Couple months later

After izuku finished explaining himself to his family, he threw himself back into his training. He also started hanging out with pony to help her learn japanese and to help her with her quirk, but most of the time they just had fun with each other. On one of the few days that izuku and bakugou trained together izuku saw a really big problem.

" hey deku you cant fight to save your life, i mean most of your attacks are just basic things. So you need to learn how to fight." Bakugo said. Now that izuku thought about it, his brother wasn't wrong. Most of the time when he fights he just goes off instant and basic attacks he knows. But if that's all he does then he would not do well in a lot of fights, especially if he fights someone with actual training.

" You make a good point, ha why don't I come train at your dojo?" asked izuku. "No, my dojo and the fighting style they teach is not one that would suit you. My dojo is more rigid and static in their fighting, you need something that moves and is ok for the added limbs of yours." Bakugo replied.

"Well I can look and see if I can find one around. But in other news how has your training been going, i can see that you have gotten better with your quirk." izuku asked to switch the conversation.

"Ya soon not even you will be able to stand my explosion." Bakugo said with pride.

The two brothers continued to spar with each other until it was time for dinner.

Next day

'Ok if i am right the dojo should be around here somewhere.' izuku was looking for a dojo he found online. It wasn't the best dojo but I did have something he was interested in: it mainly focused on training those with mutation quirks that change the body. Will Izuku's quirk is not a mutation, it does still change his body.

After a little bit more looking, Izuku finally found the place. " Ok, finally, this place was a lot more difficult to find than I thought." izuku said aloud to himself before walking in.

As soon as he entered he was greeted by the site of a lot of people training. Some looked normal with no changes to their bodies, but some had some big changes. He saw a man with two tails that looked like scorpion tails, he saw a woman with the body of a snake, and another woman with the lower body of a spider. " Cool" is all izuku could say on the site.

Before he could get too engrossed in the classes he was brought out of his thoughts by a voice to his side. " Hello, my name is hio Kendo, and this is my dojo. What can I do for you today?" said a tall orange-haired man. " hi, my name is izuku midorya, and I would like to sign up to train here." izuku said to the man.

"Perfect, then you have made the right choice, if you will follow me into my office we can start the paperwork." Hio told the boy.

As izuku entered the office he sat down across from hio, the two started talking and doing paperwork.

"Alright kiddo, we are almost done just have to get your info so that we can put you in the right class. Are you ok with telling me your info?" Hio asked. " No problem sir, what do you need to know?" izuku was ready to get the paper done so he could train.

"Please you can just call me kendo sensei, and I just need to know your height, weight, and what fighting style you would like to learn." asked Hio. " I am 6 feet 1 inch, I weigh 188 pounds, and I would like to learn a fighting style that I can use with extra limbs." responded izuku.

"Ok all good, if you don't mind what is your quirk, most people that want to learn that style have a mutation quirk or something of the like." he asked." My quirk is called animal kingdom. I can basically become any animal I want and manifest different animal features on parts of my body." izuku expanded, changing his hand to a claw and growing a tail as demonstration. " Impressive you might just be the perfect student for someone." hio said to izuku's confusion.

After a minute or two the two were done and Hio called for someone and soon a girl about his age arrived at the door. " you called, what do you need me to do dad?" asked the girl who looked very similar to Hio. " itsuka can you help are new student here get a training gi and introduce him to his new sensei?" Hio asked the now introduce itsuka.

" Sure, think dad, come newbie, let's get you ready for training." said Itsuka as she pulled izuku out of the room.

After putting on multiple gi that were too big and too small izuku finally had a good fitting gi on. " Is this how it is supposed to be worn?" izuku asked, feeling weird in the gi. " Yes and no, these gi are made for people with mutations or transformation quirks, and with you it is weird because you can change to different things rather than just one change so getting the right gi is hard. But that one should work for you." said itsuka.

" Alright, I will take your word for it. Thank you miss …. I think your name was itsuka?" said izuku.

" Oh ya sorry for not introducing myself, my name is Itsuka kendo. Nice to meet you." introduced itsuka. " Nice to meet you too, I am izuku midorya." izuku said to introduce himself.

" if you don't mind me asking what made you want to come here and train?" ask itsuka. " No problem at all. I came here to train because I need real fighting skills to help me when I become a hero." izuku said smiling.

" oh you want to be a hero too." exclaimed Itsuka thinking that she might have found a future classmate. " Wait, you want to be a hero too?" izuku asked. " yep i am taking the entrance exam for UA here in the next couple months, what about you?" asked itsuka. " same i am going to try for UA as well."

As the two kept talking they learned a lot about the other, one being that Itsuka was trying to master all three fighting styles taught at her family's dojo. She already masters her mothers taekwondo, and her fathers muay thai. Now she is learning the last one taught by a family friend, the same friend who she is taking izuku to see.

As they two walked over to the training area, Izuku saw a woman sitting in the center of the room. She had long navy blue hair, a well maintained body not too muscular but still enough to show the time she has put into her craft, and she was also extremely pretty in izuku's eyes, but then again every girl to izuku is pretty. As he removed those thoughts from his head the woman began to move.

" So you are the new student I have been told about, izuku midoriya if i am correct?" said the woman looking at izuku. " Yes, I am nice to meet you." said izuku giving a small bow.

" fight me" is all izuku heard from the woman. Izuku just looked at the woman with confusion on his face. " Did you hear me? I said fight me. From there I will see if you are worth training or not." she said with itsuka stepping to the side to give them space. Izuku steeled himself and got into a basic stance but the gi made it weird. But before he could even move from the stance he was stopped.

" you are forcing your stance. Get into a stance that comes naturally to you and if the gi is giving you trouble, make it to where it doesn't." said the woman to izuku. ' a stance that comes natural and change the gi.' izuku thought to himself before he let his instincts take over. Ripping the sleeves and the lower part of the gi pants off, will also undoing the belt a little to loosen it up and finally making a hole in the back by forcing a monkey tail to grow from his tail bone.

With his instincts in control izuku manifested more than just the tail, his nails sharped, his teeth became as sharp as razors, and his eyes turned that same crimson red as they did when he was fighting the sludge villain.

The woman just smiled as she got ready to fight izuku and test his potential.

Izuku dropped to all fours lunging at the woman swinging his claws at her. All she did was side step the attack only to have to duck a sec after from the scorpion like tail aiming at her stomach. As she ducked, she palm striked izuku in the back, knocking him on his face. Izuku got back up, changing his body again to look like it did when he fought the sludge villain, with six arms and an armored layer of pangolin plates on him going from his feet to his neck. He engaged with the woman trying to overwhelm her with attacks but she dodged them with ease and countered him with simple attacks. Until izuku got a hold of her leg with a tentacle from his back, pulling her in and throwing her off balance. Using this chance izuku threw a flurry of blows at the woman who still smiled at him, but izuku saw something in her eyes. And the minute he saw it he was sent flying into a wall with the woman just standing there with a reptilian like tail coming from her tail bone.

" That's enough, I have seen all I need to see." the woman said, turning away from izuku as he pulled himself from the wall, deactivating his quirk. ' well there goes my chance of training here, maybe i can find a different gym that can help?' izuku thoughts were interrupted by a light blue belt hitting him in the face.

" Congratulations you have passed my test with flying colors." said the woman with a big smile on her face. " Wait, what?" is all izuku could say with his mouth a gape.

"No way, how did you get that belt?!" itsuka screamed at izuku pointing at the belt. " What is there something special about it?" izuku asked. " Special, that belt symbolizes that you are her personal disciple. No one has gotten that belt ever since she got here." explained Itsuka with a gobsmacked look. Izuku just looked at the belt with his eyes wide.

" Yes she is right, from now on you are my direct disciple and the sole inheritor of my true fighting style. (Ying ga) also known as animal style. So from now on you will learn from me how to fight and master yourself, all one on one. For only my true disciple can learn this style." exclaimed the woman with pride at her new student

" Wait, so you will train me and I am your direct and only disciple, that's awesome. Thank you so much sensei. I promise to give it my all and to make you proud." izuku exclaimed with a big smile on his face at his new sensei.

" Good then from this day forward, call me tiamat sensei." said tiamat to her new student. " wait tiamat sensei how did he pass the test, many have tried and all failed, even i failed. So how did he pass?" questioned itsuka to tiamat.

" My test is not to see if one can beat me, it is to see if they can use the style and the sub forms of it and to see if they can go past what I can teach. Izuku did this by showing that he is not locked to one set stance or style and by making me use my quirk. Which no one has done since I started teaching." explained tiamat as itsuka just stood there stunned.

" ah kendo i am sorry if i offended you. I know you wanted to learn and master all the styles but.'' Izuku was cut off by itsuka turning around with a giant smile on her face.

" effended, no way! Finally I have someone that can give me a challenge and you get to learn the greatest style in the world. From now on you and I are rivals and best friends going forward!" Itsuka said with fire in her eyes. Izuku just smiled nervously and nodded his head agreeing with itsuka, before he turned to look at his teacher.

" tiamat sensei sorry to ask but you said i made you use your quirk. What is your quirk if you don't mind telling me?" izuku asked.

" Not at all, my student and I will do better. I will tell you about the style that has been passed down in my family all the way to me. Itsuka you can stay and listen if you would like to, seeing that you look like you are about to explode from curiosity." said tiamat as izuku looked at itsuka and agreed with tiamat that the girl was about to explode. Izuku sees stars in her eyes.

" Now to start I will tell you about my quirk, it is called leviathan. In short I can transform into that of the mighty creature known as leviathan." said tiamat showing her tail to the two teens. " Wait, what's a leviathan?" asked kendo. Before tiamat could answer izuku had already started talking.

" A leviathan is a mythical creature known to be massive sea creatures, they are also called sea dragons as well. Most take the appearance of a massive serpent with fins and a dragon-like head." explained izuku. " Yep, that is exactly right. I can become a massive serpent up to 50 feet long, the only difference is that in that form I also have feet and wings, taking more of the traits of western leviathans than easterns." said tiamat. Itsuka just nodded her head trying to imagine what a leviathan looks like.

" Now continuing on, about the style. Ying ga is a fighting style that has been past from generation to generation in my family each person adding to it and changing it to make it the best it can be, you see in my family we all have transformation quirks that give use the appearance of animals and mythological creatures, each one of us changes the style to fit are own bodies and abilities. But you can use all of them with your ability to change and adapt to different forms. You learn not just my form but that of my whole family, hence why you are my chosen disciple." said tiamat as izuku thought of all the different forms that the style could have, but then he thought of something.

" Wait but I can only turn into creatures that actually exist. I wouldn't be able to do some of the stuff your family did." izuku said with a little sadness in his eyes. " Actually you can, most things based in myth have real world counterparts, for example the phoenix can die and come back to life. In the real world there is a jellyfish that can die and be reborn and live forever." she said to izuku. " So that means I could use the abilities of the style to their max and past that." izuku thought out loud as he started to think of all the good he could do with these skills.

" Now there is one thing about the style that I can teach you, and that's the self form. It is where the person makes their own unique form of the style to have as there on in the cycle of the fighting style. I can't help you with it because you have to make it to fit you. Can you do this?" tiamat asked and izuku just nodded with determination in his eyes.

2 months till UA exam

It's been about 4 months since izuku started his training with tiamat. In that time izuku has come a long way in his training, learning a good amount of ying ga from tiamat. At the same time izuku and itsuka spent a lot of their free time at the dojo together, they were always pushing the other to do better, and occasionally would spare each other. Just like they are now.

" and with that I win. That's 72 wins for me and 68 wins for you." said a exhausted izuku, putting his hand out to help itsuka up from the mat. " ya ya i know but at least the gap between our scores is getting closer." reminded itsuka.

Over the months the two got along quite well learning new things about each other. For itsuka she learned that izuku would normally sleep in an animal form, and said something about it feeling more normal. She learned this when izuku finished training with tiamat one day he went to a corner and changed into a big wolf and just fell asleep right there. Izuku on the other hand learned that itsuka spent way too much time at the dojo. She didn't do very much outside of the dojo, she had plenty of friends but she wasnt into overly girly things and her friends weren't into some of the stuff she likes, but luckily izuku was an open person to new things.

Sometimes he and itsuka would go out and have some fun when tiamat would release izuku early, they would go to the movies, ax throwing, a motorcycle show, and even the zoo which was funny to see for itsuka seeing izuku have a staring competition with a lizard and somehow win. Overall they enjoyed the time they spent together.

" alright well i have to get going, see you soon." izuku told itsuka as he walked to leave the dojo. " You know where to find me," she replied back. As izuku walked out of the dojo and started heading back home his phone started to ring.

He pulled his phone out to see who it was. When he looked he saw it was pony calling. " Ha pony what's up?" asked izuku into the phone. " Not much, ha are you free today?" asked pony. " Not today mom and dad want me for something but i am free all day tomorrow does that work?" izuku responded. " Perfect, want to meet at the train station around 11?" asked pony. " Sounds good to me, see you then." izuku said while ending the call. ' wonder what made her want to hang out all of the sudden.' izuku thought.

Back at the midoriya house

" Mom, dad, I'm home." izuku said as he walked into the house. " hi honey, how was training today?" asked his mother. " Pretty good tiamat sensei has been pushing me more each day. It is fun learning to fight, it will most definitely help me when I become a hero." izuku said as he walked to his mother, who was in the kitchen cooking. When he entered the room he saw his mother cooking but he also saw his aunt helping her with his dad and uncle sitting at the table talking.

" ha everyone, wasn't expecting to see you aunty and uncle. What is the occasion?" asked izuku while giving hugs to everyone. " Well your dad and musaru closed a big deal today and it is almost time for you and my brat to go to UA so we thought we would have a get together to celebrate the amount of time and effort you two put into your training and studies." said mitsuki.

The night went on with the midroyas and bakugos enjoying the time they spent and with the boys talking about their training.

The next day

Izuku waited at the train station, in a blue button down t-shirt with a white undershirt, some jeans and his favorite red shoes. As he was waiting he looked at the time seeing that it was on 1050. He still had 10 minutes to go.

Izuku arrived 15 minutes early like any gentleman should, and because he wanted to try and come up with an idea of what to do with pony for the day. ' there's the movies, and the arcade, or maybe an anime convention.' izuku thought to himself for a little before he heard someone calling his name.

" ha izuku hope you weren't waiting long. Are you ready for a day together?" said pony as she walked up to izuku, who took a sec to look at what she was wearing. Pony was wearing a tan sleeveless crop top, skinny jeans, with a pair of sunglasses on her head.

" don't worry, I just got here a minute ago myself, and yes I am. So what did you have in mind for today?" izuku asked to see if she had something planned for them to do. " Well I was wondering if you would be ok going to a rodeo i found a little outside town." said pony with a little blush on her cheeks.

" Sounds like fun, this will be my first time going to one but I trust you, and most of the stuff you recommend is good. So let's go." izuku said with a smile on his face, just happy to hang out with pony. " yaaa. Let's go then. Hurry hurry." pony said excitedly as she pulled izuku by the arm. Izuku felt a strange feeling when pony grabbed his arm but it wasn't unpleasant; it actually felt good like warmth washing over him.

The ride over to the location of the rodeo was only a 30 minute train ride and then a 5 minute walk from there. As they were on the train pony told izuku what a rodeo was and all the cool things you can do. When they got off the train and started walking to the location, pony looked at izuku and asked him a question. " hey izuku can I ask you a question?"

"You just did." izuku said jokingly. " I'm serious." pony said, causing izuku to stop joking around. " ya you can ask me anything." said izuku to the now blushing girl.

" What are your thoughts on me? Like what do you like about me and is there something you don't like?" the girl asked, causing izuku to think for a second. " I mean what do i think, well you are one of my best friends, and as for stuff i like the list it is too long to even start naming things. But if i had to pick the important ones it would be that you are always looking to have fun, you always wish to make others happy, and that you don't look at me weird when i mutter from time to time. As for things I don't like, I can't think of eny. Why do you ask?" said izuku to pony who had stopped and stepped to the side for a moment. " Well I asked because I also think of you as the same as my best friend but I also have the feeling of wanting to see you as more. I mean you have been the nicest person to me since i got to japan, you helped me learn japanese when i struggled with it, you went out of your way to help me with my quirk and to help show me around, all without asking for a single thing. You see, back home, I was made fun of because of my quirk and mutation and seeing you just accept it and even praise them, well it really makes me happy and, well. What I am trying to say is." pony was becoming a tomato about to ask her question only to me stopped by izuku answering the question before she asked.

" Yes," said izuku. " what but you don't even know what I was going to ask," said pony. " Actually I do know and my answer is still yes, but to make it fair I will ask myself as well." izuku said will walk up to pony, grabbing her hands and holding them softly on his own. " Will you be my girlfriend pony?" asked izuku looking pony in the eyes.

Pony was stunned, she was afraid that izuku would reject her, that he would leave her. But here he was the person she looked to the most and just answered her very important question before she asked it and asked her the same question without hesitation.

With tears of happiness appearing in her eyes, pony jumped on izuku and gave him a big kiss on the lips. " So I take that as a yes then." izuku asked with a smug look on his face. " Yes, you dummy. Yes, I will be your girlfriend." pony replied with a large smile on her face.

Izuku just smiled and picked pony up in his arms and spinning her around with her just laughing and smiling. " So I assume this would be a first date then if I'm not wrong." asked izuku with a raised eyebrow. " only if you want it to be." pony said, smirking at izuku.

With that the two grabbed each other's hand and walked to the rodeo to enjoy their first date. With izuku getting that warm feeling again but stronger this time and the over-welling urge to protect pony at any cost. Which just made him smile given he would protect her either way.

The two teens enjoyed that date. Izuku tried American food and some of the cowboy themed games, winning pony with an old western style sheriff's badge pillow that read protector of Your comfort. All will pony showed her skills in most of the games she and izuku did together. They both tried the robo bull ride to see who could last longer with izuku having to stick himself to the bull like a spider just to try and beat pony. It would have worked if pony didn't see him cheating and called him out on it causing him to forfeit the win to her.

" I had fun today. Do you?" izuku asked the girl to his right. " ya it has been a great day so far. But hey before we go lets see the bull show first then we can head back to town." pony suggested. " works for me." izuku said heading towards where the bull show was.

There was a big fence in the area that you can stand on the other side of to see what the bulls and the performers are doing. When they walked up to the fence izuku saw people climbing on the fence to get a better view, when he looked down to see pony about to do the same. Only for izuku to pick her up and put her on his shoulders and increase his size so that he and pony could see the show easily.

The show was composed of people dodging charging bulls doing acrobatics and last second evasions putting on a good show. At one point they had a guy with a strength quirk fight the biggest bull they had. It was interesting to see this beast of a man struggle to hold back the bull but after a good attempt the guy gave up and they got the bull back in the cage.

" That was pretty cool to see." izuku said. " I know and did you see the size of that bull? That guy could lift a ton in one hand and yet he still couldn't stop the bull." pony said with excitement still on izuku's shoulders.

The two were making their way to the exit when they heard screaming behind them. When they turned around they saw a stampede of people running to them. On instinct izuku got pony off his shoulders, held her tight to his chest and grew pangolin plates on his back facing the stampede. People kept running past and over izuku and pony with izuku protecting pony until the strength quirk guy shoved izuku out of the way.

Once izuku got up he looked around for pony to make sure she was ok. After looking for a sec he found her against a tree but with a face of fear. Izuku looked in the direction she was looking to see the bull rampaging around, and about to charge pony.

Izuku bolted toward pony to get her out of the way but he wouldn't have time. So he did the next best thing. He planted himself firmly to the ground in front of pony grabbing the bulls horns and increasing his strength to that of the hercules beetle and stopped the bull in its tracks. All of this happening in less than 5 secs. All the people that ran turned around to see izuku locked in a pushing battle with the bull. Both pushing up as they push.

Until izuku heard pony behind him start to cry and wine. When he turned his head he saw that she was pretty bruised up and it looked like her ankle was twisted or sprained. Seeing this izuku got pissed and turned back to the bull wanting to relieve some anger.

Izuku pulled the bulls head towards himself moving to the side as he set a knee straight to the side of the bulls neck knocking the air out of its throat sending it to the ground. Izuku let go of the horns and made his way to pony. He saw the relief in her eyes but he also saw the fear when she pointed behind him and he heard the bull charging towards him. With the last of his anger izuku changed his right arms muscular in to that of the mantis shrimp and kept the hercules beetle strength, and finally added some ankylosaur plates on his hand like a gauntlet, quickly turn and punch the bull in the jaw, knocking the mighty beast out cold.

With the bull out cold izuku recomposed himself and turned back towards pony to make sure she was ok. " Pony your leg, are you ok?" izuku asked with worry on his face. Pony on the other hand was dumbfounded at what her boyfriend just did. First he stopped a charging bull dead in its tracks, the same bull that a man with a strength quirk couldn't beat. Then proceeded to knock the bull out in one punch, and he is putting it off like it is nothing worrying about her small sprain that would heal in a week. All together pony thoughts were cemented in her mind. ' I have the best boyfriend ever.'

" I'm ok izuku but that was awesome what you did." pony said smiling at her boyfriend. This made izuku's worry leave him seeing that she wasn't hurt too bad and that she was still in good spirits. With a smile izuku picked up pony in a princess carry and started walking back to the train station. Pony started to blush from the action before leaning in and raping her arms around his neck smiling.