Chapter 2

"I-I can explain!" Izuku frantically yelled as Momo glared at him.

She stared at him for a moment, face neutral, "Come with me." She commanded as she made her way outside, leaving a generous tip, with Izuku carefully trotting behind her. The two made their way to the parking lot to a car waiting for them, after entering Momo told the driver to take them to her home.

As the car drove on, the two sat in silence with Momo refused to look at him. He bowed his head a bit, feeling some amount of guilt at seeing her biting her lip and clenching her fist tightly in her lap, with her trying her best to hide the fear and worry she felt behind a mask of professional indifference. He remained quiet, knowing it was best for her to center herself, and to wait until they were alone before an explanation, especially because he had a lot to tell her.

After driving into the large property, whose magnitude still awes him to this day, the two made their way inside, greeting the workers as they made their way to her room. Inside her room was a soothing shade of purple with a large four poster bed in the center, lined with black silk sheets, a large television with a game console to one side, with a huge study desk nearby and a giant bookshelf covering the opposite wall.

He took a deep breath to calm himself, then turned to her and looked her directly in her eyes, seeing the sheer worry she tried to hide. "I know what I did was foolish, and that I could have been seriously injured or worse." he said as he gripped her hand and sat her down on the bed. "But I couldn't just stand their and watch someone in pain like that." He finished, filled with resolve.

Still she persisted, "What if you slowed down for a second, or if you had tripped." she stated worriedly, "If All Might hadn't been there..." she whispered, scared to think of the alternative.

Hearing this caused Izuku to flinch, as he vividly remembered the horror of almost dying, of suffocating and being helpless to do anything about it. He pushed away his own feelings of terror as he placed his hand comfortingly on her shoulder, "I promise...I'll always be here." He muttered.

She sighed as she hugged him, " I was so worried..." she muttered as she squeezed him tighter," When I saw that video of you running towards that villain, and you weren't picking up my calls, I thought something terrible had happened to you." she whispered in his ears, as he could feel his shoulder growing slightly damp," I can't lose you Izu-kun."

"Hey, you won't lose me." He said, giving her a reassuring pat on the back, smiling at a job well done, feeling her body losing the worried tenseness it had, "Besides, that thing wouldn't have caught me again." he continued, completely lost in the moment, enjoying the feel of the hug to realize what he had accidentally revealed.

Immediately she pulled back, looking at him, with eyes wide and her mouth a gape, " What?" She asked breathlessly.

'Crap...' His eyes went wide, noticing what he had let slip. "N-Now Mo-chan... Everything was alright in the end, I mean sure I was being suffocated and blacked out and all..." He frantically rambled, inwardly cursing his bad habit of not being able to stop blabbing." Then All Might saved me!" He exclaimed to her in a last ditch effort, trying to divert her worry away from the situation with the fact he met his idol.

Eyes growing wider, and more panicked the more she heard. Immediately she began searching him all over, checking to see if he was injured, and upon seeing some bruises on his stomach and wrists, she instantly created a large roll of bandages as she began wrapping him, with her hands slightly shaky due to all the emotions felt. "Explain..." She pleaded with watery eyes, but a firm resolve, desperately wanting, no, needing to hear exactly what happened.

Now mummified with bandages, and seeing the firm resolve in her eyes, he relented. " My teacher wanted to know what we planned to do for the future, and ended up revealing that I planned to go to U.A."

She said nothing, knowing how difficult it was getting in to the school, let alone without a quirk.

"I-I guess kacchan wasn't too happy about that as he cornered me after class and told me I could never make it as an equal without a quirk." He continued, head bowed as he recounted the story, completely missing the narrow eyed angry look that crossed her face.

'Still calling him kacchan...' she thought, upset with her Izu-kun still considering that bully a friend after all he's put him through, as well as slightly jealous that after all that he still considers Bakugo his first friend and calls him so affectionately.

"In the end, he told me that I better pray I get a quirk in the next life and jump off the roof..." he muttered bitterly still disappointed his first friend could say something like that.

"WHAT!" Momo yelled in outrage, jumping to her feet, looking angrier than he's ever seen her. " That... That..." She muttered as she began pacing with clenched fist. "Asshole!" she venomously spat, causing Izuku's eyes to widen, as he rarely, if ever, heard her curse.

"I'm here now, I'm sure I didn't follow his advice." He nervously spoke up in an attempt at a joke, to hopefully lighten the mood and calm her down, completely failing as she glared at him in response.

Taking a deep breath to calm herself, she sat back down beside him. "Continue." She said in her best attempt at a poker face, to pretend to be calm.

He winced, seeing the anger still present in her eyes, along with her clenched fists, but knowing it wasn't directed to him, he carried on. " Obviously, I was quite upset at that, and wanted to get home early so we could hang out longer." he stated, despite the situation, caused her to have a small smile at that," But I went through an alleyway and was ambushed by the same slime villain..." he trailed off, not looking at her, as he recalled his experience.

She said nothing, and moved closer, holding him tight, seeing how hard this was for him to admit to her, and how painful it must be to relive, but was shamefully glad he had this much faith in her and trusted her this much to tell her even if he didn't want to.

"I was suffocating, and thought I was gonna die." He chocked out, with tears leaking out his eyes, as he could hear her sobbing beside him, as she squeezed her arms tighter around him. "But then it happened... All Might showed up and saved me with one punch, He even signed one of my journals." He spoke up, visibly getting happier as he reminisced.

She smiled softly at that. ' Leave it to Izu-kun to still be a fan boy after all that...' She thought as she watched his eyes shine in happiness.

"But before I could ask him anything he left." He muttered, voice slightly cracking from guilt at lying to his best friend like that. 'All Might trusts me...' he thought, desperately trying to banish the feelings of shame and self- loathing at keeping something like that from her.

Hearing his voice crack, and wrongfully assuming it was because All Might left before he could speak to him, She hugged him tighter and in an effort to cheer him up, whispered in his ear. "It's Ok, Izu-kun, I'm sure you'll come across him again someday."

'I'm the worst...' Izuku thought shame growing, as he closed his eyes. "On my way home I saw smoke and realized that it was the villain attack." He continued the story in an effort to change the topic. " No one was doing anything, and at the time I didn't know who was trapped, all I could feel was shame and guilt, that maybe if I was stronger or faster, then I wouldn't have gotten caught, and if I didn't distract All Might then the villain wouldn't have escaped and hurt someone else." He rambled, his self-loathing at the time came spilling out as he spoke.

"Izu-kun..." Momo muttered softly, as she continued to hold him, realizing how he must have felt guilty for this. "It wasn't your fault...You had nothing to do with the villain attacking someone else."

He winced, knowing the truth that if he didn't grab onto All Might's leg, then the villain wouldn't have fallen out and be set free. "After realizing it was kacchan, I ran to save him, I didn't think of the consequences... My body just moved on it's own." he finished with a trembling smile.

She said nothing at first, still upset that it was Bakugo that he almost died for, but relented in the end. "I'm glad you're safe now..." she whispered, feeling incredibly relieved he wasn't hurt. "Although you don't need to do dangerous things in the future, You'll always be my hero..." She playfully whispered in his ear, causing his face to burn bright red.

After they both laughed a bit, happy that all the heavy emotional moments were over, He smiled and told her, "Yeah... Someone saw what I did and was so impressed, he offered to train me to get into U.A."

"Oh..." she said in a monotone, smile frozen in place. It's not that she didn't believe he could do it, because if anyone could make it into U.A. without a quirk, it was her Izu-kun, However she was always hesitant with topics like these, as seeing Izuku hurt was the worst thing for her. "What's his name?" She inquired in an attempt at being casual.

"He told me to call him Sensei, and that we would be training by the Dagobah beach park in two days." He absentmindedly responded, completely lost in euphoria at having the privilege to train with All Might and fantasizing about what his idol will teach him.

"I see..." Momo muttered with a straight face, with her eyes slightly narrowing at that, internally sighing as she thought about what he just said. 'Still so naive' she thought, a fond smile appearing on her face as she stared at Izuku happily lost in his thoughts at someone else acknowledging his dream, and is willing to train him.

"AH!" Izuku screamed out as he stared at the clock, reading 8:00, "Mom will panic if I miss dinner!" He yelled, hugging Momo goodbye as he raced out her room.

Staring at Izuku's retreating figure, she thought about who could have offered to train him . "Don't worry Izuku... I won't let anyone take advantage of you." She muttered to herself.

Two days later

It was early morning, before the sun even rose, that Izuku and All Might could be seen on the trash filled area of Dagobah Municipal Beach park. The once beautiful and pristine beach park became a dumping ground, due to the waves carrying trash onto shore and was further exacerbated by people using it as a cover for their illegal waste disposal.

Izuku, after struggling to pull a broken refrigerator with All Might in his hero form sitting on top, collapsed. "W-Why am I dragging trash at this beach park." He panted his question, as he desperately tried to fill his lungs.

All Might jumped off the fridge after taking a picture of Izuku in such a pathetic state. "You're body is too weak to handle One for All. If I were to transfer the power, you'd end up exploding from the sheer force." He casually stated, ignoring Izuku's panic at the thought.

"I'm picking up trash in order to train my body?" Izuku said in sudden realization.

"Indeed" All Might stated, "This beach was once amazing and a romantic hot spot, But became this trash heap over time."

Izuku blushed slightly when All Might mentioned this beach being a romantic hotspot, as he remembered a time when he and Mo-chan came here as kids,before it became a dump, and then a sudden image of the present Momo in a bikini flashed through his mind.

"Heroes today are all about the showy stuff." All Might continued, missing his new students blush as he began pacing to a huge heap of trash. "Originally, being a hero was all about volunteer work, even if it was thought of as boring. You can't waver from those roots" he explained, as he crushed the heap with one easy maneuver, reducing it to nothing. "You will restore this coastline to start your path on becoming a hero." He stated as he faced Izuku. "If you want to enter U.A. then you have to work hard. Harder than anyone else as you lack a power to call your own." he finished as handed Izuku a few schedule sheets with the words 'Aim to pass: American Dream Plan' written at the top.

"Whoa...this has everything mapped out..." Izuku muttered to himself in awe, with All Might heartily chuckling at his bafflement.

"So... now that you know what's at steak, let's continue shall we? I'll even make it easier for you" All Might stated as he shifted into his skinny form, climbing back onto the fridge for Izuku to pull, both mentor and protégé completely missing the arrival of the wide-eyed Momo, who just saw All Might de-transform.

'W-what?!' Momo thought to herself in shock, as she hid behind a trash heap.

'That can't be All Might...?' She questioned herself in confusion, having come to check out this trainer Izuku mentioned, recalling how he accidentally let slip where he was going to be trained. Using her quirk, she created a periscope with the same color as most of the broken appliances in the heap, and used it to see what was going on behind the heap.

Realizing that the same emaciated man, is wearing a baggier version of the same clothes she saw All Might in, meaning that the possibility of this man being All Might was extremely high, and that Izuku wasn't shocked means that there was more to his story yesterday left out.

"Izu-kun lied to me..." she muttered despondently, looking away from the periscope, feeling a sharp pang of hurt that Izuku kept things from her the other day. She clenched her jaw at that and then released a deep breath. The more she thought about it, the more she realized that if this man is indeed All Might, then there was more going on than she was aware of, and knowing how much Izuku worshipped that man, he would easily agree to anything that was told to him.

'Even if that means keeping things from your best friend...' she thought bitterly.

After rationally thinking things through and realizing that she will get her answers soon, she stared into the periscope, and released a horrified scream at what she saw.

Earlier a few moments -

After de-transforming, and climbing on top of the fridge, All Might encouraged Izuku, " Come on! If you wanna get into U.A. .Then you gotta give it your all!"

"Grr...I'm trying!" Izuku yelled as he struggled in pulling the fridge any further.

Standing up, All Might motivated Izuku harder, with Izuku pulling the fridge an inch, surprising the two as All Might in his skinny form, lost his balance falling of the fridge, and Izuku, in both shock at actually moving the fridge, and the sudden difference in weight, accidentally released the rope, causing him to be launched forwards, into a nearby heap that was weakened, thanks to All Might's earlier display.

'Shit!' All Might cursed in his mind, as he saw the precarious trash heap begin to fall to where Izuku landed, ready to crush him beneath it's weight. Immediately shifting into his hero form he dashed to save Izuku, however he was momentarily shocked when he saw Izuku's eyes.

'Impossible!' All Might thought, completely ceasing all movements at seeing those eyes, breathlessly muttering one word "Sharingan..."

'Am I gonna die?!' Izuku thought in panic as he saw the trash falling towards him, his mind instantly flashed to his mom and how devastated she would be to lose him, to All Might, his idol, and how traumatizing it must be to see someone die in front of you, and finally to Momo, he couldn't bear the thought of hurting her like that, especially since he never told her how he felt about her. Having grown up with her, and her being his rock since he met her, always encouraging him and being there for him, when others bullied him. How could he not completely fall for her?

'No...' he thought to himself as the image of Momo, crying because she thought she would lose him, flashed through his mind. 'I won't put her through that!' he internally yelled as his eye sight sharpened, causing the world to slow down, allowing him to see every spec of dirt, every piece of trash falling towards him, yet sadly knowing the distance was too far to move with his current speed to escape the range of the falling debris.

"I won't give up" He muttered, as he did the next best thing, and calculated the trajectory of the trash falling above him, and positioned himself just right enough, to fit right through the gaps of the trash.

"Phew" He muttered, eyes wide, heavily breathing as he haggardly climbed his way out the heap, unaware that his eyes went back to normal, or that they even changed at all, and chalked it up to the adrenaline that caused him to pull all that off.

"A-All Might...?" Izuku trailed off, seeing his idol slowly making his way towards him. The face that once filled him with happiness and excitement, filled him with unexplainable fear for a second.

"Sensei...? Izuku nervously questioned, with his body shaking uncontrollably for a reason he can't fathom, with All Might right before him. Izuku's eyes widened further, the ever smiling face of his hero, fell a minute amount, but was seen by Izuku due to the close proximity.

"W-Wha-?" Izuku hesitantly asked, but was cut off by All Might's fist flying towards his face, with a girl's scream piercing the air.

Author's note...

So...This is my first cliffhanger...I'm curious to why authors always use them, so let's see how the reception is for this one.

Also, as you can tell, Momo and Izuku will definitely be OoC, especially with each other, having drastically changed each others lives in certain aspects in different ways growing up, Such as Izuku being more confident around Momo and Momo being possessive of Izuku