(Warning! Some Manga spoilers, also slight Lime)

Y/n let Izuku into her room blushing from Rosalinda's comment.

"Hi..." she looked down at her feet, "... don't listen to my sister. It's not what... I mean, she didn't mean to... fuck. I'm just making it worse, aren't I?" Glancing at Izuku with anxiety and heart fluttering from the way his eyes softened. She gave him a timid smile to mask her nerves.

Izuku chuckled, thinking she looked cute while being flustered. He noticed her eyes burning fully scarlet. She probably wasn't aware of her quirk still being activated. He put the food down on her table and tugged her gently into his arms. He always did that, either stay close to her or touch a part of her.

Y/n welcomed the embrace with open arms, Izuku always gave the best hugs.

"Hi..." he said softly. He pushed her hair behind her shoulder and nudged his forehead with hers, to have her look up at him. "You feeling any better?"

She nodded her head, looking into his captivating forest eyes with glowing red flecks. Sighing heavily, and realizing her quirk was activated she rested her head against his chest, as he rocked her back and forth. She loved being in his arms.

"I'm glad. I worry about you... you're more of a problem child than I am." Y/n swatted his arm playfully, earning a small laugh from him. "How's your eyesight doing?"

Grumbling into his chest, she whispered, "Surprisingly it's clear, but I think it's because you guys stop me right when the side effects start and don't push me to continue during training."

Y/n hid her face from his warm eyes, smiling into his chest. Curious, she breathed in his scent. Notes of sage, bergamot spice and leather wood mixed together. Izuku's heart skipped a beat when she sighed contently.

"You smell really good Izu..."

"Y/n..." Izuku bit his lip, taking in a shaky breath trying to control himself.

From the tone of his voice, she looked up at him again. Getting lost in his emerald eyes, tugging her bottom lip with her teeth, noticing Izuku's attention draw to the small action, "Yeah?" She asked, her voice barely above a whisper.

"I..." he mumbled quietly, getting lost on her plumped, soft looking lips in between her teeth. "...sorry, what were we talking about again?" he laughed nervously when he glanced towards the glimmering pools of her scarlet eyes.

Y/n tentatively reached out and drew small figurines with her finger on his freckled cheeks. Her eyes flickering from scarlet to her natural color, her emotions jumping from anxious to excitement. "I really do love your freckles..."

Izuku's heart ached, he leaned his forehead against hers, squeezing his eyes shut. "Angel... please don't make this harder than it already is. I've been on edge..." With half lidded eyes, he nudged his nose playfully with hers, making her breath hitch when his lips ghosted over hers. "You have no idea. How hard it's been to hold back. Every day, I've been wanting to..." Izuku squeezed his eyes shut again, shaking his head. As if it would shake those thoughts away too.

"Izuku..." Y/n murmured his name gently. Connecting his freckles with imaginary lines with her thumb.

"Please don't say my name like that..." he whimpered, his eyes connecting with hers again.

"Why?" Y/n looked back and forth between his eyes, as he opened them again. Not understanding him.

"Because it makes me think you want me too... and I-"

"But I do want you..." Y/n confessed without shame.

Izuku shook his head at her, "You don't know what you're saying... how could you possibly want someone like me. When you have options like Shouto and Kacchan available." Y/n's eyes widened, when he stepped away from her, slipping away from her grasp.

Izuku tried to distract himself from her wandering gaze. Setting up the food he brought in, so they could eat together. Trying and failing to push the thick tension they've been growing for the past month as his hand shook with want.

"Izu?" Y/n tried to get his attention again, worried for him. Hating when he talked down on himself.

"Y/n it's fine, really. I just came out of a relationship and shouldn't be feeling this way." He shook his head. "It's just –" he turned to look at her again.

His eyes lingered towards her fingers, which she was pulling from her nerves. Izuku was good at reading people, and he caught on fairly fast when he knew what the sign meant. She was nervous, just like him. He gazed into her eyes again, seeing worry reflect for him. His heart thumped erratically from begging to finally let go and accept this between them. Taking a shuddering breath, his eyes flickered with red flecks, while Y/n's burned scarlet again.

"– how can someone not feel this way for you. You're so understanding, patient and kind. So loving..."

He took small steps in her direction. His walls crumbling down with each step he took.

"So reckless with yourself, but only because of how selfless you are. You worry for others when you should be doing that for yourself. Shouto was right, someone should follow you around. You're worse than I am."

He chuckled lightly.

"No matter the pain you've endured you seem to find a way to smile through it all." He stopped her from pulling on her fingers, rubbing small circles on her hand while gazing into their unique lines and scars.

"You accept just about anybody you cross paths with. I'm so jealous of how a first year can confess to you, while I struggle to even breathe while being in the same room as you." Izuku's voice came out shaky, releasing small shuddering breaths.

She could feel his fear. He was so scared of rejection again. Talking about his feelings, was a huge step for him. He was never one to struggle with words. However, now feeling as though he was not enough for anyone anymore and broken, he couldn't find the right words to tell her.

Still, Y/n shook her head, disagreeing with how he felt about himself. "I don-"

"You know, I saw Eri. She talked about you the whole time..." he smiled remembering their conversation. "She made me promise to take care of you."

Y/n smiled remember her little sister. And that is how she saw her, she didn't believe in all those added adoptive, step, or half in front of the word sibling. If someone was a sister, brother, or father to her, that's what they were. Adding those other nouns were pointless. Her and Eri, were like soulmates. She would take her and Miguel to the beach every weekend, even if only for an hour. Of course, with Hitoshi tagging along for bonding time and protection purposes.

Rosalinda and Aizawa were swamped with all their teaching duties and couldn't join them, and Rosalinda barely had any time, for anything anymore. However, when she did, she made sure to spend it with her family.

"I've also never seen Shinsou, laugh so freely before. He's always so guarded. You accomplished in one day, what the rest of us have been trying to do for three years. I've broken down his barriers somewhat but you –"

Izuku played with the ends of her hair again.

"– just by being in the room people become happier. Koda the quietest one in the class actually talks to everyone now, instead of whispering. I know you helped him. Aoyama has even pushed himself past his own limits because you've pushed him to be a better hero. Ojiro doesn't feel so self-conscious of his tail anymore. Even Mineta of all people, has learned to stop being such a pervert."

Y/n smiled fondly from his kind words, remembering how she put Mineta in his place. The day after he asked her to teach him, how to be a better person, since everyone liked her so much. Not that she felt worthy of everyone's praises, but in the end, she helped him become a better friend.

"Dark Shadow even pouts when you leave the room. You are worth so much, it's not fair how the world has given you so little in return. You're so heavenly, you're just like an angel... My angel." Izuku whispered as he interlocked their fingers.

He was as clueless as they come, with soft words she told him, "For somebody who can see someone else's worth, you do fail to see your own, don't you?" That made Izuku's smile falter. "That's it isn't. You're afraid because you think you're not worthy?"

"It's the truth." Izuku let go of her, remembering why he couldn't fully jump into a relationship with her, even though his heart ached to be with her. To hold her without restrictions, without sneaking around.

Show the world, she was his and he was hers.

He closed his eyes, eyebrows furrowing in pain. Remembering all those times he was bullied as a kid for being quirkless. All those times, his now best friend was part of the damage. All the years of being laughed at by other girls he confessed to because they saw him as weak. And then he thought of her.

His first love.

For the first time in a long time, he believed all those years of suffering were for something. If it brought him Ochako. He still cared for her, how could he not. A part of him always will. She was his friend, then best friend and then turned lover. They were in each other's lives for two years. And now... well now she was just a stranger, a classmate.

All those insecurities came rushing back in when she broke his heart.

And she's not at fault, she had her reasons, and he could understand that. When people are not meant to be together, they're just not. It's that simple.

Sadly, there's no meaning behind some broken romantic relationships or friendships. They existed for the time being, and there is beauty in that. Not everyone stays together forever. And he will always be thankful for the time he had with her. He didn't regret it one bit. Because he knew, he fought to the very end.

Izuku was still getting used to the idea of people leaving him, it all started when Sir Nighteye died. He still had nightmares of that day. All he needed now was time to heal, and possibly someone to help him along the way. One who understood the pain and suffering of losing people.

He stared at Y/n with so much tenderness and intensity, she could feel his emotions without him having to say a word.

Izuku wouldn't see her as a rebound. He refused to because she is so much more than that. She's the light at the end of his dark tunnel. She was the first step, to help him in his healing process. She was his angel. She deserved so much more than him, he didn't feel enough for her.

"Stop." Y/n whispered to him. She could feel his pain and doubt vibrate through her, all she wanted was to take it away. "Please don't think like that about yourself..."

Izuku furrowed his eyebrows in confusion. "What?"

"You're not a nuisance Izuku, you never have been." She tried to reassure him. "I haven't told you or Katsuki, but I'm sure Shouto agrees with me since he experienced it too. Your emotions, like Katsuki's and Shouto's are connected to me, and you are all, also connected to each other. How you guys can feel my emotions."

She waited to let that sink in.

"Apparently, I've been feelings yours too. This is something recent. I'm guessing since we've been in each other's vicinity I can feel it now more than before. Unlike when I was at the club, since you guys weren't there, and I was tortured all the time. There really wasn't any time to focus on my feelings." Y/n smiled sheepishly as she rambled.

Izuku's eyes sparkled from part of her quirk revelation, "Really?!" he almost jumped from excitement, breaking the grim thoughts about himself.

Y/n rolled her eyes playfully and laughed softly at him, such a cute nerd.

"No! We are not doing that thing where you get excited and ask me a bunch of questions from my quirk." Izuku pouted at her, as she grabbed his hand and pulled him closer to her, giving them both what they craved. To be near each other. "We can do that later, you dork. I didn't say I wouldn't tell you and I have questions about OFA anyways. What I want to talk about is more important, can you sit for me?"

Izuku gave her a dubious look before complying quietly, she motioned for him to take a seat on the fluffy rug. Y/n sat across from him, they're knees touching from the proximity.

"Thank you for being honest about your feelings Izuku." Izuku blushed crimson, realizing he spilled all his thoughts about her again, without meaning to. However, he didn't regret it, he wanted her to know. "Now I need you to listen to me, okay? I want you to listen to me as a friend. Forget for a moment of what's going on between us."

He tilted his head confused at first but nodded for her to go on.

"You are enough, you are waaaay more than enough." Izuku brows furrowed again ready to disagree with her, but she wasn't going to let him. "Yes, I understand, how close you two were. But you're not that little kid anymore. Ugh, I hate that people would treat you that way. What I'm trying to say is, you are worth more than the world Izu. Eri talks a lot about you too, so I know some things."

Izuku smiled thinking of the little girl he saved in his freshman year of hero training.

"And Eri's not one to lie. She told me, she knows of the breakup, and knew you would be sad. My adorable little sister, asked me to keep an eye out for you too."

"Of course, she would." Izuku with a tender smile played with Y/n's fingers.

"I'm so lucky to even be in the same room with you, Izuku Midoriya." Y/n continued.

"Y/n..."

She put her hand up, "No, let me. You say I'm the most selfless person you've met. Well, I think you beat me. Your kind, loving to your friends, so compassionate and brave. Always on the line of fire for them. You're such an adorable nerd. But I wouldn't want you any other way. Forget those girls who were clueless to see your worth when you were younger."

Izuku nodded as small tears gathered in his forest eyes, holding onto her hands tightly. No one's ever spoken to him like this.

"You think girls don't fawn over you? They literally swoon when you walk through the hallways. Boys too." Izuku closed his eyes, trying to hold back the tears. Tears of being accepted just as he was. "You think you're lesser than your friends, but you are not. There is literally only one you in this whole world. And you've gone through so many obstacles in life and you're still here."

Y/n felt tears prick her eyes from feeling his emotions, feeling how alone he's been lately.

"I'm so thankful, you didn't listen to Katsuki in middle school. Because without you, I wouldn't be here. Without you, Eri wouldn't be either. Without you, Hitoshi wouldn't have found the spark to fight. Shouto would still hate his father and refuse to use his fire, and Katsuki would be completely lost. Most importantly, All-Might, wouldn't have found his successor."

Izuku's breath hitched. "How?"

Y/n with a knowing smile pointed to her head, "You keep forgetting Izuku, I'm a telepath and I'm connected to you. Whatever you think, I can see, very vividly. Even if it's just a fleeting thought, I can see who's connected to that and what happened to make you, so sad. When you told me about your life, I saw it all like a movie."

Y/n's eyes softened as she noticed his small smile.

"I'm so sorry, no one was there for you. That your mom didn't believe in you when you were a kid. I'm sorry All-Might almost gave up on you. But just like you're trying to help everyone else, you also need someone to be there for you without any judgment or wanting something in return. And I'll be that for you. If you'll let me."

"Why, would you do that for me?" Izuku's heart felt like it was bursting with warmth. He looked at her tender e/c eyes, reflecting empathy and care from the emotional pain he's endured.

"Because Izuku, like I told you, you are worth more than the world... I –"

Y/n's eyes watered, her nails digging into her palm. Knowing she had to say what she was thinking next. It might also damage what she and Izuku have, but she didn't want to choose. And he had to know, he deserved to.

Breathing heavily and swallowing hard she whispered, "I have feelings for you... Shouto and Katsuki as well. I feel horrible that I've fallen for you three and I've dragged you along for this long. I'm sorry but I can't play favorites. I never knew how to only care for one person. I want to discuss this with the three of you, if you are willing to listen. But right now, this is about you..."

Y/n would not feel ashamed for liking the three of them anymore.

He didn't say anything to her, as those words left her lips. He didn't show any anger either, she was expecting for him to shout at her, but all she got in return was a warm smile and a nod.

Attraction worked in many mysterious ways. She so happened to be attracted to the three of them at the same time. And she refused to choose, it would be like trying to choose between, a pear an apple and an orange. She needed the three of them. If they refused and only wanted to be friends, then she could live with that. Having only a sliver of them in her life was more than enough for her.

"I know words won't change how you feel about yourself, so I'll show you. I promise to show you how wonderful you are every day, and how lucky I am that you feel the same way... my freckled shooting star." She reached out and rubbed her thumb on his freckled cheeks, Izuku without restraint leaned into her touch.

Amused and feeling as though he was on cloud nine from her confession, he grinned at her. "Freckled shooting star?"

"Yeah! You were the bright beaming light, who guided me out of the dark tunnel I was stuck in. Encountering you reminded me of a shooting star. I made a wish when I met you and it came true." His eyes began to darken from her caring words, his hands griping the rug as he took in a shaky breath and bit his bottom lip. "Did I say something wrong?" she tilted her head in confusion.

Swallowing the lump in his throat, he shook his head gently still being cupped by her hand. "Far from it, angel. I'm getting the other two in here..." Izuku reluctantly removed his face from her grasp. Pulling out his phone, he texted the group chat he had with Shouto and Katsuki telling them to get in here quickly.

Curiously, Y/n peeked over to look at his device. "Is that your phone?" Izuku with amusement giggled at her curious stare, chuckling and pinching her cheeks, "Izuuu!" Y/n whined out.

He grabbed Y/n with ease, and put her in between his legs, hugging her from behind. He handed her his phone, as he rested his chin on her shoulder. Kissing her cheek, his lips hovered above her skin making her smile and lean back into him.

Encouragingly he nudged his nose against her cheek, "Go on, I know you want to play with it."

"For real?!" Y/n asked excitedly, moving the device around in her hand.

"Mhmm, I can teach you how to use it too. It'll be a good idea to get you one." Izuku without shame, smelled her hair and sighed happily. She always smelled like almond and coconuts, and he loved it. With their feelings out in the open, it felt like taking a fresh breath of air.

Y/n looked over her shoulder at him, "Can't I can just use my telepathic quirk?"

Izuku pulled her hair behind her ear to see her face fully. "Yes, but what about your friends, siblings and father?" His voice was so soft, caressing her skin for close he was to her.

She formed an-o with her lips and nodded understanding him.