Izuku visited his mom at least once a month. Inko was alone after all, so anytime she could see her baby boy was more than welcome. This visit was just a little different however.

Izuku brought Ochako with him. Izuku got a text from his mother saying she needed help, and Ochako, who saw the message volunteered to lend her aid. (Secretly this was an excuse for her to meet her crush's mother but that's not important.)

The pair arrived at the Midoriya apartment and let themselves in.

"Mom I'm here- oh..."

Inko Midoriya was sitting on the floor, a pile of photographs sprawled out before her next to a cardboard box. She looked up to greet her son and his friend.

"Oh hello Izuku, oh and you must be Uraraka."

"It's nice to meet you." Said Ochako "you Said you needed help?"

"Yes, I was doing some cleaning and I found this box of photographs that I need to sort through." Said Inko "Any help Is appreciated."

"There's... nothing embarrassing in there right?" Asked Izuku

"Oh no." Said Inko, "At least I don't think so... maybe one bath time picture."

Izuku sighed,

"Alright, but let's do this at the table, there's no way that's good for your back mom."

"Alright, grab the box and lets get to work."

After an hour, they were halfway there. The box was filled with a lot of older pictures, a majority of them back from When Izuku's parents dated and the rest were from his own childhood. And luckily Izuku was the one to find the embarrassing bath time picture, saving him the embarrassment of Ochako seeing it.

"Wow you looked so much like Izuku when you were younger." Said Ochako as she held out a picture of a younger Inko wearing her own high school uniform.

"Well Izuku did inherit my good looks." Said Inko

Ochako placed the photograph in a pile containing all of Inko's pre-wedding photos.

"Oh Mom, this one's from one of Dad's birthdays right?"

Izuku held out a picture of a man in his 20's wearing a pink party hat and holding up a glass of a colored liquid.

"Yeah I remember that one." Said Inko "Bakugo's Father was the one who dared him to wear that hat..."

"Never realized you were close to Katsuki's family," Said Ochako

"Well him and my husband went to high school together," Inko began "After Izuku And Bakugo started hanging out they reconnected and started hanging out more."

A sad smile formed on Inko's face.

"Unfortunately he got assigned overseas two years later... then when Bakugo started bullying him..."

Izuku looked down at the table.

"Things got better at least..."

He set the photo down in the "Dad" pile, which was the smallest of their piles. Then Inko reached into the box and pulled out a few more photographs.

"Oh, Izuku! I remember this picture, this was from your field trip back in elementary school."

Izuku's eyes widened.

"The zoo? I didn't think we had any pics from that trip."

"I got a few, but I never kept track of them because... well you know."

Ochako cocked her head to the side.

"Did something happen at the zoo?"

"It was... eventful..." Said Izuku.

"It was, but look at how happy you were."

Inko passed the photograph to Izuku. It as a picture of himself, much younger in front of the Elephant enclosure smiling and wearing a baseball cap. Next to him was a brown haired girl who was also smiling.

"I never did get that girl's name." Said Izuku "Though she seems familiar."

Ochako glanced at the picture and her eyes shot wide open.

"Oh my god..."

the Midoriya's gave Ochako a confused look.

"What?"

Ochako pointed at Izuku

"You... you're balloon boy!"

Izuku was initially confused at the accusation until he remembered that day at the zoo.

"You!? You're the nice flying girl!"

YEARS AGO

Young Izuku Midoriya was having a bad day. Waking up he was excited, he was going to the zoo with his mom chaperoning him. But his fun died at the petting zoo when a llama spit on him, and then when they saw all the cool animals, Bakugo kept teasing him, talking about how even the zoo animals had quirks while he was Quirkless.

He was weaker than a flying monkey.

His mom tried to cheer him up by buying him a balloon but they were all out of green so he had to get red. He didn't want red.

Izuku walked over to the Hippo Enclosure, balloon tied to his hand and a sad look on his face.

"This is the worst field trip ever..."

He sat down and watched the hippos.

"It's not fair... whys Kacchan gotta ruin this..."

Izuku groaned, shut his eyes and looked up.

"THIS TRIP SUCKS!"

"TELL ME ABOUT IT!"

Izuku opened his eyes. Floating above him was a young Ochako Uraraka.

"Uh... hi."

"Y-You're Flying..." Izuku noted.

"Floating," Ochako corrected "I'm not good at controlling my quirk... and I dropped my ice cream...and now I'm floating..."

"Do you need help?" Izuku Asked.

"That would be nice..."

Izuku got up and looked around, his eyes settling on the Balloon.

"G-Grab the balloon!"

Izuku held up the balloon as high as he could. Ochako gave a confused look but decided that this was the best she was going to get and grabbed onto the balloon.

"Use the string to pull yourself down to the ground!"

"That's actually a good idea!"

Ochako climbed down the balloon's string until she was eye to eye with Izuku. Nervously he held his hand out to her.

"Grab my hand and I'll pull you down..."

"No... I can't..."

Izuku looked away. Of course this girl didn't want to grab his hand. He was a quirkless dork and she was pretty.

"If I touch you you might float too."

"Oh."

Izuku felt a little better.

"Now What was it mom said to do... to turn my quirk off..." Ochako Muttered. "Oh right!"

She pressed her hands together.

"R-Release."

Ochako fell to the ground with a light "oof" but got to her feet easily.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah. Thanks for helping me get back down."

She leaned in to get a closer look at her green eyed savior and cocked her head sideways.

"What's your name?"

"Oh, it's-"

"Sweetie!"

They both turned to see Inko approaching them, a worried look on her face.

"Oh please don't run off like that on mommy, I was worried you might have fallen into the lion pit."

"I-I'm fine mom, just needed some space from Kacchan..."

Inko let out a relieved sigh.

"I'm just glad you're alright... and you made a new friend."

Inko looked at Ochako

"Are you lost?"

"My momma is somewhere..." Said Ochako.

"Don't worry dear, We'll help you find her."

"T-Thank you..."

Inko then led the two children on a hunt for Ochako's mother, stopping only for them to look at the Elephants (she snapped a picture to commemorate the occasion). It didn't take too long to find Mrs. Uraraka, she was standing near a zoo employee with a long net, rambling about how "it's not that hard to find a floating child". The moment she saw her child Mrs. Uraraka ran over.

"Ocha dear there you are... I was so worried..."

"I'm fine momma... just floated a little."

The older Uraraka turned her attention to Inko.

"Thank you so much."

"Oh it's quite alright, I know the feeling when your child goes missing." Inko Replied

Inko looked down at Izuku

"Say goodbye Izuku, we need to get back to the class."

"B-Bye..."

"Bye Balloon Boy."

And with that both groups went their separate ways, the children taking one last glance at each other before their paths fully diverged.

"So That was you." Said Izuku

Ochako nodded, face slightly flushed at the memory.

"Wow... talk about coincidences."

Izuku turned to look at his mother.

"Do we have anymore pictures with... mom?"

Inko was on the verge of crying.

"It's like destiny or something..."

"What?"

"Mom?"

"You two were brought back together by fate!" She exclaimed. "Oh this is just like in that romance novel I read!"

Their faces turned bright pink,

"E-EH!?"

Ochako buried her face in her hands and began to float.

"URARAKA!"

"Quick sweetie get a balloon!" Inko shouted,

"MOM PLEASE STOP"

When all the chaos settled down they ended up putting the photograph in a pile of its own.