"Salutations my fellow Team Leaders! I hereby call this week's meeting of the Beacon Academy Leadership Council on Tactics, Training, Leading and Team Cohesion, shortly the Beacon Leadership Council, to order!"
"Tenya, you're cheating, we agreed on the shortened name, if you're gonna use both in the introduction it's only making it even longer and worse!", Ruby rose immediately protested and Izuku nodded in agreement.
Tenya had the decency to look a bit embarrassed when he answered.
"I apologize, I promise it was the last time, for nostalgia's sake. Nevertheless, as always I'll start with a simple role call! Izuku Midoriya, Leader of Team MNVW?"
"Here...", Izuku answered, by now having given up on trying to loosen Tenya's preplanned structure.
"Very good! Ruby Rose, Leader of Team RSBR?"
"Present and accounted for, the same as Tenya Iida, Leader of Team TABY!"
"Excellent! Completing the members, I...", Tenya scowled at the young girl after he realized Ruby had taken the words out of his mouth. Their youngest member was nibbling on a cookie, radiating a perfect picture of innocence.
"Indeed, because I am here...", Tenya said, then looked at Izuku who couldn't hold back a grin at Tenya's unintentional All Might impersonation. The youngest Iida family member sighed, not realizing the reason.
"Well, Since Miss Adel is not joining us until next week, I guess this really makes all current members present and accounted for. This meeting may therefore come to..."
The boy was disturbed by the sound of the door opening.
"Actually, didn't you forget someone?", a voice called out to them.
While Iida raised a brow more at the lack of courtesy of not knocking beforehand, Ruby's eyes went wide at the entrance of their sudden guest and Izuku's face paled a bit.
"Cardin Winchester, Leader of Team CRDL. Present!"
The boy brushed his burnt-orange hair back, while pulling a chair over the floor, in pretty much the loudest fashion possible. He gave the door a shove and it shut with a loud bang. Then he sat down in reverse, hunched to put his elbows on the chair. He was tall enough even in that position to look down on the rest of the students seated at the table, a glint in his eyes.
"Only if you'll have me, of course. Unless this little club is simply too exclusive to let me in? Really, I wonder why none of you had the courtesy of inviting me in the first place. I only heard about this when I was looking into a little info about our young friend here."
At that point Cardin reached out to give Izuku's shoulder a small shove.
Tenya fumbled a bit and readjusted his glasses, clearly taken aback. The young man looked at Cardin.
"Well, Mr. Winchester, my goal for founding this council was to help each other and pool and increase our respective knowledge. But I also desired it to run smoothly."
Ruby interrupted him.
"Also, the day he asked us to join you were bus-too occupied with bullying Tsuy-a Faunus classmate and getting reined in by my sister. Which doesn't exactly send a message of... uh trustworthiness!... or reliability."
Cardin shot her an annoyed look, clearly putting her on a mental list as an extension of Yang who surely already made it there due to said incident.
"And if my sister is to be believed, you fall rather short of any expectations anyone might have of you. And as she said, 'Considering I got to check it firsthand…'", Ruby added, completely missing the implication of the statement, "I'm inclined to trust her on that."
At that point Cardin's eyes grew colder.
"Yeah, your sister does look and dress like the type to be an expert on such topics! I'm sure she's got years of experience.", he quipped back, grinning at Ruby's look of confused irritation, but then the young girl shut him down, giving him a sudden glare.
"Also, while he didn't outright say who it was, I'm pretty sure you had fight-an encounter with my teammate Katsuki Bakugo, who solved it all on his own. From his own words, 'without even breaking a darn sweat'. But you better be sure that next time, should it happen again, my entire team will have his back, Cardin."
'She just censored Kacchan' Izuku felt a bit of sweat develop on the back of his head.
Cardin seemed slightly shaken at that, but he quickly switched targets and turned to Izuku to not let on that the youngest student in the room had hit a mark.
"Well, Deku, my old pal. Surely you don't have anything against me joining? Why, just a few days ago we had such a nice conversation that was oh so rudely disrupted by some random Faunus and her keeper. A meeting I only consider postponed, by the way."
Here Tenya Iida cut in, with a voice colder than any of his friends had ever heard out of him before.
"Mr. Winchester, Izuku Midoriya is a valued member of this council, so you will not only address him with his proper name, but more importantly show him the respect he deserves. Or I can assure you that I will not only deny your proposition but also see yourself out personally. Furthermore, I don't want to see you bother or insult my teammates Tsuyu Asui or Miss Rose's sister Yang Xiao Long in my presence now or at any time in the future or I will take measures to ensure that you don't continue with it. I hope I have made myself abundantly clear on that topic, Mr. Winchester?"
Cardin threw his hands up and laughed.
"Whoa, dudes and dudette, chill a bit, will ya? Maybe I was just a little grumpy at not having been invited? It's quite insulting, really infuriating! But alright, I won't insult you people anymore. And Mr. Midoriya, you shouldn't get so worked up over that Faunus, you know? White-knighting to look good in front of a girl is something I can expect from someone like you, but it really made you jump to assumptions."
"Her name is Velvet Scarletina.", Izuku added in a serious tone, looking directly at Cardin.
"Like I'd care. Call her whatever you want to call her, she's insignificant to me. But all of that shouldn't be an issue. You're a team leader council and I'm a team leader. Isn't that what this is all about? Would you throw out any current member if you ended up arguing for some small reason? If you wouldn't, then the same things are hardly a valid reason to prohibit me from joining, are they?"
Tenya Iida was about to raise his voice, only to hesitate a moment when he caught sight of Ruby Rose feverishly shaking her head at him. The boy sighed. Procedures had to be followed, even if that was one of the few times that made him regret that fact of life.
"I'm afraid Mr. Winchester has something of a point there. While I won't hesitate to enforce the rules, including punishments for misbehavior up to and including the dismissal of any member, his earlier behavior can't be taken into account for that. So I am in favor of letting him join as a probationary member."
Cardin's smile was nothing short of insulting at this point, beyond happy with himself at what he was pulling here. He certainly enjoyed the chaos he was causing a great deal.
"Heck, NOPE! Just look at the guy, he's only here to disturb our work, are you guys blind, he's sitting there laughing at our faces, messing with us! Izuku!", Ruby Rose turned her head, staring in disbelief at Tenya's decision and searching for support.
"Maybe this isn't that bad. Sure, right now it may be troublesome, but... maybe we can find an understanding and lay our problems to rest if we get to know each other a bit more? That would be better in the long run.", Izuku declared, but his face said he didn't really expect it.
'Still, Izuku is the kind of person giving everyone a chance,' Ruby thought. Or maybe all that time with Kacchan had just made it hard for him to stand up to bullies in general?
"Preach it, Midoriya, I'm sure we'll become the bestest of friends in the long run. That's a two versus one majority, isn't it? And with that the notion has passed, I'd say. Right, Miss Ruby Rose?", Cardin beamed at the young girl.
Ruby couldn't believe her ears and jumped up, agitatedly pointing at Cardin, who didn't mind and just reached out to her plate and grabbed her half-eaten cookie. Which only served to spurn her on more.
'The nerve of this guy!'
"I can't believe this. He's only here to spy on us to better mess with us and our team mates! What are you all even thinking! If that creep's in, well... then I'm out!"
"Ruby!", Tenya called out to her. Him calling her by her first name cooled her down somewhat, if only due to the surprise factor. Tenya barely ever did that and so far only had done so when they'd been on their own.
"Please think of your team mates, before making such a drastic decision. Cardin Winchester will only join on a probational status. And rest assured, I will not tolerate any kind of misbehavior."
Tenya turned to the leader of Team CRDL, painfully aware of Cardin's shit-eating grin.
"While we will give you the benefit of doubt, you should realize you're on very thin ice, Mr. Winchester. I give you the same advice I just gave Miss Rose, consider your own team mates before you decide on anything drastic. Because this council has something substantial to offer and as a team leader you simply owe it to your teammates and to yourself as a student of Beacon as well as an aspiring Huntsman to give it a serious try to make things work. If anything, take a good look at all of our three teams and ask yourself if there's really nothing you can see that they might offer for you to improve yourselves."
Before Cardin could answer that plea, there was a knock on the door.
The door was opened and Coco Adel, leader of team CFVY entered in a confident stride.
"Hello, I'm sure Izuku Midoriya has filled you all in already. A pleasure to see you. While today my time was sadly too limited to participate, considering my future intentions, I thought I'd drop in for a few minutes anyway to prepare for next week."
The second year student then lowered her shades and looked at Cardin Winchester, the way someone would look at a fly in their soup. As in, a slight step below disgust, due to disinterest diluting it.
"What's he doing here?", she inquired, a slight sour note entering her voice regardless.
"First, welcome, I'm Ruby Rose, leader of Team RSBR and second, he...", Ruby filled that last word with as much disgust as she could manage without making a grimace. "He has just decided out of the blue to join our council! To my regret."
"Is that so?", Coco answered with slight anger, which brought up a smug look on Cardin's face.
"Well, if that is so, then I..."
Izuku face-palmed, knowing that Coco would never willingly join a council that had the person bullying her teammate as a member. Why, just why had all this turned out so bad? All of them had been so happy about Coco, a second year student!, joining and now it was all utterly ruined. Even Tenya had a bitter look on his face.
"Then I would simply be elated to join too! I figured I'd wait until next week after I got to know you guys a little better, but why prolong things unneededly?"
The fashionable girl sat herself on the table, putting her arm around the flabbergasted Cardin's shoulder.
"Why, I was hoping to spend some more... quality time with my special friend Cardin Winchester and was worrying how I could do so... in a subtle manner. Getting a chance like that weekly, well, that's nothing short of a gift of the heavens!"
With that she leaned in and gave him a faux-affectionate tender finger flick to his earlobe, the one she had manhandled during their last encounter.
"Oh, we're gonna have some fun, Cardin Winchester! Maybe I'll even fetch Velvet to make some photos of the aftermath with that beloved camera of hers. That sweet girl simply loves to share her pictures with everyone she knows..."
Coco raised his chin to look him in the eye and smiled.
"Sharing is caring after all." Then the second year student's smile vanished entirely, replaced by a stare down.
"And I really do care, Cardin."
The tall boy suddenly seemed all-too eager to get the hell away from the older girl.
"Yeah right, sorry to disappoint you, I hardly have the kind of free time you lazybones all have. See ya, suckers, I've had my fun today!"
The boy made his escape, shutting the door to the point of breaking, if it hadn't been for Glynda Goodwitch pushing to make all doors in Beacon sturdy enough to handle even an aura-empowered teenager's emotional outbursts.
A few moments of silence while all of them listened to his angry footsteps getting further away.
Then Izuku spoke up.
"I take it Cardin hasn't actually signed his membership card yet?"
"Why yes, Mr. Midoriya, I was just about to point that out myself!", Tenya Iida immediately answered, a rare grin on his face.
Ruby snatched the empty card from Tenya's hand and with all the wide-eyed fan girl-ism she could muster, uttered:
"You're a Huntress! Can I have your autograph?", holding the membership card in front of Coco's face.
"I'm hardly a Huntress yet!", Coco laughed out.
"But just now you clearly saved us innocent victims from a dastardly villain's plan like a true Huntress. So don't mind the details, as a second year student you're way closer to being one than us and that's close enough for me. Now, sign up, sign up!" She was almost thrusting the card in the older girl's face.
"Kid...I like you already!", Coco giggled, giving her an affectionate pat on the head, before signing the card.
"New member, GET!" She held the card up in triumph, before calming down to what for Ruby could be considered normal, "Well, you certainly have net yourself a bunch of brownie points with all of us today, but if you want me to upgrade that to an actual delicious brownie, you've got to stop calling me kid! I'm Ruby Rose!"
"I like a girl who makes a decent sales pitch. Kinda reminding me of how your friend Izuku there has gotten me interested in all this in the first place. But next time I expect some coffee to go along with that, Ruby!"
"We certainly will ensure to brew some. I am Tenya Iida and it's a pleasure meeting you.", Tenya declared, vigorously shaking Coco's hand. He then turned on his heels, slammed himself into his original place at the table, and raised one hand to the sky.
"Now due to the rapid membership changes we just underwent, I'll take things from the top!"
"Salutations my fellow Team Leaders! I hereby call this fourth meeting of the Beacon Leadership Council to order! I'll start with a simple roll call! Izuku Midoriya, Leader of Team MNVW?"
"Do we really need to do this agai... You know, I'm not even going to ask this time, I'm here."
"Very good! Ruby Rose, Leader of Team RSBR?"
"I am here!"
"Excellent! Coco Adel, Leader of Team CFVY?"
"Right here stiff."
"Magnificent! And obviously I, Tenya Iida, Leader of Team TABY, am present and accounted for! This meeting may therefore come to order!" Izuku watched with slight amusement as Coco just blinked in stunned awe at the way Tenya was swinging his arms about and the stoic nature of his tone of voice in spite of the bombastic nature of his movement. He watched as she slowly craned her head his way, tilting it as she looked over the rim of her sunglasses.
"He's... always like this?"
"Yeah, I think he had a script prepped." Izuku admitted with a nod, taking a small bite out of some of the food that Tenya had prepared and brought to the team meeting.
"Pretty neat." Coco mutters to herself before taking a bite of some food. "And Hell, I'll take just about anything if he brings food like this. Some good stuff you got here stiff." Tenya Iida nodded his head, a bright smile on his face as he readjusted his glasses.
"Thank you Miss Adel, I wasn't quite sure what would be to your liking as it concerned the culinary arts, so I decided I'd bring out a rather broad batch of meals that could service most tastes and see what you preferred so that I might put something together a bit closer to your taste." Coco chuckled a bit as Tenya went to work speaking, his arms slashing and cutting through the air as she nodded.
"Well thank ya Tenya, that's awfully considerate of ya. Hmmm... I'll have to get back to you on that. On the one hand I like your sweets but... mmm... this really is some good stuff."
"I'm afraid I can't take all the credit for it. Two members of my team are quite excellent chefs themselves with far more practice." Coco just grinned nice and wide as she looked over.
"Awww, you all cook together? That's pretty sweet. I remember trying to organize activities like that with my Team during the First Year... it didn't go so hot." Coco admitted as she took another bite, Tenya just nodding his head.
"Please, feel free to speak freely. No one here is judging you Miss Adel and we would all benefit greatly from your prior difficulties and experience in leading a team." Ruby nodded as she finished eating a cookie, the girl giving a smile.
"Besides, not like we haven't had trouble ourselves... well... mostly me, but it got fixed!" Ruby declared as Coco smiled.
"Right, of course. Sorry, still kinda trying to get a feel for this little club you guys have got going here." Coco admitted as she leaned back in her seat. "It wasn't so much that I had a hard time getting them to do stuff... it's that my team... weeeell... they're not exactly social butterflies." Coco brought up a gloved hand for her to start counting off fingers. "I have to imagine you guys are already filled in on Velvet, so I'll spare you the details-" A nod from Ruby and Tenya confirmed Coco's suspicion as she moved on to finger two, "-then there was Fox who was kind of big on the whole stoic thing going on. Guy doesn't wear sleeved shirts because he wants to show off his scars while looking all broody, that kind of thing." Ruby snorted a bit as Izuku and Tenya nodded. "Then there's Yatsuhashi... honestly the guy's a teddy bear and he loves showing off for girls, but... well, he can be a bit shy because a lot of people are a bit freaked out by how tall he is. Guy's friggin' huge and he's only 18."
"So getting them to do big social things was a 'mess'. Fox liked to act a bit too... oh God, what word should I use?"
"Standoffish?" Tenya suggested.
"Edgy?" Izuku tossed in.
"Tryhardy?" Ruby offered lastly and, at that, Coco snapped her fingers.
"That's it, Tryhardy. Thanks squirt." Ruby puffed out her cheeks at the nickname given to her by Coco but eventually smiled when Coco passed her a cookie. "But yeah, guy was a total Tryhard... still kind of is actually, but he's at least made progress on working the stick out. Velvet was of course a nervous wreck and was prone to jumping at just about anything and Yatsuhashi... you know, Gods love him, but when it wasn't fighting the guy could be a bit of a klutz. Bumped into all kinds of things and knocked them over."
"So I'm guessing big team outings and activities were pretty much out." Tenya said as Coco nodded.
"Yeah. No matter how much I may have wanted it that way or thought it would've been great, I had to take my own team's personalities, needs and wants into account. It's easy to get buried in the 'idea' of doing something that sounds like it'd be good for your team without thinking if it'd actually jell with all of them. As a leader, I had to learn to not just think of my teammates as one unit out of four and instead as people. We've been making a lot of progress since then but... well, stuff still takes time."
"Well that's a very good start to this meeting I'd say." Tenya declared with a wide grin. "It's a nice start to the lessons but, for now, I say we get to discussing what the official business for the Beacon Leadership Council is for today."
"Right on. Been kinda lookin' forward to this to be honest; I was wondering what official stuff you guys get up to from Deku's description of it." The three of them nodded as Tenya cleared his throat.
"Indeed, so, let us show Coco exactly what it is that the... hold on a moment. Deku?" Tenya blinked in some confusion. "I'm sorry Miss Adel but, well, I'm not sure where you've heard that name but it's actually a bit of an insult aimed at Mr. Midoriya, so if you wouldn't mind-"
"Oh no, it's totally cool. I heard it when Deku and I met and I thought it sounded cute. Deku here said it'd be fine if I called him by it." Ruby tilted her head to the side at Coco's explanation.
"Huh, that's weird. Izuku, why would you let her call you by that name?" Ruby and Tenya looked over to him and he started praying to every God he could think of that he wasn't blushing.
...
Judging by the way Tenya's jaw dropped and Ruby's cheeks puffed up with laughter, they hadn't heeded his prayer.
"Mr. Midoriya, you said yourself it was an insult! Why would allow other people to call you it for such a... such a reason?!"
"I DUNNO, IT WAS LIKE A REVOLUTIONARY DISCOVERY OKAY, I COULDN'T HANDLE IT!" He declared with his blushing face hidden behind his hands.
"AHAHAHAHAHAHA! You're, ahahaha, you're so shameless Deku! AAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!" Ruby held onto her gut as she laughed, Coco just chuckling as she took the scene in.
"Well, looks like this is going to be a hoot."
"So wait, what is this that you're wanting help with, Deku?"
'Deku' continued to go a red as Ruby chuckled under her breath, Tenya was still just shaking his head at the display.
After some more good natured teasing The Leadership Council meeting had circled around to assisting each other with tasks or studies that the others had felt some need for help in accomplishing. The turn order had finally fallen to Izuku, who had insisted that he quickly go out and change into some of his older gym clothes in order to train with... well, One For All. Not that he'd told them as much when he'd left or intended to tell them. At the moment he just wanted to keep it down to the simple explanation.
"Just... something of a breakthrough I've made with my Semblance." he said as he took a deep breath and stretched out a bit. At that both Ruby's chuckling and Tenya's stern gaze finally melted away as interest rapidly replaced them.
"What, another one, already?" Ruby asked as Izuku sheepishly scratched the back of his head.
"Well... I've been working on a lot of stuff all at once, and working really hard at it. It's more like I had a lot of balls in the air that I'm finally managing to catch and see progress from." Tenya nodded his head seriously as he stroked his chin.
"Indeed, Yang's told me that you've been quite persistent in your training with her. I'd have to imagine you'd carry that attitude into your work with your Semblance as well." Izuku nodded in agreement as Ruby seemed to grasp what Tenya's saying. Coco, on the other hand...
"Wait, hold up. You can't control your Semblance?" The older student asked as she placed her hands on her hips, Izuku flushing in some slight shame as he nodded.
"Y-Yeah... I have a really hard time of it because my Aura was awakened... pretty late in life. My Semblance is pretty powerful so whenever I've tried to use it... well, there's tended to be backfire." he said cautiously as Coco just arched an eyebrow over the rim of her sunglasses.
"How much backfire we talking about here?" Ruby and Tenya even looked a bit uncomfortable but, before long, it was the blue haired young man who cleared his throat to speak up.
"When I first saw Mr. Midoriya use his Semblance, it completely shattered every bone in his arm and caused a deep bruise to form from his upper arm down to his fingers." If Coco's eyebrows were quirked before they shot up way over the rim of her glasses as she looked down at Izuku.
"Holy shit, no way." Izuku just nodded grimly as he affirmed Tenya's statement. "Holy Hell, that sounds like it hurts."
"It... it really does." He agreed as he finished his stretching. "Up until now I haven't really been able to control 'any' of my Semblance. I'm either not using it at all or I'm using 100% of its power and destroying my own body... but..."
He took a deep, long breath and closed his eyes, trying to feel out the power that he knew sat just underneath his skin. He could feel the whole mass of One For All swimming in his Soul... the raw power that if handled too lightly would tear his body apart as he tried to channel it. However with 'extreme' focus he was able to take a small portion of it. Just a small, small, 'small' portion of it and channel it where it needed to go. Ruby was the first one to notice, her silver eyes going wide in surprise as she looked down at his right arm. Tenya and Coco's gaze soon followed and the three of them stared as his skin started to glow. First a light golden color formed over his right arm, shimmering and producing a small amount of light forged from the energies of One For All. Then, the rest appeared; shifting shapes, most often in the contours of cuts or scars, colored a shining, brilliant red form across his right arm as the tiniest bit of One For All was channeled
As soon as it settled, his arm started to balloon ever so slightly. Not to the great extent that it did when under the influence of 100% of One For All, but very noticeably: his already somewhat cut muscles began to take on more form and definition as they grew in size and, before long, it was easy to tell that his right arm was much larger than normal.
"Holy cow..." Ruby muttered numbly as she watched Izuku slowly bring his right arm up, clenching his fist in a cautious gesture. It still hurt like Hell to hold even such a small chunk of One For All like that... but it didn't hurt nearly as bad as 100% did. His bones were still straining and his muscles still threatened to tear at any moment... but they held. Maybe it was his own Aura holding them together or maybe his own improved natural strength but, either way, his arm held and didn't break.
"It's not a lot of my Semblance... but it's enough to make a difference... but it's hard for me to control it for too long, so I have to get used to summoning it forth quickly and then making use of it." Almost as if to underline that point mere seconds after he'd summoned that small chunk of One For All forth his grasp on it slipped and it delved back into the sea of his Soul, a sigh of relief released from his chest as he scratched the back of his head. "So what I want to work on is doing so under stressful circumstances, like when I'm being swung at or what not. I was hoping you guys would help." Tenya and Ruby nodded immediately and so did Coco, but it was clear that the older student was still utterly bewildered by his Semblance. While she was taking it in, Tenya was already beginning to come up with a far too complex training schedule, while Ruby was seemingly trying to figure out a way to have Emerald Gust take off some of the damage that his semblance caused. Coco almost seemed to have been completely stunned by just how much power he had in his...thin form.
Finally, after a few minutes, she just shook her head. And then, she perked up, and returned her attention to the younger man.
"So, Deku, how was Velvet this past week?"
Izuku nodded in understanding, and then tapped his chin. He then brought up everything he could remember about her time in class, giving a fairly positive, though still factual, account of the Rabbit Faunus's performance.
"... So she had a little bit of a stumble when Oobleck reached out to her in specific to try to answer a question about the Faunus but, well, after that she was able to steel her nerves and give the right answer. The professor even seemed really impressed!" Izuku finished with a small grin as he nodded his head. "I think that's actually about it for this week!"
"... Gotta hand it to you Deku, when you promise something, you deliver." Coco put aside a beverage that had been brought for the Leadership Council as she leaned forward in her seat, a smile on her face as she looked around. "Good food, not half bad company from you, stiff and squirt and... well, this was actually pretty productive. I got to say, for a bunch of freshman, you guys are ahead of the game" The three of them each nodded their heads at Coco's assessment, before the leader of Team CFVY turned to face Izuku. "You even kept up your end up the bargain right off the bat. I'll want more sometime in the future, 'course but this was a nice show of good faith Deku. I appreciate it." He couldn't help but blush, pleased at the praise.
"So does that mean you'll be coming to more meetings in the future, Miss Adel?" Tenya asked, his arms going through their motions as the girl turned to face him, dipping her sunglasses down to look him right in the eye.
"... You know, what the Hell, why not? This was fun and pretty useful. Consider me a full member... if you'll have me, of course." Coco offered and it was not even a second before Ruby practically jumped up out of her seat, arms up above her head with a cheer.
"Are you kidding?! You're a super cool older Huntress, Team Leader with loads of experience! Of course we'll have you!" Izuku and Tenya nodded in ready agreement as Coco just smiled earnestly. Finally, the ring of the wall-mounted clock drew all of their attentions to the time as Tenya nodded.
"I do believe that shall have to suffice for today. I hereby call this week's meeting of the Beacon Leadership Council to order! Have a good evening everyone!"
"Alright kid, you're either going to toss me to the side or get a fist to the jaw! Now get ready to throw... OR GRIT YOUR TEETH!"
In all likelihood, Toshinori just declared that to psyche Izuku out. To get him to take the threat 'very' seriously so that he'd have some push to actually go through with the toss. He wanted to think that as Toshinori, in Hero Mode, dashed towards him , his fist reared back and that beaming smile on his face, that it was just a very elaborate game of chicken the older man was playing in order to get him into the right frame of mind to actually go at it with everything he had.
On the other hand, his gut was screaming at him that Yagi was going to take his head off and he needed to flip him, right now, like, RIGHT NOW RIGHT NOW! In a way, Toshinori succeeded in what he wanted... it just resulted in Izuku screaming a bit as he quickly ducked down into his stance and brought his hands up. It was a rather beautifully fluid motion all told; Toshinori didn't put up much resistance and, later on, Izuku figured that he wanted to see if he got the basic form down. While Izuku couldn't say for certain, since he was far more focused on actually tossing the giant missile of a man away from him, he could say with some certainty that Toshinori soared rather bodily through the air and, with a few bounces, eventually stopped on the ground flat on his face.
"T-Toshinori! I'm sorry, are you alright, I didn't mean-"
"AAAH-HA-HA-HA-HAAA!" Toshinori laughed good-naturedly as he immediately sprang to his feet and gave a small salute. "Nothing to worry about my lad, I'm perfectly fine. Although your throw was very well executed, you aren't quite 'that' good yet to put a man of my skill and strength down." As if to reassure his protégé, Toshinori flashed his grin as he flexed and, yeah, Izuku's nerves immediately did settle down. "After all, I am Toshinori Ya-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHCK!"
At that point, the stunning transformation that Toshinori would undergo whenever he'd spent too much time in Hero Mode wasn't much of a surprise to Midoriya... a little jarring sure but he didn't quite screaming his head off like he used to. Instead a concerned smile crossed his lips as he walked up to him, supporting him as he hacked up some blood into his fist.
"You've been in that form for a while. You probably need a break, right?" He asked and, after a moment, Toshinori finished wiping the blood off his mouth before dusting his hands off on his now considerably looser cargo pants.
"Yeah, yeah that sounds like a plan my boy." With a nod Izuku helped Toshinori over to a nearby bench, the older man just taking a quick seat as he continued to cough here and there though, thankfully, it seemed the blood had been hacked out by now. "Gotta hand it to you Izuku, you've been taking to my lessons like a fish to water. Started off as an amateur not too long ago and now four weeks later... well, you're getting closer to where you want to be. Not there, but closer." he nodded in understanding; his more fluid and loose forms were probably his best bet still for actually defending himself... but when it came to getting a grip on an opponent and bodily tossing them, he was pretty sure that his work with Toshinori was rapidly eclipsing a lot of his other forms. It made him smile; it was another small way he was making progress... and one that he was earning from his Hero no less.
"Thank you Toshinori... but I really couldn't have done this without you. Without your guidance and training... well, I wouldn't be here at Beacon at all." Toshinori just grinned a little as he reached up to ruffle your head.
"I helped you kid and I certainly gave you One For All... but I think we both know that you're kidding yourself if you think your own work ethic and ability had nothing to do with getting you here. You're taking in so much of what I know so fast that it's crazy... Hell, but the time you're half my age you'll probably be as good at all this stuff as I am. Who knows, maybe better." Izuku couldn't help but turn red from Toshinori's praise, a sheepish grin crossing his face at the look of obvious pride that Toshinori had on his.
"Thank you... that... really means a lot to me, sir."
"Means a lot to me too kid." Izuku blinked a bit as Toshinori withdrew his hand, a grin still on his face. "Means that I don't have to worry a lick about One For All going forward. It's in perfectly good hands." Yet again Izuku beamed at this as Toshinori just chuckled. "In fact, Glynda's been telling me you've been making some pretty serious progress while I've had my back turned with all this teachin' crap. Swear, I feel like I can't keep up with how much work you're puttin' in." Izuku nodded as Toshinori's grin widened. "So how about you lay it on this old geezer young man: what've you gotten up to?"
"SMAAAAAAAAASH!"
It wasn't even really a Smash, when he thought about it. Without the force of 100% of One For All behind it, he'd actually have to work on his form to make a 'Smash' with so little of it count for anything. Still, the word itself gave him confidence as he channeled what little of One For All into his right arm as he could, without breaking it, and punched forward. There was a slight breeze that blew from his hand as his body turned into the blow and, all the while, Toshinori watched with a wide grin on his face as he had his hands placed together.
"Well, I gotta hand it to you Midoriya, you didn't oversell it at all; you really can control a bit of One For All now. Ye Gods, young man, I turn around for a week and you go and pull something like this out of your back pocket!" Izuku smiled genuinely at Toshinori's compliment, shaking out his hand as the still painful tremors of using any amount of One For All, small or not, in his body still echoed out in his bones and muscles.
"It... it was only really recently, and I haven't had much opportunity to use it yet... but still, I was really excited and I wanted to show you." Toshinori nodded his head, enthusiastic in his own way, as he smiled and brought up his fist. "I really managed it. I can control some of One For All! I can control... uh... I can control... huh... how much can I control, anyway?" He asked, tilting his head to the side as he examined his own right arm. Really, it was hard to parcel out just how much of One For All he could control. I mean, it wasn't like he had a huge amount of experience with-
"If I had to take my guess, I'd say that your cap right now looks about like 5% of what you're capable of." He blinked in surprise at Toshinori's estimate, turning his emerald eyes over to him as his mouth dropped a bit.
"You can tell just by looking?" Toshinori nodded as he reached down and picked up a plastic water bottle to hold in his grip.
"Yeah. I've seen what you can do with 100% of One For All after all and, well, I may not understand the 'mechanics' of controlling One For All myself, I do at least have a good gut feeling about this Semblance and I can generally put together how much power you, myself or... or my predecessor was putting out. After all-" As if to demonstrate his point, Toshinori tried to crinkle the still full bottle of water in his hand only to fail miserably. But then, it was slow, but his muscles did bulk up for a brief moment and Izuku flinched, expecting the bottle of water to immediately blow up under Toshinori's immense power... only for it to slowly crush and break under his strength, water flowing out from forming cracks in the bottle as Toshinori's controlled strength put just the right amount of pressure on it. Afterward Toshinori deflated again and tossed the remaining trash over into a bin.
"-I've pretty much made it my business to be as precise as I can be with One For All. The Symbol of Peace and Hope can't just go around causing massive collateral damage wherever he goes and he really shouldn't knock criminal's heads off with one punch when he should be strong enough to bring them in alive. That's not what being a Symbol to the people of Remnant is all about. I might not understand exactly what I'm doing... but after a while, you learn to get a good feel for One For All. I don't know exactly what you're doing, but I've had One For All for so long that know what I'm looking at." Izuku nodded in vigorous understanding as Toshinori said that and it really did make sense to him. "So, judging by how strong you are at 100% and what you just pulled there, yeah, 5% sounds about right."
"Just 5% huh?" Izuku looked down at his fist again with that thought. He still had such a long way to go then. Yeah, it only took four weeks for him to get to this point but... well, even here and now, his control wasn't perfect and his body still strained under the weight of One For All. Plus, much like his own Aura, he didn't imagine it'd get easier to control more power as he went along either.
"Don't give yourself that look." Izuku looked up to see Toshinori just smiling at him as he reached out and ruffled his hair. "You started off not even having One For All five weeks ago and look at you now. I'd be proud as Hell of that accomplishment if I were you. Don't get so down in the dumps now young man." Izuku couldn't help but smile under the words of his Hero and Mentor as he offered up a small nod.
"I won't... thank you Toshinori."
"Don't sweat it." With that, Toshinori rubbed at his chin as a thought slowly forms behind those black and blue eyes of his. "Speaking of... now that you 'can' control some amount of One For All... it wouldn't be as dangerous as it could've been for me to start passing some stuff down to you." Izuku eyes went wide as Toshinori waved his hands. "I don't mean like control, we've well established that I know jack shit about what makes my control of One For All work. Hell, you've probably got a better idea in your head than I do." At that, Izuku frowned a bit as he looked down at his hand.
'Well... if I had to describe it... I guess it'd be kind of like-'
"It's like... putting an egg in a microwave!"
...
"Pardon?"
"Yeah you know. If you put too much heat into the egg all at once, then the yoke's going to bubble up and crack the shell! So if I don't want that to happen to me, then I need to control just how much of One For All I'm actually pushing into myself all at once." Izuku nodded, the metaphor firm in his mind as he smiled. Toshinori, on the other hand, just looked a bit stunned as he tilted his head to the side.
"You... sure that's the metaphor you want to go for young man? I don't want to say too much but it does sound kind of..." Izuku blinked as Toshinori started before the older man just waved his hand. "You know what, forget I said anything. If that metaphor is what works for you, then that's just fine." He grinned again. "What's important is that you're making progress to making this Semblance your own in your own way... and that you're doing a fine job of it." Izuku again couldn't help but smile under his mentor's praise.
After the brief discussion of his taste in metaphors, Toshinori waved it off. "Anyway, while I can't help you with control... now that you've got some, I could teach you some of my moves." Toshinori scratched the back of his head. "I can't guarantee that you'd always find them useful or that they'd fit with the way you fight but... well, I thought I'd offer at any rate."
Izuku considered it for a long time. There was a part of him that hesitated for a moment; he'd already taken Toshinori's Semblance on and he wasn't anywhere near as good with it as he was yet, so it didn't feel quite right to take on his moves. On another level, there was a little part of Izuku that said that his moves just 'weren't' for him. That he wasn't built to handle One For All like he was. That he needed to start from scratch. On the other hand, he felt like that was reductionist. Months ago he wasn't built to handle One For All 'at all'. He was weaker then, so much weaker, and using it then would've completely destroyed him. After a lot of hard work and effort... well, at that point he could control some small part of it, and as time went by he'd be able to control more and more. Toshinori's moves didn't have to be a stopping point... they can be a bridge to new ideas and concepts and ways of thinking about using One For All that he hadn't considered due to lack of experience.
In the end, that latter arguments won out and Izuku ended up smiling nice and wide at his predecessor.
"I'd be honored Toshinori! Whatever you're willing to teach me, I'll do my best to learn!"
"Now that's an answer!" Toshinori clapped his hands together as he slowly stood up from his own seat, a wide grin on his face. "It'll have to be during special times like this but whenever you want to young man, I'll be ready for ya." With that Toshinori dusted off his pants as he kept that smile on his face. "With that... I think we've just about done all we can for today. I'll see you later young man, you keep safe now." Izuku nodded as Toshinori moved to depart from the training arena, a smile still on Izuku's lips as he watched him go. Soon enough, though, a nagging thought tugged at the back of his mind. Something that had crossed his mind before, especially when talking with Ozpin, but... it was something he'd considered more and more as he and Toshinori spent more and more time training together. He looked down to the side for a moment, his nerves keeping him from speaking up immediately, before he summoned forth his bravery and looked up at Toshinori's back.
"Uh... Toshinori, sir?" Toshinori stopped in place as you call out, turning his head to look over his shoulder to look at Izuku. "I was... I was actually wondering... would you... maybe... want to hang out?"
...
"Huh?" Izuku saw that Toshinori seemed genuinely surprised by the question, his jaw dropping somewhat upon hearing it. Izuku's face immediately went a beet red as he brought up his hands defensively.
"Y-You know what, never mind, it was a silly question I should've realized you'd be too busy for something silly like that, what was I thinking, well it's been great talking ToshinoributIreallyneedtogetoutofyourhairbecausethisisgettingreallyawkwardand-"
"WOAH WOAH WOAH, settle down Izuku, take a breath!" Izuku immediately did so and he couldn't help but hyperventilate a bit as his embarrassment ran through his mind. Toshinori reached up to scratch the back of his head, as he's want to do, as he glanced off to the side. "I was just caught off guard was all, I wasn't saying no." The older man grinned slightly as he looked at Izuku, a self-depreciating expression on his face. "I figured that a young guy like you'd be preferring to hang out with his friends or a couple of Beacon's lovely ladies rather than fart around with an old man like myself is all. Kind of surprised me."
"You're not that old Toshinori..." Izuku said again as the older man just grinned, the boy's sense of self slowly reasserting itself as he looked at him. "And yeah, I could... but... well... you and I really haven't talked that much outside of training... I know you're my mentor and that I'm supposed to be learning from you on how to be a better Huntsman... but... well, it just... I thought it'd be nice to also just talk. So that I could try to learn more about you."
Toshinori paused as he took that in, the mentor scratching his chin in thought as he looked down to the side. After a moment of silence Toshinori nodded his head as he looked back to Izuku, placing his hands in his pockets.
"Sounds reasonable enough to me kid. What exactly did you have in mind?"
'What did I have in mind...'
"I dunno... I thought it might just be nice to talk a walk so I could ask you a few questions, maybe get to know a little more about you." He saw Toshinori grin a bit as he spoke, the man crossing his arms as he turns to face him while he arced an, admittedly amused, eyebrow.
"Oh? Trying to get more data for your notes are you? Can't help but still fan boy after all this time?" Izuku sputtered slightly at Toshinori's ribbing, his voice cracking slightly as he tried to stumble for a correction. Shortly thereafter Toshinori just laughed, waving a hand slightly as he shook his head. "Relax kid, relax. I was kidding. Sure, I'd be down for something like that. Come on." Izuku calmed down as Toshinori reassured him and quickly fell in line behind him, the two of them wandering off out of the arena and then, after a while, outside of the building proper.
Beacon's campus really was a thing to behold. His time had, so far, mostly been spent either inside the building's illustrious halls or out in the City of Vale, very little time actually spent on the campus itself taking in the sights of what Beacon had to offer. As he walked around with Toshinori for a bit, each of them trying to find a place where there aren't 'too' many people around and where they could get at least a small bit of privacy, he couldn't help but marvel at the sights of the... well, to be frank, 'castle' he'd been living in for the past few weeks. Buttresses and arches and towers galore, with Ozpin's own office sitting at the very top of the grand clock tower that stood darn near smack-dab in the center of it all. From what he heard, all four major Hunter Academies were like that; after all, it was hard for their campuses to not seem like resplendent gardens and marvels of architectural wonder when they had set their bases up in the halls of the Old Kings, with some updates and buildings added in order to make them more suited as actual campuses, of course.
'Thank you Professor Oobleck.'
"So, I'd say we've got ourselves a nice little track all by our lonesome. So lay it on me kid, what's on your mind?" Izuku swung his gaze down from Beacon's campus back to Toshinori as the old man smiled at him, a slightly nervous grin stretching across his own lips as he scratched at the back of his head. Now that he was there and actually asking his questions he honestly felt a little bit nervous. Some of them were a little personal after all and he didn't want his mentor to feel like he was intruding on his privacy... but on the other hand, he really just couldn't help himself. Toshinori was his predecessor, his hero. He 'wanted' to know more about what his experiences were like. Maybe then he'd have a better idea of what he could do instead of just continually winging it.
"Well... I was actually wondering how you met your predecessor?" Toshinori blinked slightly as Izuku clarified. "I mean, I don't know if passing down One For All was supposed to be some kind of official process or not, so that... well, like for example, you and I meeting was just some accident that you rolled with, or if it was always just kind of random. So I thought I'd ask how you met your mentor, the Seventh User?"Toshinori nodded at his question as he raised a hand up to rub his chin slightly.
"To answer part of your question, One For All's passing down has been a matter of... random chance or fate, whatever you'd like to call it, ever since the Semblance came into being." Izuku nodded as Toshinori turned to him, placing his hands on his own chest. "Ozpin's predecessor, Headmaster Nezu, only really became aware of One For All through my predecessor... Nana Shimura."
"Nana... wait, you mean the Huntress from Mistral Academy? The one who won the 12th Vytal Festival Tournament?"
"... Kid you are scary sometimes with how much you know about this stuff, you know that right?" The kid chuckled sheepishly as he looked down to the side, his face thoroughly red. "But yeah, that's her alright. You don't know much about her because back then, after the war, Hunter's were probably at their lowest point in terms of relevance to the public. With one War barely 24 years back in memory and seemingly another one, the Faunus Rights Revolution, right around the corner... Hunters really were just exterminators for hire as far as anyone could be concerned. No matter how strong they were or how effective they were against the Grimm, people kind of shut them out. They'd sit and watch us clobber each other in the Vytal Festival Tournament but... well, it was more sport to them than anything actually serious that had any meaning to their lives. Nana grew up in that environment and lived and died as a Huntress in that environment. She didn't want fame or to be well known... she just wanted to do her best. Even when her best didn't seem to move the dial all that much."
"Anyway, like I was saying, Nezu was the first person to become aware of One For All and was the first Headmaster of Beacon to really start moving resources around to try and help out the Users. Before that, we were mostly on our own, doing what we could in this crazy world to live up to our ideals and... to fight the good fight. If we came across someone along the way who embodied our vision of what One For All was meant to be used for, someone we knew could be a hero... then we passed it down. That's how I met Nana: I was doing what I could to become a Huntsman at the time. I was freakishly strong for my age and that only continued as time went on, it's why I had such an easy time adjusting to One For All. That strength would carry me a long way... but it wouldn't be until I met Nana that I'd see my own dream fully realized." Izuku watched as Toshinori shoved his hands into his pockets, a smile growing on his face.
"Tell me if this sounds familiar to you kid; a young man believes, more than anything, that was the people of Remnant need is a Pillar. He looks around and he sees people who do their best to serve the community, to keep people safe, alive and smiling... and knows that he wants to be them. But not just them... an exemplar of them. He wants to be a Huntsman but, more than that, he wants to be A Hero. Someone who inspired joy and hope in people the same way the legendary Huntsman did. He knows that the reason there's so much suffering is because people are truly afraid... and what they need is a Symbol of Peace and Hope to rally behind. He wants to be that symbol..."
"But... no matter what natural gifts he might have, he's not quite able to make it all the way to his dream. There's something in the way. Something blocking him off. Something keeping him cut out from his hopes and vision. Then... one day, seemingly out of the blue... he meets someone."
"He meets his Hero."
"Well... it sounds like you're talking about me Toshinori. "Izuku scratched the back of his head, recalling just how his own first meeting with Toshinori had gone. "I really don't understand what that has to do with this though sir. I mean... I was Broken, I 'couldn't' become a Huntsman. You said it yourself, you need an Aura to take on the Grimm. I'm sure your own roadblock was serious but... well, I can't imagine what'd impede you more in becoming a Huntsman than being a Moon Child."
"Yeah, I'd say that estimation is about right. You only really get stopped or frowned upon for being a Hunter by being Born of The Moon. That was my experience, at least." Izuku nodded his head as Toshinori spoke... and then he stopped dead in his tracks. His emerald eyes, surely wide as dinner plates, turned to face his mentor as he just gave a big old smile. Izuku muttered and stumbled over his words for a moment before Toshinori raised up his right hand, his thumb pointing right at himself... where he said six words Izuku didn't think he'd ever forget for as long as he lived.
"I was Broken too, young man."
"Broken... you were..."
"She wasn't easy on me at first." Izuku couldn't help but shiver as Toshinori continued, placing his hands in his pockets. "She said in no uncertain terms that someone who was born a Moon Child wasn't capable of being a Huntsman. That my dreams, while admirable, shouldn't lead to me carelessly tossing my own life away. After all... she had been a Huntress for so many years by that point. She knew from experience." Izuku could tell that Toshinori couldn't help himself; the smile on his face grew wider. "And you know what I said? I told her to... err, I told her nuts to that." Toshinori scratched his cheek. "I had my dream. I knew what I wanted to do with my life. I wasn't going to sit around and wait for the people to have their Symbol of Peace come around, if it'd ever come... I was going to be that for them. I was going to give them hope where they didn't have any..."
"She told me to prove it then." Toshinori grin grew and grew and, Izuku swore, there were tears pricking at the corners of his eyes... tears he quickly swept away. "So... I did. I spent weeks under her tutelage, taking whatever she could throw at me as far as training was concerned. She told me that, if I could pass her 'curriculum' then she'd personally put in a word for me with one of her friends at a Huntsman's Academy to get me in. That she'd see to it that I could chase my dream. Well... after hearing that, how could I not give it my all..."
"Long story short... one day, after we were done training Nana gave me this smile. A bright and wide smile unlike anything I'd ever seen. There, right in that moment, that woman stood tall and proud, looking down at me as I set exhausted in a pool of my own sweat... and I couldn't help but smile back. Especially when I heard those words..."
"'Be proud, Toshinori! You're different from all those that had it to begin with... You have won your power!'" Izuku saw Toshinori drop his arms after declaring that, before he turned his eyes down to him. "I always wondered how teach felt in that moment. What was going through her mind. These days... I think I've got a pretty good idea."
'Do not cry, do not cry, do not cry, do not cry, do not cry, do not cry, do not cry, do not cry...'
'...'
'Crap... there it goes.' Big old tears formed in the corners of his eyes as he watched Toshinori beam down at him, his mentor laughing a bit as he brought a hand to the back of his head.
"Jeez young man... how many times is that now? We're having a moment and you gotta go and ruin it by gettin' all teary on me." Izuku nodded in understanding as he brought an arm up to wipe away at the tears that were just pouring out from his eyes. He knew that it was true, it's just that... well...
"I know Toshinori but... but I can't help it. Every day I work as hard as I can so that I can prove that I'm worthy of being your successor. Of being the next person to wield One For All. To hear you say something like that... it's just... it's just great. It tells me that I'm making progress..."
Izuku turned his head up to face Toshinori, giving him the biggest, beaming smile that he could manage. He had to say, even Toshinori looked a little bit impressed by the sight.
"It means that I can keep moving forward! That I can be your Successor! That I can be the Symbol of Peace! Hearing you say that, it inspires me to keep trying... and that's what makes me so happy. That my dream... my dream..." Again he started sniffling as he brought his arm back across his eyes. Dammit, he knew that wasn't cool at all like Toshinori said, but he just couldn't-
His thoughts stopped immediately as he felt Toshinori place his hand on the top of his head, ruffling his wild mane of hair as he did so. "Don't worry about it kid. Just get the dust out of your eye and we can keep up with our walk. Sorry, I really should have learned to tell the difference between you getting a bit of dirt in your eye and you actually cryin'. Course you wouldn't be cryin' at a moment like this... what was I thinking, right?" Izuku choked out a bit of a laugh as he took the moment to reign in his tears and emotions. After a deep breath he managed to look back up at him, his eyes red but, comparatively, dry as he resumed smiling at him. "Good stuff kid, good stuff. Now let's keep going. I have to imagine that wasn't the only thing you wanted to know about this old man."
Izuku quickly followed Toshinori's footsteps, taking a moment to gather his thoughts as the two of them continue on their stroll. Izuku brought his hand up to his chin and stroked it a little bit, thinking carefully for a moment before looking to his mentor. "Well... I mean, aside from being a teacher and tolerating training me, what do you like to do for fun?" Toshinori barked out a laugh at the question, the older man scratching at the back of his head.
"Ah, want to know what old men like myself get up to when you kiddies have retreated to your beds huh? Sorry to say that the details aren't quite as salacious as you might think. Burning the midnight oil hasn't exactly been much of a thing for an old fart like myself for a while now." Izuku shook his head as Toshinori referred to himself as such again, the old man just scratching his cheek. "Well let's see here... I'm guessing you'd also mean aside from Huntsman stuff too but... well, to be honest kid, I do find being a Huntsman to be pretty fun. Savin' people, killing Grimm, going around being people's hero. Your dream is my dream kid, and getting to live it... Hell, it's one of the best things to have ever happened to me." Izuku nodded in complete understanding as Toshinori explains that.
"But I'm guessing you mean social stuff... well, before I met you, I'd usually hang around with the gang. Folks like Glyn, Naomasa, Oz and Qrow."
"You mean Qrow Branwen?! He's part of your all's group too?" Toshinori nodded as Izuku asked that.
"Yeah. Soon as that lazy bastard actually shows back up I'll have to introduce you to him... er..." Toshinori scratched his cheek. "Well, I'll see which Qrow shows up before I introduce you." Izuku blinked in confusion as Toshinori muttered that before he waved it off. "Anyway, it's not just business. Glynda and Naomasa are part of my old team so whenever we can, we like to get together for some light drinks. Hasn't happened for a little while, mostly because Naomasa got bumped up to Detective so he gets to be a hotshot around the Four Kingdoms, but we manage from time to time. Oz is just good company and Qrow..." Toshinori suddenly looked shifty. "When Qrow's... in a good mood, let's say, he's not half bad conversation himself. The guy usually ends up with some crazy stories with how much the travels."
"Aside from all that... well, I haven't really don't too much of anything just for the fun of it for a while. Been managing my condition, trying to be the best Hero I could and... well, now I'm doing my best to get you ready to succeed me. Haven't had much of a social life in a while."
Izuku thought on that for a moment before he turned to look up at him.
"Well... maybe we can change that then? Maybe we can hang out from time to time?" Toshinori arched a brow at that... but in the end just chuckled and nodded.
"Sure kid. Sounds like a blast." With that the two of them settled into a comfortable conversation as they continued their walk, the originally planned short walk quickly turning into laps around campus as Izuku and his mentor spoke with each other at length.
E/N: Starting us off we have "Not the Member you Were Looking for" by Vandalgyon. And there you go D3lph0x, a little bit about Nezu.
-Shovern