Izuku closing the door behind him, leaned his back on the door frame for support. His heart thundering and aching. Head hanging back, while tears slid down the corners of his now dull green eyes. He could hear soft sobs from the other side of the door. He wanted to go back in there, but he forced himself to stay put. This is what she wanted and he would respect her wishes.

Before he left, he walked over to Mina's dorm and knocked softly. Izuku was still rubbing off his tears when the pink haired young woman opened her door, surprised to see him in this state.

One look at him and she instantly knew that it finally happened. Mina embraced her friend in a much-needed hug and let him cry on her shoulder. It didn't take him long before he softly pushed her away, keeping his gaze on the ground. He didn't want anyone to see him at his lowest.

"Please, look after her. She really needs someone right now... I already texted Tsu about it..." Izuku whispered softly towards Mina who was trying hard not to smother him in a hug.

He looked so broken – so hopeless.

"Oh, Midoriya. I promise I will." Mina felt her heart ache for her friends. She really wanted to help them solve whatever it was that was going on with them, but she didn't want to intervene.

Katsuki was right, it wasn't their issue. This was something private.

Izuku quickly thanked her by bowing low. Then trudged away defeated towards his dorm. Before Mina went to Ochako, she made sure to text Katsuki to let him know it finally happened.

Once Mina was in Ochako's dorm, Tsuyu was already there hugging the girl, and whispering to her that everything would be okay. Mina, silently joined in on their hug, promising to help her friend move on as much as she could.

As Izuku made it back to his dorm hallway, he saw a tuft of white and red hair waiting by his dorm with another blue haired male. When Izuku got closer, both his friends patted his back to comfort him somehow. Without asking questions they took him out of the school, of course with Aizawa's permission first. Both young men had a feeling this was going to happen and knew instantly when Izuku ignored their messages.

They were trying their best to distract their dear friend and drove him everywhere around the city in Shouto's car. At first, they went to an All-Might merchandise store and got him whatever he wanted.

Izuku at first didn't want to burden his friends with this, especially since they wanted to buy him so many things. Izuku finally caved in when Shouto mentioned it was all going to be charged into Endeavor's card. The heterochromia eyed male, managed to rebel Izuku just a tad bit since becoming best friends with him. Still, Izuku was modest about what he was picking out. Even though Shouto insisted on getting him the most expensive things.

It did help distract him a little with the distress and heartbreak coursing through him. He was grateful to have friends like them.

They were currently in another store with many different heroes' merchandises. The store was so colorful with how many different types of merch there was. Shouto and Tenya, where arguing about who was going to get Izuku the figuring that was over one hundred dollars.

Izuku not in the mood to deal with their dispute, excused himself to go look around, while his friends argued. He wanted to get away because of the massive headache he was having. Not that he blamed them for it, he was crying earlier and still trying to not cry.

All the crying got his eyes red and puffy. It also gave him a ragging headache, Shouto tried to use his cold hand to lessen the swelling when they drove out of campus, which only helped a little. Izuku wished he could have taken something for the pain before they left though.

He was rubbing his temples while walking down the aisles and not paying attention. The harsh bright light, only making the headache worse. On his quest to get rid of the headache, he didn't notice someone coming around the corner and accidentally bumped into them.

Said person dropped the merchandise in their hands when they made contact with the boulder of the third-year student.

Izuku frantically got on the floor helping them pick everything back up. Apologizing profusely for not watching where he was going. "I-I am s-so, so s-sorry. I should have been paying at-attention. Are you alright? You're not hurt anywhere, right?" He was bowing low for being so careless in an attempt to apologize to the young woman.

He stopped when he heard an amused chuckle and looked up. Breath caught in his lungs and instantly starstruck when making direct eye contact with e/c eyes. His incessant mumbling stopping along with him and mind going completely blank.

"It's alright, nothing to stress about." A beautiful young woman with h/c hair assured the flustered green freckled tall young man. However, becoming confused when he became a flustered red mess.

Covering his face in a protective manner with both of his hands.

Y/N was out and about, trying to buy her little brother another Hawks he requested. Obviously, she had a bodyguard waiting right outside. It would be too suspicious if they followed her into every place she walked into. They knew she wouldn't leave as long as they held her brother captive. She was even allowed to roam the stores freely.

Why would she escape if her prisoner's had the one thing that could fully control her?

"I-I-I um...um..." Izuku was at lost for words, his emerald eyes wide and dumbfounded.

The h/c haired woman was very pretty, she had long hair and doe-y e/c eyes. To him, she reminded him of a blissful dream. He couldn't explain it but looking at her calmed his ragging heartache somehow, making him finally feel at peace rather than hurt from the earlier events.

She wore a soft cream long sleeved sweater and a pale rose long flowy skirt that went down to her ankles, with white pristine converse. Odd choice of clothing considering the weather was getting warmer, wasn't she hot in that? Izuku thought. Her hair was in a messy braid, and she had a yellow backpack with her. Almost identical to Izuku who took notice of this small detail.

The flustered male kept looking at her in a daze, memorizing everything that he could because how captivated he was.

"Are you okay?" She asked genuinely worried about him. She scanned his features briefly with her eyes, scrutinizing everything about him, like he was doing to her. Y/N saw the puffy red eyes and somber look he was carrying.

His green hair was a mess from possibly pulling at it. He seemed stressed. His, school uniform was unkept and messy. Her eyes widened a little when she realized what uniform that school was from. She was in the presence of a future hero. She had to be careful, but... why was he so sad?

She helped him stand up and used her quirk inconspicuously by blowing a small dosage of violet mist to get a glance into his mind.

Izuku was hypnotized by her e/c eyes turning a brilliant red, not realizing she was using her quirk on him.

Using her telepathic quirk, she understood right away when her vision went back to normal. She gave him a sympathetic smile and hugged him, having to go on her tippy toes for how tall he was.

Izuku was utterly confused and was snapped back to his senses when he broke from the trance, she put him in.

He didn't know why, but he felt a peace for a second before the spell broke.

"You know, it's going to suck for a while, but you're going to be just fine." Y/N gave Izuku a closed-eyed bright smile. She pushed herself off him and held on to his shoulders, keeping him at arm's length.

Izuku tilted his head to the side utterly thrown off. "Huh? What are you talking about, you didn't hit me that hard?" Izuku reassured the girl, who could see right through him.

The young woman in front him laughed softly at him. He looked so lost, almost like a puppy.

"No dummy..." she shook her head while giggling. "Heartache won't kill you. It may feel like you are dying right now. But with due time you'll be able to bear it. You won't forget, but you'll be able to bear the pain a little bit better." She finished with another smile.

One Izuku noticed looked much sadder than the first one, and he felt it quake in him. A sad twinkly in her eyes reflecting at him.

A reflection of her own pain.

"How did you..."

Did she use her quirk on him without realizing? She sounded so sure of what she was saying, like she already knew what was wrong with him. Was her quirk brainwashing, had he mentioned why he was so sad without realizing it? Was she like Shinsou? Izuku's rambling thoughts overshadowed everything else he was feeling, his obsession in other quirks taking over his mind and giving him a much-needed mental break.

"Sorry I know it's rude to use your quirk on someone without asking for permission, especially if it's a total stranger. It's just, I can see your pain and I wanted to help you in any way that I could..." She reassured him while looking right into his dull emerald eyes, noticing a slight glimmer of hope shine through.

She could see his pain in them even without having to use her quirk.

"Just know this cute freckled boy, there is always someone out there for everyone. No amount of fear will keep them away from you. Just promise yourself that no matter what –" She grabbed his hand, startling him again. His eyes trailing down to their joined hands and noticing small scars on her delicate skin. Why did she... "– you won't let this affect the person you are and the next love of your life. This girl may have been your first love, but that doesn't mean you won't find someone else that will be you're forever one, 'kay?" She gave another one of her closed eyed smiles, making his heart flutter from the action.

Which was weird, he just met the young woman.

However, Izuku was moved. His friends tried to cheer him up all night. Letting him know he should distract himself and go day by day. But none of them told him, no, reassured him everything will be okay. Izuku was always the one to give out advice to his friends. However, no one could do the same for him – or at least attempted to.

Shouto would awkwardly pat him. Hell, he was spending money on him now, because that was the way he showed he cared. Tenya attempted to cheer him up with some dad jokes, which were funny.

None of them, however, could express their feelings like Izuku could, it was nice to talk to someone who could help him through his emotional pain.

Who was this girl?

Y/N looked over at the green haired male who looked spooked, then quickly let go of his hand and face palmed herself after realizing she over stepped.

She was so stupid. Honestly, she's been living here for most of her life, but she was still not accustomed to this country's manners. She bowed to him, and apologized confusing said young man again.

"I am so very sorry." She whispered with dread.

She may be free for the moment, but she shouldn't be drawing attention to herself.

"I forget you're not supposed to hug random people. I didn't mean any harm I promise. Where I'm from that's the first thing you do, even when you meet someone for the first time." She rambled trying to explain her actions, Izuku almost wanted to laugh for how much she reminded him of himself. "Granted, you also add a kiss on the cheek... thank God I didn't do that to you..." she laughed nervously. "I would not judge you if you called the police if I'd done that –"

A kiss?! Izuku mentally screamed in his head, making his cheeks turn bright red.

Coughing to regain his composure he waved his hands in front of him to stop her. "You don't have to apologize, really. Umm... I kind of needed the pep talk." Izuku rubbed the back of his neck nervously. "You actually made me feel a little bit better, thank you." He whispered to the ground, avoiding her sincere eyes.

Izuku was never good with speaking to woman, he was always nervous around new people he met. Specifically, from the opposite sex. He always got flustered and became a rambling mess. Over the years, he grew more confident in himself and when he started dating Ochako. His flustering went down a bit when he was close to another woman. He also stopped muttering so much.

It's been a while that someone got him into a blushing mess though.

This mysterious girl's boldness reminded him of Katsuki and Shouto, his two best friends and fighting partners in their hero work. The people he saw as brothers.

However, something about this young woman, made him feel nervous and at ease at the same time. Two contradicting emotions, which had his heart trying to come out of his ribcage, while feeling warmth around his chest. Why was this?

"I'm glad. And don't worry about your friends. I can tell they deeply care about you. They just don't know how to show it without spending money." Y/N brought him back from his thoughts.

She glanced over at the two young men who were with Izuku. One standing out more because of his hair color, half white and red hair and mismatched ocean like eyes. For some reason his presence captivated her. Just like this freckled green haired and forest eyed, man in front of her did.

Izuku looking over in that direction as well, smiled to himself. She was right. They weren't good with words, but they at least tried in their own way.

Y/N realizing she was taking a longer time than usual, glanced out the window and noticed one of the guards wearing a black tux and black shades tapping his watch letting her know it was time to go. She nodded, acknowledging him and gave him seven fingers up. Telling him she needed that time to buy the stuff in her hands.

She turned back around to the green haired young man and noticed him staring at her again. She didn't know it, but he was memorizing everything he could about her. Izuku didn't know why he was doing it, but he felt the need to.

Something in his gut told him to.

"Well, I have to head out, almost curfew time. It was really nice to meet you, freckled boy. Maybe we'll run paths again." She gave him a cute smile and winked at him before walking away and taking the hawks plushie that was still in Izuku's hands.

Izuku was at loss for words again, he wanted to get to know her more. He felt like if he didn't at least know her name, he would never see her again.

"W-wait..." he stuttered nervously, reaching out to her, his fingers grazed her own. Y/N turned around and raised an eyebrow in question. "Can I know your name? Sorry I know it's rude of me to ask, I just... have to know." His emerald eyes refused to leave her own this time.

Y/N gave him another sweet smile and tilted her head, a glint in her eyes, like she knew a secret he didn't.

"Don't worry Izuku Midoriya." Izuku's eyes widened when she called him by his name. How? He never told her. "This isn't the last time we will meet. But for now..."

She couldn't tell him her real name. She was being watched at the moment. That's when an idea popped into her mind, and she smiled thinking the perfect name that would give him a clue he will surely need for his mission.

Yes, when she went into his mind with her quirk, she saw his whole day in a flash. She knew the small messages she was sending out with the men she saved was finally being noticed. Her efforts where not done in vain. She felt ecstatic, finally someone was going to come for her and her family. She was beginning to lose hope, but thanks to Izuku, she was able to see the light once again.

"Call me Dreamscape." She whispered into his mind using her quirk again and gave him a knowing look.

Her eyes burning the same blazing scarlet color again. Izuku saw her eyes flash quickly to normal in an instant, her quirk resembling that of Aizawa's.

Wait... was she...

"Let's keep a secret, yeah?" She smiled while holding up her index finger in front of her lips.

Izuku felt his whole-body freeze with realization.

There was no way...

This kindhearted girl was the person they promised to save. However, she wasn't a little girl like Eri, but rather someone who was probably his age. It clicked, the moment she gently spoke the drug name in his mind.

Rather than telling him out loud, she whispered the name using her quirk. As though even then someone she didn't want to hear her, could. She was scared, it was in the way she spoke. The way she was trembling from telling him just that tad bit of information.

There was only one reason she was being so secretive.

She was being watched.

The only clue she could give him was that name, the drug name they spoke about in the debriefing of the case he was in – earlier that afternoon. Izuku wanting to know more, took a step towards her to ask her more questions but instantly stopped when he heard her voice again.

"Please don't follow me, they'll know something is up if you keep looking at me like that. I promise... I'm not a villain. I really am not. However, I have someone who needs my protection and I need to return to them, or they'll die." Y/N whispered with a hint of fear in her soft voice, her eyes shining with unshed tears.

She looked so scared, and he couldn't do anything about it.

This made Izuku stop and briefly glance towards where she was looking at earlier. He made it seem like he was rolling his neck, and he saw it. There was someone waiting outside for her. He wasn't paying attention to the scene unfolding in the store, but rather looking at his phone.

Izuku quickly looked back to her, when he heard her voice in his mind again.

"When we meet again, Izu. I'll let you know my real name. I'll be waiting..." Y/N whispered then ended the connection in his mind.

Once she made sure, he wasn't going to follow her, she bowed once again and turned around. Making her destination to the cashier.

Izuku felt like something was missing once her voice left, it was hard to explain, but he felt alone again. He felt at peace when she was there talking to him. Taking the pain away for a moment. Like he was in a peaceful dream. However, even if he hated it, he would stay back like she requested and would let his classmates and Fatgum know what he learned.

He desperately wanted to go after her and save her right then and there, but she mentioned she had someone she was protecting, he couldn't do that to her. Just her interacting with him for those couple of minutes was dangerous enough, and she must have known that. Still, she took a chance and he wasn't going to waste it.

It would only ruin everything if he went after her now. So, he made a promise to himself. He would save her and whoever she cared about.

He felt rage in his gut, this was the same thing that happened with Eri. This girl, no, young woman was there. Right in his grasp to save, but again he couldn't do anything about it. He gritted his teeth and looked over towards where Shouto was, said aloof man was currently starring at the young woman too. He had the same expression Izuku did when he bumped into her.