Izumi POV

I was sitting in my room, reading the note Izuku apparently left for me. I don't really remember much after our fight. Just little bits here and there. "Izumi, come to my room tonight at 8. We need to talk."

Confused about what he would want to talk to me about, I stood up and made my way to his room. Knocking on his door, I stood there, waiting. The door opened and Izuku was looking at me with an unreadable expression. "You, uh, wanted to talk to me?"

"Yeah." He moved out of the way for me to walk in. Inside, I saw the same photos he had up on the day I confronted him. "Go have a seat. Your probably still exhausted."

I sat down at his desk. I still didn't know what he wanted to talk about at all. "S-so, what did you want to-"

"What's wrong with you?"

I stopped at his sudden question. "What? What do you mean, what's wrong with me?"

"You. You're acting all off. You even complemented me. You normally would have never done that. What's your game?" I sat there, silent. "Izumi."

"I just… I was wrong okay? You happy? I was wrong about a lot of things. I was wrong, thinking I was the strongest here. I was wrong, thinking you couldn't be a hero. I was wrong in calling you a Deku. I was wrong, Izuku." I began to feel tears well up in my eyes. "I'm sorry. I know that can't make up for all the shitty things I did to you. I know I probably can't make up for it no matter what I do. But… but it still doesn't change that fact that no matter how hard I try, you're still better than me, Izuku."

Izuku was just staring at me with that same, unreadable expression. Suddenly, he turned and picked up a picture off his desk and handed it to me. I saw that it was the same picture I looked at, the one of Izuku, Ryukyu and Miruko all at an amusement park together. "That was taken on my ninth birthday. Ryuko and Rumi brought me after they learned I hadn't been to one before.

sigh* Listen, I don't really hate you. You can aggravate the hell out of me sometimes, sure, especially when you act all high and mighty, but that's just part of life. Look, Ryuko wanted me to give you guys a chance to make up for your past mistakes so I'm giving you that chance. Make the most of it, yeah?"

I looked down at the photo, seeing how happy Izuku was. 'They really do care about him a lot.' I looked up at Izuku and nodded. "I'll… try."

"And don't take everything your dad says to heart. Just 'cause you got that quirk, One for All, doesn't immediately make you stronger than everyone else. You've got a lot of work and training to do before you can come anywhere close to that. So go get some rest. You were really worn out after our fight today."

I set the picture back down and nodded. "Yeah, your right. Thanks Izuku." I got up and made my way back to my room. '*sigh* Today's been a total roller coaster.' I clenched my fist. 'But I'm gonna get stronger. So that maybe one day, one day I can actually put up a real fight against him.'

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The next day, I texted everyone to come to my room so we could talk. Once they got here, I began explaining. "Look, Izuku said he'd give us a chance to make up for what he did. I-"

"The fuck do I care about that for?!" Katsuki shouted, interrupting me. "He's just a useless fucking Deku who got lucky once or twice in a fight against me! Next time we fight, I'll show him where his pla-!"

"Katsuki, shut up." I began using my quirk to keep his mouth shut. "First off, I told you to stop calling him Deku. Second, Izuku easily beat you multiple times, outsmarting you every time. You need to realize that you're not the best and accept reality. Izuku is better than us. He could probably take us all on by himself and not break a sweat."

I let him go and he looked like he was trying to come up with some sort of excuse but came up with nothing.

I looked over at Katsumi and Shoka. "What do you two think? Out of all of us, you've had the least interaction with him."

Katsumi sat there silent as she was thinking to herself while Shoka began to speak. "Do… do you remember why we started bullying him in the first place? I just… I can't remember anymore."

I looked over at Katsuki with a glare before looking back at Shoka. "It's because this asshole said it was to keep Izuku from getting himself killed. Keep him safe from the evil villains. But we ended up being the villains attacking him for having a dream."

"Tch, you make us sound like we really are villains," Shoto said with a sneer.

"Yeah, that's because we were. There isn't a way of looking at it where we look like the good guys at all."

"So what do we do?" Katsumi asked. "How do we make up for what we've done then?"

I sat there, thinking to myself. "I've got a couple ideas."

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Izuku POV

I woke up, stretching out my limbs, spreading my wings to their fullest extent. "Ah, it feels like a good morning. Time for a morning fly to wake me up." I got out of my bed and out onto my balcony, before jumping off and flying over UA.

As I was flying, I was trying to think of what to do for my day off since school is closed for the next couple days. 'Hmm, I could go to the mall. They just released a new game I was wanting to play. Heh, yeah, that sounds good. Maybe invite a few of my classmates to come along.'

As I was thinking of who to invite out, the image of Izumi and her friends came into my mind. 'Eh, if they wanna come, I won't stop them.' Then my mind began to go back to just after my fight with Kaina. 'M-maybe I could take her to a cafe nearby? Would she even like to go to one?'

Deciding to worry about that later, I shook my head and turned back to the dorms. 'Today's gonna be a good day, I can feel it.'