Ochako stood in the middle of Izuku's room, examining some new clothes that she had gotten herself because they reminded her of a certain green cinnamon child. These were clothes that she decided that she would be using when she wanted to be comfy around the house, consisting of greenish silk shorts with thick vertical white lines on the back of them, also there was also a plain white t-shirt with one thick horizontal red line going around the bottom part of the shirt.

Also included was a thin sweater with a matching green color as the shorts, along with its hoodie having the same short earlike protrusions that Izuku's costume had, but also included were other thick white stripes going along both arms of the sweater. Ochako was in her pinkish indoor slippers as she examined herself wearing these clothes, smiling at the thought that they resembled Izuku's hero costume colors, excluding the white.

"I'm like Deku..." she thought to herself in some happy embarrassment, with a pink hue forming in her cheeks.

Ochako looked at her arms, then having a thought that made her giggle, she pulled her arm back in a jab ready position.

"Smash!" Ochako shouted out to herself as she punched the air in front of her, imitating the way Izuku does it. 

All of a sudden, she heard someone behind her.

"I-I'm home O-Ochako..."

Ochako turned completely black and white, freezing entirely in the position she was in with her arm still sticking out. She then slowly turned her head in a robot-like manner until her face fully faced Izuku standing at the door, maintaining an awkward and embarrassed smile on her face.

"W-Welcome h-home... D-D-Deku..."

They both stared at one another in silence, Izuku was holding a slumbering Emerald in his arms after spending the day with Tsu, and he still had his yellow backpack along with the few bags from the day. The more time the both of them stared at one another, the redder and more flushed their faces became. It wasn't until Ochako's whole body had turned a complete shade of red when she finally decided to say something.

"You... didn't see that r-right?" 

Izuku awkwardly scratched a finger against his chin, his eyes avoiding a direct look at Ochako from the embarrassment of seeing her imitate him.

"I-If it makes you feel better... I-I think it was was an... accurate representation." he said with a small, awkward laugh.

"..."

"..."

"..."

"You didn't see that right?"

"She said it again!" Izuku thought with a comedic blank face.

"No... I didn't see it." Izuku answered this time with a bit of a sigh.

"G-Good..." Ochako stuttered with an awkward fake laugh as she slowly turned her head forward again, still frozen in the position she had before.

"I'm... just gonna get ready to sleep..." Izuku said calmly as he walked over to Emerald's small bed basket, placed the pup down into it, and also placed down the little amount of bags he carried next to his bed. He then opened a drawer and got some clothes he would use as pajamas before then making his way towards the bathroom, gently closing the door behind him as he did so.

A few seconds after Izuku closed the door, Ochako dove into her mattress and wrapped her covers all around her like a cacoon, shaking in them as she did so.

"He saw me! He saw me! I can't believe he saw me doing that! I'm so embarrassed! Why did he have to show up at that exact moment!?" The blanket cocoon emitted steam from Ochako's pure embarrassment, a few adorable whimpers also being heard within it.

In his bathroom, Izuku didn't think too much of Ochako mimicking him, but he did slightly blush as he found her action very cute. He brushed his teeth while looking at the notifications on his phone. He hadn't actually checked his phone at all while with Tsu, other than a brief moment to check the time, but now that he was home, he was able to check up on anything he missed out on.

Izuku stopped brushing when he saw a new message from Enso, one sent to him earlier in the day. 

"Oh great... What could he want this time?" Izuku thought in vexation as he tapped the message.

Enso: Izuku, tomorrow meet at the U.A gates. You'll be training in the pool area, so be sure to arrive at exactly 8:00 and to eat an hour before heading over there. Don't bring any swimwear, I'll be providing something for you to wear as part of the exercise you'll be doing over there.

"The... pool?" Izuku wondered as he continued brushing his teeth.

He then spat out everything in his mouth in shock after processing what Enso asked him.

"What!? Tomorrow?! And so early too!?!" he said aloud to himself in disbelief.

Izuku then received another text from him.

Enso: And yes, tomorrow.

"Did he read my mind!?"

"What the hell?! He didn't even talk to me about it!" Izuku said in irritation.

He then sighed in some comedic depression as he placed his phone down to the side and rubbed his eyes.

"I swear... He never tells me anything unless if it's at the last moment..."

"Enso can be really unfair to you..." Ikari said as he emerged from Izuku and picked up his phone, examining the messages Enso sent on it.

"Yeah, but I guess I should be used to it and expect it by now..."

Izuku then heard a few beeps and boops coming from the side of him, as well as All Might's voice. Izuku recognized these sounds and turned his head to Ikari who was tapping his phone.

"What... are you doing?"

"Playing a game!" Ikari stated happily as he continued to tap away on Izuku's phone.

Izuku stared at Ikari playing his phone for a moment, before then snatching it away from him with a hint of annoyance.

"Hey! I was gonna capture the villain!" Ikari whined as he reached for the phone, but Izuku kept holding it away from him at every attempt he made.

"No, bad. You don't just play other people's stuff without permission." Izuku said sternly.

"You're mean partner!" Ikari whined to him as he began to roll on the floor childishly.

"Get up and stop acting so childish..." Izuku grumbled before putting his phone in his pocket.

"Pooey..." Ikari pouted in the corner of the bathroom, a depressed aura surrounding him as he did so, but Izuku paid no mind to him as he continued to brush his teeth

"I swear... he can be such a handful sometimes, now I see what Tokoyami has to deal with in Dark Shadow." Izuku thought with squinting, tired eyes.

"I can still hear your thoughts, you know..." Ikari murmured in the corner of the room, slightly turning his head to face Izuku.

Izuku didn't even look at him, he simply spat out the toothpaste in his mouth into the sink, then applying water on his toothbrush to clean it.

"Ikari, just go to your room."

"Eh? But I don't even have a room!"

"Then go to wherever you go when you're not bothering me..." Izuku said as he placed his toothbrush back.

"Fine..." Ikari grumbled as he slowly retracted his aura back into Izuku, leaving no trace.

Izuku then let out a sleepy sigh and rubbed his eyes once more, feeling slightly relieved to know that Ikari went back.

"You should've kissed froggy girl before you left..."

"IKARI!" Izuku abruptly shouted with a blush on his face, then everything was quiet and Izuku didn't get any other sound from him.

"Damn it..." Izuku grumbled as cross-popping veins appeared on the side of his head. He let out another sigh of annoyance before placing his toothbrush into its spot and getting out of the bathroom, but before he reached his own room, another thought hit his head.

"Wait a minute... Enso's gonna give me something to wear at the pool?"

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The Next Day

"Hey Enso, next time you give me a time and place to meet you... can you please let me know at least two days in advance? It's annoying and can be really troublesome when you suddenly spring a meeting time on me out of nowhere... Also, why did we have to meet so early in the morning?" Izuku asked his trainer as he arrived in front of the school gates, yawning loudly.

Enso stood up with his back straight, then simply walking over to Izuku and attempted to karate chop him on the head, but Izuku simply held his hand up and caught Enso's hand with a look of annoyance.

"Good to see your reactions are still good," Enso muttered as he pulled his hand back.

"Hey... mind telling me why you tried that just now?" Izuku asked with an irritated look.

"Because you didn't meet me here at 8:00 like I said."

Izuku raised an eyebrow and pulled his phone out of his pocket.

"But it's 7:57! I'm not even late!"

"But you're early, not right on time."

"You can't be serious!?! You're being even more unreasonable than Iida when it comes to time! And he keeps trying to get me to class ten minutes early!"

"I don't see what's your problem, I just want you to arrive exactly on the dot."

"That's the problem!" Izuku yelled out in comedic anger, then giving up trying to reason with Enso and facepalming himself.

"So are we gonna go in? What are we even doing here? All I know is that you said something about going to the pool..."

Enso turned his back to Izuku and marched over to the main building, with Izuku following him.

"First, we're going to stop by the teacher's office in order to get permission to actually use the pool."

"You didn't even ask the school if you could use it!?!" Izuku uttered in disbelief.

"Nope."

"I don't even know what to say about that..." Izuku thought as an awkward trail of sweat went down the side of his head.

Izuku and Enso walked through the school halls until they went into a room with a few teachers working.

Aizawa was one of those teachers, and upon seeing Enso and Izuku walk into the room, he raised an eyebrow and placed the few papers he was holding down.

"Midoriya, Enso, care to explain what you're both doing here so early in the morning?"

Izuku stood with a blank expression on his face as he realized something.

"He's... calling Enso by his first name?..."

"Izuku and I wish to use the school pool for training purposes."

Aizawa stared at Enso for a few moments, before sighing and rubbing the back of his head.

"There are already others who have requested to use the pool later on in the day... Give me a good reason why I should also let you use it, especially since you came here unannounced."

"Because... Shinso." was all Enso responded as he crossed his arms.

Aizawa raised an eyebrow at Enso, looking slightly irritated at him with his eyes seeming to glow, but he then let out a sigh of defeat as he turned away from him.

"You could use it... just be sure not to disturb the others who are going to arrive..."

"Really?! We could just use it!?" Izuku yelled in his mind.

"Thank you Aizawa, let's go now Izuku," Enso said before turning around to leave the room, but his eyes caught sight of Midnight. She had a small, but sad gaze towards Enso, standing by the copy machine and then looking away when Enso noticed her eye stares.

"I guess she's still thinking about that other time..." Enso thought to himself before walking out of the room with a very confused Izuku.

Izuku and Enso both met into the boys' locker room, where Enso tossed Izuku a bag he had brought with him.

Izuku fumbled as he caught the surprisingly heavy bag, and he was shocked at its sudden existence.

"Where did Enso pull this out of?!"

"Put these on," Enso commanded him.

"What is it?" Izuku asked as he reached into the bag. 

"It's some swimming gear I want you to wear during this exercise."

Izuku pulled out a black wetsuit with dark green vertical lines going along the arms. That wasn't the only thing in the bag though, as Izuku also pulled out some black arm braces that had a familiar weight to them, along with some black leg braces to go along with it.

"Um... mind explaining what's with all of this?"

"Isn't it obvious? You're gonna be swimming with heavy arm braces to help build you up."

Izuku stared at Enso with a blank expression on his face, as if asking if he was serious.

"You're... trying to drown me aren't you?"

"Oh please, there are far better ways to do that," Enso said without any amusement in his voice.

Izuku felt a chill go down his spine.

"Okay... ignoring that questionable comment, why do I have to wear a wetsuit instead of swim trunks?" Izuku asked as he held it up and examined its design.

"That's mainly just to cover up the scar on your back, we don't want anyone to come and see that, including the teachers. Your scar won't be outlined on the wetsuit, and it's thick enough that others won't be able to feel it upon touching your back or see it imprinted on there."

"Why would I need to worry about others touching my back?" Izuku asked as he removed his shirt to put on the wetsuit.

"You heard Aizawa say that others will be coming, you never know what could happen. I'll meet you in the pool area." Enso said as he turned to the door.

"You're not gonna swim?" Izuku asked as he eyed Enso still wearing his suit.

"No need, you'll be the one training," Enso stated before closing the locker room door behind him.

"I wonder if he just doesn't wanna take off his suit..." Izuku thought as he sweatdropped. After a few minutes of struggling, he put on the wetsuit, but then slightly tugged on it in some annoyance. "It feels... a little tight..."

Enso stood outside next to the pool, arms crossed as he waited for Izuku to come outside. He examined the pool and the blue sky reflected off the completely still waters. He then heard some footsteps getting near, in which he turned his head to see Izuku in his wetsuit and wearing the arm and leg braces.

Enso raised an eyebrow as he saw Izuku having a light blush on his face. "What's wrong?"

"Th-This just feels... a little e-embarrassing..." Izuku muttered as he looked down at the wetsuit he was wearing.

"Why?" 

"W-Well, how do I explain this... I guess it's because..." Izuku voice trailed off.

"Because of what?"

"I-It's a little tight..."

"..."

"..."

"That's how they're supposed to be, idiot," Enso said as he turned his head back to the pool.

"Hey, that's mean! You know how awkward it feels to be wearing this wetsuit with heavy braces over my arms and legs so early in the morning!?"

"Stretch a little and swim around the pool without using your quirk."

"He completely ignored me..." Izuku thought with a blank stare towards his mentor.

"This... is gonna suck..."

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An hour later

"Man, why is she taking so long!?" Mina whined with her arms stretched in the air.

"Ochako-chan said that she woke up late, but she'll be arriving shortly," Tsu reassured the group as she examined a text that Ochako had sent her.

"I wanna go swimming already!" Hagakure complained as well.

"Now, now, we should wait for her to show up. We all agreed to go into the pool together after all." Momo said to the group with a serious look on her face.

"But it's been nearly 20 minutes since we arrived here..." Jirou said as she leaned against the wall with her phone in her hand, a bored look currently on her.

"Relax, as Yaoyorozu said, I'm sure she'll be here," Kendo reassured Jirou, although also hoping that Ochako would arrive soon.

The girls of class A had all agreed to hang out together at the school pool, planning the event ever since the final exams ended. They were all currently waiting in front of the school carrying some small bags that contained a few things they brought with them. There was an additional member invited by the girls, Kendo. After helping to start planning Izuku's birthday party, Momo decided that Kendo should come along with the girls as well because she really was the whole reason they even knew about Izuku's birthday in the first place, so it was like a thank you towards her. Kendo was glad to be included with the girls, wanting to form a better relationship with class A to fix what sour impressions they had on them before because of Monoma. However, there was currently one girl who wasn't there with the girls, Ochako, who appeared to be running late. 

Mina tapped her foot impatiently with a pout on her face, "If she doesn't arrive in the next few minutes, I think I'm gonna go in."

Almost on cue, they heard someone yell in the distance.

"Hey, guys!"

The group turned their head down to the street, then catching sight of Ochako running towards the group and slightly sweating from rushing.

"There you are! We were waiting for you!" Mina said as she waited for the last of the girls to arrive.

"S-Sorry! I woke up late!" Ochako said with slight embarrassment as she ran up to the group. 

"I forgot to set an alarm... I might have never woken up if I didn't notice that Deku left..." Ochako thought to herself.

"You should've set an alarm to ensure that you wouldn't have arrived late," Momo said as she crossed her arms.

"Great! Now we can all go inside!" Hagakure said with enthusiasm, even jumping in the air.

"About time," Jirou put her phone away and began to walk inside with the group.

Tsu walked side by side with Ochako as they made their way inside U.A, "This should be fun, ribbit."

Ochako wasn't listening to her as she was with her own thoughts, wondering something.

"Where did Deku go earlier in the morning?"

"Ochako-chan? Something on your mind?"

Ochako flinched, "E-Eh!? Oh, I'm fine Tsu, just thinking that I'm forgetting something that's all." Ochako responded with a half-hearted laugh.

"Pool! Pool! Pool!" Hagakure and Mina both repeated in unison as they marched down the halls and towards the teachers' offices.

Kendo smiled as she saw how excited the two of them seemed, turning to Momo and speaking with her. "Are they always this energetic about everything?"

Momo let out a small chuckle, "Yes, Mina especially is always seen smiling around the class, unless if it's something about a test..."

"She doesn't do too well on them?" Kendo asked her.

"More like she doesn't study..." Momo responded as she sweatdropped and gazed towards Mina.

"Oh."

Aizawa was sitting at his desk when he saw the girls come into the room.

"Oh, you're all here to use the pool right?"

"Yes, we are Sensei, we're just checking with you first to let you know that we're here," Momo spoke for the girls.

Aizawa raised an eyebrow as he saw Kendo there with them. "Why is Kendo from class B with you? I wasn't informed that she would be coming..." 

"We decided to invite her with us last minute, I hope that won't be a problem," Tsu answered him.

Aizawa stared at Kendo for a brief moment, before then sighing, "Well, I guess it doesn't matter... You all can go over there, just know that there are two other people who are currently using the pool as well for exercise purposes."

Upon hearing that, the girls all formed a mixture of looks, from surprise to suspicion.

"Huh? Who would be using the pool? And why did you let them use it on the same day as us sensei?" Mina asked her teacher.

"It better not be those idiots Kaminari and Mineta..." Jirou said with a look of irritation.

"Who are they?" Kendo asked with some curiosity.

"They're perverts, that's who they are. But Mineta is far worse than Kaminari." Jirou answered to her.

Aizawa simply flipped through his papers without much care. "Those two made requests to use the pool as well, but I knew them enough to deny them since I knew it wouldn't be from 'pure' intentions."

Tsu placed a finger on her chin and slightly tilted her head in curiosity, "Then who are the two at the pool right now then?"

"Just head over there, they won't bother you... I doubt that they would have any impure intentions because they're... them." Aizawa said before standing up and heading over to some cabinets. "Oh, and the school swimsuits are available to you like I said, they should be in the girls' locker room."

"Okay... thank you Sensei," Momo said with a slight hint of confusion in her voice as she wondered exactly who the two people in the pool were.

"Let's go to the pool now!" Mina shouted with glee and completely didn't even seem to care that there were two uninvited people already at the pool area.

"Yay, pool!" Hagakure added.

In the locker room, the girls were all beginning to get undressed and grabbed the school swimsuits, but Tsu surprised the girls by pulling out her green and white striped swimsuit.

The same one that Izuku had said looked better on her at the mall.

"Oh, you brought your own swimsuit, Tsu?" Momo asked with a smile.

Tsu nodded her head, "Yes, I just bought it yesterday, so I thought that I should wear it. That won't be a problem will it?"

"Not at all Tsu, I don't think Aizawa would care either," Momo reassured her.

Mina, on the other hand, pouted. "Man, you're making me wish that I brought my own swimsuit as well..."

Momo then clapped her hands, "How about I make everyone their own swimsuits too!?" she exclaimed with bubbly excitement and a shining aura with flowers appeared around her.

"So bubbly... It makes me feel warm inside..." the girls all thought with smiles.

"That sounds great! Let's do this!" Hagakure yelled in excitement.

"I don't think... that's a good idea... Remember what Aizawa said? There are two other people at the pool right now..." Jirou muttered as she looked down at herself.

"Aw, who cares? If Aizawa said that they won't bother us and are okay, then they're alright with me!" Mina told her. "Or are you just shy?" she smirked.

Jirou felt slightly annoyed, "I just don't think... I should wear one..."

Kendo walked next to her, "Cmon Jirou, have more confidence in yourself! You'll look great in one!" she said as she gave the girl a pat on the back.

"Yeah Jirou, it'll be fun!" Ochako beamed.

"I'll help you design it!" Momo told her.

Jirou looked around at the girls before then stuttering with a small blush, "F-Fine..."
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Izuku crouched over on the ground, struggling to catch his breath after swimming about an hour nonstop with the braces on. His arms were completely sore from swimming so many laps around the school pool and it wasn't until Enso saw Izuku beginning to sink deeper as he swam that he decided to let him rest.

Izuku had at first swam fine without using his quirk, but about twenty minutes in when Izuku was beginning to get tired, Enso had told Izuku to use his quirk in order to last as long as he could swimming around the pool, which strained Izuku. 

Enso laid on an outdoor recliner with a big umbrella over him to shield him from the rays of the sun. He had watched Izuku the entire time as he swam, occasionally spouting out problems with his form as he swam.

"Good job, you lasted quite a while," Enso said as he walked forward to Izuku.

"I-I survived..." was all Izuku could air out between pants, pain went throughout his arms and legs, the braces still on them.

"You can remove the braces weighing you down now. After you do so, tell me if you feel any different."

After catching his breath for a few more seconds on the ground, Izuku managed to slowly sit on one knee, although flinching from some pain as he did so. He removed each of his braces from his arms and legs, they clunked loudly on the ground as they landed. After removing all of them, Izuku stood back up to his feet, nearly falling over for a moment from pain in his legs, before then beginning to perform stretches, and ignoring the soreness of his body.

"Well?" Enso asked him.

"Well, I feel lighter now that I removed the braces..." Izuku remarked with a blank look on his face towards Enso.

"Obviously, but the question is how much lighter do you feel?"

Izuku continued with his stretches, then standing up straight and watching Enso with a perplexed expression.

"Well... I don't really feel different. I just feel my muscles sore."

"I guess that makes sense, it'll take many more exercises with those weights before you could notice an effect they have on you. For some special people, they felt changes instantly upon doing these exercises, I was just checking if you were one of those people who were good enough to have their body improve much earlier than others.."

"Why do I feel slightly ashamed after hearing that?" Izuku wondered with a new feeling of shame.

The duo then heard some doors open behind them and Izuku froze as he felt a small chill go down his spine.

"Why do I have a bad feeling about this?"

"Looks like it's the other group that Aizawa said would be arriving..." Enso told Izuku.

Izuku slowly turned his head over to the entrance of the pool, where he felt some despair overtake him to see the girls there.

"Oh no..."

The girls all came out of the locker rooms speaking to one another, not even noticing that Izuku or Enso were there until they stepped into the sunlight and looked forward. They all froze, Izuku and the girls all stared at one another with blank expressions, maintaining an awkward silence as they processed each other's presence that lasted only for a few seconds.

"DEKU!?!/ MIDORI!?!/ IZUKU!?!"/Izu-chan?/MIDORIYA!?!" The girls all said simultaneously, with Tsu being the only one who didn't shout. They all noticed Izuku wearing a wetsuit and how tight it seemed to be on him, with most of them blushing at the sight. Jirou unconsciously covered her face with her hands, although slightly peeking between her fingers at Izuku.

"Wh-What are you wearing!?" Jirou uttered out, but then she remembered that she was wearing a swimsuit, and embarrassingly hid behind Momo to cover herself.

"Whoa Midori, looking good!" Hagakure shouted.

Izuku felt the blood rushing to his head as he noticed that the girls were wearing swimsuits.

Momo wore a red bikini with a tie-side bottom.

Mina wore a light blue bikini that was front tied and had small frills by the cleavage.

Tsu wore the same green and white striped one-piece swimsuit Izuku had complimented her on.

Jirou wore a yellow two-piece slight triangle top with a bottom ruffled skirt.

Ochako wore a two-piece orange and green front tied bikini as well, but she also an orange swim scarf cover up wrapped around her thighs.

Hagakure's swimsuit consisted of a white skirt with two buttons, along with a white top and blue bow tied up in front. However, Hagakure also had some bracelets on her wrists, most likely to get her to stand out more.

Kendo wore a blue bikini, but it was much smaller than she thought, it looked tight on her and it exposed a considerate amount of her cleavage.

Izuku was stunned to see all of these girls in their swimsuits, and he could only stare in silence at how beautiful each of them looked. His eyes examined each of the girls individually in such a short time, his gaze went from their faces to... their special attributes.

Steam came from his red head as he realized that he was staring at them for too long. He violently shook his head side to side and covered his eyes for a brief moment before then forcing his eyes to look towards the girl's faces.

"H-H-Hey..." Izuku wave at them awkwardly.

Ochako felt her body getting warm upon seeing Izuku she looked down at the swimsuit she was wearing, blushing intensely at the thought of Izuku looking at her in her swimsuit, but at the same time, she felt really glad to see him again.

"So that's why he wasn't there in the morning when I woke up... but why is he here!?!"

Mina formed a big, toothy smile on her face as she suddenly ran to Izuku with her arms open.

"Midori! I'm so glad your here!" she shouted as she basically dove at him in order to hug him.

Izuku instantly sidestepped out of the way of her hug, in which Mina flew past him and fell into the pool behind Izuku with a loud splash, shocking Mina, the rest of the girls, and even Izuku himself.

"Did he just reject Mina!?!" the girls all thought in shock.

"Crap! My reflexes got the better of me because of Enso and I ended up instinctively avoiding Mina!" Izuku thought as he formed a shocked open mouth expression with shadows over his eyes.

Mina emerged from the pool and shook her head side to side, getting some water off of her face and then looking up at Izuku with comedic tears going down her eyes.

"Waaaaaa! Midori rejected me!" she fake cried.

Izuku felt some guilt overtake him, "I-I'm sorry Mina! It was a reflex! Let me help you out!" he said with worry as he kneeled over the pool and reached a hand out to help Mina out.

This was a mistake.

Mina took Izuku's hand, but when she did so, a toothy grin formed across her face, one that Izuku noticed a little too late. Mina then yanked Izuku into the water with her, a bigger splash than before occurring because of it.

"He got baited..." Jirou said with an awkward trail of sweat going down the side of her head.

"Izuku?!" Momo shouted as she quickly rushed over to the poolside in worry and looked into it, only to immediately form cross popping veins at the sight she saw.

In the pool, Mina was hugging a madly blushing Izuku by his waist and nuzzling her cheek against his cheek happily. Izuku tried to move his head away from Mina, but Mina kept pushing herself against him.

"It's so good to see you again!" Mina said with a happy closed-eyed smile.

"M-Mina! This is dangerous!" Izuku uttered out as he struggled to keep afloat with his arms with Mina tightly hugging him there.

Mina didn't seem to hear him, "Hey Midori, why are you hiding all of your beefcakes with this wetsuit? Show some skin!" she said as she attempted to pull upon the wetsuit.

"Ashido! Let go of Izuku this instant!" Momo yelled at her with a blush from the edge after hearing what Mina said.

"Make me!" Mina said with a smug grin as she pressed her chest up against Izuku, who looked down as he noticed the feeling of them. His eyes widened in panic as he saw Mina's cleavage, then he struggled to look away and keep afloat at the same time.

"Y-You little!..." Momo dove into the pool after Mina, creating another splash that obscured the view of the others for a moment as they awkwardly stared.

The next thing they saw was Momo and Mina each holding one of Izuku's arms, both glaring at one another as they tried to pry him away from the other.

"Hey, back off I was here first!" Mina shouted to her as she pulled Izuku closer to her.

"You're clearly making Izuku uncomfortable! Release him!" Momo snapped back as she tugged back.

"You're doing the exact same thing though!" Mina retorted as she yanked Izuku once again.

In the middle of the two girls tightly holding his arms, Izuku felt how voluptuous both of their breasts were as one tried to force him away from the other, which would cause one to forcefully be leaned up against Izuku when the other pulled.

"I-I-I can feel them! I-I can feel them!" Izuku yelled in his head as he struggled to keep a cool head, a lump forming in his throat as he couldn't even speak.

The other girls watched from the side with blank looks on their faces, although Kendo had a more confused on her face as she stared at Izuku, then back to the girls.

"Um... Is this a daily thing?" Kendo asked them.

The girls all simply nodded their heads up and down.

"This... might be a problem..." Kendo thought with some of her hopes going down.

Jirou paid attention to Izuku's reactions between the two girls and what was causing him to get so flustered. She examined the way two different pairs of curves bounced around and pressed up close to Izuku, their shapes being expressed thanks to their swimsuits. Jirou then looked down at herself for a moment, placing her hands over her own chest.

After looking at her own chest, looked back at the two girls fighting, and then back at her chest again, Jirou fell to her knees and sulked on the ground in a dramatic way, hanging her head with a depressed aura around her.

"Damn it... why is the world so unfair?..." Jirou muttered as she slightly shook on the ground with shadows over her eyes.

"Jirou!?!" Kendo uttered out worryingly as she crouched down next to her.

Meanwhile, Izuku struggled to calm both Mina and Momo down, but they didn't even seem to listen to him at all while they were disputing with one another.

"L-Let's calm down you two! We're both still in the water-"

Izuku was cut off as Mina let go of his arm but then wrapped her arms around Izuku's head and hugged it, bringing Izuku close to her and completely pressing his face up between Mina's big assets, muffling his words.

"MMPH!?!" Izuku eyes nearly bulged out of his sockets from this physical contact, his face turning an even deeper shade of red than before as he attempted to pull his head back from Mina, but was unable to do so.

Momo blushed harder as she saw Mina hugging Izuku so that his face was purposely pressed upon her chest, but an even bigger sense of anger and frustration overtook her as she copied Mina.

"That's how she wishes to play this?! She's foolish if she doesn't realize mine are bigger!"

Momo let go of Izuku's arm and slipped her arms around Izuku's head as well and hugged it.

Mina was partially surprised to see Momo copy her, "Damn! I didn't think she'd do it based on how professional she always tries to be!"

Both girls bumped foreheads together with sparks being produced between the two of them as they glared at each other. Izuku had slightly sunk into the water because of the of girls pulling him around and making him feel slightly dizzy, his head was now sandwiched between both girls, and he felt just how soft they are.

Momo squinted her eyes at Mina as she spoke sternly but slowly. "Ashido, I will not say this again, let, him, go."

"How about you let him go instead?" Mina retorted back just as sternly.

"I-I-I don't know just how much more this I can take!..." Izuku thought as his eyes became swirls and he felt his mind going blank.

Enso was laying on the outdoor recliner with his arms crossed as he examined Izuku's reactions.

"Any moment now..." Enso thought.

"Sh-Shouldn't we stop them?" Hagakure asked worriedly as she turned to her friends.

Ochako formed an angry pout on her face as she also dove into the pool, then swimming towards at the group. Ochako placed her arms under Izuku's arms and attempted to pull him away from the girls.

"Let go of Deku!" Ochako said to the two as she pulled.

"Hey! Lay off!" Mina snapped.

"You don't have to get involved Uraraka!" Momo added.

Ochako leaned herself closer to the group, butting heads with both Momo and Mina, but also pressing her chest against Izuku's head as well.

"O-Ochako too!?!" Izuku screamed in his mind.

Ochako tried to hug Izuku closer to her and away from Mina and Momo, "You're getting too close with Izuku!"

"Look who's talking! You're the one who hung out with Izuku secretly during the break!" Mina spoke up.

Ochako blushed upon hearing this, remembering her date with Izuku.

"I-It's not like that!" Ochako shouted back.

Momo and Mina both immediately noticed the red face Ochako suddenly formed.

"Wait a minute! Did something happen between the two of you over the break?!" Momo pressured her.

"I... I can't... take this..." Izuku thought as he felt his vision get blurry and his head looking as if it would pop off.

"Wha!? N-NO! Of c-course not!" Ochako snapped back.

Tsu noticed the look Izuku had on his face, and how he looked like he was gonna break at any moment.

"Um, Hagakure-chan?"

"Yeah?" Hagakure asked as she turned her head to Tsu.

"I think somethings wrong with Izu-chan. Ribbit."

Hagakure looked confusingly over towards Izuku, before then realizing the situation at hand.

"Mina! Let go of him!"

"What?! Are you on their side?!" Mina shouted back angrily to her, even Momo and Ochako looking over at her with some surprise.

"No! Look at Midori!"

"Huh? What do you-?" Mina, Ochako, and Momo then felt Izuku go limp in their arms, and the three of them looked down to him. His head was partially in the water, a deep shade of red with swirls in his eyes along with steam emitting from him as he passed out, his mouth even bubbling the water.

"Izuku!?!/Midori!?!/Deku!?!" the three girls in the water cried out while the other girls simply stared in shock from the side of the pool.

Enso looked at his watch, "Hm, lasted for about two minutes... I guess he still has to work on getting calm in these situations..."
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"...Am I dead?"

This was the thought Izuku currently had in mind as he saw only darkness. He heard muffled speaking around him, getting clearer the more he attentively listened to the voices and recovered.

"You two really should've have butted in, I was just greeting Midori after all. You didn't have to get jealous just for that!"

"You act like that's all that was Ashido! That was way more than just a hug!" a stern voice spoke out next.

"Sorry Mina-chan, but I'm gonna have to agree with Momo-chan. You did push yourself a little too much to Izu-chan for that to be just a hug, Ribbit."

"Oh, come on Tsu! Toru, you're on my side aren't you!?"

"Eh? Well..."

"Shush! He's waking up."

Izuku's eyes slowly opened to reveal several pairs of eyes looking down at him. He didn't say anything at first, his mind just felt dizzy from waking up as a pink head got slightly closer to him, which Izuku immediately recognized as Mina.

"Midori are you alright?! Do you need CPR!?" Mina asked him, although with a hint of excitement in her voice.

Upon hearing that, Izuku's face turned as red as Kirishima's hair. He shot up from where he was laying on, did a backflip, and then landed on his feet, breathing heavily in embarrassment as he stared at the group with a flustered face.

Izuku took deep breaths as he realized that he was still at the poolside and that he had been laying on an outdoor recliner with the girls crouching over him.

"Wha-Wha-!?" Izuku uttered out as he recounted the words Mina just told him.

"Mina! You don't say that as he's waking up!" Ochako yelled at her.

Mina put on a mischievous smile, "Hey, at least we know that he's up and fine."

"You don't check like that!" Momo also snapped at her.

"Hm, so you didn't die," Enso said as he walked next to Izuku and looked at him curiously.

"Does he really think that weak of me?" Izuku thought with a blank stare of depression towards him.

"You're an idiot," Jirou said with a highly annoyed look to Enso.

Enso ignored her. "It's a good thing that you didn't die. Killed by stimulation would've been a very shameful death." Enso continued.

"That's why you're glad I didn't die?" Izuku thought in even more comedic depression.

Enso focused his gaze over to the girls, then back at Izuku as he wondered if he should continue to make him train with the girls around. He sighed and put his hands in his suit pockets, "Well Izuku, I guess you can relax now..." 

Izuku raised an eyebrow, "Wait, so we're already done for the day?"

"If you continued on with the rest of the exercises I prepared for you, then they might get over worried again..." Enso said as he pointed at the girls with his thumb. "That'll be annoying, and the training camp is right around the corner, so might as well take this time to relax."

"That's... considerate of him..." Izuku thought with a small smile.

"Well, I'll be seeing you at the day of the camp then..." Enso said with a wave of his hand as he began walking back into the school building.

"Huh? You're not staying to relax?" Izuku asked him with a slightly disappointed look.

"No point for me too, goodbye," Enso said as he disappeared behind the school doors.

"He should really try to lay back sometime..." Izuku thought as he watched Enso leave.

As soon as Enso became out of eyesight of everyone, Izuku heard a voice behind him.

"So Midori..."

Izuku turned white as he felt a pair of arms wrap around him and felt hands began to feel upon his chest.

"You never answered me when I asked why you're hiding those big packs of yours!" Mina said with a toothy grin as she continued to feel Izuku's chest covered by his wetsuit.

"M-Mina!? Would you stop being so t-touchy!?" Izuku slightly shouted as he turned his head and looked at her, turning red.

Mina simply rose her head right by Izuku's ear, her hands placed upon his shoulders now.

"What, you don't like it?" Mina whispered right into his ear, before then blowing softly into it, making Izuku feel a shock go through him.

Izuku instantly pulled himself away from Mina and dove right into the deep waters of the pool, disappearing from everyone's sight.

"Ah, you scared him away." Hagakure said as she walked behind Mina.

"I think you kind of took it too far Mina... again." Kendo added.

"Tsk, it's not my fault he's so cute to tease..." Mina said with a pout and her hands on her hips.

"He'll probably be in there for a while..." Ochako said with a blank look on her face.

"What makes you say that Uraraka?" Momo asked her.

"I just have a feeling..."

The girls then all stood silent for a few moments, some of them glancing at others with some looks.

"Maybe I should ask him to put on sunscreen for me..." Mina said with a small blush but forming a big smile.

Momo had about enough of Mina as she then grabbed her and dragged her to an outdoor recliner, "Ashido... I'm only going to ask you one more time, control yourself or you'll be out of here. I'll help put on your sunscreen for you if you really need someone to help you, but no more bothering Izuku."

"Aw come on!" Mina wailed.

Kendo sighed, "You know, we all came here to have fun and relax, not to be fighting with one another. Plus, you're making Midoriya feel uncomfortable, don't you think he deserves a break from... all this intimacy?" she said then Mina, then turning to all of the other girls.

The girls all looked slightly ashamed, especially Momo, Mina, and Ochako, as they were the ones who had caused Izuku to pass out.

"Yeah... I guess you're right..." Mina admitted.

"How about we play some volleyball then?" Ochako asked with some excitement.

"Sure, I'm game," Jirou said with a small smile.

"Should someone get Midori so he could join us then? He's been down in the water for a while... amazing how long he can hold his breath."

"I'll go get him, I'm more suited for it anyways, ribbit," Tsu answered as she jumped into the waters and dove deep.

"I guess we'll set up the net then. There should be the supplies in the storage room over there. I will go get them." Momo volunteered as she stood up.

"I'll help you with that." Jirou also said as she got up and walked with her.

Tsu swam into the deep side of the pool, and her eyes looked around the pool floor until she found Izuku. He was sitting on the floor in a meditation stance, cross-legged and hands on his knees with his eyes closed and mouth slightly puffed up from holding his breath. He looked so focused and calm there, some small bubbles coming from his nose and mouth that headed to the surface. Tsu swam until she was directly in front of the boy's face, tilting her head and examining how he looked.

"Izu-chan looks so peaceful..." Tsu thought to herself with a smile as she floated in front of the boy. She swam around him and examined Izuku's peacefully still position, but then she remembered that she was supposed to be getting him out. She swam back in front of the boy and lightly tapped him on his shoulder to get his attention. However, the boy didn't even flinch at all, he simply remained still in his stance. Tsu was surprised that he didn't even move and wondered how deep into his trance he was, so she then poked him on the cheek this time, but she still received no response from him.

"Is he really that deep in thought?" Tsu wondered as she let herself touch the ground of the pool, bending her knees as she landed there. 

"Izu-chan?" Tsu said in a bubbly, underwater voice.

Izuku still didn't respond, so Tsu pressed her head up against the boy's chest to check if he was breathing, just in case something was wrong, but she felt him breathing and his heartbeat was going at a steady pace. She backed up from him and placed a finger on his chin.

"It seems that anything I do won't get his attention."

Tsu's head then perked up as she realized that.

"Anything... I do..."

Tsu stared at Izuku's face, feeling her cheeks warm up despite being under the cool water. She felt a sudden urge, a desire forming up inside her. She stared at Izuku in a trance-like manner, getting closer to the boy. A part of what she thought about doing felt wrong, but at the same time it's been something that she had wanted to do for a while. She moved her face about an inch away from Izuku's, remembering the other day when she went shopping with the boy and how much she enjoyed it. The more she thought about these things, the more of her desire grew within her. She didn't usually have these selfish thoughts, but seeing Izuku so defenseless there just made her want to do something.

Tsu then closed her eyes, closing the distance between herself and Izuku, and feeling his lips pressed against hers. Even though she was underwater, his lips felt warm, comforting, relaxing. It was a simple kiss, one that didn't involve any movement from either herself or Izuku, she simply remained in bliss from the experience of kissing someone who had always made her feel safe and happy, someone that had saved her and would always strive to save others.

But she took a little too long in the kiss.

Izuku opened his eyes and the first thing he saw was Tsu right in front of his face. He didn't even comprehend what was going on at first, blinking as he let his sight adjusted underwater to confirm if what he saw was true. But Izuku also felt a warmth on his lips, and it only took him a moment to realize what was going on. Tsu was kissing him, she was kissing him under the water, something he never expected the frog girl to do.

Izuku's eyes widened, his face turned completely red and his pupils even shrunk a little bit from the utter disbelief of what was happening. He instinctively puffed out air to breath from his shock, but due to Tsu's lips still pressed up against his, he ended up exhaling into the girl's mouth and making her cheeks adorably puff out. This sudden puff of air also snapped Tsu's eyes open to see that Izuku had finally woken up from his meditation-like state. She swam backward in shock and kept her mouth closed, realizing that they were still underwater and her cheeks turned redder than before and her eyes widened. Izuku, on the other hand, after breathing out in shock, had instinctively attempted to breathe after seeing Tsu and he ended up taking in water. He choked and quickly swam to the surface for air, with Tsu remaining still in the water for a brief moment before following him after.

"What the hell!? What was that?! Tsu was clearly k-kissing me right there!" those and many other thoughts frantically went through Izuku's confused mind as he swam to the surface.

When Izuku emerged from under the pool, he coughed out any water that was currently choking him and let himself rest on the edge with one hand holding onto it, he placed his other hand over his neck as he struggled to breathe, a few small tears forming in the corner of his eyes.

Tsu emerged from the water after Izuku and shook her head side to side with her eyes closed to remove much of the water that was on her. When she opened her eyes again and saw Izuku, she immediately turned away from him in shame and embarrassment from recounting what she did under the pool. Izuku was still heavily red as he finally stopped coughing and stared at Tsu with an expression of disbelief on his face.

He spoke with a gruff voice, still recovering from his sudden take of water in his throat, "T-T-Tsu... D-Did you just-!?"

Tsu cut him off, "I apologize for that Izu-chan... That was... Let's just not bring this up... please?"

Izuku's mind was completely thrown off at this point, one minute Tsu was kissing him out of the blue, and then the next second she's telling him not to speak of it.

"Wh-What is she thinking!?" he questioned in a mixture of worry and confusion. Ochako saw Izuku and Tsu by the corner of the pool, so she went over there to check on them, especially after seeing Izuku choking and flustered.

"Deku are you alright? Your face is red!" Ochako asked as she crouched over the edge of the pool where Izuku held on.

Izuku slightly panicked so see Ochako there, but he managed to speak. "I-I'm okay! I-I just accidentally choked on some water while under there!" he spoke in a hoarse voice.

Izuku then noticed that Tsu had swum away from him and Ochako. She only had about half of her head poking out of the water as she did so, hiding her blushing cheeks as she swam towards the other side of the pool.

Ochako noticed this behavior of Tsu as well, raising an eyebrow at her and then looking back at Izuku. "Um, what happened with Tsu?"

Izuku simply rubbed the back of his head. "In all honesty... I don't even know."

Tsu managed to calm her head down rather quickly as she swam back to the girls, her cheeks even faded of their red color by the time she got to them.

"Hey what happened to Midoriya?" Kendo asked her curiously.

Tsu let out a small ribbit and flinched, before then turning to Kendo and answering her, "When I got his attention under the water, he got surprised and accidentally breathed in, he was choking."

Mina shot up from her seat, "Eh?! Does he need CP-!"

Kendo interrupted her with a glare, "Ashido, remember what Yaoyorozu said."

Mina sat back down and pouted angrily, "Damn it..."

Hagakure looked over at Izuku, who was getting his back patted by Ochako so that he could cough up any remaining water in him. "Is he okay now?"

"He's fine, although I didn't ask him if he wanted to join us for volleyball, ribbit."

Tsu looked behind her and saw Ochako helping Izuku out of the pool, happily smiling as she did so. She had an affectionate look to him, her cheeks slightly pink as she held on to his hand and guided him over towards where Tsu and the others were.

"I'm sorry... Ochako-chan..." Tsu thought with some shame as she looked down with shadows over her eyes.

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Izuku sat on the edge of the pool, slightly tugging on his wetsuit in discomfort. He watched as the girls played volleyball with one another as he simply dipped his feet into the water. The girls had wanted him to play volleyball with them, but Izuku's muscles still felt painfully sore from swimming with weights, so he decided to sit it out. Kendo sat next to Izuku by the edge as well, she had volunteered not to participate in the volleyball game so that the teams would be even when the girls played.

Kendo and Izuku both simply gazed over at the rest of the girls with awkward looks on their faces. Kendo occasionally peeked gazes at Izuku, who didn't seem to notice as he kept staring at the current game going on with the girls. Kendo's face turned slightly pink as she examined Izuku's face. He looked plain, yet he had a cute face. His freckles added a bit to his cute look, and she felt starstruck by Izuku's bright green emerald eyes that always seemed to shine around anyone.

Kendo gulped nervously as she slightly scooted closer to Izuku, "Cmon Itsuka, this is your chance! You're finally alone with Midoriya! You could get to know him better, all you have to do is just start up a conversation!"

Kendo opened her mouth to say something, but a nervous feeling caused her to form a lump in her throat as she turned from him with a small blush and shook nervously with her hands on her lap.

"I-I don't even know what to say." Kendo sighed as she placed a hand over her face in some frustration with her head.

Izuku noticed this from Kendo from the corner of his eye, "What's up with her? Is she okay?"

"U-Um... Kendo?"

"Y-Yes!?!" Kendo flinched and basically slammed her hands back on her lap, snapping her head to face Izuku with a slight look of embarrassment.

"...Are you okay? You... look kind of red."

"Huh? Oh, I'm fine! It's just a little hot that's all!" Kendo said nervously before then looking forward at the girls playing to avoid looking directly at Izuku.

"I guess it's a little hot..." Izuku said as he kept his gaze on Kendo. He noticed a trail of sweat going down the side of her head, he watched as it trickled down to Kendo's cheek, then going down her neck, and then right down to her-

"..."

Right between her cleavage.

Izuku snapped his head away from Kendo's chest and covered his mouth and nose with his right hand, his skin color matching Kendo's as he realized something about her swimsuit.

"I-Isn't it sh-showing a little too much?!" Izuku thought as he noticed that Kendo's swimsuit was somewhat on the meager side and that her breasts showed slightly more than the rest of the girls.

From the corner of her eye, Kendo had noticed Izuku look down at her cleavage and couldn't help but feel ashamed when she saw his reaction.

"D-Did he just check me out?!" Kendo then looked down and examined herself, before then noticing her bikini top and how it looked on her. She blushed heavily and covered her chest with her arms instinctively. "Shoot... I knew this swimsuit looked small on me... I should've been more careful when I had Yaoyorozu make it for me... I hope he doesn't think that I'm too weird."

Kendo rubbed her thighs together nervously, wondering what she should say at this point and occasionally glancing at Izuku who looked just as nervous as her. Kendo took a deep breath and began to calm herself down, soon she composed herself and pumped her fists as her spirit returned to her. She formed a smile of determination as she began to think about how to speak with Izuku once again, her cheeks fading of their red color as she did so.

"Don't worry Kendo, you're just thinking about this too much. Things may get a little awkward for Midoriya because of... your attire. But Midoriya is really smart and talkative, so if you just say something to get a conversation started, then you'll both be getting along even more in no time! You just gotta be casual!" Kendo motivated herself.

She then raised a fist to her mouth and coughed into it, getting Izuku's attention.

"So Midoriya... What do you think of my swimsuit?" she asked him with a smile.

Izuku flinched back in shock from the question and couldn't help but choke on his words. "Wh-Wha-?!"

"Too casual Kendo!" Kendo yelled at herself as her blush returned to her face.

"F-Forget I asked that!" Kendo immediately spoke after as she slightly flailed her arms in front of Izuku.

Izuku sat up straight and slowly moved his hands onto his lap, looking down and avoiding to look at Kendo. But to Kendo's surprise, Izuku actually answered her.

"K-Kendo... I-I don't really know how t-to say this..." he stuttered out.

Kendo froze as she worried about what Izuku would say, a trail of sweat even going down her head.

"I-I'll just say, th-that you should b-buy a b-bigger swimsuit..." Izuku managed to utter out using all of his courage.

Kendo looked down at her swimsuit once again, then scratching a finger on her cheek in shame.

"I-I'll keep that in mind..." was all she responded. The two then remained in silence, both too embarrassed to say anything else.

"..."

"..."

"Crap, this is awkward now... great job Kendo..." the ginger-haired girl thought. Despite everything, she wasn't as nervous as she felt before. In fact, she even felt slightly happy that he was completely honest with her when it came to... her top. She even smiled at the thought of Izuku looking at her in that way.

Izuku, on the other hand, was completely freaking out by what he had just said to the big sister of class B.

"Crap, why did I just say something like that!? Now she knows that I was staring at her there!? She must think I'm a total pervert!" Izuku frantically thought in his mind as he placed his hands over his head in worry. Izuku's eyes motioned over to Kendo, expecting her to look furious, disgusted, or maybe even sad.

What he didn't expect to see was a happy smile.

Instantly all of Izuku's worries melted away and were replaced with astonishment as he gazed at Kendo's bright smile. He blinked multiple times as he stared at her, partially confused but also in wonder.

"Hey Midoriya, when did you first meet your quirk?"

"Huh?" Izuku said, still caught up in Kendo's smile.

"You know, Ikari? Was he with you ever since you were four, like when most quirks manifest?"

Izuku snapped out of his awestruck moment and he remembered right after the sports festival when he went into a dream-like state and met Ikari in what seemed to be a replication of inside his house. He rubbed the back of his head and turned to Kendo, giving her an awkward smile.

"Well... It happened right after Enso's battle with Kacchan when I passed out... I ended up in a dream..."

"A dream?" Kendo repeated curiously, her smiling fading away.

Izuku nodded, "Yeah, it was there that I met Ikari in what seemed to be a replication of my house, and at the time Ikari formed himself to look like me, but with more... 'dark' colors. I was shocked to see him, but he explained to me that he just wanted to help me out and acted out based on my own thoughts. But then right after that dream, I wasn't able to contact him again. Until..." Izuku words trailed off as he remembered the event in Hosu city.

Kendo simply remained in silence as she looked at Izuku.

"Well... As you heard, I-I was one of the few people from class A that... went up against the hero killer..." Izuku told her.

Kendo nodded, already knowing that Izuku, along with Iida and Todoroki had gone up against the hero killer.

"I-Iida was gonna get killed by him... and it was at that moment when I was able to speak with Ikari again, who offered his help. I was able to have Ikari lend me his power to save Iida until we finally- until Endeavor finally arrived. From then on, I was able to activate Ikari, although I would need to feel even the slightest bit angry for that."

Kendo rested her head on her hands, staring at Izuku and giving him an affectionate smile of both admiration, and wonder.

...

...

...

"You're amazing... you know that?" Kendo told him, slightly squinting her eyes as her toothless smile grew bigger.

"H-Huh!? I-I'm n-not... that amazing..." Izuku rubbed the back of his head, flattered by what Kendo said.

Kendo shook her head side to side, disagreeing with what he just said.

"No, you are amazing... I've only ever heard good things about you, I've only ever seen good things from you. You're strong, but also kind, and you always try to help someone out... Even if it isn't a big deal, like when you helped do my representative work just so you could let me sleep. Yaoyorozu and I really look up to you so much..."

"E-EH!?! You and M-Momo both look up to m-me!?!" Izuku's eyes widened as he pointed both fingers at himself in disbelief.

Kendo slightly puffed her cheeks in some annoyance, and even glared a little Izuku, "Why are you so surprised about that?"

"W-Well... I-I just didn't think that... you... or she would be-"

"I'm just gonna stop you right there Midoriya," Kendo said as she put a hand in front of Izuku to halt him from speaking, catching the boy by surprise. She then scooted herself closer to Izuku until her arm touched his arm, then leaning her head closer to the boys face with a glare. Izuku began to shiver by how close she was getting but was also nervous by how mad she seemed.

"When I first saw you, it was the day that all of the different class representatives met together in the first meeting to introduce ourselves to one another. During that time, I had heard a rumor that you had taken out the zero pointer robot in just one punch, so I was curious to see the type of person you were. In all honesty, when I saw you during the meeting, I wondered how did you even became the representative for your class with how nervous and tense you seemed to be."

Izuku laughed awkwardly, "I-I was really nervous around people back then, and to be fair, even I wondered why did people in my class vote for me..."

"Yeah, at the time... I wondered why you were chosen to be your class representative instead of other people like Yaoyorozu and Iida who seemed more suited for the position."

Izuku felt a slight stab in his self-confidence as he sweatdropped sadly, "Was I really that wimpy back then?..."

"But then... the sports festival happened." Kendo said as she looked up at the sky and recounted the festival.

Izuku tilted his head in confusion.

Kendo fluttered her feet within the pool waters. "I... I saw how you flew over the entire obstacle course, and I remember being so caught off guard that one of my classmates had to pull me to finish the course. I began to think of you for a bit after the race, but I didn't think too much into it because I had to focus on the cavalry battle next. In all honesty, I thought getting the one million points from you and your team would've been easy because of how timid you seemed to be... even if Enso was with you."

"So I really was viewed as prey by all the other teams..." Izuku sweatdropped.

"But... it wasn't even Enso that made the cavalry battle difficult. It was thanks to your thinking and leadership along with contributions of each of your teammates that you were able to keep your headband, and that made me have second thoughts about you. You had the determination and the mindset to lead people, I realized that was why you were the one chosen as your class representative. But the one thing that completely overshot my previous thoughts about you... was your battle with Todoroki. I saw it in your eyes... you wanted to help him, you knew something about him that you wanted to help him with. You made him use his flames in the end... at the time I didn't know what was all of that about, but I somehow just knew that you saved him."

Izuku stared in awe at her.

"Every time I saw you during that festival, you amazed me. I felt new thoughts about you... ones that I haven't thought before and that made me feel warm. Even after the festival, you still continued to make me feel glad to be working with you as a representative. I always say you earnestly helping others, and always did your best to do something that was asked of you. You always did what people asked of you and each time when you smiled, I couldn't help but smile as well. I ended up wanting to talk to you more and wanted to get to know you better. When I heard that you had gone up against the hero killer, and when I saw you breaking your arms at the festival, both of those times I... I honestly felt scared... I felt... terrible to know that you were getting yourself so injured like that."

At this point, Izuku's cheeks had warmed up from hearing Kendo say such reassuring and meaningful words to him.

"Midoriya, you may not think of me...as a close friend like many of your classmates... but just know that I find you as an important person to me," Kendo said, giving Izuku a small, but bright smile.

Izuku felt his heart beating faster, and he placed a hand over his chest and turned his head away from Kendo's gaze, feeling glad yet nervous to hear Kendo say everything she did.

"I-I-I never knew you thought so h-highly of me..." he quickly said as he looked down with his face turning red.

Kendo also blushed more, looking down similarly to Izuku but still keeping her smile.

"Heh, heh, yeah..." Kendo uttered as she rubbed her hands together over her thighs in embarrassment.

They were both remained in silence for a brief moment before Izuku took a deep breath and faced her with a more serious face.

"K-Kendo?"

"Yeah?"

"About what you said... Just know that I do think of you as a friend. A close friend like everyone else, and that I always enjoyed your company as well. I always felt your high spirits, you never hesitated to point things out for others, and you always tried to have both of our classes maintain a healthy relationship with one another... even if Monoma gets in the way of that... I find you as a close friend too!"

Kendo felt her hopes slightly grow, "R-Really? So would you say that you... c-care for me?"

Izuku didn't even hesitate. "Of course!" he spoke and formed a reassuring smile to her, one that made any previous worries that Kendo had about Izuku's thoughts on her completely disappear. Her heart melted and she saw all the care and kindness Izuku had from just that one smile. She turned her head forward again feeling glad that she came with them to the pool today. Izuku did the same and looked forward at his classmates playing, reflecting on his journey so far attending U.A. He thought about the very beginning of meeting Enso, to thinking of the future for the camp.

"There will be a lot of hardships on the way for me to become a hero... but no matter what, if I want to be able to protect my friends so that I could continue having these memories with them, then I have to get stronger. I have to make sure that I can always be able to have them rely on me and to stop making them always worry about me..." Izuku thought in his head, feeling a stronger surge of determination go through him.

However, he also felt something else, something placed on his shoulder.

Izuku blinked repeatedly as he felt a new weight against his shoulder, he slowly turned his head and found that Kendo was leaning her head against him. 

Her eyes were closed and she was smiling, although she had a small blush on her face as she leaned. Kendo felt relaxed, calmed, at bliss. She felt as if she had expressed how important Izuku was to her, yet she didn't actually confess to him. She was just happy to be sitting by his side and to know that Izuku cared for her too.

Izuku didn't seem to mind that Kendo was leaning against him. In fact, he smiled to see her look so happy and relaxed, reminding him of how she looked the previous time she slept. Izuku then felt a hand get placed on top of his head and Izuku realized that Kendo was the one who placed it there, then slowly rustling his hair.

"U-Um... K-Kendo?" Izuku uttered out nervously as he felt Kendo gently rub his head.

"Don't mind me, just think of it as a small gesture," Kendo said, not even opening her eyes.

Izuku remained silent as he took in the feeling of Kendo's hand along his head. He felt warm and relaxed, actually enjoying the feeling of getting spoiled.

"Now I can see why Tsu enjoys this." he thought as he closed his eyes and relaxed.

However, it didn't take long for Mina, who kept stealing glances at Izuku, to notice Kendo getting comfortable with him.

Mina pouted as she stared at the two, "Well aren't they being chummy..." she said with a slightly sour tone as she caught the volleyball passed to her, holding it tightly in her hands.

Ochako looked confusingly at Mina as she, along with the rest of the girls, turned their heads to Izuku and Kendo, who both still had their eyes closed and were relaxing.

Momo did feel slightly jealous, but she also felt glad to see the two of them the way they were. "I've always seen Kendo and Izuku working hard... It's good that they're at least relaxing."

"They... actually both look cute..." Hagakure said as she gazed over at them.

"That... might be a problem..." Mina said.

"Heh, they kind of remind me of a little brother and a big sister." Jirou sneered.

"I think it makes sense, given how Kendo is composed and acts as the big sister of her class, and Izu-chan is well... Izu-chan." 

Tsu watched as Kendo patted Izuku on the head, reminding her of the times he had pat Tsu on the head. Tsu remembered the kiss she had under the water with Izuku, that and the sight of seeing Kendo pat Izuku made her heart tighten in a mixture of jealousy and envy.

"They look too good though!" Mina thought as cross popping veins of irritation appeared on her head. She squeezed the volleyball even more intensely between her hands, not knowing how much pressure she was putting into it. At one point, the ball shot itself out of Mina's hands because of how hard she squeezed it, sending it up in the air and surprising some of the girls by how high it went. The ball went at the peak of its height, before then falling back down towards two people.

"Midori! Kendo! Heads up!" Hagakure shouted to the two people who were in the spot where the volleyball was falling.

Izuku and Kendo both opened their eyes upon hearing Hagakure shout this, then looking up to see the volleyball falling towards them. Kendo quickly stood up and pulled her arm back, then smacking her palm into the ball and sending it back over towards the girls. But the exact moment that Kendo smacked the ball, another sound echoed.

SNAP!

"Snap?..." Izuku repeated in his mind with a blank expression on his face. 

Upon standing up and hitting the volleyball, Kendo's bikini gave way and the backstrap of it snapped. The world seemed to slow down for everyone at that inconvenient moment, Izuku was slowly turning his head to look at the girl due to her being the source of the snap, Kendo was slowly looking down at herself to see what happened that caused the sound, and the rest of the girls' eyes were widening in shock at what they realized was happening.

When the bikini top landed onto the ground, Izuku's eyes were fully on Kendo and had a full view of her chest. Kendo's eyes were now looking at what had happened, and she saw her top on the ground.

"Eh?" Kendo uttered in confusion.

Izuku blinked.

Kendo blinked.

All of the other girls blinked.

Izuku's head erupted like a volcano and some blood trailed out of his nose as he saw Kendo's chest shining in all of its glory under the sunlight.

"Her b-b-b-b-b-b-boobs!!" Izuku's brain went haywire, he shot up from his seat and he used both of his hands to cover not only his eyes but also his nose as he worried that all of the blood rushing to his head would burst out more than currently.

"K-KENDO! YOU'RE SWIMSUIT!" Izuku managed to scream out, although a little too late.

Meanwhile, Kendo's eyes became swirls and she turned red from pure embarrassment and was in shame that something like this happened to her because the bikini was too small. But the worse part about the whole thing-

Was that Izuku was right in front of her.

"KYAAAAAH!!" Kendo instinctively closed her eyes and used her left arm to hug her chest in order to cover it. She pulled her right arm back and activated her quirk to enlarge her hand into a large fist, then swinging it and uppercutting Izuku right on his chest and partially under his chin.

"ACK!" Izuku felt the whole force of the impact and was sent spiraling in the air, his eyes completely white and blood coming out of his nose. Izuku seemed to spiral in slow motion within the air, his life flashing before his eyes.

"Yup... a lot... of hardships on the way..." Izuku thought as he felt his consciousness fade away.

The girls all looked up in a mixture of awe, shock, and worry to see Izuku fly majestically through the air, even seeming to cover the sun in an eclipse like manner for a moment as he flew over the pool and splashed into it. Izuku's impact in the pool created a giant pillar of water that was sent in all directions, the girls all covered their eyes as the water raining down at them.

When they all looked again, they saw Izuku's lifeless body floating on his back on the water, blood still coming from his nose and his soul visibly leaving his body and descending to the next world.

Kendo opened her eyes after she heard Izuku hit the water. She looked around at where he went, still hugging her chest to hide it, before seeing Izuku laying in the water. She knew just how much force her quick can create, but yet she had instinctively swung it at him without warning, "M-Midoriya! I-I'm sorry!" she shouted. Meanwhile, the rest of the girls rushed over to Izuku in the water.

"Deku!?" Ochako frantically held the poor boy to keep him from sinking.

"Midori! Hang in there!" Mina shouted as she took the opposite side of the water.

"How hard did you hit him!?" Momo frantically asked Kendo.

"I'm sorry! It was a reflex!" Kendo said with comedic tears in her eyes.

"Don't go to the light!" Hagakure shook Izuku.

Tsu and Jirou both sweatdropped by the side as they watched the girls frantically pull Izuku out of the water.

"He could never get a break can he?" Jirou said as she took a sip of her drink.

"You're not that worried about what just happened? Ribbit." Tsu asked her curiously.

"He'll live." Jirou then said with a small chuckle.

A good distance away from the people at the pool, laying on a big tree branch and examining Izuku from afar, was Enso. He had many different small animals around him within the tree, from birds to squirrels, and there was even a small cat on his shoulder. They all seemed to curiously move around Enso and examined him, yet Enso didn't seem to care or acknowledge the presence of these animals around him, he only focused on Izuku and analyzed the events that just happened.

"He could've avoided that punch... I guess the pure shock of seeing the opposite sex like that made him lower his guard... Idiot." he muttered in some disappointed.

Enso sighed as he let his back rest against the trunk of the tree, watching as the girls pulled Izuku out of the water and laid him on a recliner, even cleaning up the blood from his nose. Enso then closed his eyes and went into thought, the small animals curiously scurrying around him.

"Enjoy these moments while you can Izuku... the more you progress to becoming a hero, the harsher reality is going to be to you..."

Enso remembered the past people he met, and all the hardships they faced together."But with the right people, you may get through it..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"But... that only depends how strong your bond with them is."