Chapter 4: A Night Stroll

Midoriya was at the beach training by himself, as All Might was busy doing hero work. It's been about a week since All Might and Midoriya met and since he had started training with the number one hero. Midoriya was still trying to imagine the egg and microwave not exploding while safely using One For All, right now he was carrying a toaster to the truck where he transports the objects to be recycled.

He was picking up a tire, but he almost had a heart attack thanks to a certain girl sneaking up on him. "Hey Deku." she said innocently behind him, but the shock was so much that he dropped the tire on his foot.

"H-hey U-Uraraka." he said trying to smoothly remove the tire from his foot, when he finally did he tried to keep his cool as he turned around to see her in the same outfit she was in earlier. "So, are you here to train again?" he asked trying to ignore the pain.

"Yep! And I was hoping you would be my training partner." she said punching the air. It took Midoriya 10 seconds before he was able to process what she said, "W-wait! Training p-partner! With me?!" he said shocked beyond all belief.

Uraraka blinked then responded, "You're the only one here, unless there actually is someone you're hiding from me." she said with a sneaky look. Midoriya refrained from speaking and just shook his head silly in response.

Uraraka shrugged, "Well anyway, come on, it'll be fun!" she said jumping up and down, Midoriya was trying so hard to look her in the eye and not… below. "S-sure." he said reluctantly.

She raised her arms in the air, "YES!" she said excited, "But, how are we going to train?" Midoriya said trying to regain composure, but stepped back to trip over the tire and almost his the ground until he came to a sudden stop.

He saw he was floating, barely not hitting the ground, with Uraraka holding onto his shirt with a concerned face. "You should be more careful Deku, if my quirk wasn't Zero Gravity then you would have hurt yourself." she said worried.

She pulled Midoriya up and deactivated her quirk, "T-thanks, and wow that quirk is amazing!" he said with his sparkling. Uraraka lowered her head to the left, "What? I thought I told you about my quirk when we met." she said confused.

Midoriya panicked, 'Crap, I forgot! All Might made me miss what she was saying!' he immediately came up with an excuse. "W-well I just wanted to say it. I mean it is amazing." Uraraka blushed in embarrassment.

That fact made Midoriya follow suit, "W-well anyway, should we start training?." he said trying to change the subject. "O-oh yeah, yeah! Let's do this Deku!" Uraraka said getting back into it. She then backed up and went and got a dvd player that was nearby, she made it float and held onto it.

"Alright, you ready Deku?!" she said excited, Midoriya meanwhile was just processing the current situation, "Wait, you still haven't explained what we're doing." Midoriya said. Uraraka's face showed as if a light bulb suddenly turned on, "Oh, well I'm going to make this float and you're going to try and hit it. That way I can get used to making a lot of different things float and you can practice hitting moving objects." she said explaining it.

Midoriya had to admit that her idea was actually pretty clever and good training for the both of them, but he then remembered that he has never used One For All on anything except the symbol of peace. He was worried about the repercussions All Might spoke of and with it only being him and Uraraka here, he didn't want to worry her.

He prepared a fighting stance as Uraraka let go of the dvd player a very lightly tapped the player up, so Midoriya could get ready and aim upward. When the player got high enough so he wouldn't get near Uraraka and so he could get a running start, he sprinted towards the player while preparing One For All. He used it on his finger as he deduced that it was the safest way to keep his body safe.

'SMASH!' he yelled in his head and touched the player destroying it instantly and sending it yards away. The blast of air pressure also forced Uraraka onto her butt and Midoriya landing on the ground.

Uraraka was amazed at how powerful he was that he could do that with only one finger, she stood up quickly and went over to Midoriya who was on the ground not facing her.

"GAAAAHHH!" Midoriya screamed in pain while holding his finger, his finger had severely broke and caused unimaginable pain to course all throughout his body. Uraraka immediately grabbed his hand, trying not to touch the broken finger, "It's broken, I-I'm s-s-sorry Deku! I didn't mean for this to happen!" she yelled in desperation.

Midoriya was trying to speak through his heavy breathing while grinding his teeth, "N-no, it's alright U-Uraraka." he barely said through all the pain.

"We have to get you to a hospital!" she then grabbed Midoriya and put his arm around her shoulder. "N-no I'm fine Uraraka, I can walk on my own" he tried to get away from her but she wouldn't budge.

"NO! I won't let you, this is my fault, I shouldn't have forced you to train with me!" she said as she carried Midoriya to the street. Midoriya remained silent figuring he was never going to convince her otherwise, but he tried his best to help her walk.

Uraraka set Midoriya down on a bench and called an ambulance, the ambulance arrived about 5 minutes after calling. Uraraka tried to soothe Midoriya as they waited for the ambulance, they put Midoriya inside the ambulance and Uraraka was about to go inside with him until she was told that only family members were allowed.

"No, it's fine, please let her come with us." he said desperately while a man was bandaging his broken finger, "Fine, get on." the paramedic said, Uraraka got on and kept Midoriya company as they drove to the hospital.

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Midoriya and Uraraka were inside a doctor's room, while waiting for Inko to get here. A brace had already been put on Midoriya's finger to keep it still. Uraraka hadn't said a word to Midoriya since they left the beach, Midoriya saw how sad and guilty Uraraka looked, he didn't know how to make her feel better as he has never spoken to a girl or a person feeling guilty either, so he just kept thinking how to say it.

"U...Uraraka, you shouldn't feel guilty, I should have told you how dangerous my quirk can be." he said sincerely trying to cheer up. Uraraka sniffed, she didn't cry but that stop her from being emotional, "I-I guess you're right, but I should have asked you about your quirk or how you were going to attack. I just figured since you were training your strength, you had some physical quirk, I should have more thoughtful, I'm sorry." she said finally looking Midoriya in the eyes.

Midoriya was silent, but went to give her support by reaching out to her, but sadly they were interrupted by the door opening. "Young Midoriya! Are you alri- am I interrupting something?" All Might opened the door, but immediately realized he had interrupted the moment.

Midoriya lowered his head and sighed, but he heard Uraraka start to laugh and that brought a smile to his face. "I think I better go, I haven't called my parents yet and I'm sure you guys want to talk alone." she said getting up from her chair and going to the door.

She waved goodbye, "Bye Deku, I hope you get better." she said smiling and leaving. "You'll be a lucky man one day young Midoriya." All Might said walking over to sit down on the chair, "Shut it." he said blushing a deep crimson.

"So, like I said, are you alright?" All Might said worried, "Yeah I'm fine, it's just a finger, but this'll be a hard month or so for training." he said looking at his hand in frustration.

"So, why did you use One For All?" he asked, Midoriya was nervous to answer, "Uraraka wanted to train with me, and that's what happened. I'm sorry." he said ashamed. "It's alright, I wish I could train with you more, but I still need to be the symbol of peace. Midoriya nodded, "Now I want you to meet someone that could help you with that finger of yours." All Might said gesturing towards the door.

Except no one came through for about 30 seconds while Midoriya was just thinking that maybe All Might has lost it. All Might on the other hand was just sweating like a pig, "Well, this is embarrassing." All Might said.

"I'm coming, I'm coming! Geez All Might, have you ever heard of having patience! Also was the introduction even necessary?" an elderly woman said coming through the door and closing it.

All Might rubbed the back of his head, "I guess not. Anyway, young Midoriya I would like to introduce you to the backbone of UA. The youthful hero, Recovery Girl." All Might then felt a swift hit to his right leg by Recovery Girl with her cane.

"Owww! What was that for?" All Might said holding his right leg, "Because, if you did a better job at teaching the young man how to control One For All, then he wouldn't have broken his finger." she said explaining her actions.

'Wait, she knows about One For All?!" Midoriya thought to himself as he watched the two adults argue. "Now, let me see that injury sonny." Recovery Girl came over to the bed Midoriya was laying down on. Midoriya showed her his broken finger, only for All Might to transform into his muscle form and lightly crush the brace holding it, "Why'd you do that All Might?" he said asking why he would break the brace holding his broken finger.

Then the most creepy thing in Izuku Midoriya's life happened at that moment, Recovery Girl's lips extended and touched Midoriya's fingers. The finger then immediately healed, but Midoriya then felt extremely tired.

"Why am I so tired, and what happened to my finger?!" Midoriya asked tiredly, "My quirk is recovery, it allows me to boost your healing factors and healing requires stamina." she explained to Midoriya who then started to lean more against the bed thanks to his energy drain.

"Now don't fall asleep young Midoriya, I'm sure your mother is worried about you. Let's go." All Might said now back in his true form. Midoriya nodded and got off the bed, "Thank you very much for healing me!" he said bowing in front of Recovery Girl.

She waved to dismiss it, "It's fine, it was no problem. Just try to take care of yourself, okay?" she said gently. Midoriya smiled and nodded, "Yes!" Midoriya, All Might, and Recovery Girl then went downstairs to see his mother sitting on one of the nearby chairs waiting for them. When she saw them, she immediately headed towards the three and hugged Midoriya tightly, "Are you okay Izuku? Is your hand still hurt? How is it?" she said worried, Midoriya hugged back and patted her back.

He lightly laughed, "I'm fine mom, Recovery Girl completely healed my finger." he said showing his mother his bandaged finger.

She looked at it and nodded in understanding, she then faced All Might and Recovery Girl and bowed like Midoriya in gratitude, "Thank you for your help." she said. Both All Might and Recovery Girl nodded in acknowledgement.

They said goodbye to All Might and Recovery Girl and went home together only to arrive at about 4:00 pm. Midoriya decided to get some rest and went to his room to sleep, until he heard his phone go off, "I only have family have family on my contacts, who would text me?" he said to himself as he picked up his phone and looked at the message, only to almost piss himself.

"hey deku i just wanted to know how you were doing also my parents send their regards for you to get better by the way :)"

Midoriya read the message from who he could only assume was Uraraka, but the question was how did she get his number. He decided to write back since that would be rude not to, but also he really wanted to find out.

"Hey, I'm fine thanks, but no offense, how do you have my number?"

Midoriya thought out every possibility with every word he typed but sended it regardless. It was probably the tensest minute of his life as he waited a reply from Uraraka, until a sudden realization came to Midoriya. "I'm texting to a girl on the phone… Awesome!" he said with his eyes being sucked in.

"Oh i thought your mom would have told you i met her at the exit to the hospital when i was leaving and she gave me your phone number so we could be in touch"

Midoriya wanted to thank his mom for giving him this opportunity, because he would have passed out before getting out the request to exchange numbers. He also wanted to have a talk with her for giving away his number to a stranger like it was no big deal.

"Oh yeah, I guess I forgot anyway I'm going to take a nap, see you."

"have a good nap deku also you really put effort into your texts don't you well whatever see you tomorrow :D"

She replied back immediately, Midoriya didn't know if he was being insulted or complemented, either way he was too tired to really care, so he just went to asleep.

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Midoriya woke up about 2 hours later at 6:15 pm, he got out of bed and went to see his mother eating dinner, "So how was your nap Izuku?" she asked sweetly while smiling. Midoriya smiled, "It was great, I feel a lot better! Anyway what's for dinner?" he said sitting down in his chair." Inko smiled and handed out his dinner which mostly consisted of rice.

Midoriya just stared at his dinner and pointed to it, "Why… do I have rice and you have takoyaki?" he said sadly. Inko got up and got the "Train to Fame, American Dream Plan" and handed it to Midoriya, "I'm just following All Might's instructions, "Make sure to have healthy dinners every night with rice as one of the main ingredients" okay?" she said pointing at the words while she read.

Midoriya sighed but had a determined face and dug into a his food, he finished at a brisk pace and got up to put on his shoes. Inko looked curious at her son at what he was doing, "Where are you going?" Midoriya faced his mother at the door with a smile.

"Well in the packet, it says I should do all I can to exercise my body, one of them being taking a jog at night, since it's a lot cooler than in the day." he said opening the door.

Inko hurried to Midoriya, "Are you sure you'll be alright" she asked worried, Midoriya smiled, "I'll be fine mom, I've been training in martial arts since I was 8 and now I have a quirk, and a powerful one at that." he said leaving.

Midoriya was just jogging through the area at around 6:40 pm, he was still thinking about controlling One For All, until he was hit by something running so fast that it made him tumble onto the ground.

The thing that came running back towards him, except now they started to look like a person, as the person got closer, Midoriya could get a better look on them. Midoriya deduced it was a boy, he was also very muscular with black hair, square glasses, and red eyes, he was also wearing a blue costume with black and white lines.

He came up to Midoriya and bowed immediately and spoke in a very loud and commanding voice, "I APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE I HAVE BROUGHT TO YOU!" he yelled at the top his lungs as bowed while Midoriya was still laying on his stomach. He then stuck out his hand for Midoriya to grab onto.

He accepted and the loud man pulled him up onto his, only when Midoriya got on his feet did Midoriya notice how tall the guy was. "It's fine, I'm sure you didn't mean to do that." Midoriya said smiling trying to brush off maybe the 4th apology he heard today.

"My name is Tenya Iida, I'm from Somei Private Academy, nice to meet you." while he was saying this he making numerous gestures with his hands. Midoriya lightly laughed under his breath, "I'm Izuku Midoriya, and I'm from Aldera Junior High." he said shaking Iida's hand. "Wait, if you're from Somei, then shouldn't you be in Tokyo?" Midoriya asked while starting to jog again with Iida following.

"Yes, but if I'm going to make it into UA, then I'll have to put the extra work in and train all I can. Of course studying is also important, and I don't want to make it sound like I'm being cocky, but I'm confident in my studying." Iida said jogging along with Midoriya.

Midoriya nodded, "You're trying to get into UA? Me too." Midoriya smiled as he tried to keep pace with Iida. Iida then noticed something peculiar, "Why's your finger bandaged Midoriya? Are alright?" he asked worried about someone new he just met.

Midoriya looked at his hand and understood his worry, but he also felt comfort of how a person he just met about a minute ago could be this friendly with him like it was the most normal thing in the world. All Midoriya's life he hadn't had a real friend beside his family and Bakugo, but ever since he met All Might, he realized how much his life has changed.

Midoriya shook his head to bring himself to reality, "It's fine, I just had a little injury training, it's not broken or anything like that. At least not anymore." he said the last part under breath, he then closed his fist to show he was fine.

One part of what Midoriya said surprised Iida, "Your training Midoriya?" Iida asked, Midoriya nodded, "Of course, like you said, if I don't put in the extra work then I won't be able to get into UA. Now race you to the beach!" Midoriya could see the beach was about 150 meters away from to two of them, so he took a head start and began sprinting towards the beach.

Iida smiled and accepted the race, "I do not condone this head start Midoriya, but I will not tarnish the Iida name!" he said focused. Then suddenly, engines then extended out of the calves of Iida, "ENGINE BOOST!" he yelled and immediately sped in front of Midoriya almost knocking him down again.

Iida then got there in about 9 seconds, with Midoriya taking about 21 seconds with him being breathing hard when he finally got there. "I didn't know… huff we were… huff using our quirks." he said breathing hard. Iida's eyes widened and his hands did certain movements, "We were not allowed to use our quirks?! I apologize for cheating in this competition!" he said pretty loud and bowing at the same time.

Midoriya brought his head up and lightly laughed, "I'm just kidding Iida, it's only a race, plus I think you would have beat me anyway quirk or no quirks." he said trying to calm Iida down.

"If you say so, anyway why did you want to race to this beach?" Iida said looking at the junk covered beach with his hands on his hips. Midoriya went to the beach, "This is where I train for the day, I also try to clean this place up." he said now standing on the beach and looking at the sunset.

Iida was in awe of how determined Midoriya was to better himself and this beach, "So, do you wanna spar for a while?" Iida walked down to the beach and standed next to Midoriya. Midoriya nodded, and walked a couple of steps away from Iida, "Wait, before we start, we should know each other's quirk's. Mine's is basically super strength, but if I use it against anything but a person, it breaks my bones." Iida was shocked to see such a strong quirk, but with horrible consequences.

"Interesting, my quirk is engine" he turned around so Midoriya could see his calves and engines on them, "Basically, it makes me very fast." he then turned around and set himself in a stance like he was about to run in a competition.

"Are you ready?" Iida asked, Midoriya nodded, "1, 2, 3, GO!" Midoriya sprinted at Iida, only for Iida to sprint even faster than him using his engines and prepared a quick kick to Midoriya's stomach, but Midoriya dodged to the left. Midoriya readied a punch using One For All while Iida was sliding and stopping himself from hitting the nearby junk.

'With how fast Iida is, he'll probably dodge this punch and try to kick again. All I have to do is let him get close and then throw the deciding punch.' Midoriya devised inside his head as Iida again sprinted towards him. Iida was about to kick, but jumped high into the air and landed behind Midoriya, Midoriya tried to turn around and swipe at Iida, but he ducked and hit a swift kick to the gut of Midoriya.

Midoriya was hit back a couple meters, but got up and ran towards Iida who was just standing there. Midoriya readied One For All in both arms and swung them at Iida who backed up, but was unprepared for the wind pressure to hit him and force him to the pile of junk.

Midoriya clutched his hands in pain, 'It isn't broken, but it still hurts." he was bowing in pain and eyes closed, but looked up quickly to see Iida almost kick him.

He quickly ducked and used One For All in his right arm, 'SMASH!' Midoriya punched Iida in the chest.

Except before he was punched, Iida landed on the foot he was going to kick and went to kick with his other leg, only for it to connect at the same time Midoriya punched his chest.

Both Midoriya and Iida were blasted towards the piles of junk on the opposite sides of each other. They both slowly got up from the hits they took and looked each other in the eye, only for Midoriya to get on his knee and hold his right arm in pain. Iida immediately headed over there, "Are you okay, Midoriya?! I apologize for being too rough." he said checking on his new acquaintance.

Midoriya shook his head and looked up quickly, "Don't apologize, I've already had too many apologies today, and besides that was really fun! You're really strong Iida." Iida decided he wasn't going to win, so he helped Midoriya up.

Midoriya looked at his arms, they weren't broken but they definitely felt sore, but not too bad to where he couldn't move them at all. He faced towards Iida and stuck out his hand, "It was a good match, you clearly won! Let's train together another time." Iida smiled accepted his handshake.

"Of course, and on the topic of training, it would be really fun and helpful for the both of us if we trained together on a regular basis, would do you say?" Iida asked.

Midoriya was shocked, just today he'd been asked to be training partners with two different people, "Sure, that'd be great!" he said excited.

Midoriya and Iida exchanged phone numbers and left to go home alone, saying goodbye to each other at about 7:30 pm.

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All Might was sitting at his office, contemplating on what to do about Midoriya's control over One For All. He knew that rushing him is not the right answer, but he also knew that they both want him to control it quickly.

"Because, if you did a better job at teaching the young man how to control One For All, then he wouldn't have broken his finger."

He thought hard about Recovery Girl's words, "If I was a better teacher, then young Midoriya wouldn't have gotten injured. I also need to be there more for him, I have taken responsibility for young Midoriya's safety and I'm letting this happen." he was ashamed of himself for not being there for his only successor.

A sudden realization came to All Might, "Wait, maybe he can help, but meeting him again will probably be too much for my heart to handle." he sighed.

"Screw it, it's for young Midoriya and he's trying his hardest to get better and I should too!" he said determined to contact the person he dreaded meeting. He went and got a piece of paper and an envelope.

He wrote the letter and signed it "Sincerely yours, Yagi Toshinori" he put it into the envelope and transformed into his muscle form and opened a window only for him to jump with the envelope in hand.

He arrived at a old, beat up building, 'You'd think he would get a better living place in his old age. Maybe you can help guide him, my old teacher.' All Might thought as he slid the envelope under the door and jumped away before someone saw him.

End

That's Chapter 4, this chapter besides the first one, because I've never written something before, was the hardest to write, because besides some information, all of it was original stuff I thought of.

I hope the whole Iida interaction and whole scene in general didn't feel too forced or out of nowhere, we still have a long way to go before the Entrance Exam. My guess 3 more chapters, and I'm sure all of you know where the next chapter is going.

I hope you enjoyed, and leave a review of what you thought, See you.