"Ready Izuku?!" Inko's voice called from the sidelines of the runway Izuku stood on. He wasn't entirely sure exactly how his mother had pulled this off, but by asking around with her old friends from school, she'd managed to get them access into an old abandoned runway in Musutafu that was typically locked off from the public.

No one was here to look after it, as there was a new airport on the other side of town opened up last year, leaving this one to be left to ruin. Izuku wondered if that was even legal. He wouldn't be surprised if there was some secretive hero group or villain group preserving it for some reason, but at the moment, that was neither here nor there.

As far as they knew, it was abandoned and they only needed it for a few hours, as it was completely cut off from view from the rest of Musutafu due to the fence covering it.

That would give Izuku the ability to use his 'Quirk' without being seen to get some practice in, which his mother at least did agree if he had powers now he needed to know how to actually use them. It was weird to see his mother help anyone, let alone him, break the quirk law but he supposed these were extenuating circumstances.

"Ready!" He called back, getting into a sprinting position he'd learned in P.E. They'd gone to the longest runway which was over three miles long at least by Izuku's estimate. His mother held a stop watch prepared to time him.

They had a few hours, and all they were going to do was simply have him run laps around a few things so he could get used to his power and maybe determine his top speed. his mother had been quite insistent that was it.

Izuku was ready, and he felt a tingle inside him as he… didn't call on his speed. No, it was more like he let go of the hold he had on it, no more holding himself back but going at what felt like a 'normal' speed now, not hearing the small crackle of green electricity on him.

"NOW!"

And he ran. There was a loud crash as several lights broke from the pressure of his take off and his mother let out a shriek as she was almost thrown off her feet from the wind that was kicked up.

He'd already gotten a quarter of the way across the runaway when that had happened, by his estimate only seven seconds having passed. He could barely keep his thoughts organized though, as he barrelled forward, wind whipping past his face violently until suddenly it wasn't, almost as though something was keeping his path clear that he couldn't see.

His vision was odd, it was half blurry shapes that one would expect at this speed yet also clear cut shapes at the same time, as though his brain was speeding up and letting him see this in normal speed.

Thoughts barrelled past his brain even faster than he was running as millions of ideas and theories formed and- OH SHIT THERE WAS THE END BRAKE!

He ran face first into the fence with a loud THUD before falling backwards with a groan of pain. Looking back he shook his head and pushed up, seeing the vague shape of his mother in the distance who was probably worried.

He didn't waste a second pushing back up and running as fast as he could manage back to her, paying attention this time and slowing down as he neared, fortunately finding his braking was just as fast as his acceleration.

Unfortunately, he didn't yet know that and so even though he could have landed smoothly he overcorrected and the end and his eyes went wide as he barrelled forward right into the tarmac, rolling along it as his mother shouted in shock.

"Izuku! Izuku are you okay?!"

"I'm fine…" He groaned, pushing up and getting his teeth as he turned to her. "Just-"

"Bleeding!"

"Huh?" He looked down and saw his arm had been busted open. He frowned and hoped his mom wouldn't make a big deal out of it but before he looked up suddenly, to both their shock, the wound noticeably closed up.

Izuku blinked in shock before looking up at his mother.

"…The doctors… they said that you… your injuries healed after the lightning hit you. That…" Inko was quiet as she said this aloud, almost more as if she was thinking to herself then explaining to Izuku, who had begun to chuckle. Inko frowned and raised a brow.

"I have speed healing." He chuckled, grinning before it suddenly dropped and his eyes went wide as thoughts rapidly went by him before he settled on something and got on his feet with a stunned look. "I have speed healing…"

"Izuku?" Inko asked worriedly at his sudden change before his eyes lit up. "Is something wrong?"

"I just realized, I have speed healing and I can run fast. Fast running… And I managed to figure this out fast even for me! My thoughts are going so fast! Mom!" The woman jumped as Izuku suddenly came over to her with a massive grin. "I have super speed!"

"…" Inko sighed. "I think you hit your head too hard."

"N-No! I mean I know I have superfast running speed, but I mean that I have super speed in general. As in, everything that can be fast is fast! My thoughts, my healing, my thoughts, my perception- That's what the hallucinations were!"

"Hallucinations?!" His mother asked worried.

"Well, not hallucinations. I thought they were hallucinations at first but I didn't want to stay in the hospital."

"Izuku! You should have said something! You could have been really hurt if they were hallucinations!" The boy at least had the presence of mind to look sheepish.

"S-Sorry… but it wasn't! I saw the world going super slow, so I thought it was a hallucination but time wasn't slowing down, I was speeding up! It makes so much sense!" Izuku grinned manically. "If everything about me is going fast, then that includes a faster perception. If my perception is faster, the world is slower from my perspective."

"I… suppose that makes sense." Inko frowned. "Are you okay now? Does your arm hurt?"

"Huh? Oh, not really. It stopped aching immediately and it's all fine now." Izuku grinned. "So can we please keep going?! I want to try and find my full speed- Oh yeah how fast did I go? I was stumbling at the start and got distracted, plus I'm not used to this yet so it's probably not my full speed."

Inko blinked before pulling out her stopwatch and glancing at it. "Ah, eighteen seconds sweetie."

"Nearly three hundred and fifty miles an hour." Izuku chirped immediately before going wide eyed again and grinning. "Fast thoughts! Fast math!"

"You could already do maths fast." Inko reminded him and he just chuckled.

"Yeah but that was immediate more or less! Ha! Super fast maths!" He cheered happily as he jumped back, buzzing with excitement. Inko couldn't help her own smile even through her natural nervousness. Izuku had been robbed of the chance to have this excitement and experience years ago when he was diagnosed quirkless so it was something truly wonderful to get to see him enjoy himself now with these new abilities.

Enough that she even managed one of her (not-so-)rare snarky comments. "Well, at least now you have a quirk that can keep up with your mouth."

"Yeah!" Izuku said excitedly, before pausing and playfully glaring at her. "Hey!"

"Not that fast then." Inko giggled. He stuck out his tongue and as if to prove a point turned and ran as fast as he could, nearly knocking his mother over again.

He wasn't even sure how fast he was going but he could feel something crackling around him protectively as he moved faster, faster, faster.

He felt something form in the air around him, daring him to push past it, to go faster. His eyes went wide and despite the desire coursing in his very veins, calling him to the speed he knew he could reach…

He put on the breaks, stopping inches from the wall this time. He didn't even have to ask his mother now to know roughly the speed he'd gone at. He'd seen the wind cones.

He'd gotten near to the speed of sound.

With a dazed grin, he turned and rushed back with a massive grin on his face, getting back in under twenty seconds to his mother, smiling up at her as she stared shocked at the pure speed he'd displayed.

Then the smell of burning reached him and he realized it wasn't just the speed.

"IZUKU, YOU'RE ON FIRE!"

He went wide eyed as he looked down and smelt the burning of cloth as his shirt had caught on fire. "A-Ah!"

He quickly went to try to pat it out as did his mother and once it went out, the T-shirt now charred and ripped, they both sighed in relief. Izuku hummed with a frown. "Guess friction is a bit of an issue…"

Inko just looked at him and shook her head.

"...Okay… We'll have to get you clothes that can handle it and get your new quirk registered fast…"

Izuku opened his mouth.

"If you make a superspeed pun right now I'm going to ground you for the next month."

He wisely kept his mouth shut.

He hadn't meant to start the vigilantism. He was firm on that point.

Yes, he wanted to be a hero.

Yes, he had a helping people thing.

Yes, even when that person was terrible to him, if he saw someone who needed help, he always responded to it.

Yes, with his speed he'd inevitably be in a situation where he could help much faster and anyone else and have to deal with that.

He still didn't put two and two together for quite a while. His mother had first, a week after he'd got out of hospital. They'd been walking home from the grocery store together, Inko not wanting to send her son alone on errands yet, and they had heard the commotion before they had seen it.

A get-away, with villains driving off in a car, heroes trying their damnedest to keep up but trailing behind. Izuku barely had time to register what he was seeing before a hand gripped his arm firmly.

"Izuku, no! You are not a pro, and they are on it. You are not putting yourself in danger for something others are already handling." She chastised and Izuku had gone red faced and quietly apologized.

But it didn't last.

It was never going to last. Izuku helped people when they needed it, that was in his nature.

And of course, soon enough, with a lot of convincing on his part, his mother had let him pick up groceries on his own again. The first two times were uneventful, but the third…

He'd been bent over at the back of the store, picking up the final item on the list he needed, milk, when the bell the store had installed went off. Izuku didn't pay any mind to it at first while he determined whether it was skimmed, semi-skimmed or whole milk he liked. He could never remember the difference. Honestly, he wasn't convinced they didn't taste the same and the names just tricked people.

Then he'd heard a gruff voice. "Don't even think of calling the police or your guts will paint the wall long before they get here. Open the register, now."

Well, to put it mildly, that wasn't good.

He quickly took refuge behind one of the aisles to avoid being seen and leaned out very gently, to see two men. They didn't look to be the brightest criminals, both focused on the cashier and not looking for witnesses or heroes.

Their masks were crude domino masks that would likely do nothing to actually hide their identities once an investigation was launched, and neither seemed to have powerful quirks as far as he could tell.

The one who made the threat, who was the skinnier of the two, was pointing a gun at the cashier and his free hand revealed he likely only had a very basic claw quirk.

The other villain was… a laughing stock, quite frankly. The more rotund of the two, with a bald patch, Izuku noticed all the cheese in the store was floating with his presence.

At least the one with the gun could do some decent damage with his claws but cheese manipulation?

Izuku was all for encouraging creative uses and pointing out how great all superpowers were, but at times like these even he could admit that was just embarrassing.

Still, he was only rambling on his mind about this because it was the only distraction he had from the robbers up front. He looked out the window. Heroes would be here any moment.

Except… there were none outside, in sight, at all.

He heard the shouted threats. He heard a whimper from the cashier that made him flinch, he heard the small pleadings and the harsh shut-downs they received

Five minutes later and the robbers had all the cash in their bag and no heroes had turned up still. Where were they?! Why were no heroes here?!

'You are not putting yourself in danger for something others are already handling.'

His mother's words ran through his head and though he knew he was deliberately taking them out of the context they were meant…

"Finally, fucking took long enough."

"Shit, now we just need to get rid of him. I don't think these disguises work like the boss told us they would."

"What?! No, ya can't! I did everything that ya asked for! Please!"

Izuku heard the cocking of the gun. Lightning burst off him as his eyes went wide.

"Don't worry, we'll lock the place up when we leave."

"HELP!"

And Izuku ran.

He was in front of the group in a second, all of them in slow motion as Izuku wasted no time grabbing the gun first and forcibly moving it up the way out of danger. He went for the owner next, behind the counter in between seconds and pulling him down to the ground just in case.

Izuku knew he was fast but bullets were twice the speed of sound. He wasn't sure he was fast enough to actually dodge them yet and he definitely couldn't outrun them as far as he knew.

Maybe one day, but not at the moment and this moment was what mattered!

So he got the would-be victim out the way and went back to his normal speed for just a few seconds. The bang in the room was deafening and hurt Izuku's ears but he went back to speeding right after, the threat of a bullet now safely out the way as he turned and jumped over the counter, sliding over it and grabbing both robbers feets, pulling them out from underneath both of them.

He took the gun while they were practically hovering in mid-air and ran over to the back of the store where he'd seen some hardware and managed to find a nice decent amount of rope. He stayed back and stood still, looking up to a tv in the corner of the room.

There was only one camera in the store and it kept an eye on the cashier but fortunately not the floor beneath so he likely wouldn't have been seen on the CCTV.

Good for him, bad for the store. It was a good thing it was a pair of not so bright criminals who'd come causing problems, as they had managed to stay in the one spot with CCTV the whole time.

And speaking of the TV displaying it… he stopped, letting time go back to normal. For him, these events had all taken some time. Not a lot but some from his perspective but as the camera would show him…

There was a green flash on the screen then in real life in time with the criminals they suddenly tumbled around in mid-air and crashed into the ground.

Izuku chuckled and barely five seconds later he was out the door, his groceries in hand and his payment made in the form of two tied up criminals. He'd made sure the clawed one's hands were bound. He thought stopping a store robbery was payment enough for milk, ice cream, some fish, and soda, which was all he'd gotten.

So, green lightning was what people saw while he was running. Interesting…

With a start, he realized that meant if he ran right now so long as no one spotted him start no one would know he'd broken the quirk law as they wouldn't know he was the one running about.

His quirk registration was still waiting to be fully approved and it was only listed as Speed. Nothing else. Nothing that gave away exactly what he could do.

Oh what the hell, what was the point in being a late bloomer who was still a kid if you couldn't enjoy your powers just a little?

With that thought he ducked into an alley and took off.

Four seconds later, he stood in the parking lot of his apartment and let out a satisfied hum, checking his groceries and smiling at seeing they were fine. As far as he could tell, his powers were still acclimatising to him.

That was his guess anyways. If he kept his speed under four hundred miles an hour for the moment, he and anything else he picked up would be protected by some kind of shield as far as he could tell. He didn't understand it but it seemed to be dealing with the potential ramifications of his speed.

When he went over it though, at least at the moment, it seemed to stop being as effective, only protecting his immediate life.

He had a feeling this would change with time and practice and he might be able to more safely reach higher speeds, but that was just a feeling, not confirmed fact, so for the moment he kept to the safe speed he'd worked out and headed up stairs with a smile.

His mother had been happy to see him back, helping him put everything away and it had all been fine… for about half an hour. Then Kodai walked in.

He didn't blame Kodai, there was no way she knew. In fact, he'd noticed she'd been around more and he felt there was something familiar about her, he just couldn't tell what.

Logically, he knew it was probably just that they went to class together but that didn't feel right…

Either way, he had only realized, stunned, a couple days ago that he'd actually managed to talk with the girl. The first girl other than his mom he'd really talked to, even if it was only for a brief few moments.

For him, that was a big achievement and it should have felt as such… Instead though, he felt more like it was something he should have been used to doing all the time.

It didn't even excite him that much that he'd managed, though it did make him happy. These had been the thoughts running through his mind at the time until he actually heard what Kodai had said about a store robbery and a green haired witness…

He could feel his mother's intense stare and knew he was in for it.

Once Kodai was gone…

"IZUKU HISASHI MIDORIYA! I TOLD YOU PRECISELY NOT TO DO THIS VERY THING AND WHAT DO YOU DO?! YOU GO AND RUN OFF INTO A DANGEROUS SITUATION WHERE YOU COULD HAVE GOT YOURSELF KILLED! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU WERE DOING?!"

Izuku had sat through it all while sinking into the couch in embarrassment. It had been a long time since he'd gotten an angry rant from his mother, who was very rarely angry, nowadays.

She probably wasn't all that angry this time either as much as scared. Her words certainly seemed to be more about losing him then being mad at him.

"AND WHAT IF A HERO HAD SEEN YOU?!"

"T-They wouldn't have… there were no heroes. That's why I did mom! B-Because I didn't have a chance! They were going to… going to…" he swallows. "The r-robber had a gun and he was going to pull it w-when there was no one else around. I couldn't… I c-couldn't just…"

His mother had softened considerably at that before sighing and pulling him into a hug. Somehow, he'd escaped punishment beyond losing the 'privilege' of being the one to get food from the store alone.

However, barely a day later, Inko had seemed to come to a surprising conclusion. Izuku had just been watching TV when, out of nowhere, she had spoken up a sentence that had completely thrown him.

"You can help people with your quirk."

It had been so sudden that he'd almost dropped off the couch as he startled. "M-Mom?"

"Not all the time." She said sternly, meeting his eye. "But… I know, no matter how much I want to protect you… I know you're going to just run out and try and help anyways. On the condition that you only do it if there is no other choice, you're never seen and you come back to me safe…"

Izuku stopped for a moment before nodding. "Thank you. Thank you… so, then… if you want me to n-never be seen… I need to be able to go full speed to h-have the least chance of injury. I… have an idea."

Inko tilted her head confused and very suddenly there was a green flash and the front door was suddenly wide open. Another few seconds later and a green bolt went past her eyes suddenly and Izuku was sat on the couch, a firefighter's flame retardant plain green jumpsuit laid out before him as well as a helmet which had a mask and earmuffs.

"What's all this?" Inko asked with a suspicious gaze. "And did you get it legally?"

"Well, it's not illegal to borrow a firefighter's outfit from the station technically if they never know it's gone. Same with the helmet. The earmuffs I just brought from a general quirk item store." Izuku explained with a nervous chuckle and Inko just sighed. "S-Sorry…."

"I don't understand how your mind works sometimes."

"…I can't give you answers; I don't understand either." Izuku shrugged before looking back down at his items. "Anyways, I was t-thinking. My sneakers are flame retardant thanks to them b-being from dad and the soles are durable so I shouldn't have to change those out t-too much. The suit is flame retardant so the friction shouldn't make it catch on fire, the helmet can hide my face if we tint the glass and the earmuffs are just in case I accidentally go supersonic. I don't think I'll hear the boom but better safe than sorry."

"…So your masterplan to avoid being recognized is to dress as a fireman?" Inko asked and Izuku flushed, before in one last flash of green, he came back with paint.

"Well, I was going to change the design a little… Also I had an idea for not needing to tint the glass but I'm not sure if it w-will work. When I w-woke up, my hands s-started vibrating eventually too f-fast for me to focus on with normal perception. It w-was weird but maybe if I did that with my face I'd be able to keep people from identifying anything as long as my hair is covered." Izuku explained absent-mindedly. Inko blinked again.

"Son, I'm going to be honest with you. That will be a terrible costume."

He sighed. "I know… but better one that works then none at all which c-could get me seen."

He smiled when she couldn't argue and waved her hand as if telling him to get to work.

He really did try at first to avoid unnecessary conflict. If he saw something suspicious he might follow for a moment, determine if a hero was doing something about it then leave and if there wasn't a hero, get his costume, come back and keep watching.

There had been a few times he'd have to run into alleys, punch a criminal in the gut at superspeed and pull the victim to safety. In fact a disturbing fact seemed to be that Musutafu was kind of lacking on patrolling heroes.

They were always on the main streets so almost everything Izuku knew he inarguably had to get involved with was always in the back alleys. He spent two whole weeks following his mother's rules perfectly.

Then there had been another incident with a get-away vehicle where the car had been barrelling towards a young boy who hadn't seen it coming. No one could argue his intervention was necessary as he got the boy out the way, but the heroes had been there that time.

And that small shift had opened an accidental gateway into Izuku slowly fudging the rules more and more over time, slowly waning them down. He wasn't sure if it was because he enjoyed the thrill or If it was always going to happen with his helping people thing but…

First he only got involved when absolutely necessary in front of heroes, then he got involved when arguably another hero could do something but was too slow, and it seemed like a better idea for Izuku to do it.

Then surely enough, he started doing it even when he wasn't needed. This all leading to a point where a month later, all of Musutafu had at least heard of the rumour of Bolt it had seemed.

Izuku wasn't sure he liked the name, seemed too plain to him but he couldn't do anything about what the people called him. Either way, now he'd even rush in while their pro heroes in active fights with villains if he saw an opportunity to end it fast.

And that much was probably for the best, as it was no secret the heroes didn't always do their jobs but instead drew out fights for flashy performances just to get better hero rankings.

Backdraft was rumoured to be particularly annoyed his chance to get higher in the public rankings by having an epic battle with a flamethrowing villain was thrown out the window by the villain being abruptly dunked in a lake by the vigilante known as Bolt, handcuffs placed on them already.

Izuku meanwhile, other than having to occasionally battle with his mother over being allowed outside, was having the best time of his life. A quirk, being able to help people, no school, no Kacchan and no bullying.

He felt amazing and had wanted to go for a normal paced run just to enjoy the day, having to assure his mom everything would be fine before he set out into the park.

He wasn't really sure what brought him to the shops, probably just coincidence but then he'd seen a doddery old man moving about the parking lot as he shouted frantically at others. "Come on! You must get some help! One of those forsaken pros is needed right now!"

Yet everyone seemed to be ignoring him, brushing him off as a nutter more than likely due to the fact he was behaving quite erotically.

"Sir?" Izuku had asked as he approached, feeling a sense of obligation to check on the matter. "What's wrong?"

"Oh! Yes, you young man! Please, you have to get help!" He pleaded. "There were these young hooligans just hanging about here just now and they just took off."

"Um… sir, I don't think the pro heroes can do anything just because of their age or dress sense." Izuku said kindly, assuming that's what this was about.

"No! You misunderstand, they were waiting there for ages and they didn't leave until this young girl, about your age came out! She went in alone and then I saw one of them point her out to the other, and they took off after her like they were stalking here. I don't think they meant well at all!"

Izuku felt his stomach drop. That was definitely not good, and god knows where they were now. "Right, I'll go get a hero right away sir."

"Oh good lad! Hurry!"

And Izuku did hurry, but not to get a hero. Instead, the second he rounded the corner out of sight he bolted back home, put on his lacking vigilante suit and rushed back. Barely a minute had passed by the time that Izuku finally finished his search and came upon the group that had clearly grown.

Five grown men against… his eyes widened and a flare of anger ripped inside him.

"GET AWAY FROM KODAI!"

The 'fight' that followed was a brief spell of utter lunacy as the villains all panicked. The first to respond was the villain with dog-like mutations, Fido as Izuku mentally referred to him, who charged at Izuku.

That was a bad move as in an instant Izuku was on the other side of the dog villain and managed a harsh enough stomp into their back leg that they buckled. In barely a second a hundred punches across the face had been delivered and the villain fell over dazed.

Izuku turned only to see a fist inches from his face and time slowed down from his perspective as there was a bright burst of green lightning off his body, the teen casually ducking around the fist and letting out a sigh. The big dude, Bubba in Izuku's head, would be hard to take out on his own strength.

However, Izuku realized he didn't have to when he let time repeat normally and the large villain stumbled forward, stepping on Fido who let out a howl and caused the massive Bubba to fall forward flat on his face.

With a grin he couldn't help, the vigilante turned to face the remaining three. The plain teenager was next, pulling out a knife from his jacket and rushing not for Izuku but Kodai, tailed by the bald leader.

Izuku turned to run for them only to spot the rotten-toothed villain, Rot in his head, pulling his head back before breathing at Izuku. He was confused for just a moment until he realized the air was tinting green and the floor started dissolving. With wide eyes he ran out the alley and in a second was on the other side, spotting the wall in the way coming up.

With a deep sigh and hope he ran straight at it and much to his relief and secret delight he managed to shift his body to run straight up the wall, before coming down the other side.

Rot had to go down first, no doubt. He had the most dangerous quirk as far as he could tell. First though, Izuku delivered the harshest gut punch he could manage right into the leader's stomach and grabbed the knife arm of the plain boy, twisting his momentum around so….

Izuku slowed down and the boy suddenly turned and smashed face first into the wall as the leader keeled over from his hit. Izuku wasted no time watching them though instead turning and running right to Rot, kicking him in the back as fast as he could.

The kinetic energy from the attack did the job Izuku hoped it would and instead of just throwing the man forward a little bit he was practically launched right out of the alley, rolling across the ground and hitting Bubba on the way.

No way he was getting up fast after that. Izuku quickly turned and felt confident when he saw the plain villain on the floor clutching a broken wrist before noticing the leader and going pale.

There was a hand reaching into some kind of portal and pulling out what looked like a handgun inches from Kodai. Izuku moved to run but in the brief time he'd been in normal speed Kodai had already seemingly decided she'd had enough of being the one in distress not hesitating to grab the gun and in an instant it shrunk down into what seemed like nothingness, followed by the girl grabbing the villain's shirt.

It shrunk down suddenly and the villain's eyes went wide as he started making choking noises. Izuku stayed put, not because he didn't have the speed to interfere but because, well…

Kodai could kick ass apparently, and that she did as she suddenly dropped down and swept the villains leg out from under him, followed by a harsh punch to the face that knocked the man out.

"Uh…N-Nice going." Izuku blinked, his voice coming out distorted again. It was a trick he'd learned by pure coincidence while he'd been learning to vibrate his face to hide it.

"Mm." She said, before suddenly having her facial expression change for once. Her tone was still monotone but it sounded a tad more urgent than normal. "Behind you!"

He turned and his own eyes widened as the plain teenager had a spare knife inches from his face. Time slowed down and Izuku set his face before narrowing his eyes.

He took the knife, quite casually, and ripped it out the teen's hand as he threw a fast punch forward that knocked the villain on his ass. Throwing the knife away, the vigilante then disappeared in a trail of green lightning before finding himself standing in front of Kodai two seconds later.

The villains were all tied up behind him, with one extra punch each for good measure to keep them down.

"…Thank you." The girl said quietly after a moment, looking him up and down as if inspecting something.

"You're w-welcome. Are you okay?" he asked, concerned, hoping nothing had happened he hadn't seen.

"Mm. Nothing too serious." She showed her arm had a cut. "Leader threw a knife with his quirk."

"O-Oh… well uh…" He couldn't leave her out here where she could run into more bad guys. She saved him before so he owed her anyway. With a deep breath to calm his nerves, Izuku spoke. "Would you p-perhaps like a lift home? I am not busy a-and I wouldn't want to take the risk of t-their being back-ups around."

For a moment Kodai seemed to freeze, before looking back. Was she looking for an exit to run? Was he scaring her?! Oh no, Izuku you idiot-

"O-Okay." She said, surprising Izuku when she briefly stuttered. In fact she seemed more rigid, as if she was forcing herself into the spot. "Please."

"I d-don't want to make you uncomfortable..."

"It's okay. Please." She said with a tad more force. Whether it was for him or her, he had no idea but with a nod he walked forward.

"Where d-do you live?" he asked, hoping it wouldn't sound creepy. The answer he got dropped his jaw.

"Musutafu apartment complex block three. Building two… apartment thirty-eight." She said, quietly almost as if she knew the information would surprise him.

After a second of gaping he realized she'd be waiting on him and shook his head. He could deal with that later.

"Hold on then. You m-might want to close your eyes." He said and she nodded, picking up her groceries before closing her eyes. Izuku calmed himself then watched the world slow down, somehow making the girl before him look even prettier than she already did.

And she was already very pretty-

His eyes went wide and his cheeks went red as she shook his head. Where had that come from?

Ignoring his odd thoughts, he knew she'd be waiting so he set off.

From Yui's perspective, likely barely a second of darkness and wind rustling would have passed and then they were there. In front of his- in front of their two apartments.

He set her down.

"Alright. T-There. Well, I had better g-go now-"

"When your apartment is right there?" She asked suddenly and Izuku froze, going wide eyed.

"What do you-"

"You knew my name. The only one who would know me and call me Kodai is you, Izuku."

….

Oh crap.