AN: A PAIRING NO ONE ASKED FOR, AND YET HERE IT IS. I FIND THE MOST IRREGULAR SHIT AT MOST TIMES. I THINK THIS IS THE FIRST ONE EVER TO PAIR IZUKU AND SAIKO IN THIS SITE, REALLY.

EDIT: FINALLY GOT A REPLY FROM FF. THERE IS NOW A TAG FOR SAIKO INTELLI

The first test for the Provisional License had just ended, with all of class 1-A of UA passing, it was a good time.

"Alright!" Yayorozu exclaimed. She pumped her fist up in the air.

Jiro sighed as she sat down. "Yeah, I'm happy we passed."

Tsuyu sat down beside her. "Yeah, that Seiai Academy girl was tough."

"It was her ignorance that failed her in the end." Shoji commented beside them.

Yaoyorozu frowned. Yes. That Seiai girl that almost had them trapped. "I-I have to say… we played right into her hands that time."

Jiro huffed. "She's smart, I'll give her that."

Yaoyorozu clenched her fists. "Still, if you hadn't gone back for me then-"

"There is no if, we will and always will go back for one of our own." Shoji declared.

Jiro nodded. "Heck yeah!"

Yaoyorozu smiled. "Yeah!"

As the four conversed, there was a blue haired girl on the bench in a corner, just sitting and staring blankly at the ground.

This was Saiko Intelli, the girl who had an IQ of 150 that multiplied whenever she drank tea.

And yet she caused herself and her friends' failure.

She had just failed the Provisional License exam, all because she got too cocky! How could she face her friends now? After she caused them to fail.

Then suddenly, a cold beverage can appeared in front of her.

She looked up and saw a smiling green haired boy in front of her, who she recognized from the U.A Sports Festival.

"I-I ah… I didn't know what you liked so I got tea and coffee. Whichever you pick, I'll take what you don't." Midoriya awkwardly said.

Intelli proceeded to look at the can, then to him.

"I m-mean if you don't like some then-"

She then took the can of tea. She didn't really like canned beverages, but she would take anything right now.

Midoriya then took the can of coffee and sat down on the bench.

"S-So…" Midoriya started. "C-Can I ask what you're bothered with?"

Intelli huffed. "What makes you think I have one?"

"W-Well, for one you fidget." Midoriya pointed out. "You're nervous about something." He knew. After all, it took a nervous lad to know another.

Intelli groaned. "Even if I did, what makes you think I'd tell you?"

Midoriya shook his head. "It doesn't have to be me." He said. "It doesn't matter who, but I think it's better if you share your problems with someone else."

"No one went near you even when you were visibly affected by something, so I took it upon myself." Midoriya declared.

Intelli's eyes widened in shook for a moment. Her head raised slightly upwards.

But her frown came back a moment later.

"Who asked you for help?" She let out a humorless snicker as she looked at Midoriya.

Midoriya let out a distant smile. "No one asked me. And nobody should need to." Midoriya admitted. "It's not my business, it's not my problem to mind, but…"

He smiled at her.

"But, isn't meddling when you don't need to the essence of being a hero?"

Those words struck a chord in the girl.

A hero, yes, that was what she wanted to be.

"You may not have passed the exam, but there's always next time." Midoriya said. "Study upon your mistakes and seize the opportunity!"

Intelli stared with a hint of admiration on her eyes at Midoriya.

'W-What is happening to me?'

Midoriya scratched the back of his head. "A-Ah sorry if I overstepped any boundaries." He said as he stood up…

But his hand was clutched by another.

He turned around to find the girl, looking down, while holding onto the wrist.

The girl looked up at him.

"I-If I tell you… would you listen?" Intelli pleaded Midoriya.

Midoriya smiled. "Of course!"

"So, what is the problem?" Midoriya asked. He opened his can of coffee and started drinking.

Intelli only clutched her can of tea, and only looked at the floor.

"I lost." She said. "I failed the provisional exam. I got too cocky.. And failed my exam."

"Not only that, but my friends... I dragged them down with me." Intelli said as her voice started to crack. "H-How? I -I don't even know how to face them. If feel like I can't"

She tightened her grip around the canned beverage. "I led them, they had expectations for me, I failed them."

Midoriya, unsure of what to do, moved in closer and rubbed the girl's back. "Care to tell me how it happened?"

She sniffed. "Alright. Then..." She started. "I have a quirk that doubles my IQ whenever I close my eyes after I drink..." She gestured towards the can of tea.

Midoriya raised an eyebrow. "Tea?"

"It depends on the brand, but yes. It's ridiculous, I know."

Midoriya shook his head. "No! No it's not. In fact it's so unexpected that no one will expect it! If you're in a pinch, you could coerce your enemy into letting you drink tea, close your eyes and then you already have a plan formed!"

Intelli let out a short chuckle. "Why, thank you. First time I've heard of that from someone other than my classmates."

Midoriya smiled. "You should be, it's still an amazing quirk."

Intelli blushed slightly, before shaking her head. "Anyway, me and a couple of my classmates teamed up, I devised a plan and we took action."

"Everything was going according to plan, we managed to put them under pressure and managed to limit their quirks." She then started to frown. "However, that was when my calculations went wrong."

"I didn't expect them to go on the offensive. Could you believe it? Me, who had many possibilities on how the situation would go, didn't expect them to go on the offensive." She let out a humorless chuckle.

"Everything went down from then on out." She said. "My classmate all fell from the high frequency they sent out, I got lucky and moved quick."

"Then I became selfish, I stepped over the bodies of my classmates and rushed over to that creation girl, I wanted to pass so badly, even if it was just me." She told him. "But that was where I thought wrong again."

"Her classmates went back for her, they helped her!" She exclaimed. "They didn't leave their friend alone, not like me…"

"Not like me who left her friends alone for the glory of passing!" She exclaimed as she turned towards Midoriya with tears down her face.

"S-So… How? How could I face my classmates, my friends, after I failed them. After I acted so selfish…" She trailed off as she started to cry.

"I-I'm so full of myself! If only… If only I was stronger…" She weeped. "If only I was smarte-"

"It's okay."

Her tears stopped for a moment. "W-What?"

Midoriya smiled at her. "It's okay to be selfish." He took a sip out of is coffee.

"To pass the test, you had to ruin other peoples opportunities." He said. "To pass, I had to take on students who had to pass this time around."

"I wanted to give them a chance, I wanted them to pass." Midoriya shook his head. "But I steeled myself and did it anyway. I was selfish, I had to be to pass."

"Because I can't fail, not with what's riding on my shoulders." Midoriya declared.

The ninth user of One For All had to pass. It was what All Might gave him. And now that All Might retired…

It was only right to fulfill his duty as the successor.

"I know how you feel." Midoriya clenched his fist. "To feel disappointed in yourself, to blame yourself. To think that if you were stronger you could change things. If only…"

That's right. If he was stronger… if he discovered the use of his legs earlier. He could've dealt with Muscular without injuring his fists too much. Kacchan wouldn't have been taken by villains, All For One didn't have to fight All Might, and…

All Might would never have had to reveal his true form and retire.

And now villains that were hiding have now begun to appear one by one.

Midoriya shook his head. "But, the past is the past. We can only learn from it."

"A-And what do I learn from this?" Intelli asked as she wiped her tears.

Midoriya smirked. "That compared to formulas, there are always unaccounted variables."

Intelli raised an eyebrow. "Unaccounted… variables?"

He nodded. "Yep! Unaccounted variables." He said. "People can't simply just be numbers on an equation, calculation, or formula." He told her. "They're there, but you don't include them in the equation."

"There are variables like trust, loyalty, friendship." Midoriya said as he clenched his fist and raised it to the sky. "It's cheesy, I know. But just like you and your classmates, other people need help from other people."

"Your classmates trust you, they are loyal to you." Midoriya said. "Just as they went back for their teammate, it's better to fight and run than run."

"What… What do you mean?"

Midoriya chuckled. "Being a hero can be troubling and dangerous. When you encounter an enemy stronger than you, natural response would be to send out someone to get help." He thought back at the incident from USJ.

"But, sometimes, when it's a lost cause, a hero will try to die a heroic death. Sacrificing themselves to buy a couple seconds for everyone to escape." Midoriya thought back on his fight with Muscular.

Midoriya sighed. "Heroes have families that wait for them." He said. "Rescue is the main priority of a hero before defeating a villain." He thought back at how he, Todoroki, Iida, and Kirishima rescued Bakugo from the villains.

"But, most importantly…" He smiled at her reassuringly. "It's okay to run and live another day." He told her. "Don't blame yourself for failing your classmates, they don't blame you."

Intelli sniffed. Her tears were already starting to fall again. She hid her face.

"Why…"

"Why what?"

"Why do you care so much?"

Midoriya smiled understandingly. "It's because whenever a person needs help, my body moves on its own." He said. "It's, like I said, cheesy."

"But that's what being a hero is about." Intelli saw as he smiled his brightest towards her.

"Putting that cheesy lip service into action."

Intelli's walls broke down at that moment.

She cried and wrapped her arms around Midoriya. Midoriya blushed at the sudden contact, before looking at the crying girl on his shoulders and rubbed his arm on her back.

Saiko Intelli the genius, crying with some boy she just met a few minutes ago. What was it with his words? Why did it feel so soothing? Why did it make her feel this way?

Oh, she knew.

Because every single thing he told her was true, it was what she needed to hear.

To hear that someone didn't blame her.

What was she doing here sulking? Weeping?

She had to confront her classmates!

After a while, the girl finally stopped crying, she got off Midoriya with a blush on her face.

"Y-You're right." She smiled. "You are exactly right!"

Midoriya smiled. "Now, what do you need to do?"

Intelli smirked. "I'm going to talk to my classmates. I'm going to ask for forgiveness."

"That's right!" Midoriya told her. "I was right, you are much better when you're smiling."

"Hah, are you attracted to me?" Intelli brought back her haughty tone.

Midoriya blushed. "I-I d-didn't m-mean to, I-I am j-just saying y-you are b-better when you s-s-smile." Midoriya awkwardly replied.

Intelli blushed again. "I look better when I smile?"

Midoriya's face was now a tomato. "W-Well everyone looks better when they smile. That's part of why I want to be a hero." He said. "To make people feel better, to see their smiles."

"Go to your classmates now, you don't want to spend more time with this stranger than you already have do you?" Midoriya joked.

Intelli smiled and nodded, before stopping just a few steps after.

"Saiko Intelli of Seiai Academy." She told him.

Midoriya blinked twice. "What?"

Intelli sighed. "I said, I'm Saiko Intelli of Seiai Academy." She flipped her hair. "And you are?"

Midoriya's eyes widened, then he smiled. This really was nothing like the girl earlier, the girl who was sulking, blaming herself, and cursing her own selfishness.

"Izuku Midoriya of UA High School." He replied.

Intelli chuckled. "Well, I guess we're not strangers anymore."

Midoriya chuckled in return. "Seems like it."

And the two went their separate ways. With the girl going to her classmates.

Intelli ran up to her classmates and confronted them. "Girls…"

The one with the pink hair went up to her. "Yes? Sai-sama?"

Intelli bit her lip, clenched her fist…

And bowed low. "Please forgive my incompetence!"

All of them stood up.

"Sai-sama!"

"Don't bow so low!"

"What's wrong Sai-sama?"

"Did someone make you do this Sai-sama?"

"Tell me what's wrong Sai-sama!"

"I'm sorry!" She exclaimed, still bowing. "If it wasn't for me, you all would have passed the test! And I even had the audacity to try and pass the test by myself! I'm sorry!"

She expected resentment, after her talk with Midoriya she still expected the worse.

"Oh? Is that all Sai-sama?"

But it wasn't the case.

"Phew, I thought someone made you do that Sai-sama."

"Sai-sama, is that the thing that was bothering you?"

"Please raise yourself Sai-sama."

"You had me worried Sai-sama."

Intelli raised herself up with the help of her four friends. "You… you don't blame me?"

The short one spoke up. "Of course not Sai-sama! We can try again next time! And we'll be stronger!"

"Yeah!"

"That's right."

"Next time will do."

Intelli's eyes brought up tears once again. But no, she would not cry.

"Come here you girls!" She brought her hands out and embraced her friends.

"Call me Sai, girls." Intelli declared. "You're my friends, after all."

"Sai-sa- Sai…"

"Yes! Sai!"

"I will treasure this moment forever."

"That's right! We're all friends!"

"Let's go girls!"

Intelli smiled. He was right, they were her friends. No one would blame her. All they could do was learn from the experience. Turn that experience into power.

She broke up the hug and smiled at each of her friends, who all smiled in return.

This…

This felt right.

She then turned around, stepped on her toes and searched the room for a certain mop of green hair.

Her eyes twinkled when she saw him.

There he was, in front of a blond guy and a short purple guy both bowing in front of him.

She put her fist on top of her chest, feeling the beat of her heart. A blush rose to her face.

She smiled. 'Unaccounted variables indeed.' She then steeled herself and made way towards Midoriya.

Over on Midoriya, he was having his own confrontation.

"We're sorry!"

"We're sorry!"

Kaminari and Mineta respectively said.

Midoriya chuckled and waved his hands in front of him.

"I-It's fine, no one was harmed!"

"But we said all those things about you!" Mineta said, as he and Kaminari stood up straight.

Kaminari nodded. "Yeah man, we were just jealous dude. Don't hold it against us."

"I'm not holding anything over anyon-"

"Midoriya-kun."

A familiar voice made Midoriya turn to his side.

Saiko Intelli greeted him…

With a kiss.

A kiss that was dangerously close to his lips.

Midoriya exploded in red. "W-W-W-What?" Midoriya jumped back.

Intelli only smiled at him. "Someday…" She brought herself close till her mouth was near Midoriya's ears.

"I'll make you take responsibility."

Then she left with a sway to her hips, no words left to say.

Kaminari, Mineta, and Midoriya were all without words.

Did that girl just… kiss him?

Mineta clenched his fists. "You… stard."

That brought Midoriya back from his initial shock.

"What was that Mineta-kun?"

Mineta looked up at him in anger. "You bastard!" He started poking his leg. "I take back my apology!"

Kaminari held Midoriya's collar up. "Who even was that chick?!"

"T-That was Saiko Intelli from Seiai Academ-"

"What is it with you and girls from other schools you bastard!" Mineta exclaimed.

"I-I don't-"

"And then there's also that girl from Shiketsu!" Kaminari remarked.

"I-I told you theres nothing betwee-"

"What did you even do with her?"

"Nothing! I just talked to her!"

Mineta let out a dry laugh. "Heh, just talked to her my ass! You smooth-talking son-of-a-bitch!"

"I told you that's not-"

"Shut up!"

As the three fought once again, Saiko Intelli was left to ponder.

'Become a hero that makes others smile…' She let out a chuckle and smiled. 'You did something to me, Midoriya. You did me a favor I didn't know I needed. To help without being asked for…"

She clenched and looked at her fists. 'I will become a hero. A hero worthy to stand with her friends, to protect them, to lead them. To become a hero worthy of fighting alongside you, helping you just as you did me.'

She then reached out for her canned tea Midoriya bought for her.

To make her feel better.

'I will work hard, harder than anyone. Improve my quirk, my skills. And then, when I finally become a hero, I will make you smile, just as you did me.'

'That's right. After all…' She took a sip from the canned beverage. Then she closed her eyes, her quirk visibly activating around her.

'It's my formula for success!'

AN: AND THAT'S A WRAP! AFTER WATCHING THE YAOYOROZU VS SAIKO THING, WE DIDN'T REALLY SEE AN AFTERMATH OF SAIKO. WELL, HERE IT IS.

ALONG WITH OUR BOY IZUKU COMFORTING HER.

SIGNING OFF... ZacFF