Momo Yaoyorozu, one of the top students in the first year of U.A and was one of the few who got in via recommendations. She's smart, she has looks that may have people fool her for a more mature woman, and has a stern but not uptight personality. But with all these nice traits for herself, why can't she grab the attention of her crush!?
Sure, many men and teens have come up and confessed their love for her, and eventually she would turn them down. But. Why. Can't. She manage to make him get the hint?
Every time she would approach him, it would just be a light conversation and maybe a few smiles thrown here and there, but other than that. It was just slightly annoying, especially since she heavily hinted at it during the sports festival. 'He's just so dense' She muttered to herself while she stared at the boy from across the room.
Izuku Midoriya, Plain, boring compared to all the other students in U.A, the void of anything interesting other than his quirk, and a total nerd. But for some reason, he managed to catch her attention, and even give her jitters in her heart. She doesn't know when it actually happened, Maybe when he showed how he was willing to give his life to save a friend. Or maybe when he gave up his spot to help Todoroki bury the hatchet about using the left side of his quirk. Or maybe, she just likes him for him? She has no idea why it came to this point, but She wants it to change. Momo has actually discussed this with her friends, though she hasn't said a name.
"Of course you have a chance! Anyone would date someone like you!" Mina said with positive energy laced in her voice. She knew all the support she's gotten has to help her in some way, but she's scared actually. Scared of denial, Scared of rejection, and scared of possibly ruining her friendship with Izuku. 'Why is this so hard!?' She thought to herself as she was struggling to approach the boy.
'Eh? Yao-san is coming up to me again?' Izuku thought to himself as he saw the girl walk her way towards him. He can't really put his finger on it, but some time during U.A they became really close friends. It started off with small chats here and there, to sitting next to him during the lunch break. It truly did perplex him on her motives. Usually people only approach him when they have a problem with their studies, seeing as he has a nice spot on the top 4 in the class. But this was different, Yaoyorozu was always on the top of the class, so any problem with grades were thrown out of the window.
"H-Hey M-Midoriya-kun" She said with a wave as she walked up to the boy. "Oh, Hi Yao-san" he said with an equally awkward wave as she took a chair and sat infront of him. as she sat, he noticed how she was fidgeting more than usually. Playing with the hem of her blazer, avoiding eye contact, a light shade of pink spread across her face, and how her mouth was slightly trembling, like she wanted to say something. "Are y-you okay, Yao-san? You look like you have a fever" He said as he laid the back of his hand on her forehead. "N-N-No, I-I'm fine, actually" She said as she put her hand on his as she gripped it. "Ah, I thought you might be sick. You got me worried there for a second" he said with a warm smile as her heart started to beat faster and faster. 'That damned smile' Momo mentally noted as she held his hand.
"Uhhh... Y-Yao-san" Izuku said awkwardly as she saw her lightly rub her own hand on his as he makes it on her forehead. "Uh... you can let go of my hand now" Izuku said as he begrudgingly took back his hand. "Uhh... S-S-Sorry!" She said as she avoided eyecontact and had red blushed all across her face. "Anyways" Momo said as she cleared her throat. "Y-You won't happen to be... available this a-a-afternoon?" She stuttered and, this was just a red flag to the boy. It all clicked in his head. The light blush, how she always fitted spending time with him in her schedule, and how she actually went in and out of her way to dig their friendship deep enough to rival Iida, Uraraka, And Todoroki. "Uhh!? M-Me!?" Izuku said as the blush quickly creeped up across his face. She nodded as the blush the two had threatened to never stop.
A muffled Mineta screaming could be heard in the background.
"A-And i-if p-possible, w-would you l-like t-to go out with me and g-get a cup of t-t-tea?" She said almost screaming as some of her classmates turned their heads. "N-Not like th-that I mean! I m-mean it c-could be just l-like friends" she corrected herself as whispers began to start behind and around them.
"A-Ah! I D-Didn't say I didn't want to, or anything" looking back on it now, he cursed himself for being oh so dense. The friendliness, the clinginess, and how she always avoids eyecontact when he smiles. 'Goddamnit Izuku' He said to himself as he looked at the girl awaiting his response. "Uhh... S-Sure" He said awkwardly. Flutters and butterflies in her stomach emerged when he said those words. Finally! He Finally acknowledged her in a different way than all of her friends and his friends, it really felt good in a strange way.
The opposite could be said for the boy, Jitters and insecurities invaded his mind as he played all the possible and probable factors of his social demise
' What if she's just doing this out of pity?'
'What if she doesn't like what might happen?'
'What if its just a dare that she begrudgingly took?'
'What if she just likes me?'
He got shot out of his thoughts when she called for him outside the classroom door. "M-Midoriya-kun, C'mon" She gestured as his classmates still had their jaws dropped. "Uhh... o-okay" he said with steam threatening to get out of his ears.
"Did Midoriya just get a date?" Kaminari asked still having whiplash from the sight. "Damn he's slick" Kirishima said with a chuckle. All the while sero was holding back Mineta. "Don't make me slap a bitch!" He said while he tried getting out of sero's tape.
"-So I think It may actually affect us, you know. In a way" they discussed on why they chose their hero names. Well, after today they would start immediately with their pro hero mentors on the internship program. "I don't think y-your hero name would affect you. It's about your actions really, isn't it?" Izuku said with a smile that made her heart beat at 999 bpm as a blush spread across both of their faces. "Well... here we are" She said as they made a stop in front of a lavish and quaint little coffee shop. It was cliche, both of them knew that. But neither of them could pick out a place in the short amount of time they'll have with each other till they go back to reality.
"Two Iced coffees please" She said to the waitress as she took off to get their orders. "The ambience is so nice, wouldn't you agree?" She said as the boy looked at her eye-to-eye hesitantly. "Uh... Yeah" he just noticed now how cute she was. The fair and unblemished skin, her black and spiky ponytail contouring to her cute face. He imagined himself hugging and pinching her cute cheeks, and looking straight at that bubblegum pink that made its way to her cheeks as she blushed. Goddamnit he felt like a pervert at all of these lewd thoughts.
"A-Are you okay, Midoriya-kun?" She said worryingly as she saw light streams of steam emerge from his ears. "Ah! I-I'm fine!" He said startled by the sudden hand on his forehead. She lightly giggled at the scene that played out. This was basically a carbon copy of what happened earlier this day. The bandages around his arms and the suede of his cheeks only made him look cuter, in a weird way. She noticed at how much he would look away shortly after making a mile second of eyecontact with her. He was defienely nervous, he never was the confident type. And that was just a charm point for the boy, she liked at how modest and humble he was. Even if he literally blew away villains during the whole fiasco in the USJ, he would avoid or say that it was dumb of him to do that. Even though he got much praise.
"You know, you're cuter than the other boys that came up to me" She said boldly as the boy gave a curios and disbelieving "eh!?" She giggled lightly before their orders came. She sipped her cold coffee, feeling the caffeine flow through her blood as she gave light conversation. "It's like you're an innocent cinnamon roll that could break a wall with a flick of the finger." She broke into a louder than usual giggle that also managed to give the boy a few chuckles. "You know, sometimes I wonder why I fell for you" She said as the boy had bigger streams of steam emanate from his hard blush.
"Y-You mean m-me?" He pointed to himself as he took a double take on her words. "Of course, who else would be crazy enough to give up their spot to fix someone's daddy problem" Momo said with a light giggle once again as he also took a hint at the joke. "Y-You know, I didn't even know s-someone would go for a guy like m-me" he said awkwardly as he rubbed the back of his neck.
"And why is that?" She said as she stopped sipping her coffee. "You're cute, heroic, innocent, charming, a joy to be around, and the best part" She said with a light smile on her face and a blush on both ends. "You're a huge dork"
'So much for charm points' Izuku said to himself awkwardly as he took as sip of his coffee. "B-But I mean, Other people have that too? It's not like I do any of those things well enough to garner any attention." He said as he looked away to his glass of coffee. Like it was more interesting than the girl infront of him.
"You may not have much on grabbing attention, but you surely have caught mine" she said which made both of them blush deeply. But for her sake and the sake of possibly dating him, she pushed back all of her embarrassing and negative feelings to give him that one small push.
"D-Doesn't this feel k-kinda one-sided?" Izuku said with tears threatening to leave his eyes. 'Oh no' she thought to herself as she saw the boy. Damnit, she pushed herself without even thinking about the boy's feelings, she wanted him so much that she didn't even think if he liked her back. "I mean, y-you're so beautiful, So cute, So smart, So caring, So... So..." Izuku drifted off before picking up where he left off. "I don't understand" he said while wiping the soon to be tears from his eyes.
"N-No! I-It's Okay, I d-didn't mean to push myself on you so much" Momo said as she went out of her chair to hug the boy. "Th-That's not it" he said in a volume just enough for her to hear. "I-It's just that you're such a-an amazing p-person. Y-You'd be d-dragging yourself down if We got together" he said as the girl got herself out of their hug to meet him eye to eye. "There are s-so many b-better people to meet" he said which confused the girl at first. But then it clicked in her head.
He thinks she's way too far out of his league. He completely underestimates himself as the boy straitened his bearings. "A-Anyways" he said as he cleared his throat, still leaving the girl with her thoughts. "I think It's for the best that you shouldn't date me" he said "I'll just be dead weight" Izuku said as he tried to storm off.
"N-No!" She thanked the gods that there wasn't anyone in the cafe aside from the staff and themselves. "Midoriya-kun please! Stop saying that you're dead weight!" She said as she caught him by the hem of his sleeve.
"You're strong! You're Smart! You always put the lives of others even if they don't want it! A-and y-you're cute..." her voice drifted off into mumbles. "R-really?" Izuku asked as he turned back to her. She nodded as the two of them blushed deeply for a few seconds to let the awkward silence kick in.
"S-So anyways" She said "W-W-Would you please go out with me Izuku Midoriya?" She said as she stuck her hand out for him to grasp with a bow.
"I-It would be m-my honor" he said as he took her hand and the two intertwined their fingers. 'It's like a dream come true' he thought to himself as the girl walked up from the small space between them as they took tail from the coffee shop. "You know y-you could just call me Momo" She said as they walked along the street hand in hand. "O-Only if you call me Izuku" he said with a light chuckle and a blush. She tore away from holding hands with him as they stopped by his house in the suburbs of mustafu City. "So... see you tomorrow?" He said awkwardly before he gave him a quick embrace. "Of course! Boyfriend" she said before she too took her way back to her own home. 'This day ended well' Izuku said as he walked in on his home.