Ellie's POV

On the morning of The UA Entrance Exams, I woke up early prepared a nutritious meal for Toshinori and Midoriya before waking Toshinori for his morning training with Midoriya. He dressed and got ready to start his day as I finished packing up the meals.

"Are you coming along to wish young Midoriya good luck?" Toshinori asked me curiously as he stepped out of the bedroom wearing a baggy dark trench coat over his attire and a pale grey scarf I'd gotten him for Christmas two years ago.

"He's going to need it so I might as well." I mumbled dryly.

Toshinori chuckled, "You really do like him." He retreated into the bedroom before returning moments later with my coat and a cutesy pink scarf with bunny rabbits on it. "It's chilly out this morning, you should dress warmer."

Ever since I'd gotten the flu a few months ago he'd been worried about me getting sick and was in overbearing overprotective spouse mode. I sighed as I finished washing the dishes I'd used preparing their meals, "Toshi-chan, I got sick once, months ago, stop worrying."

"You'd never gotten sick before then." He replied as he held up the jacket and the cutesy scarf.

I gave in with a shake of my head and held out my hand. Rather than give me the jacket and scarf he proceeded to dress me with a blinding smile. It was hard not to mirror his smile as he bundled me up in the jacket before winding the scarf around my neck and pulled up the hood of my jacket.

"That should do it." He beamed before his gaze fell onto my bare hands, "Nope, gloves." He scurried back into our bedroom.

I groaned as I picked up the packed meals and went to the door and slipped into my shoes. Toshinori returned moments later and nearly toppled me as he took the meals from me and attempted to slip the matching cutesy rabbit mittens onto my hands. "Toshinori, this is unnecessary." I protested as my cheeks flushed scarlet.

"There. Now we can go." He smiled completely unaffected by my grumbling protests.

I sighed and followed him out the door. "You're ridiculou-AH!" I cut off with a squeal of laughter as he swung me over his shoulder, even in his weakened state he wasn't the slightest bit hindered by my weight. "Toshi-chan! Put me down!" I giggled as I tried, to no avail, to flail out of his grip.

With the help of my quirk we made it to the beach in no time at all. Midoriya had beat us there and was fast at work finishing up his training. Toshinori still had me slung over his shoulder, probably for some ridiculous reason like I'd be warmer with some of his body heat. He'd been worried when I'd gotten sick, I think he had actually been scared that he might lose me, I didn't get sick very often, never sick enough to need a doctor anyway.

I struggled to peer around him as I heard Midoriya let out some kind of victory yell. He'd completely cleared all the trash on the beach and was standing atop the last pile of rubble he'd moved to the dumpster in the parking lot. Toshinori rushed toward the beach to get a closer look and stumbled in awe.

"Hey, hey, holy crap kid, you even cleaned up outside the area I told you to..." Toshinori stared at the now beautiful beach in awe.

"He's a teenager, you expected him to listen to you. He's been overdoing it this whole time." I grumbled into his back as I'd given up trying to get free.

Toshinori chuckled softly at me, "Seriously, there's not one speck of trash left on this beach. Only a few minutes to spare, but you exceeded my expectations.

"Not mine." I piped up causing Toshinori to laugh. Midoriya staggered atop the pile of rubble, he was going to collapse from exhaustion at any moment, "Catch the kid, Toshi-chan."

Toshinori phased into his muscular form and dropped me from his hold before speeding to Midoriya's aid. He managed to catch him just in time as he toppled off the pile of rubble in exhaustion unable to stand any longer.

"Excellent work." Toshinori beamed with pride as he looked down at his worn out protégé as I slowly made my way toward them with the packed meals.

"I finished everything." Midoriya sounded completely at his limit. "All Might. I did it. Do you think I'm ready now?"

"Yeah. You did good, kid." All Might was brimming with pride. "I gotta say, I'm impressed. I knew you had it in you, but this is beyond."

I lightly punched Toshinori in the spine as he set Midoriya on his feet before swatting at the trembling teen. "You're both idiots! Don't encourage this behavior! What the hell was the point of all this if he's too exhausted to take the exa-." I noticed Midoriya staring at me in awe, "What the hell are you staring at, brat?!"

Midoriya cracked a smile, "Sorry Ellie." He broke into a fit of silent laughter.

"What the hell is so funny?! This isn't a laughing matter!" I growled.

"I'm sorry, it's just, you look like a little kid throwing a tantrum." Midoriya laughed causing Toshinori to join in.

I looked down at my hands that I'd been wildly waving about in anger and noticed two cute pink furry pompoms attached to my mittens and realized I probably looked ridiculous with my cutesy scarf and mittens yelling at the pair of them. My cheeks flushed scarlet. "Eat your fucking breakfast and shut up." I bristled with rage as I shoved the carefully packed meals into Midoriya's arms and turned to storm away only for the wind to pick up the end of my scarf and throw it in my face causing me to lose sight of where I was going and nearly trip in a small divot in the sand.

Strong arms encircled me before I could fall face first to the beach, "Don't be so mad Ellie, it's cute." Toshinori chuckled as he swept me into his arms.

"It's not cute." I pouted.

He cracked a grin, "Very cute."

"S-Shut up, idiot." My face burned and I hurriedly averted my gaze looking anywhere but at him as I was overcome with embarrassment. "I-It's your fault for making me wear these stupid things." I grumbled as I attempted to take off the mittens but he'd somehow tightened the strings and I couldn't pull them off and gave up with a frustrated huff causing Toshinori to chuckle. "Stop laughing at me."

"Sorry Ellie, you're just so cute." He kissed the top of my head.

"I-Idiot." I blushed as he carried me back to where Midoriya was setting up and laying out the cloth I'd used to wrap the meals in like a picnic blanket as the sun slowly began to inch over the horizon.

The three of us watched the sunrise and ate a nutritious breakfast. Once he'd gotten something in his system, Midoriya looked exponentially better. Toshinori held up his mobile phone flashing a picture of Midoriya ten months ago looking scrawny with tears in his eyes at the pair of us. I threw him a curious look as Midoriya looked to his picture.

"Look at this." Toshinori still had his trademark All Might smile in place.

"Um." Midoriya didn't understand.

"It's you crying ten months ago. Look how far you've come. Such improvement!" He motioned to the teen's now muscular physique. "There's still a long road ahead of you before you can inherit my full power set. But it's starting to look like you can do it." Toshinori cheered. He was so proud of his young protégé.

Midoriya smiled but I noticed a fleeting look of self-doubt cross his face, "All Might...Do I deserve this? Are you sure?" He doubted himself. I understood his feelings. All Might was such a renowned figure and had a radiant presence. It was difficult for those of us he bestowed favor on to see our own worth.

Toshinori looked slightly taken aback by his question.

"You put so much time and energy into helping me, both of you, Ellie even got sick-."

I smacked him over the back of the head, "You can't go taking the credit for that. It was some other sniveling brats' fault."

Tears welled in Midoriya's eyes, "How did I end up so lucky?"

"Did I hit him too hard?" I looked to Toshinori curiously only to let out a squeak of surprise as Midoriya threw his arms around me and hugged me, "Ah! Get him off of me!"

Toshinori laughed at my predicament. His protégé was surprisingly strong and difficult for me to shake off.

I pat Midoriya on the head lightly, "There. There. Stop smothering me."

Toshinori lightly pat Midoriya on the shoulder as he released me from his hold. "It was your hard work that did this, not mine. Now, for your reward Izuku Midoriya." Toshinori declared seriously as he got to his feet.

"Yes sir." Midoriya leapt to his feet and practically saluted causing me to roll my eyes at the pair of them. They were too bright it was nauseating.

Toshinori plucked one of his shimmering glistening golden strands of hair from his head. What was he doing? "Someone told me this once. There's a difference between being lucky and deserving. One's an accident the other is a reward. Never get the two confused. Take that to heart, young man. This gift. You earned it with your own valiant efforts." He extended the strand of golden glistening hair. "Eat this."

"Huh?" Midoriya paled.

"WHAT?!" I snapped, "You're not feeding him hair!"

"To inherit my power, you've got to swallow some of my DNA that's how it works."

"That's gross." I grimaced, "If I knew you were going to be so gross I'd have made something with a lot of ginger for breakfast."

"This isn't exactly how I imagined it." Midoriya stammered nervously.

"C'mon there's no time. You'll be late for the exam. Eat. Eat. Eat!"

"Ew, I'm not watching this." I flopped back onto our picnic blanket and closed my eyes as I tried not to laugh at the absurdity of it all. Toshinori and I didn't often talk about One for All, I knew he could give it to a successor but we never got into the details of how it was passed on.

Midoriya panicked the whole time as he swallowed the hair. The exam was going to start soon. He wouldn't be able to make it on foot at this rate. He scrambled to gather his gear before looking at his watch. In true Midoriya fashion, the moment he saw the time he began to panic.

I sighed and got to my feet, "I guess I'll give you a reward too." I stretched my hand toward him, "I can get you to your exam on time, take my hand."

"Ellie, you're going to take young Midoriya to the exam?" Toshinori smiled.

"Well it's not like you could show up with him that'd draw too much attention and everyone would think he had an unfair advantage." I pointed.

"Ah, that's true." Toshinori hadn't even considered it.

"Let's go, brat." I held out my hand to Midoriya and smiled as he gripped my hand and let out a panicked yelp as we were swept away in a strong gale force wind.

He screamed the entire way and didn't stop screaming until we landed outside the gate. I landed with a giggle and released my hold on him before reaching out and straightening his uniform and dusting him off. After I was sure he looked presentable I ruffled his hair and took a step away from him.

"Good luck, though I don't think you'll be needing it."

"Thanks Ellie, for everything."

"If you hug me again, I'm sending you flying." I threatened him before waving him away with a smile.