"Here's what's next for the agenda, Young midoriya, I'll have you carry huge heaps of garbage and have you run laps from the start of the beach to the very end! Next, You'll need to work on your endurance so You'll have to walk on rocks barefoot! After that, once winter rolls around, You'll need to swi-"

"Sorry, all might.."

"Hmm?"

All might looked to see that Akira was holding izuku's body, who had collapsed from hearing his rigours training.

"Izuku passed out.."

"Throw him in the water."

"No! No! I'm awake!" Izuku cried out as he wiggled his way out of Akira's grip. "Do i Really have to do all of that!" Izuku yelled out As all might nodded.

"Why of course! I went through the very same thing!"

He infact, did not go through the same thing.

Izuku thought about it for a couple of seconds before sighing in resignation. "Well... as long as I'm not doing it by myself then-"

"oh no. You are." Akira stated flatly as he gave a sympathetic shoulder pat on izuku, whose eyes widened.

"H-huh!?"

"Yeah... this is the part of the training you have to do it alone. Should've mentioned that..."

Izuku was going to say something in return until he felt all might's grip on his other shoulder. He looked up to be met with all might's smile, which was more threatening to izuku now more than anything.

"let us begin.. shall we?"

It was a rough couple of weeks after that. Izuku always looked like someone squeezed the life out of him. Like a lemon.

Things were extremely rough once winter rolled around.

"Look i said i was sorry!" Akira exclaimed as he and izuku walked through the busy halls of their middle school. Akira placed a gentle hand on izuku's shoulder that made the one for all user stop in his tracks.

With a heavy sigh, izuku shook his head and looked towards his friend. "Still... you should've warned me beforehand.."

Izuku had been giving Akira the cold shoulder recently, justifiable but still...

"Yeah i know and I'm so sorry, izu-"

Akira was quickly intruppted when Bakugo shoved him into a locker. "Gah!?" Was all that escaped Akira's mouth as he and izuku looked towards the explosive ash blonde.

Who was seemingly more angry than usual.

The two watched as bakugo walked away with his two goons, who were snickering and chuckling. Akira just wanted that to be the last interaction of the day.

Izuku on the other hand

"Oi! bakugo!"

"Izuku!"

Izuku stomped towards the ash blonde who turned with a scowl on his face. "You're not going to believe this... but I finally have a quirk of my own!"

"You're lying..." Bakugo scoffed as he looked at his used to be friend. Izuku shook his head and smiled. "Nope.. It's a transformation quirk but it only affects the hands."

Izuku then raised his hand much to bakugo and his goon's confusion.

Which was changed to anger and shock almost quickly.

"I'll give you a chance which finger is more effective" Izuku began as he slowly was about to pull up his middle finger. Bakugo winded his fist back only for Akira to grab it.

"Alright that's enough, you two!" Akira shouted as bakugo and izuku realized the crowd that was starting to form. "Look, i get we don't like each other here but we need to be on our best behavior if we have a chance to make it to UA!"

"As if the two of you are going-" Bakugo began before akira snapped his head towards the explosive boy. "Izuku wasn't lying when he said he developed a quirk.. apparently he's a late bloomer.."

Izuku cringed a bit at that statement. "A strength enhancement quirk..." Akira explained as izuku tried his best not to die. Akira snapped his head towards izuku however.

"And izuku... fighting is not going to get us anywhere.. you that, don't you?" Akira asked, his voice soft. Izuku diverted eye contact as he started to feel a little bad.

"Heh, you better listen to your little boyfriend, deku."

Both Akira and izuku immediately turned to face bakugo who had his arms crossed. The tension in the hallway felt so tense that it was literally suffocating.

Someone in the crowd broke the silence as they facepalmed and sighed

"They're taking a while in there..." Akira muttered as he fidgeted with his bandages. Bakugo sat across from the pair, band aids wrapped around his nose and band aids littered his face. Izuku had some minor injuries but nothing too serious. "Sooo how long do you think we'll be in here?"

"I'm not talking to either of you." Bakugo spat as he looked at the ceiling. Akira nodded as Izuku began to write something in his notebook. The atmosphere was heavy again as the three could overhear their respective parents talking to the principal.

except for Akira's however... his dad didn't bother showing up. Which he wasn't entirely mad about.

"...I cannot believe that happened.. We're so screwed!" Bakugo exclaimed as the quiet seemed to have finally gotten to him.

"Thought you weren't talking to us?" izuku muttered as he didn't bother looking up from his book. "Listen dickface-" Bakugo was about to begin before the door to the principal's office opened as izuku's mother and bakugo's parents stepped out.

oh boy they looked pissed.

especially bakugo's mom.

"Alright... any one of you boys want to explain to me what exactly happened again?"

Silence. Mitsuki bakugo was a woman that even akira's father, had a displeasure of meeting and frankly...

She scared Akira.

Pinching the bridge of her nose, mitsuki sighed as she gathered her son and husband before leaving without a word. Bakugo shot one last look at the pair before leaving.

"I mean.. i saw the footage of the fight.." Inko midoriya began as she decided to drive the boys home. "I agree that katsuki started it but you two... didn't even give him the chance to fight back..."

The two boys didn't utter a single word as inko stopped by Akira's home. "I'll have a word with your father later..."

Akira quickly unbuckled his seatbelt and got out of the car. "See you tomorrow, man" Akira muttered as izuku slightly waved at him as the midoriya family drove off.

Akira stood there as he sighed before kicking a nearby pebble.

"well that sucked."

It was a awkward few months after all that. Izuku continued to train either with all might or Akira but sometimes by himself. Bakugo didn't say or do anything towards the two boys.

Finally, after such a tiring journey... Akira and Izuku stood stood infront of the building where the entrance exams were being held. Akira felt nervous as Izuku was literally shaking. All might had personally dropped the boys off, giving a "Good luck!" to the two.

Mainly towards izuku though.

"alright... we got this.."

"Yeah.. I know.."

"We've been through the ringer, we can't back down yet."

"I know." Izuku replied as he breathed in and out before shaking his head. Nothing. Absolutely nothing can stand in his way!

"Hey watch your ste-"

Izuku tripped as he saw the ground getting closer.

Maybe it was a good day to die.

Before Akira could grab his friend, he suddenly floated off the air right as the tip of his nose was about to touch the ground.

There stood a brunette girl with an outstretched hand. "You okay?" Izuku and Akira stared at the girl as she gently placed izuku back in place. She sighed as she looked towards the building and smiled.

"All this is pretty nerve wracking, isn't it?"

"Yes..." Nailed it.

Akira muttered as izuku stared at the girl. "Welp! guess I'll see you two inside!" The girl exclaimed as she waved towards the boys.

"Can't believe i talked to a girl"

"You didn't really..."

Akira began before realizing that they were running extremely late by this point. "We gotta go now." Akira muttered as he dragged the flustered izuku towards the building.

The hero present mic explained the rules of the exam, beat up bots and in doing so gives you points but rescuing fellow trainees gives you points as well.

"Seems easy enough" Akira whispered towards Izuku who was paying intently. "Yeah i guess but it seems difficult at the very same time..." Izuku whispered back as he kept his eyes glued on the loud mouth pro.

Out of the corner of his eye, Akira noted that Bakugo was sitting a row ahead of them. The boys were now 15 at this point. Perhaps, hopefully that one day, the Three boys put aside their differences and fight together as on-

"Excuse me! May i ask a question?"

Suddenly a Boy in a suit stood up and raised his hand. Akira himself didn't pay much attention to the question itself. A Suit. A damn suit?

Who the hell wears suits to an exam?

Only miserable assholes wear suits.

By his experience though.

"Heh.. bet that guy was a total teacher's pet as a kid" Akira whispered as izuku looked at him in suprise. "Akira i don't think that's appropriate to sa-"

"And you two!" Both izuku and Akira looked straight towards the blue haired boy as he shot daggers at them.

"The two of you have been muttering to each other the entire time! It's distracting, so if you two think it's a game then you can go ahead and leave!"

Before Akira could make a comeback... he squinted his eyes towards the boy... he looked a little familiar. Wait a second...

"I-Ida? Ida tenya?" The glasses wearing boy seemed to also squint as he leaned closer as his eyes widened slightly. "Santo?"

Izuku and the rest of the examinees looked at the two as Akira suddenly changed his attitude. "Man! I haven't seen you since like... 3 years ago! how you've been man!"

Ida didn't entirely say anything as he looked at Akira in awe. "How's your brother doing!" Akira asked as ida jolted.

"Let's not discuss that right now!"

"Oh! I see! Alright, how's about you, me, and my friend, izuku here hang out after this?!"

"I-I'll consider it.." Ida replied nervously as he scratched his cheek and sat back down in a flustered manner.

Before izuku could even ask what the hell was that, present mic cleared his to answer the blue haired boy's question.

After an awkward silence fell in the exam room, Everyone was ushered out as they changed into their sports wear.

Akira was just wearing baggy sweatpants and a black T-shirt. Unfortunately during the scramble he and izuku were separated so he was just by himself with a group of people he didn't know nor liked. That was until he saw bakugo amongst the crowd.

He had remembered a conversation between him and izuku. Izuku had completely given up on bakugo. Something akira found suprising. This was the same Izuku that forgave Akira for accidentally smacking him a little too hard.

He quite remembered the look on bakugo's face after being told off by izuku the first time around.

A mixture of hurt and anger.

Anger that was probably towards Akira.

That settled things than! Starting from the day they hopefully get into UA, no more fighting. Izuku and bakugo may not like the proposal but they may as well.

A loud siren blared as present mic's voice boomed from the speakers.

"BEGIN!"

That exam was effortlessly easy for Akira. Just like he predicted. Busting through robots was something Akira considered to be child's play. He did however ended saving a few of the examinees.

He heard from the others however that izuku was doing more to save than damage bots. He just hoped that he destroyed enough bots for points.

Akira had realized that ida completely ran off before Akira could even say hello to him. He really did wanted to catch up with that guy.

one week had gone by as Akira ran towards izuku's apartment complex. He had completely passed the exam, written and trial portions. He had been accepted into UA.

He needed to know if Izuku had done the same.

He knocked on the door as izuku opened it. He looked uneasy which gave Akira a chill.

But that changed when izuku chuckled and smiled.

"I can't believe it.." Akira muttered as he looked at UA in amazement as izuku stood next to him. They were wearing the uniforms that the school had provided.

An absolute upgrade from their middle school uniforms.

"I-We finally made it..." Izuku muttered as he tears were going to fall from his eyes before wiping them away. "Man... you ever wonder how life would be if we never met?"

"I'd probably still be friends with bakugo... or never met all might..."

"yeah that... and i wouldn't have given you this sweet limited rare edition of an all might pin"

"the what now?" Izuku asked as he looked over at Akira, bug eyed. "Oh nothing really.. I was going to give you this pin that's so rare that only two have been found so far."

Izuku's eyes widened as he looked at the pin Akira held in his hand. It was completely platinum with All might's face on it. Something izuku himself never sern before, despite being a massive all might fan.

"But if you don't want it I'll just give it away or something.."

"what?! Akira don't play like that! give me it!" Izuku exclaimed as he attempted to grab the pin out of his friends grasp.

Akira chuckled as he gently moved izuku's hands away before placing the pin on izuku's backpack. Izuku admired it as he smiled towards akira before giving him a playful shoulder punch.

"Thanks Akira."

"Just as we promised no? I'll have your back no matter what.."

Izuku smiled as the two began walking towards the entrance of UA. "And I'll do the very same"

"So what class you got?"

"1-A. you?" Izuku asked as he pulled out his schedule to show akira. Akira did the same as izuku's eyes widened a bit.

"now way man. same"

Akira and izuku smiled at each other, entering into UA. Hopefully this year will go by without any problems.