A/N: Hello, this is the first time that I've ever written a story, so please review and let me know if I have a future in this lmao. Also, maybe a bit of OOC and some canon deviation as I've only watched the anime and looked at parts of the Yakuza and Culture Festival arcs. Also also, I'm not Japanese or even that in-tune with Japanese culture and honorifics, so I'm gonna forego them entirely for fear of fucking them up.

This takes place immediately after the Sports Festival arc. I do not own BnHA.

Izuku was conflicted. On one hand, he felt amazing about helping Todoroki find some form of closure over his fire powers. It wasn't much, but it was a decent start. On the other, he really wanted to win. All Might had told him to announce himself to the world, and yet he had let him down. Not exactly the best way to make a splash in his first tournament, as he didn't even get the bronze. And the way that he had gone about fighting had been gruesome, to say the least. He was hoping that a few Pros would admire his grit and determination, but he knew it was a long shot.

After leaving Recovery Girl's station, he walked back to his classroom with his arms and leg in casts, so he was decently stiff and slow on his way over. When he opened the door however, he was jumped by four of his classmates: Eijiro Kirishima, Mina Ashido, Rikido Sato, and Tsuyu Asui. "Hey, great job out there man! You were so hardcore out there!" "Your dodging was pretty great!" "Hey, the name's Rikido Sato, you were great out there." "Kero, great job out there Midoriya. Also, you can call me Tsu from now on." All these compliments were starting to get to Izuku. He was starting to blush and stammer again, blowing the little control he had over them due to the sheer amount of praise he was getting.

"T-thank you guys, but I didn't e-even make it that far." Izuku said, stumbling through his words. "E-even if I beat Todoroki, I wouldn't have stood a chance against Kacchan."

"Yeah, but Todoroki obviously assumed you were worth using his full power, as opposed to Bakugo, kero. You still did very well, as opposed to Mina over there." Tsuyu bluntly stated.

"Heyyyyy, that's a low blow, Tsu!" Mina complained, temporarily losing her near-constant smile. However, it almost immediately came back when she turned back to Izuku. "Even if you didn't get a medal, you still kicked some ass out there! I'm actually kinda jealous." Mina started scratching the back of her head, both in slight embarrassment and awkwardness.

This amount of compliments, from not one but two girls in his class, was sending Izuku into a near catatonic state. It took him a good ten seconds to recover, but as soon as he did, he realized that Mina, Sato, and Tsuyu (he was assuming, at least, mostly because of her perfect poker face) all were looking a little bummed about how they ended up in the rankings as well. "H-hey, you all still did pretty well! Sato and Asui, I know you guys didn't make it into the top 16, but your teams were one of the next ones up, so you should still be really proud of how you did! And Ashido and Kirishima, you guys got into the top 8! You should be really proud as well."

Mina and Sato both looked a little better about themselves, with Sato smiling ever so slightly, and Mina standing up a little straighter. Kirishima was on the verge of tears, as this was one of the best shows of manliness he had ever seen. "Damn Midoriya, you were upset about how you did in the tournament, but as soon as someone else is even slightly upset, you make it your mission to cheer them up! That's a real man for ya." Kirishima said, with a huge grin on his face.

Tsuyu, while moved by Midoriya's show of kindness, still had a slight problem. "Midoriya, what did I just tell you to call me?"

"Uhhhh, Ts-Tsu, right?" Izuku said, blushing fiercely now.

"Right, kero, so I'll hold you to that from now on." Tsuyu firmly stated, not giving Izuku any room to argue, even if he wanted to. Unknown to Izuku, however, while Tsuyu told all of her friends to call her that, she had another, more personal reason for wanting him to call her that. Her poker face was slightly broken as she gave the smallest smile while saying it. Neither Kirishima nor Sato noticed this, but Mina, priding herself on being able to read people, did.

'Damn, does Tsu have the hots for Midoriya? Guess I'll have to wait and see how this one ends up.' Mina thought to herself. She had a hobby (Toru would call it an obsession) for pairing up her classmates, but like the rest of the class, they all just assumed it would be Izuku and Uraraka together, or at least whenever one of them decided to get some confidence and ask the other out. However, with this new information, Mina promised herself that she would sit down tonight and go back over Midoriya's potential pairings.

This all happened within about three seconds, so Izuku was too flustered to notice Tsuyu's face while saying that, nor pick up on Mina looking almost scary, trying to figure something out. Of course, Sato and Kirishima had started to talk to each other while the girls were focused on Izuku, and it somehow ended up turning into who could arm wrestle better with their off hand.

Izuku decided it was time to abort mission and reset before he made a fool out of himself, so he excused himself to get his bags and leave to go home. Mina, however, had other ideas.

"Heyyyyy Midoriya!" Izuku, walking to the train station by himself to cool down, heard his name being called, so he turned around to see who it was. While he was half-expecting Ochako, he wasn't too far off.

"H-hey A-Ashido. Sorry f-for asking, b-but why are you coming this w-way?" Izuku inwardly cursed as his stuttering got even worse when being alone with a girl, and a very pretty one at that.

"Oh, this? I usually take this train to go home, but I saw you leaving and I wanted to ask you somethin'." Mina came jogging up beside Izuku in an attempt to start another, more private conversation. However, while she was a bumbling ball of joy, she didn't know where to start talking with him, mostly because if she was blunt he'd clam up, but if she stalled too long, she would miss her opportunity and start filling in the blanks herself, which was a dangerous game to play.

"Uhh, s-sure, g-go for it." Izuku was terrified of what she was going to ask, simply because he had barely (read: never) spoken to Mina, whether in a group or alone, and he had no idea what she was thinking about. The most he knew about her was her acid quirk and that she was a social butterfly.

"Is there anyone you got your eye on, like, romantically?" Mina asked, opting for the direct approach.

Izuku has crashed, please restart.

"W-WHAT? W-what m-made y-you a-ask that?" Izuku flushed red, realizing he was right to be terrified of this energetic ball of pink fluff.

"Dunno, just a thought I had - if you liked anyone I'd figure it'd be Ochako, but I just wanna ask so that I have the real answer, ya know?" Mina said, leaning in and giving a small smirk. She knew that she wouldn't be able to get any answer out of him, so she decided the best way to find out was the shotgun approach - ask about every girl she knew talked to him in some sort of fashion and judge his reactions. She thought it was a pretty solid plan, given how she wasn't very academically inclined. "So is it her?"

"N-n-n-o, me and Och-chako are just friends, I-I don't feel that way f-for her." Izuku said, trying to lean away from Mina now that he knew what she was after. 'Please, whatever God is up there, Poseidon, All Might, Thor, Oprah, I don't care, SOMEONE SAVE ME PLEASE!'

"Ahhhh, so you like someone else, huh? Who? Who? Is it Tsu? Is it Toru? What about me~?" Mina said, taking a few steps closer to him and absolutely getting into his personal space. When she mentioned her own name, she put on a slightly more seductive smile, and half-closed her eyes in a fake attempt to show interest.

"D-d-d-on't do this right now, please, Ashido! I don't want to talk b-badly about anyone, or list reasons w-why I may or may not like someone, because it just feels mean." Izuku managed to finally stand up and say what he wanted, which was great as it was just in time for his train to get there. Mina picked up that he didn't want to talk to her, and even though it was her train as well, she figured she could wait for the next one if it meant letting Izuku cool down. After all, it was kinda of her fault for pushing him that hard on something he wasn't comfortable with.

That didn't mean she was going to stop herself from redoing all of Izuku's potential relationships.

A/N: Well shit, let's end this on a little bit of a cliff-hanger, why don't we? Planning on this being 5-10 chapters, but as I go if I get more ideas it might expand past that. Also, I'm gonna try and have the A/N at the end of the chapter, and this should be the one chapter where there's 2 A/N's.

Have a good one, and be sure to either boost my confidence or make sure that I never write again by reviewing down below :D