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‘You know what? Maybe today will be a good day,’
Izuku woke up to another sunny day at the UA dorms, stretching his body as he rises from his slumber like a green haired cat. Today seemed like a good day at the start, the weather was good, it was nice and warm, and the birds were chirping. Izuku softly smiled to himself, ‘You know what? Maybe today will be a good day,’
After all things could be much worse than they are, I mean, here he was, a student in UA’s hero course, a place he’d dreamed of being his whole life even before his quirkless diagnosis. He could have cried enough tears to save an average size country from drought when he found out he passed the entrance exam, and very nearly did.
Not only that but as of several months ago, he was no longer quirkless, he was given a quirk. GIVEN A QUIRK! He could still hardly believe a thing was possible, as if that wasn’t incredible enough it was given to him by All Might, the symbol of peace himself. Once again, ALL MIGHT! ALL MIGHT gave him his quirk saying he could be a hero. The one thing he had desperately needed to hear for years, he heard from the one person he most looked up to most in the world.
His Mom called him the other day to ask how he was doing, that was a pleasant surprise, he was doing well in classes and exams and he had even made friends in his class, Iida, Todoroki, Asui and.... Uraraka.
Well he at least had 3 people he could still really call friends, not that they didn’t still hang out but nowhere near as much as they used to ever since she....
Izuku shook his head, his curly locks shaking from side to side as he did so. ‘Nope, don’t think about that right now Deku, this is going to be a good day.’
He swung his legs over the side of his bed and stood up, wandering over to his wardrobe to put his uniform on and get ready for the new day of school. As he took off his t-shirt which boldly stated ‘Pajamas’ he looked at his mirror and looked over himself.
Izuku was a modest guy but even he could admit he had a pretty good physique, his torso strong and toned from his months of workout/community service back at Dagobah beach under the instruction of All Might.
He looked over his muscles for a moment before his eyes were drawn to what they are inevitably always drawn to whenever he sees himself, the scars.
Lots and lots of scars, some cuts from his training or from one of the many villain attacks his class had to deal with, but mostly his torso was covered in burns. Some small, some large, all of them given to him by the same person.
Katsuki Bakugo.
Once upon a time, his friend, back in the days before he was announced as quirkless, after that, his bully and tormentor. For a while Izuku still thought of him as a friend, continuing to call him Kacchan like he used to, hoping that they could become friends again.
But then came the end of High School and that fateful day when their teacher asked their class what they wanted to be.
The answer was obvious and unanimous. Heroes. They all wanted to be heroes, Bakugo announced his intention to go right to the top, to UA’s hero course, to the astonishment of the rest of the class. His skill and power were there to see by everyone, but they could still scarcely believe that he would try to get into the best hero school in the country with such a low acceptance rate. He spat back saying he was the only one who could possibly get into UA because, of course he did, he’s Bakugo. Then the teacher spoke up once more “Oh yeah Midoriya, don’t you want to go to UA too?”
That was maybe the worst thing he could have said then, needless to say, Bakugo was pissed.
“Go and take a swan dive off the roof of the building, hope you’re born with a quirk in your next life.”
That was a bad day. Then it got worse, he got attacked by a sludge villain. Then it got better.
All Might saved him from the sludge villain. Then the day got worse again. He found out about All Might’s injury and was then told that he couldn’t be a hero without a quirk.
That was rock bottom that day, Izuku thought for a moment about taking Bakugo’s advice, it had never seemed like a good idea before then but it was starting to look more appealing by the second.
Told he didn’t have a quirk, beaten down nearly every day of his life, no friends, a mother who couldn’t bring herself to support his dream. Then the person he respects most in the world tells him he’ll never achieve his dream, the one thing he had held onto throughout his whole life.
Yeah, that ledge was looking tempting for a second, but no, he wasn’t brave enough for that, he was just... Deku... useless.
Izuku shook his head again. “What did I say, stop thinking like that, this might be a good day.”
He buttoned up his shirt and grabbed his blazer before leaving his dorm room and heading downstairs to the common room.
“Hmm, something smells good,” Izuku muttered to himself, breathing in through his nose. He walked out of the elevator to find the source of the smell. Many of his classmates were already sat across the common room in small groups, intermittent conversation between bites of something warm and fluffy
‘Yeah this’ll be a good day, Satou is making pancakes’
Izuku grinned and ran up to Satou in the kitchen. “Wow, they smell great Satou, are you making enough for everyone again?”
Satou looked down at Izuku and smiled. “Morning Midoriya, yeah I am, this next batch was for you actually” Satou responds, handing him a plate with a healthy stack of fluffy pancakes, “Enjoy man” He finishes, returning to his cooking.
Izuku takes the plate gratefully, leaning down to breathe in the smell of fluffy deliciousness, eyes closed, savouring the smell. “Thanks Satou, you’re the best,” Izuku said turning to leave the kitchen.
*SLAM*
“Watch where you’re going you shitty nerd!” growled Bakugo pushing his way past Izuku into the kitchen, knocking his plate onto the floor, “HEY LIPS!” He shouted, “WHERE’S MY PANCAKES YOU USELESS EXTRA!?”
Izuku sighed quietly, cleaning up his now dirty pancakes into the bin and leaving Satou to deal with the resident angry pomeranian of class 1-A. ‘Maybe this won’t be a good day’. Things like this were still a regular occurrence, at least whenever Uraraka wasn’t around, even Bakugo wasn’t stupid enough to mess with him when his girlfriend could see him.
Izuku sighed sadly to himself once again. Bakugo had asked out Uraraka after the sports festival, surprising everyone, none more than Izuku, she accepted, and they began dating from then on. Izuku tried to be happy for her, but he....
He just couldn’t be, she was hanging out with their friends less and less and with Bakugo more. That wouldn’t have been so much of a problem if Bakugo hadn’t rubbed his face in that fact every opportunity he had to.
That and the fact that she looked so much happier when she was with him than any other time. Despite his reputation as a crybaby, Izuku had gotten good at hiding his true emotions for the sake of other people, anytime Uraraka talked to him about it, he just smiled and said he was glad she was happy.
But seeing them together... truly hurt him, it was a deeper cut than any villain had made and a worse burn than any Bakugo could give to him. But... for the sake of his friends and classmates, he wouldn’t show it. He would continue being the ‘Sunshine child of class 1-A' as Ashido had dubbed him one day.
And he would just hope nobody could see just how hurt he was behind his smile.
Mina was having a good day, she was eating more of Satou’s delicious pancakes and talking with most of the rest of the girls, making jokes. She glanced over towards the kitchen, hearing the commotion caused by Bakugo pushing past Midoriya. She smirked slightly and shook her head at the spiky haired boy's antics and gave a small sympathetic look to Midoriya, busy cleaning up his dropped pancakes, who didn’t seem to notice.
She gave a small pout before returning to the girls’ conversation. While she had made friends with the rest of the girls in the class and the rest of the guys in the ‘Bakusquad’ as they’d dubbed themselves, much to the constant exasperation of Bakugo himself, she’d made it her mission to make friends with more of the other guys in the class.
‘But who first?’ she wondered.
‘Satou is pretty cool but he seems to focus on his baking and weightlifting most of the time, same with Shoji really, he doesn’t do a lot’ She continued, ‘Koda’s sweet but maybe a bit too shy to deal with me right now, Hagakure seems to have called dibs on Ojiro and Tokoyami is maybe a bit too into the whole darkness thing’
She put her empty plate down onto the coffee table and put her hand to her chin, thinking more on this dilemma, then glancing back over to Midoriya, who had gone to sit with Todoroki, Iida and Asui who had gone to join them. ‘Hmm, maybe Midoriya would be a good idea, he was always happy and cheerful but could also demonstrate moments of frankly exhilarating confidence and power,’ She looked a bit closer at him out of the corner of her eye, looking over his fluffy green hair, not dissimilar from her own and his frankly adorable face before her gaze drifts down to his shirt clad torso.
She felt herself blush ever so slightly, her cheeks turning a mild shade of lilac as she looked him over, ‘Was he always that big?’ she wondered to herself, ‘I swear his shirts weren’t always that tight on him.’
She lightly slapped her own cheeks to snap herself out of it, shaking her head slightly, ‘Yeah, Midoriya seems like a cool dude, now just to think of an excuse to start hanging out with him a bit more,’ She smiled softly to herself, glancing at Midoriya smiling at Iida telling off Todoroki for trying to eat soba for breakfast.
“Someone caught your eye there Mina?”
Mina snapped her vision onto the one who had just spoken, apparently her repeated glancing at Midoriya hadn’t gone unnoticed. Jirou looked over at Midoriya and then back at Mina, smirking, “Midoriya eh? Wouldn’t have thought he’d be your type, would have thought he’d be a bit too shy for you,”
Mina felt herself flush for a second before a sly smile crept its way onto her face briefly, “Yeah actually, I was planning on asking him out after school today,” she responded beaming brightly at the purple haired punk girl who seemed slightly taken aback at her immediate response, “Why? Did you call dibs?” Mina added, smirking lightly, “I don’t mind sharing if soooo,” she sang lightly.
Jirou responded by very quickly blushing bright red, recoiling and drawing her jacks to the side of her head like coiled snakes. “N..n..no..t..t..that’s not it at all,” she stuttered, embarrassed and hiding her face in her hands.
Mina laughed good naturedly and put a hand on the embarrassed girl’s shoulder, “Relax Kyoka, I'm only kidding, you don’t need to get so flustered,”
Jirou parted her hands slightly to glare at the pinkette for a second before softening and lowering her hands, “Alright but.... w..why do you have to go and say stuff like that?” she asked, still blushing.
Mina laughed again, “Because it’s funny, that’s why,” Mina giggled softly to herself.
*Ding*
Mina looked over to the opening elevator doors to reveal Uraraka skipping out and glancing around the room, clearly looking for someone. Mina smiled to herself, it was obvious who she was looking for, after all, she’d started hanging out with them a whole lot more since she started going out with Bakugo.
Uraraka, clearly spotting her target leaving the kitchen, bounced over to him before throwing her arms around his neck and kissing him on the cheek, “Morning Kat,” she greeted cheerfully. Mina squealed quietly at the sound of the nickname, partly due to its cuteness, partly due to the teasing she could get up to with it.
Bakugou responded by grumbling quietly to himself before softening just the smallest amount and the slightest hints of a smile gracing his features, “Morning babe, sleep well?” he asked, throwing his free arm around her, holding her close.
Mina smiled at the cute display before noticing Midoriya, sat between Mina and the couple also looking at the pair still with a small smile on his face. Mina grinned, she knew the relationship between him and Bakugo was.... rocky, to put it nicely but she was glad to see he was still happy for his best friend. Then he turned back to continue his conversation with Iida as Todoroki and Asui listened on and she noticed something, he was still smiling, and the smile looked as it always did... but there was something about his eyes...
There was something in them, but she couldn’t quite tell what it was.
She narrowed her eyes at Midoriya somewhat, trying to tell what his look behind his eyes was before being snapped back into reality by the sudden loud voice of their class president.
“Everyone!” Iida announced loudly to the common room, “Classes begin in 20 minutes, let us make our way to the classroom immediately.” There was a resounding groan that sounded out throughout the common room before everyone slowly dragged themselves away from their plates and comfy seats.
Mina shook her head slightly, picking up her plate to put it in the sink on the way past, ‘Alright so maybe it’s a bit weird for him, seeing his best friend dating someone he’s not exactly friendly with but they’re still friends so it can’t mean that much to him’ She concluded before skipping forward to catch up with Jirou and Yaoyorozu on the way to school.
Besides, he’s 1-A's sunshine child, nothing can get him down for long....
Can it?