Izuku Midoriya had been training under All Might for a couple of months now. All Might had instructed Midoriya on all the workouts to do and foods to eat to strengthen his body in time for the UA entrance exam. On top of that, they would usually meet at a beach in the evening or early morning and Midoriya would spend a couple hours moving the trash off the sand. The last two days however All Might had been busy, leaving Midoriya to train by himself.

Every time they would meet on the beach and start immediately, so Midoriya was confused when All Might called him in advance asking him to meet him on the path just above the beach. He waited and sat on a bench, looking out at the sea behind the piles of trash that littered the sand.

'Wow, the sky is really pretty today.'

'Young Midoriya!'

The boy jumped in surprise as All Might appeared besides him.

'All Might!' He turned around to see the huge figure of the world's number-one hero..

The older man quickly deflated, 'Keep your voice down.'

'But you- you shouted first-' he protested.

'Shhh, c'mon let's start walking.'

They walked along the street as the sun began to rise, the dark blue night sky slowly giving way to the orange glow of daybreak. The air was slightly chilly despite it being summer, the cold wind coming in from the ocean. Midoriya could help shivering slightly in his t-shirt.

'So' Midoriya looked up at Toshinori curiously, 'why did we have to meet here?'

Toshinori sighed, 'Well, I need to talk to you about something before we get started.'

'Oh? What's wrong All Might?' He wondered is it was something to do with why he hadn't seen him the last few days.

'You see,' He scratched his neck as he spoke, 'the reason I wasn't able to see you the last couple days is because I have a uh, visitor I had to pick up from the airport.'

'A visitor?' Midoriya cocked his head to the side.

'Yes well, a bit more than that. You see, my daughter-'

'Daughter!' Midoriya jumped up as he shouted, 'You have a-'

Toshinori covered the boy's mouth, 'Yes, calm down.' He let go of Midoriya.

'I'm sorry All Might it's just shocking! You never mentioned that before!'

'Yeah well, she just moved back here from America. She's about the same age as you and she's wanting to go to UA so I thought-'

'She's going to UA!' Both Midoriya's jaw and eyes were wide open as he looked at Toshinori. 'Wait who's her mother? There's never been any records of All Might being in a relationship, no way you could have kept that secret!'

Toshinori quickly interrupted him, 'We're not together anymore.'

Midoriya cringed at the old man's face, he was staring ahead blankly.

'Sorry…' he tried to change the subject, 'Oh, does she have a quirk like you? One for all? Does it even work like that?'

'No not really,' He shook his head, 'well actually, I don't know, I doubt it. Maybe she may have some natural strength that comes from one for all or her quirk is stronger than it would have been if I didn't have one for all… but her quirk is from her mother. Honestly, it's pretty cool, you should ask her to show you.'

'Show me? Wait is she here?' He looked around, half expecting this mystery child to pop up behind him.

'Yeah, she's gonna be training with you. Thats why I wanted to talk to you beforehand. You see she can be a bit… uh, I mean she's very, um,' Toshinori stumbled over his words, 'She has a big personality kid, so be prepared.'

'Right… I'm not sure what that means.'

He ignored that, instead turning to face him very seriously. 'And also, not like I think you would but no funny business!'

'What do you mean?' Midoriya looked at him confused at the sudden change of emotion.

'You know what I mean young man! You'll be the first person her age she'll meet here! So be her friend okay? Don't get any other ideas.'

Midoriya's face went blank before his mouth flew open, 'What of course not All Might who do you think I am!' his eyes were wide as he waved his hands frantically in front of him, 'I've barely even talked to a girl let I would never-'

'Okay okay,' he laughed, 'I was mostly joking with you,' he smiled at Midoriya but the boy could tell he was being serious.

'I'm more worried about her teasing you, to be honest- don't let her make fun of you! If she does tell me!'

'Uh okay!' He paused for a second, something was bothering him, more serious than All Might being a protective Dad.

'Does she know about one for all?'

'Yeah, I already told her all about that,' All Might looked at him very seriously then, 'Understand that she's aware that I chose you to inherit my quirk over her, so she might be a little cold to you because of that.'

'Oh,' Midoriya looked down. That was weird, if she already had a strong quirk that probably meant she would be a good candidate to be his successor. Why did he want to search for a successor in UA if he had a daughter who wanted to be a hero?

Katsumi wasn't too pleased to be on a beach at six-something in the morning. She barely ever woke up that early. She liked to sleep in, back at home her Mum would always bang on her door in the mornings to make sure she was up. The threat of her Mother screaming at her was enough to force her out of the comfort of her bed.

Her Dad had so far been gentle with getting her up, then again he had yet to deal with her for more than a couple of days.

She had brought a steamed bun for breakfast, having to leave so early had lost her the time to eat a proper meal. She was munching on it as she sat on some abandoned washing machine left on the beach. The beach was littered with trash, but one area was seemingly being cleaned. Apparently, that was due to the efforts of her father's quirkless successor. He had gone to fetch the boy, leaving Katsumi to wait for the training to start.

She was quite curious about what sort of person this quirkless kid was. It was becoming less and less common for people to be quirkless. Statistics show that twenty per cent of the population had no quirk, but most were elderly people from the second generation. Back at her old school, there was one quirkless kid out of five hundred students, she was bullied relentlessly. Despite holding some animosity towards the boy her father had chosen to gift his quirk, she hoped his situation was different from that girls.

Her attention was diverted from her thoughts when she heard her dad's voice coming from behind her, she hopped down from her perch onto the sand. God, why a beach? She hated getting sand in her shoes.

'Ah! Katsumi there you are.'

Katsumi turned around to see her dad, skinny as ever standing next to a short, wobbly boy with crazy green hair. He froze stiff when she made eye contact with her. She looked at him silently, staring intently at him. All Might paused, waiting for the boy to introduce himself. After a long moment of silence, Katsumi spoke up.

'Hey.'

Midoriya had felt as if his mind had floated out of his body as they approached her. He had been listening to All Might talk about his dislike for cardio when all of a sudden his heart stopped.

Sat on the pile of trash was a girl with beautiful long golden hair. It blew like a satin ribbon in the wind, the bright morning glow illuminating the smooth strands. The girl turned her head toward them revealing the most radiant blue eyes.

To him she looked straight out of a movie, the light of the sunrise glistened over the delicately carved features on her face. Her hair and clothes blowing in the wind. The girl leapt down from her seat, the movement so graceful. Her eyes met his and he felt his heart ascend, he could only stare as he absorbed the image in front of him.

'Goodness boy!' The loud voice snapped him out of his stupor, 'Don't just stand there- introduce yourself!' All Might shoved him forward.

'I'm Izuku Midoriya!' he threw his head down in a bow, 'it's nice to meet you!'

Katsumi awkwardly nodded her head in return as she gave a look to her Dad. She wasn't about to bow and she felt a little bit of second-hand embarrassment from the awkwardness of the boy.

'Katsumi, nice to meet you too,' she put her hand out, Midoriya looked up at it for a moment before tentatively shaking it. Katsumi used all her self-control not to laugh at the boy's face, the mix of a fearful expression and the fact his face was as red as a tomato was picture-worthy.

In order to not laugh in the boy's face Katsumi turned to her Dad, still holding Midoriyas hand.

'This kid is the one who tried to fight a sludge monster?' She asked half in disbelief and half for the sake of saying something.

Midoriya jumped back, his hand flying away from hers, 'Huh! You know about that?'

'Yeah,' All Might nodded, 'I know he seems a bit timid but the boys got real courage.'

'I'm sure,' Katsumi turned to Midoriya, was timid the right word? He seemed just awkward. He looked younger than her, and not just because he was shorter. Didn't age matter a lot in Japan? Mum was always talking about respecting elders. A smirk crept onto Katsumi's lips.

'Hey kid, when's your birthday?'

'Kid?' Midoriya stood up straight, 'July the fifteenth.'

'Right' Katsumi grinned, 'that makes me older than you,' she pointed a finger at him, 'here in Japan you're all about respect right? So make sure to call me Senpai right kid?'

'Katsumi-' All Might massaged his forehead.

'Huh?' Midoriya blinked in surprise, 'Uh okay, um, Senpai.'

'That's only used for work or school Katsumi!' All Might threw his hands in front of him and turned to Midoriya, 'Midoriya, call her Yagi!'

Katsumi shrugged, 'Yagi Senpai works too.'

'Stop trying to assert dominance!' All Might poked her forehead hard enough to make her yelp, 'You two are going to be working together so you might as well try to get along!'

She pouted innocently, rubbing her forehead self-pityingly, 'Me? I'm the nicest person in the world.'

'Then would you be so nice as to help Midoriya get that fridge off the beach.'

'This sucks,' she frowned as she looked at the fridge, 'Such as stupid training method.'

Midoriya piped up, 'All Might chose it so I'd be helping the community whilst training! Don't worry I've figured out how to move the stuff quite efficiently but I'm actually really grateful to have another pair of hands to help Senpai!'

Katsumi's face scrunched up as soon as he actually called her Senpai, 'That feels really weird,' she shook her head. 'Call me Katsumi.'

Midoriyas face went pink, 'Uh! Are you sure?'

'Yeah,' She looked at him plainly, 'sorry I know that's not normal here but that's what I've grown up being called, I'd rather be called my name rather than Yagi,' she grinned and cocked her head to the side, 'especially since we're gonna be friends.'

'Ah okay!' Midoriya looked quickly from her to All Might who shrugged, 'In that case,' he paused and before he smiled apprehensively, 'you can call me Izuku.'

'Right Izuku,' he stood up straight at the sound of her saying his first name, 'I have no investment or care about what we're doing to this beach so just order me around.'

She could see her Dad shaking her head.

'Oh uh okay, well as you know we're going to be clearing the beach, today I was planning on tackling the area over there so I think we…

Katsumi nodded along as she listened to Midoriya's plan, with what Toshinori thought was an uncharacteristic patience for the boys rambling. Soon they were both stretching, getting ready to clear up the beach.

As Toshinori watched the two kids struggle to move the massive metal blocks, he decided Katsumi's reaction wasn't too bad. They seemed to be getting on pretty well, even if young Midoriya had been a bit awkward.

She kept asking Midoriya what he wanted her to do to help, the responsibility flustered him a little but he got used to it. Katsumi was definitely stronger physically than him at the moment, with her help they were managing to clear more from the beach than Midoriya usually did alone. Still, the objects they were moving were heavy. Toshinori laughed when Katsumi started screaming at a fridge that refused to budge.

He noticed Midoriya was working a bit harder than he normally would.

The sun had risen pretty high up into the sky by the time they called it quits. Katsumi was glistening as she leaned against an old washing machine. She pulled at her sweat-soaked top and gulped down a large water bottle, her throat felt on fire. It had been a while since she had physically strained herself that much. God, her muscles were killing her.

'Ugh I wanna sit down, can we get off the sand-' she whined. Her complaints abruptly stopped as her eyes landed on Midoriya. The boy was laid on his back, legs and arms flailed around in the sand.

She started laughing. Midoriya turned his head groggily to the impish sound, his head throbbing as he looked up at Katsumi. She had crouched down not too far from him, she held out the bottle of water.

'Thanks.' He groaned as he sat up and took the bottle.

Katsumi watched as he began to chug the rest of the water. When he was done he wiped his mouth and passed it back to Katsumi.

'You normally this tired after clearing up?' Katsumi grinned.

He smiled sheepishly, his face red from what Katsumi assumed was the exercise, 'I didn't want to put in less of an effort because I had someone helping me.'

'Heh,' Katsumi narrowed her gaze as she smirked and leaned closer to Midoriya, 'you weren't showing off then?'

His already pink face flushed a bright red, 'Uh- well-' he stammered.

'Katsumi! I told you not to bother young Midoriya!' Toshinori walked over toward them holding a plastic bag.

'Oh no, All Might don't worry she wasn't bothering me at all!' Midoriya sputtered. Katsumi just rolled her eyes.

'I'm starving,' Katsumi huffed as she stood up, 'what food did you get?'

'I just got you two a bento from the convenience store, Midoriya you still got to follow that meal plan, think of this as a snack.'

'Yes sir!'

They all went over to a bench to eat. Katsumi dug in immediately while Midoriya thanked All Might for the meal. She finished quickly and put the leftover rubbish in the bag.

'Ah, sorry kids,' Toshinori stood up as his phone began to ring, 'I gotta take this.'

Katsumi watched as he walked away out of earshot, probably something about his new job. She grinned then, sensing the awkwardness of the boy who sat next to her. Even after hours of working out together, he was still nervous, how cute.

'So how long have you been training with my Dad then?' Katsumi brought her feet up onto the bench as she turned to look at Midoriya.

He jolted a bit as her knee poked his leg as she adjusted herself. He quickly recovered but didn't look at her.

'Since April, that's when uh, I got attacked by a villain and All Might saved me, I'm afraid I caused him a lot of trouble then.' His nervous expression turned bitter, but he still smiled.

Katsumi frowned, her Dad had chosen him to receive his quirk, why regret how it happened?

'Yeah, but you went to go save that boy right?'

'Oh Kacchan?' His expression turned even more self-pitying, 'Yeah he wasn't happy about that.'

'Who? The guy you tried to save?' She asked incredulously, 'That's stupid, I'd be incredibly thankful to anyone who tried to help me when I am in trouble.' Her voice became harsher as she thought about how ungrateful that was.

Midoriya looked at her, eyes wide as he heard her voice rise and saw her furrowed brows. He smiled and laughed, making Katsumi blink in surprise and pull back.

'That's just Kacchan, he doesn't like me much so he wasn't happy that I tried to help him.' Midoriya looked down at his food, resting on his lap, 'He can be a bit of a bully'

Katsumi stared at his smiling face. Biting her cheeks, she crossed her arms.

'You get bullied for being quirkless?' There wasn't much point in asking him that, of course, he did.

'Yeah, Kacchan used to bully me a lot. But since that incident, he just ignores me.'

Katsumi looked down at the floor, staring intently at the grey pavement. Midoriya shifted awkwardly, he internally slapped himself for ruining the mood, why'd he have to go and make it all about him?

Before he could properly wallow about ruining the conversation with the pretty daughter of his idol she whipped her head around.

'People are stupid!' She yelled, 'You risked your life to help someone who isn't even grateful,' she lept up, standing on the bench. Midoriya gasped and almost spilt his food as he looked up at her. Katsumi pointed at him, 'You know what that makes you?' She shouted, grinning.

'An idiot?' He said nervously.

'A real hero!' She crouched back down, getting right up in his face, 'You so inspired my dad that he chose you to inherit his power!' She poked his chest, 'He believes in you, so ignore everyone else!' She went quiet and looked to the side momentarily, 'Actually scratch that,' she got back in his face making him pull back in surprise, 'listen to me too!'

He nodded vigorously, 'Alright!'

'Whew,' she lent back properly on the bench, arms crossed, 'Damn, I didn't mean to get so worked up, but seriously, why get mad at you trying to save someone? How silly.'

Midoriya watched as Katsumi looked out at the water, the clear midday sun lighting up her annoyed face. Her face looked nothing like All Might, except her big blue eyes that squinted as she looked at the sea. Midoriya found his eyes repeatedly drifting to her lips as she spoke, the-

'Um, Izuku you good?'

He snapped back to the present, realising he had been staring, 'Oh, sorry I was thinking about something,' he laughed awkwardly as he looked away trying to hide his guilty expression.

Katsumi smiled cheekily, 'Really about what?' She put a finger to her lips as she leaned forward.

'Ah, um,' Midoriya's mind raced trying to think of something to conceal that he had just been shamelessly checking her out. 'Oh,' his eyes lit up as he found his salvation, 'you're quirk! I asked All Might earlier what it was but he said you would show it to me if I asked!' He smiled as the words shot quickly from his mouth.

Katsumi pouted for a second, 'Is that it?' she sighed and held out her arm.

Midoriya looked at her arm confused for a moment before he gasped. Her arm stretched out before her, growing in length about a meter before she whipped her arm over her head, the extra length snapping back.

'Woah!' Midoriyas eyes lit up, 'Is that hyper-elasticity? No, your arm didn't change shape so that can't be it, so is it-'

Katsumi held her hand up, 'I'm gonna stop you there, I got more to show you.' She clenched her hand in front of his face. Midoriya looked at it intently. He kept looking at it. He continued to look at it.

'What am I supposed to be-' Midoriya's creased brows shot up as he looked at Katsumis face. Her forehead now had a huge horn sticking out of it.

'A rhino?' he gasped.

'Never been called that before.' Katsumi smirked as she stroked the piece of bone sticking out of her head. 'This will help fight right? I can smash people's skulls in,' she frowned, 'It's heavy though, I'll have to enforce my neck somehow so I don't snap it while throwing my head around.'

Midoriya brought a hand up to his chin, 'Thats completely different to stretching your arm, and when you say enforce your neck do you mean with support items or your quirk? If you do mean your quirk that would mean you can change your body in some way, which you have shown with your growing of a horn. That with the stretching of your arms, no not stretching… growing? Yeah, it seems you were increasing the length of your arms instead of your present tissue stretching. But with the horn is it a growth of your bone or are you able to change the tissues of your body?' he muttered.

'Damn, you're smart.' Katsumi's horn was smaller when Midoriya looked up at her. He blushed a little as he realised he had been rambling.

Katsumi tutted as she tapped the tip of the horn, 'This is gonna be a pain to retract,' she winced as it got smaller. 'Should I just cut it off?' she mumbled under her breath.

'Ah-' Midoriya's eyes lit up, not hearing the last thing she had said, 'so does that mean it's from your skull?'

'Yeah,' Katsumi pressed down on the horn as it shrunk away, 'but I can change the tissues in my body,' she turned to him as she pushed on the steadily shrinking horn. 'It's more effort though, and takes practice to get the material right. I've focused mostly on steel, I've pretty much perfected it, but now I'm working on making it high-carbon.'

Midoriyas gaze narrowed as the cog in his head began to turn, 'How does that work? Do you have to understand the chemical makeup for each material?'

'Yeah, but I'm kinda dumb when it comes to that stuff and it bores me,' Katsumi giggled and leaned back, resting her arms on the back of the bench. Her horn was now completely gone.

'I focused on steel so I can turn my arms into swords or make my punches harder and stuff.' She clenched her fist in front of her, the skin turning shiny and grey as she coated it with metal.

'I'm glad I'm gonna be doing all this lifting with you,' smiling she turned to Midoriya, 'I'm pretty strong from gymnastics, but fighting with steel sticking from your arms requires way more strength than I have! I'm gonna have to work out so much it sucks!' She whined.

'That's an incredible quirk!' Midoriya encouraged her, as she sighed from the idea of spending every day picking up hunks of metal. 'The possibilities are endless! You could grow your body multiple times your size like Mt Lady or grow tendrils like Kamui Woods! You could resist attacks by coating your body with a hard material-'

Katsumi snapped out of her self-pity quickly as he began to ramble, 'Those are good ideas, why don't you write them down for me.'

'Huh really?' He blinked in surprise.

'Yeah, I wanna see what you think I should focus on. You seem like you know your stuff.'

'Well yeah, I want to be a hero so badly, so I know a lot about different heroes and strategies and stuff…'

'That's impressive,' Katsumi said honestly, she turned away to look at the sea. 'But I can't relate. I don't like heroes that much.'

'Huh? Really why?'

'Well, I guess to me a hero is supposed to be someone who fights for the common man, who helps everyone they can, who is selfless.' The image of her father lit up in both their minds, the unstoppable symbol of peace.

'Most of the heroes today just want money and fame,' that image of her father shining brightly seemed much smaller as she thought of the endless waves of wannabe heroes that roamed the streets.

'It's watered down the whole concept.'

Midoriya looked at the floor, 'That may be true…' he suddenly threw his head up and declared, 'But I want to be a hero! I want people to see me and know they'll be okay!' He looked right into Katsumi's eyes as he spoke, 'A true hero that'll help everyone!'

Katsumi stared at him, seeing the light in his eyes she couldn't stop her lips from curling into a smile, 'You've got more ambition than me…' she admitted, 'I'm sure you'll be a great hero,' scratching at her neck as she turned away from his bright gaze, 'you've got my Dad's backing after all.'

Toshinori smiled as he stood behind the corner near the bench where the two teens were sitting. He had been worried for nothing, despite Katsumi's prior anger towards the situation, Midoriya and her were getting along well.

Midoriya's voice came from around the corner, 'Where is All Might anyway? How long is that call?'

'Oh Izuku, your food. You better eat it before he comes back.'

'Oh yeah!'

Toshinori decided to give them a couple more minutes.