Knew it." He mumbled as he glowed green, moving at vastly enhanced speed to get in front of the ball and safely serve it up. Inasa was ready and volleyed it, high into the air. Momo sparked to life and leapt, easily clearing the net, and spiking the ball. This time it was even faster and harder than Katsuki's flashy bang, and the ball dug into the sand, throwing plumes of it around.

"FUCK!" Katsuki screamed at the top of his lungs.

Awase roared with laughter, "Don't start shit if you can't get hit!"

"Oooh, are we using Quirks now?" Nejire cheered, "I gotchu!"

"Fucks sake, Bakugō. You just HAD to prove me wrong, didn't you?" Setsuna ran her hand down her face.

"FUCK OFF!" Katsuki angrily threw the ball at Tetsutetsu, "Let's fucking beat their asses!"

Tetsutetsu grumbled, "Asshole." His arm turned steely, and he served it, nearly towards the end of the 'court.'

Itsuka lazily turned her hand giant and swatted it back into the air, "You dun goofed, Bakugō." She started to laugh. She could cover more than a decent part of the court with her giant hands. Inasa volleyed it to Yui.

"Mhm." Yui 'said,' before the sand beneath her feet grew into a pillar for her and she quickly spiked it. Katsuki explosively under-armed it to Kirishima, who volleyed it to Nejire, who floated up in her blaze of gold and spiked it at the other team.

Izuku was the only one who could keep up with and react to that ball, and he volleyed it at Momo.

"Ooooh, nice save, Zuzu!" Nejire yelled as Momo set it up and Yui grew a platform underneath Nirengeki so he could spike it. Katsuki managed to dive and save it, but it only traveled three feet before a loud TWACK from Nirengeki's Twin Impact reversed it and drove it into the sand.

"For fucks sake, their Quirks are way too good for this!" Setsuna whined. She had tried to send her arm out to intercept it, knowing it was coming. She was just a tad too far away and just missed it. "Look what you did, Nitrogremlin!"

Katsuki couldn't even say a word as he stomped off to serve, knowing he had brought it on himself and that he hadn't even managed to fucking kill Deku with it. "Vines!" He yelled, startling Ibara who had been fairly quiet up to this point, "Block off some of the fucking sand with your Quirk!" He snarled at her.

Ibara quickly crossed herself, "Beast." She muttered, staring at him with lidded eyes.

"You're already an asshole." Setsuna snarled, "Don't fucking yell at my classmates. I'll fuck you up!"

"What was that, Piec?-" Katsuki started to jaw with her as well, but it quickly ended.

Nejire's hands glowed gold and she clapped. Everyone on her side of the field jerked in shock, "Enough." She said, not smiling for once. She pointed at Katsuki, "If you're going to ruin the fun, then I'll revoke Quirk permission and kick you out." She glared heavily at him, "Is that clear?"

Katsuki's teeth ground almost to powder inside his jaw, "Yes."

"Good!" And Nejire was right back to cheery, "Here Ibara-chan!" She floated up, and getting the idea, Setsuna separated and started floating too, "You can cover for me and Setsuna-chan."

Ibara nodded, thanking their senpai with a smile. Her hair started to grow, forming a somewhat loosely weaved net. It was a bit of a double-edged sword, since now traversing that area of the court was a bit harder. "This still feels like cheating." She mumbled, though not quietly enough.

Kaminari laughed, "Hey, we're all doing it! The game got a bit more fun, despite Bakago's attitude."

Ibara smiled despite herself.

The rest of the game continued as a shootout, and despite Ibara's best efforts, the other team's Quirks were just more suited for the game and the score gap started to widen. Nejire actually had to turn it up and Kaminari had to start trying to block any enemy spikes with well-placed sniper shots with his Quirk. In the end, they just weren't enough. Tetsutetsu, Katsuki, and Kirishima did their best (And at one point, Tetsutetsu even ended up wrapped in Ibara's vines from an attempted diving save), but even having Nejire on their team wasn't enough to get them the win.

"DAMN IT!" Katsuki repeatedly punched the sand in frustration.

Setsuna rolled her eyes, "It was a close game till you tried to kill Zuzu. You dug your grave. Go sleep in it." She spat and walked off, not bothering to listen to his retort. When he realized that, he angrily stomped off and Kirishima sighed, running after him.

…

The rest of the day passed by wonderfully. All the girls got to tan in private (and varying levels of dress, much to Ibara's shock) inside the 'castle.' The boys continued to play volleyball, though Nejire made it clear there were to be NO Quirks without her there to supervise, and that if she had to come out of the 'castle' someone was going home. When they weren't playing, they were swimming. After an hour or two, everyone started getting hungry, and the limo came back, this time with groceries. Momo had easily been able to make some giant grills and charcoal earlier in preparation, and they started reverse-searing some steaks and getting the rest of the food ready.

"Crap, I had forgotten about this!" Izuku sighed, "We could have started some American barbeque if we remembered to set some smokers cooking earlier."

"Drat!" Momo clicked her fingers as she walked up to him, "I even thought about it two nights ago, but I forgot about it this morning! Some short ribs would have been magic."

"Why'd you forgeeeeeet?!" Nejire whined, floating behind Momo, and leaning on her.

"Oh, hey girlSSSSS!" Izuku's voice went high-pitched as he took in their lightly tanned forms. 'I'm going to DIEEEE!' He wailed inside his head. They looked even more gorgeous than usual!

"Damn, my mouth is watering." Setsuna grumbled before pecking Izuku on the cheek and pressed herself against his back, "At least we got the good stuff!" She drooled as she saw all the high-quality wagyu (both Japanese A5 and some Australian and American variants) cooking on the grill and causing massive flare-ups.

"Spared no expense!" Mina cheered, drawing giggles from the rest of them. She eagerly took up some tongs and started to help flip the meat.

"Okay there, Hammond!" Setsuna laughed at the pink girl.

"Of course, you would, Setsuna." Momo was well aware of her love of dinosaurs, and they had spent their date binging Jurassic Park movies.

The food cooked quickly, and by the time they were full, all they wanted to do was laze around. All of them quickly got another layer of sunscreen on so they wouldn't burn, this time forgoing the massages. They all laid down on towels and chairs and just relaxed with one another. Soon, the sun started to set, and they started preparing the finale.

Or rather, Momo did all the work while the others cheered her on. "At least I'm not using my fat anymore." Momo grumbled to herself, not quite showing off her new ability to remote-create yet. She WAS going to face all of them in the Sports Festival in only a couple weeks, after all. She quickly got all of the items created, and Izuku quickly got them set up with some quick application of his powers.

Day turned to dusk, and then turned to night. All around them, the few beachgoers that already knew Dagobah Beach had been cleaned had started leaving. It was a shame because they were going to miss the show. Very few people remained, other than the students, and all of them were set up in their own little clusters. Izuku was blushing, though it had already died down a bit. He was sitting with his back pressed against Momo's chest, and she herself was leaning up against something soft. Mina was happily hugging him from the right side, and Nejire was hugging his arm between her breasts on his left. Setsuna and Camie were hugging each other, and both were between his legs.

"Everyone ready?!" Itsuka yelled to the rest of the classes.

"READY!" Everyone who wanted to film had their phones out.

It was pretty close to a half moon, and it was reflecting beautifully in the calm waters in front of them. "Hit it, Izu!" Momo smiled, nuzzling his hair.

Izuku blushed, but smiled as he snapped his fingers. Instantly, all the matches they had arrayed lit on fire, and each fire lit up a firework's fuse. Best they could do for timing was to lengthen and shorten the fuses. They started burning down, and all of the students waited in anticipation. Finally, they ignited, and the fireworks started flying.

The first one exploded in a massive, bright boom which showered the waters below with sparks, and then secondary explosions lit up as well, bathing the sky and the now-mirror-like sea in colorful sparks and showers. The students all cheered in excitement as it happened, oohing and ah-ing. As they watched, Mina smiled. It was time.

"What an amazing day, huh?" She pecked him on the cheek. She always loved watching him blush. He did so, looking at her with a happy smile. He didn't get to say a word and she kissed him, putting as much emotion into it as she could.

Izuku enjoyed it as best he could, but some fear rose up in him that this was going to turn sour. He did have all the girls pressing closely to him, and each other. When they broke, he internally sighed in relief as the other girls simply seemed to be smirking, from what he could see. "Have fun, Izu?" Momo kissed the back of his neck.

"Yeah…" He breathed, rolling the dice. Wherever it fell, he'd deal with it. He tilted his head back and kissed Momo as well, feeling her tighten her grasp on him.

"That's hot." Setsuna giggled, waiting patiently for her turn. Izuku and Momo broke for air, and Setsuna's lips replaced Momo's. Mina and Momo giggled, before Momo hesitantly leaned down and pecked a delighted alien queen on the lips as well.

After Setsuna had her fill, Izuku turned to Nejire and hugged her tight as they kissed. Nejire sighed in delight, dropping her head on his shoulder as Camie took her kiss as well. Izuku pulled back as the fireworks continued before he started to giggle a little hysterically. "S-So, this is really a thing now, huh?"

"Yup!" Nejire giggled as she gently sucked on his neck. Not quite hard enough to leave a hickey, but hard enough to make him moan a little.

"You're ours now, Izu." Momo giggled as she watched, before kissing her man again. The newly christened polycule sat back and continued to watch until the fireworks ended.

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Aaaaand, that's a wrap! Hope everyone enjoyed! It was definitely a slice of life chapter, but DEFINITELY an important one.

I know some of you will probably think I moved forward too fast with the relationships (and especially Nejire's inclusion), but it was always sorta planned this way. It DID evolve from the original plans, but it kinda needed to as the manga progressed. And quite frankly? With the way the manga has been completely and utterly pissing me off for the past several months (to the point I stopped reading the damn thing), this fic's length has shortened. I've had to completely revamp several sets of plans, and then revamp them again.

So, some things admittedly got sped up. I spent the chapter mostly on character growth and relationship building, and I hope I did it justice. This will continue in the next chapter as well, though it won't lean more towards slice of life.

This ALSO means I… quite likely will avoid doing any more 'pure' MHA fics, no matter how much I love some of the premises I've come up with in QoQ, my MHA idea bin. Or at least ones starting from the earlier events or that care about the canon events. The post Raid premise where I paired him with Nagant still has a shot, because at least I don't have to retread ground there and can attack the reasons for my current spite boner. It's such a shame that a manga I loved so damn much fell so damn hard.

Next up for this fic is I Island! I've been looking forward to that one for a while. And then the sports festival after that.

Next up for me? Got one of three options and I don't know which it'll be at this point. Either I'll get right onto the next chapter here, finish ch2 of my One Punch Man fic so I can post ch1, or I'll get started on chapter 2 of my latest entry into QoQ; the DxD crossover.