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Five minutes.

That's how long Izuku supported the roof of a building during a hostage training exercise all because Bakugou couldn't control his temper and blasted one too many support beams.

He wasn't scolded for it but Midoriya was, Aizawa him he should have been doing something more logical than standing there holding the ceiling up.

You know, preventing his teammates from getting crushed.

But no he should have done something more logical.

Long story short, he broke two ribs and an arm while going over his limit, Recovery Girl healed him, and now he's here dragged his tired body towards the 1-A dorms.

"I need a shower." He mumbled to himself as he pushed the door open, and slowly began climbing the stairs. He blinked and found himself drying his hair, standing behind one of the couches in the common room.

He didn't remember how he got here but that wasn't important, the couch looked comfortable and he was tired.

So with all the grace in his body, Midoriya slumped over the backrest of the couch and rolled himself on to the cushions, the towel he was using to dry his hair now filling the role of keeping the light out of his eyes.

'Just a short nap, just...a...short.'

~×~×~×~×~×~

Out of everything Jiro expected to see while waiting for her classmates to catch up and get to the dorm, Midoriya walking out freshly showered with a dazed look in his eyes wasn't one of them.

She continued watching as he bumped against the common room couches and nearly spits out her water when she sees him flop over it to lay down on them.

She takes a few moments to get her laughing under control before walking over to him to see if he's alright.

"Hey green."

No response.

"Midoriya."

Still nothing.

She got closer and began poking his cheek.

"Hey wake up, you can't EEK!"

Suddenly a pair of strong arms were wrapped around her waist yanking her down to the couch, laying her on her side.

"M-Midoriya!"

He let's out a grunt, tightening his hold on her bringing the embarrassed girl closer to his body effectively trapping her there.

"..."

Her blush only worsened when she felt him nuzzle the top of her hair, he let out a content sigh that threatened to make Jiros heart exploded.

'Okay, okay, I can get out of this, just wake him up.'

He jack raised over his ear ready to force the boy awake.

'Alright. One. Two. Three.'

The jack was still in the air.

"..."

The jack lowered and Jiro sighed against his chest.

"...fuck."

~×~×~×~×~×~

Izuku woke up to the sound of giggling, he didn't really know where he was until he turned his eyes to the source of the giggling.

"Hey Midori, you comfy?" Ashido asked with her phone pointed at him.

"Yeah." He answered voice thick with sleep.

Hagakure giggled into what he assumed was her hand.

"So when were you going to tell us about you and Jiro?"

Izuku blinked a couple if times and tried to get up but something was holding him down. He stopped and looked down to see Jiro with her arms wrapped around his chest, sleeping peacefully. 

On the outside Izuku looked calm if not a little out of it.

On the inside however.

'Okay okay okay just stay calm stay calm don't freak out you're fine you're fine! She's really cute like this... locking that away! Okay so I was napping on the couch and at some point this happened, okay just thinking of something to say!'

And with all of his brain power he developed a brilliant solution!

"Oh…"

He calmly adjust Jiro in his arms and picked her up being extra careful not to wake her up and carefully made his way up the stairs to his room.

He'll deal with this later.

…

Much later.

Chapter Text

Warm.

Warm was how she would describe the moment she woke up. Through her half open eyes she scanned her surroundings, well as much of her surroundings as she could while resting her head on a...table?

Her table was rising and falling.

Not a table but something, it was warm.

Wait, she was laying down.

Reluctantly she turned her head, removing it from the surface she'd been using as a pillow and scanned the room, it wasn't hers, the All Might merchandise made that obvious enough.

She felt something coil around her waist, she turned her back to see what was pulling her.

Dull half open eyes met her sharp onyx ones.

The two slowly blinked at each other, neither willing to break the silence between them, but it had to be broken at some point.

"Hi," Izuku greets her, his voice thick with sleep as the word slowly falls from his lips, "are you okay?"

She thought his words over, repeating them in her head over and over trying to think of a good response.

"Huh?" 

...it'll do.

Izuku slowly blinked, his own brain chugging along slowly to everything happening.

"We ended up sleeping all day because of me." He clarified, but his words were quiet, almost too quiet if Kyouka didn't have super hearing.

"Oh...yeah that…" the punk girl returned to her previous position resting against his chest, letting his strong steady heartbeat distract her from the blush burning across her face, "No yeah I'm...I'm fine what about you, you're usually a morning person."

His arms tighten around her waist snuggling closer against her and resting his face on her hair. She couldn't help but do the same, he was warm and she wasn't fully awake yet don't judge her!

"Yeah, I don't really sleep that well, nightmares." He mumbles, the situation still not hitting the half awake boy. "Do you know what time it is?"

'Okay... I'll just put a pin on that.'

"No, but it's late," she controlled one of her jacks to poke his head and point over to the glass sliding doors. "the moons out."

Izuku grumbles something against her hair before lifting his head, it was in fact night out and turning his eyes down a little he could see the exact time on his All Might themed alarm clock.

"Iz two" he shook his head and tried again, "I mean it's two a.m." 

Kyouka let out a groan against his chest from how late it was.

"We missed dinner."

"Yeah." 

"Did anyone see us?"

Izuku hesitated, "...yeah."

"...I'm hungry." She quickly redirects the conversation to something less embarrassing.

Izuku nods, while he didn't really want to get up, she needed food and he wasn't going to let her eat alone, so with the strength that most college students wish they had he pulled them both up into a sitting position. Kyouka almost screamed at the sudden change in position, where she once was nestled against the class green bean's chest now she sat on his lap straddling him while he looked up with sleepy eyes.

"Sure, I'll make you something." He offered with a smile as if he didn't understand the position he'd put them in.

Chances where he didn't and she wasn't going to think about it.

"N-no don't worry about it, plus I'm not really in the mood for katsudon." 

He laughed quietly and shook his head, "I can make more than just katsudon you know plus," his eyes locked onto her's and gave her a puppy dog smile, "I want to thank you for probably the best sleep I've ever had."

She thought it over for a minute and she really didn't have a reason to say no to him.

"Alright, alright just stop looking at me like that" he tilts his head in confusion, "oh my god please stop you're too much!"

They both got off the bed, the warmth they shared getting zapped out by the sudden cold. 

No they just didn't notice it until they were separated.

Izuku walked over to his closet, sliding some things around until he found what he was looking for, a white hoodie designed after one of All Might's golden age costumes but the details were black and gold instead of his normal color palette.

Without really thinking he walked over to Kyouka and slid it over her, the sweater reaching down past her mid thigh, she couldn't really say anything before he was out the door.

She adjusted the hoodie, rolling up the sleeves a bit to allow her hands to poke out of them.

The fabric felt soft.

His scent surrounded her and it scared her how comforting it was.

But that was a worry for future Kyouka, right now she just wanted food.

Chapter Text

Things have been…well not weird but odd ever since Jirou and Midoriya were caught cuddling, it's a little worrying. 

Everyone's noticed it actually, the way Midoriya seemed to put some distance between himself and everyone, how he would only interact with those in the dekusquad and even then it was just barely. He did seem to mind being near Jirou so they just assumed he was having a weird week.

On Jirou's end it seemed like her temper had flared a little since then, her glares were sharper, Yaoyorozu seemed to be the only one she was willing to talk to.

No one knew why this was.

Until one of the more observant members of the dorm said it out loud.

"You all teased them non-stop after finding them asleep, what did you think would happen?" And with a ribbit that sounded very done with everything Tsuyu left the common room to continue reading in peace.

Now to the group meeting.

"Okay so I guess we might have gone a little overboard?" 

"Kaminari please no." Shinso begged with his face in his hands, "Don't make me regret trying to help you so soon."

"Aww come on Shinso you know you love me."

With a stare that couldn't be flatter even if he tried he shot back, "You're making it very hard too."

Mina shot out of her seat pointing an accusatory finger at the two.

"WAIT YOU'RE DATING EACH OTHER?!" The acid quirk user screamed in shock.

She ignored the multiple voices telling her to quiet down.

The blonde of the two rubbed the back of his head nervously at the girl's glare.

"Um well, yeah?"

She opened her mouth to what everyone assumed would be a long interegation of the two but was thankfully stopped by Todoroki.

"Mina enough, sit down." He commanded with his usual stone faced demeanor.

She sat down with a huff, upset that her interrogation had been halted, Tooru who was sitting to her right slumped into the couch upset at the derailing of the fun.

Kirishima shook his head at her antics, "Can we just please get to why we're here?"

Momo was next to speak up, "Yes can we please just start, it was difficult enough to get the few of us here."

The few who didn't show up were, Ojiro, Asui, Satou, Shoji, Bakugo, Jirou and Midoriya.

Jirou because she was currently away with Gang Orca for a multi day assignment and because this situation involved Midoriya.

Everyone else was either busy training or catching up with their studies.

Iida rocketed out of his seat and stood in front of everyone in a very official manner.

"We are here because a fellow student and housemate is struggling with-"

Mina shot up from her seat interrupting Iida. 

"We're here because I have solid evidence of two of our housemates dating in secret!" 

Touru followed her example and stood up pulling the string of a party popper covering the acid quirk user in strands of confetti.

The other housemates already used to the duo's crazy antics just sighed and leaned back into the couches.

"Okay, who is it this time?" Sero asked while he rubbed his face.

Mina turned to face him confused.

"What do you mean this time?"

Kirishima was the one to answer her, "A month ago you were convinced me and Bakubro were dating, when he'd been dating that Camie girl since we started our second year."

"Amf two weeks ago you were convinced I had a thing for Pony from 2-B" Shinso jumps in, "You forced us to go on dates despite me telling you again and again I was gay."

"Okay so I was wrong a couple times."

"You tried to set me up with Shoto even though I was already with Itsuka and Shoto was dating the girl from the general course all on the basis that we "looked cute together"" Momo drops in.

"She has a name you know."

"And we'll learn it once you stop being so secretive about it."

"...Flor. Flor Armando."

"Ooh how-."

"Kaminari if the next word to leave your mouth is any variation of "exotic" you'll be very intimate with frostbite." The normal stoic boy threatened.

"You two are being dramatic." Mina dismisses

"You almost ruined my relationship with my girlfriend." Shoto interrupted, coldly staring at her.

Touru shyly kicked at the floor, or well it looked like she was.

"You did also try and make me and Ojiro get back together after our break up, despite it being from a mutual understanding."

"OKAY I GET IT!" she screamed, stopping all other examples from being heard, "I'm not always on the mark!"

'More like never.' present company unanimously thought.

"But this time I've brought solid proof of romance!" She declares in a power stand while pointing to the ceiling.

"..."

"..."

"...Touru the TV." 

"Oh!" The invisible girl ran over to the dining tables and pushed a cart over to them, the cart supporting a TV with a laptop hooked up to it.

"Ten days ago the event known as "Midori's surprise cuddle attack on Kyouka" took place." She begins her presentation with a serious demeanor as if briefing them on a case.

Instinct took over and everyone focused all their attention to her.

The TV comes to life with a picture taken of the mentioned duo cuddling together on the couch. Kyouka was snuggling against his chest with her arms between them, Izuku's arms looped around her waist possessively holding her close.

"On this day we discovered something incredible, Midoriya is a cuddler and a clingy one at that!"

Most of the students had pulled themselves out of their "focus on the case" mode and were feeling embarrassed at having taken this seriously in any capacity.

"Ashido please just get to the point, we don't want to see your collection of photos!" Ochako sits there with an obviously forced smile.

Mina didn't pay her any mind.

"After our resident cinnamon roll carried Kyouka up to his room, that same night these images were captured!"

On screen an image taken from behind Izuku and Kyouka was displayed. The two were standing side by side, the purplette resting her head against his arm while he cooked something over the stove.

"You know I never actually noticed but he's gotten taller hasn't he?" 

"Yes, yes he's grown, that's not important." Mina stops the conversation before it can even begin. "This is!" The screen zooms in on Kyouka and a red circle appears over the oversized hoodie.

"Hmm quite the fabulous comfort wear no?" The resident sparkler comments.

"Mina, how did you get this picture?" Momo asked concerned

"Sleepover with Toru, got thirsty, came down and asked her to take it, please Momo focus on what's important!" With a few slaps to the cart she starts back from where she left off. "From what I've been able to dig up from my research this is no normal hoodie!"

"It's a special limited edition black and gold All Might hoodie!" Toru reveals.

"Exactly a hoodie made to celebrate his retirement, a hoodie so limited edition that only 600 were made and sold across Japan, a hoodie so special it's resale value is," Mina pauses for dramatic effect with Toru backing her up with drumming sounds, "IS WORTH OVER 800 THOUSAND YEN!" 

Everyone choked.

"Oh that seems reasonable." Momo comments with Shoto nodding in agreement.

"Yes, I imagine it must be quite comfortable." Iida says.

"Oh right the rich kids." Mina mumbles.

"Imagine instead of being worth thousands yen it's millions of yen." Toru tries.

That got the appropriate reaction.

"My oh me."

"Holy shit."

"He made her Katsudon while she wore that!?"

"Actually he was making her Tamagoyaki." Toru clarifies silencing chaos, "it smelled really good I wanna ask him to make me some."

"HE CAN COOK?!" everyone shouted at once.

Before any more discussion on the fact Midoriya can cook things besides Katsudon (or Mina can force them through more of her presentation) they hear someone running down the steps leading up to the dorm rooms.

"Crap, crap, crap, crap!" Running past them in a blur of green lightning, Izuku quickly arrives in the kitchen and pulls the oven door open. "Thank goodness their okay!" 

He didn't seem to notice the gathering of students instead more focused on... pastries? Wanting to satisfy their curiosity they all stood up and went over to the kitchen area watching Izuku place the small treats on a cooling rack.

"Yo Midobro what are you doing?"

The resident cinnamon roll jumped, nearly dropping one of the treats but managed to save it, he turned around giving Kirishima his attention and apparently the rest of his class.

"O-oh hi everyone I'm just making these mini pies for Eri, what are all of you doing? I thought Mina wanted to form a study group."

Only a few of them joined the conversation, the rest were looking at him with concern. The young man looked exhausted and they didn't just think that because of the dark bags under his eyes, though that was a major tell.

"Midoriya, you should not be running in the dorms, it's against the rules to do so, you could have injured someone!" Iida reprimanded him.

"Sorry sorry just didn't hear the timer go off, tried taking a nap but by the time I had woken up the alarm had been ringing for a minute and a half and well that was enough time to ruin them so I panicked and ran!"

Tokoyami, bless him, stopped Iida from lecturing him further by stepping in to speak.

"We understand that the deep dark can be quite comforting, but we must ask, what have you created oh bright one?"

"Oh um those are apple tarts, I've been doing some research on them." He grabbed a napkin, folding it and placing one of the more cooled tarts onto it to show everyone. They all stared in awe at it's design, apple slices placed in a spiral with a few apple slices folded into a rose at the center perfectly browned and smelling wonderful. "They don't look all that bad for a first try."

"Manly."

"He can cook."

"My word, these look amazing." 

So on and so forth came similar reactions while Izuku checked if the Tarts were really okay. Soon after the subject of why the treats were made sprinted through the door. 

"Hi Eri." Izuku greats from the kitchen, the small girl turning around to look at him before sprinting around and into the kitchen. He kneels down, opening his arms, catching her in a hug she happily returns. 

"Hi pa- I mean Izuku!"

Izuku lifts her up, sitting her on his arm while ruffling her hair, the unicorn girl giggles, grabbing his hand and stopping him.

"I told you it's okay if you want to call me papa." 

Eri nods, wrapping her arm around his neck to stabilize herself.

"I know, b-but you look uncomfortable when I do." 

apple

Izuku nods, walking over to the  tarts and plating one for her.

"I'm not uncomfortable, I'm just not used to it yet but I will as long as you keep it up," He didn't grab a fork and knife knowing very well that she'll just grab it with her hands. "And I've told you before, I'm honored you think of me that way."

He sat her down at one of the dining tables and pay her head, the girl fiddled with her hands.

"Okay papa." She mumbled shyly and grabbed her treat, her hum of delight filled him with joy.

He walks back into the kitchen cleaning up his mess. He sets aside two tarts and plated the remaining nine on a plate. He turns around leaving the plate on the counter in front of his gawking classmates.

"You guys can split those amongst yourselves while I clea- what?" He asked them noticing how they continued to gawk at him, some of the girls and guys sporting a light blush.

Momo cleared her throat, "nothing Izuku it's just, that display was quite touching."

"Yeah bro, you're like the manliest dad!"

"Can you be my dad?" 

Everyone turned to Shoto.

Izuku chuckled, shaking his head, "Shoto we're the same age."

"That wasn't a no."

Izuku laughed, turning back around to finish cleaning up.

"You know Izuku you make a really good dad, high quality husband material."

The hero in training jerked his head to the side, he heard Mina walk in he just didn't expect her to talk to him.

"Oh um thanks Mina."

"I'm sure Kyouka is equally impressed." She comments rather smugly.

Izuku stops scrubbing the tart pans and turned to look at her with clear confusion.

"What?"

Mina mistook his confusion for nervous denial, so she pressed on while the class watched on munching on the shared sliced up tarts.

"Oh you know, she must be really happy that her boyfriend is so good with kids." 

Izuku blinked.

"What?"

Mina slammed her hand down on the counter pointing at him with an air of victory.

"That's right I know about you two, thought you could keep your relationship hidden from the love master, WELL THINK AGAIN!"

Izuku shook his head and continued to wash the tart molds.

There was no blushing, no stuttering, no flailing around in embarrassment, he just kept cleaning.

"Izuk-" 

"Ashido." Izuku cuts her off, as he finishes the last tin leaving them on the dish rack to dry.

Mina felt very uncomfortable with how he was staring at her, the heavy bags under his eyes complimented how dull his eyes were in a scary way.

"I understand you you're bored with your lack of a love life."

"Hey!" Mina stops him genuinely offended but Izuku continued.

"But your boredom doesn't excuse you trying to make one up for me, so I'd appreciate it if you didn't try using me to starve it off." 

The class watched while Izuku stared Mina down, the pink girl opening and closing her mouth trying to think of something to say but not managing anything. 

"Holy shit." Sero mumbled swallowing the last bite of his snack.

Kaminari nods, "yeah, I've never seen Mina struggle to make a comeback."

The tense atmosphere was broken when they heard the front door open, they all turned around to see a very exhausted Kyouka drag herself into the dorms leaving her duffle bag at the door. She was wearing the black and gold hoodie from their previous topic of discussion, they didn't see her costume case so they assumed she left it at the support department.

Izuku took one look at her and frowned in concern. He grabbed one of the plates he'd set aside with a tart and walked past Mina heading straight for Kyouka.

"Kyouka, are you okay?" He asked gently once he was infront of her.

The punk girl mumbled something he couldn't quite hear before stepping forward and hugging him nuzzling her face against his chest. Izuku sighed fondly and hugged her back being careful with the pastry he was currently holding, he put his free hand to good use and gently combed his fingers through her hair scratching her head lightly with each pass, his reward was a content sigh from the purplette.

"Rough few days?" he whispers trying not to disturb her.

She nods against his chest.

"Tired?"

Another nod.

"Too tired for an apple tart?" 

She's still for a moment before shaking her head, she moved back a little just enough to turn her head up to look at him. "I think I have enough energy." She whispered with a small smile.

"Alright let's sit you down then." 

"Ah wait before that." Kyouka stepped away from him and took her (well it was his but she wore it more often so it was hers now) hoodie off holding hit out to him. "Put this on."

He didn't even question it, he simply traded the pastry for the hoodie and put it on as he followed her to the table Eri was sitting at finishing her last bite of apple tart.

Meanwhile the class stood frozen, feeling like if they moved they would have ruined the oddly sweet and intimate moment the two had shared.

"Do...do you think Deku forgot we were here?" Asked a very twitchy Ochako.

No one really wanted to answer out of a fear of being the one to set her off.

Mina just looked smug after watching the display of affection.

~×~×~×~×~×~

Kyouka has had a rough few days.

A very very rough few days.

Every since Izuku had accidentally cuddled her she's found it difficult to get a good nights rest, she could eventually manage to fall asleep but it didn't feel the same without him and apparently Izuku felt the same. So after a very embarrassing talk the two agreed that every two days the two would cuddle and sleep together, it didn't take long for them to change it to every other day. Seriously it only took trying once to change it.

So every other day they'd share a bed sometimes hers other times his, Izuku being the sweetheart he was, even took down a few of his All Might merchandise to make her feel more comfortable.

Bless his heart.

On the day they were supposed to cuddle again she got called to Gang Orca's agency, no big deal she can go finish whatever the emergency was quick and be back for cuddles no big deal.

Until it was.

A one day assignment turned into two and already she was feeling the effects, she couldn't stay asleep for more than four hours before waking up. Luckily she came prepared, she had packed her new favorite hoodie.

She went into her temporary room and froze. For right on her bed was the hoodie and some clothes she had dirtied but the hoodie.

The hoodie smelled like detergent.

Her night was ruined and she was left with nothing but disappointment. By the time she could finally return to the dorm she felt like a lead doll. Every movement felt like it zapped her of all her energy.

She curses the name Izuku Midoriya for doing this to her!

"Kyouka are you okay?" 

Ah it's him, the cursed one.

She stepped closer hugging him and burying her face against his chest. She smiled when she felt him hug her back.

He's earned her forgiveness.

Everything else was a blur, she remembers eating the pastry he made, it was really good. Next thing she knew she was in her room curled up against his side while Eri pulled the blanket over them and snuggled close to his other side.

"Hi."

Eri looked over to her and smiled, waving hello pointing over to Izuku.

He was out cold probably already deep in a dream.

"Papa can't sleep without you." Eri whispered much to the older girl's embarrassment.

"O-oh is that so, well he's lucky my bed's big enough to share." She reached over and ruffled the unicorn's hair, well she tried to but she was so tired it was more of a head rub. 

Soon she lost the fight to sleep, her eyes growing too heavy to keep open now that she's back with Izuku. 

He really had ruined sleep for her but she figured it was worth it.

Chapter Text

His hand hurt.

Slowly Izuku opened his eyes, taking in what little of his room he could make out in the dark. He turned his head to his aching hand and found it resting on Kyouka's head while she used his shoulder as a pillow.

She'd come back yesterday and they'd immediately gone to bed for a nap, once they'd woken up they spent what was left of the day cuddling and watching movies with Eri who was currently sleeping on his chest.

They went down to have dinner and she decided they'd use his bed that night. He wasn't going to complain, he got another nightmare free night of sleep. He looked around his room a lot more barren than it used to be. He'd noticed how all his All Might merch made Kyouka a little uncomfortable when they hung out in his room. She never really brought it up but that didn't mean he was just going to ignore it.

So he'd taken almost all of it down.

He didn't really miss it, turns out having the man you're supposed to surpass in strength and replace as the symbol of peace staring down at you from every angle didn't fill him with inspiration to improve. Instead it was just anxiety from feeling like he wasn't doing enough, wasn't working hard enough to make him proud, was failing him everytime he was taking a break...yeah he doesn't think he'll ever put it back.

He was pulled out of his thoughts by Kyouka shifting against his side, he winced a bit when she brought up her hand and let it fall down on his face with a light slap.

"Ow." He mumbled against her palm.

"Hm, I can hear you thinking, stop it." She scolds him sleepily.

He smiles into her palm and tries to pet her head with his stiff hand.

"Sorry, just thinking about stuff." His voice is quiet, but he's not worried. It's better that he is with how sensitive her hearing is.

"You're never not thinking green." She lifts her hand off his face and brings it to the hand that was on her head, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah." She felt warm, "It just gets hard to move my hand when it's cold, it's from all the bone breaking back in our first year."

He feels her fingers tracing over the scars on his hand, he can't see her face but he gets the sense she's frowning.

"It's not a big-"

She squeezes his hand and he stops talking.

"Have you had it looked at?" She sounds more awake now.

"Kyouka I-"

"Have. You. Had. It. Looked at?" She sounds angry, but not at him, he's thankful for that. He never wants to make her angry.

"Yes, Recovery girl said I'll have to live with the consequences of my actions." He quietly admits.

She lifts his hand up off her head and for a moment he's worried she's getting up to leave.

"If I see her again I'm gonna stab her knees." She grumbles moving his arm so he's hugging her waist, she puts her hand over his and laces her fingers through his. "Is this better?"

He didn't know what to say, well more like he couldn't say anything really. It was warm beneath the blanket but her hand was warmer. He's never held a girl's hand before, actually he's never done a lot of things with a girl...any that didn't end up hurting him anyways.

Realizing she was waiting for his answer, not trusting his voice he turns his head nuzzling against Kyouka's hair, she gives a hum of approval.

He hears her let out a sleepy "Good." Before her breathing slows down and she's asleep again.

He was having a lot of firsts this year and all of them were with Kyouka, he...he was okay with that. If it was going to be with anyone he's glad it's with Kyouka.

~×~×~×~×~×~

Izuku has had an interesting time adapting to not being a morning person.

In short it sucked.

Waking up feeling sluggish, fighting every instinct in his body telling him to pull Kyouka close and just ignore the world.

Still better than before though so that's a win!

He had one more day with Eri before classes started on Monday and he planned to make the most of it. So when he woke up again to a slightly brighter room, he figured the sun was already past the horizon.

Now to begin faze one of making it a fun day for Eri.

Fighting the urge to remain in bed.

'okay let's do this!'

'...'

'...'

"Crap." He cured, his voice weak from sleep. "I'm too weak."

"You can literally punch a building to dust." He heard Kyouka whisper sleepily next to him.

He nuzzles the top of her head without thinking and gives her waist a light squeeze, she seemed to appreciate the actions judging fine the hum she made.

"Sorry, did I wake you up?" He asks gently, forgetting his mission of getting out of bed to give her his full attention.

"Hmm no, but you helped," she let go of his hand bringing it up to her face to run her eyes, "what time is it?"

He looks over to his alarm clock.

"8 o'clock almost 9." He felt her snuggle deeper into his shoulder before groaning.

"It's too early!" She whines, pulling the black covers over her head bringing Eri along with her under the covers leaving only him to stand above them.

'She's right, it's too early to get up, maybe just sleeping in a little more won't be so bad...curse my commitment to making this a productive day!'

And so with one final curse to his discipline, he pulled the blanket down exposing Kyouka to the cold air outside the blanket. 

She yelped at the sudden cold and pushed herself up, he would have called her cute with how her hair was pointing in every direction except down but her glare kept his mouth shut. He gave her his best attempt at a smile as he tried to push down his rising fear.

"You have ten seconds," her jacks slide down to his neck pressing against his skin, "ten seconds to make up from making me cold."

He gulped as he nervously stared up at her. She should not have looked that attractive threatening him. He made sure to shove that thought deep into the very back of his mind.

"I um well you see."

"Eight."

"W-wait give me a second to talk!"

"Six."

"I-I'll make you breakfast and anything else you want for the day!"

She continued to glare down at him but she stopped counting so that was a victory in his book.

"And?"

"A-And um," he dug around his brain for anything else he could offer, but a hand came down to lightly slap his face for the second time that day.

"Noisy." A sleepy Eri complained from atop his chest.

The two teens can't help but chuckle at the sudden interruption.

"Why does everyone like slapping my face?" Izuku asks, as he carefully sits up, removing Eri's hand from his face.

Kyouka slides off his bed stepping over to his closet and pulls it open digging around for a hoodie to ste- borrow, since she left her favorite one in her room.

"It might be because you have a very slappable face."

He didn't have a good come back to that considering how many people always aim for his face, so instead he got out of bed being careful not to jostle Eri awake and joined Kyouka at his closet.

"Think you can get me something too, it's a bit chilly." 

She gives him a thumbs up and finally decides on the hoodie she wants, a plain black one with a picture of a white rabbit head grinning with sharp teeth on the right side of the chest.

Probably Miruko merch.

She pulls it over herself and flips the hood up enjoying the family comfort she gets from any of his clothes.

As for him she already had something in mind she pulls out a large dark purple hoodie she bought for him to replace the one she kept from him. She passes it to him as he carefully hands over Eri, the switch is smooth and the little unicorn doesn't stir from her slumber. He pulls it on and takes Eri back just as easily.

"It's cloudy outside." She comments drawing Izuku's attention to the partially open blinds. "Think it'll rain?"

"Don't know, I hope it doesn't but it won't ruin what I have planned for today if it does." He opens the door, Kyouka closing it behind them.

"You mean our plan don't you?" She corrects him.

"You want to spend the day with us?" He assumed she had other things to do, practice her music, homework, study, or just spend time with her friend group.

She gives him a look that he knows is asking him if he's insane.

"Of course I do, I enjoy spending time with you two, plus" her smile sharpens into a grin, "you said you'd make me anything I want for the entire day, I'm thinking pancakes, make the day extra special for the little unicorn."

She nearly tripped at the smile he gave her, it wasn't anything special really she told herself once Izuku had helped her steady herself and continued towards the kitchen. It was just a small smile, something directed only at her, one she's never seen on him.

It didn't make her feel special at all nope!

Her chest didn't feel warm from it either!

Chapter Text

It's been two weeks since Kyouka had come back from her case with Gang Orca, it's also been two weeks since the two tried limiting their shared bed space.

A loud and quite frankly annoying beep started sounding from the All Might themed alarm clock next to Izuku's bed dragging the two occupants of said bed out of their sleep. A pale fist violently slammed down silencing the thing, the hand slid back under the blankets, returning to the warmth from which it came.

"Come on."

"No."

"Come on Kyo."

"...No."

And thus the two heroes in training ritual beginnings. 

With an amused huff Izuku hugged Kyouka tightly and sat up bringing her along. Now out from the comfortable warmth the blankets had provided, the rocker's bed head was now on full display drawing out another chuckle from Izuku.

She sighed, "Fine but I'm doing this angrily."The two finally got out of bed and started getting ready for another day of classes. 

Over the past two weeks Izuku and Kyouka had started leaving clothes in the other's room. It started small, a spare shirt here and there, some jeans, maybe (definitely in Kyouka's case) a hoodie. Simple things but now they basically had a whole wardrobe in each other's room, their two rooms were now their rooms.

Izuku reached into his closet and pulled out two uniforms, handing Kyouka hers he turned around and gave her the privacy she needed to change, Kyouka did the same. It'd been awkward the first time they did this, lots of blushing and stumbling but now there's only a little blushing. After a minute the two turned around to face each other and continued with their routine, Izuku calmly brushing the purplette's hair while she redid the mess that was his tie.

He always tried to do it right but he still couldn't manage it.

Izuku carefully tamed her adorable bed head, while he was sad to see it go he knew he'd see it again the next morning. After taiming one last clump of wild hair her pats her head and the two separate. Izuku walks over to the door, picking up their backpacks and passing Kyouka's over.

It was time to start another day.

~×~×~×~×~×~

"Sooo." 

Kyouka looked up from her bowl of rice and raised an eyebrow at Ochako. 

"Hm?" 

"W-what are you doing here?" She asks but quickly tries to backpedal. "I mean it's not that we don't like you here!" She gestures to Iida, Todoroki, Asui, and Shinso. "B-but don't you, you know, hang out with Yamomo."

Kyouka tried to not be offended by what this whole conversation implied.

She swallows her mouthful of food. "Yes usually but currently she's with Kendo and they need privacy to be all gross and lovey dovey." She puts down her lunch and grabs Izuku's bowl of katsudon, grabbing a bit of everything and bringing it up to his lips. "Also a group of French Heroes are visiting for an event and Izuku isn't going to stop watching their interview." Izuku sat next to her, notebook in hand with his earbuds on, listening very intently as he watched the interview on his phone that leaned against a glass of water. She pokes his lips with the chopsticks and he opens his mouth and eats the offering without looking. "See."

Ochako pouts ready to fire something back but was interrupted by Asui.

"Wait kero, if they're French why is he listening to the interview?" 

Kyouka looks confused for a second while feeding him another bite.

"What do you mean, Greenie knows French, why wouldn't he listen in?"

Silence, she enjoyed the thirty seconds it lasted by continuing to feed Izuku and looking at what he currently has written.

She didn't know how to decode anything on it but it was still cool to see.

"You speak French?!" Ochako shouts, slamming her hand on the table dramatically, upset that shep wasn't aware of her crush's best friend's multilingual abilities.

Everyone present jumped a little in their seats, Todoroki especially mourns the loss of a mouthful of soba that now rested on the floor. His disappointment was immeasurable and his day was ruined.

After Izuku was done choking one his food he turned to Ururaka.

"Y-yeah I know French, I don't recomy learning it." He said the last half with great regret and bitterness.

They all were hesitant to ask but it was Iida who bit the bullet.

"Why...why is that Midoriya?"

Jiro sighed, "Not again."

"THE LANGUAGE MAKES NO SENSE!" he screamed. "Every other word sounds the same, there's feminine and masculine wording for everything and half the time it's not spelled how it's supposed to sound because of all the silent letters and don't get me started on naming conventions why is t-shirt t-shirt but shirt is la chemise, did you hear the e because there's an e at the end and then there's combining two words to make something that has nothing to do with the combined words!" 

"Okay!" Jiro interrupts him guiding him back into a seating position as she rubbed is back, "there there buddy it's okay french is very dumb." She turns her head shooting Ayoama a glare, he quickly shuts his mouth and returns to his lavish meal.

The other members of the deku squad were still trying to recover from the sudden hate fueled rant about the French language. 

"Well," Iida hesitantly says, "it's still impressive you know a second language Midoriya, being bilingual is an excellent trait for any hero!" 

"Oh he knows more than just French, it's ridiculous how much he's got going on up there." Jirou corrects sliding another mouthful of food to Midoriya. "How many languages did you know, six?"

Midoriya continues to write down notes mumbling out "English, Japanese, French, Italian, Spanish, Mandarin, German, Russian."

"Right, seven plus you're learning Russian." She nods at the reminder.

Iida blinked his arm slowly chopping.

Ururaka narrowed her eyes, "How do you know this?" Her tone was mildly aggressive but Jirou just shrugged it off.

"We were doing our homework, I think it was four days ago? I don't know but while we were doing our English work I got stuck on probably seven, the one we were apparently supposed to get wrong but Green looked over my shoulder and told me the answer like it was the most obvious thing in the world and went back to his own work." She elbows the greenette with a smile, "Turns out he's fluent in English, I can't imagine why." She teases poking the the blushing teen's cheek with her jack.

"Most of All Exploits were in english." He mumbles, turning his head away, "Since they weren't translated, I just learned english."

Shinso rubbed the bridge of his nose trying to come to terms with what he just heard.

"Midoriya, how old were you?" 

"Um six?"

Shinso puts his face in his hands, "So you just decided at six years old to learn a whole new language, just to read All Might articles?" Midoriya nods.

"Midoriya, you're dedication to learning as much about heroes as you can even at such a young a age is inspiring!" He praised "but why!"

This caused laughter around the table, even the studious Iida couldn't comprehend the absurdity of a six year old deciding to just learn a new language.

~×~×~×~×~×~

It was Wednesday when Midoriya received a call from Aizawa regarding Eri that almost sent the boy crashing through the dorm walls in a panic, but who wouldn't when you open a conversation with "there's been a situation involving Eri". 

You just don't do that to a father.

"So will you do it?" The pro asks.

Midoriya sighs into his hand still coming down from his panic, "Of course I'll do it, but please just ask like a normal person next time." He pleads

"No, you should be ready for any emergency and have a level head when it occurs."

Midoriya suddenly felt incredibly petty.

"Alright well I need to plan my day with Eri at the aquarium, make sure she doesn't regret preferring my company over yours." He hung up and dropped his phone on the bed, well aware of the hell that would await him tomorrow but not at all bothered by it.

"I wonder if Kyouka would want to go?"

Chapter Text

"Can't believe we ended up watching movies all night." Sero arches his back trying to get the stiffness out from his awkward sleeping position.

Behind him Kaminari, Ashido, Kirishima, and Shinso followed along each in different states of wakefulness. From barely starting to wake up in Ashido and Kaminari's case, to ready to start the day in Kirishima's. Shinso was Shinso.

They made their way into the kitchen area and Shinso began to brew a large pitcher of coffee staring as the apparatus beeps to life.

"Oh Kami, thanks for the snacks last night. Those sandwiches were really good." Ashido yawns out as she starts stretching her limbs.

"Oh it's no problem, I just found them in the fridge."

The group turned to look at the blond slumped against the counter.

Shinso sighed, not liking where this was going, "Den, where were the fruit sandwiches?"

The blond scratched his head, "um in the fridge inside a tupperware, why?"

Sero quickly caught on, "Was there a note on it or anything like that?"

Kaminari thought about it for a moment, "Yeah, there was a sticky note that said lunch but why does it matter, the school day had ended hours ago I figured someone just forgot about them?"

Shinso's feeling was only getting worse.

A green blur rushed past them zooming around the small kitchen in what looked like desperation.

They heard stomping coming from the stairs and with a jump Kyouka appeared wearing a casual outfit of black jeans, a green shirt that looked a little too big reaching down to her thigh with the word "Orchestra" on the front and a purple knitted beanie. She puts on a black worn leather jacket and inspects her pockets.

"I've got everything Izuku, did you grab our lunch!?" She calls out clearly in a rush.

"I can't find our lunches anywhere!" Izuku shouts, stopping to let everyone get a look at him in his blue slim jeans, dark green hoodie and iconic red shoes.

Kyouka curses under her breath, "Fine, just leave the sandwiches, we're gonna miss the train if we don't hurry!"

The doors open and a tired Aizawa walks in with a giddy Eri right next to him in a black long sleeve shirt, light blue overalls and red shoes with a dark green hoodie wrapped around her waist. The young unicorn was excited to spend the day with her papa and Kyouka.

"Alright problem child we're he-" 

The old pro was cut off by Kyouka picking Eri up as she ran past him holding the girl in her arms.

"Thank you Mister Aizawa, we'll be back before curfew!" 

A green blur shot past him picking up Kyouka and Eri, the girl's giggles disappearing as Izuku raced down to the exit with one for all. 

Shinso sighs as he fills up his liter thermos with coffee and heads for the stairs. "You're banned from any physical contact for a week."

"What but I didn't do anything wrong!" He cries after his boyfriend.

~×~×~×~×~×~

They'd manage to make it to the train just as it arrived. While the train carts emptied out the two rubbed Izuku's back as he tried to catch his breath. Even with the boost from one for all running at a dead sprint was exhausting. When it was time for the three to board the train they somehow managed to get a seat. They spent ten minutes arguing who would take the seat with Izuku barely managing to win with Eri's help.

"This doesn't count as a win."

"Yes it does, you just don't want to admit it." 

"Oh I'll admit I lost but this isn't your win." Motions to Eri who's sitting on her lap listening to music on Kyouka's phone. "It's her win."

Izuku didn't argue further, instead he decided to change the subject.

"So Eri, are you excited to see all the sea creatures?"

The little girl looked up and pulled a headphone behind her to listen to him better.

"Mhmm I've never been to an awk- uqar- um."

"Aquarium." Kyouka assists.

"Yeah that, uncle Aizawa said it was special because of the special fishes they have inside, he said there was a fish with a horn like mine!"

The three continued to talk more about what they hoped to see until they boarded a second train where the issue of lunch was finally brought up.

"Hamburgers."

Izuku raised his eyebrow and turned to face her from the seat next to her.

"Um, sorry?"

"We should have hamburgers for lunch."

"Oh." Izuku paused, "Japanese or American?"

"Do you know any places that sell good American style burgers?"

"No but it's nothing a little research can't fix," he reached out and tapped Eri's shoulder to grab her attention. "What do you think , Eri Japanese or American hamburgers?"

Eri paused her music to think it over, placing her hand under her chin just like Izuku would whenever he's in deep thought.

The sight made Kyouka's heart grow warm from seeing the girl mimic her father's mannerisms.

"I've never had an American hamburger before, can we try those papa?"

Before Izuku could answer, two girls walked over to them, seeming ready to burst with excitement.

"Excuse me, hello are you Deku?" A girl with red hair and two purple horns growing from her forehead.

"Um hello and yes t-that'd be me." He chuckled awkwardly unsure of what was going on while Kyouka watched with slight amusement.

The two girls quickly reached into their purses and pulled out small notebooks.

"Can we get an autograph!"

So Izuku did and afterwards traded a few words with the girls before they had to board a different train. It turned out they were hoping to try out for U.A next year, they both gave them what advice they could and to throw it all out the window the moment it might not seem helpful. 

You can never know with Nezu.

"Oh our stops coming up!"

"Crud okay um one last question, why do you call yourself useless?"

Izuku froze up, the hairs on the back of his head stood up straight as he started to lightly shake. Kyouka subtly shot him a concerned look.

"O-oh that yeah hehe it um was meant to be-"

"We have arrived, please exit in an orderly fashion." The overhead intercom had announced.

"Oh it looks like we have to go thank you for your time, I hope you enjoy your date!"

The tension and worry that had been in both teens very quickly drowned in the wave of embarrassment that overcame them both, as they sputtered trying to correct the misunderstanding to the already gone girl.

"Crap, I'm really sorry about that Izuku."

"No no it's fine Kyouka it's fine, if anything I should be apologizing I mean it's obvious how out of my league you are!" He laughed, nervously rubbing his hands together mostly over the jagged scars over his hand.

Kyouka blinked at the boy, "What are you talking about, you're the one that's out of my league."

It was Izuku's turn to look at Kyouka confused, he was having a hard time simply understanding the words that came out of her mouth. How was a mess like him out of her league? He turned away and continued to rub his hands together.

She began to worry at the way he took her words, how he looked utterly baffled by her suggesting that he was out of her league, she felt that he didn't see himself worthy of anyone.

She hoped this feeling was wrong.

"So um, do you want to talk about her mentioning Deku meaning useless?" 

Izuku paused his nervous fidgeting. His lips parted before closing, his thoughts weren't a mess of panic trying to avoid the question. He felt okay talking to her about what happened and that's what's stopping him, he felt comfortable telling her and that scared him. 

He didn't like how easy I'd be for him to tell her everything.

"For a while I forgot what Deku meant. Until I started getting recognized more and people started asking why I called myself useless and not something better." He chuckles "With Kaachan I honestly think he's forgotten my real name, I was never Izuku Midoriya just Deku."

"I don't think he knows anyone's names." Kyouka chimes in. "Remember yesterday when All Might paired him up with Sato for a warm up and he just stood there looking left and right, he didn't even turn around just stood there getting angrier and angrier." The two shared a laugh at the memory and the aftermath of it. How the blond just stood there waiting for Sato to approach him first, when he finally did the blond growled out complaints asking why he's taken so long.

The two sat in a comfortable silence, "I'm not sure what to do honestly, it's starting to get exhausting." He confesses staring off into the scrolling cityscape.

~×~×~×~×~×~

They handed their tickets to one of the tellers and were allowed through. The entrance to the park started with a short dark tunnel that had been decorated and designed to look like a coral reef.

"Aunt Kyo, aunt Kyo look it's me!" Eri rushed over to a banner on the grass that was grown on either side of the tunnel's exit. The banner showed a narwal posing with its back arched with the long tusk pointed upwards.

Its expression kinda reminded them of one of their classmates.

Back at the dorm Aoyama sneezed into his tea causing him to spill it over his pristine white shirt, he let out a no that would make Darth Vader proud.

Kyouka walked over and held out her hand and Eri grabbed it without much thought.

"Hmm yeah but you're definitely cuter." Kyouka received a large smile at the comment.

Eri pulled Kyouka over to Izuku grabbing his hand and led the two teenagers forward into the aquarium proper, smiling as Eri marvels at all the banners of aquatic animals. The red brick road led them to a concrete circle that split off into a blue road a black road and a gray road. Thick steel frames held screens that showed animals, the schedule for shows, and maps of the park itself, many families and visitors were crowding the screens deciding how they'd spend the day. 

Izuku picks Eri up much to her amusement and places her on his shoulder so she can get a better look at the screens.

"Alright Eri, where do you wanna go first?" 

The aquarium was split into three exhibits, aquatic life, deep sea life, and arctic life. Aquatic life was just that, it would have animals and exhibits from sea life that lived closer to sun life, turtles, dolphins, orcas, coral and much of the like. Deep sea life would have exhibits from deep beneath the sea where light couldn't reach, Eri seemed nervous about it before reading out.

"What does 'biggest quirked population' mean?" 

"I don't know hun, so what does it mean Izuku?" Kyouka asks the greenette.

He rolls his eyes at the smirk she gives him, obviously he knows but she didn't have to be so direct about it.

"Quirked animals are rare but for some reason aquatic life has a much higher chance of being born with a quirk than land animals. It's theorized that because the ocean has such extreme environmental diversity depending on how deep or where on earth you are that it allows a huge variation in mutation of one species. So with that they just develop quirks."

Kyouka stared at him while Eri just nodded and continued reading the arctic section of the map.

"Izuku, that sounds like complete bullshit." The boy lightly snorts.

"Yeah, in reality they're more interested in the quirks themselves than the actual reason sea life has a higher quirk chance than land animals."

With a tap on his head Eri got his attention and pointed at the aquatic life poster.

"I wanna go there first, I wanna see all the colorful fish they have!" 

And will the start of their day decide they were off. They knew the aquarium was huge but after nearly two hours of exploration they have seen the reef they'd cultivated, the rainbow of colorful fish they had in tanks, the mantaray pools where Eri amassed an army who wanted her attention and an exhibit that stimulated walking through a forest of swaying seaweed. Currently Eri was running down a clear tunnel that cut down the middle of the Orca habitat as one lazily swam along following the little girl who turned around at the end and ran back to the waiting teens with a mighty leap she jumped into her papa's waiting arms. 

"I win!" She cheers as best she can while out of breath, "Take that!" Her apparent rival continued to lazily swim around the tunnel.

"You were racing?" Kyouka asked with a smirk poking at the girl's side, who couldn't help but giggle. 

"Mhmm I could see it in their eyes, like a challenge!" 

Izuku smiled at the back and forth, snared by how natural this all seemed like it had been happening for years and not a few months. Kyouka had bonded with Eri really well, he couldn't imagine a time when the two didn't get along or one wasn't asking how the other was doing. She's become a core part of the two's daily life, irreplaceable in his eyes. It scared him but not enough to give it any more attention than acknowledgement.

As they stepped past the Orca tunnel the two were drawn to a small group of visitors crowding around a familiar hero.

"Wait, isn't that Gang Orca?" 

Kyouka sighed at the sight of her boss being used as a jungle gym by small children as the parents took photos and apologized only for him to wave off the apologies.

"Who's that?" Eri asks climbing off Izuku and stands between them holding both of their hands.

"That Eri would be my boss." 

"Oh, can we go say hi?" 

The request was innocent enough, the punk looked over to Izuku who gave her a shrug, "I'm fine with it, what about you?" He asks.

~×~×~×~×~×~

Kugo had been having a tiring day, don't misunderstand he enjoyed his work it's just he was not used to being seen as a mascot much less treated like one.

"Thank you again." Another mother bowed as she held her child's hand.

"It's no problem at all, enjoy the rest of your day." He returned the wave the child was giving him as they left.

"I'm guessing you don't like kids very much boss?" A familiar voice asked.

"The opposite actually, I'm just not used to them wanting to get close, I am seen as very intimidating after all." He turns around, "How are you doing Jirou?"

He took pause as a little girl with long white hair stared up at him with large red eyes shining with wonder. 

"Um hello kid?"

"You're so cool!" 

Kugo was surprised by the little girl's exclamation but he didn't show it other than some rapid blinking.

"You don't find me scary?"

Eri shakes her head, "Nuh uh, I know scary you're not scary you're nice!" 

'huh, there's a lot to unpack there.'

He lets out a deep chuckle and kneels down to her level to give her head a pat.

"That's very kind of you to think kid, so got any questions for me?"

"Nope, I just wanted to say hi!"

Kyouka smiled at the interaction, she's seen the reactions her boss gets from just patrolling, she's heard people's hearts become anxious from just seeing him across the street. It must be nice to have someone be genuinely excited to see him. She turns over to Izuku and holds back a laugh at how hard he's trying to not nerd out. She can even see his fingers visibly twitch.

She grabs his wrist pulling his attention to her, "go on."

"What?" 

"Go on green, I know you want to." She encouraged.

He hesitates a moment more before pulling out his notebook from who knows where and steps forward. For ten minutes she watched as her boss was asked more questions than any interviewer dared to before.