Kendo got to class early like she did almost everyday, as she sat down at her desk in the empty classroom she took out her notebook and just started scribbling. Normally she would have done some schoolwork or sorted her thoughts as class representative but since she had been hanging out with Midoriya his habits had really been rubbing off on her. She followed her daily exercise routine a lot more faithfully ever since she started training with him and she had gotten into the habit of scribbling whenever she was alone or bored. The biggest difference between her scribbling and Midoriya's scribbling was the intention. Midoriya scribbled down information about every single person he met in his notebook for future use while Kendo just scribbled whatever came to mind, which, more often than she would ever admit, turned out to be Midoriya. When she caught herself writing down his name for at least the third time that day without thinking she bumped her head onto her desk. Seriously what is wrong with me?! We are just friends, stop thinking about him so much Kendo. She though, mentally scolding herself. Right when she smashed her head against the desk again she heard the classroom door slide open.

"Yo Kendo." A familiar manly voice called out before she could even lift her head to see who had entered. She slowly lifted her head and saw Tetsutetsu coming towards her. She furrowed her eyebrows, Tetsutetsu was never early and especially not on Mondays. Sure he always arrived exactly on time, but early? No way.

"What's with the weird facial expression?" He said coming to a halt next to her desk. "Things not going well?"

Kendo opted to stay as vague as possible. "Something like that."

Tetsutetsu let his eyes quickly glide over the opened notebook on her desk and immediately noticed Midoriya's name. "Love struggles?" He asked, a small smirk present on his face.

Kendo's eyes widened. "W-what?" She stammered, feeling her face turn bright red. "I have no idea what you are talking about." She noticed him eyeing her notebook and snapped it shut with a swift motion. "I would appreciate it if you would not look in my personal notebook." She quickly stuffed it away in her bag and shot Tetsutetsu a deadly glare.

Tetsutetsu put up his hands motioning for her to calm down. "Alright alright, I'm sorry." He said, the smirk disappearing of his face for a moment. As soon he took his seat in the back of the class he pulled out his phone and opened his messenger app.

TetsuTetsu: Operation MK is a go.

Kirishima: ?

TetsuTetsu: It's a codename.

Kirishima: Oh, sorry man.

Kirishima: After we make sure we actually don't fail our final exams the plan's in motion.

Tetsutetsu: After the final exams?

Kirishima: I want to execute the plan but I also want to pass you know?

Tetsutetsu: Roger that!

When the bell signalling the start of the lesson rang Tetsutetsu put away his phone, the smirk once again fully present on his face.

Midoriya was late to class. Well late to class by his standard which meant he still had at least 5 minutes before class would officially start. It meant he wasn't the first in the classroom for once though which was a first. As he made his way towards his desk he noticed Kirishima smiling at his phone, he wondered what he was smiling about but decided to leave his friend to it and sat down at his desk. He opened his notebook out of habit and immediately noticed he had opened it at the page about Kendo, something that had been happening a lot lately. It was like he exactly remembered where Kendo's page was in the notebook based on pure muscle memory.

He noticed Uraraka walking over out of the corner of his eye and immediately shut the notebook shut with a loud snap. When she got to his desk he looked up at her and smiled. "Hey Uraraka, how was your weekend?" He asked, smiling at his friend.

"It was pretty fun, also spend a lot of my time studying though." She smiled at him. "How was yours?"

"Oh I went to a party at Kirishima's saturday but other than that I didn't really do anything special." He said, deciding to just not tell her about Kendo because he was convinced he would actually smash his head into a wall if there was one more person calling them boyfriend and girlfriend, which both his head and the wall would probably not survive.

"Oh really?" She said, shooting him an unbelieving look.

"Y-yeah, why do you ask?" He stammered, looking around the classroom to determine which wall was the closest to him, specifically the closest to his head.

"Because Iida told me something very interesting." She said, eyes narrowed.

"Oh really? I have no idea what that could be." He glanced over at the clock. "Oh would you look at the time, it's time for class to start."

"Deku?" She said, tone painfully cold.

"Y-yes?" He managed to stammer, fiddling with the pen in his hand.

"You are going to tell me all about your girlfriend as soon as you get the chance." She said, tone dangerously low before breaking into a smile. "I'm happy for you." She walked back over to her desk and sat down for the beginning of class.

Midoriya smashed his head into his desk, he decided to save the wall for a later time but if things continued like this he was definitely going to be using it sooner or later. I would gladly tell you about my girlfriend but I don't even have one. He thought, it was going to be tough if not completely impossible to convince Uraraka of that fact.

He quickly forgot about his struggles when principal Nezu popped out of Aizawa's scarf and told them about the newly changed practical part of the final exam. Midoriya laughed for a total of three seconds because of his and Kendo's conversation about it not being likely they changed it but the laughter quickly changed into worry when he heard what the new practical part of the exam would be. Midoriya felt confident he would have been able to take down the robots of the entrance exam with relative ease, but teachers? There wasn't a single teacher he felt he could beat, even if the exam would be in duos. His worry changed into a slight panic when he heard his partner for the exam would be Bakugo, mostly because the other boy made it perfectly clear what he thought about being partnered up with Midoriya, but depending on what teacher they would have to face he thought they might be able to actually win if they managed to combine their powers. His slight panic changed into a full blown panic like only Izuku Midoriya could have when he heard what teacher they would have to fight. Against every single one of the teachers he felt their chances of winning were small, very small. But against All Might?! He wouldn't even give them more than a 1% chance of success. Midoriya had walked into the classroom having to deal with one thing and he walked out having to deal with two.

When break finally came around he walked to the cafeteria with Uraraka and Iida trying to convince them on the way there that Kendo was not his girlfriend and that they were just friends, nothing more. He didn't expect it to work but when they finally got to the cafeteria he was about ready to smash his head into the nearest object, whether it be a wall, a table or one of his friends. As they stepped into the cafeteria Midoriya immediately noticed Kendo talking to Monoma, when she saw him she motioned for him to come over. He excused himself to his friends and walked over to Kendo who had abandoned Monoma for a second to talk to Midoriya.

"I guess we jinxed it huh?" Kendo said, smiling at Midoriya.

"Yeah I guess we did." Midoriya said, chuckling. "Do you think you have a chance of winning?"

"I'm with Setsuna so I'm confident we can win." Kendo said, making a fist and raising it slightly into the air. "What about you?"

"Honestly, I'm not too sure." Midoriya said, looking down at the ground. Kendo was about protest but Midoriya quickly continued. "I'm with Bakugo and we're up against All Might."

Kendo's mouth formed a perfectly round O before her eyes turned determined again. "We'll just have to train twice as hard then, I won't let you fail, you got that?" She declared, sticking out her fist. "Deal?"

Midoriya stared at her fist for a second before bumping it with his own. "Deal." He said, feeling a tiny bit more confident.

As Midoriya looked around around the cafeteria he noticed every single one of his classmates except for Bakugo, who seemed way too busy taking the anger of being paired up with him out on his food to even notice, was staring at the two of them, expectant looks visible on their faces. He was about to go looking for the nearest wall when he felt Kendo's hand on his shoulder. "I'll see you after classes in the training hall." She said, smiling at him.

Maybe I shouldn't smash my head against a wall, that would mean I couldn't train with her anymore after all. He thought to himself as he made his way back over to his friends, readying himself for the questions he was undoubtedly going to get thrown at him.

And that's it for chapter 5 and it feels like Midoriya and Kendo are finally making some progress. I'm trying to follow the order of the story as much as I can but sometimes I'll stray from it a bit, I'll follow the story until at least after the school festival arc. As always, let me know if there is anything you want Midoriya and Kendo to do together when they are a couple and let me know what you think.