"-that's why, I wanted to tell you guys...Izuku and I are dating!"

"No way! Really?!" Togata beamed across the cafeteria table from Hado, the latter of the two nodding her head so ferociously it could pop off from the force. "He-Heyyyyy good for you guys! I was wondering whether or not he was gonna act on that little crush of his."

Next to Hado, Haya ceased with her straw sipping of a nearly empty cup and squinted at the blonde. "What?"

"Huh?"

"Little crush of his? Did he tell you he had a crush on Nejire or something?"

"Uhhhh, sorta? Remember that time you and Nejire came up to Midoriya and I on the bench that one afternoon? Well before you guys got there he admitted that he has a liking to Nejire because of who she is. So I guess in a way, I kinda knew he had a crush on her before you did! Haha!"

"WHAT?! And you never bothered to say anything about it to any of us?"

"Hey, I made a promise that I wouldn't say anything about it. That's the bro code."

"Oh please you've confessed even the biggest of secrets before. Like that one time in middle school when you phased into the girls' bathro-"

"THAT WAS AN ACCIDENT!"

"Hey hey Tamaki!" Hado grinned to the silent boy. "What do you think of Izuku and I's relationship? Is it something you're okay with?"

Amajiki shrugged through the sipping of a juice box. "I don't really care, not saying it rudely. Whoever you decide to be in a relationship with is up to you, doesn't matter to me. Just so long as you're happy then that's the important thing here."

"Hm-hm, oh yeah, you better believe I'm happy. I can't wait to see what kind of adventures Izuku and I will go on together. I was thinking we should go see a movie or something this weekend-"

BZZZT*
*BZZZT*

"Hmm?" Interrupting her conversation with Amajiki the girl hummed to the vibrating phone next to her tray of lunch, raising the device up with a large smile gracing her face when seeing who was calling. "Oh hey!"

BEEP*

"Hi Dad!"

"Hey is that Mr. Hado?" Togata asked cheerfully. "Hey ask him if I can come over sometime and have him show me how to fix the little thing in the motorcycle that makes the bike shift into different gear things."

"You mean the transmission?" Haya asked with a nod from the blonde. "I thought he showed you how to fix that last time weren't you paying attention? He did that right in front of your face."

"Really? Oh! Guess I wasn't listening so well haha! I was pretty tired that day."

"Typical."

"Eh?! This evening?!" The entire table stopped and turned to Hado who shifted from happy and cheerful to frightened and worried. "Already?! But-...Isn't there anything I can do to make her wait a little bit? She can be very...O-Okay then I'll...I'll bring him over. Bye Dad, love you."

BEEP*

"Everything cool?" Haya asked as Hado slowly placed her phone back onto the table. "You look like a ghost just passed through you."

Hado gulped before turning to Haya with a bead of sweat going down her forehead. "My parents want me to bring Izuku over for dinner...tonight."

"Guh!/Ah!"

Amajiki hummed in curiosity as the faces of Haya and Togata lost every ounce of color they had, now being their turn to seem as if a ghost passed through them. "What's this all about? If it's dinner at her house obviously they just want to meet Midoriya for themselves. What's the issue?"

"Dinner, i-isn't the issue." Haya chattered. "N-Not even close."

"It's something worse." Togata added. "F-FAR, worse than just a dinner at Nejire's house."

"What then?"

"Mama Hado..."
"Mama Hado..."

-

"M-Mmm..."

"Nejire? Is everything, okay?" Midoriya asked after the girl continued to squirm and fidget with her hands, the two walking side by side down the sidewalk of a peaceful neighborhood under the orange light of an afternoon sun. The two were coincidentally dressed in opposing colors for the arranged dinner at Hado's house, the girl wearing a baby blue cardigan over a white T-Shirt with a chibi orange cat on the front, light blue jeans and white sneakers fitted onto her feet. As for Midoriya he donned a black set of a hoodie with matching color jeans, of course his signature red shoes being worn for the sixteenth year in a row. "You're more nervous than I am how are YOU more nervous than I am?"

Hado nervously rubbed a hand over the back of her neck before she sighed and turned to Midoriya. "Look, Izuku. Before we get there, there's something I think you should know. My mom's...Mom can be pretty, intense, if you're not prepared for what she can say at times. It's not that she comes off as somebody who's rude or disrespectful she's nothing like that she's really nice and caring to those she knows. But, to those she doesn't know, she can seem pretty cold on the outside."

"O-Oh, geez. Don't be saying anything like that to me I'm already freaked out as is right now. It's so bad I'm imagining several scenarios in my head right now and practicing what to say if what happens and when."

"Hm-hm, okay that's a little bit too much if I'm being honest. Just, be yourself, okay? Once they see the kind of person that I decided to be in a relationship with they're going to love you like they do Yuyu and Mirio. Don't change anything about yourself for this."

"And if they don't accept me?"

"They will." Hado assured, grabbing onto Midoriya's right hand and squeezing. "Pinky promise."

Midoriya nervously chuckled and smiled in the same way, squeezing the girl's hand back in hopes for solid ground. Meeting Hado's parents so early and so soon? That was one thing, but to then hear his girlfriend say that her mother can be very intense to strangers? That was practically the nail in his metaphorical coffin, the stamp on his death certificate to forever lock him away in a tomb. To hear Hado be nervous and queasy about dinner all because of her mother made his palms sweaty with a quiver running down his back. He hoped she was overexaggerating the reality of the situation.

Of the many many, MANY aspects about being in a relationship that he was worried about meeting the parents definitely had to be the biggest concern about the list. He's heard many stories online about relationships being disbanded because the boyfriend didn't leave a good impression for the girlfriend's parents or the boyfriend's mother feeling like the girlfriend was in it for something else. He was cool is that not correct? Nothing comes to mind about him that he could find as off-putting but then again it's not like he was anywhere near being the perfect specimen of a lover. He had flaws, he knew this, even Hado knows of this. But are those flaws so prominent that they ruin this dream of a relationship with her?

Hoping to block out the anxiety in his system he focused on the neighborhood and realized it was actually very pretty and lovely, until it wasn't because they arrived to Hado's house and he could no longer distract himself. The girl's home was a typical two story house with a garage on the left hand side, the front yard beautiful with two beds of lily flowers lining the bottom of the house. There was a pathway leading from the sidewalk all the way up to the single step in front of the house's door, each step towards the door feeling like Midoriya was coming closer to his death. At last (and unfortunately) the couple arrived to the front doorstep where he had no chance to argue before Hado pushed the doorbell for it to ring, the first year shaking more violently than a dryer with a brick thrown inside.

"Ready?"

"A-Absolutely not."

CLICK*

"Here it goes."

The front door clicked open, but didn't swing open at first as if the gods above were toying with the first year and his mind. A few moments passed before finally the door did creak open to reveal a bulky man with a shaved head spare a buzzed mohawk running through the center of his head, eyebrows glaring and so sharp they can cut diamonds. The door creaked open all the way to reveal the man's attire of a black polo shirt tucked into the waistband of his cargo pants, his forearms so large and brawny they looked as if they could withstand anything that was thrown at them. Midoriya quivered with wide eyes as he and the man met eye contact with each other, feeling their heavy gaze pierce through his very soul.

'Oh god. If this is what Nejire's dad is like, I don't even wanna think about her mom.' Midoriya gulped what felt like a rock down his throat as he shakily raised a hand to wave. "H-H-Hello-"

"Hey guys! I was wondering if you two had gotten hero-napped or something what with you taking a while, but glad to know you weren't! Nice to see ya!"

"...huh?"

"Hi Daaaad!" Hado greeted the man as her father before bounding forward and hugging with him all her might, merely being able to reach the mid-level of his chest as her father wrapped his arms around her as well. "It's good to see you again!"

"Heyyyy come on now, it's only your fault you don't come visit us so often. Then again you have Yuyu over there in the dorms with you so it makes sense you'd be too cool for old people like us." The man stopped hugging her daughter and looked to Midoriya who simply stared at him with a blank state or wide eyes. "Soooo, this is the lucky guy who won the jackpot huh? Mr. Loverboy himself?"

"Yup! This is my boyfriend, first year Izuku Midoriya from Class 1-A."

"Hey there buddy!"

"...huh?"

"HAHAHA!" The man let out a hearty laugh that came from his stomach. "Lemme guess, the tough scary guy appearance doesn't meet who I am as a person huh? It's okay I get that a lot. Hiroto Hado, pleasure to meet you in person."

"M-Mm." Midoriya nodded and finally smiled as he shook the hand that was held out to him. "It's a pleasure to meet you too, sir."

"Hey Dad? Where's Mom? I kinda wanna talk to her before she...you know."

"Oh believe me, I KNOW. She's in the kitchen finishing up with dinner. Best get to her while you still can. Meanwhile I'll take this guy for a little bit and show him around."

"Okie-dokie! BE careful with him okay?" Hado requested as she slipped past her father and inside her home. "I don't wanna come out and see him snapped in half."

"Relax I ain't gonna do such a thing. I'm as careful as they come." Mr. Hado exited his home and shut the door behind him before gesturing towards the house's garage off to his right. "Come on, lemme show you the best part of the house."

"Am I supposed to be concerned about what Nejire said?" Midoriya asked. "You snapping me in half?"

"Nahhh she's probably just a little antsy is all. Dinner with the parents type thing you know how it is."

'Antsy enough to make her ask not to BREAK MY BODY?'

"Sooooo, you and Nejire huh?" The father asked as he lifted a small console on the side of the garage door frame to reveal a digit pad. "Must be a special kind of guy for her to try this thing out. She's never been the kind of girl that always fantasized about finding her Prince Charming it's always been about other stuff. What made you so likable?"

"Heh, that's a question I ask myself when it comes to this. I thought I would be the last kind of person Nejire would want to date but, here I am heh. Yayyyy."

"Hey good for you ya know? It takes a right kind of girl to make a guy feel like anything's possible and if Nejire's your right kind of girl then I'm glad that's the case."

With a pin code tapped into the console the garage door slowly began to creak and open up to reveal what was inside. There were two vehicles, a deep red colored SUV with slightly tinted windows as well as a cruiser motorcycle parked beside the SUV over a checkered floor. Along the walls were cabinets and rolling tool boxes neatly arranged for less hassle, the very back wall displaying an exhibit of what looked like a soldier's top piece of their uniform with other memorabilia. Waltzing his way inside the garage Mr. Hado approached the kicked up motorcycle with Midoriya following close behind the man to join his side.

"This is my ride, the van belongs to my wife or when we both have to use it at times." The man said. "Pretty cool huh?"

"Yeah it's very simple but sleek in design too." Midoriya commented. "I like the black and the chrome tones that go together. Did you build this entire bike yourself?"

"Nah not all of it, when I bought it a while back it didn't look anything like this. The seat was different the handles were different the front pretty much everything except for the frame wasn't on it originally. Those I was able to get off the internet, pretty good quality for not that much of a price really saves you a pretty good amount. Oh that reminds me! I gotta make an adjustment real quick, pull up a seat anything will do."

Midoriya looked around and found an empty apple box next to a wheel of the SUV, pulling the box towards the motorcycle instead and sitting on it's side. As for Mr. Hado he took a rolling mechanic's box and wheeled it over to his motorcycle where he kneeled and began rummaging around one of the drawers for a tool in mind. "So tell me, how'd the little story of you and Nejire reach this point in the plot? You know for a while that you wanted to be with a girl like her or it just kinda happened?"

"Little bit of both to be honest." Midoriya answered just as the man found the correct wrench and began cranking away at something the first year couldn't see. "Not that long ago Nejire and two others were introduced to my class as the Big 3 of U.A, and when I first saw her she just kinda..."

"Stuck to you like glue?"

"Yeah. Exactly."

"Oh I know that feeling. It's the kind of feeling that lingers inside ya for a while once you meet the one and only. I remember I used to stay up at night in the barracks after I met my wife back then. Man, did I not get enough sleep."

"Barracks? Oh are you military?"

"You betcha. I'm a motor pool mechanic over at the base on Endor Province. It's how I picked up on my little hobby for working on my own ride here."

"Ohhhhhh I see. So how did you meet your wife?"

"It was erm, nearly 20 years ago come this next month?" Mr. Hado asked himself. "Yeah, yeah it was cause I was 18 when I met her and she was 21 at the time. A group of pilots and I decided we'd go into town one night for some drinks and have a good time you know the deal. We end up at this bar and the environment's perfect you know they got a band playing they got good food all that kind of stuff. So there I am at the bar having myself a few drinks, until I look around the place and I find this woman, sitting at a booth all by herself with a book open on the table in front of her. And, there was something about this woman that just..."

"Stuck to you like glue."

"Attaboy, that's exactly what happened. I mean she just seemed so unbothered about everything that was going on around her she didn't care about the band or the loudness of the room or anything like that it was just her and her book nothing else to it. And, it just clicked. Something inside me said if there was ever a time for me to try and shoot for the stars, now might be that time. So I leave the bar, head over to her booth with a drink in my hand and walk straight up to her. Guess she heard me coming cause she looked away from her book and stared straight at me with the most uninterested face on the planet. But faces or not I had to try ya know?

So I go 'Hey there miss, I'm Hado. What's your name?' And you know what she says to me?"

"What?"

"Get lost."

"Ooh."

"Hahaha! Yeah back then my wife was pretty cold to people just walking up to her out of the blue. If looks were able to kill I'm certain she would have killed me ten times over on the spot just for talking to her. But, remember this. When you meet the special kind of woman in your life you do things you didn't think you'd ever do for them. Before I met her if it was any other woman who told me to get lost I would have without giving it a second thought. But when it came to my wife? I had to keep trying, I just had to.

Every week at Friday night I went back to the bar and I'd find her sitting at the same booth by herself with a book in front of her. And I just kept trying to make something outta nothing I kept trying, and trying, and trying. Until finally she decided to play the game and, she gave me her number. It was either that or she just got fed up with me constantly asking her for it, to this day I still don't know haha! But we talked and we got closer, and I got to know this strange woman that was as cold as she is beautiful.

Turns out, she's rich. STINKING rich I'm talking about using 500 Yen bills as rolls of toilet paper rich. She's one out of six children in the family, three sisters and two brothers with her being the youngest of them all. Her siblings were all snobby little kids who grew up with the whole 'Money is the only thing that matters' lifestyle, but not her. She never liked how money turned her brothers and sisters into selfish brats and was always more interested in the simpler things like a good book or lily flowers. She loves lilies, something that Nejire picked up on because of how much those two used to be in the garden. And since the maids she used to have were always trying to push for her to be like her siblings, she became fed up with everything that was about money.

When I first came up to her she initially thought I was coming up to her because of her cash but when she found out I was really interested in who she was, things started to unravel for us. I fell hard, she fell later. We dated for a few years before I gathered up the courage to ask her to marry me. She said yes and, life's been perfect since then. We moved in together, had Nejire not that long after, and now we're here. Living a good life."

Midoriya nodded with a smile. "That sounds lovely."

"Hey hey what about you?"

'Did he just hey hey me?'

"You interested in looking for marriage when it comes to Nejire?" Mr. Hado asked. "It's alright if you aren't, relationships are meant to figure out who you wanna spend the rest of your life with anyways. Not always gonna be the perfect match on the first match."

"U-Uh, I feel like it might be a little too soon to think about something like that. I mean for starters the thing that kinda scares me about thinking any further would be-"

CLICK*

Both guys stopped and turned to a door being clicked open at the rear of the garage, a purple flat stepping through that led into a woman's figure of light blue jeans and same color turtleneck. Coming out from inside the house to reveal their full self was a spitting image of Hado but with her longer natural hair and a slightly older complexion, her skin smooth and deceptive to make her appear very young. Mr. Hado beamed as he placed the wrench back into the toolbox and wheeled it away. "Oh hey Aimi! Is dinner ready? Midoriya and I were just hanging around in the mean time come meet him."

"Mrs. Hado." The boy quickly rose from his spot on the tipped box and approached the woman to greet her. "It's an honor to meet you I'm really thankful for the invitation to have-"

DOOOOOOM*

"...dinner..."

Death.

Destruction.

Bloodlust.

The end of everything and anything.

DEATH.

That same cacophony of feelings he experienced during Hado's time of the month were the same feelings that came back to him now, except on a much larger and much more ferocious scale compared to back then. The woman that was Mrs. Hado stood silently yet her appearance was near deafening to the student's ears, as if he had somehow been teleported to the final boss of a video game while at the meek level of one. Her gaze was sharp and cold, so cold it could leave Hell under the blanket of a blizzard ten times over. She wasn't furious in fact there was no emotion on her face whatsoever, but the aura that emanated from her felt insidious and crippling to his spirit. How in the world did her husband manage to do it all those years ago? He had no clue.

The woman squinted at the boy as she silently approached him with hands clasped in front of her stomach, taking a good look at the student who was dating her daughter. Coming face to face with him Midoriya found she was about an inch or so shorter than her daughter, having to direct his eyes down to meet with her own. Her eyes were a lighter tint of blue too, like frozen ice or snow in the winter. The mother observed the student up and down before a disappointed sigh escaped her lips.

"This, is who my daughter fell in love with?"

CRASH*

Went Midoriya's heart into a million glass pieces.

"Heyyyy, Aimi come on now." Mr. Hado said. "This is Nejire we're talking about if she chose to date a guy like Midoriya that's good enough for me. You haven't even had the chance of getting to know him a little."

Mrs. Hado scoffed. "And since this is Nejire we're talking about I had hoped you would know more about our daughter than that. Nejire's always been fond of things based on their own appearance, and seeing this boy in front of me like this leaves much to be desired. Though I suppose beggars can't be choosers."

CRASH*

Went Midoriya's heart for the second time.

"I've come to tell the both of you that dinner is ready to be served. Whenever you've stopped dirtying yourselves in this garage, come."

With nothing more to say Mrs. Hado turned away from the stricken first year and returned inside, shutting the door behind her but not completely. Once her presence was gone Midoriya gulped as fear had him in a chokehold with anxiety kicking at his knees. If dinner was this kind of cold, he's not sure if he'll be able to take the heat.

-

"-and that's what happened when a wild raccoon managed to get inside one of our tanks! Hahaha!"

"Ohhh haha!" Hado laughed with her father who sat across from her at a dining table, Midoriya seated on her right with the mother sitting across from him. "That's silly. That reminds me of that time a few weeks ago when Yuyu left her balcony window open in her room, and a bird got inside!"

"Really really?"

"Really really! And it was so funny cause it kept flying around her room and she kept screaming like a little girl hahaha! That day was so fun."

"That Yuyu, she's always so jumpy about little animals. Oh speaking of animals guess what? One of our service dogs is about to reach retirement and the general on base said one of us can opt to see if we can bring it home with us. I'm thinking maybe if I'm lucky enough to win the selection, I could bring it here with me!"

"Really really?!"

"Really REALLY!"

'Huh.' Midoriya thought as the father and daughter continued with their conversation. 'They say daughters take after their mom and sons take after their dad but, that's not really the case here with Nejire. Looks like she takes more after her dad than she does her mom when it comes to personality. Because when it comes to her mom...w-well...'

DOOOOOM*

Expressed Mrs. Hado who simply stared the boy down from the other side of the table.

'Why does it feel like this woman wants to KILL ME?!'

"So, Midoriya." Mrs. Hado spoke up with the father-daughter conversation ceasing immediately and the first year tensing at his name. "You've chosen to study at U.A for the sake of becoming a pro hero as well?"

Midoriya nodded. "Yes, that's correct."

"And do tell who do you hope to aspire to be like or be better than? Any names that come to mind in terms of a role model?"

"All Might. I um, I've been a big fan of him ever since I can remember. Growing up and going to school I've always wanted to be just like him."

"Mmm, All Might. Typical."

"Well can you blame him?" Mr. Hado asked. "All Might's practically the go-to when it comes to everybody's favorite he's the guy that metaphorically speaking fixes everything."

"Yes, everybody's favorite." Mrs. Hado iterated. "Falling in line with what everybody likes and what everybody says, daring not to think outside the box for once and be different than the others. Such a dull-minded way of living."

A glass half-filled with wine was collected and raised to the mother's lips, Midoriya and Hado giving a quick glance to each other with the latter nervously smiling. A smack and sigh of relief was given by Mrs. Hado before she began to swirl the glass in her hand. "And the same unfortunately can be said when it comes to Nejire and the boys who she makes friends with. Aside from Mirio and Amajiki who I've only been told about because he's too nervous to come over apparently, every boy up to now has fallen for Nejire because of her cute looks and her cute little personality. One after another they've come, they've been rejected, but the line ends here apparently. It ends with you. Why you?"

"W-Well, uh, Nejire and I are, really good friends and, I-I like spending time with her because she makes everything feel fun and bouncy for me as if it were her Quirk. Nejire tells me that she likes spending time with me too so, we both like spending time with each other."

"And that's an acceptable reason, how?"

"U-Um..."

"Enjoying one's time with another means nothing when it comes to romantic compatibility that's a common trait for everybody to experience. That's like saying I enjoy spending with my sister so that gives me a liable enough reason for me to date her. That isn't the case here, clearly something about you has piqued enough of Nejire's interest for her to develop feelings for you. What that interest is I have no clue nor will I ever think I'd have any clue."

"Aimi."

"What is it specifically that interests you about my daughter Midoriya? What drives that little heart inside that body of yours to beat whenever you see her on a daily basis? If you think for even a second I'm simply going to allow some boy who I have no knowledge of date my daughter without having a legitimate reason for doing so you can think again. Too many a time have Nejire's friends fallen for her strictly because of her looks and nothing else, they don't give a care as to who she is or what she brings simply because she has a cute face and a sexy body with those breasts of hers."

"Mom!"

SNAP*

"Silence. Immediately."

"M-Mm..."
"Yes ma'am."

"Do not sit in that chair of yours and think this was going to be a peaceful little dinner, boy." Mrs. Hado said. "This is our home that you've stepped into and seeing as how you're the stranger within this family that gives me the authority to deem whether you belong here or you don't. I don't do this for control, I don't do this because I seek to impose my authority over Nejire's life it's nothing of the sort. I simply demand to know, WHY? Why, YOU? Why do YOU feel the way that you do for my daughter and what makes YOU think you're compatible with her?"

Midoriya gulped as his body felt like a ton, heart so nervous it was pumping twice within the same repetition. The mother's cold gaze was so intense he couldn't look away no matter how much he wanted, his hands nervously trying to grip his pants but were unable to due to the sweat that coated his palms. He wanted to run but he couldn't, he had to stand his ground here and make his statement. But was his statement good enough? Will it be sufficient for the mother to accept him?

They will...pinky promise.

And on that promise, he'll stake his beliefs in.

"Nejire...Nejire came into my life during a time where everything was, rocky." Midoriya began. "Where everything was a bit jumbled for what I've been through up to then. Aside from the catastrophic mess that the school year's been so far my life before U.A wasn't pretty. In fact, I'd admit that I'm surprised I even made it that far.

When I went to the doctor's for my diagnosis, he said I was Quirkless. And after the day of my diagnosis the universe decided to make my life an absolute mess to live and deal with. I was an outcast in a classroom full of people who were always accepted, nobody really spared any worth to me because I wasn't anything special. Wasn't anything worth speaking to or even worth breathing in the same direction. Aside from my mom and a friend of mine's parents, nobody loved me. My dad's never been in the picture while I was growing up it was only and always my mom who took care of me at our apartment. I didn't have friends, nobody wanted to be friends with me because I didn't have what they had. I was the one piece of the puzzle that never fit.

Growing up, I was...gloomy. I loved All Might, I loved everything he did and I wanted to do everything he could do but...sometimes my hopes and goals got the better of me and they made me realize I was just a kid thinking he could what couldn't be done by him. A Quirkless kid wanting do what All Might could do simply off of the notebooks that he kept on him? It's stupid, anybody with a right mind would think that when it came to my dreams. They were stupid. I was Quirkless I was nobody I was an invisible dot in a sea of other dots that could be seen by everyone. I was...I was nobody.

There were times where I...I-I...I thought about...that. If...If you know, what I mean. I um...I didn't, wake up everyday wondering if it was going to be good. Wondering if something was going to break my way or if I'd find the lucky bone to make me wag my tail. I woke up wondering if today was...if today was gonna be my last. I didn't, there wasn't enough in me to feel like I could be what I wanted to be there wasn't any fun or happy reasons for me to go to school and continue my education. And, looking back on those days now it, it scares me to realize how close I was to doing what was constantly on my mind back then. All it took was one more inconvenience and...that would have been it.

Fast forward to U.A, I have a Quirk now and I have friends now and, I feel like a regular person now. But those days of before still haunted me I remember having some days where I didn't feel like going to U.A on that day just because of how gloomy I got out of nowhere. Everything seemed dull and bland color just didn't feel like color anymore. On one of those days, my teacher said there were three students that he wanted my class to meet due to the Work Study program being initiated.

And that's, when Nejire popped into my life.

I don't know what it is about your daughter Mrs. Hado but she just feels so...so...fluffy. I-I know that seems weird to say and I know it's a weird way to describe somebody but, there's just something about Nejire that makes color feel like color. She makes red feel like red she makes blue feel like blue she makes the sun feel like the sun she makes me feel...like I can be me again. It wasn't about looks it wasn't about her body or anything like that, it's who she is that makes me so attracted to her it's the kind of person that Nejire is that makes me feel like I can charge head first into an army without caring about what happened to me if it meant fighting for her. She's so passionate and fun and-and just all around this person that I want to-...I NEED, to be around.

I'm, nothing. Okay? I-I know that. I know that, that-that that there are other people out there who are better for Nejire I know that there are guys out there who come from better backgrounds with money or looks or charm or whatever I know that. But, whenever I'm with your daughter, Mrs. Hado? Whenever we go to the candy shop together or we go to the library together after school to draw or just whatever it is I don't care what it is, whenever I'm with her? I feel like nothing can be turned into something extraordinary I feel like clouds can actually be bounced on like a trampoline I feel like I could pick up a FLOWER for crying out loud and sing to it I feel...happy. I just feel, happy, when I'm with Nejire.

Look, if you want me to be honest with you, I'll be honest with you. I don't think I'm the best compatible partner with Nejire I really don't. There's a lot of things that are wrong with me and I'm not the kind of guy who can charm somebody with a joke or a flirt or something. But, your daughter confessed to me about her sharing feelings for me and, I just couldn't let this perfect opportunity of being with somebody who makes me happy slip away from me. I love your daughter, and I would like to continue loving your daughter for as long as you would allow me to. I want to spend birthdays with her, spend the holidays with her, spend everyday with her for so long as I can breathe.

I love Nejire. That's my reason for why I feel for her."

"..."

Everybody, was deathly silent. Nobody moved, nobody blinked, nobody so much as dared to breathe through the tension that was in the area. The air was so thick it wouldn't replenish rather it would suffocate anybody who tried to take a breath. Mrs. Hado continued to stare the first year down from her side of the table as Midoriya could only sit there and endure the torture that he was going through.

Until at last, with the tiniest of curls from the edge of their lips, Mrs. Hado smiled.

"It seems my daughter has chosen somebody who I could be happy about. Thank goodness."

The father and daughter sighed with their shoulders instantly drooping, a deep breath pushed into Midoriya's lungs that he needed so deadly. "Hooooo..."

"Midoriya. I'll be truthful, when I asked for your reasoning as to why you developed feelings for Nejire I was not expecting you to confess the truth of your past emotions. But you did, and that to me feels like you were willing to give everything to convince me the truth of what you really feel. For that, I thank you for being honest. I apologize if my earlier comments struck you as too much or disrespectful I was only trying to see the sort of individual that you are. It takes strength to admit the sort of secrecy about one's self and hearing you admit it for the sake of my daughter's love can allow me to live peacefully knowing the kind of person that you are.

From now on, and for every day that is to come, please take care of my daughter. I am willing to trust you on this."

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"MIDORIYAAAA!"
"MIDORIYAAAA!"

"Mm?" Hummed the first year to the sound of Togata and Haya's voices crying out for him, looking up to see the two third years charging at him from the steps of their dorm at full speed. "E-EH?!"

"Holy crap dude are you okay?!" Haya asked as Togata inspected the first year's confused face such as his eyes, nose and mouth. "How hard did she hit you?! It's okay we're here for you!"

"He doesn't seem to be dead!" Togata noted. "Then again I was like this too before I was too scared to get out of bed the next morning!"

"Check his heart!"

Togata leaned his right ear against Midoriya's heart.

THUMP THUMP*
*THUMP THUMP*
*THUMP THUMP*

"I got a pulse he's okay!"

"Guys GUYS, come on now can we stop overreacting please?" Hado asked with a tied plastic bag in her right hand. "Izuku's fine, Mom liked him after she asked him some questions everything's okay."

The two third years sighed in relied as Haya patted Midoriya's head. "Thank goodness, we thought you were gonna come back alone if things didn't go so well. Thankfully they di-...Nejire what is that?"

"Hm? Oh here." Hado held out the bag in her right hand for Haya to take. "Mom made these bento lunches for you two and Amajiki. It's what she made for dinner."

"O-Ohhhhh..." Togata and Haya both stared at the bag as if they were two monks staring at the hand of their god, the former holding the bag of steaming warm food in between them with sparkles in their eyes.

"Mama Hado's delicious bento boxes...
"Mama Hado's delicious bento boxes...

SHE'S THE BEST!"
SHE'S THE BEST! I call the one in the middle!"

"HEY! That's not fair!" Haya argued as she chased after Togata who sprinted back inside the dorm with bag in hand. "Last time you got the one in the middle it's my turn! She made it for ME!"

Hado chuckled as she watched her two friends disappear inside her dorm building, turning back to Midoriya once they were completely inside. There was an expression of distance and question all over his face, no doubt what he admitted earlier still lingering on his mind. Stepping in front of him the girl placed her hands against both sides of his ribs and looked into his eyes. "Izuku? Are you okay?"

The first year nodded. "Yeah. Just, tired is all ready for bed."

"You know if there's something that you wanna talk about, we can right now if you want to. I don't mind."

He smiled. "It's okay Nejire maybe for another time. It's not that important."

"It is to me. YOU'RE, important to me. Whatever it is that bothers you even if it's the smallest little thing I wanna know about it. We're in this thing together, remember?"

"Yeah."

"If you don't wanna talk about it now, that's okay I won't force you. But let's remember to at least talk about it later, okay?"

"Sounds good."

"Promise?"

"Hmph. Pinky."

Hado beamed before leaning forward and pressing for a kiss, her right hand come up to the left of his chest where she purposely held it over his heart. They were connected for a couple heartbeats before separating from each other, her hand sliding down his left and holding on for as long as they can until they could no longer. "I'll see you tomorrow Izuku. I love you."

"I love you too Nejire. Have a goodnight."

Hado climbed the stairs of her dorm up to the front doors where she gave one last look over her shoulder and smiled, opening the door and stepping inside to then shut it behind her. Now by his lonesome Midoriya sighed heavily with a hand running through his hair as he turned around to begin the trek back to his dorm. There were many things in life that he was afraid about. His mother dying, his friends being injured because of him, not being able to find the happiness he needed to keep himself going. But among all of those fears there was one he didn't have to fear any longer.

The opinion of the mother of the girl he wanted to be with forever and always. For that, he could rest easy.