The school day practically flew by before Midoriya, Tokage and Tetsutetsu found themselves on the afternoon train heading over to Saitama prefecture. Nothing worthy of note happen besides a rather lengthy literature lecture by Cementoss that still left the three of them reeling from the absolute overload of information. From what they had been told, they were going to have a joint session with 1-A at the USJ the next day. So at least that was something to look forward to.

"So, what do you think we'll be doing tomorrow?" Tetsutetsu inquired.

"No clue." Tokage shrugged. "Since the USJ is back up and running after the break-in, I'm guessing it'll be some rescue training."

"I bet you guys are looking forward to that, huh?"

"You bet your ass I am! This is going to be our first real rescue work lesson since coming here. I like combat training and all, but this is the kind of stuff I've been looking forward to."

"Yeah." Midoriya agreed.

"I wonder what class 1-A is going to be like though. I bet they're still pretty pissed that you guys caused their whole class to fail that team building exercise you told me about." The silver haired teen thought.

"Eh, I'm pretty sure that most of them are over it by now. If anything they did really well on all the other stuff. But you can't really plan on an ambush going your way. Especially with Izuku here." She joked, causing the boy to blush a bit.

"You got that right." Tetsutetsu laughed. "Y'know Midoriya, I heard some third years talking during lunch and you've gotten pretty popular lately. Apparently one of the "Big Three" keeps talking about you."

"Oh, you must mean that Hadou chick. I heard that she was one of the top students in school."

"Really?" Midoriya raised an eyebrow at that. This was his first time hearing about it.

"You better be careful dude, or someone here is going to get jealous." Tetsutetsu smirked with a sharp glance over to his friend.

"Y'know what, you might be onto something there Metalhead. What if he's really into older women? Oh no, how have I not seen it until now? I never even stood a chance. I mean you should see this girl, her boobs are enormous." Tokage teased while giving a look of mock surprise.

'This is so awkward.' Midoriya internally deadpanned.

"Speaking of boobs...you should see Yaoyorozu's hero costume. I get that her quirk requires exposed skin and all but I'm pretty sure she might be some kind of exhibitionist."

"It can't be that bad."

"Dude, that thing leaves almost nothing to the imagination."

"Well if it's for her quirk you can't really blame her. It's kind of the same with Kayama when you think about it." The 'steel' quirk user pointed out.

"Yeah...you have a point." The girl shrugged.

Watching this interaction, Midoriya had to wonder if Tetsutetsu had developed some type of immunity to the girl's antics. He knew that they had been friends for a while so it wasn't a surprise that he knew how to roll with the punches. Maybe he should asked the guy for pointers on how to get her to stop teasing him so much.

Eventually the three teens departed the train and split off from each other. Midoriya offered Tetsutetsu to join them out of politeness. But the silver haired boy declined since he needed to catch up on homework.

"See you tomorrow! Have fun on your date!" The boy called out to them loud enough for a few passersby to give them some curious glances.

"I-it's not a-"

"Try not to fry your brain studying, Metalhead!" Tokage cut Midoriya off with her own quick jab.

It didn't take long for the two greenetts to make the journey over to the orphanage. Once the building was in sight, Tokage was actually impressed by how nice the place looked. It was your standard, three story apartment style building attached to a small park and playground. In her mind she was expecting something a bit different. But it was reassuring to know that all those kids didn't live in some run down dump.

"Hey, Tokage-san." Midoriya looked to girl sternly.

"Hmm?"

"I know this is going to sound kind of weird. But when we get in here, can you not use your quirk if you can help it? Well, can you just not talk about quirks altogether?" He asked.

The girl was about to say something but held her tongue. It wasn't a major request and it made total sense. If everyone living there was quirkless, then it was probably a sore spot for them. An it probably wasn't a good idea for her to use her powers around people who would never get them. "Yeah, I understand. I know how to show some restraint."

"Thank you." He smiled at her.

Once the two were in front of the building, Midoriya knocked on the large wooden door. The duo waited for a couple of seconds before it opened, revealing a young looking woman with blonde hair and blue eyes. She was dressed in a knee-length, blue sundress and had her hair up in a bun.

"Ah Midoriya-kun, you're here!" The woman greeted in a soft tone, similar to the way Shiozaki spoke. "And this must be the friend you told me about."

"Hello Kosai-san." The boy gave a polite bow, causing Tokage to follow suit. "This is Setsuna Tokage, she's one of my classmates."

"Hello, thank you for letting me come here. I know it was kind of last minute and I hope it's not too much of a bother." The girl said in a polite tone. Tokage typically wasn't one for formalites, but she knew when to reel it in.

"Oh it's no trouble at all. We were actually pretty excited when Midoriya-kun told us he was bringing one of his friends along to help the children study. I'm grateful that you're taking the time out of your busy schedule to help us out."

"Well thank you for having me."

"Gosh, where are my manners? I'm Ichika Kosai, I'm one of the staff members here. It's a pleasure to meet you."

"Likewise."

"So, who all is here?" Midoriya asked the woman.

"Pretty much everyone except for the high schoolers. Most of them are off doing their own thing, but Sasuke-kun is here."

"Really?"

"Yes, he's in the library helping some of the younger kids with their homework. He had the day off from work today so he could get ready for that science presentation of his. You can head on in and join them if you like."

"Thank you." Midoriya bowed once again as the two walked through the door.

Once inside, Tokage took the chance to take in the overall decor. The place wasn't extravagant by any means, but was definitely a lot nicer than she expected. The main lobby pretty much looked like one giant living room and the kitchen area seemed decked out.

"Wow, this place is pretty nice." The girl absentmindedly said aloud.

"Yes." Kosai nodded. "The building is only a few years old and most of the furniture was donated by local businesses and people in the area. The director wanted to make sure that the children had somewhere nice to return to everyday."

"So how many people live here?"

"Thirty right now, most of which are around middle and high school age."

"Wow." Was all the girl could say. The place looked like it could easily fit a hundred people with room to spare. But considering the fact that quirkless people were a growing minority it wasn't all too surprising that not a ton of people lived here.

Eventually the trio came upon the library. Which was just one of the larger areas on the ground floor refitted to hold some bookshelves and a few tables. Like everything else, the collection was comprised of donations from local bookstores and high schools.

After Kosai took her leave to go get started on dinner, the two greenettes made their way into the room and were met with the sight of Unohana sitting at one of the tables surrounded by a few younger children. The pink eyed teen seemed to be helping a few of them out with their math homework.

"Yo, Midoriya-kun! You finally showed up." The boy greeted him with a wave.

"Hey, how's it going?" The green eyed teen responded.

"Oh hey, you're the girl from the other day. How's it going?"

"I'm pretty good. Nice to see you again." Tokage gave him a quick wave.

Before either of the teens could get another word out, two of the children practically leapt out of their seats and approached the green haired duo. Both of them looked to be around eight or nine years old and had purple hair with grey eyes.

'Twins, huh?'

"Ooh Midoriya-san, is this the friend that Kosai-san was telling us about?"

"Wow you're really pretty! Are you his girlfriend? Are you going to get married?"

Time seemed to slow down for Midoriya as a sense of dread washed over his body. In all honesty, the boy should've expected something like this to happen. But he hoped that he would at least have a chance to get settled in before something embarrassing happened.

Deciding to have a bit of fun, Tokage knelt down in front of the two girls and gave them both a toothy smirk. "Well aren't you two just adorable." She laughed while leaning in a bit and ruffling their hair. "And no, I'm not Izuku's girlfriend...for now."

"Wah!" The twins eyes lit up.

"Hey, don't go putting ideas in their head. They'll believe you!" A now flustered Midoriya sputtered out.

"Look, Midoriya-san's all embarrassed." One of the girls giggled.

"Yeah he looks a tomato."

"Alright you two, that's enough." Unohana was quick to come to the boy's rescue. "It's rude to pry into other people's love lives. Now go sit back down, you still haven't finished the last page."

"Okay!" The two twins said in unison before taking their seats back with the other kids.

"Sorry about them, they're kind of over the top."

"Don't worry about it." The girl waved off.

"I wasn't expecting you to be here, Unohana-san." Midoriya said to the boy.

"Yeah, my boss let me take the day off so I can get ready for my presentation tomorrow. I didn't really need it, but some extra preparation time is always good."

"You mentioned it the last time I was here. It's pretty important, right? Aren't a couple of representatives from some pretty big schools are supposed to be there?"

"Yeah, if everything goes smoothly then my scholarship is pretty much in the bag. And I might even get to spend the summer break on I-Island."

"Oh yeah, Izuku did mention that you were some kind of boy genius." Tokage pointed out.

"I'm really not all that much." Unohana slightly blushed and rubbed the back of his head.

"So what are you looking to study if you do get this scholarship?"

"Chemical engineering." He answered. "Math and science have always been my thing."

"That's pretty intense. I definitely couldn't see myself getting into that kind of work." The girl joked.

"Eh, it's not as hard as people would think." The boy waved off.

"I'll take your word for it."

"Cool, so Midoriya-kun says that you're here to help us out with tutoring right?"

"Sure am!" The girl gave him a toothy smirk.

"Awesome, most of the kids are doing their math homework right now. I'd appreciate it if you could give them some pointers. I've never really been the best at explaining things."

"Lead the way boss!" Tokage cheered as the trio wasted no time getting down to business.

"...and then you divide by four and you'll have your answer." Tokage smiled at the two twins as they worked their way through some basic division problems.

Surprisingly, the girl was enjoying herself quite a bit. Sure, helping tutor a bunch of kids was not was not something she ever saw herself doing. But she was now happy that she decided to tag along. There was a strange feeling of satisfaction welling up in her chest that came along with doing such a deed.

"Wow! You made it look so simple Tokage-san. You're super smart!"

"Yeah, you're way better at this than Sasuke!"

"Hey, I heard that!" The black haired teen shouted from across the room.

"Midoriya-san's lucky to have you as a girlfriend."

"S-she's not m-my girlfriend!" Midoriya blushed at the other end of the table as him and a group of middle schoolers finished up their English homework.

"Look, he's making the tomato face again!" One of the girls laughed.

By this point, the boy didn't even have the energy to keep playing this game. This had pretty much been going on for the last hour and some change and had no signs of stopping. It was bad enough that Hadou thought the two of them were dating. But he didn't need the whole orphanage thinking it as well.

"Aww what's wrong, Izuku? Is the thought of dating me really that bad? Oh no, my heart. I..I think it's been broken." Tokage further egged the two on by placing her hands over her chest and pretending to be wounded.

"Look what you did you meanie!" One of the girls pointed to Midoriya with a scowl.

"Tokage-san, it's going to be okay!" The other girl patted the 'lizard tail splitter' user on the back.

"As much fun as it is watching you guys give Midoriya-kun a hard time, it's almost time for dinner. These two have school tomorrow so they need to get going." Unohana announced.

"Aww!" The two purple haired children complained.

"It's okay guys, I'll be back the next time that Izuku is over here."

"Really?" Their grey eyes lit up with joy.

"Really?" An equally surprised Midoriya looked at his classmate.

"Yeah." The girl nodded. "This was a lot of fun and how can stay away from these two adorable rascals?"

"You're the best!"

"That I am!"

Eventually the commotion died down and the two greenettes took their leave. Kosai once again thanked Tokage and Midoriya for helping them out and offered for them to stay for dinner. But the two politely declined seeing as it was getting late and they had to be on their way home.

With one last goodbye, the two made their way out the door in the direction of the train station. Overall, Tokage was glad that she helped out today. The girl may have only tagged along to see what the place was about at first. But now she could definitely see herself volunteering here a lot more in the future.

"Don't take this the wrong way, but that place was a lot more livelier than what I was expecting."

"What do you mean?"

"I wasn't expecting it to be so cheery. When you told me that the place was full of quirkless kids, I thought it would be more...depressing. That's not really the right word I want to use. But you get what I mean, right?"

"Yeah." Midoriya nodded his head. He couldn't really blame her though seeing as he thought the same thing the first time he found himself in that building. "Kosai-san and the others want to make sure that it's a peaceful environment for them outside of school and stuff. It's not really good for the kids to go home to somewhere that dampens their mood."

"It's really cool that you spend so much time there."

"Yeah."

"Hey, do you mind if I ask you a question?"

"Sure."

"When did you finally get your quirk?"

Midoriya's feet stopped as he looked at the girl with a bewildered expression. Suddenly his mind began replaying every conversation that two had ever had and was wondering if he let his secret slip. "Huh?"

"C'mon dude, I'm not an idiot." Tokage started. "It's pretty obvious that you were quirkless for a while."

"W-what do you mean?"

"First." Tokage detacteched one of fingers and levitated it in the air between them. "Bakugou called you a "quirkless user" that day in the hallway." Another finger followed. "Second, you spend quite a bit of time at an orphanage specifically for quirkless kids. Third, I noticed that you have a lot of the same nervous ticks as the kids that live there. Fourth, you told me that you were homeschooled back at Blizzard's agency. And I don't really see a point in doing so unless you were having problems at school. Which wouldn't make sense unless you were some kind of delinquent or you didn't feel safe there."

Midoiyra suddenly found himself without the ability to speak. Now that he thought about it, it was pretty obvious considering everything that the girl knew about him. Tokage was probably the smartest kid in their entire class, so it was no wonder that she was able to piece things together. Of course she didn't have the full story. But there were enough pieces to come to a logical conclusion.

As much as he wanted to lie to the girl, he just couldn't bring himself to do it. And doing so probably would've raised more questions that answers. "About a year."

"Wow, really?" Tokage raised her eyebrows. She certainly wasn't expecting that answer. The girl was by no means an expert on quirks, but even she knew that developing one so late was a rarity. Especially one as powerful as his.

"Y-yeah."

"Oh, alright." She nodded before continuing her way down the street.

"That's...that's it?"

"Yup!"

"Seriously?"

"Yeah. That was pretty much all I wanted to know. I'm not about to try and pry into your personal life, I was just seeing if my assumption was correct."

"Oh…"

"Now onto our next order of business." The girl turned around and smiled at him deviously. The kind of smile that promised nothing good. "I think it's time we talk about my payment."

"Payment?" The boy tilted his head in confusion.

"Yeah...my payment for helping you out today. Of course I enjoyed coming out here and helping out with the kids and definitely plan on doing it again. But we need to talk about how you're going to compensate me for my time."

"W-what did you want?" He nervously asked.

"Oh nothing major. You just have to take me out on a date."

…

…

…

"What!"

"A date. Y'know, you and me. A casual dinner and maybe a movie or something. That kind of thing."

At some point in the last few seconds, Midoriya's brain had completely shut down. The word "date" echoed in his mind and once again the boy had to wonder if he was in some sort of alternate reality. Maybe all those theories about real life being a simulation were true. Either that, or he was really in a coma while experiencing a very complex and elaborate dream. Because there was no possible way in hell that this was actually happening.

"Hey Izuku, you in there?" Tokage tapped him on the forehead a couple of times to bring him out of his mental stupor.

"What?!"

"Geez dude, is going out with me really such a bad idea?"

"W-why?"

"What do you mean? I think I've made it abundantly clear that I'm interested in you. You're pretty cute, a nice guy and I have way too much fun getting you all flustered like this. Plus you already said that you think that I'm cute. And you haven't exactly been rejecting my advances."

"This is a joke right?"

"Nope, I'm one hundred percent serious." The girl smiled at him confidently.

Yet another few moments passed as Midoriya gawked at his classmate. Naturally he was thrown off by this. More so because of how casual the girl was being about the entire thing. How she could say all of that without the slightest bit of trepidation astounded him.

"I-I um…"

"Look you don't have to give me an answer right away if you don't want to. But I think that the two of us would have a lot of fun together." She said with a confident grin.

"I'm sorry, but this is just...a lot."

"Hey I get it. A beautiful young lady just asked you on a date completely out of the blue. I don't blame you for being shocked." She teased. "Tell you what, I'll let you think about it and you can get back to me whenever you want."

"I...I-I don't really know what to say right now."

All Tokage did was give the boy a bit of a shrug. In hindsight, it probably wasn't such a good idea to just spring that on him out of the blue the way that she did. But why beat around the bush when she could just circumvent all the awkwardness and get it out of the way?

"You don't have to say anything there green bean." She smiled at him while linking their arms together and guiding him down the road. "Now come on, let's get you over to the train station before you burst into flames."

Amidst all this excitement, their previous conversation finally caught up to him. He just told the girl that he was quirkless for most of his life and she brushed it off without a second thought. "So you don't think it's weird that I just got my quirk?"

"Oh no, it's totally weird." She shot back. "But it makes a lot of sense considering how you act. Most people with super strong quirks are usually arrogant assholes, but you're the exception. And I doubt if you grew up being able to do what can you do, you'd be such a cool person. Plus, it's not like I think any less of you for not having one or something like that."

"I guess that makes sense." Midoriya gave a slight chuckle. He had more than enough personal experience in that matter and had a hard time disagreeing. He wouldn't be surprised if the students in the other hero class thought the same about him.

Once the two were finally at the train station, Tokage took the opportunity to give the boy one last hug before taking her leave. The small act of affection doing it's job to leave the boy a blushing mess as he made his departure. Now that he was gone, the girl finally released the tension built up in her shoulders and let out a heavy sigh.

'Oh god, I really just did that!' The greenette blushed while fanning herself off with her hands. Thankful that there was no one around to see her in such a state. 'I seriously need to learn how to tone it down a bit. He probably thinks I'm some kind of weirdo for doing that.'

Once the girl got herself back in order, Tokage quickly made the journey back to her house. With all the excitement of the day finally out of the way, it was now time for some much needed rest and relaxation. And there was no better cure for making yourself look like a complete idiot in front of a cute guy than powering your way through a tub of chocolate ice cream while watching some afternoon anime.

'I hope he gives me an answer soon. All this waiting is going to kill me!'

The next day at school proved to be a rather interesting affair for class 1-B's telekinetic duo. Mainly because it was the inaugural field test for the prototype of Yanagi's new "hover disk" that was created by Hatsume and Maijima.

"Thank you for tagging along with me, Midoriya-kun." The grey haired teen said in her usually stoic voice as the two walked into Gym Gamma. At the moment, 1-B was in the middle of a free period and they got permission to try out the new equipment so long as they returned before their next class.

"It was no problem, Yangi-san. It makes sense that you'd ask me to come along." The boy gave her an honest smile. "And I'm really interested in seeing how you handle that thing." He looked down to the new piece of equipment.

Overall, the device wasn't nearly as complex as the boy expected. It was a solid metal disc that was made up of eight interlocking plates that that could be folded in on eachother. Not only could the thing be transported relatively easily. It was sturdy enough to support all of her body weight once fully extended.

The group spent quite a bit of time brainstorming possible ideas that day in the support studio. One of which was a giant glider that was simply too heavy for the girl to carry around with her. And after some deliberation, this proved to be the most efficient method. But the icing on the cake came in the form of the girls new boots.

Like previously stated, the main issue that Yanagi had was keeping herself attached to whatever she was riding. Since she couldn't use her quirk on herself like Midoriya could, they needed to find a way to work around that. And the solution that they came up with was a new pair of boots with magnetic soles. The polarity was strong enough that it would keep the girl attached to disc with relative ease, but weak enough to where she could dismount without any real issues. This mitigated the necessity of needing brackets to hold her feet in place.

It may have only been the prototype, but it was definitely a step in the right direction.

"We don't have a lot of time so let's get started. Kan-sensei said that we only have this area for half an hour."

"Right."

Using her quirk, Yanagi unfolded the disc from its compacted stated and locked the plates into place revealing an octagon shaped saucer. The girl then let out a short breath as she levitated the device in front of her and jumped on it. Thankfully, everything seemed to be working well so far.

"This will do." Yanagi simply said. "I don't plan on going up too high, so there won't be too much trouble."

"Okay." Midoriya nodded.

The 'poltergeist' user wasted no time in getting down to business and ascended higher into the air until she was about two meters off the ground. Midoriya followed suit by also activating his quirk and floating right next to her. With everything ready to go, Yanagi took off at a reasonable speed and began doing laps around the training area.

Over the next five minutes or so, Midoriya watched the girl navigate herself through the gym with an impressive amount of skill. This may have been her first time using the new object, but you wouldn't think that with how well she was moving.

"Is everything okay?" The greenette asked from a few meters behind her.

"Moving like this isn't too hard, but it'll take some getting used to. However, I don't think that I'll be able to maneuver that well."

"I get it, I'm still having problems with that as well. Moving in one direction is easy, but changing directions on a dime is difficult." The boy admitted.

"I think I can go a bit further though." She told him.

Yanagi then upped the difficulty by attempting a sharp turn around one of the stone pillars that Cementoss had put up around the gym. She came pretty close to hitting the thing. But by using her left arm as a guide, she was able to clear it.

"Now I get why you always chose to take to the air during class. This is quite fun."

"Yeah." He smiled.

Another few minutes passed before the girl was ready to try her next move. Without any warning, Yanagi suddenly changed directions and pulled the board higher up into the air. She had seen this move done by a few heroes and it seemed like a pretty good one to try.

Midoriya watched as the girl quickly rotated herself before doing a "corkscrew" maneuver on the board. For a first time attempt, it was pretty good. It wasn't as sharp as what it could've been. But it was still an impressive feat nonetheless.

Unfortunately, Yanagi got so caught up in the moment that she didn't think it all the way through. Once she completed the trick, she brought herself back down closer to the ground. But failed to take into account the fact that Midoriya was still directly under her. Neither of the two had a chance to react before colliding with one another with enough force to send them both back to the earth with a loud thud. The sudden impact was enough to knock the disc from her feet and land right on top of her classmate.

"Ugh." Midoriya groaned out in discomfort. He wanted to be annoyed that his classmate didn't give him any warning before trying something so dangerous in such close proximity to him. But nothing was broken from what he could immediately tell, so all was forgiven. "Are you okay, Yanagi-san?"

"Midoriya-kun, what is…."

Quickly, the boy looked down towards where she was still laying on top of him and his blood almost froze once he did. The fact that they were in a rather compromising position was the least of Midoriya's worries when he tracked where Yanagi's single blue eye was starring. At some point during their mid-air collision, the jacket to his gym uniform had ridden up all the way to the upper part of his abdomen. Completely exposing his midsection to the world.

Normally, Yanagi's demeanor was calm and unchanging. But even now the girl was having a hard time hiding the look of shock that platered itself onto her face. The 'poltergeist' user now had a completely unobstructed view of the multitude of scars that decorated his body.

"These are-"

Fear overtook Midoriya's senses as he quickly pushed her off of him and scrambled to his feet. Making sure to pull the jacket down as tight as he could to hide his shame. A painfully awkward silence followed as the two looked at one another before the green haired boy tried to remedy this situation.

"I-it's nothing!" He frantically blurted out.

"Midoriya-kun, how did you get those scars?" The girl's voice was unusually tense.

"It's n-n-no big deal!" He answered.

"Are you...are you cut-"

"I-I-I need to go to the bathroom!" The boy cut her off as he attempted to walk past her and make his way to the door. But he was stopped when the girl grabbed him by his arm with a rather tight grip.

"Let me go!"

"No."

"Look, it's r-really no big deal. J-just...forget that you even saw a-anything."

"You really can't expect me to do that."

"Yanagi-san I-"

"Calm down." She flatly stated.

"What are you t-talking about? I'm t-totally calm." He gave her a wobbly smile that wasn't fooling her one bit.

"Midoriya-kun, if you don't calm down I'm going to have to tell the teachers about what I saw." She told him.

If Midoriya was worried before, he was downright terrified now. Throughout their entire time as classmates, he never once heard the girl say anything close to what could be considered a threat. She just wasn't that kind of person. And a part of him had the feeling that she was a woman of her word.

Inside his mind, the boy was starting to panic. In the blink of an eye, a multitude of different scenarios were playing out in his head. And none of them were good. He wasn't too sure about U.A.'s policy on this kind of thing, and he was in no rush to find out.

What would happen to him if the school were to find out about this? Would he get kicked out of the hero course? Was he going to be put into some type of holding cell? All of these possibilities were getting worse and worse with each passing second. Unbeknownst to him, his breathing became labored, his face reddened and a layer of sweat was starting to form on his forehead.

"Midoriya-kun, you need to stop freaking out." Yanagi placed her hands on his shoulders. One reason for doing this was to try and get him to relax, but the other was to stop him from trying to run out the door. "Take easier breathes."

Somehow, the green haired teen was able to recompose himself just enough for the world to stop spinning.

"Sit down. You look like you're about to pass out." She ordered.

"O-okay." He reluctantly agreed as he planted himself on the floor, with the grey haired girl following suit.

"Are you okay?"

"I'm fine."

"I'm having a hard time believing that."

"I'm telling you the truth." He shot back. Silently hoping that his words would make up for his less than stellar demeanor.

Midoriya quickly clasped his hands together in a prayer position and bowed his head. "Yanagi-san, please don't say anything about what you saw. I...I...I don't do that anymore!"

On Yanagi's end, she was having a difficult time herself. This was her first time ever encountering something like this in real life and she didn't really know what to do. To be frank, Midoriya was probably the last person that she expected to be cutting himself. Sure the boy didn't present himself as the most confident person in the world. But he never came across as depressed or unstable in any sort of way.

The responsible side of her mind was telling her that she should report this as soon as possible. But the other had a feeling that doing so would cause more problems for the boy than he wanted right now. In all honesty she wished she never saw those cuts to begin with. But now that she did, she couldn't exactly erase it from her memory.

It would've been one thing if there were only a few. But from the brief look she got, there were dozens of them. All strategically placed to avoid one another in a clean and uniform fashion. Which was a tell-tale sign that he had a lot of practice.

Deciding that getting unsettled wasn't going to help the situation one bit, the girl regained her nerve and looked at him with a neutral expression. "I don't really know what to do about stuff like this, but I do know that what you're doing-what you did isn't healthy. Are you sure that you're alright?"

"I'm fine." He repeated worriedly.

"Is everything okay at home?"

"Yanagi-san, I promise you I'm completely and one hundred percent okay. Like I said...I don't do that anymore. I haven't done it in a while."

Something in the back of the girl's mind was telling her not to believe that. But it wasn't like she could verify whether or not it was true. From what she had seen, none of those wounds appeared to be fresh. So at the very least it had been a significant amount of time since the last time he did it. Against her better judgement, Yanagi chose to accept what he was saying. But she still had her doubts.

"Fine…" She replied after letting out a sigh.

"Fine, what?" He raised his head.

"I won't say anything."

"What?"

"I won't say anything about this."

Midoriya eyes practically lit up at those words and a sense of relief washed over his soul. "Thank-"

"But…" She held up a hand to his face. "Now that I know about this, I can't exactly let it go. I should report this to Hound Dog-sensei or Kan-sensei, but I won't. For now, this will just be between the two of us."

"Okay."

"Is there any chance that anyone else knows about this."

"No." Midoriya quickly shook his head.

"Midoriya-kun…" She glared at him. She may not have known Midoriya for very long, but everyone in the class knew that the boy was a terrible liar.

"O-okay." He relented. "One other person does. But he doesn't go to our school. And he knows that I haven't done it in a long time."

"How have you been able to hide this for so long? One of the other boys had to have seen it by now." She asked.

"I usually change in the stalls or wait until everyone else has already left to switch my shirts." He answered.

Well that explained why he was usually the last one out of the locker rooms before training. The girl did find it a bit odd that it took him the longest out of all the boys to finish getting changed despite his costume being one of the most simple. Even Monoma managed to make it out before he did, and his hero costume was literally a tuxedo.

"Okay."

"Thank you, Yanagi-san."

"I'll stay quiet about this for now, but I'll be keeping a close eye on you just in case. As soon as I see something wrong, I'm going to the faculty."

"Okay...that's fair." He reluctantly agreed. He wasn't too happy about it, but it was way better than the alternative.

Seeing as there wasn't really anything else to talk about, the two telekinesis users stood back up to their feet and Yanagi grabbed her hover disc.

"So...do you want to pick up where we left off?" Midoriya asked.

"No." The girl replied while folding her support item back up. "I think that was enough for today."

"Alright." He nodded.

With that, the two students began making their way out of the gym and over to the locker rooms. Although Midoriya was glad that the girl wasn't going to blow the whistle on his secret, he was still uneasy about this entire thing. Having someone know about this was quite literally one of his biggest fears. He made a mental note to wear a tank top under his gym uniform in the future to avoid any further mishaps.

"Thank you...f-for promising to keep this between us."

"I'm not really good with stuff like this. But if you ever...need someone to talk to, you can come to me. If you want."

All Midoriya could do was give the girl a half-hearted smile and scratch his cheek. "I'll keep that in mind."

That was the last thing the two said before splitting off and getting dressed. Once they were back in class, it was hard for either of them to stay focused on Present Mic's English lesson. Yanagi still had a nagging feeling in the back of her head that she may have made the wrong decision. But for now, she was going to trust the boy and keep things between them. But for the time being she would make sure to keep a close eye on him, just in case.