IzuOcha: Love is the Answer

Chapter Twelve: New Training Partners

Ochako was ready to focus just on hero training again. The pain from the breakup was still there, but not enough to drag her down or distract her. She decided to change things up and hit the weight room for some strength training, followed by some cardio. The longer she's trained, the more aware she is that she needs to be less reliant on her quirk. She began working with some dumbbells when suddenly she sees Bakugo walk into the weight room.

"Uraraka? What the hell are you doing here? Shouldn't you be off with that loser boyfriend of yours?" Ochako just rolled her eyes. 

"If you must know we broke up recently. He's the one who made that call too. But what do you care anyway?"

Bakugo looked at her with a surprised look on his face. "No wonder that damned nerd has been such a spaz lately! He's an even bigger moron than I thought if he'd break up with someone like you." 

At that he just jumped on a treadmill and put his headphones over his ears, not giving her any further heed. Ochako almost felt like blushing though. Who would've thought a guy like him would actually say something nice for a change!? She thought.

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Izuku waited patiently on the training grounds for Tsuyu to arrive. He also wanted Sero and Ochako to come but Sero was busy with other things and Uraraka obviously would be too awkward for them to see each other in these circumstances. Therefore, he asked Asui to come because she had abilities similar to what he could now do with black whip and wanted some advice with how to better use this technique.

Without warning he feels something sticky slap his face all of a sudden. It knocked him back a couple steps and almost made him fall over. Just then he sees Asui un-camouflage herself. She had crept up to him by blending in with the color of the wall and hung on it until she could get close enough to slap him with her tongue. 

"That was for Ochako-chan." She said bluntly. 

"Hmm, so I guess you know about our breakup, huh? I know I deserved that, but I'm hurting from it too." Izuku responded. 

"Maybe so, but Ochako-chan told me she's hurt the most because you didn't stand up to her father and gave up so quickly. I can tell that you're just trying to protect her, but she wanted to help you figure this problem out and doesn't want to be coddled."

"Asui-san, it's not that simple. I..."

"I told you to call me Tsu!!"

"Right, sorry. Three different times my black whip ability activated around her when I couldn't control it at all. The third time I would've killed her with it if Aizawa sensei hadn't shown up out of nowhere and stopped me. She means too much to me to put her in that kind of danger again! I could never forgive myself if I was responsible for her death!"

Tsu sighs. "Alright, I'll help you figure out how to better use this ability, but once the training is complete, you're going to march straight over to her dorm and apologize! If it weren't for the fact that you've been such a good classmate before this, I wouldn't have even come here to help you today!"

"Thank you Tsu-san! Let's get going on our training then!"

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About an hour into the training at the school's industrial site, Midoriya attempted to use a black whip to grab onto a pole but failed to get a good enough grip and fell onto the ground for the third straight time.