Love At First Smack

The Touch of Love is Hardly Gentle.

Love is a strange thing you know, it knows little boundaries, unites two souls despite their mortal attributes but is also a blind entity. It cares not for what your outward appearance may be; it cares only for what makes up your character. These traits of a metaphysical entity also unite the souls of those destined to fall in love and those pairs are called Soul Mates. With human bodies evolving to develop powers and abilities known as quirks, love has also changed in the way it weaves the strings of fates and plucks at the hearts of humans. For each soul mate pair, they share one their unique power with their other half. It is uncommon for people to possess only one quirk or even be quirkless, however people assume that the other halves for these people possess the quirk that they share or are quirkless as well. Remember how I mentioned that love is blind? For those who have yet to meet their soulmate this is the case to an extent. The colors of their world will remain a mystery until they finally kiss their other half.

As is the case there have been people who have gone their entire lives without meeting their other half, not knowing the beauty of our world. That's what Midoriya Izuku was thinking as he plummeted hundreds of feet out of the sky from destroying a massive robot during the entrance exams of the prestigious UA high. He rears back his arm to use his inherited power completely forgetting of the zero gravity quirk he possesses and readies himself to break his fall. Just as he is about to strike the ground a hand strikes him in the face, in that moment he feels the familiar sense of weightlessness before floating down to the ground. The girl who hit him was atop a destroyed piece of a robot, having floated it up to save Izuku's life for saving hers. When she made contact with his face both of them saw an explosion of color the world around them came to life as they had never seen it before. Neither could enjoy this new scene as Uraraka Ochako began to vomit from overusing their shared quirk and Izuku passed out due to the pain from his inherited power One for All.

Waking up hours later Izuku is met with the white lights of a hospital room, the ekg machine next to him beeping in rhythm with his heart. He looks at his arms and closes his fists a couple times feeling that they have healed. A feeling of someone watching him washes over as he quickly turns from looking at his hands to about the room before coming into contact with the grey eyes of a girl sitting next to him on the bed. Izuku silently waves to her, showing the five paw pads on his fingertips, he gets one in return from the girl and sees the same paw pads on her finger tips. His mind suddenly flashes back to earlier that day when she tapped the back of his backpack keeping him from tripping. Then he remembers what she said about her quirk and having saved her during the exam. All of this culminates with heat rushing to his cheeks realising who this person is, the person who smacked him allowing him to see color for the first time.

"I know this is a little awkward of a first conversation but, what is your quirk?" She asks looking at the paw pads on his hand.

"Which one? I have a stockpile strength enhancer and zero gravity quirks." He answers before the room falls under a pregnant silence once more.

"I'm sorry for... smacking you earlier." She says as she averts eye contact with him for a moment.

"I-It's a-alright, you did it to save me. Um... i-in that moment. D-did you see color?" Izuku asks, causing her to perk up and lock eyes with him once more.

"Yes! I-I mean... yes I did well, I think we should introduce ourselves to each other since we're gonna be together for the long haul. I'm Uraraka Ochako, what is your name? My other half." She says, extending her hand to shake Izuku's own.

"Izuku Midoriya, it's a pleasure to meet you Uraraka." Izuku says, giving her a closed eyed bright smile. Once he opens his eyes once more a new color makes itself known to him. The color of her eyes, to us it is a simple chocolate brown or a hazelnut color of brown. To Izuku however he couldn't even begin to comprehend the color he was seeing. He was mesmerized.