Midoriya: Sounds great Todoroki, you wouldn't mind if I brought along some friends from school?

Todoroki: ...

Uraraka: ...

Todoroki: And who are you supposed to be?

Midoriya: I'm sorry, what does that mean?

Uraraka: It means who are you? Because you sure are not Izuku Midoriya.

Midoriya: ...

Midoriya: Of course, I am, what has gotten into you guys?

Todoroki: I don't know if either you are stupid or illiterate but you had better not have hurt him if even a hair was misplaced, I swear to all that is All Might that I will find you. And you won't like it when I do.

Uraraka: Aldera Junior High.

Todoroki: Thank you Uraraka, oh… see you after school fake Midoriya.

(…)

"Something wrong, Sho?" The gentle voice of Shoko Todoroki's mother entered her ears. Her mother was looking at her with concern over a laptop in her room in the hospital sporting a fashionable pair of pink reading glasses. Shoko herself had entered the room angrily staring a hole into her cell phone as if to set it on fire with her eyes. "You don't look particularly happy." A thought entered Rei Todoroki's mind as soon as the words left her mouth. "You know I am not holding you here, if you don't want to visit you don't have to. I am just happy to know that you are happy and healthy."

"No it's nothing like that..." Shoko paused putting her thoughts together, she didn't want to overstep with Izuku, but she did not want to leave him to suffer alone. "Can I get your advice about something?..."

Rei looked surprised at first but quickly closed her laptop screen to give her daughter her full attention. Below the surface of the gentle smile on her face, she was ecstatic about being able to fill the role of a parent despite her current lodging and state. "What is it, Sho? If I can, I want to help."

Shoko nodded, taking a seat in the chair which was moved next to the bed nervously playing with her hands. "Well, you see..." Shoko paused to take a deep breath. "Remember the boy that went to help his friend during the slime incident?"

Rei thought back to last year when Shoko had been brought into this hospital for that very incident and her breakdown afterwards, she had been told very little about what happened but from what she had she was able to put together that her daughter had saved some boys, and apparently she needed advice about one of them, she internally frowned at the time she had missed being in her considering that her Shoko was now at that age. "Yeah, he was the one that came to visit you right?"

"Yeah... Well... I just found out that he was a late bloomer... And his classmates seem to have been bullying him for being Quirkless and apparently, it has not stopped... I was wondering what to do... I mean I want to help him, but... I don't know how to or how much I can help him." Shoko vocalized her dilemma to her mother.

"Hmm..." Rei quickly ran the problem in her head. 'A seemingly Quirkless boy who got his quirk in his teens, aside from the bullying, he sounds like someone I once knew.' She mused thinking of how this situation reminded her of her youth. Although she wanted to draw from experience for advice she was unaware of the situation on all fronts. The Quirkless she knew before marrying Enji tended to be well-liked in her circles, and the six-year gap in time that she was separated from Shoko did not help her understand the young teen in front of her, Shoko in her mind was still that nine-year-old that was adamant in becoming the greatest hero. Rei could see her point though thinking back to a friend from her school days she would stop at nothing to help him, but she wasn't sure if Shoko would do the same or had the same boundaries that she had at that age. Finally coming up with something she spoke. "That is tough, I was kind of in the same position as you when I was about your age so I think that I can tell you what I did. Hey, do you remember when you were little and I asked If you still wanted to be a hero?" She got a nod from Shoko. "Well your answer meant the world to me, it gave me a lot of courage to do something I was too scared to do at the time."

"Really." Shoko asked, barely remembering the answer herself.

"Yeah, you bet. That fearless smile of yours kept me going." Rei said, turning her attention to the room's ceiling. "I really thought that you could be a hero with it." She said thinking of her husband's face, though he would smile from time to time it only depicted joy a few times and it was never reassuring, even when he did try, she hated that expression on him. Though she hated that smile, Shoko's was different, it could convey a great many of her emotions, just like the boy from her youth. "So just like I want to say that you should do whatever you can for that boy but only you can decide that. Lending an ear, being a shoulder to lean on, or even confronting the boy's bullies for him. I know that whatever you decide to do you are going to try your best and that is something to be proud of."

"You think?"

"I know so." Rei spoke, petting the bed beside her with Shoko moving to be beside her mother, Rei took the girl in a side hug, surprising Shoko. "I would talk to this boy first but I am sure that whatever you two decide that you will do everything in your power to overcome it. That's just who you are Sho..." She said resting her daughter's head on her shoulder, adjusting her glasses with her free hand.

"Hey, mom." Shoko said, staring off into space.

"Yeah?" Rei replied.

"Thank you."

Rei couldn't help but gush. "You're welcome!" She said opening up the laptop that she had put away to listen to Shoko. "Now, you are going to help me decide on a home for the three of us while you and Fuyumi are still in school. I was thinking something close to U.A. Since your sister has her license and a car to commute." Rei spoke, opening a real estate website.

"Don't worry about us, mom. You should find a place you like." Shoko replied she did not care where they ended up living as long as her mother liked it and was comfortable.

"Of course, I am worried about you, no matter what you say, no matter how old you get, you two are still my daughters and your happiness means the world to me... Ooo how about this one Sho, a two-story house in a good neighborhood, four bedroom, two bath, and only a couple of stops away from U.A. So taking the train wouldn't be a problem." Rei spoke, clicking the link to a large house near Musutafu's city center, having Shoko cringe at the price.

"Isn't that 150 a bit much for just you and Nee-chan?" Shoko asked, not sure what an appropriate amount could be.

"Oh, you don't have to worry about money Sho... We can afford it, I used to run your father's agency once upon a time so I have quite the change saved up." She spoke, brushing off the 150 million price tag on the home. "But I guess you are right, it might be too big if Natsuo wants to have a place to himself, let's keep looking."

While the two of them looked for their next home, Fuyumi stood just out of sight of her mother and sister as she listened to their discussions, becoming more and more animated with a smile at the entrance of her mother's room. 'Well I guess I should leave them alone, they do have a lot to catch up on after all.' She moved to leave to give them both space but as she left the entry she was surprised by the sight of her little sister entering her periphery.

"Nee-chan!" Shoko announced while making a hasty exit from the hospital room.

"Yeah, what is it?" Fuyumi answered in a state of confusion.

"Please tell Mom that an hour and a half commute to school is asking too much."

"Excuse me?"

(…)

Several hours later at the Midoriya residence, Izuku had just finished watching Ochako's acceptance as the two of them were on a video call, with Inko still in the room. Her video from U.A. was much the same, just with All Might addressing Ochako instead. Now however the teens had moved to the papers that came with the disk, in the pile were their assigned class and schedules, apparently they were in the same class which was something that both Inko and Ochako celebrated but left Izuku a blushing mess. Then their attention was brought to the form for the creation of their first hero costumes, the school looked to foot the bill and create all the hero course students in-house through the support course, in which Izuku showed an interest before he inherited One For All. "It looks like they want us to go into detail with what we want and the needs for our Quirks." Izuku spoke, examining the page.

Ochako herself seemed to take in the information in a distracted manner, not knowing where to start. Inko noticed, getting an idea she turned to Ochako to get the girl's attention. "If you need help you can come by anytime, you remember the doctor that took care of Izuku and Shoko-chan right?" She spoke, getting confirmation from the girl. "Well her daughter is about to be a second year at U.A with a gravity Quirk and her husband works in the support industry so they might be able to help you come up with something, I was going to have them make Izuku's but now that I think about it I could include you in it."

"Ah, mom..."

"Ma'am I couldn't ask you to do that for me." Ochako spoke, embarrassment clear on her face.

Inko laughed, waving Ochako off. "I wanted to find a way for me to show my gratitude to you for looking out for Izuku." She said taking the paper from Izuku. "Let's see here..." She continued looking it over.

"Honestly ma'am you don't have to feel the need to." Ochako tried to stop Inko in her tracks. "I am perfectly fine using what the school provides."

"Nonsense, Ochako-chan. I am not taking no for an answer, like I said this is to thank you for what you have done for us." Inko said shutting down the girl.

"You better give up Uraraka-san." Izuku added, knowing full well that when his mother puts her mind into something she won't back down, even if it meant kicking and screaming. He honestly felt bad for Ochako that Inko had taken a liking to her especially.

"Not you too Izuku-kun." Ochako said, conflicted. She did not want to be seen as taking advantage of her new friend's kindness so she felt odd about taking anything from them, considering her family finances, a major reason that she applied to U.A in the first place, but it appeared she did not have a choice at the moment on what to do. Ochako as she wanted would have taken Inko up on her offer, arranging for a hero costume for both her and Izuku. "Fine, you win."

"Yes." Inko celebrated, pumping a fist. "Are you free this weekend? I can take your measurements then, I am sure that they would want them considering, and your Quirk we are going to need to take down how it works, and how you use it, I am so excited." The two watched as she went into a diatribe of her own.

"Huh, I see where you get it Izuku-kun." Ochako said, watching Inko mutter to herself.

"You think? Please tell me that I am not that bad." Izuku said as he looked worriedly at Inko. "I'll try not to do it anymore." Izuku said, remembering the exams as two of the examinees had shushed him.

"That's not what I meant..." Ochako stopped to gather her thoughts. "Although it surprised me I kind of like it, it shows how passionate you are about hero work. So please don't stop on my account." A frown appeared as soon as she finished speaking. "I am not like you or Todoroki-san I... I am in it for the money heroes make, not..." She stopped herself mid-sentence, not wanting to finish the thought. "My mom and dad work really hard to provide for us, and I just... I just want to help them out as soon as I can."

Izuku froze, staring at the girl who seemed to be on the verge of tears, he could understand where she was coming from. He too, if his father was still with them, would be in the same shoes as she was, though now that he thought about it even more now, with it being just him and his mother. "I think what you want to do is great Uraraka-san. I feel the same way." Izuku spoke, trying to reassure her about her decision to become a hero and the meaning behind it.

"Thank... Thank you. Izuku-kun." Ochako spoke softly into her microphone, not able to look into the camera or her monitor at Izuku for that matter.

In that moment Izuku couldn't help but point out that Ochako had now started to use his given name when addressing him instead of his family's. "Y-you c-called me Izuku..." Izuku said, red as a tomato.

"You don't like me... Uhh... I can stop, it would have been awkward to call you by your family name with your mom there... so I thought it would be better to call you by your first name." Ochako explained herself, returning the favor with a blush of her own.

"No! No, it's fine. It's just that... it's just you are the first person who was my friend who has ever called me by my first name. I guess... I need to adjust, you can keep calling me that, if you want." Izuku said, rubbing the back of his head. He was too embarrassed to say that she, a girl, made him super happy.

"Then I want you to call me by mine."

"I'm sorry." Izuku was brought out of his thoughts by Ochako's proclamation.

"I want you to call me Ochako, i-it's only fair." Ochako couldn't see the exact moment Izuku stopped all functions as she couldn't face the camera and monitor, but her request was registered by both mother and son. She also didn't see the wide grin that showed itself on Inko's face at the scene. Not wanting to be on this call any longer Ochako decided it was best to end things for the night and call her parents about the letter, not that she was too embarrassed to continue their conversation, no definitely not that. "I-I have to go, I promised to call my parents when I got my results... I am going to do that now... Before... It gets too late."

"Alright... Uhhh" Izuku began. "Goodnight... O-o-Ochako-san!..." Izuku said, bowing to his monitor.

Ochako gave Izuku a sweet smile before replying. "Goodnight, Izuku-kun. I see you on the weekend, right?"

"Right!" Izuku returned the favor as Ochako ended the call, after she did Izuku couldn't help but have the curl of his lips widen after they had finished their goodbyes.

Suddenly Inko spoke up after the room went silent. "That was cute, I am glad you two got a little closer." Her speaking seemed to break Izuku out of his daze, realizing that she was still there. "What? Did you forget that I was still here?"

A/N: The absolute dread that is had for the lead up to attack on USJ...