Hey madlads, big writer boy back at it again with this shitty story

In all seriousness, I'm very thankful for all of the reviews and follows I'm getting, this is my first fanfic in a long time so my chapters could probably be longer and the pacing could be better, but I try to just focus on putting stuff out.

Also, you guys don't need to feel like you don't know how to review or anything, if you take a second of your day to leave a comment, that already means the world to me.

But yeah, sappy outro and all, make sure you hit the fattest, most succulent dab you can before you read this chapter.

Izuku had, all things considered, underestimated how difficult All Might's training would be.

It was getting to the end of his first week in the new routine and juggling both school and his new exercise routine was...tiring,to say the least. He still remembered waking up aching all over from all of the strain he was putting into his body, though that was to be expected. A little bit of pain wouldn't stop him.

After a healthy breakfast composed of some eggs and fruit, to his mother's delight at his new eating habits, before slipping into his good and old looking tracksuit he'd be going out for his morning run. He had to go get himself some better workout clothes later.

But in more promising news, the old run around the park had become a lot easier for the teen now that he had been doing it for a few days, slowly but surely stacking the bricks of stamina into a higher and higher tower. He breathed better during it, he kept a better pace, he kept himself hydrated and more importantly, by the time he finished the tenth lap, he didn't have to collapse in exhaustion anymore, merely lean himself on his knees as he panted heavily like breathing itself was a struggle of its own...hey, it was progress!

"Haa...haaah...jeez, why does the sun have to be so hot today…?" Midorya would ask himself before cracking the lid of his bottle open as he brought it up to his lips, swinging the bottom up as he sipped on the refreshing liquid.

He was right, though, it was really hot today. The sun was already shining warmly down on the park with not even one cloud in sight to obstruct the deep blue color of the sky. Running in the heat was even more tiring and the worst part was that Izuku wasn't even done yet.

"Alright, what now…" the green haired teen would ask himself as he opened his phone to look at the to-do list he had saved inside it, he found it useful to have it there since carrying a notepad would be a little too bulky for the occasion. "Alright, Thursday...morning run to warm up...oh...rock climb…" he would read out loud with a shudder as he let off a long sigh. This was possibly his least favorite part of the training.

It was another one of All Might's inventive training methods, the man never seemed to be one to settle for the old weights and what not as it was, he always looked for more, for something else to make you think outside of the box and tax your body in a way it would never be used to.

And one of these ways was the rock climb.

You see, located near the park, just a few blocks away, was a forest trail. A popular spot people went to take walks in, commute with nature and maybe set up a picnic and what not. But located in the heart of the trail, after a small little natural pool of cool fresh water was a tall rocky wall...and Izuku had to climb it.

As it was, he had left a small green piece of cloth stuck to one of the cracks of the stone to mark his progress...he hadn't even managed to get halfway there yet. The deal was simple, try to climb as much as you can and if you fall, you'll land safely into the water, a foolproof exercise in theory that should both build his strength and stamina.

And it was hard, especially for young Midorya who couldn't even do a single pull up yet.

"Alright...start from the left side and slowly head right…" the teen would think to himself as he eyed up the hard surface he would dare to challenge, gulping down his anxiety as he identified the route he liked to take when making the attempt, he had not tried to do it too much, but within a few tries he was already memorizing which parts of the wall were easy to latch onto.

With a deep sigh, he stepped forwards, taking off his jacket and his shoes so they didn't get in the way, or got wet for that matter as he reached a hand out, feeling around the surface for a proper grip before pulling himself up.

He had lost count of how many times he wished he wasn't so diligent and just skipped this part. All Might wasn't even here today, he was busy being a hero, no one would know...well, Midorya would know. And that was enough to be unacceptable. The young teen had already come to understand that there was no easy way and if he started skipping out on his exercises, it might just be a slippery slope that would lead into him skipping out on saving people.

He wouldn't allow it.

With a huff and a grunt, he pulled himself up, his fingers latching dutifully onto the crevice of the rock, the rough and unrelenting texture straining his fingertips as he slowly shuffled himself. He was sure most of the aching he was feeling was due to this, it had to be, there was no way something that was this much of a pain wouldn't leave him feeling it the next day.

The biggest hurt was focused in his hands, he had just started but he could already feel his soft and unspoiled palms that had been a stranger to heavy lifting before began to harden and gain calluses from all the strain, a battle scar of his road to becoming better and more prepared for what is ahead.

"Ugh...getting there...just a little more…"

He could see the piece of green cloth above him, dancing almost if teasingly in the wind, daring him as the teen slowly climbed his way up. Hey, he might actually beat his record today.

Or would, if his foot didn't slip on the next lunge upwards, making him lose balance as panic overtook him and he felt himself began to gain distance to the rock before him.

"Oh no, this isn't a good spot…"

You see, All Might had advised the teen to stick to the safer middle part of the of the rock wall as that would ensure he hit the center of the lake when he fell. More water to cushion his fall, more safety for him...but, Midorya, in his effort to devise the most efficient route up the thing, found that if he drifted to the right side, away from the water, there was actually better and easier places to grip on, which made the climb easier.

It was a risk, but he figured that the fact he was less likely to fall balanced against the fact falling would be more dangerous if that makes any sense. Of course, being less likely to fall, clearly did not mean he wouldn't fall and as Izuku looked behind him to see only shallow water and the grassy ground below, he knew he wasn't going to have an easy landing.

And, well, it wasn't an easy landing, just not in the way he had immediately envisioned. Before his body met with the ground the boy felt something warm and humid constrict around his torso, wrapping around him tightly like a rope before his momentum was completely shifted and instead of falling straight down, he rocketed over to the side with a scream.

A scream that would end unceremoniously as he thudded against the floor, though not hurting himself, thank goodness, only leaving him with a now dirty shirt and hair full of leaves and what not.

As he sat up, taking the time to ruffle mother nature out of his green jungle of a hair style he would crook his head to the side in dog-like fashion as he saw a strangely...amphibian looking girl staring at him as she licked her lips with her unnaturally long tongue.

"That was a pretty stupid thing to do." she would say bluntly. The girl looked cute in her own way with her greenish hair, dressed in a simple shirt and short workout shorts and a pair of black sneakers on her feet.

"U-Uhh...y-yeah…" Izuku would say a bit awkwardly as his face reddened with embarrassment, the teen scratching his nose to try and cover himself from the girl's gaze.

"I'm Tsuyu Asui." the girl would introduce herself in a somewhat deadpan tone after a short 'ribbit'.

"U-Umm...Izuku Midorya…" the boy would say as he awkwardly extended a hand out for the girl before soon retracting it with embarrassment when she didn't go for the handshake and merely stared at him more intently.

"Why were you trying to climb that thing?" she would ask after a few seconds of examining the boy as she leaned closer to him, which would make Midorya shuffle away shyly "Is it a boy thing to do stupid stuff to prove yourself?"

Deku's facial expression soured as the girl's bluntness became more and more evident before he scratched his head and coughed a bit awkwardly as he explained; "N-No, it's...well...more for exercise.."

"Exercise?"

"Y-Yeah...to build strength and stamina...I know it sounds a little unorthodox, but it's in my training program." he'd explain with a blush as he realized how messy this all sounded as he said it out loud.

"Hmm...your trainer must hate you." she would say bluntly, knocking the green haired teen on his back with her statement alone.

"Hehe...s-so yeah, u-uhh...thanks for saving me back there but, I have to…" Midorya would turn his head back towards the rock wall that tormented him with a gulp "...try again."

And as the teen got up and walked his way back to his starting point as the peculiar girl merely sat squatted in her spot with a quiet ribbit.

It was a strange meeting, but Izuku was still glad she was there. If she wasn't he would probably have to walk back home in a lot of pain, but thanks to her quick save he was safe and sound and...could...try to climb again...Midorya was starting to think that maybe he would have preferred falling on his ass.

But, he was here to suffer, after all, so with a deep breath, he would pull himself up again, letting off a grunt as he already felt the strain hitting his hands.

"Alright, slowly to the right now...and grip the crack better this time so I don't fall…"

It was a thought easier said than done, he knew that, but he was still willing to take the risk instead of climbing through the much more difficult middle part. He just had to do it right this time.

"Remember to breathe...take it slow…"

He'd keep reassuring himself inside his mind with each progressive step towards the top, or at least towards his previously marked record, if he could pass that, he'd be happy enough.

"You're doing it all wrong."

The teen's thought process would be rudely interrupted as he looked up to notice he was actually touching noses with the previous frog-like girl from before, Tsuyu sticking to the wall in an awkward upside down position staring intently into Midorya's eyes.

Safe to say her sudden appearance startled the boy so much he lost his grip and fell screaming into the water with a loud splash, which earned a soft, amused giggle from the amphibian girl as she moved to the edge of the lake with a powerful hop, landing graciously in her chosen spot as she waited for Midorya to swim defeated to meet her.

"W-What...y-you were just...sticking to the rock!" Izuku would cry out as he pulled himself out of the lake with a gurgled cough as he looked down at his wet clothes with a grimace.

"It's part of my quirk, I can stick to pretty much any surface." Tsuyu would explain all matter of factly as she relaxed her stance, shifting from her usual squatting position into sitting cross-legged atop the soft grass.

Midorya would let off a long sigh as he rolled over and flopped down on his back across the ground, looking up at the clear blue sky before slowly panning his gaze towards the strange, but oddly cute girl he had met, his face flushing with a gentle tone of red "U-Umm...what was that you said about me...d-doing it wrong?"

Asui would crook her head gently to the side to look down at the boy as he brought her index finger to her chin in an adorable thinking expression "You're putting too much weight on your arms, if you don't distribute it properly you'll tire out too fast and fall on your butt again."

"Hehe...right…" Midorya would say awkwardly as he tried to piece together in his mind what the girl had just said could mean. Was his stance wrong? Perhaps his grip? Or the way he moved? That sent him off in one of his characteristic mumbling sessions, which would have Tsuyu's head crooking even more to the side as she stared at him in a perplexed state.

His mumbling would soon be broken as the girl leaned forwards to wave her hand in front of his face, bringing him back from his trance as he looked back up at her with a blush "O-Oh...s-sorry."

"It's fine." the frog girl would shrug her shoulders with a smile and a lick of the lips "Want me to show you how you're supposed to do it?"

"C-Could you?" the green haired teen would turn towards his new froggy friend with widened eyes and a smile plastered on his face.

"Yeah, sure." she'd say as she lifted herself off the ground with her powerful legs, taking a quick moment to stretch her arms above her head with a small ribbit before helping Izuku up.

"Do you know a lot about rock climbing?" the boy would ask his new tutor as he followed after her towards the stone wall.

"I know a bit, had to learn a few things from my quirk and all." she would explain, taking the liberty of grabbing the teen by the hand, much to his embarrassment and guiding his palm towards his usual starting grip spot on the wall as he tried to hide his blush "Here, do it like you usually do."

"U-Uhh...l-like this?" Midorya would ask with uncertainty as he gripped the stone, getting ready to advance and find some footing before his entire body completely froze as he felt Asui's breath against the back of his neck and her hand latched onto his shoulder

"There, you're gripping too hard." she would explain, placing her free palm atop of his, as if to help him relax as she readjusted his hand on the crevice "Relax your grip, you'll be surprised with how loose you can hold onto it and still be secure."

"O-Oh...alright…" Midorya would nod his head, trying again to approach the climb before blushing heavily as he felt the female push him against the wall, earning a jitter that trembled through his entire body.

"You're hanging from your arms when you climb, try to keep your body closer to the wall." Tsuyu would explain, patting him on the back before joining him on the wall, though using her quirk to make her life easier. "Look, I'll show you…"

Asui proceeded to imitate Midorya's usual climbing stance, which looking from an outside perspective, really was rather janky. As she said, he used to hang from his arms, which meant he let his hips fall and weight him down as she demonstrated "See? If you let your butt fall like this, then all of the strain goes to your arms." she demonstrated by gently wiggling her rump, which a teen like Izuku, currently going through puberty, couldn't help but blush heavily at as his mouth gaped.

"So, that's why you keep your chest close like this." she would demonstrate, falling back to her usual, dexterous climbing stance and easily moving along the wall until she was face to face with the boy again, looking down at him from an upside down position. "That way you put more weight on your legs, they can take more than your arms."

"R-Right...ahem…" Midorya would cough a bit awkwardly and shake his head quickly to try and wipe the image of an exposed froggy backside from his mind as he focused his gaze back at the stone in front of him, keeping the girl's tips in mind as he pulled himself up again.

Midorya had to admit, this felt much better now and with Tsuyu accompanying him and correcting his mistakes, he felt like he was finally making progress.

"Ease the grip."

"Turn your leg a little."

"Don't jump, just reach with your tippy toes."

"You're bad at this."

The girl was blunt, but she knew her stuff. Before she knew it Midorya was higher than he had gotten in the previous tries without even using his previous route. He had gone straight down the middle, but now that he knew what he was doing, it had become so much more feasible.

He wasn't afraid of falling anymore, not just because Asui was there to catch him, but because he generally felt safer with some guidance. So he climbed. He climbed further and further alone, grunting and heaving in his tired state before finally driving himself to the limit.

"Hah...that's all I've got in me…" he would say after a deep breath after finding himself some proper footing so he could rest for a moment.

Izuku took the time to acknowledge just where he was now and smiled proudly seeing he had made it more than two meters higher than his last record and with a decisive nod he tied another green rag in the stone to mark his new accomplishment before, with a peaceful sigh, letting go of the rock and falling backwards.

His plan was to fall in the water, but it turned out even better as Tsuyu wrapped her tongue around him to bring him safely down to the edge of the lake before hopping off the wall's side to join the teen with a ribbit.

"Nice going, once you got started you just took off." the girl would compliment him, earning yet another blush and a sheepish scratch of his head. Asui had to admit, she was beginning to appreciate how cute Midorya looked when he was embarrassed.

"Heh...couldn't have done it without your help, really...so, uhh...thanks, Asui." the green-haired fanboy would make a quick bow before the girl, only to have her brush it off with a faint roll of the eyes.

"Just call me Tsuyu. My friends call me that." he would instruct the teen as she plopped her froggy butt down comfortably onto the ground below.

"O-Oh...does that mean we're…" Midorya would begin to say before halting himself. It was a stupid question, he didn't have to be double guessing himself now, especially with how much fun the frog-like girl had made one of the worst training days for him. "A-Alright...thanks, Tsuyu."

"No worries." she would close her eyes with a happy, slightly blushed smile before opening them again and bringing her index finger to her chin "Say, are you going to try again next week?"

"W-Well, yeah, I'm probably gonna be around here at around the same time." Izuku would answer with a small shrug

"I wouldn't mind helping you again, this was pretty fun." Tsuyu would suggest with a smile.

"Hey...if it's not too much of a bother…" the green haired teen would nod with a faint blush

"Don't worry about it...but at least bring something to eat next time." the girl would giggle as she laid back on the grass.

"Well, as long as you don't mind eating healthy!"