The mountainous silhouette led the way the eternal wide grin. His height made the very sunlight form a halo ring of brightness around him, a coincidental allusion to his heroicness. Behind him followed the students, like a trail of insignificant ants in comparison. Happy smiles decorated most of their faces.

"A fine morning it is! A fine morning for the blooming youth! Come on, youth! Follow me!"

Izuku felt the excitement rush through his veins like some tangible form of energy, ready to explode any second now. Training with All Might. Yep. That's what he was going to do. He was going to do HERO TRAINING. With ALL MIGHT.

"Midoriya-kun, are you okay? Your face has turned all red…" a concerned Iida asked, increasing his pace to catch up to the ecstatic boy.

"I'm fine!" Izuku squealed a little too quickly, his voice cracking.

A scoff sounded from behind them. Izuku didn't need to look to know that it had been Bakugou. Bakugou had been huffing irritably with barely contained anger ever since they left the classroom, ever since the 'spiky-red-haired kid with the stupid pointy teeth' decided to stick by his side like a damn barnacle. A very noise barnacle too.

"What's the matter with you two, Midoriya-kun? Did you get in a fight or something? " Iida mumbled with a lowered voice.

"Ah, well, um, not quite… It was more like… I uh…" he paused, his eyes leaving All Might's back for the smooth white clouds above him. "It wasn't a fight, I think." He concluded slowly.

Iida accepted the statement with a silent nod. He could tell that he couldn't involve himself in the matter any further.

"Youth!" All Might's voice boomed, halting the students in their tracks.

"What's with all the 'youth' talk…" somebody whispered, but the voice was so low it was indiscernible to whom it belonged to.

All Might coughed nervously and turned around to face the children, hands on his hips, chest puffed out. All eyes were raised to meet his lowered ones. Or at least, the dark shadows of his eye sockets… *Ahem, anyway, moving on.

"Students! Your hero training is to be taken very seriously, as you already know. As your mentor, I will do my best to teach you. But what you learn also depends on you. Today's exercise if the first of many that will follow during this school year. However, I would like you to learn as much as you can from this introductory lesson, so please keep your eyes and ears open, and most importantly, your minds working." The two antennae of blond hair twitched on top of his head as if they were alive.

'Alright!' Izuku screamed internally, his hands clenched into fists.

"Youth- Students!" All Might corrected "Students, I need you to stay here for a minute while I take care of some important business!"

'Hu? What?' the green haired boy's smile faded a little. Eyebrows were raised around him, as everyone watched the number one hero trot away with confused eyes. Then, even more confusion ensued, at the notice of something purple stuck on All Might's left leg.

"Good job, Mineta my boy!"

"A-All Might! Go slower! I think I'm gonna- hmrhmph!" the boy put a hand over his mouth. His whole body was being shaken continuously at every step, churning the contents of his stomach. This was no fun.

"Hold on, Mineta my boy!"

All Might sprang in the air, at least ten meters high above.

"WUAAAHHH!" Mineta screamed and closed his eyes.

Then, everything came to an abrupt stop as All Might landed softly on the roof a building –where there always so many buildings around? Did they jump over the wall?

"We're here, Mineta my boy. You can get down now."

"I can't." he whimpered.

"It's safe now. We're not airborne."

"I can't! I'm stuck!"

"You… You're stuck…"

"I'm stuck!" Mineta cried.

Doubtfully, All Might grabbed the sum of purple blobs that were Mineta's hair and pulled… to no avail. He pulled harder. Nothing. There was no way to dislodge the purple things from his trousers.

"If you hadn't jumped so high, I wouldn't have gotten stuck! It scared me!" Mineta complained.

"Well, can't help it now… We'll just have to do with this, then."

"Why did you bring me here in the first place, All Might?"

"Listen well, Mineta my boy. I am here because of something very important."

"Important?"

"Yes." He nodded and turned to face the sun. But the gesture was not so cool because the sun got in Mineta's eye. Plus, Mineta was stuck on All Might's leg so he couldn't view the idol from behind.

"I have seen great good and great potential in you, Mineta."

"You have?"

"I believe you're going to make an excellent hero. You are already a hero, I think. You are the one I've been looking for…"

Mineta's eyes widened somewhat fearfully. "All Might, I'm a minor and I'm not interested in-"

"Not that of course!" All color was drained from All Might's face at his student's assumption. How… how embarrassing. And lame. He coughed loudly several times and straightened his tie. "Where were we? Oh, right. I have been looking for someone who would become a worthy successor. Someone who would become the next symbol of peace. And I found you. You have all the hero qualities, Mineta my boy! What do you say?"

"Me? Become a successor… to you? Symbol of peace?"

'become the number one hero… become famous… surrounded by crowds of fan ladies?'

"I have no idea what exactly you're saying but I agree!"

"Perfect!"

All Might plucked a blond, glistening hair from his antennae and stooped down to offer it to the boy.

"Eat this!"

Mineta stared at the hair blankly.

*whisper whisper whisper*

"What?"

*rushed whisper*

"Oh. Yeah, I know."

*frustrated whispering*

"What's that? It's not April 1st anymore?"

*frantic whispering*

"Yeah, I know, I know, but I had to do it, it was impossible to resist the urge!"

Heya, everyone! I'm still alive, thankfully. No, I haven't given up on this fic. I've just been having some difficulty writing it so I took a little break. I'll update soon. I just hope my writing's not very rusty... Often when I take long breaks my chapters end up being smaller and the mood a bit inconsistent. I'll re-read everything I've written up to this point to avoid most of that.

I'm sorry about this chapter, I couldn't control myself! In fact, I've been smirking ever since forty minutes ago when I started writing this April fools thingy! I've never done an April Fools joke before. The idea hit me when I said something along the lines of "wouldn't it be hilarious if Mineta received One for All", does that count as foreshadowing? Anyway, I'M SORRY BUT IT WAS HILARIOUS, THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING THIS!

Like, really... Thank you so much, everyone! Even though I was gone, so many of you followed and reviewed and checked on this fic regularly (I can see the stats)

The hiatus will end before the end of this month. Until then, enjoy the warmer breezes of spring- or the coolest ones, depending on your hemisphere.

Deku Bread!