Midoriya's Determination

Near the Takoba Municipal Beach Park, Midoriya noticed that it was already 5 pm.

'This is bad! I'm 1 hour late, glad I asked permission to All Might about my visiting Xiao-kun at the hospital earlier, I hope he won't be too mad at me, I have been given this opportunity by All Might, I must train even harder from anyone else, so I won't let him down!'.

in his American Dream Plan schedule, from 4 pm to 7 pm he has to clean up garbage on this beach every day.

From afar skinny All Might was sitting on the stairs near the beach looking like a person who waiting for someone, from his face he looked quite angry.

As soon as All Might saw Midoriya coming here, He rode his hoverboard scooter and headed towards Midoriya.

"Hei, Hei Midoriya shounen!!".

"I know you asked for permission but why did you come so late, it's already 1 hour late from schedule?".

"You know if you do this every time, you won't make it in the end right?".

"Have you given up?".

Midoriya was stunned by these questions, deep in his heart, Midoriya has always felt guilty that because All Might had told him his secret and given him the chance to fulfill his dream of becoming a great hero like All Might himself, this responsibility he didn't know what to do except do his best.

"I'm really sorry All Might, we talked about a lot of things at the hospital, and about Xiao-kun, Xiao-kun was said to be able leave the hospital by tomorrow".

All Might was really looked angry because of Midoriya's reason.

"Your excuse is unacceptable, now run! start to clean the beach!!"

But he actually wondered why Midoriya seemed to think he cared about Xiao's condition from his words.

'is it possible that...?'.

"Wait!!… uhm before that, can you tell me some of the things that you guys have been talking about?"

"Ah Yes All Might, we talked things like school activities, heroes, and…. Ehmm, etto actually I don't know if I should say it or not, but I guess that's all I can say All Might."

Midoriya looked nervous when he wanted to explain about All Might's visit incident.

But now All Might looked serious with sweet on his forehead like someone who wanted to confirm something but was nervous about the outcome once he heard it.

"Just say it Midoriya shounen".

"Ehm… Xiao-kun actually said about you who wanting to adopt him, b-but no need to worry All Might, I already told him not to tell this to anyone else, and he said he understand."

Midoriya didn't want All Might's privacy to be spread out, so he assures All Might that he didn't have to worry about it being spread, then Midoriya started doing the beach cleaning.

All Might face was petrified, he didn't expect when he heard what he did, it turned out to be so embarrassing, but he relieved that Midoriya was Xiao's friend, otherwise All Might wouldn't know what would've happened.

When Midoriya saw the petrified All Might, he felt guilty and nervous because he thought he might have just hurt All Might's feeling.

"It's okay All Might, Xiao-kun must be related to your teacher, right? And it feels like you have to do something about his situation, I might understand that feeling."

All Might lifted his hand looked like he wanted to say something, but no words came out of his mouth, and just let Midoriya continue his training.

'Midoriya shounen… I'm really sorry, I don't know if I should tell you about Xiao's shounen backgrounds or not, I'm afraid it would affect your decision to inherit One-For-All's quirk, so I guess that's all you need to know for now'.

After Midoriya finished with his training schedule at the beach, he chatted briefly again with All Might and got more information when All Might visiting Xiao at the hospital.

Midoriya was shocked when he finds out that Xiao got U.A. Recommendation Entrance, and about Xiao's childhood friend.

Within that information, All Might didn't mention about Xiao who fighting a group of villains. Although Midoriya was still suspicious about that incident, he didn't insist on finding out more about it.

When he got home, he ate his dinner that his mom already prepared at the dining table, and then he continued his midnight training schedule in his room before he went to bed.

Before he went to sleep, he started thinking about the information he got today.

'Was Xiao's sudden cry because he missed his childhood friend?'.

'I could feel a very deep depression from him at that moment.'

'Should I ask him about this?'.

'No no no no'.

'He would be suspicious about from where I got to know this information'.

'He still doesn't know about my relationship with All Might'. at least that's what Midoriya thought.

'I hope I can do something for him'.

'But Xiao-kun was really fortunate to get U.A. Recommendation entrance, it must be because he helped me and Bakugo from the incident 2 months ago'.

'Huh? But why Bakugo didn't get one? I remember that time he got a lot of praise from the heroes more than me and Xiao-kun'.

'Is it…?'.

Midoriya's started to recall about some of the Klee's word before Sister Jean cover her mouth. 'REALLY STRO—'.

'Xiao's incident!!! C-could it be that klee-chan was the one who got kidnapped, then Xiao came to save her and fights with the villains?!'.

'that's why they published that the one who saved them are the heroes and not Xiao-kun, maybe because they didn't want xiao to get punished for using his quirk without a hero license'.

However, Midoriya came into realization, 'Xiao-kun already so strong'.

'Yosh! So that I don't fall far behind by Xiao-kun… no!! I must surpass him and become the greatest hero'.

Midoriya's face was full of determination as he thought that, even if it won't change anything, at least he won't give up easily from now on.

…..

5 months has passed after Xiao's Incident, right now Xiao was getting ready to take the U.A. Recommendation Entrance Exam at U.A. High School.

"Aahhh…. Finally, this time has come".