Sleep Deprivation

The first sign that things were honestly getting strange in class that day, was Izuku barely being able to keep his eye lids open. Normally, the green bean was always able to keep his spirits so high that falling asleep seemed about as likely as Mineta's chances of getting a girl.

However, this was indeed the case, what made it possible was the fact that the One for All user recently pushed himself incredibly hard in training exercises. In addition, he was also exhausted from having to take on a couple thugs in the street, a hobby he picked up after acquiring his hero license, an unhealthy hobby at that, since his dedication of becoming the next symbol of peace made him try extra hard to make said heroic acts routine.

It was not without its share of benefits as he not only trained his body to handle his quirk better, add a bit more experience under his belt, gain a bit of a reputation with police officers, but also got to develop his costume/equipment more with Mei Hatsume, this was secretly Izuku's favorite benefit, you could say he developed a small crush on the hyperactive genius after she marveled over his quirk notebook one day, that and the nerd's inability to contain his excitement at the sight of her latest 'babies.'

He was supposed to stop by her workshop today to pick up a modified version of his gloves, but once the final bell rang, his schedule took a different turn-

"Midoriya," a nudge to the shoulder came from Iida to Izuku which slightly woke him up from his slumber on his desk, only for him to fall right back to sleep, "Midoriya, classes are over for today, we can go back to the dormitories now."

"oH tHAts gReAT Iida, I jUsT gotta lay hier fyor a bit ZZZZZZZZZ."

"My word, how much sleep did you get last night?"

"I dOn't kynow…one?"

"Good lord! Come with me."

"C-can't ZZZZZZZZZ I's suppos to gyo tu workyshop tuuuuuday." (Author: Broken English is proving to be harder than I thought)

"Tuesday? It's Friday-ohhhhhh you mean today."

"*snoooooooore* No All Might, I don't want your autograph, I'd rather have one of your banned sports drinks *snooooooooooore* they were really good I don't care if it makes my skin glow at night."

"That one's new," All Might spoke as he walked up to the pair from behind, "Usually he dreams about getting one of my cardboard cutouts."

"All Might," Iida looked at the shrunken pro, "What brings you here, classes ended for today."

"Hello young Iida, I was coming to see if my prior assumptions about young Midoriya were correct about him not getting much sleep as of late," All Might informed as he stood next to Iida, "From what I can see they were."

"I've never seen him in such a state before," Iida said with concern, "It worries me if this could become a permanent problem."

"That makes two of us," All Might sighed as he gazed at his protégé, 'Young Midoriya, I know you hold this belief in becoming better deep in your heart, but I don't think you'll be fighting much crime if you fall asleep while fighting. The constant villain monologues will already do that for you anyway.'

"What should we do?"

"Hmmmmmm, take him to his room. Let him sleep for the rest of the day, it'll be the weekend tomorrow so he can sleep for however long he should, just do me one favor, if it isn't a big deal for you."

"Of course, what is it?"

"Guard his door, he doesn't need any disturbances, just make sure to keep track of all the things he needs to do when he's better."

"On it," Iida confidently gave All Might a thumbs up, to which the teacher replicated with a smile.

'You got a really good friend here young Midoriya, treasure tha-is that drool on my shoe?'

Deku was indeed drooling, so much so that if they didn't stop it now, it would turn out just like a tear situation and they may have to get a life raft just to get out of the room.

"I better go take care of that," Iida smiled as he wiped the drool from his friends face and desk, and picked him up with All Might's assistance.

"ZZZZZZZ no…"

"No but's Midoriya, you need to sleep," Tenya replied as kept down the hall.

"ZZZZZZ but I need to get my gloves from Hatusme…"

"Don't worry young Midoriya, I'll send her to your door later. Young Iida here will hang onto them for you till you wake up."

"That's right, at this moment your well-being is my prime concern."

"ZZZZZZ ok…thanks guys ZZZZZZZZZZZZ no I'd rather have the sports drink *snooooooooooooore*"

"By the way All Might, I have a question."

"Yes?"

"Did the drink actually make your skin glow?"

"Yes…"

"Really, do you still have any?"

"No I had to drink it all."

"That sounds unfortunate."

"It's even worse when I try to sleep."

"How much so?"

"…I have to wear sunglasses."

2 Hours Later…

Location: U-A dorms, Males section.

Izuku was fast asleep in his bed, and Iida sat right outside his door with a composition book in his hand going over today's lessons. Not much was going on, since everyone else on Midoriya's floor was out…a peace interrupted by a sudden loud bang from the main doors of the floor being thrown open violently by Mina Ashido.

"Midoriya quick I need your help on homework!"

"Ashido," Iida whisper screamed as he jumped up, "Shhhhhhhhhhh, Midoriya hasn't slept well in two whole days, let him rest."

"I can't," Mina stopped screaming, but didn't lower her pitch by any means, "If I don't get help on this, I'll fail the next exam, and I AM NOT going to suffer through another detention with Mr. Aizawa, there's only so much torture my mind can comprehend."

"If it's that much of a concern I could always help you."

"I'm good."

"Ack…why," Iida whispered screamed, offended by her words.

"I mean, no offense, but he's less…robotic about it."

"Robotic, I'll have you know I'm far from being robotic" Iida started doing his normal robot hand motion.

"Yeah like that, robotic."

Iida sighed in defeat at the insult.

"Either way, come ooooooon I need his help!"

"Shhhhhhhh I said no, and that's final, he can help you tomorrow."

"But I neeeeed it today, I got a busy weekend"

The tension was interrupted by another person coming into the room, that being Kaminari.

"Yo Midoriya, I need help on my homework!"

"Huh, him to," Mina quipped as Iida shushed him.

"Oh hey Mina, you need help to?"

"Big time, but Mr. Emergency Exit here won't let me pass."

"Come on Iida, we'll-"

"I know, but I offer my services in his stead."

"But you're too robotic."

"Ha nice, said the same thing," Mina high fived him as Iida got doubly offended.

"Yeah I know right, it's like he's so dry when tells us the answer, and gives us a whooole paragraph instead of just saying it."

"You hit the nail on the head," Mina chuckled.

"…I am right here," Iida held his head in shame.

"Well if you just left we wouldn't have a problem," Kaminari attempted to fool him to no avail, Iida's determination to prevent the situation from escalating was strong.

But then…Sato

"Midoriya hey, we gonna bake my mom's birthday cake today or what? Oh, hey guys what's up?"

"Nothin much Sato, we're just trying to get past Iida to get to Midoriya," Kaminari explained.

"Why?"

"Midoriya's asleep."

"Well, he has the ingredients in his room so I kinda need him now."

"I'm sorry Sato but you can't, I've been tasked to guard this door with my life so my friend can rest."

"But Iida-"

"No buts," Tenya yelled then quickly covered his mouth.

"Oh, so we can't scream but you can," Mina pouted.

"Sato I'd be more than willing to help you with your cake if you help me guard the door."

"I would, but…"

"For the sake of my self-esteem, please don't say I'm robotic."

"Yeah that was the word for it-oh…sorry Iida."

"N-no, it's fine…I'm just gonna lie in front of the door now," Iida slowly laid in front of Deku's door.

"Oh quit being a baby and just let us in," Mina pouted again.

"No."

"We aren't leaving until then," Kaminari chimed in.

"Still no."

"OH, COME ON," they collectively shouted at the young man, their number steadily growing with the entrance of Ojiro (looking to spar with Midoriya), Tokoyami (needing to get his sword back from Izuku after he asked to borrow it because it was cool), Mineta (mostly to get secrets about how to get lucky with Caime), Toru (she just wanted to feel included), and –

"DEKUUUUUUUUUUUU," Bakugo shouted as he kicked open the doors.

SLAM!

The main doors were then immediately shut by everyone.

"Ok, we can all agree he really doesn't need that right now," Iida quipped, as everyone nodded…but quickly got back to trying to get the class president to budge.

Then-

"Wait, I just thought of something," Ojiro stated.

"What," everyone asked in unison.

"Even if Iida does budge, who is Midoriya gonna help first?"

Everyone then immediately looked at each other, at first plainly, but slowly turned to bloodlust over the right to be first as a massive uproar of arguments started, going back and forth between classmates, the shouts back and forth created an amalgamation of various words and cases. It made Iida close his eyes and cover his ears as he had enough of all of this as he sat up against the door again, wishing Kirishima was here to settle the argument.

With all the noise going, no one noticed the last participant in this Midoriya problem: Mei Hatsume.

"Hey Izuku I got your gloves," Mei made her way to his door past everyone there nonchalantly, standing right in front of Iida, who then looked up.

"He's asleep, no visitors."

"Ohhhh let me guess he kept pushing himself again," Mei chuckled as Iida nodded.

"I'll give him the gloves tomorrow."

"Sorry, can't do that."

"Robotic?"

"Nope, but that's gonna be my new line of babies."

Iida sighed in relief.

"Either way, he asked me to deliver them myself."

"Wh-why?"

Mei shrugged; she was just simply happy to talk about the gloves with her favorite customer.

"I still can't let you in, it is my duty as Midoriya's friend to keep him safe from all this stress, and I will not be moved by-GAH!"

Iida fell backward through the doorway to Izuku's room, whom stood in his sleep clothes as he rubbed his eyes. Everyone in the room froze, they really did understand why Iida did all this as soon as they laid their eyes on him, and a wave of guilt overtook them.

"Oh…hey Iida," the green haired teen greeted, "I didn't know you were a door mat."

"Man, he's out of it," Kaminari whispered but was then shushed by Mina who put a hand over his mouth.

Deku gently stepped over his friend and stumbled toward the kitchen area, nearly bumping into everyone there, only being prevented by them moving out of the way, since they didn't wanna disturb him.

'I don't think he knows we're here,' everyone thought in unison; except Mei who was just thinking about her babies. Izuku took a glass from the cabinet, well after several failed attempts that would've shattered the other cups if not for the intervention by Dark Shadow and Sato. Izuku then tried to get the water running but his hand kept slipping from the handles, this was then assisted by Ashido fearing he would run hot water instead, Toru helped him hold the cup under the water, and finally Kaminari and Mineta made sure he didn't fall over on his way back to bed, letting him go halfway once he semi straightened out.

"Oh…hey Mei," he mumbled out.

"Hey Izuku."

"First name basis eh," Mina whispered as she gave a catlike grin and nudged Toru.

"Plus he didn't even notice the rest of us," Toru laughed quietly.

"Oh cool, are those my gloves," the sleepy boy smiled still very much drowsy.

"Yup, specially designed to be able to withstand your attacks and fire them out at one-hundred percent capacity. They're so tough that if someone uses any kind of weapon against you, you won't be able to feel a thing!"

"Wow that's amazing, you're the best Mei."

"As you've said a million times," Mei placed the gloves in his empty hand.

"It's true."

Then something quite unexpected happened. Something that nobody there, not even Midoriya, would've expected would happen, Izuku kissed Mei on the cheek sending everyone into complete shock with their eyes going wide and mouths gaping open even causing Iida to raise up from the doorway.

"See you Mei," Midoriya muttered as he slowly closed the door, and eventually went back to sleep, everyone's eyes were on the door after following the sleepwalker, then turned to the inventor, whose reaction was less shocked then theirs, but was still emotional.

Her cheeks turned pink, her mouth slightly gaped, and her eyes just stared forward. This changed, as she slowly raised her hand to the cheek that he kissed, rubbing it as her eye lids narrowed, and her lips curved into a smile.

"…Welp gotta go," Mei spared no time as she quickly sped past the others and out the doors, and for the first time in a very long time, she halted her work on her babies, simply going back to her room; all she could think of was the hero in training.

Iida's evening became more pleasant as the others apologized, and accepted his help in Izuku's stead. Once they were all helped, (except Mineta) the class president then crashed on the couch, confident his work was done.

Morning…

Midoriya yawned loudly as he rose from his bed, proceeding to scratch the side of head and rub his eyes.

"I really needed that sleep, I feel incredible," he smiled as he stretched his arms upward, then stood up forgetting the glass cup on his desk, and not noticing the gloves lying on his bed as he opened the door, and walking into the common area, being met with the sight of Iida drinking orange juice and Mina sitting on the couch watching tv.

"Morning guys," Midoriya greeted.

"Good morning Midoriya," Iida replied.

"Have any interesting dreams," Mina teased as she looked at him.

"Well…not really, I dreamed that All Might gave me a crate of his banned sports drink, watched a bunch of seagulls arguing, got a glass of water, and kis-…." Midoriya quickly blushed as he covered his mouth with his hands.

"What was that last part," Mina smiled devilishly.

"N-n-nothing!"

"You sure?"

"Uh huh."

"Seems something is up with the color of your face."

"Ashido stop teasing him over what happened."

"Awwwwwwwww c'mon he's adorable when he's like this."

"What are you two talking about," Midoriya questioned still nervous, as Mina got up and walked to the door, and grabbed one of the handles.

"Hey Midoriya?"

"Y-y-y-yeah?"

"It wasn't a dream," Mina smiled as she opened the door, revealing Mei Hatsume.

"CUTIE," Mei yelled as she quickly tackled Izuku to the floor.

Authors Note: Woooooow that was a long one, but I really like it as a starting chapter to this series, one that I've wanted to do for a little while now and only recently gotten around to doing so. Sorry that it doesn't involve the romance heavily, but that will change in chapters going forward, it wasn't as involved in this one mostly because I was kicking around the idea of it in my head for a couple months now.

Either way, hope you guys enjoyed this one, and see ya next time!