A Long Requited Break

The blinds of the room that belonged to one certain successor drifted open as Inko Midoriya woke up her son, his face scrunching as the light hit his face. He gripped his covers and pulled them over his head, with a lot of effort as his body was incredibly sore. He grumbled, "I don't wanna go yet…." He bemoaned. Inko sighed and sat on the edge of his bed, patting where she thought his head was. She glanced to his desk, seeing the first place medal for the Sports Festival there. When she had seen him win she had flooded the apartment with tears in pride and joy of her little boy.

But she also felt bad, remembering what she had told Izuku so so long ago when he was actually just a little boy. She was glad that whatever happened in that year before UA, it had reignited the fire that she had killed in his eyes all that time ago. She dispelled the thoughts and broke into a smile, leaning down to where she guessed his ear was. "Your friends Tetsu and Monoma are here…"

Izuku's eyes shot wide open and he jumped out of bed, quickly going to his dresser and grabbing a pair of pants and a plain white shirt. "TellthemI'mintheshower!" He quickly yelled before running to the bathroom.

The mother smiled before leaving his room and going to the entrance. Seeing two boys that she had remembered from the Festival. "He's going to be a minute, he's in the shower, do you boys want to come and sit down?" A blond and a silver haired boy, both Izuku's classmates.

Monoma and Tetsu accepted the entrance into the Midoriya household, Tetsu had a black shirt and white sweatpants on while Monoma had khaki shorts and a short sleeve light blue button up. They both had big bags with them as they followed Midoriya to the living room. They both looked around, noticing the family photos, Monoma raised a brow at the lack of a father in all of them.

They both sat on the couch and watched as Inko Midoriya moved to the kitchen. Tetsu sighed falling into the couch, "Man…. these couches feel good…" They soothed his sore muscles from the Sports Festival.

Monoma nodded along, leaning his head back into the cushion of the couch. "It is quite relaxing.." He had been drained ever since the end of the tournament, so he was more subdued than usual.

Inko came back, a plate of drinks in her hand, she set them on the table and sat in a single chair to their right, Monoma sat up and reached for the drink, noticing a notebook on the table. The title read "The Applications of Superpower"

The name of Midoriya's quirk.

Monoma grabbed his drink and then glanced at Inko. "Mrs. Midoriya, is that Izuku's? The notebook I mean."

Inko glanced at the notebook and smiled, "Yes, as soon as he came home yesterday he started taking notes on things he could have improved on with his quirk and things he found out during the festival." She sighed, she still couldn't believe that her baby had a quirk! "He didn't go to bed until really late because of it. But it was nice seeing him so excited, though I could've done without the bandages across his body…"

Tetsu's face broke into a smile, "But they show off how strong he is!" He yelled, "That's what I admire about him, things get tough sometimes, especially since we're training to be heroes, but Midoriya always finds a way to do things no matter what!" Tetsu clenched a fist, "He's awesome!"

The woman exploded into tears and the two boys shot out of their chairs and surrounded her, fretting over the woman and holding tissues for her to grab.

"Mrs. Midoriya are you alright?!"

"Mamadoriya?!"

The woman waved a hand,blowing her nose, "Yes, yes boys, I'm… I'm okay." She blew her nose again. "I'm just.. I'm so proud of him." Her eyes watered a bit, "And I'm so happy he's found such amazing friends." Monoma grinned and Tetsu smiled proudly.

"We're happy to have him too, ma'am.." Monoma said with a kind look.

The trio of boys walked through the prefecture, heading towards the beach. Izuku had a bag filled with a bunch of things that was smaller than the ones of the other two and traded the pants he had grabbed for swimming trunks. Of course they were All Might themed. He considered some other ones but they were green with pineapples on them and he didn't think that was a good idea after the pizza store incident.

"So, everyone is there?" Izuku asked with a quirked brow. He didn't know about any of the plans the other two had told him about.

Tetsu smiled, "Yeah, Kendo said she was doing some research and found out about a trash beach that got cleaned so she wanted us to come and have some fun after all the tough training we've been doing." He said with a rolling of his shoulder.

Izuku joined Tetsu in grinning, "That's considerate of her.." He left out the part of who cleaned the beach.

Monoma swung an arm around Midoriya, smiling alongside them, "I'm proud of you my dear friend, you truly have started overcoming that stuttering problem!"

The boy made of look of thinking, "Yeah… I guess I did!" He hadn't even realized it. though last night he did remembering stuttering a bit, so it was probably still there, but he was glad it was reduced. The Sports Festival truly had changed him, for the better. He moved Monoma's arm off of him before tapping both of his friends, they both looked at him before he grinned. "Race you there!"

"Oh you are on bro!"

"Very well!"

None of them used their quirks, just having a nice friendly race as they ran the last couple of blocks to the beach.

The girls set up umbrellas, towels, and a grill, Kuroiro and Komori were looking at sea shells along the shore, and Shinso stood there awkwardly, not really sure about what to do, he had just been invited along, he didn't really know anyone. That's when Yanagi came over and gave him the tongs, "Here, you can do the hotdogs for us."

Shinso felt some nervousness going away, finally having something to do. He got started on the grill while Tokage and Pony sat under the umbrellas, Yanagi and Kendo joining them soon after.

"How long until the rest of the guys get here?" Tokage pouted.

"I don't know, hopefully soon." Kendo replied.

"Guys guys!" Komori cheered as she and Kuroiro came back, a bunch of shells in their arms. "Look!" She laid them all out for everyone, they each grabbed one, listening to the ocean, grinning as they heard the waves.

Pony pouted, "Broken, it's just yelling, not the ocean…" She spoke clearer thanks to Izuku's tutoring. The rest of the group raised brows before the yelling got louder.

Kendo chuckled, "I don't think that was the shell." The group turned to the steps they had come from, seeing three figures jumping down, a piece of green hair in first place.

"Gah! I was so close!" Tetsu cursed.

Izuku smiled, "Next time Tetsu-kun!" The group of three boys walked over, all panting for breath but with smiles on their faces. The rest of the group stood up and ran towards the three boys.

"About time you showed up! We were waiting for you!" Tokage yelled.

Monoma sighed, "Well, we had to wait for Midoriya."

Izuku raised his hands, "Hey, don't blame me!"

"I mean he's got you there man." Tetsu commented.

"Ganging up on me isn't cool guys!"

"But this will be." Izuku didn't have time to say anything to the monotone voice before he got splashed in the face with water. He sighed and dragged a hand down his wet face to see a bucket floating in front of Yanagi. "Now you are cooled down."

In response, all Izuku could do was laugh, seeing Yanagi joke around was always a welcome delight. He looked around seeing they had water guns, balloons, buckets, the whole gig, a whole variety of things to use. Izuku smiled, activating Full Cowling and quickly grabbed two water guns.

Yanagi used her quirk and grabbed water balloons as Izuku started spraying the entire group.

They all grabbed something, spraying each other, nailing each other with balloons, not even Shinso was free from the fun as he got dragged into it as well, despite not wanting to be.

Izuku sprayed Tetsu in the face and laughed, only for a ton of water to fall down on him, he turned to see Yanagi with her arms up, slightly grinning. He admired her, she was wearing a one piece swim suit, much more time compared to Tokage's and Pony's bikinis that he refused to look at. She looked absolutely amazing in her's though. Before he could say anything Tokage nailed him with a water balloon in the face.

"Stop gawking Izuku! This is war!" She yelled at him.

Monoma sighed, plopping next to Shinso as they did the hotdogs. "Too much energy for the weekend…" Shinso sighed. Monoma just nodded in agreement, ESPECIALLY after the Sports Festival, his body was killing him!

Kendo ran towards the shoreline and cupped water in her hands, firing it like a catapult at her friends, the two tired boys could only sigh as the water landed on them.

They were all drenched after half an hour. It took work to get the grill going again, but they were all smiling as they sat in the shade, moderately tired, especially since they were all so sore.

Izuku laid in the sand, not worried about the sand getting into his bandages. While he was hurting it was more sore, he wasn't broken. He sighed, basking in the sunlight as he was proud of himself that he had started conquering All Might's power.

"Midoriya." The boy sat up and stared at Shinso, the boy offering a hot dog. "Here." Izuku smiled and took it, smiling as it tasted really good, Shinso sat next to him and ate his own hot dog. "Thanks for letting me come along…"

All Might's successor glanced at him, raising a brow, half the hotdog still in his mouth. He finished chewing and swallowed before chuckling and rubbing his neck. "It wasn't my idea. Kendo-chan set this entire thing up."

Shinso perked up, looking back at the red head before looking to the ocean again, staring as if contemplating something. "You should finish your hotdog before it gets cold Shinso-kun." Izuku commented.

"You're right." The boy went back to eating his food. "But which one is Kendo again?"

Izuku chuckled, "The girl with red hair."

The General Course student nodded, "Got it."

The rest of the group looked on as the two chatted with each other and ate. "Greenie's changed…" Tokage commented.

Yanagi glanced at her before looking back at Izuku, his back was straighter, he was smiling more, he seemed more cheerful, "He does appear to have gained more confidence in himself, as if a large darkness was lifted from his heart." She smiled.

"That's really good." Kendo smiled, leaning back. She knew how important confidence was, especially when being a hero.

Monoma sighed, "I just wish I could've gotten rid of that damn Bakugo for Midoriya…." He sighed. Komori and Yanagi both joined him, as they had both tried to do the same but they had failed alongside him. "I really hate that hooligan…" Monoma cursed.

Pony frowned, "Question…" She muttered with a thinking pose as her mind went back to the Sports Festival and one key detail between Bakugo and Midoriya. Everyone turned to her. "What does Deku mean…?"

They all flashed back to the cafeteria incident, that Izuku was a lot more timid than the one they had now. He was… in a box, he had help but he didn't want to accept it, as if he didn't believe it was real. Like it would be stripped away from him if he tried to reach for it.

Kuroiro perked up, "I'm not entirely sure but…. It's probably a really rude insult."

Komori gulped, "H-He told me…about it, and what it meant.." She thought back to taking Izuku to the infirmary.

The group glanced at her. Yanagi opened her mouth in shock, "Could you elaborate on the meaning of the term "Deku" for us Komori-san?"

The mushroom girl rapidly nodded, "He just said it was an old nickname from his childhood, that it was a different way to read his first name." She sighed thinking back to that memory, how sad Izuku had looked back then. "He said that it meant useless…"

Kendo cursed, clenching a fist, "That….that…."

"Asshole.." Tokage finished. Glad that Shiozaki wasn't around to hit her.

Pony frowned, thanks to Izuku's tutoring she knew exactly what the others were talking about and she wished she didn't. "He's not a hero…." She muttered, feeling bad about the topic she had brought up.

Kendo patted her back, "You're right, Bakugo isn't a hero…"

Yanagi frowned, holding her legs close to her chest. How could someone be so cruel to someone so bright? So kind? To be so mean, you truly had to be a horrible person. Especially to someone who always pushed through and did things, who always got things done, with a smile on his face. Even in the worst of circumstances "Wait a second…"

Monoma through a look her way, "What's the matter Yanagi?"

Yanagi narrowed her eyes in through, looking up at Izuku's back, seeing his drenched shirt, seeing him basking in the sun, it reminded her of his mindset, always giving his all to do things, no matter what, and no matter how bleak things seemed. "Well, why don't we turn it into something positive for our friend? So it won't hurt him anymore."

Kendo and Tokage raised brows, "What are you talking about Ghosty?"

She looked at them before writing symbols in the sand. "Well.. Deku is similar to Dekiru." She wrote both symbols in the ground. She pointed to the one on the left, "And well Deku is rude, as it means "useless" and seems to damage Izuku." Then she pointed to the other one, "On the contrary, Dekiru means "you can do it" which I believe perfectly encapsulates Izuku." She raised her eyes and glanced to all of them.

Kendo smiled and nodded, which the rest of them copied, "Yeah! That's perfect!"

Tokage put a hand between them all. "Alright, team! Operation Greenbean is a go!"

Monoma sighed and put a hand in.

Tetsu grinned widely and followed.

Kuroiro grinned and Komori had a determined look as they both put hands in.

Pony smiled and enthusiastically put both of her hands in.

Kendo and Yanagi exchange a look and a smile before joining.

"Break on 3! 1, 2, 3, —"

"BREAK!"

Izuku and Shinso glanced back at the group as they heard the yell. "Everything okay?" Izuku asked.

"My good friend Midoriya!" Monoma yelled, sliding along to sand to sit down next to Izuku before slinging an arm around his shoulder. "I've been meaning to ask a very very VERY important question!"

That had Izuku raising a brow, "What is it Monoma-kun..?"

The blond had a scowl on his face, "What with the term "Deku"…..?" They had to naturally bring it up to Izuku and then try to configure it into something else, good thing that Monoma was naturally blunt so this would be alright.

Izuku's face fell, looking like a kicked puppy. "N-Nothing good….nothing good Monoma-kun."

Yanagi appeared on the other side of him, "Why does this term have a negative connotation?"

"What do you mean?" He asked perplexed

"W-Well" he looked up to see Kuroiro and Komori as the girl started speaking, "Deku is similar to Dekiru." Kuroiro spoke. They both stepped to the side to reveal kendo, "Which means you can do it!" She cheered.

Izuku felt a weight on his back, "And…" Pony spoke. "That fits Midoriya a lot!" She spoke with confidence thanks to Midoriya's lessons.

Yanagi reached for his hand and held it, "What…we are trying to say is…" He looked up to her, seeing her slightly smile, he felt Monoma laying a hand on his shoulder. "Deku…you have inspired us, all of us. To push ourselves, to try to be greater heroes, to be better versions of ourselves." She gave his hand a squeeze. "And so, in return, we want to rid this sadness from your heart."

Izuku twisted his hand to hold hers, giving it a squeeze back. "You can do it…huh..?" He chuckled, looking down into the sand, he could never imagine having friends like these before, they were amazing and he didn't know what he would do without them. "I like how that sounds…"

With a blinding smile he looked up to all of his friends, his true friends, the ones that always had his back no matter what. "Thank you guys.."

Tokage put her arms behind her head, "It's what friends are for broccoli head!"

"W-What Tokage-san said shroom!" Komori said with a smile, Kuroiro nodding alongside her.

Tetsu grinned, letting a hand out for Izuku to grab on, the greanette was dragged to his feet by the steel teen, "You're a manly man! And you push me to me manlier, and for that you can always count on me bro! No matter what!"

"Thanks Tetsu-kun!"

Shinso gulped and stood up as well, "Midoriya…" he gained the boy's attention and with all his confidence he spoke, "I am going to be a hero.." He clenched a fist, " So when I do, let's fight again, and push each other forward. I won't fall behind, that's a promise!" He yelled with conviction.

Izuku smiled widely, "Don't break it."

"I won't."

"None of us will, Midoriya." Kendo smiled, "We're all going to be the best heroes we can be."

"Though, assistance with insight into our quirks would be quite helpful." Yanagi said referring to Izuku's notes. "They are quite helpful."

Izuku perked up, stars in his eyes, "I can do that!" He ran towards their things and reached into his bag and pulled out a notebook, though his ears dropped at the name, "Dang it, this is the wrong one.." He sat down and flopped it onto his lap and Monoma got a good look at the title "Applications of Superpower"

The group all sat down, staring at Izuku and the book. "Midoriya, what's that book for?" Kuroiro asked what everyone else was thinking.

The greanette sighed somberly, "It's for my own quirk." He opened it up to the first page, a detailed description of his quirk adoring it, "I only discovered my quirk recently, so I needed desperately to understand it as best as I could to catch up." He flipped to the next ones, how he had used the power and how it had changed over time, mantras that he kept to help him visualize and control it. "Even now, I can barely use a tenth of what I have."

Burst of 100% or 0, and then Full Cowling at a minimal percentage, it growing, his being able to use it faster, the burst style he had developed with Gran Torino, and finally, finger flicking.

"Finger flicking, what's that?" Monoma asked.

Izuku rubbed the back of his neck, "It's this thing I've been working on, I used it a bit in the tournament." He put his right hand in a finger flicking motion, "If I use my quirk while doing this then a large gust of wind comes out, well depending on if I use a high enough percentage." He stopped and looked back at the page. "Right now I'm only a close range fighter, so having some long to mid range attacks would be helpful."

The group's eyes widened in surprise, they didn't even consider that, since none of them had options like that. They didn't think Izuku did either but he had proved them wrong once again.

The boy flipped one more page and a drawing of a pair of gloves appeared.

Tokage whistled at the drawing, "Mind explaining that Greenie?"

He blushed trying to close the book before a hand landed on his, "Could we please see it?" Yanagi whispered, in his flustered state he resigned and nodded.

"S-Sorry, I'm just not used to showing people my drawings…" Izuku gulped before nodding to himself, "S-So.." He cursed the stutter, he had been doing good today too, "The finger flicking, it's uncontrolled, so I was drawing designs of gloves to go with the rest of my redesigned costume, they're meant to help me aim better."

Pony cooed, "Cool…" The idea was really awesome, however…

"Sorry bro but you need a better name than "Finger flicking"."

"Yeah."

"Yup."

"Mhm…"

"I know…" He sighed, "But I couldn't come up with anything cool sounding!"

Tokage put on a thinking pose, "What about… wind shots?" She offered.

"No."

"Gust blast?"

"No."

"Tempest arrows?"

"Ehhhh cool but I don't think it fits Tokage-chan…" The group all followed trying to come up with names, throwing out suggestions, all of them getting shot down. For the life of them they couldn't come up with anything. None of them truly FIT Izuku.

They all sagged to the ground. "You can always go with tempest arrows if we can't come up with anything…?"

Izuku sat up, sighing. "Wind… gust… tempest….aero…air…AIR!" Shinso joined him in thinking, snapping a finger and shooting the greanette a look, "Force..?"

That made Izuku smile, "Air Force! I like it!"

Monoma nodded, "I do believe that fits rather well."

"Let's just hope you don't get sued by Nike." Tokage joked.

"I do believe that with the removal of that final s he shall be fine" Yanagi replied, shaking her hand and dismissing the concern.

Izuku grinned, "Now, I just need to get these gloves made…"

Komori and Yanagi both exchanged a look, remembering the support course student they had teamed up with, "Why not ask Hatsume-san, I'm sure she'd love to do something like that." Yanagi commented.

Izuku smiled, closing his book and putting it back in his back, "Y-Yeah! That's a good idea, thank you."

They had fun, talking about support ideas, things to improve themselves as heroes, helping Shinso with designs and ideas as well. And for the first time in a while Izuku felt lighthearted, the weight of One For All off of his shoulders and the pain that his childhood had long forgotten.

"H-Hey mom..!" Izuku yelled, opening the door, hearing giggling behind him that made him grimace. He heard creaking on wood before the bubbly woman stood in the hall that led to the door.

She looked confused, seeing heads of hair behind Izuku, "Yes, sweet….ie…?" She felt tears bubble up in her eyes.

"M-MOM!" Izuku fretted over his mother as she started to cry about her little boy having friends, much to Izuku's embarrassment. Eventually, he got her to calm down and she invited his friends inside. The entire group sat in the living room, Kendo, Tetsu, and Yanagi taking up the big couch. Komori and Kuroiro sat on a smaller couch. And much to Monoma's embarrassment, he and Tokage shared a love seat.

Izuku grinned as he passed around some drinks, "So mom.." He trailed off looking at his plump mother, "I was wondering if it was okay if everyone stayed over tonight..? We wanted to have a sleep over…"

The older Midoriya's eyes filled with tears as she nodded, not trusting her mouth for the moment. She was so happy that her son had made so many friends at UA, she did have work to do in her office so she decided to let them be. After a few moments she spoke, "Of course sweetie.. have fun…!" She smiled and crushed her son with a hug before running off to her room, a wide smile on her face.

Izuku sighed with a wide smile on his face, "Thanks mom…" He muttered under his breath.

His class watched on as he smiled and Reiko's eyes gleamed as his eyes glistened in happiness. 'I never realized, but I rather enjoy his smile quite a lot…'

Setsuna smiled and yelled, "Come on Greenie! You made a promise to us and you have to keep it!"

Said boy raised a brow and turned to her, "What promise…?"

They all gulped at the evil look in her eyes as she opened up her bag. "Oh? So you don't remember, do you..?" She said ominously. Her eyes sent a chill down Izuku's spine, reminding him too much of their R-Rated teacher.

He slowly and hesitantly shook his head, "N-No… I don't remember…"

Her cheshire smile stretched as she reached into her bag, "Well… I guess I'll have to remind you then.." She said sully, making Izuku gulp. And in a few moments she pulled out…

…hair clippers..

Izuku's pupil's shrunk and Setsuna's smile widened.

YOINK

With a pink glow the clippers disappeared from Setsuna's hand and found their way to Reiko's. "I do not trust you with Midoriya's—" it feels wrong saying Midoriya "—hair." The ghost girl stated.

Setsuna pouted, "OH! But c'mon! He promised!" She pointed an accusatory finger at him.

Tetsu grinned, "You did promise man."

Izuku looked offended, "Tetsu-kun! You're supposed to be on my side!"

"He's decided, Green bean~" Setsuna smiled.

All Might's successor flushed with embarrassment before turning towards the blond, "A-And what about you Monoma-kun?" He asked with hope.

The boy raised his hands in defeat, "I've learned it's better to let Setsuna do what she wants."

Izuku gaped in betrayal before looking at Kuroiro and Komori. "You would look nice with a different haircut shroom!" The mushroom girl said and Kuroiro nodded along. He turned to Shinso and the boy shook his head, making Izuku sigh in relief, at least Shinso was on his side. Lastly he turned to Kendo, she simply shrugged, not knowing which to pick.

Setsuna grinned, "Hah! You got outvoted!"

The Class rep fumed silently before it all dispelled as he sighed. "Ok…but!" He shot up and smiled, before pointing at Reiko, "Only Yanagi-chan—" That felt…wrong "—can do it."

"EHHH?!" Setsuna whined, "B-But c'mon! I was so looking forward to this!"

Izuku crossed his arms and shook his head, "I don't trust you with my hair!"

Monoma grinned and wrapped an arm around her, "Come on Setsuna, just let it be. He's still gonna get his hair cut." He muttered tiredly. Today had not been his day. Setsuna sighed and melted into the contact, not caring that they had an audience. She grumbled but conceded.

"Fiiiiiiiiine…."

Izuku smiled and sighed in relief before making his way over, "And when it's time to sleep I'll move the couches so you all can set up your sleeping bags." He scratched the back of his neck and looked away for a second, "S-Sorry… the apartment is a little small so it'll be cramped.."

Kendo sighed, "Midoriya you're too modest, this is perfect."

Shinso nodded along, "What Kendo said… this is the first sleepover I'm ever gonna have and so far it's been perfect." The lavender hair boy smiled.

Izuku joined him in grinning, "Mine too..! So.. thank you all for coming." He smiled brightly.

They group all grinned and smile before getting up and moving about. "Ok, so let's order some pizza!" Tetsu cheered as he and Kendo went about doing that. Kuroiro Komori, Setsuna and Monoma went about picking movies to watch. Pony set about getting everyone drinks, making her american styled tea. And Shinso and Reiko were getting Izuku ready for his hair cut.

"It's gonna be alright…" Shinso tried to calm the anxious boy.

Izuku nodded, albeit hesitantly, "Y-Yeah…just weird I suppose."

"Whaddya mean weird, man?" Tetsu called from the kitchen, grabbing chips and sodas from the fridge.

Izuku rubbed his neck. "Well… I've had the same haircut since I was a kid…"

"Ehhhhh?" Pony yelled, "So long..?"

Monoma hummed, "I can concur, from these pictures, our good friend Midoriya has had the same haircut since elementary school." He spoke, observing the family pictures covering the walls, staring at one of Midoriya as a child, entering elementary school. He looked rather nervous, a strange wobbly smile on his face as he wore the traditional bright blue uniform for his school, an All Might action figure in his hand.

Setsuna cooed over baby Izuku, "Awwwwwww you look SOOOOO CUTE!" She smiled while holding her cheeks, "I want baby Izuku!" She yelled.

Said boy blushed at the praise, before smiling and looking at Reiko. "Are you ready, Izuku…?" She whispered into her ear.

The boy's back went rigid. Something about her being so close made him nervous, especially because she used his given name. But, would he really be able to go through with this? Yanagi was really the only one she trusted not to mess up his hair. While Monoma was also very trustworthy, he was also very eccentric, and he caved into Tokage's commands a lot, so Yanagi was the only option. But still, her being so close, right next to him, like this? He could only gulp in response before dumbly stuttering out a yes.

Yanagi mustered up her courage, "And you're sure about this..?"

Izuku slowly nodded, "I did make a promise… and I don't break my promises."

Shinso looked and sighed, "Alright, Midoriya."

"Yes Shinso–" Izuku cut off as Shinso's quirk activated. Reiko looked alarmed but Shinso waved a hand.

"Stay still until Yanagi-san finishes your haircut." He looked at the ghost girl. "I didn't want him to move too much and mess it up.." Shisno spoke rather bashfully.

Reiko regarded him with a smile. "Thank you, that's very considerate of you."

"No problem…"

And for the next two hours everyone gathered around, some making suggestions of where to cut, others staying out of it completely, but they all agreed that they wanted to leave the top alone and just cut the sides, maybe a bit of cleaning up on the top. Yanagi used her quirk and made precise cuts, sweating while doing so. She really didn't want to mess this up.

Izuku – Midoriya… we are only friends –had trusted her specifically to do this and she didn't want to betray his trust, she wanted to get this right just for him. She couldn't afford to mess up, she would feel incredibly guilty if she did. After all, Midoriya had been her first friend at UA, and she had to do right by him. She wouldn't mess up, she would succeed, just for him.

She cut the sides short, not too short where it was just fuzz but relatively compared to the rest of his hair. From the bottom up, at the bottom was the shortest and it continued that way and gradually there was more hair until they reached about 4/5s up to the top where there was a good amount, the top had been completely left alone and they liked how it had come up.

They all looked on in….surprise.

Without the sides, Izuku's face looked more defined, more angular, the puffy hair he had before accentuated his puffy cheeks but now without it they could see how defined his jaw was. Due to his hair before he looked rather round but now he looked sharp, in a good way. He looked more…well borrowing from Tetsu's vocabulary…manly.

Pony smiled, "He looks…. COOL!"

"I agree Shroom!" Komori smiled.

"He looks quite…. Fearsome." Kuroiro grinned.

Kendo walked around him, looking pensive before nodding and smiling, "This is different, but he looks amazing!"

Yanagi sighed in relief, sinking back into the couch with a smile. "I'm relieved…."

Monoma grinned and turned to Shinso. "Alright Shinso, do your thing!"

The boy nodded before looking at Midoriya, said greanette gasped as his eyes returned full of life, he looked around and felt…strange. Looking around and seeing everyone staring at him didn't help, at least they were smiling though. He raised a brow before smiling and moving his hand towards the back of his neck like he always did. "Is there something on….my….." His words died in his throat as he didn't feel the familiar curls he had had all of his life. "It's…shorter..than I expected." He muttered.

Yanagi gulped before floating a mirror towards them and handing it to Izuku. "Here…" She hoped he liked it..

Izuku slowly and shakily took the mirror, and brought it to the front of his eyes, though his eyes were closed shut. He was… nervous, very nervous, about how this would look. "You can look…Izuku…" Reiko whispered into his ear. And as much as it made him nervous and clammy, it also helped him relax. He trusted her.

He slowly fluttered his eyes open, the sides were short but not too short and the top was still as long as he had it. Though it looked more cleaned up than he had it.

Izuku was speechless.

"I…I…" He couldn't find the words as his friends all gazed on with smiles, "I love it…" He smiled. "I love it!"

Reiko smiled as Izuku went on about how good it looked, feeling an intense amount of anxiety fall off of her shoulders at his praise of the job she had done on his hair. They all stopped when they heard the doorbell ring. Tetsu grinned and bounced to his feet. "PIZZA TIME!" Izuku grinned and got up to help Tetsu with all of the food.

They all gathered together and watched movies, talked about heroes, more potential gear designs. Shinso asked what their heroics courses were like and they all explained to their best extent. And then Izuku ran to his room, coming back with a large white packet. "Shinso-kun, here." He handed it to the lavender hair boy.

Shinso raised a brow, "What's this…?" Aim to Pass: American Dream Plan?

Izuku smiled and sat back down, "It's a packet, it has all the training I did for ten months leading up to the UA entrance exam." He opened up his phone and found a picture that All Might had taken, him crying on the sand with his stick limbs, and showed it to Shinso. "This was me at the beginning of training."

"Woah woah, lemme see." Setsuna dragged Izuku's arm towards her and eventually everyone got to see.

And they were shocked.

HE WAS TINY!

"M-Midoriya… my friend…" Monoma spoke emptily, "You filled out a lot… in the course of just ten months."

"I'll say…" Kendo said with wide eyes.

Izuku rubbed the back of his neck, "I didn't have a quirk, so I had to work harder than anyone else if I wanted to get in…" He said somberly.

"What do you mean?" Pony asked with a head tilt.

Izuku blushed before fumbling over his words, sighing, putting his head in his hands, and looking up. "I… couldn't use my quirk for the longest time, it uses energy and I had to get that energy over the course of time." He felt bad lying, but All Might told him not to tell anyone about One For All. "But I didn't know, and at a certain point the energy became too much for my body to handle, so my quirk locked it away, so I wouldn't break myself." He sighed looking up and leaning back into the couch. "So… for the longest time… I thought I was quirkless, it wasn't until the entrance exam that I discovered my quirk."

Setsuna spit out her drink, drenching Monoma, the boy looked pissed and dragged a hand down his wet face. "Two times… In one day..?"

"YOU PLANNED ON TAKING THE EXAM QUIRKLESS?" Setsuna yelled, she hadn't been there since she was recommendation but she had heard how bad it was from her classmates the first couple of days of school.

She got a sheepishly smiling Izuku in return, "Yes…?" He answered.

Reiko smiled and…giggled quietly. Izuku blushed hearing that and turned towards her. "You really are a crazy one, aren't you Midoriya?"

He chuckled. "Y-Yeah… I guess so." He smiled.

They continued to talk, Izuku showing Shinso how the plan worked and some adjustments to make to it. When it was time for bed Izuku got to moving the couches, pushing them against the far wall with ease, after all he had somehow carried All Might at the start of his training, so couches were nothing. Some would sleep on them, others had sleeping bags, of course Izuku would be staying here with them, he didn't want to be in his room in a bed while everyone else was sleeping on the floor.

He got to helping Reiko with her sleeping bag, smiling with a blush on his face. What is this feeling? He didn't know, he had never experienced this before. The fluttering in his chest, how his throat locked up whenever he looked at her. How he just wanted to be next to her. It was all so alien to him.

"I'm going to get some drinks, Midoriya." She said before getting up.

"Alright." Izuku nodded as she left and straightened out her pillow. "Everything seems good–"

"BREAKING NEWS!" The sound caught Izuku's attention, the urgency in the voice made him turn towards the TV, where he saw a woman standing in front of a hospital. The rain coming down was hard and she appeared to be sad as she held up an umbrella to keep herself dry.. "We are here in front of Hosu General Hospital!" The woman seemed shaken up as she shed tears, "And we are sad to report that the Tensei Iida, known to the world as the Turbo Hero: Ingenium has been admitted into the hospital yesterday in critical condition after an ordeal with the Hero Killer Stain!"

Izuku paused with the sleeping bag, dead eyes staring at the TV, "Iida….?" He instantly connected the dots.

The woman croaked out some tears. "His current condition is unknown as both the hospital and the Iida family have refused to give a statement, however we give them our prayers that he makes a full recovery." She brushed a stray lock of hair out of the way of her face before nodding, "We promise to keep updating everyone about the situation, thank you for your time."

It cut back to normal hero news after but it left Izuku thinking. "Iida-kun's big brother…." Is that why he left the festival? He didn't know but… he would find out and make sure that Iida was okay. After all, that's what a hero would do.

END

Not much to say right now, I was considering putting Izuku's dream about the vestiges here because I want to give him Blackwhip… but I decided I will give him a bit more training before that happens. Also, since Izuku has such good control over One For All who will he be interning with? Gran Torino still? A certain Bunny Hero that picked up on his kick during the Sports Festival?

…just kidding, a lot of people do her and it's kinda boring at this point.

But I do have someone in mind, and i'll give you a hint, it's a guy.

Until next time

Jay out!