16 Ch. 17 - First Impressions

"Ugh." A groan came out. Today is Friday, June 4.

Yesterday, he got his U.A High School uniform and P.E uniform.

"(To think that I'm gonna study from one of the impossible school to study when I was Quirkless.)" Izuku mentally whined as his whole body was being examined. He was wearing a full set of school uniform.

And yes, today is the day where classes resume since Nezu reminded the boy that class will start on Friday. Without wasting any time, he started to wear his newly bought red Nike shoes and went outside his room.

He was met by Emerald and Mittens. He opened a canned good that is for Mittens and dog food for Emerald. Once placed on the ground, he said, "See you guys later!" With that, he opened the front door of his house, closed it, and went on his way.

Not more than fifteen minutes, he was finally standing in front of the door. It has a number and a letter.

'1-A'.

That's right. Though he is very early, he checked his new smartwatch and it says 6:00 AM. The greenette boy was thinking of how many months did the first-semester start, but to be honest he lost count of it when the enrollment or entrance exam in U.A High School started.

Two days ago, Wednesday, that was the day where he moved from Shizuoka Prefecture to U.A High School. That was also the day where his body was measured. He didn't go naked, mind you. Just measurements. It's for the uniforms, dummies.

After the measurement, he was given a schedule of what are the subjects and time each day.

Every day, there will be a Short Homeroom Period that lasts ten minutes. For a specific time, it will be 8:25 AM to 9:35 AM. The class dismissal is 4:10 PM.

Students of Class 1-A have fifty minutes per subject period and ten minutes break after the period. Also, there is be a five-minute break after the Short Homeroom Period. After that, from 8:40 AM to 9:30 AM is the first period.

After a ten-minute break, 9:40 AM to 10:30 AM is the second period. The process continued until the fourth period, which is 11:40 AM to 12:30 PM.

Then, lunchtime will occur at 12:30 PM to 1:20 PM. The duration of it is surprisingly fifty minutes as well.

Then, from 1:20 PM to 2:10 PM is the fifth period. Again, this process will go on until it is dismissal time, 4:10 PM.

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The only downside of it is that there are Saturday classes, but those students who got into U.A High School embraced the schedule and will finish any task that was or will be given to them. They should be a bit delightful that Saturday classes end at 3:10 PM.

Anyways, back to Izuku's situation.

He looked at his newly bought smartwatch and it said that it is 07:00 A.M. Today is Friday, so he was guessing that there are gonna be more lessons for him to catch up.

"Um, excuse me. May I help you?"

The voice caused him to interrupt his thoughts as he turns left and saw a girl standing with her U.A uniform.

"Oh, I just, uh, recently got transferred to U.A. recently" Izuku stated, not knowing how to start a conversation, let alone with a girl. Not only that, but it's also his first time to talk to a girl.

"Oh. What class are you in?" The girl asked in curiosity.

Izuku hesitated, but nonetheless gave her his answer saying, "Class 1-A."

It took a moment for her to realize what he just said to her and started to shout in excitement. "No way! I'm Class 1-A, too! I'm Amelia Kawakami. And you are?"

"Izuku. Izuku Midoriya." The same answer whenever someone wanted to know his name.

"Hello, Midoriya-kun. I hope we can be fri-." She was interrupted when a thought came crashing down to her mind, enabling Amelia to continue her speech. This went unnoticed by the green-haired boy.

"Wait a minute, hold on. did you say that you got transferred here?" The boy nodded. Her gaze lowered, going into her mind of thoughts of why did a student transferred here and now? How and why?

It only took a moment, until a sudden flick of her eyebrows made her realize who's the person in front of her.

"No way, you're..." She was struggling to find words but got interrupted by the 15-year-old boy, who said, "Yup. Exactly what you're thinking. Nice to meet you, Kawakami-san. Meet the vigilante Shadow."

Introducing himself as the infamous vigilante, it was breathtaking for Amelia, who was standing there with eyes wide opened and a gaping mouth.

"It's, uh, a pleasure to-"

"I know. You're scared of me because of those acts I did."

"What?" She shouted. "No! No, no, no, no, no! It's not what you think." Waving her hands, retorting the idea that she was scared of him, but that is not the point. One of Izuku's eyebrows raised, he was confused about why is she not scared of him.

"It's, just that..." A pregnant silence came by before she let out a nervous giggle. A sight for the green-haired boy to see. He still has that confused look, but when she let out that nervous giggle, it was cute that he didn't want to admit it.

"To think that I'm the first person to see your true face this day even though I am supposed to be scared, but nope. I'm a fan of you, Midoriya-kun." She honestly said that with a smile on her face? Wow, talk about guts.

Izuku was surely surprised about that. To think that someone truly admired his work to save the people in the night. It was a rare sight and possibly a once in a lifetime experience for him at his early age.

"And here I thought vigilantes treated far worse than villains," Izuku stated. He was surfing through the internet and saw many articles of how vigilantes were treated equally to the society of the Quirkless.

"Really? I thought villains are far worse than vigilantes. Eh, forget about that. Did you know that crime rates dropped around 15% because of you?" She quickly changed the topic. One that made the 15-year-old boy's eyes are almost out of their sockets.

Izuku remembered All Might's first debut and he won't forget how the crime rate drops down by 28% because of him. I mean, in a villain's eyes, if they see All Might face-to-face, they'll piss themselves in their pants, or underwear.

The former vigilante was not aware that the crime rate drastically went down that fast. Normally, it would go down if there is a government announcement that is related to crimes. But his sudden appearance truly made a major impact on the media and society.

"I see." That's all he can say, confusing the redhead girl for why did he say that. For All Might, he captured and defeat villains in a day, but Izuku himself beat up multiple villains, infiltrate their base, and made them surrender to the police in the night, kinda like helping him to reduce the crime rates.

Kinda like work in the dark to serve the light, huh?

After Izuku's response, he tried to change the topic by saying, "Placing those crime rates aside, why are you so early in school, Kawakami-san? Also, I didn't see you back at the USJ."

"Oh, I, uh, heard that my friends were in danger since that day. I wasn't there, because I got sick before that day. If only I've been there to help them, especially Ochako-chan." Amelia's eyes were covered by her hair, looking down in shame.

The name. Ochako. It clicked the green-haired boy's mind, but also looked at her in a sad expression as he thought ways to cheer her up.

"But thanks to you," Suddenly her eyes lift up to stare at him Izuku, interrupting him and saw her smiling. "She can live for another day of happy life because of you."

"Hm. So she told you about what happened that day?"

"Uh-huh" The girl nodded.

"I see." Had it not been for him, she, along with Ochako's parents, are going to be very devastated that a pedophile villain just raped her close friend, who was tied up and scared during that moment. The pedophile was almost close to forcefully took something a person, either boy or girl, cannot get it back.

Then, he looked at the large door with a saddened look. He mentally sighed before he thought, "(This is where hell begins.)"

"(No shit, Sherlock.)" Shadow cussed. A first for Izuku to hear that his partner just swore in his mind. It did surprise him. Internally.

But his thoughts wavered when Amelia called him.

"Midoriya-kun, what's wrong?"

The moment he heard his name, he jumped a little and that he needs to find a lie for her to fall for it right now.

"Ah. Um, I'm, just surprised that I got transferred to U.A High School."

"Hm..." She surveyed the boy's face. "Are you sure? Because I'm not falling for that lie. I can tell, Midoriya-kun. I've seen those kind of faces before. It's a face where they get depressed about something."

Busted. Well, of course, she's a Class 1-A student, so she is smart enough to be in it. Izuku's heart was pounding fast, knowing that he was caught lying. That's a bad move for the 15-year-old green-haired boy.

As if this was the breaking point of hiding, he only sighed in defeat and turn himself in. "It's just that nobody wanted me to be here, even though I wanted to go here. Well, I'm an outcast to the society, that's all."

Amelia didn't say a word for a few seconds until she did so. "Just ignore those degenerates. What matters the most is that you're here and you showed them who's the boss."

Hearing that made him feel strange. Is this how it felt to be cheered, comforted, or compliment by someone?

"Thanks, Kawakami-san." He said without a smile, but had a happy look on his eyes, making Amelia smile back.

"(Progress.)" She thought before continuing. "That's more like it. Anyways, let's go inside and wait for our friends to arrive."

"Wait. 'Our' friends? Don't you mean 'your' friends?"

"'My' friends? Nonsense! You're one of us now!"

Again, another emotion that made Izuku feel fuzzy, but he appreciated it. First of all, nobody ever talks to him like this in his whole life except... that person. He was shunned for the whole fifteen years, so in this kind of conversation, it made him feel slightly scared and weirded out.

In short, he had an introvert vibe.

Still, it doesn't hurt to try and talk to strangers, right?

The feeling made him conflicted but nonetheless accepted it.

All this time, he's been through worse and worse, but here he is, being told by a girl that he's one of them.

"Alright." That word came out of the boy's mouth before he opened the door. In front of them is what they didn't expect for someone to be this early. A person was sitting on the teacher's chair with bandages all over his arm, including his face, but not entirely.

"Aizawa-sensei, are you okay?" A worried Sachi asked.

"Can you really call that 'okay'?" She can hear Izuku whisper in her right ear. However, this was ignored when the person, named Aizawa, answered, "My well-being doesn't matter anyway since the fight isn't over yet."

As soon as he said that, Izuku's eyes got narrowed while Sachi's wide open.

"Aizawa- No. Eraser Head-sensei." Izuku called out the person's hero name. Aizawa was not popular in the hero rankings, but he is very good at keeping a low profile from the media by being a pro hero working underground.

"I presume you're Izuku Midoriya?"

"Yes, sir."

"Well, seems that there is no introduction for us then." The teacher didn't meet Izuku, even at the USJ, because he was severely injured, but he was informed of who he is and that Nezu told them that the vigilante will be in his class.

"For now, you can take a rest and make acquaintance with your classmates later."

"Yes, sir." With that, Aizawa went to his yellow sleeping bag and rolled under the teacher's table. Silence caught the atmosphere between the awakened individuals and it turned out to be awkward and awkward as time goes on.

Amelia coughed, getting the new student's attention, and embarrassingly asked, "Would you, uh, like to seat beside me?"

Unusual. They were strangers awhile ago, and now she's making a move on her? Pretty bold indeed.

"I think it would be better if I find a seat that's unoccupied." Stated Izuku.

"Pretty sure there are no extra chairs."

"Uh-huh." He doubted. "Are you sure about that?" Izuku asked, clarifying her statement. She looked at the chairs that are properly aligned and saw one that stands out the rest. There are four columns and five rows.

One chair is in the middle and very back. An extra chair. Not meant for observers to check how teachers teach their students.

"There's one chair? What? I didn't see that the last time I was here." She said in bewilderment.

"Then that's where I'll sit. Where is your seat?"

"There." Pointing the seat where she is ever since the first day of the school, he nodded.

"Alright. Guess I'll go to my seat and take a rest then. Wake me up when they are here. Thanks in advance."

"Um, okay." She was supposed to say 'I will', but looks like he beat her to it as he went to his seat, placed his backpack on the ground under the table, his arms went in a cross-position before putting them on the table and he rested his head. It's the start of his napping point.

While that was happening, Amelia was standing there, watching him do all that before she went to her own seat.

"By the way," Izuku lifted his head and said those, causing the redhead girl to look at him. "When Katsuki Bakugo is here, just quickly wake me up. I don't want my beauty sleep to be interrupted by that explosive boy."

"Gotcha..." It took more than a second for her to process what she just heard.

"Eh? You know that exploding crap mixed with garbage?"

What she hear next is a distant snore that came out of Izuku's mouth

"So fast! "

"Shut up." Aizawa, out of nowhere, shouted with irritation, making her jumped and quickly shut her mouth up.

To kill time, she decided to read some books on a familiar and famous app she downloaded on her smartphone for a long time.

==Time Skip==

Soon enough, the room is starting to fill in, but during their conversation as they enter their room, they were surprised that their classmate and friend, Amelia Kawakami, is already here. More advance of waking up than their certain Class President. How many students have arrived?

Only fifteen of them. That makes it seventeen in the class if it includes Amelia Kawakami and Izuku Midoriya. Five of fifteen students are girls while the rest are boys.

"Wow, Kawakami-san. You're very early." A classmate said. To know the person, it's the girl who had short purple hair with plug-like earphone jacks hanging from each of her earlobes.

You know who it is.

Kyoka Jiro.

"Yup. Just wanna make sure that you guys are okay, you know? I wasn't there that day." Amelia stated, making

"Thanks for worrying. I'm sure that you're okay now?" Said the girl with a long black hair normally tied into a spiky ponytail with a large strand hanging on the right side of her face and onyx eyes that point slightly inwards, which seems to resemble a cat.

Her question made the red-haired girl nodding. It did not last long as their eyes are now on the new student, who was sleeping on the desk.

"Kero?" One person croaked with a question mark hanging above her. "Amelia-chan, who is that?" The voice came from a girl who has long dark green hair whose face is rather frog-like. She has that straightforward look, but the way her vacant stare at the sleeping green-haired boy, she had a confused expression on it.

"That's him." Those are the only words that came out of the redhead girl. This made everyone widened their eyes in shock as they finally realized... that the former vigilante will be studying with all of them.

Amelia stood up and went to him, which made everyone watched her actions on him. She walked around, trying to get a good view to boop him and wake him up.

She found one. Due to Izuku's head sleeping on his right cheek, the red-haired girl began to boop his left cheek twice while whispering, "Midoriya-kun." She called. "Midoriya-kun, wake up."

She saw him shuffling his head before opening his eyes in a slow pace and stared at her, half-awake and half-asleep.

He closed his eyes and slowly raised his head and stretched his arms upward. After that, he rubbed his right eye with his right hand and said, "Thanks, Kawakami-san."

Remember, his eyes are still closed. Yet he heard Amelia's voice saying, "No problem."

After that point, he opened his eyes and saw numerous orbs staring back at him. Normally, people wouldn't mind someone waking up, because that is not their priority. In this case, everyone was staring at the new student, former vigilante.

It was a very awkward atmosphere indeed for everyone and made them sweatdropped, including the 15-year-old boy, who kept a blank stare but nonetheless felt the tension around him and his classmates.

"Um." That came from the bob cut brown-haired girl. Stuttering and clearly shy, she took a step forward from the group and her eyes are glued at the green-haired boy, who got her attention. She bowed her head as she said with a formal honorific, "Thank you very much, Shadow-kun."

"Yeah. Thanks for saving him, Shadow-kun." Said the boy whose hair is spiked away from his face.

Izuku knows six out of fifteen students, because they are the persons whom he saved. Well, except for one person, who was not in the classroom yet.

He then heard them saying thanks for saving one of their friends and classmates, only for him to nod. He's not the type of person to talk.

"You're shy, huh?" He heard Amelia saying that, making him nod.

"But why won't you talk like when it's us two? Is it because that there's-"

"Hey!" The sudden outburst made everyone jumped except Izuku, who just frowned and furrowed his eyes. The shout came from behind the arrived students. They all look behind and saw a certain ash-blonde boy, who had an expression of flaming garbage.

"Deku! Why the fuck are you here?! You're not supposed to be here, you fucking bastard!"

"(To think that my day could get actually worse than before. Damn it, Bakugo!)" Izuku cursed his childhood bully as he saw him shoving everyone out of his way, to blow him in pieces. Izuku quickly stood up and went into a battle position.

This sudden act surprised Amelia, who was standing right beside him and took a few steps back, for she was about to witness something that can make her scared and so does everyone.

It seems that everyone's suspicions were correct, they should be careful about him no matter what tricks that are under Izuku's sleeves.

Katsuki watched the news after the incident and he had it right all the time. Izuku Midoriya, the pebble, was the vigilante.

He ran towards the green-haired boy, who raised his arms up for defense and ready to attack since it's self-defense, but before he could reach Izuku, he found himself ensnared by the easily awoken Aizawa's capture weapon, and his Quirk got erased as the homeroom teacher glared at his student.

"Give it a rest, Bakugou." This made everyone, except Amelia, bewildered that he's already here. They all shouted at the same time, "A-Aizawa-sensei?!"

"You're all right, Sensei?" Asked the blue-haired boy with eyeglasses while quickly raised his whole right arm up.

"C-Can you really call that 'all right'?" The bob cut brown-haired girl asked, stuttered at the first word, and had a worried tone from her voice. Izuku mentally chuckled, because that girl asked the same question like him.

But out of the tension that was floating within the classroom, Izuku was surprised that Aizawa defended him. In his previous school, his teachers never once defended him. Hell, they encouraged the bullying and even joined in.

"He's your new classmate and must be treated as one."

"And why the hell are you protecting him? He's a stupid boy who's Quirkless, for fuck sake!"

Then they all started to murmur, mumbling, or whisper to their friends if Izuku was really Quirkless or not. In annoyance to his social status, Izuku decided to say something.

"Listen, Baku-"

"No, you listen to me you stupid fuck. You're not worth studying here, you got that?!"

While this was happening, Aizawa was informed by Nezu before Izuku went to his new home in U.A High School about the feud from these boys. He knew about Izuku and Katsuki's relationship, but he never thought that this is rough enough for him to be distracted from his sleeping days.

Katsuki was about to say something but quickly shut himself as he was pulled back, hitting his backside at the wall with intense.

Grunting from the pain, he felt enormous glare from Aizawa. "You're making my day get worse than before, Bakugo. Your pride shows no boundaries. One more word and I dare you. You're already giving me a headache. So what's it gonna be?" He said that with malicious intent.

Katsuki knew nothing more than to shut himself up and knows of 'Do not mess around when I'm here' when it comes to his homeroom teacher.

Hearing nothing but the silence was the answer to Aizawa's question as he unwrapped his scarf that was wearing the boy down from preventing to attack Izuku.

"I can't believe this. No matter what you say, I still won't accept that you're here." The explosion boy scowled, doesn't care that the 15-year-old boy, who used to be his childhood friend, is now studying with him.

At this point, Izuku had enough. It was Katsuki's one final warning and he crossed the line.

Eyebrows furrowed, he eyed his torturer. "Look, Bakugo, I'm not any happier about this than you are. To be perfectly honest, I'd much rather be rotting away in my house rather than having to attend classes alongside you as I did for years. Unfortunately, that's not an option. So as much as I want to, I can't leave. And trust me, listening to your obnoxious voice isn't making it any more bearable to me or to your classmates around you."

Bakugou popped a vein that was on his forehead. How dare this Quirkless piece of shit talks to him like that! He really wanted to fight him right here, right now!

The other students were surprised at what Izuku just said. He just angered their most hostile classmate.

"That's enough." The mummy teacher said, putting a stop to the boys.

"Sit down and prepare yourself. Class is about to begin and let Midoriya introduce himself before you all."

Numerous nods can be seen from the students as they walk towards their own place. As of this point, some students were at the door. Meaning they saw the tension. They, too, heard what their homeroom teacher said, but Aizawa wasn't finished.

"One more thing, do not let yourself judge the book quickly. What he's about to say should be kept within this class. Understood?" The word 'should' was loud enough for them, except Izuku and Katsuki, to slightly jumped from their chairs.

Because of the statement, he earned multiple nods of his students' heads. They all nodded at the same time and soon enough, their gazes are now onto Izuku, who walked towards the podium and faced them.

They all saw Izuku turning his head to look at Aizawa, who, in return, gave the green-haired boy a nod in response.

"Alright. It's plainly obvious that you all know that I'm the vigilante Shadow, but you never know who I really am, except Bakugo and Kawakami-san." With that, Izuku started to establish his real identity to his classmates.

"My name's Izuku Midoriya, 15 years old. Likes? Dislikes? Hobbies? Talents? It's not your business to meddle with. You do yours and I'll do mine."

This display of attitude causes Shadow to get annoyed. "(You really have to do that, idiot?)"

"(That way I can be in peace.)" Izuku replied back, making Shadow slap his forehead. As for the class' reactions? You can see how shocked they are. He saved them and somehow wanted his life to be secretive from anyone else.

"Is that how he, uh, talks to you, Kawakami-san?" Whispered the yellow-haired boy with a black lightning-shaped streak on the left of his side fringe hair, who leaned to the right, because on his right is where Amelia Kawakami is sitting at.

"Nope. Maybe because he's shy around people, Kaminari-kun. He didn't talk like that to me few minutes ago." Answered Amelia while adding her own thoughts, "(Something did go very wrong in his life.)"

"Oh." The boy, recognized as Denki Kaminari, understood.

"It's a pleasure to meet you all. Although, I don't know about the lessons you have talked about, so I'm in your care." Izuku bowed his head before he looked at Aizawa. Not saying anything except a vibe with 'That's all' look.

With that being said, Eraser Head finally spoke, "Alright, you can go to your seat, and let's start the homeroom."

Izuku followed the teacher's instructions as he went back to his seat and started to listen about what will his and their homeroom teacher is about to say. Apparently, there will be an event that will happen just a few weeks away.

Sports Festival, a supernormal school event, an Olympic Japanese style that'll be held in U.A.

Everyone in Class 1-A, except Izuku, Katsuki, and a certain boy with two Quirks, are so excited since it's a supernormal school event, but some students are worried about something. They ask something like 'Is it okay to have a festival so soon after the villains snuck inside their boundary of studying?'

They might be worried if the villains are gonna attack again, but apparently, they might think of it as U.A High School showing that the crisis management system of their school is as solid as a stone or rock by holding an event.

Because of the incident, of course, the security will be tightened five times or even more so. No, even tighter than that. Because Izuku will participate and that every bad guy is going out to drench their dirty hands in the blood. Their morale is wavering, attempting to kidnap every person, but failed because of that vigilante boy.

The U.A High School's Sports Festival has the biggest chance, but the problem is that it won't be canceled because of a few villains.

The Sports Festival was the only shell of Olympic's former glory due to reductions in scale and population. Class 1-A talked to each other about how the top heroes all over Japan will be watching.

The chance for them to get into the top recommendations of scouting purposes. Joining a famous hero agency will give the students more experience and popularity. Since Aizawa explains all that, a certain green-haired boy flinched and get irritated when his teacher said popularity.

Izuku's not the kind of person to have large popularity. All he ever cares about is the will to become a true hero just like the past legends. If popularity will affect his life, then he will have a harder time to do what he wants in the future.

"If you expect to go beyond, then the path to your future will open up at this event. One chance a year, a total of three chances. No future heroes can afford to miss this event. If you understand that, then don't slack off on your preparations!" Aizawa stated, wanting to make sure that his students understood what he said.

"Yes, sir!" They almost synchronized, but they heard their homeroom teacher loud and clear.

"Homeroom dismissed." Izuku was slightly surprised about how quick the homeroom period is. Almost as if it's the same duration as his introduction, but mostly he was in deep thoughts, processing about the Sports Festival.

==Time Skip==

"There you have it, kids. You can have your lunch." The teacher of Art History, recognized to the media and public as the Rated-R or Rated 18 Heroine: Midnight, finally finished teaching Class 1-A students about the lessons they tackled and declared that lunchtime finally started before leaving the classroom.

Then, the noise grew louder as most of Izuku's classmates were already talking with their friends, fired up about how they wanted to be at the top when the Sports Festival came upon them, and talking about who will they intern with.

"(All riled up for the U.A High School's Sports Festival, huh? That's usual.)" He nonchalantly thought as he observed his classmates. He never felt the feeling of the adrenaline rushing through his veins or that he never felt the excitement coursing through his heart.

The green-haired boy only remembered the time whenever he was excited, only to get laughed at by his classmates of how childish he is.

He kept his mouth closed throughout the entire morning class hours and that the noise is making him irritated as he decided to leave the room by standing up and silently left.

"Hey, Midori- Huh?" It was from Amelia. She was talking first to her close friends, Ochako, Tsuyu, and the blue-haired boy with eyeglasses. She was about to ask something to the former vigilante, so she turned around, only for her to see that his seat was empty.

"Ah. Where did Midoriya-kun go?" It was Ochako who said that, wondering where did Izuku go.

"I saw him left the classroom, probably going to the cafeteria."

"Thank you, Iida-kun. Let's go after him."

"Kero." Tsuyu croaked as they all left the room and started walking towards the cafeteria, hoping that the 15-year-old boy was there.

And they're right. They saw Izuku lined up to get food for lunch and they did the same. It took a while, but they already saw Izuku walking away with the tray of food on his hands.

"Can you guys look out my spot?"

"Sure, Uraraka-san."

"Thank you, Iida-kun." With that, Ochako left the line and ran towards Izuku, who was walking away from everyone. She managed to catch up to him and tried to call him out which is embarrassingly hard for her since she's calling the boy's attention.

"Uh, um." Ochako tried but was slightly blushing.

"Hm?" Izuku turned around and saw his classmate, Ochako Uraraka, right in front of him, fiddling with her fingers.

"What's wrong, Uraraka-san?"

"Co-could you, wait for us?"

"Why is that?"

"I-I mean we want to eat with you or like, can you join us eating lunch together?" She finally said it, still afraid of the offer getting rejected. She, along with her friends, wanted to know him more. Well, it doesn't hurt to have new friends, right?

He answered. "Okay."

"Really? Then, could you wait for us?"

"Hn." Izuku nodded, making her smile, and went back to the line as the green-haired boy followed her and stood a few feet away from the line. He saw his classmates.

Amelia Kawakami, Tsuyu Asui, and the blue-haired boy with eyeglasses. Izuku remembered him going out of the U.S.J and went back for help. True to his words, he waited until they got their lunch.

==Time Skip==

They finally found a table for them to eat. Normally, they would be together with their classmates, but as of this point, they went to a separate table, so that the 15-year-old boy would be comfortable to eat his lunch.

"I guess we haven't truly introduced ourselves to you, Midoriya-san. I'm Ochako Uraraka."

"Tsuyu Asui. You can call me Tsu-chan. Kero."

"And I'm Tenya Iida, President of Class 1-A. It's a pleasure to meet you, Midoriya-kun. You don't need to say your name out loud since, you know, you revealed yourselves to us awhile ago." The blue-haired boy said, doing some robotic hand motions, making Izuku raised his eyebrows for what he's seeing.

"Do you always do that?" The green-haired boy questioned with an arched eyebrow.

"Sorry! It's my hobby!" Tenya shouted.

"Okay. You don't have to shout like that, Iida-kun."

"Sorry." This time, he whispered, making the girls giggled at his response and Izuku didn't smile. He wanna finish this as fast as possible so that he can take a walk if he ever has the time before the next class starts.

"Hey, Midoriya-kun. We all saw how that flaming garbage hates you. Is there a reason why?" The question came from the red-haired girl.

It took a solid five seconds for Izuku to answer. "It's something that I don't wanna share with. Please understand my personal space." With a formal tone, he begged his new friends to pressure him about it as they all nodded for understanding.

"If you don't mind me asking, why did Bakugo-kun call you Deku? Was it your nickname?" Ochako looked at him with innocent eyes, but the name made Izuku flinched and tightly clenched his fist. This didn't go unnoticed by Amelia and Tenya as one of them said to Ochako, "Uraraka-san, don't-"

"It's okay, she wanted to know."

"But, you said that we shouldn't invade your personal space."

"Only a few, but this is okay, Iida-kun," Izuku replied as he began to sell out his nickname.

"The letter 'DE' came from the word defenseless and the 'KU' was transpired from my name, Izuku. If you put the meaning together, it would be called Defenseless Izuku. But, it could also mean useless." He explained. Gasps are the response from the four persons who are eating with him.

"I-I-I'm sorry, Midoriya-kun." Ochako stuttered and had a look that she was about cry.

In a nonchalant tone, he reassured her. "No, it's okay. You wanted to know about it, so there you have it."

"Bakugo-kun called you by that name? What a disgraceful child he is!"

"Shush it, Iida-kun. You're getting unwanted attention." Amelia said.

"I-It's, I-I thought it meant 'Dekiru' like, 'You can do it.'"

"I agree with Ochako-chan. Kero." Tsuyu nodded and croaked in agreement.

Everything went silent. Izuku just stared at the two girls as if he was lost in thoughts, a desperate look. However, deep within that look lies the tiniest light that Izuku tried to find for his whole life.

Words cannot describe what he's feeling, but it's related to hope.

The way they complement such a wasteful nickname and didn't make it look worse is what makes him feel unusual. No words came out due to his clogged throat that contains weird emotions.

"I'm sorry, Midoriya-san. I won't call you that again." Ochako looked down in shame, thinking that she just crossed the line. Silence is the only answer that she got and thought that he was angry at her.

"If you want to call me that," All eyes are now on the green-haired boy.

For Ochako, her friends didn't know, but as she continues to gaze on those green orbs, she was sure that those eyes are shining that holds... hope and wishes.

"Then call me Deku."

"But I thought it's mean to you."

"And here I thought it's what you meant."

Hearing that made the girl blush harder. "I..." Ochako tightly closed mouth before she covered her face with both hands and looked away in embarrassment.

Izuku felt a huge burden was hoisted from his stiff shoulders ad felt butterflies around his stomach. Nonetheless... this might be... the moment where he can be accepted by society. Starting from Ochako Uraraka, Tsuyu Asui, Amelia Kawakami, and Tenya Iida.

Unknown to him, the side of his mouth went up as he saw them laughing and smiling at Ochako Uraraka, who played herself because of what she said to him awhile ago about his nickname.

"(I guess it's a good start, huh? Was it okay to have friends like them?)"

"(That's the thing, Izuku. It's good to have friends that can back-up someone and help them at their desperate times and be there for comfort.") Shadow answered.

Izuku sighed through his nose as he said, "Let's eat our food. Don't wanna make them go cold." They all nodded as they all said in synchronization.

"Itadakimasu." Izuku joined them as they gently gobble up their food and drink their own water to fill their hunger and thirst.

As they were eating their lunch, someone not far away was staring at them, especially one person.

"(It's you.)"

==CHAPTER END==

OC I created is mine.

Original Character Bio

Name: Amelia Kawakami

Hero Name: Glint

Age: 15

Birthday: April 26

Height: 5'5

Occupation: Student

School: U.A High School; Class 1-A

Quirk: Photon Beams

Description:

The Quirk can allow the user to create and project beams composed of photon that are capable of piercing virtually anything they come into contact with and have explosive properties.

As the user gains more control, they can be able to control the intensity of their beam for harmless or deadly burning effects.

However, over usage of her Quirk causes the person's body to overheat and so they need to cool down before they can use it again.

The more intense the beam is, the more risk the person gains of over heating themselves.

She'll need to try to concentrate and work on one finger at a time while working on firing her beams from her fingers. Plus, continuously shooting her beams will increase her body's durability and lower the risk for overheat.

Another weakness is her beams can only be in a straight line. But, this weakness can be countered by means of mirrors.

And she actually can't pierce through mirrors or windows since glass reflects light.

If the beam hurt a person, he or she would get hurt, but it depends on how much heat Amelia puts into that one beam.