Disclaimer: This is purely a fanwork, and I own nothing.


Midoriya stepped out of the shower, already panicking about what was about to happen: after training with Tsuyu in the woods, she confessed to him, and he was able to clumsily recover from that by asking her to go get food with him. Not the smoothest response, but, it wasn't the worst.

This is my first date! He realized, sweating, I don't know what I'm doing!

He looked amongst his t-shirts, deciding to go casual. Jeez, I barely have any without All Might on them! Even though he knew that she liked him, he didn't want to come off as a bigger fanboy than she probably already thought he was. He settled on some jeans and a black Sonic the Hedgehog shirt - still pretty dorky, but at least he was being himself.

They had promised to meet in the common area when they made it back to the dorms, but he knew he was probably early. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Tsuyu wasn't already waiting for him. Kirishima and Bakugou were playing Mario Kart, while Uraraka and Iida were on another couch, reading the books Present Mic had assigned to them for Literature Class. For such a weirdo, he sure seemed to love Shakespeare.

Uravity looked up from her book to smile at him. "Hey Deku! I like your shirt! Do you want to read with me and Iida?"

Iida looked up as well. "Yes, I would say, Hamlet might be easier to digest with some company. I can't say this is my favorite work."

Midoriya could feel himself blushing; he was hoping something like this wouldn't happen. "M-maybe later. I've kinda got plans," he answered, scratching the side of his nose.

From the couch, Bakugou snorted, not tearing his eyes off the screen. "Got some All Might press conference to obsess over, Deku?" He laughed at his own joke before screaming, "BABY LUIGI, DRIVE FASTER YOU USELESS BASTARD!"

"No, nothing like that..." he muttered.

"Midoriya?" A familiar voice croaked from behind him. He turned and his jaw dropped. He scolded himself, and closed his mouth, but he smiled as he saw Tsuyu. He always thought she was pretty, but he had never seen her outside of either her school uniform or hero outfit; she was in a modest yellow sundress, but it fit her figure quite nicely. He briefly had a flashback to something Mineta had said about her - ahem - upper body at the USJ, but scolded himself.

Asui could see his flustered look and couldn't stop herself from thinking, Adorable! It's too much!

It eased his mind a little to see that Tsuyu looked nervous too. "Are you ready to go?" She asked.

He nodded, "S-sure thing Tsu. Y-you look amazing!" He blurted out, forgetting that the others were present.

Tsuyu said, "Thanks," but all Deku heard was the thud of two books and a Nintendo Switch Joy-Con hitting the floor as three pairs of eyes turned to look at them. Not Kirishima though, he was in full focus as he crossed the finish line as Waluigi. "Woohoo!" He looked back at the two of them. "You two going on a date? Dang Midoriya, that's studly of you, my man!"

Uraraka squealed with excitement. "Oh my gosh, you two are adorable! Let me get a picture! Ah, where's my phone?!"

Iida smirked, but turned stern in an instant, "Have fun you two, but need I remind you that outside of this school you still represent UA, so be sure to be respectful in your public actions -"

Bakugou twitched in annoyance at the commotion around him, not noticing that he and Baby Luigi had just placed 12th in Mario Kart. "Just get out of here, Deku! You and Frogger are giving me diabetes with this sugary crap!"

"O-okay, I think we should leave now," Midoriya replied, grabbing Tsuyu's hand and heading for the door. "See you guys later."

"I HATE SEEING YOU AT ALL, DEKU!"

Midoriya laughed as they stepped out into the cool, evening air. "Sorry, about that," he apologized to his date nervously, "I was trying to avoid a whole big mess like that. I think that was Kacchan's way of trying to help us get out of there."

He noticed that Tsuyu had gone quiet, and he wondered if he had already managed to screw up this date, but he looked down to see he was still holding her hand without thinking about it. His eyes drifted upward to see she was staring at it too, but she was blushing furiously, and with a huge smile on her face. He didn't know it, but having him hold her hand like this was something she had wanted for a long time.

Despite his heart racing and panic in his brain setting in, the smile on her face told him to keep holding her hand. "S-so what sounds good, Tsu?"

Tsuyu giggled at the question, "Come on Midoriya, you're supposed to have this all planned out, that's how dates work."

He turned a bright red and began rubbing the back of his neck again. "I-I'm sorry Tsu, I've never actually done this before and I wasn't sure if -"

"Kero," she laughed, "I'm just teasing." He's cute when I can get him so worked up!

"Heh...I should have figured..."

"I'm nervous too," she admitted, "but hey, at least you're cute when you're flustered."

Deku looked away, embarrassed. Tsuyu laughed again. "See! Like that D...Deku."

She didn't usually call him that. It made him smile to hear her so unsure of herself, but he liked hearing her say it. "Iida showed me a cool Ramen place around here. How about that?" He asked.

She nodded. "I could go for some noodles."

As they got their food, the conversation turned more into their pasts; families and dreams.

"You mutter and study quirks so much, where did that come from?" Tsuyu croaked, "Not that I find it creepy anymore, mind you." In fact, the more she got to know him, the cuter it seemed.

He chuckled. "Well, when I was really little, the first thing I knew about heroes was the first All Might battle that was captured on video. You know, the old grainy one."

She nodded. "Yeah, I remember that. I think I saw it a few times."

He smiled, remembering how excited he was for daily computer time. "I'd ask my mom everyday to watch that video. My dad was always away working overseas, and seeing this larger than life person saving all these people? I was obsessed. I started looking at all kinds of heroes, and figuring out their quirks, how they work...thinking of ways they could be bested or limitations. Heroes became this amazing thing in my eyes."

"But All Might was always your favorite." Tsuyu observed, smiling. The thought of a little Izuku, begging his mom to watch an internet video, or mumbling in little toddler speak about heroes and quirks was just too much cuteness for her to handle.

Midoriya laughed. "Yeah, he was the best. It made me so excited for when..."

He paused, seeming crestfallen for a minute. He had put his chopsticks down, so Tsuyu reached a hand across the table, placing hers on top of his with a curious, "Kero?"

Midoriya snapped out of his trance. "S-sorry Tsu, just lost in thought. I was just...excited when I developed my own quirk."

Guilt surged through him. His heart panged; he wanted to tell Tsuyu about One for All, growing up quirkless, but he had promised not to divulge those type of secrets. Maybe one day, but for now he had to keep it under wraps. "Tell me about what made you want to be a hero, Tsu."

Tsuyu blushed, taking her hand back to keep eating. "It was...hard for me to make friends growing up. Like most kids, I started changing when I was four, my tongue grew, my hands well...you know, started looking like this." She held up her hands, as if to remind her date that they were larger, proportionally, than one would expect by looking at her. "I'd start absentmindedly crouching if I was just standing around. When I would take a test, or be focusing, my tongue would hang out of my mouth. I guess it still does that."

Deku smiled. "I like it. I think it's cute."

Tsuyu smiled, but sadly as she looked into her bowl, taking another bite. "Thanks, Deku. But...as a kid, it wasn't looked on like that. Kids thought I looked weird. I used to get picked on for looking like a frog. They'd call me bug eyes, Kermit..." She stirred the noodles in her dish, before adding, "Frogger..."

Midoriya frowned. "I'm sure Kacchan didn't mean it that way. He's just...you know, like that."

She smiled at him. "I know, it just brings back bad memories."

Midoriya rubbed the back of his neck . "I understand that...kids can be jerks. My Quirk developed late. Kacchan and all the other kids made fun of me all the time for being a Quirkless nobody. That's why he called me Deku - useless."

Tsuyu smiled. "I like that you used it as motivation, and made it your own. My mom would always comfort me on bad days, and called me Froppy. It was from a story she used to read to me."

"It's really cute, Froppy," he said, "it suits you. Sorry to interrupt your story."

She laughed. "It's okay. Anyway, one day when I was maybe eight or so, we were on a field trip to some park. A classmate fell into the lake. And with my quirk, rescuing them was really easy. After that...the kids in my class didn't pick on me anymore. And I started to make friends."

"So that means..." Midoriya reasoned.

Tsuyu nodded, "Yeah, I wanted to be a hero so people would like me. People didn't care about my looks if I was pulling them out of lakes, or getting frisbees off of roofs. So when I was a kid that's why I did it. But now...now I do it for me."

He tilted his head, furrowing his brows in confusion. "What do you mean?"

Tsuyu gave him a bright smile that made his heart skip a beat. "When I got older, I started not to care as much about what other people thought of me...doing hero work and helping others just made me happy. Made me feel like I was being the best version of myself. Might be why I'm so hard on myself sometimes. And also why what you said to me...about me being a great hero...meant so much to me."

Deku smiled back as she lifted her bowl and slurped up the rest, not caring what anyone surrounding her thought. "You're awesome Tsu."

"You are too, Midoriya," she replied, tilting her head towards the window, "you ever been to that arcade down the street?"

"There's an arcade here?!" Deku exclaimed, "No one mentioned that to me."

"Figured I'd ask because of the shirt," she said, pointing to the blue hedgehog on Midoriya's t-shirt. "I've got a ton of leftover tokens in my purse. How about I kick your butt at skee-ball and some games?"

"You're on!"

The two exited the restaurant, and with sheepish grins to make sure no one was watching, they jumped across the road instead of going to the crosswalks. Racing each other down the street, this time Deku winning as they reached the arcade. It was small, but they laughed as they played games and asked each other more questions about growing up. Midoriya was doubled over when Tsuyu told him about the time she thought her Quirk meant she had to eat flies, and she needed a minute to recover from laughter when Midoriya regaled her in the story of how he once made Kacchan soil his pants by challenging him to make other parts of his body explode.

With the last of Tsuyu's tokens, she challenged him to a dance rhythm game. "Now that I know you're light on your feet, let's see your moves."

"My moves?" Midoriya asked with a laugh.

"Yeah, Mina told me it's important for your boyfriend to have rhythm." Tsuyu replied with a wink. "Couldn't tell you what for."

Deku turned bright red. Boyfriend? "Well, I'll see what I can do."

As they played, however, Deku found himself being distracted; all the hopping around was making Tsuyu's dress fly up. It was getting hard to focus on the game and not her legs, and it cost him the match by a few points.

"I'm no match for you, Froppy. You are truly the greatest dance hero." He joked.

Looking rather pleased with herself, she replied, "Well, I noticed you were a bit distracted."

He blushed again, furiously. "I-I wasn't trying to stare, I swear."

She burst out laughing as they left the arcade. "You're fine. You've been nothing but a sweetheart, Midoriya. If you had done something wrong, I'd have smacked you with my tongue."

He rubbed the back of his head, nervously. "Glad you think so."

Adorable, she thought. I saw him looking, but he's really trying to be a gentleman.

The night sky was clear, and the stars were beginning to come out, as they both looked towards UA. "I guess it's getting late," Tsuyu observed.

At the prompt, Midoriya checked his phone. He inhaled sharply at the time. "Uh oh. Iida's not going to let us hear the end of breaking curfew."

"There's no class tomorrow, but you're right. We're in for an earful." Asui sighed.

As they walked, Midoriya paused at an ice cream stall. "Hey...I mean, if we eat these and walk, we wouldn't be any later." Froppy turned to him and tilted her head slightly. "What do you say, you want some ice cream?"

She smiled again. "Sounds perfect."

Moments later, the two heroes in training were walking down the road, licking ice cream cones.

"Everyone thinks I like mint chocolate chip because it's green, like frogs," Tsuyu griped, "but I don't. It's just an unfortunate coincidence."

"Hey, it's better than your favorite being vanilla," Midoriya laughed, "I was already really plain growing up. That's just another point in the, 'boring,' category."

"It's a pretty boring flavor," Tsuyu admitted, with more of her blunt honesty, "but you're hardly plain, Midoriya Izuku."

"What did you call me earlier? An exceptional beast?" He laughed.

This time, Tsuyu grabbed his hand. "I meant it."

They talked more, although Midoriya, again, was distracted. He was watching Tsuyu's tongue travel around her ice cream cone, wrapping around it to lick it from all angles. P-pure thoughts, Deku! Don't be gross!

Thankfully, it didn't seem like Tsuyu noticed that time.

Once on campus, they gasped as Mr. Aizawa was on the other side of the entrance fence, patrolling.

"You two! What are you doing out past curfew?" He sighed, sounding like he was more upset that he had to do actual work than at their disregard for the rules.

"S-sorry sensei!" The two students said in unison, bowing their heads.

"Now I have to..." Aizawa started, but paused. He looked at them more closely, and saw they were holding hands and ice cream cones. They also both were looking really flustered. He had come face to face with awkward, teenage young love. Well now. Didn't see this coming. He cleared his throat. "Er...it's not that late. Just get to the dorms and don't do this again. Understand?"

Tsuyu and Midoriya looked at each other in confusion, but turned to the teacher and bowed again. "Thank you, Mr. Aizawa."

They snuck grins at each other as they ran past him. Whatever luck was on their side that night, they were thankful.

Aizawa smirked. Never thought that kid would have it in him.

As they reached the door to the dorms, they both paused, and looked at each other.

"Hey Midoriya - or...can I call you Deku?" She asked.

"Of course, Tsu." He replied with a big smile. "You already have a few times, anyway. I like it...coming from you."

"I know we're busy with school and stuff...but can we maybe make this something we do every weekend?" She asked.

Still holding hands, Midoriya was overtaken with a surge of bravery he usually only had when fighting; he lifted their hands to his face and kissed the back of her hand. "I'd love to."

Their moment was promptly interrupted as Mina Ashido flung the door open. "OH MY GOD YOU GUYS, THAT WAS SO CUUUUUUTE!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Tsuyu and Midoriya screamed, jumping three feet back from the door.

"Jeez, Mina," Midoriya said, clutching his heart to calm himself down, "What were you doing, waiting here for us?"

"Kerokerokerokero..." Tsuyu croaked, practically hyperventilating from the scare

Uraraka and Hagakure walked over and began pulling Mina away from the two. "HEY, COME ON," The pink heroine yelled, "I HAVE TO KNOW HOW THEIR DATE WENT! AH! YOU'RE SPILLING ALL THE BEANS TOMORROW YOU TWO! I SWEAR IT!"

As the three disappeared into the girl's wing, Uraraka waving awkwardly, Tsuyu and Midoriya blinked at each other and laughed the situation off. There was no rest for the weary though, as soon as they were inside, Iida rounded on them.

"You two!" He scolded, "Do you know how late you are?! You already -"

"Mr. Aizawa already caught us and gave us a talking to," Froppy replied, cutting him off.

Iida paused, looking a bit deflated. "Oh."

The three of them paused awkwardly, before he tried to recover and scolded, "Don't do it again."

"Oh, that's what Mr. Aizawa said too." Midoriya replied with a laugh.

"Well then...I'll um...just get to bed. I hope your evening was both romantic and productive. Goodnight!" Iida said, before heading back to his room.

"Goodnight," Midoriya laughed, and Tsuyu gave him a friendly ribbit.

The rest of the room was empty, so the two turned to each other.

"I had a lot of fun, Tsu." Deku said. She blushed, his eyes were shining like they were when he was talking about Quirks. That's all for me! She realized.

"Me too, Deku. Thank you for making my first date so amazing."

He let out a nervous laugh, rubbing the back of his neck once more and turning a bright red, but before he could answer, she spoke up again, asking, "Can I...can I do one more thing before we go to bed?"

"S-sure Asui." He replied, her shaky voice making him nervously forget to call her Tsu.

"Can I play with your hair? Kero?" She turned very pink when she said this, "It just looks so soft and fluffy."

Deku looked away and nodded, and before he knew it, Tsuyu was on her toes, running her hands through his bushy hair.

"Kero!" She croaked happily, "It's just as fluffy as I thought it would be, it's so..."

Deku looked in front of him, and he felt the heat rise to his face. Tsuyu's face was right in front of his, and her eyes met his. Gazes locked, he felt this overwhelming urge to close the gap between them. And for once in his life, Midoriya didn't second guess himself. He leaned forward and locked his lips onto the lips of the girl with the frog quirk. Shakily, her hands fell to the back of his head. She opened her mouth, allowing their tongues to meet. Instinct taking over, he put a hand across the small of her back, using his other hand to grab the back of her neck and pull her in closer, gently.

Though shaky, this felt right, he realized. She tasted like the mint ice cream, he recognized as their tongues became acquainted with one another, and feeling her against his body made him feel things he'd never thought about before.

He wasn't the only one either. Tsuyu's heart raced, tasting the vanilla ice cream and letting her hands lightly pull Midoriya's hair. This is even better than I imagined!

After a few moments, they pulled away, both of them stunned.

"I...I..." Deku stuttered.

Adorable! Tsuyu thought, regaining her composure first. "You're a good kisser, Deku," she said, causing his jaw to drop, "You better have more of those for me tomorrow."

had crashed and he couldn't react. He mumbled a few incomprehensible noises, but no words made it past his lips. He still tasted her.

Ah! Adorable! She thought again, booping him on the nose with her tongue. "Goodnight, hun," she said, before heading to the girl's wing, "sweet dreams."

Midoriya stared after her.

G-good kisser?!

"Hey man."

Midoriya leapt a foot off the ground and looked to the fridge: Kirishima had walked past them during their little make out session without them noticing. He was biting into a sandwich.

"Kissed her on the first date, my dude," he said, with a mouthful, "very manly. You're a stud, man. You gonna keep seeing her?"

Deku broke out into a huge smile. "Yeah. Yeah I am!"