"How is your head feeling?" he asked seriously making sure she was no longer in pain. As they walked down the corridor of the campus.

Getting on her tippy toes she tapped his nose, lightly laughing when he rolled his eyes playfully from her actions.

"Better, thanks to you." Looking away she sighed heavily, remembering they couldn't forget about her troubles forever. "Do you think Izuku, and Katsuki heard it too?"

"I wouldn't doubt it." Shouto stared at her fidgeting fingers, as she nervously shook her hands. He took it upon himself to gently intertwined his fingers with hers.

"Why? I wasn't using my quirk though..." Y/n bit the inside of her cheek tasting blood from how hard she was biting it in anxiety and nerves.

Not minding how Shouto was clinging on to her hand at all.

"You were." Shouto looked at the girl frowning, did she not do it on purpose?

"What?" Y/n's breath hitched, momentarily stopping in the hallway as her eyes widened slightly.

"When I found you, your eyes were red. You may have done it subconsciously, but I think you were calling out for help. It's good that you did, whenever you need help or just need someone to listen. Please reach out again, don't be afraid to."

Shouto tugged on her hand to start walking again, still holding on to her fingers as she silently took in what he said. Already enjoying walking side by side with him.

"Do you know who that was? The person speaking to you?" He asked side eyeing her.

He noted how she used her right hand, flinging it around as she got exasperated from the situation, while he clung to her left one. Squeezing her fingers gently trying to ground her again, bringing her back from her agitation.

Y/n smiled, thanking him silently "No..."

"I see." Shouto sighed.

"I'm just creating more problems." Y/n tried to take her hand away from his hand.

However, Shouto didn't let her. He turned her towards him, towering over her smaller frame. Him being over six feet from a growth spurt he went through over the summer, could almost reach his father's statue.

"This is not your fault. We will figure it out. I suggest we start training tomorrow."

Y/n tilted her head to the side. "You know, I have never exercised in my life. The only thing I've done is dance and starve on some nights. So don't let this." She motioned towards her soft curvy body, "fool you for being conditioned. You guys better not kill me."

Shouto chuckled from her puffed out cheeks. "We already talked. It's decided I would teach you hand to hand combat. Izuku will help you get into condition and Katsuki will take care of quirk control. I promise me and Izuku will go a lot easier on you than Katsuki will. He is not very merciful."

"And I have no say in this?" Y/n narrowed her eyes at the boy with a slight glare.

"Of course, you do. We were going to talk to you about it today for lunch. However, plans changed, I'm sure everyone will understand your absence." Shouto gave her another reassuring hand squeeze.

"Dammit, I really wanted to try all of the delicious food though." Y/n nibbled on her lip nervously.

"We can do that another day." Shouto calmly reassured her.

"I guess..." Y/n nodded reluctantly as she looked around their surroundings.

The hallways were naturally lit by the sun coming in from outside. Windows surrounded the outside of the school as walls. From inside the school, she could easily see the dorms and pathways, her and Mina were walking on earlier.

She physically winced as she realized she would have to apologize to her for freaking her out. Following Shouto silently and letting him take her wherever he was leading her to. When they passed the small construction site. She apologized profusely for her behavior, though the workers mentioned it was not a problem.

They kept walking the lone hallways in calm silence. There were times, Y/n would prefer to be alone in the silence to clear her mind. However, she liked finding someone she could share the silence with. She was about to ask Shouto to make this a regular thing when they were interrupted by his phone ringing.

Making sure not to let go of her fingers he answered the call with his left hand. Right away picking up when he saw it was Izuku. Y/n also saw the name as she curiously peeked at the device in his hand.

Y/n couldn't hear the words Izuku was exchanging with Shouto, but she could hear the urgency in his voice alerting her. Fearing he might be in danger she panicked a little thinking of the earlier threat.

"Izuku, calm down. We're on our way to you now..." Shouto looked over at Y/n as she furrowed her eyebrows at him. "She's okay."

He gave her a small smile which eased her anxiety a little.

"Sure, hold on."

He passed the phone over to Y/n. She looked at it curiously with wide eyes, never being able to have one herself.

"He wants to speak with you." Shouto carefully put the phone in Y/n's right one. Making sure not to let go of her fingers as they continued to walk together.

"Okay..." she gave a small reply as she still looked at the phone amazed from the technology.

She saw Izuku's contact photo of him with Shouto and thought it was the cutest photo she's ever seen. Izuku had one arm around the aloof man, with a big smile and Shouto with an awkward one as they both stared at the camera.

"Hello?" She asked tentatively putting the phone to her ear.

"Y/n!" Izuku shouted nervously.

Y/n winced from the volume putting the phone slightly away from her ear, also hearing someone else yell in the background.

"I know Shouto mentioned you were okay, but I want to hear it from you too." Izuku gave a sigh of relief after hearing no distress from her voice.

"I should be asking you that..." She responded timidly back to him. Feeling ashamed for what he went through.

"How did I know, you would be blaming yourself for this." Izuku's voice sounded defeated. "Angel, I don't want you to keep blaming yourself for things you can't control. You were forced to live this life, please stop seeing yourself as the enemy. Yes, your quirk is dangerous."

Y/n's eyes widen slightly from the cold hard truth.

"But it's also very helpful and useful. The quirk doesn't make the person, it's the decisions you make with it, that determines who you are and will be-"

Izuku's voice cut off abruptly. There were muffled swooshing noises then a squeak on the other end. Y/n grimaced as an explosion sounded from the other line. After a couple of seconds of static and silence Y/n looked over at Shouto who furrowed his eyes in worry.

"Izuku, are you there?" Y/n asked, her voice echoing from the empty hallways.

"Hah?! Gross don't ever call me that again." An angry voice bit out in annoyance.

"K-Katsuki?" Y/n asked perplexed. "What did you do to Izuku?" She scolded him.

"The damn nerd is fine, stop worrying about him." She could physically see him rolling his eyes, wherever the ash blond was at.

"Kacchan, you can't just push people to the ground! That hurt..." Izuku's whining voice sounded far away as he complained to his childhood friend.

"Shut it Deku! I'm talking on the phone... shish the manners of some people." Katsuki whispered.

Y/n could just imagine Izuku's face as he heard that and laughed at the thought of his exasperated facial expressions.

"That's exactly what I wanted to hear, hurry up and get your ass over here darlin, we have some things to go over."

Y/n rolled her eyes smiling on the phone. "Katsuki, I don't know my way around the school yet. I wouldn't even know where you're at?"

Katsuki grunted then sighed. "Pass me to half and half..."

Y/n shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly and passed the phone to Shouto again as he waited for it patiently. She heard him talk on the phone for a couple of more minutes. He gave Katsuki a couple of snarky calmed comments which made the other boy explode. Hearing him yell at the aloof young man. Shouto only put the phone away from his ear from how loud Katsuki was being.

After the phone talk and a quiet walk through the campus, Shouto and Y/n got a moment of silence to take in their grave situation.

Making a quick stop at a vending machine, they bumped into on their way to their friends. Shouto chuckled at the girl, who had stars in her eyes. Staring at the delicious snacks in front of her, as her stomach grumbled with hunger.

Buying her a cholate milk and a spicy snack, ten minutes later they were standing outside a large brown door.

Y/n stood behind Shouto still holding on to his fingers tightly and sipping on her drink when he knocked on the door lightly. They heard stomps coming from the other side, feeling bad for the poor flooring that had to deal with the aggressor. Then saw an irritated Katsuki yanking the door open.

Y/n with her chocolate milk and a straw in between her lips looked at the boy intrigued as to what could have made him mad already.

Katsuki's eyes flickered to their joined fingers, not liking it one bit. Deciding to not say anything he instead stared at Y/n as he saw the drink in her other hand.

"Milk? Really? What are you five?"

Shouto looked over his shoulder at Y/n who ignored Katsuki's comment and continued to sip happily on her milk as she looked around the hallway.

"I couldn't deny her request." Shouto stated plainly.

They both walked into the room as Katsuki smacked his lips together in annoyance and held the door wider for them to get in. Fingers still held tightly, Y/n without noticing anything else other than a mop of green curly hair. She spotted Izuku and happily waved at him, with the joined fingers she had with Shouto. Not wanting to spill her milk from her other hand.

His gaze passed over her and Shouto's joined fingers as well, and his bright smile tightened a little at seeing them cozied up with each other. However, whatever he was thinking he decided not to voice it either.

Y/n gave him a bright smile and ran towards him, finally letting go of Shouto's hand.

He reluctantly let her go with a small smile from seeing her excitement at seeing his best friend.

"Izuku! You didn't tell me there are snack machines here. Shouto bought me this delicious drink and a snack. I devoured that in a second though." She giggled from the thought of the spicy food she had earlier.

Izuku smiled brightly at the girl and patted the middle of the sofa for her to take a seat to continue, she sat down without a second thought as she gushed over how the tour went with Mina. And how big and cool the campus was.

Izuku's heart skipped a beat as she continued to go over her little adventure with her new pink friend with a bright glimmer in her eyes. Relieved she wasn't depressed from earlier events.

Y/n stopped mid rant when she noticed the other two boys were still standing. She glanced at Katsuki first, who was still debating whether he should yell at them or not, for taking a long time.

They were worried for their wellbeing after all.

"Come on gremlin, you can sit right here." Y/n took one of the pillows from the sofa and put it down in between her feet. She tapped on the pillow with her hand, fluffing it up a bit for him.

"I'm not a damn dog..." Katsuki bit out angrily.

Y/n laughed at his reaction. "I didn't say you were. But your hair looks so super soft that I want to touch it. Do you mind?" She asked him sweetly, as she put her drink down on the table in front of her.

Katsuki annoyingly, rolled his eyes at her and stomped to where the pillow was. Sitting down he grunted letting a couple of whispered profanities under his breath. However, still did as she requested.

He stopped his whispering once he felt her fingers glide down his scalp and back of his neck. Playing with his hair and making him shiver from the touch.

"Oooh." Y/n cooed. "So soft." She marveled at his ash blond hair, not expecting to have his spikey hair feel like a feathery pillow.

Katsuki leaned backwards into her touch, relaxing in between her legs, his head resting in between her clothed knees.

"Yeah whatever." He grumbled tiredly, still sleepy from the earlier events, making him yawn.

He really liked the feeling of her fingers on him. Katsuki visibly relaxed once he confirmed she truly was okay.

Shouto looked down at his shoes, feeling excluded but quickly looked up when Y/n called to him softly.

"Come here my prince. You can sit by me." Y/n looked over at Shouto who nodded hurriedly to join them.

He silently sat next to her, making sure his thigh touched hers to keep some form of contact with her while she played with Katsuki's hair, said boy fought internally to not purr like a cat from the touch.

Y/n turned eagerly to Izuku who was staring at her hands go through Katsuki's hair wondering what it would feel like for her to do the same thing to him.

"Izuku, Shouto mentioned you'll be taking care of conditioning me. You're not gonna make me run miles and miles, right?" Y/n asked with a pout to Izuku making him chuckle lightly.

"Damn you Icy Hot, you weren't supposed to say anything." Katsuki grumbled from underneath them.

"I don't like to lie to Y/n." Shouto shrugged while answering to his irritated friend.

"Aww, Shouto... You're the sweetest, I do hate lies after all." She retaliated by pulling on Katsuki's hair making him sneer in protest. "Thank you for always being honest with me." Y/n smiled at the boy, making him blush slightly.

"Don't be mad Y/n, we wanted to talk about who would be best for what first." Izuku scratched the back of his neck nervously.

Y/n turned her head to Izuku and gave him a teasing smile. "Come on Izu, I could never be mad at you!"

"Ahem..." A deep voice grunted.

The four of them looked at the direction of the other sofa, facing theirs. Aizawa in his signature black attire and grey scarf, looked at the four of them disapprovingly. Another older gentleman with bright blond hair and sunken blue eyes stared at them with a bright smile.

Y/n stopped her movements on Katsuki's hair as she realized they were not alone in the room.

"See what I mean." Aizawa told the blond man, who was curious from the way the four interacted.