Five Words

I Enjoy Being With You

It had become habitual for Izuku to go out for a walk or a run more or less immediately after waking up, depending on how he felt, and what the weather was like. While he'd gone for these sorts of runs while he was training his body to inherit his power, and when he was still refining it, it wasn't a habit that stuck with him. Not like weight-lifting or aerobic exercises. He'd picked up the habit not long after his internship with Sir Nighteye had ended. All Might had been the cause, naturally, after running alongside his student the same day he confronted the previous holder of One For All. It was then something he just picked up and decided to keep doing, until it became something that he just did on a daily basis.

Going out and use moving around the place, maybe with some music going through a set of earphones, helped him think, and clear his head. There was something relaxing about it. When he wasn't training for something like the sports festival or preparing himself so inheriting a Quirk wouldn't blast his limbs off, at least. Something tranquil about it that he couldn't quite explain. Fresh air, maybe? A change of scenery?

It wasn't the warmth at this time of year, that was for sure.

Lately, it had begun to get colder and colder, as the new year aged. The final exams were over and, thankfully, everyone in their class had managed to pass. Yuuei was a very hectic and driven school, filled with those who had that same determination to succeed, and while those in the Hero course had been made to work through their Summer break, they hadn't decided to push things, and make them work through their entire Winter break. Just half of it. It was now mid-February, leaving them with a month and a half of break, with only instructions to train on their own, to research into various agencies, and that on their first day back, they would be made to make a report on what they had learned and done during their time off.

Essentially, they had to go around independent learning. Those that didn't have anything, or not enough, to show for themselves once the new year began, could expect to be worked like dogs until they were up to scratch. The Hero course, of all courses out there at Yuuei, wasn't one that allowed even a moment to be wasted. Especially not since the fall of All Might.

The students had taken this to heart through. Many spent the days training and studying, going out of their way to discover new things about the Hero agencies inside the cities in and around the campus. Several applied for internships until the spring, while others conducted field research with their provisional licences. Some preferred a more academic approach, doing all of the information digging online and through old textbooks.

Three laps around the Yuuei campus was traditionally how Izuku ended his morning outings, though due to the colder temperatures than normal, he decided to cut it short today. Nearly slipping on ice three separate times on the first two rounds, two of which had been on the same patch, had convinced him that today wasn't the day for it. He was going to head out later on, and was going to need to have better equipment for going into town today. Avoiding any bigger patches of frozen water that he could see, he made his way back to the 1A dorm building.

Some students had gone to visit relatives during the break, particularly those who had come from far away. The dorms were a lot quieter than they normally were, since fewer people were there. And only a few ever woke up as early as he did too. It was only about a quarter past eight, and the vast majority of people were taking full advantage of their newfound break and were catching up on the many hours of sleep they had lost throughout their first year. Some students had chosen to stay because they were receiving some additional tutoring. Some were staying simply because it was easier for them to stay, given their familial situation. Izuku stayed because he was concerned that if an incident went down, like they always seemed to, he wouldn't be able to help. Be it to do with All Might, or Eri, or whoever else.