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Due to the Dynamights being a band first and foremost, Izuku wasn't required to be at the studio every single day.

His schedule mainly contained one photoshoot every other week, which was very doable for him to manage. However, Ashido did say more could pop up depending on if they scored any more brand deals or magazine headlines and that she'd inform him right away when he was needed.

It was nice to not have to work every single day like he had to do growing up to afford his cameras, but it was pretty boring being at home doing nothing like usual. He hadn't been going out early in the morning like before to go out and take photos. Instead, he was sleeping in more, much to his dismay.

He had been avoiding it for a while, but he decided to pick up his phone and scroll through Twitter to see what all The Dynamights Stan accounts have been up to.

Even after a week, they were still talking about the photo of Katsuki smiling and theorizing about it. Izuku knew people would eat up seeing the young man give a smile as he rarely ever does so, but he never imagined it getting this out of hand.

Just like Ochaco had kept telling him, even the fan accounts concluded the smile had to be for the photographer, which just so happened to be him. After all, all the dots connected to them.

Katsuki never smiles in any professional photos taken of him, the photographer gets fired and a new one comes on board, and in the first photo shoot they have with the new photographer, Katsuki genuinely smiles. A smile that many describe as a look only someone who's head over heels in love could make.

But, with Izuku being that very photographer, he just couldn't see it that way.

He sighed to himself, "People are still thinking too deeply about this whole thing. I get that him smiling would be a big deal, but why does there need to be a reason for it? I just gave him advice as I suppose to be nice, he ended up doing it. I just can't figure out why... He didn't have to if he didn't want to... Maybe he just felt bad since I was scared of him at first and that was his way of showing that I had nothing to be fearful of? Jeez, I don't know..." Izuku rubbed the back of his head, "Katsuki has always been a hard-to-read person. I guess until I get to know him better, I don't really know what he's really thinking..."

Izuku realized what he just said and quickly corrected the statement, despite the fact he was just talking to himself out loud, "W-What am I saying!? 'Until I get to know him better'!? More like if I get to know him better. I-I'm just the photographer that shows up here and there! I-I probably won't become friends with Katsuki or any of the other band members. I'm just there to do my job! That's all!... I hope I haven't made it obvious that I'm a fan of them. Katsuki would hate that..."

He looked back at his phone to see the Twitter screen he left off on and shut it off, leaving the screen black and seeing his reflection within it.

"Remember, you're not their friend and you're not their fan. When you go there, you're just the photographer. You take the photos, you send them to the producer, and then you're done. That's all this is. Ochaco may have set this up to play matchmaker but I know better than anyone that I have zero chances with any of those guys! They're either taken, straight, or simply out of my league."

He smiled at his last remark, putting down his phone and hugging his legs against his chest, allowing his chin to rest on his knees, "I don't know what she was thinking. Me? Dating one of the most popular members from the best band in all of Japan?" He laughed softly, "She thinks of me too highly."

Izuku released his legs, leaning his head against the headboard of the bed while letting his tight, stiffened body sprawl out on the mattress.

"Not that I have a desire to date any of them in the first place. They are nice-looking men, of course, but I'm not the type to just fall in love with someone by looks alone. I need to feel a real connection with someone... Ochaco should know that... Look at her and Himiko. Sure, they thought the other was cute by appearance but they didn't date until they got to know one another better... My mom and Toshinori didn't start dating out of nowhere either. They met at her job and he started to like her the more they got to know one another..."