The walk home between Aki and Shoko was…..interesting….

Aki accompanied Shoko home after she finished her sandwich. The two went on full silence mode until Aki stroke up a conversation, which led towards an argument…

"…that's why ramen is better than soba!'

"Again, I disagree. Ramen is what one eats just to fill their hunger and it is unhealthy. Cold soba however, is both good for the taste and health. Soba is better."

….a debate between soba and ramen.

During the walk, Aki tried to break the silence by talking about quirks, which revealed that Shoko has a quirk that allows her to produce ice on her right, fire on her left. Before he could turn to his nerd mode, Aki's growling stomach forced him to open his ramen snack and eat it. Aki however, made a mistake saying that ramen is the best noodle, in front of a soba fanatic. This led to a debate between a soba fanatic and a ramen lover.

"You don't understand! Ramen is what you can enjoy anytime, anywhere. It's cheap, it's good and ramen shops have the power to make people feel more at ease. No soba shop could do that! They are too fancy!"

"The silence in soba shop allows customers to enjoy the food at its finest. Soba shops bring peace to whoever go there, which can't be say the same for the chaos in every ramen shop."

The argument could have went on for hours, if not for a voice called out to them.

"Shoko! Over here!"

The two snapped out of their argument, turned their attention to where the voice came from. In front of them, was a woman. She has a pure white hair with some red highlights on it. She was wearing a pair of red glasses, a pink sweater along with a relief expression on her face when she saw Shoko.

"Nee-san? What are you doing out here?"

"I was looking for you! You disappeared before dinner and didn't tell anyone where you were going. I thought you went to the park where you usually are but you weren't there! I was so worried!" The woman blurted out, not forgetting to jump in to hug Shoko afterwards.

After a while of hugging, Shoko gently pushed her sister, escaping from her embrace and explained.

"I was at the park, but some guys bothered me so I left. Sorry for worrying you, Nee-san."

"Alright, who is he?" Shoko's sister nodded, not forgetting to point at Aki.

"Mochizuki-san helped me when I was being bothered by the perverts, and he was accompanying me home."

"I see. Mochizuki-kun, was it? I'm Shoko sister, Todoroki Fuyumi. Thank you for helping my sister!"

"I-It's nothing. Besides, talking to her was a fun." Aki timidly answered.

"Well, it's getting really late now. Do you need a ride home, Mochizuki-kun?" seeing Aki shook his head, Fuyumi nodded, "Be careful then. Good night."

"You too. Goodbye Todoroki-san."

"He seems nice. You guys would look good as a couple." Fuyumi said, with a grin on her face.

"Where did that come from?" Shoko coldly replied while walking towards the direction of their house.

"Oh, come on Shoko-chan! You never have any interest in boys. And, I've never seen you this happy! You were smiling when I saw you talking to him. What were you guys talking about anyway?"

Unconsciously, Shoko gently touched her lips with her hand. Did she smile? She didn't even notice it if she did, she was so engrossed in expressing her feelings for soba. That must be it, right?

Quickly shook off her thought, Shoko teasingly said with her usual monotone, "That's unrelated. Besides, you haven't been in a relationship since high school. Like you would know anything about love. Natsuo even has more experience than you."

"Hey, that's cold!" Fuyumi pouted as she caught up with her sister.

Morning was hard. Especially when you destroyed a bunch of robots, helped a girl and stayed up late the night before. Aki grumpily complained as he turned off the alarm and dragged himself towards the bathroom to wash up.

"Ugh, I have to take the arm back to Sensei today, of all things. Hopefully he won't murder me for spoiling his prosthetic tool." Aki thought while brushing his teeth, silently bracing himself for the hardship ahead.

Putting his prosthetic arm inside his bag, Aki opened the door to go outside. Saturday morning was his favorite. The street was quiet, since everyone stayed inside, not many were out like him, which makes it even better. The gentle wind brushed through his black, raven hair as he walked the road beside the recently cleaned beach. He didn't know who clean it, all he knew was sometime, he saw 2 figures there, doing something. He assumed it was them, but he was not sure as how could 2 people managed to clean out a whole beach. Regardless, he was thankful for whoever did it.

"Mochizuki-san!" A familiar voice caught his attention.

"Midoriya-san?" He turned around and saw Midoriya Inko. She was a chubby woman with long, dark green hair. On her hand was a grocery bag.

"Good morning, Midoriya-san. On your way to the grocery?" Slightly bowed Aki as he greeted her.

"Good morning to you too. Well, yes! Izuku took his entrance exam yesterday and went straight to bed. I want to make his favorite katsudon when he wakes up. How did you do for your entrance exam?"

"That's nice, I forgot to text him to ask how did he do. I think I did fairly well for the practical portion, not too sure about the written one."

"Is that so? I hope both you and Izuku pass, you two could be classmates!"

"I hope so, too. I should get going Midoriya-san. See you again."

"Likewise dear." The two nodded before walking to their own destination.

"You can do this. It's not like he'll straight up murder you…perhaps" Aki thought to himself before gathering the courage to knock on the door.

"Wolf-sensei! This is Aki, your favorite and only student! I'm here to return the arm."

After a moment, the door was opened, revealing a bob cut, black hair boy.

"Kuro-kun! Long time no see, is Wolf-sensei home?"

"He's inside the dojo, sculpting statue. I'll walk you there."

Kuro gestured Aki to go inside. After taking his shoes off, Aki followed Kuro through the hallway leading toward the dojo.

"Nothing changed, I guess. How have you guys been?"

"School is fine. Shiro-nee joined the Garden Club so she's been busy. You haven't visited us for awhile already. We kind of miss you."

"I miss you guys too, but I had to study for my entrance exam so I didn't have the time to visit. I'll take you guys to dinner later, if Sensei let me live for breaking his arm."

"Highly unlikely."

"Yeah….."

Sliding the dojo's door opened, Aki saw a middle-aged man sitting next to the stove on the floor, carving a piece of wood with his full attention. He has a short bun that tied high behind his head.

Approaching the man, Aki kneeled down next to him, took out the prosthetic arm from his bag, placing it next to the man.

"Ehhhhh, Wolf-sensei? I may or may not have damaged the prosthetic arm that you gave me…"

This caught the man's attention. He stopped carving the statue, put down his tool and turned to Aki while inspecting the prosthetic arm.

"What happened?"

"They made us fight robots in the entrance exam. Shuriken doesn't penetrate their armor so I used the axe to chop them off a lot, but doing that damaged the arm. Also, the grappling rope worn out since I grappled around too much. Please don't kill me. I'll buy you some chicken nuggets?"

"I am disappointed."

"Oh god."

"That you didn't come here before the exam for me to check up the arm one last time. I taught you to always prepare for the battle ahead."

"Wait, you're not mad because I broke your prosthetic arm?"

"I gave this to you. I expected it to be damaged in the battlefields. I did not expect my pupil to be foolish enough to go to a battle with a half-broken tool."

"So we're good?"

"No."

"..."

"I will fill your head with all the knowledge required for you to fix this hand. It's your responsibility from now on, so you will learn to fix and upgrade it yourself."

"That's it? I thought you would…."

"But first, we spar. I need to confirm that you still remember my lessons."

"Lovely…."

The sparring was fun, except that Wolf wiped the floor with Aki's ass. How can a man that is twice his age able to move three times faster than him is a question that Aki may never know the answer. After the sparring session, Wolf sat Aki down and taught him all the basics to fix the prosthetic arm and how to upgrade the tools to be used aside from grappling. When they finished, it was already dark outside. Living up to his promise, Aki took Kuro and his sister, Shiro to a family restaurant nearby. Wolf didn't accompany them, but he asked Aki to buy him whatever there was for dinner.