A/N: I was going to do a mini-arc between now and the first day and U.A., but there was too much story that needed set up for now I am still going to do it at a later date but now I am going on to the next Arc proper, sorry for the inconvenience.

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 here 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." 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 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 the 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 given 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 given name. I guess... I need to adjust, you can keep calling me 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?"

(…)

Izuku finally got a response from Toshinori, though that wasn't what he was expecting, the response was still nice to receive. Now he had six days to put together all of the questions he had for One For All on a list for his mentor. Though he had a list now was not the time and place, his school had gotten the results of his exams and now his teacher was announcing that he, Katsuki, and a girl that he hadn't had the pleasure of knowing had passed the entrance exams of the high school. Unlike the pigtailed brunette that stood beside him and Katsuki, both boys had made it to the hero course while she was in its general course, which shocked the class in front of the three. Some thought it had to be a mistake while others did not believe it, but Izuku and the other two pretty much ignored the sea of faces as their teacher announced their acceptance with pride, basically patting himself on the back.

After that was done their day returned to the usual norm, aside from Izuku's daydreams of the future. He was finally going to U.A. and was in line to become what he always dreamed of. Before he knew it the day had gone by without much fanfare, putting his supplies away he moved to exit the classroom to face an unseasonably cold February day. In his haste he almost ran into someone, dodging them last second, a feminine voice entered his ears as a maroon-headed girl got his attention. "Uhh… Midoriya-san, do you have a minute?"

Izuku looked at her as if she grew a second head, a beautiful girl that he had not seen before was talking to him, a rarity that had been flipped on its head recently. "Me?" He questioned looking around him.

"Yes, you..." The girl answered with a blank face. She then took out a phone from the school bag hanging from her shoulder showing the screen to him. On it was an image of Shoko giving the camera the V symbol with him covered in sweat with a water bottle looking at something off-screen, and both of them in their workout gear. "This is you right?" She said pointing at him in the picture.

"Yea-"

"Good, Todoroki-san was worried, you got your phone right?" She said returning her phone to her bag.

"Yeah... Who ar-"

Before he could complete his sentence he was dragged behind her with a strong grip. "The name's Yasuda. I'm a second-year student, and will also be going to U.A. in the next school year as a recommendation student for the support course. I owe Todoroki-san a big favor, as of that favor..." Yasuda turned to Izuku who looked confused at what was going on. She then sighed. "You haven't met my sister yet.." She got a shake of the head. "Right my sister, my half-sister is Kazue Mori, Dr. Riko Mori's, my stepmother's daughter."

The image of the middle-aged blonde doctor entered Izuku's headspace, the Quirk specialist that was Shoko's doctor. "Oh, my mom said something about her having a daughter. Sorry, I have not had the pleasure."

"No problem, she is not the reason that I came to you today." Yasuda spoke with them when they arrived at the school's library. Quick to enter she saw a free table across the room. "As I was saying I owe Todoroki a favor."

"And that favor has something to do with me?" Izuku responded following behind her as they made their way to the table that Yasuda had spotted.

"In a way that is true, I left a blank check and she cashed in." Yasuda answered, not willing to go any further than that, them sitting opposite each other at the table. "Anyway, do you have your phone?"

This girl threw Izuku off, not only was she insanely beautiful, but she did not allow him to think up a response, in the most generous meaning of the term she was abrasive. Her long maroon hair cascaded off her shoulders as she dug into her school bag, with sparks of life that she had for her items showing in her golden eyes that had not been there for him. Taking out a small set of tools she turned to him and waited for Izuku to present her with what she wanted. "Oh, Right." He took out his phone with a shattered screen, much to the girl's surprise. "Sorry, I had dropped it yesterday, I was going to look into getting it replaced."

She looked the phone over and at Izuku with a hint of skepticism showing in her eyes. "Are you sure you dropped it?" Yasuda sighed again when Izuku shrunk into his chair. "Midoriya-san, can I say something?"

Izuku looked at Yasuda nervously. "What is it?"

"I am Quirkless..." Izuku's eyes went wide, he had no idea that there was another Quirkless at this school, he never looked into the fact that he might not be the only one. "So I understand... At least in part, I have dealt with my fair share over my thirteen years. I get it. So I will ask you again... Did you drop it?"

Izuku could tell by just looking at her that she wasn't lying about this and in fact that she for some reason had led a different life than him, but in her eyes, there was nothing there like he once had, they were the same but he had hope where she had given up, and his mouth open with a mutual understanding that went over his head. "No..." And she nodded at that one word.

Digging into her bag she pulled out a brand new cell phone still in its package. "You have done well to put up with the garbage of the world, I am happy that you were a late bloomer. I assume that being a hero is your dream, Midoriya-san?" Izuku nodded as the girl motioned for his cell phone. "I hope we can live out our dreams at U.A." She spoke as Izuku handed her the phone.

Izuku, now realizing, found her words to be at odds with her introduction, she implied several times that she would be attending the same school as him despite being a second year. Izuku watched as she worked, with the impression that she had to be incredibly intelligent to be able to not only skip a year but to be accepted to U.A. as well. He watched as Yasuda extracted the SIM card from his phone and inserted it into the new one. "You have said that you are going to U.A., at the start of the next year, but..."

"I am a second-year?..." She then turned on the new phone. "I guess there's no avoiding it. Carer come out." She said to her bag as a robot, a small dog-sized nine-tailed fox picked out of her school bag, looking around as if searching for something. "It's alright, Carer. It is just the three of us here, it's safe to come out." The metallic canine yipped at its owner before climbing out from her bag, tentatively making its way to Izuku. "Huh..." Yasuda let out a grunt as she watched the fox. "That's weird."

"What is?" Izuku questioned watching the robot cock its head at him before getting comfortable on the table the teens were sitting at, and lying its body in front of him facing Yasuda.

"She is usually wary of strangers, you, my sister, and Todoroki-san are the only ones she seems to like right away, I programmed her to behave like a dog and all so this is strange how quickly she would warm to you without you doing anything." She said, putting the phone down, and looking at the creature as if examining it.

"Wait did you say program?" Izuku asked, mystified.

"Ah... Right, I keep forgetting that we are strangers. Yes, I programmed her AI, it was the project that I had to complete as part of my recommendation to U.A., that, and some other stuff that I wasn't able to complete in time." She said as the eyes of the robot closed, not realizing how mad what she just said was.

'Leave it to the daughter of a support specialist to create something so ridiculous.' He thought as it dawned on him how ill-equipped he was if he had gone with his plan b. 'So much for that, I wouldn't be able to compete with that.' He continued. "How old are you?"

"I'm thirteen, I don't see what my age would have to do with anything." Yasuda said, drawing her attention away from the fox to Izuku. "Is there a problem with my age?" She asked as she returned her gaze to the phone. "Carer, can you transfer his files to the new phone, please?"

Izuku watched as the fox got up, gave the girl a yip, and pranced over to the two phones. "No, I did not mean anything by it, I just... I just find you to be impressive. That's all." Izuku as he saw the girl's hand pause at a collar at the fox's neck.

For her part a small blush formed while she returned to what she was doing, that being pressing a button on the collar and releasing two cables with two different male ends. She plugged both phones into each cable, and Izuku's phone blurred to life as a string of code appeared on his screen. "It isn't all that impressive, I bet you could write something at Carer's level." The fox let out a growl. "I'm not saying that you are not Carer, I am just saying that I am not." This time the robot whined. "I know." she said, bringing a hand up to pet the cool metal on the fox's head.

"No I am serious Yasuda-san, this is no small feat, I wish I could do something like that." Izuku said, excitedly.

"I could teach you." Yasuda said, while her blush grew.

"Oh really, cool." Izuku's hands claimed the one that was on the fox's head, leaning in. "I have always been interested but never had a teacher, will you seriously teach me?"

"Y-y-yeah." She looked away, her fox cocking its head at the action.

Izuku looked at his hands, the excitement leaving, and at her face with a matching blush. "So-sorry." He was quick to let go.

"No it's fine, I get that you got excited, I was when I first started to learn too." She spoke as Carer watched the two of them. The small robot looked at Izuku's cracked phone as the screen went dark, looking up at Yasuda with a yip. "Are you done?" The teen questioned, getting another yip in return. She unplugged the phones, pressing the buttons at the fox's collar, the cords retracting. "Do you share your passcodes with anyone?" She asked Izuku, getting a confused look back. "Your passwords... Did you share your passwords with anyone?" She reworded the question.

"Uhh... No, I am usually a private person." Izuku answered with no clue of what was happening right now.

"I get that." Yasuda retorted, handing the new cell phone to Izuku. "This is the latest model from my father's company aimed towards heroes. Carer copied over all of your files and contacts so you don't have to worry about reinstalling anything. You don't even have to worry about security and it breaking since it's meant for heroes, it's tough all around and has resistance to the usual you know. And with that ends my debt with Todoroki-san." She said as Izuku took the phone.

Izuku was at a loss for words, he did not know what to say about all of this. For some reason this girl had given him a new cell phone out of nowhere and a pretty expensive one at that, and he had Shoko to thank for it. Although he appreciated the gesture he could not take it, it felt wrong too. "I can't take this." Izuku said, trying to give the phone back.

The girl waved him off pushing his outstretched hand back towards him. "No, seriously Midoriya-san keep it." She said, offering him a gentle smile. "I procured it for you, and it was customized to suit your needs, so you gotta keep it."

"But..."

"Carer." She called the fox. "Show him your app." She said as the robot yipped at her. The phone blurred to life as a paw print displayed on the lock screen. "You said you want to learn to write code at the level of Carer, right?" She asked Izuku, his confusion returning. "Well using that phone you can study her code while I make improvements. With how Carer is I can't do this on my own, so you can consider it as me asking for help... Carer may be as impressive as you say but she is far from perfect."

[Ayaka-sama... Is... Correct...]

Izuku nearly dropped his phone when a computerized voice entered his ears coming from the phone. 'Ayaka... That must be her given name.' He thought as he looked at the robot fox staring back at him sitting on the table then at the girl. "I don't think that I am qualified for this." He replied.

"You don't have to be, at least not yet." Ayaka continued the argument. "The fact that you are not freaking out right now means that you are a lot better for the job than most people. Think of it this way, you are beta testing for Kumiho Industries, and you are learning from one of its engineers. You have a lot to gain from this, you know."

She was right in some regards, he had some interest in the support industry and this was a perfect way to get a foot inside the door, not to mention if he did a good job he would have effectively gotten a support company on his side during his hero journey, and Shoko trusted her, he had no good reason to decline so he won't. "You win, I will take it."

"Really?" Ayaka questioned excitedly.

"Yeah, so what do you want me to do? With the app that is." Izuku retorted.

"Nothing, for now, I haven't finished Carer's hardware so I want to concentrate on that." Ayaka answered. "I will for sure have that done before we enter U.A., we can start our lessons then. So just enjoy your new phone for now, and like I said your settings, contacts, and files are saved to that phone so you don't have to worry about any of that." She continued.

"What about the app?" He questioned as the paw print disappeared from his screen.

"It works on proximity, so you will have to be pretty close to Carer's main body for her to have access to it, and even then she is going to need permission." Ayaka answered, getting Izuku to look at his phone wide-eyed.

"That sounds super cool, I can't wait." Izuku responded.