When [____] opened her eyes, the first thing she realized was that she was crying.

Surprisingly, though, she was left untouched.

The brightest beam of light she's ever seen was in front of her, acting as a barricade. It took her a couple of seconds to figure out she was the one emitting the source from her own inner surface of her hands.

'What's this?! My quirk?!'

As she was in awe with herself, Katsuki tried to injure her again. This time he intended to strike from her left side and as he aimed explosions towards her, she continued to dodge them by instinctively stretching her arms in attempts to block his attacks.

Over and over he tried, and yet not a single damage to the girl.

"So cool, Amacchan!! Just like your mom!" She heard Deku yell in excitement, which caused her relief to know after all that beating, her new friend was still able to cheer her on.

"Ck!" The blonde boy was beginning to get tired of the scenario, "What a stupid quirk! Doesn't even attack back! All you're doing is shielding yourself like a weak little girl!!"

[____] couldn't handle it anymore. She didn't know what she was doing, or how she was surviving so far, but she knew one thing. Whatever power was coming out of her palms, it wasn't going to last longer than a minute.

She could feel her arms physically shaking from maintaining her position for too long. She began to plea mercy.

"Katsuki-kun, please!! I give up!"

Soon after yelling so, her shiny shield shattered into tiny fragments that looked exactly like glass, but didn't manage to hit the floor.

Instead, they disappeared, midair and in front of the two kids. That's when his angry, bright-red eyes met hers.

Come to think of it, that was the first time Katsuki Bakugo saw a girl cry.

It was no secret that he liked to pick on his classmates until they broke down to tears, especially Deku. He didn't feel a thing when he'd beg him to stop.

"Please...No more..." [____] repeated, wiping her pink-tinted cheeks dry.

Suddenly, Katsuki forgot the reason he began to pick on her. All Might wouldn't of done it. He wouldn't make a girl cry.

"Let's go home, guys...I'm bored." He untangled both of his fists and placed them around his head, slowly walking away from the whole thing.

"Yeah, this is pretty boring! Let's go to the arcade!" His friends seemed to agree and they let go of Izuku to get caught up to their leader.

[____] remained kneeling on the ground, wiping away the last of her tears while Izuku offered his hand to help her up. Then there was a moment.

For one slow moment, the blonde kid turned around and their eyes met one more time.

'Why is she crying so much? She's weird.'

"Amacchan, you were amazing!" Izuku didn't waste a second to compliment his friend. "How did it feel to get your quirk?! Do you feel any different right now?! That was so cool!"

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"Amacchan! Seriously, you were soo cool! You went FOOOM!! POWWWHH! And it went from you, to over there! Look, look!" Izuku kept chanting about the fight while she walked back to the school building in silence. "Your mom is going to be so proud! You really got your quirk today! We should celebrate!! Wanna come to my place?! We can have dessert for dinner!!"

"Izuku-chan..." She stopped her tracks to look down to her scraped knees, "Thank you for trying to protect me."

He suddenly blushed, and it wasn't even slightly. His whole face turned bright red and it seemed like steam was about to come out of his ears. "Y-Y-Y-You're w-w-w-we-wel—-"

She started laughing. Holding on to her stomach in order to speak, "You're so funny!!"

The freckled boy toned down his shyness to give her a friendly smile. "You know...Believe it or not, Kacchan went really light on you, for a fight...."

[____] raised an eyebrow, "You think? 'Cause I've never seen anyone be that scary. Except for my mom when she yells at dad to go to work, haha.."

She thought Izuku would smile at her comment, but instead he continued to talk about his so called 'friend', "I know he may seem like he's not a good person. But he really is. Kacchan can be really kind, and he proved it when he stopped attacking you."

"He was probably bored of it." She set her mind into thinking she wasn't made to be much of a fighter already, "I don't see the kindness in that."

'Besides...Why would a sweet person like Izuku want to defend him so much? They're complete opposites! Are they even friends? Izuku says they are, but all Katsuki does is insult him...'

They remained quiet for the next two minutes, [____] thinking about the sudden sympathetic look in Katsuki's red eyes before he left the fight. While Izuku thought about how lucky his new friend was for awakening her amazing quirk.

By the end of their walk, she finally replied, "You were right about something, Izuku-chan...He is sort of amazing...In a terrifying way, that is."

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[timeskip]

"Are you excited about starting the elite hero classes at U.A High?!" [____]'s dad asked excitedly as he drove to the mall. They were on their way to a planned family date.

It happened soon after [____] gained a quirk.

Himeko and Manato decided to move to the United States to expand Himeko's job opportunities. She was well known in Japan already, but years after her modeling gigs in the U.S went viral, the whole world knew who she was.

In between daily flights, new employers, interviews, photo shoots and cat-walks all over the world, the family had decided to come back to their hometown once [____] started high school.

They had recently bought a brand new house in Shizuoka, where [____] was expected to stay until graduation with supervision.

She could of attended any high school, anywhere but her father had obliged the idea of having his precious daughter stay away from her childhood town.

Besides, U.A was an elite school, with a great name and history. It was easy for a star like Himeko to enroll her only child with a recommendation. That way, she didn't had to deal with more paperwork or have [____] take the entrance exam.

[____] usually went with whatever her parents said. She wasn't asked where she wanted to attend, and she felt like if she were, she wouldn't have an answer.

Like on that certain day, Himeko had a rare day off and she decided to go shopping with her family. [____] was forced to go, with not much say in it.

"I don't know about all of this..." In reply to her father's optimism, she finally sighed.

"My darling, what's wrong?" He was looking for a parking space while his superstar of a wife applied lipstick using her compact mirror. "It's been a long time since we came to Japan. Aren't you excited to reunite with friends?"

'Reunite? I don't have friends...'

She felt as if her parents were always busy, too busy to even notice she hadn't been doing so great in school for the past three years. She switched schools on a regular basis, all her classmates spoke in different languages and most of them were intimidated by her mother's fame to try to talk to her.

In reality, [____] didn't gain any friends.

"I don't really have anyone to look for in here..." she whispered it to herself, but was a little glad her mother caught that.

"[____]-chan, you know, this time you will actually stay here to finish school. You won't be moving anymore, I promise."

"My little baby is going to stay on her own while mommy and daddy continue to travel all across the globe..." Manato pretended to start crying until it became real. "SHE'S NOT GOING TO SEE DADDY FOR THE MOST PART!!!"

"Dad...I will be fine." She tried to re assure him.

"I KNOW YOU'RE TRYING TO STAY STRONG, [____]!! YOU STAY STRONG FOR DADDY, DADDY LOVES YOU SO MUCH!!"

"Can we, like, not do this every time we go out?" She recalled all the previous family dates where it all ended the same, her dad crying over her.

"Calm down, honey...." Himeko patted her husband's back, smiling. "[____]-chan is growing up, she's a big girl now. She already grew boobs."

"MOM!" [____] covered her chest, embarrassed and mad at her mother's bluntness.

That just made her father cry harder, "BOOBS!! MY LITTLE PRINCESS GREW BOOBS!! Oh, [____], when?! When did you decide to grow boobs? When did you decide to grow taller and get boobs?!"

"Can we stop saying it!! Please?!" She covered her ears. "Why must you two be so weird!"

Himeko placed her hair up to cover it with a sun hat and put on her branded sun glasses on. "Come on, honeys. Let's have a good day today and leave it at that."