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3rd Person POV.
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Izuku arrived home, Inko opened the door as she said in a stern expression " Why are you so late Izuku?". Izuku knew it was trouble when his mom uses his full first name. He replied " I found a injured hero and helped her heal so I am late.". Inko had a dis-believing face but Izuku just sighed as he pulled out his phone and shown a selfie of him and Ryukyu during their mini-picnic.
Inko's expression softened as she smiled widely and said " I am glad you are making another friend Izu-chan!". Izuku just hmm'd in response and both went to the dining room for their Dinner. Izuku then explained in detail about what happened as Inko listened carefully .
Inko then said " You know, I met this lovely women named Rei in my shift today, She was put in the mental asylum even though she is gentle and nice, we made a nice conversation and somewhere along the way she mentioned that her son will also enter try to U.A through recommendations. Maybe you will be in the same class!".
Izuku nodded slightly as he said " That is a possibility, I can try to make friends, but I don't wanna expect too much.". Inko nodded, she knew Izuku took his own time to trust people. She is already amazed by the fact that he met Ryukyu and is comfortable enough to call her a friend. She was happy on this development.
After finishing dinner, the mother and son went to their respective rooms and turned in for the night. Momo saw a message on her chat between Izuku and herself. She saw that it was a selfie of Izuku and a heroine who she recognized as Ryukyu who is one of Izuku's favorites. Momo let out a smile as she saw the friendly closeness in the selfie, she thought ( Its finally time you started to move on from avoiding everyone huh?.).
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The next morning.
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Izuku done with his morning routine including training is now making his to Momo's house so they can go to the Southern Hail mall to hangout. While walking Izuku was thinking whether or not to invite Ryukyu or not. It was a break day for her today.
Izuku then decided to invite Tatsuma-san at the end. This might be a good chance for Momo to make a new friend maybe, Izuku did see a few similarities on how both Momo and Ryuko carry themselves. Izuku can guess Ryukyu might be from a high-profile family or clan \. Izuku went to contacts on his phone and after selecting Ryukyu's number, he pressed call.
After a few rings, A voice came through the phone " Midoriya-san? good morning!.". Izuku in a bit of a gentle tone replied " Good morning Tatsuma-san, You mentioned you have a break today, so I thought I could invite you to go to the Southern Hail Mall with myself and my friend Momo, whom I told you about.".
Tatsuma remembered who the person was and replied on phone " Ah! Momo-san! I would like it! I do have nothing to do today. And I should probably get some new clothes for casual wear as well, a fellow female's opinion would be nice.". Izuku let out a hmm as he said " Well, seems like you are in then. We will meet at the mall as 10 AM then.".
Ryukyu's voice replied " Sure Midoriya-san, see you there then!.". Izuku replied " See you there too Tatsuma-san.". Ryukyu ended the call to get ready as Izuku who just arrived at the front door of Momo's house rang the bell.
Athena opened the door as she smiled seeing Izuku and said " Ah! Izu-chan! You must be here for the hangout with Momo then, She will be ready soon, why not wait in the lounge, Akira is there too.". Izuku nodded as he gave a small hug to his aunt which she cheerfully returned and went towards the lounge.
Arriving at the lounge, Izuku seeing Akira reading the newspaper, he greeted " Hey uncle Akira.". Akira hearing a familiar voice put the newspaper down as he stood up and said " Izuku! Its been a while since I saw you. What are you doing today?".
Izuku then said " I am going to the mall with Momo and another friend I made yesterday.". Akira made a smile as he said " You finally made a new friend huh? thought that day would never come!.".
Izuku rolled his eyes as Akira laughed. Akira then suddenly reached out to grab Izuku's mask. Izuku just stopped Akira's hand as he held it up and said " Nice try Uncle, You seem to be getting slower, maybe due to age.". Akira had tic's forming on his forehead as he started chasing Izuku around the room to try to get the mask off and see his face.
Athena who entered the room a few seconds ago laughed at her husband's failed attempts. This was the scene Momo was greeted with as she came down. Akira was finally exhausted as he was panting while Izuku just greeted Momo as if nothing happened.
Akira got up with new-found determination as he swore " ONE DAY! I SWEAR TO SEE THAT FACE ONE DAY!". The rest of the room occupants including the maids sweat dropped at the sight as Momo and Izuku chuckled and after saying goodbye, both left the house to walk to the nearby bus station.
As soon as they were out of the gate, Izuku who was walking next to Momo said " Btw, I invited Ryukyu to come with us too, hope you don't mind.". Momo gave a excited smile as she said " The women in the selfie you sent yesterday, I hope we can get along well. I do need more friends too after all, my only friend is you.". Izuku nodded as he said " I thought the same, Ryukyu seems to carry herself elegantly like you and both your manner of speech are similar as well, I thought you will get along .".
Momo nodded at Izuku's explanation as she was excited at the prospect of hopefully making a new friend today.
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TIME SKIP- 10 AM.
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Izuku who was wearing a black t-shirt with white collar and shoulder line as well as Blue denim jeans along with Momo who was wearing dark-blue jeans with a loose crimson red t-shirt with a black collar and shoulder line. All in all, they both looked like normal teenagers out on a hangout.
They both arrived at the entrance, Izuku heard a voice yell " MIDORIYA-SAN.". Both Izuku and Momo turned around as they saw Ryukyu jogging up to them. Ryukyu had her hair settled on the side with both eyes visible instead of only one due to her hero costume design. Ryukyu wore Black t-shirt with a silver hoodie over it and the zip of the hoodie was open, she also had black denim jeans to go with the hoodie.
Ryukyu who just arrived in front of Izuku let out a small breath as she said " Sorry, I was a bit late, I didn't realize I was waiting at the second entrance instead of the main one.". Izuku and Momo chuckled a bit as Momo replied " Its fine Ryukyu-san, we both just arrived ourselves.".
Ryukyu turned her attention to Momo as she held out her hand and said " Ah you must be Momo-san, Izuku told me a lot about you yesterday.". Momo accepted the handshake as she said " My full name is Momo Yaoyorozu, its a pleasure to meet you Ryukyu-san.".
Ryukyu smiled as she said " My name is Ryuko Tatsuma, It's a pleasure to meet you as well, You can call me with me name in public, I am not in my costume after all.". Momo nodded as she said " Very well Tatsuma-san, should we get going then?". Ryukyu nodded as the 3 entered the mall.
Izuku leading the group said " Since its still the early hours in the mall, Lets go to bowling first, there might be a big line afterwards.". The girls nodded as they took the escalators to the 5th floor. They arrived at the game center. It was fairly empty with a few teens and young adults around on the arcade machines.
The 3 went to the counter as Ryukyu said " Excuse me, we would like to book a row of bowling for the 3 of us.". The man at the counter nodded as he typed in the game setting in the particular row and said " Your row the 2nd one from the right. The total is 2100 yen please.".
Momo, Izuku and Ryukyu each chipped in 700 yen each as they paid for the game and went to their row.
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TIME SKIP - 1 HOUR.
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Since the gang was having fun, they paid for another game. Izuku won the first game whereas the second game was a tie between Ryukyu and Momo. After bowling, Izuku pulled out a game center card and went to the counter and purchased 1000 points into it as he decided that they will try out some of the arcade games.
Izuku and Momo aced the tag basketball hoop game making a new high score which added a lot of tickets to the Card. Ryukyu did the game where you have to press the button to stop the fast moving light in a certain prize, Ryukyu after a bit of concentration, got the bonus which added 500 tickets to their card. The trio had a high-five as they aced two games.
The group did some competing games like horse racing where you have to throw the ball into a group of holes with 3 colors namely, white, yellow and red. White makes the horse move 1-step, yellow makes it move 2 while red makes it move 3. Momo won this one with Izuku in second. It was a non-ticket game.
Then Momo and Ryukyu decided to tag team and play the throw ball game where you hit a target hard enough with the ball to topple it over. There are 30 targets and 1 minute to get them.
The girls aced it as they got another 200 tickets added to the card with that. Izuku attempted the punching machine where you have to punch without using any quirk, Mutation quirks have a different machine for them. Izuku put on the gloves and punted the punching bag. The score rose up as it stopped at the highest being 999.
The girls cheered as well as the nearby audience as they got 400 tickets as prize for hitting the max at the punching machine.
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{ AUTHOR NOTE: few days ago, I went to arcade with a few of my friends, this machines are what I played there. Of course I didn't get 999 on the punching machine. I got a decent 875 tho. But did win a few games there.}.
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After a while the points in the card were over. The gang went to the ticket machine as Izuku flashed the card to the screen. It said the total tickets were 1700. Izuku let out a silent cheer while Momo and Ryukyu high-fived from behind.
The gang went to the ticket exchange counter and got a set of 3 bracelets for 1500 tickets.
Izuku took the Black one whereas Momo took the silver colored one and Ryukyu happily accepted the gold colored one. The trio wore their bracelets as they took a selfie showing the bracelets.
Momo and Ryukyu were complimenting the design of the bracelets while Izuku checked the time and saw it was Lunch time. Izuku then said " Momo and Tatsuma-san, lets go have lunch, it's almost 1:30PM. ". Momo looked at the time as she said " Sure, I am started to feel hungry too now that you mentioned lunch.". Ryukyu also nodded as Izuku said " Tatsuma-san, you can choose a place for lunch then.".
Ryukyu thought for a bit as she said " Why don't we go to Sushi restaurant owned by Lunch Rush, I heard it opened a branch in the mall recently.". Izuku and Momo instantly agreed after hearing that the restaurant's were owned by Lunch Rush. Ryukyu took the lead as Izuku and Momo followed her to their next destination.
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