Of love, blood and heroism

You can't make tea with only hot water

'Monday morning lessons: exhausted.

Dosage of caffeine from earlier: also exhausted.

Girlfriend: hungry.

Me: also hungry.'

"Himiko you haven't met Lunch Rush yet, right?" Izuku asked the girl.

"Nope, since we bring our lunches from home most of the time, there wasn't an occasion to meet him. Only ever seen him from distance" she answered hugging his arm as she walked alongside him. "Why are you asking that? You forgot to make our lunches?" she asked back.

The greenette scratched the back of his head and let out a weak laugh "Yeah.. heheheh. I really overdid it yesterday. All those delayed appointments finally catching up, the copious amount of homework, and that midnight special you demanded me to give you after dinner... guess I still was just too tired from all that to even think about making lunch this morning." he answered with an awkward smile.

Himiko kept her mouth shut for a few seconds, before kissing him on the cheek.

"It was so worth it" she to whispered him, before returning to her previous position with a blushing grin on her face.

The couple just kept following the massive horde of students throughout the corridors, until reaching their destination after a few minutes of literally navigating through the massive sea of teenagers, almost getting separated a couple of times. The lunch hall wasn't any better, being filled to the brim with students whose loud chatter rendered any possible attempt at a conversation futile.

"Yeah, this ain't happening. Got a plan C?" Himiko asked her partner.

"Don't worry, we are only here to pick up something I had saved up. Once done we'll go eat in my office" the greenette explained to her, before seeing a very thin corridor forming between the masses. "There's our chance!" he said, quickly grabbing her and making a mad dash towards the kitchen... only to trip and ending up flying inside the room.

"Oi, fancy seeing you here Midoriya! Bloody mess the pair of you made, but I'll pardon ya since you're such a good lad!" a voice boomed from above them.

"Heeyy Mr. Lunch Rush, sorry for the rough entrée but we were kinda suffocating back there" the doctor said getting himself and Himiko up. "Na harm done laddie, I totally ken. This cutie beside ye mist be that sweetheart o' yours ye always blether about" the hero said, then turning to the young woman beside Izuku. "Pleasure to catch up wi' ye lassy Midoriya, anyone who's close tae doc here is a buddy o' mines" he said to the girl while bowing.

"It's nice to meet you too Mr! I heard a lot about you and your skills from my green bean over here. I hope that I will be able to taste your cuisine as soon as possible, on a quieter day perhaps" Himiko said beaming at the hero while hugging Izuku's arm" Bwahahaha, fur sure miss! Now I believe ye'r 'ere for the "keep aside fur me" plan, right doctor?" he said while guiding the couple deeper into the kitchen.

"Spot on Sir" Izuku said walking behind him. "I really am sorry about interrupting your job like this Sir, but this was an emergency" he added in an apologetic tone, getting stopped by the hero's waving hand.

"I've told ye to halt wi' that "sir" already. Ye'r mah colleague 'n' you'v already proven yer worth wi' ye helping mah daughter. Daein' ye favors lik' this is th' least I can dae to repay ye" the hero proclaimed loudly. Himiko's face twisted for a few instants, before Izuku leaned near her ear.

"In the first 2 weeks of working here, I accidentally CHECKed his daughter while she came to meet him after work. I won't go into details but it wasn't good. Fast-forward to now and she's doing much, much better with our next appointment being... tomorrow actually" Izuku whispered to his girlfriend, predicting the question.