Izuku doesn't know why but in the span of weeks he somehow managed to be popular in his school, as much as he loves the attention sometimes it gets a bit trouble some, for example he's trying to eat lunch, a friend of his wants to taste some of his homemade food so he feeds them, suddenly everyone needs to be fed then when they noticed they ate Izuku's entire bento they try to feed him, one by one.

Which is why Izuku had started going to the gym, he doesn't do any heavy lifting a though, he just runs on the treadmill, his mom also agreed to let him go to yoga class thrice a week now, god knows he needs to burn off all the fat he gets from a single day in school. When he's as home he does some basic exercises to keep a lightly toned belly, but he's definitely not getting any abs soon. Definitely not.

He's also learning some kind of martial art called Varma Kalai, his yoga instructor led him to a shady place he probably shouldn't be in to teach him this because it's apparently secret. He searched it up later and found out it can be done to frighten elephants, Izuku wonders if he's ever going to frighten an elephant one day in his life. She's also teaching him to try acrobatics which was fine, he was plenty flexible and the old stretches are just boring now so why not?

Also, he gets a lot of letters which he reads after studying, he's happy about them but some of them are admittedly a bit creepy when they reveal that some of his... schoolmates are a bit stalkerish, one of them gave him a chunk of their hair, saying that their quirk lets it grow back as long as it can, Izuku thanks her the next day after out of politeness, now he gets a chunk of hair once a week and Izuku wasn't really sure what to do with it.

He could throw it away but that would be rude...

So now he's just using them in his experiment to grow hair without the skin and follicle and only a part of the hair, if he can be successful in this that would mean people with balding heads don't have to cut off a strip of their scalp to place unto their forehead , normally this kind of stuff would be impossible but he recently was gifted some.... interesting chemicals from other students.

He wasn't sure where they got it or how they heard it, he only remembered muttering it out loud once, he still thanked them though. Of course being kinda popular meant that some people have tried to confess to them, he almost gives in with how determined they sometimes look but he knows he'll be betraying his best friends so he always apologetically bows down his head and says that he can't date them.

Of course that won't always work against some.. persistent students, he thankfully got away safe the first time ( he doesn't know he could kick that hard, maybe he should exercise his legs more ), now everytime someone confesses to him, Akio or Enma would be with him. Or sometimes that guy who Izuku still doesn't know the name yet because he's kinda too scared to ask.

Mean while at UA....

"Hey what are you doing don't go near their table!"

"Huh? But why?"

"Haven't you heard? Mizuki told me, they hate her so much even if she's their soulmate and I heard that they-"

Katsuki kept on clenching and unclenching his left hand as he ate with his right, the chatter just won't stop, the only one who ever ate with them anymore was Uraraka and Iida who they know from the beginning and knows they would never do that kind of shit to her, their classmates come and go but they're kind of skeptical about them.

"Katsu-kun, calm down" Iida says, squeezing his left arm, "you know it's not true, we know as well"

"Doesn't mean that it isn't fucking annoying, the bitch got everyone twiddled in her fucking hands, you seen the shit she pulled?"

"Of course I do, she did it right outside of our classroom afterall- don't worry our classmates saw and they know that you didn't try anything."

"Oh yeah? Well she cried like a fucking whale and everyone else saw and now I'm the bad guy, she spread it through town too, some pussy with a weak-ass quirk tried to beat me up the other fucking day"

"How did it end?"

"Deku passed by and I pushed that piece of shit away and hugged him, maybe cried a little but it's all good, as long as Deku still likes me heck if I care about all these other pieces of shit"

"I agree" Shoto says. "You can stab me, I'll allow you as long as you get Midoriya to be the one to apply first aid"

"I don't think that's a good idea Todoroki-kun...." Ochaco says,

Kirishima was oddly quiet.

"Now that I think about it, Kirishima she's really nice to you isn't she?"

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"Izuku can I talk to you about something?"

"Huh? Kiri?"

"Ah actually it's kinda stupid never-"

"No it's fine, I'm coming over, don't worry about it" Izuku ends the call quickly.

Izuku arrives 20 minutes later, Kirishima is now huddled in a blanket, drinking the hot chocolate Izuku made for him in his kitchen, on his side was a cute baby pink see through pouch filled with cookies which were still warm, Izuku told him he brought some popsicles which were in the fridge if ever Kirishima wants some, Izuku sits next to him.

"How'd you get here so quickly with all of these?"

"I was just done baking when you called, I bought the others on the way"

"But how?"

"I ran after I got off the train station"

Kirishima just nodded at that, not sure what to say.

They stayed like that in complete silence, Kirishima seems content with just feeling that his best friend is there, Izuku had always made him feel warm and safe, like if he's here he can forget the world just a little bit, he feels so open to the greenette, he knows Izuku would never leave him or use him or anything like that, he's so lucky to have him in his life.

"...Mizuku has been spreading rumors in school about Katsuki and Shoto" Izuku nods, Kirishima doesn't notice the way he holds his mug just a bit more tighter.

"But... she spreads nice things about me because I'm the only one who can tolerate her, I feel like I'm being a traitor here, I'm just.... trying to be a decent person, it sounds bad but I don't want to treat her bad because she's my soulmate, it's not that I like her or anything, I just feel obligated to, you understand right?" Izuku nods.

"And like, she doesn't even hide it that she favors me, she sat on my lap on recess the other day and I couldn't move I didn't know whether I should push her off or not because it seemed kinda rude and Katsuki was looking at me urging me to do it but I didn't do it, thank god Iida was there to tell her off"

"I also prevented Shoto from you know, punching her because we were in the middle of getting food and she was pressing up to him and he looked really annoyed and I just dragged him away and he looked even more annoyed, what if they think I like her or something? Just for the record I don't but still!"

"If I try to explain to them they'll definitely get suspicious but if I don't say anything then they'll start assuming things and-"

"Kiri, do you want to leave? Get fresh air first? We don't have to stay here if you want"

"No"

"That's fine, it's fine Kiri, you don't have to panic, Kacchan and Shoucchan aren't here, even if they are I'll clear everyone up for you okay? You're safe, I'm here, breathe" Kirishima didn't notice he was holding his breath until Izuku told him to, although he didn't do anything the past hour his breathing ragged.

"Shh breathe slowly Kiri, can you do that for me? Don't worry you can mess up a few times, I won't tell anyone that you're bad at breathing" the red head laughed a little bit, his breathing is slower but still too fast to be in a relaxed state.

"There we go" Kirishima sighed, feeling Izuku kiss his forehead, he pulls the greenette into a hug, Izuku lets him.

"You okay now?"

"No" he mumbles unto his stomach, Izuku giggles.

"That's fine, take as much time as you need Kiri"

"... my hot chocolate" Izuku quickly gets off Kirishima and goes back to sitting beside him although he sits closely this time, Kirishima chugs down his now warm hot chocolate.

"Ah... I needed that"

"I can make more if you want-"

Izuku yelps when Kirishima hugs him again.

"Should I take that as a no Kiri?"

"Yes"